today on inside politics, negotiators are racing to try toex tend the tempt the prayer truce between israel and hamas. with just hours left before the current deal expireses. a top official tells cnn he s hopeful they will be able to continue this pause. it comes as we are standing by for hamas to release the final group of hostages as part of the current deal. cnn is covering this past-moving story from all angles. i want to start with wolf blitzer in tel aviv. it s nice of you on again on yet another critical day. a very critical day indeed. israelis are very nervous. they want to see this temporary pause continued as well. they want to see more hostages coming back to israel. there s a lot of tension going on right now. they don t know what s going to happen. every day it seems the past several days there s nervousness. will there be more hostages coming forward, will there be a delay and there have been delays and previous days as we all remember. or will this go smoo
first southern primary. he had endorsements from 140 current and former south carolina officials. one of the things that we face as a nation today this culture of grievance that brings with it the drug of victimhood and the narcotic of despair. we have to push back on that. the truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left. former south carolina governor nikki haley has been hitting the early states. this morning announced her iowa campaign team. this weekend the north carolina gop held their convention. governor ron desantis, former president trump and desantis addressed the crowd. we re going to pay off our debt. i give you the biggest tax cuts in history. desantis knocked trump for the national debt expanding by trillions. trump spend much of his speech ripping the dent of justice over
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will voters in south carolina take revenge on two house republicans who defied former president trump? it is a key test for trump s endorsement power as voters are going to the polls today in south carolina and four other states. we re on top of all the races and with us is harry enden. let s start in south carolina. what s at stake there? reporter: yeah. we re going to go to the seventh congressional district in south carolina. look, we got a pretty hot republican primary here. tom rice is the incumbent. he voted to impeach donald trump which donald trump not exactly a big fan of. so he s, in fact, backing russell frye. here s the key thing i point out. this is a southern primary. that means that you need to receive a majority of the vote to win outright tonight. if a candidate leads even after tonight s vote but don t receive a majority, there will be a runoff on june 28th. we re going to go to south
continuing coverage of the pope s visit to the united states and the mass is coming but first the top two republican presidential candidates are on the campaign trail in south carolina today. carly fiorina officially applied to be on the ballot for the first in the south primary. she soared in the polls after last week s gop debate on cnn and donald trump met with african-american business leaders in charleston this afternoon said to hold a town hall meeting in columbia tonight. karl is live in the d.c. newsroom. jeb bush, ted cruz and marco rubio will be around and there are lots of candidates with the first southern primary. mike huckabee is down there, rand paul and carly fiorina and mr. trump, the front-runner trump addressed the greater