i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday. kaitlan is back. that makes me very happy. we re back. and so much going on today. and what s going to come. let s hope a deal. yeah. let s get started. i do sense a skeptic? i believe it. let s get to the five things we need to know for this wednesday, may 24th. ron desantis set to announce his 2024 white house run today. there is nothing conventional about this. he s going to make the announcement on twitter with elon musk. the once favored platform for his rival donald trump before he got banned. and speaking of the former president, he now has a court date in the stormy daniels hush money probe here in new york. he ll stand trial in march of 2024, right in the middle of the campaign for the auto term. and a super typhoon is lashing the american territory of guam right now. it is expected to bring a triple threat of heavy rains, hurricane-force winds and life
this points to even more evidence of possible obstruction by trump. former white house attorney ty could be is my guest. plus, putin tonight caught in a lie. russians denying a ship was tacked. new video shows a ukrainian grown droen slamming into that ship. in fact, robert kennedy jr. pulling 20% in the new cnn poll. so who are his supporters? and should biden really be worried? let s go out front. the washington post with significant new reporting this hour. two of trump s mar-a-lago employees moved boxes of documents at the residence, trump s residence, just one day, one day before the fbi and a prosecutor visited his home to retrieve classified documents. so just let me give you a sense of the time line. this is in june of 2022. it was after a subpoena had been issued. it was the day before the fbi was scheduled to come get documents. sources familiar with the matter telling the washington post that investigators believe that timing is suspicious and a sign of pos
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
people we are hesitant whether we should open the barricade that we set up in the room. open it. get the. [ beep ] out! that s what was happening as all going on. it was horrific. some people lived through it once. others more than once. sadly, we ll talk to some of those people. it s unbelievable to think, is it the cop or someone that i should be worried about? is it a threat? yeah. so, good morning, everyone. poppy is on assignment. lots of questions, right? what would you do in that situation during a mass shooting? dozens of michigan state students barricaded in their classroom when there was a knock on the door, was it the police or the killer? yet again, president biden demanding action on guns to stop the bloodshed. why did the gunman have a pistol if he already been arrested for a felony gun charge? great question. we ll look into it further in the show. also this morning, the race for the 2024 gop presidential nomination is about to get a start with ni
thnc . this is a story that everybody is fascinated with. is it a bird, plane? even pilots want to know. everyone wants to know. good morning, everyone. poppy on assignment. that was new cockpit audio of a u.s. fighter jets intercepting a mysterious flying object over michigan. more on that in a moment. but first donald trump s first major 2024 challenger kicking off the race with a speech just hours from now. how many other republicans will join the fray? that s a question as well. spoiler alert, a lot. trump s legal team could be getting deeper over classified documents that he took to mar-a-lago. the justice department is now saying they believe there is evidence of a crime as they are trying to force one of his attorneys to testify without attorney-client privilege. he was previously arrested on a felony gun charge. so why and how did the michigan state mass shooter have a pistol in the first place and there s a new study from the secret service. is there