gathering where his base has seemingly seized control. and the man who tried but failed to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be his party s front-runner at least for now according to recent polls. late this afternoon, cpac released its very own nonscientific straw poll. trump crushed the politician seen as the biggest rival for the nomination, at least at this point, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. cnn s kristen holmes joins us from the cpac gathering. how s it been going so far? what s the former president saying? reporter: so former president trump still speaking. we re at the 90-minute mark. we expect him to go for a little bit longer now. he is really appealing to this crowd. a mix of old and new. he talked about how he wants to take on the establishment, particularly the republican establishment. he talked about how he got rid of political dynasties, he said the party would never go back to being the party of karl rove, paul ryan, and jeb bush. h
in friday s fighting, a russian missile destroyed a vital supply bridge into the city. bakhmut has seen intense fighting for weeks, as russia tries to claim a victory in eastern ukraine. cnn s melissa bell joins us now from kyiv. melissa, where do things stand? reporter: well, we ve just been hearing from the british ministry of defense, saying that they understand that ukrainian forces are under increasing pressure. that s what we re hearing from the ground, with one soldier on the ground telling us that they were essentially outmanned four to one. and this has been the story for the last few weeks. so russian forces sending in more and more men to try and take every trench, every defensive line, at huge cost to themselves, first and foremost. there is also ukrainians, will there is a lack of ammunition compared to what the russians have, and they are trying to capture bakhmut, but yes, for the time being, this town still stands with his four and a half thousand civilians
home and no americans released in the latest round. the youngest, a 3-year-old, the oldest 51 as they make their way back to the israeli territory. nine americans still in captivity. we ll get an update from a israeli government spokesman and we ll get a chance to speak with one of the relatives of the hostages. your world starts now. welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. first to jeff paul with the very latest on the hostage situation. jeff? yeah, charles, i want to get to breaking news. we found out this latest group of hostages released by hamas made it back to israeli territory. a huge sigh of relief for this entire country. 11 people in total. nine kids, two mothers. as you mentioned, the two youngest just 3 years old. also, the other big story, this truce between israel, hamas now being extended two more days. they both agreed to continue exchanging israeli hostages for palestinian prisoners. the israeli government said nothing is guaranteed until it happen
i lieu this one in particular groups like syrian kurds so we know now president trump alongside ayman mohyeldin. morning joe starts right now. where bill barr was saying that said very clearly yesterday that because, quite honestly, they left center field. their position had evolved when u.s. troops would have this new back at the wall. don t trust us. one day s episode or cooperation and that s gone. it came to cooperating with a mission of securing oil in syria grand jury excuse me, between this white house and the and he talked about the importance of that mission. cooperating with impeachment american intelligence community we now, we ve seen the first of investigation to material over those deployments actually move materials to a grand jury. doth not a relationship make. the judge wouldn t have any of what worries me going forward is he goes deep. the enemy is still going to be from here into syria, driving there. the question is, will we? towards the region. that s whe
Politics have come to this in America. Several former US presidents committed extremely serious war crimes that killed, maimed and displaced huge numbers of people without any suggestion that they be charged with these crimes.