republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. and asked the question whether they re smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. you ve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesn t seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republican s political neck an open border for the next eight months and all that that brings, the collapse of ukraine, to former soviet kgb agent s invasion, and the refusal to fund israel in its time of need. so you have all of these republicans in the house, a lot of them who want to do the right thing but they re blindly following this young, inexperienced speaker who is blindly following there you go. a guy with 91 counts against him. that s the important point right there. yes, it s speaker johnson voicing this, but he is a vessel for what donald
people from grave dangers on social media, with angry victims relatives in the room. i ll speak with a senator that co-s co-sponsored, richard blumenthal. donald trump meets with the teamsters, hoping to drive a wedge between president joe biden and his traditionally loyal allies in organized labor, this as nikki haley is unleashing her sharpest attacks on him yet. and a dire new warning from the fbi director, that chinese hackers are preparing to, quote, wreak havoc on the united states. stand by for details on potential targets and the serious harm that could come too americans. welcome to our viewers around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex mar equity. you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, some of the biggest nay in the tech industry confronted about the perils of social media, and many young people who are suffering, even dying. cnn s tom foreman has more on the often combative senate hearing, which included a stunning apology. you
news at night. breaking tonight a live look at a house on capitol hill where lawmakers are close to burning the midnight oil to finalize impeachment articles against homeland security secretary mayorkas. if you are wondering where border security is a top election issue, we have exhibit-a. brand new video showing a mob of migrants beating new york police officers. it gets worse. and kevin cork is live and congress working over time. something else you won t want to miss this video. since the start of the spring 172,000 migrants flooded into the big apple and 67,000 are housed in city shelters and hotels. the train is obvious. the video is the latest example. urged by cops to move along. 4 asylum seekers kicked and punched officers before being caught later. to add insult to injury, after they were arrested, they were released without bail. just another uptick on the thermometer for a city simmering with resentment. illegal immigrants are flooding hotels, and schools and air
all paths lead through michigan. president biden is on his way to a must-win state trying to lock down key voting blocks that could give him an edge in that tight battleground. plus, gut punch. that s how defense secretary lloyd austin is describing his prostate cancer diagnosis as he admits for the first time publicly that it was wrong to keep his surgery and hospitalization private, and a cnn exclusive. the district attorney leading the georgia election case against trump is refusing to step down amid allegations she had an affair with the lead prosecutor. we ll tell you why she s defiant. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in michigan where president biden is about to meet with the group of voters critical to winning this battleground state, union workers. just hours before the president s trip, cnn learned he plans to issue an executive order targeting violent settlers in the west bank. the white house is clearly hoping that w
welcome to the republican rorschach primary. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. people are reading into the results so far whatever they re wishing for. first there are the never tr trumpers. they say he is essentially running as an incumbent, and still 49% of the voters in iowa, they didn t want him. speaking of iowa, the turnout was abysmal. a little over 110,000 participated, accounting for just under 15% of the state s 752,000 registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? iowa, iowa is lily white. it is unrepresentative of the country at large. we are a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. besides, the iowa field, it was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. worse for trump, the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers, showing that tru