Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We do want to begin tonight with the dueling visits at the Southern Border by the two frontrunners in this years election, showcasing the Record Number of migrant crossings that are overwhelming resources along the border and in major cities across the country. President biden was in brownsville, texas, where he issued a political dare to donald trump to join him in pressing House Republicans to help secure the border by passing the senates bipartisan security bill. Now, 325 miles away, trump was in eagle pass, where he took a much different approach, unleashing attacks on biden, democrats, and migrants, but not proposing a legislative solution. A record 2. 4 million migrants were apprehended at the u. S. Mexican border in 2023, and immigration has become the top issue for many voters heading into the 2024 election. Cbss ed okeefe is traveling with the president , and he will start us off tonight from texas. Reporter the
brian: we begin this hour with a brand new development with jeffrey document dump. steve: another one last night. another 300 documents were dumped or unsealed to the public, putting more scrutiny on former president bill clinton . ainsley: we are learning more about the hollywood stars in epstein s orbit and we expect more document to come out today. peter doocy joins us now live from the white house with the latest. hey, peter. latest accusation was bill clinton was doing some kind of crisis p.r. for jeffrey epstein. one of the epstein accusers virginia giuffre was writing a book and in it she claimed about bill clinton he walked into vanity fair and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend jeffrey epstein. those are disputed in the pages of the telegraph quote there is no evidence to support the claims and strenuously denied by a representative vanity fair s long time former editor who told the telegraph this categorically did not
you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. after days of violence, israel and the islamic jihad agree to a cease-fire. we ll go live to see if the peace is holding. plus, the latest from the u.s.-mexican border and the latest fallout from trying to house migrants in cities. a hug 42 years in the making. he reunites with his sister after he discovers he was stolen as a baby. reporter: live from cnn news center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s 5 a.m. here in atlanta, noon in israel where a cease-fire with islamic jihad appears to be holding. palestinians celebrated the cease-fire. many are skeptical it will hold. at least 35 people were killed. listen to what one person has to say. translator: the truce is good. we want truce built on a good basis. there is a truce and then after a month there are people who die. we want a truce based on a good basis. the idf says its oper
witnessed at last night s town hall. many of you have expressed deep anger and disappointment. many of you are upset that someone who attempted to destroy our democracy was invited to sit on a stage in front of a crowd of republican voters to answer questions, and predictably, continued to spew lie after lie after lie. and i get it. it was disturbing. it was disturbing to see and hear that person refer to a black law enforcement officer as a thug, an adjective he used many times to describe black men and called kaitlan collins, the moderator nasty, which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him. it was disturbing to hear him speak to shyly of qanon conspirators who assaulted officers on january 6th. and it was awful to hear him spread lies about the election. and young and old, fellow citizens, people who love their kids and go to church, laugh and applaud his lies and his continued defamation of woman who according to a jury of his peers he sexually abused and defamed
vow to fight on. we won t give up bakhmut. we will hold on until the very last. glory to ukraine, death to the enemies. and the wagner boss in an audio message, acknowledges the ukrainians aren t budging. translator: the ukrainian army is throwing extra reserves into bakhmut and trying to hold the town with all their strengths. tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers are repelling the attacks. bloodshed increases every day. reporter: wagner mercenaries are the spearhead of the invasion force. he claims they re making progress but often lack the ammunition to advance. translator: i will say a system needs to be worked out. i hoch that this system will start functioning soon, and we will be getting ammunition regularly. reporter: the u.s. and ukraine say the attrition rate among wagner s assault groups, often made up of prisoners recruited from russian jails, is as high as 80%. but the media channel is trying to convey how wagner is helping the convicts. in this film,