Right now on cnn this morning, new calls for the president to bow out part of the race coming from inside his own party. Plus the hollywood alisters, Major Biden Fundraiser whose just turned his back on the president s campaign. Plus Ukraines President in the House Speaker Meeting facetoface for the first time all Right. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, a live look at the Capitol Dome on this Thursday Morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us support for President Bidens reelection. Bid seems to be slipping. Vermonts peter welch. Now the first Senate Democrat to call on biden to step aside. He wrote this in an oped, quote, i understand why President Biden wants to run he saved us from Donald Trump once, and wants to do it again but he needs to reassess whether he is the best candidate to do so. In my view, he is not for the good of the country. Im calling on President Biden to withdraw from the race. Welchs demand was one of three that came yesterd
Outright. The left wing coalition, The New popularfront, took outright. The left wing coalition, The New Popular Front, took the outright. The left wing coalition, The New popularfront, took the most with President Macron s Centrist Alliance coming second. The two blocks which had agreed on a tactical Voting Pact pushed to the far right National Rally into third place. National rally had been expected to win the most seats after doing so in the first round of the voting in the european elections. Live now to my colleague Christian Fraser in paris. Good morning, welcome to paris. A beautiful day in the french capital. We are on the left bank overlooking the Eiffel Tower in the background, where the preparations continue for the paris olympics, which begins here in three weeks time. But france waking up this morning to an Election Result it could hardly have predicted a week ago and that is very much reflected in the Morning Papers. No question who came out on top. It is The New national
Outnumber republicans roughly 21. Leading challenger right Wing Talk Show Host Larry Elder has already started Laying Groundwork to blame a loss if it happens on socalled election fraud. To get us situated before the starting line, the big board, Steve Kornacki is on duty. The nbc News Decision Disk has given us the following wording straight up, this race is technically too early to call, but no, the anti recall vote, is in the lead. Were going to get results from california. No means no recall. Yes means yes recall Gavin Newsom. All 58 counties will start lighting up within next couple of minutes. Take you through what to expect here. Way they do elections in california, a lot of mailin voting, usually vast majority are cast by mail, many sent in last few days, weeks. Counties have been receiving them, processing them, theyre going to report them out within minutes of polls closing. In 2020, the president ial election last fall, First Report from any county in california came 11 minu
Mulch a list time during american history. Talks about a tumultuous time during american join me in Welr Keynote Speaker peggy grande. Thank you so much for having me here today. What a pleasure. What a beautiful day at the reagan library. Not that theres an ugly day up here, but this is truly a beautiful day, and im so grateful for the invitation from elisa to be here today. Im grateful for all of you taking time on a saturday to be here. Thats pretty remarkable and i did want to pause and acknowledge like elisa did briefly that this is a very special week. So a year ago today, we brought mrs. Reagan to rest here year ago this week she passed away and also a year ago this week. It was Ronald And Nancy reagans anniversary. They were married on March 4th of 1952. So it really is a very special week of remembrance and im gonna share a lot of reflections of my times and my years working for President Reagan, but before i started with that i kind of wanted to start with a little bit about
All happening at the same time, the fallout from afghanistan which gets rougher by the day it seems and the fallout from all the Flooding And Damage that now has claimed close to 60 lives. Questions about how it happened and how we could have known better. First to the fallout half a world away because it continues and growing continues and so what if anything can the United States do about it . Lets go to David Spunt with the president in wilmington, delaware, david. David, hi, neil its been almost a week that people want today get out as safely as they can. Its been almost a week since u. S. Forces completely withdraw. There are still many people including americans that are in afghanistan that want to get out. The United States said to be in contact with members of the taliban to exit at some point. Secretary of state Antony Blinken says that not getting into specifics about some of those discussions with taliban leaders. We do know that President Biden is getting updates while hes