good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. ok caitlyn, what a great job she did. former president trump said he wouldn t if he want u krin to defeat russia. border countries are expecting a new surge of migrants. and mccarthy said he won t back santos for re-election but won t ask him to resign. and the suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natalee holloway will be extradited from peru to the united states. jordan vander sleuth is expected to be on charged of extortion and wire fraud. advisors to the fda unanimously recommended that a birth control pill be made available over the counter without a prescription. cnn this morning starts ragt now. right now. someone who chief white house correspondents, what is it likd watch is the town hall last night? a slightly different vibe than our day today in the press briefing room, to say the least. i think it is reflective of the fact that individual on stage with caitlyn collins who knows him better than anybo
back to the news. okay. as we mentioned earlier, former president trump made several false more than several, so many false and misleading claims, we re going to look at more now with our washington correspondent. sorry for the holdup. we had a little coffee issue. let s talk about the truth here versus fiction. where should we start? yeah. poppy, really the first one that we should start on is trump s comments about abortion that he talked about last night. now these comments were very misleading. we heard trump accusing last night democrats and specifically hillary clinton of supporting abortion late into the third trimester. now clinton stands that mother s whose health is in jeopardy should be able to terminate a pregnancy. they had the authority no regulate or ban abortion in the third trimester except when necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother. it is also very important to note here that late-term
i think he see there s is some political risk there now. that means he has his eye open. he watched wisconsin and michigan. he watched 2022 and the elect rat and how important this issue was. look, what he said on dobbs stands. i don t think can you parse where you land on that despite this unwillingness to answer five different follow ups from it kaitlan on this issue. you take a step back. you talk to democrats who were watching, regardless of the views of the town hall, they ll all say we have loads of content to anabbttack in a general elec. on the legal esh issue, i want play this. take a listen. you saw that rushing the capitol, breaking windows, hitting officers with flag poles, takesing them, beating them up. when it was clear they weren t being peaceful, why did you wait three hours to tell them to leave the capitol? they listen you to like no one else. you know that. they do. i agree with that. so why didn t you tell them
credit has been so important for working families, middle class families and low income families and in providing them with some additional money in their pocket each and every month so they can pay for groceries, food, housing, child care, medicine, and other expenses that every day american families experience, so i think we ve got to find a way to come together on the child tax credit as a part of the build back better act. yesterday, i interviewed, you are in the six room, democratic congresswoman pramila jayapal, the chair of the progressive caucus. she told me last night democrats can t trust senator manchin s word. first of all, do you agree with her on that? the other proposal, tell me what you think about this, accept his $1.8 billion plan. she says do the rested, do whatever you can with executive orders? why not do the child tax credit through executive order and get
according to the center for justice, between january 1st and may 14th, at least 14 states have enacted 22 laws restricting access to the vote. there they are on the map and their number could triple, at least 61 bills with restricted provisions are moving through 18 state legislatures including in texas until last night. last night democrats in the state house of representatives walked out preventing a quorum on state senate bill 7. the session expired delaying passage of the measure until greg abbott called lawmakers back for a special session he says he will. texas republicans deny it intended to disenfranchise minority voters that vote heavily democratic but contains provisions that effectively could. the bill outlaws drive up voting and 24-hour voting used in the highly democratic houston area and bans voting before 1:00 p.m. on sundays that would kill souls