Prison, fines and more as the the College Admissions scandal buildup to Lori Loughlins trial grows moree joker. Families of the colorado Movie Theater shooting victims are outraged this morning. And 21 new York Firefighters children of men who died as a result of the 9 11 attack, honoring their dads and inspiring america. Early today starts right now good to be with you on a busy wednesday morning. Im Frances Rivera and im phillip mena. The stage is set for a historic clash between congress and President Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is launching a formal impeachment inquiry into the president , calling his burgeoning ukraine scandal a breach of his constitutional responsibility. So what comes next mr. Trump says the white house will release a transcript today of his call with the ukrainian president where he pushed for his counterpart to investigate his potential 2020 rival, joe biden. Some reports allege mr. Trump may have linked nearly 400 million in aid to pressure ukraine. And
The slow areas to start. Well track the trivalley. The Speed Sensors around the rest of the bay are showing a lighter flow of traffic including highway 4 which is at speed. There is a build starting subtly at the bay bridge. Developing on capitolill this morning, House Speaker nancy pelosi announcing a formal impeachment inquiry in to President Trump. The House Speaker accuses mr. Trump of betraying National Security and the integrity of american elections with his conduct. Today in the bays tracie potts live on capitol hill to break down what it all means. Tracie . Hey, laura, good morning. So what it is and what its not. Its not a finding of wrongdoing or even a charge for President Trump, but what it is, is a step forward for democrats in this impeachment journey. It is a formal inquiry now, so everything they do, the hearings, the testimony, the evidence, is now part of a formal process to determine if the president broke the law. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official, lawmak
Direct pitch for the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. Heres one of the quotes. Theres a lot of talk about bidens son, quote, that biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that. Whatever you can do with the attorney general that would be great. The attorney general hes referring to is attorney general barr. The president used the name of attorney general barr and Rudy Giuliani who he said would be looking into the matter. He said both men would reach out to the president of ukraine and ask him to get started on this. The president of ukraine said he was going to investigate the matter. They had a fairly extensive conversation about this. The president mentioned he wanted to enlist the attorney general. What has the attorney general said about the fact the president mentioned him in the phone call. A rather extraordinary set of events took place after the Inspector General got word of the whistleblower complaint. He referred it to
United states of scandal with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn it is a wolverine kinda night, the crucial president ial Battleground State of michigan is weighing in tonight on the 2024 fight for the white house, sending messages just to both President Job for biden and donald trump. I head of their anticipated rematch in november. If youre just joining us, greetings, im jake tapper and im standing right in the cnn election center. President biden and former President Trump or both michigan primary winners tonight, but thats not the full story of these very significant context. I want you to take a look at the votes in the democratic race. Its a warning sign for President Biden there a protest vote for uncommitted gaining ground now this protest vote pushed by opponents of how President Biden is handling the israel hamas war. Many of them desire a permanent ceasefire and theyre demanding that the United States Government Cut military aid to israel. Lets take a look at these numbers wi
You numb thats right. His thunder loves soda again the whole story with Anderson Cooper sunday getty on cnn tonight, too big and important headlines out of michigan joe biden and donald trump win. But the numbers hint that they are both well wounded away they can cost them the presidency. Welcome to cnn special coverage. Im laura coats and Washington Dc and im abby phillip in new york, the 2024 president ial matchup looks more and more locked in tonight. Donald trump winning michigans republican primary, and joe biden winning michigans Democratic Primary. But both are showing real weaknesses with voters that they will need come november for joe biden, are voters just mad about his handling of the war in gaza or are they mad enough to stay home when it matters most well for donald trump, you can ask the very same question, abby, will republicans coalesce around his campaign . In november . Or will the third of the party who keep voting for someone not named donald trump to affect to the