Watching thanks. Cnn, news central, and im Brianna Keilar alongside Boris Sanchez, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former president Donald Trump, Steppedup Cross paths for a second time today, both visiting shanksville, pennsylvania to commemorate 23 years since the 9 11 Terrorist Attacks. The two president ial candidates already came facetoface this morning. They shook hands ahead of a ceremony at Ground Zero in manhattan. This moment of civility, it comes after a fiery showdown at the debate Last Night with Vice President went into the evening with a strategy, a plan to try to throw the former president off his game. And trumps seem to take the bait again and again. His former national Security Advisor has said he is dangerous and unfit his former Secretary Of Defense has said the nation, the republic would never survive. Another trump term. You take a guy like esper, he was no good. I fired him. So he writes a book, another one writes a book because with me they can write books. W
i everyone, thank you for tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops. we have melanie zanona, danny freeman, diane gallagher, and omar hernandez. great to have all of you back here tonight. tonight, new information about the chokehold incident in new york city subway that killed a 30 year old man. graphic video shows the 24-year-old suspect with his arm wrapped around jordan a least neck after one witness said that he had been, quote, acting erratically and ranting about being fed up and hungry. he was taken after this to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. omar has been covering the story all day. so omar, where do things stand? there are new charges right for the suspect. so what is going to happen? now people are calling for charges, that is why we have seen some protests, that video has obviously circulated pretty widely and i think people see that chokehold happening for an extend
expected to launch his bid for re-election sometime tomorrow thchl comes despite dismal concern over his age. the president wandering off and looking confused seem to have had an impact on some voters. new poll finds 70% think president biden should not run again, compared to 26% who said he should. 48% said age is the factor. even the left-wing media says president biden needs to address the elephant in the room. this piece calling on him to take voter concerns about age seriously. a candidate shouldn t president that advanced age isn t an issue. mr. biden is 80 now, oldest american to serve as president and supporters including strategist david axelrod have expressed concern his age will be barrier to a valuable second term. if mr. biden runs again, questions will persist about his age until he does more for voters that he is up to the job. harris, there has been reporting from politico, friends have expressed serious concerns. they interviewed 130 democrats from across the
you will remember for the defiant stance made by the ukrainian forces at the start of the invasion, there s new video of a russian helicopter being destroyed by a ukrainian missile strike. ukraine says its forces have destroyed multiple russian assets on the island in recent weeks and that a russian support ship that is named for a famous soviet athlete is on fire, being towed away from the island. a claim that we should note cnn has not been able to verify. cnn does have new reporting that the intelligence community has now launched an internal review of how it assesses the fighting power of foreign militaries. this comes amid criticism that officials failed to make an accurate assessment in afghanistan and in ukraine. joining us now this morning is cnn s katie bow little lis one of the reporters who broke this story as well as david sanger who is a white house and national security correspondent at the new york times. thank you both for being here this morning. katie, i w
May 19th, im Alicia Menendez in new york, with symone sanderstownsend and Michael Steele in washington, d. C. This morning, the compass braces for protest, plus donald trump addressed the Nra Convention, between the usual, there was a not so well threat to execute the city president. Plus, it could be the final week of trumps criminal trial in new york, a big question, will the defendant take the stand . Grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. Safety is of course a priority for many voters and yesterday donald trump cozied up to the extreme gun lobby, accepting the endorsement at the annual meeting in dallas, in another hard to follow address, he painted a dystopian version of america, urging gun owners to vote because their safety is on the line. He used the event to rattle off his lies about President Biden but he added this new twist. He is a manchurian candidate, he has accepted money from china, from russia, from ukraine, from everywhere. If that were a republican, he