what s moved this needle with the media? absolutely. absolutely. there s no question. you look at the polling and right now donald trump is seven point ahead of joe biden and trending upward. joe biden is trending downward. another republican says the quiet part out loud, brazenly admitting that his party s anti-biden crusade is nothing more than a time wasting political stunt to help trump. jamie raskin joins me to respond. as governor, high school teacher and author. wait until you see some of the things he wrote in a little noticed 2011 book on the founding fathers and president obama. and later, a san francisco journalist goes under cover to give us a rare behind the scenes look inside the republican party s anti-trans agenda. we begin tonight with the return of the twice-impeached, criminally indicted former president in a new york criminal courtroom today. it was donald trump s first appearance in this case, though he did so virtually from florida since he pleaded n
crash near the white house. a u-haul van smashes into a security barrier near the president s home. disturbing items inside the truck include a flag with a swastika on it. the 19-year-old driver charged with threatening to kill or harm the president, vice president or family member. surveillance video capturing harrowing moments and what came next as first responders trying to help a boy say they were met with gunfire forcing everyone to take cover. the latest on how all of this unfolded. and prince harry losing a legal battle over his personal security in the uk. just days after being pursued by paparazzi in manhattan with his wife, meghan markle. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. a 19-year-old man accused of intentionally ramming a truck into security barriers outside the white house is expected to appear in court this afternoon. cnn has learned new details about his arrest last night. authoriti
any minute now, republican senator tim scott will announce his bid for the republican nomination. the elephant in that room that you are looking at right now, those are live pictures, and what is he going to say about frontrunner donald trump. docked and ready to open the hatch. we are taking you live to international space station where the paying customers are making history. this is cnn news central. so, any moment now, republican senator tim scott is going to take the stage in his hometown in south carolina and formally kick off the presidential campaign. these are the live pictures of the event, and that is the room right there, and he has racked up some impressive endorsements, but he is entering field that most polls are showing that is dominated by former president donald trump. and we have eva kim there this morning in charleston, south carolina. what are you expecting to see? well, faith and optimism is central to his campaign pitch, and he is going to be le
13th, impeached, indict-able, and unrepentant. as he pursues another bid for the white house, the former president in the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination continues to tessa limits of the law even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of legal troubles. all of this on full display for the public over the past week. on tuesday, a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist ej carroll, who accused trump of raping her inside a bergdorf goodman dressing room back in the mid 1990s. yet just one day later, trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked carroll again, and continue to claim that her allegations were quote, a fake story. now this is not an isolated incident for donald trump either. it s a pattern of behavior, he has a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage. in just the last few years, we ve repeatedly witnessed
appease hard right members of his party who want major changes without the u.s. spends its money. this is how some of the same members he had to make deals with in order to win the speakership. joining us now is nbc nbc news correspondent allie raffa live from delaware where the president is spending the weekend. ali, the president is saying he is refusing to negotiate, republicans are saying they want to negotiate. where do things stand right now? yeah, unitia, well, a little bit of a hand yesterday with his remarks and president biden saying he is willing to sit down with speaker kevin mccarthy to talk about raising the debt ceiling to, quote, avoid a calamity that exceeds anything that has ever happened financially in the united states, president biden now saying exactly when and where that meeting will take place, just saying why he wants to have it, and then you have speaker mccarthy who we know has been under pressure from fellow house republicans. saying that they wa