And although i will no longer be a candidate, i will not stop using my voice for the things i believe in. In all likelihood donald trump will be the republican nominee when our Party Convention meet in july. I congratulate him and wish him well. I wish anyone well who would be americas president. Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us. That was part of nikki haleys speech yesterday announcing the end of her president ial campaign. It means we are now 242 days away from a rematch between President Biden and former President Trump. But today the focus shifts to washington and President Bidens state of the Union Address. Well go through what hes expected to say tonight to congress and the american people. And meanwhile, on capitol hill lawmakers appear to have another deal in place to avoid a partial Government Shutdown. But speaker johnson again needed support from democrats to overcome dissent from within his own party. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on
Moment. But we can expect as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Wednesday night. Good evening once again, i am stephanie live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. We are now 244 days from the election. Now that Super Tuesday is history, biden and trump are set most officially for a rematch after nikki haley dropped out earlier this morning. Even though the Presumptive Republican nominee got rid of his rivals in two months, his victories reveal Warning Signs for november. Trump underperformed his pulling in every state. The new yorks times points out his victories masked problems with independence and republicans that voted for biden last time around. My colleague has more on that. It is now up to trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond who did not support him and i hope he does that. The battle is now on for her backers, urging supporters to join him in opposing trump, writing i know there is a lot we will not agree on but i hope we can find comm
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fleeing the banks of sudan has just docked. these stories and more coming into cnn news central. this morning, a manhunt across the state of texas for the man accused of shooting and killing four adults and a 9-year-old child. officers say that the incident was sparked all because someone simply asked him to stop firing his gun because a baby was sleeping. a $90,000 reward is being asked for his arrest. there is a huge number of officers searching for him but right now, josh campbell, we are hearing zero leads? yes, that is right. federal, state, and local officers are fanning across southeast texas, north of houston where on friday, authorities say that the man, the 38-year-old francisco oropeza conducted this brutal killing of five of his neighbors, and now they were originally able to track the cell phone. he discarded the phone, authorities said, and no leads but an $80,000 reward right now leading to the capture. and now, to walk you through the events. witnesses s
lot of new information in the middle of all of that. yeah, that s exactly right, john. so from the very beginning, the marion county sheriff kept alluding to this idea that detectives were looking into whether or not at least one of these three teenagers that were killed were involved in some type of gang activity. i interviewed the sheriff earlier this week and i asked him look, is this one? is this going to be a case where possibly ah, some of the folks that were in the car. some of the teams that died may not have known that one of their friends was involved in a gang. he said. they were looking at that possibility. however we now know this morning that at least according to the sheriff, as well as the detectives in marion county, it is now clear that all three teenagers that died were involved in some type of gang in marion county, the one thing that was asked a couple of times throughout the news conference was exactly why these three suspects the three people that are b