Right now. Former President Donald Trump endorsed congressman jim jordan for Speaker Of The House. Jim jordan knew more about what donald trump had planned than any other member. Him becoming speaker would basically be icing on the cake of this is Donald Trumps party. Theres just so much uncertainty about who their next speaker is going to be. Trump shared potentially Sensitive Information about Nuclear Submarines with a Maralago Club member. Trump loose with Sensitive Information and the governments secrets. The relative is too intent. Golden evidence for prosecutors. The Biden Administration will restart deporting venezuelans to curb the influx of migrant crossings. There is real urgency around this, but he needs to be seen as doing something. Time is really the major hurdle here. Good friday morning, everyone. Erica hill is with me. Poppy is off today. It is friday but if youre a House Republican you have a busy, busy weekend ahead trying to figure out, i dont know. How to get the house back in session and operating. Kind of important to figure out. Heard its important. Figures out who the speaker is and new this morning donald trump is taking himself out of the race for House Speaker. To be clear, never really in, but giving jim jordan his complete endorsement as they scramble to prevent a government shutdown. The former president floating the idea of being speaker himself temporarily even though hes embroiled In A Civil Fraud Trial and four different felony criminal cases while also running for president. Looking ahead, the house gop conference is set to meet monday as they race to pick their new leader. Theyll hear from countries jim jordan and Steve Scalise during a forum tuesday. An internal election expected wednesday and could potentially see the house vote on a new speaker that same day, if, and this is the if theres a candidate who can unify enough republicans. It is a tall task, a very important one. If winning support from both moderates and hardliners who voted mccarthy out. Jordan telling cnn he believes hes the guy who can do it. How are you going to get them in line if you were to become the speaker . I disagree with what took place, but those guys are friends of mine, and you know, i think thats the message ive been talking to my colleagues about. Who can bring the eight into the, you know, part of the team who can unite our team ji . I think i can do that. If i didnt i wouldnt run. Team coverage following all elements. Start with cnn National Correspondent kristen holmes. The endorsement last night came very late after floating a lot of different possibilities none tethered to reality in terms of his own role in the speakers race but the endorsement matters. How did he get here . Reporter after an absolutely chaotic day of donald trump inserting himself into an already tumultuous situation with the Republican Caucus on the hill and turning it into a circus. Floating the idea to members on the hill he was going to come up and speak to the fractured party. He did an interview in which he said heeding will be to serve as Interim Speaker and interview even advisers didnt know he was doing it and telling reporters several days donald trump not in nay way was taking this speakership floating situation seriously at all. That he was focused only on running for president. Of course, this is true donald trump fashion. Then an endorsement for jim jordan just after midnight trump says he is strong on crime, borders, Military Vets and second amendment. Jim his wife polly and family are outstanding. He will be a great Speaker Of The House and has my complete and total endorsement. Now, a couple things. I was told some gop lawmakers were expressing concern of trump outwardly flirting with this idea of Interim Speaker that would ultimately hurt jim jordan longer he did that. That might have led to this endorsement quicker. Its not surprising trump backed jim jordan. Jordan is a staunch maga supporter, has been leading these investigation into President Biden and somebody who has really stood by the former president through pretty much everything. Been one of his biggest defenders. He also has endorsed trump in 2024. Something that Steve Scalise has not done. An Important Note there. So lauren, you asked jordan specifically how he thought he could unite them. He didnt give a real answer on that in terms of specifics, but i wonder if hes able to unite more folks now simply because of this trump endorsement . Reporter a couple things to keep in mind when it comes to jim jordan. One is a trump endorsement likely only helps him with conservatives and members of the House Freedom caucus that likely he already could have locked up at this point. Really, jim jordans difficulty and the path ahead for him is whether or not he can lock down moderate support, get the support and backing of some of those republicans who are returning in biden one districts. Whether convince them hes the right man for the job. As was laid out, this is a Guy On Capitol Hill who has led every investigation into joe biden who has also been at the forefront of defending donald trump at moments when other members in the Republican Party would maybe wish that republicans would take a step back and let donald trump go his own way. So that is one of the key questions. Behind the scenes jim jordans argument to some of those members is, we need to unite in this moment, and im the guy who knows the rebels and can convince them to come with us as we move forward. He also argues he has an effective messaging strategy. He is someone on fox news. He is someone who has a clear direction of where he thinks the party should be going. Something that i think some republicans wonder if Kevin Mccarthy was an effective at. That is his argument. Whether or not he can sell those moderates or mccarthy allies remains another question. Yeah. The critical question at that. Thank you for your reporting. Both of you. New reporting about Donald Trumps alleged mishandling of classified information. Abc news reports months after leaving the White House Trump allegedly shared Sensitive Information about u. S. Nuclear submarines with an australian billionaire named anthony pratt. The reporting that this happened at maralago in April Of 2021 in which an excited trump leaning towards pratt as if to be discreet told pratt the supposed exact number of Nuclear Warheads u. S. Submarines routinely carry and exactly how close they can supposedly get to a Russian Submarine without being detected. Pratt later described the remarks to 6 journalists 11 employees, 10 australian officials and 3 former australian prime ministers. Cnn confirmed federal in investigators ire ors interview and hes on the list for a witness at trial. These illegal leaks coming from sources which totally lack proper context and relevant information. President trump did nothing wrong insisted on truth and transparency and act in the a proper manner according to the law, this from trumps lawyers. Who is the guy he as allegedly spilling Information To, the relationship goes back years. Trump attended openings one of pratts plan in ohio and said this a lot of people dont tell you about anthony, but ill tell you about anthony. He is the most successful man in australia. Hes a great man and hes my friend and i appreciate it. Joining us now, cnn senior Law Enforcement analyst and former fbi Deputy Director andrew mccabe. Thanks for coming in. I want to try to understand the level of sensitivity of this information. Is this a National Security risk . How big of a deal is this . Well, phil, its absolutely a National Security risk. There is very Little Information in our federal government that we protect more seriously than Nuclear Weapons, National Defense information. And just as an indicator of that, most people know a sitting president , not, of course a former president , but a sitting president has the ability to declassify most top secret classified data at his discretion. This is one of those rare categories of information, Nuclear Weapons materiel, that is classified not by president ial order but by statute. So the president himself or herself cannot declassify this discretion. It is at the heart of the most sensitive material we have to protect in our federal government. I find it interesting, too, especially when you put this information in that context. Just how sensitive it is. Joe hockey form e ambassador to the u. S. , downplaying, quoting a joint program. Similarly we share weapons technology. If conversations between trump and pratt has been said nothing said we all did not know. Down playing maybe they knew. Reality is, a private citizen, likely should not know and certainly should not share. Well, thats right, erica. The former ambassador certainly correct in terms of his description of how close we are with our australian colleague theres. One of our five eyes partners and one of our closest intelligence partnerships around the globe. However, protecting National Security information is not based on making kind of gametime, doityourself decisions talking to your buddy at maralago. You have to, we are obligated to protect that information all the tile. That means complying with the very clear legal regime, the laws that surround how you can discuss information, who you can discuss it to, where this can take place, which, of course, in this case would only be in a sensitive compartmented information facility, a scif. Close to australians. Maybe this person or others knew of this information, but that does not make it lawful or a good idea to share that information. Certainly somewhere like maralago. The first question i had is, given the gravity of this, at least on terms how it appears, why would it not be in the indictment . Its not. A good question, phil. So first of all remember theres already 41 counts in that indictment. So theres plenty for the prosecutors to work with. This would be a really interesting charge, because this would be the first charge of dissemination. Not just unlawful retention, potentially charged with disseminating National DefenseInformation To a foreign national, which carries a very serious penalty. However, in this case, what you have is a few peoples recollections what the president may or may not have said. He undoubtedly would dispute that. There may be underlying evidentiary issues making this not the strongest issue to bring as an independent charge. However, im absolutely confident prosecutors will use this exchange with mr. Pratt. Enter this as evidence of the president s intent and his habit, his pattern of treating National Defense information incredibly recklessly. It will ultimately be very damaging at trial against the president. Okay. Andrew mccabe, appreciate your time as always. Thank you. Thanks. New strikes overnight in ukraine hours after one of the deadliest attacks against civilians since start of this war. The death toll on a residential village rising to 52. Cnn is live on the ground. Plus, new Body Camera Footage Released Showing Arrest of the suspect of rapper tonight Tupac Shakurs murder. Thats ahead. Were going to show it to you. Happening overnight russian missiles striking at least three residential buildings in the ukraine second largest city kharkiv. Ukrainian Officials Say russia launch add massive drone attack overnight damaging infrastructure as well as a grain silo on the danube river and the death toll rising where Officials Say now 52 people were killed yesterday. Thats where Cnns Fred Pleitgen joins us. Heartbreaking and horrific. What more are you seeing today . Reporter hi, there, erica. The missile that his kharkiv is the came one that hit today. The aftermath whats going on. Authorities unfortunately early on realized they werent finding survivors here in this building. You can see this has gone from being a Search And Rescue to a recovery to now essentially a Cleanup Operation going on on the ground here. Youre right. We got here last night shortly after all of this took place. Absolute carnage. What we witnessed. Utter destruction and chaos after the massive explosion. As night fell bodies strewn across the area as Search And Rescue crews scoured the debris. This man weeping in front of a body bag too shake n to talk to us. We learned his name is sergei and the deceased was his wife. This building was completely annihilated hit by a missile. Ukrainian saying a scunder missile, completely devastated this building. Ukrainians say more than 50 people were killed. Its very difficult to identify some of the bodies because they are in such bad shape and also say what was going on here was an event around a funeral and they say the people attending that event were all local folks. There was chaos, the chief investigators tells us. A fire extinguished by firefighters, of course, evacuation measures taken to get people out of the rubble. We can see over there some First Responders are busy doing the forensics on the scene here and also still putting bodies in to body bag. A lot of them laying around here and a lot of them being taken away by some of these crews here. One of the other things we can see over there. Obviously some sort of recreational area. Still seems to be a playground heavily sdach damaged when the e hit. Ukraines president visiting pinned the blame on russia. Tragically because of this inhuman Terrorist Attack 50 civilians were killed during a funeral. Russia does this every day in the Kharkiv Region and only air defense can help, but that help will be too late for sergeis wife and the others killed. Only things he can do now, help the crews lift her body to be taken away. As you mentioned, erica, the death toll stands at 52. Look again at devastation brought on by this explosion. You just heard also from the ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy some of the anger and one of the things we can tell you now, erica, weve soon a Ukrainian War Crimes prosecutor on the ground here already doing their work. Erica . Fred pleitgen, appreciate it. Thank you. Following one of the deadliest attack on civilian infrastructure since the start of russias invasion of ukraine the white house says the need for continued Military Support is clear over a rift in the republican speaker fight. Also inheriting the growing deficit and the border crisis. Joining us, republican from indiana and first ukraineborn member of congress. Congresswoman, thank you for the time. Start with where fred left off from on the ground in ukraine. You have said you agree with congressman jim jordans idea more accountability is needed for ukraine aid. Would you support somebody in the speakers race who did not want additional ukraine aid . Well, listen, i think you know, we have a difference of opinions but ill be honest with you. I think majority of people understand its a very serious war and ultimately we as a country, we need to not give up Nuclear Weapons and its important that we help ukraine to win that War Oualso Importan that we have a proper strategy and allow accesses with this tragedy. I hope its a wakeup call for President Biden and some of the senators to understand we have to been providing weapons to the military. Only way to get now very aggressive dictator to the table. We know, weve been playing politics with him for a while and have a serious crisis of governance in washington and strategy. On that point, you know, there are just amendment votes related to Military Assistance to ukraine want to strip it entirely. Put an end to it entirely. How do you thread that needle given a sentiment within your conference to end it entirely . This has been politicized. I told a lot of democrats you blame politics really the fact of explaining why it is a National Interest of our country, and also, you know, not dealing with domestic issue. This is not mutual exclusive issues. We have to be good on all fronts and they havent been doing that and that allows people to get upset and also allows russia to do a lot of propaganda to destabilize and theyre good at propaganda. Dont underestimate them with hybrid wars and were not proactive and not governing. Thats the biggest problem and not taking this war seriously. So i hope its a