hello and thanks so much for joining us. i m ana cabrera in new york. it is 10:00 eastern. this morning president biden is overseas for a high stakes summit in japan. it s a delicate balancing act for the president touting the u.s. as an economic power house to the allies while simultaneously working to stop the u.s. from teetering on the brink of default. back in washington, the president s team is furiously negotiating with congressional republicans. now just two weeks left until our country runs out of money. plus, tiktok going viral, but not in montana. the state becoming the first in the u.s. to ban the popular social media app, but will it actually work? so now we re just going to start banning tiktok on a state by state basis, huh? speaking from my own page in montana here, i am going to keep posting. we ll have a live report coming up on the legal fight over the ban and on the other states that may follow suit. and new reporting this morning about how s
international day against transphobia. maybe that s just coincidental, but is this going to be a culture war campaign, and wouldn t trump love to go toe to toe on that? ron desantis now joins 18 other states with passing the sort of ban on transaffirming care for minors. for republican governors this has become a key issue that they have worked with their legislatures to pass. ron desantis was at the forefront of this. i think when we re talking in political terms, last year there was a lot of backlash when he signed that initial legislation in the spring of 2022. he ended up going on to handily win his re-election. the question is what would be the general election repercussions? he won in decisive terms. when you go to republican events, whether it be cpac or a trump rally or a desantis event, time and again, the issue that gets the loudest response from the crowd is having to do with a ban on gender affirming care or ban on trans athletes being able to take part in the sport with