but isn t taylor swift the gift that keeps on giving? we can t stop talking about her. she s the it girl. carolyn manno, thank you. great to see you. the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. nancy good morning, everyone. i m amara walker. i m danny freeman. victor blackwell is off. we start with a huge political year. r&b front-runner donald trump faces multiple court decisions that could delay some of his trials. on friday the supreme court handed him a win by rejecting special counsel s request for justices to fast-track his immunity dispute case. but in colorado they re threatening to kick him off the ballot. meanwhile congress is out of office for your the holidays. this is a live picture of capitol hill sorry, we don t have it. again, capitol hill is quiet. congress faces a mountain of problems when they come back in january. they ll have nine days to come up with a plan to avoid a partial shutdown. and there s arguments over funding, migration
ncaa swimmer and women s rights activist riley gaines is set to testify moments ago about a violent attack on her by left wing protestors. john: she was rushed out of an event at san francisco state university after a hostile crowd took over the venue. sandra: she told us earlier the video was only a snippet of what she endured. three hours of being yelled at, of being assaulted, of being called all kinds of names of these violent vengeful hateful things. sandra: america reports rolls into a new hour. hi, john. john: john roberts in washington. we will listen in to riley s testimony, but first another live event set to begin in washington and it s a fox news alert. sandra: that s the briefing room at the white house on the left, brownsville, texas at the border on the right. john kirby is joining the white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, in that briefing room today. that is expected to begin in just moments. john: the big focus on the border crisis
children were on lockdown this afternoon. i have two small children and their schools were on lockdown responding to this tragedy. they re there, i m here hoping and praying that they are safe. but the truth is none of us is safe. that s senator rafael warnock of georgia on the senate floor yesterday addressing another mass shooting in america, this one at a medical center in atlanta. we ll have much more on the deadly attack and the senator s call to action in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the suspicious claims out of russia accusing ukraine of a drone strike on the kremlin. plus donald trump s legal team makes an odd choice for its defense strategy in a civil rape and defamation trial. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 4th. i m jonathan lemire, thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest mass shooting in america this time in atlanta, georgia. at least five women inside a medical center there were shot,
as to where those two cars were, and ricky stenhouse has one neck daytona 500 steve: we start with a fox news alert. it s 3:00 in the afternoon in ukraine, where president biden has just left kyiv after making a surprise visit to ukraine s capital city earlier today, affirming the united states is still going to help mr. zelenskyy is much as we can. this comes days before the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion. peter doocy joins us for more saw. part of the reason this was so hairy, unlike past presidential visits to war zones, in ukraine, the u.s. does not have a military presence. so it had to be a big secret, and we saw as air raid sirens were blaring while president biden and president zelenskyy were walking the streets of kyiv. the secret trip included a lonmo ukraine, according to the new york times, and the president brought with him a big check, half a billion dollars worth of taxpayer-funded gear. that announcement includes artillery ammu
that s troubling if that is indeed the case. neil: and we don t know whether that s the case, but what mark esper was telling us, there was an easy time you could have shot down the balloon, they call it a weather balloon, more than gathering temperatures for people, but this is a shot right now over the skies of north carolina, you guessed it, by the map and the map of the united states, that s the last stop before you get to the atlantic ocean and then, what happens is anyone s guess. a lot of people say we shoot it down to see what the technology because lost in the sauce is how big this thing is typically six times of a traditional weather balloon and that it s gone very, very far. some say propelled by wind, others say by things far more advanced which is why some want to take at that look at it. we ll be exploring that with among others, chuck hagel, the former secretary, and mark green, he ll weigh in and many, many more. we re not done with this issue. the impact what