if donald trump wasn t running for the white house. we re breaking down the stark revelation about biden s decision making and what it says about the state of the 2024 presidential race. also breaking. after republican senator tommy tuberville finally backs down on his nearly year long blockade of u.s. military promotions, hundreds of nominees have been confirmed tonight. and the israeli military is claiming new advances across gaza. new video showing the frantic search for survivors in the rubble over the israeli strike as the u.n. chief warns conditions in gaza are apocalyptic. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with the breaking news on the 2024 race for the white house. president biden offering a very candid assessment of how donald trump influenced his decision to seek a second term. cnn s senior white house reporter is in boston for us and that s
on it as early as it is tuesday, this tuesday, to give members 72 hours to read through the bill. we are witnessing in realtime the first big test for the speaker, you will recall, he was elected just two weeks ago after right-wing republicans forced out kevin mccarthy. mccarthy s ousting the embodiment of a divided gop. , speaker johnson has to get them all on the same page. but the party is still showing signs of major dysfunction. this, week house republicans, they canceled votes on the two party unding bills, a step backwards for the speaker. republican congressman tory nelson telles texas put a like this, quote, i don t think the lord jesus and could manage this group. and with, that let s bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent julie circuit. julie, walk us through some of the key takeaways from speaker johnson s two tiered plan? well the big thing to know about this bill, just first and foremost, is that it is by all accounts a clean continuing resolution. meani
battleground states, never mind the national poll, the battleground states, florida, north carolina, ohio, places where he needs to be building leads so he can win state and the election. we re not seeing that in the collection of polls, that s when s important. so looking at trump s calendar here, he s got events tomorrow and tuesday and the debate is wednesday. is he doing any debate prep? well, not clear to me how does he debate prep. i watched a bunch on tv, video. his debate style, this gets back to the whole question about the e-mails too. you see hillary clinton, she s been a political person for 30 years. everything is built with an infrastructure and a plan. with donald trump, there is not a lot of infrastructure and not a lot of plans. stuff just happened. so i don t really know he s doing a full sit-down debate prep at this point. he has been doing some, there was some discussion that he had chris christie preparing for him
for trump because no republican has ever won the white house without ohio. and, again, trump should do better in ohio than he does nationally because of the history and the demographics. let s look at what you consider donald trump s most likely path to victory. and we talked about ohio, north carolina, you think he s got to win those. what about florida, you say, iowa, wisconsin, and then getting in the weeds there, the second district of maine. why do you think this locks it up for him? so florida is a state that, again, is another state that is a little more republican than the nation. also 29 electoral votes and if democrats are winning florida, that means they re winning almost all of the big states. california, illinois, new york in the bag and so florida would be and pennsylvania too. so there is just no math without florida for trump. and then you look at iowa and wisconsin, iowa is a state where trump may be leading right now, both iowa and wisconsin are whiter than the na
supporters in new hampshire at a speech meant to highlight the state s drug problem. i think she s actually getting pumped up, you want to know she s getting pumped, you understand. we should take a drug test prior, because i don t know what s going on with her. at the beginning of her last debate, she was all pumped up at the beginning. and at the end it was, like, oh, take me down. she could barely reach her car. nbc s hallie jackson is following the trump campaign from washington, d.c. good sunday morning to you. what trump said there, do you think he got off script when he made that comment? well, listen, he was in new hampshire outlining his new drug policy. that s the context of which those remarks were made, remarks we should note have no evidence backing them, of course. trump, i m told, by a source close to the campaign, the motto is keep fighting mud with mud. we talked about the idea of