pole position. two days from new hampshire s primary and new cnn poll finds trump leading the pack. we need big margins because we have to send real unity as a message. as his rivals pile on. we can t have someone else that we question whether their mentally fit to do this. could anyone knock trump off his path to the nomination? plus reluctant rematch. democratic leaders worry if 2024 is a rerun, voters will tune out. as republicans face a familiar dilemma on trump. i would support him. even if he s convicted? new reporting on the fears in both parties. and house of cards. the november is house speaker squeezed by his own party. i think it is a nonstarter. i don t see what the problem is. let s fix it. has mike johnson backed himself into a corner. inside politics starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. right now a brand-new snapshot of the republican presidential contest less than 48 hours away from whe
at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. top of the hour, this tuesday. i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. happening right now, we re following these deadly storms pommeling the california coast. rescues underway in several parts of the state. you see the video here, mudslides and flooding. the impact is just massive. power knocked out to more than 230,000 customers, a number of roads are closed, some highways just impassable. and 14 people at least we know have died. we re going to take you live to california for the very latest. the pictures are incredible. plus president biden is facing questions this morning over his handling of classified material while he was vice president. this after his attorneys discovered documents, some classified, in a private office, those attorneys then returned them to
can even rebook. but just looking at just look now at the never ending line of people on your screen right now, snaking through atlanta s airport at the southwest counter. passengers are being told to expect even more delays and cancellations. the travel nightmare has caught the attention of the transportation department and investigating if southwest could have better handled the cancellations. the president of southwest pilots association tells cnn that a meltdown like this has been brewing for some time. weather was just the tipping point. we have cnn correspondents nick valencia and gabe cohen standing by. and let s start with gabe at baltimore washington international which is one of the worst effected airports. gabe, describe for us how bad things are where you are and how many more flights are grounded today? reporter: well, the situation seems to get worse and worse for southwest passengers. the airline canceling roughly 62% of their flights today. close to 2500 o
Bring the latest on the ground and middle east we bring Trace Gallagher and also to, senator ted cruz will be here tonight and ufc president dana white will join us. He has a huge announcement, a recordsetting dealmaking bud light the official beer of the usc looks like anheuserbusch i trying to send a message you anyway it appeared that the American Beer Giant is now getting back into its roots selling beer. After what was a detour into politics that didnt work out well to be first our top story tonight. Chaos, miles continues to rock the entire middle east with the conflict that some believe coul erupt into a major global conflict and war. But is a big threat to america actually coming from within . Because then every major city, every major state there are leftists who exhibit more fidelity to the people of gaza and americans were murdered and taken hostage by terrorists, by his race murdered and taken hostage. In fact, for which now we have witnessed some of these individuals make