court document filed by his legal team suggests the embattled center may defend themselves by blaming his wife the couple and two other individuals face numerous criminal charges related to an alleged years-long bribery three scheme involving the governments of egypt and qatar. the new revelation comes after a federal judge granted nbc news is request to unseal two sentences in the filing about why center menendez believes that joint trial would hurt his chances at trial. the filing states that if asked to testify, the center of quote, may inculcate unquote his wife meaning he may accuse her. the reason he says is because she quote, withheld information lesson from center menendez or otherwise led him to believe than unlawful was taking place and quote, he also says that if there is a joint trial and he chooses not to testify against whites that would force him to hold back testimony that would exonerate him. now, the senator has denied wrongdoing, pled not guilty to all charges. the trial is scheduled to begin next. month. the news continues

right here on cnn it's wednesday, april 17, right now on cnn this morning, seven juror seated five go and donald trump's hush money trial former president's stuck in court while president biden hits the trail to court votes articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary very delivered to the senate. >> will there even be a trial? and for the first time in two years, top military officials from the us and china are talking it is 5:00 a.m. here in washington, there's a live look up on capitol hill night some quiet here in the nation's capital. good morning, everyone. i'm dr. a. constant for facing on. it's great to be with you. >> all first a tale of two candidates, donald trump's stuck in a courtroom while president biden goes after a while out on the campaign trail, the president kicking off a multi-city tour of battleground, pennsylvania where he's calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations leaning into his scranton routes to make as

economic case against trump when i look at the economy, i don't see it through the eyes of mar-a-lago. >> i see through the eyes of scranton? no billionaires, you pay a lower tax rate than a teacher a nurse a sanitation worker trump is in new york, of course, for his criminal hush money trial seven jurors were seated on tuesday after court. the former president headed to a harlan bodega where he aired some familiar grievances the whole world is watching this new york legal system. this is all a election were really election interference at the highest level? according be at a level that nobody's ever going to make a heavy play africa joining me now is stuff kight congressional reporter and immigration expert at axios and stuff. i mean, this location was significant, i

suppose for trump in a way it was the site of this fatal bodega stabbing, a case that was dropped by the same prosecutor. in this criminal case, alvin bragg trump has tried to connect crime time to migrants over and over again. this is what he does. he did it yesterday, help us make sense of what we saw yesterday up in harlem, if you can. >> yeah. i mean, it was certainly trump trying to turn the tables on district attorney alvin bragg and kind elevating a case that was a very critical case for four bragg there. >> and of course, trump is making crime a key part of his his campaign strategy this year, he really has hit on the issue of crime over and over again and also connecting it to your 0.2 migrants, that something we heard from him yesterday after his de in court. it's of course, a little bit ironic day here, him coming out of a criminal court proceeding and then go after crime himself. but it's something that we've heard time and time again from him and something that he wants to keep a focus deaths, and it's also, you of course, this this trial is going to impact his ability to campaign to campaign in battleground states, but he is determined to make the best of

it and bring the campaign to him there in a york. >> yeah he says he could possibly win new york state. >> where does obviously that's pretty far-fetched. any was pointing to his press coverage talking about let's listen to that. we have that they want to keep me off the campaign trail. >> but basically what i'm doing i think there's more prescient yeah. >> i mean, you know, obviously it's it's pretty hopeless for him to win new york and campaigning in new york city up in harlem at a bodega where there was a a fatal there was a homicide. i mean, it seems to me it's almost he's not really trying to campaign in new york. he's trying to campaign on fox. he's trying to campaign where his base might be tuning in to see what he's up to. >> yeah, we know his campaign is planning to kind of get out there and get as much attention as possible, even though this is a potentially negative story line. for the former president, there's still trying to use this as an opportunity to get trump on the airways to have trump's speaking to the american people and to still

draw attention away from president biden, who does have the opportunity to go to pennsylvania, a key battleground state, to pitch his own vision for a second term, as we're seeing that contrast there. and of course we know the trump team. it's not afraid of any kind of controversy, they have long operated on. any news is good news kind of a strategy. yeah, i would say that that's the case. the president is in pittsburgh today where he's going to be speaking to united steel workers and scranton yesterday. >> he was talking about the ugly side of politics. let's talk about that i've never thought i'd see it's time when i'm going through a neighborhood or rural town in the west sea, big signs that have a trump sign in the middle of says f biden and having a little kid standing with his middle finger seven years old, eight years old. >> i promise it happens all the time it's not who we are yeah. >> i mean, this has been a

continuing theme for the president that it's a battle for the soul of the country you know, the way he looks out at trump is sort of drag the country into the political gutter and he's talking about these. i mean, you and i see this out on the campaign trail. we cover politics. i mean, this is this is the ugly side of politics and it has been dredged up to a large extent by the former president and the president is going to he's going to point his finger at that. >> yeah, of course. i'm in present. biden has made this the theme through this campaign and also it was a theme in 2020 as well, trying to show himself as the american who just wants it's to be just like everyone else he wants to unite the country. the question is whether we can actually see improvement there. biden's also speaking to a sentiment that we see over and over again in the polls that americans are frustrated by politics. they're frustrated by the tone they're frustrated by the anger that they see. whether it's through the media or just hearing from politicians directly so that is certainly something we're seeing biden focus on.

>> yeah, but he's not really spending as much time talking about and this has been sort of hotly debated as to whether or not the president should go after trump on these legal issues. he's not doing that a whole lot. he's hitting trump on other other parts of the ugly side of our politics. i suppose. and the way he thinks that trump is lowered, the lowered the conversation, but he's not going after trump so much on this on all these legal troubles. >> yeah, really have biden as well as democrats at large have tried to leave this to the courts. that's their, that's their line. they went to allow the justice system to work things out on its own. i think they are nervous at making these cases look political. this is something that trump has used himself. he likes to paint the justice department as weaponized against him, that that he has been leading the charge on with many of his republican allies in congress as well. and so democrats are having to walk that line. they don't want to make the these cases look even more political, especially actually, among some republican voters who do see

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still debating its response to iran's weekend attack, us intellence sgests israel is considerina narr and limited strike inse iran, t the israelis have not given the us an official warning about what their plans may bor when that might be implemented. >> cnn's nada bashir is live in london for us with more nada. what can you tell us? >> look, there are suddenly mounting concerns of a water potential escalation could look like more broadly in region we've seen how quickly it can spread across the region. and there have been mountain calls from members of the international community for israel not to strike back at iran for there to be restraint at by the israeli military. now of course, this is coming from some of israel's closest allies, including the united states. and here in the united kingdom as well, we've heard from the prime minister rishi sunak. he spoke with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on tuesday calling for calm, calling for australian are also expressing support and solidarity with israel today, the british foreign secretary, david cameron, is in israel. he spoke

to reporters. he said that the uk is calling for a straighten that if israel is to respond to do so in a way that is limited does not cause escalation beyond the region. and this is certainly being felt by regional leaders who have for some time now held concerns that these proxy development between iran and israel could spread to more direct engagement. that is certainly what we have seen now, iran engaging directly for the first time in an attack against israel. we heard yesterday from the egyptian foreign minister sameh shoukry. >> he is of course a key player and ongoing mediation between israel and hamas. >> he told cnn that he had spoken to both the israeli and iranian foreign ministers conveying his wish not to see an escalation warning that this for tat reciprocal targeting between israel and iran would no way and would be not conducive to any longstanding first, to bring about peace in the region. and that is also being felt of course, within israel by many politicians, but also by many in the country who

want the israeli government to focus more so on trying to bring back the hostages that will certainly expressed today from the former israeli prime minister hood olmert. he spoke to israeli media. so this would not be in israel's interests and while that israel should be focused more so on trying to strike a deal to bring the hostages home all right. >> nada bashir. thank you very much for that update. we appreciate it coming up, but just ahead, how donald trump defines a fair juror and as criminal hush money trial was dangerous. storms devastating parts of the midwest are forecast is coming up next there are giant so mug they are

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developing story right now in the united arab emirates, a year's worth of rain has fallen in just 12 hours and do by flooding out roads and causing delays at the city's airport. >> i'll let's go live now to cnn's eleni giokos, who is live and dubai and a wow, that is a lot of rain. what can you show us? what can you you tell us yeah, i'd absolutely is i mean, look, these are the cleanup team that gets to pump the water from the street. >> they tell me that it's already half of what it was good morning. in fact, i just walked about a meter from where i'm standing right now and i was submerged knee deep and it just gives you a sense of just the amount of water that dubai experience yesterday, pummeling down across the uae as a whole oh, the numbers that we have in certain parts of the uae, the were on 250 millimeters of water, but frankly, they've been torrential rains across the region. now, in oman, in specific we sold over 17 people losing their lives one, 70

year-old man has lost a life it here in the uae, we're still waiting for more information from emergency services says, but in terms of what it means for getting around the city, it's been almost impossible to drive and leave your home. the main artery feeding through into the airport, check ziad road, one of the most it's important streets in dubai was completely shut down. people were trapped on that street for over around six hours. and you see cars submerged. and crashing into each other. it was incredible sites, frankly, pretty heard rafic stuff. and now you've got cleanup teams coming through today to try and assess the damage. and importantly, to see what's happened to infrastructure. now, many would say this isn't a lot of water in relative we've terms and parts of other parts of the world that we see. but it is a days that area, the water has no way to go. there aren't enough drain water systems to get the water flowing from the streets. and you've got so this reality playing out. the divides

national april has shut down all flights leaving from dubai because people cannot get to the airport. so over parole, the last 24 hours have seen the city shutdown all right. >> wow, that's gonna be a big cleanup for dubai. i'm not sure that they're totally accustomed to all that rain. it's going to be a big task for them. are laney giokos, thank you very much. really appreciate it. >> it is 21 minutes. 21 minutes past the hour. here is your morning roundup lets me to consider whether the decision to revoke my speech was on the mate was made on the basis safety alone that is the valedictorian of usc's graduating class, asna tabassum, telling cnn she not questions why her speech was canceled in school, cited, quote substantial risks relating to security, but

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moment that it touched down, that is called a rope tornado. and you may think, hey, that's a really skinny looking tornado. that's why they call it a rope tornado. maybe it's not so powerful will actually, on the contrary, sometime these rope tornadoes can get more powerful. the smaller and more rope-like they become. think about an ice skater as he or she turns quicker and quicker as she brings, their hands in towards their body, that centrifugal force will actually increase their speed, their rotational speed. and that's what happens sometimes with a wins of a rope tornado. this is what happened in kansas. you can see the damage left behind by the numerous tornados that spun up yesterday, nearly two dozen. in fact, you can see them spread across parts of the midwest and the central hello planes, the system right now losing a bit of its punch from yesterday. so not as much of a severe weather threat today, but nonetheless, there are chances of tornadoes. this time across the ohio river valley damaging winds and large hail. the main threat and isolated tornado cannot be ruled out and check that out. kansas city also under an elevated risk of

severe whether for the day-to-day this cold front advances eastward. and we see another round of severe storms tomorrow. here it is from st. louis stretching southward towards central texas, large hail and damaging winds when we're talking about temperatures, it's springtime, folks, the clash of the seasons you get used to the warmth and then the cold air starts to come in behind it. let's enjoy the 80s while we can from atlanta all the way to the nation's capital, jim, man, 86 to in atlanta. it's way too early for that, isn't it? i mean, that is i know already started mine has been cranked up to here in dc a little but are derek van dam thank you very much. appreciate it coming up next. what we know so far about the seven jurors selected for donald trump's hush money trial, plus the options for senate democrats after house republicans delivered articles of impeachment against homelanad security secretary alejandro mayorkas. that's coming up every weekday morning. >> cnn's five things has what you need to get going with your

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mind filter. >> anybody that's fair i'll let you know, after after the child there was nothing done wrong. >> this is all politics is as coming out of the white house of course that's not true, but opening arguments could begin on monday, former apprentice contested and criminal defense attorney stacey schneider joins me now stacy, i what did you think of what trump had to say there? >> it sort of sounded to me like i've covered them at the white house and he would be asked whether or not he was going to abide by a peaceful transfer of power. and he said, well, it depends on how the election, i mean, he was that kind of a response. i'll let you know what i think of the trial after the trial is over, what the jury did right. >> i mean, i think it's it's ironic here that trump keeps calling it a political prosecution, yet he was shown a copy of the grand jury indictment, which are charges. there were 34 counts of

falsifying business records but the manhattan da in this case actually cited the evidence in the indictment. >> he referred to checks. >> he referred to check stubs, receipts, ledgers, entered the trump corporation about this alleged business fraud. so how trump is using his political prosecution? >> you know, mantra to distract from what's going on in manhattan criminal court is not quite fitting together this time yeah, his legal team dug through the prospective jurors, social media to try to find any potential bias, which is interesting considering trump's online presence himself. i mean, is that a common practice to go through what jurors are doing online and on social media and so on. >> it's not common because usually defendants charged in criminal court are not as famous as a former president of the united states. but in this

case it's very relevant for the defense team to be going through those social media posts. >> and in fact, one juror was dismissed yesterday because he had posted lock him up, referring to donald trump and justice are sean agree that that would not be an appropriate juror to sit on this case? >> yeah, that's probably a safe bet and stacey, we also know at one point trump was reprimanded by the judge. he warned trump's legal team that is not going to tolerate any witness intimidation. apparently, this happen when one of the jurors was was being asked about a social media post and trump was apparently audibly speaking and gesturing toward the juror. that does not sound like something that typically happens in court. i've covered a lot of trials. i've never seen a defendant, you know, sort of mumbling at jurors and that sort of thing. >> that's right, jim, especially during jury selection when the entire panel of potential jurors is in the

courtroom they're the people if selected, we're going to decide donald trump's fate and the most important thing as his defense table with his lawyers is his demeanor during jury selection they're being judged. the jurors are being judged as much as he's being judged by the potential jurors. >> and to have these sort of outbursts, we haven't even started evidence yet. >> witnesses haven't even been called yet. >> this is already starting. >> and judge bruce sean is a no-nonsense judge. he runs a very tight ship and he's not going to put up with that and he didn't tie admonish trump and it wasn't a good look. >> yeah i guess the other question is, i mean, it shouldn't there be cameras in the courtroom? >> what how do you weigh in on that? i want to show a courtroom sketch from yesterday. this is only a snapshot, but i mean, do you really think that trump is you know, how is he holding himself up in court? so far do you

think i mean, if he's already glaring at jurors and nodding off, and that's where they sort of begs the question, why we don't, you know, people were arguing back and forth as to whether or not he was falling asleep. if we had dan cameras in the courtroom from we'd all be able to see for ourselves. we'd be able to see all of the jury selection, but, you know, it's just like, what is this the 1800s, we can't have cameras in the courtroom. yes. >> united states on trial. i just don't get it. >> it's true. it's a new york state law and regulation. they don't allow formers cameras in the courtroom. they never have allowed their court snob referrers and artists who've been with the manhattan supreme court criminal division for decades, who have been drawing defendants there have been other celebrity defendants, certainly coming through manhattan criminal court. and there are no cameras it's definitely to trump's advantage in this case. >> i think not having the camera, even though he's known

to pan to it, but the camera's going to catch every move he makes. >> and the conversations between him and his lawyers. and that's not also not going to be a good luck for him during the trial because that's going to get out into the media and it's very hard to control what's going out in the media while these jurors are in paneled and told not to look at media yeah. >> i mean, just in this highly polarized time, if people aren't going to believe, well what this outlet says or that outlets as well, if you just watch for yourselves, you can make up your own mind as opposed to having to wait for folks to come out of the courtroom and tell us what happened. all right. stacey schneider. thank you so much for your time this morning. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> turning now to capitol hill where the fate of the department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is now in the hands of the us senate after her house republicans sent over two articles of impeachment against secretary yesterday over his handling of the southern border the historic move is expected to be quashed by senate democrats who say the

impeachment proceedings are a political stunt. senate republicans, i should say making threats if the charges are dismissed without a full trial if they take a weaselly way out of this, if they betray our constitutional obligation to the senate, i think we have an obligation on our side. >> to make clear that that's not okay. >> this is so simplistic. >> you have a trial. and so i think all of us should stand up and say, if we're not going to go to trial then everything's on the table and joining me now is ten metro washington correspondent for the atlanta journal-constitution, tia, i mean, what is

>> this whole impeachment issue relatively quickly, but whether that is a short trial that last a few hours versus an outright motion to dismiss or a table. that's what democrats have not indicated. they will do will probably learn more later today. i'm thinking that in order to avoid the criticism, especially a vulnerable democrats like tester and brown, that they didn't take these charges seriously. you might see at least some brief proceedings, some brief discussion about the charges before they dispose of them. >> one and this all has to do with they say my orchestras handling or perhaps mishandling of what's taking place down at the border. but they had an opportunity to pass a tough immigration bill. i have to assume democrats are going to bring that up once this trial process gets started. absolutely. so there are pros and cons for both sides as far as having a trial republicans want the opportunity to talk

about the crisis at the border. they think that that will further sally biden and the perception that he's soft on immigration, that he's not commit it to, the federal policies when it comes to stemming immigration. but on the same hand, the more they talk about what biden isn't doing that gives democrats and opportunity to say, well, biden tried to address it. the senate on a bipartisan basis, try to address it and republicans blocked those efforts so in some ways, democrats say, come on, let's have the conversation again. i think democrats would say it shouldn't happen in the context of an impeachment. this is not an impeachable offense, but it's a conversation that republicans have been trying to push. yeah. >> and let's talk about what's been going on. the chaos around the house speaker mike johnson another republican, kentucky congressman thomas massey has signed onto a marjorie taylor greens effort to oust mike johnson. he even asked johnson

to resign. what's going i mean, let's listen to a little bit what my john's have to say about it yesterday i am, not resigning and it is in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs. >> it is not helpful to the cause. it is not helpful to the country. we need steady leadership, we need steady hands at the wheel. look i regard myself as a wartime speaker i mean, one of the problems though for my johnson has just takes one member of the house on the republicans sayyed to call the motion to vacate and his speakership could be in jeopardy and they're hanging by a very thin thread over there in the house. >> also very small majority of this point and it raises the question, would democrats come over, save mike johnson if perhaps democrats and get what they want on ukraine or something along those lines. >> yeah, i don't see democrats saving mike johnson without assurances that money for

ukraine would pass on the house floor, but that's almost a catch-22 because the more he relies on democrats the more support he will continue to siphon away from those conservative republicans who believe just working with democrats is something that a leader in their party shouldn't be doing quite frankly, and that's what you're hearing from marjorie taylor greene, that she believes speaker johnson. he's saying he's legislating. he's keeping the government operating she considers him to willing to work with democrats in ways that don't reflect a true maga american, america first agenda. so you have that divide i think it's worth pointing out this is a monster that speaker johnson helped to create when he was just a rank-and-file member, he was in line with the maga arm of the party. but again, now that he's in a position of having to govern in lead he's seeing that that puts some hit in a very tough position.

>> yeah. and and we haven't even seen legislative text, right? right. of these aid bills that are obviously going to be a huge part of this, right? >> and so democrats, again, i think they want the, aid to israel, taiwan, ukraine, but they want to see what, what are the details? l's especially that fourth bill that's going to have some conservative priorities. how does that all come together when they're all under the same kind of procedural steps. but maybe being voted on separately. and again, they're they're in there in the driving seat in a lot of ways, even though they're in the minority, speaker johnson has after rely on them to pass just about anything these days. >> yeah. i mean, they're just sitting back and watching republicans fight amongst themselves right now. that's essentially what they're doing waiting to see if mike johnson needs them to come in under the rescue are at tiaa mitchell great to see you. thanks so much. appreciate it. >> all right. coming up next, how the new alliance between russia and china's posing a

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conversation, zeroing in on us china relations and regional and global security issusues lie russia's war against ukraine, america's rivalry with two superpower adversaries is the subject of a new book, new cold war's, china's rise, russia's invasion and america struggled to defend the west. it was written by our next guest, the great cnn political and national security analysts, new york times correspondent as well. david sanger, david great to see you congrats on a look, we have it right here. oh, sure. if it's very important reading and i guess david tell us about i mean, it's a strange place right now. we didn't think if we were to go back ten years from where sit right now, that maybe russia would be in the place that they are right now but that is where we are we didn't think this about russia or china and what the book tries to do is ask the question how is it that we got

this? >> so fundamentally wrong that after the end of the cold war, we thought that russia and china each in their own way for very different reasons, would sign up with western norms, western institutions. >> and basically for china to keep its products going, for russia to keep its oil flowing. >> that they would both manage to sign onto an american form of world order. >> so what did we discover in 2007, vladimir putin went to the munich security conference he said there are parts of mother russia that had been ripped away from us. >> that's going to have to get solved. we didn't listen to them seven years later, he annexed crimea, took a year to put together sanctions, right and then angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, right, signs on to the nord stream two pipeline basically saying it'll

rushes are reliable supplier right after they had taken over a part of ukraine. >> so what was vladimir putin supposed to think about how we would respond and a very similar story in china where we misjudge jinping didn't understand that he was out there to make sure that china was the biggest military power, the biggest economic power of the biggest technological power certainly by the time trying to celebrate the 100th anniversary of mao's revolution. yeah, and you write about this new era that we're in as having echoes of the early days of the cold war. but you're stressed me, put this on screen. it would be a grave mistake to think that we are simply replaying the confrontations of the 20th century or that the restraints that worked in the 1960s and 70s will apply in the 2020s and 2030s why? why do you think that this is a company? putting the different dynamic than in the cold war. there are certainly similarities. we're trying to contain two great powers and so forth. >> but in the cold war, we were

facing essentially one enemy, right? >> it was a giant military power with nuclear weapons and we knew who controlled those weapons we weren't dependent on the soviet union for anything except caviar and vodka. and while we wouldn't want to give that up right you can live without it. >> doing this now is completely different. >> there are two powers. they are unifying together in an uneasy partnership that it's the united states is job to go figure out how they could keep from getting too close they are doing exactly what nixon and kissinger tried to keep them from doing coming together in trying this case mostly we're dependent on them and they are dependent on us. >> but we risk making the mistake we made with russia, which was assuming that they would take their economic interests and that those would triumph over every territorial or, or other interests. >> and that's why taiwan, a

big deal. we spent a lot of time and one in reporting this book, just spending time at taiwan semiconductor, the world's most important and the world's biggest maker of the most advanced chips to ask a question, does he existence of this jam on the island protect the island. only protected as long as china and can't build to that quality what of course china is looking at what russia is doing in ukraine and how the us is responding to that, and whether we just demonstrate this total inability to respond to what's happening in russia because of dysfunction here in dc. but you wrote about what happened in ukraine, saying from the ukraine invasion to the serial confrontations in the pacific to the outbreak if new conflicts in the middle east america is confronting an era of frequent, barely managed flashpoints. and each ingredients made more fraught by the realization that direct superpower conflict is just one miscalculation, one missile strike or one devastating cyber attack away the question that i

have is that, i mean, no matter who's in the white house, this is just a huge challenge. >> it, this is, it really requires three-dimensional chess. think of the current crisis and the mideast nine years ago during the iran negotiations to try to contain their nuclear program who was sitting on either side of the table that chinese and the russians were on the us european sayyed if we were back in those negotiations today of which we have no transfer of of going back they would clearly be on the other side. russia is getting think it's drones from iran, right? yeah, china is reliant more on iranian oil than ever before. >> so we, the risks that we run here in the new cold war's is that after 30 years of globalization of this idea that the internet would allow us free communicate patients back-and-forth. >> we are hardening into two camps at an american western

camp that is drawing its lines around ukraine. >> yeah, and a camp that's around china, russia, iran to some degree, north korea, and growing and increasing number of adherence. >> and then a lot of countries that's simply say, don't make me choose david is going to be a fascinating read. >> i can't wait to dive into it this weekend really appreciate the time cnn, political, national security analyst, also from this publication called the new york times, david sanger, author of new cold war's, china's rise, russia's invasion, and america struggled to defend the west. it's going to be a great read, check it out. we'll see you next hour as well. so thanks so much. hang in there with us for a while. longer in the meantime, over in the world of sports, lebron james and the lakers earn a spot in the nba playoffs with a hard-fought win over the pelicans caroline meno has more in this morning's bleacher report. good morning. caroline de and good morning. a positive momentum advantageous for team's going into the playoffs. we know this and

that's what the lakers are really counting on after winning 12 of their last 15 games every laker starter scoring in double-figures again, zion williamson and the pelicans in the play-in tournament last night, and they needed absolutely all of them by 18 at one point in the third quarter, la had to hold off a late new orleans rally for the one ten. what does six when lebron at 39 years of age? playing like a man, half of his age dropping 23 and 41 minutes. but zion williamson was so incredible, he scored a season-high 40, had to leave the game early due to injury. he was quite frustrated by that. and you can see why the lakers advancing as the west seven seed and will next space to nuggets were eliminated them the conference finals a year ago afterwards, the brand had high praise for new orleans a lot of brides and well understood after where you have, how we way or the last day that is only give us everything they had to hold qizan, again a tool box and they did that so, you know, the

gritty way for us requests are tickets and postseason saw it's going being could be the end of an era for the warriors as the star struggled against the king in the late game, sacramento avenging a game seven laws at home to golden state in last year's first round with them one when steph curry finished with only 22 points and klay thompson didn't score a single point in 32 minutes. >> it was just the fifth time that he's gone scoreless in his career and that might have been his last game with the warriors as the 34-year-old is set to hit free agency the summer he's still got good good years left and i know i speak for everybody in the organization. >> we want him back obviously, there's business at hand and that has to be addressed. >> but what clay has meant to this franchise as good as he still is. we desperately want him back pelicans will have another chance to extend their season on friday with a game against the kings. >> and then the eastern conference play-in tournament taking center stage tonight, the heat and six years getting things started at seven eastern

tim followed by the hawks and the bowls at 9:30 all right. >> it's going to be a great playoffs. thank you so much, caroline, really appreciate it just ahead. >> a candidate for president on trial, a cabinet member impeach the speaker on the ropes the crazy state of american politics that's next. >> plus the economic message, president biden is trying to sell out on the campai trail, we'll talk about that just a few moments. stay with there are giant so much they are the men and woman building next generation submarines de or giant. >> and what they do because they work in a place place where they can grow, where they can learn this skill for readers as powerful as the beast we built because it takes one to build one every night at the same thing.

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