are the people most opposed to donald trump actually aiding his election? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. tuesday is the new hampshire primary. the gop race in the sggranite state thought to be a two person affair. if trump b the first nonincumbent republican to win both iowa and new hampshire, he will be the de facto nominee of his party, but new hampshire could prove more hospitable for haley. high school home to more libertarians and independents. so haley is all in. and so too are many institutional forces which see time running out to stop trump. but are some of those efforts backfiring? mark halperin in his newsletter regularly chronicles this phenomenon which he calls the sad irony of those members of the media and the democratic party who most worry about a trump second term acting in ways that actually make it more likely he will win. here is an example. monday msnbc had the kind of all night extensive coverage of the iowa caucus that we ve come to expect of
aisle coming out against it. the nation could default within days. also tonight, the battle heating up for the republican presidential nomination. two big names, former vice president mike pence and chris christie, now set to jump it as florida governor ron desantis takes his toughest shots yet at donald trump. the search for survivors in that partially collapsed apartment building in iowa. tonight, you ll hear from the families holding out hope amid the rubble as the woman who was rescued after being trapped for 27 hours speaks out. plus, the pets just rescued. out-of-control wildfires in canada. why they re triggering air quality warnings in the u.s. this just in, the sitcom star convicted of rape in a case that put his religion, scientology, on trial, as well. nasa weighing in on videos of suspected ufos. we ll show you what they said about these giant orbs flying across the sky. the wild video from a georgia highway. this car launching off a tow truck s ramp g
good morning, everyone. it is friday! friday! i m so happy to have my long time erica hill with me today. and next week. thank you for getting up super early. great to be with you. a lot going on this friday. let s get started with five things to know for friday, may 26th. the house negotiators are moving closer to avoid a default. it would lift the debt ceiling and cap spending for two years. memorial day weekend kicking off to be a very busy travel summer. aaa expects air travel to be higher than pre-covid levels. airlines face staffing shortages and air traffic control problems. two workers in mar-a-lago moved boxes of papers one day before the fbi visited the former president s home to pick up classified documents last year. the post also reporting that he had classified documents in his office at times and showed them to others. also in texas, lawmakers recommending articles of impeachment against the state s attorney general. they re accusing ken paxon o
angle. now, in the gop primary season, the two biggest dogs in the pen, they re already getting into it. when the ron desanctimonious facts come out you will see he s better than most democrat governors but very average at best compared to republican governors who have done a fantastic job. look at disney and what a mess it is. could have worked out an easy settlement, but, no, he wanted to show the fake news how tough a guy he is. he s not. he did great for three years, but when he turned it over to fauci in march of 2020 that destroyed millions of people s lives and in florida we were one of the few that stood up, cut against the grain, took incoming fire from media, bureaucracy, the left, even a lot of republicans. laura: well, this is going to be fascinating to watch, we all know that and we ll watch the drama through the debates and while at times egos will be bruised and tempers will flair let s not lose perspective or focus because as rough and tumble as things a
and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead russia is making every effort to make it looks like a victory day as we have seen them. this is the second victory day that has taken place since the start of russia s invasion of ukraine. 152,000 migrants are waiting in northern mexican states for the lifting of title 42. borders are closed today and the borders will be closed after title 42 expires. american air travelers deserve better and that is what we ll do. we are here to enforce passenger rights and hold airlines accountable. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, may 9, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00 a.m. in moscow where there is victory day marking defeat of nazi germany, but this is overshadowed by their own war on ukraine. several regions across the country scaled back events amid security concerns and lack of military equipment and in just the last hour we heard from pres