donald trump is not willing to show up on the debate stage. chaos follows him and we can t have a country this disarray. taking their shot, ron desantis and nikki haley trying to take down the frontrunner donald trump on live tv. and plus phoning it in, trump warns iowa supporters not to sit back next week over speaker phone. and joe biden heads to battleground pennsylvania today to set the tone for his 2024 re-election bid. good morning, happy friday. we made it. it is 5:00 a.m. in washington and 4:00 a.m. in des moines where ron desantis and nikki haley each made their case that they are the better choice to face president biden in the fall. the democrats want trump to be the candidate. they are going to talk about all the legal tough, january 6, that will be what the election will be about. you don t want to be a infrastructure on trufrnl and the past. you want to be a referendum on booi biden s failures and our positive vision. and you need somebody that can ser
the kremlin is calling it an alarming situation. at least one person killed, six others injured in strikes in russian territory. what the buildup to ukraine s counter offensive says about where this war is headed. 2024 republican presidential candidate ron desantis is on the trail in iowa. ahead, his message to former president donald trump. so it looks like a scene out of fast and furious. a car launches off the end of a flatbed tow truck and flips through the air. so why on earth did that even happen? this is cnn news central. so this just in to cnn. an important development for those counting votes on the deal to avoid a u.s. default. democratic representative pramila jayapal, the chair of the house progressive caucus, says she will not support the deal. she is a no. this, as house democrats are meeting behind closed doors right now. cnn s manu raju is with us on capitol hill right now. all right, manu. where does that put things as the morning moves on
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this morning a fresh look at the southern border. this was el paso, and you can see it right there. wow. i mean, relatively sparse, really sparse, very calm. this is what the white house had hoped for. especially when there were scenes like this just one week ago. migrants lining up before the expiration of title 42, and the homeland security alejandro mayorkas warns that it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. and that is after wrangling maneuvers of the governor of texas sending a busload of migrants to the vice president of the united states. so we have teams at the border and the white house. we begin at the white house as arlette seanez is there, and what are you hearing from the people in the building behind you, arlette, of what they are seeing? president biden is saying that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he, himself, had predicted a chaotic few days of the lifting of title 42. now, the biden administration has been
border security which republicans have insisted be added to the package, zelensky met with top lawmakers including the brand-new house speaker, mike johnson, many republican holdout to meet with zelensky say a deal remains unlikely, let s go straight to mj lee who was at the white house, what are we expecting here on the two leaders beyond just a pitch to get this money from congress to ukraine? jake, this press conference obviously has been quite delayed but we did just see the ukrainian delegation in the u.s. delegation take their seats in the front row, secretary blinken, secretary austin, other officials are in the room so we should see president biden and president zelenskyy enter the room any moment, i think white house officials and u.s. officials had made the point this visit is about so much more than the issue of u.s. funding for ukraine which clearly on capitol hill right now, fans at an impasse. they re saying the world is watching right now including russian pr