comcast business. powering possibilities™. this hour, new details about the teenager now charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president. this is after a u-haul, crashing a u-haul into the barriers very near the white house. new details coming in, and we are live at the scene. we received an update from house speaker kevin mccarthy on where he thinks that the negotiations stand on avoiding the u.s. default. he says they are, quote, nowhere close to a deal. this is cnn news central. all right. we have new video into cnn today and this is really the video that you want to see. it appears to show the moment that a man rammed a u-haul into the barrier outside of the white house. the national parks service has identified who they think is behind this. a 19-year-old from missouri. this all started around 10:00 p.m. last night, and the truck drove into the security barriers on the backside of lafayette park, and it is right across from white house c
the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with florida governor ron desantis set to launch his campaign today in an audio interview on twitter conducted by elon musk, part of an attempt to reset the table as donors express concern. there are other unconventional aspects like this dramatic teaser video tweeted out by his wife. is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. jessica dean has more from miami. reporter: news coming on tuesday that makes it official, something that has been talked about for months and months. ron desantis will announce that he is running for the republican nomination for president. what is unique is that he will be sitting down to do so with the owner of twitter, elon musk. he will be doing that on wednesday night. that is not typically how someone would announce their candidacy, but it goes with what we ve been told about what the likely campa
exclusively to cnn as blow back in the country over russia s invasion seems to be growing. cnn learning about the counter offensive. plus, nearly every single teen in america is glued to social media. it goes way younger than teens. the surgeon general has a serious warning tonight. the research shows this. it s not safe. what s he going to do to keep his own kids away? and it s a story you will see first out front, can a.i. read your brain? you ll see it all for yourself. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front russians versus russians. a new and violent challenge to putin s russia tonight. a group of russians fighting on behalf of ukraine are claiming they have liberated several russian villages along the russian border. they re posting videos. there are no russian guards that appear in any of these videos. they re guardless checkpoints. some of the vehicles these men are using are american made tactical vehicles and we re trying to understand mo
tonight with new developments on two key countries for this country and the free world, how to avoid default in debt and how to ensure that russia s invasion of ukraine is rolled back. president biden at the g7 summit is grappling with both. on ukraine, a milestone, with president zelenskyy due to travel from ukraine to japan this weekend. president biden gave his okay for a joint allied effort to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters and other advanced aircraft. and on the debt ceiling, it looks like talks, which the president was being updated on remotely, are back on again. they resumed tonight just hours of kevin mccarthy s republican negotiators called a halt to them earlier today. we have correspondents spanning the globe tonight. phil mattingly traveling with the president in japan. what is the latest you re hearing from white house officials about debt ceiling negotiations? reporter: you know, anderson, as you point out, there was a pause, house republican negotia
fbi agents stripped of their security clearances now the star witnesses for republicans on capitol hill, and this is in connection to january 6th, but republicans say it is the weaponization of government. 2024 gop field could soon have a new candidate, and we are told it is florida governor ron desantis is ready to enter the race, and when he plans to make it official. and now, the governor of montana is trying to ban tiktok on all devices throughout the state. can he do that? this is cnn news central. all right. this morning two fbi agents who were stripped of their security clearances have been testifying on capitol hill. they took a break, and now they are back into the room again ready to keep on with the proceedings. the agents are the star witnesses in this republican-led hearings and they are there to prove how the fbi and justice department are working against conservatives, and the republicans called this the weaponization of government, and remember, they