beyond the borders, the nation grapples with a surge of migrants, the battle over immigration reform is playing out in congress and across the country. how this all factors into the 2020 presidential election. and battle on the red seat. the u.s. is creating a new coalition to fight off iranian -backed houthi rebels attacks on commercial ships. attacks that are already threatening the world supply chain. we will have more on the economic fallout ahead. and we have lift off. more than a year after a fiery failure, blue origin launches its new rocket. what is its mission? we are following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we are only 11 months out from the 2024 presidential election, and a key issue for both parties is a divisive one. immigration. to put it in perspective, some recent cnn polling, economic concerns far and away are the most prevailing issue for voters, but immigration is second. when it comes to whic
the howls we re hearing from some lawmakers, it sounds like we might be. on the right, there s chip roy, congressman from texas. i m going to have some blunt conversations with my colleagues and the leadership team. i don t like the direction they are headed. freedom caucus member bob goode of virginia saying i m concerned about rumors that a deal will raise the limit more than we want. senator mike lee from utah, i will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt ceiling deal that doesn t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms. on the left, there s the progressive caucus chair who says i think the backlash were to be significant if we are bullied into a bad deal. cori bush of missouri, it won t be helpful to biden re-election if he slashes funding on things like education. and jim clyburn who says the president should negotiate, negotiate, negotiate and then use the 14th amendment to pay the bills unilaterally if time runs out. it may sound like w
to go above 30,000. japan has just released growth figures. asia s second biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicted. i spoke to neil newman from macquarie capital. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn t really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp number certainly does indicate there is a large amount of the domestic economy now contributing to this. as you mentioned cap ex, business spending was up 0.9 on the annual basis, way ahead of expectations. but even private consumption was also up, 0.6% against the market consensus of 0.4. even though it appears the wage number we have been looking at, the last numbers were in march, they were not that impressive, in fact they were quite depressing. the next key one will be injune, april s numbers, and that s when we will start to see the increase in overall wages. of course it s notjust the wage number that contributes to all of this, it
course, put their spin on it with the associated press describing sb 14 this way,. the gop controlled legislature is pushing to make texas the latest conservative state to crack down on medical care and get this, the rights of transgender people, the rights of transgender people, that is not what this is about at all. we are talkingwh about children, children having life changing chiloperations that are irreversible. contrast this with washington state, where democrats havetorst just made it legal for doctors to perform a number of these procedures without parental consent. mastectomies, without parentaler consent and without even parental notification. enif there are, quote, compellig reasons not to notify pathe parent, imagine if this were your child. some are calling it statme are e sanctioned kidnapping. if you ask americans there are e no two sides to this debate. a new washington post poll found that an overwhelming majority of americans oppose puberty blocking hormones
verdict came along and we made some emergency arrangements. here in boston. to get into this coverage tonight. we have lisa birnbach joining us, as the first guest tonight, as you know, she is e. jean carroll s best friend and the most supportive witness that e. jean carroll had in the trial. she s the very first person who heard e. jean carroll s story. that very day. minutes after it happened. when she had that encounter with donald trump. and you know, lisa burn box testimony about this, i think should so much light into the ways in which victims of sexual assault often have a hard time grappling with what they just went through. and lisa birnbach did, i think the whole country a service. by helping illustrate the confusion and the denial that a lot of sexual victims feel in those first moments after an assault. it s gonna be really important guest to hear from tonight, lawrence, it s great to have her. yeah, alex, last night, on this program, we hand harvard law profe