maria cardona and alice stewart. we have to leave it there, but always great to have you both here. >> so much. thanks, jessica. >> still ahead. a gathering of survivors of the nova music festival here in the united states is this weekend, we approach the six-month anniversary of that horrific attack on israel will have their story ahead in the cnn newsroom >> tomorrow. >> new interviews with a return israeli hostages what is the meaning of being hostage phrase no certainty. >> and the flight for the release of those still in captivity. the whole story with anderson cooper, know what eight on cnn, scout is protected by simd erica trio and he's in it to win it sympatric. a trio is the first chew with triple protection intestinal worms. well, heartworm disease, no problem with some parity dreo, this drug class has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions, including seizures used with caution and dogs with a history of these disorders for winning protection, go with sim paris record trio. >> our pharmacy has be

. >> right with this now, political commentators, democratic strategist, maria cardona and republican strategist david urban maria, when abortion has been on the ballot since the supreme court overturned roe versus wade, how advantageous has it been to democrats? >> it's been really advantageous. john, as you know, in the run-up to 2022 everyone was predicting a massive red tsunami and it didn't happen. and one of the major reasons that didn't happen was because reproductive rights were on the ballot the supreme court had just overturned roe v wade. and this is an interesting point, john, the issue of repro rights is very rarely adequately and accurately measured in polls. it's an underlying issue. a lot of people kind of put it aside. they said women, we're going to get over it. the supreme court ford turned it in the summer. they were gonna get over it by the midterm elections in 2022 will now guess what? we're not over it, and we're not going to be over it until the government stays out of a decision that should be in our hands with our families with our doctors and with our faith.

maria cardona analysis. do are we appreciate it? >> and you can check out their podcast, hot mics from left to right, where we get more of this all right, thanks, guys just still ahead. tensions are running high at ucla as a group supporting israel faces off with a group supporting palestinians, a campus protests we are tracking those dueling demonstrations. you're in the cnn newsroom the rise of misinformation don't o'sullivan reports from the front lines pharaoh knows taylor swift as a government cya. >> you don't believe taylor swift is? >> i don't know what to believe the whole story with anderson cooper tonight at eight on cnn. >> this is a futurama go daddy arrow creates a logo website, even social posts and minutes ai, ai like it who wants to come see the view, so get your business online and minutes with godaddy arrow hey, you with the small business you've got all kinds of bright ideas that your customers need to know about constant contact makes it easy with everything from managing your social posts and events to email an

let's pick back up with our political conversation with maria cardona and sarah longwell.lking about is this inter party fight of republicans marjorie taylor greene taking on the republican house speaker potentially for this speakership, a lot of the centering around ukraine aid, but sarah is making the point, maria, that this is also about the old guard of the republican party versus the new guard. add this to the conversation for your take. greg meeks was just on leading democrat, who's just on with me and he's pulled me if it came draft would reach out to him and say, i need your vote to support to keep speaker johnson in the seat. he would do it. his reasoning is ukraine aid is so important to get done now and not later. should democrats help save johnson? >> well, i think that i think it's certainly true that there are democrats that are leaning towards that because the majority of democrats also understand how important you rein aid is, not just to the national security of the country by two, the democracy of the world. if you will and i think that moving forward, if

let's discuss with cnn political commentator, democratic strategy because maria cardona and cnn political commentator and republican strategist alice stewart, alice and maria are the host of the podcast hot mics from left to right. alice, your reaction to what trump had to say this morning? >> look, i think from a political standpoint, moving into the general election, this was the smart move to make because as those numbers indicate, most majority of americans for a bright to abortion access and he understands that people that fought to overturn roe v. wade and people that are pro-life fought to take this issue out of the hands of unelected justices and put it in the hands of the states, which is exactly what happened with the dobbs case and what president trump said. and that's comment was now it's an issue. hands of the states and the state's rules are the law of the land each state will be different, but here's the pushback. he's getting a lot of pushback from the pro-life community. the susan b. anthony association, who was strong pro-life, they say seating this issue back to the sta

> and talk now with cnn political commentators and the co-host of hot mics from left to right, maria cardona and alice stewart with us here. we have a lot to talk about, and there are obviously a lot of numbers of those poles, but i do want to start on what could be a very important one for president biden. and former president trump, which is as harry referenced 14 points ahead on handling of the israel-gaza war. clearly, when it comes to trump, that would mean how, how someone and i guess with think that he would handle handle it, obviously. but that's a pretty big number. you just heard dr. thaer, who was in this white house meeting and i wonder what you think about what this is saying about the situation for biden and trump? >> look, i think clearly former president trump has been really steadfast in his support for israel. he did so as president. now we're looking at a situation where after since the invasion by hamas, israel has every right to defend itself. it's certainly should, but you guys did an excellent interview with general wesley clark in the last laugh asked our where he tal

and more now, a cnn senior political commentator in navarro and cnn, a little bit commentator, maria cardona, i do want to talk about my johnson. i do want to talk about donald trump in a moment, but anna, can i go to you first and let me just ask you, do you buy with this congressman from michigan is saying when he says, oh, i wasn't really talking about you know hiroshima and nagasaki when he when he drops those names in, that comment it's unreal >> hiroshima and nagasaki or not. it's not something that's to be left to the interpretation, right? we all know what it was >> and you know, i often see this the session going on in the democratic party about this in the question i asked democrats war expressing discontent with a biden administration on the issue of gaza. and i think they have a right to express that discontent. but the question is, do you think helping people like that congressman or helping donald trump get an office is going to do anything to help the people you care about more and i think the question is again, no so what that congressman said it's a larger problem and it's a

fair drop let's discuss this with our panel of cnn political commentators, democratic strategist maria cardonastrategist alice stewart together they host the podcast hot mics from left to right. >> thank you both so much for being with me this evening. marie, i want to start with you in the past and throughout all of donald trump's legal travails he has kept fundraising. he's been using this on the campaign trail to rally his base as this case gets underway, the first of ben different for donald trump? >> well, not in that he's going to continue to use it to rile up his base and to continue to try to get money from them. but the difference is alex, we are past the republican primary. >> he has his base already and even during the primary, we saw that he was losing anywhere between 11 and 20% of the votes during the republican primary. that is a huge red flag for him going into the general election now that we're in the general, he has got to start playing addition and what he's doing, his attitude, his wanting to so get rid of the gag order, his talk about retribution, all of that is focusing

, republican strategist alice stewart and cnn poll local commentator and democratic strategist maria cardona there, the host of the podcast, hot mics, left to right. ladies. >> good morning. both of you. >> and people are obviously second over noem killing this puppy i've got my mug here of duke. he's with me every day i just can't imagine, like, how do you look into in areas on screen right there. i mean, dogs are as americans baseball an apple pie. i just like who could look into those eyes and do such a thing. i mean, that's the thing i've been struggling with all weekend, but also why would you brag about it in a book? i don't get it. she trying to prove something to trump her explanation and her defense is that this shows that she's able to make tough decisions and make difficult decisions. look as a pet owner, we all have pet owners. i love the heck out of my dog. >> a tough decision for a dog owner is having that decision to put your dog down at the end of life, not blowing the head off a puppy that you can't trace great that's not a tough decision. >> that is just heartless, quite fr

and i'm joined also at the table tonight by cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, maria cardona and alyssa farah griffin, a cnn political commentator who once served as the white house communications director under president trump. alyssa, i mean, what do you make of what the governors arguing there are about what donald trump's really trying to do with this non statement position on abortion today. >> so as much as it pains me to say this, i think that donald trump was incredibly savvy and this move today, he's being intentionally vague way he's able to do is throw bone two conservatives and say giving it back to the states as a conservative position will also having to dodge on defending some of the most draconian sort of decisions you've seen, whether it's florida which is coming up in may or some of these southern states were abortions outright outlawed. he could say, that's up to the voters. it's up to the governor and the legislature in those states. now, there's a lot of intellectual dishonesty in that, but that is what he's planning to do one thing i would keep an eye on

maria bartiromo, and it is tuesday, april 30th. 8 a.m. on the button on the east coast. time for the hot topic of the hour. education secretary miguel car gone that -- cardona to testify this morning, indiana-israel protests -- anti-israel protests i grow on american campuses. take a looked at new york city if earlier today at columbia university. fox business' madison alworth is live this morning at columbia where students broke into the academic building, hamilton hall, late last night, and they are currently occupying the building. madison. >> reporter: good morning, maria. that's exactly connect, just after midnight, hundreds of protesters went onto campus taking over an academic building used by the dean and other senior officers. the group moved metal gates on the campus to barricade the doors and formed a human shield. the student newspaper, columbia spectator, reports students broke glass to get inside and covered internal cameras with trash bags. the student newspaper reporting they occupied the building within minutes. as of this morning, the building is still occupied by protesters, the morningside campus behind me is limiting to only essential s