Good evening and welcome to a special early edition. Im laura coates. Live. We begin with breaking news. Special counsel jack smith is now thinking a gag order against donald trump in the classified documents case. Jack smith is asking the judge to quote, make clear that trump may not make statements that pose a significant imminent and foreseeable danger to Law Enforcement agents who are participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case. So now, why is it special counsel asking for this . You might be asking, well, its because of what donald trump said this week when he falsely claimed, but fbi agents who searched maralago or quote, Locked And Loaded and authorized to shoot him. He was misrepresenting the standard language and documents and the fbi says it uses routinely. Heres by the way, how attorney general Merrick Garland explain it just yesterday okay. And that one that allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous the document that is being referred to in the a
Holiday weekend, more than 70 Million People are under a Severe Weather threat as intense tornadoes baseball hail add Near Hurricane Force Winds hit the Central Plains and parts of the midwest. Lets bring in now cnn meteorologist, at elisa rafah. So at least so what areas are you watching most closely . We are really bullseye in parts of oklahoma and kansas today. Again. And whats been a very active Severe Weather season. We have a moderate risk level four out of five there you can see in the red from its your todd down towards Oklahoma City where we could find baseballsized hail intense, strong, long live, violent tornadoes possible, and damaging wind gusts. Notice is if youre Weather Threat though, does stretch down across the deep south, including places like atlanta. And then theres another little portion of it up in the northeast as well. But where we could find these ef2 or greater tornadoes with the intense winds that could pack up to 100 or more miles per hour. Thats in the bul
Also, memorial day weekend, a lot of people people are going to honor Military Members who gave their lives in service, going to see how group of volunteers is going to honor the sacrifice of black veterans who service was nearly forgotten im looking forward to have a great show. Thank you very much. Lets do it right now. Lets start the show well first of all, it is may 25th, four years ago today george floyd was murdered in minneapolis. He was 46 years old. And if i now youve seen the video, then Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his back and neck for more than nine minutes is fluid repeated . I cant breathe well, that video touched off something in this country. And the big cities across the us and Around The World Tens Of Thousands of people at a time demanded an end to Police Violence against black people even in small towns where there really arent many black people, people marched with signs that a firm black lives matter before i go any further, this narrative th
Saturday mornings starting today at a good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, it is for the best de saturday, may 25th. Im victor blackwell. The month nearly. Im amara walker. Good to be with you. Heres what were working on for you this morning. The holiday get away has begun for tens of millions of americans this morning, but strong storms and brutal heat it spoil the unofficial kicked off two stellar we will have tim coverage and for the first time in the maralago classified documents, case special counsel, jack smith is asking a federal judge to place a Gag Order On Former president donald trump. What could be off limits . Trump to talk about plus mu Sexual Assault allegations are leveled against music mogul Sean Diddy Combs, wide legal experts think a similar lawsuit just filed could possibly lead to more criminal charges for combs and get ready because the start of atlantic Hurricane Season is one week away. Why forecasters think it . To be one for the record books, thats comin
Them the next leaders in civilian and military life. But without naming donald trump are really making a direct Election Year appeal President Biden also under scored the values that he has previously said are at risk if his republican rival were to take a second term, for example, protecting democracy and also the nature alliance. Now on that front, the president talked about us leadership on the global stage, including, for example, again, that nato lyon saying, for example, that russian president Vladimir Putin are testing his assumption that nato would not be able to unify and support ukraine from his invasion. Saying quote, putin was certain that nato would fraction of course there speaking directly to the invasion of ukraine and instead, the president said, it is the greatest Defense Alliance in the history of the world. Now of course, President Biden has been a defender of nato, especially earlier this year when former President Donald Trump said hed encourage russia to invade t