the partnership between the u.s. and vietnam. white house correspondent peter doocy is with them on this trip. good afternoon. we ve learned that president biden and china s xi who way back, have not communicating since november. that means that china flew a spy craft over the u.s., president biden ordered it shot down over the waters near south carolina, and still, nothing. and for president biden, it sounds like that s kind of a letdown. president biden, has president xi s absence impacted the summit? would be nice to have him here, but something the president really wants to do here is reform the world bank, give 70-plus developing nation a place to go for loans so they don t wind up on the hook, owing banks in beijing ultra high interest. this isn t about buying anything off today, it s helping provide through multilateral development banks like the world bank and imf, high value and transparent loaning opportunities for lower and middle income countries, many
you or a. loved one have mesothelial and we ll come to you 808 to one 4,000 this is cnn breaking news and we do start this hour with breaking news. a judge has upheld the criminal indictment against former president donald trump in georgia. the judge, they re rejecting this argument that trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election were protected under the first amendment. we have cnn, sara murray with us. she s part of the team that broke this story. sarah, walk us through some of the details we ll look, we ve heard these arguments last week, especially from trump attorney steve sadow saying that, you know, everything donald trump did in the state of georgia to overturn the 2020 election should just be covered under the first amendment. it s protected political speech. the the indictment should just be tossed out the judge today, he is not going to throw out the indictment. he did have some comments about how essentially using this speech in furtherance of an alle
entire thing then the rare opportunity won t see it for decades to come join cnn special live coverage of the eclipse across america, coverage starts monday at 1:00 p.m. eastern, or you can stream it on max. now, the next hour of central begins we just learned minutes ago that a crucial call today between president biden, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. netanyahu was not originally on the schedule. so what does that tell us about the urgency of the president s message florida six-week abortion ban, turning up the heat on donald trump. he s a former resident how will he vote when it is on the ballot, their new reporting this morning about how his campaign is working behind the scenes to address it. and then 30 million in hash stolen new clues, and one of the biggest heist in history. i m john berman was sarah sidner and kate baldwin. this is cnn. news central that s few hours. president biden is fully prepared to express his anger and frustrations two
for joining us. the newest continues now on cnn it s thursday, april 4, right now on cnn this morning, an outrage president biden set to speak with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the fall cloud growing after a strike kills aid workers in gaza. a race against time and taiwan rescuers rushed to save workers, struck, stuck in minds and people trapped in buildings after that deadly earthquake delayed, denied. a judge rejects donald trump s effort to stall his hush money trial all right 5:00 a.m. here in washington, alive. look at capitol hill good morning, everyone. i m kasie hunt, it s wonderful to have you with us. just hours from now. president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will talk on the phone for the first time. since an israeli airstrike killed seven world central kitchen aid workers in gaza, a senior administration official says biden is angry and will express his frustrations. but the white house says there s been no us shif
under trump this kind of government will perish from the earth. in a surprise move the biden campaign sent a surrogate of its own to lower manhattan yesterday. two-time academy award winner robert de niro. we ll have more of the actor s warnings about the dangers of a possible second donald trump presidency. and of course we ll go through what happened inside the courtroom as well. during closing arguments in the former president s criminal hush money trial as we are now just hours away from the start of jury deliberations. plus we ll go through new reporting on the deadly israeli air strike in rafah and the biden administration s response to the tragedy. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a big show this morning. and in just hours donald trump s fate will be in the hands of a juror. both the defense and prosecution delivered their closing arguments yesterday in