with a fox news alert. overnight california s secretary of state keeping former president trump s name on the state primary ballot despite efforts to keep him off. carley: trump is off the state of maine. ruling he violated the second amendment making him the second state to disqualify him from holding office. joey: alexandria hoff joins us live. she has the latest on this. the decision out of maine is the first for elected official taking unilateral action to remove former president trump from the ballot. sheena bellows ruling that the 45th president is ineligible to run. holding government positions if they engaged in insurrection. here she is yesterday. the events of january 6th, 2021, when which were unprecedented, tragic were an insurrection. after the section 3 of the 14th amendment that mr. trump engaged in insurrection and therefore is disqualified. so, like colorado supreme court bellows based her ruling on a section ever the u.s. con steetion make no mista
america s rivals? fred fleitz, ready to go, geared up and we ll be joined shortly. john: begin america reports with an indictment watch for former president trump as manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s motives are questioned by critics. john roberts in washington. happy tuesday, sandra. sandra: and john, you are warmed up yet again. sandra smith in new york city. the former president predicted he would be arrested today, but he is not expected to be arraigned until next week, the grand jury has another witness to hear from. john: the manhattan district attorney for the soft on crime approach is taking heat for what critics say is politically motivated. his office is firing back. sal wisenberg in a moment. bryan joins us live in studio. what is the latest from district attorney alvin bragg s office? the office has responded to jim jordan and house speaker kevin mccarthy s calls for bragg to testify to congress over the possible indictment of former president trump. the
saying ahead, protest mad. i ll cover your legal fees, knock these guys out and his rallies he s never been held responsible for. no, he hasn t and so this culture of intimidation and threat threats and violence is something very purposefully stoked and conditioned to this environment. for moments like this. another person who s getting death threats is alvin bragg, the d a. and one of the things molly as you know that they keep doing is trying to link him to george soros. so george soros is the a universal bogeyman for a lot of people on the right. and they say that alvin bragg was supported by him . they the truth is the two have never met. they ve never communicated. they ve never spoken on the phone, however. george soros did give to a pack that is a sort of social justice pack that contributed some money . too many different campaigns. one of them was alvin brooks. yes as a jew, i ve i ve sat in horror and watch these trump supporters say like trump is good fo
system has spun up several tornadoes, leaving a swath of death and destruction across the mississippi valley in the mid south. donald trump, making travel plans to face more than 30 criminal charges in new york next week, the latest on his historic indictment and. the immediate go to was that my life is over. um everything that i ve worked blood, sweat and tears for has just gone down the drain just like that. transgender american runner, vowing to fight for her olympic dream after world athletics ruled trans women can no longer can be in international competition. live from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin with a deadly tornado outbreak that is still underway parts of the united states from kentucky to louisiana under tornado watches and warnings at this hour under the gun right now, mississippi, alabama, tennessee and kentucky . tornadoes have been reported from arkansas to wisconsin. this is what it looked at, like after the storms blew th
and activating the national guard as the storms gutted entire communities. she spoke about the destruction earlier today. i have had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we re going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. and more devastation in several other states, including indiana and illinois. people are waking up to their homes and businesses destroyed their neighborhoods littered with debris. but the threat is far from over. some 70 million americans are now bracing for more severe storms. today cnn has teams tracking all of the latest developments from these destructive storms. derek van dam is in wynne, arkansas. at this hour. derek to you first. w