the story with martha maccallum starts right now. martha: i m martha maccallum. think about this. a 3-year-old american toddler whose parents were killed in this attack has been confirmed to be among the nine americans being held by hamas terrorists. this child s parents were killed in the attack. jake sullivan said he will be speaking to the families of the americans. people are asking, why aren t we hearing more about the americans being held? we have talked to one of the families. it s a strange dynamic of all of this that they re not front and center all the time in these pictures with americans thinking about them and focused on them all the time. there s a lot going on. part of that are the protests that keep stealing the headline as the country s hot spots boil over against the white house pro israel policy. watch this. you have a whole generation of voters coming up that will be able to vote in this next election. if you don t stop this genocide now, you won t g
saturday. smerconish is up next. voting with conviction. i m michael smerconish. can anything shake donald trump s hold on the republican nomination? the polls are nothing if not consistent. here s what they show. joe biden and donald trump are the likely favorites to win their party s presidential nomination. as of today, that matchup is close viewed nationally or by battleground states, it s probably trump who is in the lead. polls show americans overwhelmingly think the country is headed in the wrong direction. trump benefits from the perception that he s best for the economy and kept the united states out of war. biden perceived by many as being too old for the job, of course, as bad as the polling has been for biden, tuesday s off year elections for big for the democrats. big in ohio, kentucky, virginia. from the day after coverage in the washington post, there was this. for democrats, tuesday s results were an ant dote. polls don t vote. it quickly became a post tue
. president biden pushing for a pause to the fighting in israel but top terror groups have other ideas. rockets are still raining down, a dramatic scene unfolding while trey gates was live on the air. one of the rockets landing near him. it just slammed into the building right next to where we are at. in terms of a cease-fire, it is challenging to have a cease-fire while rockets are still raining down on israel. that is what is being called for here and it is part of the reason the prime minister says he will not have a cease-fire because the fire still continues into israel and you have the is sue of the hostages. some are foreign nationals but the majority are israelis. the leader of hezbollah is signaling a second front could break out in the north. the group has been escalating strikes on israel and they are directly threatening america. america is fully responsible for the war prevailing in gaza against its people. israel is merely the executive arm. america is pre
arguments set to begin very shortly in the criminal case against donald trump thank you all for being with us. cnn special live coverage. those arguments begins right now here in new york city to historic criminal trial donald j. trump entering the final critical phase. this our closing arguments about to begin the former president on his way to the courthouse it was trial has been building for weeks toward this dramatic moment in the prosecution of events. lay it all on the line. i m anderson cooper here in new york, and i ve jake tapper in washington. you re watching special seen in live coverage of donald trump s hush money cover-up. proud to closing arguments that plan in the hours ahead will be the last word from lawyers on both sides before jurors decide if mr. trump becomes the first ever former president convicted of a crime prosecutor, joshua steinglass will today tried to weave together weeks of testimony and evidence, two make the case that mr. trump was involv
along with joey and the big story tonight, former president trump going full throttle at nascar this memorial day weekend. trump is bringing his patriotic message to fans at the charlotte motor speedway in north carolina tonight. and that s where we find fox news national correspondent madison scarpino. madison we know it is loud there but what has donald trump been up to so far? yeah. sorry about this noise tomi motor speedway over the track and crowd erupted. [inaudible conversations] [cheering] reporter: after making debut into air, former president made his way inside the track and former president trump met with gold star family members some of the hundred gold members here today. former president then saluting during national anthem 600 and this is only time sitting president has been to north carolina with a key battle ground state and trump won the state in both 2016 and 2020. [inaudible conversations] going to win north carolina? i do believe so. i think