hello, everyone. good to be with you, i m chris jansing, the death toll from this weekend s extreme weather across the south has risen to six. half a million people remain without power across multiple states after a series of vicious storms and tornadoes and the extreme heat isn t letting up either we re on the ground in texas where temperatures have soared above 120 degrees in some spots. how residents are coping. and secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his two-day visit to china, but how much progress was actually made in his high stakes meeting with president xi jinping meanwhile in florida, we have movement in the classified documents case what a magistrate judge just blocked donald trump from doing, and what options his legal team could be weighing to put the trial off for as long as possible and juneteenth celebrations underway across the country. how states are marking this federal holiday. but we begin with the dangerous storms in the south thatch l
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thank you. congress returned from a two-week recess, just in tim for the jim jordan showed to hit the road house judiciary committee le by ohio congressman jim jordan arrived in new york city today with a hearing that they calle victims of violent crimes in manhattan. the hearing was not to propose or advance any republica policy to combat violent crime in manhattan, the purpose of the hearing was to examine how it manhattan district attorney alvin bragg pro crime, ant victim collett - and dangerous community for ne york city residents. by attempting to undermine the new york prosecutor who charge donald trump with 34 felonies, jim jordan is making it clea that the victim that he trul cares about is donald trump. jim jordan is all in on th trump defense fund raising grift. he was pitching republican donors on his tax against th district attorney bragg in tennessee last week. and thankfully, for the quote, hard earned money. in tennessee, last week, day after 39 year old child
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opportunities to advance a political agenda, a radical political agenda he said that here in manhattan the scales of justice are being weighed down by politics, and they are but only today an america being rich, being powerful, even being president of the united states does not intitle you to violate the law with impunity. the republican-led house judiciary committee travels to new york city for partisan political theater. we ll is much more about this grievance-filled hearing in just a moment house speaker kevin mccarthy was also in new york talking about a plan to raise the debt ceiling but his proposal was messing several key details. and we have the latest from eastern europe following a rare trip out of russia by president vladimir putin good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 18th i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. following a two-week recess congress was back in session yesterday. but instead of legislating