charges like this often have cascading effects and as you mentioned, the president s facing at least three other potential criminal investigations into his conduct right now. whichever way these charges go and hopefully we ll be privy to all of them in the next 15 minutes or so, how might this strengthen or weaken the former president s hand in those other key cases? i think that s a great question on the politics side of things. not on the legal side of things. you know, i don t think any of these district attorneys or the special counsel are interacting saying you go first, no, you go first, or i m ready to go. that s not how it works behind the scenes. but it is the case that this went first and it may be the thinnest gruel of them all in the end. by going first does it paint others with this, you know, an aura of it s all political and the answer is yes from the former president, he s going to use it to say it fits with the entire narrative of russia russia russia, and
This is cnn Breaking News. Hello, again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on what is seriously a marathon saturday. On capitol hill and wherever you are. Im fredricka whitfield. We begin with this Breaking News from capitol hill, where were watching an 11th hour Stopgap Spending Bill potentially come to reality. The house is yet to vote on it, but there are so many moving parts today, youre seeing the minority House Minority leader, hakeem jeffries, who has been using his magic minute to speak to the chamber there, imploring that all of this was avoidable, there could have been some bipartisan effort to keep Government Spending well before this juncture, but here we all are. Lets get to cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Brand new reporting that you have about not just whats going on in the house, but apparently whats happening in the senate, and how all of this is coming together. Whats going on . Reporter let me paint a picture for viewers at home. Basically theres been a del
district attorney bragg say, you know, no one is above the law, and they are moving forward with these charges and he will face his day in court. and he s innocent until proven guilty. i think on both sides of the political spectrum people who good over the edge. this is a moment, and we are likely going to see as andy mentioned a fast movement to try to dismiss this case. based on the technicalities of trying to, if we as we assume, boot strap these charges to a federal election crime. gillian: martha, so many moving parts today. but i think certainly when we look back on the events that have transpired, a few distinct moments in time will crystallize. certainly this photograph of the president, the only one we are going to get inside the courtroom, flanked by his legal team will be something that sticks with all of us. read the tea leaves for us, read the moment and the impact this photo will have.
dysfunction. as police keep searching for brian laundrie they have him under surveillance before he went missing and more mystery around the disappearance and gabby petito s death and cell phones seem to have vanished. welcome to the viewers around the world and in the united states. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. let s get right to the breaking news on the january 6 investigation and including president biden s refusal to assert executive privilege on behalf of former president trump. a lot of moving parts today. our justice correspondent jessica schneider is following the new angles why the january 6 committee got an important green light from president biden on this. they did but this is setting up a very big and looming legal
scenarios which clearly these officials were able to work with president trump and stay in this administration and not be totally bothered by all kinds of other things that president trump has done in two and a half years in the white house. i think bill taylor said as much during the testimony that we ve seen, is that there were lives at stake here. particularly these diplomats who spent so much time in ukraine, really believed in ukraine felt a connection to ukraine because of their experience there. he describes looking across into russian fighters and thinking, ukranians are going to die if they don t get this funding. because of the lives at stake, i think, is why you see the urgency of some of these officials and the whistleblower felt like he needed to act. we ll show in the program a lot of moving parts today, but he just told them about bill taylor because he had recalled the ambassador. he was a never trumper. this is a strategy.