and healthy night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. so, there are minimalist candy bars, and there are maximalist candy bars. minimalist are the ones like, you know, a classic hershey s bar, just chocolate, or a heath bark, which is coffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favorite is a payday bar, i don t know what that is, it s basically like peanuts and grew. i don t know. but a picnic bar on the other hand is not one of those a minimalist once. it is a maximalist candy bar. it is like if you combine all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like caramel, peanuts, new get, cookie, and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. it is like the jumble area of candy bars. and they are delicious. they are not a big thing in the united states for whatever reason, although i think you can get them
country and giving us an early read on what they re thinking as the nation is heading into an unprecedented, unprecedented presidential election year. the contest american democracy as it s never been tested before. this is cnn s coverage of america s choice 2023. i m erin burnett. and i m jake tapper. we are about to get the first results of the night possible clues about the political trends in 2024 and the potentially historic and divisive rematch between president joe biden and former president donald trump. polling places just closed in the eastern half of kentucky. the commonwealth has one of two governors races tonight. new measure of the democrats strengths and weaknesses on republican turf. popular democratic governor andy beshear is fighting to keep his job in kentucky, where president biden is in louisville, kentucky. let s go to king in columbus, ohio. she s tracking the state s abortion rights ballot measure. king has there been last minute campaigning on thi
captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. and we re following several big stories at this hour overseas and right here in the u.s. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken continues his high takes meetings in the middle east. today he made an unannounced visit to iraq, as he tries to bridge the divide with america s arab partners in the region over the israel-hamas war. it comes as israel is resisting u.s. pressure for humanitarian pauses in the war and defending its air strikes against hamas and gaza, despite the mounting casualties. and all of this happening as former president donald trump prepares to take the stand tomorrow in his civil fraud trial that threatens his business empire in new york. and new polling numbers are also giving us a snapshot into a hypothetical matchup between trump and president biden, exactly one year before the 2024 presidential election. cnn s priscilla al
years and then the best friend s family moved to israel and now that best friend is preparing to zbloin u join the israeli military. so it really, really hits home to the students. important piece. thank you. and cnn this morning continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it is the top of the hour. we are following breaking news this morning. injured palestinians are now, as we speak, arriving in egypt one by one after a deal was reached to allow hundreds of foreign nationals and critically injured civilians to leave gaza after being trapped for weeks in the middle of the war zone according to the egyptian ministry of health. the u.s. government says americans are not expected to be in this first batch of people being allowed to cross into egypt today, but americans will be allowed to exit as early as tomorrow. sources tell cnn qatar brokered a deal with hamas, israel and egypt to allow up to 500 foreign nationals to cross into egypt with the pales
they do ask questions, and i think they re objectively i think it makes sense why people are asking will he be on some sort of energy drinks or something. that was house speaker mike johnson insisting that donald trump s claim that president biden will use drugs ahead of tomorrow night s debate was a joke. we ll dig into those remarks and the new conspiracy theory one republican is floating, which includes, mountain dew. plus, we ll bring you the key take-aways from last night s primaries where progressive democrats in new york suffered a major blow, and republican congresswoman lauren boebert won her race after she switched districts. and also ahead judge juan merchan partially lifts donald trump s gag order in the hush money case. who the former president is now free to talk about and who remains off-limits. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we have a lot to get to t