you re living in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. right now less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol former president donald trump is firing up his maga base at the conservative political action conference. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next president of the united states. president donald j. trump. [ cheers ] i m proud to be an american where at least i know i m free that was the intro for the former president just moments ago. trump receiving a warm welcome at the annual c-pac gathering where his following has turned dominant, and the man who tried to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be the party s front-runner for 2024, according to recent polls. manip minutes ago there was a straw poll, take this with a grain of salt, he trumped the biggest rival, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. we have more now from the c-pac gathering. i guess this was not a big surprise that trump won the c-pac poll and not much surprise what
action and went on to say he has to tell us why. what s going on? defense officials refusing to rule anything out. now there is a bipartisan call for greater transparency. house oversight chair james comer slamming the president, his administration for failing to answer these basic questions about what is going on. no one knows what s going on. even democrats are frustrated at the lack of transparency from this administration. you need leadership from the white house and the president should come forward and explain to the american people exactly what s going on. dana: chad pergram on capitol hill as washington struggles to understand a potential emerging threat and standing by is former navy seal ryan zinke of montana. let s go to mark meredith at the white house. do you expect to hear from the president today? i do not as of now. good morning. president biden has yet to say much about the latest objects spotted and shot down over both canadian and u.s. airspace. we ve
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murder charges against ex-officers there in that case will continue later in the program with maya wiley. we also have a twist in the trial of trump aide peter navarro, that had been slated to start monday. i have a breakdown on that coming up. a lot of new information. and we ll get into why it matters. the top story right now is new evidence in the continuing domestic terror that this nation faces. right-wing political violence. authorities releasing new footage from that attack on the spouse of former speaker pelosi. paul pelosi. the violent and disturbing footage shows the attackers approach on the pelosi s home and the horrific attack, i think we can look at this in full. this was 11 days before the midterm election. this is the political violence that many republican officials failed to condemn or even minimize. here s what police found when they confronted the intruder. [ bleep ] yeah, hi, guys. how you doing? how are you? what s going on, man. everything s g
sanchez. i m amara walker. thanks for joining us. i ve been checking the poll enforecast every day. it hasn t been good here. how about you? we may be getting the cherry blossoms. here s what we re watching. the white house rolls out another $400 million in aid as fierce fighting continues in the eastern part of the country. our alex marquardt has a look at the bat tle for bakhmut. it sounded like a freight train going by the house. at least ten people are dead after severe storms hammer the south. where we re seeing impacts from that system this morning. alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in jail. the judge s worjs for murdaugh during the sentencings and why the former south carolina lawyer will likely find himself in court again on dozens of other charges. also, cnn still in east palestine, ohio, as residents there begin to recover from that toxic train derailment. they care about their food. they want to know what they re getting. they want to kn