hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. boris sanchez, everyone boris great to be with you. i m jessica dean and we begin with breaking details another major legal blow to former president donald trump. on the day his attorney had to testify before a federal grand jury. in one case. we re learning. in a separate case, his former top administration aides have now been ordered to testify, and that includes his past white house chief of staff mark meadows. this specific investigation is the federal criminal. probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election loss. cnn senior crime and justice reporter caitlin poland s is with us live standing outside of the department of justice on a rainy day. caitlin tell us so much about this development, the claim of executive privilege by the former president thrown out by this judge. right so this is another attempt where donald trump was coming into court secretly behind closed doors and trying to say that people around him sh
think she was capable he would not have picked her but it is a question of consistently rising to the occasion and there is a lot more in this piece from these reuters reporters about how biden feels about vice president harris according to this report. peter doocy joins us live at the white house. that quote in that reuters story has officials here doing something they almost never do, which is weigh in on palace intrigue. the new white house communications director saw that story and posted this. the reuters report on vp is silly season material. here are the facts. vp has shaped and helped pass historic legislation improving lives and lowering costs for working families across the country. v.p. is leading the fight against the rollback of women s rights. the vice president s detrackors make up a imagine or tore of those polled. 36% approval. a major drag on the biden/harris numbers, the economy. 68% disapprove of the handling. president biden said recently he intends to
have been leading this effort to protect women s sports coming up. john: fox news alert, waiting an update in the pentagon after another suspected iranian missile strike targeting a u.s. military base in syria. hello, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, we made it to friday. sandra: we did, the afternoon will hold a lot of news. we ll watch for the pentagon briefing. this is america reports. tensions between the u.s. and iran turning deadly during three separate incidents in syria in the past 24 hours. a suspected iranian drone hit a coalition base in northeast syria, killing an american contractor and wounding five u.s. service members. the pentagon says president biden ordered airstrikes in retaliation, going after iranian-backed forces in eastern syria. john: and a new wave of missile strikes targeted another u.s. military base. iran s deadly attack on americans comes at the same time president biden faces growing criticism of his handling of the middle east. y
to come. it happens every five or six generations. nothing gives me greater confidence in the future than knowing canada and the united states stand together still. today i d like to speak a little bit about the future for a minute. a future that is ours to seize. you know, i get criticized sometimes for saying that i used to always barack president obama used to kid me because i d say to him in our private meetings, country is never more optimistic than its president or its leaders. well, i have never been more optimistic about the prospects i mean this from the bottom of my heart the future build around our shared responsibilities, prosperity, shared values. it s a future built on shared prosperity. canada and the united states anchor the more competitive prosperous and resilient economic region in the world. that s just a fact. [applause] our supply chains are secure and reliable from end to end because we re creating value at every step here in north america. we r
cheer. then as they drew closer, that heavy silence fell once again. a moment later, when the hearse was inside, the applause resumed one final time as what were for 70 years the queen s guard and the queen s staff there to receive her and to mourn. tomorrow the quiet returns as a silent procession accompanies the coffin to westminster hall in the house of parliament, where the late monarch will lie in state. already as you can see, people have begun camping out in the rain along the route. public viewing begins at 5:00 p.m. local time and will continue around the clock until early monday morning. a short time ago, the government laid out the path that people will take to the viewing site. it will stretch clear acrokcrose thames and down the southbank which speaks to the expected outpouring. trains will run throughout the night bringing in mourners across great britain. the clean and consort are across the corner from us right now, having spent the early part of the day in no