Starts right now been raised at raining bombs since phi am the lead starts right now read you part of a dramatic account from president of Lebanon Today as Israeli Military Pummels parts of that Country Hundreds are reportedly killed, including civilians thousands fleeing their homes as the israel probably Defense Force says, it is targeting hezbollah rockets and drones. Now, with The Middle East at a potential tipping point, the United States is sending even more us troops to the region. A former israeli Prime Minister joins us live in moments plus Brand New poll showing former president Donald Trumps strength in some of the most crucial states in the election. What we are learning from the numbers and the data and trumps latest comments about whether he will agree to a second debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, a second debate right here On Cnn it is a tiny Blue Dot on the map with potentially giant consequences. Im going to be joined live by the republican congressman leading
A nine to nothing ruling. But the justices did agree. In fact that it is not up to the states to enforce an execute the 14th Amendment. You saw at Justices Alito and thomas in agreement with Justices Sotomayor and kagan on that point. Its simply he could not be as a matter of law, as a matter of constitutional interpretation, that every state gets to do what it wants, because otherwise that would leave us with a quote, patchwork of different states doing Different Things according to the decision. So its a rare 90 opinion and i think they hit the nail on the head here now we saw two concurring opinions, one by Justice Amy Coney barrett, and one by the three liberal leaning justices. They really had a big disagreement there yeah, i think the actual amount of disagreement here isnt that much when you drill down on it, its important to understand all nine justices agreed. Its not up to the states. The five justices in the main opinion said it has to be done by congress only congress can e
and 30, others wounded when a bomb exploded in a cafe and st petersburg today we are now hearing from russian state media that the explosive device may have been hidden inside a figurine presented to the blogger. the dead blogger had more than half a million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine yet openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. let s get right to cnn s matthew chance in moscow. matthew was this looking like a targeted attack. i mean, you ve got to be thinking that way, haven t you, given the circumstances that are being set out by the investigators and the eyewitnesses that are speaking to russian state media, saying that basically this character, this pro war military blogger who was the guest speaker at an event packed with other supporters of the war in ukraine was basically given a statue figurine, a little statuettes by somebody in the crowd. who was supporter of his supposedly and shortly aft
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allies in congress. cnn s alina train joins us now, elena, i guess this is not too unexpected . but what are some of these republicans saying that unsurprising jim, but we haven t even seen the extent of the charges that the former president is facing. and yet already donald trump s top allies on capitol hill are coming to his defense and attacking the cases. political persecution. we heard this from a series of lawmakers around the sunday shows today who went after the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. and try to explain why they think this case is politically motivated. and one of those people was mike turner. he s the chairman of the house intelligence committee. he was on cnn this morning, where he said that he thinks this is politically motivated, and he also is worried that this could change the way that the public views the criminal justice system moving forward. let s listen to he had to say. when this comes out, and we finally get to see what s happening. if this is pol