today on inside politics, red, white, and blue political theater. republicans pound the pavement, put on their best every man polos, and look for votes between burgers, dogs, and fireworks. fourth of july provides a 2024 test, one donald trump bets he s fine just skipping. plus, a first amendment victory or a green light to conspiracy theorists? a judge calls a biden effort to stop disinformation from running wild orwellian while telling top biden officials to cut off contact with social media companies. and just in, cocaine at the white house. a positive lab test prompts an obvious question for the secret service, whose was it? i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, a white house crime scene. a source just confirmed to cnn that cocaine was discovered inside the west wing. i want to go straight to the white house and cnn s priscilla alvarez. what are you hearing from your sources on this? reporter: dane, a source familiar tells
hi there, everyone. i m nicole wallace, thanks for being here with us. we ve got a lot of places you get your news today, we re glad you re joining us. four pm in the east, it s 11 pm in moscow. we re following breaking news this hour, with the latest on the revolt unfolding in russia. and we see news is confirming, yevgeny prigozhin is the head of the wagner group, which is a private mercenary army in russia, that s done a lot of the fighting in the war in ukraine. he has called for his moscow bound convoy to stand down for now. that s only after advancing to within 120 miles of the city of moscow. in the biggest threat to russian president vladimir putin s grip on power that we ve ever seen. prigozhin sent a voice note, signaling that the forces would stand down, saying the group understands, quote, the responsibility for spilling russian blood on one of the sides. we are turning back our convoys, and going back to field camps, according to the plan. this comes just hours a
suggest that a potential defendant cooperate with a prosecutor, just because he might be wrong about his blanket immunity statements. but look. it s very clear evidence wise that voter fraud is not why the election was lost. in fact, the middle part of my book explains in great detail with verifiable proof why trump lost the election. there is a simple explanation. it has nothing to do with fraud whatsoever. and when i m free to talk about it, everybody will understand. it makes perfect sense. president trump is not actively making sure that all conservative voters are in his camp. bottom line. and it s really hard to win an election when you carve out a piece of the electorate and tell them, you are dead to me. which is what former president trump has done many, many times. you have to have a broad coalition to win an election, and president trump has actively narrowed his base of support overtime. okay. it s disproven, it s coming out march 12th, it will probably be requi
thank you, this week begins with the gun safety conversation after another mass shooting. the crisis is important. it grinds on. we will continue to cover it. we have more on that important story later this hour with some special guests. or top story is what a season of accountability. you can kind of feel it in the air if you follow the news and see how many different issues have hit the court. closing arguments today, time where lawyers for e. jean carroll replayed some of that damning video testimony from trump himself, as well as him watching his solemn and the under-oath admissions. it may be one that they presented him as the evidence, that trump is their case, telling jurors this is who he is, this is his modus operandi, his m.o., the contact they want has been shown through their evidence on more than one occasion, shows, quote, he knows what he did. they also showed the jury trump s reaction of his own admission from the access hollywood segment. they tried t
a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. just ahead time that the president announce a declaration of a national emergency. we re working within the constraints of a broken immigration system. i have not seen from there is a seriousness of the white house that they want to deal, seems like they want to default. he knows what happened, what, where, when, who, why and how. he knows the answers. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 12, 9:00 a.m. in london and 2:00 a.m. in el paso where a landmark change in u.s. immigration policy is now in effect. the controversial rule known as title 42 expired just a few hours ago. that means harsher consequences for those entering the u.s. illegally. thousands of migrants seeking asylum made their way to the border ahead of the deadline. while things appear quiet right now, one official says that it will get worse. head of