political calculus there that, that romney's doing that would probably when joe biden's support from the middle, but it would cost him his base his base. >> so hates donald trump they wake up every day hating donald trump and right now, joe biden is trying to placate his base. the middle is his next concern. so while that might that move would help him probably in the middle, i think it would cost him his his radical base. and so it's just not something he could do i mean, of course, dealing hypotheticals because it's not going to happen as far as we can tell on our crystal ball very near future. so it is, it is that it's great to see you guys, simon. thank you, mark. thank you very much. and you are i've seen a new central stress now former president donald trump heading back to court and just minutes, his lawyers plan to deploy a

strategy against star prosecution witness, michael cohen and the former fixer. >> you could call it the liar liar plan as they focus on tearing down cohen's credibility with the jury. and a historic debate on multiple levels, the candidates have agreed to the earliest jayden history and the first presidential rematch since the 1950s save the date it will happen here on cnn, june 20. and a texas bridge is closed out after a barge slammed into it. we have details on the damage and how long it will take to reopen that bridge. i'm suicidal k balden and john berman, this is cnn two central minutes ago, michael cohen left for another round in the courthouse and we're now t -90 minutes away from a morning that has the makings of some barry fiery fireworks in donald trump's criminal trial. >> what is going to happen today round two of michael

cohen's cross-examination will be getting back underway and sources tell cnn for the first time today, donald trump's lawyers will directly go after testimony from cohen about trump's alleged falsification of business records testimony, the prosecution says directly implicates donald trump across 34 criminal charges. how does the defense challenge cohen this time? and who will the jury believe cnrs? brynn gingras outside the court for us with all of these details, brynn, where are they going to go today? >> yeah. okay. so they need to so some reasonable doubt and jurors minds about cohen's credibility, obviously, he is thus witness in this case. he has pulled the entire narrative of what the prosecution said that these charges are against donald trump, and we're understanding from sources our colleagues are hearing that toddlers sanchez really going to be zeroing in on things that michael cohen has said in the past sometimes under oath and challenging what he has said, trying to again reiterate two jurors that he really just

cannot be trusted were also understanding that he is going to we'll be bringing up conversations that michael cohen has said he had with donald trump when it comes to these hush money payments. so that does look like to be what is going to be the focus of today a little bit less attack dog, a little bit more focused on these charges that are against donald trump. now, as far as timing for understanding that michael cohen could be on the stand getting cross-examination for the entirety of today as one source told, our colleague, kara scannell, they said that takes a long time to get through the lies. we're hearing. it's possible this could even go into monday because tomorrow there is no cord because of barren trump's graduation that trump said sorry, the judge said that trump could go to that, so there will be no court tomorrow. so this could go into next week with michael cohen on the stand for understanding, standing, there's going to be about a half a dozen or so lawmakers who will be in the courtroom today. again supporting the former president as his four comer friend turned foe is on the stand. and then

from there, we don't know yet we know that the defense will have its turn. it's unclear who they will call. however, we do know that the defense attorneys they're gonna be asking a judge about some questions about what could be admissible if they call an expert witness. so that'll be addressed today in court as well. so it's possible we'll see the prosecution maybe arrest at the beginning of next week, possibly today, but it's still unclear great to see you branch. thank you so much for being outside court for us this morning. john willis now a cnn legal analysts, former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, jen, what we've heard from the defense so far is that michael cohen says, nobody thinks about donald trump. >> michael cohen has made money off of donald trump now, we understand they're going to really push deeper into the idea that they will say michael cohen lies about a lot of things, including donald trump, why well, this is the undercurrent of their entire cross-examination, right? >> you can't believe what he says because he's a liar. so it was addressed on direct. i mean, donald michael cohen said multiple times that he did lie to protect donald trump. so i

think we're going to see a series of his lines as and then push back on the notion that it was for donald trump, you know, they may say you were making good money. you wanted to please donald trump. you did this for your own purposes, not for his purposes. there also has been in the past statements by michael cohen that donald trump talked a little like a mob boss, like he wouldn't give direct orders. so there may be questions about did he ever tell you to say that lie, that sort of thing to try to undercut this notion that it was all for him. he said last part that i'm really interested in because of the first day of cross. >> i don't think once michael cohen was asked about the substance of the charges, really either the payoffs is stormy daniel's the documents accounting for the payoffs to stormy daniels? any of it. so how specific are not specific do you think the defense wants to get today? >> they have to get pretty specific because michael cohen is the only witness who directly implicates trump in this the reimbursement part of it, the notion that donald trump actually directed the reimbursement illegally. >> so they have to get into that. one of the issues is gonna be you're the only one who's does this. you've

learned about all these things. you're the only one who's there. how convenient is that? i expect michael cohen will say, well, actually, allen weisselberg also was there. then we've got that elephant in the room about what the judge is going to instruct the jury is to hit absent from this procedure, what happens then? >> i think. >> they'll get what's called an unavailable witness charged. the judge will say allen weisselberg is unavailable. he can't be called by either side. you are not to speculate why that is, and you're not to hold it against either side that he's not here. >> is there a risk or how would you ask the question to michael cohen about a couple of the meetings that he has testified to war. he says donald trump new and ordered him to pay stormy daniel's new and ordered him or was knowledgeable of the falsified documents scheme. i mean, how do you ask those questions? >> well, very skeptically, of course, first, you say that you were there, you say this, but you've said a lot of things that aren't true and right. who else backs up that you were there talking? think about that. who else, what else is there that basically corroborates you there? and for

some of this stuff, particularly with the reimbursement scheme, there really isn't anything given that allen weisselberg is unavailable. i mean, they've put in things like there was a phone call around the time or it was on his calendar that they were going to meet, but that of course could be for anything, especially be because their position is going to be they were paying him throughout this time to continue to be the personal lawyer. >> what's the risk for the defense attorneys in the cross by addressing these specific moments. >> well, then michael cohen does what he has been prepped to do, right. to just come back and say no, this is it. and i've said that from the beginning. i've said that since all of this came out and i publicly broke with donald trump, i've been telling everyone who asked me about this. i've been consistent on this and it is backed up by things like when i went to see him, when we spoke on the phone, the notes of allen weisselberg on the form that we saw come in through the country trawler, mcconney, et cetera. >> i suspect as we get later in the day today, there might be some gamesmanship going on here. do you think that offense wants to make it last through

the weekend, so they get him on the stand for a second again on monday, do you think they want to turn it back to the prosecution for redirect, so they get something in the jury said, well, certainly as we get to the end of the day, they're going to want to hold onto it because you always want that last take before the jury goes for a long weekend. >> but i think they would be better served by making it shorter actually, i think part of what's happening here is they're listening to their client who wants to destroy michael cohen instead of think strategically about the case i do anticipate that they probably will hold onto him all day as a combination of once it gets towards the end, you might as well do it, but also they're listening to trump about how the cross go. a lot of procedural stuff that'll be worth paying attention to at the very end of the day, i think we'll all be in the diversities the wondering where this goes. neck. jennifer rodgers. thank you so much. thanks. sarah. sarah. yep. you got it ahead. we are getting new details about the earliest presidential debate in modern history. well, it right here on cnn, the stakes are sky high. how this debate will be different from the last time these two men debated and

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other than donald trump now prepared to face off in stage six weeks from today. >> in their first presidential debate of 2024, it is the earliest televised general election debate ever. june 27, right here on cnn, there will be no live audience. cnn senior political analyst, mark preston joins us now. first of all, it seemed like from the public's perspective a insanely fast agreement between these two men who have debated them before you get this video from biden and then you get a truth social from donald trump. and it's all agreed into how did this actually come together? well it's interesting, certainly in the moment it's like, wow, how are, you know, all of a sudden they're all in, they've agreed to do it they've been signaling this for weeks. >> if not months, that they are at least willing to talk about debating and also these debates just don't happen in a vacuum, you know, or any of these big political events. we put an incredible amount of time into

actually preparing for them. and if people knew how many events didn't happen, they'd probably be surprised for the events that do happen i do wanna remind folks of the biden trump 2020 debate where things went a little bit off the rails. let's listen to what happened at that moment and then talk about it on the other end. >> good question. the question, justice left. would you who is on your list? you, this don't you write, gentlemen, i think pax6 court not going to give a look will you. shut up man i didn't give a little bit of it away, but how will this debate be different from what we have seen in the past? >> well, in many ways would be different, many ways will be the same. okay. so even when the commission on presidential debates who traditionally have been doing them, you know, certainly in the last 2030 years they did have audiences. they were just more potted plants. they didn't actually speak, but they were in the audience. it's not as if this is some groundbreaking thing

that we're doing. look at, we may see interruptions. i mean, i mean, that could happen. what's not going to be as the projection of the voices and these debates, even though everyone thinks it happened it's in the room. it's really how it projects across on television and the millions and tens of millions of people they're going to watch it. so, while so many people are really focused on the room, it's really focused on what these two gentlemen are going to say about how they're going to fix any of these problems that we're facing. >> it's going to feel different from the ones that we have seen in recent history, because the audience is sort of the third remember of the debate has been, it has been since, you know, since since i came here about 20 years ago. we're really debates started to come into their own, but they came into their own because of social media. people forget that this confluence of factors came together. we started to see more participation from voters not just the 65-year-old grandmother who goes to nachshon doors. we saw a lot of participation from younger kids and that's where we are now all right. >> i do want to ask you about the scenario you've got the

historical historic criminal trial against donald trump that is coming close to its end. we don't know exactly when its end, but the prosecution expected to the rest. its case very shortly here. and then just weeks after he could be convicted or acquitted of this trial. in this trial, the debate happens. is this a calculus for either of the candidates? what do you know about going forward here after this unprecedented trial? >> well, there's no question that delete we will troubles that president trump is facing right now is going to be a major part of the campaign. i would think of that as just another parallel road that is leading to election day. and what we're going to see on the night of the debate is a hopefully we'll see is really a vigorous discussion about the issues we have all the sayyed shows from the campaigns and they're going to try to game, you know? us in game each other as they head into it. but really what it comes down to is the next day the viral clips that come out of it. and who is able to best explain how they're going to fix the problem? >> i want to ask you because

you mentioned that the presidential commission on debates, they're usually the ones that sort of over this, but they usually have the debate in september. this is highly unusual. is this an example of what we are going to see going forward? i think it's crazy to make any predictions on the i know people are saying that now that that's the end of the cpd. >> and what have you have early voting? >> i mean sure. sure. i have no idea. i have not looking i would love for the candidates to debate you know, with a cpd as well as, you know, debate on cnn every week, if we could, but we'll just see how it all plays out. >> mark preston honest and all-in. we cannot wait to see what happens on june 20 to remind people right here. cnn, that debate will happen. >> an attempted assassination of slovakia's prime minister shot five times and then spend hours in emergency surgery. we have an update on his edition now and the ripple effects this is having a cross europe hundreds of protesters are surrounding a building at uc irvine. some barricading themselves inside. why the school's channel? florida says that changed everything and

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those so agreements that the attempted or alleged assassin had with the government were imperatively also including the fact that robert feats those government. what? set on cutting off aid to ukraine. that was one of the disagreements that he apparently had with the government of roberts fits. so they say after the election of robert fitzroy last year that he decided right after that election to carry out this assassination attempt. now there's one more important ripple to all of this case, and that the government is now also saying this in the form of the interior minister, that this person was not part of some wider network, but rather this was a lone wolf who had these disagreements with the government and so therefore, they don't think that there's a wider group behind all this. nevertheless, one of the things that we do have to mention that slovakia, like a couple of other european countries actually as well, they do have pretty deep divisions in their society and they are quite concerned that all of this could make those divisions even worse as far as robert fico is concerned, you're absolutely right he is trying to recover here in this hospital in the

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again in the future or possibly having some other prominent role in government at the same time though, she is not she's not very clearly saying anything. she intends to do beyond giving a speech at the hudson institute in the coming days she's saying anything about whether her supporters should vote for donald trump, danielle know and i think that itself is a tail because we're seeing in these republican primaries primary after primary that a significant chunk of republican voters are backing haley, even though she's not out of the race. >> and that's pretty unusual. cool in situ in past presidential campaigns when there is a presumptive republican nominee, usually the runner up encourages them to vote for that nominee, but that is not what we're seeing here. so silence itself is telling. >> all right, continued silence from nikki haley on what she wants to see. >> her support is due daniel strauss. thank you. hey much for that joining us right now is republican senator tom

cotton from arkansas center. >> it's great to have you here. it's been a minute. i really appreciate your time let's start with where john just left off. you clearly donald trump is the presumptive nominee. we're talking about that, of course, but the fact that haley's pulled in double-digit vote shares, 15, 20% in some places isn't 15 states. since she dropped out what do you think republican voters are saying with that kate, i don't think there's much we can take from that present. >> trump has been the presumptive nominee for months. snail. he's not campaigning in these states. i think the bigger issue is if you look at polling for the general election that joe biden five is hemorrhaging support among traditional democratic constituencies like latino voters, black voters, and young voters. that's one reason why donald trump has such a large lead. in addition to joe biden's failed and week presidency, that's why you're going to see a big donald trump and republican victory in november let's talk about something that's happening relates to the election. it's an issue in the election and it's something that's happening now and you're involved in the house is going to be voting this week. and

you've introduced a companion bill in the senate on a measure that seeks to end biden's flexibility, if you will, on delivering weapons to israel, the white house issued a veto threat. but congressional sources tell us that the white house isn't same time is moving forward with a $1 billion arms package for israel, which would include tactical vehicles, tank ammunition, and more do you want to be seen as setting a precedent of tying any president's hands when it comes to the foreign policy, the united states okay. >> the precedent that we shouldn't said as joe biden and posing a de facto arms embargo on israel. he's denying them the munitions but they need in the middle of a warp survival and it's tomas switch committed the worst atrocity against jews since world war ii. and the announcement that president biden made this week, that he's going to deliver $1 billion of arms is just a smokescreen for that de-facto arms embargo. because those weapons and there's munitions won't arrive for months, or even years. it's all designed to we have cover two democrats who recognize that joe biden is

catering to the small pro-hamas wing and his party against the large pro israel majority of the american people. in contrast, donald trump has said he would back israel to the hilt, which is what we should be doing. so, israel can win this war more quickly and destroy boy, hamas, that's what we should have been doing all along. but president biden is tied himself in pretzels for the last seven months. once again, displaying weakness because he is worried about this small, but outsized vocal pro-hamas minority in his own party i've heard you say de facto arms embargo in recent days as well, but it's not a de facto arms embargo. it's not it's not that in reality, they sent $26 over in that foreign aid package. it's not a full arms embargo like on somalia and sudan. >> you don't really, you don't think that israel could pull off its operation in rafah, how they plan it, what they wanna do when they want to do it without without getting more

right now from the united states we'll first off, the security package that we just passed hasn't really started flowing into israel yet. >> what president biden has done, we now know going back to last year is to deny israel the very kinds of bombs and precision guided systems that they need to destroy hamas inside rafah. that is the last bastion of hamas. it's where it's liters or hold up. it's even where it's presumably that many of the hostages jar around those leaders. the reason they need larger bombs with precision guidance systems on them is that hamas has built this tunnel network underneath gaza, where you have to have larger bombs to get down and pin it trade into it. and the fact that president biden is denying them those bombs in the middle of this war. and he's apparently even denying them intelligence about the location of hamas leaders, which again is to say the location of hostages, including potentially american hostages. it's just another example of the week failed presidency that the american people have seen for

threonine and a half years. >> you served everyone knows this, but just for viewers knowledge, you served in iraq and afghanistan, i say that because i, david petraeus on who led successful counterinsurgency in iraq he was on with me this week, senator and he thinks israel needs to go into rafah. he said that very clearly, but his assessment is that they need to change strategy before they do they are right now. his description is clearing and leaving. and they need to be clearing holding and building, which is what they did in iraq he. makes the case that the idf strategy is not working in this speaks to a little bit of what we've heard from the white house on this. do you agree with david petraeus that idea of strategy is not working right now? >> well, ultimately, general petraeus, as he did during the search phase of arac, is right that you do have to hold and build, but you have to clear first, you have to destroy and get a military victory that's what happened when general petraeus was the commander of

the 100% airborne and march and april of 2003, you have to have a military victory before you can have a political victory. and i know that president biden is demanding that israel have all kinds of elaborate plans for what's going to happen after hamas is defeated. that's not what we did. is the islamic state, when barak obama started award, didn't finish it, took donald trump to finish it, but we focused on achieving a military victory and until hamas is final, four battalions hold up inside the rafah are destroyed until their leaders or captured or killed. i think it's premature to demand israel start developing all kinds of elaborate plans for the so-called day after military victory cannot be forsaken. >> me. ask you this. we've seen republican lawmakers quite a lot of them coming to new york city to sit in on donald trump's trial to show their support for him and see you and also his new reporting that house oversight. they just pushed back the start time of a markup today. so committee republicans could attend the trial in mitt romney. i want to play for you what romney had to

say about all this i think it's also demeaning for people to quiet apparently try and run for vice president by dotting the red time standing outside the courthouse said, it's just i have felt awkward your name is out there as a possible running mate. i know that you've said that you're not focused on that at all, but do you think it's important for anyone who wants to be vp to have to show up to this trial. i mean, do you think anyone do you think someone can get the job without it kate, i turned in my law license 20 years ago and i haven't seen inside of a courtroom since the n and i don't have any plans to do so in the future i agree with what president trump said. >> it's important that we do our job as legislators in washington, for instance making sure that we overturn joe biden's de facto arms embargo and good israel, the weapons it needs. i also think they should be a moot question after today. i know everyone is excited about the cross-examination by president trump's lawyers of

michael cohen and notorious convicted liar. but what's a bigger news today is that if the prosecution rest its case based on the evidence they've put forward, then this judge this judge should redeem himself and all that erroneous rulings, gifts made so far by directing a verdict of not guilty against donald trump because there's been no evidence of any crime whatsoever in this case, the trial should into de the prosecution rest its case do, you think what romney said is right? that is awkward that all these people are standing with matching outfits to show their support i'll let other legislators and politicians make decisions about how they want to send their time and show their support for president trump and for our great republican candidates across the country. >> i agree with what president trump said. we need to focus in the congress on path passing legislation that will reverse the week failed policies of joe biden we can also refrain from any fashion commentary as well, senator, it's great to see you. >> thank you so much for your time coming in today. >> sarah. >> all right. we have some breaking news to cnn, brand new

reporting on what we expect attorney general merrick garland to tell republicans who are preparing to hold him in contempt of congress for refusing to turn over the audio recordings of special counsel robert hur's interviews with president joe biden over classified occupants, cnn's evan perez is joining us now from the justice department. what can you tell us about this, evan was their just this morning the justice department is informing republicans on the house that they, the president, president biden has asserted executive privilege over these recordings. now at issue are a couple of different recordings. one set of recordings that was done by the fbi in during the interview by rob her, the special counsel. that's this one. zone back back in october as part of that investigation, as you pointed out on classified documents that were found at the former president at the sorry, the president's resonances and in an office, there's also another set of recordings that were done by a

ghost writer who was working with then the former vice president had biden as he was writing a book some years ago. and so what the president has done is asserted executive privilege, which means that the justice department cannot turn over these these recordings to house republicans who had issued a subpoena, not only for those recordings, but also for other investigative materials that were part of that investigation. i'll read you just a part of what the the justice department is telling and the attorney general, it's telling the house republicans are saying the committees seek to hold the attorney general in contempt not for failing his duties, but for upholding them. we have repeatedly made clear that the disclosure of subpoenaed audio recordings with damaged future law enforcement efforts, and that the committee's continued demands raised serious separation of powers concerns. look at the fight over these recordings is really a couple of different things republicans

obviously want the president's voice. they were in the middle of a political campaign. the presidential campaign that's obvious that once they get this, this is going to be part of that campaign. and listening to the president's voice as he's answering questions and as he's talking to his ghostwriter would be part of that. and so that's one of the things that's that's at play here republicans know that they won't get this, but that's the reason why they're going to coittees are going to hold nt the attorney general in content today. sarah wow. >> and you remember that when the transcripts came out, this was huge news and we're talking about biden's memory and the decision that was made by her. >> thank you so much. evan perez very key information right there. >> yeah. no, i'm saying that very, very key information that they did turn over the transcripts of those interviews. and so that's the republicans it's already have that sarah exactly right. >> all right. thank you so much. i appreciate your time. all right. >> a dangerous storm sparked an

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secret war, secrets and spies premier sunday, june 2, attempt bomb cnn we have some breaking news for you this morning is defense minister yoav gallant. >> so the additional forces will participate in the ground operation in rafah. the question is, are they inching towards a full-scale attack? this is officials say the floating pier built to allow critical aid into gaza is almost completed. its now anchored to a beach in gaza. cnn's jeremy diamond joins us now from jerusalem, gerami first, what are you learning about these troops additional troops that are going to be headed into got into rafah we clearly are not be able to hear. >> yeah, well, the israeli defense minister yoav golan just completed a visit to eastern rafah where israeli troops have been operating for the last week and a half. and while he was there, he said that israeli troops are going

to enter a rafah carrying additional troops will enter rafah, adding to the troops that have already been there over the course of the last week. the defense minister said that commando, a command to brigade has already entered rafah overnight and will assist in what these really troops that are already there have been and doing over the course of the last week, which they say is destroying hamas infrastructure, searching and destroying tunnels, for example, that exists in that area. we know of course that these military operation in eastern rafah has already caused significant disruption to the civilian population. they're more than half 1 million palestinians have now been forced to flee rafah, being displaced, two areas further north in the gaza strip. we also know that the israeli military's intensifying its operations in northern gaza. in addition to bali, a refugee camp which was the site of so much of the heavy fighting in the early months of the war, israeli troops then withdrew from that area now,

months later, they are going back in because they say that hamas has once again re-installed itself. they're re-entering those areas and intense fighting has been happening over the course of the last several days in jabalya. meanwhile, the united states, announcing today that it has completed the process of building and now anchor currying that floating pier off the coast of gaza. this could bring in as many as 100 aid trucks per day. it's expected to begin to be operational in the coming days. obviously, providing much needed relief to the gaza strip at a time when so many are once again being displaced inside the strip and also as that rough a border crossing between gaza and egypt remains closed for the second week. now, we know that there are ongoing negotiations between egyptian and israeli officials to try and reopen that crossing so far, no indication of a breakthrough, but a lot of blame being cast on both sides. sarah jeremy diamond. thank you so much for that breaking news there from their jerusalem bureau on what

is happening in gaza. john all right. with us now is congressman seth molten from the commonwealth of massachusetts, a member of the house armed services committee, a congressman. last week you tweeted, i've always said that israel must defeat hamas. the question is whether invading rafah ultimately helps or hurts the cause. after meeting with the israeli ambassador day for an hour, i'm even more skeptical of their plan. you said i support president by his decision at that point, you were talking about his decision not to provide certain offensive weapons? if israel went into rafah, we're getting the news that israel is increasing. it's true presence on the ground there. can you tell us what you disapprove of that you learned of israel's plans we'll look. >> they just don't have answers to basic questions that you need to know have answers to if you're fighting a counter-insurgency, like what is the end game? how do they plan to prevent civilian casualties? what does he humanitarian aid plan? so you're, you're actually winning the support of the population and not just pushing

them further into the arms of the terrorists. they didn't have answers to these things. they didn't have answers to a basic question which is, if indeed hamas is harboring is its leaders and the hostages in the tunnels under rafah. how are you going to save the hostages when you go in and try to take out hamas is liters. so it really seems to me that they need to go back to the fundamentals of a counterinsurgency plan. i thing i wrote an op-ed on cnn just off a this after october 7, saying, you guys have got to get this right if you want to win and they still don't seem to have a winning glad. >> looking, you were heavily involved with counter-insurgenc y as a marine interact. so this is something you have intimate knowledge of when you see israel increasing its troop presence around rafah, what do you think might be happening? >> well, i think they're planning to just do a full-scale invasion the same way that they have carried out this assault on the rest of gaza. and we already see in the north part of gaza that's been practically obliterated by

israeli bombs. did it hasn't been effective at defeating hamas. hamas is now researched in the north they have continuing problems fighting is getting intense. they're again, that just confirms that israel strategy to date is not working. and look, i say this with a rock experience having made a lot of myths stakes in iraq when we first went into iraq and afghanistan, we thought we could just tell kill terrorists and that would be enough. it took us a while to learn that the key in a counterinsurgency campaign is not just killing terrorists, although you do have to do that it's winning the support of the population that's why limiting civilian casualties and so important, providing humanitarian aid and having a political end game that both sides can believe israel still has explained that to the world. >> what to ask you about how speaker mike johnson, because as you were one of many democrats who basically voted to help him keep his job as speaker. and that was seen largely because he did allow aid to ukraine to go through since that vote were democrats

saved him. he has shown up, but the criminal trial of donald trump here in new york, and that a lot of other things that democrats aren't happy about, would you vote to save him again? >> no, not unless he has some deal on the table, like putting a vote on important aid for ukraine. he's one of the most conservative speakers in american history. we're not doing any favors here, but it was the right thing. to keep them in power so that we could get this aid package through and show them that if you can show him frankly, that if you do the right thing, democrats will be there to ensure good governance. it's republicans who we want to throw the house into chaos. yet again, we have three weeks without a speaker last fall as the first time in american history that's ever happened. that's because of the extremists, republicans who are essentially running the party right now when asked you a question that has sort of taken over the culture over the last 24 hours. i figured you're a patriots fan, but this has to do with kansas city chiefs place kicker harrison butker, who gave a commencement speech. you've talked a lot about commencements over the last

several weeks around the country. he gave a commencement speech at a catholic university in kansas and he made some statements that raised some eyebrows. let's listen to this bad policies and poor leadership have negatively impacted major life issues. >> things like abortion, ivf, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder so pervasiveness of disorder degenerate cultural values, wrapping in ivf and surrogacy there. >> what do you think? >> i don't know exactly what he's saying, but he basically seems to want to go back 100 years in american progress. and that's not, that's not what we should do here in america. and maybe we should get people who aren't just whose credentials aren't just being grateful, ball players to give commencement speeches congress and bolton from massachusetts, we appreciate your time this morning. thanks so much for being on suing cnn new sephora will talk to you again soon