Good morning and welcome to cnn this morning is sunday, march 17. Im danny freeman, info your blackboard. Good to have you, danny, im amara walker. Thank you so much for joining us this sunday morning. And heres what we are watching for you, donald trump hits the trail for the First Time Since securing the republican nomination as President Biden dines with reporters and politicians in washington, the very different warnings both candidates are issuing on the Campaign Trail, posted arms Stand Up Paralyzes and new jersey neighborhood for hours on saturday will tell you what we know about what led up to it and how it all finally ended evacuations are underway in parts of iceland is a volcano near the famous blue lagoon a ropes, once again, the impact on nearby towns is a lava continues to flow this morning, and the final day of voting is underway in russias president ial election. And although Vladimir Putin is assured victory, were seeing protests across the region. Were live in moscow
November rematch. Both candidates clinching their Party Nominations last night with primary wins in georgia, mississippi, and washington state. Trump, taking a victory lap in this video released by his campaign its your favorite president speaking to you on a really great day of victory, the Republican National committee has just declared as the official nominee. And so whether the official nominee of the republican party, which is a big deal the biden trump rematch will be the longest General Election president ial campaign ever. Once it became clear, the president had clinched the democratic nomination team, biden released this slickly produced video ready to protect our brain our panel is with us this morning. Lets bring in republican strategist, Kristen Soltis anderson, democratic congressman Jake Auchincloss of massachusetts remains with us. Former White House Communications director Kate Bedingfield is here and Zolan Kannoyoungs White House Correspondent for the New York Times we
The pressure is on President Biden is preparing to go you have one of his most important speeches ahead of the november election tonights State Of The Union. His allies are hoping to see a fiery version of the president , while republicans are planning on how they will strike back the armorer are in charge of weapons on the set of rust found guilty guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter. So what does this verdict mean for the case against alec baldwin . Conduct a controlled burn or let a derailed train sit and risk a catastrophic explosion. Those were the options left in the hands of officials in ohio after that train derailed last year. Now, the ntsb says they made the wrong call. Why investigators saying no one on the ground had enough information to make the right one im kate baldwin with john berman and sara sidner. This is cnn news central hours from now, a highstakes so dress by the current president and ill promised real time rebuttal by the former president trying to take back the
Responding that trump is quote, thirsty for attention. And the agonizing choice to leave your home state to terminate a wanted pregnancy. A mother put in that position because of texas so this Abortion Laws will be in the first ladys box at the state of the Union Tonight, but first, kate cox is my guest here this hour. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics first every moment matters, every word, every step, every pause, every reaction for an 81 yearold president who wants four more years in the oval office. It all matters big time. And Joe Biden May never have had a moment like this before and may not again in the next several months, at least. Tonights State Of The Union is likely the largest audience the president will have between now and the voter. When the voters go to the polls in november, Cnns Kevin Liptak is covering all of the preparations from the white house whats kevin . I want to start with some new reporting on a very thorny Foreign Policy issue.
Monday morning when crossexamined amination continues in the prosecution certainly has its work cut out for them. The lead with jake tapper starts right now these cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Court has just ramped up for the de and Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial. It is a day you should remember because if if donald trump, the former president is acquitted the History Books may well point to Michael Cohens testimony today as the biggest reason cohens crossexamination will resume. Next week, were told after he endured hours of brutal questioning on The Stand Today, trumps Defense Attorney todd blanche laid out cohens past lies under oath, and then introduced evidence claiming that cohen has also lied in this trial under oath cohen previously testified on tuesday, i believe, about a key october 2016 phone call. He says he had with donald trump about the hush money reimbursement. But todd blanche today reveal Text Messages and a call log from that day tha