developments are happening during our show. exactly. there s a lot happening at the g-7. we ll get to that and a lot more. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, may 19th. cnn learning that president zelenskyy will attend the g-7 summit in japan in person. russia s war set to be a top agenda item as world leaders vow to step up sanctions. new reporting, biden administration signalling it won t stop allies from sending f-16 jets to ukraine. that s according to sources familiar with the discussions. will we ll see what they say today. also happening today, the suspect charged with leaking military secrets will be back in court as a judge is expected to rule where jack teixeira will remain behind bars while he awaits trial. this time, disney versus desantis. a spokesman for the governor called it unsurprising given the company s financial challenges. i think disney would see it another way. and a film festival celebrating harrison ford last night.
desantis in the white house? new evidence that the governor s willing to test that theory as he gears up to announce his presidential run. if you re not worried about the potential for a catastrophic debt default two weeks from now, the white house has a message for you. right now vice president kamala harris is trying to make their case to the public with the goal of pressuring republicans into making a deal. the latest on that, plus a live report from japan and the latest remarks from top administration officials on where the talks go from here. plus, why a house vote to punish admitted liar and federal fraud suspect george santos may ultimately help the new york republican s chances of staying in office. we ll explain that coming up. but we start in florida as nbc news learns that governor ron desantis will officially announce that he s running for president next week as we watch him try to super charge his campaign by harnessing the powers of the culture wars incl
out-of-control rage. we have details from investigators. kyiv is preparing for a major counter offensive as russia is facing more setbacks on the battlefield. four of its aircraft down in a single day. two of its understand commaers killed, as well. fighters also losing ground in the key eastern ukrainian town of bakhmut. and under investigation, a florida teacher says she might be in trouble for showing her students a disney move we a biracial and gay character. hear from the teacher and the parent who reported her ahead on cnn news central. we start this afternoon with breaking news. a violent attack at a congressman s office in virginia. police say a man with a baseball bat walked into the office of democrat jerry conley and assaulted two of his staff members, one of them an intern, her first day on the job. cnn s manu raju is here with the details. manu, walk us through what police say happened? yeah. this is a harrowing incident. in fact, i just got off the
arrested another suspect who is on the terror watch list. he came in south of san diego. he was from afghanistan. the fbi is investigating him. he s one of dozens of terror watch list names who have crossed in to the country over the last several months. president biden though was pretty sanguin on how things are going. he s pleased since the end of title 42 last week. watch. how you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. just be disruptive. not anything else. when i went to bo s bench at the four miles up, i met two people come up to me, a bunch of people. that s why i was late. i was taking a lot of pictures. came up and said, we want to st. paul s in scranton. martha: never know who you run into from scranton as the public changes the subject from the border to folks he ran in to on the bike path. let s go to joe concha, a fox news contributor and brandon
of rape in court today. what e. jean carroll says happened in that department store dressing room in 1996. she plans to testify tomorrow. why is donald trump not expected to? plus, tucker carlson s former producer reveals that she has many audio recordings of her time at fox. i still have, i have several recordings that i m still going through that we ve recovered from all the phones. there are 90 that we have. so, we will discuss the vile behavior that grossberg says is part of daily life at fox. and why fox management allows their hosts to create that toxic workplace. all right, the panel is here with me, they re raring to go. we have former senate candidate joe pinion, paula reid, cnn senior legal affairs correspondent, natasha alford, host of the brio weekly, and motion new, most of the moe news podcast. let s begin with the e. jean carroll case. the trial started today in new york, where attorneys laid out their case that donald trump raped carol in a department stor