One week away from the president ial debate between Vice President harris and former President Trump. This morning, a new look at how differently they are approaching this big moment breaking overnight, israel says it has killed a top Hamas Commander responsible for the October 7 massacre and its a whale of a tail. The video you have to see this morning launched into the air by a whale, a snorkeler gets to surprise of a lifetime. Im Sara Sidner with John Berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central check your calendar as its the first day of that. Always talked about post postlabor Day Sprint to the finish. In this election cycle. That is 63 days to go nine weeks, exactly. And soMe Ballots though will start hitting the mail in North Carolina this week in pennsylvania, early voting starts, theyre in two weeks. So calling it a sprint, no exaggeration. And one thing to president ial candidates are sprinting to right now is to get ready for their big debate ahead of their first faceto
nato about whether or not you have to bring ukraine into the nato family now. also this how, did and the presidential hopefuls are taken more swings at president donald trump. if we want to lose to joe biden again, and have an 82-year-old joe biden in the white house, then let s nominate dump. we are going to begin with president biden s critical european flip. and having tea with rishi sunak at ten downey street. no surprise that ukraine is expected to top where they re also we are learning more the kremlin now says putin and prigozhin met days after the alley, after that meeting, the spokesperson for prime minister said this about cluster bombs. we stand by our obligations. how is the biden administration responding? and what are the larger expectations hitting into the summit? yeah, lindsey, the president phasing pushback, and also from, like you said, the uk, germany, spain, other nato allies, because of the threat they posed to civilians. the president is still d
we have major breaking news this hour, florida governor ron desantis, the man once hailed as the future of the republican party, the so-called heir apparent to the maga movement. bowing out of the race for president. he suspends his campaign a short time ago, bringing an end to one of the most embarrassing and disastrous gop primary showings in modern american political history, the move comes two days before new hampshire s primary contest, where he was projected to finish while behind both former president, donald trump, and former u. n. he opted not to break the news on this stump before his supporters that worked for weeks to keep his campaign alive one way or another. instead, he ended his never back down campaign, that s what it s called on twitter, and through his support behind the man he has spent so many years working to emulate. if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i ca
hampshire s primary contest, where he was projected to finish while behind both former president, donald trump, and former u.n. he opted not to break the news on this stump before his supporters that worked for weeks to keep his campaign alive one way or another. instead, he ended his never back down campaign, that s what it s called on twitter, and through his support behind the man he has spent so many years working to emulate. if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources, we don t have a clear path to victory. accordingly, i am today suspending my campaign. trump is superior to the current incumbent, joe biden, that is clear. i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee, i will honor that pledge. it s my endorsement because we can t go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear, are re-package form of corpor
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula reed who is here with me. paula, i know you have a big stack of papers that you just printed out, but what can you tell us about this appeal? two weeks ago, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the ballot. that decision is on hold, because previously, the republican p