multiple times. she ll join us live. and cnn goes one on one with the u.s. marine veteran trevor reed on his brutal imprisonment in russia and what it is like to finally be home. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m told it is friday. indeed it is. it is friday, may 20th. a short time ago, president biden kicked off his first visit to asia since taking office. he joined the new south korean president yoon seok-youl at a samsung semiconductor plant and immediate display of unity. the goal is to reassure asian allies of u.s. commitment to counter and contain china. the president will also visit japan on this trip. and growing concern over what north korea will do next as the u.s. braces for the possibility that kim jong-un will conduct a missile test in coordination with biden s trip. the white house sayses it prepared for all contingencies. russia s invasion of ukraine not far from their minds as well. vladimir putin continuin
endorsement is shaping the party. alex mooney carrying the endorsement of the former president. as we do in these primary nights, john king and the magic wall. what are you seeing in west virginia? talk about why that is so interesting. two primaries in west virginia. you mentioned this. a trump versus the establishment match. alex mooney versus david mckmc mckinley. u west virginia lost a seat in the reapportionment. trump endorsed alex mooney. he is the more conservative of the two house members. the real reason is because of two votes from mckinley. mckinley likes the bipartisan approach. voted for the biden infrastructure bill. from trump s perspective, mckinley voted for the independent commission proposed to look into the january 6 attacks on donald trump. david mckinley is persona non grata. you see mckinley with a narrow lead. we are early. trump is for mooney. pro-trump forces. we are counting, 11% in. mckinley, a lead over mooney.pe cl close race. may say biis a b
america are hurting because of inflation. donald trump loved west virginia and west virginia loves donald trump. there is a passenger flying a plane that is not a pilot and the pilot is incapacitated. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, may 11th, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 11:00 a.m. in ukraine. more help could be on the way soon to ukraine to fight off russia s brutal invasion. u.s. house lawmakers have approved an aid package worth about $40 billion in addition to the nearly $14 billion already provided to ukraine earlier this year. if the senate approves, u.s. president joe biden is expected to sign it into law. meanwhile in eastern ukraine the mayor reports missile strikes on two areas of the city of of. but russia is not succeeding on many fronts. ukrainian forces claim that they destroyed a russian tank near kharkiv. the u.s. director of national intelligence says that russian failures could lead to a dangerous new phase of t
he s been really quiet, really reserved, but very funny. just a quiet, dry humor. it will be interesting to see how one of the greats, their minds, translates the games for those who are watching it with them as opposed to those who are watching him play it. that s going to be the exciting part for me and everyone woiho a fan of football. it s hard to not like tom brady. it really is. thank you so much for being with us. now day continues right now. good morning to our viewers ear in the united states and all around the world. it is what day is it? it is wednesday, may 11th. i m john berman with breonna taylor brianna keilar. a vote needs 1r060 votes to pasn a senate that s currently split 5050. what it will do, says majority leader chuck schumer is get every member on the record on the critically issue of abortion rights. pennsylvania senator bob casey, one of the historically anti-abortion democrats says he will vote to codify the roe v. wade decision. this is com
of a single party state. you know, the state had used to have a long tradition of democrats having a presence there, but really it boiled down to joe manchin and i think that result seems to indicate that the sort of joe manchin wing is very small and it certainly is not large enough to overcome trump s dominance in that state. but when you look at nebraska, you have the added factor here of an actual scandal, credible sexual assault allegations against herbster in the last several weeks of this campaign, and it seems that even trump can t overcome that. trump may be able to get away with a lot when it comes to those kinds of allegations, but he can t transfer that over to other candidates in a lot of cases. it is not the first time that trump has endorsed candidates who have been accused of misconduct, he did it in alabama, with roy moore, he did it in pennsylvania, prior to that his candidate chosen candidate dropping out of the race, and in this case, in nebraska, he