You were in, the cnn newsroom im paula reid in washington. Any moment now at st. Patricks day, tradition, President Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks from the white house. And well bring that to life. Ive just ahead. But for now, we had to russia, where Election Officials say Vladimir Putin is in the lead in the president ial vote polls close earlier today after a three de, vote with no genuine opponent running against putin he is expected to win, keeping him in office until 2030 and continuing russias longestserving leader since soviet dictator Joseph Stalin cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Frederik Pleitgen is in berlin. Starting with you, matthew putin just spoke. What did he say . Yeah it was a very short victory speech, even though the final results havent come in, it looks like this has been a Landslide Victory as expected for the russian president to secures a fifth president ial term. And these were shot comments at his campaign headquarters. He walked into the room, he t
This is cnn Breaking News good morning made, this sunday and have recovered and we begin with this Breaking News moments ago in russia, the last polls closed following a threeday president ial election. With no genuine opposition candidates appearing on the ballot. The outcome was never in doubt. Vladimir putin is expected to win the vote that will keep his grip on power through 2030. He has already, as russias longestserving ruler since soviet dictator joseph stalin, weve got full coverage for you. Cnns Matthew Chance is in moscow and Fred Pleitgen is in berlin. Matthew, you first despite the lack of opposition, there were there any acts of defiance today were yet to happen. In fact, of the course of the past three days when voting has been taking place has been a surprisingly high level of acts of defiance, disruption at Polling Stations, and things like that. Youve got to remember, russia is a country where public displays of dissent and criticism of the kremlin cant have extremely
Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning, it is sunday and im jessica dean victor blackwell, and amara bunker have the morning off and heres what were watching for you today. The us carried out its first airdrops of humanitarian aid into gaza. And President Biden says there is more to come or live in the region with more on the Relief Effort and where the Ceasefire Talks stand today. Plus donald trump brexit, more gop primary wins, but nikki haley is not backing down. Well tell you about her strategy heading into Super Tuesday coming up well, lets to that. Thats what 100 mile per hour winds sound like. More of that in store is Blizzard Warnings remain in effect in parts of california and son day, those areas that can see up to six inches of snow per hour plus lakers superstar lebron james. Yep, he hit another major career milestone. Well explain later on cnn this morning well begin here with the us and jordan successfully conducting its first airdrops of aid into gaza. The combined
Thanks for joining me today. Im a Marquee Mendez in for frederica. What field weve got a lot to get through, and were going to start this hour with another critical week on the Campaign Trail. And on capitol hill, former President Donald Trump continues his march towards clinching the gop president ial nomination, sweeping three more states on saturday, his campaign is now aiming to build up an insurmountable lead in two days from now, Super Tuesday, when voters in 15 states and one us territory head to the polls nearly a third of all republican delegates will be handed out. And despite just getting a fraction of the republican delegates so far, nikki haley is hanging around today. Shes dropping hints that she may stick around even if she doesnt win any states on tuesday ive always said this needs to be competitive as long as we are competitive, as long as we are showing that there is a place for us, im going to continue to fight. Thats always been the case. Would you see yourself as c
Washington so we can use it to her biden of november. Also, a cnn exclusive. Our conversation with senator Bernie Sanders, who had some skin he didnt criticism of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and called for an immediate end to the war in gaza. And a lot more that youll want to see. Im kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight, we start as we are witnessing the aftershocks really play of that Supreme Court decision that has imploded the trump legal calendar. Jack smith is now suggesting that they move the start date for that trial in the Classified Documents case down in maralago, a move that comes just one day after the justices slam the brakes on the case against trump in washington for his efforts to overturn the 2020 the results late this evening, the special counsels office filed this new motion that youre seeing here asking for donald trump and two of his codefendants to stand trial beginning july the 18. One other codefendant a little bit after that the special counsels te