Delegate dominance, but can he deliver a decisive sweep and get ever closer to that magic number . Or will nikki haley pull off the seemingly impossible and turn a last stand into real momentum to remain in the race . Good morning. Thanks for being here. It is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. And welcome to the most consequential day so far in the race for the president ial nomination. It is Super Tuesday. The single biggest day on the primary calendar. The polls are open, are about to be, in 16 states across the country, and our team is in 13 of them. By the end of the day today, donald trump could be much closer to that magic number. Unless nikki haley can defy Delegate Math and political gravity. At some point maybe we should say the reason that america keeps losing is because of donald trump. Haley, shes not a problem. I think shes very negative for the party, but shes not a problem in terms of winning because were winning by a lot. And nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is
december 16th, i m ali velshi. we begin this morning with a justice served. a pair of election workers were terrorized by don trump supporters. yesterdaya ry awarded ruby freeman and shaye moss a total of 100 and $48 million in damages as a result of their civil this defamation lawsuit against really giuliani who repeatedly and falsely accused him of carrying out a elaborate election fraud scheme without producing a shred of evidence that could withstand scrutiny. the verdict is a new low for giuliani, who rose up the ranks of new york politics early in his career, but has been on a downward spiral for the better part of the past two decades. he s gone from being americas mere to a codefendant indicted alongside his longtime pal donald trump in fulton county s sprawling r.i.c.o. case. on top of, that giuliani faces a number of other lou legal troubles. yesterday wondered 48 million-dollar verdict pulsing comparison to the 1.3 billion dollars that dominion voting systems to s
administration officials, they ve made clear their position is the same as it has always been. the president wants a clean debt ceiling increase. there have been no negotiations on anything but a clean debt ceiling increase. republicans are in a very different place right now. the difference between right now and yesterday where those two positions stand is they have about a month to figure this out. the president has international travel, how they figure something out is still very much an open question. to remind people, this is money that has already been spent. this is not future spending. it has already been manu, does this new deadline one month from today change anything when it comes to negotiations? we haven t seen any real willingness to give on either side so far. not at the moment, jake, of course this letter just came out, but even kevin mccarthy, the speaker saying earlier today in israel that they will not do what the white house has been demanding for th
weeks from now. we ll discuss the really dire implications for the u.s. economy if that happens with the former treasury secretary larry summers. also tonight, a huge dust storm causes multiple deaths and dozens of car wrecks in a massive interstate pileup. we re tracking this weather disaster in illinois. and an intensifying man hunt in texas after a gunman killed five neighbors including a 9-year-old little boy. authorities pleading for the public s help as this armed and very dangerous suspect has been on the loose since friday. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news. trashy secretary janet yellen s very very blunt warning about the u.s. debt limit. cnn is covering the story from every angle. our correspondents are standing by over at the white house on capitol hill, and in the nation s financial cente
present bidens state of the union speech last night. let s just say they are not fans. and just how widespread this surveillance program of theirs really is. we have fox team coverage with aishah hasnie on capitol hill on what we are learning about that briefing. myrtle beach, south carolina, on what navy divers are now discovering. jennifer griffin of the pentagon on the size of the china spy program that itself seems to be polluting. and general jack keane on just how concerning all of this really is down the road. welcome, everybody, grabbed to have you. neil kabuto, and this is your world, a very volatile world right now, where relations between the two biggest economic powers on the planet but to say nothing of the two biggest military powers on the planet are bad, they are fractious, they are ice-cold. that s go to capitol hill and aishah hasnie on the fallout they are. aishah? neil: hey there, neil. we are just getting brand-new information about the classified bri