city for the u.s. embassy, but ambassador bridget brink is going to be joining us for an exclusive interview from kyiv. in just a few minutes. i hope you will be there for that. back in 2010, the u.s. justice department arrested and indicted nine people in michigan and ohio, and indiana. nine people who are all members of a group that called itself a militia. the indictment, back in 2010 charged that these nine people intended to murder a member of law enforcement, possibly the family of a law enforcement officer as well. and then, when lots of other law enforcement officers would come from all around the country to be there for the big public funeral that would result, this militia decided that they would mount a big attack on the funeral, to kill as many law enforcement officers from all across the country as possible, and then that larger attack they planned on the funeral, they planned not to just use guns, but ieds. this was 2010, there already had been years of extensiv
enhanced i.e.d. against u.s. troops, again to absolutely devastating effect, enhanced i.e.d. with a shaped projectile that used these improvised bombs to penetrate armor. they were called an explosively formed projectile, it was a sort of super i.e.d., and in 2010, these militia guys in michigan and ohio and indiana, according to prosecutors, prosecutors said in their indictment in 2010 that these militia guys exchanged information about not just i.e.d.s, but how to build those kind of i.e.d.s specifically, the kinds of explosively formed projectiles that would be used against u.s. troops by iranian backed militias in the iraq war. they exchanged information about how to build those kinds of i.e.d.s, they amassed the materials they would need to build those kind of i.e.d.s and mount what they hoped would be a catastrophic large scale attack on law enforcement at a high profile public law enforcement funeral of a law enforcement member they intended to kill. and they hoped the
Allie, i just want you to know i effectively advocated for the team here at the table today with one of the big bosses. We will tell you more later. The table might get bigger. Im liking that idea, because mobile will just see his face. I get more my news from kyle griffin and i think any other single source. His tweets go up for the news alerts go up. Not only did that tweet go up. Its like, how do you get that news . For anybody who doesnt follow, you can really learn a lot of news by following kyle griffin. Hes also an amazing writer. You must be a great multitasker. Is probably tweeted this whole segment. You guys have a great weekend, and we will see you next weekend. Could morning to you. It is sunday, april 28th. A few days in American Politics can compare to what we saw last thursday when a pair of Court Proceedings for donald trump as he runs for president while also facing multiple criminal prosecutions. In a manhattan courtroom, donald trump, the twice impeached, four times
Hope you have an awesome monday morning. Coy, thanks very much. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good monday morning. Were glad you are with us. Some good news this morning. A deal. One deal. One deal. One of the many deals that needs to be made. Of the 15 deals that need to be made, so far one deal but it is important. Thats right, it is in los angeles. Hollywood were talking about. Lets get started with five things to know for this monday. A tentative deal in the hollywood writers drive strike after 146 days an countless picket lines. But no deal in d. C. Where a shutdown is increasingly likely. The gop still split on a path forward. And bad news for President Biden in a pair of new poles. 56 of americans disapprove of how he is handling the job. And also on the immigration front the mayor of el paso says his city is at a Breaking Point without enough resources to deal with another surge of migrants as mexico mak
weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. it is interesting that nikki haley, again, is bad lane along with ron desantis, chris christie for first place, for second place right now. there may be a pathway for her to win new hampshire. there may be new hampshire s interest in this year. you don t have a democratic race. so you have a lot of independents that aren t going to be splitting between republican and democratic voting, but she has right now, and, again i, know she s a civet boosted to the shull polls, i ve also filed enough campaigns. when people start talking about somebody, that s usually a leading indicator. you see polls go up, you but you look at the debate, the men screaming. you look at ron desantis and gavin newsom shouting at each other with sean hannity shouting in the middle. serious. there s a lot of men out there shouting. a lot of buffoon airy, a lot of really loud voices, and so, if politics is about contrast, then what a contrast and n