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reached the number of delegates to secure the nomination. it happened on the very same night that president joe biden clinched the democratic nomination which means the stakes are set us before. as donald trump will be on the ballot, the 2024 election will not be defined by big policy debates or disagreements between the two candidates and parties of which there are many, but rather by a very basic question whether or not we want our democracy to continue as we know it. because donald trump has made it clear in public speeches and announcements he will take a wrecking ball to the rule of law, he will pardon the january 6th insurrectionists. and he will serve in his own words, this is a quote, a dictator on day one. voters who go to the polls in a few months have to answer the question whether the 248-year democratic experiment sees its birthday? that choice has been laid out in stark detail, voices not just on the left or center, but also the far right. remember this, f ....
in trouble. the lead lead with jake tapper starts right the governor of california s here and boy, do we have a lot of questions? the lead starts right now he s one of the main democrats floated perhaps more than anyone else as an alternative to joe biden, gavin newsome here on the lead, is he all in on president biden s reelection bid? how is he trying to fix the problems in his state such as illegal immigration and skyrocketing homeless numbers, will ask him about it all, plus two years since russia invaded ukraine, are putin? its forces closer to threatening a nato country in european territory. the ambassador of key nato ally is here, we are just minutes away from a major update on that moon mission and soon possibly the first pictures from the lunar surface welcome to the leon jake tapper. we start today in our 2024 lead. we re just one day out from the next crucial contest in the presidential race as a south carolina republican primary right now polling shows do ....
under clarity is not afraid of his retribution. the biden campaign also is turning up the heat on trump with the president himself ordering staffers to aggressively attack trump s most inflammatory remarks welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn breaking news, and let s get right to the breaking news are truly bombshell admission to the fbi by an informant on hunter biden, that russian intelligence officials were directly involved in passing along bogus dirt on the president s son see you in our senior justice correspondent, evan perez is working this important story for us, evan, what are prosecutors now saying about these ties well, alexander smirnoff wolf was behind those very damaging allegations against president biden, one of the things he said to the fbi in 2020 was that he had information patient indicating that hunter biden, his son and then former vice president. we ....
agent. cnn s melissa bell is live in paris, was a what else are you hearing from navalny s mother in this message directly to putin? well, as we spoke about earlier audie, what we d heard is from dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesman, pushing back against that video, we d heard from yulia navalnaya, the widow. widow of alexei navalny, a very strong message she sent yesterday accusing vladimir putin of being behind her from her husband s death. now, this morning, the kremlin pushing back against that suggesting that neither peskov nor vladimir putin has seen the video message almost immediately afterwards, we had a very strong tweet from alexei navalny s widow pushing back, saying, once again, hand us back. alexei navalny s body. and then this very dramatic video now but you re about to see as alexei navalny s seven year-old mother, who is standing outside the notorious polar wolf colony, where he breathed his last breaths my espionage hoots behind me is the ik three po ....
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than f ....