good morning. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 16th. i m victor blackwell. camera walker. thank you. so much for spending a part of your sunday with us. and if you do catch me sniffling a little bit. the pollen has, like really been getting to me and not for you coming from new york and resettling. no good. well, here is what we are watching for you this morning. congress returns from recess this week with a laundry list of to do items among them coming up with a plan to fund the government look at the other major priorities for both parties. in the coming days. at least 56 people are dead in sudan. there were explosions throughout the night clashes between the military and armed groups are escalating will tell you what we know about how this started and the global response i want to give up but not family . i don t give up if you give up. what about your keys, but force out as pandemic era programs expire more and more people who have fallen beh
good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, april 16th. i had to be reminded of that just a few minutes ago. i m aymara walker. i m victor blackwell. she was talking about yesterday on sunday. and i m thinking we do the weekend. so clearly yesterday wasn t sunday . i thought today was monday is with us. all right. thanks for spending good morning with us. here s what we re watching for you. at least 56 people are dead. excuse me in sudan. there were explosions repping night clashes between the military and armed group or escalating will tell you what we know about how this started and what the rest of the world is doing. in response, congress returns from recess this week with a laundry list of to do items among them coming up at the plan to fund the government look at other major priorities for both parties in the coming days. the $1.6 billion defamation trial against fox news starts this week. what s at stake for the company and watch fox apologized to the j
on this in person and see what legislation including messaging bills they can put forward to force republicans on the record , and lastly, house investigations are continuing to heat up. we re seeing more republican chairman begin to issue subpoenas as they enter into the fourth month of being in the majority. on monday, the house judiciary committee will hold a field hearing in new york city as they continue to escalate their investigation into manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. alright elena train. thank you. some georgia residents were told to evacuate their homes after a fire at a plant sent thick black smoke into the air and even after the fire was out. the danger didn t end there will explain. plus fox news is preparing to defend itself in a landmark defamation trial that s set to start this week. a preview of what s at stake and wide dominion feels like it has a solid case. with every generation subaru forester has been a leader in c crash
in texas. there s little that congress can do following the court s decision to suspend the use of medication, abortion drugs, but democrats in particular are eager to weigh in on this in person and see what legislation including messaging bills they can put forward to force republicans on the record , and lastly, house investigations are continuing to heat up. we re seeing more republican chairman begin to issue subpoenas as they enter into the fourth month of being in the majority. on monday, the house judiciary committee will hold a field hearing in new york city as they continue to escalate their investigation into manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. alright elena train . thank you. so let s get some perspective now from cnn political commentator errol louis. good morning to you, errol. so let s start with the debt ceiling, of course, and the u. s could run out of money to pay its debts by this summer. where do things stand, especially with kevin mccarthy s efforts to get repu
not all of the republican response to this, and republicans in congress are responding the same way. i think it s very notable that the top two senate republican senate minority leader mitch mcconnell , as well as senate minority whip john thune, have been silent ever since the news of the indictment broke, so there is some division among what we re hearing from republicans, but by and large, really strong defense of the former president , and this is exactly what donald trump and his team was hoping for. donald trump does not want to be indicted. this is something that his advisors have told me privately over the past several weeks, but they do think that this could have the impact of potentially being a political benefit to him. and so we re going to continue to see how this plays out in the coming weeks, and if he can continue to enjoy this rallying around. already he s used it as a pretty good fundraiser. so in some respects, it s working out for the former president. alright elena