the argument that mike pence was making was the best one legally. so i think what we re really looking for is when could we see mike pence in front of a grand jury and sarah cnn s learning that former trump national security officials from the department of homeland security , chad wolf and ken cuccinelli have testified to a federal grand jury about trump s efforts and desire to seize voting machines. after the 2020 election. they said that they told the president and his team that he had no authority to do so. this really speaks to how special counsel jack smith is zeroing in. on the various ways . trump tried to overturn his election loss. that s right. i mean, this is excellent reporting from my colleagues at cohen sort of looking at how the special counsel is digging into a bunch of these schemes the trump team considered to try to overturn the 2020 election. of course, we know that one of these sort of crazy ideas under consideration was seizing the voting machines, and
with this breaking news. rescue teams are now on a desperate searching rescue for survivors after powerful destructive storms ripped through the south tornadoes tearing through mississippi overnight. at least 23 people are confirmed dead. another dead in alabama. dozens more injured and at least four others are still missing at this hour and many of the deaths happening in the town of rolling fork, mississippi neighborhoods there are simply leveled extraordinary scene there. the mayor sharing this bleak assessment of the damage on cnn this morning. right? that s all i see. a lot of families here are affected. uh lot of families are hurting. uh this community is. in the situation that we never expected by city is gone. but we will resilient and we re going to come back. wow my city is gone. cnn s isabel rizal is on the scene in rolling fork. right now that the sun is up, the heartbreak is becoming a lot more noticeable for the residents here at rolling fork everywhere you look
ballistic vests and didn t think about ballistic helmets. they just wanted to save kids. and jake more than a week. since that shooting, investigators are still working to determine a motive. they re analyzing hills writings, and they ve got a lot of work ahead of them. that is because in the last couple of days they executed a search warrant on the shooter s home, and they seized a bunch of evidence, including memoirs, home videos. a suicide note. also more guns, ammo, those photos of the covenant school and yearbooks from that school. plus that judge signed. warren is also giving investigators permission to access the digital files of that shooter, jake. all right, isabel resolves. thank you so much. at the tennessee state house. there was this. republican lawmakers are now looking to oust three democratic
for this community to not only make sure everyone is accounted for but then eventually to rebuild and to clean up after here. he s saying that he is in talks with local politicians, state politicians and other agencies to make sure that his city gets the help that it needs . right now we know from state emergency management 24 people have been confirmed killed. four people are missing and dozens of others have been injured. right now. first responders we ve been seeing them going into building after building sifting through that debris through the piles, trying to see if there s anyone trapped underneath who might need their help. this is going to be a long journey ahead, fred. painstaking all right, isabel resolves. thank you so much. we ll check back with you. rolling fork is just one of several areas dealing with damage this morning. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar is tracking all the storms. so alice since we re seeing a lot of the damage and we re going to see even more, but mo