hello, everyone. happy mother s day. a big day for governor desantis. officially 2024 candidate, but he is expected to announce very soon. he attended multiple events in the hawkeye state. met with voters, racked up and s agenda. we are live in sioux city right now. alexis, i understand you are able to talk to the governor. what did he say fema good afternoon from iowa. a chance to catch up with florida governor ron desantis to a slam in white house on pretty much every policy they stand behind focusing on what is happening in our southern border. watch. anything you want to say about the southern border? it is a disaster. it is a man-made disaster with bad policies. you will continue to have bad things happen because they will not change the policy. the border should just be shut down. that is what you do. if this was world war ii era they would ve shut that down in 48 hours. we are a country that does not get things done anymore and that s something we to change. de
messages of hate. the gruesome rampage at a texas mall killing eight people. our brand new reporting on the gunman s racist and right-wing posts on social media. why the army would not allow him to serve and how he bought his arsenal. this as we learn more about the remarkable efforts to stop him and help the victims. also tonight the suspect in the crash that killed eight migrants at a texas bus stop, charged with manslaughter and aggravated assault. authorities trying to determine if it was intentional. and his extensive criminal record. closing arguments in donald trump s civil trial. a writer saying the former president raped and defamed her. plus mr. trump s stunning video deposition and what both sides said today. alex murdaugh s admission he lied about the death of his long-time housekeeper. what s next in the case and why millions of dollars are at stake. as the summer travel season kicks off, could a new rule make airlines pay you when it s their fault that f
commit mass murder in texas? did right-wing extremism drive him to kill eight people at an outlet mall? another american community now in mourning after the latest outbreak of gun violence. killed just waiting at a bus stop. a second inexplicable loss of life in texas. this one near the southern border. eight people are dead after an suv plowed into a crowd outside a shelter housing migrants. we are learning new details about the driver and the charges he now faces. and passenger payback. president biden set to unveil a new rule that could force airlines to compensate you for delays or compensations. the devil is in the details. how much is this going to help? we ll explain the move and you ll hear from the president live this hour. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. we start today in allen, texas, where police are gathering evidence trying to determine the motive behind saturday s mass shooting. a 3
so what does this mean for the fulton county d.a. s case? and it comes as trump s deposition in the e. jean carroll rape case is released. will he end up taking the stand? plus, all-out war between russians. the head of russia s private army now vowing to pull his fighters from the front lines as he tears into the kremlin all in the eve of a ukrainian counteroffensive. and his city was under siege by a gunman on the loose on lockdown for hours. now, the atlanta mayor has a message for america. he s my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news. trump s fake electors cut a deal. eight republican fake electors from georgia who were central in attempts to overturn the 2020 election have just been granted immunity. striking that deal with fulton county s district attorney fani willis who has said she could file criminal charges against former president trump and his allies as early as this summer. georgi
his approval, the worst for a first-term president in the survey s history going all the way back to harry s. truman chlt only 36% ever voters say the president is doing a good job down by six points just since february. and with just a year and a half until the next presidential election, more than half of democrats say they want what you know i call anybody but biden. polling now shows the president getting trounced by both former president donald trump and florida governor ron desantis in a head-to-head match-up. donna brazil was the chair of the national committee when trump won the white house. she said her party should be worried. it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. it is sober in the sense that the coalition that elected joe biden with the historic numbers that we saw in 2020, that coalition right now is fragmented. that should concern them. harris: a new op-ed is asking the tough question, do democrats need a nixon-like inter