i am a victim of one of the great political smear campaigns in the history of our country. the entire thing has been a witch hunt, and there s no collusion. if there were lawyers they d be disbarred for what they re doing. it s a one-sided witch hunt, and i am a victim, i will tell you i m a victim oh, they re after me for so many things oh, those prosecutors. for years donald trump has complained about potential legal problems now it s a reality for the former president we have a lot to get to this morning on the historic indictment by the manhattan grand jury plus, we ll have reactions from top republicans including former vice president mike pence. and also ahead, a look at the security measures being put in place across new york city as authorities prepare for possible protests ahead of trump s arraignment. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 31st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us, and we will begin this friday w
on the road bringing the receipts of republicans comments on social security after last night s address where he took on his critics in realtime. then the plot twist of the house oversight committee meeting where republicans hope to focus on hunter biden, but we ended up focusing on trump s attempt to censor tweets. then the bombshell murder trial prompted by a bomb threat today mid testimony, a lot to cover as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, president biden turning up the heat on republicans as he takes his state of the union message on the road. today he went to the key battleground state of wisconsin to pitch his vision of america and he leaned into the agenda that he laid out for us last night. as the new york times reports that includes using government programs to help boost the economy, but today, biden amped up his promise to protect social security and medicare and he called out those gop lawmakers wh
state regulators wasting little time to take possession of silicon valley earlier today before a sudden cash crisis risks becoming a bigger one. then just as quickly reassuring investors their money was safe. the fdic taking control of silicon valley bank s deposits and letting customers know that they would have access to their funds by monday morning. it was all meant to avoid a run on the deposits and one that could spread. neither happened today. janet yellen said she was watching silicon and a few other banks she didn t name very carefully. other government officials stressing that silicon s case was very unique. in the case of silicon, it happened very fast after announcing a big loss on the bond holdings earlier this week. most of the bonds were bought long before the aggressive rate hikes that began almost a year ago. meaning those investments were underwear as bond prices declined and silicon was struck. today s strong employment report showing a bigger than expected
washington. we begin this hour with the tempers flaring in nashville. where emotions are raw politics, much like the rest of the us bitterly divided republicans in the state house there voted to expel lawmakers were breaking decorum during a raucous but peaceful protest demanding gun reform that protest ignited by the nashville school shooting that left three adults and three young students dead. how the expulsion vote ended, has only added to the anger representatives justin pearson and justin jones. who are black, were expelled their fellow protester and colleague gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by one vote. cnn correspondent isabelle rose salas joins us now with the latest isabelle what happens now? i guess there is some hope that these two lawmakers who were expelled might get their seats back. and that is certainly a very real possibility. here, jim. right now the spotlight is on filling those two vacant statehouse seats, and what we re seeing is local lawmak
one person confirmed dead and five others who are currently in critical condition. we are learning the remaining victims have since been released from area hospitals after they got treatment and we are till trying to gather details and figure out what led up to the shooting but what we know so far from police is that they believe the two scenes are connected. we are told police officers responded first responded to shooting of address of establishment in white haven section of memphis. when officers arrived they located two shooting victims. five additional shot left thecan and taken to area hospitals in private vehicles. as officers dealt with the initial scene they received reports of more shooting victims of location a mile away. upon arrival one male victim was located and pronounced dead at the second scene. three victims were taken to area hospitals for treatment of gunshot wounds. memphis police and you mentioned this at the top, mike, just released photos of the 3