with you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. he s back and making a splash at cpac. what donald trump had to say to the enthusiastic crowd and the thinly veiled swipe he took at a potential rival. another train derails in ohio, just one month after the hazardous material spill in east palestine. what residents are saying about the two incidents. and the battle over abortion, now being waged in drugstores. what a decision by a leading chain could mean for women across the u.s. zp announcer: live from cnn center, this has cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. former u.s. donald trump got a rapturous reception from the political action conference in maryland on saturday and some momentum for his 2024 presidential campaign. trump spoke for nearly two hours. he said he wouldn t drop out of the presidential race, even if he was indicted in the state or federal investigations he faces. and he alluded to some familiar conspiracy theories. here he is. i will totally
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
Were dispersed by police. authorities say more than 150,000 people marched through that city on saturday. most were protesting against the prime minister s plan to weaken the independence of the judiciary. some were also there to condemn israeli settlers for attacking a palestinian town. israel s finance minister said last week that the town, quote, needs to be erased, but he later walked back his comments. today, the prime minister thanked him for taking his words back. earlier, cnn spoke to the opposition, to israel s government with aaron david miller, and we asked him what was behind these large protests. here he is. the protests are unprecedented in size and scope and intensity and duration. so that s new. israel has never had a governor like this. two of its prime ministers are openly homophobic, racist, anti-democrats. and you have a prime minister who wants to use the judicial to undermine the powers of the supreme court in favor of the
Anti-democrats. and you have a prime minister who wants to use the judicial system to underpower the supreme court in favor of the legislature in order to figure out a way to beat his ongoing trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust. t there are other motives as well. some want to use judicial override in order to pass legislation that would find a way to permanently bind the west bank to israel proper. so there s a lot at stake here. and the fact that you have one of the ministers, the minister of national security with broad authority over the police, also means that you have new and unprecedented tactics on the part of the police to quell these demonstrations. so it s combustible and i suspect it s not going to end unless a compromise can be found. aaron, in a new article for foreign policy, which is entitled netanyahu faces his own israeli spring you write protesters in israel are
I look forward to seeing where that leads. but someone knows who did this besides the leaker in that court. tucker: they just did this look, i don t agree with stephen brier but i think he s smart and interesting. you know, he s an american that got the job legitimately. he shouldn t be forced out because people don t like his skin color. that happened the same way this did. nobody did anything about it or noticed it. because the liberals that claim to be the defenders of democracy as you noted in the open today they re the anti-democrats. the language is we re pro choice. no, they re the wrecking ball to american democracy today. imagine if the case was reversed and we had heard through a leak that the court was coming down the other way. imagine if mobs of people descended at the court screaming what could be described action