an injustice senior justice correspondent ivan perez. he s covering the hearing for us in fort pierce, florida, just north of palm beach oven, you were inside the court today. how to judge cannon handle today s important hearing? well, if this was a very unusual hearing in the first place, and judge cannon had some very sharp questions for the government, for the prosecution she questioned the prosecutor s about what specific actions the attorney general, merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically and personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other of people who worked for him. here in fort pierce and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys, emil bove beauvais said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government. the argument that they were making here today, wolf, was that j
stephanie ylim and los angeles and this is cnn good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, june 22. i m victor blackwell, a dime. amara walker. thank you so much for joining us. here s what we re watching for you this morning. there are new details about the suspect to open fire at a grocery store in arkansas police are saying about how this unfolded and the conditions of the victims and in just five days, president biden and former president trump will meet face-to-face for the cnn presidential debate. what both candidates are doing to prepare for their first base off of this election. since i can and lawyers for donald trump or back-end court yesterday as they tried to get special counsel, jack smith s case against trump in the classified documents case dismissed their arguments, and the judge s response alec baldwin was in court yesterday trying to get a judge to dismiss the manslaughter charges against him in connection with the shooting on the rust movie
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we got through the cold war without some terrible incident taking place finale airs on sunday night. stay tuned for that and tune in for the lead with jake tapper, which starts right now these cnn breaking news welcome to lead. i m phil mattingly in for jake tapper and we start this sauer with the breaking news, at least ten people have been shot at in arkansas grocery store two people were killed. and one of the injured is a police officer. i wanna get straight to cnn s sub l resolve he s well, what do we know about where things stand, how this actually happened earlier today hey, phil, we do know that the situation has been contained and we expect to get brand new details here. and about half an hour, that is when arkansas state police are holding a press conference to let the community know what has happened here. but here s what we do know from a press release from arkansas state police. this mass shooting which cnn defines as four or more people wounded or killed,