Trumps legal team will face the federal judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case. This as the Special Counsel requests an aggressive trial date. Meantime, trumps 2024 republican rivals are flocking to iowa for the annual state fair. Former Vice President mike pence is being heckled by some people at the fair as a traitor. A Covid Variant grips the country as Health Experts brace for a surge in the flu and rsv as well. A viral Triple Threat threatens america. And thousands of hackers are headed to las vegas for a chance to win millions of dollars in prizes to crack chatgpt. The white house is telling them, do your worst. Cnn this morning starts right now. Breaking news this morning, that death toll from the catastrophic set of wildfires across maui has risen to 55 people. Officials are warning its expected to increase as Search And Rescue efforts continue. We are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the number has been rising, and we will continue to see loss of life. Its
john: great to be back. i m john roberts. this is america s newsroom. the possible arrest related to a hush money payment made to stormy daniels, it happened in the run-up to the 2016 election. the manhattan district attorney s office has been investigating the case for years. a grand jury is reportedly on the verge of bringing charges. dana: jury still has to hear from one more witness. that will be a one-time legal advisor to president trump s former attorney michael cohen expected to rebut cohen who has been a key witness against trump. john: calling into question the timing of the arrest. republicans arguing the whole thing is political. it s the weakest case out there. trying to make a miss demeanor a felony. timeline doesn t work. too long past and doing it after a person for political purposes. somebody putting their thumb on the scale simply because they don t agree with somebody else s political view. that s what s wrong and that s what infuriates people. t
he is storing mail in here? evidently. jesse: joe biden s aides have been doing a little early spring cleaning for the big guy. it feels like everywhere they look they find something new that surprises joe. or as joe s lawyers put it, they keep finding highly classified documents that were inadvertently misplaced. first they found docs in the closet at the u penn center. storming with thousands of people a day. in fact, i was there in 2018 on the roof hosting the five. today they find more documents and just as predicted yesterday, they found them in delaware. right in joe s personal library, a library without any books. but joe is not responsible. he is not irresponsible. the most important documents were stored aed away in his garo his 72 vet. classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god-willing, soon. what i said earlier this week by the way my corvette is in a locked garage,
we will not, let me say it again, we will not allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. john: tough talk as iran emerges as a big focus of his middle east trip. sandra, hello do you again. sandra: hello to you. israeli prime minister and president biden signing a joint declaration, pledging no nuke for iran. john: israel urging the united states to put a deadline on the talks and threatening the use of military force. iranian president reportedly firing back shortly after that saying i tell the americans and their regional allies the iranian nation will not accept any crisis or insecurity in the region and that any mistake made in this region will be met with a harsh and regretable response. sandra: the biden team set to head to saudi arabia with a list of goals in hand, with energy security topping the list. officials say they should be looking state side instead. we think texas is a lot closer than saudi arabia and president biden does not need to be travelling
finland, the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, bipartisan, it includes incentivizing red flag laws, closes the boyfriend loophole and funds crisis intervention programs including mental health courts. and tomorrow president biden is expected to sign the bipartisan chips and science act boosting u.s. semi-conductor production and the making of cars, household appliances and computers. also this week he is expected to sign a bipartisan bill enhancing health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. let s get right to capitol hill where they were up all night saturday into sunday, a marathon session, but the senate did pass the inflation reduction act. jessica dean is there. jessica, what is in this big piece of legislation? reporter: good morning to both of you. yeah, this is a big, big win for senate democrats who frankly, john and brianna, they didn t know that they were going to get to this point. this alm