the argument that mike pence was making was the best one legally. so i think what we re really looking for is when could we see mike pence in front of a grand jury and sarah cnn s learning that former trump national security officials from the department of homeland security , chad wolf and ken cuccinelli have testified to a federal grand jury about trump s efforts and desire to seize voting machines. after the 2020 election. they said that they told the president and his team that he had no authority to do so. this really speaks to how special counsel jack smith is zeroing in. on the various ways . trump tried to overturn his election loss. that s right. i mean, this is excellent reporting from my colleagues at cohen sort of looking at how the special counsel is digging into a bunch of these schemes the trump team considered to try to overturn the 2020 election. of course, we know that one of these sort of crazy ideas under consideration was seizing the voting machines, and
tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked nothing
of falsifying business records, typically just a misdemeanor, and district attorney s alvin bragg s strategy for elevating the charges is on shaky legal ground. here s the new york post, calling the case trumped up. the paper writes, is that it? bragg s historic cases versus don falls flat. meanwhile the da defending his controversial decision to bring a case against a former u.s. president. your predecessor took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. federal prosecutors took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. do you believe you have new evidence that led you to decide to charge this, or why now? we ve had additional evidence. this is the business capital of the world. we regularly do cases involving false business statements. the bedrock, in fact the basis for business integrity at a well-functioning business marketplace is true and accurate record-keeping. that s the charge that s brought here. falsifying new york state busine
records of falsifying business records. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. virtually everybody that has looked at this case including rhinos and hardcore democrats say there is no crime and that it should never have been brought, everybody said this. it is not really an indictment, there is nothing here. my lawyers came to me and said there is nothing here they re not even saying what you did. a number of legal analysts questioning the foundations of the case against trump calling it weak and a overreach. they point out that the indictment is facing a key requirement, that would be the crime that would make it a felony. some in the media think the case will struggle to hold up. what is the crime that prosecutors are alleging es escalating this to a crime? if this is the only pebble being thrown at donald trump, it is very small. where is the beef? i talked to a lot of lawyers, none of them lawyers or trump supporters, and they said it is a l
is the only issue at hand proceedings or some of the most secretive proceedings processes a non political process. this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda that is not the rule of law. its spirits. he s ready to go in and do what he needs to do. this is not a situation that he has any control over. i think right now he s beyond petrified to liberal prosecutor that s doing political revenge against a former president. that s not a precedent that you want to have more dangerous precedent to set here would be to do nothing. today it all happens. today is the day the day good morning, everyone seven am here on the east coast. we re glad you re with us. the sun is up. behind caitlin outside of 100 center, street street, caitlin, the manhattan criminal court house, which is where the world s attention will be on the former president today. yeah i should note that there are a lot of security here. there s a lot of new york police department officers, a lot of barricades. there i