With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
Order including alvin bragg and his own family. That ruling came in an order last night following a filing from alvin Braggs Office and in the wake of repeated attacks and ongoing ones by trump on the judges daughter. The kind of stuff so completely nonsensical and baseless and Out Of Bounds that most normal criminal defendants would not contemplate launching attacks like this. But donald trump is no ordinary criminal defendant, is he. Next expresident. With just two weeks to go before he goes on trial. He was intent on turning the proceedings into a circus. To benefit him politically, because he knows that winning the white house may be his only way out of his now many legal trev ails. The judge dismisses the claim that hes exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he charges the judges daughter, and that is judge talk for a lie. This pattern after tacking Family Members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose. It merely inj
Thats 1807123800. Im Caitlin Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn universities on edge, we are following the clashes on campus is propalestinian protesters dig in and schools are forced to adjust their plans the end of the semester plus the Bidenharris Campaign back and former President Trumps back yard as the Vice President rallies for Reproductive Rights and florida, where a strict new city sixweek abortion ban is now in effect and Secretary Of State Antony Blinken puts new pressure on hamas to accept the proposed hostage deal with israel. As we learn more about the brutal impact that the war is having on civilians in the gaza strip. Were following all of these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. The Cnn News Central today hey, classes at ucla are canceled after violent hours long clashes broke out overnight on campus between propalestinian demonstrators and Counter Protesters. And it comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom is dem
Speaker mike johnson and walk trump will make a public appearance with johnson, a big question is, will he give the Speaker A Public show of support . Johnson is facing a serious its challenge to his leadership. Gop congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is Still Standing firm on her threat to force a vote to remove johnson as Speaker Trump and johnson are expected to deliver remarks on wait for it election, integrity. Remember, johnson played a key role in trumps efforts to overturn the logit jim, it results of the 2020 election. We are told the two are planning to draw attention to alleged efforts to allow ncitizens to vo. Wehould note currently federal law bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections if they do, which th often do not, they riskajor fines up to a year in prison and rtees i want to bring in cnns melani what more do we know about why speaker johnson feels that he needs to go marao to kiss theing mieah. Brianna, this is a big ment for speaker joson, on the line right
hard want to do because once you do it, you gotta keep doing here. monday. how about that? all right. sounds good. and be sure to watch speaking of which cnn special coverage of the eclipse across america starting monday 1:00 p.m. eastern or stream it on max, a new our of cnn news central starts right now all right breaking news, waffle, new number is just in from the new jobs report way higher than expected. the unemployment rate dropped, no recession in sight it justin israeli military releases initial findings into the strike that killed seven world central kitchen aid workers, where the idf is placing the blame. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central all right breaking news coming in hot red hot the economy added 303,000 jobs in march. way way higher than expectation. cnn s matt egan is with us now, mac give us a sense of these numbers and what it means john, this is another blockbuster jobs report and i gotta give you