Good evening and welcome to a special early edition. Im laura coates. Live. We begin with breaking news. Special counsel jack smith is now thinking a gag order against donald trump in the classified documents case. Jack smith is asking the judge to quote, make clear that trump may not make statements that pose a significant imminent and foreseeable danger to Law Enforcement agents who are participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case. So now, why is it special counsel asking for this . You might be asking, well, its because of what donald trump said this week when he falsely claimed, but fbi agents who searched maralago or quote, Locked And Loaded and authorized to shoot him. He was misrepresenting the standard language and documents and the fbi says it uses routinely. Heres by the way, how attorney general Merrick Garland explain it just yesterday okay. And that one that allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous the document that is being referred to in the a
Are verdict without michael cohen. And i and welcome. Its time to break down the big stories with some smart people. Today, were asking from an attack on the hush money trial, judge, to a nazi reference on a campaign video. Whats going on, what Donald Trumps week of unforced error. Then my wife did it. The bizarre, but some cited legit defense weve now seen from a Supreme Court justice and a us senator whos on trial and grab a plate. Were breaking down the best All You Can Eat strategy. And theres only one right way to do it. The paddle is here and ready to go. So sit back, relax, and lets talk about it up first. Donald trump im just hush money. Trial is expected to go to the jury by midweek but its trumps comments and his campaigns mistake that are raising eyebrows, right now. Donald trump attack the judge in the hush money trial, juan merchan, who was born in colombia and emigrated to the us as a child the moment reminiscent of 2016, hes a mexican when trump railed against the judge
Holiday weekend, more than 70 Million People are under a Severe Weather threat as intense tornadoes baseball hail add Near Hurricane Force Winds hit the Central Plains and parts of the midwest. Lets bring in now cnn meteorologist, at elisa rafah. So at least so what areas are you watching most closely . We are really bullseye in parts of oklahoma and kansas today. Again. And whats been a very active Severe Weather season. We have a moderate risk level four out of five there you can see in the red from its your todd down towards Oklahoma City where we could find baseballsized hail intense, strong, long live, violent tornadoes possible, and damaging wind gusts. Notice is if youre Weather Threat though, does stretch down across the deep south, including places like atlanta. And then theres another little portion of it up in the northeast as well. But where we could find these ef2 or greater tornadoes with the intense winds that could pack up to 100 or more miles per hour. Thats in the bul
Americans and book your first cleaning today for just 19 this Situation Room with wolf blitzer. Week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean and washington and we start with Breaking News. As Severe Weather threatens more than 70 Million People. This Memorial Day Weekend, intense tornadoes baseballsized hail, and hurricaneforce winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. You see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. Its very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the suns starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. And its been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. Thats why the storms are blowing
Joining me today. Ill see you back here next saturday at eight Easter Smerconish starts right now a republican and an independent walk into a libertarian establishment. Youre going to have to wait for the punchline. I, Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. Thank you for joining me. This Memorial Day Weekend in an unusual move tonight, former president donald thatll trump will address the Libertarian National convention in washington, dc and independent rfk junior spoke there on friday after having flirted with running as a libertarian earlier in the cycle this morning, the Drudge Report leading with his appearance saying rfk jr. Slams trump locked down standing o from libertarians. He spent a lot of his hourlong speech criticizing both president s trump and biden President Trump said that he was going to run america like a business. He closed down 3. 3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment with a lockdowns, the mask mandates the