great deal of support within the party. i think it also shows that the republican in party is united around ensuring the joe biden becomes a one-term president. i love my dear friend keith, but at the end, the de, named colony is not going to put joe biden back in the white house. we have a system of justice. it is designed to say that the, you cannot and shall not be penalized for not proc not testifying in your own trial. and so i think this notion that something now we're going to ignore the politics also why politicizing people exercise nick constitutional right as he tried to defend themselves against accusations illustrates exactly why you see this pilgrimage of people going down to that courthouse and saying there was something wrong with what is happening with this process inside the courtroom. but there's also something that's happening outside the courtroom. any court of public opinion that should ask you make you a question. is that the why certain people are saying certain things as it relates to these charges. and we've talked about the court of public opinion. >> you look at the polls and five, the swing states are

going for donald trump at this point in time. we will have to wait and see we don't know if that's because people don't care about the trial or if they care about other things about the border, they care about the economy, they care about a great many things that unfortunately get swallowed up by this process. >> thank you so much. i appreciate you, gentlemen. the next hour of seeing a new central starts right now. >> these cnn breaking news i'm john berman outside the criminal court in downtown manhattan and the breaking news we are about to enter the most contentious moment in the criminal trial. >> against donald trump. the key witness michael cohen, left his apartment just a short time ago. we got footage of him leaving. he is on his way down here he will be back on the witness stand facing questions from prosecutors, but we do expect at some point today the cross-examination will begin donald trump's lawyers will

get their chance to go after michael cohen and he expect that to be something fireworks anticipated. now ahmad iraj, you on capitol hill, just reported that donald trump calling in the cavalry for today's testimony, house speaker mike johnson expected to be here to show his support for donald trump from a legal standpoint at this point what has happened is that michael cohen has tie donald trump directly to the hush money he payments to stormy daniels that were made in 2016. >> the prosecution argues all to influence the 2016 election and cohen is also tied trump to the falsification of documents after the fact. >> defense lawyers will have to undo some of that testimony from michael cohen also michael cohen has provided some pretty damaging color to the situation here, suggesting that what donald trump did with those hush money payments, it wasn't for his family. it wasn't for his wife, melania. it was for the campaign hey, there was

this exchange. the likes of which we've never really heard before from michael cohen. cohen describes a conversation he had with donald trump after the stormy daniels news broke in 26 16. cohen says, he said to trump. i said to him, how's things going with upstrs, meaning with melania question from the prosecutor. were you concerned about that? cohen says, i was the product prosecutor asks in what, if anything, did he say about that? michael cohen says don't worry, he goes he goes, how long do you think i will be on the market for? not long. >> the prosecutor says, what did you understand that to mean? >> answer. he wasn't thinking about melania. this was all about the campaign. you can spec defense lawyers to try to undo some of that and go right after michael cohen and his credibility later today when they get their chance across standing by hi with me at the courthouse, cnn's brynn gingras, who has been covering this from the very beginning.

and again, it really comes down to the cross-examination today. >> i haven't you described it perfect. i think it's probably gonna be fireworks. they are really going to attack his credibility and they have a lot of ammunition to do that. we expect actually the cross to take longer than the direct examination. so and we'll see how that goes, but listen, michael cohen tied together the whole narrative story about what prosecutors are arguing here. we have lot for the last four weeks heard about text messages and phone calls in conversations michael cohen, broad jurors into the room and he did a very calmly compose. there are times were donald trump really just see it was taking it all in trying not to read the act at all, but also contributing to his own defense and sort of nudging his defense attorneys, making notes and such. so we'll see how that plays in today. today. >> as well. but listen, it's about the fact that michael cohen said he did everything for the former president. he wouldn't do anything without his sign-off. and when it comes to about $420,000, i want to bring another excerpt in where discuss how this was about a

reimbursement and not about legal fees, which is what the prosecution is arguing here. the prosecutor says was the $420,000 that you were going to receive back from mr. trump, going to be payment for future legal services as a personal council boeing says that was what it was designed to be. well, was it actually it was reimbursement of my money. >> again, this is a central argument of the prosecution. this is where we bring it to a felony, where or there could actually be jail time for the former president. this was an important exchange that is testimony about the falsification of documents in donald trump new and michael cohen says donald trump approve right of this scheme as well. legally, that might be the most significant testimony here with all the fireworks, all the stormy daniel's, it might come down to that, or a brynn gingras. thank you. you very much great to see you here. thank you for letting me joy you at your birch down here with us now, former defense lawyer, i should say, former prosecutor, current defense attorney randy's ellen and cnn legal analysts, former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers. all right. jen this morning, michael cohen is back on the

stand. prosecutors get one more go at him in their direct. what more do you think they need to do this morning? >> well, john, we haven't finished the story yet, so michael cohen's going to need to finish that out, take it through the meeting in the oval office, and then go through the breach with trump. actually, i want to hear him talk about his change of heart, right? he's been so deferential to the former president during this time. testimony, and i think he'll continue to be that way in terms of tone, but he's got to talk about what split them apart and had his change of heart, right. because he's going to see on cross-examinati on probably a lot of clips of himself being let's say, less than deferential. and i think he needs mr. prepare the jury for some of that. and then of course, they have to talk about all of this impeachment evidence that's coming. his crimes, his pleading guilty the bad acts, city's done. all of the things he's gonna be hammered with on cross. they're going to want a front in detail on the direct examination, so i expect to see that as well in

ready just before we get to the cross, how well do you think the prostate? >> fusion has done here? what more could they have done with michael cohen, who thing they needed to do was the one thing that they could not do one word resonated with me yesterday. >> the word approved a man who does not call the sitting president a moron and the sitting prosecutor alvin, does not sit around the room and say, i approve of what you all are doing. >> that word approved was like hand grenades it almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades from michael coe not to be able to testify in detail what the former president's said camouflaging it by saying he approved it prosecution does not have it let me actually just read you the exit. >> you're talking about there it came at the end of the

testimony yesterday in this got to the idea of the falsification of documents it was in a meeting in trump tower in january of 2017 when donald trump was president elect. and the question from the prosecutor, what if anything, did mr. trump say at the time about the scheme to pay michael cohen back? the answer from michael cohen. he approved it he also said this is going to be one heck of a ride in dc question. did my mic, mr. weisselberg's san front or mr. trump, that those monthly payments would be, you know, like a retainer for legal services? the answer yes. so jen, those were answers. michael cohen said he approved it in yes. donald trump knew. randy says, if not enough, what's your view? >> well, i mean it is enough technically, but i do tend to agree that it would be much better if there were more detail around it. >> we'll see if prosecutors go back to it to kind of put more meat on the bone sometimes when you get a chance to read the transcript afterwards, you decide that you do want to go back to something. >> i do agree. it would be

better and play better if it said, what did he say? what did you say? and he could put a little bit more meat on it, right? like he said. okay. sounds good or works for me. are something that is little bit closer to actual words as opposed to just michael cohen's interpretation of those words. so i think technically they're there, but i don't disagree that it would be better if they got a little bit more on that so ready when the defense comes out of the gate at the cross, how intense do you expect them to be? >> how many minutes do you think we will have to wait before they call michael cohen alive? >> well, i think if the defense is smart rather than simply trying to blow up michael cohn, i would embrace him i would embrace the power that he had. i would embrace his reputation as being a bully. i would embrace the fact that he was put on this earth to please the former president and when we are put on a planet too, please someone, we tend to do things

without getting their approval or getting their permission so we can come back and say, look, what i did for you. i would embrace the fact that the man had his sights on being the chief of staff breathe air it is a credible story and remember, trials are all about whose story makes more sense and to portray michael cohen is someone who would do anything to curry favor with the former president. >> it would not be above him to go and do all of this on his own and then say, look how i saved you could be an electric day down here. >> randy's alan, jennifer rodgers. thanks to both of you. sarah. >> all right. >> thank you so much, john just ahead, secretary of state antony blinken meeting this morning in kyiv with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy as ukraine loses ground to russian forces, the top general saying the situation in kharkiv has significantly worsened.

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reassure ukraine and all of its top officials that us support remains firm. >> blinken's arrival in kyiv is his first visit since congress got past that six month long delay and fight over the military aid package for ukraine as blinken visits, ukraine, us setbacks on multiple fronts. after russia launched a surprise, new push this weekend into across the northeastern border cnn's fred pleitgen is tracking all of this forest and he joins us now, fred, this seems really a critical moment for blinken to be visiting as ukraine's war effort is under real threat right now. >> under real threat and certainly under real pressure, i think you're absolutely right. the ukrainians can certainly use all the backing or they can get especially with secretary of state blinken coming in and then reassuring them that us aid as he put it, is here to stay the situation certainly for the ukrainians on the north eastern front, as you put it right now, pretty critical. they say the russians have mentioned take some villages there, but what's even worse for the ukrainians is that because of that big

russian push in that area, they're having to redeploy units that are already having a big fight in the east of the country. so right now, definitely a difficult situation. and the president of ukraine in that meeting with the secretary of state said that of course, the ukrainians need a lot of aml oh, and other aid. the us can give. but the other big issue is that they have, is that the russians are now able to use their air force much more effectively than they have in the past. so volodymyr zelenskyy said the ukrainians need more us made patriot surface to air missile systems. here's what he said. >> the biggest deficits for us. i think that the biggest problem yes. >> and we need really we need today to petro's for kharkiv. for kharkiv region because they the people who are under attack. civilians, in words everybody there under russian missiles so as you can see

them, patriots for kharkiv as he put it this among a lot of other military aid that the ukrainian say they will continue to need from the us k fred pleitgen, great to see you friday as always. >> thanks for the reporting coming up for us right now, wildfires are raging in canada, threatening to burn at least one entire community. and the smoke up there is no triggering new air quality alerts down here in multiple us state and in baltimore, controlled explosions are helping to try and clear the bridge debris off the cargo ship. now, two months after it crashed into baltimore's key bridge, there's also new body camera footage will bring for you. that is released showing the confusion and the chaos that ensued is officers tried to respond to the scene. >> we'll be back every weekday morning, cnn's five things has what you need to get going with your it's the five essential stories of the morning in five minutes or less cnn's five things with kate bolduan, streaming weekdays exclusively

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cooper sunday at eight on cnn new bodycam video is showing the panic and confusion among officers as they were responding to the key bridge collapse in baltimore two months ago there's also new video showing the first round of controlled explosions to try and get rid of the bridge debris. >> that's been sitting on top of entrapping the crush cargo ship since the disaster happened? >> why am i cnn's gabe cohen, as much more on all of this forest gave, let's first start with this body camera video. >> what do you, what are you seeing in it? and what, what are you hearing yes. >> oh, kate, these officers were some of the first responders on the taps go river in the minutes after the collapse and you can hear the shock in their voices reacting

in real time to seeing this wreckage for the first time. take a listen i don't i don't know what to do. >> i don't know where to go i mean, i guess we can head in armistead, but they're not going to do not adult daylight. it's like, are you kidding me? it's like some submissive your to skyline the whole centers great it's going to the water for they said that just five equal to the water pg county the whole bridge is gone and kate, i got to the scene maybe an hour or so later and i think everyone that morning up there in baltimore had the same sort of oh, my goodness, moment first laying eyes on just the scale of the wreckage and it is amazing to see where we're at now seven weeks later yesterday's demolition? >> yeah. you can really understand the reaction from those officers. it's hard to

believe that that happened, that they key bridge came down in such a fashion. and what what are you also learning? is there any update on the ship workers who have been who've had to stay onboard that cargo ship ever since this happened? >> yeah. look, the 21 person crew has been on the dolly's since the crash. >> they were on its shelters and sheltered in place during that demolition yesterday, and they've been keeping the ship running and safe for investigators and the cruise. the good news is we expect the ship to be towed to shore in the next 48 hours, kate. and then they'll finally hopefully be able to get off that bus it looks like something movement could be happened in this week on, on this front, it's good to see you gave thank you so much. >> sarah hello medical insurance just showing up for work this morning more than 100 wildfires are still raging across western canada, forcing thousands of people to evacuate homes fire and smoke knows no borders. >> the fire is impacting air quality here in the midwest. cnn's chief climate correspondent bill, we're

joining must not. you are here on time. i was not know, but the smoke is also showing up. don't remember back in june of last year, was it that it looked like the apocalypse right here in new york because of the fires and canada. >> and here's the scary thing, sara, some of these fires are zombie fires from back then that did not go out over the winter. they're hold over fires as they're known. and when things get scorching, hot and bone dry and 25 mile an hour gusts. this is what we have over 100 fires now raging from manitoba to british columbia up there. they're evacuating towns like near fort mcmurray, which burned almost to the ground back in 2016. so there are no stranger to this as well. but it's really kicking up and this is just the beginning. i think we have some statistics to show you how this right now compares to the tenure average over and it's way off the charts, like normally there's maybe half 1 million acres had burned by this point in the year. right now, it's over 4 million acres. >> these are the top ten

canadian wildfire years last year was the big one. >> they're going to top that this year. it seems almost certain right now, and it is directly proportional to last year being the hottest year in 2000 years, there's new science on that, that shows just how off the charts we are now for recent civilization. but if i can, if we have that other tenure average chart, i'd love to show that to you folks maybe are computers are late to this morning a little logi this morning. but the one thing that worry about air quality in the midwest like if you're in the twin cities, that was in the top ten dirtiest air in the world yesterday minnesota wisconsin, that area, if it gets above 100 for sensitive folks, that's when you need to maybe wear a mask if the air quality index is above 150 it's bad for everybody, no matter the age, your health. >> yeah, it's pretty incredible when you look at those numbers there, you can see the progression and how bad it is. oh, there it is. >> you've numbers here, here's the tenure average is about 880 or

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this way when trump left a little while ago former presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy was with him as well. you get the sense that a lot of people trying to jockey to be here near donald trump for this crucial part of the testimony today, remember donald trump is charged with falsifying documents to cover up payments to stormy daniels, an adult film actress. all too fluids to 2016 election, michael cohen's so far has testified that donald trump knew about those payments approve the payments, and knew about the scheme to classify them as legal payments, even though they were not four technically legal services when michael cohen, it's back on the stand shortly prosecutors no doubt will walk him through more of the timeline including one meeting we have not yet. rhaetian oval office meeting when trump was already president, between michael cohen and donald trump that we think they discussed the payment plan. we also expect the prosecution to lay

out all of the potential warts that michael cohen has, the convictions he has faced, the lies he has told to get that information out there all before what might be the critical moment of this entire trial when defense lawyers get their turn it michael cohen and try to thoroughly discredit him. that is what we are standing by here for today. sarah back to you, getting ready for some contentious debate back and forth from the stand. >> and the cross-examination. john berman. thank you so much. appreciate it. all right. next hour, a major show of republican loyalty for donald trump during his criminal trial. a source telling cnn, robocup, republican house speaker mike johnson, will join the former president at the manhattan courthouse house this morning. the latest in a string of gop allies setting foot in court, also expected possible vp picks. vivek ramaswamy ramaswamy among the list of contenders, hoping to be trump's running mate who have shown up to support trump at his hush money trial, joining me now, a cnn political

commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona and former trump white house communications director mike dub keith. thank you both for being here mike, i'm gonna start with you. >> what appears the courthouse is the hottest ticket in town. if you want to be trump's vice president. we just learned vice presidential potential doug burgum is showing up as well. we're hearing tim scott is considered showing up. jd vance, we saw him yesterday, standing behind i'm trump. and he also went out to the cameras and did what donald trump could not do because of the gag order attacking the witness. let's listen does any reasonable, sensible person believe anything that michael cohen says? i don't think that they should and i actually think that his testimony is going to hurt with any reasonable juror, and hopefully we have a few of those we will see what the juror say. but do you think that this is the new litmus test, if you will, for trump's potential vps, one going out and doing what he can't do attacking witnesses and to showing up at court with the

cameras. they are showing he's standing right there with them well, i think it's a full on pilgrimage. we saw it as a there was a slow roll as folks were watching how the trial went forward and as it's become more obvious that the prosecution frankly is putting all of its eggs in the michael cohen basket. i think other politician since have figured that it's a safe place to be. it's also a place where all the cameras are. so when i saw rick scott the other day he's running for reelection in florida. he's probably got more attention from his time spent new york city than he has in campaigning around florida. so right now it's a pilgrimage for a lot of these people murray, i got to ask you speaker mike johnson showing up there. he's been hit pretty hard by the far right of the party over his ukraine, the passing of the ukraine bill. why do you think he's in court today? and what do you think that means? >> i think it's one of the

reasons that you just mentioned sarah, that he wants to have protection from the maga crazy right flank who is going after him in the house for the deals that he has cutting with democrats and frankly for the fact that in the last vote it was democrats who came to save him from that crazy right flank. >> but i think it also demonstrates sarah that speaker johnson, along with everyone else who is parading to donald trump's bending the knee, kissing the ring, assuring him that if they pit, if he picks them to be his vp, they will be the puppet that he wants them to be. >> and i think mike johnson is in that group as well, maybe not for vp, but he's assuring him that he will continue to be his puppet in the house of representatives. and i think for voters, what this shows is that this is clearly donald trump's party. he is there and whatever he says goes, if he says jump everyone around him says how high. and i don't

think that that's going to be a good look for voters seeing donald trump in the courtroom every single day going through all of the things that he's accused of an all of their disgusting glory and then you have everyone around him again, just a doing everything that he wants. it's not a good luck for him or for the republican leadership in the house of representatives. and it's going to give democrats a key talking point that this is not what the american people deserve. >> i do want to ask you about the polling are the latest point we've gone from the new york times pool former president trump he's been campaigning at court, shouting about these pools here's what he said yesterday, saying he was surprised that new york times published this, but they published polls all the time. so they're in his favor or in biden's favor. let's take a listen doing great. >> doing great and kept me here for 3.5, four weeks instead of campaigning. yet we still have the best whole numbers just

came out in the new york times mike, you'd see the polling and the polling is that in five of the swing states, as you heard, donald trump is up by a pretty good margin. >> does this tell you that voters have bought into the trump accusations that this is a politically motivated trial, or that they don't really care that it done doesn't really matter to voters will a couple of quick things. >> one, i think it's gross exaggeration to say that the folks going the elected officials going to new york, that they're puppets. i thought they would be going to a campaign rally in the last three to four weeks unfortunately donald trump has had to sit in a courtroom during that period of time and he's now running a presidential campaign from a courtroom. so you go to where the candidate is. and that happens to be the courtroom. so what i wanted to get that i wanted to say that secondly, yes, i do think you're right. the american people, a lot of what the information that's come out in this trial so far is already been are known

knowns for the american people. they've taken that into account, so there's no new revelations in this case. and the more that the prosecution relies only on michael cohen to try to tie donald trump to this case. the more political it looks. and most likely this is the only case we're going to have before the election on november 5th, and we should be clear, there were a lot of people testifying, including some of trump's former aides in the white house. i view last word to you, maria the biden and administration. the sorry, the campaign has dismissed this poll publicly. but what are they doing privately because it's got hurt? >> well certainly those aren't numbers that you want to see, but what they're doing privately, sara is exactly what they shouldn't be doing, which is they have their heads down there doing the work they're going out there, they're talking to voters and the reason why they are not taking this pole in terms of hair on

fire, and they should be panicking is because it's six months out. this is not the only poll out there. in fact, you have other national polls that have shown joe biden ahead or the racist tied. and if you even look at this new york times poll, sarah, the likely voters in those swing states have either the race tied or joe biden up. and so again, polls are a snapshot in time what this campaign is focused on are the issues that are important to voters continuing to talk about an economy that works for all continuing to talk about how donald trump is an existential threat to our rights and freedoms, reproductive rights the protection of our democracy. those are key issues for voter sara, and that is going to be what, what people are going to look at in terms of the contrast in november. >> and noted that biden certainly has not talked about the trial against donald trump. that is very stark. we can see that maria cardona. thank you so much in my ducky, you as well. appreciate it. >> this morning, a new analysis

of the longest clinical trial yet of the weight-loss drug wegovy is offering up some new insight on the impacts of longer-term use of the medication. it has one cardiologists calling the implications profound, seen as meg tirrell has the details for us so what are you learning from this new analysis? because of this big clinical trial yeah. >> okay. this is really interesting data. these new analyses, this was a 17,000 person clinical trial. these new analyses look at four years worth of data of people continuing to take wegovy and a lot of people have questions about the long-term safety of these medicines, at least in four years of use you didn't see any new safety concerns. we know that gi issues can be a problem for many people, particularly when they start the drugs and those were there but nothing major new in terms of the weight loss seen in the trial they saw that typically people continue to lose weight for more than a year on would go v and then sustain that weight loss on the drug up to four years. and look at this chart. this is very interesting

because it shows the variability in people's responses to taking wegovy. people generally laws at least 5% of their weight, about two-thirds of the people on wegovy compared with just more than 20% for people on placebo. when you get up to 15% body weight loss, you've got more than 20% of people on the drug unless than 2% of people on placebo. there were some other really interesting studies about heart benefits in these as well, including that these drugs may work by tamping down inflammation and not just weight loss having inflammation, inflammation is a source of, i have to say especially having back issues, inflammation is the source of all evil. so this is very important and good to hear. it's great to zoom meg. thank you so much. >> so every day this week, we are bringing you stories of people who are champions for change. >> this morning, we bring you a woman known as the plant hunter. her mission searching the planet for new medicines to fight deadly superbugs plants

are everything there, what provide our food, our housing materials are musical instruments our clothing, and our medicines when i look at a plant, i'm looking to its chemistry and trying to understand the secrets that may unveil new medicines the use of plants as medicines goes back to the very origins of humanity, is 34,000 species have been documented as being used in some form of traditional medicine get scientists have only looked at around 1,000 of these plants i've traveled to some incredible places across the world in my search for nature's next medicines we're looking for the next type of antibiotic the work that i do is deeply personal to me. i was born with multiple congenital defects of my skeletal system,

which required the amputation of my leg at the age of 30 i developed a hospital acquired infection that nearly took my life luckily, back in the 1980s, we still had antibiotics that worked against some of these really bad bacteria today, were not so fortunate a lot of our antibiotics have been around for a long time and the pathogenic bacteria continue to develop resistance to them unless you come up with a continuous supply of new antibiotics acting by new mechanisms is not just enough to have a new antibiotic. over 1 million people die every year due to untreatable infections and so i've dedicated my life to searching for new medicines from nature to combat the worst of these drug resistant infections we collect plants in the field. we pressed them in deposit them into an herbarium,

which is like a library of life we also take samples back to the lab where we pull out the chemistry from the plant some of our most exciting discoveries have come from plants like the american beauty, bury, the european chestnut, and the brazilian pepper tree. >> we've discovered molecules and these plants that are very effective in the treatment that of the worst drug resistant bacteria, including mersa or drug resistant staph. >> we've also discovered fascinating molecules from the american beauty very plant. these molecules restore the activity of antibiotics against very dangerous resistant bacteria the next phase of our research involves moving these discoveries from the lab to human clinical trials. >> we could see a scenario in 102030 years where many infections are not responsive to any type of antibiotic and

for that reason, dr. waves work is essential to help prevent that from happening around 40 5% of all flowering plants are at risk of extinction. >> we're losing vast opportunities to alleviate human suffering and to treat disease this is not just about saving nature for nature sake this is about saving humanity. >> there's a lot of work that has to be done remarkable be sure to tune in saturday at nine. can eastern for cnn's champions for change, one special champions for change is presented by charles schwab, bone. >> your tomorrow go to see in a.com slash champions to learn about the pioneers using courage, grit, and creativity to move society forward and exciting and inspiring way

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signs at the white house and this is cnn new this morning arizona supreme court's signing off on a 90 day stay on the state's revived 18, 64 abortion ban. >> the band has been repealed as you know, but that repeal does not go into effect until later, meaning the band could take effect for a brief period. that victory for abortion rights advocates coming as louisiana lawmakers move to reclassify abortion drugs in that state. cnn's diane gallagher is joining us now tell us about this new legislation in louisiana that has to do with one of the most popular ways that people get abortions that's right, sarah, and look, this is proposed legislation right now. it's still working its way through the legislature, but what it would do is essentially classify misoprostol and mifepristone a schedule for control, dangerous substances putting them in the same category is highly regulated drugs like diazepam and

rohypnol is reclassification was added through an amendment to a bill that would have made it a crime to give somebody abortion, drugs in medication without their knowledge or consent? i'll state senator is a republican thomas presley proposed that legislation. he said because his sister was given mr. postal without her knowledge, against her will so this proposed legislation as amended would make it a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, with fines of up to $5,000 for any person found in possession of these drugs without a valid prescription. it does include an exemption for pregnant women in possession of both missed mifepristone and misoprostol? it for their own consumption and doctors, the legislation says would still be able to prescribe the drugs. but look metaphoric medical professionals worried that this could make it more difficult for them to prescribe this for things like ulcers, miscarriages, and end to end to induce labor. plus looked this

ad stigma and confusion they say in a letter obtained by cnn 270 louisiana physicians, health care providers, and medical students criticize this amendment, saying, in part, quote neither mifepristone nor misoprostol have been shown to have any potential for abuse, dependence, public health risks, nor high rates of adverse side effects. they warn that classifying these drugs as scheduled for substances creates the false perception that these are dangerous drugs that require additional regulation hello presley responded telling cnn that the legislation doesn't stop these drugs from being dispense or prescribed for legitimate reasons. sarah, they must still pass this by the full house in louisiana by june 3. and at that point, it would go to the republican governor. governor landry's desk to determine permanent. he would sign it into law diane gallagher, another rung and sort of the battle over abortion across the country. >> thank you so much. i appreciate the reporting

secretary of state, tony blinken on the ground in kyiv meeting with ukraine's president to show us that us support remains firm, saying us aid is here to stay blinken announcing that pieces of the new weapons package have started to arrive with much more on the way. >> and this is blinken's first trip to ukraine since congress finally broke through. that six month long blockade against approving the aid. >> and it comes as ukraine is suffering new setbacks on the north eastern front, russia launched surprise incursions across the border this weekend, forcing ukrainian forces already spread thin to stretch, to defend even more. >> joining me right now is retired general david petraeus, also of course, a former director of the cia general. thank you for your time. let's start in ukraine. blinken's there as a show of support from the us cnn's reporting though, is that the way it's put as russia has momentum, unlike anything seen since march of 20 do you think the six month delay by washington to approve sending over ammunition and weapons is why ukraine's forces

are losing ground now well, it's a very important reason why there's also been a bit of a lag in ukraine's development of a new conscription policy. so that they could get on with force generation. they've now done that as well, but they also had a long emotional debate in their congress, in their parliament before that took place, just as we did, of course, in the house issue noted for nearly half a year just before blinken arrived, ukraine's top general said that the situation in northern heart, in the northern kharkiv region has significantly worsened and the head of ukraine's military intelligence agency told the new york times and the new interview, the situation is on the edge every hour the situation moves toward critical. i'm going kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city and seeing new pressure heading towards it. do you think ukraine can hold if this surprise incursion by russia continues to prove successful. >> well, i think they may have

to give up a bit more ground and the worry is that russia could once again be within artillery range of kharkiv, in which case they're literally going to dismantle it piece by piece. they already using the so-called glide bombs. he's are bombs that russia can launch from its airspace. and of course we won't allow that and to use our systems in russian territory or above it so this is a fraught moment. and if they can get to that range, again, the use of artillery is going to be absolutely devastating as it was. of course, when kharkiv was nearly encircled before, but was able to fight that off and then to regain the territory right up to their own border. >> all right on israel's war against hamas. joe biden's warning that he will stop sending bombs and artillery if israel launches a major ground operation in rafah what did you think of that warning and the imf and what do you think the impact of this now, red line will be well i'm not sure it's

going to be that substantial. >> prime minister netanyahu replied that israel is going to fight on with whatever it has. and it has a lot look, i believe that israel does need to destroy hamas. i believe they're equivalent of the islamic state. they're in irreconcilable extremist organization and also to ensure that hamas can never again govern the territory that said how they do it is hugely important. and that's really the issue here. it's a concern by the administration that civilians and infrastructure and so forth will be damaged or destroyed, killed and this could plant the seeds of hamas, two dot o in fact, the challenge that israel has is that it is destroying these individual battalions. there's maybe four of 24 that are left and they are in the rafah area, hence, the need to go in there but they are then leaving these areas. they are clearing and moving on rather than clearing and holding and rebuilding. and

i think it's very important that they announced that they're going to explicitly make life better for the civilians in gaza that they clear an area and then try to hold it to keep the enemies from coming back in among from the people they're back into northern gaza now where the enemy was able to reconstitute they had to go back into al shifa hospital because hamas was able to reconstitute their some months after they originally cleared it. so they've got to look very carefully at their campaign design. and again, how they carry out these operations. absolutely minimum to keep two the the innocent loss of life and the damage to infrastructure. >> you talked about the you talked about this with max boot and a new column i thought was really interesting and how the clear and leaves strategy will not work. >> how does this compare? how does this fight compare this strategy, what you see to what you face in commanding us forces in iraq, because i've seen a lot well, the conversation after biden's warning as some people thinking biden as they describe it, learning from the mistakes of

the iraq and afghanistan well, i would contend that we got it right in iraq during the surge. and really for the three-and-a-half years after the 18 months of the search, we explicitly went back to living among the people created gated communities to keep al-qaeda out of the areas and so forth. but i also note in that interview that gaza is tougher than faloo of matti mosul buccoo and all the others put together because of the 300 miles of very well-developed tunnels and subterranean infrastructure used by hamas. so this is a fiendishly more difficult situation in enemy who hides among civilians and so forth. but clear hold, build, i think is the answer. the question is who's going to be the hold force? and then how quickly can they commit to rebuilding flooding the areas with humanitarian assistance, restoring basic services and reconstruction of the damage to infrastructure general petraeus, it's always great to ve