twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on democracy and architecture. but it s not just trump. we know that he is a symptom, not the disease itself. every time i get a subpoena, my polls go up. reports were grand jury. it s all bowl to. it s all stuff. you can see the crowd, there but more than 2000 people stood in the wind and rain to cheer that trump rant. to cheer the subpoenas. the grand juries, the man
of building. have a good weekend, my friend. see you next week. all right, we are now the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign season, six months out from 2024, and in a confluence events this week, yesterday in fact, rex exactly two and a half years since the january 6th attack on the capital. it s humbling for our country, for our democracy, that the twice impeached, twice criminally indicted so far donald trump is the undisputed presidential front runner of the republican party. i don t know that on january 7th, 2021, right after all the republicans who mattered had condemned donald trump s role in the attempted insurrection, that we thought we would be here a year and a half later. we are very far away from the republican party returning to normal, perhaps even knowing what normal is. we are very far away from an america where both of the two majority political parties respect the system and stand up for democracy. we know where donald trump stands on demo
and get healthier with golo. week, three major supreme court decisions with far-reaching consequences. one effectively scrapping affirmative action program. someone invalid-ing president biden s student loan debt relief plan. and one clearing the way for businesses, to refuse service to lgbtq plus america. i ll talk about that, how democrats should be fighting back and the politics of pennsylvania with the state s governor, josh shapiro. who s coming up. first, plus law professor and former clerk to judge sonia soda mayer, melissa murray will join us to talk about the impact of the supreme court decisions. and when it comes to the uncertainty now facing billions of college deviants and graduates, education secretary, miguel cardona will talk about the next steps for the biden administration. also ahead this hour, she s the first openly transgender person to ever be elected and serve in the state legislature. i sat down with virginia delegate, danika roem, for this week s week
bret: but, obviously, breaking tonight, an historic day. one that both republicans and democrats described as, quote: a sad day. the first former or current president of the united states to be arrested and booked in federal criminal court. former president donald trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 counts in the indictment alleging that the former president illegally kept hundreds of classified documents at his mar-a-lago home, even after a subpoena to return them. potentially risking the disclosure of top secret national defense secrets. the former president is defiant, proclaiming his innocence from what he describes as as another witch-hunt and he accuses president biden s administration of targeting him, the leading g.o.p. challenger. the former president is on his way to his golf club in bedminster, new jersey where he will hold a fundraiser tonight and is expected to deliver remarks about this day and the charges he faces. correspondent mark meredith is outside the mi
grief and despair for one texas community after five people were shot and killed, including a 9-year-old boy. the accused killer is still on the run. hundreds of officers are searching now for this man, who had just been we learned deported four times after entering the u.s. illegally. what more we re learning about the manhunt. and a federal judge denies donald trump s motion in a civil battery and defamation trial. e. jean carroll, who is suing the former president, is back on the stand for cross-examination. we are live outside the courthouse. plus a cnn exclusive never before seen images of a 100-foot-long blimp captured in northwest china. experts describing it as a submarine of the skies. we re following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. a source tells cnn that the target of a massive manhunt this hour was deported at least four times from the united states. francisco oropesa, wanted for allegedly gunni