investigation. after three years, millions of dollars, special counsel john durham finally releases his report into whether the fbi had a legitimate reason to investigate trump in 2016. so what did he conclude? plus, a congressman s staffer and intern on her first day both attacked today by a man with a metal baseball bat. details we re just getting in from police. the florida culture wars continue. this time a fifth grade teacher says she s being investigated for showing her class a 2022 animated disney movie rated pg-13. the alleged offender is ethan, an animated gay teen character. welcome to the lead. we start with breaking news. the year s long investigation is over. john durham, the special counsel investigating whether there was any misconduct by the fbi in the trump-russia investigation just released his findings. for years donald trump and his supporters pinned their hopes on the investigation by the former u.s. attorney for connecticut. john durham named spe
she watched two of them die. they died in front of her. i got my daughter and she s alive. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. we begin with quite an update from mexico. two americans are dead this morning. two are alive though. they are back on u.s. soil after those four were kidnapped at gun point in mexico. we ll break down where they were found and what we re learning about the man who has been detained. later, the family of one of the survivors will also join us. more exposure for fox news. a trove of private text messages and e-mails have been revealed as part of a lawsuit against the network. what tucker carlson said about donald trump leading up to the january 6 attack on the capitol. also, a bipartisan group of senators are now trying to give president biden more power to ban tiktok in the u.s. cnn this morning starts right now. we gun with that deadly cud nap kidnapping of four americans in mexico. two of them have been found dead. the two
just. close in ohio, mayors on marijuana and abortion rights are on the ballot. reproductive rights are also the center the ballot for control of the state legislature, both houses in virginia. in all of tonight s elections will be a test of a fascinating and defining political dynamic of the biden era, where we have seen democrats reliably outperforming against all odds. first, the incumbent party controlling the white house is usually at a disadvantage. boaters nationally react against swimming back in the other direction, that s why midterm elections tend to favor the party that s out of power. then of course there are conditions joe biden democrats but up, against coming out of the covid pandemic. they have dealt with serious economic headwinds that have racked most of the economies of the world. chief among them, high in inflation, which peak last year in a stunning 9.1%. the president s approval rating has suffered, to say the least. he has been underwater since his fir
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austin realized those numbers were wrong. they called in to fox or to the networks, and the decision desks, and showed them why the call was wrong it s not that there s zero contact between campaigns and news organizations. what was so shocking about this one is that no organization would make a call like this with that many outstanding votes. yeah. anyway, congratulations. it s great to have you guys here. ben ginsberg, eric schultz, thanks so much. thanks. thank you. coming up, new reaction to the major report from special counsel john durham finding that the fbi in his view had no reason to open up a full investigation into former president then-candidate donald trump and russia. . .designed smarter. like a smart coffee grinder - that orders fresh beans for you. ohoh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that. .i needd a breakthrough card.