thank you. great pleasure to be here. an honor to be speaking about tina this morning. i know john feels the same way. thanks, gentlemen. cnn this morning continues right now. sorry about that. we have got so many people here that i think we are we are kind of melting the servers, which is a good sign. is it? i don t want to jinx this. we played it on air all three hours this morning we still have an hour to go. look, that is about how ron desantis launched his campaign. good morning. presidential candidate ron desantis pushing the reset button on his presidential campaign. he just announced a new campaign kickoff in iowa after his much hyped launch on twitter with elon musk was derailed by technical difficulties. lawmakers going on recess as time is running out to reach a deal on the debt limit and prevent an economic disaster. a new warning about what can happen in the days to come. leader and members of oath keepers are about to learn their fates.
defendant trump in photos that will live in infamy. the first american president to be charged with a crime. defendant donald j. trump, is seen here surrounded by his legal team a photo trump most certainly did not want you to see. it s nothing short of a remarkable image of the new reality for the man who raged in all caps on social media ahead of his day in court before surrendering for arrest and processing in manhattan criminal court. trump was uncharacteristically grim and silent, ignoring questions from reporters before pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. the now unsealed indictment lays out the 34 counts. in the form of numerous entries made with, quote, intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof the indictment isn t explicit about the other crimes trump tried to conceal but it s laid out clearly in the prosecutor statement of fact as a scheme involving trump a
jobless claims higher than last week s revised numbers. a day before the fed s preferred inflation gauge comes out. the credit ratings agency fitch placed the u.s. on rating watch negative, which is not a good thing. it means the credit rating agency could downgrade the u.s. debt if lawmakers don t agree on a bill that raises the debt limit. sources inside the republican party are warning that they believe as of last night prospects were grim for passing a debt limit increase by june 1 despite negotiators continuing to vow they are making progress on a potential deal. last night on the house floor the republican majority leader steve scalise con kbrachlated his party for passing their version of debt ceiling bill through the house and criticizing the democratic-led senate for failing to do the same. the house voted to address the debt ceiling. in fact, on april 26th
listen to these people who are concerned. representative jones, there is an incident i want to sho you here, i want to let yo talk over it it even appears that one o your colleagues physically shoved you will, have physical contact with you can you just explain wha happened last night on the house floor was a very sad day for tennessee. our colleagues in a partisan man partisan vote for expulsion, voted to begin a process o expelling us as i was reporting in th gallery as they clear the medi and were gathered in the gallery, the speaker - i was reporting it and m colleague representative justi lafferty pushed me and took my cell phone and acted in disorderly way but he is not being threatened with expulsion we three lawmakers who simpl were saying that we stand with our constituents as they cry out and plead for us to take action on kids being killed in schools, we are bein threatened with expulsion. but being expelled for standin
steve: all right. it is 27 minutes before the top of the hour on this buyy tuesday. last night on the house floor, congresswoman maxine water of los angeles who has in the past reminded folks my mission and goal is to make sure that he does not remain president of the united states had quite a speech. in front of the house. brian: here is 41 second of it. this is probably all you will be able to tolerate. we have suffered discrimination. we have suffered isolation. and undermining. but we stand up for america. oftentimes when others who think they re more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic do not. when we fight against this president, and we point out how dangerous he is for this society and for this country, we re fighting for the democracy. we re fighting for america. we re saying to those who say they re patriotic but they turn a blind eye to the