start around 12 30 eastern, they re going to go up and pears from split tees holds one and 10. all right. thank you so much. longoria continues her culinary adventure in a waka the new episode of the cnn original series. eva longoria, searching for mexico airs tonight at nine on cnn. the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning to you. welcome to cnn this morning. it s sunday. april 9th. i m victor blackwell walker. thank you. so much for spending a part of your easter morning with us. happy easter. if you celebrate. i ve got my easter egg hunt ready? i got the easter baskets ready? because the easter bunny came last night . so the kids are all excited for their goodies and ready to go only goody that i had, um, i picked up the kettle corn peeps . i saw that. yeah. did you really eat that? bit people head off, and that s all i had. yahoo commentary on the kettle corn peeps that good alright here is what we are watching this morning a weekend of religious c
good morning. hopefully you re awake. making breakfast having your coffee coffee? welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. i hope you re not drinking coffee? actually me just coffee it off because you don t drink coffee. you don t want anyone else to do it right. morning. tea would be nice, right? i don t like taste. there we are. i m victor blackwell. thanks so much for spending part of your easter sunday. what? what would you recommend? just a nice green tea. maybe an earl gray something with cinnamon. maybe. i ve got something. my office. maybe i ll swing by the wild. it s okay. it s all right. here s what we re watching this morning. top democrats are vowing to make abortion a central issue in the lead up to the 2024 election after a judge ordered the suspension of a drug used in medication abortions. what senate majority leader chuck schumer is telling his caucus about the fight ahead a weekend of religious celebrations and escalating tensions in the mideast. the israe
violence in gaza in lebanon and syria and elsewhere, and that s unfortunate, i think, makes sure that it s presenting the full picture of what happened where we re trying. to defend lives, not just jewish lives sure lives and christian lives. in a very, very combustible place. mr dermott. what s your response to the jordanian foreign minister says that if israeli police go back into that mosque for another action that there will be catastrophic consequences. well what we can t do as these as israel who is responsible for security on the site. we cannot allow innocent civilians to be killed by violent terrorists who would barricade themselves into the al osama is that is not that is not a policy that we would be able to adapt to adopt. we do not want to go in there. it is the last thing unfortunately today, victor, we didn t have to go in because the people who went in there did not go there according to our intelligence to perpetrate violence, and so therefore there was no
jordanians are the custodians of this that s a violation of status quo. it s um it s not a violation of the status quo. israel is responsible for security on that side, and it s important for your viewers to understand that for about two weeks before we had tens of thousands of muslims who prayed there without incident what happened on the night where israeli police were forced to go in was you had about 300 young men who were masked and who armed themselves with rocks with incendiary explosives. ah and with weapons and what they were trying to do the next morning as non jews and jews were going to go and visit the temple mount, they were planning to attack them. and to actually have muslim worshippers could have been thousands of them on the temple mount. they could have been innocent bystanders in this attack, and so the israeli police decided to go in and to make sure that they could remove those armed they weren t praying in al osama is they were there
at the site will have catastrophic consequences. the last hour i spoke with ron desantis that israel has a responsibility to protect worshippers of all religions visiting that holy site. well what we can t do as these as israel who s responsible for security on the site. we cannot allow innocent civilians to be killed by violent terrorists who would barricade themselves into the al osama is that is not that is not a policy that we would be able to adapt to adopt. we do not want to go in there. it is the last thing unfortunately today, victor, we didn t have to go in because the people who went in there did not go there according to our intelligence to perpetrate violence, and so therefore there was no incidents. it s very rare when israeli police have to go into the al aqsa compound. i think it s happened three times. in the last half dozen years. it is the last thing we want to do, but we also have a responsibility to protect our civilians to protect muslim worshippers to protect jews