Morning with kasie hunt. Next its thursday, may 2, right now on standing this morning, Breaking News Protesters at ucla refusing to leave a standoff on campus as police have moved in donald trump back on the Campaign Trail and two critical states before heading back to new york for his Hush Money Trial Today and Marjorie Taylor greene daring democrats to stop her from forcing a vote to oust speaker mike johnson. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, this is a live look at the ucla campus where it is 2 00 a. M. The middle of the night, basically good morning to those of you who are here on the east coast. Good evening to those watching out west. Im kasie hunt its great to be with you this morning. We do have Breaking News right now. Police have now entered the makeshift propalestinian encampment at ucla, and theres been a standoff between police and protesters going on all night long after demonstrators were ordered to leave and refused. Police have been surrounding the encampment for hours no
public health experts have been weighing in. what are we hearing? that s right. we really are hearing kind of a split response here. some public health experts say let s get our case numbers and hospitalization rates down even more before we start to plan to lift measures. and then on the other hand, we hear other experts saying, look, we ve made improvements in getting case numbers down and getting hospitalizations down and getting deaths down so now is the time to start planning to lift mitigation measures. but overall, ana, the most passionate i should say response i ve heard so far has come from cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen. she says that this is the right time for the federal government to weigh in. have a listen. while we re seeing states and locales take matters into their own hands, that means the federal government is becoming less and less relevant. if the cdc guidance they re putting out is now not being followed by virtually anyone, that makes the cdc and our
wilbur ross in contempt for failing to comply with subpoenas related to a citizenship question on the 20 to census. and an announcement that hope hicks will appear before the house judiciary committee to answer their questions from chairman nadler and others so, no date yet on when that will happen. also today, as we showed you a moment ago, donald trump jr. was back on the hill answering questions on the senate side. so a lot of cooperation, it appears, in some respects in terms of what they had been pushing for. then you have a separate hearing on the mueller report today. house republicans on the intel committee drilling for answers on the origins of all of this russia probe. a lot percolating on that front. surveillance of the trump campaign, how did all that work? then had you chairman schiff and representative nunes in that hearing kind of at odds. line one of the report outline as sweeping and
are not getting the cash. it doesn t say anything what s going on with other things that surround them. in north korea at the beginning there are missiles being lobbed across japan and our borders almost on a daily basis. you re talking about denuclearization. you re hearing kind of precise and it should be, a very previcise language. these guys are in the leads. atsds and take a listen what she said specifically about iran s compliance with the nuclear deal. they making some preparations that would increase their ability to take a step back if they make that decision. so at the moment technically they are in compliance. she is saying they seem to be considering stepping away and violating the deal but they haven t actually gone so far as to do it. that s not to me being soft on
made clear what the question was and brett kavanaugh after seeking a little bit of clarification, said the answer was no. this moment, viral as it was, sit up in your chair as it was, was senator harris. now brett kavanaugh is on the record saying firmly, no, it didn t happen. senator harris noted that she had good reason to believe that that happened. what that information is we still don t know, kate. as you said, phil, another big drama moment was over releasing documents and it all really centered around democratic senator cory booker. what happened? let s start with the micro and then we ll pull out a little bit. the hearing kind of devolved into a partisan shooting match. sarah booker started talking