today on inside politics, you have blood on your hands. that s one gop senator told tech ceos like mark zuckerberg, a democratic senator told them that they, quote, suck at self-policing. this is a grilling happening as we speak before a senate committee. parents are in the audience who blame some of them blame their children s suicide, others, exploitation on social media on the people testifying. we re monitoring this hearing. we ll go back to it in a moment. but first, we re also standing by on this very busy day on capitol hill, for mike johnson to give his first house speaker as speaker, as he poses donald trump lead with the bill that we ve seen for decades on capitol hill. before we get to that, i want to get straight to manu raju who has new reporting on what has been going on behind the scenes with regard to that voter deal. manu, tell us what you re hearing. reporter: yeah, senate republican leaders are trying to decide whether they should go forward with that
tell us right now that there were kids inside that classroom. no response. did you know there were kids inside that classroom? no response. really? all right. time to get out of here. we re cnn, we re journalists. tell us no, no, no. sir, sir, it s okay. it s okay. we were told to come. we did. we are yes, but we sir, sir, we are. we are. they said go. mr. mccarthy, do you think you have the votes to be elected speaker tonight? yes. you do? yes. you re going to be able to do rosendale and crane. i have the votes. why don t you have concerns? because i can. there you have it, he said, yes, he s got the votes to become elected speaker if you re still with me, jake. he said he has the votes to be elected speaker. that is news. this is cnn breaking news. i m max foster with bianca nobilo in london getting breaking news out of italy, the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has died. he died and in april he was hospitalized for complicat
all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. this is early start. we begin with ukrainian forces struggling to hold on in the eastern city of bakhmut, as russian troops close in from three sides. ukrainian officials say the situation in bakhmut has grown much tougher. they say their forces may need to retreat to avoid being trapped by encircling russians. cnn s scott mclean is tracking this story for us from london. and, scott, what are the chances the ukrainians will be able to turn this around? and if they can t, does that mean russia is back on the offensive. so, christine, good morning. it really depends on who you ask. because last week there were plenty of indications that the ukrainians may in fact be forced to withdraw from that area. a drone reconnaissance university has been ordered to retreat from the area. you also had a key bridge by the russians kiting off the ukrainians final supply routes in and out. a
hello again. thank you for joining me again. i m fredricka whitfield. russia said it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal with ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister telling russia to stop its hunger games . nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this move? reporter: this is very significant. russia says it has suspended the deal for an indefinite period. this was a deal that was struck by the u.n., two parallel deals, one with ukraine and one with russia, at the end of july. and it was struck because, since russia invaded ukraine, all the grain that ukraine produces, and it produces a lot for the world, was stuck in its ports on the black sea, piling up, nowhere to go. and the third world countries this grain was destined for desperately short of food. the prices were going up. after the deal was struck, the anticipation was about 20 million tons of grain could be shipped out of ukraine to these third world and other countries. now, wh
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