outfront next, the trump pinted judge making her first ruling in the classified documents case. is it a sign she s not stepping aside? new details about the judge. why a case she s working on now could shed light on how she ll rule in trump s case. plus, a graveyard of russian missiles. ukrainians utilizing putin s deadliest weapons. what they found may surprise you. a special report. and where is melania and ivanka and the family? trump s 2024 campaign is anything but a family affair. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. no recusal. the judge who was appointed by trump and is presiding over the classified documents case issuing her first order. a sign she has no plans to heed the calls to recuse herself. ordering both parties to start the process of obtaining security clearances for their lawyers by tomorrow. it comes as there are mounting questions about her record in past cases. the judge, who was piappointed 2020, has little experience in oversee
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
good morning, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday. april 9th. i m amarillo walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your easter sunday with us. i don t i don t really remember the easter speeches from childhood. i just know i gave a lot of them. did you used to speeches? i remember that some of that may be in a break. all right. here s what we re watching this morning a weekend of religious celebrations, but also escalating tensions in the middle east. the israeli military has carried out retaliatory attacks in syria, and we re live in jerusalem, with the latest on that happening now. pope francis delivering his easter message after presiding over mass at the vatican, his message to the world is coming up. the department of justice is investigating after trove of apparent u. s intelligence documents were posted on social media. what the documents show and the potential implications for the u. s and its allies. we got a chance. and oklaho
arizona s democratic candidate for governor burglarized. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning to you. john berman is off this morning. and police in phoenix are investigating this break in at katy hobbs campaign this week. this is coming amid reports of intimidation, where hobbs is currently the top election official. her campaign claims this is the person who broke in. cnn has blurred the face because police have not yet identified any suspects. hobbs campaign manager saying they ve faced death threats, blaming kari lake. and here is how lake responded. i m saddened that the hobbs and her camp would try to pin this on us. it s just defamatory and it s wrong. and it s so obvious what s happening. her own party is attacking her. she s trying to deflect her own abysmal campaign and the fact that, you know, nobody even knows where her campaign office is. the person who broke in probably didn t realize it was a campaign office.
there was nbc news correspondent miguel almagor letting you know that actually that assault on paul pelosi in san francisco that you read about last week, that story was a whole lot stranger than you ever imagine. according to almagor, citing several law enforcement sources with direct knowledge, it was paul pelosi who opened the door for police when they arrived. now, you ll remember that authorities had previously told us that the intruder, david de pape, had broken into paul pelosi s bedroom on the third floor of the house and woke him up. yet somehow both pelosi and to paper on the ground floor. by the time police got there. moreover, according to almagor pelosi in the paper had been together in the house for at least half an hour. and yet, strangely, they both seemed fine with police present almagor reported paul pelosi, quote, did not immediately declare an emergency or leave his home. instead, he, quote, walked back several feet toward the assailant and away from p