american economy hostage. lifesaving health care denied or delayed, we will talk to one of the doctors behind a new study showing a pattern of serious health complications caused by post roe abortion ban. and a dire warning from the u.n. s top weather and climate scientist and what we can do about it. plus the velshi banned book club goes to court. this week we ll talk to two previously featured authors of banned books who have joined with free speech activists, parents and the largest publishing house in the country and hauling book banners to federal court. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday may 20th, i m ali velshi. as the old saying, goes if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after one bad election cycle the gop would have regrouped and reassessed its shortcomings so it could rebound. it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significant wind. donald trump s electoral college victory in 2016. sinc
whether it s a mental illness or not having enough food, these are just not intractable problems in the least. they are uniquely exacerbated in the united states as it relates to developed countries. but absolutely solvable problems. especially here in new york city. a city awash in wealth. that s right. among a very few number of households. i appreciate that you are staying on top of. it thanks alex, have a great weekend. thanks ali, have a great show. the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be questioned. that is america s constitutional mandate. and who in the current negotiations between president biden and kevin mccarthy appears to be violating that? who really knows what s going on with the white house negotiations with kevin mccarthy ten days before a potential default date. here s the update. talks briefly resume tonight with no progress after republican negotiators abruptly left a meeting with the biden administration officials t
then, intimidation and bullying. whistleblowers say they are facing the doj s wrath for speaking out. the fbi will crush you. this government will crush you. and your family. if you try to expose the truth about things that they are doing that are wrong. we are all examples of that. maria: coming up, house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan on the weaponnyization of joe biden s government. plus, why did the fbi leadership tell agents to report on trump collusion only orally and not keep a paper trail? the durham report finally released five years after then-intelligence committee chairman kevin none yesterday broke the news first right on this program five years ago. devin nuñes is back with more on the fbi s politics-led investigations. then, he s threatening to hold antony blinken in contempt of congress many in the his investigation of biden s botched afghanistan withdrawal. chairman michael mccaul on afghanistan, china and why joe biden is about to send an additio
so what will happen if his hands are tied? former president trump appeared in new york courtroom this afternoon. this time via zoom, in the hush money case involving stormy daniels. this hearing, the first since he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last month laid out what donald trump and his lawyers can and cannot say publicly about the case. more on what that entails in a moment and what was said in the courtroom. also in manhattan today, another lawsuit against the former president. this one familiar. e. jean carroll has amended her suit against donald trump. she s now asking for at least $10 million in damages after she says donald trump defamed her again, calling her a whack job at the cnn town hall he participated in the night after he was found liable for sexual abuse. we ll also explain how that case will proceed. joining me from outside the courtroom now for that hush money case first is lisa ruben. lisa, you were inside that room
southern new hampshire university has changed my life. and it can change yours too. - [announcer] visit snhu.edu. florida governor ron desantis is hours from announcing his run from the white house on twitter. a source says he is going to ditch his hometown rollout plan we ll tell you how his rivals are reacting and where the gop candidates stand in a new cnn poll. meantime, as the special counsel appears to be in the final stretch of his investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents, attorneys for the former president want to speak to the nation s top law enforcer, attorney general merrick garland. we have details on that straight ahead. still no detail, but negotiations for the white house and the house speaker kevin mccarthy, they are back on as a country inches dangerously close to a potential debt default. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we are just a few hours awa