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of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brian hooper ahead here on cnn newsroom, putting months of speculation to rest. president joe biden is expected to officially announced the launch of his reelection campaign as soon as next week. is one side in the conflict in sudan announces a 72 hour ceasefire. the u. s military is making plans to get americans out of the country if it becomes necessary and a new arrest in the investigation of the birthday party shooting in alabama left four people dead. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. us president joe biden has repeatedly hinted that he will run for re election next year. but soon it will finally be official. multiple sources familiar with the matter tells cnn. his campaign is preparing for a video announcement on tuesday, exactly four years

after he launched his last bid. it's hoped that will ignite and aggressive fundraising effort to help democrats hold the white house. buying biographer and cnn contributor evan osnos weighed in on the timing. they've been content to say, look. we can stay on the sidelines here doing the people's business kind of staying in the on the governing side of things. because the moment that you announce it changes the nature of the conversation around president biden. he becomes once again candidate biden and that's a different kind of spotlight. so in a sense, they didn't need to rush it. and this four year anniversary in some ways is, uh i kind of natural occasion if that's untrue, if that's in fact what they choose to do. um, keep in mind the election is still more than a year and a half away. cnn's phil mattingly has this report. for months, president biden's top advisers have privately made clear he is going to run for re election in 2020 for what they wouldn't make clear what exactly he was going

to announce that the president repeatedly saying he intended to run and ireland last week, saying that he had made the decision and announcement would be forthcoming soon. but when it was very much something that people couldn't repeatedly figure out very small group of advisers kind of in control of that timeline of that process of building a reelection campaign campaign officials now say, is likely to be announced next week next week, marking the four year anniversary from when president biden launched his first campaign for presidency to defeat donald trump. he was successful in that endeavor, and in the years since he has these based on the view of white house officials, based on the president's political advisors built a very real very substantive agenda, legislative accomplishments, accomplishments that are now being implemented. cross the country and that more than anything else, so they say the president is going to be focusing on in the months ahead. the model is kind of out in the open, the president has been making very clear. those priorities, these accomplishments and also a very clear contrast between republicans that he knows he will certainly be running

against whether or not that's donald trump or somebody else. advisors don't necessarily want to weigh in, but they feel confident that based on that agenda, and based on those contrasts, they have a winning formula, but it's a formula that will certainly take developing over time. and they also underscore when you talk to white house officials and the president's political team. that this will be a year of building building up on their campaign. whether or not that's the president's travel, how they try and focus things but also building behind the scenes. the infrastructure of the campaign has largely been put together behind the scenes over the course of the last couple of months, but they will spend 2023 testing digital strategies, testing data strategies, testing voter messages and watching the republican primary play out and that last point is a critical one because it was one of the drivers behind the president's decision to wait until next week to launch that campaign. recognizing that there's no real pressure on the democratic side from any potential primary opponent, there's a recognition that the president was likely to run again. and certainly there was plenty of fighting that they were happy to watch from the

sidelines on the republican side of things, but now the president ready to engage major donors are expected in washington at the end of next week to meet with the president's senior team. this is all building towards what people knew it was coming. i just didn't know when. the wind appears to be next week. phil mattingly, cnn. the white house. we're waiting to see it yet another ceasefire can bring an end to the fighting in sudan , the paramilitary rapid support forces has announced a 72 hour humanitarian pause to courtside with the outfitter holiday. sudan's army chief released a video statement a few hours ago but didn't mention the temporary truce to previous ceasefires this week collapsed within hours. the world health organization reports more than 330 people have been killed. many residents of the capital khartoum, have been struck stuck in their homes for days without electricity, medicine, food and water are running low. us secretary of state antony blinken says he's speaking with both military leaders in sudan,

urging them to uphold a ceasefire by the us military is making plans to get americans out. just in case cnn's oren liebermann reports from the pentagon. the defense department has positioned a number of additional forces near sudan and a number of additional capabilities in the event of an emergency situation and in preparation for different contingencies. according to dod . some of those contingencies include the need to secure the embassy and perhaps the need to evacuate the embassy. now the defense department won't say what additional forces or where, but we've learned from the u. s defense official that there are now several 100 marines in djibouti at camp lemonnier. those marines have an aviation combat element with them, essentially, aircraft that can move maria beans and other ground forces in if necessary, and those forces could be used again, both to secure the embassy and to evacuate if needed, given the situation, the u. s and that includes the state department, the defense department and the white house are watching the situation in sudan and in khartoum very closely. according to d. o d records, there are only about 14

troops based there, including 13 marines, and those would largely be embassy security in khartoum in the capital of sudan to move those out to secure them. it will take many more for this is and this is why we're seeing that build up in djibouti in terms of when an evacuation might happen, a senior u. s official says it's not imminent. and that's because they're looking for an open window and active ceasefire that holds between the two warring factions here. the best chance for that the senior u. s official says, might be the upcoming adolf hitler holiday in the coming days, and that's what they're looking at again. that's not a guarantee it is simply the best window. it looks like the evac might be possible. oren liebermann, cnn at the pentagon. now it was cnn exclusive. the russian mercenaries accused of war crimes in ukraine appeared to be getting involved in the conflict in sudan, senior international investigative correspondent will bagger reports on the wagner group's efforts to help the paramilitary forces. the sudanese and the

libyan army celebrated a successful joint operation wednesday, april 19th, near the remote desert border between libya and sudan, having captured the chef ehrlich garrison belonging to the rival sudanese paramilitary rapid support forces, the rsf, but why is this military base so important, given how far it is from the existential fight in sudan's capital? because cnn can reveal that the fight is being influenced by what was happening at that garrison, a russian resupply campaign, backed by a key regional players aimed at turning the tide in sudan's war in favor of the rsf, who have been a key recipient of russian training and military aid in collaboration with all eyes on vagner, a research group focusing on russian proxy wagner , cnn investigated the group's current presence in libya. you can see here on on april 16th one day after the fighting began in heart, um, russian illusion 76 transport plane at the

algebra, based in libya, previously identified by american intelligence as a wagner base. three days later. this same plane is spotted by flight tracker aviation expert gourgeon coming back from the russian airbase in latakia, syria before returning to the libyan air base in haredim. images of that same plane began circulating online april 17th heading in the direction of sudan, sudanese and regional sources tell cnn that weaponry was air dropped to the rsf within that time frame. april 15th to april 18th to the chevrolet garrison during a period of fierce fighting, boosting the rsf. the kadhim and algebra basis where the wagner planes departed from in libya under the control of field marshal khalifa haftar, who commands territory in the east of libya after and the commander of the rapid support forces mohammed hamdan, committee having common strategic alliances, one with wagner, who

have there is hosting in his territory in libya. and who may . previous cnn investigation exposed as working with him a t to extract sudanese gold, a second with the united arab emirates, who tapped him at day to send forces to the conflict in yemen and backed haftar in the fighting in libya. what does it all mean for the ongoing misery and conflict in sudan? it means that both a regional libyan general haftar and a global player, russia, putting their thumbs on the scale, which raises the stakes for the region. for the global balance of power and for the people of sudan caught in the crossfire. well, barry's cnn london. cnn reached out to both the libyan general and the younger group about our investigation but didn't get a response. the rsf in a statement to cnn denied receiving aid from russia or libya. well, stormy thursday across the middle of the country

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but from russia's own air force , a state news agency says a russian fighter jet dropped what it called aviation munition during a midair emergency. the weapons fell near the center of the city of belgorod, causing a large explosion. the blast caused a crater 40 m wide, knocking down electricity poles and damaging an apartment building. one car was flipped over and thrown to the roof of a nearby store. russian officials say two women were injured and some residents were moved out of their homes because of the damage. in about an hour from now. ukraine's allies begin a meeting to discuss next steps in providing assistance to kiev. you asked defense secretary lloyd austin will host the 11th meeting of the ukraine defense contact group will be held at the ramstein air base in germany , defense ministers and other officials from more than 50 countries will also be there. our claire sebastian is keeping an eye on those developments. and she joins us now from london . so claire, take us through exactly what's at stake here.

there's a lot at stake here. kim this comes at a pretty crucial point in this conflict when russia has so far failed really, to meaningfully mount some kind of winter or spring offensive in ukraine, is said to be preparing its own counter offensive in the coming months. the critical point for ukraine in all of this is aired defense. we know certainly from leaked pentagon documents that they seem to have a degree of strength in terms of ground forces, perhaps even an upper hand on russia, but when it comes to add defense and it's therefore scape abilities. that is where the vulnerability is. take a look at this tweet from the ukrainian defense minister alexia resnick over just on thursday, he says. our top priority is to quickly build a multilevel air defense, anti missile defense system patriots irish teenage moms and make 29 at the most recent, but not the final steps towards this goal, he says. given the kremlin's barbaric tactics, we need nato style. fighter jets are renewing that call for fighter jets so far, of course, we've only seen

them getting mig 29 fighter jets from poland and slovakia, not the newer sort of nato style jets that they have been calling for. this is a very high level meeting. we've just seen the nato secretary general arrived there. he just just straight for basically from his first ever trip to kiev since the start of the conflict, where he said that ukraine's future would be in the alliance. so i think that really underscores the two things that ukraine is now looking for one greater air defense capability and two security guarantees that would preface formal application of formal invitation to join nato, which is, of course what it hopes to come out of a summit in july. kim all right. we'll keep covering this throughout the day. thanks so much. claire sebastian in london. women in the us are waiting to hear from the supreme court as it decides the fate of an abortion drug in a case that could affect reproductive rights of details on what's at stake after the break plus, prosecutors dismissed the involuntary manslaughter charges against alec baldwin for now. my belief

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ago. kristen is used in the majority of medical abortions in states that still provide access in the us it's approved in more than 90 countries worldwide. but with last year's supreme court ruling that overturned roe v. wade and now with the abortion drug on the chopping block, united states seems out of step with the rest of the world on this issue. the race is on to keep the u. s government from defaulting on its debt, and the republican house speaker is proposing at $1.5 trillion increase in the debt limit in exchange for deep cuts in domestic spending. cnn's chief congressional correspondent dana raju has details. kevin mccarthy is reaching a critical moment after months of internal negotiations to put together a debt ceiling plan that can win the support of 218 votes in the u. s house. that means you can't lose more than four republican votes at the moment, more than four republicans are raising concerns they still reviewing the details, but mccarthy and his team believe that they can ultimately get there even as they have added a slew of conservative priorities and

spending cuts in order to win over republicans as part of this $1.5 trillion increase of 31 point. $0.4 trillion national borrowing limit. because he is proposing a slew of consequence ross, the board and federal program, including and ending president biden student loan forgiveness program, pulling back funding for the irs that was enacted as part of the democrats inflation reduction act also to impose new work requirements on medicaid and also southern social safety net programs. part of an effort, republicans argue, will help save money. but democrats say that this is a recipe for economic disaster. they are pushing back on this issue in the white house at the moment, holding affirmed, saying that there will be no talks whatsoever with speaker mccarthy and demanding he simply raise the debt ceiling without any conditions attached. but talking to members in both parties, both parties are concerned with their leaderships approach to this issue. i'm still still struggling with still struggling with the fact that we $32 trillion in debt leaning now it

was right now would be a no. i think the speaker of the house and the president, united states should always talk. right and so should the leader of the senate should always be talking. so i think i think joe biden should be talking to kevin mccarthy, even if those conversations right now. prove nothing productive, but i do think they should be talking. and what is your fear? if there are these talks don't happen. well, my fear is that this gets pushed all the way to the last moment. and then if we're at the last moment and things fall apart, we go off. we go off the cliff for the first time in default, which would be absolutely catastrophic. but despite the pressure among some democrats like that, congressman moskowitz right there the democratic leaders are still holding firm, including chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, who told me this afternoon that even if house republicans passed their bill next week, they will not change their posture going forward and that any bill, he said. that must be ultimately enacted must be clean, meaning no conditions whatsoever. so we are headed into a critical moment here a few weeks

potentially a couple of months until the country could face its first ever u. s debt default and still the two sides. hi stakes game of chicken with the with the u. s economy and the potential of the world economy hanging in the balance. raju, cnn, capitol hill. there is new fallout from recent revelations that financially linked us supreme court justice clarence thomas to republican. justice john roberts to testify in a hearing on the ethics rules of the nation's highest court. our brian todd has more the pressure on supreme court chief justice john roberts to hold his court accountable is surging. democratic senator dick durbin, chair of the judiciary committee, has requested that justice roberts or quote another justice whom you designate testified before his committee next month. durban wants to press roberts on what durbin calls a steady stream of revelations of justice is not living up to ethics standards. the supreme court doesn't need

to wait on congress to clean up its act. the justices could take action today if they wanted to, and if the court fails to act, congress must. republicans on durban's committee are arguing chief justice roberts should reject durban's request, senator john cornyn, saying quote it would be a circus. it's rare for a supreme court justice to testify before congress, but the court is under rare scrutiny at the moment. a recent report by the investigative news outlet propublica revealedhat justice clarence thomas and his wife, jenny, accepted luxury travel. and gifts from republican mega donor harlan crow. we found this has been going on for more than 20 years, and, you know, stretches back to the 19 nineties. in another report, propublica reported that justice thomas had sold three of his family's properties in georgia to harlan crow in 2014. propublica said. thomas never disclosed the travel or the real estate deal. in filings, thomas responded that he was advised he didn't have to report them. but

experts say some laws and ethics rules were likely violated. here is this billionaire who's got lots of rich friends and can court the justice and bring his friends who are ceo to potentially influenced the justice? with his with his lavish gifts and trips and other benefits, but some supreme court analysts say chief justice roberts does not have the authority to investigate or punish thomas or any other justice and no other body of government really does, either you can remove adjusted to the united states from office only one way and that is through impeachment and conviction. there is no way that they can actually be investigated with consequence that would change their behavior and analysts say in the modern era of the court, it's shown no inclination to want to police itself. given that, and the revelations about clarence thomas has the courts stature diminished recently, i looked at public approval polls look too. commentary look to watchdog. investigations i

think, yes, the supreme court stature in the american i has been decreasing. the supreme court has not responded to cnn's request for comment on senator durbin's request for chief justice roberts to testify. the court has also not responded to multiple inquiries from cnn on whether chief justice roberts will investigate justice thomas's activities. brian todd, cnn washington. and joining me to talk about this is scott cummings, professor of legal ethics at the school of law. thanks so much for being here with us, so you know, crow has put plenty of money behind groups and want to push the court to the right like the federal society. for example, for instance, what what's the fear in terms of what influence this might have had on justice clarence thomas? or is it just the appearance of impropriety that matters the most here? i think both matter very they're both very significant in this. in this situation. the appearance of propriety is

pretty clear, i think, and it does affect the public's perception of the court. the legitimacy of the court, the public standing and people's views at the core can actually function and do its job and the way it's supposed to do so. that's very serious, but i think there are also more specific concerns about a potential influence on thomas harlan crow has lavished gifts upon justice thomas he has not had cases in front of the court specifically , but as you mentioned he has been a significant donor to the conservative movement. he has tried to influence. uh political political institutions and the court specifically, and it doesn't look good to have the justice being this close and in a situation in which he's getting a lot of economic benefits. yeah other than the benefits that we mentioned in that report, we just heard there have been plenty of other questions of financial impropriety swirling around both thomas and his wife, jenny. i was struck by a line in that report. we just heard that

neither chief justice roberts nor any government body has the authority to investigate or punish thomas outside of impeachment. is that right? that is right at this particular moment, and that is the fundamental problem that the court is facing. right now. there is a judicial code of conduct. it applies to every other federal judge in the united states, except for the justices on the supreme court. under that code of conduct had justice thomas accepted the gifts that he did from from harlan crow. it would have been a violation of the code of conduct. the problem is that that code doesn't apply to the justices, and there's no mechanism to enforce it against them. and this is something that that that the justices could voluntarily adopt. but have chosen not to. why is that? how is it? the spring court is basically exempt from all the ethical guidelines that apply to basically every other branch of the judiciary. i mean, the argument goes to the supreme court's unique stature under the constitution. it is the only

court that is empowered under the constitution to act. it has been endowed with the jewish judicial power under article three. the lower federal courts are actually acts of congress. and so the idea is that congress has the ability to govern them and to set rules and regulations for their conduct but opposite supreme court. and we heard there mentioned impeachment. i mean, more than a dozen federal judges have been impeached, but historically trying to remove a supreme court justice that way, i mean, it's extremely rare, putting aside the fact that it will be politically unlikely because you'd never get any republicans to vote to remove him. i mean, how might it work? well the standard for serving as a justice of the supreme court is on good behavior. and so the idea would be that the mounting evidence of, uh of, uh, potentially allegedly bad conduct by the justice would violate this good behavior

standard. then the impeachment would have to proceed in the way that it normally does through the house. but the conviction in the senate you're right that that has not happened in american history. only one justice has actually been impeached by the house but was not convicted by the senate. hey, 84 task was was famously pushed out in the late 19 sixties after revelations that he accepted a $20,000 consultancy agreement and he resigned. he got he left, and he did. he did the right thing, essentially and here we have a situation that in some respect as far more egregious but there's resistance and there's not. there's not a clear path forward. yeah, that's the problem in this era of extreme polarization of the court. its reputation seems to have been sinking for a while now, and this certainly won't help. what what consequences might that have? well, i think there are really significant. short and long term consequences. i think that you know the short term

consequences just there is a pall cast over the court right now, and there are cases that are going to reach the court on that people might not have confidence and because of questions about this relationship between justice thomas and harlan crow and the deeper ah, the deeper issue really of his wife, jenny thomas is the deep deep involvement and conservative politics and the actions around around the 2020 election that may make their way in some form or fashion up to the court. you have. thomas is unwilling to recuse himself in those cases that's going to have an immediate short term impact in terms of people's belief that the system is working properly. i think over the long term, there is just an erosion of trust as some of the other commentators on the piece right before this alluded to this, it's at the public confidence in the courts at an all time low, and i do think it's going to raise a significant question over time, whether or not the

court can act according to neutral norms of adjudication and not be viewed as an entity that can be bought and sold. yeah it's those long term consequences are particularly troubling will have to leave it there, but really appreciate your expertise. scott cummings, thanks so much for speaking with us. thanks for having me. charges are being dropped against actor alec baldwin over the deadly shooting on the set of the movie rust. prosecutors in new mexico say they're dismissing the involuntary manslaughter accusations for now . pending further investigation . cnn's chloe melas reports. my only question is, am i being charged with something? baldwin soon will no longer be accused after new mexico prosecutors plan to file a motion dismissing involuntary manslaughter charges against the actor call quote temporary pending further investigation. baldwin reacted on instagram, posting a photo of his wife saying, quote i owe everything i have to this woman

and to you, luke, his attorney. you were in the room when the lady wants the gun. yeah. baldwin admitted to holding the gun. that fired a bullet killing helena hutchins, the cinematographer on baldwin's film rust, but told police he did not know he was handed a loaded gun. baldwin resumes filming on rust this week with production moved to montana. this was baldwin last year. someone is responsible. for what happened and i can't say who that is, but i know it's not me. the dismissal is a win for baldwin's legal team, which challenged the motives and politics of one of the original prosecutors. it doesn't matter if he's a liberal democrat, and i'm a conservative republican. my job has always been to prosecute crimes. in february, baldwin's lawyers filed a motion to remove special prosecutor andrea riebe, who at the time of the investigation was running for state representative in new mexico. in an email later revealed in the new york times, reeves suggested being involved in the case. quote might help in

my campaign both read and the district attorney who hired her ultimately recused themselves. their replacements dropped the charges against baldwin, his attorneys saying they quote encourage a proper investigation into the facts and circumstances of this tragic accident. is there live animals kept on set? no. never films. weapons handler , hannah gutierrez reed is now the sole defendant in the case. 18 months for involuntary manslaughter. her attorney says she will plead not guilty and that gutierrez read quote has been emotional about the tragedy but has committed no crime. are we really supposed to feel bad about you, mr baldwin, helena hutchins husband has been a vocal critic of baldwin, saying he should face charges. the idea that the person holding the gun . causing it to discharge is not responsible is absurd to me. but now justice for helena hutchins moves forward without a star defendant and she was great at her job and she died when she

died, and that's that hurts me every day. prosecutors released a lengthier statement thursday evening, revealing that this move to dismiss the charges is only temporary, pending a further investigation. so cnn has reached out to alec baldwin's legal team for further comment. the attorney for hannah guterres, read the arm. murder on rust has spoken out, saying in a statement to cnn that they believe that she, too, will have her charges. dismissed and be fully exonerated. now a preliminary hearing is set for may. 3rd in the trial is expected to begin this summer, and we will just have to see what the ultimately decides back to you. new video of brazil's political riots in january, suggests the police did nothing to stop the protesters and may have let them into government buildings while the report in just a few moments, please stay with us. dad t that smell coulde

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