allegations in a new lawsuit filed against rudy giuliani. this is going to be eventually a big case. tonight, andrew weissmann on the claims that rudy giuliani sexually abused his employee, and michael schmidt on the allegations that he conspired with donald trump to sell presidential pardons. then, representative george santos, b, and here by is, expelled from the house of representatives. congressman roger brings a resolution to expel george santos from congress, and congressman joe garcia joins us live. plus, senator elizabeth warren on the republican debt limit extortion. fresh off of her grilling of bank ceos. you are planning to return how much? the answers none. that s it? i m not planning to do so, no. elon musk, after a fire storm over the antisemitic tweets. he said he wants to erode the fabric of civilization, and hates humanity. when you do something like that i think that s true. that s my opinion. but why shared? all in starts rig
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
all right. so in just a few minutes they re going to try again. president biden, speaker mccarthy will continue their debt standdown face to face at the white house. biden is hosting mccarthy and three other congressional leaders to once again try to get closer at least to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done dozens of times. they have just over two weeks to do it before a potential u.s. default. somehow it is looking like the two sides have dug in even more since last week s meeting. we go to capitol hill. melanie, we ve seen this before, right? we re making progress, we re not making progress, it s sort of the definition of a game of chicken. the trouble is the economy hangs in the balance here. what s really happening? is there any real progress? do we expect any real probably in the white house? reporter: i will tell you, jim, staff have been working behind the scenes to come up with a potential number of policy options for a potential deal but there has b
second biggest economy grew 1.6% on annualised rate, much better than what had been predicting, thanks to private consumption and an unexpected rise in capital expenditure. let s bring in neil newman from the quarry capital who joins us live from tokyo. thank you for joining us. the data has come out a lot stronger than expected, talk us through what s been doing quite well. this is a very big and positive surprise. we have been closely watching wage growth, the wage number, which hasn t really filtered through into anything visible as yet. the gdp numbers certainly does indicate there is a large amount of the domestic economy contributing to this. as you mentioned cap ex, business spending was up on the annual basis, way ahead of expectations. but even consumption was also up, 0.6% against the market consensus of 0.4. even though it appears the wage number we have been looking at, the last numbers in march, they were not that impressive, in fact they were quite depressing. t
bank making it the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. third mid size bank to go under in less than two months in the u.s. the president insists taxpayers are not going to be footing the bill for this. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. tax day played a big role here. the treasury secretary is saying that they looked at recent federal tax receipts and realized that the u.s. is not going to have as much have enough money to pay its bills possibly as soon as june 1st. so, president biden did phone the big 4 congressional leaders they are requesting to have a meeting about this a week from tomorrow as the white house separately attempts to stabilize a shaky banking system. today s actions ensure the continued resilience of the banking system. the president had to update a script at a small business event to reassure markets about the fdic taking over first republic