Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. A fresh start to your weekend. We thank you for starting with us. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us. The fight between Special Counsel and donald trump is heating up. Why theyre calling on the judge to take action after a social media post by the former president. This was crazy in new york city. Look at these pictures. There was some violence but a lot of chaos after a social Media Influencer posted about a give away and now that influencer is facing charges. And simone biles gets ready for a comeback after taking a break from the sport. We will have the latest on tonights competition. We begin with this latenight court filing from Special Counsel jack smith. He is now asking a federal judge to quickly set Disclosure Rules in the January 6th Case against former president donald trump. In the filing smith cited this social media post from trump earlier in the day that reads, if you go af
january 6th investigation in recent weeks. the interview of rudy giuliani finally, right? he s a key figure in former president trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election and then today the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, i want to remind people why he is so key here. let s take a listen to a brief cliff from the january 2021 call between trump and the secretary of state. so, look, all i want to do is this i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so raffensperger is not only a witness in the special counsel probe. he is also a key witness in the state level investigation. we expect the d.a., fani willis down there to make some sort of announcement about any potential charges she ll bring in august and it appears that special counsel jack smith could be on a similar time line to announce any charging decisions this summer. we are also hearing once again from former president trump responding to our excl
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we ve been waiting for you. glad to have you along. good morning. i m victor blackwell. glad to see you this morning. and i m amara walker. happy to spind the holiday with you. more than 42 million people expected to head out this memorial day weekend. we re going to tell you what to expect if you re going to the airport or driving to your destination. plus lawmakers racing to reach a deal. now treasury secretary janet yellen has more. and a plot to kill the queen? 40 years ago when she was getting ready to visit the u.s. the details ahead. all by myself anymore every time i hear that for all these years, i still get chill bumps. the best 15 minutes of celine dion for any of her songs. now she has canceled her world tour for 2024. she battles health issues. health officials say she may never be able to tourn again. we ll have the latest on her condition. first, travel season. experts say it will be a busy one. aaa expects 42.3 million americans to travel 50
organization is responding this morning. a stark warning for all parents. listen up. if you are making your kids breakfast right now, this matters to them and you, the u.s. surgeon general is labeling social media a, quote, profound risk of harm for kids. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. a security scare near the white house. police say a man in a u-haul truck intentionally rammed a barrier. you see that happen. but could not get through. he has been charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or harm the president, vice president or members of their family. video at the scene shows investigators inspecting. a nazi flag, a black backpack, a roll of duct tape a notebook with writing in it and other items the suspect apparently had with him. the secret service evacuated a hotel as bomb technicians searched the truck to make sure there weren t any explosives inside. evan presiden evan perez is at scene. if there was a threat, you see this nazi flag in his thing