manhattan da s investigation no one is above the law that is the defining principle of the republic and has been the case for 247 years it s another example of two tier system. it s outrageous, and ther is no too low i can t reach. every time you think he ha bottomed out, he goes even further. i think he s building a lot of sympathy for the former president. i think the fact i was wit coffee this morning with folks none of them were big trum supporters and they all said, they felt like he was being attacked also this hour, we are just hours away from a meeting that has the u.s. and the world o edge russian president vladimi putin and his chines counterpart, xi jinping, later this hour i will talk to congressman seth moulton about the threat of unified russia and china. as another state targets the abortion pill, we will look at what may be the next big hop for abortion rights advocate in ohio. more on that ahead, but we wil start with breaking news tha attorney robe
kept a lid on that video footage and in some cases, doj didn t share it with criminal defendants who d been charged on january snickets violation of their constitutional rights. so we felt it was a public service to bring what we could to you. there was no justification for keeping the secret any longer and a powerful argument to be made that sunlight is always and everywhere the best disinfectant. and in fact, because it was video evidence, it is, to some extent, self-explanatory. anyone could look at the tape and decide what he or she thinks of it. so the tape we showed last night indicated very clearly that capitol hill police in some cases escorted protesters through the capitol as if they were giving a tour. they did that with jacob chansley, the so-called qanon shaman. at one point, they tried to open locked doors on chansley s behalf. chansley was sentenced to four years in prison for his crimes in the capitol on january 6th. the video we showed you last night raises t
manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis
good saturday morning, everyone. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. and i m boris sanchez. all eyes on the sky this morning as a chinese spy balloon continues drifting over the united states. where it is expected to go and why the white house has not ruled out shooting it down. and a brutal blast of dangerously cold air sweeping across the northeast. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below zero. where we re seeing the cold air and when things will start to warm up. plus new developments in the tyre nichols case, why another officer is out of a job and why some first responders are now losing their licenses. plus important new testimony in the alex murdaugh trial, twists in the case and what it could mean for murdaugh s defense, coming up on cnn this morning . hi, everyone. if you are not keeping track, it is saturday. not time to go to work for most of you. february 4. thanks for waking up with us. i m amara walker in atlanta. an
to today. we begin with 0,000-foa sixty ts foot in the sky balloon that s flying over the continentale. wa us somewhere where at this momentt this we re not exactly sure. it is a massive chinese spy balloon the size of, say,, hove three school buses.rir iout has been hovering overml our country for days. and why hasn td we our governmee told we, the people about this ,the self-proclaimed most transparent administration itras history? china says it s a weather balloon. i don t believe anyone here believe them can say it louder.l now. all right. they re saying accidentally that he s flying over america s critical military infrastructure. now it sy happening in multiple states . a lying communist spokesperson nameisd mao told us to calm dow, quote, any deliberateside speculation or hyping uperin will not help the chinese side n is gathering the facts and hopes all sides will handle this matter matter in a coolhes manner. how about we don t need lectures from the communist