I came to office determined with the duty to care and get us through one of our toughest periods in history. And we have. President joe biden continues to hit the former president on the Campaign Trail as the former president yesterday appeared to float cutting Social Security and medicare. Meanwhile, trump is also now flipflopping on tiktok, the platform he pushed to ban when he was in office. It comes as the house is set to vote tomorrow. Plus, theres more fallout from alabama senator katie britts state of the Union Rebuttal and how her speech highlights republicans fears of losing women voters this election. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 12th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Former President Donald Trump is vowing to release Hundreds Of January 6th defendants currently behind bars if he were to be releected this november. On truth social last night trump explained that one of his first acts as president would be to, quote,
Patrick j murphy. Honor to have you, were thrilled. We begin with americas crime crisis and deterioration of Law And Order in our biggest cities. In washington, d. C. , the crisis is worsening, murders is up 30 and some residents are afraid to walk down the street in neighborhoods and capitol hill. Seeing the crime Crisis Closeup for themselves. Warning, the video you are about to witness is disturbing. [beep] what the yeah. Ex Security Footage shows moment one of senator rand pauls staffers was stabbed in march. Philip todd was attacked while walking back from a restaurant with a friend. They were a mile and a half from the capitol. The suspect was released from prison just one day earlier. Dc leaders struggle to get the crisis under control, one democratic councilman is calling f for. I have never seen this onslot of violence portrayed on our women and kids, enough is enough. We are clearly in a war zone. I have spoken with the dc national guard. And while i have to have more convers
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta. we re less than 40 minutes to the launch of axiom two. it s the second mission to the international space station. on board is a former space station commander who has spent more time in space than any other american along with a pilot and two mission specialists from saudi arabia. we ll bring you that launch live in about a half an hour. and negotiations will resume over the debt crisis. they will set the stakge for a high-stakes meeting tomorrow. the president is flying home from the g-7 summit in japan. here s what mccarthy had to say about that conversation. i believe it was a productive phone call. and so at the end of the phone call, what we need to do is, we re going to have patrick mchenry get back together with he s going to ask his team, get back together. so we can walk them through literally what we ve been talking about. i think some of the challenges here they might not completely understand h
interference. meanwhile, g7 leaders injapan announce new sanctions against moscow. here, what stamp qualify for the final of your oblique and violent clashes marked the end of the match. and one other headline belief in a god plummets in uk who would talk to the author on a new report today. let s start this half hour with a different story because the brother of the tv presenter philip schofield has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage boy. to him at found guilty of 11 offences last month. ginny reports now from exeter. his brother set the crimes were despicable and disowned his sibling in the statement. timothy schofield arrived in court in the glare of intense media interests at his trial last month, he admitted that he had watch pornography with a teenager but insisted this victim was 16 and consented. he denied there was any sexual abuse but the jury found him guilty of all charges. during the hearing, the court heard a statement from the v
case, but what we know is this, the irs whistle-blower s lawyers have written to members of congress saying that the whistle-blower and his entire team have been removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistle-blower disclosures to congress. the whistle-blower previously alleged political interference in the investigation of that high-profile, controversial subject who fox has been told is hunter biden. as for the whistle-blower s removal from the investigation, his legal team says its client, was informed the change was at the request of the department of justice. the move was condemned as retaliatory action by house speaker kevin mccarthy who said by a twitter that republicans on the house, weighs and means committee, will expose any possible cover-up at the irs and republicans will protect the whistle-blowers who shine a light on government misconduct. congressman richard nea