It is the biggest night yet in the president ial race with a slew of contact that will likely push donald trump to the brink of clinching the gop nomination. We are tracking every single vote, including in North Carolina, where right now people are lined up to cast ballots on this pivotal night in the fight for the white house. Welcome to cnns lives Super Tuesday coverage. Im erin burnett in new york, and im jake tapper in washington were less than an hour away from the first major round of Poll Closings and the first results on this historymaking normshattering primary night, donald trump, former president , now a criminal defendant four times over hopes to continue his extraordinary winning streak. And the night very close to locking up his third republican president ial nomination. Thats possible because the race for the white house is Going National tonight with 16 States Holding contests and a whopping total of 865 delegates at stake for the republicans. Thats more than onethird o
observation of juneteenth as a federal holiday coming as our largest blue state has a historic conversation on reparations for its black residents. i am conflicted tonight. as i watch any number of republican politicians and voters pledge the enduring support for donald trump, seeking a return to the white house well facing a 37 count federal indictment after years of white racial grievance for political gain, paving the way for other gop politicians including the 2024 competitors to attack racial progress in public life. i struggle to justify why, in my mind, america deserves a day off for work, made possible by black history so many republicans now insist should be banned from our institutions. despite the conflict in, me i m still grateful to see that black history recognized at a national level. i just want to see our nation at large are in the holiday created in its name. me now is congressman barbara lee the democrat of california. currently running for the u.s. sen
you with us, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and a lot of news to cover this hour including a major house vote on the debt deal set to happen today, right now kevin mccarthy is trying to hold back a republican revolt. dozens of gop members have come out against this bill. progressive democrats aren t happy either. the whip of the progressive caucus will join us live. and breaking 2024 news this morning, a familiar name is getting ready to enter the race, chris christie hoping to be a disrupter to the trump desantis dynamic. plus, a dangerous moment high in the sky when a chinese pilot flies just a few hundred feet away from a u.s. surveillance plane. tensions between the two nations threatening to boil over. and later, at least five people are still unaccounted for after that iowa apartment building collapsed with two of them thought to be buried beneath the rubble. with we re all heartbroken. we re all confused. we re all looking for answe
the debt ceiling deal heads to the house floor tonight. but not everyone is sold on it. we ll talk to democratic congresswoman teresa ledger fernandez about why she voted against advancing the bill out of the committee. in iowa, the search for survivors. families say there are still people trapped inside a partially collapsed apartment building in davenport. we ll talk to a member of one of those families desperate to find his cousin before the city tears the building down. breaking news in the republican race for the white house. we ll tell you who plans to launch a bid for a second time. tense moments over the south china sea as a chinese fighter jet aggressively cuts in front of a u.s. air force plane. it is just another sign of the strain in the relationship between the u.s. and china. and a convenience store owner in south carolina charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy he wrongly accused of shoplifting bottled water. we have the latest on the investigation.
shocking abuse of power by the nation s premier law enforcement agency. according to house republicans, who examined material from whistleblowers. the fbi, they say, targeted for investigations pro-life groups, catholics, and parents attending school board meetings, all in this clandestine effort to inflate the sense that they were a domestic terrorism threat. if you re a parent and you attend a school board meeting, there could be an fbi agent in the parking lot scribbling down your license plate number. this is not a conspiracy theory. this is actually testimony that these brave whistleblowers have given us. shocking allegations. still, house democrats were absolutely indignant at the suggestion that hearings like the one that took place on capitol hill were part of the intel community to give whistleblowers free reign to level wild accusations and to keep democrats in the dark in the process. i m not aware that you re able to withhold information from the minority th