Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
suspected prince harry s cross-examination should end by midday. but then his attorney wants the attorney to question him. so we know that there is at least one full day left of testimony from prince harry before this trial moves forward. back to you. meagan fitzgerald, thank you. and a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, new urgency on capitol hill today to, quote, compel answers from the gop activist and billionaire harlen crow. and the case tied to the tragic death of a mother shot by her neighbor after a years long feud. and apple unveiling its vision of the future at the developers conference with a fresh round of skepticism over the question of just how much people are willing to shell out for their newest product. also indictment speculation, heating up tied to former president trump after his lawyers met with special counsel jack smith and other department of justice officials. trump sharing th
easter sunday from new york. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour in the middle east, where israel says it has carried out air strikes in syrian territory. israel s defense forces releasing a video it says shows strikes on a syrian military compound radar systems and artillery posts. the strikes were launched after israel says rockets were fired from syria toward the golan heights and in the west bank today, a funeral was held for two two british israeli sisters who were killed in an attack on friday. days of violence erupted following an israeli police raid on the al aqsa mosque compound in jerusalem last week. cnn s fred pleitgen is in jerusalem fred what s the latest? fredricka. well, certainly pretty big incident that happened there today on the border with syria when you had those rockets that came flying over from syrian territory, the israel defense forces say they say that those came flying towards the golan heights, which, of course are held by israel and t
reaction to the by the administration s report on the botched withdrawal from afghanistan nearly two years a ago. the report blames the trump administration from the deadly chaos of august 2021. critics also slamming the timing of the release just before a holiday weekend. i ll miss as we learn about a severe intelligence breach involving classified documents leaked on social media concerning ukraine, china, the middle east. alexandria hoff s life from the white house with more, alexandria. good evening jon. the scope of this leak is growing along the potential consequences. among the images that have been found media leaked there on friday, most describe destroying maps of ukraine and positions of forces. all concerning their. on top of that the maritimes reporting that 100 similarly damaging documents may have also been part of this breach, more than 100 as a matter fact. they say this includes sensitive breathing, slides related to china, the indo pacific region, the mid
the new york post says, the trip is a little too little, too late with greg abbott saying overdo time in a scathing letter he hand-delivered to the post end. todd: alexandria hoff joins us live with washington with the latest, alex. of the brief visit with political pressure for the president to see the situation for himself but credits are saying the setting was a sanitized version. just ahead of the president s visit streets of downtown el paso clear of mike rounds over processing centers peer of the border patrol said el paso matters but had nothing to do with the president s visit. hi. over four hours the president walked a portion of the u.s.-mexico border and stopped at a port of entry but texas governor greg abbott handed a letter to the president that the true crisis is playing out elsewhere, your visit avoids the sites where massive illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry texans and property owners whose lives destroyed by your bord