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
have much more on the abortion fight coming up on state of the union representatives alexandria , ocasio cortez and tony gonzalez will join the show as well as hh secretary javier becerra. well israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. it is the latest violence following the israeli police raids on the alexa mosque compound in jerusalem. last week. israel s defense forces released video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. israel says it launched the strikes after rockets were fired from syria toward israeli controlled territory. cnn salma abdelaziz joins us now from jerusalem at this latest violence happens as three different faiths observed traditions within the walls of jerusalem s old city. absolutely i mean this escalating violence really widening, if you will, that area of concern growing bigger already rockets coming from gaza, there is already a tip for tap there with the