look it up. the lead starts right now. from canada all the way down to the cloipiasarolinas, wildfie been burning for more than a month, why did it get so bad for today, and how long will this last, and former president donald trump swears he s being attacked up fairly again and desperately wants you to hear his side of the story, and he s just released a new tv ad starring some wild animals to make sure you get the message. all this while former vice president mike pence jumps in the race against trump and chris christie believes he can both them both. i ll ask governor christie how ahead when he joins me live on the lead. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. we ll begin today with our health lead. as much of the eastern united states is being choked right now by a dangerous haze of smoke caused by more than 400 raging wildfires in canada. air quality alert are out for more than 55 million people across the northeast, midwest and mid-atlantic. the air is so unhealth
For maryland and was appointed by former President Trump. I strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a Special Counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public, the departments commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters, and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Now earlier, President Biden confirmed that more classified documents from his time as Vice President were discovered. This time at his wilmiwilmingto delaware home. They were locked in his garage. Another document was found inside the house. Now the Attorney General revealed that the Justice Department learned of the second set of documents in december as this timeline shows here. It was in november when the president s attorney found classified documents in a d. C. Office that
regulators seize control of first republic bank, selling its assets to jpmorgan chase. what does it mean for your money? a mundt under way in texas. hundreds of police officers are searching for a gunman accused of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy. the latest on the search ahead. fleeing sudan. thousands are l leaving. we re live where a u.s. ship carrying american evacuees has just docked. we re following these developing stories and more coming in to cnn news central. overnight, regulatorings seizing control of first republic bank and its $230 billion worth of assets. jpmorgan stepping in as a buyer and assuming responsibility. we re less than 30 minutes before the opening bell. we want to see how wall street reacts, futures down but only a little bit. wall street seems to be taking this in stride. this is the second largest bank failure in u.s. history, the largest since the 2008 financial crisis and the third u.s. bank to fail since march. cnn chie
George santos is defiant amid growing calls for him to resign over the many lies he told voters. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy standing by santos even as he acknowledges a lack of trust. Were tracking Severe Weather right now in the southeast including significant damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado in alabama. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with this Special Counsel investigation thats about to get under way. Amid new revelations about classified documents found at President Bidens home and office. Lets go right to our chief White House Correspondent phil mattingly. The white house is attempting to defend its response as a new timeline is raising a lot of questions. Thats right, wolf. The white House Counsel saying they will fully cooperate with the new Special Counsel investigation and say they believe by the time the investigation is over it will be clear this was an inadver
comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th