beautiful shot of st. patrick s cathedral right here in manhattan. i never get tired of seeing that beautiful church. it s beautiful on the inside as well. great to be the here. will: great to be here with you and joey jones here with us. morgan wallen, we re debating, mainstream country. not necessarily, you know, you and i like, i think both of us like a little bit of offshoot country, but morgan wallen, as good as mainstream gets country, that s fair, right in. joey: absolutely. , no i think my what i said was is he bro country or, you know, to me, kind of fits more into the i call genuine country genre. and i think that s because i listen to the words of the song, and you take a step back and you re using a song with rap beats, it is mainstream/bro country, but he s at least singing about things that i experienced, and that s fun for me. will: he s good. as is easter. joey: yes. yes concern. [laughter] we ll listen to some easter songs by morgan wallen later. [laughter]
grand jurors, what did he tell them about trump and the 2020 election. plus a deadly barrage of missiles strike ukraine leaving raging fires and at least a dozen dead at the hands of russia. and destruction after a tornado rips through a florida town, parts of the south bracing for more severe storms today. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. we begin with vice president mike pence testifying before the grand jury looking into former president trump s efforts to subvert the 2020 election. grand jury testimony is of course secret, but we have a very good idea of what pence was likely asked about his former boss, now his republican rival. katelyn polantz has more from washington. reporter: former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thirst fo thursday for more than five hours. it would have been what happened after the 2020 election leading up to january 6, all of
we made it. can you tell, we re happy for the weekend. but thanks for being with us today and all week. we re so happy to have you here. it s good to be here. it will be a fun day. five things to know for this friday. former vice president mike pence testified in jack smith s january 6th investigation. we re told that pence testified before that federal grand jury for more than five hours. new overnight, two apache helicopter helicopters crashing in alaska during a training mission. three army pilots are dead. one was injured in the crash. also today, the fed s preferred measure of inflation set to be released. data could be critical in determining what the fed does next with rate hikes. also, tributes and reflections are pouring in for jerry springer. the legendary talk show host lost his battle to cancer at the age of 79. also this morning, roll tide! so happy to say that. so happy to watch this last night. the carolina panthers selected alabama quarterback
this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. reporter: opponents of this fire and police training facil
tank standoff. who will blink first over sending crucial fire power to ukraine. former ambassador nikki haley says it s time for a new generation to lead. guess who she has in mind for 2024? good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. president biden saying he has no regrets over the way the white house handled the discovery of classified documents at his private think tank office and delaware home. as we found we found a handful of documents were failed were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned them over to the archives and the justice department. we re fully cooperating, looking forward to getting this resolved quickly. the president s first remarks in a week on the classified document discovery. cnn s jasmine wright live in washington this friday morning for us. jasmine, mr. biden spent about 30 seconds addressing the documents, the very end of the comments on storm re