thank you. great pleasure to be here. an honor to be speaking about tina this morning. i know john feels the same way. thanks, gentlemen. cnn this morning continues right now. sorry about that. we have got so many people here that i think we are we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign. is it? i don t want to jinx this. we played it on air all three hours this morning we still have an hour to go. look, that is about how ron desantis launched his campaign. good morning. presidential candidate ron desantis pushing the reset button on his presidential campaign. he just announced a new campaign kickoff in iowa after his much hyped launch on twitter with elon musk was derailed by technical difficulties. lawmakers going on recess as time is running out to reach a deal on the debt limit and prevent an economic disaster. a new warning about what can happen in the days to come. leader and members of oath keepers are about to learn their fates.
attorney general ken paxton. what is behind it and what it would take to officially remove him from office is next. also, deal or no deal. key negotiators say progress is being made, but with no deal on the table yet, and lawmakers leaving washington, what is being done right now to prevent a massive default in as littles as six days. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. that extraordinary move out of texas where just yesterday a republican led house investigative committee voted to bring articles of impeachment against attorney general ken paxton. and guad venegas is joining me. tell us about the allegations and what comes next. the investigative committee decided to move forward with the 20 articles impeachment and it will go to the full chamber of the house where 149 members will vote. if they decide to move forward, paxton will be suspended, he will have to wait for the process to then go to the is that the. governor abbott would have to appoint
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthy s morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instructions about how to handle classified documents end up in the hands of the special counsel. and swing voters dread the idea of a biden/trump rematch, but their focus group on what happened if there is one is quite revealing. the biden team arriving last yhour. they are now with the team behind closed doors. both sides say there s mgood faith, yet both sides also say there is little progress. this morning the speaker telling fellow house republicans the two sides are nowhere near agr agreement,
day weekend. something we have not seen since before the pandemic. i am talking away before. try 2005. what is it say about you the consumer in 2023? the rush is on in washington. that negotiator scrimmages strike a deal this weekend. to avoid a default it s now expected to hit around june 5 that is four days later than they originally told us. no matter can we forge a deal right here we will ask houston freedom caucus scott perry. blue dog democrat both are here and only here. the rush is on for the 2024 campaign cash a lot of cash at that. soft on senator tim scott is more than 21 million bucks worth. he tells us i plan to leap ahead of the gorgon gop packed with all vapid former donald trump maga donor who now says ron desantis is his man and points out eight-point to million dollars that florida governor has raised over his first 24 hours since making that announcement proves he is a hit. even the twitter launch maybe not so much of a hit print welcome everyone i am neil
so what will happen if his hands are tied? former president trump appeared in new york courtroom this afternoon. this time via zoom, in the hush money case involving stormy daniels. this hearing, the first since he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last month laid out what donald trump and his lawyers can and cannot say publicly about the case. more on what that entails in a moment and what was said in the courtroom. also in manhattan today, another lawsuit against the former president. this one familiar. e. jean carroll has amended her suit against donald trump. she s now asking for at least $10 million in damages after she says donald trump defamed her again, calling her a whack job at the cnn town hall he participated in the night after he was found liable for sexual abuse. we ll also explain how that case will proceed. joining me from outside the courtroom now for that hush money case first is lisa ruben. lisa, you were inside that room