Its all of that and we need it. Yeah. Head Start Program for the Coa Coastal Habitat in florida. Jeff, thanks for hanging in there. You worked your shoulder and bicep muscles by holding up that device. I did. I was diving this morning, urgent care, but at least i get to spend some time with you. Id so glad, too, and weve done a little bit of work on our biceps, too. Im not injured for diving. Im glad youre not. I cant wait to hear that story. I hope the best for your friend that was there. Thanks for inspiring me to do that story. Youre so sweet. Thank you. You inspire us all the time. Thank you. All right. Hello again, everyone. Thanks for joining me. We begin with a new deadline for Donald Trumps lawyers after the historic indictment against him on 2020 election interference. Now the trump team has until monday, 5 00 p. M. Eastern, to respond to a request for a protective record by Special Counsel jack smith. In a court filing last night, Special Counsel jack smith soug from sharing
happening now, donald trump remains on the primary ballot in michigan after the supreme court rejected a bid to disqualify him under the insurrectionist ban. will this ruling have any impact on trump s legal fight in colorado? also this hour, we re standing by for a readout on critical talks that just ended between biden cabinet officials and the president of mexico. did they reach any new agreement on ways to ease the surge of migrants into the u.s. as the problem weighs not only on border cities, but also the white house. also, we re following these disturbing new images out of gaza. palestinian men and at least two boys apparently stripped down to their underwear while being detained by the israeli military. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m kaitlan collins and you re in the situation room. our top story this hour, a new ruling in the multistate effort that is underway to disqualify donald trump from running
truly chilling firsthand look at the destruction caused by russia s increasing use of kamikaze drones against civilian targets in ukraine. cnn s chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, is joining us from kyiv. tell us about what you ve actually seen on the streets of the capital city there. reporter: well, scenes of absolute destruction, devastation, people fearful. people dying and tonight, another impassioned plea from the president here, volodymyr zelenskyy saying in a 12-hour span, wolf, more than 30 of these iranian made 136 so-called kamikaze drones were intercepted as well as several cruise missiles. essentially, zelenskyy begging the international community to give ukraine more sophisticated and more substantial anti aircraft weaponry to protect itself. take a look. a policeman takes aim at the kamikaze drone as it bears down on kyiv. nick nicknamed mopeds in ukraine because of their whine, 28 were launched toward the city on monday. the majority are succe
election. possibly biden versus trump. what do you see as possibly standing in the way of what seems to be the trajectory of a trump nomination? a minor miracle. some sort of that we don t know about. look, we have now gone through not one, not two, but three indictments and arraignments and it doesn t seem to be making any dent on donald trump s numbers. he s right. if anything, it s helping him. he has managed to portray himself as this christ like political figure that s sacrificing on behalf of everybody else and taking the hits for everybody else. they re coming after me so they don t come after you. and it seems to be resognating with the republican base and it has led to increased fund raising even though people have heard that the fund raising he s doing is going towards paying
though that is something we re seeing voters respond to, especially in redder states. but for biden, he s coming here at a point in florida where democrats really do need to see energy tick up. again, it feels like it s theirs to lose because polling has shown they have a consistent lead over the democrat. never the less, we re going to see biden stumping here today. some i ve talked to have seemed frustrated with what they see as mixed messages here instead of just sticking to one issue, trying out a couple of different issues and the social issue is one we necessarily haven t heard from a ton of candidates or the president. so tell me about making that pitch now. you re on the ground talking to voters. does that seem to be resognating? it s a pitch that might be new in terms of it s getting a bigger bull horn now from the top people on the campaign trial, but other democratic operatives i ve spoken to say this is a message they ve had on