you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. four, three, two, one. engine s full power. and liftoff. falcon 9, go axiom. [ applause ] together we expand this is a beautiful sight if you just missed it, right now four private astronauts are on the way to the international space station. the axiom 2 mission blasted off from the kennedy space center just minutes ago. we ll go there live in just a few minutes to wrap up some really remarkable developments on the space coast. but on the meantime, here in atlanta and in washington, negotiations are resuming to confront the looming debt crisis. the talks will be at the staff level for the moment but they will set the stage for a high-stakes meeting between the president and kevin mccarthy. they spoke today and this new glimmer of optimism, if we could believe it, comes as the prospect of a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. are you at all optimistic about what we could accomplish today. could we g
president cut his trip short to handle the pending economic crisis in d.c.. manufactured crisis that is easily avoidable. house republicans, however, refused to raise our debt limit unless the white house case to their spending cut demands which would hit low and moderate income families the hardest. nbc news is kevin mccarthy will meet in person tomorrow at the white house in hopes of moving past this standstill. before biden left japan, he said republicans must be willing to compromise instead of holding the economy hostage. it is time for republicans to accept that there is no bipartisan deal to be made solely, solely on their partisan terms. they have to move as well. all four congressional leaders are meeting default is not an option. of course, and i know you know this, republicans raised the debt ceiling without conditions three times during the pro trump presidency. now they are not acknowledging that. instead they are seeing stuff like this. here s speaker mc
presidential pardon, relating to january 6th? missed your meadows did seek that pardon, yes ma am. a new concern in march in trump trump world, that mark meadows a spelling to the special counsel. tonight, the latest on the insurrection investigation, and signs of an imminent prosecution in the dobbs case. then, it s time to make our voices heard. one year after the massacre in uvalde. she remembers a lot of screams and a lot of the chaos. she could hear the police in the hallways. the survivors looking for answers, and the fight for gun control in texas. plus, the oath keepers now facing 25 years in prison for january 6th. and ron desantis announces he s running for president, in the most successful elon musk roll out since the cybertruck. yeah. oh my god. maybe that was a little too hard. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, i m gonna add a little deep tees off the top here. the desantis elon musk launch was an on fathom-ab
more setbacks for russia as ukraine makes strides on the battlefield, possibly downing four russian jets, killing two russian commanders and gaining ground all as kyiv gdpeers up fr a counteroffensive. some service members stationed at north carolina s camp lejeune in the 70s and 80s were exposed to a chemical called tce and could lead to a massive lehigher risk of parkinson s disease. and aaa is warning of a blockbuster season. tens of millions on the roads and in the skies as well. we re following all of these stories all coming in here to cnn news central. we begin the hour with the war in ukraine. today ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy was in the united kingdom enlisting serious financial and military support from the british prime minister. he s been meeting with key nato leaders ahead of ukraine s counteroffensive. he says his country needs a little bit more time to prepare for that major assault. meantime back on the battlefield, russian troops are facin
plays out back home. it s forcing him to cut his trip short, raising new questions about how this drama is impacting the u.s. abroad. plus, montana says time is up for tiktok. the state banning the popular social media app. it s the furthest any state has gone to target the chinese-owned brand. is that brand legal? court challenges are likely as tiktok says it will defend itself. a race to rescue children who may have survived a plane crash 17 days alone. we are following these major stories coming into cnn news central. president biden has now met with japan s prime minister in hiroshima. friday they will sit down with other leaders of the world s top economies, as a massive fiscal catastrophe looms, thanks for a stalemate here in washington over the debt ceiling. the discussions appear to be slowly progresses, but the u.s. could default, and anything thinks g7 allies accomplish there could be thrown into disarray from the global financial meltdown that could result.