missile defense system and artillery in the coming days. another supreme court decision, this one rejecting states rights on gun safety . i ll speak to a noted expert on the second amendment as president biden signed into law some gun safety measures. we begin with abortion. nbc s pete william and linda greenhouse. pete, first to you. states are acting quickly today and over the weekend. what challenges are you following that we should expect more of? i think there are going to be many more of them. they all follow a similar pattern saying, we understand the u.s. supreme court has said the u.s. constitution allows states to ban abortion, but what about state constitutions that oftentimes differ and provide more protection in certain categories than the federal constitution does? we have a lawsuit in utah that says the state constitution provides more protection for personal autonomy and family planning issues. one in florida says state privacy protections allow abortio
lawmakers. the lead starts right now. volodymyr zelenskyy in d.c. making his rounds on capitol hill and now he is at the white house. his pleas as house republicans can t agree on how to fund the u.s. government, much less a foreign war. and chances of a deal now stalled as lawmakers are sent home for the weekend. plus, a border emergency. migrants flood a texas town crawling under barbed wire costing a little boy his life as his family tried to swim across the rio grande river. and alleged horer in a warehouse dubbed the brave case, strip searches of suspects including a grandmother, it is alleged. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper and we begin with our world lead as right now president joe biden meets with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy at the white house. zelenskyy on a laser focused mission in washington, d.c., secure more aid at all costs quoted as saying if we don t get the aid, we will lose the war. russia even after 19 months of relentless attacks a
washington. and this is cnn well, and welcome to all he wants to guess here in the states, canada, and all around the world, i m kimberly hu bird. this is cnn drew protesters in israel now calling directly on the biden administration to bring an end to hostilities in gaza. what we know about israel s response to the latest ceasefire proposal. and ukraine s president calling for more aid ahead of planned peace talks for his country. we re live in singapore with details of his meeting with us defense sector great lloyd austin, plus mexican voters head to the polls today, how the threat of violence is looming over, or what is all but certain to be a historic result? live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with kim grew zuber protesters and israel are reaching out directly to joe biden to break the deadlock over freeing hostages held in gaza. have a look. this was the scene from just one demonstration, a massive banner. you can see they re asking the us president not only for
Younger women and women of color all right. i mean, the stakes obviously couldn t be higher for democrats on that issue. the margins for this election are so thin. how biden performs with women. i mean, it could essentially, when him or or cost him the election, right it s absolutely right. the formula for success providing us the gwynn women by more than you lose men and there s a big gender gap right now. it s growing and it ll be very, very important for the biden administration, the biden harris team to seamen touch with kitchen table concerns, as you said, and real people s lived experience, not just aggregate economic numbers so how do they actually go about doing that? i mean, just, just telling people that their lives are better than inflation is kinda slowing i mean, it, it doesn t seem to be cutting it. so how are they going to actually achieve that they need to
to me it comes down to jobs. into a broader question about how is my family doing? what are my kids prospects looking light? if those things are turning around, that has really been what warren and stan standards and aoc have hammered away on in the last few years. we ve seen it translate in the biden transition see. when trump is the guy in the other side of the ticket, that s really going to be what they re thinking about. if you re joe biden, you hope that s enough for them to pull a lever for you. biden talking a lot about democracy, institutional integrity, the sacrosanct nature of the constitution. does that matter to these voters? on some level it does. but look, at the end of the day you ve got to be able to pay your mortgage. you want to put your kid through college. you want to have a secure retirement. it s important, obviously, things like democracy, authoritarianism. you also have to focus on these kitchen table concerns. the irony is, biden does have a story to tell