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>> and this cnn it's monday, february 26. >> right now >> on cnn this morning, donald trump, closer to clinching the republican nomination cruising into michigan with momentum. and the message of unity ahead of tuesday's primary, nikki haley trounced on her home turf than finding out one of her biggest financial backers cutting her off. and a critical test for president biden, will michigan voters punish him for his handling of the war in gaza all right it is 05:00 a.m. here in washington. you are looking live at capitol hill still on this monday morning, good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to be with you on the eve of the michigan primary, donald trump is dominating and nikki haley is soldiering on as her future in the nomination fight becomes increasingly grim. trump,

riding a wave of momentum after trouncing haley by 20 points in her home state of south carolina, because republican party continuing to fall in line the number two senate republican john thune of south dakota endorsing him over the weekend. nikki haley's campaign meanwhile says that they raised $1 million after her saturday night's speech. but the big money starting to dry up, one of her biggest backers, the koch brothers. announcing they're cutting off funding for her campaign. haley says she's staying in at least until super tuesday, warning that trump is divisive and a loser in the general election. >> the >> former president, of course, does not see it that way >> i have never seen the republican party so unified as it is right there. >> i said earlier this week that no matter what happens, in south carolina, i would continue to run for huge numbers of voters in our republican primaries, who were saying they want an alternative

the michigan primary is also going to tell us a lot about president biden's prospects that that state features a large arab american population. and congresswoman rashida tlaib has been calling on voters to cast their ballots as uncommitted in the democratic primary to protest the president's handling of the israel-hamas war. all right, let's bring in sophia cai. she is national politics reporter for axios, and she joins us now. >> so if you're good morning, it's wonderful >> to have you here. look, i want to start with where things stand with nikki, haley and donald trump in the wake of that really bruising loss. now, she she does though, keep talking about 40%, 40% of republicans who backed her in her home state donald trump, trying to say, hey, the republican party is unified. he stood up on that stage with most of south carolina's elected officials behind him. certainly that's the image that it painted. but the reality here also highlights some of the struggles that trump is going to have in the suburbs. in particular, when we get to the general election, what were your takeaways from what we saw in south carolina? >> yeah, absolutely. the

suburbs are the places that donald trump is really going to have to show that he's strong, particularly in places like pennsylvania and a lot of these battleground states. i mean, nikki haley is staying in she lost the suburbs actually to donald trump. but there were the places >> where look, if you look at the, if you actually want to look at the map of south carolina, you're going to see that the place that she did the best are suburban charleston, quite frankly, outside columbia, the kinds of areas where donald trump may have trouble against president biden general election, except we'd be talking about places like arizona, the suburbs of phoenix, atlanta, the suburbs of georgia, et cetera. >> yeah. exactly. i mean, most of the voters that trump is going to have to really work on is those college educated voters, is those voters who believe correctly that biden won the 2020 election. >> and so those are the voters there's that trump is going to have to bring into his coalition. that's going to be his toughest battle in november. >> yeah, for sure. so let's talk about haley's path forward

here. she's obviously going on to michigan. there's a super pac that supporting her, that's bought half $1 million reserved, half-a-million dollars worth of time in michigan. they say they're going to be with her all the way but the koch network has said, you know what, we're going to spend our money elsewhere. we're going to look at senate and house campaigns. what does that mean for her >> it means that she's lost a really big resource that she's relied on. they've spent 31 million on her. they've helped her get out to vote. they spent money on advertising, on making phone calls for her. she's lost that really big resource. and i think along the way, they've known that it was an uphill battle. they've known that trump could likely be the nominee. and now what they're doing is that they're focusing their money on the senate races, house races, races that they say are going to be harder now that trump will likely be the nominee, right? well, i mean and of course, we're looking ahead to super tuesday. and if she's going to stay in fine, but that's the kind of place where you really need a network like the koch network, right? if they actually do have

the and you can see you got them on the screen here, just kinda what the path looks like forward for her you need organization if you're trying to fight all the way across the map, you need a lot more money. or there's a primary california. i mean, that alone is so incredibly expensive. let's talk about michigan for a second. and interestingly, well, there's two things going on in the republican side. first of all, there you are really seeing the division in the republican party, right? i mean, there's quite literally two people claiming to be the true chair of the republican party in that state. and the way that they're going to award delegates is kind of a mess to the point where it's hard to say what we might learn in michigan on the republican side, what's your take? >> yeah. i mean, i think with the republican side, i mean, it's, it's one of 15 states. it's a state where the trump folks have already argued they're going to win most of the delegates. and on the democratic side, that's where the focus will really be

because trump, i'm sorry, biden will still pretty easily win that primary, but there's this uncommitted effort for voters who are protesting biden's actions on the israel palestine war to come out and vote uncommitted. and we have at least one congresswoman who is backing that effort. good to leave that we've talked about. and you have governor whitmer saying that she really doesn't know what will happen in michigan, and that is where we have our eyes on. >> yeah, it's a pretty key test for governor whitmer, who of course has bright future, probably, possibly in presidential politics at some point but that rashida tlaib actually made a video is publicly shamed people the mayor of dearborn, coming out and causing some concern for the biden campaign as well. definitely interesting to watch sophia cai axios sophia, thanks very much for kicking us off today. >> all right, ahead here. donald trump, vladimir putin, and a defenseless europe a scenario that could become reality sooner rather than later. plus virginia couple

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reform. that could be what we're beginning to see here. why does it matter? why is it important? well, the prime minister who's just resigned, mohammed shot here he said that it's important for the palestinians to form a government of national unity, a government that is made up not of different factions, but competencies are people that are competent to fill the roles and all of this is important because the united states has been championing the cause and the path forward for an independent palestinian state. and one of the prerequisites for that is to find a palestinian governing body authority that can actually take on not just the west bank where the palestinian authority has right now, but gaza, as well, and it comes as well and a significant week when russia has invited all palestinian factions from gaza, from the west bank, from all around the region to meet in moscow. so this will give them an

opportunity to hammer out that, that national unity position is this going to mean massive fundamental change in the short term? no. but it also underscores how unpopular the palestinian authority president is right now in the west bank, a couple of weeks ago, i was talking to a very well trusted and respected pollster in the west bank who said the palestinian authority president has a disapproval rating of 92% and that reflects across the whole palestinian authority >> yeah, really difficult to kind of claim in any authority if that many of your people don't trust you to tell pollsters they don't trust you. nic robertson in tel aviv. thank you very much for that >> all right. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says that 31,000 of his soldiers have been killed since the russian invasion began to years ago. he also says that moscow has preparing for another major offensive. but ukraine faces diminishing weapons and ammunition supplies as congress struggles to pass

critical aid for kyiv, and then there's this foreboding economist cover. they show it this way. putin this in europe donald trump identifiable just by his hair, has his back turned, and they write this, russia is becoming more dangerous. america is less reliable and europe remains unprepared. the problem is simply put, but the scale of the solution is hard to comprehend. this. of course, nine months before an election that could put donald trump back in the oval office cnn's max foster is joining us now, live from london at max. good morning to you. this really kind of captures so much of the kind of existential questions that are facing europe directly, but also oh, really the entire architecture of the post-world war pax americana. really. what do you see in >> as we are hitting the two-year anniversary of the war in ukraine well we're now questioning america's role in

the world. what role does america want in the world isn't going to be a global policeman standing up for democracy and freedom. it's traditional sentiments, or is it going to withdraw from the world and focus much more on problems back at home, which obviously will play much better running out to the election. the reality is these meetings around ukraine, money in washington are existential for many parts of the world because without that money, ukraine won't be able to win the war. i think that's the analysis you get from any expert that speaks to this if ukraine can't win the war how far will russia carry on into ukraine? does it carry on beyond ukraine and where the comment that the economist is making here is that europe is unprepared to fill in that gap. it can't, it's not a cohesive group, it's a selection of different nations who have their own

tensions. it can't stir up into that global policeman role. can't even probably defend ukraine against russia because it's not coordinated enough. it doesn't have enough resource to put in there. so it is existential and it's all coming really starts in washington this conversation right now right? >> well, i mean, even the argument that europe just wouldn't even have the capacity to defend itself. in many cases the defense capabilities in many countries have withered away because there's been so much protection from the americans max, i want to show you what the national security adviser jake sullivan had to say over the weekend. he said that he talks to the house speaker mike johnson claims mike johnson says he wants to do something about ukraine, but here was his warning watch sullivan >> history is watching whether speaker johnson will put that bill on the floor. if he does, it will pass, will get ukraine what it needs for ukraine to succeed if he doesn't, then we will not be able to give ukraine the tools required hard for it to stand up to russia and putin will be the major

beneficiary of that. >> history is watching. he says, i mean, max, i think the reality here at the capitol just just down the road from where i'm sitting right now. is that republicans are so divided that there is no clear path forward for this and the stakes as sullivan has said, i mean, i think the other phrase he used at one point on the sunday shows was, hey, he could bend history right now. but johnson has a pretty small figure in the face of this. >> but he's sort of extending what we're just talking about. there wasn't he so if america and europe can't hold back, russia, for example, this really speaks to the world order if the west is divided on my heart responds or it becomes more insula that it does create a vacuum, which russia and in the background, china could step into so then you end up in this situation about who is the global policeman. and if russia and china work together, other big powers then it does check ange, the whole dynamic of how global power operates. and the

elephant in the room is if russia is allowed to take ukraine does that make china more likely to go towards taiwan? and that's where you have that. we've talked about before that the dreaded us versus china attention, which you really don't want exacerbating on any level >> indeed, all right, max foster for us in london. max, thanks very much. i'll see you tomorrow >> all right. >> just ahead here, president biden, summoning the top four congressional leaders to the white house with a government shutdown. oh, remember those just around the corner plus just revealed the man behind the fake ai generated joe biden robocalls king charles wednesday at ten on cnn >> over 13 million americans were affected by identity theft in 2020, and the threats go way beyond just credit card fraud. today's identity thieves can use your information in ways that are easy to ms by just

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degrees in dallas, fort worth today? that is temperatures we would feel like in the middle of may, summer heat for them this is really truly the clash of two seasons, winter to the northwest summer and spring across the nation's eastern two-thirds and this class is going to create all kinds of wild weather. so from snow squalls across the pacific northwest as this cold front drop south, it will bring several inches, if not feet, of snow to the colorado rockies. winter storm warnings just outside of denver, salt lake city, stretching east of seattle, and a lot of wind energy with this as well. so with wind and with dry conditions in advance of this cold front, we get the potential at least for fire weather. so look out for critical fire dangers across the plains. strong winds, dry air, a lot of warm temperatures. in fact, yesterday in colorado springs, we saw a wildfire about 150 acres burning in this general region. but nonetheless, this

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support for the haley campaign. still, she remains determined to stay in the race >> you can't have a candidate who's going to win a primary, who can't win a general look at those first early states they can say donald trump won. i give him that >> but >> he, as a republican incumbent, didn't get 40% of the vote of the primary it's not. >> really clear how much longer haley can go on if she does drop out where we're voters turn. >> and >> what does she do about the question of whether she should endorse donald trump? axios published her, nicholas johnston is here with us on-set at nick. good morning. it's wonderful >> after so many years have seen your family menus behind your chalkboard at home. look, let's talk about the future here. for haley. i mean, the koch money is obviously

important, but that organization is particularly critical ahead of something like super tuesday that said, she's got a 0.40% of the party's not voting for donald trump. yeah. >> where do they go? >> i mean, the coc money wasn't all the money she raised $13 in january, as long as small donut are still funding or money, it's not running a massive campaign. you know, she could apply saying, indefinitely just with angry democrats sending her money. so i think it's a real open question is how long she'll stay and she has not made any hints of saying when she will drop out, she has been very committed as far as like, look, we're gonna go this to the very and what is interesting to me is look at the rhetoric that surrounds both of the campaigns of get closer to a possible endgame, as donald trump begins to dial down those attacks after each of his wins, that may try and live in opening for nikki to leave and maybe good graces if nikki haley began to talk a little less differently about the former president, is that an opening to maybe a graceful exit? of course >> well, i mean, look, i mean, she can i feel like the anger from the trump side is pretty

intense toward nikki haley, like i struggled to see kind of a reconciliation there. and for her him and she's so leaned into i think she it's not success leaning into the sort of anti-trump. it should not live show going quite as far as liz cheney for sure. yeah but she does and this is the part that i keep getting stuck on. she does clearly want a future in the republican party. it seems obvious she wants to run in 2028. and that's why this conundrum about how she handles donald trump is so intense because she's lit up these supporters by attacking him. >> she can't give that up. you >> haven't used that. there's actually not the first person to navigate this issue. we've been covering trump for how many years now and how many candidates have we written about halfway covered? but on television who have gone after president trump and very personal ways we've been attacked by promo president trump and very personal way. every single one of them, almost to a man except for maybe chris christie, have eventually gotten on board and said trump is the man to lead the party. trumpism and to be the next president. so we'll, nikki haley, follow that exact same path i've learned the hard way. never rule anything out when will that is true? i mean,

>> that is definitely less than i agree with you. i also i also have learned i mean, it is remarks. just look at what ted cruz went through and now he exactly you know, he didn't endorse either, but now look at him. i mean, i guess the one thing that, you know for haley going forward is like what happens to let me show you how she put it right in talking about the 40% of people that backed her. and what would be necessary to get them onboard. take a look. this was her yesterday. watch the issue at hand is he's not going to get the 40%. if he's going and calling out my supporters and saying they're barred permanently from maga he's not going to get the 40% by calling them names. he's not going to get to 40% by trying to take over the rnc so that it pays all his legal fees she has a point there. right. but i do take your point also. i mean,

he does seem to have listened to his advisers much more money than they put them out on stage before haley even had a chance to speak, so he couldn't even really react to her. it seems like the stuff that came out after her speech was a little bit angry or but you're right. he did stay on message. is that going to see the $64,000 question? fire lecture. remember, donald trump won narrowly in 2016, he lost in 2020. is he behaving in a way and he's running a campaign that can add votes to that tally. and what nikki haley is saying, i think it's a very valid point is that he's not and that there is a base for him and that he will not go above that. and if he can't go above that, then joe biden will be reelected and nikki haley is the only person who can expand >> i mean, we've talked a lot and obviously trump romped in south carolina. i'm not trying to take away from that, however, there do seem to be some warning signs in that exit polling data about the number of people who voted for haley who said that they wouldn't vote for trump about that 30% who say if he's convicted of something that would be a problem for them. i mean, what did you see? 100% like i view this >> interestingly is that if you view donald trump or the challenger, that of course

he's on a barnstorming tories when the first fork states knows candidate has ever done that at a new candidate. but if you view him as an incumbent, but you kind of can he says he went and running as an incumbent, he's taking over the rnc as an incumbent president. these numbers are disastrous if joe biden gone into south carolina and a challenge primary. and only when 60% of the we'd be going crazy here in washington exactly wall-to-wall coverage. and so i think through that prism and i think that's what the haley campaign is trying to emphasize that he's not as strong as you think he is >> all right, nick johnson of axios. thanks very much for being here. come back soon all right, up next here, president biden is going to meet with top congressional leaders at the white house tomorrow to try and push congress to pass additional aid aid for ukraine and avoid a government shutdown. after congressional leaders failed to reach a deal to keep the government running last friday all of this as concerns continue to mount about the consequences of inaction in ukraine ukraine is weeks away from giving up significant ground and we cannot allow russia to win. so what we're doing is adding an

additional pressure point to get a bill to the floor that has bipartisan support in the house all right. >> joining me now is congressional reporter for the associated press for new amerie furnish. >> good morning. good to see you. >> let's start with what brian fitzpatrick said there now why is brian fitzpatrick so important? he has been leading along with democrats this effort to try to build a bipartisan alternative that they could potentially force onto the house floor over the objections of house leadership to try to move quickly to get aid to ukraine. how realistic do you think this is mean he appeared with one of his democratic colleagues jared jared golden saying they are going to try to rush this, this bipartisan and would have border money and policy changes than it to. do you see it happening >> i mean, you know, normally and there's you look back, there's a reason that discharge petitions have not been discussed, more reported on mainly because they rarely go beyond even making to 218,

which is the required number of signatures to get on the floor, let alone passing when it gets on the floor but in this case is brian fitzpatrick told cbs, he and the end jared golden and other centrist members of congress have talked to the parliamentarian, have gotten her. the parliamentarian to go down from the 30 day requisite needed before it can ripe and come to the floor to seven days, which really changes so dynamic in this urgency that they're trying to portray. and i think it's interesting if they can get 218 votes. but i would also just go back to the history of discharge petition that they have not been successful. >> they are very rarely happened in the back to charles 2015, charlie dent, that very obscure kind of policy to even or the minimum wage really got to raise democrats, to raise the minimum wage that also failed, right? >> for sure. >> so furnish one of the things that democrats have been trying to do over the last couple of days is to really emphasize that the house speaker is at

the fulcrum of history right now, and how he decides to do this. this was senator chris van hollen over the weekend. watch so the question is whether speaker johnson wants to be >> complicit in giving putin a victory, a win. at this historic moment, we're not, and i do continue to have confidence that the end of the day the house will we'll do the right thing that enough. members of the house will demand a vote because of this historic moment >> how is speaker johnson mean he's a rookie in this job? i mean, how's he going to receive these kind of conflicting messages because he's got on the one hand and jake sullivan was little more positive and how he talked about it. he said, mr. speaker, you can bend history if you want to against people who in his own party who are going to try to kick them out of the job, who say that they're going to try to do to him what they did to kevin mccarthy if he

goes forward with this. >> yeah. i mean, i think the dynamics at play for johnson are really similar from mccarthy, but the only benefit that he appears to have is that they saw what a dragged out and, you know, honestly embarrassing process it was to remove mccarthy in to replace him. and i think the fact that we're in an election year, the fact that, johnson is one of the more far right speakers that the house has ever had. add republicans, including conservatives, are not willing to let go of the guy that they finally were able to prop up in this high post for something that they know they're going to have to let go of. and i think like johnson's done this before. he's had to make deals with democrats and he turned out fine. i'm not as worried about his ability to stay in the job bob, but i think it's really interesting to see what kind of deal he made because he has said no more crs. and he said that last time it did it and this is saying it again, but you know, what deal he makes with democrats in the last minute will be really interesting, right? and of course friday they may or may

not run your weekend as the collar >> all right. for new shoe, mary. thank you very much for being here today. >> all right. coming up at the top of the hour, senator joe manchin joins us live. does nikki haley looked like a third party candidates? and next donald trump under fire for comments like this >> we've all seen the mug shot. and, you know who embraced it more than anybody else? the black population >> the lead with jake tapper, cnn to date for >> okay, everyone, our mission is to provide complete now it's nutrition or strength and energy >> ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein

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shop and unparalleled selection at joey bird.com frank sinatra had connections with the mafia and all these nightclubs were owned by the mob. >> you didn't want to make those guys anger that he was too vegas. >> the story of since sunday at ten on cnn >> closed captioning brought to you by in vet help call 18071000 to o dealer invention idea, but don't know what to do next. collin van help today, they can help you get started with your idea called now 807100020 we've all seen the mug shot and you know who embraced it more than anybody else. the black population, it's incredible. you see black

people walking around with my mug shot. you know, they do shirts i got indicted a second time, third time, and a fourth time and a lot of people said that that's why the black people like because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against. they actually viewed me as i'm being discriminated against former president donald trump under fire for those remarks at the black conservative federation gala in columbia, south carolina on friday night. that was just hours before polls opened in that state's republican primary. trump went on to win there by double digits, but he did face criticism from his opponent and it's over those comments, the biden campaign in a statement called them quote, shameful and racist writing, quote, trump wants to take us backwards and his remaining republican challenger, nikki haley, responded this way. >> it's disgusting >> but that's what >> happens when he goes off the teleprompter. that's the chaos

that comes with donald trump. that's the offensiveness. it's going to happen and every day between now and the general election, which is why continued to say, donald trump cannot win a general election >> all right, let's bring in cnn political reporter alayna treene, who covers donald trump for us alayna. let me show you what congressman byron donalds, he's one of trump's biggest supporters. porter's honestly in the congress. he was on meet the press over the weekend, basically defending president trump. let's watch >> this is political persecution from the department of justice and from radical da's to what our country. this is something similar that black people had to deal with. the justice system themselves. what american let's don't want to see, especially black americans in anybody else. they don't want to see a politicized justice department. >> so he of course, kinda made that again about trump's focus on justice part, but but i will say i'm curious your reporting. donald trump has been very focused on trying to

increase his support with black voters especially with black men. >> i >> mean, is that what's going on here? what's your reporting telling you? >> yes, that's exactly what was going on there. and i mean, obviously he was speaking to an audience where he thought that those remarks woodland better. i think there's questions about that, but the black vote and trying to target black voters is key to donald trump's campaign, especially as they are pivoting even more in earnest. now, after south carolina to a general election, they recognize that the general election is not going to be in the bag, unlike in the primaries where he was overwhelmingly the favorite. and essentially every contest, they know well that it's an uphill battle against joe biden and ahead of november and because of that, they really want to chip away at his support with these key coalitions, with these key different demographics and the black vote is one of them and they very much, i know from my conversations, i don't think they form like formerly have their full plan yet on how to do that. i think this rhetoric was some of donald trump's speaking off the cuff, some of his team also prepping some of

these remarks. they're still figuring out how they're going to try to court them in chip away at biden's support, but they see that as crucial to helping them in in a general against joe biden. do you know i mean, do you know from your reporting which are those remarks were off the cuff, which were intended i mean, where because i mean, haley does kind of have a point right? you never know what you're going to get, what donald trump goes off the teleprompter and from a strictly like political win elections perspective, like that's not great for republicans, right? >> the ones that are a little bit >> more controversial, were the ones i believe that donald trump was speaking not using the teleprompter and listen, this is something that his camp the pain also recognizes that they'll never be able to really change. donald trump will always be donald trump. i know that even on saturday when he was going to take the stage and give his victory speech in south carolina. his team had repeatedly told, told him, do not attack nikki haley, do not attack nikki haley, and he didn't he ultimately did not even mention her name, but they had no idea when he got up on stage whether or not he was

going to and we saw in new hampshire, they didn't want him to go after her the way he did. and of course, he very sharply criticized her. so that's gonna be continued to be something that his campaign deals with even though as they are saying, we need to shift to a general election, we want to leave nikki haley behind their encouraging donald trump to ignore her they never can really control him. he's going to do what he wants to do, and he loves speaking off the cuff at these events that he feels like he's in a room with people. all of his supporters, he feels emboldened by that. and i think you're going to continue to hear this type of rhetoric regardless of what his campaign tries to get him to do, for sure. let's talk brought and let's let's flip this around and talk about mean you mentioned there is for democrats a potential coalition problem, right? and we can put the number gallup polling on party affiliation among black voters up on the screen here in 20 77%, democrat, 11% republicans. but then you look at 20:23 and that's changing. and it's not indicted democrats favor we're about to head to michigan their primaries tomorrow on both, honestly, the

democratic primaries in some ways more interesting, because of arab american voters. but it does seem to me that it's a state like michigan, where these changes in black voting patterns could actually really impact the general election. because just to remind everyone, trump one michigan in 2016, barely, but he did win and then biden won it in 2020 what's your sense of how the biden campaign, what's going to look at this heading into 24, because we are in 24. >> yeah. i think that's as well something that the biden campaign is still working on. i mean, this is going to be where a lot of of these crucial races are fought. i think if you look at the battleground states that both donald trump and joe biden are looking at and know they need to win places like arizona, georgia, michigan, as you mentioned, they're all places that are going to be very tough and we've seen go for donald trump in the past go for biden in 2020. and i do believe that the not just black voters, but hispanic voters, i know donald trump in michigan, you mentioned going really hard after the working class voters

and union voters that biden has, that is where they believe the race will be one. i think the issue is that even though both candidates have really been using their rhetoric from a general campaign spect perspective for weeks, their campaigns haven't necessarily built out the infrastructure for the general yet so i think we're still waiting to see how they'll do that. >> all right. alayna treene for us. alina, thank you very much for being here. >> all right. time now for sports iowa superstar caitlin clark closing in on history as she tries to become the nc was all-time leading scorer coy wire has this morning bleacher report. coy. good morning. >> what's up? casey caitlin clark has shot her weight within striking distance of the all-time scoring record set by pete maravich way back in 1970 he did this in just three seasons at lsu, 3,667 points is the goal. and caitlin clark is so good, they didn't when she scored 24 points lazy did in the hawkeyes went against illinois yesterday. some considerate an off day in clark so much more than just the

shooter notching 15 rebounds, ten assists, marking or 16 career triple, double as the second most all-time behind sabrina ionescu. so clark now needs just 51 points to pass pistol pete with two regular seasons go including the season finale. that's sunday against number two, ohio state messi mania, alive and well, and just as magical and season two i am trailing one nil in stoppage time to la galaxy. that 36 year-old superstar plan tic tac toe with jordi alba before burying his first goal to seize he's to pull off a one-one draw and check them out gone three wide around the final turn. daniel suarez, ryan blamed in kyle busch in an epic three-way photo finished suarez edging blaming in atlanta by 31 thousands of a second. it's the third closest finished between first and second place in nascar cup series history. that's about 30 the times quicker than the blink of an eye. kasie, from fast cars to a classic card hockey hall of famer, chris chilliest.

returning to the rank and an old-school caddy as his hometown chicago blackhawks are attire his jersey, but it wasn't the only one making a return to the shot three times stanley cup champ patrick kane back in the windy city at the faces former team for the first time since being traded away last year. listen to this let's standing ovation lasted more than a minute. and despite now playing for their biggest rival cane, getting another massive cheer when he scored the game-winner in overtime i'm giving the red wings a 3-2 win. finally, an accomplishment fit for a movie script, 29 year-old jake knapp, getting a win on the pga tour for less than two years after working as a bouncer at a nightclubs or make ends meet, finishing 19 under at the mexico open. he thursday cool, $1.45 million hello and check out his family back in california cheering as he tapped in the winter. and his girlfriend total shock

rushed in to give him a hug from bouncing out of court club to swing in the gloves. knapp says this is unforgettable >> when i have all these people asked me for her autographs and pictures and questions and podcasts now, let's stop. like it's hilarious. think two years ago is working security to bar and it was a much different scenario in my life. so i'll never i'll never forget this and for the rest of my life, this will be my first win on the pga tour. whether it's my first one, that only one that i ever have or is the first of many this will always be one that i'll remember >> to make this one even sweeter nap gets an invitation to play at augusta national. >> just so over a month from now, kasie coy, that's just amazing congratulations to him. really wonderful and thank you for being with us. i'll see you tomorrow. >> all right. coming up here, flashing warning signs for donald trump, even after a double-digit victory in south carolina plus as campaign guru, david axelrod joins us to

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