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.
he said he faced opposition when the agent began pitching the latest book to publishing houses. it s a story set at a fictional georgia county, about a black voting rights activists, teen son, who s arrested for killing a white sheriff deputy director during a traffic stop. the authors of white men who lived in vineyard. he said for that reason, many publishers would not touch the book. the post hill press will release trial, that s the title, in june. in the meantime you can find excerpts on ryan at richard more.com. that s selling author joins me now. break the advice historically to authors has been to write about that which you know. is this sort of the modern interpretation of that? are people, saying well, you don t know about this aspect of life? well, if you are going to write a book like this, you have to do the work. so, i went to georgia, i talked to the head of the voting rights group, the new georgia project. i talk to administers, i talk