er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again
major hurdles remain as negotiators resume debt ceiling talks on capitol hill with speaker mccarthy and his top lieutenants refusing to budge on their key budget demands. the president i don t understand why they thought this would never come. these are areas i will not raise taxes. we will bring in more money. i will not pass a clean debt ceiling. won t put that on the floor. we have to spend less than last year. the u.s. surgeon general will join me on his new warning about a youth mental health crisis fuelled by social media. this afternoon, president trump will appear in court virtually connected to a court order that he not discuss evidence in the hush money trial, while there s no reporting from the new york times today that the special counsel investigating trump s handling of classified documents has subpoenaed records of his business dealings with foreign countries while he was president. e. jean carroll is asking for more in damages for what the former pre
one. airlines facing a stress test this memorial day weekend. aaa expects air travel to be busier than it s been in nearly 20 years. also, the washington post with quite an exclusive report this morning. workers at mar-a-lago moved boxes a day before the fbi came to pick up classified documents last year. how that etcvidence could determine obstruction. and one of the most powerful republicans in texas is facing possible impeachment by fellow republicans. the gop led committee of state lawmakers wants the attorney general removed. big basketball headline this morning. the boston celtics staying alive with a dominant game five win against the heat in the eastern conference finals, and the lsu women s basketball champs heading to the white house today. this hour of cpr thi cnn this m starts right now. but we begin with your, hopefully, long holiday weekend. memorial day travel. airports are going to be very busy, the busiest in two decades as america bounces back from
here last week. in the immediate wake of that remarkable court ruling. and which a jury held unanimously that former president, donald trump, had sexually abused e. jean carroll. and that when he denied that and disparaged her, and come her a liar. he was the one who was lying. and he was defaming miss carroll and he was going to have to pay for it. in that case that jury ordered donald trump to pay e. jean carroll $5 million in damages. both for what he did, and what he said about her. but if you watch the show last week, and you saw the interview that i did with e. jean carroll and her attorney. you might remember that in addition to reflecting to the fact that they had won that case, one of the things that they were newly contending with in the wake of that jury verdict, was that even though trump had just been ordered to pay out millions of dollars, because of his attacks on e. jean carroll, because of his lies on her, even though he had just been ordered to pay millions
race? what his staffers are saying about his political future. so we have a lot going on and a lot more music to introduce. lucas tomlinson introduces live from washington without any music for you. just give us the facts, lucas. you got it, brian. good morning, after months of anticipation trips to iowa, new hampshire and abroad, it s now official. governor ron desantis will enter the presidential race tonight. florida s first lady teasing the announcement in this 30 second video. d do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. elon musk offered a preview of the highly expected announcement take place tonight at 6:00 p.m. we ll be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and we ll be it will be the first time something like this is happening on social media. and with real time questions and answers. not scripted. president trump s super pac responding to the announcement this is one of th