latest from the front lines. plus a new search has just been announced in the missing toddler madeline mcgahn. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. in just a couple of hours president biden and speaker mccarthy will give it another try. they will meet face-to-face again in the ongoing staredown over the debt ceiling. so far neither leader has blinked. because of that the u.s. could default if no agreement by june 1st. running out of money for social security and military salaries. last hour speaker mccarthy told cnn a deal has to be ironed out much sooner than that deadline. reporter: do you need to have a deal tonight? it would be better to have a deal sooner. if we can get a deal tonight or tomorrow, you ve got to get something done this week to be able to pass it and move it to the senate. reporter: is it possible to get it done? i think it s still possible. reporter: square my diamond is tr
central. as thousands of migrants are heading to the united states, the biden administration faces a major legal setback in the border strategy just hours after the end of title 42. remember, that policy was used nearly 3 million times to immediately expel people in the covid pandemic, and now a new court ruling has blocked the border authorities from releasing the migrants without a scheduled court date, and the white house is accusing the republicans to sabotage efforts to manage the border. alejandro mayorkas said that the policy was key to ease the overcrowding at the detention facilities. listen to this. the department of justice is considering options and the practice that the court has prevented us from using is a practice that prior administrations have used to relieve overcrowding. in the meantime, we are learning from the border city of el paso that fewer migrants are coming in compared to last week. we will get the update with rosa flores. rosa, set the scen
standard, and i used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the southern district of new york, i wouldn t have touched a guy like michael cohen, especially if he s a convicted perjurer. that s robert costello after testifying in manhattan yesterday, and he could be the last witness the grand jury hears from before voting on an indictment for the former president. we ll break down what s next in the case in just a moment. meanwhile, more members of the oath keepers are held accountable for the violence on january 6th. and also ahead, what we re learning about the first face-to-face meeting between chinese president xi jinping and russia s vladimir putin since the invasion began. began good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning in new york city, and the manhattan district attorney s office ahead of a possible criminal indict
president trump or if this was a democrat it should be equal justice in america. and stop going after people because you have political differences. house speaker kevin mccarthy pushing a popular defense within the gop when it comes to a possible indictment for donald trump. we ll have the latest on the former president s legal troubles in new york in just a moment. plus, chinese president xi jinping is in russia this morning meeting with vladimir putin for the first time since the invasion of ukraine. and also ahead, new investigations into tiktok amid allegations that former employees spied on journalists good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 20th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us we ll begin this morning in new york where amid mounting legal trouble across multiple states, former president donald trump could be criminally charged for the first time, and that could happen as early as this week according
politicsnation tonight s lead, danger all ove again. it we even and his third run fo the white house, forme president donald trump still can push politics to the edge. last night, trump happil mingled with maga supporters a a wrestling match and oklahoma just hours after dropping bombshell announcement, th former president claiming on his truth social platform, h would be arrested on tuesday although he offered no proof that charges were eminent just like on january 6th trum called for protest without specifying whether the the should be violent or non violent. manhattan da alvin bragg sending out an internal memo t the staff and his office assuring them they will be safe trump s response, another angr post calling him a racist an once again the most prominence and influential republicans ar rallying behind trump no matte what havoc he wreaks, speake of the house kevin mccarth calling the case against the former president and outrageou abuse of power by a radical da if this i