Welcome to the lead i m jake tapper in milwaukee, wisconsin on day three of the republican national convention, we re just moments ago behind me, we saw former president donald trump take the stage for a walk through of head, head of his highly anticipated speech his acceptance speech tomorrow night tonight, we re going to hear from his running mate, jd vance of ohio, who will introduce himself to a national audience. The new maga torchbearer was proceeded last night by speeches from big boldfaced names, nikki haley, ron desantis his rivals, turned endorsers. It s all a big display of republican party unity in just a moment, i m going to talk about that with governor chris sununu of new hampshire, another trump that detract you re turned trump supporter democratic party unity. Meanwhile, well, that seems harder to come by earlier today, congressman adam schiff of california, the democratic nominee for senate, became perhaps the most prominent elected official to publicly call on presid
the straits sank. the efforts to locate it, where they stand right now. it is saturday, april 24th. we are so grateful to have you waking up with us. good morning, boris. good morning, christi. how great is that new opener? makes me so energized. kudos to all of the guys behind the scenes. it definitely wakes us up. oh, yeah. a series of high profile shooting is increasing pressure on the lawmakers this morning to pass police reform. in north carolina, three sheriff s deputies resigned se yesterday seven on administrative leave after the shotting of andrew brown. he was shot and killed when deputies were trying to give him an arrest warrant. bryant was holding a knife and lunging as a girl on video. police say she attempted to lunge at a second person and officers fired four shots. bipartisan group of lawmakers are looking to take the next steps passing police reform measures. the george floyd justice and policing act would, among other things, ban chokehol
coronavirus as the cdc warns of a possible fourth wave. you know, it s interesting, mika, he had to say in there that it s not political. it s not political. it s not political. it s science. here we are with over half a million people dead and you know, we heard from dr. birx this weekend, talking about how after the first 100,000, if they had done a better job, if donald trump had not been so resistant, they would have been able to save so many lives. and here we are, willie, i m now i m now hearing lunatics and i ll call them lunatics yeah. that are now of course still pushing back on the masks. but now we re saying if we somehow identifies as having a vaccine, like it s part of satan or the mark of the devil or nazi germany. the idicy is just beyond us. they re acting recklessly and irresponsibly. they re being stupid and falling conspiracy theories. they re falling a failed game show host and or reality tv show host and they don t understand, i guess,
training after they were wrongly accused of racism. created havoc among the whole workforce. take a look at this. mr. biden is considering increasing tax rate and the job creators network s response heck no. steve: divoorpg, everybody on this wednesday we start with the tragedy in colorado as we take a live look at the white house where the flag, as you can see at half-staff to honor the victims here. rachel: we are learning more about the victims including the heroic police officer who died while trying to save others. will: jeff paul is live in boulder with more as new details emerge about the suspect, jeff? yeah, investigator say this is still all in its earliest phases. that s a big part of the reason why you see behind us the store in the area around it is still fenced off as investigators continue to comb through evidence. as you see it hasn t stopped folks from come out here to pay tribute to the 10 innocent people who were killed. people have left flowers, cand
wrap up their case by warning of the potential for future violence if former president trump is not convicted and barred from ever holding office again. prosecutors argued that the deadly capitol insurrection would not have happened had the mob not been invited and incited by trump. despite their compelling video evidence, most republican senators appear ready to acquit from trump. at one point our producer witnessed 15 empty seats on the gop side during the trial. let s begin with cnn s lauren fox live on capitol hill. reporter: the house managers used two days to make their case to this jury. these 100 senators. we expect trump s team is only going to spend a couple of hours today making their case, and that s because, like you said, many of these minds on capitol hill, they re made up. even though these are supposed to be impartial jurors, we know there are not likely to be 17 republicans ready to convict trump as early as tomorrow. former president donald trump s defens