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and threw a temper tantrum. >> bring it, donald, show me what you got. >> no one wants to see fighting in a hospital, so it adds an extra burden to be more careful, more deliberate. >> we don't put anything in that we don't have 100% confidence in. live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> a warm welcome to our viewers from the u.s. and around the world. i'm max foster. bianca has the day off.

it is 4:00 a.m. in new york where donald trump is expected to return to a court room in the hours ahead and could testify in the e. jean carroll civil defamation trial. the clear republican frontrunner in the u.s. presidential race has been clearly annoyed this week that his rival nikki haley is refusing to bow out of that race. haley is back in her home state of south carolina ahead of next month's primary there. she touted her recent fundraising success at a campaign event on wednesday and mocked the former president. >> we did our thing and we said what we had to say and then donald trump got out there and just throuew a temper tantrum. he pitched a fit. he was insulting, he was doing what he does, but i know that is what he does when he's insecure, i know that is what he does when he is threatened. and he should feel threatened without a doubt. we have raised a million dollars

sense i gave that speech last night. we have had 200,000 donors from all 50 states. 95% of those are $200 or less. this is about real americans. >> meanwhile one of south carolina's u.s. senators has made it clear that there will be no hometown loyalty to haley because he's firmly in the trump camp. >> what we have to do is just focus on south carolina, make the margin so wide, so devastating that the race is over. donors start turning their attention -- >> almost up? >> i think margins will get wider over the next three weeks. we're going home to south carolina to finish this race and start focusing on joe biden. >> setting scott's political aspirations aside, haley seems to be lacking the home feet

advantage. diane gne gallagher plains. >> reporter: at this coffee shop, a cup of coffee this time of year comes with a splash of politics. >> it has been a rough few years. >> reporter: the republican primary a month from today. >> i think we'll win easily. >> nikki haley fresh off another decisive loss to former president trump looking to voters in the state that elected her governor twice to keep her in this race. >> but south carolina voters don't want a coronation, they want an election. >> reporter: but voters here over and over again told us they have already made their choice. >> donald trump 200%. >> i'll be voting for donald trump. >> reporter: support for trump remains strong with republicans in south carolina despite his legal troubles and the ffact it now a one-on-one race with their former governor. >> i just think that trump is a

stronger presidential figure than she is. >> i think that she should drop out, apologize to president trump and join forces so we can try to save this country. >> reporter: voters frequently citing trump's long list of high profile south carolina endorsements. >> this election is over! >> reporter: none more than senator tim scott who was appointed by haley in 2012. >> i think there will be a surprise where i think trump will have a landslide. with tim scott backing him, i do. >> reporter: but not everyone is ready to forfeit the race. stephanie bennett says she's technically undecided but likes haley. >> her track record as governor here and what she did in the united nations. >> reporter: and yet she's worried in a month her vote won't matter. >> i wonder if people won't go into it with a preconceived notion of he's already won. that is a fear. like get out and vote. don't think that he's already won. because i don't think he has.

>> reporter: a similar concern about half an hour down the road from william's first republican elected as mayor of charleston in over a century. >> it seems to be the attitude of a foregone conclusion. i think she brings a breath of fresh air and i think our country needs that. >> reporter: he endorsed haley back in november and still believes in her campaign. >> i think that she is a fighter. she has beat the odds repeatedly. >> reporter: but dorchester county republican party chair steven wright who says he is neutral for now believes even with a month to go haley may already be out of time. >> i think people like nikki haley but south carolina is trump country. the polls indicate that. the enthusiasm on the ground indicates that. >> reporter: the haley campaign insists they are not going anywhere. they have two ads up on the air already, they had a wednesday night rally and several other campaign events the next couple days. when we talk to her supporter, many said simple things like

democracy and choice are part of why they want her to stay in, but they did admit that when they think about what could happen if she does lose her home state in a landslide, they worry it could negatively impact any sort of future political campaigns for her. dianne gallagher, cnn. back to you. and despite donald trump's performance so far, some republican lawmakers are concerned his tactics haven't changed since his first campaign and won't or possibly won't attract new voters. exit polling in the new hampshire primary shows that though trump dominated the republican vote, 64% of undeclared voters chose nikki haley. man manu raju was told something needs to change if the republican party wants to secure the white house. >> i'll support the republican nominee. and that nominee is going to have to go after that middle grou ground. to a broader appeal than just primary voters. you can't win with just your own

base. >> i think when you look at the structural problems of president biden with the electorate versus that of trump, i think trump has a better hand. but there is a long way to go. >> meanwhile u.s. president biden trying to shore up his voter base as the race heats up. wednesday mr. biden said he was fraud the uaw had endorsed him for re-election. of course union members are free to vote for whoever they like in november. but the uaw's president said members can either, quote, stand up and elect someone who stands with us or we can elect someone who will divide us. mj lee has that story. >> reporter: president biden on wednesday receiving a coveted political endorsement from the united autoworkers, this just one day after the biden campaign declared the unofficial beginning of the general election. this endorsement bringing into focus some of the blue collar

union voters that both president biden and the former president donald trump will be fighting for particularly in some of these midwest states where these kinds of voters could ultimately end up deciding which way those states break. now, in remarks that the president gave on wednesday to these union workers, he explicitly called out the former president and what he said about their contrasts. >> during my presidency, we've opened 20 auto factories and more to come. created more than 250,000 auto jobs all across america. while i stood in solidarity with you on the picket line, as your president said, i went to the picket line, donald trump went to a nonunion shop and attacked you. >> reporter: even the endorsement carries a lot of weight, it doesn't necessarily mean all of the members will

ultimately end up supporting president biden come november. keep in mind back in 2020, a lot of the language and file members actually ended up supporting the former president donald trump even though back then president biden received that endorsement as well. mj lee, cnn, the white house. getting some breaking news out of south korea. a member of the country's parliament has reportedly been attacked. the news coming from jtbc. the media outlet says the member of the ruling people power party was taken to hospital. no word on his condition. it comes just a few weeks after an opposition party leader was stabbed in the neck with a knife. cnn will get you the latest on that as we get it confirmed. u.n. officials reporting at least 12 dead, 75 injured by israeli tank fire in southern gaza. video sohows thick black smoke n the kahn yunis training center where the u.n. was housing 800 people displaced by the

fighting. idf says it has currently ruled out the incident was the result of an aerial or artillery strike by its forces. it says the strike may have been hamas fire. israel has intensified its military offensive in and around kahn yunis. palestinian health officials and paramedics report israeli tanks and drones firing at home trying to flee the area around two besieged hospitals. ben wedeman has more on that. >> reporter: with what little they can carry, they try to flee kahn yunis to safer ground. that ground doesn't exist in gaza. israeli forces intensifying their offensive against hamas, ordering civilian ts to leave t western side of the city where three of the last functioning hospitals are located and where thousands of people have taken shelter. another 800 were sheltering in a

u.n. vocational training center hit correspoaccording to the u.o israeli tank rounds. >> reality is that the strikes are hitting protected installations, protected facilities. they are hitting facilities that are housing, sheltering civilians or, you know, where you have medical personnel tending to people who are wounded and injured and sick. >> reporter: this man managed to escape kahn yunis under shelling. he asked his children have you eaten today? no, they respond. hovering over the agony of this war is the specter of famine. the u.n. special report on the right to food. how would you describe the food situation in gaza at the moment? >> every single person in gaza is hungry. so that means 2.2 million people are going hungry. a quarter of the population are

starving. they are struggling to find food and drinkable water. and famine is imminent. >> reporter: since october, gaza has become a land of no mads moving place to place desperate as the war moves further south. for more than 100 days i've been in the streets this man says. we didn't know where to go. they say it is safe in one place and then it is dangerous with shelling and shooting. we go to another place and it is the same thing. hundreds of thousands have fled too and more fleeing every day to rafah on the egyptian border now crammed with more than a million displaced. there are a few spots left in the sand. the only place after that is the sea. ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from beirut. international court of justice in the netherlands will deliver a key ruling tomorrow. the court is deciding whether to enact provisional measures to

temporarily suspend israel's military campaign in gaza. south africa filed a legal action accusing israeli of committing genocide against palestinians. israel calls them gross and falsely distorted. final binding ruling on the genocide claim would take the court years to determine. however in practice the court has no way of enforcing any of its verdicts. i want to bring in elliott gotkine and paula hancocks to talk about some of these documents. what do we know about the attack on refugees if in gaza? >> reporter: we've had an update from the u.n. office that handles palestinian refugees. and they say that there are been some u.n. personnel that have managed to reach that area of kahn yunis where this took place. and they say that at this point they believe 12 people were killed, 75 plus were injured. and they have managed to bring

some medical supplies to that area and to take some of the more seriously critically wounded just further south to rafah where it is a little safer. but we have heard from thomas white, director, saying that the situation in kahn yunis underscores a consistent failure to uphold the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law. this is something we're hearing consistently from u.n. members on the ground, that building with the u.n. flag should be protected, that hospitals should be protected as well. but we are seeing them come under fire on a fairly regular basis. now, he also says that the other hospitals in kahn yunis, that are surrounded at this point by israeli tanks, by israeli troops. we have in recent days been seeing thousands of people fleeing from that area because it is not just the injured that are at the hospital. it is also many intern sli

displaced people believing that it could be a little safer there having been moved on from their own homes. now, he said the next concern is of course for rafah, which is a little further south where most of the people fleeing the violence have gone to. he said it is a city of some 280,000 people usually. there is 1.3 million people who are displaced who are trying to find any kind of shelter there. he said there is simply no spare room to put up a tent anymore. it is bursting at the seams, a sea of humanity he called it. and he said the greatest concern is that this military operation by the israel will i military will start to move south. once they have completed what they feel they need to do in kahn yunis, it can then come to an area where there are even more people that are homeless and living on the streets. now, the situation we keep hearing from the u.n. is dire, there is not enough food, there is not enough medical supplies.

and there are many injured in a dwindling amount of hospitals that are actually able to keep functioning. max. >> paula, thank you so much. elliott is with us here. just seems though that is the way that it is moving more and more southwards. meanwhile hopes for some sort of truce. a lot of those refugees able to get some respite as it were. >> right. and i think the focus of israel's operations, and it has made no secret of this, is kahn yunis. that is what toit sees aepicent, and deep underground as part of the tunnel network are the top leaders of hamas such as yahya sinwar and those responsible for the october 7 massacre. that is very much the focus of the operations. and i was speaking to a former israeli general yesterday and he was telling me that the

negotiations happening, or let me backtrack there, not negotiations, but talks about negotiations happening because there is no firm deal on the table just yet, can be done kind of around about now because by the time it is implemented, that will give israel probably the weeks that it needs in order to finish its operations in and around kahn yunis so that it can kind of sell that to the israeli public as being more or less job done in terms of the crushing of hamas which it said was one of its primary war objectives. >> this court judgment we're expecting tomorrow, they do have the ability to enforce a binding ruling, but that would take a long time. so what real impact would any sort of ruling tomorrow have? >> i suppose in this information war, this war of words and the battle for international public opinion if you like, then that is where it will have the impact. in terms of the actual on the ground, i don't think that it will have any impact either way.

it will certainly if it goes against israel and it does say provisional measures and israel has to stop fighting, but you'd effectively be telling only one party in a war to stop fighting. so leaving that aside for the moment, i think it is clear that israel would not pay attention to a ruling that would say provisionally that it needs to stop. >> and they haven't got american support, haven't they? >> we heard from the u.s. and uk and other allies beforehand saying that the accusation was baseless and israel isn't committing genocide. not to say that the u.s. and uk and others don't have strong reservations about the way cond. and we heard from david cam ran calling for more care to be taken in terms of civilian casualty in the gaza strip. but as far as this particular

provisional ruling goes, if it goes against israel, it will give those to feel that it is committing genocide. >> elliott, thank you so much. and u.s. official say houthi rebels in yemen fired three ballistic missiles at commercial ships on wednesday. u.s. central command said we not down two and third landed in the water. they say missiles were aimed at a u.s. owned and operated container ship in the gulf of a adan. houthis say they engaged with a number of u.s. warships an claimed to inflict a direct hit on a commercial vessel. authorities in china say a building fire that killed at least 39 people on wednesday was caused during the improper renovation of a cold storage unit. that is according to chinese

state media. video from the scene in the country's southeast shows huge plumes of smoke pouring out of the building as some people jumped to get to safety. workers were refurbishing the basement area when the fire broke out and spread to other floors. the workers were reportedly using fire illegally in some manner which officials didn't really explain. but authorities are holding 12 people in connection to that fire. still to come, moscow says ukraine is responsible for a deadly plane crash in russia. we'll have kyiv's response. and plus the u.s. state of texas is determined to keep migrants out of the country. it is essentially fencing them in with razor wire. asylum seekers are finding themselves stuck with little hope. and workers go on strike, why they are taking a stand and how it is causing headaches.

kyiv is calling for an international investigation into a deadly plane crash in russia near the border with ukraine.ac

the plane calling it a terrorist act. russia claims 74 people were on board including 65 ukrainian soldiers being transported for a prisoner swap and all were killed in that crash. you can see the plane hurtling to the ground. ukraine says it regards any russian aircraft approaching belgorod as legitimate targets. >> it is obvious the russians are playing with the lives of ukrainian prisoners with the feels of their relatives and emotions of our society. it is necessary to establish clear facts as much as possible begin that the plane crash happened on russian territory that is beyond our control. >> russia state media reporting the plane's two black boxes have been recovered and are being sent to a special defense minister laboratory. fred pleitgen has details from

eastern ukraine. >> reporter: final moments of the russian military plane's flight diving to the ground seemingly out of control. after the impact, the jet explodes in a giant fireball. i heard only two explosions this eyewitness says, the first one was a dull bang, then an explosion, and then big flames. russian media showing debris scattered across a large area at the crash site, authorities say no one on board survived including 65 ukrainian prisoners of war set it be exchanged the same day. moscow blaming kyiv for the incident. ukrainian side launched an air defense missile from the kharkiv side russia's foreign minister said, it targeted the airplane and was a fatal strike. ukrainians haven't denied shooting the plane down, but kyiv says the russians never told them that they would be flying the ukrainian p.o.w.s to belgorod holding moscow

responsible for the lost of life and failed exchange. landing a transport plane in the 30 kilometer combat zone cannot be safe and in any case should be discussed by both sides, because otherwise it jeopardizes the entire exchange process of military intelligence statement says. based on this, we may be talking about planned and deliberate actions of the russian federation to destabilize the situation in ukraine and weaken international support for our country. ukraine says russia often uses the il-76 cargo jets to transport missiles used to tar get ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure. a recent attack killing and wounding scores in kharkiv in ukraine's northeast. when the missile attack started, i kneeled down near the washing machine this woman says. look, something hit me here, glass, glass, but i'm oalive. some people died and my flat is gone. ukrainians have produced revenge for missile attacks like these

and say they consider russian cargo planes transporting missiles to be legitimate tartarget s fred pleitgen, cnn. kim jung-un has destroyed part of his father's legacy. these are satellite images showing the demolition of what was known as the arch of reunification in pyongyang. lately kim jung-un had the story structure in 2000 21 as a sichb sign of home. but kim jung-un is calling to define south korea as a permanent enemy. the bboeing jets may be bac the air, but it doesn't signal the end of problems. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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she was hit with an object and taken to hospital. reports say her life is not believed to be in danger. let's bring you up-to-date with some of our top stories this hour. donald trump is expected to be back in a new york courtroom today. his attorneys say that he would like to testify in his own behalf in the defamation case brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. jurors will determine how much in damages he has to pay to carroll. a separate jury earlier found that trump sexually assaulted her and is liable for defamation. president biden has secured a major endorsement from the united auto workers union. the union has more than 400,000 active members, and they can vote for whichever candidate they choose. the u.s. supreme court ruled the federal government can remove the reams of razor wire that the state of texas has put up along the u.s. southern border with mexico. so far that hasn't happened though. in fact a texas state officials putting up more wire. they want to keep both

immigrants and federal border officials out of that area. that leaves desperate asylum seekers trapped, hungry, cold between a river and the razor wire. rosa flores hears more from them. >> reporter: i'm at shelby park and the scene unfolding behind me is what we see occurring since the state of texas took over the park. there is a few people back there who are waiting to turn themselves into u.s. immigration authorities. i spoke to two of them, kevin and vanessa, they are both from venezuela, they are students studying architecture. but they say that they fled venezuela because they are fleeing the regime there, they protested against the government in 2019 and that they couldn't live there anymore because the future that holds them there is either kidnapping or death because they stood up against the regime. now, they say that they have been on the banks of the rio grande for two days.

they say they haven't eaten for two days and that they literally just had some water because a texas national guard member gave them a bottle of water. so they have had water. but vanessa has cuts on her legs from the razor wire. she says that she has difficulty walking. and really what they want to do is turn themselves into u.s. him grace authorities. you can see that there are several layers of razor wire here. and they are not able to do that. the other problem is that u.s. border patrol is not allowed in this area because this is the area that was taken over by the state of texas. and so what is unfolding is humanitarian situation where these two individuals say that they are cold, they are hungry, they want to turn themselves into immigration authorities and techy they are on u.s. soil. the international boundary from mexico and the united states is in the middle of that river. so they have been on u.s. soil for two days trying to turn

themselves into immigration authorities. and they have not been able to do that. now, the future that holds them if they do enter into this park according to texas authorities is they could be arrested because they are two single adults with no children. we didn't know exactly what will happen, but these are the scenes that we see unfolding here at shelby park since the state of texas took over the area. rosa flores, cnn, eagle pass texas. arrestgeargentina's new pres facing a massive push back against his sweeping economic reforms. there was a nationwide strike by the labor unions held. the measures include spending cuts and ending some protections for businesses and consumers while making it easier to privatize companies. some of the reforms have been put on hold by the courts while

others are slowly making their way through congress. union members are also on strike in germany wreaking havoc on travel plans and supply chains across the country.y. today y is day two o of f a nate train drivers strike which is demanding better pay and shorter working weeks from the state owned rarail o operator. ththe company says the protests will cause delays an cancellatitions across the boar from comommuter services t to o freight transport. some passengers have mixed feelings about the workers' acaction. >> translator: i think it is important that employees stand up for their rights. but on the other side for me personally now, this is a pain. >> the six day strike is the longest in the rail operator's history. french farmers have been using their farm vehicles to block key roadways and vowing to keep up the protests across the country as they denand ccmand k

create concrete responses from the government. the unions are protesting against cheap imports and government regulation. one farmer expressed his frustration. >> translator: we like our job. we like going to the stables. but frankly when we see what we earn in the evening, we're tired. and we know longer want to be at our limits. >> union representative tells cnn he's been talking with his counterparts in our european countries about the shall i iss affecting the farmers. boeing jets could be back in the skies this weekend. the planes have been grounded since a door plug blew out in midair on an alaska airlines flight earlier this month. the plane was left with a hole in its fuselage the size of a refrigerator, but pilot still managed to land safely. they have been cleared to return to service if they pass a set of

inspections. boeing ceo was on capitol hill earlier in the day but as pete muntean report, he didn't give good news. >> reporter: more developments all the time. now the chair of the u.s. senate committee that oversees aviation is now calling for hearings to investigate what she calls safety lapses at boeing. not likely that this was the outcome that dave halcalhoun wa looking for. this wayss his trip to d.c. sin the blowout of the plane. and she said i made it clear that quality engineering and commitment to safety always have to be the top priority. and cantwell also from washington state. so far a direct message to calhoun. and this is how he respond when asked if the public should fear his airplanes. >> we fly safe planes.

we don't put airplanes in the air that we don't have 100% confidence in. i'm here today in the spirit of transparency to, number one, recognize the seriousness of what you just asked. number two, to share everything i can with our capitol hill interests. and answer all their questions. because they have a lot of them. >> reporter: thursday boeing will pause production for the entire day of the 737 max 9 factory, they are calling it a safety standdown much like the u.s. military does after a crash. in this case boeing workers will evaluate the production floor and make recommendations. pete muntean, cnn, washington. and in alabama, officials are urged to halt the excuse of a convicted murderer as they plan to use a controveversial method.. details s after a ququick break.

alabama is on the brink of executing a death row prison uses nitrogen gas for the first time after the supreme court declined to halt his execution. kenneth smith is on death row for his part in the murder for hire. he would be the first inmate put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, a method unprecedented and untested. isabel rosales has the details. >> reporter: his lawyers say this is cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of his eighth amendment right, and that this amounts to torture, something the u.n. has also criticized. attorneys arguing that smith is being used as a test subject for a never before used form of execution. and it is about to be used on someone who actually survived an execution two years ago, executioners tried for four

hours to find veins for the lethal injection and then they had to stop by the time ran out on the death warrant. smith originally did ask for the execution method to be nitrogen gas, but then he reversed course after he got a hold of the state's proposal how this would undergo and the biggest sticking point is the mask that would be put on him pumping the new troh ag nitrogen gas. the worries are that he could vomit inside that mask and end up joking on that which would lead to excessive pain instead of dying from the 23 nitrogen g. i spoke with an adviser and he had to sign a waiver saying he understood the harm being in the execution chamber and he is worried about gas getting out. he had this to say about a safety mechanism that he checked

out in person, an o2 monitor that will sound the alarm if there is hazardous gas in the air. listen. >> i was even told today that if the oxygen monitors go off, they have no sort of requirement that they evacuate the room. so what we're talking about is people who have put these monitors in place and basically told me today that they have no plan on how to follow them. i don't think that it is alarmist to say that this is a group of people who have consistently failed to carry out executions and i believe that they are on a fast track to fail again. >> reporter: the reverend tells me he is scheduled to go inside the execution chamber and be there with smith sometime after 7:00 p.m. eastern on thursday. isabel rosales, cnn, alabama. out of the 27 states with the death penalty on the books,

only alabama, oklahoma and mississippi have approved the use of nitrogen gas. alabama has even outlined a protocol to use it. in theory proens say giving someone 100% nitrogen to breathe would deprive the body of oxygen and cause painless death. however some fear that the attempt could go awry when uses it to carry out a death sentence on an inmate. a japanese man found guilty of carrying out the country's worst mass killing in nearly two decades has been sentenced to death. the 45-year-old defendant set fire in 2019 while dozens were inside. 36 were killed with many others wounded. he was charged with murder and arson after telling police his work had been plagiarized and he used gasoline to set fire to the studio. the judge determined the defendant was neither insane nor mentally in-sxe tcompetent at te

of the attack. still to come, how jon stewart is set to breathe new life into his once thriving program. plus why a u.s. scientist's advice about the perfect cup of tea has outraged the british public.

chargers have a new head coach. the team announced wednesday they have hired jim harbaugh, the 60-year-old coaching veteran spent the past nine seasons with the university of minnesota wolverines. he led them to the national championship earlier this month. harbaugh has previously coached the nfl's san francisco 49ers leading them to the super bowl

in 2012. the team lost to baltimore ravens who were coached by harbaugh's brother john. australian open semifinals are under way right now. defending champion sabalenka has overpowered the american coco gauff in a tie breaker to win the first set. it is a rematch of last year's u.s. open final where just four months ago gauff defeated sabalenka. the 19-year-old gauff has won four of the six previous head to head matches against sabalenka. but the world number two didn't drop a set on her way to the semifinals. the belarusian star says after losing to gauff at the u.s. open, she's certainly up for's strength. > revenge. jon stewart is returning to "the daily show." >> what [ bleep ] is wrong with him? it is hard to get mad at donald trump for saying stupid things.

in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo. i reckon it is time to find out which is just more plain folk. >> his cutting criticism of politician, stewart will take on part-time hosting as the u.s. prepares for the presidential election later this year. he will also serve as executive producer of the show which airs on comedy central. he previously hosted from 1999 to 2025 115. during his time away, he focused on activism of victims of 9/11 and u.s. veterans and hosted a show on apple tv plus for two seasons. ozzy osbourne is planning to end his touring days with a proper good-bye to his fans with two final concerts. ♪

>> his wife sharon told "rolling stone" uk that he will perform in birmingham england the city where he grew up. the 75-year-old singer has had health issues needing several surgeries. his wife says ozzy's voice is perfect but that he's ready to give his fans a legendary sendoff. tensions brewing in the relationship between the u.s. and uk over the drink tea. this is after a u.s. scientist wrote a book on what she believes will create the perfect cup. she says you need to add a tiny pinch of salt to block the perception of bitterness. this suggestion has absolutely baffled and horrified the british public and tv hosts are afraid to fire back. >> i think the fact is she's an american cup of tea. >> which by definition means she's not an expert .

>> u.s. embassy in the uq chlt saying that we think adding salt is not official united states policy and never will be. the u.s. embassy will continue to make tea in the proper way by microwaving it. why do you want to take away the bitterness? thanks for joining me. i'm max foster. "early start" is next here.