Hi everyone and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im in dc and we are following two Major International stories this afternoon. The first of them out of israel or the us and jordan have conducted more humanitarian aid drops into gaza. And the first equipment to build a Temporary Port In Gaza for aid is now in route to that region. Were going to get to more on that in just a moment. Again, in haiti, where the us military has evacuated Nonessential Personnel from the us embassy in portauprince. The Airlift Operation was ordered as the Gang Violence in that Island Nation worsens. Gang leaders are now threatening civil war if the Prime Minister does not leave office. And now at is under a State Of Emergency until april 3, cnn chief National Security correspondent Alex Marquardt is joining us by phone and cnns Patrick Oppmann is live from cuba with the latest details. Alex, lets start first with you. Tell us more about this evacuation well jessica significant concern growing abo
The Man Trump Belittles as sleepy joe seemed quite fiery last night as the president tries to flip the script launching a campaign blitz, just one day after his forceful kind of political state of the Union Address. Plus Donald Trumps oneonone at maralago today, meeting with Hungarys Viktor Orban ban. The authoritarian leader, knowing, known for antiimmigration nationalist rhetoric, who often cozies up to Vladimir Putin and attempts to stop the aid. See what happened when cnn confronted israeli protesters, determined to make sure little food, if any, makes it into gaza despite the overwhelming human and tharon crisis welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we start today with our politics lead in the white house in an all Reelection Blitz trying to capture on any momentum from President Bidens fiery and rather political state of the Union Address last night in which the president referenced donald trump, at least a dozen times in less than an hour, we expect to hear from the president
With a big focus on the Southern Border and the broken Immigration System i want to get straight to cnns priscilla alvarez, whos been traveling today with the president priscilla. The georgia audience heard a lot of overlap at the rally tonight between the State Of The Union and his message there in atlanta. But the president also apologized for something that he said to the country on thursday night. What did he say . Thats right, alex. And it was a bit of a pivot. He was referred he was asked, i should say, about his comments during the State Of The Union when referencing the alleged suspect in the Laken Riley Killing here in georgia in the moment he called that person, any legal thats a term that has long been decried right. Immigrant advocates. But when interviewed on msnbc today, the president said that he should have said the word on documented documented version. I shouldnt have usually gone as undocumented and look, when i spoke about the different future in trump on me, one of