Work, renee, thank you. And thanks for joining us. The news continues right here on cnn its tuesday, april 9, right now on cnn this morning, an Appeals Court denied Donald Trumps latest just attempts to delay the start of his Hush Money Trial israels Prime Minister claiming the date is set for the invasion of rafah. Its Benjamin Netanyahu bluffing. And two in a row for uconn, the huskies taking home another mens ncaa doublet title all. Right. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, heres a live look at downtown nash bill. Weve got some news. There from morgan wallen. I prayed news honestly. Its a pretty shot early early on this Tuesday Morning. Good morning, everyone. Im casey haunts its wonderful to have you with us this morning. Special counsel, jack smith is urging the Us Supreme Court to reject former President Trumps claims of immunity and to deny the former president any opportunity to delay his federal election Subversion Trial Smith told the court in a filing, the framers never endorsed
and good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington continuing right now on msnbc, reports, a powerful reminder of our nation s painful history as americans across the nation celebrate juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in america. we ll take a look at the history of this holiday and how president biden is making a new push to engage black voters this year. a critical part of his base with a campaign co-chair south carolina congressman james clyburn. plus, a primary nail biter in virginia today, can the chair of the house freedom caucus hold onto his seat or will his trump-backed republican opponent emerge victorious? right now the results are too close to call. and we re on a severe watch across the eastern part and midwest of the country, the first tropical storm headed for texas as more than 7 million people from michigan to maine are sweltering under extreme temperatures. we ve got the latest on the forecast. we begin with the biden campaign s push to engage
think that the doug jones campaign didn t treat black voters or entertain black voters only during the gotv get out of the vote effort. i think they spent an amount of time that was important around persuasion, just was it s a special election or you re a democrat, you can t necessarily take advantage of. so there was a lot of persuasion going on, on black radio and black print, et cetera. i believe the other thing was the gotv effort. whether it was text messaging, knocking on doors several times, et cetera if doug jones campaign spent a lot of the time with that gotv effort. not just in urban alabama, which would be birmingham, montgomery, huntsville, and mobile, but they spent a lot of time with their gotv effort. i think the combination of those two things allowed doug jones to have a great victory. now, i have folk from alabama. i was born and raised in brooklyn, new york, but my