special counsel s investigation. standing by for the next big announcement in the race for the republican presidential nomination. the former new jersey governor chris christie kicking off his campaign this hour. we ll have live coverage. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news on the special counsel s investigation of former president donald trump. our senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us right now. paula, tell us about this new york times report and why potentially it is so significant. reporter: incredibly significant in the special counsel investigation. the new york times reporting trump s former white house chief of staff mark meadows testified before the grand jury, that special counsel jack smith has been using in both of his investigations, both into january 6th and also into the
with you, i m griff jenkins. five of the police officers involved in that arrest have been charged with second degree murder and aggravated assault among other crimes. we have fox team coverage on this with alexandria hoff in washington and charles watson in memphis. charles, let s kick things off with you in the brutal body cam footage. yeah, hey, good afternoon, griff and molly and in watching that footage, it absolutely appeared that tyre nichols as surprised at the level of aggression the memphis police officers had toward him during that violent january 7th traffic stop. from the start body cam video shows officers yank nichols aggressively out of his vehicle as the 29-year-old says he didn t do anything. he s thrown to the ground while officers continue to yell at him to get on the ground in a series of profanity-laced commands. a few moments later, you see police tase nichols as he manages to escape and run away and as some of the officers on scene pursue him, you ca
people in this world have ever had to choose for themselves their own form of government. how they were going to be governed. imagine if we had gone small, we all have british accents, everybody. [ laughter ] we d all have british accents today. some of us watch the coronation of king charlotte iii. all of us would have been required to if we had gone small. and then you had 1861. when the country and many people in it literally wanted to make it smaller, they wanted it divided in half, because we disagreed, we disagreed on some fundamental issues, like sl slavery, like how the federal government interacts with the state governments and who should
foundation, thank you for giving time on a saturday. and the question here, is whether or not we should be studying american history. you can t delve into american history without the building, sl slavery and civil rights. and this program, is it a wolf in sheep s clothing is that what the governor is contending? of course it is, and i think that ron desantis has struck a victory for the right of children to study african-american history that s free of a political program. we should all study, all children should study more fred dick douglas, harriet tubman, and deboise who i disagree with. we should be subjecting children to a political marxist program to change america and that s what african-american
he was angry about it. can you clarify your position on the confederate flag? i ve already done it. can i tell you what that is? i ll give you the piece of paper. i understand both sides. some view of it as a symbol of sl slavery and some view it as a symbol of heritage. it was a few instance where we didn t follow our instincts. the only bad period in the campaign was when we did something out of political expedientsy rather than telling the truth and we lost. today mccain chose a dramatic setting to halt his campaign. i am no longer an active candidate for president of the united states. he will go back to the senate, but he vows his crusade