Joining us. The news continues here on cnn state the us and ukrainian defense ministers meet in washington. What kyiv wants out of the biden administration? and a brutal crackdown on women s rights, how the situation is getting worse in afghanistan cnn easily with well, the battle over abortion rights is taking center stage in the u. S. Presidential race. Donald trump is weighing in on the abortion initiative that will be on his home state s ballot in november and kamala harris has issued a strong response to trump s comments. It comes just one day after her sitdown interview with cnn s dana bash. While we start with trump saying he ll vote no on a florida constitutional amendment that would allow abortions in that state after the first six weeks of pregnancy florida law currently bans abortions after six weeks. The amendments will be on the ballot there in november. It s another reversal for trump, who has previously said he s against a sixweek ban. Cnn s steve contorno has more forme
From china. This is on top of the most favoured nation tariff of 6. 1 already slapped onto chinese produced evs that are imported into canada. Now, the government also intends to apply a 25 tariff on imports of steel and aluminium products from china. Canadas finance minister, chrystia freeland, says these measures were about protecting domestic producers. The reality is china has an intentional state directed policy of overcapacity and oversupply, designed designed to cripple our own industries. Talk to the steel sector. Talk to the aluminium sector to understand how effective that has already been. We simply will not allow that to happen to our ev sector. The auto tariffs bring canada in line with its southern neighbour. The us introduced 100 tariffs on chinese made evs in may whilst the eu is also imposing higher tariffs. It comes after Us National Security advisorjake sullivan, whos en route to beijing, touted the need for a united front on tariffs when he met Withjustin Trudeau an
Stefanos tsitsipas has also been knocked out in four sets by Autralian World number 86 in four sets by australian world number 86 tha nasi kokkinakis. On court right now, world Number One Jannik Sinner is playing his first match since it emerged he had twice tested positive for a banned substance but escaped a lengthy ban. Not going so well for him so far. His american opponent Mackenzie Macdonald has raced to take the first set 6 2. And hes one up in the second. Away from the tennis. Olly stone will replace mark wood in the only change to englands 11 for the second test against sri lanka at lords. England have begun their preparation after a five wicket win at old trafford last week. Stone was in the squad for that one, but comes in to start forjust his fourth test cap, following woods withdrawal due to an injury. And hes hopeful he can make an impact. Ijust i just love, you, the ijust love, you, the slog, should i say, of that hard graft and going out there and providing your team wi
States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
80087 to 4901 happening now, donald trump is back at a florida courtroom as his attorneys fight to have the charges in this classified documents case dismissed were live in florida. Meantime, in georgia, the Fulton County judge who just dropped three charges against trump could decide whether to remove District Attorney fani hey, willis from the election subversion case. And just moments ago on the us senate floor, the Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, called for new elections and israel sharply criticizing the Prime Minister, benjamin ateneo. Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington, and youre in the cnn newsroom just two days after he clinched his partys president ial nomination, donald trump is back at another familiar role today as a court defendant. The former president of the United States is attending a critical hearing in his classified documents case trump has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges related to his alleged mishandling of highly classified documents and for obstructin