others on this set today may be concerned. but i think most americans, despite what tim scott said in the response about joe biden tearing america apart with his policies, they don t agree with that assessment. they haven t agreed with that assessment over the first 99 days of this administration. and if you look at the flash polls last night out by several organizations, they didn t agree with that assessment last night. this address getting great initial reaction from once again the overwhelming majority of americans. as so much of his legislation both passed and proposed has overwhelming support from so many americans. these are initial polls, president biden s address to congress, in the latest cbs u.gov poll, 85% of viewers approved of the president s speech, 15% disapproved. the cnn/ssrs poll, 71% said that the president s speech made them feel optimistic. in that cbs poll, 78% felt optimistic about america after listening to the president s speech. 13% felt pessimist
could hold a vote to charge donald trump with new federal crimes. also, a battle over razor wire, and a massive floating barrier in the rio grande now heading to court. the law governor abbott is accused of breaking as the justice department sues texas. the alabama woman who claimed she was kids napped admits it was all a lie. sara and kate are off today. i m john berman with rahel solomon, this is cnn news central. we expect a federal grand jury investigating former president trump s election interference to convene today. and it comes as we re getting new details about what special counsel jack smith is focusing on. overnight, cnn learned that the special counsel, now in possess of a batch of documents from former trump attorney, rudy giuliani s team, trying to find fraud after the 2020 election. the documents include affidavits claiming there are widespread irregularities and shoddy analysis supporting and supposedly revealing fraudulent activities. and cnn has als
who may have tried to intimidate star witness before she testified. the loved ones of the uvalde shooting victims are sick of waiting for answers. we re sitting here just listening to empty words. that s all it is. empty words. my sister died protect ing her children, her students. sd why the mayor claims he can t tell them anymore. welcome to the lead. we begin with our politics lead. breaking news as we follow the repercussions from cassidy hutchinson bombshell testimony. we have the very latest. reporter: witness intimidation has become a serious focus of the january 6th select committee. cnn has learned both instances the committee presented as examples of possible witness intimidation during the hearing on tuesday were directed at their witness, cassidy hutchinson. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. i think most americans know that attempting the influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents
team now filing a response to that fbi search for all of those boxes of classified material in his florida home two weeks ago. we ll start with the fbi seizure of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the former president wants a neutral third party called a special master to review the documents taken by the fbi and return anything not within the scope of the search warrant. we re also getting new information about how much sensitive data was at mar-a-lago and the concern at the national archives months ago, which set off this entire investigation. all right, so, let s get to cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, kaitlan. we know in january, the national archives retrieved 15 boxes of material from mar-a-lago, and we are learning, thanks thao the reporting, about exactly how much classified info was in those boxes. one of the things we re learning now is because the national archives is making public a letter back in may that fills out our timeline a little bit more,
of respect to the victims and to their families. to their families. however, israel continued to their families. however, israel continued to - to their families. however, israel continued to call - to their families. however, israel continued to call for| to their families. however, i israel continued to call for mr antonio guterres to resign, saying it is a disgrace that he did not attract retract his words or apologise. there has been stalled progress to agree to a ceasefire at the un security council. because have grown louder here at the un for a ceasefire. they say that they want not just that but obviously the release of all hostages, the protection of all hostages, the protection of civilians, getting aid in, and yet we had seen the security council for the fourth time failed to act on the desperate concerns there in gaza. now, remember, last week the united states vetoed a resolution. they put forward their only draft which put forward they put forward th