trump for the gop presidential nomination? think about it. he s a former president, essentially a gop incumbent, who is consistently polling around 50% of the gop vote in the polls. and we learned in 2016 that give continue hard core support that trump enjoys from some, he s the beneficiary of a large field. remember, in that cycle there were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley, and then vivek ramaswamy, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who, by the way, is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sounds like a candidate. even glenn younk gkin is taking second look. what s going on? maybe they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that will be done by a combination of al
his information. there s not the votes for it. what we dough know is in seven of the last ten negotiations on the debt limit, there s been budget dairy reforms. so 70% of the time, the debt limit gets lifted. there s been a discussion, conversation around and a negotiation about budgetary and policy reforms. that s what needs to happen this time. that s supported by the american people. 65% of the american people believe that you shouldn t raise the debt limit without doing something about the debt. that s what the american people are. cleary that s where we are. i hope that in the next few days hopefully by the time when this meeting happens on may 9 we can see serious and real progress or else the administration will be the first administration ever to have to deal with a default on the debt. a clean debt limit is not going to happen. i think they need to understand that. get serious about sitting down at the table. if the x day is june 1, that brings an additional sense of
hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around world. i m rosemary church. just ahead, investigators announce a reward for information leading to the arrest the mass shooting suspect in texas. details, plus hear from the family of the victims left behind. regulators weigh bids for first republic as they try to avoid what would be the second biggest bank failure in u.s. history. plus, the crisis in sudan. the first u.s. evacuation ship is expected to arrive at a saudi arabian port very soon. and a live report on the fighting and dire humanitarian crisis in and around khartoum. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. a small texas town is in mourning and on edge after a deadly shooting in which 5 people were killed. this man least his wife and 9-year-old son in the shooting. meanwhile, more than 200 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies are involved in the manhunt for the
you re back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with the manhunt that continues for this man. 38-year-old francisco oropeza has been the focus of a desperate manhunt since friday night. that s when neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle in the front yard because they were trying to get a baby to go to sleep. police say oropeza then entered their home and began shooting. an 8-year-old boy was among the five neighbors slaughtered, almost execution-style. that according to the sheriff in that area. cnn s ed lavendera is in cleveland, texas, for us. ed, i know you re on the scene of a vigil that just took place a short time ago for the little 8-year-old who was killed in all of this. and it s just, just underlines once again what we re dealing with in this country. just another awful tragedy stemming from mass gun violence. well, jim, even more troubling and disturbing, after just a short moment ago, we were able to speak with wilso
thank you for joining us in the u.s. and around the world, this is cnn newsroom. a desperate man hunt underway after a gun man in texas went on a rampage. broken truce, thousands rush to flee sudan. the white house correspondents dinner, on a night filled with one-liners, president biden calls for russia to release the american in moscow. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. a horrific story developing in the u.s., a man hunt is underway after a gunman opened fire on his neighbors killing 5, including a 8-year-old. the shooting occurred after a family asked the man next door to stop firing a rifle in the front yard because their baby was trying to sleep. authorities were tracking his phone but they say the trail went cold saturday night. he could be anywhere now, that tracking dogs from the department of corrections picked up the scent and they lost the scent in the water. the area went from 6 square miles, it could be 10-20 depending on whether or nocrsed