brand-new numbers this morning show 276,000 migrants crossing illegally in december. the highest monthly total ever. border patrol sources report more than 760,000 migrant encounters since october 1st. that s another record. the highest first quarter of any fiscal year. more on this breaking story throughout the hour. but first. former president donald trump is off the 2024 ballot in the state of maine. potentially big factor in what is expected to be a close race for the white house. good morning, i m mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. good morning, molly. molly: i m molly line in for dana perino. maine s democratic secretary of state following colorado s lead disqualifying trump based on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. a crime for which he was never charged. mike: colorado s ban is on home after the state gop appealed it to the supreme court. the former president faces challenges in many states including wisconsin and november. bellows is the first election
american economy hostage. lifesaving health care denied or delayed, we will talk to one of the doctors behind a new study showing a pattern of serious health complications caused by post roe abortion ban. and a dire warning from the u.n. s top weather and climate scientist and what we can do about it. plus the velshi banned book club goes to court. this week we ll talk to two previously featured authors of banned books who have joined with free speech activists, parents and the largest publishing house in the country and hauling book banners to federal court. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday may 20th, i m ali velshi. as the old saying, goes if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after one bad election cycle the gop would have regrouped and reassessed its shortcomings so it could rebound. it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significant wind. donald trump s electoral college victory in 2016. sinc
2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trump s ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recommend any wholesale changes at the fbi. the special counsel also appears to relitigate two of the cases he lost that went to trial, in which he brought criminal charges. the durham report has been contradicted by two of the reports, including one released in 2020 by the republican-led senate intelligence committee. the committee s report as well as one from the justice department watchdog found the fbi s investigation with some laws but warranted. and said the trump campaign closed a counter inte
years of precedent and overturn roe versus wade, it was far from the final battle on either side over access to abortion health care in america. among independent voters, democratic voters and large numbers of republican voters, it s been a political spark that continues to jolt and potentially reshape our politics the power of the courts assault on a right supported by a majority of all americans is only exacerbated by the right s ongoing assault on access to reproductive health care the gop s war on women s reproductive freedom reached a new crescendo on friday night in the form of a ruling from a right-wing federal judge who was hand picked to make a decision that would further eliminate access to reproductive health care judge matthew kacsmaryk ordered the 23-year long fda approval of a drug called mifepristone be put on hold in every single state. it s one half of the two-drug regimen used in medication abortions. he gave the government seven days to appeal his ruling w
coming in to cnn news central. so it is now official in writing right there and also in video, president biden says that he wants to finish the job, and he wants to be what he callss - he wants to beat what he calls maga extremism. when i ran in 2020 i said i wanted to have more freedom and not less, and i think i know what the answer is and you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i am running for re-election. it was exactly four years ago today that biden threw his hat in the ring for 2020 and warned voters then about donald trump s rhetoric. we will go to white house now, and arlette seanez, we have seen the president on video today, and what do we expect from him life and in person? well, john, in a little over an hour, president biden is going to be holding the first public event since officially rolling out the presidential bid. he is expected at 12:30 to speak at a union conference here in washington, d.c., as he is looking to highlight the