the time is ticking for congress to take action, because it s congress that has an exit constitutional responsibility here. they swore an oath to and the 14th amendment of that constitution says, the validity of the public debt of the united states shall not be question, which presumably means, you need to pay the debt. june 5th is only nine days from now. the house of representatives has adjourned for the long memorial day weekend. republican leadership said, they will provide 24 hours notice before scheduling voting days, and addressing the potential default. while some republicans might just be hoping to extract a greater cuts to the social safety net in exchange for not crushing the american economy, with others, the motivation is less clear. take, for example, the chaos caucus, a group of the most disruptive members of the republican caucus right now. the chaos caucus, many of whom are members of the freedom caucus, succeeded and complicating and stalling kevin mccarth
and arizona, and one month after pennsylvania voters go to the ballot boxes. the trial, of course, involving 34 felony counts related to the stormy daniels hush money case. trump has pleaded not guilty in that case. also tonight, florida governor ron desantis will announce his candidacy tomorrow in a rather unconventional way, appearing in a live conversation on twitter with elon musk. we are getting word donald trump and his allies are making plans to offend that announcement. maggie haberman will join us in a moment. just a reminder of how wide open and unpredictable these races are, take a look at the republican primary polls from this month back in 2015. marco rubio and jeb bush both led the pack. donald trump, he stood at 3%, tied with george pataki, and speaking of polls, fast forward to right now. you see the numbers show that republicans, they smell blood. president biden s approval rating just hit 40%. the lowest number since last summer. it s also lower than trump s
hey, hey, everybody. it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. the battle for the white house will welcome a long-awaited newcomer today, ron desantis, after months of speculation and campaign style events, the florida governor will make it official tonight on twitter with none other than elon musk. will the unusual rollout help or hurt the soon to be candidate? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. and then what about the other elephant in the room, donald trump, the former president already telling desantis to get a, quote, personality trait as he puts it. plus, south carolina, set to become the latest state to ban abortion after six weeks making it virtually impossible to get an abortion across a huge portion of the south. and later on, new details on the 19-year-old who drove a u-haul truck into a white house barrier. more on his interviews with police as he s set to make a court
wizard of oz slippers nearly two decades ago. they were swiped from the judy garland museum in 2005 but recovered in 2018, they re valued at around $3.5 million. and no, sadly, those are not actually rubies. thanks for joining us, cnn tonight with alisyn camerota starts right now. he just wanted the power to click his heels and be able to go home. i do too but not for $3.5 million. right. good point. that s why he sold them. excellent. thank you very much. i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we ve got the inside story of what happened when harry and meghan were chased by paparazzi through the streets of new york. taxi driver who was at the wheel is with us live to explain what harry and meghan were saying and doing during that ordeal. we all remember when donald trump claimed he could declassify documents just by thinking about it. well, we have exclusive reporting tonight on the 16 records that show trump and his top advisers did know how real declassifi
as pressure mounts back home over the debt ceiling. stunning new video of a police pursuit caught on camera in iowa an officer injured after clinging onto the hood of a suspect s car. the first state in the nation to ban tiktok entirely. what does that mean? what happens if you cross state lines watching videos on your cell phones? the answers to all of your questions on cnn news central . shards of metal left behind in flames after ukraine said it shot down dozens of russian missiles overnight. this is what is left from one missile intercepted in the capital kyiv. ukraine said they stopped 29 of 30 cruise missiles overnight. the missiles rained down on a number of cities. in crimea, trains between the two cities are at a stand still after a freight train derailed. sam kiley is joining us from eastern ukraine. russia is now claiming that it hit a weapons depot, what are you hearing there this morning? reporter: so, sarah, i think the thing here is that we are worki