the orioles. the highlight of the show for me. i like the squirrel. we will see you tomorrow. thanks so much for joining us this morning. cnn news central starts right now. look at that beautiful day out there. i love that shot of the hudson. finally making it official, florida governor ron desantis is set to launch his presidential bid today. how he changes the race as the republican field expands and what does elon musk have to do with it? shelter now. a stark warning as a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour barrels into land. a look at the devastation as the worst of it is hitting right now. the mar-a-lago documents case reaches a critical moment. donald trump s lawyers demand a meeting with the attorney general as the special counsel closes in on a decision about whether to charge. this is cnn news central. let the games begin. the one competitor that donald trump appears to be most focused on is about to jump in the race. florida governor
seemingly damning information in the trump classified documents case. we ll bring it to you right now. the lead starts right now. a stunning new chapter in the classified documents saga, sensitive material moved at mar-a-lago just one day before those fbi agents showed up looking for it. and apparently, people in mar-a-lago were staging dress rehearsals for just such a moment. i ll speak with one of the reporters. plus, the biggest sentence handed down yet in the attempt to steal the 2020 election. prison time for the leader of the far-right militia the oath keepers. and another sentencing for another oath keeper is underway right now. and, parents subpoenaed. their son accused of killing four students in idaho. so why would his mom and dad need to testify before a grand jury in pennsylvania? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead and new signs of possible obstruction of justice in the trump mar-a-lago documents case. classified d
said burn after reading. the jaudge may allow this lette, because the whole point with this outrageous behavior under florida law, that the petitos were in anguish and couldn t get any answers or communication from the laundries. so they were poo-pooing the significance of this. what does the family of gabby say? they say this shows knowledge. this says burn after reading. you are talking to your son in very realistic terms that go with what your son admitted, that he killed gabby. but the defense is fighting that hard. jean, thanks so much. coming up, russia s strong response to cnn today. stay with us. left. left. i don t have it. i don t have it. - keep going. - we should ve used behr. yeahah. today let s paint. right now, get america s most trusted paint brand at a new low price starting at $28.9898.
emotional distress, that you knew where the remains were, that you knew she had been murdered, and they were reaching out to them constantly. here are some excerpts from that letter. if you are in jail, i will bake a cake with a file, roberta laundry writes to her son. if you need to dispose of a body, i will show up with a shovel and garbage bags. now, they say this letter was written a long time before they ever began their trip, gabby and br brian. it was because there was a relationship issued between mother and son and she wanted to bond them together, and it also says if you fly to the moon, i ll be watching the sky for your reentry. if you say you hate my guts, i ll get new guts. the defense is saying you can t believe that. but jake, there is one thing on the outside of that envelope, it
they do not indict, but what they can do, when they hear all of the witnesses, and there were witnesses, they can have a presentment, which means that they are recommending there are charges for whatever case this is that they are looking at, and also a transcript is formed as witnesses in this grand jury, and can be sent to a foreign jurisdiction, which would potentially be idaho that s what we know, jake. let s turn to the mother of brian laundry. he took his own life, but before he did, he wrote in a notebook he was responsible for the death of his girlfriend, gabby pa tito. you have gotten your hands on the content of a letter found in brian laundry s possession. tell us more about that. that s right. right next to his remains, they were found. this is a letter that is extremely important to the civil action that they have filed against the laundries of intentional infiction of