thanks for joining us tonight. cnn tonight with alisyn camerota is starting right now. alisyn, hello. good evening, everyone. i m alisyn, camerota, welcome to cnn tonight. if unconventional is what ron desantis was going for tonight he got it. he decided to launch his campaign on twitter. the live stream crashed, the sound cut in and out but eventually desantis made his case. you can set your clock to january 20, 2025 at high noon because on the west side of the u.s. capitol i will be taking the oath of office as the 47th president of the united states. no excuses, i will get the job done. tonight our panel shares their take on what this means for the race for the white house. plus the culture wars strike again. this time target is pulling some rainbow themed products from store shelves before pride month before workers reportedly made customers feel unsafe. and tina turner dies at the age of 83. so many classic songs, so many electric performances and her chall
all. i look forward to bull durham s report. that s the one i look forward to. what happened to durham? where s durham? and by the way, where s durham? he disappeared. the long awaited durham report is now finally out, but it fails to prove the deep state conspiracy against donald trump that the former president and his allies claim that it would. we ll explain what it actually says just ahead. plus, an update on the progress of debt ceiling talks ahead of another high stakes meeting today at the white house. also we ll look at the latest on ukrainian president volodymyr you len skae s european tour aimed at restocking his arsenal. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. after four years of investigating the fbi s investigation into possible collusion between the trump 2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham finally released his findings yesterday. in a 300-page repor
officials will be holding a press conference later this hour, and we ll of course bring you any detail we learn later this hour. but first most americans have spent at least some of their life living paycheck to paycheck not knowing how or even if they ll be able to pay their bills each month, and now that is not just americans, it is also the country america itself. the entire federal government is one month from being out of cash, and that is not an exaggeration. we re already four months past the debt limit. the treasury has been doing creative accounting to move the money around since then. and now the treasury is the warning the government of the united states could truly, truly be broke by june 1st. if republicans in congress do not raise the debt ceiling in the next 30 days the global economy could collapse. so given the staelks here this should be a relatively straightforward fix, because who would want to use the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge. hopefully we
new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi
with democrats three times. and yes, kevin mccarthy voted for it each time. now, you remember when trump was cheering on the debt ceiling extortion at the cnn town hall? we have to start paying off debt, but when we have a debt limit and they use that very seriously to me. they came in, schumer came in with nancy pelosi and they were using we ll violate it, we ll do whatever they talked a whole lot different than they do right now. i say to the republicans out there, congressman, senators, if they don t give you massive cuts, you re going to have to do a default. have to do a default. we well, folks, you re going to be shocked, shocked trump said the exact opposite when he was president. i can t imagine anybody ever thinking of using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wager. i remember i said to senator schumer and to nancy pelosi would anybody ever use that to negotiate with? they said absolutely not, that s