- rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who to blame what choice was he given?
since donald trump s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election culminated in a violent mob storming the u.s. capitol. for a few weeks trump was an outcast. a political comeback seemed far-fetched, almost impossible to imagine. and yet thanks to his allies in congress and the maga movement, donald trump has emerged here at the end of 2023 not merely a rehabilitated politician but as the undisputed leader of his party. now, trump began this year as the prohibitive favorite for the republican presidential nomination. even in january he had a monster 20-point national lead over his closest rival, florida s governor ron desantis. and in the months since, trump s lead has only widened. at this point a rematch against joe biden appears almost inevitable. and yet while trump s march towards the republican nomination this year was mostly interrupted, there has been for the last 12 months an x factor he has had to contend it, a series of criminal investigations. as the year began trump
a new cnn exclusive. former at the present time donald trump subpoenaed for records after he was caught on tape, discussing how he held on to a classified document. cnn has learned his attorneys haven t been able to find that key document. critical details in a case that prosecutors could be building against the republican front-runner. mike pence cleared. he will not face charge in his classified documents investigation. we have these stories and more, ahead on cnn news central. we have exclusive new cnn reporting about the special counsel, and that audio reporting of former at the present time donald trump. sources tell cnn that they turned over documents can bed to a classified military documents, one that prosecutors hear mr. trump describing. sources also tell cnn there is a giant unknown. whether the document in question, an iran attack plan, was ever actually returned to the government. paula, lay out the question of what happened here. so, let s go back a few
us from all around the world. the debt ceiling deal is done. we will take a look at the challenges president biden and house speaker mccarthy face as they sell it to lawmakers. and a colorful mystery authorities want to know why the waters in venice s grand canal turned green. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we begin in washington where there is an urgent push to pass a tentative deal to avert default. they are trying to build support even as they face pushback. while mr. biden says the agreement takes the threat of catastrophic default off the table, the critics will find he did not concede much in the negotiations negotiations. i said i m not going to do all the cuts. you pass the debt ceiling period. i will negotiate with you on the cuts. something totally different was attached before. tried to make it look like i made a compromise. i didn t. i made a compromise on the budget. well mccarthy has released the text of the 99 page bill which includes rai
tonight, straight from the source. aftershocks as donald trump fires back all the way to the supreme court. the new push in america s most populous state to try and boot him off the ballot after colorado supreme court removed him from the republican primary for engaging in insurrection. his california next? the official leading that charge joins us tonight. also, the fate of the hostages in gaza. there is word of israel s new offer, how hamas is responding, as the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows more desperate by the day. and it s an infamous murder case that once gripped the nation. a pregnant woman killed and her husband s accusation that ignited deep racial divisions and mistrust in boston. tonight, an apology. 34 years later, to the two black men who are wrongfully accused. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar. and this is the source. tonight, donald trump put potential return to the white house will depend, in part, on the same grinch of a governm