chief legal correspondent ari melber, legal analyst, andrew weissmann, and my friend and colleague, msnbc anchor katy tur. rachel, we re about to hear from jack smith himself. if i have to interrupt you abruptly, i apologize in advance. your thoughts right now. reading the indictment, nicolle, i was struck by the simplicity of it structurally. this is not a case where we need to wait for somebody to flip. there s no allen weisselberg character out here who we need to find out how much they re going to tell prosecutors. there s no opaque question of intent that we need to wait to see if prosecutors have some access to. there s no, you know, contingent second crime that elevates these things to a more serious thing. all things that we ve seen in other serious cases involving trump and his business. in this case this is straightforward. what they re laying out, it s an accusation. it is not a conviction. what they re accusing him of is that he was not allowed to have this stuf
kind of considered taking a question. this were a number of shouted questions. then decided he said something about you can come see me in my office or something like that. departed. so here s a bit of the new details about the objects that were shot down over canada, alaska and lake huron. the intelligence committee s current assessment is these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private company that studied weather or other scientific research. martha: he spoke about the chinese spy flight, the balloon, whatever you want to call it. he said he expects to speak with president xi. watch this. we seek competition, not conflict with china. we re not looking for a new cold war. i make no apologies and we will compete. we ll responsibly manage that competition so it doesn t veer into conflict. martha: that s something that the president says a lot. he wants competition with china, not conflict. he said he expects to speak with president xi about this. it s
hello, everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. today the republican-led house voted to remove democrat ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. omar calls it revenge. it passed along a party line vote of 218-211. she faced backlash over her anti-israel comments in the past which were criticized by members of both parties as anti-semitic. before he was even house speaker, republican leader kevin mccarthy promised he would take this step. he claimed nancy pelosi set a precedent when she removed rips, marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar from committees, although that was for violent rhetoric and posts. omar told her colleagues, she s not going anywhere. i am muslim. i am an immigrant. and interestingly from africa. is anyone surprised that i am being targeted? is anyone surprised that i am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about american foreign policies? and my leadership and voice will not be diminished. if i am not on this co
in his first major speech since losing the house, biden says to hell with working with the gop to make your lives better. he is looking for a fight, dishing the kumbaya talk, and unleashing on republicans trying to rein in his reckless spending. this ain t your father s republican party. this is a different breed of cat, as they say. republicans inflict this pain on the american people. why? why? they seem determined to be the party of chaos and catastrophe. they want to eliminate the irs, going to eliminate it completely. only guys that look at the complicated tax returns that people have, and replace the iro taxes, right? except with a 30% national sales tax. let me be clear. if any of these bills somehow got passed the house and senate, i will veto them. jeanine: oh, wow. okay. well, let me start with oh, but joe isn t sorry, guys. i was so stunned by that. joe isn t going this alone. the white house seem to have sent democrats the same talking points. it s a sil
Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone, in for maria bartiromo. Who is on assignment. It is monday, may 6. Your top stories at 6 00 a. M. Eastern time. Today the first full trading day in the week of may begins, futures in the green as we look ahead to a big week of earnings, disney and Warner Brothers are out. Well take a look ahead. European markets as you can see they are in the green. Thes ftse, the cac and dax are all higher. In asia weve got a mixed story, the shanghai composite up better than 1 . The kospi and nikkei are in the red. Then President Biden reportedly putting a hold on u. S. Shipments of ammunition to israel after Antony Blinken sent a clear warning to Benjamin Netanyahu about moving on rafah and more protests on College Campus bees over the weekend. Were breaking down the cost to taxpayers as the antiisrael demonstrations continue today. Plus, president trumps new york hush money trial back in session today and with six months left to go before the election a new po