morning. absolutely. thank you. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. we are learning more about the man in custody accused of attacking a staffer, intern for democratic congressman gerry connolly. he didn t have any particular motivation, he was on a tear. we have to assess the security we do or do not provide district offices. it s concerning and quite frankly scary. the clock is ticking closer to what would be the first debt deno-fault american history. we don t know what the economic impacts will really be. and that s the scariest part. the fact of the matter is they re now negotiating. they have to. you have to have something done by this weekend. we are nowhere near any of that. after four years and millions of taxpayer dollars, durham report is out. got his own information, which is this information plus plus plus. this report does nothing. it is absolutely a big zero. florida governor ron desantis is expected to launch
let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, quote, w
anything, that is why i m so concerned. default must be taken off the table. i predict you will see things that you don t even believe, the level of corruption. the fbi moved quickly to investigate the allegations of connections of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that they did so by ignoring a lot of evidence. i think the party has developed a culture of losing. governor desantis is the mos electable most conservative who can win the general election and govern effectively. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, may 16, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours u.s. president biden will meet with top congressional leaders at the white house to once again try to increase an increase in the u.s. debt ceiling. a deal has to be reached by june 1 to avoid defaulting. but with the current stalemate americans are starting to get nervous. i get calls about the debt ceiling now more so than
a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the western w
congressional leaders back to the white house with the days to get a deal done simply running out. will either side budge before default? that economists say could be a catastrophe. so word is republican governor ron desantis is now just days away from declaring his 2024 run for president, but the new fury he is facing in florida, all this now on cnn news central. we have new there are new details coming out this morning on the terrifying random shootings in farmington, new mexico. this happened yesterday afternoon and now three people are dead and six others are wounded. police are calling the shooting purely random. the gunman has not been identified but police do say he was 18 years old and he was killed by police once they arrived on the scene. cnn s natasha chen is following this for us, she s joining us now. natasha, the randomness of this is what is so scary. what more are you learning? reporter: the police chief posted a video to facebook last night talkin