indictment, attorney general merrick garland is voicing support for special counsel jack smith. we ll show you his new remarks. plus new polling shows that trump s support among republicans is standing strong despite his mounting legal troubles. we ll break down those new numbers. and the judge handling trump s classified documents case, aileen canon, is coming under new scrutiny for having very little trial experience. that new reporting and so much more is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. for the first time since donald trump s federal indictment, we re now hearing from attorney general merrick garland. speaking to reporters yesterday, garland declined to answer questions about the case, but he defended special counsel jack smith, the man that he appointed to lead the investigation into the former president. so as you know i can t talk about particulars o
undoubtedly sign the thing. now, if you are live in the real world, and the words diversity, equity, and inclusion sound like positive things to you, what happened today in florida feels like madness. but if you re a fox news viewer, this all might make perfect sense. it might even seem overdue. let me take a step back. this is christopher ruffo. he s now one of the people that governor desantis has appointed to the board of trustees that oversees new college in florida that s a school that we, on the show, have done quite a bit of reporting on. it is the school that governor desantis is essentially trying to make the test case for anti woke education. christopher ruffo is also likely the reason your conservative uncle wouldn t stop talking about critical race theory, or crt, at thanksgiving last year. ruffo is even the reason former president trump became obsessed with crt. and september of 2020, ruffo went on tucker carlson s show to not only make his case against crt, but
give some of these republican officeholders truth serum. and get out why they were doing this. like, why get into the whole election came? what would they say? because well i think power is one thing. but to really have no principles that you can particularly articulate other than winning. i mean, and texas it s particularly interesting, and it s interesting in a lot of the states. cnn missouri, ohio s not like you guys are on the run. you re doing fine! you don t have to rig the rules. the paranoia is so the paranoia, yeah. but to holders point, if there wasn t so much no, there weren t. it s a confession. it s a snake eating its own tale. exactly. thank, you my friend, as always. today, the florida state house of representatives cast a bill that prevents colleges and universities in florida from spending any money on anything that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. the state senate already gave this bill the greenlight, so not heads to f
their remains. here is spokesperson ned price at the state department just a moment ago. i understand we may have more so share from the fbi at the appropriate time. but from the department of state it s important for us not to impinge on investigative equities especially in an investigation that implicates the kidnapping of four americans, the death of two americans and two americans who survived what by all accounts must have been a traumatic experience. there are still so many questions about why these americans were targeted. they just only crossed the border from brownsville, texas, to mexico when their car came under fire. in newly-confirmed video of the incident, you can see a group of unknown men, believed to be connected to a cartel attack the car and drag the americans on to the flat bed of a pickup. two appear to be bleeding badly. we do have source reporting on what the u.s. officials officials in the u.s. believe could be the motive. and statements from the
world. i m bianca nobilo, max foster joining you live from london just ahead on cnn newsroom. no matter who you are , we cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. they can t beat us at the ballot box, so they try and beat us. through the law extraordinarily distressed by this document. i think this is even weaker than i feared it would be. no power. oh, my god. that s right for severe weather will continue on into our wednesday over the great lakes and the ohio valley. i ll have the threats and the timing. knife from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s wednesday, april 5th nine am here in london, four am in new york and at mar-a-lago, with donald trump and his legal team are gearing up for a legal battle after he became the first current or former u. s president to be criminally charged. arrested and arrange. trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying business records in a historic and unprecedented cou