politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. in just hours, a meeting with crippling consequences if it leads to nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house to talk through a debt deal, but democrats already worrying prooid sounds close to caving. plus a picture of fear. new and disturbing video shows a baseball bat-wheeleding attacker. beating two staffers at a congressional office. and ron desantis nears a 2024 launch. he will enter the rain rays with infrastructure and big money, but also with deflated expectation was a months of fierce donald trump attacks. up first for us, time to get serious. debt talks are going nowhere. congressional leaders head back to the white house at 3:00 p.m. it s clear the principles enter the debt limit showdown in very different head spaces. kspeaker mccarthy seemed sour o striking a deal. team biden sounds far more optimistic about progress towards a com promiez. not exactly welcome
efforts to overturn the election. he said it s okay by him if america defaults on its debt. he called the capital police officer a thug and said he meant it when he said if you re rich and famous, you can grab women wherever you want. the new test begins. right now, there s a massive number of migrants waiting on the southern border as time runs out tonight on title 42 policy that made it easier to turn them away. and today ukraine gets a big delivery. cruise missiles from the uk. president zelenskyy says he will win the war before the next u.s. election. trump s town hall comments underscore the urgency there. trump refusing to say who should win or if vladimir putin is a war criminal. up first for us, we start there with donald trump, his unending lying and the audience laughter and cheers that speak volumes about his grip on today s republican party. his first answer at last night s cnn town hall was illuminating, a lie, and a lie that proves he cannot or will not quit h
ukraine says its open attacks are taking a toll on russia s war machine and a major counteroffensive could begin at any moment. a dire warning as the ceo of an artificial intelligence company testifies on capitol hill. quote, if this technology depose wrong, it can go quite wrong. we know ai is going to change the world, but how, how quickly, how much, no one quite knows. with the u.s. on the brink of defaulting on its debt, lawmakers are digging in at the white house. those talks in just two hours. we are following those major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. amid a barrage of missile and drone attacks in kyiv overnight, russia is making a major claim that it targeted and destroyed one of these, an american-made patriot air missile defense system. a u.s. official tells cnn it was likely damaged but not destroyed. ukraine is not commenting, but it says that its air defenses worked against the large-scale attack, intercepting
legal system is off the rails when it comes to donald trump. do you have a response to president trump being found liable for sexual abuse? that s the reaction or lack thereof from a few republican lawmakers after a new york jury found donald trump liable for sexually abusing the writer e. jean carroll. we ll have legal analysis on the case and what it could mean for the former president s 2024 campaign just ahead. plus, we ll go through yesterday s high stakes debt ceiling meeting at the white house and what could be next in these contentious negotiations. and also ahead, proposals in the texas state legislature are pushing the legal limits of border enforcement as a pandemic-related immigration restriction expires tomorrow. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 10th. i m jonathan lemire and thanks for starting your day with us. it s a busy day, and we begin this morning with donald trump, now the first former president to be found liable f
gaza but acknowledge some collateral. and plus vladimir putin s parade celebrating victory day moments ago in moscow as his troops struggle to defeat ukraine. and just hours from now in washington, joe biden and kevin mccarthy face-to-face, can they strike a debt limit deal before america defaults. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with fears of dangerous escalation in the middle east. israel says that the operation was aimed at eliminating kingpin terrorists. three islamic jihad commanders were killed, palestinian medical official said at least 13 died in those strikes including four women and four children. hadas gold is live in front of an iron dome battery in southern israel. what are the two sides saying about the airstrikes? reporter: yeah, i m in front of these iron dome batteries and all expectations that these types of batteries which are all around southern israel will be used in the coming hours a