morning. it is april 15th. i m victor blackwell. merrill walker. thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. um how s it going? move here . you know what i have in my mind right now is when we re getting that invite to your place once your bar is all built out, is being built out. the bottles have not yet arrived from storage. but it s coming. it s coming. haven t arrived yet. no invitation just come and look at the shelves. okay it s coming. sure i m sure the shelves are beautiful. here s what we re watching this morning. this is not just about taking home documents. a 21 year old air man charged in connection with the leak of classified documents appeared in front of a federal judge friday . what we re learning about him and the questions being raised about who should have access to classified information. president biden is weighing in on the supreme court s decision to temporarily extend access to an abortion drug while it considers the case the next steps in
for somebody yourself football socket. remember that? it s only vento. don t miss a new episode of eva longoria s searching for mexico tomorrow. nine p.m. right here in on cnn. the newsroom continues right now. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and we begin this hour with new details in the case against a 21 year old air national guardsman he is accused of leaking top secret pentagon information, jack. to share a was charged under the espionage act during his court appearance yesterday, and his arrest follows an intense week long search for the source of the online leak of secret documents. he is accused of posting documents that exposed sensitive intelligence the u. s has on both allies and adversaries, cnn senior national security correspondent alex marquardt joining us live from washington with more on this, alex. what more we learning about? the suspect and the road ahead for him. well fredricka to share may have kno
lot going on. we re glad you re with us. let s get started with the five things to know for this wednesday, april 5th 2023 donald trump defiant after pleading not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during a speech last night, he vowed to fight the charges and railed against the prosecutors and the judge. i ll let that sink in. what you just said is a lot and look at that. so their celebration, at least in chicago , there s a new mayor in the windy city senior projects that progressive brandon johnson has won the runoff in chicago. he s going to join us live right here on cnn this morning, eight o clock hour 88 a. m eastern time a seat change for wisconsin cnn projects, liberals will now hold the majority on the state supreme court. that is a significant flip that could have major implications for abortion rights and future elections. also house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to meet with the president of taiwan in california. today it s a rare meeting on
tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked nothing
press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin