right now, i m in washington d.c., about to attend the annual white house correspondents dinner. tonight, much of washington will come together. but an epic political battle lies ahead. president joe biden officially launched his reelection campaign this week. asking americans for more time to finish the job he was elected to do in 2020. black voters were pivotal in sending biden to the white house. tonight, i ll ask georgia congresswoman, nikema williams, whether enthusiasm for the biden harris ticket remains high. in the meantime, donald trump is building his case to be the republican nominee, again. the former president is racking up endorsements, as his poll numbers rise. that s despite the escalating state, federal and local investigations into trump s conduct before and in the white house. his former vice president, mike pence, testified before federal grand jury, two days ago. about trump s conduct leading up to january 6th. also tonight, celebrating harry belafonte. t
donte wright is free this morning. these stories and more right here on cnn news central. we are expecting a big but not an unexpected announcement from president joe biden and straight to the arlette seanez who has been watching this and we know that last week you are expecting news that we expect him to announce that he is going to become the presidential elect. well, sara, president biden spent the weekend at camp david to go over the final details regarding the details and staffing for a campaign. the president s advisers have been working towards launching this campaign tomorrow and doing so in a video . also tomorrow, the president is going to be speaking at the building trade yun yon unions t and that is a key group that helped to elect him in 2020. and we are learning that the democratic sources are telling us that he is expected to name julie chavez rodriguez as the campaign member. she is one of the most senior advisers here at the white house and director of th
a daring evacuation. the u.s. military carries out an operation to pull government personnel out of sudan s capital. but thousands of americans are still trapped in the country as it descends deeper into chaos, and the white house says it s not safe to get them out right now. the gop s fight over abortion erupts over the weekend. political peril for the republican party as the national battle over reproductive rights heats up. and kimberly potter set free after serving only 16 months in pr prison for killing daunte wright. the former police officer spent more than two years behind bars for fatally shooting wright while yelling taser. critics say the punishment didn t fit the crime. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. scrambling to get out of sudan as foreign powers rush to evacuate the war-torn country. the biden administration says that u.s. special forces have carried out a daring rescue operation, s
there are americans in sudan who want to leave but are they stuck? the lead starts right now. as the violence erupts in sudan, the u.s. and other nations evacuate their embassies, but what about other americans on the ground? ahead, i ll speak with a top house republican about the biden administration s response so far. plus, fired then hired. a kentucky sheriff s office explains why it hired the cop who killed brianna taylor. that cop s attorney is speaking out to cnn. and planes on fire, others hit by birds. what is going on with the airline industry? transportation secretary pete buttigieg is here. we have a lot of questions for him. welcome to the lead i m pamela brown in for jake taper, and we start today with our world lead. the white house says it is actively working to get americans out of sudan as a bloody conflict between two rivals turns even deadlier. they are using intelligence and surveillance tools to help national convoys of cars get to the port in sudan w
re-election campaign that could launch as soon as tomorrow our very own steve kornacki is here to break down what voters think about a potential biden/trump rematch in 2024. right now more than 15,000 americans are still trapped in sudan after evacuations this weekend and as violence rages in the streets. new details this morning about what s being done to get them out. the supreme court keeps the abortion pill available for now. what s next in the legal battle? and kevin mccarthy faces his first big test as speaker with a battle over raising the debt ceiling heating up we begin this hour with breaking news about a shake-up at the white house president biden announced a short time ago that his top domestic policy adviser, susan rice is stepping down from her post nbc news has learned her last day on the job will be may 26th. her departure comes as the president prepares to officially announce that he intends to seek a second term in the white house. with us now to tal