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Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. A fresh start to your weekend. We thank you for starting with us. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us. The fight between Special Counsel and donald trump is heating up. Why theyre calling on the judge to take action after a social media post by the former president. This was crazy in new york city. Look at these pictures. There was some violence but a lot of chaos after a social Media Influencer posted about a give away and now that influencer is facing charges. And simone biles gets ready for a comeback after taking a break from the sport. We will have the latest on tonights competition. We begin with this latenight court filing from Special Counsel jack smith. He is now asking a federal judge to quickly set Disclosure Rules in the January 6th Case against former president donald trump. In the filing smith cited this social media post from trump earlier in the day that reads, if you go af
jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we re going not going to the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november s election. in which if he s the nominee the next court could ask to put the case on pause until the next presidential contest is decide. and should trump win that election the case will go away entirely which is to be clear and we all understand including the people on the supreme court exactly what he wants. although i have to say it is stel unknown if trump will be allowed to meaningfully delay thi
Moments im going to share a Special Report weve been working on for much of the weak about defendant trumps legal trouble and why weve seen slowly but surely this inflection point. Ive going to break down for you only with legal facts and evidence how whats happening in georgia with all these confessions and guilty pleas and vows to testify is actually strengthening jack smiths hands in the doj case, which is the first criminal case of any major stature that donald trump will see himself go on trial. That is, remember, coming up in march. That special part will be part of the broadcast in a few moments. Our top story is the escalating crisis in the middle east with israel pounding gaza with these massive explosions heard through the night over there. You can see some of what weve been able to capture from our aerial cameras and thats 1 00 a. M. On the dot in gaza local time. This is according to the experts and local accounts we have some of the heaviest bombing of the war so far. It a
we had people saying where s nancy pelosi? we had people who were taking desks, sit agat the desk of the speaker of the house and attempting to find people in order to bring them to justice and saying to yelling at the police kill them, kill them all. and so why trump has done this is beyond me. that was carl rove, a former senior advisor to former president george w. bush with some advice for democrats and strong criticism of donald trump. we ll bring you more of his comments straight ahead. meanwhile, the former president is running out of delay tactics in his hush money case. we ll bring you an update on that looming trial. and we ll have for you the latest on the growing global outrage over the israeli air strike that killed humanitarian aid workers in gaza. the leader of that organization is now calling the strike a targeted attack. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday april 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. w