Good evening, im jim acosta. Joining me in moments, president potential candidate vivek ramaswamy, whose name showed up in a ron desantis debate memo as the rival to attack on the stage. Hillary spawn that and more. But first, in just a few moments, in the date on the calendar will be april 2026. Thats two years, seven months from now. Thats nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. And just a year and a half before the 2028 election. And yet, donald trump and his lawyers are suggesting that date for his trial in the federal case on his efforts to overturn the election. Its their counter to jack smiths proposal to start this january. Meantime, the former president , in his first on camera reaction to the george indictment, has a warning to his party. Disgraceful thing. And republicans cant let him get away with it. Republicans have to be tough. The republicans are great in many ways, but they dont fight as hard for this. They have to get a lot tougher. If they, dont theyre not
Spoke with reporters on his policy agenda. Good morning, everyone good morning, everybody good morning, everyone we have a mic. My name is neil, the executive director and i want to welcome to the nhlp. I know its a quiet season and many of you havent been here recently. Oh, thats the end of my jokes if youre not laughing. Neil here, you can use this one. Ill lend it to you. Glad were all participating in it but i do want to go ahead and get started. So i want to introduce republican president ial congressman Vivek Ramaswamy and ro khanna from california. We are asking the participants to solve middle east peace, give their guardrails for a. I. Or solve Social Security in 45 seconds or less. And if i may, we are also going to have a chance to be serious for once and flush out some issues. So honor their commitment to do Something Different and better, im going to make my own similar lar commitment as a moderator today. There will be no process questions. No political horse race questio
Good to see you. It was great hearing from you. The 1776 revolution and to the truth, this is the man who is going to bring it for us right here. Lets give it up for vivek ramaswamy. Good to see you. So glad you are here. Mr. Ramaswamy it is good to be here. Thank you for your service, sir. Another hand for my friend, how about that. A brainiac. I love people with brains that can see beyond the surface. One of the things we do not do anymore in this country share our thoughts in the open. You want to know how well we are doing as a country echo here is the metric that matters. It is not the number of ballots thank that get casts, the best measure of american democracy is the percentage of people who fill free to say what they actually think in public. Right now, we are doing poorly. We can do better and the only way we are going to do it, is all of us, not just me, all of us starting to talk openly again. That is what we are going to do tonight. I want to tell you my story, while we ar
are you live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we are following a number of new developments in the israel-hamas war. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has wrapped up his meeting with arab leader in jordan. blinken stressed support for israel to implement humanitarian pauses, as he s calling them, in the fighting in gaza. short of a cease-fire demanded by arab countries and international aid agencies. the u.s. official says hamas is blocking foreign nationals from leaving gaza for egypt through the rafah crossing. hamas is demanding that israel guarantee that ambulances from gaza, that they can reach that crossing. and egyptian source says more than 700 foreign nationals were expected to cross through rafah earlier today including 400 americans. free, free palestine! people around the world are marching and singing in rallies against the war today including this one here in washington. you can see the capitol in the background there.
Right now im going to yield the floor, as they say in the senate, to our distinguished guest speakers, bob kerrey and jack danforth, who together spent more than 30 years i guess in the United States senate and served as governor, for bob kerrey, and attorney general, for dan for jack danforth. I will yield the floor force much time as you may consume. Great. Well first off its great to be with jack again. And let me try to be relatively brief, ive been out of the senate for 13 years, but the first most important question for the American People to ask and answer is do we have a problem . Because if you dont think theres a problem, particularly the candidates, and especially the press its just the candidate, is there a problem . Because if you dont think theres a problem, why pose any solution . One of the challenges we have, happen to think we do have a big problem and that its a demographic problem. It wasnt caught by liberals or conservatives. You cant blame it on anybody. Its demog