surrender to the manhattan s d.a. office on arraignment from a supreme court indictment which remains under seal guidance will then be provided when the arraignment date is selected. since it is under seal we don t know the exact charges. what we do know is bragg has been trump for alleged payments made leading up to the 2016 election including $130,000 to adult film actress stormy daniels. bragg questioned witnesses about an alleged payment made to model karen macdougall. the former president has denied any wrongdoing and has denied the affairs. and he has also responded to the indictment with outrage writing a lengthy response including this is a political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. he also called d.a. bragg a disgrace writing, quote: he is doing joe biden s dirty work and that the american people realize exactly what the radical left democrats are doing here. trump s attorney said last night that there s no crime. he didn t hav
years and did nothing about it. customers of which there were thousands were frustrated and they want answers. it s horrible to be sitting in an airport for five hours. it shows the lack of leadership. there was a major problem. a disconnect somewhere. this should not be happening this day in age. we shouldn t be having this kind of ground stoppage throughout the country. it makes no sense to me. dana: the hearing about begin in moments with one notable absence, southwest ceo jordan will not face questions because of a previous commitment. lydia hu has what to expect. hi. good morning. the hearing before the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation is scheduled to start around now. southwest chief operating officer is expected to apologize again for the holiday meltdown that stranded an estimated 2 million passengers over the christmas holiday. lawmakers will demand answers on why the budget airline was unable to adequately cope with the massive wint
hearings on capitol hill where lawmakers are probing whether or not the fbi and doj have politicized justice to attack american civil liberties. this is falling under that brand-new subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, ohio republican jim jordan. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. i m sandra smith in new york. john: sandra, good to be with you. as we watch our colleague, jonathan turley on the stand. two of the witnesses are senators leading investigations into the biden family business dealings. david spunt has been watching the opening statements. he is live ste justice department now. david, what are you seeing? senator ron johnson has paid close attention not only to the department of justice but the fbi. he noted in his testimony, john and sandra, he wrote more than 50 letters to the fbi and doj and said few of them were answered adequately, many were not even responded to. this is a hearing as you mentioned for a new subco
victims. a manhunt underway for the next mexican national leslie but some 2 miles in the crime scene. christina coleman has the latest on this live from los angeles, christina. hi jon, 30 say. two of the victims died while shielding children from the gunfire shooting. a manhunt is underway for the kill a preacher step is identify the gunman 38-year-old francisco or pasa a mexican national shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. last night in cleveland, texas that is about 45 miles north of houston port authorities believe he has since fled into a heavily wooded area less than 2 miles from the horrific crime scene where he is accused of shooting five people in the head. authorities are using sent tracking dogs and drones to help track them down. there are a lot of water and things like that i don t know if the horses are bogging down the doctors stuck in the mud whatever scenarios out there. the sheriff said the deadly shooting happened after neighbors complained about gunfi
kevin mccarthy just passed the toughest test ever as speaker, trying to keep the republicans in line, and the debt ceiling agreement is no further along, but the next move comes to president buyken. president biden. and now, gender affirming care. and now, he is accused of killing and dismembering his wife, and soon, he will be in court for his arraignment, and we will be covering all of these stories coming in on cnn news cent central. this hour, we start on capitol hill, and kevin mccarthy pulled it off. he passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling by an additional 31 trillion, but in order to do that, he wanted ending student loan forgiveness, and ending the hiring at the irs, and he said that the new bill would trim the bill in the next seven years. there were four republicans adding against the bill, and if you add it up up, it is just enough for the republicans to pass it. with that having been said, this bill has no chance of passing the republican-led senate a