national attention we shouldn t will take you there. donald trump campaigning outside milwaukee, denying he called it harp, but local voters make of it and new reporting. he was planning to stay elsewhere during their republican convention shift. also tonight, our first look at vladimir putin s visit to north korea and the healthy seeking from fellow despot kim jong un. and later a mega church pastor onetime trump s virtual advisor admits to inappropriate sexual behavior after allegations it was with a 12-year-old girl. good evening. we begin with breaking news primary great night. and oklahoma, georgia, and virginia, were kind of high power proxy battle is about to be decided congressman bob good, chairman of the house, freedom caucus, and a staunch conservative facing a challenger backed by the former president. you might ask, why didn t trump? back? good, because the congressman dared endorsed ron desantis for president. a lost by the incumbent could be yet another dem
North on 87th avenue. More historic change this morningl the president of the United States is going to cuba. Now we know when. The planned trip should be announced today at the white house briefing. The trip is planned for march 21st and 22nd, thats according to abc news. The president s move comes roughly 15 months after the pledge to reopen diplomatic ties between the two countries. Since then we witness embassies reopening, a series of diplomamac talks and most recently a deal restoring commercial aircraft. Theres no elections in cuba, theres no choice inn cuba. My whole problem, i want the relationship between tht u. S. And cuba to change but it has to be resiple. The president is in fact going to the only latin America Military dictatorship. How does that benefit the United States at all . Does it make us any safer to have a Cuban Embassy in washington . No, it makes us less safe and does it benefit the people of c ca in any way . Reporter the last and only sitting u. S. Presiden
Doesnt it . Reporter exactly, eric. News of this broke last night of this planned trip. Just moments after that, as you heard right there, Ileana Roslehtinen spoke out with some republican president ial hopefuls speaking out on this trip thats consider very historic and also controversial. Heres wt we know so far. The trip abc news is reporting is planned foro march 21st and 22nd. This would happen right before the president flies to argentina. A` u. S. President hasnt visited the island nation since 1928 and thats when Calvin Coolidge was in office. Senator ted cruz, his fathth is cuban and thinks this is a bad idea. As president is that something you would do . It is not as long as the castros are in power. I was saddened to hear i wasnt surprised. I think its a real mistake. I think the president pushing for a free cuba. Reporter now cruz isnt the only one to speak out. Coming up in our 6 30 hour, were also goingto hear more from congressman ilna roslehtinen and also from president
They are beautiful, but one state is declaring an allout law. The surprising battle over swans. We begin with ukraine, a crisis we have been covering for weeks as it intense fizz. Two major developments. A disturbing report by Human Rights Watch, and a leading activist feared dead found alive with a shocking story. Jennifer glasse has more on the report and the allegations. She joins us from the capital of kiev kiev. The report says that when the clashes erupted on the 19th and went on for a few days deliberately targeted journalists and medical workers marked in groups away from the clashes. Human rights watch documents, 13 journalists injured, but the ukrainian groups say there were 60 journalists, i was at the front of those clashes. The journalists that i was around were targeted, including a photographer who was there, literally was on the front line, not in the line of fire, not where the demonstrators were throwing rocks at the police and he was shot in the helmet with a rubber
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