lives of your children are damaged and destroyed. mr. zuckerberg, you and the companies before us i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. you have a product you have a product that s killing people. i just want to get this stuff done. it s been 28 years, what, since the internet. we haven t passed any of these bills because everyone is double-talk, double-talk. it s time to actually pass them. that s just a small sample of a contentious senate hearing yesterday with social media ceos. we have much more to show you including the moment that mark zuckerberg apologized to the parents there in the chamber. also on capitol hill, a couple of republican senators involved in the border bill negotiations are calling on members of their own party to stand up to donald trump. and meanwhile, a top advisor in trump s campaign makes a shameless pitch to wealthy donors. we ll tell you what that is just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too earl
trump s political strength is still evident at the polls. overnight south carolina republican congressman tom rice was defeated by a trump endorsed candidate. rice was one of ten republicans in the house who voted to impeach the former president and one of the first to face republican primary voters. another race in south carolina did not go trump s way, congresswoman nancy mace at times a trump critic survived a primary challenge. in another significant development republican mayor flores flipped a democratic house district in south texas, this is a pretty significant special election victory that builds on republican gains among latino voters in the region in the 2020 election. joining me now is cnn senior data reporter harry enten. harry, i think the marquee race last night was in south carolina, people looking to see what would happen to this republican that voted to impeach donald trump. looking to see what exactly would happen and here is what happened, look, it s
an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
Back in court and on the attack, donald trump facing the new york judge who already ruled that he has been committing fraud for decades. The legal trouble the former president now faces and the tirade that he unleashed on prosecutors. Plus disaster averted, at least for about a month. Lawmakers are already battling ahead of another potential shutdown. And House Speaker Kevin Mccarthys fight with matt gaetz just got uglier. Also who is Laphonza Butler . Governor newsom just named her to fill Dianne Feinsteins senate seat and other democrats are already running to take it from her. That is all coming in right here to cnn news central. Donald trump back on trial. And this time his Business Empire is on the line. Opening statements wrapped up in his Civil Fraud Trial in new york and here you see footage taken earlier inside the courtroom. Trump seated with his defense attorneys, new York Attorney general Latitia James appearing at the camera at some point. The judge allowing cameras to rol
but the directive has not changed with the administration? nope. juan: that happening after president biden got called out by his own voter official. they claim he is denying reality what is happening. the same officials warning they were being overwhelmed and don t have the resources to handle thousands of children coming into the country. the biden administration also under fire for not letting the media into migrant facilities. agents reportedly feel like they are under a gag order. the white house being called out for lack of transparency. you all came in and to be truthful and transparent administration. and you will oversee the department of homeland security. so if you all wanted to grant access to the press couldn t you just tell them to do it? again, we fully support transparency and call homeland security for any press access or what you are looking to accomplish. the white house, we all need administration support in finding a way to grant access to the