we begin in the us, where the treasury secretary janet yellen has sounded a stark warning over the country s debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. speaking to abc, she says that if lawmakers fail to raise that ceiling the us could be left unable to pay its bills by the beginning ofjune. it is congress s job to do this. if they fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making and there is no action that president biden and the us treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe. russ mould is investment research director at aj bell. we have been here before. all of the same warnings that the us could tape off a cliff if it doesn t raise the debt ceiling and yet more warnings. yes, we have and i think the us debt ceiling has been raised 75 or 80 times in its history and we have had eight government shutdowns while a new debt ceiling has been wor
our southern border is poised to become more open for trafficking and for drug business. imagine being on the front lines. our border patrol are truly heros out there risking their lives under near impossible circumstances. take a look at the streets of el paso, texas. 150,000 are waiting on the other side of the border to push across. so texas state troopers have done what they can on their own to prepare. they have laid razor wire across areas that are so porous that people can just come right through as they try to protect their state. they re keeping them from crossing the river at those points while we hear this, again, from dhs secretary mayorkas. watch. let me be clear, the lifting of the order does not mean our border is open. in fact, it is the contrary. martha: really? okay. lieutenant christopher olivarez from the texas department of public safety very much on the front lines of this. he s going to join us in just a moment with an update of what s going on wher
our viewers joining us around the united states and the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster, ahead on cnn newsroom. i saw people running, i saw my manager looking to us, because they were terrified and scared. this is not the texas miracle as greg abbott likes to call it. we re living in a texas nightmare. these people think it s safer for them to be here, already in u.s. territory hard the barbed wire. border is not open, it was not open and it will not be open subsequent to may 11th. ukraine is doing everything it can to prevent russia from bringing home a victory may the 9th. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom. with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s monday, 8:00 a.m. here in london, and in allen, texas, authorities are processing a shooting that left eight people dead. and others wounds. people are placing flowers on a makeshift memorial. and the mayor led prayers and condolences. we now know one of the people killed in the
we re not looking for a new cold war. and i make no apologies, and we will compete. and we ll responsibly manage that competition so that it doesn t veer into conflict. paul: let s bring in seth jones, senior vice president of the center for strategic and international studies and author of the book, three dangerous men: russia, china, iran and the rise of irregular warfare. seth, welcome. good to the see you again. so what lessons do you draw froa balloon episode, and should americans be reassured by the way it was handled? paul, i brought two major lessons from the balloon incident. one ises the only it is the only one of the few visible examples we ve seen of a much broader effort by china which views the united states as its major competitor to collect information including within the u.s. homeland. there has been extensive activity, and there continues to this day to collect information through the confucius institutes as part of the thousand talents program, as part
that s what they re thinking about in their next move. how do i become a paid speaker? how do i speak at the nra convention? because that s their jam. in the last administration, marjorie taylor greene wasn t even sitting on a committee, and kevin mccarthy just showed up at the table, and again, there are lots of things to complain about him, but i would also say this vote was so consequential to us just doing the bare minimum, it s really an issue for any lawmaker to vote no, and while we all sat here and said these republicans that are obstructionists that are voting now are trying to tank the economy, people are also looking to democrats here, and while i totally get it, they in many senses they want to not just play to their base, but serve what they went to congress to do, something like the debt ceiling isn t something you could be a purest about, because if we went into default, the consequences are catastrophic. you re talking about hakeem jeffries. hakeem jeffries, the repor