the president ordering 1500 active duty troops to the southern border. already thousands of of people camped out ready to enter the united states and cities are unprepared for the coming surge. plus countdown to crisis. the treasury secretary puts a clock on how much longer can pay its bills. the calendar crunch spurs the president and house speaker to set a meeting, but there s no movement on the big details. and ron desantis nears his 2024 moment by making clear culture war fights on abortion on the mouse, even on the death penalty are central to his campaign in waiting. up first for us this hour, a big biden white house plan to help with a brewing border crisis. sources saying the pentagon will deploy 1500 more troops to the borderer. the decision comes days before the pandemic era title 42 expires and days before as a result of anticipated surge of migrants against the united states. natasha bertrand, tell us more. when that title 42 will end, it expires may 11th, the
mccarthy spoke. in front of the same individuals about where the debt talks are going. let s just say nowhere. connell mcshane has more. the speaker made reference from that appearance from ronald reagan. he said we have an unsustainable level of debt in this country and he will not support raising the debt ceiling unless something is done about it. spoker mccarthy made a speech to a number of professional financialists in new york. he said there will be a bill that will raise the debt for one year. in exchange for raising it, the speaker has demands. he said federal spending will be rolled back to 22 levels. unused covid money clawed back and he wants americans to work in order to receive federal benefits. mccarthy in his speech going after president biden for refusing to negotiate. make no mistake, the longer president biden waits to be sensible to find an agreement, the more likely it becomes that this administration will bumble in to the first default in our nation s
out. joe biden is running and with donald trump leading the gop field, it seems ever more likely that the country will get exactly what it doesn t want, 2022 deja vu both men have dicey approval numbers. but when it comes to who americans would rather see in office, a majority of voters have repeatedly shown a distaste for trump-style drama, which makes the news today that was not about joe biden perhaps even more beneficial for democrats than anything the president could have announced earlier in new york, the civil lawsuit brought by writer e. jean carroll against donald trump has officially begun we have new details on who was picked for the jury today and what lawyers for both sides will argue in their openings, which should start in just a moment. and in georgia, we finally got an idea of what imminent means from the fulton county d.a. fani willis says a decision on whether to charge donald trump will be announced as soon as july remember, he s already been indicted fo
Irwin joining us with. And kay la, i will start you with. At the windy white house there, as it relates to what were hearing from the Treasury Secretary, and from cnbc language, to Plain English here, what it means. Well, its significant because the Treasury Secretary is saying that as of early june, the federal government wont be able to pay its bills anymore. Its allowed by congress to borrow up to 31 trillion and change, but its going to hit that number next thursday. After that point, treasury is going to be looking under couch cushions to try to finds some additional money. It will be pinching pennies. And it says it will stop contributing or investing into some federal workers retirement accounts, to try to conserve some of that cash in order to avoid reaching that debt limit, or not being able to pay for allies and adversaries that hold the u. S. Debt. So certainly the Treasury Secretary is trying to call on congress and say we need a deal in the coming months. I spoke to a seni
cruise missiles and not going to be effective against drones. so it s doubtful you could say if they had the patriots it would make a huge difference in this particular type of barrage because this was largely cruise missiles and drones. any indication they are using iranian missiles yet, john? no indications that they have purchased or are using missiles from iran. we suspect, we believe that most of what they are using are those drones. i want to get you to respond because we hear from the russian ministry of defense, they say they launched this retaliation strike for an alleged attack in russia. can you respond to is that? it s difficult to know. i can t confirm the russian s account of this. we need to take what the russians are saying with a huge grain of salt here in terms of their justification. i mean, these kinds of these strikes while they were certainly massive are very much a piece of the kinds of brutalizing tactics that mr. putin has been visiting upon