Later thanks so much for joining us today. The lead with Jake Pper starts right now combs in court facing horrendous her refik charges just moments ago, the lead starts right now once a celebrated Hip Hop mogul, now a criminal defendant, Sean Diddy combs, charged in a sweeping federal Sex Crimes case, accused of Sex Trafficking, forced labour, kidnapping even arson. After years of rumours and allegations and then civil lawsuits. Did the law finally catch up with him and a deadly coordinated attack nine people killed, reportedly nearly 3,000 injured were told when pagers exploded, pagers simultaneously detonated ones being held in the hands of members of the iranbacked Terrorist Group, has bola who could pull off such a coordinated attack and how less brand new details about the man the fbi says wanted to assassinate Donald Trump over the weekend, the new Search Warrant executed today while weve learned of explosives discovered in a prior arrest lead. Im Jake Tapper and leading this hou
Devices somehow set to detonate at the same time, the people wearing those pagers were members of the iranian back backed Group Hezbollah, which the u. S. Considers to be a Terrorist Group. Hezbollah now blames israel for the attack we have Reporting And Analysis on all the latest developments from Tel Aviv to washington. First, we go to cnns Jeremy Diamond Standing by for us in israel. Jeremy, were learning more about how hezbollah communicates, opting for pagers over smartphones why and where are these pagers being well, jake, this appears to have been a low effort to avoid israels high tech surveillance, but it appears to have backfired on hezbollah becoming a vulnerability as a hundreds of these pagers to have exploded simultaneously. Today, you can see in the video from multiple security cameras, including an a free store for example where these pagers appear to have exploded. One of them in a bag that was being carried by a man. The result of this is that we now see that a 2,800
we have lost technology from new york. i will pick it up from here and scroll it back so we know. fewer than 24 hours from new hampshire s first in the nation presidential primary. iowa caucuses were last upon monday, so this season is on. it is a two-person race for the republican nomination for president. florida governor ron desantis dropped out, that was about 21 hours ago. he says he will back former president donald trump. we can t go back to the old republican guard of yester year corporatism that nikki haley represents. harris: tim scott here. we have a stronger economy, healthy military and safer world, compare and contrast the only, the own conclusion is donald trump. harris: now there are two, just two despite polling showing donald trump ahead by double digits, nikki haley is welcoming that challenge, saying, bring it on. when we win the presidency in this country, i will prove have made the right decision. for now, i leave you with this. may the best
degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife. the tv appearance from three years ago did not come up at the trial but the marital troubles were central to the prosecutor s theory of the motive in that case. thanks for joining us. cnn tonight starts with alisyn camerota right now. that was a plot twist, abby, that i did not see coming. i thought that was your kicker. do not kill your wife. that s not a good idea. thank you for sending us off on that message. we will all take that to heart, abby, thank you very much. see you tomorrow. evening, everyone. we re awaiting the senate vote on the debt ceiling bill. we ll take you live to capitol hill to see if there are any last-minute obstacles. more follow-up to donald trump caught on tape discussing i classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. now team trump is trying to defend the former president with an array of different excuses, so we will fact check what they re sayi
fine line as he ramps up his campaign. here is the conundrum for ron desantis. on the one hand you have to attack trump to beat trump. on the other hand you have to attract trump s voters to win. how do you do that? if anything, i think the diehard trumpers, millions in the republican primaries, they are going to they are punishing desantis for his new attacks on trump. politics is about the art of what you can t see not what you can. and i think trump has a tremendous advantage right now. harris: very busy weekend of campaigning ahead. seven big-name g.o.p. candidates in the race and they are about to get company next week. former vice president mike pence and chris christie and doug burr gum will announce their bid for the white house. rich edson is in iowa where former president trump is set to speak shortly. again, we ll bring you that live. rich. good morning, harris, you know the security is here, the supporters are here, the media is here. just waiting on presi