Think hes guilty . The lead with jake tapper . Weekdays it for and cnn its monday, april 8 right now on cnn this morning, donald trump closing the financial gap with President Biden with a Record Fundraising Haul as he he uses a big announcement on abortion this morning. President biden, preparing to bring a Student Loan Relief to a new group of borrowers plus bad weather threatening to spoil plans for millions of americans hoping to get think glimpse of todays Solar Eclipse all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, dc. A live look down the National Mall in Washington Monument and lincoln memorial. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Team trump claiming they raked in more than 50 million at a palm beach, florida fundraiser saturday night, that is nearly double what President Biden raised last month at a starr new york event featuring former president s clinton and obama. Trumps campaign has struggled to keep up with bidens fundraising
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Today the russia investigation took a major step forward. For the first time a member of the president s inner circle faced questions on capitol hill. Put another way, this investigation has now come within one man of the president. He is arguably the closest man to the president. White house Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner spent more than two hours with the Senate Intelligence committee and then he made a Public Statement saying he never colluded with russia. It comes as trump pours the pressure on his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who rekuzed himself from the Justice Departments russia investigation months ago. A decision the president has not been able to get past. He wrote about sessions on twitter this morning, referring to his own Attorney General, mind you, as our beleaguered Attorney General. And tonight the Washington Post as a new report headline, trump leaves sessions twisting
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why hasn t espn said anything? they ve been silent. like you said, espn, abc, same company. i think one of the reasons is that they re paying pat mcafee a lot of money to license his show and the reason they did it is because they want espn to be in the zeitgeist. this is a pretty old cable network. they re competing against companies like barstool and bleacher report that are now and hip and internet friendly. and so when they license his show, the deal was we re not going to mess with the content. for them to come out and make a statement, i m assuming we don t want to put pat mcafee in a place where he is unhappy with his parent owner of the show. the challenge is that puts others talent in a precarious position, right? if you re jimmy kimmel, you re looking at your parent company and saying why aren t you here to defend me? they have to walk a fine line. right now i don t know that silence is doing it. we ll see if they come out in the next few days. the other thing is defa
president biden traveling to belfast, northern ireland. today he will meet with british prime minister rishi cenac and mark 25 years since the good friday accord ended decades of violence , abortion activists have until today to respond to the justice department s appeal in the lawsuit over the abortion pill. it is if the anti abortion forces get their way this pill. will become unavailable nationwide. on friday, the writers guild of america set to strike on a vote on a strike authorization today following weeks of contract talks for better pay eligible members who write most tv series and movies they have until noon on monday to cast their ballots. alright the tampa bay rays are off to the best start in baseball and more than what 30 years carolyn manno has this morning s bleacher report. 10 wins in a row. you know it is early on in the season, right? these things happen. the baseball season 162 games. it s normal to have a couple of bad bounces along the way. so far, the race have no