the supreme court is now smack in the middle of the 2024 campaign and donald trump could be asking the high court to both stay out of and jump into his legal troubles at the very same time. exactly. and republican-led house committee is launching an investigation into harvard s president over plagiarism allegation, and what the president is saying in the scrutiny of the new embattled president. and cnn is flying over the volcano in iceland. that is what you have to say. the best or the worst assignment ever. the volcano that is still erupting. i m kate bolduan with omar jim jimenez. john and kate are both off today. this is cnn news central. the supreme court of the united states is now in the spotlight and unwittingly front and center in the 2024 presidential election. the high court is facing a number of decisions that could directly impact how this election is going to play out. special counsel jack smith has asked the justices to fast-track a decision on wheth
new reporting about potential evidence of obstruction in the mar-a-lago documents investigation but what are the chances we see a more serious charge for donald trump, and later, ukraine is on the brink of launching its counter fashion against trump i will ask oksana markarova, what success looks like, and how they hope to achieve it. speaker kevin mccarthy. while the president was able to protect most of his priorities, including medicaid, student debt, relief and funding to fight the climate crisis, he did make clear in a statement last night that he doesn t love everything in it, and a number of democrats aren t going to like what what they see either, mainly, additional work requirements for programs that help poor people people who need it most. the final deal does not include the kind of slash and burn spending cuts that kevin mccarthy promised to the right flank of his caucus, we will see how that goes, so the next few days could still be a rollercoaster, to get th
we have secured the convictions of leaders of both the proud boys and the oath keepers for seditious conspiracy. specifically conspiring to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power. guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. four members of trump s maga army, the proud boys, including leader enrique tarrio, are convicted of seditious conspiracy in the january 6th attack. also tonight, yet another allegedly undisclosed big money gift to justice clarence thomas from the same big money republican ben affecter. what is going on and will there ever be any recourse for this supreme court corruption. plus, my conversation with soon to be 109-year-old viola fletcher, and her 102-year-old brother, hughes van ellis, two of the last remaining survivors of the 1921 tulsa massacre, who are in town to meet with the justice department. we begin tonight with the breaking news of a partial verdict in the trial of five members of the far right group, the proud boys. for their inv
convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles. members of both groups were seen meeting with each other in a garage right outside the capitol the night before the attack. joining me now is justice reporter ryan reilly who has been covering the trial, former lead prosecutor andrew weissmann and former federal prosecutor glen kerschner. are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence? give me a name. proud boys, stand back and stand by. ryan, one of the defenses was that they were just following the leader, donald trump, in the encouragement from him. they have been convicted of seditious conspiracy. talk to me about what s happening. reporter: that s right. they explicitly blamed donald trump. during the trial, blaming donald trump for some of the problems that the proud boys are screening new members. after the click, that was a major boon for the proud boys. they produced
quote. call 877 cash now. thanks, j. g wentworth. this is cnn. the world s news network. we have breaking news. a ground stop just lifted after a nationwide halt of southwest airlines flights, the airline dealing with what they re calling a major technical issue . we re getting new reporting in for the thousands and thousands of people affected by this it may happen any moment the supreme court could determine the fate of a commonly used abortion drugs as soon as today . we re outside the court with the very latest, a jury has just been selected in the historic defamation lawsuit against fox news, the latest from inside the courtroom, including what we re learning about the jurors, these major stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. alright the breaking news a nationwide ground stop for southwest airlines was lifted just moments ago. now the federal aviation administration had issued that stopped after southwest reported intermittent technology issues.