viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, donald trump s new court battle, a new york city columnist set to take the stand today, accusing the former president of rape. debt ceiling drama in d.c., a vote in the house could happen in the coming hours. but republican leaders are struggling to get support for their plan, as the u.s. default clock ticks down. plus, the taliban take down the mastermind of a deadly suicide bombing that killed 13 american troops at the kabul airport during the chaos of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. and we begin this hour in new york, where the woman suing former president donald trump for battery and defamation in a civil trial is expected to take the sand in the hours ahead. a source says e. jean carroll is set to testify about her allegations that trump raped her
for example, during the pandemic what happened was all of a sudden everybody started to learn the phrase supply chain. a year ago no one knew what the hell anybody was talking about when you said supply chain but now they all know, and we lost access to these these semiconductors in which new automobiles in the united states need 30,000 of them just to build a new automobile and we didn t have them. so we started investing here and what happened was when we encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have an enormous investment in the united states, over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. we are rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and or other weapons systems. those we are not selling. we are not exporting to ch
negotiate. as vice president he put the bide em team together to negotiate. the democrats have done this every time. when president trump was in, nancy pelosi said you cannot pass a debt limit without having negotiations on spending. this is how it is happened all of the time before. the senator at the time, senator b biden, voted four times to raise the debt limit if they did something on the fiscal end and then when he voted it against it, he only voted against it thinking the economic changes didn t go far enough. so what has changed mr. president? you ve gone so fares you won t even negotiate to put america in debt? that is not how the leader of the free world should act. that is not how america wants to you act. you said at the very beginning we had to show you a plan, and not only did we show you a plan, we re the only ones to pass a plan. so i think it is up to you now, whether the economy goes in any trouble, it is you. because the republicans raised the debt limit. y
the lead starts right now. a critical vote possibly just minutes away as speaker mccarthy pushes house republicans to sign off on his debt limit plan. i ll speak on one holdout about the offers. clemency request denied. a parole board votes against sparing the life of kdeath row inmate in oklahoma. plus, disney versusdy san tis. the major new lawsuit accusing the florida governor of weaponizing his political power. everyone. i m in for jake tapper today. we start with our politics lead. do they have the votes? right now, house republicans are in the middle of last-minute negotiations as house speaker kevin mccarthy tries to get his party s debt ceiling plan across the finish line. we expect that vote to start in minutes. he had zero democratic support, and he can only lose four republicans, a narrow margin that forced him to make some 11th hour concessions. but even if he can get this bill across that finish line, it is dead on arrival in the democrat controlled senate
the search in several states across the south for the remaining fugitives now. 24 hours after declaring he is running for reelection, our mary bruce asking president biden about his age, whether he considered agent s own decision and if his decision to run would have been different had donald trump not run again. how he answers it all. columnist e. jean carroll taking the stained in her lawsuit against former president trump, declaring today i am here because donald trump raped me. the judge issuing a warning to trump s lawyer about the president. our parent company, disney filing a lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis accusing him of i targeted campaign of retaliation. click on how the governor is responding and what s behind all of this. tonight, the first call between president zelenskyy and china s president xi. what president she warned about nuclear war. back in the u.s. tonight three high school seniors under arrest in the deadly rock throwing spree near de