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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i am rosemary church. just ahead on cnn "newsroom," a consequential week in the united states. president biden expected to meet with capitol hill leaders to calm nerves and avoid the default as the debt deadline looms. plus, the u.s. boarder crisis. you will meet a venezuelan mother separated from her family after crossing into texas and hear her agonizing quest to find her. live from cnn center, this is cnn "newsroom" with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. it's a new week in washington, which means we are another day

closure to the u.s. defaulting on trillions of dollars of debt. talks between the white house and congress have caused tempers to flare, but now sources tell cnn the temperature could be just right for bargaining. u.s. president, joe biden, and house speaker, kevin mccarthy, have been mostly at odds during the process. the president is set to meet with congressional leaders on tuesday to discuss the discussions or continue the discussion, i should say, and he thinks a deal is within reach. >> i am an optimist, but i think there's a desire on their part as there is ours. >> our cnn senior political analyst and senior editor with the atlantic. good to have you with us. >> thank you, rosemary. >> the pressing issue for this country right now is the looming

debt crisis. how likely is it do you think republicans and democrats can find a compromised solution to this problem before june 1st that the u.s. can default on its debt and lead the world into economic chaos? >> it's one of those issues where predictions work backwards, where people assume default is so catastrophic that it became unthinkable. the question is not weather, it's how. the last time we had a confrontation of this magnitude, there was of a widespread assumption in the political system that somehow, some way, bara barack obama, mitch mcconnell, and john boehner could get it done. i think the markets, i think, still believe in the end political leadership on both sides of the aisle will not drive the u.s. and potential

global economy off a cliff in a completely self-forced error, but compared to 2011 the republican caucus in the house that is driving this confrontation is further to the right and the majority is smaller and the speaker is even weaker, when you put all of those together you see the possibility we could be running through the plate glass window nobody thought was possible before. >> that is a nightmare scenario, indeed. i want to look at the gop race for the presidential nomination. we are seeing a major escalation intention before donald trump and ron desantis, who criticized trump over the weekend in iowa. now we are hearing the political stop will move to a new base of operations which signals an official run may very well be imminent.

when do you think desantis will make that call and how do you think trump will react to it? >> the preannouncement period for desantis has been as bad as it has been for any candidate, i think, since teddy kennedy in 1980 when he would challenge jimmy carter where he couldn't answer why he was running, and desantis was the great hope in the party for those who wanted to move past trump, but he has been a tough time with this insular time in florida where he edged out on to the national stage, and the answer he gave on ukraine calling it a territorial dispute was a turning point. trump has gone after him from left to right and in his unique

style. donald trump is the dominant figure in the republican party, but there's still a piece of the party that does not believe he should be the nominee in '24, especially, again, after watching him this week on that cnn -- or last week on that cnn town hall, just do not think he can get elected. none of the other 24 candidates used this stumbling period, and i think everything in the last few weeks he will feel the pressure sooner or later. >> trump had to cancel that saturday night rally in des moines, iowa, because of tornado warnings and desantis made a surprise visit there. recent primary polls shows trump leading desantis by nearly 20

points. what chance does desantis have starting so far behind, do you think? >> iowa is small, and there have been more than 120,000 people voting on the republican side in the caucuses there. it's a contained universe and you can pummel it with television and meet a surprising number of voters. iowa does give you a chance to get off the map. the challenge is, if you think about who doesn't like trump in the republican party, and it's heavily tilted towards voters with a college degree that find his cultural bereavance, and by signing a six-week abortion ban and being an absolutice on

disney, it's not clear if he is more acceptable to the college-educated voters than trump is. he should be more acceptable in the end, but the way he has chosen to run trying to squeeze around trump to his right alienates his constituency in the primaries. >> ron brownstein, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. turkey's hot contested presidential election is likely running to a runoff. there are preliminary results showing erdogan leading this weekend. opposition candidate has 45%, nearly all returns have been counted while results are not official, neither candidates

seems to have reached the 50% threshold required to win the presidency outright, but both addressed their supporters on monday. >> if our nation decides on a runoff, with our pleasure, we will definitely win this election in the second round. everybody will see it. >> the turkey bureau chief joins us live now. welcome and appreciate you being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> preliminary results suggest this presidential race is headed for a runoff. do you expect erdogan to cling on to power or could we see an end to his two decades in power, do you think? >> i mean, you know, if you look at the turk candidate, the

nationalist, we got 5% of the vote and it's likely the candidate in the second run will win easily, and he basically sold votes from erdogan. that's the main reason they are likely to vote for erdogan. >> why should the rest of the world care about the outcome? >> because it's surprising that after 20 years in power, a cost

of living crisis, and refugee crisis and earthquake that he got didn't get 50%. it's really important for the world in the sense that the elected president, who, in time started a sem -- basically fail to take him down. >> and elon musk has been slammed for censoring content on his social media platform, twitter, ahead of these pivotal elections in turkey. m what impact did this likely have

on the outcome? >> i think the criticisms against musk, they are not really fair because the turkish government basically threatened twitter. they just basically gave a choice, first you are going to comply with our request and just remove these accounts or we are just going to block access to twitter. twitter flipped the resource for the republic of turkey, and in a closely contested election, that would question the validity of the election. the turkish opposition had millions of accounts on turkish social media, and it's really important for the turkish discourse. >> thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you.

volodymyr zelenskyy is winning pledges of more support from key european allies as ukraine's military prepares for a widely counter offensive against russia. president zelenskyy held a working dinner with french president, emmanuel macron, in paris on sunday. in a joint statement france promised to send more armored vehicle and light tanks to ukraine this year. mr. zelenskyy also travelled to germany which announced $3 billion for military aid for ukraine, and said it's committed to helping kyiv as long as it takes. i am joined by claire sebastian, live from london. president zelenskyy is visiting

europe, and he wants the war to end this year. he specified a timeline. what are you learning about this? >> i can tell you that he has confirmed today by his social media channels he will be visiting the uk and london. he said the united kingdom is a leader when it comes to expanding our capabilities on the ground and in the sky, and in this tweet and telegram post, there's clear reference to the storm shadow to ukraine, and he said he would be meeting to his friend the prime minister, and they will hold substantial talks one-on-one, and so that from an extremely busy weekend that saw him in rome meeting with the pope at the vatican, paris, germany, all of those countries in one weekend, and that $3 billion package including what left the tanks, and it's thorny

politically and historically for them, so this is a sign that germany is standing behind this policy, and it's about optics. we're less than two months from a very important nato summit. the entire ukrainian family would stand to join the alliance, and volodymyr zelenskyy with the optics of standing with the leaders, and he was also in germany, in particular, to point out what he has done at the beginning of the conflict and this is about much more than just ukraine. take a listen. >> translator: the territory integrity and security of all leader nations must be guaranteed. now is the time to determine the end of the war this year, this

year we could make defeat irreversible. >> irreversible is the key word, and the fears is there is going to be a negotiated cease-fire and this conflict will end up being frozen which is something ukraine wants to guard against. everybody is looking for clues in his comments as to the stage of an upcoming or expected or under way counter offensive. volodymyr zelenskyy saying he believes the first important steps would be taken soon, rosemary. >> all right. many thanks to claire sebastian joining us. can this peace being a lasting one? we will head to jerusalem for an updadate.

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israeli. there was 1,500 rockets launched last week. the latest truce fails to address the underlying issues that have led to several rounds of fighting between the two sides over the years. for more, let's go to cnn from jerusalem. what is the latest on this peace effort? >> what has been interesting about this latest round is it was longer than previous rounds we have seen. in august, it was 2 1/2 days, and the intensity was lower. there was an expectation a cease-fire was going to be reached sooner, and that's not what happened. the israeli military killed 22,

and two were killed, one was a palestinian working in israel at the time of the rocket attack. when you talk to military officials here, they say it was a strategic success and they took out the top commanders of the jihad, and they say more than 1,000 rockets were fired towards israel and 95% were intercepted by the iron dome or a new interception missile, and on the military front they believe it was a successful military operation for them. even military officials you talk to admits this doesn't change life on the ground in gaza or in israel. the islamic jihads still exist, and they almost got to play both

sides here because hamas was expressing a lot of support for the islamic jihad, and they dependant get involved in terms of, you know, launching rockets towards israel. they didn't have any of their commanders or any of their targets on focused on by israel. they come out in a way with the upper hand because they got support of armed resistance but didn't have to suffer any of the consequences. this is another round, an endless cycle where nothing has changed for people on either side. the jihadist, they are like the minor teams, and israel is

worried with hezbollah getting involved, and there's the possibility that something like this could happen once again. there has been a bit of a change politically. before this took place, the national security minister, he's in charge of a right-wing party here in israel, and they were boycotting votes and even though they are part of benjamin netanyahu's government. the moment this operation started they came back into the government, came back into supporting the government. al also, israeli prime minister, netanyahu, they are coming back up, and now he is doing better, not as good as he was before, but his poll numbers are back up. politically it has a benefit to the israel government, and they

are cohesive once again. things can change here very quickly and all eyes later this week will be on thursday, and it's called the dance or the march of the flags. this is when israel celebrates the 1967 war. it has become a major event where you see thousands of israelis marching through the old city of jerusalem. they often go through the muslim arab parts of east jerusalem, and there could be potential violence or potentially even rockets during this event on thursday. there's a cease-fire and it does appear to be holding but that could change by the end of the week. >> joining us live from jerusalem. many thanks. people are cleaning up and assessing the damage after a cyclone batted myanmar and bangladesh with heavy rain and

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little more than rain but not without leaving destruction. winds of more than 200 kilometers per hour blew the roofs off buildings and uprooted trees and knocked down power lines in myanmar. heavy winds hit bangladesh but no fatalities have been reported in the refugee camps there. joining us now from bangladesh is the united nations high commissioner for refugees represented in bangladesh. thank you for talking with us, sir, at this difficult time. >> thank you. >> we know the tropical cyclone is hitting myanmar and bangladesh with heavy winds and that rain, and there was concern

for the refugees sheltering in bangladeshi camps there. how is everybody recovering after the onslaught? >> thank you. we were very, very concerned that if the camps were in the eye of the storm, the damage would be devastating, it would be with loss of life, et cetera. for cha-cha fortunately, they w. we have not seen casualties, but we do see a lot of damage to the shelters and community buildings and boats, and many trees have fallen. we are still assessing today the damage, the extent, because no

matter what storm there is, even if -- there's still a lot of damage. >> yeah, indeed. sorry, i just wanted to ask, too, what emergency plans are in place to handle the possible threat of flooding and landslides in this part of bangladesh? is there a concern about that? >> definitely because, you know, a storm is also accompanied by heavy rains and that forces flooding and causes landslides, as you mentioned. those that lived in lower areas were prone to flooding and landslides and moved them up higher in the campsite, and also moved them into more protective buildings. so the most vulnerable people we managed to relocate to safe

places within the campsite. we have teams in place which immediately address the results of landslides and flooding by, as i said, moving people further away, but also already starting to stabilize slopes. we are going to do that anyhow, and this is another point i would like to stress, we have thousands of refugee srvoluntee who have trained and are prepared for an incoming disaster, and so the people were alert and moved away, but also when, in this case, the storm hits, to immediately know how they can start rebuilding, reconstructing.

all of these have been put in place and now show their value. >> what are various aid agencies ensure they nhave what they nee, and the camps that will serve 1 million refugees. >> well, they coordinated this response put in place for a long time together with the local authorities and, as i say, the refugees themselves . we have sector by sector, how much food is needed, the medical support, and we have ambulances ready. we have distributed tablets for purifying water so they can continue to have access to clean drinking water and et cetera. it's well coordinated response

system that proves itself. >> thank you so much for talking with us. appreciate it. still to come, a surge in young voters demanding change in t thailand. why this election could deal a blow. we're back with that in just a moment.

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welcome back, everyone. sunday's general election in thailand saw the biggest turnout in history. 75% of voters participated and made it clear they want change. with nearly all votes counted, all opposition parties swept the board. voters have delivered a powerful

rebuke of myanmar's military leading, but will they respect that result? >> it's a big question, rosemary. we don't have the answer to that. they insinuated they will respect the vote, but we will have to wait and see. many are assuming a military coup is far less likely. this party, the unofficial vote shows that has the most votes moved forward. it's a progressive party with policies basically of a deep st structural reform. it also wants to look at the issue of monarchy reform. this was once an untouchable issue which now has become one

of the main policies of the move forward party. analyst say it's quite remarkable what this party stands for. >> they have welfare policies, but it's no longer about popularism. they have tapped into a lot of sentiments that thailand has to change and that has to do with the reform of the monarchy getting rid of the draft, and people chose that yesterday. >> this is the leader of this party who is expected to be put forward for a prime minister role by his party. it's important from the progressive point of view that they have a coalition. this is where the horse trading starts, the deal making. we already heard from him at a press conference and he said he welcomed the second best

performing party which in the past has been winning elections since 2001, and he has asked that party to form a coalition and they already have five other parties that would be within their coalition as well. this is key, because over recent years when the military-backed parties have been 234 charged they have changed the constitution and stacked the deck, if you will, and there is 500 mps that will vote for a candidate for prime minister, and each of the senators have been elected by a military-backed party. >> paula hancocks on thailand elections joining us live from seoul with that. thank you. for our international viewers, "world sport" is up next, and for our viewers here in the united states and in canada, i will be back with a

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welcome back to our viewers here in north america. i am rosemary church. it has been more than three days since the expiration of title 42, the pandemic era policy that slowed the number of migrants allowed into the united states. with thursday's exsppiration, my border states braced, and less than half of the 10,000 encounters seen at the southern border in the final days of title 42. u.s. president joe biden offered his take on the situation at the border on sunday. >> how do you think things are going at the border, sir? >> much better than you all expected. >> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> pardon me? >> do you have any plans to visit the border?

>> not in the near term, no. it would be disruptive if anything else. >> much of the focus is on the numbers, but for the migrants at the heart of the crisis, the focus is on family, and that's what drives them to make the grueling and dangerous journey. for those who enter the u.s., the agonizing wait is only beginning. rosa flores introduces us to a venezuelan mother desperately hoping to find her family. >> she is one of the thousands of migrants that crossed the border into brownville, texas, shortly before title 42 expired.

[ speaking nonenglish ] . [ speaking non-english ] >> some residents of brownsville are helping, like this church that provides food, supplies and shelter to migrants passing through. >> you see this number of people here, this never has been seen before. what we are trying to do is just give them something, food, clothing and all that, but this number you see here, we have not seen it before. >> i am a my tkigrant myself.

i came from guatemala 40 years ago, so i see myself in them so i understand how to take a little bottle of water skpand n taking a shower for days and no shoes, no underwear. i was there on the other side. the larger group from venezuela is coming. [ speaking non-english ] >> she left with ten of her family members and crossed the rio grande clinging to one of the other relatives before the family was separated at the border.

>> now her family is split up, and her daughter and grandson was sent back to mexico, and others are in the u.s. she's hoping to reunite with her daughter-in-law and grandchildren. without any other way of reaching then, she must wait for buses filled with migrants retained by the border agents. she's desperately waiting to be reunited with her family .

nearly a week after she reached the united states, she received news that her daughter-in-law and grandchildren are being processed for release, however the question of when her family will be reunited still remains unanswered. >> our thanks to rosa flores for that report. even though the border crossings have not been as high as expected, the head of the u.s. homeland security says it's too soon to tell if the migrant surge peaked. >> president biden acknowledged numbers have gone down when it comes to the number of encounters on the border, and he hopes they will continue

trending that way. he argues there's still much more work to do. what you have heard from the administration today is them defending their policies and the policies and plans they put in place for months, that has led to less crossings. >> we have communicated very clearly a vitally important message to the individuals thinking of arriving at our southern border. there's a lawful safe and orderly way to arrive in the united states, that is through the pathways that president biden expanded in an unp unprecedented way, and there's a consequence if one does not use

those lawful entry ways. >> there are capacity issues at the facilities. in buffalo, new york, residents have marked one year since ten people were killed in a racist attack at a grocery store. the victims were all black. a moment of silence was held sunday at a memorial for the victims followed by church bells in remembrance of those lost . president biden also addressed the anniversary in a usa today op-ed, writing the plague of gun violence only is getting worse and calls on congress to have

gun reform. in arizona on saturday night at a gathering in a residential area in yuma there was a shooting. a suspect has not yet been taken into custody. as the new week begins, it's another day on the picket line for hollywood's writers, a strike by the writers guilt of america has entered its third week and is casting a shadow of the up fronts which that's the time of year when the best media companies make their best presentations. >> the up fronts, like you said,

this is the moment where networks come and put on a dazzling display with their biggest stars to showcase their upcoming slate of shows and projects in an effort to, you know, get advertisers onboard. usually you see big names like jimmy kimmel and others at the respective networks' up fronts, and you are not going to see that. they are going virtual. and a lot of the events this week in manhattan where i am are not going to be happening anymore. taylor swift interrupted her own performance of "bad blood" to defend a person in the crowd. ♪ ♪ stop!

stop! >> it's unclear what prompted swift's reaction, and no comment from the stadium or the pop star. s.w. swift has been on her latest tour since march. the nba is reviewing the suspension of a grizzly's play player. he was suspended when a video surfaced where he is displaying a gun, it shows him flashing the weapon while in a car. cnn has reached out to morant's suspension but have not heard back. and then jayson tatum has helped

boston reach the eastern conference finals for the second straight year, facing the 76ers on sunday. tatum scored 51 points breaking the game scoring record set just two weeks ago by steph curry. the celtics will face the miami heat in a rematch of last year's conference finals. i will be back with more cnn "newsroom" after a short break. do stay with us.

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