call now this is cnn. the world s news fundraiser face off former president trump s campaign betting that it can top biden s record setting night in new york with its own event. but can republicans match? this show of unity that we saw last night? it trio a president setting the stage for a serious fight and kremlin crackdown is a wall street journal reporter, marks one year in russian detention on sham espionage charges, were hearing word that moscow has just arrested six more journalists in the span of a few hours and queen, be sure knows how to create some buzz. beyond saves new album doesn t just have people singing why her trackless is sparking a whole conversation following these major developing stories and many more, i ll coming in right here to cnn news central counting the cash that is the stage of the 2024 campaign that we re in right now after president biden enlisted his two democratic predecessors for last night s event that raised a record $26 million
about the kid who may be sick. and am i say tell a story, i m not talking about making a story. i m telling how you feel because people trust you all. your neighbors trust you. that was part of a discussion between president biden and former presidents obama and clinton who all came together last night in new york city for a major fund-raiser. we ll have much more on that show of democratic unity in just a moment. donald trump, meanwhile, also in new york city but for a very different reason. he spent part of his day ranting on social media about the daughter of the judge in his ongoing hush money case. and also ahead, a possible positive step in getting desperately needed aid to ukraine as speaker mike johnson got a first-hand account yesterday of the dire situation in that war torn country. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 29th. it s friday and we made it barely. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we begin
source, a federal judge denying donald trump s long bid for a trial after the election, instead scheduling it two years sooner than the former president wanted and on the eve of one of the biggest dates on the political calendar. plus mark meadows taking the stand for hours in his own defense, offering his explanation of that phone call now at the center of the georgia case. and prosecutors in spain tonight launching a criminal investigation after that unwanted kiss at the world cup. and a strange new development. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. donald trump s attorneys today in court in both georgia and washington, a marathon hearing in fulton county ending without a ruling from the judge after hours of surprising testimony from his former chief of staff, mark meadows, who of course is fighting to get his case moved from federal court and potentially ultimately dismissed. meadows was questioned on the stand about the former president s infamous phone call
the vac takes on the squad. plus, don t block the roads. get out. on the ground. on the ground now. white house visitor logs just released suggests that joe biden is personally running the litigation of donald trump. the rate itself may have been hatched inside the biden white house and the special council prosecution on donald trump is being coordinated by the white house. jack was summoned to the white house twice in the fall of 2021. to meet with joe biden s deputy chief of staff, carolyn saba and an advisor to the chief of staff, catherine riley. this is while donald trump was negotiating. jay brat wanted a raid. jay brat even visited mar-a-lago and told everything was fine. joe biden and his white house council signed off on revoking trump s privilege and armed fbi got warrants and went in hard. the biden justice department indicted donald trump. then jay brat was tapped to be the top aid for special counsel jack smith and the white house summoned jack smith to t
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start today with some breaking news. a shelter in place warning at the university of north carolina, chapel hill. authorities say there is a, quote, armed and dangerous person on or near the campus. the governor roy cooper now pledging all resources to capture the person he is characterizing at the shooter. moments ago a law enforcement source told cnn that federal law enforcement has responded to the scene but at this point, there was no information, at least not yet, about anyone being shot. right now we re getting information in about a situation where somebody is armed and dangerous. but we do not yet know if anybody on the campus in chapel hill, north carolina, has been wounded or shot in any way. we re going to go now to former boston police commissioner ed davis. ed, right now this is an unusual situation. moments ago local schools around the unc campus at chapel hill were clear to