to celebrate july 4th in several key battleground states. we ll show you how the presidential contenders marked the holiday. plus a federal judge orders the biden administration to stop talking with social media companies. what it means for the effort to tamp down misinformation about covid and so much more. and later which of these things is not like the other? looks like the gop needs to brush up on its social studies. how its twitter page mixed up the american flag. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 5th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we certainly hope you had a happy and safe july 4th. the white house celebrated america s independence yesterday with a barbecue, a concert, and of course plenty of fireworks. we re turning from a weekend at camp david, president joe biden addressed military members in the crowd who he called the protectors of democracy. you are the backbone, the reality of why we are
in a moment we ll be joined by senator bernie sanders to discuss democrats chances in the upcoming midterm elections, less than three weeks away. big developments in two separate investigations involving the former president. one involves potential criminal liability for his conduct spreading election lies about the 2020 vote. we ll get to that in a moment. we ll start, though, with breaking news, sources telling cnn the former president s legal team is considering whether to allow federal agents to conduct a new search of mar-a-lago. cnn s sara murray joins us now with that story. what have we learned about this? sources have told us that there is a consideration on the table to allow federal investigators to return for some kind of supervised search. you can imagine trump s lawyers would also be present for something like that. the justice department has insisted in private discussion as well as publicly in court filings that they believe that the former president still h
Speaking to reporters inside the lower Manhattan courthouse, former President Donald Trump slammed his hush money trial, demanding the judge lift a gag order limiting what he can say in
we re just renting. music can change moods and music can make us feel better. it s just incredible, and i thought we had some great, great entertainers here tonight. the president enjoying himself there. but the day was slightly less celebratory for biden s meaning republican challenger donald trump who of course was recently indicted on 37 felony counts related to his mishandling of classified documents. rather than hit the campaign trail the former president spent the holiday where else on social media railing against the justice department and his other perceived political inhemis. in addition to posting this photo of his head super imposed on george washington s body and
believe he has any additional documents, but the justice department has been very insistent that they believe there are still documents out there and that potentially trump and his team could have run afoul of this may s subpoena, which could potentially put him in legal jeopardy. i want to stress this is an option on the table, but it hasn t been decided yet. is there any indication that the former president might be changing his tune, if that is, in fact, what is happening? in some ways it is surprising because we have seen him be so adversarial towards tha justice department. we have seen him on social media railing against the original search at mar-a-lago. but what sources are telling me and my colleagues is that all of these legal woes have really been weighing on the president and that he is considering a more accommodating approach, in part because they are hoping if they take the steps they might be able to more swiftly resolve this document dispute they are still embroile