Now. I am writing myself a note. Its worth just put the 20 bucks in. Buy lottery ticket. Its tonight, right . Yeah. To do. I will do that. Maybe ill see you back here tomorrow morning. Would you come back if you won . Yes. Oh, okay. You not . No. A billion and a half dollars . Yes, i would. I like what i do. I like it too. But not when im a billionaire. I hear you, my friend, victor. Lets get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. Theyve been deadly. We know this morning at least two people have died, Hundreds Of Thousands of people, though, waking up to Power Outages this morning. Oh my god. That is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. While indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. Maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. Look at this. This is the people who were trapped between these power lines. Today already nearly 900 flights have been delayed. More than 300 cancelled. Here is
At the white house, right now, President Joe Biden preparing to Face Congress and the American People and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. Theyll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the Union Address. Less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. Welcome to a Special Edition of ac360. Im Anderson Cooper and im jake tapper. About an hour from now, President Biden will walk into the House Chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. Mister President Biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. He will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his presidency, and
Okay. America, its biden versus trump again, but will 2024 look anything like 2020 . The lead starts right now the time has now come to suspend my campaign nikki haley exits and clears the way for a biden trump rematch. The president is making a play for her voters while donald trump is racking up some new gop endorsements, including a big one from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell who hasnt even talked to trump in more than a year. And the chances of a thirdparty candidate jumping into this race. This hour, ill speak with the chiefs for no labels plus facing the hard truths about the Fentanyl Crisis when states Change Of Heart after becoming the first in the nation to decriminalize possession of certain alleles this of drugs and welcome to the lead. Im abby phillip in for jake tapper today, we start with our 2020 24 lead. The rematch is officially set. Joe biden and donald trump are almost guaranteed to be their partys nominees for president. After nikki haley officially dropped
We also have with the cnn business and politics correspondent, Vanessa Yurkevich. Migrant issue is affecting how they cast their ballots while Immigration Top of mind, especially for Republican Voters here in texas. And weve heard that from voters here this morning who are Casting Ballots in the republican primary, where one of the Polling Locations in el paso, texas, one of many border communities have been affected by the ongoing immigration debate. We know the Republican Party intact x is also finds itself in the midst of a civil war. And this election day will really be an interesting test of the influence that donald trump has on texas republicans. Hes been very involved in actually somewhat lowerlevel races here in texas. Hes been endorsing candidates for State House Races and that sort of thing. So it is really interesting to see this tension that is going on between the donald trump wing of the Republican Party and what would would have been the old bush wing of the Republican
What he texted. In stark contrast from each other . Yeah. Anderson, nick valencia, thanks. The news continues right here on cnn its thursday, february 20. Happy week here right now on cnn this morning the Supreme Court agree agrees to hear Donald Trumps absolute immunity arguments, throwing his 2024 trial schedule into turmoil, plus yet another legal challenge for trump for an illinois judge booting the former president off that states ballot will look at that and a deal to keep the federal government open is going to have a vote in a matter of hours or still the threat of a shutdown looms all right 05 00 a. M. Here in washington, a live look at the United States Supreme Court, the center of it all this morning morning. Good morning. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Were going to start there. The Supreme Court agreeing to decide whether or not former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for the actions he took on and leading up to january 6, its a