Thanks for joining me today. Im a Marquee Mendez in for frederica. What field weve got a lot to get through, and were going to start this hour with another critical week on the Campaign Trail. And on capitol hill, former President Donald Trump continues his march towards clinching the gop president ial nomination, sweeping three more states on saturday, his campaign is now aiming to build up an insurmountable lead in two days from now, Super Tuesday, when voters in 15 states and one us territory head to the polls nearly a third of all republican delegates will be handed out. And despite just getting a fraction of the republican delegates so far, nikki haley is hanging around today. Shes dropping hints that she may stick around even if she doesnt win any states on tuesday ive always said this needs to be competitive as long as we are competitive, as long as we are showing that there is a place for us, im going to continue to fight. Thats always been the case. Would you see yourself as c
Donate your small talk manu raju youre on capitol hill in this is cnn its friday, march 1, right now on cnn this morning, a funeral for Alexey Navalnys set to begin next hour russian dissidents still rattling Vladimir Putin, even in death. Plus a critical hearing today in the maralago documents case, Donald Trumps lawyers now saying they would step two trial, three months before the election and congress doing what it seems to do best these days, kicking the can down the road. Yet again to head off a Government Shutdown arrived 05 00 a. M. Im here in washington a live look down the national mall, the washington monument, the Lincoln Memorial behind it. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its great to be with you. Happy friday. We made all right. Even in death, Alexey Navalny is haunting Vladimir Putin just an hour from now, Funeral Services are scheduled to begin in moscow for the late Opposition Leader. Hundreds of mourners and a heavy Police Presence or already in place. Navalnys
If youre smart enough, you can figure out where that is. Its all bailable to be bought and sold legally in the us. So this is an attempt to sort of claw back some of that security. And it comes amid really strong concerns in the administration and on capitol hill about chinese surveillance. In particular, given tensions between the us and china, john all sean lyngaas. Thank you so much for that report. Keep us posted we lost everything. That is what one person in texas just told us this morning as wildfires are scorching the Texas Panhandle, people are being formed forced to flee, and crews are battling against at least five fires. We are standing by for the arrival of hunter biden on capitol hill after fierce negotiations she he is set to testify shortly in the Impeachment Investigation into his father new findings about marijuana and the risk of heart attack and stroke ok. Baldwin with john berman, sara is off today. This is Cnn News Central all right, we do have breaking news. We ju
Off the cuff, President Biden sticking to a script. But in terms of the level of factual accuracy, i mean, it was scripted in an accurate way this week to hear from the president. The former president said what he wanted to, and much of it was not true. So i dont have any factchecks of President Biden here. But i think thats for an obvious reason remarkable. Daniel dale, glad to have you on standby. Thank you for that. And as we start the top of the new hour here on the lead, you just saw President Biden and donald trump wrapping up those competing very different appearances on the southern border, how their messaging on immigration is playing 1,700 miles away in washington. And speaking of congress, is the job of another House Speaker potentially on the line . Today . Mike johnson helped get a new shortterm Spending Bill passed. But thats really his problem. His conservative rightwing flank wants a longterm solution. Last, i checked the republicans actually have a majority in the hous
Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing