violated our trust. two years of understaffing. we don t want to strike. there s too many patients and too little nurses. how a 6-year-old could obtain a firearm and let alone have the wherewithal to use it, the youngest of our students are involved with gun violence. we need to make sure we never see instances like this happen again. it s game day. everywhere you look you see the love for damar hamlin. no matter what team you re with we love each other. we do. the whole nfl just came together. i m pamela brown in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom. we are watching chaos break out in brazil right now in the capital city. take a look right here. these are supporters of the former president jair bolsonaro. they are storming security barriers and breaking into the country s congressional buildings, the supreme court and the presidential palace and this is happening one week after the inauguration of president lula da silva. latin affairs editor r
ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president s florida estate when he left office. at the time, the agency said it had asked the justice department to investigate. a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news, boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. trump s attorney released a statement claiming the former president and his legal team have been cooperative with the fbi and doj, quote, every step of the way. trump slammed the search as, quote, prosecutorial misconduct
pictures of gay couples kissing and embracing under the headline equal dignity. the culmination of decades of activism that set off jubilation and airful embraces tearful embraces. many a times follow-up, there was revelry is and soul searching on gay pride day. such cities as new york city and san francisco promised a sort of social catharsis of bicoastal toast to the nation s rapid shift on gay rights and an extended curtain call for the movement that drove it. now, the washington post front page story said the decision rewarded years of legal work by same-sex marriage advocates and pointed to the vexing challenge now facing republican presidential candidates and the gop itself, how to get in step with modern america. we also looked at the coverage of the original 1973 roe v. wade decision, and while it was overshadowed by the death of lbj, it reflects that newspapers mainly took a just the facts approach. the washington post quoted the majority, then the minority
plus, wnba star brittney griner is set to take the stand in russia, while the family of another american also held by the kremlin, also on drug charges, calls for more attention to his case. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and merrick garland saying moments ago that the justice department will not hesitate to hold donald trump accountable for the events around january 6th even if trump is the republican nominee for president. if that s where the evidence leads them. listen to what else attorney general garland just told nbc s lester holt. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. so if donald trump were to become a candidate for
handed future presidents a, quote, loaded weapon, in the words of a dissenting justice, aimed straight at the rule of law in the country. the conservative 6-3 majority of the court, half of them appointed by ex-president donald trump, two others have been faced calls for their recusal in this very case, a potentially fatal blow to council jack smith s effort to hold the president accountable for crimes committed on january 6th in the insurrection and the plot to overturn the 2020 election he lost. they ruled that donald trump and all future presidents are entitled to immunity for official acts, that they take during their presidency. now there is a question of whether a president can order a seal team 6 or assassinate a political rival, the united states supreme court said in effect, yeah, maybe. regarding jack smith s prosecution of donald trump, the court is sending that case back to judge tonya chutkan to parse out what is an official act in which trump is entitled to comp