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president already threatening to veto it, are we all just racing towards disaster? and she just told a jury that donald trump raped her. she's taking the stand in her defamation and sexual battery case against the former president. why she says she waited 27 years to bring these charges. the world health organization is warning of a potential humanitarian crisis in sudan. hospitals at only 16% capacity and that laboratory seized by militants is now entirely without power. diseases such as measles, polio, cholera and worst case scenario could be leaked. we are following these major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. we begin this hour on capitol hill where overnight, house speaker kevin mccarthy made a series of concessions on

the republican debt ceiling bill to appease far right members of the house. he is hoping to pass that legislation as early as today. president biden says he's willing to meet with mccarthy but with one condition. here it is. >> happy to meet with mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. >> so this comes as the u.s. is hurdling towards a potential financial disaster. there's really no other way to put it here. experts predict the united states could default on its debt as early as june. melanie is joining us live from capitol hill. mel, walk us through the changes right now. >> yeah, so there were two major changes that leadership made at the 11th hour to this bill. the first one is that they agreed to a faster timeline to implement some of these new work requirements for medicaid. now instead of starting in 2025, they are going to start in 2024

under this proposal. that was a change that was designed to win over conservatives like matt gaetz who made that as a conditions in order to support this bill. the second change that was made was that they agreed to nix a provision of bio fuel tax credits. that was something midwestern republicans had expressed concern over but leadership in a closed door meeting today really tried to down play these concessions. they framed them as just technical changes because leadership had been insisting they weren't going to change. clearly, they realized they needed to make changes in order to win over the votes. really, the central pitch from the conference today from mccarthy is this bill was not going to become law, but he needs it in order to get to the negotiating table with president biden. indeed, if this bill is going to pass, it is going to be dead on arrival in the senate. just take a listen to how chuck schumer, the democratic senate leader, talked about the bill.

>> if anything, this revised bill is even more extreme, more radical, a more radical versiversion of the default on america act. democrats cannot and will not allow the republicans doa act to ever become law. >> so again, this is just the opening offer from republicans they are hoping to get across the finish line in order to begin the tougher process of figuring out how to solve this crisis before this summer. >> an opening offer poison pill is now democrats clearly view this. melanie live for us on the hill. thank you. let's head down pennsylvania avenue to the white house and our cnn chief white house correspondent, phil mattingly. is the white house feeling any pressure here to wiggle around on that no negotiation stance that the president's been taking? >> based on what the president said responding to shouted questions just a few moments

ago, reiterating this position it held from the beginning and underscoring it just at the moment where house republicans are moving towards a possible vote on their bill, doesn't seem there's a lot of the wiggle room. there's two parts. one, they don't believe they should negotiate. they feel to some degree it's a level of hostage taking and are happy to have a longer term discussion about fiscal priorities or cost savings. the second as well is they believe they hold most of the political cards here. they think that their members on these issues benefit from this fi fight. they feel republicans will have to come to the table as markets start to shutter and how industries respond to it. we'll see if that's the case. that's definitely driving a very, very firm position the white house currently holds. >> we're old enough now that we're watching reruns, right? we're watching reruns of this thing that is happening here in washington to remind us how this ended last time.

>> there's been a number of them but i think the one you're referring to, we were both kids running through the halls of the capitol, had our whole lives in front of us, probably hanging out on 18th street. it shows you and i think this is why there's a lot of trepidation right now. obviously we talk about this often. there's been espeseveral of the fights. this is like 2011 where it was so clear that the possibility of going over the edge was so real and vivid that not only was the united states downgraded, but president obama at the time was preparing, telling his treasury secretary he needed to prepare for that reality. that ended in a way that might be instructive to some degree. then vice president joe biden working with mitch mcconnell and crafting together a proposal they could get across the finish line by scraping together enough democrats in the minority and house along with the senate democrats and some republicans and getting it over the finish line.

nobody was particularly happy with it. republicans an the new majority in the house certainly didn't like everything they got. i would note most of the budget control act, the caps in place, got blown through year after year. that would require the white house to start negotiating which they have made clear they don't want to do. not because they don't feel it's necessary but because they want to take this threat off the table we've had so many times since we were young, happy and stupid in 2011. >> in those scary times that tested everyone. thank you. boris? >> now to new cnn reporting about what types of materials may have been a part of the classified documents taken from the trump white house. 15 boxes were returned to the national archives a year after trump left the presidency. and a new letter from his lawyers is revealing what may have been in them. paula reid has been following all of this for us. paula, trump's lawyers are telling the department of justice to stand down.

>> that's right. this letter comes from trump's top defense attorneys and it is addressed to congressional leaders who had a responsibility for oversight of the intelligence community. they say they want those lawmakers to tell doj to stand down in their investigation into the possible mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. congress doesn't have the power to do that, but here, the trump lawyers used this letter to make their case for why they believe these documents were mishandled. they believe this is a systemic problem that extends to other former presidents and vice presidents including president biden and former vice president, mike pence. and they say they believe the justice department has mishandled this probe and it should not be handled as a criminal investigation. in their letter, they also reveal new details about the classified document investigation including this. they believe that classified briefings of phone calls with foreign leaders were among quote

all manner of documents handed over in that initial batch of 14 boxes that was returned to the national archives about a year after trump left office. they described what they believed happened, which is just that people swept all of these documents off of a desk and into boxes. now we know several months later, the fbi searched mar-a-lago after they allegedly received information that the former president may have directed the moving of some of these boxes. they found over 100 additional classified materials but here the trump lawyers say the justice department has not told them anything about those classified materials and whether they are still classified or not. now this is a pretty big broadside against the justice department here. they describe the ongoing criminal probe as quote misguided, ineffective, and botched. those are pretty strong words when you have a client currently facing multiple investigations by those same prosecutors.

>> yeah, and a client whose attorney had to stify to his dealings in this classified documents case. a judge deciding that attorney client privilege did not apply. thank you so much for breaking that down for us. jim? >> back at the capitol, we are learning a bipartisan group of senators plan to introduce legislation for new ethics standards on the supreme court. jessica dean is following this story. this comes as we're hearing big questions about two justices' financial dealings, those that were disclosed and not disclosed. interesting to see a republican and democrat working together on this. what are the prospects? >> sure is. it's worth reminding everyone that the supreme court has no formal code of ethics. that's generally a surprise to a lot of american people who think that like the lower courts, they adhere to some sort of code of ethic, but they don't. this would put in place some ethics measures that would apply

to the supreme court. it would allow the court to do investigations if they think a justice or staff member has viola violated any sort of conflict of interest or law. it would also provide for them to put all of those rules on a website to people could access them, understand what they are. it would have an official that kind of oversees all of the complaints then it would require that official to then publish a report. again, these are all things that don't exist. this is from an gus king, a senator from maine, an independent that caucuses with democrats and senator lisa murkowski, a republican from alaska. you noted there have been a couple of instances that have come to light and really garnered a lot of attention in the last several weeks surrounding justice thomas and gorsuch. thomas with these trips, vacations, real estate deals with a gop super donor and justice gorsuch with a real estate deal that again has all come under scrutiny and it's worth noting as well, jim, that senator dick durbin, who heads

up the judiciary committee, had invited the chief justice, john roberts, to come testify and roe ro roberts declining yesterday. >> it was notable. seemed to frame it as a separation of powers issue. we'll see where this effort goes on the hill. thanks so much. boris? >> testimony is underway now in the civil battery and defamation trial against donald trump. today, eugene carol took the stand and described to jurors in chilling detail the alleged sexual assault by the former president. she alleges that trump raped her in a dressing room in a new york department store in 1996 then defamed her when she went public with the allegations. let's go to new york to cara. she's saying this isn't just about what happened in 1996 but

then what she has endured for decades. >> reporter: yeah, boris. that's right. she has been on the stand for more than two hours today really taking up much of the day telling her version of the events. she described the graphic rape that occurred in the dressing room at bergdorf's. she ran into the former president, this is in 1996 when he was just a real estate tycoon. they were looking for a possible gift he said for a woman. they looked at hat, handbags then went up to the sixth floor of the department store. she said that is where she claims things turned violent. she said he pushed her up against the wall in the dressing room, pulled down her tights and raped her. she's reported to friends. one told her she needs to go to the police. another cautioned her against

it. saying the former president would bury her, destroy her reputation. she said that she has not been able to form any romantic relationships since the alleged assault. she claims that she's not been able to look any man in the eye in order to engage in a relationship going forward. that she says is some of the damage. but right out of the gate, she really underscored why she was here. she said i'm here because donald trump raped me. he said it didn't happen. he shattered my reputation. i'm here to get my life back. she's been on the stand most of the day. her attorneys have just begun to get into her political views. she said she's a registered democrat and not motivated by politics. they have not gotten to the part about how this has tied to her professionally. a lot of the testimony today is still focused on battery. she's still on the stand now.

there's a little less than two hours of court left in the day. her attorney thought he might be able to wrap up her testimony then once that does occur, that will be trump's lawyers chance to cross examine her. they say this attack never happened and she is motivated by money and politics. >> attorney saying that cross-examination is going to be key for their side of the case. still to come, a man hunt in at least two states after four inmates escaped from a mississippi jail. plus, the mouse strikes back. disney is now suing florida governor desantis, accusing him of weaponizing his government against them. and the situation in sudan is rapidly deteriorating. we'll talk to a u.s. veteran desperately trying to get people out of the country. a thing of the past...

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new developments this afternoon in the man hunt for four escaped jail inmates in mississippi. the hines county sheriff announced one of these fugitives is believed dead after a shootout that left a deputy wounded. police believe it is the second man from the left who is also suspected of shooting and killing a man in jackson before stealing his truck. also new today, local authorities have identified that victim as a local pastor. anthony watts. watts was actually trying to help arrington. the inmates broke out of their cell saturday night and police believed they climbed on to the roof of the jail then split up. amber walker joins us live with the latest. bring us up to speed with what happened during the shootout with police. >> well, authorities believe that 22-year-old dylan arrington, one of the four who

escaped just outside of jackson, mississippi, died in a shootout with police this morning and from a fire that broke out inside a home that he was believed to be in. now i want to show you some of the images tweeted out of the scene from the hines county sheriff. he says that local and state law enforcement were actually searching the leak county area last night after someone said they spotted him in the neighborhood. and so this morning, police were in the neighborhood and say a neighbor came running out of a home saying they believed arrington was inside their residence. that's when police surrounded that home. a gunfight ensued. an officer was struck in the leg. we are told he is in stable condition, but as we understand it, the situation had unfolded over two hours. here is the sheriff talking about the situation. >> we're just not able at this particular time to confirm if

it's dylan arrington, but there was someone inside the residence that we believe to be him at the time of the fire and at the time of the exchange of gunfire between the individual inside the residence and law enforcement. >> now sheriff jones there of hines county also said that arrington was considered to be the most serious of the detainees and that is because he is believed to have shot and killed a man as you mentioned in jackson on monday night, a couple days after he and the three others escape d. apparently, arrington was in a motorcycle accident and when a good samaritan pulled over to help him, police say he shot and killed him and stole his red truck. this man has been identified as a local pastor. reverend anthony watts of st. mary church and a church member confirmed his death to cnn. >> so sad. so arrington has been

neutralized. what about the other three? any clues as to where they are? >> so the search does continue. t it's focused in two states. mississippi and texas. a second suspect believed to have escaped to texas, they found a public works vehicle about 400 miles away in spring valley village texas outside of houston. the two others are believed to still be in mississippi. they were last seen heading toward neighboring rankin county, this they say these men are also in a stolen vehicle. remember, we are on the forth day of this man hunt. all four escaped on a saturday at 8:30. officials didn't note they were missing until four hours later. >> officials concerned. residents should stay vigilant. great to see you.

take care. jim? when it comes to the feud between ron desantis and disney, there will be no fairy tale ending. in fact, there may not be an ending at all for some time because today, disney sued the florida governor. they say in his move to strip the company of a special tax district, it unleashed a campaign of government retaliation that trampled on disney's right to free speech. this began with the steps desantis took against disney. disney already won somewhat of a battle here and now they're going to court. tell us what happens next. >> that's right, jim. this lawsuit they filed today in court is going to a federal district court and it alleges that essentially desantis and his political allies on this new state oversight board engaged in an effort to stop their free

speech and trample on their constitutional rights just because they spoke out against a law that many across the country had a lot of issues with. let me read to you from the lawsuit because the language is striking. they accuse him of quote, a targeted campaign of government retaliation orchestrated at every step by governor desantis as punishment for disney's protected speech. it now threatens their business operations, jeopardizes its economic future in the region and violates its constitutional rights. this lawsuit is now asking a judge to step in and undo desantis' attempt to take power over this district. leaving in legal limbo this question of who is in charge of the former reedy creek improvement district. the desantis administration is not backing down. they have escalated the fight to this point and don't show any sign they're willing to give up. in a statement they gave to us they said quote, we are unaware of any legal right that a

company has to operate its own government or maintain special privileges not held by other businesses in the state. so jim, this will continue. we are going to see this fight in court. it's not clear how long this can take. it could be years but that's where we're headed. >> interesting for them to use the freedom of speech argument. one you might have heard from desantis on a number of issues. thanks so much. we have just learned that the death toll in sudan has grown to more than 500 as foreign nationals are trying to escape. we're going to talk to an american veteran trying to help people make it out alive.

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to sudan where evacuations are underway as the cease fire appears to be holding in some parts of the country. witnesses on the ground tell cnn they are running out of food and that stores have either been run out completely or have been looted. the world health organization warns food is so scarce, it is expecting more people will die. water is also hard to come by. you can see people trying to fill up tanks. it's actually over here. they don't know when they're going to have access to water f again and what they're getting may not be clean. we're told some are so desperate

they're getting water from the nile river. along with a lack of food and water, there is little to no medical care. in khartoum, 61% of the health facilities are closed. the world health organization is estimating some 24,000 women are going to give birth in the coming weeks without any m maternal cares. civilians are rekocounting the horrors they've seen on the ground. >> a bad situation here, seriously. i don't know what is going to happen. >> hey, hey! >> as for the violence, it isn't just from the waring factions but from a total lack of police. the death toll right now stands at more than 500 and that includes at least two americans. one of them is a sudanese american doctor. he was trying to take his father

to a dialysis appointment when he was stabbed outside of his home in khartoum. as people desperately try to flee all of this, it is becoming even harder to get the very thing that's needed to leave. gasoline. fuel prices have surged. one witness telling us a can is now up from a little over $4 u.s. to $67 a gallon on the black market. we want to discuss with an expert. brian stern is cofounder and ceo of project dynamo. an organization working to rescue americans and allies in sudan. what are the biggest challenges that you and your team are facing in getting civilians out? >> thanks for having me. you hit the nail on the head. resources are the big one. gas is expensive. water's hard to find. food is a challenge. this is africa so things are always a challenge here. the other big thing is obviously

command and control. we have a so-called cease fire on the ground but that cease fire is only as good as the people that keep it. there's very good reason to believe it's been broken to some extent or another. how big of a violation is debatable but the lack of command and control is proven to be a problem for them and organizations like project dynamo who are trying to get things like landing clearance, cargoe cargoes. if you get approval, doesn't mean they're valid, if you will. >> i want to play for you some sound from the spokesperson of the national security council. l listen to this. >> i would just tell you that the universe of americans, american citizens that have expressed a desire to leave and

a willing ness to move on short notice is a small number. >> far less than the 16,000 estimated to be there, john? >> incredibly far less than that. much, much less than that. >> can you give me an estimate? >> i think it's important to remember most of those 16,000, that's an estimate. most are dual nationals. they grew up in sudan. got family members in sudan who are not and don't want to leave. i'm hesitant to give you an exact number, but it's very small. it's in the many dozen of a kind of a seems like getting an exac figure is an issue. dozens to 16,000. what's your estimate? >> we don't have an estimate. what i can tell you is that on our website is where people go to number one donate. we are donor funded. we could use the public's help, please, but that's also where

people go to register. there's a button that says sudan evacuation form. that little button has been getting a lot of play today and yesterday and we fully expect it to get a lot of play tomorrow. so we have hundreds of people that are registered. we're not at thousands yet but that's mostly because people don't know we're out there but i fully expect we get there though. >> brian stern, we very much appreciate the work you do. please keep us posted on any way we might be able to help. thanks. >> thank you. projectdynamo.org. please donate. >> thanks much. this just in to cnn. we now have a schedule. this debt ceiling spending cut bill for the house gop has been scheduled. t it has a time. melanie has the latest on what we can expect on this. when is this set to happen? >> house republican leaders are moving full steam ahead with a

vote on their debt ceiling plan which would slash federal spending. they are expecting a vote now this afternoon around 4:45 p.m. and it is just the latest sign that gop leaders are feeling confident about their whip count. they have been working members through the weekend. they made changes in the middle of the night to win over hold outs and have been able to flip undecides or no votes into the yes camp. they have little room for error. gop leadership feeling confident at this point. >> 4:45. we'll see if this actually happens. thank you so much. jim? so why is gop senator tommy tuberville blocking 184 military promotions? we're following this and more in cnn news central.

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today, new polling from pugh that shows an overwhelming number of u.s. adults that say their views on abortion haven't changed since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. more than six in ten say it should be legal in all or most cases, but an increasing number of american who is live in states where it is prohibited say it would be more difficult to get one in their area. no surprise perhaps. after the dobbs decision, the pentagon started reimbursing service members for travel expenses and providing paid time

off for reproductive health procedures including abortions and now tommy tuberville and mike lee are holding up almost 200 high profile military promotions over this policy. here's elizabeth warren who is trying to break the blockade. >> holding up the promotion of every single military nominee isn't democracy. it's extortion. and that kind of extortion has serious consequences for our national defense. >> among the promotions being held up, navy rear admiral frederic hatcher who is up for vice admiral. george wiecough to vice admiral and navy rear admiral first female president of the navy war college to be the u.s. military

representative to nato. a very critical juncture to the war in ukraine. thank you so much for being with us. i want to just start off the top here because it seems that there are these very opposed sides in this disagreement. tricare doesn't cover abortion except for in the case of rapee incest or when the life of the mother is in danger. we're talking abilout leave, ti off, and travel expenses. can you guarantee for female service members, military spouses and dependents, that you will not back down on providing coverage for these expenses considering these are people who have no choice about what state they live in? >> thanks for having me. that's what the secretary committed to when he made the decision to make sure that

reproductive healthcare is accessible to our service member who is might live in state where is that care is not accessible to them. this is what you outlined. providing transportation costs for them so they can go and receive the care they need in a state that provides that service. we have to remember, this is about making sure that people, our service members, our civilians, have access to what they need to do. not only for their health, but to be able to work. they don't get to choose the states they live in. you said it correct at the top. so the secretary is committed to upholding that promise and committed to making sure that our service members annedd civilians have the healthcare they need when they need it. >> how long until this starts affecting military readiness? because the senator does not appear willing at all to back down on his side. >> well, we certainly have been in touch with senator tuberville's office but we've

made our case clear. holding up these nominations of our flag and general officers is very dangerous. it puts our military readiness at risk. these are about promoting the people who need to go into the positions at the right time they were promoted. we have almost over 63 four star generals up for promotion and different positions coming up within the next nine months. as the secretary has said, this will be a ripple effect on our service members. we continue to urge senator tuberville to lift his hold on these nominations -- >> when does that start? >> again, we're in touch with his office. we're continuing to work with the senator and with congress to urge that these holds be lifted. immediately. and -- >> when does, so sorry to interrupt.

when does the military readiness, when does that begin to be affected? when do you have people not going into position, not having their permanent change of station, not going to the next duty station, going to the next job? >> again, these are positions that are opening up over the next few months and as you have these positions vacate, you're going to have another people step into those positions and enacting in a temporary role. that's where you're going to stesee the impact. someone doing two jobs when that needs to be filled by a four star. this is going to happen as a ripple effect as the secretary has said. i don't have an exact date or time when military readiness is all of a sudden impacted. it's going to be over time. and that's what we are concerned about. we need to continue to project to our allies, partners around the world and adversaries that

we are a cohesive unit at the department and all around the world and that fbegins at that three and four star level. again, these holds we find them reckless and dangerous and we are urging congress to move forward on these nominations. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. jim? happening now in montana, lawmakers debating whether to censure their only transgender member after she spoke out about her position on gender affirming healthcare and protest then erupted in her defense. what's next if that vote goes through? we'll bring you up to date. oice. with flexible multi-cloud servrvices that enable digital innovationon and enterprise control, vmware helps you innovovate and grow.

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