We saw a number of passengers being released. They are largely Egyptian Nationals being released right now, though. A number of foreigners as well as crew members. What we are hearing from officials, they are saying this is not an incident of terrorism. They are saying that the motive behind this has to do with an exwife. Egyptian officials also casting doubt over whether or not this bomb is actually real. But officials arent taking any chances this morning. In the past hour, we have seen more hostages being released. When you see them being released, they arent fleeing from the plane running as if they feel their lives under under immediate threat. Officials arent taking any chances. Stay with us, if you would. We want to bring in our cnn aviation analyst and former fbi special jonathan. I want to start with you, jonathan. How do you know when someone claims they have an explosive belt on to take it seriously . You dont know. You have to treat it as though its the real deal. Because i
Magazine, frankly, thats fine but he sent it to everybody. He knew about it 100 . He knew about it 100 , just so und understand. He said he did. Hes a liar. As sure as you sitting there, he knew about it. Saturday sweep. A caucus for Bernie Sanders this weekend as the democratic challenger ready for another chance to take on Hillary Clinton. I would hope very much that as we go into new york state, secretary clintons home state, that he would have a debate, new york city, up state, wherever. Manhunt. Belgian police with more Surveillance Video of the man in white still on the loose. Even as the death toll rises for american victims. In pakistan, a horrific Easter Sunday targeting christian families at a playground, killing of at least 72 people, mostly women and children. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Donald trump and ted cruz lobbying accusations at each other in a primary race that gets more contentious by the day proving theres no civility in this civil war. Joining me
This poll that you mentioned come from Marquette University law. A highly respected, widely read in the badger state and it shows a potential shift heading toward ted cruz way. 40 of republicans in wisconsin are supporting cruz. Note ofable because thats a 21point jump since the last poll at the end of last month. Donald trump now according to the poll, 10 points back. And then there is kasich came, 9 back. 21. It will probably point to in head to head matchups, he is the only one that would beat Hillary Clinton here in wisconsin. As for cruz, youre right. He has been campaigning here in wisconsin alongside donald trump. Cruz today was down state from where we are in madison. The state capital. And he began his women for cruz event. A different kind of event. He didnt really call out donald trump at all. Instead he was joined by his wife heidi who has been in the news herself recently and his mother eleanor, also Carly Fiorina who has been campaigning for cruz over the last couple week
Made him stronger and is there a disconnect between the powers at be and the rest of america . Plus, new yorks top cop on capitol hill on the capitol hill shooting, i should say, and the search for terror suspects in brussels. Weve got a lot to get to and well get to all of it tonight. I want to begin with cnns chief correspondent dana bash. You have news on the Cruz Campaign. Whats going on . The name of the game is to keep donald trump from getting enough delegates to get the nomination outright and i am told by a top aide to john kasich excuse me, john weaver, that they have been trying to work behind the scenes with ted cruzs campaign to do that, coordinate. Not only that, that mitt romney, the gop nominee from 2012, reached out to jeff rowe, the Campaign Manager for ted cruz, to try to get him to call the Kasich Campaign. So he was trying to be a behindthescenes broker to get these opponents to get together for their common enemy. Heres the problem, though, don. The Cruz Campaign,
Cnns ian lee is in cairo with more. Reporter what were hearing from officials is that this man was very much disturbed. That he had a list of demands. Nothing very consistent. And after they were able to successfully arrest him, they were found out that the bomb he claimed he had wasnt in fact real. This brings a very terrifying moment for a lot of people, especially the hostages on board that plane. There was a lot of dramatic footage coming out of that. Talking to one of the passengers who was on the plane saying that they didnt really know something was wrong until they were flying over the mediterranean, not on the flight path to cairo. And that the stewardsesses told the passengers that there was a hijacking. They collected the passports of the people. A really terrifying moment. Because nowadays you dont have these sort of incidents and peacefully end the way they do. From what were seeing right now from whether officials are telling what both cypress and egyptian are saying that