Think hes guilty . The lead with jake tapper . Weekdays it for and cnn its 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 todays 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. Im kasie hunt. Its 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 president s clinton and obama. Trumps campaign has struggled to keep up with bidens fundraising numbers. The new head of the Republican National committee, though, michael widely says the former president is solid financially heading into the general election weve raised over 100 million since the president became the presumptive nominee, about a month ago. And feel like we are very strongly positioned to go into this general campaign mode. Former President Trump also promising a statement on his abortion stance this morning we know that the former president has gone back and forth about how aggressively to confront that issue. Joining me now is sum of four politics reporter, shelby talcott. Shelby. Good morning. Great to see you. Lets talk a little bit about this fundraiser. On saturday night. They we know that the former president wanted to post this massive total but he also made a series of controversial remarks at this fundraiser that the New York Times is reporting here. What does it tell you that they were able to post this . Kind of a number and whether it means that there whether they are where they need to be. I think the most important thing to remember is in the primary, there were a lot of top donors who were really wary about backing trumps. Some of them stayed out of the primary others decided to back some of his opponents. And now were seeing this sort of coalesce coalescing around donald trump. And so that indicates to me that at the end of the de, these wealthy donors are starting to get behind donald trump, even if they have reservations. And so thats important because it does indicate that he is able to get a lot of money. Its not going to be as much as joe biden his Campaign Aides have acknowledged that but theres certainly in a better position than they were a few months ago when they were really struggling with fundraising . Yeah. The consolidation. Absolutely critical part of this trump posting, biggest night in fundraising of all time will double the biden number of last week. I we want to make America Great again, of course djt. Heres how the Biden Campaign spokesman Michael Tyler responded to this fundraiser watch hes down in maralago tonight with a bunch of billionaires, people like john paulson, who not only wants to cut Social Security, but hes famous for as a hedge fund or rooting against the american economy, betting against the american economy. So i guess its no surprise that hes investing in somebody like donald trump who is reading for the economy to crash. But the whole lot of them is a bunch of billionaire scammers, extremist and racist who understand that if they fund trumps legal fees, hes going to cut their taxes, volley cuts are Social Security so theres a lot there in terms of how hes talking about a lot of these donors, a preview i think of whats to come, but that economic messaging from the biden team, i mean, they have sort of struggled with how to frame that. Whats your view of how theyre doing it here in this context, this is it this is the big thing is both candidates in this election are really trying to build themselves as like the middle class every day. Candidate. And so when we see donald trump go to these high top donors, it gives the Biden Campaign and opportunity to say, hey, voters, donald trump does not actually of the people right . And on the flip side, when we see democrats raised a lot of money from high donors versus Donald Trumps sort of small donor amounts, which has historically been higher. Donald trump is able to say the same thing. So it indicates the importance for each campaign to target this group of voters version. Its, and its potentially going to determine who wins this election, right . Donald joe biden is struggling with young voters. Hes struggling with minority voters. And so these are the kinds of voters that they want to say, hey guys, were going to help you. The opponent is not going to help you. And so thats sort of what were seeing. Donald trump on a different topic also, put this out last night, that he says hes going to be putting out a statement on abortion right . He the all caps here, its kind of interesting, right . Exceptions. Hes focusing on exceptions for rape incest in the life of the mother he of course says this as well win elections is in all caps at the same time, we must use common sense in realizing we have this obligation to win elections. This issue, he has been pushed by many in the Prolife Movement to be more definitive about where he stands on a nationwide abortion ban. But on the other hand, he seems to acknowledge that it is, it is not been a winning issue for republicans. And he has seemed to go back and forth about whether he wants to do Something Like this. What does it tell you that he is going to put out a Statement Today . Which also by the way, happens to be the day of the total Solar Eclipse isnt wants that news. It is. It is really interesting because abortion has been such a hard issue for republicans ever since dobbs and its been something that democrats have really highlighted on and they plan to highlight and continue can you to attack going into this election because its been so successful for them. And so its notable that donald trump is actually coming out with a statement when he made that comment last week saying that he planned to make a statement, it took his aides by surprise. And so this isnt necessarily something that theyve been prepping for. It seems for a long time so im curious to see what he ultimately ends up, but i think he recognizes that despite antiabortion activists really pushing for much stricter restrictions, its not what the American People want. And so whatever he does come out with, i think both sides are going to be theres no its very difficult despite what he has said publicly to come to a consensus and to come to an agreement on this issue. Well, and the sort of consensus number if there is one, the way that he talks about it, and other republicans talk about it as 15 comma 16 weeks. Glenn youngkin tried to run on that in virginia and it didnt seem to really work for him, possibly because there are all these other examples of bands that are so much more draconian than that. And democrats are arguing. They say this now, but really they want to go further than that and they will. Is that do you think going to resonate at remember when donald trump came out last year and criticize the Antiabortion Movement meant for trying to be so strict and saying that republicans have failed to come to a consensus thats the big thing here. I think Republicans Problem has been that they cant find a consensus. So even when you have these candidates who are focused on what the consensus could be 15 weeks, 16 weeks, you still have a portion of the party whos pushing for much stricter restrictions. So regardless, that ends up affecting the candidates who maybe are willing to accept lesser restrictions. So its going to be really tougher for donald trump, for the Republican Party as a whole. This election on the issue of abortion and democrats know that all right, shall we tell cut for us, shelby. Thank you very much for getting us started this morning all right. 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In the meantime, israels Military Claims that theyve withdrawn Ground Forces from khan younis in gaza. But a cnn team there says they only saw a large number of tanks pull out, not troops. Prime minister benjamin netanyahu, facing criticism from President Biden after a tense phone call last week netanyahu putting the blame on hamas as demands intensified domestically to bring the Hostages Home Muscle knows hamas extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war while leaving the group intact it will not happen. Israel is ready for do, israel is not ready . Hey, just surrender all right, cnns max foster joins us now, live from london. Max, good morning to you. What do we know about the latest in these Ceasefire Talks and what exactly is happening on the ground with israels Troop Movements App in the wake of that call between the two liters, President Biden and Bibi Netanyahu well, a very positive news from the egyptians who are obviously deeply involved in all of these negotiations. But the same time we are hearing from netanyahu no ceasefire until all the hostages are released and were also hearing from hamas that they are not near an agreement here. So its the same as it always is. Listening, to different soundings from different groups, we were cant bet anything until theyre actually is some sort of ceasefire deal. A lot of those ongoing issues are still there on the ground. We are seeing troops leave khan yunis and palestinians able to get back in there and see all the absolutely horrific destruction there. Its not entirely clear whats happening there. Clearly regrouping, recreate recuperating after really tough period of war within gaza. But the big question is whether or not theyre preparing to go into raffa, which is where this is. Justin has been the next flight will be and there are huge amount of civilians. There so were really waiting on what happens to those new Troop Deployments there. The other big Talking Point Today is one of the crossings into gaza from israel that it said it would open. It hasnt opened yet because there are big logistical issues. Those aid corridor that land crucial Land Corridor of aid into gaza isnt open just yet max, can we just talk for a second about the pressures on Prime Minister netanyahu right now, because there were some News Analysis and the New York Times over the weekend suggesting that the people in israel raising questions about whether he is continuing this war in way that hes conducting this war has to do with domestic Political Considerations and pressure on him to keep it going in order to keep this fragile government governing coalition together. What do those pressures look like . Well, the precious the coalition, the pressures are that there are members of that coalition or now calling for early elections. So the its not quite fragmented there is still a war cabinet, but theres pressure on it. At the same time. Weve talked in the past, havent worry about the immense amount of pressure on netanyahu even before we went into this war. And how he handled the judicial review process, for example, he was very unpopular then but there was a war boost dare i say he was seen as very strong leader going into the war, but its being six months. And there isnt a deal. And october 7 still very clear in everyones minds, of course israel. But the time its been six months now, its still very fresh memories and still no Real Progress for many israelis is just this constant argument about how do you deal with hamas. Everyone is clearly agreed broadly in israel that the fight is with hamas. How do you break them down and netanyahus argument is still, we have to destroy them before we l