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00:00Republicans override a governor's veto overnight in one state, in another a marathon debate to
00:06block a similar effort. There are some real moves today in the fight over abortion access in America.
00:13This morning, abortion rights in America are back in the spotlight. On the federal level,
00:18the fate of a key abortion pill is now once again in court. Oral arguments are set to begin very
00:24soon
00:24before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, a case brought by anti-abortion activists who want to
00:29ban Mifepristone nationwide. And then on the state level, the focus is in the Carolinas,
00:35where two separate efforts to further restrict abortions in both states have hit a critical
00:40juncture. In North Carolina, nearly all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy are now banned,
00:46as the Republican supermajority in the state legislature voted to override Democratic Governor
00:50Roy Cooper's veto of their bill. Shouts of shame could be heard from the gallery after the gavel
00:56fell there. And in South Carolina, Republican lawmakers are at it again after debating for
01:02more than 12 hours yesterday on a near total ban on abortion. They're heading back into session to
01:07continue the fight. Let's start in North Carolina. CNN's Diane Gallagher is in Raleigh, North Carolina,
01:13for us. Diane, after having his veto overridden, what is the governor going to do? Can he do anything?
01:22You know, Kate, from a legislative point, here in North Carolina, including two medication abortion,
01:28requiring several in-person appointments and adding new regulations, reporting and licensing
01:35requirements that Democrats and medical associations say could make it harder for people
01:40to obtain abortions even before that cutoff date. Now, look, the Democrats, lastly, after that override,
01:47saying North Carolinians now understand that Republicans are unified in their...
01:51You should be sure about that. Diane, thank you so much for the reporting.
01:55Sarah?
01:56So, President Biden, he's about to leave Washington for a five-day trip to Japan for the G7 summit,
02:01but the trip was just cut short as the White House has canceled plan stops in Australia and Papua New
02:07Guinea, so Biden can get back to Washington for the continued talks over the debt ceiling.
02:12Now, after the latest meeting with top congressional leaders, Biden called it productive.
02:16House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called it a step in the right direction, and there are just 15 days
02:21left until June 1st, which is the date that the Treasury Secretary has warned the United States
02:25could default on its debts if a deal is not reached. CNN's Arlette Saenz is at the White House with
02:29the very latest for us. Arlette, we know there was a meeting of a smaller group yesterday.
02:34More talks are planned today, so where do things stand as Biden's about to...
02:38...programs. McCarthy has insisted that including those work requirements will be a red line for him,
02:43while the White House and many progressive Democrats have really balked at the idea of that.
02:49Last night, the White House are releasing a new, fresh statement in which they said,
02:53quote, the policies House Republicans are proposing would take away American leaders a little bit later
02:58in the week, but he will be returning early on Sunday and is set to meet once again in person
03:02with
03:03them, with those leaders upon his return.
03:05All right, let's see what happens in the next couple hours. It's good to see you, Arlette. Thank you.
03:10John.
03:11This morning, a scary security breach is now under investigation. The Secret Service says that it is
03:17looking into how someone was able to get into the home of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in
03:22the middle of the night without his security detail even knowing. Sullivan has 24-7 Secret Service
03:27protection, yet that did nothing to stop the intruder from walking in late last month.
03:32Seen as Jessica Schneider, she's tracking the details on this. Jess, what happened here?
03:38Well, Kate, this occurred at the end of April, and that's when National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
03:42encountered someone inside.
03:44Next, new protests in New York. Parents angry over a plan to house newly arrived migrants in their schools.
03:50A closer look at the plans and now the concern. Plus, the CEO of the company that created
03:56ChadGPT makes a surprising statement about AI. What Sam Altman told lawmakers on Capitol Hill,
04:02that's straight ahead.
04:03Title 42 now gone. A legal battle is brewing far away from the border with Mexico. In Florida,
04:09Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he's going to send 1,100 troops and law enforcement to Texas
04:14to help at the southern border. Also, CNN has learned that Florida has chosen three companies
04:19to execute the next phase of the migrant relocation program kind of created there by Ron DeSantis.
04:25That's according to a source familiar with the process. It sets in motion plans to transport migrants
04:31to other cities, just as he did last year. And then in New York, parents are protesting over
04:36the mayor's plans here to how he's planning to handle the migrants coming into New York City.
04:42CNN's Polo Sandoval standing by. He's following all of this.
04:44So what is going on here with the plans and the protests?
04:50So, Kate, what this is, it's basically this latest effort by Eric Adams, this decompression strategy,
04:57if you will, to try to deal with the growing number of asylum seekers. And what that strategy
05:02includes is placing about 300 asylum seekers, at least so far, at about 20 gyms in schools
05:10throughout the city here. Now, in terms of what the mayor is saying is this is his effort to try
05:14to
05:14deal with this ongoing asylum, are sympathetic with the plight of these asylum seekers. But
05:19they also recognize that a school gym is certainly not a place for them, not to mention potential
05:24school disruptions. And then there's the other argument as well that I've heard from parents,
05:28which is concerns about the safety of nearly 65,000 asylum seekers that have been processed
05:33by the city in the last year and two months. So there is certainly a struggle when it comes to
05:40the city's effort to place these individuals. And it's something that we are likely going to
05:44continue to see, not just here, but in other cities. The question is, will the sort of the
05:48drop in apprehensions that I witnessed along the border the last couple of days, will that mean that
05:52we'll get a breakup here? We'll have to see. Back to you, Kate. And we do know that including the
05:57mayor of New York City and mayor of other big cities where migrants are heading too far away from
06:02the border, they're now looking for a meeting with the president to ask for additional help
06:06with this exact thing. It's good to see you, Polo. Thank you. Sarah?
06:09All right. Italian police have seized nearly three tons of cocaine hidden in banana boxes.
06:16Officers say the sting operation is a blow to one of the most powerful crime syndicates in Italy,
06:21even though no arrests were actually made. The drugs, which were hidden among bananas in false
06:25bottoms of the boxes at a street value of more than $860 million. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
06:32claims that he is close to launching the country's first military reconnaissance satellite. State
06:38news agency released these images of him inspecting the satellite and obviously along with some dogs
06:44as well, if that's what we're showing, and says that he has approved, quote, future action plans.
06:51John? I think those men, so what's going on here? So sales barely growing here and you can see
06:55at Target people going to the essentials and beauty, by the way, but household goods,
06:59the essentials, food, you know, things like that. That's what they're buying mostly,
07:04and they're shunning things they don't maybe need right now, and that's after a couple of years of
07:08very brisk growth. So that's a really interesting factor here, especially after Home Depot yesterday
07:12warned on its guidance for the year, saying people have been doing home improvements for a couple
07:16of years. Now they're buying a little bit less as they're going back to work. So we're seeing the
07:20consumer change a little bit here. That's kind of a retreat. Whenever you get back to buying
07:24essentials. Right. And there's another interesting thing that this company pointed out,
07:27and its CEO is on a conference call with analysts right now, talking about, you know,
07:30we call it shrinkage in the industry, but saying that because of high inflation, organized criminal
07:35gangs, very organized criminal gangs across the country, have violently been stealing stuff
07:42from Target stores and reselling them cheaper on the black market. And that's going to clip
07:47their profits by about $500 million. It's one of the biggest drivers of their so-called shrinkage
07:53is this idea that organized crime is basically taking the stuff at the retail price off of their
07:59store shelves and selling it to consumers who really are looking for lower prices, even lower
08:04than Target prices. Those are pretty low prices already because of the inflation story. Inflation
08:08making the organized crime situation, retail crime situation worse. I think that just is very
08:12telling about where we are right now. A lot of factors intertwine there, but product, you know,
08:18walking out of the store violently in some cases. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Christine,
08:21thank you very much. Sarah? Thursday, because everyone's going to be coming back on Wednesday.
08:26It's going to be tough. It's going to be a tough week, guys. It's going to be a tough week.
08:28All
08:28right, ahead on CNN News Central. In just hours, a major moment for a key abortion pill as the U
08:33.S.
08:34Court of Appeals is about to hear oral arguments. Is it heading towards being banned nationwide?
08:40We have the stakes ahead. And later, a Missouri teacher is out of a job after a videotaped
08:45services showing the teacher using a racial slur. Why then was a student also punished? That's coming up.
08:55About to become the only union of its kind in the United States. How one group of strippers
09:01is set to soon make history. These stories and more coming up on CNN News Central.
09:07So ahead for us, a teacher is no longer in the classroom after being recorded using a racial
09:13slur. Ahead, why the student who recorded the teacher is also being punished. And they're about
09:19to make history. After more than a year's effort, dancers at a topless bar in Los Angeles are close
09:25to becoming the only unionized group of strippers in the country. That story coming up.
09:31Thank you. So that's on the state level. On the federal level, abortion access is back in court
09:36today. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon be hearing oral arguments over whether Mifepriston,
09:41a key abortion pill, should be banned nationwide. It was a month ago that a Texas judge ruled the FDA
09:47approval of the abortion pill should be suspended. Sina's Joan Biskupic. She's joining us now.
09:52She's been obviously following every move on this. Just to remind folks, as you know,
09:57Joan, abortion pills are involved in more than half of U.S. abortions these days. So what is
10:03expected to happen in court today? Say that it has been proven safe and effective over and over again.
10:09Now, just to remind people, the study ruled against... All right, we'll get back.
10:14Fifth graders in Florida, they could be interviewed. First, a teacher was put under investigation for
10:19showing her class a Disney movie. Now, the fifth graders in that class could be interviewed by state
10:25officials as soon as today. That's according to the Miami Herald. This all has to do with a
10:29parent's complaint over the teacher showing the animated Disney movie, Strange World in Class,
10:34a PG animated film that features a gay character. CNN's Ryan Young. He's following this. He joins us
10:40now. Ryan, what are you learning and hearing about the possibility that these students could now be
10:44interviewed as part of this? Yeah, Kate, a lot of questions that we need to answer so far,
10:49because do the parents continue to follow this one? That's absolutely sure. All right. There has
10:53been a lot of breaking news over the last couple of hours. President Biden on his way to Japan,
10:58the debt ceiling negotiations continue, and this news from here in New York City that Prince Harry
11:03and Meghan were involved in some kind of a car chase last night, they are okay, but we are getting
11:08more information on that as well. Thank you all for joining us. Inside Politics, up next.