and as putin celebrates his invasion of ukraine, what is the u.s. trying to do about it, when all in starts right now. good evening everyone. from new york, i m ayman mohyeldin in for chris hayes. we have some year of elation from donald trump secretary of defense about the absolute chaos that he and others face during the last year of the trump administration. in an interview with 60 minutes, mark esper described some of the dangerous ideas that were coming from the ex president and his inner circle, that he says, quote, could have taken the country in a dark direction. at various times, doing certainly the last year of the administration, we have folks in the white house, proposing to take military action against venezuela, to strike iran. at one point, if somebody proposed we blockade cuba, these ideas would happen, it seemed, every few weeks, something like this would come up. we have to swap them down. and donald trump even proposed ordering the united states
covid around the world. turns out the suspected death toll is higher than reported. much higher. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news in our money lead. a huge selloff on wall street today. the dow just closing down 1,059 points. the nasdaq and s&p also taking huge hits. the losses coming one day after big gains. let s get to cnn s richard quest, the host of quest means business. richard, what is behind the massive selloff? reality check, jake. the reality that the fed is going to have to raise rates, and maybe harder and faster than anybody thought, and that is going to slow the economy. now, many economists who said duh, we knew that was coming, why all the shock? the reason is because there had been a hope, a prayer, whatever, that they were going to get this soft landing. it s looking less likely now. and that means inflation will be remain high for the foreseeable future. we may see an uptick in unempl
tapper with the linux on this breaking news from atlanta these cnn breaking news and welcome to the lead arm, abby phillip in for jake tapper. we come on the air this afternoon with huge breaking stories. first in atlanta, video from just moments ago, showing that orange suv right there that rammed into the gate of an fbi office we re told at least one person is now in custody and we ll bring you everything that we know about that incident in just a few moments, but also breaking this our brand new images showing the aftermath of a deadly air strike. iran says that it is a consulate building in syria that was hit and it blames israel for the attack we have brand new reporting from the region in coming up and back here in the united states, a news conference just wrapped up in baltimore. authorities there detailing plans to reopen that major shipping port after last week s catastrophic bridge collapse. but first let s begin with cnn s evan threats, evan what is unfolding rig
we make money from ads, but they don t follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. otter.ai. ai or download the app carbon cnn fill. sunday, april 21 at nine you are in the cnn newsroom. i m alison camerota and new york donald trump trump posted a violent image of president biden tied up like a hostage in the back of a pickup truck. now, the trump campaign is responding to the growing criticism saying quote that picture was on the back of a pickup truck that was traveling down the highway. democrats and crazed lunatics have not only called for despicable violence against president trump and his family hey, there actually weaponizing the justice system against him cnn s priscilla alvarez joins us from the white house. priscilla has president biden responded his campaign has responded, and they have slammed what they saw here saying that this is yet another example of the political violence that
it s fascinating because in these types of stories, they have not released a name of the suspect on the right-hand side of the screen but they know who he is. they got the picture. they know who he is. they re not ready to give the name right now. but as we have seen, they re going through that person s social media footprint, trying to find out if there s some type of a name that goes with the alleged crime here. though we don t know what happened so far. we were told to give you the timeline. the university of north carolina tweeting at 1:03 p.m., armed dangerous person on or near campus. go inside. avoid windows. it was an hour and 21 minutes later they tweeted again, emergency update, remain sheltered in place. this is an ongoing situation. suspect at large. check alert carolina nc.edu for endates. these are live pictures. the police footprint on this scene is mass. it is one of those things where it s an all hands on deck scenario. right now as john roberts was pointing