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going to backfire. we are following these developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. right now the house is in session ahead of a key vote to avoid default on the nation's debts. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy both expressing confidence today that this deal they worked out will clear congress, will be signed. that is despite grumblings from members of both of their parties and despite suggestions that mck mccarthy could face mutiny from some hard-line republicans. we saw you speaking to speaker mccarthy ahead of this critical vote. tell us what he said. >> reporter: he is confident this bill will pass tonight. he believes he has a majority of republicans to support the plan.

something to prevent any mutiny on the right. certainly if he can get a majority of the 223 house republican conference. we do expect sizeable democratic support to get this over the finish line even as they are facing criticism on the far right and left on what is in this plan. on the right mccarthy has to contend with criticism that this deal did not go far enough to cut spending. some are concerned it could authorize $4 trillion in new spending that could ensure that the deficits and debt would be decreased. i asked the speaker about that and actual threats against his speakership and he didn't seem too concerned about that. >> what do you say to folks on your right flank who are concerned about this deal and don't think that you cut the best deal by authorizing $4

trillion borrowing in exchange for spending cuts. >> we want truth in advertising. this is the largest cut in american history. this goes to the debt ceiling to january 1st. it also brings you work requirements on welfare, something we've never been able to get through in our modern time. >> but it expands those work requirements. >> i'll bet you dinner that it actually saves more money because it adds the age group but cuts the states that have the loopholes that do the 12% down to 8%. you've been long enough cbo always gets that wrong. >> reporter: are you worried this will make are speakership less secure? >> not at all. >> reporter: the speaker calls this the largest cut in history. the deal with cap domestic spending for nondefense programs for the first two years. the next four years under this proposal is just a target, it's not actually bindibinding, whic

why there's criticism from the right. and then on the senate side, if this is approved, senator minority leader mitch mcconnell says he hopes this clears the senate as soon as thursday or friday. he'll need consent from all 100 senators to schedule a vote but that's the hope from the leaders on both sides of the aisle that this will be done by the end of this week. >> curious to see where he'll take you to dinner and more curious to see how the vote will turn out. manu raju live for us on the hill. thank you. we'll speak with republican congressman ken buck of colorado. congressman, thank you for taking the time today. >> thank you. >> so you heard the speaker say to my colleague that he is not at all concerned about any potential threat to his leadership following this agreement which you oppose. should he be concerned? >> yeah, i think he should be concerned. i'm not suggesting the votes are there to remove the speaker, but

the speaker promised that we would operate at 2022 appropriations levels when he got the support to be speaker. he's now changed that to 2023 levels plus 1%. that's a major change for a lot of people. and so after this vote, and he will win the vote tonight, but after this vote we will have discussions about whether there should be a motion to vacate or not. >> you say there are not the votes. if you raise that motion to vacate, are you saying there's not the votes there to take him out of the speakership? >> well, it only requires five votes if the democrats all vote for hakeem jeffries. it only requires five votes for kevin mccarthy not to get elected. what i'm saying is we don't have a majority of republicans to vote for somebody else at this point in time. >> understood. let's talk about mccarthy's claims about this particular agreement. he just described it as the largest cut ever. it appears that he's basing that on the two years required cuts

lasting beyond that. is he misconstruing the actual cuts in this bill? >> it's absolutely smoke and mirrors. the truth is that any deal that is made right now on cuts can be waived by congress in this year's appropriation bills, next year's appropriation bills and certainly a future congress. so all of those are targets, and they will be targets that would be cuts. but they are not cuts in actual dollars right now. what is absolutely true is that we will have a historically high deficit, $4 trillion more at least, than we have right now. >> as you know, there is a normal process when congress votes on budgets. here's a case again. congress passes the spending. as the debt limit approaches, that is where you have debates like we've seen these last several weeks here. if you want to cut the budget,

why not do that during the budget process as opposed to the debt ceiling debate when you have genuine fears of not just going over the cliff but discussing going over the cliff and the damage it does to the economy? >> there is a relationship between spending and debt. the more you spend, the more debt you have if revenue remains constant. in this case it looks like revenue is looking constant or maybe decrease if we have a recession. certainly there's a relationship there. to use the debt ceiling makes all the sense in the world. >> even with the potential cost to the economy? as you know, the rating agencies were looking at this even days before we reach that cliff point saying we've got to reconsider the standing. the confidence, in effect, of u.s. debt. >> well, there should be a lack of confidence in u.s. debt because at some point in time we're going to default. if we don't get our hands around

this situation, we are going to default. it isn't going to be in june of 2023, but i'm not saying it won't be in 2027 or 2030. this country cannot continue to add four, five, $6 trillion of debt every year, two years, three years without a default. so, no, we're not going to default. the credit agencies are going to be able to take into account where we are financially. but if we don't turn this ship around, there will be a default in this country. >> finally before we go, just to be enclosclear here, you say ke mccarthy and the democrats have the votes to pass this and move forward. after that point due to your opposition of this, will there be a motion to vacate? >> i don't know the answer to that. i know there will be discussions starting next week. i don't know. a lot of it depends on how big the margin is for this vote. certainly you can't call this a historic victory if you're

relying on large numbers of democrats to come over and vote for this. >> congressman ken buck, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you. >> boris. another major headline we are following this afternoon, tensions between the united states and china are soaring after a video showed a chinese fighter jet conducting what defense officials are calling a, quote, unnecessarily aggressive maneuver on a u.s. spy plane. now, here is the video. this happened last friday. a chinese fighter, you see it there in the distance, it cuts directly in front of the u.s. reconnaissance and forces it to fly through the turbulence. you can see how the turbulence impacts the u.s. aircraft, disrupting it as the cockpit visibly shakes. now, this was over the hotly contested south china sea. this is a part of the world that china claims belongs to it. now, the international community disagree, they say this happened in international airspace while

the chinese military claims that the american plane deliberately intruded over a training area. this intercept is very similar to something that happened in december, another encounter between u.s. and chinese military aircraft. a chinese fighter jet flying very, very closely to a u.s. reconnaissance plane over the same area. the chinese fighter jet coming within 20 feet forcing the plane to take evasive maneuvers. this also comes amid strained relations between the two countries, especially since former house speaker nancy pelosi's trip to taiwan last august. of course, china also says that taiwan belongs to it. and of course the u.s. decision earlier this year to shoot down that chinese spy balloon that floated over sensitive military sites in february. and even this week, cnn reported that beijing rejected a proposal for defense secretary lloyd austin to meet with his chinese

ko counterpart. we want to get the latest from the pentagon on this increasing tension. other oren liebermann is there for us. oren, what are hearing from officials about the situation with this jet? >> reporter: boris, you laid it out very well. not only how much tension the jet encounter has added to the relationship between beijing and moscow but how rough and difficult that situation was to begin with because of everything you just went through. former speaker of the house nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan last summer. it's worth noting that there had been quite a few breakthroughs in the months before that in terms of opening up more communication and more dialogue. at that point, about a month or so before that, defense secretary lloyd austin had met his chinese counterpart and there was an agreement for more communication at more levels of the military. but all of that or a lot of that has been curtailed. china cutting that off as a way of sending a message to the u.s. military-to-military communications, discussions about climate change and efforts

on that front, so it has affected a lot of different levels of the relationship between china and the u.s. here. this has only added to the tension. as you pointed out, china claims much of the south china sea. international law doesn't recognize that, which is why the u.s. was flying there. it was flying in international airspace much as it was in december. you can see this pattern of aggressive behavior. for the u.s., it's important to still have those open lines of communication so that these encounters, and they happen between the u.s. and other countries as well, but so that these encounters don't lead for greater er problems and miscalculations. >> a serious threat there for a grave escalation basically because of a potential mishap. oren liebermann, thank you so much. jim. we do have this just in to cnn. the republican race getting a

little more crowded. former vice president mike pence plans to make it official and enter the gop presidential race next week. he's set to launch his bid with a campaign video and kickoff speech in the key early state of iowa. that's where we find cnn's jeff zeleny. this has been expected for some time. now we know the timing. what's the impact on the race? >> reporter: look, we do know the former vice president has been eyeing this really for several months and is going to make it official next wednesday, one week from today, with a speech and message to voters as well as a town hall with our own dana bash on cnn that evening. so what this is going to do is potentially split evangelical voters in iowa, give them one more candidate to consider. this is really a race that's coming into shape. former governor ron desantis in the state today, former president donald trump coming to iowa tonight. what this does is really expands the opportunities and choices for conservative voters here,

but it also raises the stakes for the former vice president. he, of course, has been speaking out against donald trump. he said of course the election was not stolen. he could not overturn it. so the question is, is there a lane for him? what is the road for him in this republican party? but as i have traveled with him last week in new hampshire and previously here in iowa, there is somewhat of a market for a true conservative. that is what he is going to bill himself as. he has a long record. before he was vice president, he served as a congressman from indiana and governor of indiana. deeply conservative. that's why he was chosen by donald trump as a validater back in 2016. now they are both set to be rivals in a growing field of candidates here. so certainly a challenging road for him. but he wants to make the case that there is room for a true conservative in this race. >> the former vice president challenging the former president

and others. ron desantis another recent entrant to this race has been in iowa and going very directly in a way against donald trump, in a way many other republican candidates have not. what have you been hearing? >> reporter: well, this is his first full day of campaigning here as finally a formally declared presidential candidate. he of course has been hinting at this for months. last week he formally jumped in with an announcement that was pa botched on twitter but today he's campaigning from sioux city to council bluffs. he'll be coming here to pella, iowa, before an event this evening in cedar rapids as well. making a case that he in his words at least is a republican who can win, talking about his big win in florida last fall. but he's also drawing some sharp distinctions at his own choosing against the former president. take a listen to what he said earlier today in western iowa.

>> we have to dispense with the culture of losing that we've seen throughout the republican party. not in iowa, not in florida, but in way too many states. you know, we look at this debt deal, we should have 55 republican senators right now if we had just played our cards right over the last few years. and so we can't make excuses, we have to be able to get the job done. >> reporter: certainly placing blame there on the former president for his role in the midterm elections not only in 2018 but 2022. also taking a bit of a swipe at the debt deal but certainly stopping well short of urging republican members of the house or indeed the senate to vote against this which would lead to a default. one thing we've seen from the florida governor, he's simply introducing himself to voters. they have a general sense but he's campaigning on the personal side, reminding voters of his

military record. he's clearly making the distinction here when he's talking in public to voters, he's talking about himself in a more positive way, but he also is not shying away from questions about donald trump, essentially saying that he would be a loser for the party. that of course is the balance he is trying to strike going forward. but former president donald trump coming here to iowa tonight, so this race definidefinitely as the heat comes on, this race is picking up. >> losing is quite a broadside against the former president. thanks so much. cnn will host a town hall with former vice president mike pence one week from today moderated by dana bash from grandview university in des moines. five people still unaccounted for after a building partially collapsed in iowa. this as we learned that the owner of the apartment structure

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the city of davenport, iowa, has cited the owner of this apartment building that specspecious experienced a catastrophic collapse. he's been find $300 for failing to keep his property in a safe, sanitary and structurally sound condition. it may not sound like much considering what happened here. right now there are five people still missing. many of their loved ones protested yesterday, want them found before the demolition of this building, hoping somehow that there are still survivors.

>> they want to tear down the building and you still have five people still unaccounted for. help me understand that. >> but city leaders are weighing if they should further risk rescuers' lives when thermal imaging and dogs detected no signs of life. they want to bring the building down safely before it comes down on its own. >> this building shifted when we were operating in there. each time we were in there, it shifted at some point. so we could walk out of this room right now and that building could only have 20 minutes. joining us now is dr. bepg min benjamin abo, who helped after florida's surfside building collapsed two years ago that killed 98 people. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. this is obviously quite a difficult situation that these rescuers and officials are in. what do you think about this

discussion of whether this building should be demolished or whether they should keep looking for people at this point in time? >> it's pretty loaded because while, you know, there is a chance depending on the type of collapse, especially like that, that there are potentially chances for people to be in voids and still be alive. however, wee a lot of techniques to try to see if there are survivors, with the dogs, thermal imaging and other things like that. it's not an easy decision. it needs to be with physician, with rescue personnel, with structural engineers to see. at the same time, while we'd love to get in and scoop them out and make everything okay, we can't let everybody else get hurt at the same time, so it has to be a very calculated decision and no matter what, it's not an easy decision. >> these are live pictures we are looking at of the building.

you can see how some of it is actually folding down onto the floors below it. you can see the challenges that these rescuers would have. you've walked through these precarious buildings in very different situations, both in haiti, more recently in surfside, florida. what are the challenges as you are going through buildings that are unstable? >> there are a number of different hazards coming at you from all different directions and even ones you can't see, whether it's under the floors, things would above you, air conditioning units, walls coming in and air quality as well. everything is like a game of pick up sticks. every movement, if you even feel the earth moving underneath you, then it's really, really unstable. most of the time things are less stable than you think and you feel secure and then all of a sudden it just gives out. it's a very precarious situation. we're talking about things can

collapse onto you, fall onto you, the floor give out and combinations of all of the above, not to mention a lot of sharp objects that can hurt us and our dogs. >> are there situations where dogs have not detected signs of life? where thermal imaging has not detected something, but there are still survivors in voids? >> so especially with our federal dogs and a lot of the state teams, we have two types. we have live search dogs and cadaver dogs or recovery dogs, which is after someone is deceased. they are so, so well trained that we don't know exactly when it is, but there's a point that the live dog will only find live people and then if they're deceased for so long they won't pick up on anything. similar to surfside, the

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we saw more emotional testimony in pittsburgh today on the second day of the death penalty trial for accused killer robert bowers. this is the man that prosecutors say went on a hate-filled massacre, deliberately gunning down 11 jewish worshippers inside the tree of life synagogue back in 2018, the deadliest attack ever on the

jewish community in the united states. cnn's danny freeman is live in pittsburgh for us watching the trial proceedings. danny, today jurors heard from one witness who survived the incident. what did she share with them? >> reporter: yeah, in fact actually today has been an incredible day because we've heard from now three and on the fourth person who actually survived that tree of life synagogue, but that one witness that you're talking about was particularly poignant because not only did carol black survive this shooting and live to tell about what happened in that 17 g synagogue, her brother did not survive the shooting, richard godfried. carol black said it was an otherwise normal day on that saturday morning, october of 2018. that's when gunfire rang out. she and a few other members of her congregation fled down to the basement and hid in a closet just waiting for, hopefully, this gunman to pass over them.

but then what happened is melvin wax, one of the men who was hiding with her in the closet, he was standing, as she describes, after in the closet and half out, he couldn't quite fit. at that point the gunman opened fire and shot melvin wax. i want to show you this quote. she describes watching melvin wax immediately go down on the ground on his back. she says he was dying. he didn't say anything, he made a garbling sounding and also a kind of grunt and then there was silence. she describes his head fell just inches from my feet. she said this and she said she heard the steps of the gunman and she just tried to stay calm and stay silent and hope that it would all again stop and the bloodshed would stop. then she was ultimately rescued by police along with a few others. she said to police, where's my brother, did my brother make it out okay? and he did not.

that's one of the things we heard in court today. we also got today new exhibits and new images from what was happening inside that synagogue. these new images included crime scene tape around some of the hallways in the ssynagogue, a magazine for a rifle can be seen in one photo. but there's one that i want to highlight that we've been speaking about for the better part of the day because it's so evoke a evocative. it's a prayer book with a bullet hole shot through it. ra rabbi jeffrey myers spoke about this prayer book. he took it from the massacre and kept it with him because he said this prayer book was a witness to the horror of that day. one day when i'm not there, this book tells a story that needs to be told. robert bowers has been in the courtroom this entire time and he has pleaded not guilty to these charges. back to you. >> danny freeman, live from

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now to some of the headlines that we are following this hour. in florida, jury selection is under way in the trial of a former school resource officer accused of failing to confront the gunman in the 2018 mass shooting at marjorie marjory st douglas high school. the gunman shot and killed 14 students and three staff members. he faces several charges, including felony child neglect. and the louisville bank where a gunman opened fire is moving to a different location out of respect for those killed. the ceo says they are continue to support and care for the victims. among those injured, a young officer who had just graduated from the police academy. the louisville police department says the officer is now out of the hospital and, quote, making remarkable progress in rehab. and firefighters from new york and new hampshire are traveling to canada to help fight those wildfires in nova

scotia. the smoke and the haze is continuing to impact air quality, even in parts of the u.s., prompting air quality alerts for new jersey and even southeastern pennsylvania. that also includes the philadelphia area. jim? well, a major ruling in the legal battle over the opioid crisis. an appeals court in new york has granted the sackler family immunity from any current or future civil lawsuits in exchange for a settlement of some $6 billion. the sacklers own purdue pharma which taliban selling the opioid oxycontin in the '90s, marketing it heavily as a nonaddictive drug. cnn's jake tapper is covering this next hour for "the lead." you read books and see the role that the sackler family had in this, pushing this in effect and contributing to the crisis. tell us what is in this $6 billion for victims of the opioid crisis. >> just big picture here, between 1999 and 2020, more than

564,000 americans died from opioid overdoses according to the cdc. not all of them from purdue products. for the victims and families of those who died, it means $6 billion for eight states and washington, d.c. are going to use the money to help with this epidemic. take a listen to connecticut attorney general william todd. >> there's no victory here. at the end of the day, no amount of money, no amount of justice will make this right for deedee and her family and christine gagnon and liz fitzgerald in connecticut and their sons. at the end of the day we pushed as hard as we could. this deal, the $6 billion, is 40% more than the deal that i opposed and took to court and overturned until the second circuitry instituted the $6 billion deal yesterday with its decision. and this $6 billion deal will fund treatment and prevention. it gets the sacklers out of the

opioid business. it shuts down purdue pharma. it gave deedee and families like hers the opportunity to address the sacklers and tell them how they wrecked their lives and gets money to families like deedee's, $750 million or more. >> the sackler family said the s sackler family believes it is critical to providing substantial resources to people and communities in need. we are pleased with the court's decision to allow the agreement to move forward and look forward to it taking effect as soon as possible. the settlement means immunity from thousands of lawsuits related to purdue pharma's early aggressive marketing of oxycontin as nonaddictive, which it was not. before purdue filed for bankruptcy in 2019, the total cost of all the lawsuits facing them was according to a second circuit court opinion, $40 trillion. they obviously are not going to have to pay that. in 2021 the sacklers are

collectively worth more than $11 billion. we should note this settlement does not grant the sacklers immunity from any potential criminal charges, though none have ever been brought against the sacklers as individuals. >> just quickly, $6 billion is not a small amount of money. they do get to keep a great deal of their wealth. are victims' families satisfied with this? >> they're all over the map. you have literally more than 500,000 people who overdosed from this, not to mention those who developed addiction issues because of it. so some are happy for something good to come out of this and others are upset. >> as the connecticut attorney general there said, as he named some of the victims, nothing is going to bring them back. jake tapper, we look forward to see you on "the lead" at the top of the hour. it is the hearing star watchers and truth seekers have been waiting for. lawmakers are taking a closer

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on august 1st, a dedicated team at nasa will hand congress their first report on ufos today a pentagon official revealed the u.s. is tracking more than 800 potential sightings. scientists now refer to them as unidentified anomalous phenomenon or uaps. cnn's tom foreman has been

keeping his eyes on the skies for us. tom, 800 potential sightings. what i found interesting is there are some common threads, best assignment of the day doing this, by the way. the common threads of the nasa group, there are certain things that are reported, typically round, atypical orientation, 3-13 feet in size, white, silver and translucent. beyond that, the performance is something they have collected here based on what people tell them. 10,000 to 30,000 feet in the air. stationary to mach 2 and no thermal exhaust. this is what people observe, what they record with their cell phones. >> on that note, it's not just eyewitness accounts and people's cell phones. it's also military equipment, fighter jets that have documented things that can't easily be explained.

>> highly experienced people have seen things like this. really interesting in the meeting today, astronaut scott kelly -- pilot scott kelly said this is where i live, this is what i've done my whole life. i get confused. listen. >> i remember one time i was flying in the warning areas off virginia beach, military operating area there. my reo, the guy who sits in the back of the tom cat was convinced we flew by a ufo. i didn't see it. we turned around. we went to go look at it. it turns out it was bart simpson, a balloon. >> seems like a joke, but not really a joke. his whole part is to say it's easy to be confused up there. if you ever fly in an airplane, look over the ocean, it's hard to make out exactly what you're seeing. >> 100%. this was a public forum. anyone can submit questions. >> people are interested in all this. if you look at some of the yes,

sir that came from the audience, people out there, where are these craft mostly being detected? they had a sense, east coast, west coast, certain places overseas where they see more of them than others. beyond that, there were questions about what type of propulsion seems to be involved, have you documented any data regarding the speed or maneuverability of such crafts. some idea, generally, in a broad sense. then beyond that, really the key question here, the key question, where does this come from? is this possible they could aliens? why or why not. every government agency says, we acknowledge there are such things, we do not believe it to be aliens. at the end of the meeting some of the scientists stood up and said much of our life is dedicated to maybe finding life out there. if we find it, we're not going to hide it. we want you to know about it, it

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