A makes you look like a cool newcomer, i dont think thats what people want right now. We have a newcomer in the white house and look where it got us. I think having some experience is a good thing. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist, Dan Henninger and kim strassel and bill mcgern. How did Pete Buttigieg hold up under the attacks . Well, you know, it was no more mr. And mrs. Nice guy to New Hampshire. The stakes are so high that we saw a new willingness as you showed for the candidates to really go after each other. He held up well in they that his answer to a lot of this is he is presenting himself as the unifying candidate and also a new generation of candidate and so he has found so far its been to his benefit to answer these attacks by essentially saying we need a new vision and i offer that new vision, the politics of today have failed, et cetera. Paul s lets go to an exchange on Marijuana Prosecutions in south bend. I want to take a look at that. How do you explain t
This evening. They will talk about ukraine, just not with each other or in the same room. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the world lead. It has been something of a challenge, piecing together the events leading up to the capture of the events leading up to Bowe Bergdahl. But now cnn has uncovered some remarkable new claims from local afghan officials, not just about bergdahls capture but about his actions in the moments beforehand. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr explains. What are these local villagers telling us . Jake, its important what you just said. They are claims. We can not independently verify any of this. But a local Afghan Security official who was on duty in the area when bergdahl was captured is telling cnn bergdahl apparently wandered into a village. The afghan villagers tried to tell him, apparently, it was too dangerous, he shouldnt be there, that he should return to his base but they have language difficulties. No
Surprise move, the pope takes three families back with him to the vatican. And the battle is on in new york. Three days to go before voters hid the polls in what could be a makeorbreak primary. Lets talk now about the three migrant families who are with the pope on their way back to the vatican. Atika shubert was with the pope on this trip to greece and cnn vatican correspondent delia g gallagher joins us from rome. We saw incredible pictures all morning long with the pope meeting with migrants and then we get this news that three families, including six children, get a chance to go with him boarding that plane back to rome. How does this customarily happen . We know the vatican operates as a country in and of itself with its on governing parties. But describe, if you could, how the pope managed to do this . I think he managed it because hes the pope. The a vatican were cle clear because theres also a question of legality of bringing these people back to italy. But the day in itself wa
biden, they will likely be just as attentive for her considering are significant against for the charges at the heart of this case? yeah, absolutely. paul, it really appreciate the breaking news here and we ll be talking with you again just a short minute as we continue to follow that testimony. thank you. also want to bring you up to speed on some news breaking overnight, at least 52 people in central gaza are dead after an israeli airstrike targeted a un runs school and compound that was being used to shelter displaced palestinians. now the idf says it was targeting hamas militants using that school cnn, however, cannot confirm those claims. this is new video from just this morning. the strike comes as israeli forces ramp up ground and aerosols in the center of the gaza strip. i seen as jeremy diamond joining us now from jerusalem with more so in terms of that strike last night, jeremy, the number keeps increasing in terms of those those who were killed, what more do we know ye
we have is worth fighting for. and if we do not fight for it, we will lose it. and that is a very clear, clear situation right now. yeah, absolutely. and so many so many parallels that speech around paul reagan, some 40 years ago, really coming up again and again christiane. appreciate it as always. thank you so much i want to continue the conversation now with retired air force colonel and scene and military analysts cedric late and colonel latent defense secretary lloyd austin, earlier today said, at toward the end of his speech, you save the world, speaking to those veterans, they re saying we must it s now defendant has christiana and i were just talking about i m wondering if that message for you hits different this year well, i think it really hits differently because of the really the strife that we re dealing with politically as well as some of the challenges that we re dealing with especially when it comes to ukraine, but also the challenges in the middle east all of these c