thank you for wicking up with us. i am amara walker. i m paula reid in for boris sanchez and i am thrilled to be back with you today. thanks for coming back. i am glad we didn t scare you away. well, we are following two top stories this morning. a solemn moment expected today in alabama. president biden will visit selma to mark an important moment in civil rights history. the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. and a raucous welcome for former patient. the conservative political action conference in maryland facing a slew of investigations. the twice impeached republican promised a reckoning with democrats and establishment republicans. in 2016 i declared i am your voice. today i add i am your warrior, i am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. a lot to get to this morning. let s begin with priscilla alvarez in delaware with the president. this is president biden s third trip to selma but his fi
celebrating, great moment on the last day on that field. that little boy kept up. i was going to say, still running. yeah. cutest thing of the day. thank you, coy. next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, november 19th. i m amara walker. so good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. here s what we are watching for you. president biden rejects calls for a ceasefire in gaza again. plus, what israel s prime minister is saying about hostages still being held by hamas. republican presidential candidates are in iowa and on attack. what they are saying about president biden and each other. the most powerful rocket ever built lifted off from texas, then exploded. some are still calling the launch a success. we ll tell you why. and if you are traveling up it s shaping up to be a wet week ahead with several systems that could slow you down across the country. we have your holiday forecast. starting th
u.s. secretary of state antony blinken speaking moments ago during an unannounced trip to iraq as he continues his high-stakes trip through the middle east as the israel-hamas war intensifies. here is what he had to say. we just finished meetings here in bagdad. we started with a briefing for our entire team at the embassy about the security situation. as you know, there have been a series of attacks directed at our personnel, both in iraq as well as in syria. job number one for me is to ensure the security of our people. so i got an update on everything we re doing to make sure our personnel are safe and secure. in addition, i had a good, productive, candid meeting with the prime minister. there were two areas of focus. the first was to reaffirm our commitment to our partnership with iraq. we ve made tremendous progress with iraq in recent years, particularly working with the iraqi government on everything from economic reform, to energy independence, helping to strengthen
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thanks for that. let s go to priscilla alvarez in delaware where the president is spending this sunday. the biden administration said the trip is about getting through frosty tensions between the u.s. and china and getting them to thaw. how is it on the white house end of things? reporter: this is also to lay the ground work so president biden can speak with the chinese president or meet with him in the next several months. this is one of the most complicated relationships that the u.s. has and tensions between the two countries have been strained and sorared earlir this year when a chinese spy balloon flew over the united states and in addition to that there have been military related incidents with china as well as an expansion of intelligence gathering by china.