good monday morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. just moments ago, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy arrived in the united kingdom. he s meeting with prime minister risch she sunak who plans to announce hundreds of air missiles for ukraine as it prepares a corner offensive against russia. cnn s clare sebastian joins me from london. clare, zelenskyy on the german leg of that tour, he said he vowed to reclaim all of his country from the russians. what more are we learning about the support he s getting? yeah, christine, it s been a productive weekend for ukraine. he got the biggest ever pledge to date in his war to germany, $3 billion, and included another 30 leopard 2 tanks crucial for ukraine. france also pledging tens of armored vehicles as we hear the meeting gets under way at chequers outside of london. and the ukraine will be pledging more missiles attack drones with a range of 200 kilometers. this is som
this morning a fresh look at the southern border. this was el paso, and you can see it right there. wow. i mean, relatively sparse, really sparse, very calm. this is what the white house had hoped for. especially when there were scenes like this just one week ago. migrants lining up before the expiration of title 42, and the homeland security alejandro mayorkas warns that it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. and that is after wrangling maneuvers of the governor of texas sending a busload of migrants to the vice president of the united states. so we have teams at the border and the white house. we begin at the white house as arlette seanez is there, and what are you hearing from the people in the building behind you, arlette, of what they are seeing? president biden is saying that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he, himself, had predicted a chaotic few days of the lifting of title 42. now, the biden administration has been
for the world. much more on that on cnn news central ahead. we will see you tomorrow. an unexpected slowdown at the border, but will it last? dhs says it s too early to know. that s not stopping immigration politics, though, from heating up once again. hours ago a new bus of migrants arrived at the vice president s residence. four russian aircraft down inside russian territory. what this tells us about what the ukrainians can do now and in a much discussed spring offensive. the travel forecast is in, more than 42 million americans will be on the move this memorial day. are the roads and airlines ready? these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. so this morning there s a surprising quiet at the southern border as federal officials report a dramatic drop in border crossings, which is the opposite of what so many had predicted would happen after title 42 ended. they warned it would be chaotic for a while, remember? well, instead this was
welcome to our viewers this thursday morning. i m christine romans. donald trump giving us a review of what his 2024 campaign will look like and sound like. the 45th president and republican frontrunner for the white house taking questions last night from gop primary voters at a town hall. trump wasted little time in airing his same old grieveness as. he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united
to charge the marine vet and will not present the case to a grand jury at this time. his attorneys have said penny could not have foreseen his efforts to subdue neely would be deadly. a former of the manhattan d.a. testifies before the house judiciary committee about bragg s decision to charge former president trump criminally for taking hush money from an alleged affair. what you just saw moments ago, laura. yeah, it has been a busy day here in lower manhattan. daniel penny was just arraigned in criminal court on the charge of manslaughter in the second degree. we learned about the charges yesterday, in the subway chokehold case that ended with the death of jordan neely. he was released on $100,000 bail moments ago, we want to show you what happened earlier. the former marine surrendered to the nypd, the charge he is facing could bring him 15 years in prison if convicted. penny, who was handcuffed for his arraignment, was quiet throughout the court proceedings. his attor