Every weekend join me at john. Com. I had to montgomery and tokyo. And this is cnn cnn Breaking News good morning. Im kasie hunt in washington. This is cnn this morning. Its 5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast and we begin with Breaking News. A helicopter carrying iranian president Ebrahim Raisi crashing early Sunday Morning in a remote area of the country. Iranian state media reporting overnight that he is dead, the Foreign Minister and other Government Officials were also onboard after attending an event near a rons border with azerbaijan rescuers reached the crash site overnight. There are no survivors prompting or rons government to convene an emergency meeting. Cnns Paula Hancocks is tracking the latest developments for us from abu dhabi polo. Good morning to you. What is the latest here . Okc. We know at this point that the conditions at the time of the Helicopter Crash were bad. We know that the weather was challenging. We have been told that the fog and low cloud reduced visibility significantly. So this is certainly being looked into by investigators now this happened in a remote northwestern parts of the country. It is very mountainous. It is inhospitable terrain and it took rescue teams about 16 hours to be able to reach the area where this helicopter went down. They were unable themselves house to put a Helicopter Up to try and find the location quicker. They said because the conditions were too dangerous, so that really speaks to what the weather was like at the time of this crash. Now we know that there has been this urgent meeting of the iranian cabinets. We also know that the iranian government has a their condolences saying its a great loss for the iranian nation that from the guardian council. And we know from the Supreme Leader himself, ayatollah ali khamenei, they will now be five days of mourning in a run following this crash, he has expressed his condolences theres as well. Interesting though, all the iranian officials, including the Supreme Leader, who have expressed condolences, also point out that there will not be any disruption with this accident to the running of iran, really trying to push forward a message of stability. Certainly an important wouldnt message. They feel they need to give. Now we know also that they have already made moves in the political scene. We know that the Vice President has been now promoted to acting president and there will be 50 days before there are elections called to replace that position we also know that the Deputy Foreign minister has now taken the position of acting Foreign Minister. And this is a man who was known to the United States its ali bagheri qani, he was the top negotiator in those indirect negotiations with the United States when it came to the, Iranian Nuclear deal. And also hostage, she transfers and negotiations. So what were seeing at this point from the iranian political sphere here is a message of stability. At the same time as we are seeing the bodies being transferred from this crash site on the side of a mountain to the closest city to the area of but to brace so a five day morning period now in iran and we are seeing signs of that morning starting already. We see on state media the Television Anchors wearing black, we see prayers within the News Bulletins themselves and certainly this is a shock for many waking up in a run or a Paula Hancocks for us with this Breaking News this morning, paula, thank you. I want to go now to Cnn Senior International correspondent ivan watson. Ivan, good morning to you. What has been the reaction so foreign, what happens next in iran right . Well, i mean this is coming at a difficult time for iran because it has economic woes. It has been dealing with domestic unrest from two years ago, from the death of a young woman in Police Custody that triggered a nationwide protests that were crushed brutally in result resulted in the deaths of hundreds of protesters and the ongoing tensions with israel. It was just last month that iran and israel were literally taking shots at each other. So now you have this shock to the political system inside iran of course, the president is not the most senior figure in the iranian system of government. That is the Supreme Leader. But yet not only as polo was mentioning, is there an effort to show a sign of stability . But there are messages of condolences coming in primarily from irans allies across the region, for instance, the Russian Foreign minister person condolences the different militant groups that iran has long supported the houthis in yemen. Hamas locked in this death spiral of violence with the Israeli Military in gaza, the lebanese Shape Movement has bulla expressing condolences, his bullet putting out a Statement Calling calling the slain president raisi of iran, a big brother, a strong supporter and a staunch defender of our interests the lebanese caretaker Prime Minister has declared three days of mourning in lebanon, as well. And another country that has reached out is irans neighbor to the way first, turkey, which isnt necessarily a closed Military Ally of iran. However tehran reached out to the turkish government and meet required asked for help with a drone to help find the crash site of irans president and recall, it took more than 16 hours officially for the iranian rescuers to reach their president. They needed the help of a neighboring country and its drone in those difficult Weather Conditions because their own president went missing for more than 16 hours. 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He took this jab at President Biden i used to treat by with a little respect, not a lot, but a little. Now i say hes the worst president. Hes incompetent hes not a smart person President Biden was also in the midwest over the weekend. He spoke in detroit on sunday and said this about donald trump its clear what he lost the 2020 and i mean, it certainly something snapped and trump. Hes not only obsessed with about losing 2020 currently on hand all right. Trying to me now, National Political reporter for the hill, julia manchester. Julia, good morning. Always wonderful to see you. So both of these guys out on the trail in the midwest, it really underscores the importance of that region. But this, of course, all comes as donald trump heads back to court, this week with Michael Cohen back on the stand and the big looming question is trump going to testify or is he not going to test it . Absolutely. And legal experts have essentially says me, it would probably not be the best idea. For donald trump to testify. We dont know what hes going to say. We know that hes oftentimes a loose its cannon with these kinds of things. And i think right now prosecutor or excuse me, the Defense Attorneys are feeling confident that Michael Cohens testimony in a way makes their case for them supporters of the prosecution would say, look, Michael Cohen is putting all the pieces theyre all of the evidence, but theres still this underlying question of can we trust Michael Cohen . Its so easy for todd blanche and the defense to say, look, this is someone who lied under oath and congress, hell do it again. Whats stopping him now . Hes also someone who could have vendetta against donald trump. So even though this risk of Michael Cohen could play for the defense team, the idea of trump testifying could also be risk key for them, right . Well, and i think that the question is, how quickly is this . Is this all trial going to wrap up and to your point about legal experts saying, i mean, risky, i think doesnt even begin to quite capture what could happen for donald trump here on the stand, weve only gotten to see him in his life despite his involvement in so many court cases, hes only testified under oath kind of a handful of times in these instances. Joy, lets talk a little bit too about what we saw from President Biden over the weekend. He gave an address at morehouse college. Hes of course, been trying to focus on getting black voters in particular to be as excited about them as they were in 2020. And thats proven to be an Uphill Battle for him. I think we have a little bit of what he said in that morehouse speech over the weekend. Lets watch but lets talk about what happened at the speech, because people did turn their back on the president in protest about gaza. Otherwise, it was relatively calm, still striking Scene Striking can it was something that the president s team was obviously prepared for. This is not the first time hes had to deal with these protests. Other political figures have had to deal with these protests, but i think he probably hit the right notes with calling for a cease by era and saying, you know, a return for these rayleigh hostages as well but look, this is striking because we know that its only black voters that seem to be not as enthusiastic about the president compared to pass democratic candidates. But its also young black voters, young voters in general in this issue that plays for that voting block is really starting to hurt biden. So this is a chance for him to get out there and make his case directly to the youth vote julia, how do you see i mean, were obviously covering Breaking News this morning with the leader of iran dying in this Helicopter Crash at this point, weve had the Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer out there saying, no, no indication at all a foul play. Were not hearing any anything along those lines. But of course this comes at an incredibly tense moment. For iran and israel actually engaged in a shooting war. Its a hot, hot war. In the last couple of weeks that prompted american negotiators to do some Shuttle Diplomacy with the omani is over the weekend. And of course this likely to further inflame tensions here in washington you had at least a phonic boeing giving this kind of fiery address to the Israeli Knesset how do you see the events, the Breaking News at playing out in terms of the conversation here in washington. Look, i think it underscores how very carefully american officials are moving on the situation i mean, obviously, The Middle East is a powder keg in any sort of, even if there wasnt foul play involved, any sort of event like this could sort of spark a chain reaction, especially play at a time when you have iran allied with hezbollah and hamas obviously in the israelgaza war. So i think american officials are going to move very, are the administration i should say are going to be think very carefully, but i think the administration will also get a lot of pressure still from people like Elise Stefanik from republicans to take an even more hard line stance on iran all right, truly manchester for us, julia. Thank you very much for being here this morning are coming up next. Were going to continue to follow this Breaking News out of iran where theyre president has been confirmed dead after a hell welcome to crash. Plus, weve got