welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. very busy news day. thank you for your time. provocation or pretext, the creme lun accuses ukraine of trying to assassinate vladimir putin with a drone attack. the president said, we don t attack russia. plus a surge and a search for a solution. migrants prepare to overwhelm the southern border. the biden administration snaps into action ordering troops to the border, o traiting a new deal with mexico and erecting new processing centers. and reading is believe ing. the text message that said the fox decision to fire tucker carlson are reveals him rooting for a mob to kill someone. we begin with dramatic images of red scquare and the kremlin ses expla thags na ukraine launched drones at the heart of the russian government with the goal of killing vladimir putin. the kremlin statement came after social media reports showing explosions over the president s residence. we regard these actions as a planned terrorist act
a massive man hunt, 250 law enforcement officers, a dozen agencies, and zero leads. zero leads! there s a desperate search underway for the man accused of kim five of his neighbors in texas, including a 9-year-old child. bank takeover. j.p. morgan is snapping up first republic after the second largest bank failure in u.s. history. how safe is the banking system? could any of this push us closer to a recession? donald trump asks for a mistrial, the judge says no. the former president accusing of judge of making unfair and prejudicial rulings in the ongoing case brought by e. jean carroll. we are following these major developing stores and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central . we begin this afternoon for a man dehunt. this man is still on the run, and officials say they have zero leads. francisco orposeca is accused of a bloody scene of a neighbor s home. they say he gunned down five members of the same family, including this mother and her 9-year-ol
bars for killing those five. the man accused of killing his neighbors in texas is captured after a days long manhunt. we ll have the latest on his arrest in just a moment. meanwhile on capitol hill democrats might have a plan b to raise the debt ceiling, but they re going to need some help from the other side of the aisle. and also ahead new testimony in the civil trial against donald trump. it comes as the former president decides not to take the stand in his own defense. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 3rd. i m jonathan lemire and thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with the arrest of the man accused of killing five of his neighbors in texas last week. francisco was captured last night in the city of cut & shoot which is about 13 miles from the scene of the murders. it ends a four-day man hunt that involved more than 200 local, state, and federal officers. this is video recorded shortly after he was arrest
blockbursts reporting that solves the mystery of the missing link in a story that has rocked american politics and media. for weeks now, a question has loomed over the ouster of top fox host tucker carlson. why did the murdochs fire one of their biggest stars? the architect of a platform that unself-consciously peddles conspiracy theories. why did they fire him based on something that didn t happen on air? what was that missing link? and what if anything did tucker carlson do or say off camera that contributed to the nearly unprecedented 11th hour settlement of $787.5 million in the defamation case brought against fox by dominion voting systems. the new york times answers both those questions and reports on the missing text message that it found in some groundbreaking new reporting. the message was reportedly unearthed during the discovery process with dominion. here s how the times reports that out. quote, in the message sent to one of his producers in the hours after vi
good evening, trace. a real surprise to be sure. just four years ago, lori lightfoot win every word in the runoff and made history becoming the first black and openly gay female mayor and the city s history. he s on her way to becoming the first windy city mayor to his reelection in about 40 years. paul vallas, with more than 30 percentage points. he will advance the runoff. he was billed as a tough on crime candidate, and he also has the backing of the city police union. he s expected to face brandon johnson, the current county commissioner, former schoolteacher has the endorsement of the chicago teachers union, and as you see, just about 20% of the vote going his way. lori lightfoot, meanwhile, who famously tingled with the teachers union, came in third with just more than 16% of the vote. we will have a safe chicago. we will make chicago the safest city in america. [cheers and applause] no matter where you live, no matter what you look like, you deserve to have a bet