In the streets oveR How prime Minister Netanyahu has handled the war and just one week to go to the debate. Each candidate preparing for a showdown that could potentially change the Race Vice President Kamala Harris leaning into her promised to protect reproductive rights. Well, former President Donald Trump makes promises and conflicting statements on an issue that could prove decisive in november. And mosquitoes arent just a past, theyre actually causing a health crisis, spreading disease in some towns and forcing people indoors were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central we start this afternoon with israel on edge, the country is facing a third straight night of Protests Outrage is spilling into the streets after the idf recovered the bodies of six hostages in gaza over the weekend, protesters are demanding the government Strike A Deal to end the war against hamas and this is putting immense pressure on Prime Minister Benj
i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. mass assault, 14 people killed, 97 wounded after russia launched a barrage of missile attacks across ukraine. president biden condemning the strikes and promising to send ukraine more advanced air defense systems. today in ukraine, explosion after explosion hit ukraine s largest cities during the morning rush hour. russia striking at least nine ukrainian cities reaching really far east to west and in the south across the country. tonight, president zelenskyy says ukraine shot down 43 of the 84 missiles that russia launched today. russia claiming it was all in retaliation for this explosion you see there, on the bridge between russia and crimea, disrupting a crucial supply route for russian troops inside ukraine. russian president vladimir putin appearing briefly today, issuing this warning. translator: in terms of the further act of terrorism on the territory of russia, the russian reply will be harsh. so of course the united states g
thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. it was just released that the pentagon deleted all messages from the january 6th. then they hear hillary clinton, well, well, well. we look at the missing january 6th text messages. the questions all over washington this morning with multiple government agencies now involved. has a massive coverup been exposed. and former dhs secretary, jay johnson is standing by. a federal grand jury asked former aide what it means for donald trump. and poland say that democrats continue to make gains as the republicans fly with them wanting to control congress. fallout from kansas and arizona. a lot more than that. we have and overall look of trump s record in the primary races, which is very strong. c pack kicks off today with a controversial guest. we ll get to that. let s start with the number two democrat in the senate now calling on the department of defense so open an internal investigation from key officials. he asked the inspecto
trump basis turning on him. it is interesting what donald trump is doing in wisconsin. none of the other issues that you mentioned about abortion matter to donald trump. all he is concerned about is revenge. he is coming to wisconsin to campaign for his endorsed candidate for governor. i do have to say, it is really dividing republicans, and leaving a lot of bruises here. you have the former president, parachuting into wisconsin, and he will spend a lot of his time attacking other republicans. he will push the big lie. this is a year in which republicans have the wind at their back. they have been very, very competent about the winning of the governorship. trump has come in, and he has dropped this little neutron bomb into the middle of the republican party. it is a very, negative campaign, and approximately five between donald trump on one side, mike pence, and scott walker on the other side who is
earn him brownie points in his congressional district? he knows his constituents. he does, and he s been successful. trump won it by, i think, around eight points in 2016. but this is going to be difficult for him. certainly he gets attention because he bucks his party and the media focuses on that. but at the same time, this is going to make his life harder, and you know with the president, this is not going to be a last set of tweets about justin amash. let s move on to the abortion matter. i ll start with you, laura, on this one. do you feel like the president felt like he needed to get on the record after carol mcinany came out and made that statement that we heard mike play. what republicans are trying to do the last few months is keeping the attention on democrats, saying abortion until birth, abortion even after birth, which i should say is a