keeping his economic commitments abroad while managing a debt crisis at home, president biden says the best use of his time was to cut shows h histropy asia. we'll have the latest on that search. and the governor of montana thinking there's enough threat from china to ban tiktok, but how will he force it out of the hands of teenagers. all these stories are coming in to "cnn news central."

today in hiroshima, president biden was peppered with questions did the debt default, which really want supposed to be on the agenda. he's already cut his trip short, so he can get back to finalize a deal. leaders in washington have about two weeks to avert a potential disaster. let's take the live to japan for marc stewart .

>> reporter: i cannot stress enough if there's a u.s. daylight, not only likely would it put the u.s. economy into recession, it could create global financial shockwaves. that's relevant for the g7. policy decisions, positions relating to the war in ukraine. money is a big part of it. that's why they g7 nations care about what's happening in the united states. the president is getting questions about it, but not overly anxious to talk about it. take a listen to this exchange. >> the bottom line, mr. prime

minister, when our countries stand together, we stand stronger. i believe the whole world is safer when we do . he said something to the effect of, let's go. he may be able avoid reporters tomorrow, but not leaders when they meet face-to-face. boris, as we have been reporting, they will likely ask him questions and arounds about where things stand and the extent of the risk that is involved.

marc, thank you so much. manu raju is live on capitol hill. there's been a noted shift in the tone from not only poib, but specifically kevin mccarthy about the way the negotiations are going. >> reporter: that could be significant. the fact is they were nowhere near an agreement. that changed earlier today when the speaker told me and other reporters, he sees a path to getting a deal. he believes there's a structure a deal could be firmed around, and indicated a bill could be on the floor of the house as soon as next week. >> look, we're not there, but i

see a path. >> i think i have the greatest respect for -- i believe where we were a week act is a much better place. part of these negotiation -- now mccarthy declined to provides details exactly what they're great you to. what spending cuts to attach to it .

>> it will be no easy task to go through all the -- >> and some democrats have expressed anxiety over those work requirements for certain programs. manu raju from capitol hill, thanks so much. jim? florida governor ron desantis' war on disney might have gotten a bit more ugly? the company announces it's scrapping plan to build a new campus in the state, citing new conditions.

was this a direct response? >> i got a letter from josh dimarro, that was sent internally. he doesn't go into detail about what exactly caused this. i will read a portion of it. he says, given the considerable changes that have occurred since the announcement of this project, including new leadership and changing business conditions, we have decided not to move forward with construction of the campus. this was not an easy decision to make, but i believe it is the right one. this was going to be 2,000 jobs moving from here in california to central florida. me people had already started to move to the new location. >> wow. >> he's telling folks that the remain employees do not have to make the move now, and for those who super already gone to florida, they with work with them individually case by case,

including the possibility of moving them back here to burbank? the los angeles area. according to "the orlando business journal" this was going to be a office complex in the lake nona region, just east of disney world. this is in the midst of a very contentious moment between the leadership. any responsibilities from the governor's office? it's been a short time ago. >> this just came in. we have nod yet heard from the governor's office. i'm hearing, as we speak that orange county mayor might issue a statement about this as well. i'm waiting to see what local leaders have to say. jim? >> i'm sure they're following job growth in those communities. natasha chen in l.a., thank you very much. the state of montana will soon prohibit all residents from

used the social media app tiktok on their personal devices. the governor signed a bill that bans the app from operating within state lines to protect personal and private data from the chinese communist party. it says there's a potential fine of $10,000 per day for breaking the law. it also applying to app stores that host tiktok. nationwide this app is restricted from government-issued mobile fonts. i'm joined by eric ebbenstein, tiktok's senior director of public policy. thank you so much for being with us, as a really crucial time here. >> thanks for having me. >> do you think tiktok will take legal action, or will that fall to first amendment advocates? >> we're reviewing our options. i will say we have hundreds of thousands of users and creators

around 5 houses small business that is use tiktok within montana. we'll stand by them and be with them. >> you institute it was coming for some sometime. is it possible you will not sue? >> we've seen a lot of chatter, on twitter, elsewhere from both sides of the political spectrum where you see organizations pointing out the first amendment and other instrumental flaws with this piece of legislation. we're eager to see what happening going forward. >> let's speak about the concern with tiktok and also more broadly the concern we've heard in the u.s., including president biden, that the communist chinese government will be able to influence tiktok's parent company for use the app to spy on americans. tiktok has had a credibility issue on this, right? chinese employees were actually surveiling american journalists, and at first executives of your

parent company lied about it. do you see why american government and americans would have reticence in taking tiktok's word about the app? >> thank for you bringing it up. tiktok is not available in china. our corporate parent is not head quartered in china. we're a privately held company, and 60% are global institutional investors, a lot based here in the united states. but i want to take it one step further. we've been engaging for over a year now, maybe, with our trusted technology partner on a program project texas. it's a regime by which u.s. user data will be stored here on the cloud. although, to be clear there's never any evidence or proof about any kind of information sharing. we steadfastly deny that.

>> actioning american user data by chinese employees, that has happened. you have the fbi and the doj here in america looking into that. i mean, this is a concern. so, no, it's not a sharing with the chinese government that is proven, but you have tiktok saying that this -- even the accessing of this by that turned out to be a lie. >> this is ahn outlier, and in fact the governor of montana sought to totally amend the bill that his party was pushing, because it seemed as though there were serious requests about enforceability.

>> but i'm talking about the credibility issue. >> another reason why we have project texas set up. we have a strong regime that shows how to protect data security, and the american people handling those jobs. we have a separate entity, the united states data security, and those are the only employees in the united states who have access to user data. >> project texas is this effort to silo tiktok from any influence, which is the concern here in march, your ceo really leaned on this. you want it stood up. it's not complete, though, right? >> we are making serious significant progress. we think by the end of the year. >> but way do you say it's stood up? >> there are parts already happening today. if you are a use of tiktok today, all of your data is stored by oracle on their cloud.

going forward wile have additional milestones to ann announce. there was an employees of the parent company -- part me of tiktok -- there was a chinese-based employees who was trying to get information. he ended up being fired -- information from the u.s.-based employ crease about that oracle server, location and details of it. can you assure americans that kind of funny business is not happening anymore. i'm not familiar with that case, but project texas has stood up for cases just like that. we have 150 million american users on tiktok every month and around 5 million businesses making their livelihood. we want them to continue to grow with us. >> how much of project texas is stood up at this point?

>> about 14 under employ crease currently on board, seven offices that we're working with oracle on, all u.s. accounts are being stored on the oracle cloud. i can't give you a percentage, but we're making great progress. >> where are on the approval process, as you're looking toward that with the u.s. government? >> we continue to engage with the biden administration, and we look forward to a successful resolution. we'll be looking for that. eric ebenstein -- you told me i would butcher your name -- >> you did well. >> thank you for being with us. >> thank you. self-described whistle-blowers s. testifying during a contentious hearing. democrats are saying it's the witnesses who have an agenda. an union date on the hearing. a simple traffic stop in

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retrospect, a whole host. but they knew about this we could know this is exactly what the snipper expect is looking into. two commanders have been temporarily suspended there. he was warned several times in 2022, to stop looking at classified information that really had nothing to do with his activities. and he was actually stuffs notes in his pockets. he was asked whether he was going to shred that document. that's significant, of course, because the notes he took was eventually what he posted online. in october, one month later, he was again in a classified

briefing at the air national guard there in massachusetts, asking very detailed and probing questions about classified intelligence that had really nothing to do with his day-to-day job as an i.t. person there. he was given a cease and desist order by his superiors to stop dealing in that type of classified information. in january he was caught again by looking at a classified intelligence system that did not comport with his day-to-day duties. a lot of red flags here that the u.s. is investigating as part of investigation wise this was not curtailed. prosecutors say he was well aware he was doing something he was not supposed to do, posting it on a social media platform where he bothed to other users that the information was not public. a friend responding that he

should continue to leak that information for their amusement, jim. >> apparently his superiors didn't make sure he did those things natasha, thank you. the fbi has revoked the clearances of three agents over the january 6th attack. the fbi saying one agent was actually there. the other two voiced alternative theories on the attack. today, two of those agents testified in a hill in a hearing that was wrapped up. reps say they are whistle-blowers sara, tells us what stood out to you. >> republicans are trying to use these fbi employees to make the case that the fbi, which is known for being a conservative

law enforcement body is full of liberals out there starting conservative. they put forward in witnesses who frankly had credibility issues. two of the men have had their security clearances pulled. the other man these put forward his had his clearance suspended. in one of the cases, one of the men urged his colleagues to exercise stream caution takes a willen to the called listen blowers today. too many are not will to sacrifices over the hard right versus the easy wrong. >> my whiffle blowing was

apolitical, nonetheless the fbi sinically elected to close ranks. >> i played no parts in the january 6th appeared i condemn all criminal activity that occurred. instead, it happens i was retaliated against, because i forwarded information that questioned the official narrative of the events of january 6th. >> you heard this there, brianna. they feel like they're being retaliated against with their clearances pulled or suspended. the. >> did it seem pretty normal, the reason they were pulled? >> you know, a lot of these had to do with appearing at the capitol riot or expressing simp think toward capitol rioters. in a there wasn't just one instance.

you know, in the case of steve friend, it was not just wanting to not participate in a s.w.a.t. arrest, but also unauthorized disclosure in media interviews, bringing a flash drive into the fbi building and downloading documents from an fbi computer. >> participating in illegal activity or, in a way, sanctioning it or empathizing with it. these are pretty serious. sara murray, thank you very much. boris? happening now, the race to rescue four kids. the colombian government believe these survived not only a plane crash, but 17 days alone. it's a bird, it's a plane, a couch? the details behind a soaring sofa, when we come back.

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colombian rescuers are racing to find four children who appeared to have survived 17 days in what you see here, some of the most dense forest and wetwet est terrain in the world. officials believe the kids are alive after a plane crash that killed three adults.

so far, there's been no direct contact with the young survivors that we know of. they are just 13, 9, 4 and 11 months. 11 months old. the president of colombia fueled some confusion when he hailed their rescues in a tweet and then later deleted it it. a government official says she's confident that the children already found. forces followed a trail of items, including baby bottles. listen to what a survival expert told cnn earlier this afternoon. >> the one thing is these are indigenous people, children of tribal people. they probably have some knowledge of the local flora, fauna, things like that, and what they can use off the landscape. however surviving the plane crash alone, that's phenomenal in itself. >> let's taking to colombia,

with stefano, who is live for us. where do authorities think these kids are now? >> reporter: where the kids are -- it's easy to point on a map, because it's in the valley of a river, which is a tributary of the amazon. however, that is one of the most remote and sparsely populated regions in south america. it's a region where people move around either with canoes and boats on the river or small single-engine flights, like the one these kids were on in the flight that crashed down on may 1st. due to the bad weather, authorities are telling us they haven't been able to employ's much to find them and rescue them. they say they know where they are, but that doesn't mean that the kids are safe and back with the authorities. just to give you an idea of how

this operation that's employ es hundreds of people and taking the breath of this entire nation is how these search-and-rescue operations are moving. they are blasting from airplanes an audio message from the grandmother. some of these children in the local indigitius language, to try to calm them down, to try to communicate with them. we can only imagine how these kids are feeling if they have survived such a deal. just as the experts said, it's a phenomenal story. >> two weeks in the amazon rain forest is no joke even for survivalists. bring us up to speed with what's happen with president petro. he defeated out that the kids were reece cued, and then deleted the tweet. >> reporter: he even apologized

for the confusion might have aroused from his tweet from yesterday. he now is saying the colombian authorities i saying when they will be able to make contact, they will release a statement. we hope it to be a positive statement. what we understand right now, maybe there was some breakdown in the communication chain or the president anticipated some of the information he received. it's just that they haven't been able to make contact and be in close contact with them, hopefully bring them back to their relatives. >> it speaks to the difficulty of the sit way, with the radios and heavy rain in the middle of a rain forest. hopefully we get positive news. stephano, thank you so much. brianna? with president biden in japan for the g7 summit, the family of a u.s. navy officer in prison in that country is

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. president biden in hiroshima, japan, for the g7 summit that starts tomorrow. you see him is there with the prime minister. supporters of lieutenant

alconas is using this meeting to call for his release. he's serving a three-year prisons in japan for driving into and killing two people. he has claimed he was not respond, he lost consciousness due to altitude sickness. >> jake, i know you'll be speaking with his wife in the next hour. what are you hearing from the family? >> their basic argument is their husband and father, ridge alconas would not be in prisons if he had been japanese. he was treated differently, because he's an american.

he's bon ten months into a three-year term. their justice system over there is different. there was, according to britney and the family, some kind of -- and he claims this was not negligent driving, that he had mountain sickness, and acute mountain sickness. >> there's been cases of military service members interacting with the community there -- >> a lot of history. >> so tell me what the family is saying about the possibility that some of the u.s. government are undermining -- >> britney says that there are people in the pentagon who are actually trying to undermine her efforts to get her husband, a service member, out of this japanese prison. they're obviously bringing attention to this today, because president biden is in japan. they want him to talk to the japanese prime minister about that. britney is saying people at the

pentagon who are doing this whisper campaign, if you keep it up, i'm going to release these e-mails and embarrass you undermining mice husband's case. she's not doing it now, but it's a direct warning to the pentagon. >> a fascinating story. the story will come up on "the lead" right after our show. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. now to some of the headlines were following. the supreme court has ruled against andy warhol, the justices ruled against -- pardon me -- the justice ruled that warhol infringed on a photographer's copyright when he created a series of print silkscreens. an argument for the foundation said the work was transformative, but the justices disagreed. this is not a scene from an action movie. newly released dash cam video, unbelieve, capturing a police

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the price of a home in the u.s. is falling and so are sales. a new report shows that after a brief rise in february sales of existing homes last month dropped 3.4%. overall sales were down 23% from a year ago. the good news for potential buyers is that existing homes saw their biggest drop in price since 2011. the average listing last month was some $380,800, down nearly 2% from 2022 prices. the report states as well prices

eased in the west and the south but rose in the north east and the midwest. lots to follow there. so do you need more evidence that americans are worried about inflation? wal-mart says to check out their grocery division. the company says grocery sales increased by double digits last quarter even as sales of discretionary product like home goods and clothing were sluggish. matt, wal-mart says even wealthier households have been buying up a lot of groceries at wal-mart. what does that tell you about the overall picture of the economy? >> well, first americans are bargain shopping. right, after two years of high inflation people are looking for deals, and no surprise they're looking for deals at wal-mart. this brand is all about every day low prices. so this is all just fine for wal-mart. they just reported pretty strong

sales growth. sales in the first quarter up by 7.4%. that's pretty solid for a company the size of wal-mart, it's actually twice the pace of sales growth a year ago. and what's interesting here is where people are spending their money. wal-mart reported strong growth for groceries, pets, wellness, pharmacy. what do those things have in common? those are all things people need to spend money on. maybe not what they want to but what they need to. wal-mart says there's been softer sales growth for more discretionary items including home improvement and electronics and clothes. and as you mentioned wal-mart also said they're starting to gain market share among higher income families. again, that's more evidence people are price conscious right now. i think, boris, people are still spending money, they're just spending the money differently and perhaps at different places. >> and matt, notably this report

comes as target and home depot are reporting that their sales are actually down. >> yeah, so target reported some disappointing numbers. their sales were just fractionally higher in the latest quarter, but they actually said that their online sales were down, and they reported that consumers are pulling back, again, on the more discretionary items. home improvement -- you know, home improvement had just been booming for the longest time as people who were stuck at home during covid spent a lot of money to improve their homes and trying to sell their homes in a hot housing market, and some of those numbers jim just reported on home sales slowing down, that has also hurt some of the sales numbers at home depot. >> yeah, a lot of uncertainty in the economy especially as we're looking at a potential default on u.s. debt. hopefully a break through comes soon on a deal. matt eegen, thanks for your reporting as always. coming up a killer strike. the moment a baseball pitcher threw a curve ball during

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collision. yeah, you see feathers scattered like snow. a grounds keeper cleaning it up there. it is quite a gnarly scene. my favorite part of the video is the catcher was clearly confused about what happening, and then you see him sort of tiptoe. >> so sad, such an innocent little bird. i'm just here to be sad for the bird. >> as i'm watching i'm thinking like when players get hit by pitches, right, which they do all the time and you see what it does to a bird. it's dangerous. you're throwing 100 miles an hour. >> wrong place, wrong time little bird. it did happen in 1983, though, but these guys are too young to remember. you've got it go back 40 years for that one. >> all right, let's go to jake tapper now. the u.s. supreme court rules that the all-powerful tech giants can remain relatively unaccountable for what people post on their sites. "the lead" starts righ