rally. the senator from vermont evoking the twilight zone. i want to take you into another universe, a parallel universe from where trump was this evening. it s really quite incredible. amy klobuchar laying out a plan for her first 100 days in office which includes a return to the paris climate accord and a $15 minimum wage. she was telling chris quote mow will not be the issue. i am not one bit worried about the excitement on our side. we just have to unite behind a candidate, and be that s what these debates are all about. today mayor pete buttigieg is focusing on his day job. he ll be speaking to families in south bend, indiana. buttigieg returns to the campaign trail thursday in boston. senator cory booker
pentagon raising questions here. mark esper has had a fairly narrow portfolio overseeing that one service. he s currently getting 5i6 variety of issues crash course. he is an army veteran. a real speed transition going on as he steps into the biggest role at the pentagon. thanks, ryan. turning to the democrats, front-runner joe biden on the campaign trail. on tuesday in new york the former vice president stopped by the stonewall inn. he said the fight for lgbt rights must continue. bernie sanders reaching out to his backers on social media after president trump s orlando
not comparing the situation at the border to death camps but more to internment camps like the ones that held japanese-americans during world war ii. long time trump aide hope hicks heads to capitol hill in a matter of hours. she will face questions from the house judiciary committee behind closed doors. but the administration is asserting immunity for hicks insisting she cannot testify about her time in the white house. democrats plan to press hixon events that occurred before the president took office. her knowledge of hush money payments to cover up mr. trump s extramarital affairs in the run up to 2016. we re joined this morning by cnn politics digital director zach wolf live in washington. zach, good to see you sir. good morning. let s start at this rally in florida. it was free bird, man, play the hits. it was a rock concert, right? packed crowd, tailgate, people packing out. a band called the guzzlers.
iran. cnn s ryan brown with more. reporter: good morning, michelle and dave. this most senior shakeup at the pentagon amid increased tensions with iran, acting secretary of defense pat shanahan stepping down, announcing that he will resign effective sunday we re being told. and this shakeup comes as president trump has said he is seeking to avoid war with iran while the u.s. simultaneously is deploying thousands of additional troops to the region to do forced protection, to say to respond to what it says is an increased iranian threat. 1,000 troops being ordered most recently. those forces will include reconnaissance personnel, missile defense crews. forces said to be defensive in nature but iran saying it will be prepared to respond if need be. the senior shakeup at the
business at 5:52 eastern time. stocks in asia jumped after trump s talk about meeting with xi jinping at the g20. on wall street stocks were up around 1%. futures are mostly flat ahead of today s announcement from the fed. chairman powell is expected to give hints as to possible future rate cuts. so who s the best ceo in america? according to glass door s annual rankings today, pat gelsinger from software maker vm ware came in with a 99 p ers percent approval rating. mark zuckerberg fell 39 spots more than ever before after he faced several privacy scandals. tesla and spacex ceo elon musk fell. last year he was number 49. soon they may come without the driver.