79594061. Thats 800 is 79594061 call now United States of scandal with jake tapper next sunday at nine on cnn its monday, march 4, right now on cnn this morning, the Supreme Ct Signals are ruling could be handled that handed down today, that could impact Donald Trumps bid to return to the white house, plus there must be an immediate ceasefire this will get the hostages out and get a significant amount of aid in pressure on israel but is netanyahus Government Listening to her and nikki haley winning her first primary, we could find out tuesday if if it will be her last all right. 06 00 a. M. Here in washington. A live look at the Supreme Court where again, so much of the action in this 2024 president ial election is going to play out right there inside that building. Morning, everyone, im kasie hunt its wonderful to be with you on this monday morning. This week, the rematch that the country seems to be dreading is on former president trumps set to tighten his grip on the republican nomi
they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
they also must be pulling at 1% or greater in three national surveys, or to national and one early states poll. and, this is a big and, they must sign a loyalty pledge to the republican party, vowing to support the parties eventual nominee, whomever that may be. that they will not participate in any non-rnc sanctions debates. right now, the candidates qualified for the debates are the former president, donald trump, florida governor, ron desantis, the biotech entrepreneur, effect of a swami, the north carolina governor and former you invested, nikki haley. the south carolina senator, tim scott, former new jersey governor, chris christie, and the north dakota governor, doug burgum. notably still missing is the former vice president, mike pence. it s still not entirely clear, also, whether donald trump, the front runner, it s going to participate in the debate. he said he won t. my next guest says it won t matter. frank luntz tweeted quote, millions will be watching trump or know trump.
equivalent of the wwe. that s not what the viewers think. i know. that s what i said. go ahead, kirsten. the viewers don t make a disti distinction. if you were to ask them, they would say these are the only people we can trust. they do view it as the news. they trust them. they don t think they re lying to them. david, moving on to the republican national committee requirement that every candidate who wants to participate in rnc sanctions debates needs to sign a loyalty pledge so they will promise to support whoever the party s nominee ultimately is, listen to rnc chair rommie mcdaniel talking to dana bash on cnn yesterday. i think they ll all sign it. i think is voters are very intent on winning and don t want to see a debate stage of people
it s been a while since we last checked in on our 2016 fantasy candidate draft in which five fearless contestants randomly picked numbers off of a large board unveiling 25 presidential hopefuls that are now forced to live with those selections until november, 2016. according to our official 2016 fantasy candidate draft rules, it is time to update our scoreboard. now, you may have heard a thing or two about a republican debate. those in the top ten were able to participate in the debate and the less higher numbers attended a more sparsely attended forum. rules state they re awarred 200 points when one of their candidates participates in a sanctioned debate and according to rnc, the prime time and not so prime time fox debates are considered to be sanctions debates. so where does that lead our score board. joy reid had four draft picks puttinger in the lead with 1300 points. jess mcintosh has picks in the