today on inside politics, hunter in the house. the president s son making a surprise appearance on capitol hill to watch a house committee meeting called to hold him in contempt of congress. chaos, shall we say, ensued. plus, it s debate night in des moines. get ready for nikki haley and ron desantis to go head to head for the first time live on cnn. the stakes incredibly high with just five days left for the top trump alternatives to chip away at his massive lead. and demanding answers. multiple investigations are under way after the pentagon waited weeks to reveal the defense secretary was battling cancer. why was even president biden kept in the dark until yesterday? i m manu raju in for dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up, capitol hill meets reality tv. a wild scene as house republicans were starting to move toward punishing hunter biden for refusing to sit for a closed door deposition when the president s son showed up. hunter b
that is so long as congress acts. right now, leadership in both parties are working to parade the vast middle to get on board because the fringes are furious. if you thought the howling was loud last week, just wait for what we re hearing today. it s insanity, said republican ralph norman of south carolina. this deal is a turd sandwich is said republican chip roy. barfing emoji tweeted dan bishop. the left was a little less colorful but unhappy. parts of the deal are quote, really unfortunate, said pramila jayapal of washington. a large majority of the house democratic caucus is in flux on where they re going to be on this said ro khanna of california, and it s a terrible precedent said one liberal to our friends at punch bowl. the house needs 218 votes to pass this deal. the senate needs 60 and with what we re hearing right now from the conservatives and progressives, both votes will need to be largely bipartisan to pass. let us understand who s saying what right now, and al
menendez. following a deadly beating of tyre nichols. today protesters are once again demanding accountability outside of memphis police precinct. we are going to be silent for three minutes symbolizing the three minutes for which officers be nichols on january 7th. police video of the assault was mark friday. it sparked all across this country and they were repeatedly kicking, punting nichols, beating him of the baton. nichols that three-day later from the hospital. now tried to second degree murder, their actions are reigniting demands for congress to act. police reforms and the cycle of brutality. here s what dick durbin said about that today. this is a call for all of us to be he has been working on this for years i think he and senator scott should sit down quickly to revive that effort. we but that end of it self is not enough. we need a national conversation about a responsible, constitutional inhumane way. an national conversation in every new ideas to keep ev
times of tragedy in times of crisis, they stand up and they show up. mississippi s governor visits a town flattened by a powerful tornado for the neighborhoods that were leveled . the recovery is only just beginning. political turmoil in israel, benjamin netanyahu is under pressure from his own government to halt plans on judicial reform. now we re hearing an announcement on that could be imminent. we alive in televisa and jerusalem. with the latest and the manhattan grand jury is expected to continue its investigation and donald trump later today we will ask our political analyst if an indictment is likely. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. good to have you with us, and we begin this hour in the southeastern us, where millions are under the threat of more severe storms, bringing large hail and damaging winds to areas already struggling to recover from an earlier rash of storms over the weekend, at least 10 confirmed. tornadoes strike mississip
cnn newsroom. it was like no notice. we didn t know what was happening. city is gone, but we will resilient. and we re gonna come back. we re going to come back strong. unfortunately coming up here in the upcoming 24 hours we are expecting to deal with the same threats over the same areas. the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated , discredited and totally disgraced. i don t believe that bragg would be doing this if donald trump were not running for president. really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, firing his own defense minister who is a member of his own political party with these people are saying is they care about democracy? i think it shows the vitality vibrancy of israel s democracy. live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. monday march 27th nine am here in london. 11 am in israel were just a short time ago, the country s largest union called for and historic general strike. universities are also