according to the washington post, but when it s time for the general election is the trump stamp of approval a maga scarlet letter. apparently some republicans think so. and now even the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is warning republicans may not retake the senate. let s discuss this with former republican congresswoman barbara comstock and former adviser for president, david gergen. congressman, what do you think about this? i know you used to serve in a sort of a swing district there in the northern virginia suburbs, kind of near where i grew up there in fairfax county. what do you think? it seems like a lot of these candidates are treating donald trump like beetlejuice try not to say his name too many times. what do you think? how should they handle this? well, certainly in the districts that make the majority, the swing and the purple districts, donald trump is an albatross, so you already have the situation in these purple states where, you know, as mitch m
obtained by cnn suggest otherwise. cnn s sam kiley has more on a potential diplomatic breakthrough in an attempt to avoid a nuclear disaster. here s more from sam. yes, it could be seen as some kind of diplomatic breakthrough that the russian president has endorsed the idea that the international atomic energy authority, the body responsible for inindividuallating, if you like, nuclear power stations around the world, should be allowed to go to the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station and check it out, and install and reinstall the monitoring systems. the fact of the matter, though, is that this is a repeated russian offer and amidst a russian rejection of the international community s demands that they demilitarize the nuclear power station and the town around it. the reason the international community wants to see that is that this has been the locus of fighting. it s effectively on the front line. we know for an absolute fact, jim, that there are missiles being fired out o
Because i don t like my own voice. i never did. i liked to sound like somebody else, and i m thinking of somebody else when i m writing. i want to conjure up somebody else. it s going to be a fascinating discussion, fareed zakaria special extraordinary with billy joel airs tonight at 9:00 on cnn. and you are live in the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington right now fears of a possible disaster are growing at a nuclear power plant in ukraine. the massive facility sits right on the front lines of vladimir putin s unprovoked war. the u.s. warning russia has shown complete disregard for the security of ukraine s nuclear power facilities. officials in kyiv say russia is storing heavy weaponry inside the complex, and using it as a cover to launch attacks, knowing that ukraine cannot return fire. meantime, moscow has claimed that ukrainian troops are shelling the site, but new satellite photos we should note