i will dive deep into this with my panel of experts. our republican primary goes off the rails of the ten people who are looking to take on the michigan governor. more than half of been kicked off the ballot for election fraud or arrested by the fbi. i m going one-on-one with the michigan secretary of state about this insanity. later, thousands are getting ready today to march across the united states for new gun laws in just a few hours. the question lurking in everyone s mind, will this time be any different? i will put that exact question to activists a freddie guttenberg, whose child was killed in parkland. all of this and more is coming up. good saturday morning to you all. i am katie fang. democracy, it is not inevitable. we, the american people, were reminded of this this week with the first primetime hearing of the january six committee. here s community member jamie raskin on the panels efforts to prove that trump was directly responsible for what happened that
Good morning. It is saturday, april 6. In nine days, Donald Trumps first criminal trial and the first involving a former president will begin in manhattan. Despite becoming the Republican Party presumptive nominee, 2024 has not been off to a great start for the twice impeached indicted expresident. Already penalized hundreds of millions of dollars in a pair of civil cases and soon faces the possibility of being convicted and going to jail. As his legal situation grows more worrisome, trump has escalated his rhetoric. He is abusing his platform to publicly intimidate those involved in his cases and we are already seeing the consequences of it. Late last month, tyler vogel, a 26yearold from lancaster, new york was arrested for allegedly sending threatening Text Messages to two people connected to a highprofile civil case. This week we found out that the targets of the harassment were George Arthur and goran and the new York Attorney general leticia james, two key figures in trumps recent
you or a. loved one have mesothelial and we ll come to you 808 to one 4,000 this is cnn breaking news and we do start this hour with breaking news. a judge has upheld the criminal indictment against former president donald trump in georgia. the judge, they re rejecting this argument that trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election were protected under the first amendment. we have cnn, sara murray with us. she s part of the team that broke this story. sarah, walk us through some of the details we ll look, we ve heard these arguments last week, especially from trump attorney steve sadow saying that, you know, everything donald trump did in the state of georgia to overturn the 2020 election should just be covered under the first amendment. it s protected political speech. the the indictment should just be tossed out the judge today, he is not going to throw out the indictment. he did have some comments about how essentially using this speech in furtherance of an alle
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Plans to have 48 teams at the tournament in 2026. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A breezy day ahead of us. For some of us, starting on a bright note with sunshine. It is cold. Thicker cloud in the west will introduce rain going from east to west during the day. Later the wind will strengthen. And ill have more details on the weather for you in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. Another strike is affecting services on Southern Rail. Drivers belonging to the aslef union will stop work for three days this week. The dispute about the role of the guard on trains has been going on for nearly ten months. 0ur South Of England correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is at horsham Train Station. Duncan, what is the mood like among passengers there . It has been crippling train lines for ten months. Commuters are out there. You have to get up early. It ta kes there. You have to get up early. It takes longer. I am abandoning going out to town tomorrow. We will see how