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
ukraine says its open attacks are taking a toll on russia s war machine and a major counteroffensive could begin at any moment. a dire warning as the ceo of an artificial intelligence company testifies on capitol hill. quote, if this technology depose wrong, it can go quite wrong. we know ai is going to change the world, but how, how quickly, how much, no one quite knows. with the u.s. on the brink of defaulting on its debt, lawmakers are digging in at the white house. those talks in just two hours. we are following those major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. amid a barrage of missile and drone attacks in kyiv overnight, russia is making a major claim that it targeted and destroyed one of these, an american-made patriot air missile defense system. a u.s. official tells cnn it was likely damaged but not destroyed. ukraine is not commenting, but it says that its air defenses worked against the large-scale attack, intercepting
special counsel john durham releases his findings on the origins of the fbi s trump russia probe, but does this report actually reveal really much? a violent attack on a lawmaker s office, a man wielding a baseball bat injuring a staffer and an intern on her very first day. we have new video that appears to show the same man involved in an earlier attack. explosions or bring out of course kyiv just hours after ukraine s president wrapped up a world wind to wear securing a new aid for his country s fight against russia. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church! good to have you with us. it is a report for years in the making especially cancel appointed during the trump administration has released his findings about the origins of the fbi s trump russia probe. john diorama criticize the agency and concluded the fbi should never have launched a full blown investigation into connections between donald trump s 2016 campaign and russia. but the repo
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
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