Jessica, and thanks for joining us. The news continues right here on cnn its thursday, april 11, right now on cnn this morning Donald Trumps, me to go back and forth on the abortion issue, claiming he wont sign a federal therell abortion ban are supporting one for years israels top Military Official promising to flood gaza with aid, claiming its a new phase in the war with hamas and house conservatives revolting against their own leadership. They have rejected new Surveillance Rules at the urging of donald trump all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington. Heres a live look at the Washington Monument on this thursday morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us just days after saying that he believes Abortion Rights are up to the states. Donald trump finds himself at the center of arizonas controversial civil war era ban on tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court revived a Law Written Back in 18 64, which bans abortion statewide. With the only exception being for the life of the mother. On wednesday, trumps signaled he believes that the law goes too far. He also insisted he wont sign a National Abortion ban. If youd becomes president again, despite the fact that he did previously support one yeah i should note its all about states rights and everybody else bring it back into recent, and that will be taken care of, i think very quick so thats what trump said yesterday, dreamy now discusses steph kite, political reported for axios stuff. Good morning. One second. I want to show everyone there. You saw at trump, make this comment where he said, oh, itll be straightened out in arizona. This is a video that he put out overnight last night, just a brief clip of it and trying to explain again where he stands, watch my view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint. The states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both and whatever they decide must be the Law Of The Land in this case the law of the state so that was at donald trump on monday when he put out his statement about supporting a National Abortion ban or not, where he was going to be on this, it did generate some criticism from the right. This is what he had to stay overnight last night on truth social, which of course was in the wake of the 18, 64 law being Revivim Arizona watch people forget fighting roe v. Wade was right from the beginning all about bringing the issue back to the states pursuant to the Tenth Amendment and states rights. It wasnt about Anything Else thats what it was. We brought it back to the states and now lots of things are happening i had lots of good things are happening lots of good things are happening. Thats the part that i want to underscore because stef kight, he also seems to say, well, arizona is going to fix this, implying that he doesnt like whats going on in arizona. This seems to be a place and in the rest of that video, he also goes on to say now republicans can run on other issues. They are free to talk about abortion and other things. But this is something that seems like it is going to dog republicans throughout. The republicans in arizona blocked and attempt in the state Legislature Just last night to try to reverse this law i mean, certainly, and republicans have known that this is going to be their most vulnerable issue going into this election cycle. And we know that donald trump, in particular, four years now, has been very concerned about the politics of abortion. He is concerned about how thats going to impact his reelection, how its going to impact republicans across the board. Weve seen im tried to find some kind of path through this, which is why we see this kind of muddied. What do you use for what dont you support kind of reaction from him . And many of the republicans sources that ive been talking to you on the hill and elsewhere actually feel like his strategy has been smart this week. They are happy to see him take a step back and leave it to the states. They dont want want the pressure to have to back a particular number of weeks at this point because they know that this is a very vulnerable issue for them and they have lost the ballot without measures time and time. Again, its a key reason why theyve done so poorly in recent elections as well, because its such a motivating issue for democrats in were seeing the polls show that the american can public is not moving in the direction of wanting any kind of restriction on abortion anywhere. Right. Well, i mean, there is pulling does show that people will support some sort of restriction potentially, but a lot of that it was also based in a world where Roe Versus Wade was the Law Of The Land. And we are seeing a lot of these consequences take republicans by surprise. Ive seen a lot of democrats pushing back at how trump handled yesterday basically trying to say like hes trying to whitewash what came before all the things that he did on this issue. The fact that he brags about overturning Roe Versus Wade. What is your view on that i mean, of course democrats are going to be pushing back on this narrative and the reality is donald trump is the president who nominated Supreme Court justices in order to overturn roe v. Wade. That is something that he has im specifically touted about his record. Um, and so theres no way for him to get around that. What were seeing from republicans is trying to say, no, we dont want federal restrictions, but this was always about states thats what theyre trying to say. And democrats are pointing out that. Sure. But they are the reason why hi, were seeing these kinds of harsh bands such as an arizona come into place because this is what happens when you leave this to the states. One thing to that is obviously a central part of this is the dynamic where there may be Ballot Initiatives and in some cases there are already Ballot Initiatives planned in some of these critical swing states come november and we can show you how these Ballot Initiatives have done in other states, including red states when abortion has been directly on the ballot, it states like kansas and ohio, and kentucky, where voters have said, either were gonna vote against restricting it, or were gonna vote in favor giver of protecting Abortion Rights. How do you think that is going to affect like, lets take arizona for example, with that on the ballot, how much harder is it for donald trump to win . I mean, look, especially when youre talking about these swing states, these battleground states, where whos going to win is going to be a very small number of votes were talking about thousands sense thousands of votes that could decide who wins that state of the president ial level. And so anything including potentially a Ballot Measure thats addressing abortion is going to impact that outcome especially if it motivates democratic voters to come to the polls to vote for that Ballot Measure. Then thats potentially more democratic voters then going to go ahead and vote for biden, even if theyre not enthused about him as the candidate, as the person on the ballot. Thats really the concern from republicans right now, is not that the Ballot Measures are going to change peoples votes, but that its going to juice turnout for the wrong voters for them. Interesting. All right, stef kight. Thank you very much stuff for coming in this morning. I really appreciate it. I come up next here. Israels top Military Official promising to flood gaza with aid plus a possible tornado tearing up neighborhoods in louisiana. And republican can liters encouraging supporters to vote by mail while their party soucie to make it harder to get those votes to count central today. Seven easter with Verizon Business unlimited, i get 5g truly unlimited data, unlimited hotspot data. So no matter what, im running this kitchen, make the switch, its your business. Its your verizon its a new day one. 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I think we nailed it, rocked the block season finale, Monday Night At Nine On Hgtv Welcome Back israel says theyre preparing to launch what theyre calling a new phase of humanitarian assistance to the people of gaza israels Defense Minister telling reporters wednesday, we plan to flood gaza with aid and we are expecting to reach 500 trucks per day. The us has been pressuring the Netanyahu Administration to allow more aid in israels top Military Official insisting his country quote takes the United States very seriously cnns max foster joins me now with more max. Good morning. Always wonderful to see you so how do you read this . Them saying were going to flood gaza with aid. Their actions have been quite contrary to that too great criticism from the International Community he do you read this as something of an acknowledgment that this has become enough of a problem for them on the world stage that they feel like they have to do something about it i just you know, i think if you just want to look at it, look at the facts. It seems like a direct response to the huge amount of pressure that President Biden. This finally put on the Israeli Administration in terms of getting aid into gaza, other leaders have set the same as well. Youve been reporting on David Cameron being there in washington, but this is really about the us and tough calls between netanyahu and bidens. So i think it was a direct response to that a lot of cynics, cynics looking at it saying, well, if you cared that much, you would have done it sooner other cynics as well saying, even if you do try to get 500 trucks in, its going to be really difficult because of the war youre carrying out there yeah. And its its one of these things. I mean, its its the piece of it that i have struggled to wrap my head around the most if youre, saying, they want to defeat hamas. They wanna get the hostages back. All understandable considering what happened on october 7. But the blocking of food to people who desperately need it seems very, very difficult to understand. And i think that its definitely the message that the administration has been sending, max, theres also the logistical challenges of this. I mean, saying youre gonna do it as one thing and actually doing it as another. I know youve done some reporting on this. Well, ill speaking this morning to work with unicef, who was trying to deliver aid in gaza. She had left raffa and she was going northwards scott to a check points and suddenly the idf were firing in her direction. Now her feeling wasnt that she was being targeted, but they were targeting someone else, but she was in what was meant to be a safe area. And that really does illustrate the environment that these aid workers operating. And it shows how difficult it is to deliver the aid. Now shes also pointing out that israel may be saying theres lots of trucks. So israel have blamed the un effectively for not distributing the aid that theyre sending into gaza the un have been telling me that theres a discrepancy here israel says trucks have gone thanks, gaza, once theyve gone into the screening process. But you dont really count it as a until it gets into their warehouses. So when israel says trucks are going in the un says thats not necessarily true un blaming the when israel blames the un for not distributing it, she did accept its incredibly hard to distribute aid in gaza, particularly when Previous Missions have been bombed and this one got caught in some crossfire. But they are doing their best. And if there wasnt a war in place, they would be able to distribute it more easily. So theres a real war words between the un and israel, which doesnt help anyone because obviously the un is trying to be an independent nonpolitical body. But theres political background between these two organizations as well. Yeah, a real lack of trust between israel and the United Nations for sure, but lets not forget this also all takes place just a short while after that world Central Kitchen Convoy was heatedly hit by the israeli is something that really does seem to have shifted the ground for the israelis here. Max foster for us in london, max always love having you. 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