welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
john: it is concerning, yes. some sympathetic syrians to join the russian forces is a concern. what the ukrainians would answer and president zelenskyy said, he has foreign legion that is tens of thousands strong. people flocking from all over the world, including the united states to fight on behalf of ukraine. carley, we can t trust any information coming from russia right now, no independent journalism allowed in russia. what the russians say, everybody should treat with good deal of skepticism. todd and carley. todd: thank and you stay safe. bring in a member of parliament live from kyiv. what do you think the next 48-72 hours will bring to the city of kyiv? i think they will try to continue to take the city to the
The lines of hey, ho, we won t go. but now the crowd is leaving the national mall, tens of thousands strong, and is beginning a march toward the capitol to. the stated aims of this entire rally and there are 500 of these in different cities from new york and chicago to london and geneva, as far as away as sydney and melbourne, australia the stated aim is to promote a greater respect for science throughout wen society. these folks feel as though science in the last few decades has come under assault. and in any case, they see this in the debates over climate change, over vaccines and in the trend toward less and less public funding for science programs in schools and in colleges. so it s going without incident, we should point out it s a very respectful crowd. there is a heavy police presence here on constitution avenue along the national mall. and we have seen some very clever signs, by the way. one mentioned bill nye the
Slam video. not a broader policy failure for the attack. when the e mail went public, the state department seemed to rely on the go-to explanation . i would take notion with the idea anyone hid documents given the fact we ve produced tens of thousands of documents to congress for them all of them, to see. telling fox news che contacted the ranking member, adding quote the direction of the secretary of state we have met with majority and minority staff on how to cooperate going forward. thank you. you re welcome also telling tonight iraq terror group is taking it s extreme agenda to a new level. we re getting a growing number of reports that the group, isis is targeting mosques, shrines