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its saturday 2a june. our main story: the kremlin has ordered the arrest of the leader of its mercenary group, wagner, which has been assisting the country in its war against ukraine. yevgeny prigozhin has been accused of mutiny by russia — its after he called for a rebellion against russias army. it follows accusations of a deadly attack on wagner forces. the fighters have left ukraine and entered russia, where security has been stepped up. vincent mcavinney reports. operation fortr...

everyone. poppy is off today. im erica hill. thanks for being with me this morning. lets get started with five things to know for this memorial day, may 29th, 2023. joe biden and kevin mccarthy made a debt ceiling deal. now they have to sell it. can they get the votes before default on june 5 th? >> russia shot down a record number of missiles ahead of the long awaited counter offensive. >> search and rescue operations under way right now after an apartment collapse in iowa. seven peop...

state university as police are still trying to piece together the gunmans motive. this hour, ill ask the michigan attorney general about the many unanswered questions in this investigation. also today, former vice president mike pence is speaking out for the first time about his plans to fight a new subpoena from the u.s. justice department. hes arguing that his effort to avoid testifying in the special counsel probe of donald trump is about the separation of powers. republican nik...

hello and welcome. the former chancellor rishi sunak is poised to become the next prime minister here in the uk after borisjohnson withdrew from the race to succeed liz truss. mrjohnson said there was a "very good chance" he would have been successful, but he couldnt govern effectively without a united conservative party in parliament. our political editor chris mason has the latest. are you running for the leadership, mr sunak? could septembers loser be octobers prime minister? rishi ...

We have visited thus far, it is the hard right that lead the polls. There are other systemic issues. Its public finances are still in a precarious condition. And italy needs more workers for its various industries. But as mark lowen has been discovering, that drive to grow the workforce, is likely to be held back because of the growing hard right influence. The big beasts of italian politics are lining up for their european battle. And at this farm south of rome, which rears 1800 buffaloes, the ...

And i think it makes me wonder how else is she going to create a lane for herself? because she will not be the only candidate arguing that there needs to be a new generation. take ron desantis, who is a little younger than her, as well. >> michael smerconish, she was not openly critical of trump today, but she did take only veiled swipes that werent all that veiled. what did you make of that strategy? >> first of all, i thought the rollout went as well as it could have gone. shes obviously smart...

Hes going to be a very weak speaker. hes going to be beholden to this far right group that is going to be able to yank the speakership from him, with just five votes if they dont get their way. so, you know, this is something that the moderates were worried about initially. and you saw mccarthy trying the hold the line on some of these. but at this point, it looks like hes going to have to give away several stores at this point to appease this group of folks. they are playing this, i think, very...

Moment. that will be the time in which kevin mccarthy, if he loses more votes, if he does not make progress, will face more questions about his path to the speakership. they hope between now and then a deal can be iced. i asked mccarthy, can you get the deal tomorrow? he said i dont want to put any time frame on it. he said talks have been productive. he is confident they are moving in his direction. >> want to go to melanie who has new information. >> there are some glimmers of hope. we have ev...

0 >> i dont think voting tonight is productive. let people work more. >> reporter: in a positive sign from mccarthy, some of the opponents came out sounding positive, including scott perry of pennsylvania sounded that -- he said talks had been productive as well as congressman chip roy. they had been asking for more sway over the speakership. some of them had asking to encourage mccarthys super pac to stay out of certain primaries. they did agree to do that. that may have won some. his path, ver...

Party he has absolutely dominated, you would have assumed other candidates would have backed away by now. not one of them did. and they were all standing there saying, here i am as a possible alternative. thats what is most striking about it. i still think donald trump has to consider the odds on favorite but hes not the prohibited favorite. this was on display this weekend. >> heres what half post is saying. i wonder steve, charles -- will bide his time while he waits for trump to implode. that...