Trump. I want to go straight to cnns kristen holmes, who is at the site of Trumps Rally in saginaw, michigan and cnns eva mckend, who was in ripon, wisconsin, were Vice President and Kamala Harris is campaigning. So kristen to kick it up to you first, what did the former president focused on his Rally Today Bit more of a difficult question than you might think because its focus was All Over The Place they had billed this because a speech on the economy ensure he touched on some of those policies, particularly no tax on tips. No tax on Social Security or overtime. But the speech really veered and multiple well different directions. We heard him using some of his favorite catchphrases, calling Nancy Pelosi crazy, you talking about how Gavin Newsom was crazy saying Kamala Harris Ruin California and also talking about how Kamala Harris never worked at mcdonalds, something that he has existed on fixating on, but the other other thing that he really kept going back to was this conversation a
This sunday, president ial plans. We will move forward. Vice president Kamala Harris begins to outline and clarify her positions on key issues ahead of the Twomonth Sprint to election day. My values have not changed. Are there enough details in the Harris Agenda to win over undecided voters . Ill talk to democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of california. Plus, trumps promises. Donald trump appears to try and moderate his position on Womens Health as the election nears promising the government will pay for fertility treatments. The government is going to pay for it or well mandate your Insurance Company to pay for it. Ill talk to republican Senator Tom Cotton of arkansas. And devastating discovery. The bodies of six hostages, including israeli american Hersh Goldberg, are recovered in gaza just days after his parent addressed the democratic convention. Hersh, if You Canning hear us, we love you. Stay strong. Survive. How will this impact negotiations for i ceasefire. Ing. Joining me for In
you get a fair shake. why would i allow a hostile network and allow people that are polling at zero, polling at zero, one is zero with an arrow left. why would i allow people at 1 and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night. i don t think it s fair. that was former president donald trump s noncommittal answer on debating the other republican candidates because of their polling numbers when new data shows his own are starting to slip amid his federal indictment and the possibility of another indictment for january 6th coming this summer. the numbers are starting to slip, and you look at the people outside the hard core republican base, republicans and even independents leaning republican. you get outside of that to swing voters, to independents, to everybody else. something like 85% of those voters. i think he needs to drop out of the race right now. we ll have more on that ahead. also ahead, we re learning more about the plea deal for hunter biden as the
i will stay with it until we can get it done. the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like, not about default. house speaker kevin mccarthy and president joe biden remain on the same page about not letting the u.s. default on its debt, but time is really running out to get a deal in place before the deadline. we ll have much more on the negotiations and that time line in just a moment. plus, a federal judge sends a message to an insurrectionist handing out the longest sentence to a january 6th defendant to date. and also ahead we ve got new details on presidential campaign fund-raising for florida governor ron desantis including some questionable actions by his gubernatorial staff. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 26th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. with less than a week until the united states could default on its debts house lawmakers have left
good morning, everyone. we re going to take a minute to announce some good news. yesterday, clant collins is the new host of the 9:00 p.m. hour, opposite side of the day. i am. just when i got into this whole, you know, waking up at 3:30, everything. i had it down pat. i almost brought you a trash can and larmalarm clock. will you ll never have to set an alarm clock. it will be very exciting. f fun to i don t views and i will miss you. of course i m going to miss you. you ve been everything to me. i m not far away. what is also great is the reporting you do every day on everything washington can really be highlighted and featured at 9:00. i m excited for that. and i ll see you a lot. so we have a week left with kaitlan, thank goodness. let s get started with five things it know. the suspect behind that big leak of military secrets was repeatedly warned about his mishandling of classified documents but still was never removed from his post. this is according to new