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supreme court. we re going to go through the arguments on both sides of the case. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. many of the republican party s biggest names will not be attending the annual conservative political action conference in maryland this week just outside washington, d.c. potential 2024 candidates will not be at the annual gathering. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniels, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker kevin mccarthy are also sitting out this year. this year s conference comes as cpac s chair faces a lawsuit that alleges he fondled a male aide to then senate candidate herschel walker back in october. his lawyer says he denies those allegations. none of the politicians that have said they are not attending have cited the allegations as the reason for their absence. however, several republicans who spoke to nbc news anonymously have said ....
it s very simple. three things just do these three things. pay your taxes, mind your business, and keep will smith s wife s name out of your mouth! i needed that this morning. i missed my morning. that s eddie murphy going there on the oscar slap after the golden globes returned. we re happy to have you here. you can see kaitlan is back in washington d.c. we ll get to kaitlan in a moment. a lot to talk about. ready? ready. let s go. we ll start in california, where millions remain under flood alerts, not over yet, more on the storm walloping that state. new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother. what investigators found while searching through the trash. also this. i was briefed about this discovery, and surprised to learn there were any government records taken there to that office. that s president biden commenting now for the first time on the classified documents found in his private office. cnn has exclusive reporteding th ....
pat cipollone has corroborated almost everything that we have learned from the prior hearings. and he had clearly tried to talk president trump down from his efforts to override the election. reporter: cipollone speaking to the committee after bombshell testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. he said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. reporter: meanwhile, in a stunning reversal, steve bannon now saying he is willing to testify publicly before the january 6 committee. after spending months refusing to cooperate. on monday, a judge ruled bannon s new willingness to testify will not delay his trial next week. for contempt of congress. charges brought because bannon stonewalled the committees s repeated questions. federal prosecutors calling it a last ditch attempt to avoid accountability. th ....
it is saturday morning, good morning to you, welcome to cnn, i am victor blackwell. i m isabel rosales, amara walker is off today. thanks for joining us. israeli combat operations against hamas are entering their second day after the collapse of the week long truce, israel s military says they have hit 400 targets in just the first 24 hours since the truce expired. they ve been directing most of their firepower toward targets in southern gaza. the hamas-run ministry of health says 178 people have been killed since hostilities resumed. israeli officials say the extended humanitarian truce collapsed after hamas did not provide the names of the women and children still held hostage, that was part of the agreement, despite the truce ending u.s. officials say talks to release more hostages are still ongoing. we begin with cnn s ben wedeman, who is in jerusalem, ben, what is the latest you re hearing on the fighting? reporter: well, certainly, isabel, it seems that th ....
and hamas could be coming to an end, expiring in just a few hours. so is the fighting about to ramp up again? plus, a palestinian student shot in vermont just out of surgery as his family fears he may never walk again. this as we re learning new details about the suspect in that shooting. and, go eff yourself, that s elon musk s message tonight to the growing list of companies willing to advertise out of x. and that s not all he has to say tonight. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erica hill in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, deadline looming. the truce between israel and hamas is set to expire midnight eastern time, unless it is extended once again. at this hour, though, there is no official word that will happen. when the pause ends, israel has promised to resume its military campaign inside gaza, which the israeli prime minister said there will continue until there is no longer a threat to israel. and that raises questions as to whether or if the re ....