good morning. we begin this hour with a look at one of the most influential and controversial figures in the world today, elon musk. it was just over a year ago the spacex and tesla ceo completed his acquisition of twitter. since then, he s had no shortage of battles, we spoke about it with walter isaacson, his biographer. talk about writing at elon musk during a volatile time of his life publicly. talk about the challenges and awards as an author you got out of that. first of all, he has been volatile his whole life. as a kid, 2018, he s going just as crazy at times as you see him in the past couple of years. when i started this book, when we first started talking about it, he was the guy bringing us into electric vehicles and the only person who could send people into orbit in the u.s. i thought, good technology story. then a year into my reporting, he is secretly buying up twitter, going to hawaii in a two- to three-night binge and deciding to take it over. it became a
are caught in the crossfire to this day and try and figure out what is it that the world could be doing better this time, paula. incredible reporting. nima el bag ir, thank you. going home: the war in sudan is next. good night, ukraine for more than a year and conflict has once again broken out in the middle east, there is another often overlooked battle happening right now in sudan. in april, a paramilitary group called the rapid support forces, or rsf, began fighting the sudanese army for control of the country. now so far, thousands of people have been killed, and more than 5 million have been displaced, according to the un. that means, on average, roughly, 30,000 people are fleeing their homes every day. among those lucky enough to make it out have been the family of cnn s chief international investigative correspondent nima elbagir. she s not been back to her home country in more than a year after rsf-linked authorities issued a sealed indictment against her because
anderson cooper: welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. while war has raged in ukraine for more than a year and conflict has once again broken out in the middle east, there is another often overlooked battle happening right now in sudan. in april, a paramilitary group called the rapid support forces, or rsf, began fighting the sudanese army for control of the country. now so far, thousands of people have been killed, and more than 5 million have been displaced, according to the un. that means, on average, roughly, 30,000 people are fleeing their homes every day. among those lucky enough to make it out have been the family of cnn s chief international investigative correspondent nima elbagir. she s not been back to her home country in more than a year after rsf-linked authorities issued a sealed indictment against her because of her reporting on them. so what is motivating the rsf? and how are they able to sustain such a large and drawn-out conflict? very few western
when you go back to iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate, i m suspended my campaign. ainsley: scott says he will not endorse another candidate at this time. steve: breaking news overseas, six iranian fighters are dead after the united states targeted two spots in eastern syria overnight. lawrence: we know airstrikes were in retaliation for the 48 attacks on our troops in iraq and syria since october 17th. let s go to brian kilmeade. brian: since october 17th, we ve had 48 attacks. we attacked back twice. this is where most attacks are happening, in iraq. for some reason, we are going to syria. i assume there is a tactical reason behind it. take a look at where we decided to hit. we decided to hit right here. first off, we hit here before, an empty depot. we tried to send a message and make sure people were not there and took it out. yesterday we had strikes, one training center and one a weapons depot. we believe there are secondary explosions, when you
good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. here is the story. former president trump back on the stand right now behind those doors in new york city. he and the judge went at it this morning with trump telling him this is a very, very, very unfair trial. and then the judge asking trump s attorney to get control of his client at one point. before we take you to the courtroom with the very latest and the reporting inside, look at these new polls that came out over the weekend from the new york times sienna polling group shows trump beating the current president pretty handily in the battleground states right now. take a look at the margins. this is nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania. if you can see those numbers. maybe we can take them tighter. most of these are really the battleground, the deciding states for 2020. when you look back at 2020, the same period of time, biden was ahead in these states. he went on to win all of these states. now you have big-name demo