a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. just ahead time that the president announce a declaration of a national emergency. we re working within the constraints of a broken immigration system. i have not seen from there is a seriousness of the white house that they want to deal, seems like they want to default. he knows what happened, what, where, when, who, why and how. he knows the answers. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 12, 9:00 a.m. in london and 2:00 a.m. in el paso where a landmark change in u.s. immigration policy is now in effect. the controversial rule known as title 42 expired just a few hours ago. that means harsher consequences for those entering the u.s. illegally. thousands of migrants seeking asylum made their way to the border ahead of the deadline. while things appear quiet right now, one official says that it will get worse. head of
the jury finding trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarding carroll $5 million. what would you want to say to him? i said it to joe tacopina yesterday. he came over to congratulate me. he put out his hand. i said, he did it and you know it. this hour, disgraced republican congressman george santos now in custody at a long island courthouse facing federal charges, including wire fraud and money laundering and renewed calls to resign from members of his own party. white house and congressional staff negotiators working around the clock ahead of friday s next white house debt ceiling meeting after tuesday s first session ended with angry accusations from both sides. i think he knows that default would be disastrous. and i think he knows it couldn t pass in congress. it s dead on arrival. i didn t find progress in this meeting. we will get back together on friday and hopefully the president then can change the path of the last 97 days. good day. i m a
he answered the questions you all asked and i think that s an opportunity for the american people to hear directly from him. a week ago today he sat down and had a one-on-1, 1-on-one interview with one of your one of your colleagues here, not here, but clearly in one of the networks here, and talked was asked about title 42. so the american people have heard from the president when we when we, again, when we were in new york and again right when, after the meeting you heard directly from the president after the meeting he had with the big four, if you will. and he gave remarks and then took questions. so the american people have heard directly from him, especially when he laid out how that conversation went with the big four. you described the discussions this week between white house officials and congressional staff as productive. what from those talks do you believe is pointing to the signs of progress? i m not going to get into details of private conversations.
neil: democratic congressman henry cuellar in the last hour talking about revelations that were shocking and released late on a friday night. that s what happens with a lot of information that could be very embarrassing to authorities, but in this particular case extremely embarrassing anybody for everyone in this country. 251,000 plus migrant encounters at the border last month. we have never seen that, forget about in any december, in any month in our history like ever, ever, ever. griff jenkins in eagle pass, texas with the ramifications of that. my friend, to you. griff: neil, that s unbelievable. that s the population of scottsdale and the border agents are exhausted. and let me take you to our drone in the sky and lift you up. in this is where they have more than 160,000 crossings here in this fiscal year so far and that s just one sector alone. as you take a look at this crossing here, title 42, people just going across moments ago. and the video that we shot before th
the evening. thankfully, nobody was hurt. sara. all right. thank you so much. evan perez outside the white house, appreciate it. poppy. this morning president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy say yesterday s debt ceiling meeting was productive. so that s good. they still don t have a deal to raise the debt ceiling. we are nine days away, folks, from a catastrophic default. they remain at odds over caps on future spending and tougher work requirements for federal aid programs, right, like medicaid, food stamps, et cetera. joining us now is the president of the minneapolis federal reserve, one of 12 fed officials with a vote on interest rates. we will get to that in a moment as well. your next meeting is weeks from today. good to have you. thank you for coming back. good to see you. we will get to fed rates in a moment. take us inside the fed if you could. what are the conversations you guys are having on a possible u.s. default? it s very concerning. we have a mission to