a new strike in crimea is taking out critical in infras infrastructure, and crimean forces is taking out a key bridge and vital to the military, and large chunks of that bridge are now at the bottom of the sea. and now, global impacts of hunger could now be grave. at least five people are dead after the torrential rain. and yet, heat is melting other parts of the united states. the extreme weather that won t quit. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. happening right now, the russian officials are assessing the damage to a bridge in crimea critical to the military after the ukrainian officials attacked the bridge overnight. this morning, ukraine is saying that it is part of the joint operation. the kirsch bridge is the only link between the peninsula and russia s and vital crossing for moscow to link to the troops as they fight in ukraine and also critical to provide crimea with goods. there is also severe damage to the road part
fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trump s favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about what s happening eaautothe bord. and so today republicans voted to kill their own bill in the senate. the finaln vote was 49-50 with all but four republicans voting against r it. after that stunning defeat democrat chuck schumer put a second bill on the floor. it strips out the border stuff and juste funds aid to israel d taiwan and ukraine, which is what the democrats wanted in the first place. 58 voted to advance that bill. that is just shy until the 60 they need for final passage. now the sen
victor blackwell. amara walker will be with you this afternoon, so you just you and me this morning. so as soon as this morning, the oregon supreme court could decide whether to keep former president trump s name off the 2024 primary and general election ballots. a group filed a 14th amendment lawsuit arguing that trump is ineligible because of his role in the january 6 insurrection. on thursday maine joined colorado in banning trump from its primary ballot. but both rulings are on hold right now caught up in court battles. sources say trump is expected to appeal them tuesday. paula reid reports. reporter: the supreme court facing increasing pressure to weigh in on whether states can remove former president trump from the 2024 ballot. after maine became the second state to kick him off based on the 14th amendment s ban on insurrectionists holding public office. no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on the 14th amendment, b
he confronted the ladies of the view today and he exposed their hateful rhetoric. full highlights coming up. and chairman jim jordan and chairman james comer is on. comer is preparing to hold the fbi director in contempt of congress. tonight in a possible effort to shield president biden from a congressional investigation, director ray is refusing to hand over that official 1023 document that reportedly describes a criminal foreign bribery scheme this biden s time when he was vice president. now fbi officials have been in possession of these allegations since june of 2020. they have also been in possession of hunter biden s laptop since december of 2019. they have seen emails and texts from hunter biden detailing possible foreign payouts to the big guy and half the money going to pops and complaining about paying for pop s home repair bills. the fbi is also fully aware of the dozens upon dozens of suspicious activity reports filed to banks and all linked to the biden family
running on? the economy is danger of recession, foreign policy blunders have created in america with less power and influence and unholy alliances led by china keep growing and oh yeah, the massive corruption engulfing his presidency shows no sign of abating. watch this remarkable moment from the white house briefing yesterday. one committee trying to get an fbi file alleging biden took bribes and an allegation of covering up an investigation and 53 percent of the public including important democrats believe joe biden was involved in his son with an illegal influence peddling scheme there is evidence the president will interact with his relatives and associates china, mexico, russia, ukraine. would you say to the majority of americans who believe the president himself is corrupt? the president has spoken to this.the president has spoken to this. there s nothing to these claims. i don t know if you could hear it but off-camera scurvy was trying to figure out how to answe