edition of hanty hanty. removed trump from the ballot in maine pending appeal. she doesn t like how he inflamed supporters january 2021. she is palling around with joe biden few months ago. political bias nothing to do with her decision. just so happens, she was one of the three biden electors in state of main in 2020. she rushes on to msnbc to brag. trump has five days to challenge this bizarre decision maine superior report. full reaction and analysis straight ahead. antoni blinken s trip. little more than a pleasant conversation, it was mexico making most of the demands several points of entry southern border. border not opened enough. meanwhile latest caravan 8,000 illegal immigrants marches north through mexico. overwhelmed with unprecedented. border patrol apprehending 22,000 illegal immigrants. massive numbers one of the nine sectors. mass catch and release. that is what it is continues largest scale ever seen. biden administration unwilling to force mexico to help u
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we begin this hour with high stakes negotiations starting back up on the nation s looming debt crisis. just minutes ago talks resumed on the staff level in washington. but they will set the stage for a top level meeting tomorrow. president biden is expected to sit down with republican house speaker kevin mccarthy. the two men spoke by phone today as the president was flying back home from the g7 summit in japan. this new glimmer of optimism is a quick compromise appears increasingly bleak. the u.s. could run out of money to pay debts as early as june 1st. experts say that would be disastrous for the u.s. and the global economy. let s go the to white house and arlette saenz. what this what are they saying over there? the president returned to washington much the same when he left it, without any clear resolution in sight to avert a national default on the debts as early as 11 days from now. now, one thing that t
ballot and why are democrats again helping another trump-backed candidate there? but, first, breaking tonight, president biden is trying to have it both ways when it comes to gasoline be prices. the president blaming russia when costs skyrocketed. now, he is claiming credit for some modest drops. but the president is still putting foreign oil ahead of domestic as he tries to ease the crisis and at the same time is considering a climate emergency executive order. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. gas prices haven t just crushing americans waltz but polling. a cnbc poll giving president biden economic approval rating below the worst mark his predecessors obama and trump ever got just 30%. now the white house sees a silver lining if they can strike a nuclear deal with iran. the white house is framing a return to the iran nuclear deal as a way to bolster global oil supply. deputy secret
Retaliatory strike against iran overnight while you were sleeping. So far, zero comment from the israelis. Were awaiting live remarks from Secretary Of State Anthony Blinken very shortly. The strike was inside of a major Iranian Military air base that contains facilities associated with their nuclear program. But we know Irans Nuclear facilities apparently not impacted. They did not hit them. Ainsley we have not received an official statement from the Biden Administration. But a source says the u. S. Was not notified before the strike and was not involved. Lawrence jeff paul is on the ground in tel aviv, israel and retired tony tata has excellent analysis. First, brian is breaking down exactly where this happened. Brian, what can you tell us . Right now you take a look at israel right near here. And you take a look at iran over here. A Long Distance to travel. Thousands of miles where they wanted to hit. Did they want to go tehran where theres a lot of Drone Manufacturing . They decide
A lot of building tension over the last couple of days as this region really waited to see how israel would respond to that unprecedented attack by iran last saturday. We didnt know what it would look like in what would happen and some people yesterday thinking it was not going to happen until after the upcoming passover holiday. We now know according to fox news Military Source that israel is responding to iran with these very targeted and specific strikes in the esfahan region. That is roughly 200 miles away from the iranian capital of tehran. This is significant because not only is it close to the capital, but also near the Nuclear Facility. We should mention the site was not hit in the strike appeared to target the nearby iranian airbase. But really clearly shows that israel has the capabilities to hit this area and hit it when it wants to. As it stands, Iranian Media has been downplaying the strike. I havent reported damage from the strike or direct impact. Relieves only comments