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Donald Trump goes to swing states Michigan and Wisconsin where he stokes immigration politics thousands of miles from the southern border. Meanwhile, Democrats zero in on the not-so-swing state of Florida, thanks to big news there on abortion last night that the Biden campaign is scrambling to capitalize on.
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First: "Evil, sick, deranged, crooked, and corrupt." Donald Trump chose those words in his Easter message to describe the prosecutors and judges leading the criminal cases against him.
Plus: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will allow a vote on desperately needed military aid for Ukraine. Could it cost him his gavel?
And President Biden may have a problem with the voting critical to his reelection: Black voters. We have new reporting on campaign plans to keep them in his corner in November.
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First: Trump keeps up his attacks in the NY judge in the New York hush money case and leans into violent language at upcoming events.
Plus: The fight over the GOPs future spreads to contentious primaries. Biden responds to Gaza protesters and faces a protest votes in a key battleground state.
And: How Trump’s message is playing with Evangelical voters.
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First: Our headline quote today is exactly how Joe Biden described Donald Trump's ideas at a star-studded fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. We have new reporting on the presidential trifecta and the mega millions they're raking in.
Plus: A CNN exclusive: A federal judge is weighing in on Donald Trump's attacks on the judge overseeing the former president's hush money case while warning that Trump's words threatened the viability of the US legal system.
And: Marking the one-year anniversary of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich's imprisonment in Russia, Dana speaks with his publisher.
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First: The Georgia election racketeering case against Donald Trump is back on. We'll bring you all the breaking details from the first hearing since a judge allowed Fulton County DA Fani Willis to continue spearheading the case, which the former president's legal team is trying to get dismissed.
Plus: Three presidents and a queen (Latifah) will attend an unprecedented fundraiser for President Biden tonight that's already brought in millions of dollars. But will those dollars translate into votes.
And: We pay tribute to Joe Lieberman with his former colleague and dear friend, Senator Susan Collins.
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First: Investigators are on the cargo ship that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, trying to figure out what went so tragically wrong.
Plus: Was the 2020 election stolen? Of course, there is zero evidence of that, but sources say it may be a litmus test for potential hires at the RNC.
And: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Queen Latifah and Lizzo are all part of the Biden campaign's new push to get out the vote. What role will Joe's former boss play on the trail?
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Continuing coverage of the catastrophic collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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Moments before today's show began, we learned that a New York appeals court had reduced the bonds he must pay in a civil fraud case to $175 million and gave him more time to pay. That means he might have the cash to put up without having to sell any of his assets. Meanwhile, Trump was in a different courtroom today in the separate, criminal case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump's legal team was chastised by the judge for accusing the Manhattan district attorney's office of prosecutorial misconduct without any evidence.
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Upheaval in the GOP – House Speaker Mike Johnson is in danger of losing his position. Sources say Democrats are willing to save him if he outlines a pathway to providing aid for Ukraine, which has been stalled for months and badly divides the GOP.
While Congress just ended a saga over funding the US government, one that cost the previous Speaker his job in an unprecedented uprising last fall, the new Speaker is facing a similar revolt over the major deal he just cut with the White House to avoid a shutdown.
This opens up a new front in the internal GOP war that has defined the 118th Congress and could put Republicans razor thin majority in jeopardy in November.
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As today's show begins, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has just filed a motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson just after the House passed a critical spending bill.
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