possibility. right? somehow, by hook or by crook. good talker. thanks, chris. thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we start tonight with significant breaking news, the new york times is confirming that mark meadows, donald trump s former chief of staff has testified to a federal grand jury as part of special counsel s jack smith ongoing investigations into trump s mishandling of classified information and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is a major development, and we are going to talk about it in just a minute with representative jamie raskin, who served on the january 6th committee. but we start with mar-a-lago. at this point you probably have seen a picture of trump s florida resort, once the winter getaway of areas mar-a-lago it is massive. it sits on about 20 acres of land, it has more than 50 bedrooms, and it has all the hallmarks of luxury. all the fancy stuff. italian stone, spanish tiles, a lot of marble, gold plated fixtures, exp
politicsnation. tonight lead, not there yet. right now, the economic free world is holding its breath. as washington appears to have a way out of this impasse over our debt ceiling. president biden and republican house speaker, kevin mccarthy, announcing last night that a tentative deal has been reached, that would allow both sides to claim a victory. with short term domestic spending curtailed in line with house republican demands, and economic crisis averted to the delight of democrats in the rest of the sensible world. but that looming june 5th deadline to raise the ceiling hasn t gone away. and the hurdles to passage remain inside of congress itself. house democrats are expected to jump on a call with the white house within the hour. we ll update you as soon as that cole wraps, as for speaker mccarthy, will he be able to satisfy the hard right flank of his caucus, ahead of wednesday s house vote? or after weeks of holding america hostage, will they intentionally drive t
welcome to cnn this morning. good to be with you. here s what we re watching this morning. lawmakers finally reach a tentative debt ceiling deal, but of course the fight is not over. now president biden and house speaker mccarthy have to try to get the members onboard from their representative parties. can they get it to the president s desk by june 5. the texas house of representatives votes to im beac impeach ken paxton. the latest on the action and what happens next. look at this. remarkable new images of the sun. we have never seen the sun this way. powerful telescope captures photos of the sun s surface. we will talk about how they could help scientists studying the sun and the solar system. and a groove of bipartisan lawmakers in washington comes together to mark memorial day. we will show you how they are paying tribute to the fallen. beginning with that race in washington to crack the legislation to raise the nation s debt ceiling and avoid this historic d
saying he feels closer to a deal today than he has before, but not everyone in his party is as optimistic. one top republican negotiator warning the deal is still teetering on the brink and could fall apart entirely. meanwhile, the national deficit continues to soar to new heights and treasury secretary janet yellen says there are only eight days remaining to pay america s bills. is everyone on board? reporter: we ll see about that. he came in to the capitol this morning and told reporters he s feeling optimistic and thinks progress has been made and really they re focused on a few remaining sticking points for this deal. i am told the goal is to have a deal announced by the end of today. we ll see if they can get there. we have new reporting about what the outstanding issues are. one of them is a provision to impose new work requirements on some social safety net programs. i m told they made some progress on that in negotiations last night. we re going to see today wheth
airports around the country are seeing the biggest memorial day in years. and also, a passenger opens up an exit door mid flight, and it is captured on camera, and we have video right here on cnn news central. kevin mccarthy speaks just moments ago, and we got new information about where the negotiations stand on avoiding a default, and maybe reaching a deal on raising the debt ceiling. now, hints of optimism overnight, but to state the obvious, until there is a deal, there is no deal. the stock market had been up on hin hints of signs of what is about to happen, and members were going home, but they need to be within hours of getting back. lauren fox, standing by on capitol hill, and you just heard from speaker kevin mccarthy, and what did he say? he is optimistic that a deal can come together very soon, but he noted there are still some outstanding sticking points. he said they made progress last night, and hoping to make more progress this morning. he met by bike w