would you sign a federal abortion ban into law. what i would do is negotiate so that people are happy. after a town hall peddling election lies, promising to pardon january 6 rioters and refusing to pick sides in the war on ukraine, his 2024 rivals remain largely silent. can you say if you want ukraine or russia to win this war? i want everybody to stop dying. as the field of challengers grows, can any of his rivals take him on without alienating his supporters. i ll talk to former republican congressman will hurd of texas who s considering his own bid for president in 2024. plus, moral compass. after a jury found trump liable for sexual abuse, his opponents mostly silent. i don t think it s where the american people are focused. does character matter anymore for republican primary voters? i ll ask russell moore, the editor in chief of christianity today. and border crisis. i want to be very clear. our borders are not open. as the biden administratio
pacific. the stakes are high, expectations are high with the conversation with the debt ceiling. with just days to go until the end of title 42, we are on both sides of the southern border as more migrants arrive in the hopes of seeking asylum. we will also talk to a congresswoman about what she s seeing on the ground along border towns in texas. and then in new york, the civil rape trial against donald trump begins to deliberate any minute. we begin this hour with what is shaping up to be a big week for the biden administration. hours from now biden will sit down with the four top congressle leaders to figure out if there s a way to avoid a default. white house staff laid the groundwork for today s meeting. this is the first time it was reported by punchbowl news. the meeting comes as the administration braces for the end of title 42 on thursday evening. border communities have seen a large increase in the amount of men, women and children crossing the border with many m
how that helped the doj issue charges. and an israeli air strike took out three top military commanders and ten civilians. a live report from southern israel. also, inside two texas tragedies. the latest on the investigation into the fatal suv crash outside a migrant facility in brownsville that left eight dead. and the painful new stories behind the lives lost at a texas outlet mall over the weekend. the lone survivor of one family just turned 6 years old. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest. we start with maggie vespa in allen, texas. we just learned there s going to be an update from the texas department of public safety in about an hour. i want to focus on the victims. all so young. 3 to 37. so much life they had still to live. froms what more can you tell us about them? reporter: yeah, chris, that news conference expected to focus on the mechanics of the investigation but what people here care about is the people they lost including those three chil
subway. that comes as a brandive new witness steps forward to give a firsthand account of what happened on that train. ppeneda sixty six year old woman backing up several witnesses who saw nearly makingneely aggressive threats towards riders, telling the new york post that newlats,y that thingsk like, quote, i would kill ila mother ever and don t care. i ll take a bullet. i ll go to jail. she also went back to thank daniel penni after the incident. the marines attorney speaking ou the mariney ist and defending tt this morning. daniel pennies surrendered to them as the u.s. has requested york county district attorney s office. he did sto voluntarily and with the sort of dignity. drop it, bro. that is characteristic of his history of service to this grateful nation he has had held up. nearly has an extensive criminal history. he had been arrested forty four times, including for punching a sixty seven year old woman in the face and for trying to kidnap a seven year old girl.
let s do it. cnn news central starts now. he shared photos of guns, targets, ammunition boxes and a tactical vest. this morning the disturbing social media posts from the gunman who murdered eight people at a texas mall. a pivotal meeting today, an attempt to keep the debt ceiling from crashing down. president biden is sitting down with top congressional leaders from both parties, but can they hammer out a deal before the u.s. goes into a catastrophic default? king pinning terrorist, that is who israel said it was targeting in an overnight military strike in gaza. now at least 13 people are dead. these major stories and many more all coming in to cnn news central. we begin with today s high stakes meeting amid a resolving the debt ceiling standoff. if there is no deal it could lead to financial disaster. in just a few hours president biden will meet at the white house with these four congressional leaders, house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader