Closer. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the thirdparty group no labels ended months of speculation about whether it would field a unity ticket for the president ial race in a Virtual Convention with an 800 delegates from all 50 states voted to move forward with the process and on the heels of that news, several outlets are reporting theres a particular candidate. Now under consideration. Geoff duncan, 48 yearold, was a republican Lieutenant Governor of georgia under brian kemp from 2019 to early 2023, is a conservative republican and also a vocal critic of Donald Trumps efforts to over returned the 2020 president ial election. Duncan recently wrote an oped in the Atlanta Journal constitution titled end doesnt justify the means on trump about why he wont support trump for president. Writing quote, trump has become incapable of leading in a respectable or mature way until more of us are willing to acknowledge that pardon, truth, we will be on the outside looking in. The
Just beatenjamaica i o. Later in the hour on the bbc news channel, well round up the latest action, hear key interviews and discuss the days biggest Talking Points from here at the bbc sport centre. Good morning. 140,000 pupils across scotland have been getting their exam results this morning for their nationals, highers, and advanced highers. The Scottish Qualifications Authority has warned that teaching and learning still havent fully recovered from the covid pandemic. It says its taken a sensitive approach to awarding results this year. Pupils are finding out how theyve done by a combination of text messages, email and post. 0ur scotland correspondent, james shaw reports. Its The Moment Of Truth for thousands of pupils across scotland. Holly. Yeah, thats me. Thank you. 0k, and chloe. And the end of an educational experience hit hard by covid. But these pupils at Hamilton Grammar School have shown resilience in the face of difficulties that previous generations did not have to endure
The Man Trump Belittles as sleepy joe seemed quite fiery last night as the president tries to flip the script launching a campaign blitz, just one day after his forceful kind of political state of the Union Address. Plus Donald Trumps oneonone at maralago today, meeting with Hungarys Viktor Orban ban. The authoritarian leader, knowing, known for antiimmigration nationalist rhetoric, who often cozies up to Vladimir Putin and attempts to stop the aid. See what happened when cnn confronted israeli protesters, determined to make sure little food, if any, makes it into gaza despite the overwhelming human and tharon crisis welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead in the white house in an all Reelection Blitz trying to capture on any momentum from President Bidens fiery and rather political state of the Union Address last night in which the president referenced donald trump, at least a dozen times in less than an hour, we expect to hear from the president
Then you said the gauges came back and in reengaged in the plane just reengaged to its normal Flight Pattern we have no issues before. No issues after, but just that moment im quite certain that is terrifying. Can i ask you what it was like after this happened in the plane flies again and obviously the pilots are in the front and youre all back there was it silent . What were those last 45 minutes . There was there was 25 minutes of eerily silence from the ones that were okay and then a lot of you could hear people sobbing and a lot of people kind of in pain with kind of yeah. Just kind of hunched over and people shaking like there were their hands were shaking and it was it was bizarre. It was i have to say it was and seeing those people fly around, it was like to see him out of exorcist. I was like, what is this it was it was hard to believe that to see that happen firsthand. What brian thank you very much for sharing it with us. Of course. Sorry. So sorry for you and everyone. The b
And thank you all so much for joining us. Cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts right now the Supreme Court picks the path of least resistance. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening im abby philip in new york and tonight, the Supreme Court pulled out the legal Jumper Cables to start the most consequential political week of the election so far thursday, President Biden will paint his vision for the country and for his own campaign delivering the state of the Union Address to a massive primetime audience but tomorrow, Super Tuesday, and it may effectively end the republican nominating contest. Today, the Supreme Court made sure that if it does, the man who is likely to emerge as the victor will actually appear on the ballot. And a nine to nothing ruling. The justices effectively cleared the decks for donald trump. They said the colorado got it wrong when it stated that he should be erased from the ballot. Now, added all up and the justices did something that trump actually liked quite