good morning good morning, everyone. let s get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. it s no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. sounds like they don t. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not involved in that operation. also, the woman who says president trump raped her could take the stand today in her battery and defamation lawsuit against him. court is going to get under way in the e. jean carroll case. and the former ( gorepublica governor of arkansas is running so far in the primary. and kim kardashian says she is willing to step away from the cameras and become an attorney full time. our wide-ranging conversation coming up. cnn this morning starts right now. i like how
mission to serve. starting with the woman in charge of america s humanitarian response around the world. samantha power on helping ukrainians devastated by russia s war and why she thinks the u.s. needs to stay involved. the stakes for me as an american, mother, citizen are very, very high as they are for all of us. actor turned activest gary s role led him on a mission. was it fate you would play lieutenant dan in forest gump? can i have a hint? i find cooking hard and stressful. do you feel your life is in danger. what was the worst? there is a long list of really bad ones. i cannot tell you how difficult this is feeling. a humanitarian crisis unfolding right now. 8 million ukraine ians leaving their homeland since the war started. while russia destroyed much of the country, civilian infrastructure. samantha power heads the u.s. agency helping on the ground. i m here at the crossing point where ukrainians are entering poland. she knows war all too we
a fellow at the institute of politics at harvard s kennedy school of government. and steve moore is with us for the first time. economics writer for the wall street journal editorial page. thank you for being with us. our starting point is super tuesday, of course. ten states will go to the polls today. there are 419 delegates up for grabs and potentially 2 presidential campaign on the line. if you look at the map of today s super tuesday, contest, newt gingrich says he s going to win dpnlg and polls are supporting him on that. rick santorum says he s going to do well in tennessee and oklahoma and the polls are supporting him in that. mitt romney says he s going to win massachusetts and vermont and idaho and the polls support him on that and he plans to win virginia, partly because he s the only person on the ballot along with ron paul. so that s probably a pretty good guess. he s leading by a lot of the poll there s. what he s focused on now is the battleground state of
ask cain s former employer to lift that confidentiality agreement so she could break her silence. she wants to file a written statement contradicting his claims that he did nothing improper. the stress on the presidential candidate, as you can see, is showing. don t even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about. okay. don t even bother. excuse me. excuse me. cain s not just snapping at reporters. now lashing out at rick perry. a perry campaign adviser actually leaked old allegations. gloria borger just spoke with the man who is the target of cain s fingerpointing and, gloria, curt anderson is accused of leaking the sexual harassment allegations and you asked him directly, did he leak the info, it was interesting, he sort of danced around your direct question for a while and then finally got to it. but he still said it in a very interesting way. well, he came out quite directly and wanted, in fact, to talk to me on the air to clear his
hurricane irene, now officially made landfall as a category 1 storm on the east coast of the united states. the most up-to-date satellite image we can show you now of re irene, showing wear and tear, described as sloppy, not very well organized but starting to get more disorganized. you can see it there, it was a more organized storm over the past couple of days but as it s making landfall now and making its way up the east coast maybe not so much so. it has been lashing out at the carolina shoreline for the past several hours. that is where, again, it it has officially made landfall. the storm surge there is expected to take a toll on outer banks and coastal communities. concern shared all the way up and down the east coast right now. more so in cities you can imagine that aren t used to dealideal ing with hurricanes, like new york city. been some time since they ve had to deal with a direct hit from hurricanes. this storm could be head toward parts of lower manhattan, could