for protests, sender about the optics of a mass protest in the streets of manhattan growing out of control or resembling the january 6th attack on the capitol. john miller reported about meetings between city, state and federal law enforcement agencies in new york city about how to prepare for a possible indictment. we ll bring you more on this story as details become available. now to the guns of war. this week came several significant and troubling developments with regard to the war in ukraine. the latest the news that next week chinese president xi jingping will travel to russia to meet with vladimir putin. a putin adviser told russian state media they plan to discuss the war in ukraine and will sign documents attesting to closer ties. china refused to condemn russia s invasion or even call it such, instead echoing the kremlin s stance of blaming it on nato. u.s. officials are monitoring the meetings as china considers sending weapons to russia and are working to get xi
committees want answers about what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort. they re asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. you track a lot of this stuff. you are monitoring social media all the time for this sort of thing. the uptick in threats related to the mar-a-lago search is unmistakable. it s there and it is concerning. law enforcement officials across the country. that s right, jim. as soon as this news broke last monday night across these forums, both on the major social media platforms but more so on the new emerging social media platforms that many right-wing figures have migrated over to including, of course, trump s own social media platform, we saw immediate calls for violence against the fbi. i want to show you some of the threats made, some of the rhetoric, lock and load, kill all feds and another person writing, i m just going to say it, garland needs to be assassinated. sim
i am stephanie ruhle. the january six committee is on the eve of revealing more crucial evidence about a key part of donald trump s plan to overturn the 2020 election. the panel s fifth hearing starts tomorrow afternoon at 3 pm eastern. it will focus on how trump himself pressured his own top justice officials to go along with his plan, and how they repeatedly resisted. trump also tried to install a loyalist to leave the department of justice, a man name jeffrey clark, who backed his false claims of fraud. former attorney general, jeffrey rosen, the man tried along with his former deputy, richard donahue, and another official, steven angle. we heard from donahue at yesterday s hearing. in a taped deposition, he told the story of a january 6th 2021 oval office meeting, where january 3rd, excuse me, oval office meeting, where he threatened to resign if trump made jeffrey clark attorney general. the president said, suppose i do this, suppose i replace him with jeff rosen,
Criminal sderot trial starts in just a couple of weeks. And next hour, the last possible we will sentence for convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh. Soon hell find out how much time he will get for stealing from his clients and law firm. Also today, 50 the Million People from texas to virginia are under a Severe Weather risk. Some areas could see some tornadoes. Youll have the latest forecast for you, kate is out, im sarah sidner with john im berman. This is Cnn News Central this morning. Crooked, deranged, et evil. That is how donald trump celebrated easter. The words he used the easter message to describe the prosecutors leading criminal cases against him as he gets ready for critical month, be targeted special counsel, jack smith, Manhattan District Attorney alvin alvin bragg, the Fulton County district attorney, fani willis. This after going after the daughter of the judge overseeing his criminal case in new york in a separate message, seed and Steve Contorno joins us now, pretty stark,
More than 227 million passengers since memorial day, despite rising fuel prices and hoy costs of airfare. Not to mention a high chance of Flight Delays and consolations. Travelers trying to get home hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. We wanted to get here and get in and just hope nothing gets delayed. Watch the news and said it was the busiest, a real busy weekend so did get there a little early. Live at Chicagos Ohare International airport. Garrett, it does look busy behind you. How is it going . Yeah, anita, its a busy by here, and it has been busy across the country. Tsa says this is the busiest Summer Travel on record. This so far this year, and this Labor Day Weekend is really wrapping up the unofficial summer, and this weekend alone, tsa says more than 14 million americans are expected to get on plane. That is 11 more than last year, and higher than back in 2019. Aaa says that shows there is still a huge pentup demand for travel after the pandemic, especially when y