hello, everyone, and welcome to the amanpour, our here s where we re headed this week the roe v. wade ripple effect overseas with reproductive rights under attack in america, a world first as france makes abortion a constitutional right, we have a solidarity with our american sisters, and we want to tell them that france is with her israeli hostage held by hamas for 51 days with a three children describes her hellish time in captivity. she s a gun sactually. it s a kind of emotional abuse that they didn t let us cry. also this hour creeping famine and starvation in gaza with children are now dying for lack of food and water death is better than this then. to ukraine s front lines where they re being forced to ration ammo. i think this year is gonna be the worst year in the war and for my archive via attempt to convert communism to capitalism in the early 990s. and how this failure in russia paved the way for putin welcome to the program, everyone. i m christia
and although i will no longer be a candidate, i will not stop using my voice for the things i believe in. in all likelihood donald trump will be the republican nominee when our party convention meet in july. i congratulate him and wish him well. i wish anyone well who would be america s president. our country is too precious to let our differences divide us. that was part of nikki haley s speech yesterday announcing the end of her presidential campaign. it means we are now 242 days away from a rematch between president biden and former president trump. but today the focus shifts to washington and president biden s state of the union address. we ll go through what he s expected to say tonight to congress and the american people. and meanwhile, on capitol hill lawmakers appear to have another deal in place to avoid a partial government shutdown. but speaker johnson again needed support from democrats to overcome dissent from within his own party. good morning and welcome
a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. all eyes on washington as president biden delivers a state of the union address before congress. the president expected to highlight his efforts to strengthen the economy for the middle class and protect democracy and freedom. the address comes at a critical moment in the race for the white house as biden makes his case to voters that he is up for serving another four years. his chief of staff telling politico, quote, there is no one better at handling high-stakes than president biden. the speech coming one day after biden s predecessor solidified his position as the nominee. trump already shifting his focus to the general election, challenging biden to a debate any time, any where, any place. joining us now from washington, ally rafah and yuli circuit. what should we expect from the president s address tonight? yeah, jose. good morning. the white house says president biden is putting finishing touches on this speech that could end up b
kangaroos. must be kangaroo time taking us off the air tonight. on that pretty amazing note, i wish you a very good night, but do not go anywhere, at least not tomorrow, tomorrow we are going to a very, very special coverage of the state of the union address, starting right here at 8:00 p.m. eastern, followed by commentary from our all-star cast, and of course friday night do not miss our night cast with maia wiley, christine romans, and one and only savannah guthrie. not only on friday, but saturday, too, 11:00 p.m. eastern. on that note i wish you a very good night, we had kangaroos tonight, great women for the next two nights. across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. donald trump is now the presumptive republican nominee for president. is only opponent in this race, former governor nikki haley, had vowed to stay in the race through to super tuesday and this morning, after only winning the state of vermont and the c
monitoring both of these events as both the candidates are on stage a trump rally. so steve donald trump just taking the stage. we re also learning that trump met today with the parents of laken riley. what do we know about that meeting yeah. alex, just before president donald trump took the stage, he held a meeting back stage. we are told with the parents who are here today, as this event, he has spoken to them by the fall by foot before. but tonight they re here so we have we re not sure if they re going to come out with the former president, his advisers were on that, but we do know that they gave her mission for the campaign to use a picture of her on a poster that is being distributed. so nice to people at the audience in a police photo and the phrase, say her name. so this is a continuation of the conference plantation and immigration politics the union ansible donald trump s supporters in the congress flashing during that speech over immigration and over laken rile