d.c. conventional wisdom. the summer beginning with democrats almost fatalistic about losing the house. here are today s headlines. a shift in trends showing democrats daring to dream, the times reported on the rebound. the post reporting democrats showing momentum in these recent special elections, which is hard data. the d.c. website axios reports on the democrats now stunning turnaround. now, first, this is classic washington a narrative zigs and zags. everything gets exaggerated. there s a lot of self-interested reasons that people need to make things so histrionic. i can also tell you tonight, the reason this is the top story here where we try not to be histrionic is because there is hard data showing democrats improving. and at this point they might start asking themselves, well, how did we get here? they may ask themselves, where does that midterm highway go? same as it ever was. that s of course how the talking heads and david byrne memorably put it. the numbers
want change. on the right we see growing evidence of a republican establishment souring on donald trump. two of rupert murdoch s flagship publications, the new york post and wall street journal published articles, including a brutal takedown head lined the president who stood still on january 6th. and he s rapidly losing ground to florida governor ron desantis who in speeches is sounding a lot more like he s running. i can tell you this, i ll be standing my ground. i ll be walking that line. we ve accomplished an awful lot in the state of florida, but we have only begun to fight because we are on a mission to keep the state of florida free and to save our great country! we re seeing a similar pattern on the left, too, with a party base that polls suggests is looking past president biden in favor of a new face for the party. and a number of politicians are clearly making moves to set up a run, either just in case biden doesn t or maybe whether he does or not. for more in
nearby and here stateside, nearby and here stateside, republican primaries have the attention of washington and bedminsterashi. nn iter looks like we already have winners, if you can believe itt or not, in missouri and inls michigan. h and the polls have just closed in arizona. gh now this hour, hour is going to be a high wire act as we bringal you alll of these breaking stories. but we begin tonighth with threats and truth. that is the focus of tonight s angle. five years ago, speaker gingrich with the taiwan. itwr was a completely wrong. the u.s. should draw a lesson f rofrom instead of making repeate the mistakes it s now. well, let me just tell you one thing, 10:00 a.m. in taiwan and to her credit, nancy, pelosi didn t back down when china essentially threatened to shoot s her plane out of the skt now 1 she s been on the ground for, what, about 12 hours or so landing here just after ten , thirty a.m. eastern today. we re going to bring e you news about the specifics of
the capitol riot committee s primetime hearing laying out in detail how the insurrection unfolded. the politicians, the pundits who say that january 6th was anything short of a violent insurrection are lying. the committee is promising many more details that we haven t learned before. just justin bieber taking a break after getting a rare virus that has paralyzed half his face. i can t smile on this side of my face. i m pamela brown. you are in the cnn newsroom. a call to action under a ban hear the sums up the high stakes, march for your lives. in more than 400 cities across the country today that s rallies demanded that lawmakers confront the explosion of gun violence and mass shootings. the largest was in washington where significant gun reform has stalled for years in the senate of the right now, senate negotiator working on a bptd package are expressing some optimism for compromise. our correspondents are fanned out across the country to cover these urgent
This morning. Less than two weeks after hamas Terror Attacks sent israel plunging into a new weir, President Joe Biden is now in that country to show solidarity with our middle eastern ally. The president touched down in tel aviv about an hour ago when he was greeted on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two men as you see shared an embrace. The two are set to hold talks throughout the day as tensions in the war start to spill outside israel and gaza. Last night propalestinian protesters clashed with police in parts of the west bank, lebanon, turkey, and jordan all in response to a deadly blast at a hospital in gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says more than 200 people were killed there, but israeli and gaza officials are both blaming the other side for the deadly violence. That blast has already forced changes to the president s schedule. Just as biden was departing for israel yesterday the king of jordan canceled a planned summit between himself, biden, the Pal