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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,
actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other 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 will, was that jack smith was illegally appointed by the attorney general because he came from outside the government. he s not someone who has been approved by the senate. this is a long-shot request, but it is one that the judge for some reason decided needed to be heard, needed to have have an entire hearing. and she also allowed outside parties are groups that had nothing to do with this case, to actually spend a couple of hours making argume
very good to be with you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. what jack smith s case, that is the question being batted around before judge aileen cannon in court today as major questions about her own role in the trial hang over proceedings. there is still no trial date in sight. instead, to the frustration of many, cannon is hearing out what several legal experts have called another long shot argument to dismiss charges against the former president. yesterday, the new york times reported cannon rejected urges from two federal judges that she not take the case when it was firsthanded to her last june. the question is why, when a huge chunk of her rulings have drawn criticism from the prosecution and legal scholars. is it inexperience, she was only on the bench just over a year. is it potential bias? she has shown unusual favor to trump by intervening in the mar-a-lago investigation before he was indicted or is it simply judge cannon s way of proceeding over such a high stakes h