old. the news continues. cnn newsroom with michael starts now. anderson, thank. you matt gates, he singlehandedly held up kevin mccarthy s election as speaker, you ll recall, well tonight he is threatening to do it again in a new battle on capitol hill. and, he is here. i m michael, live from new york city, on the day the president joe biden asked americans for another four years. the nation is at risk of a potential economic disaster. thanks to partisan and intra party politics in washington, the u.s. is scheduled to default on its debt, as early as june. something that has never happened before. , and if the nation default, that means massive job losses, almost usher as a recession. federal benefits like social security are at risk, interest rates, what do you pay out of your house, your car, your college loan, they all skyrocket. the stock market, it tumbles, dragging with it your 401 case. i know what you re thinking. you re thinking, michael, we ve seen the movie before.
outfront next, russia seizing on tucker carlson s exit from fox. why this obsession? it comes as a top putin official tonight tells our matthew chance about the possibility of a prisoner swap for americans detained in russia. plus, what s old is new again. biden s message today for re-election, eerily similar to what he said on this very day exactly four years ago. will it work a second time? and then a story you will see first outfront tonight. outrage over lawmakers making decisions of white lawmakers making decisions for a city that is overwhelmingly black and democratic. outfront tonight, russia is hiring as a top putin mouthpiece offers tucker carlson a job with russian state television. the most senior russian official to visit the united states since putin invaded ukraine. you heard me there, today, said this, unprompted. translator: perhaps it would be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the united states. i ve heard that tucker c
introducing the next generation 10g network only from xfinity. the future starts now. putting arguments, begin today for the presidential nomination standing trial. the civil battery, defamation case in new york stems from claims by former magazine column is, e. jean carroll that donald trump raped her back in the 1990s. trump skipped the first day. and now he s threatening to skip the republican primary debates. he pointed to what he calls, quote, insurmountable lead in the polls, and what he describes as hostile news network. my next guest has moderated several debates involving donald trump from the primary to the general elections, including this moment in 2020. president on the moderator
tonight, the trial centered on a rape allegation against former president donald trump is now underway. lawyers for magazine column scientist e. jean carroll telling the journal in opening statements that she was forcibly raped by trump in the 1990s in a dressing room at a department store in manhattan. trump s lawyer denied that allegation today, saying carroll schemed with others to hurt trump politically and never reported the incident to police. the trial comes as trump faces mounting legal troubles on multiple fronts waiting for possible major indictments from the doj and in georgia. outfront now ty cobb, former trump white house lawyer. ty, i just want to start with this case because i ve sort of been calling this the sleeper case in a sense, that it s now happening, and it could be very significant. but it isn t one people had spent a lot of time talking about until it actually started.
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