gun legislation in three decades, just a week after a gunman killed seven people in highland park. this legislation is real progress, but more has to be done. those families in highland park, on july 4th a parade became a killing field. the white house being urged to do more on guns as democrats are also calling for more federal action on abortion rights. yeah, there s more that needs to be done. and i know the president knows that. president biden is facing challenging political headwinds as he s hemorrhaging support in his own party ahead of the midterm elections. elections matter. a new poll shows 64% of democrats want a different candidate in the 2024 presidential race and only 26% believe that biden should be renominated. biden is already the oldest president in american history and 33% of democrats who were surveyed voiced concerns about his age. he intends to run. and if he does, i am tend to run with him. so there you go. among all voters, biden s job
Manafort knows and whether it involves the president of the united states. our analysts are here along with our justice correspondent evan perez who was in the courtroom earlier today. evan, tell us what it was like. it was a dramatic hour that you personally eyewitnessed. right, it was a dramatic hour. what was most remarkable about it was that the prosecutor, andrew wiseman, sort of delivered this in the middle of an extended sotatement of what paul manafort was admitting to. in the middle he breezed by, saying in page two of the cooperation agreement, and we all gasped at the idea there was a cooperation agreement that we did not know about. it is clear this is an extensive agreement. it is something that is broad and essentially gives prosecutors everything that they want. as you said, the language says that any and everything that the prosecutors want him to testify, he has to come in for interviews and briefings without a lawyer present. he has to testify in any
More about how you deal with this very real threat, wolf. the north korea threat. a lot of national security experts say that is the top, the most national security threat facing the u.s. right you no. stand by clarissa, i want to get to be. kevin lip dak is our white house producer. you are there. you were there in mara laga when president trump and the visiting japanese prime minister shinzo abe, they got word that north korea launched this ballistic missile. you ran a detailed piece for cnn.com in which you explained how they got the word. the pictures we saw. it looked like they were out in the open at mara lago, the president s estate there. and some were describing it as a sort of situation room where they were discussing national security information. walk us through what you eyewitnessed. it was a little different than your situation room, wolf. it was an extraordinary moment down there in palm beach. the president hosting japanese
Matrix there was a common characteristic you had a small terror group, al qaeda, trying to communicate secretly with people overseas and trying to avoid law enforcement, and here we have that whole paradigm switched on its head. you have isis saying i don t care if everybody watches what we say, and whether we say it over facebook or over youtube or twitter, if i can reach thousands of people if 1% of them on the fridges agree with what i believe, that s a remarkable success, so i think what we are seeing is the ability to touch so many people in the way secret cells in the past couldn t communicate, and if just a small sliver of those people agree with the message, and that s what we are seeing in all these arrests across the united states that volume is much greater than what eyewitnessed at the fbi. we were watching dozens of people at the core in the united
Silver bullet to solve the crisis. i spoke to a senior ukrainian government official who told me the sanctions are, quote, a very good step but hopes not the final step in deterring russian actions in ukraine. wolf, as you know, ukrainian officials in fact, they re asking for bigger prices for russia to pay economically and also as you ve noted many times asking for more significant military aid to push back this russian advance. yeah, they d like weapons from the u.s. and other countries. they re not getting those weapons right now. jim, hold on for a moment. i want to get more on the violent clashes under way in ukraine right now. cnn was on the scene as pro-ukrainian marchers were stormed by pro-russian militants armed with clubs and batons. our senior international correspondent arwa damon was there on the ground in eastern ukraine for us. tell our viewers, arwa, what you personally eyewitnessed? reporter: yeah, wolf, all of this unfolding in city of donetsk where we are now. o