Is trying to make a comeback. But is it a bluff because he just trying to get attention will ask one of his former closest aides who will be here this hour plus a friday. Feel good from my hometown philly. See how the power of popcorn is giving one group but sense of pride and independence and leading this hour, President Biden on the road taking his state of the Union Address on tour for stop bat around pennsylvania and were standing by for him to speak any moment now, after last nights supercharged rather political speech, lets get right to cnns mj lee whos in wallingford, pennsylvania, one in 08 six as i recall, were President Biden is about to speak and mj President Bidens speech is to set to kick off a monthlong tour, continuing his State Of The Union message, what exactly is the white house planning . Yeah, jake, we should be seeing President Biden take the stage behind me any minute now, here in the suburbs of philadelphia to really kick off his post State Of The Union tour. And
Here in the suburbs of philadelphia, to really kick off his post state of the union tour. And we are about to see Justy Of Travel from the president. Tomorrow he heads to atlanta, georgia. And then next week well see him traveling to New Hampshire on monday, and then on wednesday and thursday, wisconsin and michigan, of course, two of some of the most important Battleground States heading into november. And what the campaign is saying is that between the president and Vice President kamala harris, they plan on the two of them hitting up every Battleground State in the coming weeks. Now, of course, all of this is about amplifying the message that we heard from President Biden last night in his state of the union remarks. And just a few minutes ago, we heard the president telling reporters on the tarmac about the idea of debating his gop gop opposition candidate, donald trump, and also whether he tuned into the republican rebuttal to his remarks last night. Take a listen. Will you commit
good morning. it is saturday, may 13th, 2023, of course, that is the year we are in. i m amara walker. thank you for the reminder. sometimes we need it. ikt victor blackwell in the cnn newsroom. we begin with the escalating violence between israelis and palestinians in gaza. the israeli defense forces, they ve launched a series of attacks today. the idf attacked islamic jihad sites in the gaza strip, they say. these deadly strikes on palestinian targets have been ongoing since tuesday. palestinian officials say at least 33 people have been killed so far including militants and civilians and an israeli medical service says a rocket hit a residential building there this week. one person was killed, five were hurt. cnn s ben wedeman is live in southern israel, near gaza, hi there, ben, what s the latest. what s going on there on the ground? reporter: what we ve seen throughout the day here is there have been occasional volleys of rockets being fired out of gaza, and mor
fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements, just some of the charges against congressman george santos. after spending the day in federal custody, he just pleaded not guilty to 13 counts. so what will speaker mckcarthy do? a major test at the southern border. patrols encountered more than 10,000 migrants on tuesday alone as pandemic restrictions come to an end, our reporters are speaking live with those families desperate to get cross. plus president biden hitting the road to sell his debt ceiling message saying america is not a dead beat nation. new details on ongoing negotiations with republicans as we close in on a crucial default deadline. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. new york republican congressman george santos has pleaded not guilty to the 13 federal charges hes faces in court. prosecutors say his bond is set at $500,000, though his travel will be limite
john trump is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing e. jean carroll at a manhattan department store in the 1990s then defaming her about it on his social media site. the jury took under three hours to reach their verdict and award carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment we ll be joined by jessica leeds who testified during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s, his lawyers neither put on a defense or called him a as witness leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of his testimony and heard the access hollywood tape where he said you could grab women by the genitals and doubled down on that in the deposition. historically it s true with stars. that they can grab women by the if you look over the last million years that s been largely true, not always but largely true. unfortunately or fortunately. and you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah