william, who has actually taken time off wurb as well in order to support his family. we saw him visiting the hospital there. daily mail saying let's pray that they're both okay. this is the sense of shock i was talking about. kate, such a vibrant, youthful figure, no one ever thought she would end up in the hospital, the only other time she's been in the hospital is when she had the kids. the sun talking about the royals rocked by kate op. the queen having to step up, represent the family, she'll have the support of edward and anne, but they don't have the heft of the top four. quite a lot of pressure to represent the family and represent continuity. >> absolutely. we know you'll keep us posted on this. that's it for us this morning. cnn news central starts right now.

five days to new hampshire. one of trump's rivals is about to take the stage. other isn't even in the state. will either strategy muster the momentum to stun trump's support. >> minutes from now, e. jean carroll on the witness stand facing questions from donald trump's lawyers. we're waiting to hear what the judge says after the tense standoff in court with the former president. >> and emotions are high in uvalde as merrick garland releases the findings today of a long awaited justice department report. garland is also meeting with the families of victims as we wait to learn what the doj uncovered about the police failures that horrifying day. i'm rahel solomon in for kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. cnn news central starts right now.

any moment now, nikki haley is set to kick off a rally in new hampshire. we're looking at live pictures behind me. this is her first chance to respond to president trump's harshing attacks yet. seeking to deliver a knockout blow with the first in the nation presidential primary five days away. trump sp counting on a big win in new hampshire to solidify his path to the top of the republican ticket and with that, he is ramping up his attacks on haley. listen to what he told his supporters just last night. >> a vote for nikki haley this tuesday is a vote for joe biden and a democrat congress this november. the radical left democrats are supporting nikki haley because they know she's much easier to beat than trump. if she wins biden wins. i'm telling you that. >> well, that's not what the polls have been saying, but omar jimenez is joining us where

nikki haley is speaking to supporters in just a bit. omar, how is haley reacting so far to trump's attacks? >> reporter: well, for one, we're going to see how she responds. she's going to have an opportunity here as she gets in front of voters. she's been defiant. she's painted this as a two-person race, so clearly, if the other person in this race, as she says, says something about her, we should expect her likely to respond. bottom line, she is the only person campaigning in this state today. and she's trying to capitalize on some of those opportunities. we're at the first of what is said to be a number of meet and greets and campaign event over the course of today before of course her cnn town hall tonight. part of why she's the only person campaigning is ron desantis has scaled back his campaign, and we're at a town hall of his yesterday, scaled back his campaign in new hampshire. at that town hall, he was still asking are votes in the state,

despite we're really not going to see him much except back on friday and on sunday as well. haley has gotten -- has turned that aspiration that it's a two-person race into essentially a reality here in new hampshire. take a listen to what she said yesterday at one of her events. >> i know trump threw a temper tantrum about me last night. i heard that. i have seen the commercials you have seen. we have to win in november. but if you look at these head-to-head matchups, that's a hard truth. head-to-head, trump and biden, it's going to be another nail biter of an election. on a good day, he's up by two points. that's margin of error. we're going to hold our breath up until then. >> that's been part of her pitch to voters in this final stretch. not necessarily going directly after trump, but in many cases lumping both trump and biden

together, and at least one example saying because they're either in or near their 80s, she has been emphasizing a need for generational change. now, another thing we're going to be watching for is obviously, we know this is an opportunity. the new hampshire electorate is much different than iowa. she of course could take advantage of the more moderate voting base here, also independents and undeclared can votes as well. she's going to need a lot more than just that group to actually get her over this threshold. what that tleshold is, we have seen that definition change or shift or at the very least be a little liquid at times. some of her campaign surrogates including chris sununu, said that they expect to have a strong second place finish here, which of course, softens what many people believe and what some polls have shown that she has a legitimate shot to pose a very serious challenge to the former president. >> chris sununu endorsing nikki haley very early. we'll wait and see. this is going to start in a few minutes and we'll take it live

as she gets up on that podium. omar, thank you so much for all your reporting. john. it's a really interesting moment about to happen in new hampshire because donald trump has launched this new round of attacks on nikki haley. it's thursday by my count. the primary is on tuesday. will nikki haley take this moment to respond? this is a big moment. in the meantime, i'm joined by cnn senior data reporter, harry enten. we're talking a lot about new hampshire, which is, by the way, the granite state. >> that's correct. >> why is new hampshire such an attractive target for nikki haley? >> you know, omar was getting at it, and it essentially comes down to the electorate. the moderate share of the gop primary electorate. this is the group donald trump does worst with. moderates make up a significant share of that electorate there. they're 36%. that's significantly more than the 27% nationally, and of course, that 17% in iowa, which is a very conservative caucus

electorate. so the fact is, new hampshire, you know new england, you're from new england. those northern new england republicans and those that can vote in the republican primary are far more moderate on the republican side than the rest of the country. >> can democratic vote in the republican primary? >> no, they can. >> donald trump said they could. >> donald trump says a lot of things but you have to be registered undeclared or registered republican. >> nikki haley leading new hamp hampshire, where else looks like a great opportunity on the map right now? >> this is the problem. maybe outside of vermont and the state primary, there's no other real ground. trump's primary standing after new hampshire, he still has a 51 es-point lead over there, and he's leading in every other state that has been polled. i have looked at all of them. there hasn't been another state that trump has sttrailed in sin the beginning of last year.

new hampshire looks like a real outlier. i will point out, sometimes what happens in new hampshire can affect things down the road. at this point, new hampshire looks like the best place to take donald trump on. that's why nicky haley is there. >> it's this combination, this big national lead along with the iowa win as we're looking at where trump is. what does history tell us about that combination? >> exactly, so look, national poll leaders who lost new hampshire, which is still a real possibility for donald trump, but won iowa. he already won it. this is gop primary since 1980. it's happened twice. bob dole and george w. bush. both went on to be the republican nominee. there are no examples, didn't win the nomination. at this point, this slide plus the previous side should tell you donald trump regardless of what happens in new hampshire is a heavy favorite. >> if nikki haley manages to win in new hampshire, donald trump would be bob dole or george bush in this scenario who both went on to win the nomination. the democratic side, obviously,

republican and democrats behave differently, but historical lessons on the democratic side. >> there's this whole idea, okay, there has never been an example on the republican side of a non-incumbent who has gone on to win every primary. it could happen with donald trump. could, but there is an example on the democratic side, and it was al gore in 2000. he won in new hampshire by four points. a very tight race. >> close. >> very close. bill bradley gave him a run for hit money, but he won all the primaries. >> we'll wait and see. thank you for explaining that so well. >> let's discuss this further. with us is republican strategist, shermichael singleton, and sophia nelson. good to see you both. let me start with you. i'm not sure if you saw harry enten's piece. let's say you're one of these other campaigns. you're looking at the 51% lead that trump has nationally. okay, that still leaves about half of the gop electorate, with five days left until new

hampshire, what are you doing? >> look, if i'm advising nikki haley, let's use her as the example, the first thing i'm going do is conduct a national voter profile, specifically on super tuesday. so i'm looking at new hampshire. these are more moderate leaning, independenting leaning voters. we have to have a strong second there. then you fast forward to south carolina, the former governor's home state. we need to at least not lose by anything more than 15 points. then you fast forward to the first week of march, california, massachusetts, where you see a similar voter profile as new hampshire. if the governor can win several of those states come super tuesday, she'll still be behind mathematically, but it will give her the argument to make that she can still compete in some additional states. again, as harry pointed out, the math does not exist, because all of the other states to follow after new hampshire are very similar to iowa where donald trump dominates. >> as some might say, the math isn't quite mathing just yet.

sophia, let me bring you in here. there is new reporting that some voters in new hampshire are disappointed that haley seems to be taking direct questions less from voters. her camp denies this. your thoughts about this strategy. if she's prone to these moments when she's ask ed about race, might this be the safest thing for her to do? >> two things. one, i think nikki haley is running for vice president and for the nomination to be trump's vp. i have always believed that. i think the reason she's not taking questions is because she keeps getting herself in trouble on these questions around race or reproductive freedom and issues that in a national election for her with females will be problematic and with people of color of which she is one and she's not leaned into that. she's backed away from it. i also think new hampshire is where nikki haley becomes john mccain in 2000. you remember that? he pulled off the upset, he won because of moderates and

independents that can vote if you're undeclared or a republican moderate. south carolina is where our campaign dies, just with john mccain. if you recall, it got very nasty in south carolina. the race card was pulled on john mccain because of his adoptive daughter who is of color. i think nikki haley is in for a rough ride. she's running for vp. she wants to be careful and doesn't want to tick trump off or his race. >> let's stick with south carolina for a moment. obviously, desantis seems to be prioritizing that state, really presenting or trying to present a challenge to nikki haley on her home turf. if he can eke out a second place finish like he did in iowa, how does that change things if at all for his campaign? >> the fundamental problem for ron desantis is that most of his voters are likely to vote for donald trump. so let's say that donald trump wins new hampshire. then you move on to south carolina. desantis is obviously more likely to place second in south

carolina than nikki haley, again, because of that idea of the voter profile and where those voters are registered if we're looking at an idealogical line. most are further to the right than the voters in new hampshire. so again, the desantis camp has to have the recognition that if trump dominates in the first two states, his likely voters are going to look at that and beg the question, is it worth voting for someone who we know doesn't have a chance going forward, or should we move over to the trump camp? i think most of those voters are going to move over to trump. i spent a significant amount of time in south carolina in 2016. every single county in that state registered for trump, 60%, 70%, 80% compared to someone like ted cruz who was also favored by evangelicals at the time. >> let's turn to the democrats quickly before i let you go. vice president kamala harris appearing on "the view" yesterday and had this to say when she was asked if she was scared about what would happen if trump were to win the presidency again? this is what she said.

>> i am scared as heck. which is why i'm traveling our country. there's an old saying there are only two ways to run for office. either without an opponent or scared. so on all of those points, yes. we should all be scared. >> so when you have the vice president on national tv saying she's scared as heck, what type of message do you think it sends to voters? >> i think what she means is she's not afraid of him per se, but afraid of what's happening to our country. the rhetoric, the divisions, our freedoms being taken away, limited, book banning, all the things she went through in detail, talking about race and how nikki haley has bumbled that time and time again. rewriting history. i think that's what she is trying to say to the american people and what she's saying is we all ought to be afraid about what happens if this guy becomes president. we're going to run hard, run like we're the underdogs and

work really hard to win this election. i think that's what she's trying to say. >> good to see you both. thank you. >> good to see you. >> cnn programming note now. don't miss nikki haley's cnn town hall live in new hampshire, 9:00 eastern, and jake tapper moderates only here on cnn. john. we're standing by for the results from a federal investigation into the massacre at uvalde. 19 students, 2 teachers killed. the new explanations for why it took police so long to respond. two countries in one of the world's most dangerous areas exc exchange fire. e. jean carroll about to take the stand facing questions from donald trump's lawyers. what will the federal judge say this morning after donald trump told him he couldn't control himself.

just a few hours from now, the justice department will release its long awaited report on the police response to the mass shooting at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers in that horrific attack in may 2022. families, this burning question, why did it take nearly 400 law enforcement officers 77 minutes to stop the shooter? >> accountability. that's what everybody wants. that's what we all want. we want people to be held accountable for what they didn't do that day. that's all that's left to do. >> alfred garza has been very

o outspoken about this. families have a chance to meet with merrick garland last night for a preview. they go what's coming because they have been through too much pain. can you tell me about that reaction to what they heard and saw? >> they met with the attorney general, merrick garland. they met with associate attorney general who really was key to getting this independent report done. this report that is really taking a look at all of the things that went wrong that day, for 77 minutes, as 370 officers stood outside that school, robb elementary, and children inside calling for help from 911. all of those things we expect are going to be addressed in this report. one of the things that happened last night was, you know, the attorney general, the associate attorney general, met with these families, gupta herself took questions for more than two

hours from those family members and for some of them, they felt there was something positive coming from this. they feel that, you know, the world has moved on. they have been forgotten in the 20 months since that horrible day at robb elementary. here's oscar talking a little bit about what he found out in the meeting, his son, noah, was one of those injured at the shooting. >> the briefing that we received today was very positive. we look forward to seeing the report because we think it will validate a lot of our feelings already as to what transpired and what didn't transpire, what should have happened. >> a lot of information. and i guess the next step is to find out what will be done with this information. >> i'm hopeful that you see all the people here, that this w will -- not only for people in

the united states but around the world will finally see the failures that law enforcement had. >> and look, this whole day is going to be a very raw one for those family members. a lot of raw emotion you're expecting to spill out as a result of this, of this new report. the attorney general began his visit here yesterday by touring those murals that have been painted on buildings in the town square here in uvalde. one of those horrible things. towns like this, there's often murals or pictures of important community figures. usually adults. it's really striking to see the faces of little kids on these walls. memorializing obviously the horrible, horrible day that happened here last year in may at robb elementary. so again, a raw day for the family members here in uvalde. sara. >> yeah, we're looking a those

murals, just the message of one of the little girls to her mother about how strong she was and what she loved about her mom. the messages just -- they strike your heart in a way that i can't even explain. thank you so much for you and your team out there. i know jay is out there with you taking those beautiful pictures. i appreciate you guys being out there on this hard day. >> still ahead for us, deadly missile strikes in the middle east, now pakistan is retaliating against iran. how the continued aggressions are drumming up concerns for the u.s. and donald trump's plea for full immunity, even in events that, quote, cross the line. we're outside the new york defamations trial. we'll be right back.

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. new this morning, iran is demanding answers amid an escalating spat with pakistan. overnight, pakistan launched retaliatory strikes on targets in southeastern iran, just across their shared border. pakistan claims it took out a number of militants, but iran says mostly women and children were killed. this is coming just a day after iran said it fired missiles and drones at mill itant stronghold inside pakistan. local officials say two children were killed there. ivan watson is following all of these details for us. these really are -- this is an extraordinary moment with pakistan and iran launching strikes against each other. what does it mean for the region? >> reporter: well, i think it just underscores how volatile the middle east and central asia are right now, because even 48

hoirs ago, you couldn't have imagined these two neighbors getting into this tit for tat deadly cross border missile strike situation. because the prime minister of pakistan was meeting with the foreign minister of iran in davos on tuesday. the two navies, they were conducting joint naval exercises at the beginning of this week. then out of nowhere, the iranians filed these missiles into pakistani territory, saying they're hitting militants who have carried out attacks inside iran in the past. and it totally shocks the pakistani ruling establishment, which calls it basically a disruption of pakistan's sovereignty, says at least two children were killed in the strikes. and there are calls for retaliation. that's what a number of hours ago the pakistani military claimed responsibility for,

saying it fired, quote, killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and standoff weapons into iranian territory after targets that it claimed were ethnic separatist militants who they accuse of having operated across this very long and porous border. so it's a messy situation. the pakistanis seem to be leaving the door open to some kind of de-escalation right now. and the ball does appear to be in iran's court. though pakistan has withdrawn its ambassador from tehran and it has said that iran's ambassador to the pakistani capital is not really welcome at this time. so this really is a diplomatic crisis between these two neighbors who basically didn't have any beef more than 48 hours ago. >> yeah, it is extremely troubling and extremely rare. i don't know that we have seen this in our lifetimes. and thank you for clarifying that we're talking about central

asia as well. a lot of people think that pakistan is the middle east. thank you. appreciate it. >> john, this makes me really fearful of a huge conflagration. >> a lot going on. this is the location of the pakistani strike inside iran. you can see some of the aftermath right there of what took place. this is the video. this is the pakistani strike inside iran. and then the iranian strike inside pakistan was about here. with us now to discuss is retired general peter zuwack, served as u.s. senior defense attache to the federation. pakistan is a power, iran about to be a nuclear power. an exchange of fire back and forth, what's the u.s. interest in this? >> well, the u.s. interest in this is tremendous. obviously, we will watch

closely. our diplomats certainly are working behind the scenes. certainly, with pakistan. remember, pakistan and india had a near miss potentially nuclear wise in 2019. but when you look, john, at the whole aggregate of the middle east and now central asia, from the mediterranean all the way to iran, pakistan, almost the afghan border, and then strikes and hits in beirut, in damascus. in iran near the pakistani border, and now you have pakistan and iran. yeah, this is really, really dangerous. not to mention, yemen and the ongoing horror in gaza. >> you talked about yemen.

let's take a look at what the u.s. continues to do. the u.s. continues to try to strike houthi targets inside yemen. these are just some of the locations that have been hit. four rounds of attacks now. the u.s. continues to say it doesn't seek a wider conflict, but four rounds of attacks, isn't it already a wider conflict? >> it already is a wider if you will but round of conflict, but we can see that the u.s. and the allied powered tiers assisting them have been careful and measured in what they hit. they're still going after installations. they're going after the anti-missile launching sites and drone locations. so it's been measured in that way. yet the houthis go out, they have hit a couple container ships recently, including a u.s. flag one.

and i worry that a lot of -- you have a lot of stuff flying in the air. something eventually hits. and what happens when one of those missiles hits a u.s. or coalition ship or entity or base and people are killed in this level of tension all around that i have described in the whole middle east and now central asia. >> it sounds like you're saying the u.s. attacks so far have not been much of a deterrent on the houthis. >> it seems -- well, the houthis are hard, they're stubborn. they went through a tough war with the saudis and uae just ten years ago and fought to a standstill. and they're not going to -- they're not going to relenlt, and it looks like they're getting encouragement from their partners. iran could tell them to stop, and while the houthis have their

own mind, they probably would slow down. but they're not getting that guidance from iran and other nations, bigger nations. why doesn't russia put pressure on iran to put pressure on the houthis to knock it off if they really, really believe there should be peace in the region? no, this is hard. >> one possible reason for that is conflict in this region here takes eyes off what is happening in ukraine, and russia might be benefitting from all of this. general, thank you for being with us. rahel. >> coming up for us at any moment, e. jean carroll takes the stand. she'll face questions from donald trump's lawyers. what will happen after yesterday's dramatic trump courtroom appearance? we're live outside court next. and is there any hope for a deal on immigration or ukraine funding any time soon? now house speaker mike johnson tells cnn the senate deal, that may be dead on arrival. we'll be right back.

welcome back. any moment now, e. jean carroll is expected to resume testimony in her $10 million defamation trial against donald trump. she'll be facing trump's lawyers in cross-examination. trump will not be in court today as he attended his mother-in-law's funeral. let's go to carry skinel live outside the supreme courthouse. talk to us about what we can expect to happen today. >> reporter: yeah, so shortly, e. jean carroll will be back on the stand, resuming cross-examination by donald trump's attorneys. he won't be in the room today, so that will be a different

dynamic than yesterday. when carroll was testified when questioned by her attorneys she was explaining the impact of the statements trump made when he denied he raped her, said she was a liar, and made up the story to sell her book. that's when we saw trump beginning to react to that. she said that he had shattered her reputation. and he was shaking his head side to side. then he continued during her testimony to look toward his lawyer, whispering to her, as carroll was explaining as a result of his statements she received numerous threats. some of them, she said, she felt her life was in danger. she said at some point she thought she was going to get shot. she increased her own security members, buying bullets for a gun by her bed and letting her pitbull roam her yard to serve as a patrol for her. she was slaining all this. trump commenting often to his lawyer. when they left, carroll's attorney said they could hear trump saying words such as witch hunt and fraud and they were

concerned the jury would be able to hear that as well. at that point, the judge said to trump, he had a right to be in the courtroom, but he could forefit that right if he didn't behave in the decorum that was expected. trump saying he would love it. the judge saying i know you would. there were no additional challenges but even trump's attorney was asking to recuse himself from the trump, saying there was general hostility toward the team, but the judge denied and the testimony cont continued. so carroll will be back on the stand, just expected to be for about a half hour this morning and then her lawyers will call their other witnesses. they intend to call an expert in reputational harm to testify about the money amount she could potentially receive from this jury in damages as well as carroll's former editor in chief at elle magazine where she wrote the column for so many years. >> kara scannell, thanks so much. guys. >> with us now is former

manhattan prosecutor, and counsellor, we did just get word that the judge has taken the bench, and i'm very curious to see what he might say at the outset of this trial today, because i want to go over once again the exchange between this federal judge and donald trump. jeremy, we're doing to do a dramatic reading. i'm going to play the participate of the judge. sara is going to play the part of donald trump. the judge says, i hope i don't have to consider excluding you from the trial. i understand you're probably very eager for me to do that. >> i would love it. >> i know you would. you just can't control yourself in these circumstances, apparently. >> you can't either. >> all right, counsellor. you can't either. someone in a courtroom just said that to a federal judge. i just want your reaction to that. >> you know, donald trump has become the personification of the decimation, if you will, of law and order. and it's really, really disgusting that this is allowed to happen.

but the problem that the judge finds himself in and any judge he's before, any judge where donald trump is before him or her, is really in a bind because if you remove donald trump from court, you are going to give him what he wants, right? but if you allow him to speak and say the things he does to cause that disarray, to cause that chaos, to cause complete wrench in the process, you're also giving him what he wants. we mentioned the other day about a tight leash. there has to be a mechanism to do that because if it were you or me, if it was any one of us, we would be held in contempt, removed, find ourselves in major trouble and our credibility would be obliterated. >> one of the things donald trump always complains about is he's being treated differently. he may be being treated differently in that anyone else who told a judge you can't control yourself would have been held in contempt and thrown out right then and there.

>> unequivocally, and none of us would have the gall to behave the way he does. it's petulant and disrespectful, but he believes he has the ability and the right, more importantly, the right to do so. that's not the case, but it really puts the justice system in apbind because no matter what you do to this man, you will lose and he will use it as a weapon. he will weaponize it. that's frightening for the process going forward for all of us. >> in many ways that's why he shows up, it's part of his campaign trail. not just about what is happening which separates him from the rest of the folks who have to go through the system. i do want to ask you exactly just to remind people, we know that e. jean carroll has now taken the stand again. but to remind people how we got here and what this case is about, what this part of the case is really about. >> right. that's fair because what is already happened is there's been a finding that he defamed e. jean carroll, a finding of damages of $5 million, two

separate parallel matters. this is the second one, and now we have already dealt with what he defamed her, now what are the damages and how do we apply the damages and what can they be? this is what this is about. the judge has already tried to say donald trump's team, keep your testimony and keep whatever it is you are doing on cross-examination to these issues. we're not going to relitigate whether or not you defamed her. that's already resolved. >> counselor, we appreciate you being with us, laying out the reality here as we watch this all very closely. thank you. house speaker mike johnson says he is willing to kill any senate passed deal on immigration.

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all right. breaking news. we're getting our first look at this federal report on the law enforcement response to the massacre at the school in uvalde, texas in 2022. let me read a few lines from

this report seeing it for the first time. the response to the may 24 mass casualty incident at robb elementary school was a failure, this report says, very bluntly. officers should have recognized the incident as an active shooter scenario and moved and pushed forward immediately and continuously towards the threat until the room was entered and the threat was eliminated. that did not occur. all right. we're still obviously poring through the details of this report, but the conclusion, again, this was a federal investigation into the state and local response. it seems to be that this was a clear failure of law enforcement, a failure to react to what was happening on the ground instead of going in, straight in, with force and they waited outside treated this as an individual barricade who had would not do more harm in that 77 minutes, this report says, almost undoubtedly cost more lives. again, we have our people going through this report right now. much more in just a few minutes.

>> very chilling details. republican house speaker mike johnson says he'll not budge on tying tough border restrictions to any more funding for ukraine. fresh off wednesday's meeting at the white house, johnson would not commit to putting an immigration deal on the house floor, even if it passes the senate. >> if the bill looks like some of the things that have been rumored, of course, it's dead in the house because it wouldn't solve the problem. you can't do pieces of this and leave, for example, parole untouched, leave the current broken parole process untouched because it's a giant loophole that would allow all these people to continue to come in. >> johnson did tell president biden yesterday that house republicans' hardline border security package wasn't a requirement in its exact entirety to cut a dahl. let's bring in lauren fox, a few threads on this. brick it down for us. >> reporter: yeah. there's really two things going on. the first one is that

republicans in both the house and the senate have required that tougher border security restrictions and policy changes be included in a supplemental package to give additional funding to israel and ukraine. however, what threshold is needed in order to get this a vote in the house of representatives and whether it can actually pass that chamber remains to be seen. now, there still isn't a deal despite the fact that senate negotiators have been working on this for months now. despite the fact that there is renewed optimism up here on capitol hill, i just talked to dick durbin, a leading democrat on the judiciary committee, who told me he's been more optimistic in the last couple of days about this deal coming together than he has been in months, but issue is even if the senate can getting is passed, even if they can get something approved, will mike johnson put it on the floor given the reality that so many of his hardliners are threatening that this could be a major pitiful for johnson if he makes a decision to put something on the

floor that isn't exactly what the house of representatives passed last year known as hr-2. they want tougher border skushts and t and they are really not willing to give many concessions and this is the best opportunity. in the eyes of many senate republicans that lawmakers have had for decades to do something on the border. in fact, we heard this morning from chris coons, a democrat in the senate who has been around a long time, he said democrats' views on this issue, what they are willing to do in this moment, it's very different than what they would have been willing to do a year or so ago. >> we'll see if that will ultimately be enough. lauren fox for us live on capitol hill, thanks, lauren. >> sara, my favorite monochromaticic sister. >> right back at you. this morning we have new images of prince williams after he was visiting his wife, princess kate, at a hospital in london. she could be there up to two weeks after abdominal surgery, and next week her father-in-law, king charles, will undergo a

procedure for an enlarged prostate. queen camilla spoke this morning about her husband's condition while she was in scotland. >> his majesty, he's fine, thank you very much. looking forward to getting back to work. >> now both king charles and the princess of wales are postponing royal duties, as you might imagine, as they should, while they recuperate. kensington poll as i says it could take up to three months for the princess to recover from her surgery. there is no word on what exactly the surgery was for, but sources say it was not cancerous. still ahead, john berman, are you here, still ahead more on the federal law enforcement's response in uvalde, texas. we go there live with much more on what we're learning and what we're hearing from parents as well because they got a sneak preview of the report. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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