That are keeping smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter. Youve got this close captioning is brought to you by skechers hands free slipins snoop though, told me about handsfree sketches slipping harry less money is spent Alia Buttlift demonstrate slip beams. I just step in and there all Try Sketches slipping morning. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this hour in the Middle East where a series of deadly attacks targeting hezbollah has the organization vowing revenge. Its leader is calling the attacks, quote, Massacres Lebanese official say please 37 people have been killed and thousands more injured after pagers and walkietalkies exploded across the country. They are blaming israel for the attacks. Israels Defense Minister theres claiming a quote, new era of war is beginning a move that threatens to push the region back to the brink of wider conflict. Joining me now, for more on, this is former Cia Officer Bob baer. Bob good to see
Sanders lets start right n now. Martha good afternoon everyone, i Martha Maccallum and this is the story, a lot going on today and ricky right now former President Trump confirming that he will participate in what could be the first debate of this cycle but definitely one with Vice President harris just two weeks from today on september the 10th. Rnc culture lara trump will answer questions about what that is going to look like coming up shortly. Also with also with sap texas and Jason Chaffetz under remarkable transformation in the new message from Mark Zuckerberg who now says that he regrets giving in the white house pressure. Both on covid and the president ial campaign of 2020. This is a stunning turnaround from Mark Zuckerberg, one of the most powerful people on messaging that happens in this country. So we are going to get that in on all of that for you. But first this also very president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces a successful test of the first Ballistic Missiles that is made
Things in new polling. No surprise here that trump remains the run away frontrunner. You go deeper in the numbers, guy requests, you have to wonder if there is a ramaswamy revolution going. Trump pain maining his lead while dropping 3 points from june, he is still ahead 37 points of his nearest competitor ron desantis, who fell 6 points, you see, from june out of the 20s, now in the teens at 16 . With Vivek Ramaswamy coming to life as a potential g. O. P. Breakout star, more than doubling hits position. You see he climbed 6 points to 11 . No indication, by the way, that his surge is directly connected to that ability to Rap Eminem Songs at the Iowa State Fair. Former mike pence gaining a point in the middle of the pack with nikki haley also take the 1 point climb as well and trumps most vocal critic Chris Christie seeing some growth up 2 points, 1 to 3 . But, obviously, still 50 behind the frontrunner. Finally, i want you to take a look at the small slip senator tim scott took down a p
Okay, here we are, it is 9 00 p. M. On the west coast, and i am jen psaki, and the midnight shift is the best shift to talk politics here at that time big table to break down everything that happened tonight. Were going to learn more tonight, too, and we do have a lot to talk about, because results from 16 states ask one territory, dont forget that one, just brought us one big step closer to a General Election rematch between President Joe Biden and donald trump, and trump has unsurprisingly won a bunch of states bringing his total degrees to 900, so if we take a look at trump with the numbers, to catch everyone, four indictments, 91 criminal charges, two impeachments and on the democratic side, President Biden has swept every state so far and to jp, and another frontrunner that hit the magic number, those that need to clinch the nomination, but theyre both pretty darn close. Now a major outstanding question coming into tonight we still have, not about trump or biden but about nikki ha
At bassett. Com. This is cnn news President Biden is preparing to deliver his state of the Union Address tonight. A high stake speech that comes at a key moment in his presidency. And the 2024 race so what does he need to say and du to convince voters that he deserves another four years. Plus the National Guard now being called into americas largest Subway System. Why new york has taken highprofile measures lets to deal with a surging crime and stop me. If youve heard this before, last month was officially the hottest record. The hottest february on record, what Scientists Say is the global hot streak continues. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central in just a few hours, President Biden will deliver what may be the most consequential speech of his political career. The State Of The Union. A Growing Number of the president s top allies want him to ratchet up the intensity and ramp up his attacks on the trumpled Republican