79 at cardia cardia. Com or amazon im Arlette Saenz in rehoboth beach, delaware and this is cnn good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington again, this morning with special Counsel Jack Smith not backing down and bringing a retooled January 6 case against former President Donald Trump in a new indictment, federal prosecutor theres made some tweaks after the Supreme Courts controversial ruling giving for president s Donald Trump immunity from prosecution for official actions he took while in office. But all four of the Felony Charges remain accusing trump of attempting to defraud the government by obstructing the certification of the 20 in 20 election and trying to strip voters of their rights. Trump calling smiths action quote, An Act Of Desperation and ridiculous. And hes demanding that the case be immediately dismissed. The new indictment underscores the immense personal significance of a Trump Victory come this november, if he returns to the white hou
put it for the washington post, quote, virginians are discovering a bentley unfortunately that there is no such thing as trumpism light. youngkin s first week in office showed him to be a trumpian culture warrior. still with us, eugene robinson and mike murphy. eugene, the up at for the washington post defending his action quote, virginia s parents have had enough with the government dictation of how they should raise their soldiers of the guy who is dictating to schools how that they should be doing with thousands of irony. eugene, your reaction is open in your paper? yeah that is exactly right that he ran this campaign about local schools on his first day he sees this control of the schools from localities. he bans the teaching of critical race theory which is not being taught in virginia schools. so that is irrelevant. except we also bans the teaching of divisive you can t teach american history and race without raising divisive concepts. that is pretty divisive.
to 44 vote. all members of the democratic voted for her, including senators kyrsten sinema and senator joe manchin. republicans susan collins, lisa murkowski and lindsey graham also joined them. susan collins today weighed in on briers retirement. there is no need for any rush. we can take our time, have hearings, go through the process, which is a very important one. it is a lifetime import appointment after all. funny, she didn t say any of that when it was amy coney barrett. and senator lindsey graham, still on that committee, issued a statement that read in part, quote, if all democrats hang together which i expect they will they have the power to replace justice breyer in 2022 without one republican vote in support. in a moment i will be getting live reaction to the breyer news from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez.
i ve heard virginia s blue and all that, i never believed it was blue, i never believed it was blue. it s something you can win. i mean why, all these people that turned up last night, look without maga, virginia governor glenn youngkin did his best to distance himself from donald trump during last year s campaign, but that didn t stop the former president from claiming credit as soon now my guess eugene robinson put it for the washington post, quote, virginians are discovering a bentley unfortunately that there is no such thing as trumpism light. youngkin s first week in office showed him to be a trumpian culture warrior. still with us, eugene robinson and mike murphy. eugene, the up at for the washington post defending his action quote, virginia s parents have had enough with the government dictation of how they should raise their soldiers of the guy who is dictating to schools how that they should be doing with thousands of irony. eugene, your reaction is open in your paper?
he is going to do, to announce it. there has been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make the statement he is going to make and i will be happy to talk about that later. nbc news now reports biden will appear with wry or at the white house to more. this will be biden s chance to put his own imprint on the highest court in the land and it brings a much-needed opportunity for his white house to bring the focus off of their stalled domestic agenda. nbc news reports that biden, quote, learned of buyers retirement in the middle of last week and is expected to put forward a nominee relatively quickly. senate democrats have also vowed to act swiftly. remember, amy coney barrett s nomination took just 27 days, a much faster process than usual. but even though democrats hold a majority in the senate, and republicans won t be able to use the filibuster, because they changed it for supreme court nominees in 2017, biden s pick is not guaranteed as an easy confirmation. we want to be