reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors
morning. today s thursday. i know today actually is don t rush time because it moves fast , right too fast too fast. but it is thursday. thank you for joining us. everyone caitlin is off a lot to get to won t we start with five things to know for this thursday, april 20th 2023. we re gonna start with the tornado outbreak striking oklahoma. at least two people are confirmed dead in the town of coal. significant damage, reported the supreme court, delaying its decision on myth of kristen until tomorrow, the justices seeking more time to assure ruling that could impact the accessibility of the abortion pill across the country and a judge here in new york, ordering mark pomerantz to testify today before june. jordan s house judiciary committee, pomerantz is a former prosecutor who once led the manhattan d. a s investigation into donald trump s business dealings also happening today, twitter says it s going to remove you know those check marks. we have one. with legacy blue check
dominion, the network is now facing from a voting technology company with an even bigger price tag and the 84 year old defendant pleads not guilty in the shooting of a teenager who mistakenly when went to his home. are we speaking with the lawyer for the teen s family, ben crump, about the racial component of this case and whether hate crime charges are warranted. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is on assignment alex marquardt and you re in the situation room. tonight the supreme court has set a new friday night deadline as it considers whether to preserve or limit access to a widely used abortion drug. let s go straight to cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula what is the thinking behind the supreme court s decision to kick this can down the road 48 hours . as of now, this widely abused use abortion medication will remain widely available. the supreme court is expected to offer another update by fri
talking about the truth. there will be distorted reality presented on fox news impacts the lives of people who may never even watched the channel even as ralph funeral recovers from gunshot wounds, the result of simply ringing the wrong doorbell. the shooter s own grandson points to fox as a reason why i feel like a lot of people of that generation or caught up in as a 24 hour news cycle of fear and paranoia perpetuated by some other. news stations and he was fully into the outs and watch fox news all day every day blaring in his living room. and i think that stuff really kind of reinforces this negative view of minority groups and leads people to be all over this and doesn t necessarily lead people to be racist, but it reinforces and galvanizes racist people and their beliefs. we ll see you people who know the responsibility of what you say on the air like our next guest, bob costas. his words have reached across the globe for decades. he has a hall of fame sportscaster with more than
after admitting he shot ralph funeral, he said that he was scared the teenager was trying to break into his home. you also that he went to the wrong address to pick up his younger brother s, rang the doorbell and then was shot. his attorney responded to the judge letting lester out on bond. i think that they need to hold this man in custody. i do think he has nothing to lose. at this point. he s likely going to be convicted and it would be convenient. i guess for him to try to skip town. so the attorney also releasing this photo of the teenager he called general a walking miracle that said he has a long road to recovery after suffering from a traumatic brain injury. lester is due back in court june 1st, and we should note in our next hour. we re going to talk to his grandson, lester s grandson. who says that he is not surprised. that this happened. a man accused of shooting and killing a young woman in his driveway and upstate new york has been detained, denied bail. i should say it co