the key to understanding richard nixon is that richard nixon was never self-confident that he could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election, which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy, with bitterness. in a sense, the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demons that he always had within him to play during elections. it s about lust for power and absence of morality. it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this, whatever it takes. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. there will not be a cover-up. there will not be an abuse of power in this office. when you have a president who thinks he can do anything he develops weapons of mass destruction. i just want 11,780 votes. and that s really when you reach a tipping point in a democracy. that s how dictators come to power. within hours of the arrests at the waterg
committee investigating the house insurrection. five congressmen are subpoenaed including kevin mccarthy. and new evidence of possible war crime in ukraine. an exclusive on the general who ordered some of those acts of brutality. announcer: live from cnn. russia is reacting to finland s announcement that it homes to join nato with threats of retaliation. former president dmitri medvedev warns that it would strengthen its western flank. they called it a radical change in policy and a treaty vial participation will bring consequences. philipish leaders say their finnish leaders say it is a drastic change in the security environment after ukraine. helsinki admits there are no direct military threats right now and its extremely long border with russia is secure. finland has been a member of the european union since 1995. for years we ve been a very close partner to nato. so in that sense, this will not be such a major one and maybe it is not as big as people might think.
We continue to provide assistance, this will, their victory will be assured faster with less loss of life if we dont provide the assistance, then the victory will eventually be in jeopardy. But there are a whole host of reasons why it looks like ukraine is winning. And so congress should do the right thing. Interesting argument, et and farkas, thank you so much. I appreciate it. The next hour of new central starts right now we are, standing by for the markets to open future for Donald Trumps social Media Company or down this after he lost billion dollars on paper yesterday. How much more could he dropped today Breaking News is real, says they unintentionally struck innocent people in a string right . The killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen. Were standing by for reaction from the organization. And then abortion on the ballot in one of the most important for his swing states, a Florida Court opens the door to a ban on abortion after six weeks, but now voters will decide i
Donald trump now has only nice things to say about his former republican rival. What is he signaling now . We all love good in company if youre traveling from memorial day, youll be in very good company, a record breaking weekend expected on the roads at an airports across the country new technology meant to shut down r amp and shoplifting is costing retailers and you, the consumer, the Customer Billions of dollars on kate bolduan with john berman, amara walker is in for sarah. This as Cnn News Central this morning and the immortal words of jim carrey. So you are saying there is a chance donald trump opens the door to nikki haley for something. Maybe the day after haley said she would vote for donald trump, we are hearing from him for the first time on what that might mean moving forward, cnn, Steve Contorno with us now on what hes saying, steve zhai, hes going from bird brain to extending an olive branch to nikki haley on this coming after she said that she is going to vote for trump.
Good morning and welcome to the final day of the third week of Donald Trumps criminal hush money trial, where the former president just reentered the courthouse here in manhattan. Were you all again go before the prosecution as they are going to bring a witness back on the stand, a witness that we saw yesterday . Should i stillman that older testimony when court ended, soon again, trump will be part of that captive audience that is going to be listening to the prosecutions version of a trump tale, a sexual when counter with the Adult Film Star that the former president allegedly tried to keep hidden. From american voters. Yesterday for the first time, the jury actually got two hear trumps boys and thats secretly recorded audio tape. Good morning. Im Kaitlan Collins here in new york thank caitlin. Im John Mccarthy austin here in washington. And you are watching cnn Special Coverage of Donald Trumps hush money cover up, trial in minutes from now, testimony, resumes and zeros in on trumps