all right. andy scholes, thank you very much. great to see you. thanks for joining us. i m kasie e hunt. don t go a anywhere. cnn this s morning s starts r now. good morning, everyone. we re glad you re starting your day with us. here are five things to know. president biden and xi jinping easing tensions a bit after their high-stakes face to face summit. the leaders both greeting to reopening some military communications. and president biden signaling new hope for what could be an eminent hostage deal at a news conference last night. he s been deeply involved in the negotiations and is mildly hopeful. also a pro palestinian protest turns violent in washington, d.c. we re told six capitol police officers were injured and several arrests were made. congress has averted a government shutdown. the senate passing a short-term fund ing bill last night. president biden expected to sign it before friday s headline. and thousands of workers set to walk off the job today
sglmplgtsz today on inside politics, rising fast. a brand new cnn poll out this hour reveals the shifting sands of the 2024 race and the critical battleground state of new hampshire. one candidate has surged to second while another has plummet ed into the single digits. plus substantial evidence. that s what a damning new report from the house ethics committee says about george santos steal ing from his own campaign, among other things. so just how long can the embattled congressman hold on to his seat? and trust but verify that s how president trump is describing his approach to xi jinping, but he also called the chinese president a dictator. can the two super powers still play nice? i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start with cnn s brand new polling out of that critical primary state of new hampshire. donald trump remains the front runner. but there are new data points for other candidates that are showing a shift in the field.
support this three-state solution of empowering the sunni tribes empowering the kurds and the shiites. each of them having three autonomous territories, rather than continue what we ve seen really has failed for so long. by doing this, we can get rid of the oxygen that has allowed isis to maintain its stronghold here within this area of iraq. for so many experts in iraq going back over the years including by the way when he was a senator, vice president joe biden basically said there should be three autonomous areas, this whole fiction of unified iraq was controlled by a dictator saddam hussein, a brutal brutal dictateor when he was in power. there should be separate areas, that is something you would support? i think not only would i
fifth day in a push. the northern iraqi city is the hometown of former dictateor saddam hussein and it s a required winning step towards winning back isis held mosul further north. iraqi forces claim they are making gains and they are getting some help along the way. ben got within just a few kilometers of the frontd lines. tikrit is the target. heavy rounds fired into a city now the focus of iraq s biggest yet offensive against isis. the group overran the city last june. there are no signs of life there. many have already fled. we re at a base just two miles.
and then, they follow them down the street. talk about bullies and stalkers this is like gestapo. they don t like any opposing points of view. dare you question a liberal. sean: but for fox news and rush limbaugh, what? we have a perfect, i m not saying president is a dictateor but won t that be what we had? here is the problem. he s taking on the second amendment big time. and so we re going to see issue was regard to financing of firearms k now, the president saying do it the way i do it or i m going to come down your pipe. do it the way msnbc does it. do it the way a poodle journalist whose only mission in life suck up to the president of the united states.