monday, may 6 right now on cnn republican hopefuls gathered to make their case to become donald trump s vp pick. and thousands displaced and a young boy killed as texas struggles to recover from the devastating flooding all right. 6:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look at the white house on this monday morning. good morning, everyone. happy monday. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us scandalous affairs, secret payments, accusations of gestapo tactics, and we still have six months to go before america is 47th, president is elected welcome to the new normal donald trump, of course, returns to court this morning for week four of his criminal hush, money trial. week three ended with gripping testimony from former trump aide, hope hicks. she offered potentially damaging details about the hush money payments that were made by trump to adult films star stormy daniel s trump refrained from commenting on his former employees testimony so i m not allowed to comment o
former president will stand striel next month. in kyiv, secretary of state antony blinken has made a surprise visit, he is there right now, set to meet with ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy. senate republicans getting ready to meet with mitch mcconnell as concerns grow over the gop leader s health after he froze in front of reporters again. this hour of cnn this morning starts now. here s where we begin. in a few hours, the first televised hearing in the georgia alex m alex m election / election interference begins. the judge says he is going to address critical scheduling matters for the trial. it could begin october 23. there are 19 defendants. they have all all entered not plea pleas. the hearing will look at breaking up the case and trying some of the defendants separately. yeah, that s a loaded calendar you are looking at there. meanwhile, in the federal election interference case special counsel jack smith is accusing former president trump of making da
here is where we begin with a live look at capitol hill where ukrainian president zelenskyy will arrive any moment. he will be making a last-ditch plea to congress to stop stalling and approve billions in additional aid in their fight against russia. lawmakers are deadlocked and time is running out quickly to reach a deal before they go home for the holidays. in an hour zelenskyy will enter the united states capitol speak to the entire senate. later he has meetings with president biden at the white house, house speaker, republican speaker mike johnson. zelenskyy will be facing a much colder reception from republicans compared to less than one year ago when he received this hero s welcome. thank you. [ applause ] that was december of last year when a joint session of congress gave zelenskyy a standing ovation during his first visit of the war. he received an american flag from then-speaker nancy pelosi. lauren fox is live on capitol hill. lauren, it is such a differe
immune from prosecution for things that happened while he was in office, and secondly, whether he essentially is barred from being tried in this case because of double jeopardy, because he was obviously impeached by the congress, but he was not convicted. that is one of the central questions that jack smith and his team is now asking. the filing says in part of that principle, is that a zenith here, whereas here a grand jury has accused a former president of committing federal crimes to subvert the peaceful transfer of power to his lawfully elected successor. nothing could be more vital to our democracy than a president who abuses the electoral system to remain in office, is held accountable for criminal conduct. jake, this is obviously now the goal here is to try to expedite this. they re asking for the court to do this, to get the briefs going by december 18th. the goal is to try to get this going before that march trial date comes near. evan, special counsel jack smi
command center. today the israeli military released this new video showing the inside of a tunnel on the hospital s grounds. we ve reached out to hospital officials about this footage but have not heard back. oren liebermann got a chance to enter with the israeli defense forces saturday and joins us now live from tel aviv with more. orin, what did you see? reporter: paula, we spent about six hours inside of gaza crossing the border fence at 9:00 in the evening and not coming back out until about 3:00 in the morning so the entire time we spent there was at night, and much of the time in gaza city itself which has been without power for days was in nearly complete darkness, but what we went to see was the newly exposed tunnel shaft, this had been revealed by the idf only a couple days earlier but haven t gotten to look inside. even though it was pretty much the middle of the night and had to use our headlamps to see it was clear there was something substantial there, take a l