mike johnson may have to fight with frustrated far-right republicans to keep his job, after relying on democrats to keep the government open, again. for now. congresswoman becca with the budget committee joins me live to discuss the latest congressional can kicking, and whether johnson will be able to hang on without democrats coming to his rescue. and who, fani. fulton county district attorney fani willis is under scrutiny for an alleged relationship with a top prosecutor she hired in donald trump s election interference case. what it could mean for trump, and the entire investigation. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday. show with less than three days until the new hampshire primary, florida governor ron desantis spent the day campaigning in south carolina. but moments ago, we learned that desantis canceled a scheduled appearance on nbc s need to press tomorrow, and plans to head back to new hampshire. front runner donald trump is only speaking ones toda
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with dramatic video. we re going to show it to you right here showing the moment a bomb explodes in a cafe in st petersburg, russia, killing a well known russian pro war blogger. may have been presented to the blogger hidden inside a figurine. the dead blogger had more than a half million followers on his pro military blog, where he aggressively supported the war in ukraine openly criticized the setbacks. russian troops face there. cnn s matthew chance is in moscow for us. well jim. this explosion killed one of russia s most prominent pro war military bloggers, posting under the name of vlad lent tartasky. he accumulated more than half a million followers on his pro war telegram channel in which he was notoriously hard line enthusiastically, for instance, declaring on ukraine we will kill everyone. we will rob everyone we will have our way. and, of course, like other prominent russian military bloggers criticizing aspects a
statements during the campaign that he was interested in pursuing a case against donald trump? you just don t have the same level of comfort in a state prosecution that you do with a federal prosecution. but of course when the focus was on hillary clinton back in 2016, you and other prominent republicans were taking it to the democratic nominee. at that time, we can bring up a comment of yours from a trump rally in 2016. this was reported at that time you said to the crowd quote . this is october 26th 2016. lady justice doesn t see black or white. she doesn t see male or female. she doesn t see richard poor but soon, lady justice will see hillary clinton. setting aside the fact that hillary clinton was never charged with any wrongdoing. why not demand accountability? in this trump case, no matter who the prosecutor is. i think there should be accountability in this case. um but this is a hillary clinton was being investigated in the federal system. and as i said, there are layers and l
defendants in the federal system to make sure that we re not just targeting somebody because of their former status as a government official. uh that doesn t have the same protection doesn t apply, so we re not dealing with a blind, blindfolded lady justice. in this situation. we re dealing with a political prosecutor who has stated that he is going after president trump. i haven t seen the indictment and i can t give a opinion as to the strength of the indictment at this point, but i am suspicious when the former federal prosecutor walked away from this case, the former d a. cyrus vance jr in manhattan. didn t prosecute this case and now this district attorney after making a campaign promise is camp is problem is prosecuting this case. but didn t wasn t there a grand jury looking at this? you re not saying that the grand jury was no, i m not saying the grand jury s political at all. i have a great deal of respect for grand jury investigations. the grand jury only receives the informat