Will get to our panel shortly, but first the latest bbc news. The Us State Department says it expects a Transitional Council in haiti to be appointed within the next 48 hours. Once established, it will nominate a new Prime Minister to succeed ariel henry, who quit on monday. Aid agencies say the situation in the capital, port au prince, is desperate, with the city under the control of armed gangs. The White House National security adviser has announced three hundred Million Dollars in aid for ukraine as a Stopgap Measure while a much larger package remains stalled in congress. The eus Foreign Policy chief has said starvation is being used as a weapon of war in gaza. Josep borrell described the lack of aid entering the territory as a manmade disaster. A Romanian Court has agreed to extradite the social Media Influencer andrew tate and his brother Tristan To Britain where theyre facing charges of sexual aggression. Theyre to be extradited after their trial in a separate case in romania.
live from cnn world headquarters, welcome. i m ken. president biden hits back, the special council decides against charging him for a crime that paints apholate flattering picture of the 81-year-old. the u.s. supreme court weighs whether former president trump is eligible to run for reelection. and an agreement to free an american journalist can be reached but what will it require? live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom. we are following three big stories this hour that all have implications for the u.s. presidential election. first, donald trump has won the nevada caucuses and picked up another 26 delegates in his march to reclaim the republican nomination. meanwhile, the u.s. supreme court took up the issue of whether states can disqualify trump from their ballots. the justices seem likely to rule in his favor. he called it a beautiful process. he was handed a political gift when an independent special counsel reported concerns about the current president s age and
biden s mishandling of top-secret classified documents from his time as a senator, vice president. they have now been made public. that report is beyond damning. by dinges tried to save face with the american public. it was a shocking display of his cognitive decline. we will play those outrageous remarks in a minute. let s lay out the details in this report. devastating. according to the report, quote, president biden woefully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. investigators found classified documents including notebooks from meetings regarding highly sensitive material on foreign-policy and national security carelessly stored in what appears to be his garage. and while what the special counsel found about biden s handling of classified documents was alarming, what it says about his cognitive state is quite frankly shocking. and by the way, it should have every single american concerned about the mental healt
the report clears him legally but could damage him, obviously, politically, which mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview with him as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. joining us now is kate bedingfield, who served as communications director in the biden white house, david axelrod who worked within vice president biden, and former trump communications director alyssa farah griffin, all three are now cnn political commentators. also with us jeffrey toobin. david axelrod, i will start with you. is that the press conference the president should have had? , look i understand the concept of why he had the press conference, because this thing was red hot. and it was out there, and he felt he needed to, and his people felt, he needed to respond to it. whether the response was adequate, or whether it creates more problems, i think, is another question. he did contradict elements of the special counsel s report. an