Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning, it is sunday, march 10. Them, Isabel Rosales and grammar walker. Im victor blackwell. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Were following Breaking News out of haiti. The state Department Says its evacuating nonessential personnel from the us embassy because of heightened Gang Violence. Cnns Patrick Oppmann is joining us live from the phone. Patrick, when did this start . So overnight last night, we know a us Military Helicopter did travel under the cover of darkness to portauprince, haiti and evacuated. We dont know how many, but us diplomats were told only us diplomats were evacuated from from the embassy because the ongoing civil unrest in haiti, Gang Violence that is essentially brought that country to a standstill, has made it too dangerous to have the embassy fully staffed. So theyre not closing the us embassy in portauprince, certainly. But they are reducing the footprint that number of spats there. And really the only way t
eric williams and latavia mcgee. the four crossed the border for mcgee to get cosmetic surgery. officials believed they got lost. the cartel gunman opened fire and this video shows them throwing mcgee in a back of a pickup truck and dragging the two men, two of them likely dead to the same truck. the president takes this seriously. the fbi and other agencies have been on top of this from day one. some critics of the biden administration have said the president must now send a message to the cartels, possibly through military action. others argue financial pressure would be a more effective tool. we need to bankrupt them and put them out of business and the people responsible for these murders need to be brought to justice. whatever happens next is clear than ever that the cartels control much of mexico s border. it has the potential to turn into this kind of violent tragedy. jonathan, thank you. standby if you will, i want to bring in marianne ratliff. the biden a
frontrunners for the 2024 republican nomination, even though only one of them is officially in the race. ahead, a veteran gop strategist explains why desantis is stealing some of trump s thunder. meanwhile, election deniers are celebrating after three states pulled out of a program to protect voter rolls with two more states considering joining them. we ll explain this latest development. plus, we ll go through the changes norfolk southern is making following the derailment of two of its trains in ohio. and we ll ask transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the federal response to the disaster and how to prevent another one from happening when he joins us later this morning. and good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, march 7th. we are live in abu dhabi, the crossroads of the world. it truly is, with our 30/50 summit, forbes and know your value has come together to create an incredible, cross-cultural, multi-generational summit that, really, t
from them. if there is less money coming in from the united states than what these drug cartels bringing in through profits, then the mexican government may do something. until then, we ll continue to expect this chaos. brandon judd, great to have you on. thank you,trace. president biden is telling an untrue tale to push a brand new tax hike and that comes with a new senate bill targeting tiktok. kevin corke is live with breaking information on this story, good evening. good evening, trace, very interesting story line here. i want to walk you through a few of them. a busy day at the white house. an effort to boost funding for medicare. the president says his plans to hike taxes on the wealthy, on income of those earning 400 grand a year or more is an effort to ex exextend medicare. republicae certain to reject the
president s proposal because it includes more tax hikes. the white house is throwing in support behind a new bipartisan senate bill that would give the administration power to ban tiktok here in the u.s. that legislation would empower the commerce department to review data transfers and communications technologies sent to any company which has a foreign adversary interest. you know how that would go for tiktok. say good-bye to the president s to run for the fcc. lying to congressional makers, gigi song finally withdrawn her nomination. that comes after joe manchin announce he ll oppose her bid. it had been a long, strange trip for her.