good. i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. take care. and cnn this morning continues right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they aren t holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the red sea by iranian backed u.s. forces. we will dig into what the plans look like ahead. a woman in iowa enduring a heartbreaking miscarriage 22 weeks into her pregnancy. she is facing a criminal probe. she says she was misled by police. and new this morning, donald trump s super pac launching its first attack ad against nikki haley after a recent polling showed her chipping away at his big lead in new hampshire. that s a crucial early voting state. and this that s right. high-tech haley broke
not normal. no, it wasn t. then, it s not now, as we approach the one year anniversary of the uvalde shooting, i mean us speak to states, enron gutierrez, who i spoke to on the ground in uvalde when you are. go and has been fighting for change ever since. you do not want to miss that incredibly important conversation, stick with me for that. we want to begin with the 2024 presidential race, or the lead up to it. ramping up with less than eight months until the iowa caucus, south carolina temps, got violent network on friday to throw his hat into the ring. he is joining a gop primary field that well crowded has yet to see a candidate pose a real challenge in the polls to donald trump. axios reports, is joining me now, with more on this. sophia, thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. just hours before tim scott made it official, you, in fact, where that is launching a nearly 6 million dollar ad buy in iowa and new hampshire as well. where does he stand in this rac
speaker told reporters that they re not close to a deal at this point. are you concerned about timing at this point in. look, i think everybody needs to relax. regardless of what may be said about the talks on a day-to-day basis, the president and the speaker will reach an agreement, it will be passed on a bipartisan vote in both the house and the gnat. live look at capitol hill, it s 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. and that was senate minority leader mitch mcconnell trying to calm fears about a u.s. default. we ll have the latest in the negotiations over the deceiling. plus, florida governor desantis chooses an unusual platform for launching his presidential campaign. we ll get into that, that has definitely never been done before and another southern state passes an extreme abortion bill despite bipartisan efforts to block it. we ll also have new reporting on the status of the mar-a-lago classified documents investigation, which some legal experts feel is the strongest leg
including line reminding him to thank the japanese prime minister for hosting him. todd: reminder to thank the audience for joining us on friday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. clock ticks toward default, which could throw our country into recession and upset the global economy. the president says negotiating teams are making progress and he is confident they will come to a bipartisan agreement before the deadline. alexandria hoff has more. alexandria: the president did receive a briefing this morning from his negotiating team on capitol hill. steady progress is being made and he asked the team to keep pushing forward. house democrats are concerned about what an agreement might look like. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impended june 1 deadline, it is important all options are pursued in the ev
end up winding up doing to our fellow on one side of the scale is the current situation in venezuela which is quite dire as it is in cuba, right? what would we do to even the scales to get to the point of what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation, as would be really. a quarter of venezuela is gone. staggering, thank you my friend as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008 america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him please. to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country we both love. john mccain gently but firmly admonishing the crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time th