plus, the white house will face questions later this hour on the state of negotiations to avoid default. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts. good to spend another 60 minutes with you. gillian: the first 60 went by quickly. first, a new story. john: get ready for a hectic start to the summer travel season. aaa is anticipating this weekend could be the busiest at airports since 2005, and that is already prompting fears of a potential catastrophic meltdown. gillian: sounds like a great summer to stay hope. forbes writing get ready for a hellish season of air travel. they continue to struggle with staffing shortages in the wake of the pandemic. john: pete buttigieg is not 100% confident things will work. airlines are indicating they have made big gains in terms of pilots, but not fully recovered depending which airline, mechanics is a pinch point. still a lot of pressure on the system but less, probably less of a constraint than
let s go, tim scott! let me let me close with this. as much as i m excited about this journey, i simply want to say this. it s really not about me. it s about that 7-year-old girl named jordan who brought roses to the station, it s about 12-year-old sutherland surrat who came on this stage. you see, america is a city on . we are the beacon in the midst of darkness. we have an unusual respon responsibility. we have the responsibility to prove that self-governance works. we have the responsibility to share for a thousand generations what america has done for me, she can do for you. this can t be another presidential campaign. we don t have time for that. we need a president who pe persuades not just our friends and our base. we need a president that persuades. we have to do that with common sense, conservative principles. but we have to have a compassion for people. we have to have a compassion for people who don t agree with us. we have to believe that our ideas are so s
this hour, we see ukraine high on the agenda. volodymyr zelenskyy is set to join in person, seeking commitments from the world s wealthiest democracies. also, the u.s. is now signaling that it will not block allies from sending f-16 jets to ukraine. we will look at how that could change the battlefield, and tens of thousands of israelis marched through jerusalem s old city for mostly peaceful but tense flag parade. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. leaders of the g7 nations are meeting at this hour in hiroshima, japan russian invasion of ukraine, of course, high on the agenda. and now we are learning they will be welcoming a special guest, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the uk and european union have already announced new sanctions targeting russia s diamond trade. and in a key development, sources tell cnn the u.s. will not stand in the way of allies setting f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something kyiv has been requesting for mon
clean sheet and it is about time we got one of them as well. whilst attention is on the battle to avoid the drop, brighton are still very much in the mix for european football. they re seventh but have three games in hand over spurs and liverpool above them, whilst champions league qualification is still a distinct possibility for roberto di zerbi s men although the brighton boss maybe isn t looking that high up. we wa nt we want to achieve our target and i think it is clear for everybody, we are fighting against a big team, tottenham hotspur, aston villa, liverpool, for the euro. and at the moment, i think we are deserving to reach the best position. lewis hamilton may have endured a challenging season so far, but the seven time f1 world champion has some optimism after coming through the field to finish 6th at the miami grand prix. after enduring a difficult season so far, lewis hamilton has some optimism after driving through the field to finish 6th at the miami grand prix
we begin in the us, where the treasury secretary janet yellen has sounded a stark warning over the country s debt ceiling. this is the amount of money the us government is allowed to borrow to pay for pretty much everything they do. speaking to abc, she says that if lawmakers fail to raise that ceiling the us could be left unable to pay its bills by the beginning ofjune. it is congress s job to do this. if they fail to do it, we will have an economic and financial catastrophe that will be of our own making and there is no action that president biden and the us treasury can take to prevent that catastrophe. russ mould is investment research director at aj bell. we have been here before. all of the same warnings that the us could tape off a cliff if it doesn t raise the debt ceiling and yet more warnings. yes, we have and i think the us debt ceiling has been raised 75 or 80 times in its history and we have had eight government shutdowns while a new debt ceiling has been wor