let's bring in our panel audie cornish, cnn anchor and host of the assignment with audie cornish, ron brownstein and senior editor of the atlantic, kate bedingfield, former white house communications director, jeff duncan, former georgia lieutenant governor, rejoins us as well. welcome all great to have you today at ron. you're shaking your head as you're watching congressman, what's up with >> i think it's analysis of michigan. it was spot on his his argument that no labels has a passive till you're 70 electoral college vote was a little optimistic. so look, i think most democrats agree that the shortest path to two-under 70 electoral college votes for trump, excuse me, for biden, is to rebuild the blue wall and to hold the three states that trump took away in 2016, which is michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. and of those three, michigan has looked oh, since trump's victory look the best for democrats. i mean, democrats have done very well in michigan. whitmer 1.18 and 22, he wanted by 150,000 votes. they've won the legislature, they've done a lot of things. but i think there fre

is cnn and current host of the assignment with audie cornish. jonah goldberg is the co-founder and editor in chief of the dispatch, and ashley etienne, she's former communications director for vice president harris and senior adviser to nancy pelosi. i'm so grateful to have all of you here audie, let's talk a little bit more about the community in michigan. that as you talked a little bit about this yesterday about just the sheer emotion that is driving this. and just to kinda give people a sense, in michigan, david referenced the 10,000 votes that separated hillary clinton from donald trump when donald trump won michigan, it was 150,000 votes that separated trump and biden when we in the 2020 when biden won, there are about 140,000 people who voted in that election who say that they are muslims. now that's obviously not all air americans are muslim. not all muslims are arab american. but this is a really significant community. and to leave has been encouraging them to vote as a book block. how do you see that playing out? >> well, i think that'

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an anchor and host of the assignment payment with audie cornish. we've republican strategist, former communications adviser for senator tim scott's presidential campaign. matt gorman, and cnn political commentator, former white house senior policy adviser, ashley allison. thank you all for being with us this morning. audie, let me just bring you into this conversation. >> there's not that you asked that question by the way of him. i would just like where are you going with? right? >> every state is going to have to deal with this question now where they're going, we think probably is fetal personhood, which is fundamentally this concept that you can be held liable for crimes committed against a child, and that definition is changing as we're seeing in real time, the minute that republicans caught the car far with the dog, the dog caught the car. you are going to have to get into the world of enforcement. and enforcement is where the people are really seeing what it means to live in a world in which these laws have changed women have seen it in this

i'm john berman with audie cornish. we are back for more here in new york, phil and poppy are both off the recrimination surrounding the death of alexey navalny. they are growing louder this morning. his widow is accusing russia of a cover-up insisting that her husband was poisoned as pressure grows for the us to punish vladimir putin, donald trump refusing to condemn navalny's death instead, shared a video of a putin ally declaring that trump should be president again. and the united states offering a un resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in gaza a clear warning to israel to rethink its next move cnn this morning starts right now >> it had now been four days since alexey navalny died in a siberian prison. and the russian government is still refusing to turn over his body. deval nice team says authorities are allegedly keeping it to conduct some sort of chemical examination a new this morning, the kremlin denies accusations by navalny's widow that he may have been poisoned again, with nerve agent president bid

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that is not strong messaging. >> audie cornish, what did you hear that? >> i guess i'm the only one that is not as alarmed. because i'm looking at it kind of holistically. this report comes out, and this line is in. it and they have to address it right away. there is no scenario where you let that see it. and in terms of media management, you want to be out. they are because what happened after he had his speech, we played a clip, of him saying, how dare you speak about my son that way? we did not play a clip of him saying mexico instead of egypt. and i think people take these things in a different way than they used to. they are not sitting home with a couch looking for him to speak. what they are going to do see a number of clips. and your point is very well taken, that essentially, there is a lot of young people who have been waiting for him to speak in some kind of striking way about israel and gaza, and specifically him saying i think, overboard, that kind of language. that is going to be very striking in the social media space. and also, seeing all

i'm john berman with tv pro audie cornish here in new york. >> it's great >> to see you poppy and phil or off this morning, a key ukrainian city has fallen to russian forces, while the us house of representatives, it's on vacation for two weeks in desperately needed aid hangs in limbo. president biden blames congressional inaction after ukrainian troops were forced to withdraw from abdivka and he is warning that more towns would fall as russia presses the attack on multiple fronts, there is board of a huge russian troop buildup in the south. >> and congress is also under renewed pressure to act after the death of alexei navalny in a siberian prison. new this morning, navalny's wife has posted a defiant video message online hi, she's vowing to continue her husband's work and to find out how he was killed in the video, she says the russian government is hiding his body and she's suggesting he may have been poisoned with a nerve agent again, listen to sliver, and this is just in a cowardly way. they're hiding his body, not showing to his mother, not giving to his mother. they are lying th

inside the corridors of power starts now good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday, i'm audie cornish and from on iran now, it was a rollercoaster week for former president trump, the republican front runner, once again campaigning outside the courthouse and it just a taste of what's to come this general election season. but from the campaign trail, you hear the reality of what a second trump term could look like. at a rally in michigan last night, he spent his energy on promised retribution, directing raw anger at the judge who ordered him to pay $355 million in his new york civil fraud case? >> the judges and prosecutors that we're dealing with me are essentially all the same different wrappings, tone, manner, but always the same coordinated and overly nasty result. they are nasty these are democrats and definitely hate me. they hate you too. i will direct a completely overhaul doj to investigate every radical out-of-control prosecutor in america for their illegal racist in reverse enforcement of the law but one thing trump failed to mention the death of russian opposition leader al

i'm john berman with audie cornish here in new york. phil and poppy are off this morning and new this morning. alexey navalny's mother making a personal plea to vladimir putin to hand over her son's body. now she just released a video standing outside the siberian prison where he died. she is telling vladimir putin, let me finally see my son, navalny's team says the russian government is refusing to release his body for at least a couple of weeks to conduct some sort of chemical examination navalny's wife is suggesting her husband may have been poisoned again with nerve agent. cnn's melissa bell is live in paris, was a what else are you hearing from navalny's mother in this message directly to putin? >> well, as we spoke about earlier audie, what we'd heard is from dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesman, pushing back against that video, we'd heard from yulia navalnaya, the widow. widow of alexei navalny, a very strong message she sent yesterday accusing vladimir putin of being behind her from her husband's death. now, this morning, the kr

i'm john berman with audie cornish in new york. it's good to be here. it's been a minute for me >> poppy and phil or off this morning, a key ukrainian town falling to the russians, ukraine's army desperately low on supplies with congress fighting over for that new aid bill, the kremlin claims he went for a walk, fell ill and collapse, but this morning, the family of alexei navalny say they can't even get access to his body for live in moscow from the fallout from navalny's death and donald trump outraged after being ordered to pay $355 million in his civil fraud trial, the former president's next move, $400 hightops. cnn this morning starts right now >> all right, ukraine has suffered a major setback. for the house is on vacation with no path forward on passing desperately needed aid. video shows russian forces raising a flag in the city of abdivka after ukrainian troops withdrew. president biden is blaming congressional inaction for the withdrawal in warning that more ukrainian towns could fall to the russian soon, ukraine's army is under serious press

audie cornish, ron brownstein, kate bedingfield, geoff duncan. thank you. and thanks to all of you for joining joining us i'm kasie hunt, cnn news central starts right now >> homes burned in almost every direction. that's the word from texas as multiple wildfires are burning right now and breaking just moments ago, we just got word that pope francis was taken to the hospital. we're getting new information in on the condition of the 87 year-old pontiff, hunter biden about to take questions face to face with a republican lawmakers trying to impeach his father. i'm kate bolduan with john berman. sara is out today. this is cnn news central >> we are following >> this breaking news. people in texas are being forced to flee communities, burn to the ground. there are multiple wildfires burning in the texas panhandle right now >> that is terrifying. if you come upon that, of course, overnight, the fire called the smokehouse creek fire became the fifth largest fire in texas state history, scorching over 300,000 acres. and right now, it is not at all all contained. i