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Im poppy harlow. Youre in cnn newsroom. We begin this hour with the latest from the campaign trail. Republican president ial candidate donald trump firing back after being disinvited from todays red state gathering of conservative activists in atlanta. The controversy began with a comment trump made last night to our very own don lemon about fox moderator megyn kelly. She came out there reading her little script and trying to you know be tough and be sharp, and when you meet her you realize shes...

Will gather to push the person they want to replace boehner as speaker of house, the second in line to the presidency. Kevin mccarthy, the House Majority leader and boehners number two guy is widely viewed as the front runner. But his path to the top has hit a few hurdles. One being from Jason Chaffetz. And now daniel websiter is in the mix and has the support of the House Freedom caucus. The caucus is believed to have up to 40 member, enough to block mccarthy from getting the full title when th...

Focus on syria. Thats according to wall street journal, more on that in just a moment. And speaking of summits that onagain, offagain summit between President Trump and kim jongun, oh, its on again right now, for now. The president meeting in the oval office again with the former spy chief who delivered a really big letter from kim. But can President Trump make the really big deal that he wants . Lets talk about it. Cnn president ial historian timot timothy nutali, and cnn Global Affairs analyst...

Undercounted that could dramatically affect the number of seats in the house of representatives. And another case a gerrymandering, or central question how much partisanship is too much . Thats what the justs are looking at this morning right now. Our team is here with the stories for the hour. Pete williams is over at the Supreme Court. Pete, what do we know . We are potential minutes away. Were getting the first decision now. This is one of the lesser cases, an interesting question can the pol...

Of the aisle. Volume ii of this report was not authorized under the law to be written. The racial divide, donald Trump Doubles down on his inflammatory language, attacking a leading democratic congressman. The city of baltimore and the reverend al sharpton, while Republican Leaders all stay silent. Calling me a troublemaker. Yes, i make trouble for bigots. I made trouble for him with central park. I made trouble for him with birtherism and im going to keep making trouble for bigots. A fathers gr...

House democrats may have descended into pure faxalism, but the United States senate must not. This is the only body that can consider all factors presented by the house. Decide what has or has not been proven, and choose what outcome best serves the nation. This, mr. President , is what we must do. But heres a question. Will those factors that mcconnell mentioned include newly released documents and Text Messages from Rudy Giulianis indicted associate, lev parnas, who appears to have been a midd...

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war. russia began airstrikes in syria claiming they target the islamic state, but the west is expressing concern that russian forces are also striking the rebel groups opposed to the syrian president assad. president obama said russias support of the wry tall dictator -- of the brutal dictator is a, quote, recipe for disaster. >> we believe in sticking to our policy that the problem here is assad and the brutality he inflicted on the syrian people and that it as to stop. >> vladimir pu...

three. and that ones off. in the hands with five seconds. and this most improbable tournament run comes to an end with a uconn championship! the huskies once again are in basketball heaven. >> good morning. its tuesday, april the 8th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, msnbc contributor mike barnacle, msnbc political analyst and visiting professor to nyu darryl ford jr. and willie geist. what a game last night, man. >> it was. it was a good game. kentucky had their chances. coul...

0 shooting. remember, all the while, there is this 1-year-old child in the car with her. so what possessed her to do this, what possessed her to do any of these things, to disobey repeated verbal commands to stop, repeated shots fired at her car. we dont know whether, as youre seeing these pictures now, whether she at this point is wounded. we have to assume that she is. these were -- you saw those shots fired at relatively close range, as she was fleeing. but all the questions, i think, are goi...