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john: two leading presidential candidates on the road this hour, former president trump in iowa and governor ron desantis hitting the trail in new hampshire. anita: and both taking hits at each other. both events this hour watching for more fireworks. john: likely presidential candidate reacting to the controversial decision by a top baseball team to honor a group that mocks nuns by dressing in drag. former vice president mike pence tweeting having been raised in a catholic family, the dodgers decision to invite the sisters of perpetual indulgence is deeply offense. with that, welcome back to america reports as we roll into a second hour. john roberts in washington, along with anita. anita: hey, john. i m in for sandra smith, talk to the head of a catholic outreach group who says the dodgers is giving them the cold shoulder and responding with a boycott. fox news alert. john: house speaker kevin mccarthy can breathe a sigh of relief of a the debt ceiling bil ....
eyes and when she looks i m behind her, always be there for her. she makes me feel like home. so far away. she feels like carolina. new york city, today. it s hard to understand the way i m living. and i know she thinks i m never coming home. but i m lawrence: if you re just waking up, you are not dreaming, that is parmalee performing. just away, the girl is mine, take my name, and this is for ain ainsley. ainsley: i love this song, it is very popular in the carolinas. any time you include a city or state in your home, it s a hit in that state. brian: even in a different state. ainsley: if he plays that at his concert in south carolina, the place will go crazy. like when billy joel sings about new york or even sings about here. brian: he is stopping residency at madison square garden. ainsley: i heard you were buying his house. brian: very close to it, but it does not have a big enough helipad. ainsley: if we pool our money, can we stay in the ....
congress finally receives a classified briefing on the matter today. the senate being updated at this hour after the house was briefed earlier today. sandra: all of this as senior u.s. military and national security officials warn and have confirmed that spy balloon shot down off south carolina s coast on saturday was part of a major surveillance program run by china s military. so, what else are lawmakers learning in these briefings? we ll ask tennessee senator marsha blackburn and california democratic congressman ro khanna coming up. john: begin with lawmakers sparring over the politization of the federal government and whether the justice department has been weaponized against republicans. hello, i m john roberts in washington. let me be the first to say it, sandra, happy friday eve. sandra: and we made it to thursday. good to be with you, john. i m sandra smith in new york. america reports. republican-led committee says many questions need to be answered by ....
putin accusing him of war crimes in ukraine. but will the russian president actually be arrested? we ll break down where things go from here. anger boiling over in france. violent clashes between protesters and police as people take to the streets to condemn plans to raise the country s retirement age. plus trump s lawyer ordered to testify. what the ruling means for the investigation into the former u.s. president s handling of classified documents. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. we begin with a historic decision by the international criminal court. for the first time since russia invaded ukraine the icc has issued an arrest warrant for russia s president over alleged war crimes. the court says vladimir putin bears responsibility for his scheme to illegally deport thousands of ukrainian children to russia. the icc has also issued a similar warrant for russia s so-called commissioner for children s rights, who oversees ....
to russia. the kremlin says it does not consider the arrest warrant to be legal. all of this comes against the back drop of chinese president xi jinping s scheduled visit to rue tonight, gillian turner at the white house with how the administration is reacting to the putin war crime story and next steps in ukraine. we begin with senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot. good evening, greg. hi, bret. president biden recently called russian president putin a war criminal for his conduct of the war in ukraine. now, someone else has with a bit more international legal punch. wanted for war crimes in ukraine, russian president vladimir putin. the international criminal court issuing an arrest warrant charging him and another official in the abduction of ukrainian children since russia s invasion last year. kids allegedly taken out of ukraine and sent to russia. children special protection under the geneva. russians say humanitarian reason and don t recognize th ....