a that put his blood and reputation out there on the line for you, frankly, pushing back on this anti-white hatred that is so common in media and entertainment someone's like that in their private life, do they have any business serving in a government position? >> absolutely not. absolutely not >> because we gave an oath, >> we raised our right hand and we swore to the people that we serve everyone equally and rightfully so polls here are closing in just about two minutes and you're taking to add the election results >> later this evening. ironically, there's actually city council meeting going on in the building behind me. but judd blevins is not here tonight. erin? >> absolutely fascinating and credible report. thank you so much, ed. >> thanks for joining us. the news continues. now on cnn

happening now, the us expresses outrage over the israeli airstrikes that shell seven aid workers in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is calling the attack unintentional and vowing an investigation will get reaction from it. an aid director who was a friend of one of the victims also tonight, donald trump is following up a stop in michigan with another battleground state visit in holding a rally in wisconsin this our he's using his return to the campaign trail to ramp up his rhetoric on the border crisis and to double down on calling undocumented immigrants animals. plus raking news as parts of the us are already reeling from destructive storms, millions of americans are at risk tonight for very severe weather, including the most significant threat of tornadoes so far this year. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, a

urine the situation room we begin with a deadly strike on aid workers in gaza. it's prompting, do condemnation of israel's war tactics and forcing this of desperately needed food deliveries to gaza cnn's jeremy diamond has more from jerusalem. we want to warn you some of the images in this report our graphic, and may be disturbing to viewers >> there is no mistaking the target of this israeli strike the world central kitchen's logo still visible after a missile tour through the roof of this vehicle pieces of the aid organizations emblems scattered throughout the charred whole of a second vehicle. and then there are the bodies of the aid workers themselves, patches proudly worn on chess over bullet-proof vests that offered no more protection in gaza than the

emblem of a humanitarian aid organization they are among seven aid workers killed in israeli strikes on their convoy late monday night six of them were foreigners, including a dual american canadian citizen, as well as british, australian and polish nationals, triggering international uproar and prompting a rare acknowledgment of israeli responsibility from prime minister netanyahu. >> let's solve no, by my mouth i am. you cook doggy unfortunately, in the last day there was a tragic incident where our forces unintentionally struck innocent people in the gaza strip. it happens in war and we are thoroughly investigating it >> world central kitchen says the >> israeli military knew about the convoy. weapons expert consulted by cnn, said images of the damage indicate a precise drone strike carried out with total visibility of the target world central kitchen said its aid workers

got into three vehicles after unloading aid at this warehouse in central gaza and began traveling down the coastal al rashid street. cnn geo-located the convoys deadly journey using images filmed at the scene three-and-a-half miles south of first vehicle is struck two other strikes rained down in quick succession. one vehicle is hit a half-mile further, the third comes to a stop another mile down the road, found only the next day a little bit. >> and for out last night between 11 and 11:30 p.m. a missile hit a car. when we approached, we saw the car on fire, we try to extinguish the fire and upon opening the cargo, we discovered boxes of candy, meet it was an international aid organisation that assists people any international or european one that comes to aid gaza will be targeted. they wanted to send a message of don't can, you can let the people die shabby the

israeli military has struck aid convoys in the past, including this un truck which was shelled in early february world central kitchen, founded in 2010 by celebrity chef jose andres, has been one of the most prominent aid organizations in gaza, even working with the israeli military last month to build a pier off the gaza coastline, delivering the first aid shipments to gaza by sea. >> this is chapter today >> we're at the date of alaska australian zomi frankcom spent years coordinating aid operations for world central kitchen, risking and ultimately sacrificing >> her life to help those in need she died alongside her polish colleague, damian sobol. >> hello, everyone, who came from carroll weeks earlier, he was excitedly readying a convoy to build soup kitchens in gaza tables >> shell >> water since >> today, their bodies were among those headed for the

rafah border crossing but the body of one of the seven will not leave gaza safe is abu-taha, a driver and translator, was buried in central gaza, not far from where he carried out his final mission. >> and will >> three of the seven aid workers who were killed were british nationals today, the israeli prime minister speaking with his british counterpart prime minister sunak telling the israeli prime minister he was appalled by the attack and calling for a transfer its parent independent investigation while we wait for the possibility of such an investigation, the world central kitchen suspending its eight operations in the gaza strip at a very dangerous time has hundreds of thousands of people face an increased risk of famine we'll jeremy diamond is so heartbreaking. thank you very much for that report. i want to go to the white house right now, seen as kayla tausche, is standing by kayla, how much us pressure on israel

are we seeing today in the aftermath? of this horrific strike? >> well, if quite a bit of pressure, president biden, according to the white house, conveyed to jose andres, the founder of world central kitchen, that he is going to tell israel that human monetary and aid workers must be protected and on multiple occasions earlier today, the white house in the form of nsc spokesman john kirby at the white house briefing kind on multiple occasions to back the assessment of israel that this was an unintentional incident instead, choosing to say that they will reserve their judgment meant until the comprehensive investigation is concluded. but noting that misfires have been all too frequent. here's john kirby earlier today. >> this isn't the first one. >> there are issues of deconfliction that >> clearly need to be fleshed out. >> an >> improved our expectation is and we've made this clear to them that they'll come clean about what they've learned. there'll be fully transparent and if people need to be held accountable, but there'll be held accountable kirby also. said that the us would not pause or stop military aid

going to israel. this as the cnn is reporting that the white house has quietly greenlit and additional $18 billion of f fifth, fighter jets to go to israel over the next five years. and also wolf, the white house and the biden administration confirming its assessment that israel was behind the attack of an iranian building in damascus, syria, where senior leaders of the irgc see, were present, but saying the us had no role in that strike. and so the us should be spared any retaliation, wealth. >> kayla tausche at the white house. thank you very much. joining me now. sandra rashid, a director with the aid group, an era that's now suspending its operations in gaza, sandra, thank you so much for all the important work you're doing. thank you so much for joining us. i know your group works with world central kitchen on the ground in gaza and you knew zomi frankcom. well he australian aid worker who was

killed. how are you grappling with this horrible, horrible attack >> every day, we think that it's can't get any worse and every day it's proven that it does get worse. this has been i particularly hard blow for us an era has recently lost one of our own colleagues, mousa shawwa, on march 8 and that was as close as we had in terms of loosing some of our staff members. >> but >> zomi was a friend and we work together for two years. we've been working since 2021. wck has supported our work and an actually, i just i had a bowl of nachos with her three weeks ago and we talked about the challenges we are facing on the ground and how we can move forward. >> it's really hard. today's a very hard de will. >> you're saying you spoke with her recent really what should we know about zomi? and your other colleagues who bravely put themselves at risk to deliver this critically

important aid i think everybody on the ground that's working for gaza, whether they're in gaza, are working in the west bank, are working even globally everybody's heart is in doing whatever we can to support the palestinians in gaza during this horrible time. and zomi and the wck team damian we interacted with damien quite a bit as well they were committed humanitarians. they were they had their heart in it. they were doing it for all the right had their heart in it. they were doing it for all the right reasons and their main objective was to feed as many people as they possibly can and we, as a narrow, we're supporting them to do that and they worked very closely with our team. they had daily interactions with our team on the ground. >> now that a narrow and world central kitchen, unfortunately, we have had to pause their operations in gaza. how much do

you fear more gazans? will starve and possibly die? >> you know >> words, world central kitchen, and a narrow together, we're providing over 1 million meals a week we were alone providing about 150,000 meals through our different kitchens and tukey as this is going to have a deep impact. and in the humanitarian conditions on the ground are going to be even more difficult unfortunately, we were forced to pause. we were forced to stop our work because we had to ensure that the safety of our of our team was guaranteed and we don't have that guarantee right now. our team on the ground is for the first time since this whole started, is really quite worried and quite scared about them being targeted as you know we'll world central kitchen says they were coordinating closely with the israel defense forces and driving on a >> pre-approved root their logo

was clearly displayed on the roof of the vehicles and on the sides of the vehicles. israel says its attack was unintentional do you think that's true >> you know, if you look at the images and you look at what happened on the ground, the vehicles were hit three different times very direct targeted hits >> it's it's it's clear >> that this was a targeted attack. if it wasn't going to be targeted, i don't think it would have been hit three times and with the news on the ground is saying, is that the first hit happened in the survivors of the first car got out and move to the second car and then that second car was hit and those after that car got hits, survivors got out and went to the third car and that car was hit. that does not sound unintentional to me. i mean, that is that sounds like it was a very direct targeted target for the israelis. >> sandra received. thank you so much for joining us. and once again, thank you. thank you for all the important work

in an era has done for the palestinians in gaza over these years. appreciate it very much. >> thank you for having. me and justin ahead. how donald trump is stoking fears of immigrants and attacking president biden as he's campaigning and crucial battleground states and later, trump it's newest legal move against the judge in the new york hush money case with the trial less than two weeks away after advil, let's dive in quite about your back. >> before advil >> advil dual axon fights thank two ways. advil targets pain at the source has seen a minute and blocks pain signals advil dual action. >> now at t professionally installs google nest products >> you're all set are in the system. we should go >> with the most trusted name and home security as the intelligence of google, you have a home with no worries brought to you by adt

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just heard the crowd stop him, chanting, build the wall over and over again. remember this messaging on immigration propelled him to the white house in 2016, and he's hoping it does again in 2024. now, earlier today, we heard him in michigan going further repeating his claims that immigrants and send migrants were animals, would take a lesson >> the democrats say, please don't call them animals or humans. i said no, they're not yemen and not yam is their animals nancy pelosi told me that she said, please don't use the word animals or when you're talking about these people, i said, i'll use the word animal because that's what they are just a reminder that one of the things we've been reporting is that immigration is at the top of the list for voters. >> cycle so far so donald trump is really leaning into that hard. he's also linking violent crime to immigration as we have repeatedly reported data shows that immigrants, migrants are far less likely to commit crimes than citizens. however, there have been a number of high-profile cases

and donald trump has really picked up on that doubling down repeating that, trying to stoke fear and say that he would protect american people better than president biden house. >> and it was interesting because trump also addressed his 175 billion bond and he ties that announcement on a key issue in this campaign, right? >> russia, exactly. >> that's right. well, if no, first of all, this is the first time we've heard him addressing this ban on camera. he unsurprisingly complained about it. here's what he said >> i'm, the. only one that has to put up a bond. i put up a bond. i didn't do anything wrong. i had to put up a bond this morning for $175 million. i did nothing wrong all throughout the united states. it was >> not surprising again, saying he did nothing wrong. he also continued to call all of these legal cases election interference. and as you mentioned, he did ties that he would be making some kind of statement on abortion next week, a reminder he has been floating this idea of a potential national abortion ban

that 15 weeks and his team had said, however, there was nothing plan to roll out. we will obviously be pressing them on what exactly he is planning to say next week >> interesting hi, i'm kristen holmes and green bay, wisconsin for us. thank you very much. let's get some more joining us are political experts and evan asness. let me start with you. you're the buyer biographer, >> trump says he'll address abortion next week, but president biden is already hitting him on this issue of abortion rights for women in a new ad that has just been released, watch this because for 54 years they were trying to get roe v. wade terminated. and i did it and i'm proud to have done it in 2016, donald trump ran to overturn roe v. wade now, in 2024, he's running the pass a national ban on a woman's right to choose i'm running to make roe v. wade the law of the land again evan, how important is this issue of access to abortion rights for women to biden's reelection campaign

>> it's enormously important. in fact, it's, it's really at the center of it in many respects, when i spoke to president biden, not too long ago about this subject of abortion. he said, how is it that the supreme in court could roll back a basic american right that had been in place for over half a century and he believes that is fundamentally out of step with where most americans are. the polls show americans overwhelmingly believe that the termination of roe v. wade as, as donald trump puts, it, was bad for the country and the events of recent days, particularly the supreme court decision in florida, which cleared the way for a six-week abortion ban and also puts it on the ballot in november, drives home the fact that a lot of voters will have abortion on their minds in the fall. and democrats believe that probably works to their advantage it's interesting, s. e. cupp is with us as well. let's see, trump called florida six-week abortion ban a terrible mistake last year. but now that the ban is going into effect, the proposed

constitutional amendment to protect access to abortion in florida could be, could put trump in a tough political spot, right? >> yeah, it's interesting. he's been all over the map on abortion. he was critical of six-week bands. he has also at the same time taking credit for six, ten, and 15 week bands obviously as you as you just noted, he he takes credit for overturning roe v. wade >> now with a florida news, he's saying well, it's a states rights issue, so he's really been all over the map and he's going to have to get pretty clear on his messaging because the pro-life wing of his party feels responsible for helping to get him elected. but this is an issue that for sure imperils republicans. we have metrics to show that the 2022 midterm fluxions being one votes in kansas and ohio red states that trump won. that rejected these kinds of effective bands voters there don't want these polling that

shows most voters think that these kinds of bans are two extremes. so republicans are playing with this at their peril. and if i were biden, if i were democrats, i would make this the number one issue that they were running on. >> ashley etienne is with this as well. ashley will democrats be able to successfully hit trump on this issue of abortion rights for women when he's on record speaking out against the strict ban and florida yeah. >> i mean, i think esi is completely right. democrats are going to continue to lean in on this issue. the republicans war against women will continue to be the gift that continues to give to the democrats. and i just want to add to what she said, it's not just we didn't see its gains in kansas and ohio, but even in place this is like michigan where the president just love, you saw whitmer who made incredible inroads and republican strongholds and suburbs outside of detroit and grand rapids on this particular issue, democrats were able to build an

aggressive diverse coalition from young to old two people of color, as well as women in the suburbs that really are rejecting republicans extreme agenda on this issue. so the president is doubled downing with ads in these battleground states, florida being one of them. this is an issue that they continue see as a winner, but i will add my recommendation to the president is to you to make this the center of the campaign. but he also has to become even more aggressive on the issue of the border. why not start running ads putting the blame for the open border on republicans, congressional republicans on donald trump. and these key battleground states, immigration and border has now become a national issue right up there with abortion that i think could if they start to message right and aggressively could help build and stabilize that coalition going into the net, november haven't why do you think trump is railing against immigration in these two midwestern states today,

trump made these comments in michigan, which shares a border with canada right? >> well, as we know, donald trump has really hinged his campaign to that issue, just a few months ago, given the opportunity for republicans to sign a bill to pass a bill that had been neglected in part by republicans, in fact, by some hardliners on immigration that he had stood in the way of that and said, no, i don't want an immigration deal to pass. now, in effect, because it would undermine his case, his base really that is rallied around this issue and it is also let's be honest. well, these two issues who's are intertwined. it is a way of distracting attention from the fact that abortion is a growing and important issue for people not only in florida, but across the south because by undoing access to abortion in florida, it means that women in georgia and mississippi and elsewhere also lose valuable access to

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have asked the judge to consider a motion for his recusal. this is because of work that hit the judge's daughter does for a political consulting firm, that firm has done work in the past for the biden and kamala harris campaigns. so trump's team has arguing to the judge that their business and his daughter stands to benefit financially chile from this trial because it will provide fodder for trump rivals to fundraise off of now, prosecutors are opposing this. they say that an advisory committee on judicial ethics has already said that this was not grounds for the judge to recuse and also they say that trump's team has put together a daisy chain of innuendos, but no actual evidence that the judge's daughter or her company has benefited or will benefit from this. now this comes though, as the judge has already expanded this gag order in the case, two include preventing trump from talking about his family members, including his daughter, as well as family members of the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg now trump this morning immediately posting again on

his social media platform statements about the judge not making comments about the daughter, but he also made comments about the judge who oversaw the civil fraud case and trump posted that $175 million bond on that last night, which now means that the new york attorney general's office cannot move to seize assets. wolf. >> kara. thank you. kara scannell reporting, let's get some insight right now from former federal prosecutor andrew weisman. he is the coauthor of a brand new book entitled the trump indictments, the historic charging documents with commentary there you see the cover andrew, thanks very much for joining us. trump is again asking judge varchar to recuse herself from this upcoming trial, arguing he's conflicted by his daughters political work. what do you make of this? >> well, this as qarrah of it is really the exact same motion he made months ago and was denied and it wasn't an i just by the judge. this is one where the judge to be sure that he

was making the call correctly, actually went to the judicial ethics panel to get it the ruling with respect to whether this was a bridge too far, whether he should be recusing himself and they said absolutely not. i think the phrase that qarrah quoted is really definitely the one to site, which is a daisy chain of innuendo this is not how the basis for recusal. when you're looking for recusal of a judge, you're looking for something that they have said that is really partisan. you're looking for some connection to one side or the other. in the case and there's just nothing about this case that would suggest that judge mug shot is going to be anything other than his reputation in new york, which is a very solid judge who's fair to both sides. he's highly respected. let me also get your reaction to andrew there's something former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe told me yesterday here in the situation room about gag orders of trump watch

and listen to this these gag orders create more of a distraction than they do a productive limitation of the of donald trump's >> speech, the trump team takes advantage of the imposition of those orders to file appeals to request clarification to make overheated statements. it all of that distracts the prosecutors and the prosecution in team away from their main role, which is to stay focused on the case and put together the best-case they can >> show andrew, how do you respond to that >> so first of all, i take it as a given eight, it's really dangerous to ever disagree with andrew mccabe. i worked with him when i was at the fbi. he's terrific >> i would >> say here one thing that is different, one reason i disagree with him in this case is this isn't simply the defendant attacking the judge or the prosecution, if that will. all that was going on is heinous is that is as inappropriate for any

defendant, let alone somebody who used to be the leader of the free world here, the prosecution and the judge have to be concerned about so many other players to jurors that perspective jurors, the witnesses, all of whom can feel intimidated and threatened. and that is not how you want the justice system to work. so it is true that is a distraction, but i do think it's one that the parties have to undertake if you're going to have a rule of law and justice system seven, that's fair to everyone, to the government and to the defendant. and all of the participants can feel safe by doing their duty in that process. yeah, good point. >> we're also learning >> andrew about some of the expected witnesses in this new york criminal trial. you write about many of these witnesses in your new book. who do you see playing the being the key players in the prosecution's case? we're showing some pictures, some names of some of the expected witnesses i think

what you're going to hear and we sort of lay this out in our book, is that although it's going to be tempting for >> all of us who are covering the trial to say that michael cohen is the star witness. i think you're going to hear the state say that the documents are the key here because there's going to be such a paper trail of what happened but having said that, there obviously going to be witnesses who gather a lot of attention, whether it's david the person who was running the national enquirer. that's alleged to have taken a position to help donald trump to keep information from becoming public. it's sort of a bizarre thing for news organization to be doing. to not only keep information, but doing it on behalf of one party, not doing it in a bipartisan way. stormy daniels will obviously be an important witness to set the predicate for the hush-money

payments. and then of course, michael cohen because he is at the heart of this. so i think those will be important witnesses, but i think you're going to hear a lot about the documents and how they corroborate all of those witnesses in the substance of what they put forth, and obviously, those witnesses would be subject to enormous cross-examination, particularly michael cohen. >> good point if trump were to be convicted in this case, what kind of penalty potentially could he be looking at >> he could be looking at jail there. this is one where the judge i think is going to be looking at the rule of law to see how other people were treated other people with a similar criminal background. i think this is an area where donald trump's pretrial behavior is going to be relevant. if you have someone who's contrite, if you have someone who shares that, he's respectful of the rule of law that this was an aberration that is something that the

court can take into account. but if you think that the defendant actually is running basically as an outlaw and as basically thumbing his nose at the judicial process. and it shows no sign of remorse and essentially is a recidivism. those are factors that a judge can consider and i sure that a judge like judge more sean, if there were to be a conviction, is going to factor all of that in, but it's just way too soon to say what? there it would actually constitute jail time. the one thing i would add is i think the fact that the former president has secret service protection is not going to be something that prevents him from doing jail time. that that's something that can be worse worked out. it is a factor, but it is not something that has preclusive, i think for any judge, considering whether to send donald trump to jail if there is a conviction pretty amazing stuff indeed, andrew weisman. thank you very much for joining us for this important note to our viewers. be sure to check out andrew is

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we're kind of losing a little bit of daylight here. and that's the most concerning these storms that happened in the overnight hours. notice how the scandal is. >> satellite >> gets a little darker at the end because the sun is setting, that it's the area in a time of day that we start to lose people because they're not one not paying attention or they'd gone to sleep, these storms will continue all the way through the night. so let's zoom in onto some of them right now. there's cincinnati, there are the storms here that just move through florence, y'all. and has moved off toward the east of i75 down to the south. we had a storm that likely made a tornado over i75 south of gelug go that big hill, you go up toward gela co and then here's the storm's to the south, and it's going to continue for the evening hours here, even if you don't get a tornado and we hope you don't, there's still could be 60 to 70 miles per hour winds that could bring down branches. there could be some hay hailed, not as much halos yesterday though, still have your plan in place and believe it or not, wolf appear in the up of michigan, there is a blizzard

warning it's because the warm air of spring wants to come up from the south, the cold air of winter says, hey, not so fast, and all of a sudden you get that clash between the warm and the cold. it happened depends mainly in the spring, but it also we do get a fall season of severe weather when the cold air wants to crash and push the warm air away. winter storm warnings in effect for more than a foot of snow and tornadoes were on the ground at least five on the ground already today, five on the ground yesterday, and likely more to come in the overnight hours. so this is still a storm to contend with or could be a little bit of flooding with it as well. flood watches and warnings are in effect, especially if you get very heavy rain in the pocan owes and the allegheny is in the catskills that water wants to run downhill quite quickly. wolf, very dangerous situation. everybody should be careful out there. chad myers at the cnn weather center thank you very much for that update coming up around now, vows revenge for the attack on its consulate in damascus, syria as the us weighs in on whether israel was

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very much open to question. until now, they have worked through their affiliated militias in lebanon. we have any iraq syria, the houthis in yemen have either targeted israel or have targeted us forces, as we saw, for instance, late january? wendy rocky militias struck an american base in jordan, killing three us service personnel. now since then those militias have actually stopped those attacks apparently under orders from the iranians to avoid an escalation. but now it may either case that in the aftermath of this attack that killed a senior, i irgc commander, that the iranians might tell their proxies the region to increase pressure on israel, on the united states, or perhaps given the gravity of this strike on the running

diplomatic compound in damascus, the iranians will target israel directly something they haven't done until now, that very much will raise the possibility of a major escalation possibly even a regional war. it's widely understood that the audience, the americans, and perhaps even the israelis, don't want that to happen, but it appears that all sides are really pushing the envelope the hi israelis, for instance, are striking deeper and deeper within lebanon. on the early hours of friday morning, there was a strike on syrian military position outside of aleppo, northern syria widely believed that the israelis were behind that, that left at least 40 military person now, dead. they're among them. his bullfighter. so certainly the temperature is rising. the question is, is it going to boil over into a full blown?

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roll like never before, superstar caitlin clark and her iowa hawkeyes team, just advancing to the final four. and shining a brighter spotlight on the game of women's basketball overall clark, who's broken most of college basketball scoring and three-point shooting records, scored 41 points last night as iowa defeated rival lsu in the elite eight round of the ncw a tournament. >> we don't want this to end and we want to keep coming back and working hard with each other and fighting for one more week >> fans of women's basketball don't want this to end either. women's college basketball >> has never been this popular. it is a national sensation. every corner bar was watching iowa vs lsu, every college dorm room because watching iowa vs lsu. >> it's all placed enormous pressure on the 22 year-old senior from des moines, pressure that her coach says clark doesn't shrink from when the stage is the brightest, when the spotlight is the brightest, she's at her very best >> she loves this you know, some people, whether in the

moment she just gets stronger in the moment when it's her time. i mean, she's going to just shine according to axios, the cheapest ticket to the women's college basketball championship game this year is 61% more expensive than the cheapest ticket to the men's championship game analysts say the spike in popularity is almost entirely due to clark and her on-court rivalry with lsu star angel reese, one of the most debated moments of last year's championship game was when reese made the, you can't see me gesture to clark as lsu was closing out its victory over iowa for the title in an emotional news conference last night reese spoke about what she's gone through since then. >> i've been through so much. i've seen so much. i've been attacked so many times death threats. i've been sexualized. i've been threatened, not been so many things, and i'm still strong. >> let's be honest, there's a racial element as well. and so she's had to shoulder all of this ever since they won the last so championship. anytime

you summon her name, it is just even anytime i even tweet something about her, the level of reaction people call her ghetto a >> all of this comes on the heels of the most talked about event at the nba all-star game in february, when golden state warriors star steph curry barely beat sabrina ionescu of the wnba's new york liberty in a three-point shooting contest expect more of that in the future if it's stef versus caitlin clark, they might need to hold it in a football stadium and we have this justin last night's game between caitlin clark's iowa hawkeyes, and angel, reese's, lsu tigers has set the all-time tv ratings record for a women's >> college basketball game, according to espn wolf, 12 million. we have more than 12 million viewers. amazing. i was one of them brian, thank you very, very much. brian todd reporting and to our viewers. thanks. it's very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. i'll see you back here tomorrow 11:00 a.m. eastern for cnn newsroom. of course, 6:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room, the new who's continues on cnn, right?