helped illuminate what a liar he is. plus, it can make the difference if you re trying to buy a car or a house. the stunning report that equifax erroneously issued millions of americans lower credit scores that they did not deserve. welcome to the lead. i m jack tapper. a report card and a reality check for republicans and democrats gearing up for this fall s midterm elections. the biggest takeaway is from another primary night, now coming into focus starting in kansas where abortion rights with on the ballot. voters in kansas overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion in the state. the turnout is giving democrats new hope, they say, that anger at that decision by the high court could deliver a midterm boost. on to arizona now where republican election deniers won big last night. cnn now projecting three trump-endorsed republicans who embraced donald trump s sad election lies will win their party s nominations for u.s. senate, fo
since friday, as in today is monday. unbelievably, the country is on pace for its worst year ever of mass shootings. this according to the gun violence archive. that means at least 246 since the beginning of the year. three-year uptick began in 2019. in 2020, it jumped to 610. and then just last year, we were at 692. but with all those numbers, there s really only one number to keep focusing on. i mean, that s if america wants to do something about these other horrible numbers. and that is the number ten, my friends. what would persuade ten republicans in the 50/50 split senate to sign legislation to reduce gun violence. i didn t say eliminate gun violence. the lawyer in me does not want to lead you astray. how about saving as many innocent lives as possible with some kind of action? whether public defenders in the bipartisan group of negotiators, who s working on a potential deal, said it quite well this morning. there is no one thing that will prevent mass killings. a det
You so much for joining me today. Anna very busy saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, the cnn newsroom with alex marquardt, starts right now you are in. The cnn newsroom. Im alex barack board in washington. Thank you so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News on capitol hill after months of delays and political turmoil in a rare saturday vote, house lawmakers passed stay billion package of aid for ukraine, for israel and taiwan now the deal heads to the senate for a vote before it can be signed by President Joe Biden two reporters across washington as well as in kyiv and in jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox On Capitol Hill to help break it all down. Lauren, what is the latest yeah obviously this vote a long time coming. Alex and theres been a lot of questions about whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson was ever going to get to this point, putting this ukraine aid package as well as additional aid for israel and taiwan on the floor of the House Of Representatives. And the r
and my understanding is there, there are very few conditions in this. is that right that s right those conditions are going to have to be negotiated between the biden biden white house and state department and the israeli government. and the administration. it has repeatedly said that they will likely not condition that aid congressman, you told our colleague manu raju earlier today, the democrats should not save congressman mike johnson as speaker. how do you see his fate after today s votes? i feel the same a lot of my colleagues in the democratic caucus feel that somehow we re beholden to speaker mike johnson because of today s vote, a vote that could have taken place months ago and should have my view is different. my view is finally speaker johnson did what a speaker supposed to do, which is allow legislation to come to the floor and let the will of
respond to immediately and with maximum effect that clearly has not happened so how keen do you think iran is to lower the temperature now while iran is famous for its bluster and it s harsh rhetoric, the foreign minister is not a significant actor in iran decision-making circle, and he certainly would not be a dominant voice in the discussion as to how much strategic risks russia, iran would take on. i think you ve also seen a great success of us diplomacy, where the united states and its partners put diplomatic pressure on israel and iran to restrain themselves and to prevent this from becoming a broader conflict. i think iran has responding to this pressure as well. because it does want to maintain engagement with europe asia, and regional actors in terms of that decision-making circle that you just mentioned, my colleague katie bo lillis and i have just written about how last weekend s strike by iran against israel has