tornado watches and warnings are in effect right now for parts of mississippi all the way to georgia. it comes as the death toll is rising after those massive storms. toward through seven states, and now at least nine people are dead. dozens more injured. there were over 50 sidings of tornadoes, including 22 in illinois, 12 and arkansas aid in iowa. in arkansas. three people are dead after the violent storms swept through that state. the national weather service has confirmed at least two tornadoes have touched down in the state. girl out of commotion and stuff that it was just over. i go outside, and it s crazy as people get blood all over their faces. three people were killed when an apparent tornado ripped through sullivan, indiana, first responders work through the night to clear the streets so they could get to the places hit hardest. and illinois baseball sized hail damage. some vehicles so badly that they had to be towed from the roadway. but the hardest hit areas a sm
Really interesting to look at what republicans are saying immediately after news of the indictment broke, we saw several top house republicans and senate republicans come to his defense , as well as some of trump s 2024 potential 2024 arrivals. now i think it s really interesting to note that house speaker kevin mccarthy, one of trump s top allies on in congress, tweeted right after the indictment. came out. he wrote that alvin bragg has a reportedly damaged our country in an attempt to interfere in our presidential elections, and later, he wrote. the american people will not tolerate this injustice and the house of representatives will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account now. other house republicans meet similar statements of support. we also saw jim jordans, the house judiciary committee say that it was outrageous and we could expect potentially some more action from some of these committees to rally around donald trump. i will note, though it is notable
Minority whip excuse me, john thune both silent on the issue after this, but a lot of this support also extends beyond congress. we re seeing his rivals like governor. desantis, who has not been willing to go this far yet also come out and support donald trump he tweeted as well on thursday night. he wrote the weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the role of law on its head. it is un american. he later wrote. florida will not assist in an extradition requests, given the questionable circumstances that issue with the source backed manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda, so clearly a lot of support for the former president. and i will add victor tomorrow that this is what donald trump s team wants. they think that this could potentially be beneficial to him in the long and of course, we don t know what the long term effect of this indictment will be, but they re currently enjoying a lot of the support from people on capitol hill and republicans bey
Political. they very well may say this appears to be very legitimate, but at least we ll have the facts in front of them, and i think people will take their word. then with a lot more gravitas and people that jump to conclusions without you know, frankly, having any idea what s in this indictment besides what we ve kind of heard through the grapevine, speaking of making a statement, congressman, um do you think there s any chance that donald trump slips into and out of new york without some gesture or statement of defiance or self declared martyrdom? what do you expect on tuesday? i expect there s no chance he doesn t make some kind of a statement, unless the only caveat here is if the judge in essence threatens him or says, like, hey, you know we re going to put a gag order on you. if you continue to go out and do this, then maybe his lawyers will say, hey, don t say anything, but no. i mean, look, donald trump is going to try to raise money on this. we ve already seen that he is rais
Time whenever he s walking to the courtroom to face his charges. trump s attorneys say that they re going to file a motion to dismiss. tell us more about that. right well, they re saying that that is what they plan to do that they re going to want to get these charges thrown out, but no one has seen the charges yet. they have not seen it. donald trump does not does not know what he is charged with, and neither do we, as we are awaiting this. what we do know is that he is facing 30 or more crimes. potentially it looks like that will not all be misdemeanors. that would be very unusual if they were so. that means that he s very likely facing at least one felony charge very serious type of criminal charge, and we know that his team is saying that they re going to try and get these charges thrown out. but that is ultimately up to the judge. the judge in this case will have lots of work to do before any trial would occur after donald trump pleads not guilty. the judge will get to look quite