good morning. hopefully you re awake. making breakfast having your coffee coffee? welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. i hope you re not drinking coffee? actually me just coffee it off because you don t drink coffee. you don t want anyone else to do it right. morning. tea would be nice, right? i don t like taste. there we are. i m victor blackwell. thanks so much for spending part of your easter sunday. what? what would you recommend? just a nice green tea. maybe an earl gray something with cinnamon. maybe. i ve got something. my office. maybe i ll swing by the wild. it s okay. it s all right. here s what we re watching this morning. top democrats are vowing to make abortion a central issue in the lead up to the 2024 election after a judge ordered the suspension of a drug used in medication abortions. what senate majority leader chuck schumer is telling his caucus about the fight ahead a weekend of religious celebrations and escalating tensions in the mideast. the israe
easter sunday from new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour in the middle east, where israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing a video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem fred what s the latest? fredricka. well, certainly pretty big incident that happened there today on the border with syria when you had those rockets that came flying over from syrian territory, the israel defense forces say they say that those came flying towards the golan heights, which, of course are held by israel and t
family is nowhere to be seen. and you re somebody like donald trump. it s possible you can t rule it out. let s put it that way. i these people that see him as indestructible at age 78. he s going to write himself back into the white house. i think that s also far fetched. consider. what do you think of that? yeah i m sorry. i was getting some bad audio, so i couldn t catch what you said there. anderson he said you were a great person, adam. i said you were a great person caught that part. that part was saying he thought that that that that trump might actually just you know, faking illness or something and ultimately drop out of the race. well, i think it be great if you i mean and that s yeah. i like your theory. i like his theory. i just i m still i don t know. maybe i ve been through this for long enough to just kind of be under the impression that you know, like this guy. i mean, everybody is just waiting that you know, donald trump s gonna magically get out of the race
that s 184494200. wellcare medicare done well, melanie s nana in washington and this is cnn. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me in new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with the formal expulsion of two black state democrats from tennessee s house of representatives. the expulsions coming a week after they let a gun reform protests from the house floor in response to a school shooting that killed six, including three children in nashville, justin jones and justin pearson. we re also joined in that protest by their colleague, representative gloria johnson. you see them all there. holding hands, raising their fists. vice president harris met privately with the so called tennessee three on friday, she was in nashville to advocate for stricter gun reform. cnn correspondent isabel rizal is joining me now with more on this, isabel. what are we learning about the expulsions and what s next? good afternoon to you, fred? yeah we re hearing from t
more states, making it harder for women to get abortions do democrats have a plan to respond ? speak with democratic senator kirsten gillibrand next? and secrets out the intelligence community and us allies shaken at the scope of classified material leaked by a 21 year old junior airman is the u. s doing enough to keep it secret? safe plus, don t get distracted. we ve never been in such danger. as we are right now the gop works on its message and its messenger for 2024 gop governor who overcame donald trump s attacks and one in a purple state lays out his vision for how his party can win back the white house. georgia governor brian kemp joins me ahead. hello i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is compromised. president biden is back in the u. s after a deeply personal diplomatic visit to ireland, but he returns to face a thorny new set of issues at home, the u. s and key allies trying to assess the full damage after the arrest of a 21 year old member of