baby, you re not dancing on your own rachel: good morning, this is a live shot from london. it s 12:00 p.m. over there across the pond. but it is 7:00 here in new york city. and good to be here with both of you. we re going to bring in our colleague martha mccallum who is going to give us more information about what s happening in london. she is going to be there all weekend. we re going to have her covering the coronation tomorrow during the morning hours as well. martha, good morning. martha: good morning, guys. good to be with you. rachel: good to be with you. what can we expect to see? well, you know, this is the first time that this has happened in 70 years. i know there have been three big royal events over the course of this year. we had the jubilee and then very kind of unexpectedly the funeral just a few months after that of queen elizabeth. now we have the coronation of king charles iii which is going to happen here tomorrow at westminster, abby. he was
hello, everyone. welcome. i m fredericka whitfield in atlanta alongside my colleagues wolf blitzer and fareed zakaria. we begin with this breaking news. the third group of the hostages released by help as is now safe in israel ending an excruciating 50 days of imprisonment for them and here we are, there were 17 handed over to the red cross a short month ago including 13 israeli citizens and for the first time in this limited four-day truce, an american was also among the freed hostages, 4-year-old abigail edan is now safe. she was the youngest of the americans captured by hamas on october 7th. let s send it over to wolf blitzer in tel aviv. thanks very much, fred. this is an important day, indeed. we have a team of our correspondents covering all of the latest developments. i first want to go to cnn s jeremy diamond. he is joining me from urim in israel. i understand you saw this convoy of the hostages pass through your area very, very quickly, but only a little whil
n. tate reeves just defeated brandon presley. mississippi did not bend. ohio voters protect abortion. we need a national strategy. trying to censure she will not work. defending an anti-israel chant. [. president biden must listen to and represent all of us. we are now in month two of the war between israel and hamas. [gunfire] there will not be a cease-fire without the release of hostages taken by hamas. the former president repeatedly spard with the new york prosecutor questioning him. this judge decided this case and my ability before we walked up those stairs. the family affair continues with ivanka trump slated to testify. chicago residents are sick of living in a sanctuary city and they re letting their leaders know it. believe we should remain a sanctuary city? no. good morning, everybody, and welcome to the post game show. after a big election night coast to coast. we have got some results. you were in virginia yesterday interviewing governor
use in response. and what is he talking about the debate that was coming up, the story about the laptop, they wanted to tell everyone it was not legitimate. and he says and john breneman s retort was sign me up. so then suddenly joe biden says 51 intel agents say the laptop is classic russian disinformation. you remember that debate. what kind of effect did that 51 intel agents have on that debate on that point? i sure do remember that night. i was in the room. and it was a big moment because everybody was wondering what kind of impact hunter biden s laptop might have on the coming election. and it s really stunning, brian and rachel and lawrence. when you look back at this and you read these documents. you look at these emails and you see this coordination going on and the reason it s so stunning is because these former cia directors and the rest of these officials basically did this on a hunch, right? and a desire to, quote, help biden win in the election. remember at the same time
first, let s do some quick background. ukraine used to be a soviet republic. for most of its post soviet independence, its leaders operated in close association with russia, but then in 2013, something happened. ukrainian people realized a political and economic dependence on russia was a road to nowhere. so they rose up and they demanded closer ties with the european union. putin and his cronies in ukraine, they panicked and they gunned down the protesters. now, that backfired. big time. putin s allies were run out of the country and the nation elected arden pro europe and pro u.s. leadership. in response, putin invaded crimea and he invaded eastern ukraine, but frankly, that just hardened ukrainian people s anti-russia sentiments. still, putin s desire to control ukraine, it didn t go away. so now, he s moved 150,000