Joining us. The news continues here on cnn state the us and ukrainian defense ministers meet in washington. What kyiv wants out of the biden administration? and a brutal crackdown on women s rights, how the situation is getting worse in afghanistan cnn easily with well, the battle over abortion rights is taking center stage in the u. S. Presidential race. Donald trump is weighing in on the abortion initiative that will be on his home state s ballot in november and kamala harris has issued a strong response to trump s comments. It comes just one day after her sitdown interview with cnn s dana bash. While we start with trump saying he ll vote no on a florida constitutional amendment that would allow abortions in that state after the first six weeks of pregnancy florida law currently bans abortions after six weeks. The amendments will be on the ballot there in november. It s another reversal for trump, who has previously said he s against a sixweek ban. Cnn s steve contorno has more forme
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There, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. We are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medical treatment u. S. Central command says that the operation was targeting i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan for their attacks. Cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh is joining me now. Live from london. So nick, what do we know about this operation? yeah alex, quite extraordinary development here. Essentially, because of the number of u. S troops injured in this instance, seven 75 of whom apparently during the operation to it seems from a fall separately related to that one of whom requiring followon care outside of theatre. Now we re getting a statement to iraqi military high co
For the next debate. State of the union live tomorrow morning at nih you re in the cnn newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and this how are we are still following breaking news out of gaza, israeli forces saying they quote, located a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us live from jerusalem. Nic, we re still learning more details and expect more details. What do you know right now yeah, that statement by the idf is unusual. They would not normally talk about finding bodies and being in the process of a combat operation. They wouldn t comment on those details. Normal normally, i think the expectation here is for the people of israel when they hear this and for the families of the hostages, and we should be very clear here, the idf is only talking about discovering bodies, but obviously for the families of the hostages, when the idf says something like that, they re going to listen to this still stands to be p
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