hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m max foster in london. bianca is off for the week. just ahead on cnn newsroom. the shifting narrative from the white house on defense now referring all questions to the justice department. everyone was just astounded that it took this long. that period there is what is now going to be an issue for the pres president. a difficult search and rescue operation forcing emergency workers to use ropes and cranes. four investigators from france arriving at the site today, this tuesday, as the search still goes on for two more of those victims. he is now saying he always had questions about george santos s resume. a big question has become what did gop leaders know about george santos and when did they know it? announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, january 17th, the a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. in washington
end. it is not great politically. i still stand by the fact they are very difference cases with former president trump and biden. but i can understand, even though his lawyers handled this legally correctly, with the communication lenses it seems like there has been a few stumbles. there are comparisons being drawn. i want to go back to the timeline. when did you know it? who knew it and what did you do about it? for 68 days they did not say anything about the discovery. i wonder if the idea of the explanations, the idea of the trying to differential doj, is that connecting with voters? or is it there a concern that there is not? i think what is connecting with voter is that president biden had classified documents after criticizing former president trump for having classified documents. it is not the same. the obstruction that was perceived from former president trump is not the same. the refusal so cooperate is not perceived as the same. but i don t know how closely the
florida governor ron desantis abruptly removed a twice elected democratic prosecutor just last year. why? because he refused to go after people who seek and provide abortions or provide gender affirming care to transgender people. andrew warren sued desantis, but now a federal judge has dismissed that lawsuit, saying his action of the governor did violate the first amendment and florida s constitution, but as a federal judge, he couldn t rule against a state official based only on the violation of state law. and in the wake of that ruling today, andrew warren joins me now. andrew, thank you for coming. i know we talked when this first actually happened. so i ve been curiously following this particular suit. and the federal judge did take governor desantis to task for his handling of your suspension, but he ultimately upheld it. tell me why you think that is and what s your reaction. well, thanks so much for having me back, laura. as you said, the judge took the governor to
vi lerio reporting. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we re learning new details about the actions of the man accused of killing four idaho college students in the weeks before the murders. people magazine reports that bryan kohberger followed all three of the female victims on instagram but they didn t follow him back. that s according to an investigator familiar with the case combined with the magazine s review of the now-deleted account. the 28-year-old is also alleged to have repeatedly messaged one of the young women about two weeks before the killings. kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and he has yet to enter a plea. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is following the latest developments for us. camila, what more can you tell us? reporter: hey, fred. this is important because police have not given us a link between the victims and bryan kohberger. they haven t said whether they knew each other, whether th
instagram and then repeatedly messaged one of them. cnn national correspondent camila bernal is following the latest developments for us. camila, what more can you tell us? reporter: hey, fred. so, this is really important because authorities have not given us a connection between bryan kohberger and the victims. they have not said whether they knew each other or whether they had interactions. so people magazine is finding one of these connections saying that bryan kohberger followed the three girls on instagram and also saying that the three girls did not follow him back. the report also saying that not only did he follow them but he reached out to one of the girls in particular repeatedly. those messages went unanswered. it s unclear whether she saw the messages or whether she just chose not to answer them. but people magazine saying they were able to review that instagram account before it was deleted. they also went a little bit further saying that the girls worked