all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim bruun huber ahead on cnn newsroom, we re getting a better look at the case against the air national guardsman who is accused of leaking classified pentagon documents and the charges he s facing republican hopefuls for president climb over each other to show who has the most support for gun rights at the annual nra convention. and an explosion leads to the japanese prime minister being evacuated from the place where he was giving a speech at what was behind the incident. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with kim bruun hoover. u s government is moving quickly with its prosecution of the suspected leaker of classified documents that included detailed intelligence assessments of allies and adversaries alike. 21 year old air national guardsman jack to share a has now been formally charged under the espionage act. jason carroll has the latest on the charges and the continuing fallout fr
legislators of the state look into this. reporter: beyond the doj probe, a separate criminal investigation into trump and his allies is escalating in georgia, where investigators subpoenaed key trump allies, including rudy giuliani and south carolina senator lindsey graham. the district attorney there says more subpoenas may soon be headed to trump s inner circle. we re going to do our due diligence. reporter: at a separate congressional investigation unearthing new details, like trump s eggeagerness to go to t capitol january 6th. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. reporter: those revelations increasing trump s criminal exposure and raising the odds he could face repercussions. we heard there cassidy hutchinson s testimony regarding pat cipollone. he is expected to meet with the january 6
calculus will announce. relatively soon. but trip here. just reinforced my sense of optimism about what can be done. so you ve made a decision. i told you, my plan is to run again. and we ll have more on biden s trip to ireland a little later in the hour. deputy prime minister fumio kishida has returned to the campaign trail after he was evacuated from a venue when an explosion went off last record as he was set to give a speech to supporters. police arrested demands suspected of throwing a device at the scene from the broadcaster nhk reports that the prime minister wasn t harmed. cnn s mark stewart joins us now from tokyo with more so, mark, what more are we learning? hi there came. a big part of this investigation is now going to focus on this 24 year old man who has been identified as a suspect. i m sure investigators have a long list of questions, including intention, but for the
possession of a gun. an nhk reporter on the ground heard two shots while abe was delivering a speech. we do not know the condition of the former prime minister at this point, but we do know that he was there in japan, this western city of nara, delivering a stump speech ahead of the upper house elections set for this sunday. abe, again, the longest-serving prime minister in japan and the youngest prime minister in japan, first elected in 2006 before stepping down after his third term in august 2020 because of health concerns. now, despite stepping down, abe remained a key player in japanese politics, speaking very candidly about taiwan and hinting at japan s military role in taiwan. laura, just to talk about, you know, gun violence briefly here in japan, really almost nonexistent. the number of annual deaths resulting from firearms hasn t reached triple digits since the year 2000 with the number of