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CNN Transcripts for May 21, 2023

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CNN Newsroom
• Debt Ceiling Talks Resume, Biden And McCarthy To Meet Tomorrow; Interview With Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA); Wagner Mercenaries Claim They Have Captured Bakhmut; Crowd Crush At Soccer Venue Kills 12 And Injures Dozens In El Salvador; Soon: SpaceX To Launch Mission Of Private Passengers To ISS; Biden Bets DeSantis' "Florida Blueprint" Will Help Him Flip The Sunshine State And Win Reelection. Aired 2-3p ET
• Debt Ceiling Talks Resume; Biden And McCarthy To Meet Tomorrow; Yellen Reaffirms June 1st As Hard Deadline To Raise Debt Ceiling; U.S. Pledges New $375 Million Military Aid Package To Ukraine. Aired 3-4p ET
• Biden And McCarthy To Meet Tomorrow For Debt Ceiling Talks; Wagner Mercenaries Claim They Have Captured Bakhmut; Key Attorney In Mar-a-Lago Docs Case Leaves Trump's Legal Team; SpaceX Launching Mission; Uvalde School Shooting Anniversary. Aired 4-5p ET
• Talks On Debt Ceiling Resume; House Refers Resolution To Expel George Santos; SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches for An International Space Station Private Mission; Two New Milestones For Women In Space. Aired 5-6p ET
• Debt Ceiling Set To Resume With Biden And McCarthy Meeting Tomorrow; SpaceX, Axiom Launch Groundbreaking Flight To International Space Station; Mayor Eric Adams To Look Into Nonprofit Scam Involving Migrants; Suspect In Fatal Stabbings Of Four Students Indicted By Grand Jury; Ukraine Refutes Russia's Claim Of Complete Control In Bakhmut; Ex-Trump Attorney Claims Infighting Caused Him To Leave Legal Team; Researcher's 80-Year-Old Mom And Brother Visit Him Underwater. Aired 6-7p ET
• Biden And McCarthy To Meet Tomorrow On Debt Crisis; Interview With Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) About Debt Ceiling Debate; Interview With Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) About The State's New Gun Laws; SpaceX, Axiom Launch Groundbreaking Flight To ISS; Paul Whelan, American Detained In Russia Speaks To CNN; Wall Street Anxiously Waiting For Debt Ceiling Deal. Aired 7-8p ET
• President Biden And President Zelenskyy Meet At G7; Voting Underway In Greece; Debt Limit Talks. Aired 3-4a ET
• Biden Announces $375M in New Military Aid to Ukraine; Interview with Atlantic Council Eurasia Center Senior Director and Former Ambassador to Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst; New York Struggles to Accommodate Migrants; Gun Ownership in Latin America; Nebraska's Legislature Passes 12-Week Abortion Ban; Voting Underway in Greece; Interview with Journalist Elinda Labropoulou; Sudan Forces Sign Seven- Day Ceasefire; PGA Championship Showdown; Awaiting President News Conference. Aired 4-5a ET
• Biden Announces $375M in Military Aid to Ukraine; Russia, Wagner Group Claim to Have Control of Bakhmut; New York Struggles to Accommodate Migrants; Nebraska's Legislative Passes 12-Week Abortion Ban. Aired 5-6 am ET


CNN This Morning
• Biden Speaks To Reporters At End Of G7 Summit In Japan; Biden Says Republican Negotiators Have To Move On Debt Ceiling; U.S. Clears Way For Ukraine To Obtain F16 Fighter Jets; Leaders Pledge Additional Support For Ukraine, New Russian Sanctions. Aired 6-7a ET
• Biden, Zelenskyy Meet As Annual Summit Winds Down; Biden Teases Involving 14th Amendment Again On Debt Ceiling; Ukrainian Military: Battles For The City Of Bakhmut Continue; Russia, Wagner Group Claim To Have Control Of Bakhmut; Adult Use Of Recreational Marijuana Expected To Become Legal In Minnesota; To Address Healthcare Diversity, HBCUs Are Calling For Additional Resources; According To A Volunteer Group, NYC No Longer Enable Them To Welcome Migrants Arriving At Port Authority Bus Terminal; Largest Underwater Scanning Project In History Give Previously Unseen View Of Titanic. Aired 7-8a ET
• Debt Ceiling Talks, Ukraine Dominate Final Day of G7 Summit; At Least 12 Killed In Crowd Crush At Stadium In El Salvador; 36,000+ Evacuated Amid Italian Flooding, Landslides; Missing Girl Found After Stranger Recognizes Her From Netflix Series; Feinstein's Office Discloses Post-Shingles Encephalitis Diagnosis; One Year Later: Uvalde Remembers The 21 Killed At Robb Elementary; Storm Risk In Place Across Parts Of The Northwest. Aired 8-9a ET


Fareed Zakaria GPS
• Russia's War in Ukraine Grinds On; America's Looming Debt Ceiling Crisis; Interview With Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan; Why Populism Is Popular Around The World. Aired 10-11a ET


Inside Politics
• Biden Delivers Grim Debt Ceiling Warning, Sharply Criticizes GOP; DeSantis Expected To Enter Presidential Race This Week; Trump: DeSantis "Caught In The Mouse Trap"; Nebraska, North Carolina; South Carolina Move To Restrict Abortion; N.C. Republicans Defend 12-Week Ban As Abortion Compromise; An Election Nightmare on HBO's "Succession". Aired 11a-12p ET


State of the Union
• Interview With Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA); Interview With Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA); Interview With U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. Aired 9-10a ET


The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
• CNN's The Whole Story: Surviving Uvalde: Inside a School Shooting. Aired 8-9p ET