Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning is sunday, march 17. Im danny freeman, info your blackboard. Good to have you, danny, im amara walker. Thank you so much for joining us this sunday morning. And heres what we are watching for you, donald trump hits the trail for the First Time Since securing the republican nomination as President Biden dines with reporters and politicians in washington, the very different warnings both candidates are issuing on the Campaign Trail, posted arms Stand Up Paralyzes and new jersey neighborhood for hours on saturday will tell you what we know about what led up to it and how it all finally ended evacuations are underway in parts of iceland is a volcano near the famous blue lagoon a ropes, once again, the impact on nearby towns is a lava continues to flow this morning, and the final day of voting is underway in russias president ial election. And although Vladimir Putin is assured victory, were seeing protests across the region. Were live in moscow
have not and of course, measures that have been used to address that have not gotten very far. we are going to talk momentarily with the two congressmen from texas, both named gonzalez, spelled differently and what it takes to improve the situation, right now bad to worse. casey stegall with stunning numbers out. what happens now. he s at eagle pass with more. good to see you. governor abbott, as you know made a stop here in eagle pass this past week on thursday along with more than 20 state lawmakers where they touted the success of operation lonestar. as you know, operation lonestar is the state s border enforcement and security mission, a mission, by the way, with more than a $10 billion price tag so far. the governor essentially saying texas will continue to take matters into its own hands until the biden administration or congress takes steps to slow the migrant surge. abbott says they re currently working on a plan to add more national guard troops in and around eagle
government classified documents a whole lot different than the treatment afforded to his prede predecessor. let s go to peter doocy with the latest. president biden has no issues with his memory, so they think the special counsel must have felt pressure to put that in his report. republicans in congress and elsewhere have been attacking prosecutors who aren t doing what republicans want politically. here s the thing. that is what democrats are starting to do now as well. the comments that were made by that prosecutor gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. so the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong. there s also a new white house cleanup to a clear-cut mistake president biden made last night talking about gaza and calling the president of egypt by the. of mexico s name. initially the president of mexico, c.c. did not want to open the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. he was clearly talking abo
parts of the country, the heineken prime minister, with this personality, and that is an important part, a central part and it is being eroded. thank you for watching on bbc world news. just developing that theme, it is weird to see where it will go on the prime minister cannot get home quick enough, canny? he minister cannot get home quick enough. canny? enough, canny? he is a lucky politician enough, canny? he is a lucky politician because enough, canny? he is a lucky politician because it - enough, canny? he is a lucky politician because it seems . enough, canny? he is a lucky| politician because it seems to me almost certain that had that attempt to push not happened when it did, and it wasn t particularly organised, it fell over the threshold when it did but if it hadn t happened, will be looking at a no confidence vote first monday morning and it would have been more difficult for him to do what he has done which is to say look, this is difficult but i can pull it
reporter: it will all focus on the pressure on mike pence to take that unconstitutional action on january 6, 2021 to overturn the electoral certified votes of the states here on january 6, something of course that he rejected doing. but going to the genesis of how this theory first came about. looking at the trump attorney john eastman who is a prominent supporter of this and directly tie donald trump s words to the violence that occurred on january 6 as words about mike pence into exactly what happened here in the capitol. now, two people will be testifying who are very close to mike pence, we expect to hear from greg jake sob who is a former counsel for mike pence and as well as judge mike luttig, former judge and adviser of sorts to pence to understand what the vice president was thinking at the time. we do also expect to see video deposition from his former chief of staff marc short, who will be featured prominently in today s hearing. we ve gotten a copy of judge lutti