i am kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. five days to go before new hampshire. donald trump is test driving nikki haley s electability argument. why trump says he is the only one who can beat joe biden in november. iran backed militants and two making countries trade strikes as fears grow of a wider war. what the house speaker told cnn hours after a critical meeting at the white house. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harley with phil mattingly in new york. donald trump is focusing his attacks on nikki haley as he seeks to deliver a knockout blow in the new hampshire primary. trump is co-opting haley s electability message. if she wins, biden wins. a vote for nikki haley this tuesday is a vote for joe biden and a democrat congress this november. that s what will happen. and the clock, of course, is ticking. anxious republicans who are still opposed to trump urging haley to
you know, there s a word for what happened in new york, in a courtroom today. and that word is a latin term. it s bonkers. tonight, on laura coates live. i have been waiting to talk to you guys about this all day. what a day in court today. donald trump clashing with the judge, loudly talking during e. jean carroll s testimony. loud enough to be heard two rows away. claiming it is a witch hunt and a con job. shaking his head, throwing his hands up in the air. i do that, too. it was quite a performance. one that didn t fool the judge, not even for a millisecond or a new york minute, i guess you say. here is something you usually don t hear in a courtroom. the judge says he hopes he won t have to kick trump out of court. and trump responded, i would love it. the judge, i know you would. of course, he likely would. his goal is not maybe to win in court. it s to win at the campaign. frankly, if we re being honest, it s working with him and the polls. let s not forget. this is a
this morning a damning report by the doj calling the police response to the uvalde school shooting, quote, a failure. the biggest mistake they say officers made while responding to the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. that is ahead. and right now, e. jean carroll is under cross-examination from donald trump s lawyers pressed about the money she made about writing her book and essay about trump s alleged assaults. details from inside the court. moments ago, nikki haley punched back at donald trump who has attacked her on everything from her conservative credentials to her ethnicity, so she just got in the game. is there time enough for it to make a difference? i m john berman with sara sidner and rahel solomon who is in for kate who speaks much better than i do. this is cnn news central. pass. we have new office for you now. a new justice department report offers very harsh criticism of the law enforcement response to uvalde, texas. a mass shoote
plus, from total celebration to complete chaos, two people were shot, a police officer hit by a fire truck during a victory parade for nba champion denver nuggets. and the department of justice tees off an investigation, looking into that mega merger between the pga tour and saudi funded liv golf. our reporters are fouling all of the latest developments. we start, though, with the breaking news out of pittsburgh where nbc s george solis is covering the guilty verdict in the trial of the gunman who killed 11 people at that synagogue in 2018. george, i know it s been a few hours since the verdict. what are we hearing from the community? reporter: yeah, chris, some members of the congregation weighing in, saying they expected this guilty verdict. for them, this is some semblance of justice. in my conversation with them over the last several days, many of them say they will never be able to look at the accused shooter robert bowers directly in the eye. it was hard for them to
are at 4. the desantis campaign has just released a video making his formal announcement. let s take a look. the federal government makes it harder for families to make ends meet. and the president flounders. but decline is a choice. success is attainable, and freedom is worth fighting for. writing the ship requires restoring sanity to our society. normalcy to our communities, and integrity to our institutions. truth must be our foundation. and common sense can no longer be an uncommon virtue. in florida, we prove that it can be done. we chose facts over fear, education over indoctrination, law and order over rioting and disorder. we held the line when freedom hung in the balance. we showed that we can and must revitalize america. we need the courage to lead and the strength to win. i m ron desantis, and i m running for president to lead our great american comeback. bret: more on that in a bit. governor desantis now becomes the main challenger to former president trum