Zelenskyy set to directly speak to the American People this hour as a new u. S. Aid package for ukraine does not include everything he wants. In ukraine tonight fire and destruction as russia unleashes new Missile Strikes across the country while president zelenskyy visits the United States. Cnn of course is on the ground in ukraine. And up on capitol hill president zelenskyys meetings with lawmakers underscore deep divisions among republicans over ukraine aid and more, threatening a Government Shutdown and putting Kevin Mccarthys speakership at risk. In the midst of all of this why is mccarthy sending House Members home . Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News on the meeting between president s biden and zelenskyy. The white house talks capping a whirlwind day for the ukrainian leader here in washington aimed at shoring up u. S. Support
we have new polling on what that message might do with a key bloc of voters. plus, what a raging wildfire in california is warning us about this summer s fire season. and two days after the supreme court rules to make it easier to rapidly fire a gun, a man shoots nearly 30 rounds at families using a community splash pad for kids. nine injured, including children. some seriously. an 8-year-old boy who has a gunshot wound to the head. he s in critical condition. those stories in a moment. first, let s begin with politics. the new more aggressive strategy from team biden to go after donald trump as a convicted felon. the new $50 million ad campaign is going up in battleground states, framing the election as a choice between a convicted criminal, that s in a quote, and a president who is, quote, fighting for your family. it was juiced over the weekend as george clooney, julia roberts, jimmy kimmel and former president obama laid out the stakes for november. the next pre
welcome back. 12:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. i m in for andrea mitchell. we begin with a major shake up in israel. netanyahu announcing today he is dissolving the war cabinet, which has been responsible for managing the war effort for more than eight months. this comes as israel s military says it will pause fighting along the route in southern gaza for 11 hours a day to allow humanitarian aid in for the millions of desperate palestinians. netanyahu reportedly disagreeing with this pause calling it quote, unacceptable. the idf says it struck targeting after hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets in israel on friday. joining us now, raf sanchez in tel aviv. let s start with you. why did the israeli prime minister dissolve the war cabinet and what does it mean? reporter: primarily because those centrist opposition figures who joined his government a week after the october 7th attack in a show of national unity have now walked out of the government. they left with a p
thorough, but it was technically accurate based on my reporting. i have talked to trump advisers both inside and outside of his campaign who made it clear that this idea of these expungement votes, which is a whole separate issue whether they do anything at all is something the former president is into. he s talked to mccarthy, and other lawmakers too. it places mccarthy in a difficult position where he has donald trump telling him he wants to do this, and he s going to have moderate republicans and by the way, the two republicans serving in the house who voted for the second impeachment, telling him this is not a great idea. it s not surprising he might try to stall even on a measure he says he does support. we ll see how long that s a tenable position for the speaker. this idea of expunging it, is it something that has the support of the full house republican conference? is everybody on board with doing it if speaker mccarthy goes
reporter: and a senior republican leadership aide says we ll have a vote when we have the votes and, of course, there s still not been a vote scheduled yet so that s clearly where they are without having the support necessary, and on thursday the full house republican conference will hold another meeting that morning. that is the same day they are set to leave washington for a week-long recess. jake. sunlan serfaty live on capitol hill for us. turning from our health care bill to the health lead jimmy kimmel shared a heart wrenching story about his now 11-day-old son billy delivering a tearful monologue. how he and his life molly learned the baby was born with a heart defect a the hellish week the three of them went through. a little over a week ago on friday, april 21stst, my wife molly gave birth to a baby boy.