Hijacking. Surprising development over night. The biden justice department pushing back against a judge s order to release the judge s secret memo citing not to charge donald trump with obstruction. Hear why. Very good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world, it s tuesday, may 25th. Happening now, secretary of state antony blinken emerging from a meeting with benjamin neta netanyahu. This is day one of the threeday middle east tour to shore up the ceasefire israel and hamas. Left more than 250 people dead the people of gaza are beginning the long, painful process of rebuilding. Let s get right to cnn s hadas gold live in jerusalem this morning. These meetings between secretary blinken and the prime minister very important, hadas. Reporter: yeah. We just heard from both the secretary of state and the israeli prime minister making statements after meeting for more than an hour. The israeli prime minister thanking the secretary of state for the u. S. Support of i
Everyone. Let s begin. Today is a somber day for our country and a very important day. A day to remember a man who has become a symbol in the fight for racial equality and police reform in america. One year ago a white police officer in minneapolis murdered george floyd. His killing sent shock waives thro shock waves throughout the country. But america s reckoning with racial injustice is far from over. Far from solved. A jury convicted floyd s murderer derek chauvin last month. He will be sentenced, he is set to be sentenced next month. But will there be lasting change after floyd s killing? we re being joined by our reporter from minneapolis. How does it feel there to mark this anniversary? well, kate, celebration of george floyd s life and legacy is going to kick off a day of remembrance and reflection on this anniversary. That s going to start a little later this morning. It will be highlighted by those that have been devastated by police violence themselves. But even this year lat
off. paul eisenberg is here but we begin with congressional correspondent jacqui heinrich, live outside of the supreme court for us. we just wrapped up a press conference with the bill sponsors and we asked about house speaker nancy pelosi saying she has no plans to bring this bill to the floor while the president s commission is still studying the very proposal. they said they are really not surprised at that answer but they expressed faith that pelosi and others will change their minds and come along as more destructive decisions come down. in fact one of the bill sponsors said today they laid blame on the supreme court for the january 6th insurrection saying this supreme court has been dismantling democracy allowing dark money in politics, gutting voting rights and paving the way for racist voters suppression and help put donald trump in the white house. they reject the assertion that they are packing the court in response. it will enable us to do justice and rectify
in washington right now than killing the filibuster and packing the supreme court but today a group of congressional democrats tied the two together by introducing a bill to 13 and they say they know it would require getting rid of the filibuster to do it? some say we are packing the court we are not packing it, we are unpacking it. making the case on the steps of the supreme court that it s time to add four new justices to the highest court in the land. democratic senator ed markey blames republicans. the republicans stole two seats on the supreme court and now it is up to us to repair that damage republicans say look no further than the words of ruth bathed quincy goldberg to explain why packing the court is a bad thing. if anything would make the court appear partisan it would be that. in 1983 joe biden called. it was a bone head idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. today republicans on capitol hill reminded now president biden of what he said nea
welcome, everyone. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world. coming up, we ll talk to a border sheriff on what he would like to see done. senator steve daines that just got back from his trip to the border. first, to kristin fisher at the white house with the latest. kristin? hey, charles. a lot of questions about when the vice president will make this trip down south. now that she s formally the administration s point person for what is happening down there. the white house making it clear today that when she does make that trip, her first stop will likely be to one of the northern triangle countries because her top priority is on diplomacy with the country addressing the root causes of mygation and overseeing the flow of u.s. aid to those countries. when pressed about this point, about the vice president s travel earlier today, the press secretary said this. i don t have an update on her travel but since you gave me the opportunity it s important to un