headquarters in new york city. call it a perfect political storm. fresh off his headline-grabbing trip through iowa, governor ron desantis is back on his home turf, again throwing shade at donald trump. his pitch to voters just an hour ago, pick me if you want someone who won t spend all their time on cable news and social media. for me it s like okay, what s that true north? you obviously have to win or you don t get a ticket to the dance. once you do that, how are you going to be able to bring about big change to make people s lives better. president biden s surprising new southern state strategy. why his campaign is weighing a big money bid to win states like florida and north carolina. is he nervous his political firewall from 2020 won t hold? the surprising at the stougt earn border. crossings defying expectations for a third straight day, down to less than 5,000 on sunday, the lowest daily rate in two years. we ll go live to texas in just a minute. we start with
florida, where we re expecting to hear from donald trump shortly, after he pleaded not guilty to sa criminal charges at a court hearing in new york. he s accused of falsifying records to conceal crimes. we understand that the people who have entered the room already, among those who are in the room are members of trump s family including donjrand family including donjr and tiffany family including donjrand tiffany trump, high ranking members of congress, matt gates and marjorie taylor greene, we understand our also big supporters of the president, we are waiting to see when that speech will start, we are expecting at about 15 minutes past the hour. let s take us through what has happened today. this was in new york this morning, donald trump left trump tower, travelled down town and turned himself in and turned himself in an a courthouse in lower manhattan. he waved to crowds but he did not make any comment. no video cameras were allowed inside the courtroom during his appear
This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. President biden arrived in israel hours after a devastating explosion in the courtyard of a Baptist Hospital in gaza, a deadly tragedy that the u. S. Is now asserting, the u. S. Believes israel is not responsible for. Rather, President Biden said earlier today, it was damage that the palestinians may have caused. The images emerging are devastating and the descriptions of the deadly aftermath are rather graphic. Heres what a volunteer who went to help clear the remains said. Translator i came at 8 00 a. M. As a Volunteer Thinking i would help with minor thing, but i was shocked to see unimaginable things like childrens corpses, elderly coralses, bodies scattered, intestines and many human bodies. The hamascontrolled Palestinian Health ministry immediat immediately blamed the Israeli Military and that accusation flew around the world, but after investigating the matter israel says that they have evidence that the cause of t
Grow the economy. We talk about bidenomics and see the economy growing growing ande unemployment under 4 and more than 14 million jobs at this point. X thats what were going to focus on and coming to republicans, they want to slash taxes for the wealth jim jordan and cut Social Security and medicare and medicaid and whats needed for the American People to give them that breathing room. Thats what the president will focus on. Lets not forget yesterday. Is it still appropriate for the president to go to israel given the ground war and people trying to get out. The president has to do multiple things at once. The president is going to go to philly and continue to talk about bidenomics and what hes doing to bring back manufacturing, to create good paying jobs. Thats what youre going to hear from americans. Thats something that americans also want to hear from. The president has been engaged in this situation that were currently seeing, the horrific situation in israel and hell continue to
Jesse jesse welcomed walking to the weak. Chaos continues to rip throughout the middle east. 17 Americans Still unaccounted for. The soon they are captive. The death count is over 1200. 1,089 of them are israeli soldiers. Its only going to get worse from here. These Search Retribution like their flaky israels Northern Borders with missile strikes. As the hezbollah hezbollah Artillery Pummels northward, hamas continues Thei Shelling of israeli civilians i the south. [screaming] is really is living a nightmare and is not ending soon. 36 hours in a bomb shelter as radicalized Jihadists Marsh on the Neighborhood Butchering anyone insight. You cant imagine the terrorist in your city, the terrace we are seeing, pictures of people they killed just in m neighborhood, my friends told m that terrorists are outside of their home trying to get away and we dont know how many of them are outside. You just hear the gunshots. And we know every gunshot kills someone. It as a person killed, murdered but