system what ails america and harbinger of things to come. the last time we ran into a group of states calling themselves a pact warsaw pact. rhymes the western states pact was a group of hard left autocracies seeking to impose their wilpon the united states. left coast dystopias led by california, oregon and washington state coalesced in april 2020 to look something like a real national government. and briefly attempted to relate to the federal government on a pier to pier basis. now, i don t want to take the warsaw pact analogy too far. after all in communist warsaw you could still get a crowd of hundreds of thousands chanting we want god. you won t be seeing that in san francisco or portland any time soon. april of 2020, the pact excepted two new member states colorado and nevada. and in may 202024 pact sent congress a letter demanding $1 trillion for themselves. the letter even had nice minimalist letterhead emblazened upon it a design touch easy to miss if you know califo
state gop convention in columbus, georgia. he cast this week s indictment as election interference and a political hit job. kristin holmes is there in georgia. the former president speaking for about an hour and a half. clearly eager to start making his case. reporter: that s right. and most of the speech which was a political speech. he s speaking at the georgia gop convention. this was on his schedule before the indictment started. wasn t just the federal indictment. it was the indictment in manhattan. it was the department of justice. he was talking about the investigation here in fulton county, georgia and his attempts to overturn the election. clearly this was consuming to him and it continued after he left. he went to a waffle house nearby. he was asked about why he kept the documents. why he kept them for so long. take a listen to what em. we did absolutely nothing wrong. take a look at the presidential records act. we did it by the book, perfect. except we have th
hello. i m back. good morning. i just wanted to say hello to you first. good morning. hello. i said hello to you and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, june 4th. i m rahel solomon. i m victor blackwell. she enjoyed it so much, she stayed for a second day. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. there are new details on that train crash in india that killed close to 300 people. we have more on what we re learning about what this train was carrying and why officials believe that the number of people killed was so high? the eyes of the political world on iowa this weekend as gop hopefuls storm the hawkeye state. their message to voters as they try to set themselves apart in a field that s grown crowded. a school bus full of children burst into flames in milwaukee. the quick thinking by the driver that has a lot of people calling her a hero. and a climber found cling ng to a rope in mount everest s death zone. we will talk to a climb
a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results getting the war in ukraine on to russian soil. we begin tonight with exclusive new reporting, the prosecutors investigating former president s handling of classified material have in their position a recording from the summer of 2021 in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his golf rissoles or it in bedminster that he has held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn s reporting this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything, and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified documents in question? which goes to what cnn s kaitlan collins asked him at cnn s town hall earlier this month. when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right. two by the way, they were declassified
john: the war in israel bringing chaos to the nation s capital. swarms of anti-israel protestors flooding the cannon building demanding a cease-fire with the terrorists one day after hamas blamed israel for the hospital blast in gaza. john roberts reporting from jerusalem. as protestors took over the capitol rotunda a congressman stood silently above the demonstration holding an israeli flag. other lawmakers sounded shocked at what they saw unfolding. the idiocy that you can see behind us. people who don t understand what we re facing. people killing innocent lives, women, elderly, women taken captive and yet these people are sympathizing with them. it s sad. they want to come into this capitol building and wreak havoc. they don t have a clue what is going on in the middle east. they want to blame israel. capitol police arrested more than 300 of those protestors and charged at least three of them with assaulting an officer. this was just one of many anti-israel protes