just won a key endorsement from the united auto workers union as he and trump ramp up preparations for a divisive rematch. team biden seeking to bring the democratic coalition together amid protests of discontent among progressives. and my exclusive interview with second gentleman doug emhoff. the vice president and husband of vice president harris warning of the dangerous rise in antisemitism across the united states and remembering the horror of the holocaust. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. tonight the trump and biden campaigns are in a full-scale pivot just hours after the former president s double digit win in new hampshire. trump and biden allies now convince that had the fight for the gop presidential nomination is effectively over. but trump rival nikki haley says not so fast. more on where the race goes from here. reporter: joe biden and donald trump are headed closer to a rematch. i ve never been
within, it s more questions he has to find answers for. confusion and uncertainty in russia this morning after a failed revolt by the head of the wagner mercenary group. this was the most significant challenge to vladimir putin s authority in decades. we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. plus, despite mounting legal challenges, new polling shows donald trump expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. we re breaking down the new numbers straight ahead. and special counsel jack smith asks a federal judge to delay trump s upcoming classified documents trial. what we re learning about the possible new timing for that. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with this weekend s developing news out of russia where the head of the mercenary wagner group launched the most
prices up, taxes down? possibly the one good thing about inflation. the changes uyou could see in your paychecks on your tax returns. welcome to the lead i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin in the world lead in a few minutes russian president s vladimir putin rule of martial law goes into effect. this despite the fact that putin s army doesn t have full control over the area. and as the campaign to plunge ukraine into darkness continues, energy officials said they had no choice but to introduce blackouts following days of devastating russian cruise missile and drone strikes. missiles hit at least three power stations just today, that s according to the ukraine. nick roberts is in kyiv. reporter: ukrainian civilians now under russian martial law. lined up to be evacuated in kherson city. potentially to russia. russian imposed officially, in illegally annexed kherson told them it s not safe to stay. up to 60,000 forced out, boats used to ferry them away from the fron
police in tenerife confirm that the search for missing british teenagerjay slater has been called off after nearly two weeks. gareth southgate makes one change to the england side facing slovenia. hello and welcome. we start here in the uk. with just five days to go before the general election, the leader of the reform uk party, nigel farage, has given a rally in birmingham. it comes just days after a racism row embroiled his party in scandal. the prime minister rishi sunak descirbed the incident as racist and inappropriate. speaking in front of a,000 people mr farage told crowds he felt compelled to come back to politics as an alternative to whom he called slippery sunak and sir keir starmer. mr farage also said he felt that the uk was in cultural decline. that aside, with a country that s in economic decline. and think about this. gdp per capita has fallen for the last six consecutive quarters. people are getting poorer. and i couldn t stand aside. in a country that is in g
suggest that even though his numbers with republicans have gone up, more and more voters overall, including republican voters, are saying, well, we do worry, though, he could have trouble winning a general election. that s been the issue the whole time. absolutely. it seems to be something that s not much concern to donald trump right now. he ll fight, perhaps, through another means. you look at how he still never conceded the 2020 election. he very well could just make this scorched earth and just make this all about sowing distrust among the electorate about the validity of any election result and depress vote turnout. there s a lot that can be done. file so many lawsuits that it just overheats the tenor so much that you look at republican voters who will are already distrusting the system because of what donald trump has purported over these last couple of years. they really aren t going to trust the system if he goes fully scorched earth.