states, canada and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. president biden is at home in delaware after a campaign swing to three western states. ahead, why he says this year s mid-term elections are the most important in decades. plus, chinese leader xi says they will take taiwan by force. a live report from beijing plus reaction from taipei. elon musk changes his mind when it comes to offering peace for ukraine. we ll look at the decision and huge implications in the war against russia. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with ken brunhuber. > . president biden has just wrapped up a rare four-day campaign tour across the west costa head of the critical mid-term elections. much is at stake as it tries to hold on in congress and win key local and state elections. biden s approval is low across polls fueling worries that it could weigh down the party at the ballot box. stumping alongside the most vulnerable candidates. the pre
dr. sanjay gupta, great to have you analyst on. we appreciate it. thanks bianna. and good morning, everybody. i m bianna golodryga. the jury in the death penalty trial of nikolas cruz, the parkland school shooter has reached a decision on whether to sentence him to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. cnn s carlos suarez is outside of the courthouse in fort lauderdale. what more could you tell us about this? reporter: so we re expecting that the jury s verdict will be read in court at 10:30 this morning. they only spent a single day deliberating whether or not nikolas cruz is going to dry for his actions at marjorie stoneman d douglas. one of the last things they did yesterday was ask to see the ar-15 that cruz used to kill 17 people in parkland, florida. the jury s decision on death does have to be unanimous. so they all have to agree that cruz should die for these murders. if there is a holdout in my of the charges, then cruz would be essentially
created a great risk of death to many persons. yes. we the jury unanimously find that the state has established beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the aggravating faker the first-degree murder of gina mont was committed while nikolas cruz was engaged in the commission of a burglary. yes. we the jury unanimous find that the state has established beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the aggravating factor that the first murder of gina montalto was heinous, atrocious or cruel, yes. we the jury, unanimously find that the state has established beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the aggravating factor, the first-degree murder of gina montalto was committed in a cold, calculated premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or lemoral jufrification. yes. we review the factors that we found to be established beyond a reasonable doubt, we the jury un aun mussily find that the aggravating factors are sufficient to warrant a possible sentence of death. yes. one
Reaction from to Top Democrats to House Republicans Impeachment Inquiry inquiry. The inquiry that was launched with no formal vote, no outstanding evidence of wrongdoing, and no hope of being taken seriously by the American People. Here is former House Speaker nancy pelosi, on msnbc earlier. Impeachment is deadly serious. This is a remedy that our founders put in the constitution, to for a rogue official. They could foresee would have a rogue president of the United States they, couldnt foresee that we would have a rogue president , and a rogue senate, a rogue congress. But nonetheless, for them to use this in a frivolous way and that they are, its really a disservice to our country, into our constitution. All right, lets recall what that robe president was, was actually doing back in 2019. Donald trump, using American Taxpayer funded military aid, as leverage, tried to get the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, to dig up dirt on his opponent, joe biden. In a transcript of that
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Reporting violations where they failed to report some things inadvertently. I think in the obama case it was what are called 48hour report, failure to report contributions. In none of those cases that im aware of has the actual candidate or the president been implicated in ordering it be done. It wasnt that obama said lets not report these contributions. Those are kind of the more the regular violations that you see in president ial campaigns. Here we have an allegation that the president directly ordered cohen to pay money to prevent people from talking about alleged affairs. Thats a potential violation on several counts. One, people talk about the reporting violation. These were contributions that werent reported. Thats true. But, they were paid by the trump organization. That makes it a corporate contribution. It is illegal to make a corporate contribution. It is also illegal for an officer of a corporation to authorize a corpor