it is now highly lookly the united states won t be able to pay its bills by early june. also tonight, trump accuser e. jean carroll is seeking further damages from the former president for disparaging comments he made about her during a cnn town hall. and in ukraine after months of brutal fighting, it now appears bakhmut has finally fallen to russia, but ukrainian forces say they still hold a small portion of the totally ruined city. i ll get reaction from the former ukrainian defense minister. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story right now. the speaker mccarthy and president biden, they are diving into another round of debt limit negotiations as the treasury secretary issues her starkest warning yet, that default is now just a few days away. we re covering the story from every angle over at the white house up on capitol hill. let s begin over at the w
moment. that is it for us this afternoon. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. the state of our union is the lead is starting right now. president big tonit s address before a died congress and country to tout his accomplishments. and perhaps lay out his case for another term. but how might his message land with the american people who according to polls disapprove of the job he s doing. rare cries of joy as a little girl and her younger sibling are pulled from the rubble alive. a small bit of good news amid the growing death and destruction from the earthquake in turkey and syria. the death toll now soaring to more than 7,200 people. then, if you ve flown in the past few weeks, you know the skies are not very friendly. cancel takeoff clearance. delta 1943, cancel takeoff clearance. an i-team meltdown, one airline grounded during the holidays, two runway near misses, now lawmakers want answers. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper on capitol hill
Right now cnns Breaking News and a breaking new cnn special live coverage of this history defining moment in to courtrooms very shortly, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether a president has absolute immunity. Were talking of course, about donald trump in the january he six case, a new york jury will hear arguments for the man who ran the National Enquirer. He is expected to deliver testimony, right out of the gate this morning about efforts to bury stories about playboy playmate. Is good, ultimately get to the xu of what happened. Stormy daniels, im john berman with kate bolduan this morning. Sara sidner is out. We have a live look at the us Supreme Court not yet. We will have a live look at the us Supreme Court at some point, you can trust me on that. We are standing by for Oral Arguments at the court about the issue of whether donald trump is immune from the actions he took around january 6, of course, he is trying to get the Election Subversion Case, the federal Electi
liable for. here s trump at a town hall with cnn. they said he didn t rape her, and i tdidn t do anything else because i don t know who the hell she is. they said sir, tonight do it. this is a fake story and you don t want to give it credibility, and that s why i didn t go. i swear, and i ve never done that, and i swear i have no idea who the hell she s a whack job. mr. president. wolf, this is an ongoing case where it s not just that that trump was saying to kaitlan collins on cnn and he was posting on truth social about e. jean carroll a day after the jury verdict in new york about the complaint she won and this other civil lawsuit it s another thing that e. jean carroll is still pushing in court and trying to trying to twist the knife and trying to convince the judge and not only should she win another defamation case about all of the things he s said about her and
tell you the president did seem upbeat and eager to convey his optimism of the nation. tonight s address is being viewed by many observers as a test run for biden s messaging for a potential second term. cnn manu raju is live on capitol hill. walk us through what we re going to see unfold in the next few hours. reporter: around 8:30 eastern time the house will gavel into session. kevin mccarthy will call the house into order before the senators come in there and the formal procession of the president s guests and then the president himself making an address to the nation in the 9:00 p.m. eastern hour, an address expected to run an hour or so where he ll layout accomplishments, things to sell to the american public at a time voter votes will show they do not believe the president has done enough and layout things he believes cob done in the next two years in this divided congress and take aim at republicans to call on a passage for measures that have no chance of passing in this repub