to this morning. five things to know for this wednesday, september 20th. in just hours, attorney general merrick garland will testify before congress, and he will say he is not the president s lawyer, and not congress s prosecutor. and keeping our eyes on the capitol, republican dysfunction in the house, it continues. a handful of far right conservatives blocking debate on a pentagon spending bill as the clock ticks down to a government shutdown. and donald trump s ex-assistant says the former president told her to play dumb about classified documents according to reports. new federal charges in the fentanyl death of a 1-year-old child at a day care center in the bronx. investigators say they found a kilogram of the drug on top of play mats. writers will be back at the negotiating table today after five months of strike as the auto workers strike moves into day six. cnn this morning starts right now. wednesday can be a hard day, middle of the week, hump day, you k
the world is at an inflexion point and democracy will deliver. that was president biden s message at the united nations this morning. and at the center of it all is the fight for freedom in ukraine. that s right. we re awaiting remarks at the u.n. from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. earlier today, president biden setting that stage, aiming to rally support for kyiv. now 19 months. hard to believe it s been this long, but 19 months into this brutal fighting unleashed by vladimir putin. we will not retreat the values that make us strong. we will defend democracy, our best tool to meet the challenge that we face around the world. and we re working to show how democracy can deliver in ways that matter to people s lives. our jim sciutto is there at the u.n. jim. reporter: this, certainly, brianna and boris, a crucial moment for ukraine and biden, the u.s. president, addressing the nations here this morning, for the world as well. saying that russia s invasion
boils down to the iowa caucus, and 30 delegates. and the rise of outsider candidates, like donald trump and senator ted cruz, is generating hand-wringing within the ranks of the republican party. michael steele is the former chairman of the rnc and he joins me now here in the studio. michael, thanks for coming. michael: great to be here. fernando: well, you ve just come back from iowa. let me ask you right off do you think donald trump will win iowa? michael: i think he s well-poised to do it. depending on the polls you re looking at, there s still a very, very tight span between him and cruz right now. but the thing that s fascinating to watch is how cruz sort of eclipsed him, held that lead almost 4, 5, 6 points, and then trump just turned it, just turned it on the dime and moved the energy back in his direction. so i think, going into this, i think trump well-poised to win it and if he does, it makes the other candidates that much more difficult. fernando: this shif
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