Good morning. I'm Kate Baldwin. It's Friday, thank goodness. June 5th, here are your five things.

Number one, the Senate Voterama. They stayed up all night and things were a total jumble of uncertainty for hours.

But then the Senate has now pushed through a bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol through the end of President Trump's second term.

In doing so, Senate Republicans were able to manage to deliver a big political win for President Trump and also stave off the revolt and rebellion that was happening among the Republican ranks of late.

Several Republicans had threatened to hold up the $70 billion bill.

First over the billion dollars that Trump wanted for security enhancements for his ballroom,

senators dropped that provision.

But then the issue became Trump's anti-weaponization fund.

GOP senators in tough reelection races, they hate that fund and wanted to, wanted explicit

language in the bill to make sure that fund never rises from the debt.

But in the end, that did not happen.

And Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican to vote with Democrats against

the overall immigration measure.

It could be on the president's desk next week.

Number two, the blame game.

The transcript has now been released of the closed-door interview with the former Attorney General

Pam Bondi with House lawmakers.

It's a moment a lot of people, especially survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, have been

waiting for.

And when it comes to the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein's abuse have been waiting for. And when it comes to the Justice

Department's handling of the Epstein files, Pam Bondi essentially throws acting attorney general

Todd Blanche under the bus. When lawmakers asked about the botched release to the public of the records,

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