leaders of the world s wealthiest democracies sent a message to russia and china during the second day of the g7 summit. ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy is among the non-member leaders invited to the summit. he is boosting support for his country in the war with russia. zelenskyy is expected to address some leaders tomorrow, but today he held sit-downs with some leaders. providing military aid to ukraine was one of the items for the g7 leaders, but the leaders of japan, germany, italy, united kingdom and the u.s. issued statements on china to help end the war in ukraine and establish sustainable economic relations. ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling have been a subject of interest at the gathering. during a meeting with australia s prime minister, president biden was asked about the talks and said negotiations are progressing as he expected. we have team coverage. jasmine wright is live in washington. nic robertson is standing by in ukraine. let s start with
course today, and then the shock, the parallel world in which the republicans in the legislature live, doing what they were doing in the midnight hours. of the closing section of that legislature, which doesn t need to get rid until 2025. they are out. yeah. two years. they are. out two years. thanks, chris. out > thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. so today was the big day. the day the man who was widely seen as the strongest potential competitor to former president trump in the 2024 republican primary, today was the day this guy entered the race. it is the biggest day of florida governor ron desantis s political career so far. the biggest state, certainly, since he first stepped out into the national stage in 2018 as a candidate for florida governor. everyone knows my husband ron desantis is endorsed by president trump. but he is also an amazing dad. ron loves playing with the kids. build the wall. he read stories. that mr. trump said, you are fired
following all of this for us. thank you. top of a brand-new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. i ll bianna golodryga. the supreme court just finished hearing oral arguments in two cases challenging president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the decision could affect 40 million borrowers. the program, which would provide up to $20,000 of debt forgiveness has been on hold after a lower court blocked it back in november. conservatives challenging the program argue it will have widespread economic repercussions. the congressional budget office estimated it will cost $400 billion over time, but justice ketanji brown jackson argued one of the largest servicers of student loans, mohela in missouri, is not a government entity. in fact, isn t that really as you say the most important thing if economic injury is the point? yes. i understood that the injury that was being asserted here was an economic injury, but if we look at mohela and we
officials locate four kidnapped americans after they were stuffed in the back of a pickup truck. now two are dead. two alive. plus a new exclooifs be interview with ukraine s president. a 45-minute conversation including volodymyr zelenskyy s take on a setback in bakhmut. and ron desantis tries to grab the moment. the governor delivers the state of the state address, and previews his 2024 plan to make america more like florida. up first for us, devastating words from a mexican border taunt. officials announcing two american kidnapped victims are two, two others are alive. a source tells cnn that one of those two locked in a battle to survive. the race against the clock to find the hostages started last week. just across the border with the brazen attack. you can see it here. gunmen firing on the van before pulling americans from the car. john miller is working his sources. we begin with our security correspondent josh campbell. what s the latest on the sad tragedy here?
we have been following the story abouty liza fletcher since friday when this heiress disappeared on her morning jog. she went jogging and her family reported her missing four hours after that. bill: that afternoon investigators got surveillance footage of a man attacking here. they arrested a suspect a day later. dana: his name is cleotha abston and served a 20 year prison sentence for kidnapping and appearing in court in an hour. we are reporting live from memphis. good morning, guys. 38-year-old cleotha abston will face aggravated kidnapping and evidence tampering charges this morning in a memphis courtroom with the abduction of eliza fletcher. this coming hours after memphis police say they found a deceased body in a residential neighborhood in south memphis late monday evening. i want to make it clear memphis police haven t confirmed whether or not the remains belong to fletcher. the scene is attracting a large police presence. dozens of officers assisted in the inv