cnn. pamela? thanks, chris. who s talking to chris wallace airs at 7:00 tonight on cnn. and the next hour of cnn newsroom on this sunday starts newsroom on this sunday starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m pamela brown in washington. the top stories for you tonight, lawmakers are demanding actions days after five police officers are charged in the beating death of tyre nichols. can the federal government do anything to change culture inside many of these departments? plus the man who disarmed the monterey park gunman is haled a gunman, as california sees four mass shootings in one week. and it s a fight over books in florida. teachers say they have to keep students away from books already in their libraries until state-approved groups decide if they re appropriate. you re in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour with the brutal beating of tyre nichols. today the attorney for his family told cnn that he hopes the video that outraged a na
wrote, i purchase a horse, that s inaccurate. that s a lie maybe, but there s no crime there because this filing was not for the purpose of influencing an election it wasn t something hidden there was no obligation to disclose this to an election campaign committee at all. the lawyer representing donald trumpin the stormy daniels hush money case presenting a defense for why the former president did not break campaign finance laws that payment. we re going to have much more from this heated interview straight ahead meanwhile ron desantis is facing criticism from some members of his own party after he called russia s invasion of ukraine a territorial dispute. and that comes as russia makes an aggressive move with a u.s. drone over the black sea we ll break down what happened and the possible fallout good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 15th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning on capitol hil
i it s a tragedy that we see on the news a lot. but when it hits home work in this community myself, what a tragedy to see these innocent people lose their lives. right now we just don t have the answers yet. so for the suspect a looser locally. does he have family members here? half moon bay residents, and we believe that he may have a spouse. they ve been in the officer may be apprehended him? his name is a deputy law peru, i can get to the spelling of that. his name is deputy leprous. it is one that located the vehicle, the suspect inside of it at the substation. what sort of assistance of federal authorities providing at the moment? the fbi is at the scene. they are ready to deploy all the resources that we don t have here at the local level. and i ve been getting some calls from even across the country from sheriffs, from congress, people in congress, senators, very supportive and ally to also thank our county executive, mike, for his board support. was the w
and in that mass shooting at a dance studio, we re learning what investigators found inside the gunman s home as the death toll rises this morning. the war in ukraine, russia reinforcing its front lines by adding tens of thousands of troops to the battlefield. but they re arriving unprepared as moscow builds up for a spring offensive. from new mexico to maine, the nation braces for a multi-based storm threat of snow and tornados that covers 2,000 miles. and a key hearing today in georgia over whether donald trump broke the law when he tried to overturn the election. the findings are in, but will the public see them? cnn this morning starts right now. we re going to begin with yet another grim reminder that our nation is suffering from what seems to be a never-ending crisis, a problem that is unique to america. california s reeling from three back-to-back mass shootings, investigators say a gunman killed seven people at a mushroom farm and trucking facility in a smal
the horrors of the last few months have brought this down closer together. months have brought this down closertogether. before months have brought this down closer together. before the war there were some people here and elsewhere who genuinely supported russia. that s not really the case anymore. women s rights marches take place across the us, marking the 50th anniversary of the roe v wade case, which was overturned last year. singing a public memorial takes place for the singer lisa marie presley at her father s graceland mansion in tennessee, ten days after her death at the age of 5a. and no wipe out here! it looks like a french surfer has set a new record in california, for the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman. let s start with developing news and within the last hour police in california say the main suspect in saturday s mass shooting has shot himself dead after being tracked down to a van he was travelling in. 10 people were killed and 10 others injured in the att