today on inside politics, follow the leader. the trump wing of the republican congress goes after the justice department. and new reporting on how the biden campaign plans to generate campaign cash without mentioning the trump indictment. plus mayor francis swau resident is running. he debuts in the 2024 race with long odds and video of him, yes, running. and by ducking the question every single candidate will have to answer. and cornel west changes his game plan. he s running for president and he s now switching parties. he calls donald trump a criminal, but is his campaign an inkind donation to the gop front runner. he will join the show in minutes. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. pencil in a post indictment first. donald trump s campaign choosing south carolina as the stage for the former president s first rattle ily following his arraignment. there are plenty of ways to measure the indictments political impact. 7 million of them
anything, that is why i m so concerned. default must be taken off the table. i predict you will see things that you don t even believe, the level of corruption. the fbi moved quickly to investigate the allegations of connections of collusion between the trump campaign and russia and that they did so by ignoring a lot of evidence. i think the party has developed a culture of losing. governor desantis is the mos electable most conservative who can win the general election and govern effectively. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, may 16, 4:00 a.m. in washington where in the coming hours u.s. president biden will meet with top congressional leaders at the white house to once again try to increase an increase in the u.s. debt ceiling. a deal has to be reached by june 1 to avoid defaulting. but with the current stalemate americans are starting to get nervous. i get calls about the debt ceiling now more so than
i m fredricka whitfield. we begin in texas wihere a weekend shopping trip turned to carnage. eight dead, seven wounded after a gunman opened fire into a crowded space at an outlet mall in allen, texas. that s just north of dallas. a warning, some of what you re about to see is disturbing. a witness dash cam capturing the moment the killer got out of his car and immediately began firing, ambushing unsuspected people walking by. we re pausing this video before the shooting begins, but other witnesses were recording as the attack unfolded. what you hear are multiple rapid gunshots and you see, of course, people running for their lives. a photo obtained by cnn appears to show the gunman after he was shot by a responding officer. you can see an ar-15 style rifle nearby. the gunman is clad in black, body armor, and appears to have several extra magazines strapped to his chest. ed lavandera is on the scene there in allen, texas. ed, what more are police saying, if anything, at thi
second meeting after yesterday. this is xi s first visit to russia since putin launched his unprovoked war on ukraine. today they will get to the main topics with ukraine a key item. kristie lu stout is joining me from hong kong. so what is on the agenda today in moscow? reporter: this is the main day of the talks. the agenda, you have an official meeting ceremony with negotiations, there will be signing of documents, a media statement and then a formal lunch. and so far the leaders of china and russia have been presenting this united front in moscow just days after the icc that arrest warrant for vladimir putin. they greeted each other, calling each other dear friends, they held informal talks that lasted nearly 4 1/2 hours. and xi jinping said that russia and china have similar goals. listen to this. translator: it is true we share the same or similar goals. we have exerted efforts for prosperity of our respective countries. we can cooperate and work together to achieve
politicsnation. tonight s lead hanging in the balance. it has opened in 17 states. including barriers battleground states, where both parties have calls that call them they re heavyweights. to campaign two and a half weeks left to the midterm elections. top tier democrats have been on the campaign trail, courtesy of president biden that has been there. who was in pennsylvania, going into this weekend campaigning for john fetterman. as democrats try to hold on to their razor-thin majority in the senate. donald trump is stumping in for maga candidates in texas tonight. he faces a november 14th deadline. to be deposed before the january six committee. they congressional subpoena issue, coming yesterday. just hours after trump s former cub paid manager steve bannon was sentenced to four months in prison. for defying his congressional subpoena. this amid new revelations about what the fbi may have found, and it s august rate of trump s mar-a-lago estate. nbc news confirming that