Mayors and other city leaders, their annual conference. The timing of this, he is talking while that controversy is cooking over his state of the Union Address. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The president s remarks will come after he spent the weekend walking this back. President biden its not about him, not about me. I would be a winner not really. I [crowd noise] President Biden lincoln riley. Harris the suspect is an illegal immigrant. The president called it out. Its the fact. Now there is a complete difference in his choice of wording. I dont know about his perspective or real honest opinion, who knows . But his words are changing. Two days after he said that at the state of the union he essentially apologized to laken rileys suspected killer for calling him an illegal. Police confirm the man suspected of murdering the young Nursing Student was in the United States illegally. Republicans. Its a slap in the face to this family of laken riley. Talk about disg
Manhattan. He is about to enter new yorks courthouse in Lower Manhattan, day 12 of Criminal Trial Proceedings about to get underway. We dont know the witness. The judge agreed with prosecutors not to give the names to the defense. Trump will speak any moment and well carry it for you live when it happens. Meanwhile, Breaking News from overnight. Israels war against hamas could escalate with the idf telling palestinians to leave rafah. Well show it to you in a map coming up. Hope you had a joyous weekend. We go on monday. Im bill hemmer dana . Im dana perino and this is americas newsroom. So were also getting word that just moments ago, Columbia University announced it will cancel its universitywide Graduation Ceremony after weeks of protests. Activists causing chaos on campuses over israels war on hamas that may escalate to another level. Bill ceasefire talks with hamas stalled over the weekend. Israel launches retaliatory strikes against rafah after a hamas Rocket Attack from there ye
Courtroom right now. We do anticipate at some point Michael Cohen will take the stand. We say that each day because we dont have the witness list but we know he is a prime one for them and it could be any moment. Or another day. A former Trump Organization executive is on stand at this moment. And we will bring you all the details as they unfold during our coverage on The Faulkner Focus all hour long. Keep a close watch on that box on your right because it has some realtime notes and things that are coming out of the courtroom for our journalists and producers. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in The Faulkner Focus. Breaking right now, Columbia University has capitulated to the mob. Theyve caved. Can you imagine paying 588,000 for four years for your kid to go to school there for four years and they cancel commencement . We still dont know what they are doing with the end of the year school tests, the finals. It is still a mystery, all of it. But today those kids will not have a Graduati
the white house says that israel has formalized a plan to briefly pause fighting in parts of gaza each day. meantime, israeli forces say they ve captured a hamas stronghold in gaza. in just moments we ll take you live to israel. and the republican presidential candidates minus the front-runner donald trump hold a fiery debate filled with lots of low blows. and it seems they re still struggling to come up with a winning message on abortion. plus, the labor movement puts more points on the board. what we re learning about a tentative end to strikes in hollywood and on the vegas strip. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. we begin this afternoon with the israel-hamas war. after weeks of voicing opposition to a ceasefire in gaza, today the white house announcing that israel is formalizing a plan to allow for four-hour-long pauses each day, windows designed to allow palestinian civilians to evacuate nort
take debate stage once again, and once again, donald trump is trying to steal the spotlight. sara sidner is off today. i m kate bald win with john ber m berman and this is cnn news central. it is election day in america, and the polls are open, and we are watching several key races that could not only impact lives today, but can also send some loud messages for the next year s presidential election. abortion rights are on the ballot today in ohio where the voters will decide whether to enshrine the issue in the state s constitution. it has been an issue since the overturning of roe v. wade and others are hoping it helps in west virginia where the chambers are up for grabs, but the republican governor in virginia is trying a new approach to abortion approach is a model for republicans in virginia and far beyond. jessica dean is in virginia. jessica, the election in virginia is not just about at the lives in the commonwealth, but what are you hearing about today and the c