fight terror but americans are swept up in the surveillance and former president donald trump just weighed in all of this. i am john roberts in washington here we go for another jam-packed our. sandra: could be with you, john i m sandra smith and this is america reports. right now lawmakers seem divided on this, listen. speak of those individual saying this is a warrantless search for american s data is not telling the truth. it s a disservice to the americans for a member of congress to vote against a simple warrant requirement. if you want to track terrorists are bad guys in russia or china you have to have fisa. sandra: david is a compromise in the works? is all over the place right now. i wish i could tell you more. it is literally changing by the minute on capitol hill. the deadline, sandra, is friday april 19th at the debate is coming to a head this week with a potential vote tomorrow. the fbi and cia use fisa a lot. the controversial section 702 allows intell
think he s guilty? the lead with jake tapper? weekdays it for and cnn it s monday, april 8 right now on cnn this morning, donald trump closing the financial gap with president biden with a record fundraising haul as he he uses a big announcement on abortion this morning. president biden, preparing to bring a student loan relief to a new group of borrowers plus bad weather threatening to spoil plans for millions of americans hoping to get think glimpse of today s solar eclipse all right 5:00 a.m. here in washington, dc. a live look down the national mall in washington monument and lincoln memorial. good morning, everyone. happy monday. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us. team trump claiming they raked in more than 50 million at a palm beach, florida fundraiser saturday night, that is nearly double what president biden raised last month at a starr new york event featuring former presidents clinton and obama. trump s campaign has struggled to keep up with
encounters and much more. cnn this morning continues right now. under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody? except for day one. except for? except for day one. meaning in. i want to close the border and i want to drill that s he says you are not going to be a dictator, are you? no, no, no, other than day one. we are kpoes closing the border and drilling, drilling, drilling. after that i am not a dictator, okay? good morning, everyone. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. that was donald trump last night saying the quiet part outloud when he was put on the spot. for trump rhetoric on the campaign trail sparked a frenzy of headlines this week about what he might do if he becomes president again. he danced around the question about abusing power. his ally ckash patel is talking about punishing enemies if there is a new trump term. this is a man who holds a senior rol
a dictator on day one, but only day one. donald trump in his own words on what a second trump presidency will look like. a cnn exclusive, guess who was on the witness list when donald trump goes on trial in georgia? former vice president mike pence, on a coalition course for a historic courtroom standoff. and a rampage across two cities leaves six people dead in texas. the grisly killings at five different crime scenes. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. a dictator for a day. donald trump in iowa last night offered ample offered ample opportunity by a fredly host and audience to make clear he won t lean into his authoritarian tendencies if he wins the election, an opportunity that trump took and did this do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if reelected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people? you mean like they re using right now. also in all of that asked about
does that end up hurting him enough that elvis s son, nephew, can win? you know, that s a good question. you know, how does that translate for folks? to be honest, stepping away from it and being this far, i don t think it will really factor. for a lot of those voters. there hasn t been a lot of blowing up around that. and yeah, it was a scandal. i think they re blowing up about it. it s hurt his popularity. it s made him very unpopular, tate reeves. yeah, but the question is how does that then translate into votes? donald trump is unpopular. but that has him beating joe biden. i m not going to base my experience in politics. i m not going to base how a campaign is going to turn out based on who is unpopular. what i m going to base it on is how reeves and presley are managing their ground game. and how they re managing the vote. and who they re turning out. are they turning out voters who see reeves as unpopular? are they taking advantage of his unpopu