alison camerata starts right now. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight, lots of developments today and many legal challenges facing donald trump, including former vice president mike pence , saying he will not fight the order to tell a grand jury about his conversations with president trump regarding january 6th. but there are many more cases, including one you may not be up to date on the begins in just two weeks. plus the grammy winning country musician who says country music can lead america out of its cycle of gun violence. catch c corps of the old crow medicine show is here tonight to explain how also pulse of the people. i sit down with six voters from different generations about the challenges that they face in today s job market and economy and who they blend. well, i think the tax cuts that happened under the reagan administration set us up . and so baby boomers had all this unprecedented prosperity that they thrived under, which is gre
start, former vice president mike pence will testify against his old boss, what dropping his appeal means for the case against trump and more bad news for the former president. top national security officials testify against him in the 2020 election subversion probe plus put your hands up in some noise for brandon. ahead we re going to have my interview with chicago s new progressive mayor elect brandon johnson, about how he pulled off his upset victory. what s going on everyone welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for the wonderful christine romans a lot to get to this morning, so let s get to it. we re gonna start with former vice president mike pence, deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order for him to testify in the case against donald trump. we don t know what date the date yet, but pence will now testify to a grand jury in a special council probe into efforts by trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 20
significant step that he has decided not to appeal. they are now willing to put mike pence before a federal grand jury. trump is nervous. he thinks that the special counsel here may know quite a lot. take our support for the people of taiwan. seriously, we are not isolated and we are not alone. it s gonna be weeks upon months to be able to recover. you can see all the way back in the woods. that s the roof of the building. live from london. this is cnn newsroom. max foster and bianca nobilo. this thursday, april 6th nine am here in london , four am on the u. s east coast. we begin with another blow to form president trump. mike pence says he ll testify to the grand jury of the special counsel investigating the january 6th capital riots. the former vice president has signaled that he won t appeal a federal court ruling ordering him to testify under oath about trump s actions leading up to january 6th. but there are some limits to what pence may be willing to discuss. cnn s kat
trying to get fda approval when a single judge can just flip that around that would impact their desire to try to, you know, research and do get more life saving drugs on the market , and that would affect all of us, erica. so when we look at this 22 of the justice who just this is who dissented here. justice thomas and justice alito . justice alito actually actually said why? what did we hear from justice? alito? jessica yes. so interestingly, the two justices justice thomas justice alito. they re the only ones who dissented. but because of the way the order of structured here we don t know exactly how the other seven voted. only that five definitely did side with the fda. so justice alito wrote that four page dissent. he talked about really two things. he talked about how the supreme court has previously been criticized for these kinds of stays. he also tried to argue that there would be no harm if the restrictions went into effect, um, saying that, at present applicants ar
the united states. justices alito and thomas publicly dissented. and again this battle it is not over yet. the next step in the litigation will be at the fifth circuit court of appeals on may 17th. but this tonight it s a big win for the biden administration after its emergency request to keep the fda approval of the drug with a federal judge blocked it. the president has issued a statement tonight saying, quote i continue to stand by fda as evidence based approval of mifepristone. the stakes could not be higher for women across america. i will continue to fight politically driven attacks on women s health. more now from cnn s paula raid, paula good evening, pamela will hear the supreme court has ensured that this commonly used abortion medication will remain widely available, while larger lawsuits about its fda approval work their way through the system. at the heart of this case, is this drug that you just mentioned per stone. it is one of two drugs that is used in medicati