Former uvalde school police officer there will appear in court next hour on felony child endangerment, and abandonment charges i m kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. This is cnn news central brand new this morning, the first official campaign video from vice president kamala harris calling on voters to choose quote, freedom this november today as you just heard extensively, she will sit down now with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and people are looking to see if there is any space between her policy toward the war on gaza and that of president biden behind the scenes right now one of the fastest searches for vice president in modern history governor andy beshear, roy cooper, josh shapiro, tim waltz among the names being floated, senator mark kelly and transportation secretary pete buttigieg, also in the mix maybe cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is with us now. Geoff, you always bring the goods and you ve got some new information on the
Lead starts now welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper this hour, the disturbing evolution of the socalled all right? in there years since that notorious deadly marched on charlottesville, virginia, i m going to be joined by an awardwinning cnn journalist who has just written a book and we ll explain how their jokes and their ideology and their violent tendencies are becoming hidden influences. 2024 elections plus we re just one week from the start of the republican national convention. And today a key party committee approved the new platform with changes made to reflect donald trump s views on we ll issue. So what exactly is in these plans for the gop and leading this hour quote, i m in this race to the end, unquote president joe biden telling supporters today, democratic law makers and the american public, that he has no plans to drop out of the 2024 race. Instead, his team is going on offense, which today included joining a call with top donors owners to his reelection campaign where
Bash in just a moment with what she s hearing from her sources. But first cnn s are led signs is live outside the white house tracking in all these breaking developments, it s really quite incredible. The splitscreen arlette of a president digging in his heels and members of his own party telling him to step aside. Yeah. Pamela, you know, president biden when he was traveling today, it said that he does believe that the democratic party is behind him, but you are consistently seen the public and private pressure grow on president biden to step aside in this race. The latest coming from cnn reporting that during a call with house minority leader hakeem jeffries, this out afternoon, several top house democrats said that they do believe it is time for president biden to step aside sources have told cnn that there were about six of people who spoke up on this call say that they do not think that the president should be the democratic nominee. That includes people like adam smith, susan wil
Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. Thanks for joining me this hour. So, we know that afghan women are defiant, despite growing signs that the taliban government is sidelining them. A group of activists protested outside what used to be the women s ministry on sunday of the the taliban closed that ministry, and replaced it with their ministry which is called the ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. The protests came after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. Translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them, as well as by not allowing them to go to school. You cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. Well, the taliban have claimed they will not rule as they did during the 90s but they have done little else to calm fears that women will be denied basic freedoms or be shut out of jobs and schools. On sunday, afghanistan s ministry of educatio
As their pace spacex crew dragon capsule splashes down off the coast of florida. Inspiration4 on on behalf of spacex welcome home to planet earth. Thanks so much spacex. It was a heck of a ride for us. The cia warned civilians including children were in the area seconds before a u. S. Missile strike killed 10 in kabul. We thought this was a good lead. We were wrong. We ve been lucky so far. Family of missing woman gabby petito says her fiance isn t missing but hiding. Another twist in the story for sure. My family want gabby found expensive. She is a sister and my children love her. And all i want is for her to come home safe and sound and this to be a big misunderstanding. Top of the hour now i m pamela brown in washington. You are in the cnn newsroom live with us on this saturday evening. And breaking news, splashdown. [ cheers and applause ] spacex splashdown. Just a few minutes ago the first ever all civilian space flight made it back to earth safely off the florida coast. And here