should happen now it should get dismissed. we re not going to stop on this nothing s changed. we believe he s overstepped. two top republicans in the house are promising to investigate the manhattan district attorney following the indictment of donald trump that comes as the former president is escalating his attacks on social media which now include a call to defund federal law enforcement. meanwhile mike pence will soon have to testify before a federal grand jury in one of the cases tied to trump. we ll tell you which one and why the former vice president appears finally ready to talk. plus the gop controlled statehouse in tennessee could take historic action today against three democratic lawmakers. we ll explain the controversy connected to calls for new gun legislation. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, april 6th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin today with the fallout from this week s historic arra
you can t get much detail out of this. and it was approved by a judge. which does tell us something. although not what is under the redaction. so we have this unprecedented clash over federal powers, over the prerogatives of a former president. the suspicion about criminal evidence. all of this is here in the ballpark. and if you ve heard today or tonight, we know everything now and i could tell you, no we don t. we obviously have to be careful about what is redacted. we re learning new things. so i m going to go through the facts with you right now. the road map here that has been released, the affidavit, shows how agent recovered the highly classified documents and then based on that timeline and the information, they saw a grave need to go back into-n to do a search to get the rest of them. they found that the trump had, in the doj view, stolen material that involves secret clandestine human source and intelligence. that is the kind of material that is supposed to stay on
happens when there are too many passengers, not enough staff, not enough planes, and not enough air traffic controllers? add in some picket lines and you have the recipe for a holiday weekend travel nightmare. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. new insight into what the january 6th select committee believes is possible witness tampering by members of trump s orbit. sources telling cnn that cassidy hutchinson told the panel that she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony before tuesday s hearing, and now the vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney, says the committee is considering making a criminal referral to the justice department. that s according to abc news. today, the committee is now trying to compel testimony from pat cipollone, issuing a subpoena to trump s former white house counsel. testimony revealed that cipollone expressed alarm leading up to and on january 6th about possible criminal behaviors by the presiden
ban, saying it makes no sense that people can purchase a weapon that fires up to 300 rounds. he called on congress to cooperate and said his powers alone don t go that far. this on a day he also urged our country to unite, honoring sacrifice of our troops. president biden remembering americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in what he called a sacred memorial day ritual. we must never betray the lives laid down to make our nation a beacon to the world, a citadel of liberty and justice for everyone. reporter: biden marked the importance of defending democracy amid russia s war in ukraine. also mourned on the anniversary of his son beau s deathed, a veteran who died of brain cancer. biden addressed the families of the 2,461 service members who lost their lives in afghanistan but made no mention of the 13 who died under his watch during the withdrawal, the only armed forces to die by enemy attack since he took office. the ceremonies coming one day after biden privately grie
Its now 4 00 in new york. This Morning A Key chapter until the first ever criminal trial of an american expresident came to a close. The Testimony Phase of the people of the great state of new york vermont vs. Donald trump is over after the defense rested its case and trump in the end did not testify. Although just a few weeks ago, he said this, quote, im testifying. I tell the truth. Whatever that means. Happening right now in court, prosecutors and trumps Defense Attorneys are discussing the instructions that the judge will give to the jury. Its incredibly important. Where donald trump faces 34 Felony Charges for falsifying Business Records in order to conceal another crime. Well keep you posted on all of the updates out of those proceedings. We turn to the dramatic events this morning in court. Team trump resting its case, one was a paralegal and the other was the attorney robert cost tell la lo. Whatever credibility he had left after his outburst in court, the ones that resulted in