good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. my favorite day of the week, may 14th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. happy mother s day to you. happy mother s day to you. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. here is what we are watching for you. a ceasefire appears to be holding between israel and the islamic jihad after days of violence. more than 30 defensive end deaths. the likely hood this holds and the reaction from the biden administration. i think we are moving along. hard to tell. we are not reaching the crunch point yesterday. president biden and republican leaders expected to meet this week as they rush to avoid an unprecedented debt default. the warning coming from the white house as that crucial june 1st date inches closer. officials on the u.s./mexican border say they have not yet seen the chaos they were expecting after the expiration of title 42. speculation as to why things have been calmer than ex
in a letter to merrick garland, demanding the launch of a hate crime investigation. federal law is clear, acts of violence against individuals based on religious affiliation are hate crimes. the shooter was a former student of covenant and chose to terrorize this school because of their christian faith. it is appalling you have not opened a hate crime investigation. the shooting occurred at this hour on monday, it is now thursday. we have seen the department of justice take action much quicker with previous shootings. the horrific shooting at pulse nightclub was investigated as a hate crime less than 72 hours. massacre at tree of god synagogue within 24 hours. and the same day. when attorney general merrick garland was asked whether he planned to investigating the national security christian school shooting as a hate crime, here is the answer. as of now a motive has not been identified and the police chief says they have not reached conclusion with respect to motive. we a
there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
fighting russians just 30 ft apart. it s incredible moment caught on tape when a russian soldier lobs a grenade and we re going to show you exactly what happened next, and cnn s exclusive reporting inside the epic settlement between fox news and dominion, the last minute scramble to keep rupert murdoch and tucker carlson from taking the witness stand. this is fox braces for the next and bigger trial. plus a kennedy running for president. i, steve bannon is cheering him on his own family isn t let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight. terror in the trenches. we have new video into outfront tonight of ukrainian and russian troops fighting in the trenches west of back mood. that is where, of course, many thousands have already died in the battle continues to rage. the two sides here are about 30 ft apart at one point and just go ahead and watch this incredible battle, which is caught on camera. here s how it began. hello are you okay? are you alive? wh
trump s inner circle seemed to understand was completely illegal. also tonight, it s right out in the open now. new evidence of the violence and menace at theeart of today s maga driven republican party. but first i want to show you a bizarre moment from the 2020 news worm hole you probably don t remember. here? here. the electors are here. they ve been checked in. they re also electors, not all all 16 electors are going to be vote in the electoral college but these are the rest of the electors. the official sealed document and certificate of the electors are here trying to do their constitutional duty. i understand. the constitutional duty requires them to be at the senate chamber today at 2:00 p.m. now, what you just watched was a group of people claiming to be official electors from the swingy swing state of michigan on december 14, 2020 demanding to be allowed in to participate in the electoral college process despite the fact that joe biden won mi