Inspection colleague, three three leaf filter today, more physically filtered. Com adrenaline just like every tur n urine the cnn newsroom, im wolf blitzer in washington, and we begin with a Major Development are 2024 president ial race here in the United States. President joe biden and donald trump have just accepted cnns invitation to host, to hold a debate on june 20. Thats just in a few weeks thats months earlier than traditional faceoffs take place between, between two president ial candidates the announcement comes after a heated backandforth earlier this morning between the two, the president Challenge Trump to two debates and then trolled him over his hush money trial. Listen to this shop laws, two debates to me in 2020, it sends said he hadnt shown up for debate. Now hes acting like he wants to debate me again or make my day pal, ill even do a twice so lets pick the dates down. I hear youre free on wednesdays former president responded quickly calling on biden to quote, get re
Moment, jim jordan has indicated if he gets the votes to become nominated as speaker, he wants to ensure this wont go ballot after ballot after ballot that he can get 217 votes on the floor. Simply to get nominated by the conference, you need a majority of the 221 members. Jordan does not want to go to a situation like we saw with Speaker Mccarthy in january, 15 ballots, that messy process. Which why is theyre trying to sort this out Behind Closed Doors. The question is, can either jordan or scalise get there . The expectation is that they can. Well see if they ultimately can. Manu, thanks so much. Coverage continues with wolf blitzer and the situation. Happening now, Breaking News. Gaza under fire as israel unleashes new air strikes and says hamas Terror Attacks have killed at least 1,000 people in israel. The war taking a rising toll on both sides with at least 900 now reported dead in gaza. Hamas launching a new barrage of rockets toward israel as gruesome details emerge about the t
Right. Thank you all for being with us this morning. A lot cnn Breaking News youre following Breaking News out of madison wisconsin. This is the scene at the University Of Wisconsin right now where police are clashing with protesters alleged show you what happened there just moments ago all right. Lets bring in chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst john miller. John, your reaction to what were looking at right now, we should show our viewers or point out to our viewers. Youre looking at live pictures of what looks like protesters sort of locking arms outside the Campus Library there at the campus of the University Of Wisconsin, madison, john, your sense of things as youre looking at all of this . Well, i think the theme of the de seems to be emerging as the University Fights back. We saw the Police Action last night in New York City, the retaking of a season hes building at Columbia University a couple of hundred arrests there and city college. And when you look at whats happe
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what is interesting is the role of the high level officials that some of which are obviously played out in public view. in the end, fani willis decided for whatever reason that she was not going to bring those charges, perhaps because of the additional political implications of it, and the difficulty that it would present for her case, kate. interesting. evan, thank you so much. paula, as well. they will continue to work their sources on this. sara? we wanted to talk to some of the politics of this, and we want to go to chief congressional correspondent manu raju up on capitol hill. and you talked to senator graham about this, and the biggest revelation about this, and really what we have here is who the grand jury thought should be indicted and who wasn t indicted and what the law is, and we don t have the details of the how they got to that place and the evidence that was put before the grand jury in this 25, or 26-page report. but you have had a conversation with linds