the insurrection is broadcast live on national television. january 6th was just a dress rehearsal. this is a profoundly dangerous moment. tonight, blow back against the disgraced ex president and the people who thought putting him on tv was a good idea. to platform him is to participate, i think, in endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing viable nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not
witnessed at last night s town hall. many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment. many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of republican voters to answer questions, and predictably, continued to spew lie after lie after lie. and i get it. it was disturbing. it was disturbing to see and hear that person refer to a black law enforcement officer as a thug, an adjective he used many times to describe black men and called kaitlan collins, the moderator nasty, which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him. it was disturbing to hear him speak to shyly of qanon conspirators who assaulted officers on january 6th. and it was awful to hear him spread lies about the election. and young and old, fellow citizens, people who love their kids and go to church, laugh and applaud his lies and his continued defamation of woman who according to a jury of his peers he sexually abused and defamed
f the debt limit isn t raised or suspended. that s a new really serious warning from the treasury secretary janet yellen. we did learn house speaker kevin mccarthy agreed to go to the white house and meet with the president next week. hollywood writers now on strike. it s the first time they have done so in 15 years. production will be delayed on some of your favorite television shows. for more you on that. also, at least six people are dead after a huge pileup on i-55 on central illinois. more than 70 vehicles crashed due to low visibility from a dust storm. also new this morning, the surgeon general has a plan to tackle america s epidemic of loneliness and isolation. his six-pillar approach to build our social connections. that s ahead. and serena williams, great news, pregnant with baby number two. the tennis superstar made the reveal during last night s met gala. cnn this morning starts right now. so i m so excited about the serena williams news. i know.
there and even though he missed he had this huge grin. it s all act your attitude. attitude can manifest a lot of things. they both have good attitudes. we ll see what they manifest for tonight. jeff, thank you so much. as always, we love having you here. cnn this morning continues right now. treasury secretary janet yellen warning washington it has just 31 days to pay america s bills or risk catastrophe. this bill has to be between biden and mccarthy. it s political arson. it s time for republicans and democrats to sit in the room and act like adults and make sure that the united states doesn t default on our loans. a tragic scene in central illinois. a dust storm led to a series of pileups. now that the dust and smoke has cleared, you can see what s left of this horrific and deadly crash. several vehicles and even semis that had jackknifed, air bags were deploying all around us. the fbi releasing a new picture of the suspect who allegedly gun
investigations, oh, a possible indictment and he s still re-litigating 2020. but, guess what? trump still has almost a 30-point lead in the rcp average over ron desantis and he leads biden in the head to head as well. but, of course, this doesn t speak to the battle ground states. that didn t fall trump s way last go round, as you remember. in two of those states according to a new public opinion s strategy poll, desantis not trump narrowly leads biden. of course desantis hasn t jumped into the race yet he hinted he will announce after his state legislature wraps its session in may. now this has worried some about this late timing desantis s which they claim may leave him ill-prepared against the former president s luggageening attacks and lagging in the on the ground organizing critical in states with an early nominating contest. well, for his part, trump continues what, to many, seem like petty attacks on desantis and the latest polls about, well, the latest about his so-ca