today on inside politics waiting and watching. we are about to find out how much donald trump will have to pay after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. it is now all up to the jury. we will have live updates from inside the courtroom. plus, pushing for a pause. president biden dispatched his cia director to help negotiate a deal to release israeli hostages kidnapped during the brutal october 7th attack. this as we are learning about a very tense call between the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister. and ignoring the supreme court. that s what the state of texas is doing when it comes to the southern border, and almost every republican governor is supporting the decision. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. as we speak donald trump s attorney is giving her closing argument in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. the jury will start deliberating this afternoon on how much trump must pay in damages. this morn
he joins us as well as ivan watson from ukraine. this is a story that he and 360 have been reporting on extensively. we start things off with carissa ward and her interview. reporter: john, he was keen to tell us that this is really just the first step in what promises to be a long journey. the arrest warrants that were given out today for president putin and also the russian height commissioner for children, these are just the first two, essentially. there may be more coming. there may be other areas that they will be exploring. there is no shortage of alleged war crimes that have taken place. the prosecutor s office that we hear from the icc have made multiple trips to ukraine, but they were keen really to stress the importance of this historic day. take a look. there are many different war crimes for potential war crimes that we have seen playing out in ukraine, whether it is the bombing of the theater in mariupol where people were sheltering, civilians were sheltering,
Zelenskyy set to directly speak to the American People this hour as a new u. S. Aid package for ukraine does not include everything he wants. In ukraine tonight fire and destruction as russia unleashes new Missile Strikes across the country while president zelenskyy visits the United States. Cnn of course is on the ground in ukraine. And up on capitol hill president zelenskyys meetings with lawmakers underscore deep divisions among republicans over ukraine aid and more, threatening a Government Shutdown and putting Kevin Mccarthys speakership at risk. In the midst of all of this why is mccarthy sending House Members home . Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News on the meeting between president s biden and zelenskyy. The white house talks capping a whirlwind day for the ukrainian leader here in washington aimed at shoring up u. S. Support
Known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate seat. As of now we picked up, it looks like, three, could be four, perhaps it could be two. But we picked up a lot. And most likely the number will be three. You people probably know that better than i do at this point because youve looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In the last 80 years a sitting president s party has only gained a cumulative total of
eight senate seats, averaging one per decade. So if we picked up two, three or four, thats a big percentage of that number, so in the lastle last 80 years you think of that. In president s Midterm Election he lost six senate seats including in the deep blue state of massachusetts. Republicans captured at least
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