good evening everyone. i m john king. welcome to cnn tonight. debt ceiling drama. we are closer to a deal but not there yet. the fact that janet yellen essentially gave them four more days means, well, we have a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning can they get it done in time? plus can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that is the question as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and blasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016. i think the direction that he is going with his campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. the question is can ron desantis? and here is a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenever you go in the wate
you don t want to miss that. first the bad news. the world has completely turned upside down under our pathetic excuse for a president who doesn t know what day of the week it is. none other than america s hostile enemies now. they have no fear or respect for joe biden. not china, not iran and definitely not russia. putin s thugs, as we talked about last night, took down a u.s. reaper drone over international waters which, in most case, most presidents would view as an act of war. it would be some military response. what did biden do in response? pretty much nothing. actually worse than nothing. the white house started to make excuses for putin s risky behavior. they called it an accident. really? anyone here believe it s an accident? probably was they said it s probably unintentional. probably was the result of a confidence of these russian pilots. does anybody here believe there are incompetent fighter jet pilots that not once, but twice dumped jet fuel on top of our dron
she is currently serving her 18th term in congress. she first assumed her house eac 30 years ago on june 9th, 1987. a different lifetime in politic and culture. mister gorbachev, tear down this wall. i concluded that i will stop being a candidate for president of the united states. she has been speaker since 2019 and before that, from 2007- 2011. democrats love her because she is a first, the first woman speaker of the house. no matter what her record, the press adulation never stops. she is a canny legislator that knows how to get things done. more importantly, nancy pelosi runs at discipline a discipline caucus bears pelosi is a fantastic speaker bear at. tonight, we re going to ask, what does nancy have to show fo all of these years in office when she first took over a speaker, democrats at 233 seats to the gop to hundred two. that number grew to 257 seats i 2009. by 2011, the democrats led unde pelosi s rain and it ushered in a new gop majority. at think all o
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unpopularity. and precious cargo. the u.s. military, an air lift touches down in middle america with a critical shipment on board. 500,000 bottle s worth of baby formula. but we begin the hour in tokyo. president biden dispensing with diplomacy to deliver a stern warning to china. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s a commitment we made. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it. and all the attendant agreements immediate from there. but the idea that it can be taken by force, just taken by force, is just not appropriate. the president did not spell out just what military involvement might mean, and the white house insists the president s answer does not alter american policy. but it does rip up the careful script presidents normally follow on the taiwan issue. we start our coverage in tokyo with jeremy dia