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Hi, everyone. Dont you love that music. It is 4 00 in New York. The prosecutor versus the felon, the want to be autocrat versus the democrat. A candidate weighed down by incumbency in the eyes of the voters, a candidate who will be the oldest president in our history should he prevail. Versus the candidate of change from a much younger generation. Every contrast that defined the 2024 president ial election could very well be distilled in to 90 minutes on one of the biggest stages of this Campaig...

and one confirmed case now in the united states. im jake tapper. we start with the health lead in the biden administration, warning parents desperate to get their hands on baby formula to beware of online scammers, charging exorbitant prices for formula that does not exist. house lawmakers griled the fda commissioner demanding answers and action. this after the house passed a pair of bills to address the crisis. the first would provide $28 million to the fda to fix the shortfall and pr...

Noon here on cnn if you ever missed an episode of the lead, you can listen to the show from whence you get your podcasts. The news continues on cnn with wolf blitzer, right now in this Situation Hapappening now, the Biden Campaign launches a new Attack Ad Warning that donald trump has quotes snapped the president s team, sharpening its free Debate Strategy against trump. This as Robert Kennedy jr. Is potential as a spoiler, is on display today with his due appeal to the Libertarian Party also th...

Colleagues are turning up the heat. >> donald trump has made clear that he does not respect the rule of law. congress has one responsibility on this, and that is to initiate impeachment proceedings. >> reporter: now, wolf, just back to that iowa poll for a second, yes, there was good news for elizabeth warren in that poll but, also, only 20% of iowa caucus goers said their mind is made up. so just another reminder of how fluid this race is as we are more than four months away from the iowa caucu...

Familys first. we have six deputies and sheriff out here. they patrol 3,500 square miles. >> reporter: of the three points of entry in new mexico, the antelope wells station reports a large number of immigrants cr s crossing. the west is increasingly hard to monitorment were in cloverdale, as far as you can go in new mexico. this is arizona, this is mexico. cloverdale is the last outpost in the state. so remote and isolated, theres just one building left standing. >> that was nbcs tremaine lee r...

President to make that argument. >> yes, thats a good point. m.j. lee reporting for us. thank you very much. lets bring in our senior justice correspondent evan perez and crime and justice reporting shimon prokupecz. you were there outside of the courthouse in new york today. the special counsels lawyer said that cohen will continue to cooperate on the russia probe. what more does cohen know about what he called the presidents dirty deeds and how damaging could his continued cooperation and te...

Now as we have been reporting all along, wolf, we know that cohen has been feeling increasingly isolated from the president, a man he has famously said he would take a bullet for. now that cohen is in a lot of potential legal trublt, trump has not had his back in public. he has distanced himself from cohen saying didnt do a ton of legal work for him and they havent spoke nen a long time so given all of that, what were told is that cohen continues to feel let down by president trump and that ulti...

>> im going to give you the last word here. this is -- i want to get this reporting in. this is cnns m.j. lee reporting that porters ex-wife says he punched her in the face, gave limb the photo to prove it in january of 2017. that is more than a year ago. so for folks saying well kelly didnt know. is there an excuse for him not knowing? >> no, he either chose not to know or more likely did he know and didnt care. he thought this man was more important to him than the stories about the women. he ...

>> hes the one putting ougt fires. he is starting fires. >> right. hes the chief of staff. staff. right? and remember, when he came in, don, he expressly said im not going to be the guy who is going to manage the president. im going to manage the staff. he said that publicly. im going to make sure we are all working to make it the best possible scenario for the president of the united states. to davids point, how incurious do you have to be if youre the chief of staff to say wait a minute, this ...

Certainly has raised questions why more wasnt done earlier, why he continued to work here at the white house with that interim security clearance. i should note that the president according to the white house did not find out about this until this week. he is upset that it was handled particularly by his chief of staff. there was the one statement tuesday night and then as you pointed out, there was the follow up statement last night where it seemed as though john kelly was sort of backtracking ...