>> know it, that is the new warning from donald trump and his legal team as he is urging the supreme court to grant him absolute immunity and effectively kill the federal case against him. and overnight whiplash at the border. a controversial texas immigration law went from not in effect to in effect do not an effect. again, we'll explain ready to explode a dire warning from experts that lacks oversight, outdated guidelines over natural gas exports could have catastrophic fall on k-fold when my john berman, sarah is out today, this is cnn news central >> morning, how will jack smith respond? donald trump's legal team has laid out its full argument for absolute immunity in a new filing to the supreme court. they claim virginia

objecting his bid would quote incapacitate every future president with the facto blackmail and extortion while in office. the supreme court has already given from much of what he wants here by effectively delaying the federal election subversion trial against him the high court plans to hear these arguments on april 25th and decide whether donald trump is immune from january 6 related charges. cnn's kaitlan, poland's is in washington with the latest this morning, kaylen john, the wording of donald trump's team in this brief to the supreme court is quite stark. they are warning the justices of a ruinous situation in america if there isn't immunity around the president and that a president could not be charged with a crime that's what they want. they want the justices to dismiss the case against donald trump and say, he is totally immune from prosecution for anything he could have done, even if he broke the law us to stay in

power at the end of the presidency. they want that immunity and the arguments they're making, the words they're using, they're saying if there isn't an immunity around the presidency, it would hurt the president because the president would do a worse job of quoting brett kavanaugh from 15 years ago in a law review article they're saying that it would cause blackmail and extortion of the president while in office if the president was fearful or could be politically prosecuted after office or prosecuted if they broke the law, they're also saying it would create post-office trauma for people who serve as president. and it would be the end of the presidency as we know it. obviously, many of the justices, including kavanaugh, have some level of sympathy or familiarity with the executive branch. and so they're trying to appeal to that among the supreme court justices, all of this taken together is going to be strongly refuted or pushed back against both hi jack smith

and the special counsel's office when their arguments come in in a couple of weeks, we also know that the courts so far have totally shut down this argument that there should be this immunity bubble around the presidency, the dc circuit, the last group in the court system to write about this said actually laws in this country that apply even to the president or the presidency that prevents people from breaking the law while they're even serving in that office. so we'll have to see exactly how the supreme court responds when they have oral arguments. later in april, we will and a >> lot of this, of course, comes down to whether these were official acts or political ax and what legal long line can be drawn there. caitlin, poland's thank you very much. gate. >> so if you're not exactly sure what is happening in texas, you are not alone overnight, a controversial immigration law was put back on hold. >> the >> law would allow state level law enforcement to arrest and deport people suspected of entering the country legally.

now, this was after the supreme court had given the green light yesterday and that stayed in place for a few hours the conservative majority deciding that the law would be allowed to take effect while the legal battle over whether it was constitutional continued to play out. but before any real enforcement of it could happen, it was blocked again critics argue that the law, it's known as sb4, it violates human rights stokes racial profiling, and overreaches government authority, but supporters of the, of the measure say that the crisis at the border calls for the state to take matters into his own hands. cnn's rosa flores is in arizona for us this morning, watching all of this rows of happens now >> well, what we're expecting is for the fifth circuit court of appeals to have another hearing and kate, we could be going in circles in this mano. a mano between texas and the biden administration? because depending on what the fifth circuit decides, this law could

stay on hold again, or it could go into effect, which means it could also go back right to the us supreme court. but look, we have no knowledge that anyone was arrested under sb4 during the few hours that it was actually in effect yesterday, we ask the texas governor's office about this if he was going to push for the immediate enforcement of this law and we didn't get an answer, but here's the thing there is no one more worried about the law actually going into effect than local and county governments. and here's why this new crime is a misdemeanor, which means that in the state of texas, it was it would mostly be adjudicated in county courts. and there is huge concern about this. the texas conference of urban counties has been sounding the alarm about this. they represent democratic and republican counties across the state. they represent 78% of the population of the state of texas, and they are calling this an unfunded and eight that will clog jails and will clog courts. and that the state of

texas that the legislature didn't appropriate funds for any of it, and that it would cost millions upon millions of dollars for these local communities. and that they don't want to raise taxpayer dollar taxpayers have taxpayers foot the bill in their counties. i talked to one el paso county commissioner who says that he isn't conversations with the dam law enforcement in his county to make sure that this law is narrowly enforced. just to make sure that they're county resources aren't completely depleted if and when this measure goes into effect. but about what this law actually says. this law says that it is a crime to cross into the, into the state of texas illegally, and that the illegal presence of a person is also a crime, which is why there are so many civil rights and human rights organizations who are concerned about racial profiling. and it also says that this gives judges the power to deport people back to mexico. and

here's the detail about that. it would require our cooperation from mexico and mexico has already denounced this law. they said that they do not plan to cooperate kate and so that's gonna be a huge took cole t and all of this. if this actually goes into effect, the fact that mexico was saying that has bilateral relationship yep, with the united states and it plans to maintain that bilateral relationship with the white house, not with the state of texas >> saying it will not allow in anyone being deported by the state of texas saying that very clearly in a statement from the foreign ministry. let's see what happens today. it's good to see you, rosa. thank you so much, john. >> so donald trump does not have anyone running against it anymore. so why does he keep shedding a notable number of votes in these presidential primaries, we've got new results in this morning and it alarming new report that chinese hackers if infiltrated us water facilities. stunning new allegations against staff. staff are at the london

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evacuation >> on 14 august, the non combatant evacuation operation decision was made by the department of state and the us military alerted marshaled mobilized, and rapidly deployed faster than any military in the world could ever do it is my assessment that that decision came too late joining us right now for more on this as democratic congressman greg meeks of new york, he is the top democrat on the house foreign affairs >> committee as good to see you, congressman. thank you so much coming out of the hearing. you said that there was there was nothing new that was learned. you have all been briefed and there has been an investigation into the withdrawal for quite some time but still mark milley saying that the biden administration failed as they called for the evacuation of us personnel to late. let me read this. the fundamental mistake. the fundamental flaw was the timing of the state department that was too slow and too late general mackenzie reiterated that point as well and backed

him up. do you believe them >> what he said was, if you listen to the testimony and satiety, he started out he said the fundamental problem was not just those three or four days of which the republicans want to focus on the fundamental problem started with the doha agreement that was done by the trump administration and everything flowed from there because then you look at the date and then what was inherited by president biden. >> so don't, you know, because i >> listening to some of the reports and i'm trying to not was at the hearing from beginning to end and i listened very intently and he talked about the dates and what was left for president biden to deal with. so the deal had to been cut already. that all the american troops had to be the out by may 21. that was the deal. and the deal was done in a bilateral way. he said that between the trump administration and the taliban,

the afghan army wasn't even involved in that. and he talked about but how as a result, the afghan army was attacked by the taliban, which would not have violated the doha agreement. so the fundamentals of it he was devastated. and that's why my position has always been that we have a responsibility as members of the house foreign affairs committee to do a 20-year review because all 2000 461 families of goat who a goal families needs to know and evaluate into here what took place for the entire 20 two years. and the generals affirm that. and so i would hope that we would listen to the generals innocent tie it, not pull out certain things. there was gruesome, some things that work. no. 124 thousand people were rescued and gotten out there in the shortest period of time, the great next question. i think no question about that. no, but congressman about that

in advanced graded, but but congressman the general mckenzie said the direct the chaos was the direct result of delaying initiation of the evacuation for several months. they're not pointing to the doha agreement, which may have kicked this off, and it may have kicked this off during the trump administration. but how the final leg was handled? for months, they said several months that a delay in initiation that is where the chaos came from. so while there may, there is there is blame to the trump administration. there may be these generals do seem to be pointing to blame on the biden administration i begged two different with you. if you listen to the >> testimony, innocent, tidy. listen to the opening remarks. >> why how we >> started out where he clearly state is not being reported. i hope that though that watched it, he clearly stated that the foundation of what to do as far as getting out was set by the

trumpet ministration, couldn't be true in any do you think both of these things could be true? trunk could be wrong and biden could be wrong as well. and how he pulled it off every war telling me, any war where it is not difficult to get out >> and what i look >> at is in this scenario, showed the choices and this is what the general was set all awesome because i heard some are the republicans arguable. why did we leave on august 31? why did we know that? it was like that was too early when we had a situation right here. i remember very clearly when president ghani came, he was here at the capitol and said he would stay in fight the next week. >> he >> ran that changed the situation and the administration had a choice and people can make the determination whether or not we did wrap up and bring more troops in because the general is also said that their 100% sure, we would have been back at war with the taliban or

withdraw the troops and get out. and the general also said it was a successful evacuation and that 124 got out, but are hearts are hurting for those favorite teams. i would just that lost their lives. >> i want to ask >> you about days and what was taking place? >> yes. >> i want to ask you about the families of the 13th service members killed by that suicide bomber during the withdrawal, they are still looking for answers and some of them very clearly are furious with president biden in the biden administration about it, and they don't think that they have received the answers enough answers or the answers that they are answers to the questions that they have about what happened and why i heard you say yesterday that you want them to have the answers there seeking, but the only way to do that is in a bipartisan way. and i asked this very seriously how do you will you make that

happen for them on a bipartisan basis? >> i'm working very hard to do that. and that's why i want the entire 20 years to be sure have oversight of the entire 20 years, and not just trying to pick something out because we're into a presidential election because that's what was taking place. this is presidential politics that we've taken place, not trying to resolve the issues for those families fact of the matter because i felt even psi for some of the families to be quite honest with you, gate because sometimes i believe that there used as props as opposed for us focusing and over sat doing our oversight duties, being he the general said a lot of this is an extra classified material. we in the general rules, wanted to testify in a classified session, but my republican colleagues demanded and

initially, they were threatened by a subpoena, but was demanded to do so in public not being serious about getting a bipartisan if you listen to the questions that the democrats were asking the general rules, they were asking probing questions, trying to get those answers fact of the matter is if you listen to some of the questions, some of my republican colleagues start attacking the general's just as the former president has talked about million and all the service that they have had. they went after both generals >> so to >> me, that's clearly when you're going up the distinguished generals, none of us want to i thank the gentleman their service. none of us went after the generals or any of the service members. but unfortunately, my republican colleagues, that's exactly what they did because it's a political start as happening with government oversight, as happening with judiciary committee. they have done nothing other than have political stops playing palate in an ester one thing that we should be doing, we should be working in a bipartisan way

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more powerful fulton co2. and what they do is they, they get it very cold down to negative 260 degrees. they use other chemicals hydrocarbons to condense it. so what's in a beach ball goes down into a ping-pong ball, but those chemicals can leak and create a vapor cloud. and what could be ignited by any sort of spark. we saw the explosion. you showed a little bit in venezuela 2012 at killed dozens of people. the biggest fire in england's history after world war ii came as a result of one of these explosions in a place called bonthe field back in 2005 and huge fires as a result of that. but now there's calls for hate. let's take a little pause here. the biden administration has done that for new look get fired natural gas terminals going forward. but the ones that are already permitted, as i said, i just massive in size and we'll just get bigger and bigger. >> you see the shorthand is 11 >> exactly in preferable in some >> areas to coal, for instance, in terms of energy, not but with its own problems? >> yes. >> any issues specific to the united states?

>> well, the most recent one was in freeport, texas. freeport lng is facility. there had that explosion as you teased, not to lifeguards off there stands a few miles away at quintana beach. there it only lasts for a second is you can see the vapor sort of explode right away was a fire for about 45 minutes afterwards a report that looks into us, it was sort of lax oversight. they were understaffed and the company is redacted a lot of their internal investigation as to what happens. there. but this is just one of those points that folks are pointing to. this is freeport, texas, port arthur so much of this going taking place in these neighborhoods of color and places that have disproportionate cancer deaths and clusters in these places. so another concern on top of those concerns, and then there's the climate change aspect, this fuel that was sold to us as better than coal. but that's only if it never, ever the leaks and it leaks everywhere all the time to sometimes tragic, immediate

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republican voters voted against trump in several of the primaries overnight including ohio. and compare that to president biden won in ten democrats voted against the current president >> cnn's jeff >> zeleny in columbus, ohio with the results of this really closely watched senate contest. yeah. >> hey john, good morning. the premier battle for the control. the senate is now set with bernie moreno writing donald trump's endorsement to a variable pretty strong victory here in ohio yesterday. so now he will take on senator sherrod brown yes. there was a hangover effect, if you will, from some non trump voters, but that certainly plane was not nearly enough for his chief rival, matt dolan, whose family owns the cleveland guardians to win over bernie moreno, who's a cleveland businessman so there is no doubt john, this is going to be one of the most expensive and most important racist for control of the senate in november. but you said democrats also got there, man,

that is true. super pac with the links to us senator chuck schumer was promoting the candidacy of bernie moreno spending some $3 boosting him. they believe he is the easier candidate to beat in the fall. so this game of three-dimensional chess if you will, playing out yesterday, but last night at a victory speech in cleveland, pretty marino said he's going to make this race all about joe biden under joe biden, everything is objectively worse here's what i wonder. i wonder whether sherrod brown is good aware with honor, his 99% voting record with joe biden, whether joe biden is the kind of person that he likes to associate with? because i will predict this. if joe biden enters ohio, shared browse going to fly out of here like a scared cat >> unclear if there'll be any mls in his phrase. but one thing is clear this rate some courts will be a referendum on

the biden administration of perhaps a trump administration and trump record as well. john ohio is not exactly the presidential battleground. it once was that for years we spent so much time hi here covering this, but it will be a senate battleground and the challenge for sherrod brown is can outrun an outperform joe biden. that's a key question that we'll have answers in the coming month. >> yeah. sherrod brown, a democrat that has survived quite a long time, but a state that is getting increasingly red. jeff zeleny or thanks to you. appreciate cate >> donald trump says, he is inclined to support some form of a federal abortion ban the way he put it in a new radio interview is he's thinking about something in the realm of a 15-week national abortion ban. now cnn's alayna treene has much more on this and she's joining us. it's you don't have to you don't have to explain how important the issue of abortion is. two, this election, how important the question of any federal abortion ban is to this election into so many people's lives. but where is this coming from

>> well, there's a few things here. kate. one is that donald trump is kind of test driving. this messaging, right? he's putting up feelers to see how this resonates and some of this is coming from conversations he's having with people who advise him on this issue that includes mercury, dan, and speller. she's the president of susan b. anthony pro-life, as well as senator lindsey graham, both people who have been talking to donald trump about this for over a year now. but luck, this language that donald trump is using in these interviews isn't entirely new for the past year. he's been talking about. i've been hearing 15 weeks. i've been hearing 16 weeks. he's been very vague in that language. what is new though, is that he's starting to say this more in public now and he's saying this in media interviews and i do want you to just take a listen to how he put it yesterday during that radio interview the number of weeks now, people are agreeing on 15, and i'm thinking in terms of that, and >> it'll come out to something that's very reasonable. but people are really even

hard-liners are agreeing seems to be 15 weeks, seems to be a number that people are agreeing at but i'll make that announcement at the appropriate time >> now, kate, i have been discussing this with many of donald trump's senior advisers, including as or as late as last night that i spoke with some of his team about this, they insist in our conversations that there is no at least from the campaign side, some sort of policy rollout or national ban that they're going to be rolling out anytime soon. and the interesting thing though, about this is you know, all throughout the primary, there are a lot of people including some of his own campaign advisers, who thought that he needed to come out with firm language on abortion, especially as some of his republican primary challengers. we're making very clear where they stood, but donald trump personally brushed off that pressure and argue that he didn't think it was politically helpful. he recognized that it was better to toe the line, tried to throw red meat to the more conservative side of it and

tout what he had done by putting conservative justices on the supreme court that helped overturn roe versus wade. but then also being vague enough that he doesn't alienate key voting blocs that he knew he would need in a general election. so it's interesting that we're hearing more of this come out of his own mouth now even though he is a general election candidate. but again, we're not hearing that any real policy is going to be coming out anytime soon from his campaign >> and he's stay in the gray area in the vagaries on abortion on abortion, we will see grave reporting. alina, great to see you jump. >> all right with this. now, former mitt romney campaign adviser kevin madden and cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona. hello to you, both of you friends haven't seen you in awhile. >> give it a feels like >> donald trump thinks he's threading a needle here. it there a needle to be threaded when it comes to a ban on abortions after 15 weeks >> while it's increasingly difficult, i think to elaine is reporting about donald trump test driving uh, 15 or 16 week

ban i think that just underscores how uncomfortable donald trump is with the issue and just how much tom all there is right now inside the party when they're trying to find both the legislature a legislative, and political solution going forward. for this is, this is not an issue that donald trump comes to win a very long history on. in the sense that this is a party that was always driven by the fundamentals on the abortion issue that we're driven. those fundamentals are driven by a deep belief in the policy, a deep belief in the principle of everything wasn't related to life and as well as federalism. and now it seems like there trying to go through a grab bag of what should be our message, what should be our policy going forward. and i think that's just is very problematic when you consider the fact that were eight months away if from an election and they've yet to settle on a real a cohesive

message and legislative strategy. >> and kevin, just very quickly, you spent a lot of time trying to appeal, make republicans appeal to voters in the suburbs. is this something that's suburban voters, suburban women would buy? >> well, look, we just have to look to the >> 2022 midterms to just to see how important this issue was for many those suburban swing voters who care about this issue. i think what they want to see is clarity what they want. a lot of those voters want to see is somebody that has a position that is on their side recently we are seeing with the polling that republicans are sort of at odds with many of these voters on that issue. and many of these voters, independence, even republican leaning independence, are starting to align themselves with democrats so it's certainly an issue and those suburban swing areas in maria, this was an interview donald trump did in his own voice where he was talking about a band after 15 weeks. but i could have seen it being a democratic press release almost yeah absolutely. and

what was interesting about what donald trump was saying is he's always very vague when he talks about what he is trying to land on in terms of policy, he talks about, well, he's hearing from people that this is where they're landing on 15 weeks >> what >> people certainly not women, certainly not the majority of americans who agree that this is a personal decision that should be in the hands of women, their families, and their doctors, and that's it. but maybe he doesn't consider women people either. and so i think that this will continue to be political kryptonite for the republican party who doesn't understand that this is not an issue that they should be deciding. it should be an issue that is private, that should be happy with women with their liberties and their freedoms and it's going to give democrats the ability to continue making the stark contrast between joe biden and the democrats. and frankly, a lot of independents and republicans to who agree with us that this is something that

should be left in the hands of women every woman's position and circumstance is different, and it should not be legislated by men. >> so the presidential primaries are effectively over. there's not much left to decide any more, but there are still people voting in these primaries and we're getting results and i'm aaron blake of the post points out this morning about one in five voters chris voted republican voters voted against trump in florida, illinois, and ohio about one-quarter voted against him in kansas. this is the republican presidential contests. maria, when no one is running against him is there anything that can be read into that >> yeah. i think that that is something that we have seen throughout the primary process and that is that donald trump does have a weakness within his own republican party. and i think the problem for him has been up until now is that his campaign and he has focused on

gathering the full strength of his maga supporters. and there's no question that he has that, right. this is a group of supporters that will never leave him. but we all know that for the general election, that is not enough. that was what his downfall was in 2020. it is what is going to be his downfall this november as well, because he has yet to make the pivot or to make any kind of argument to say to the nikki haley supporters to those in the republican party who say, and understand how unfit donald trump is for office. he is not going to pivot his language continues to be more chaotic, more crazy than ever. and so i think those numbers really yell red flags for donald trump going into this general election >> kevin really red flag or just maybe a very pale shade of pink >> well, sir, yeah, certainly a challenge. look, i think these voters are essentially what i would call like conscientious

objectors inside the republican party. they just never been happy with the stamp that donald trump has put on the party. and so they're showing up to register. they're sorted dissent there. but this is they are this swing voters that are going to make or break whether or not republicans have control of the congress or control the white house in november. so it's certainly a charge for the trump campaign right now is what are they going to do to get these voters back? the bigger risk, john i think is that some of these voters stay home donald trump can afford to have 50,000 voters in georgia or 25,000 voters that are conscientious objectors. nikki haley supporters in the suburbs of places like wisconsin and georgia and arizona. gop going to need them to show up on election day. and so i think that's why you're going to see this campaign really be a hard negative campaign where each candidates trying to disqualify the other in order to get those voters to come out and vote for them.

>> and negative campaign. imagine that kevin cardona are thanks to both of you kate. >> thank you, john, group of people and i had to stand by and just watch. i have not made it fun. >> exactly. not jealous at all. all right. coming up, press back back-and-forth on the border overnight, a controversial texas immigration law block, once again, just hours after the supreme court gave the green light, we're going to try to work through it and we have the first victory dances of march, madness. you should see john berman's victory dance. it's something to behold why won coach told his theme to play like roaches >> what we're here to get your side of the story. >> why do we keep ending up here? >> you can't write this stuff. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn >> it's a new day. one. we're are shared values propeller us towards a more secure future

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columbia facing vanderbilt the winter or that one, i'll play baylor and kate that you it's tough to argue that in all of college hoops this season, caitlin clark is the biggest star all right hands down her iowa will play on saturday for the first time, but i have to say go stanford because are fighting tara vanderveer is have a chance this year to win at all? >> i mean, i'm not going to not going to fight you on that, but hitting auto, correct. for my final four is what i'm going to dispute though, because that's nonsense. >> that's correct. would be a great option, but for that when autopay yeah. i just need autocorrect my life. okay. there we go. let's start there >> all right. knew this morning, the uk health minister has warned hospital staffers if they access princess kate's medical records without permission, they could be prosecuted. why is this coming out? well, there's a report in the british tabloid that claim someone at the hospital

allegedly tried to get into the private files of the princess of wales after her hospitalization in january. emily nash is with us now this is something right. i mean whatever you think about the clear lack of transparency that has surrounded the health issues of not just the princess of wales, but the king someone breaking into her private medical records while she's in the hospital receiving treatment? that's alarming >> john, you're absolutely right. this was when kate was at her most vulnerable. and here you have someone acting illegally, essentially trying to have a look at her private get medical records which are very strictly protected in the uk, not just for princesses, but for all members of the public, whether you're in an nhs hospital or in a private facility. and this is something that's been taking incredibly seriously, both by the london clinic, but also the information commissioner in the uk and police are now also looking into this how harsh the

punishment be here. i mean, it's for breaching the medical records of anybody, but especially when you're talking about the royal here well, the very least it could be a civil claim, you know for the princess if she >> wants to take that forward, it's certainly i think would raise questions about a future employment for whoever is responsible. we understand it's at least one member of staff, but it really he speaks to the almost insatiable curiosity and interest that this case has generated. this desire to know and this almost approach of a feeling like we should be told because she's a public figure when in fact she has as much right to procedures as everyone else well, two things can be true here, and i do suspect this will shift a little bit of the focus of the discussion here. there's no one who should ever have their private medical records breached entity, illegal, or

unethical way inside a hospital in the united states, we've got laws very clear we're laws against that the other side of that, which isn't related to breaking into the medical records here is do does the royal family who are state officials, depending on how you define it, do they owe the public more of an explanation? about the medical conditions of the princess of wales and the king for that matter here. and i do wonder if this, these reports of the breach will shift the focus of the discussion russia >> look, i think absolutely they are public figures and there was a lot of interest in them from the public, but you can't confuse that with what is in law a private piece of information that applies to anyone, whether they're the head of state or or someone working in the street outside. it makes no difference. understandably, people want to know and kingston palace has suggested privately that she may talk about this going forward. it's still recent

development for her it wasn't something that wasated at the start of this year. she had a full diary planned. >> it could just be that she's taking some time to get her own head around what's happened before sharing it further it's slightly different also to the king who is constitutionally responsible as head of state. i think that there's much more impetus on him to explain his whereabouts. and in fact, buckingham palace have kept him very visible throughout his cancer treatment so far i think in the fullness of time, we will have more of an explanation from the princess to emily and ash. thank you so much >> this morning, there is fresh attention on the safety of the country's water systems. the biden administration is calling on states to do more to protect them. it says china and iran behind recent cyber attacks seen in cybersecurity reporter sean lyngaas is with us now, sean, what are you learning >> john, this is a pretty stark warning. it's not based on a ton of new information in the

last week or two, but it's more in recent months, we've seen examples, as you mentioned, of alleged iranian hackers and alleged chinese hackers infiltrating computers that are using water facilities now the more stark example came in the fall after the hamas, israel war flared up a pro-iran hackers that the us government later attributed to the irgc intelligence agency conducted these sort of low-level attacks on computers used and water facilities and sort of anti-israel message very attention getting didn't, didn't affect the drinking water, but certainly was a shot across the bow and now we have nsc adviser, natural security adviser jake sullivan, and the head of the environmental protection agency writing a letter to governors across the country saying, we really need you to shore up your systems because the sense that happened in the fall we haven't seen enough progress in terms of

securing those systems and yes, if the us and china do get some sort of conflict over taiwan or something else. us officials are very concerned that the chinese government could use their access to critical infrastructure to try to disrupt life here that we're a long way away from that, but they're trying to avoid having to scramble in that moment of conflict. john john ligase. thank you so much. it's sobering report the best our of cnn news central starts now breaking overnight in the >> fight over immigration and the border, a controversial law blocked right after it was given the green light texas and appeals court. will your new arguments over this in just hours hundred biden hearing without a hunter biden, the president's son declining invitation to today's