Morning and welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, march 17. Im Danny Freeman in per victor blackwell. Good to be with you. Danny, im amara walker and heres what were watching for you this morning, dueling for dollars President Biden ranks in a record haul of 53 Million Dollars in donations and just one month as former President Donald Trump is reportedly scrambling to raise Campaign Cash are breaking down the numbers. And why trump says losing the election will lead two calls of a bloodbath and accused killer in custody. What we know about the deadly pennsylvania Shooting Spree that led to an hourslong stand up in nearby new jersey, plus escaping the chaos, the state Department Announces plans to rescue americans trapped in haiti as Gang Violence escalates. A report from portauprince, youll only see on cnn most the final countdown we are live in moscow where Vladimir Putin is hours away from likely clinching an unprecedented fifth term as russias president all right, just in the pa
Leading this hour, a new sign of the clear dysfunction in the republican party, right . Right now. I mean, how bad things have to be to turn down two days. All expenses paid at a Luxury Resort well, thats the reality for many many House Republicans and a source says, fewer than half of them have rsvp. Yes. For the annual event starting today, that is meant to build party unity. Republican Congresswoman Name since he made shes doing a tv or parents instead congressman Kelly Armstrong says hed rather focus on his campaign for governor. And congressman tim burchett remarked, quote, i dont retreat i move forward. I got a farm to run. This comes just one day after republican Lawmakers Said hes quitting congress altogether next week because of the fighting and bickering cnns Melanie Zanona is live for us in white sulfur springs, West Virginia where this retreat is taking place. Melanie, nice gig. What are you hearing . From lawmakers who did show up apparently we lost Melanie Zanona as sound
the average american feeling the pain on groceries to gas but president biden is blaming covid vladimir putin and oil companies. will voters hold democrats accountable at the ballot box? congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers and cara hay are joining us coming up. we begin with the senate debate. i m sandra smith. john great to kick off another show with you. great to be on wednesday hump day. dr. oz and fetterman despite early voting well underway in the keystone state. democratic senate candidate struggled at times with his answers. in new york state, the crime crisis taking center stage. looking to oust kathy hochul. brian is live in harrisburg pa, what has been the reaction to fetterman s performance? lots of speculation what it could mean for john fetterman the fact there are renew questions about his fitness to serve when you look at exchange like this one about his evolving stance on fraccing. he said in 2018 he didn t and never has. i absolutely support
American people? well, day one, we can send a very clear signal that we want to produce here in the united states of america and this is the number one way that we would drive down the gas prices that we would insure national security as well as our leadership in bringing down i think you have to get more specific than that. how do you do that? okay. so, we would say yes to more pipelines. we would implement permitting reform. this administration has had less permits on federal lands since harry truman so we need committee reforms. we have agencies in the federal government that are shutting down projects. it takes let me challenge that. i m sure you saw the fortune article this week and our team has talked about it as well and i ve done my own veach but i ll ask you this administration says
Of shelling at a market in a town in the eastern part of ukraine. a cnn crew witnessed the strikes and captured this video in the luhansk region. the videos shared on social media and geolocated by cnn also showing burning buildings following the attack at that market earlier today. no word yet on casualties. and cnn crews also captured this video of a large plume of thick, black smoke rising into the air after a fuel depot was hit by strikes in the same region. as kyiv is getting hit with new attacks today, in lviv to the west, air defenses were activated in the early morning hours. here s cnn s matt rivers. reporter: well, fred, we were awoken here in lviv by air raid sirens around 5:45 a.m. local time this morning. while that s not totally uncommon in veach, what is a bit more uncommon is getting detailed information from the