it is now highly lookly the united states won t be able to pay its bills by early june. also tonight, trump accuser e. jean carroll is seeking further damages from the former president for disparaging comments he made about her during a cnn town hall. and in ukraine after months of brutal fighting, it now appears bakhmut has finally fallen to russia, but ukrainian forces say they still hold a small portion of the totally ruined city. i ll get reaction from the former ukrainian defense minister. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story right now. the speaker mccarthy and president biden, they are diving into another round of debt limit negotiations as the treasury secretary issues her starkest warning yet, that default is now just a few days away. we re covering the story from every angle over at the white house up on capitol hill. let s begin over at the w
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
leaders of the white house. with a historic default looming and the president scheduled to leave the country tomorrow. can they strike a deal with the clock ticking? plus, just one vote. that s what a major battle over abortion access could come down to today in north carolina. the intense efforts by democrats to convince just one republican to flip. and we have some breaking news. the man accused of attacking a virginia congressman staffers with a metal baseball bat is due in court any moment. the suspect was apparently caught on camera just minutes before the attack chasing another woman. we ll have the latest on the investigation now involving the capitol police and how the two staffers are doing this morning. the people inside were scared. they were hiding. someone swinging a bat around i would be scared as well. and yet another mass shooting in america. this time in new mexico where three people are dead. what we have learned about the teenage suspect who police
documents probe. the guardian is reporting that federal prosecutors have that donald trump was put on notice that he could not retain any classified documents after he was subpoenaed last year. the warning conveyed to trump by his lawyer evan corcoran could be significant surrounding his handlings of classified materials gib it shows he knew about his subpoena on lig aigs. saz we ve reported before sand when it comes to questioning about whether trump committed obstruction, jack smith and his prosecutors are zeroing in on a specific period of time. the weeks and months after trump was served a subpoena from doj and all classified documents in his possession. and before that court approved search of mar-a-lago back in august that turned up more than 100 items and you guessed it, they were marked classified. that is despite the fact that trump s legal team in that window had attested and told investigators that they already handed over everything. that was classified. the guard
the president is set to meet with congressle leaders on tuesday, and sources tell cnn the temperature could be just right for bargaining. here s the latest from washington. president biden says he s likely meeting with congressional leaders on tuesday, setting up another showdown over the debt limit. the president said his aids are working through the timing with that meeting, but top economists say the staff level talks have been constructive, and they said they talked about the need of avoiding default. president biden struck an optimistic tone that an agreement will be reached. i learned a long time ago, and you know as well as i do it s never good to characterize talks in the middle of the talk. i think there s a desire on their part as well as ours to reach an agreement. i think we will be able to do it. in preparation for this upcoming meeting with president biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy and other congressional leaders. officials have said some of the discus