Wildfires. Only 3 of the disaster has even been searched. The governor calling it A Fire Hurricane that spread faster than a mile a minute. Now a new lawsuit gets the states main electric provider. Hours from now the District Attorney set to begin presenting her case to a grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials. It could take months or years to figure out why. The raid of a newspaper Head Quarters in kansas is raising serious concerns over First Amendment rights. Police seizing everything. Also the lapd says a mob of people stole 100,000 worth of merchandise during a daytime robbery. Well show you what was caught on camera. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, thank you for joining us. Theres a lot of news, but were starting with
Warrant for donald trump. An Appeals Court opinion states, quote, the District Court found probable cause to search the twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses. Turns out that twitter and jack smith Squared Off On Whether Trump should be told about the Search Warrant, with the Federal Court ultimately ruling to keep the warrant a secret from trump. It says that, quote, the District Court found there was reasonable grounds to believe that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump would seriously jeopardize the Ongoing Investigation by giving him an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior or notify confederates. Its hard to remember now given that the expresident was banned for twitter for years and has not posted since his return, but his twitter account was one of the most powerful weapons in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He used it to spread baseless Conspiracy Theories to his millions of followers and urged his supporters to go to washingto
Department of justice at the time. Hes also accused of lying to investigators. Again, it is not the crime, folks. It is the coverup, but there is a delay. De oliveira hasnt secured local counsel to represent him in florida so the judge asked him to return later, next thursday, to go about the arraignment. If all of this sounds familiar, thats because the other trump aide indicted in the classified Documents Case, the valet, walt nauta, twice had his not guilty plea postponed for the very same reason and perhaps youre saying to yourself, what a stroke of bad fortune. Both indicted Trump Associates somehow unable to find a florida lawyer, thereby delaying their trials with the 2024 election fast approaching. Go figure. This afternoon, there are also significant concerns surrounding de oliveiras legal fees, specifically who is going to pay for them. Its reportedly a trump pact and that raises a number of major questions that we will address throughout the hour, but first, consider how thi
are the people most opposed to donald trump actually aiding his election? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. tuesday is the new hampshire primary. the gop race in the sggranite state thought to be a two person affair. if trump b the first nonincumbent republican to win both iowa and new hampshire, he will be the de facto nominee of his party, but new hampshire could prove more hospitable for haley. high school home to more libertarians and independents. so haley is all in. and so too are many institutional forces which see time running out to stop trump. but are some of those efforts backfiring? mark halperin in his newsletter regularly chronicles this phenomenon which he calls the sad irony of those members of the media and the democratic party who most worry about a trump second term acting in ways that actually make it more likely he will win. here is an example. monday msnbc had the kind of all night extensive coverage of the iowa caucus that we ve come to expect of
his party, but new hampshire could prove more hospitable for haley. is it home to more libertarians and independents. so haley is all in. and so too are many institutional forces which see time running out to stop trump. but are some of those efforts backfiring? mark halperin in his newsletter regularly chronicles this phenomenon which he calls the sad irony of those members of the media and the democratic party who most worry about a trump second term acting in ways that actually make it more likely he will win. here is an example. monday msnbc had the kind of all night extensive coverage of the iowa caucus that we ve come to expect of cable outlets. but when it came time for trump to make his acceptance speech, the network didn t air it. instead, rachel maddow said this at this point in the evening the projected winner of the iowa caucuses has just started giving his victory speech. we will keep an eye on it as it happens. we ll let you know if there is any news made, i