Especially because it s your birthday. Happy birthday. You missed your kid s concert for you is my present. So we re grateful to have you go home, talk to your kids. Have a great day. Thanks to all of you for joining us. I m kasie hunt. Don t go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now. This morning, the dam hasn t broken, but there are more and more cracks. Now. 17 congressional democrats are joining the chorus, calling for president biden to drop out of the race after the president s high stakes news conference aimed at quelling fears about his candidacy. And we now have new exclusive reporting on what president obama and nancy pelosi are now saying about biden s reelection. There s also breaking news this morning of a massive data breach at at t. Text messages and call records for nearly all of their customers may have been leaked in what they re calling an illegal download. We have new details and nearly a million people in texas still do not have power now days, and days after
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staff, mark meadows, and his post-election attorney, rudy giuliani. they are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trump s loss in georgia in 2020. the 98-page indictment lists 13 state charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. prosecutors claim trump and his co-defendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. district attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. and unlike in federal court that trial could be televised. let s begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnn s sara murray. and sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the special counsel s case. help lay it out for us. reporter: yeah, i think that s absolutely right. in these other federal cases we have seen donald
one. and could hold the fate of ukraine in his hands. and today that man, the speaker of the house, mike johnson was cornered by the president. did the united states and his fellow top congressional leaders at what, at, what is being called by the senate majority leader of one of the most intense meetings he s ever been to in the oval office will have more on that. plus it was the site of one of the most brutal atrocities of the russian invasion. bodies tied up and shot rapes, mass killings. cnn s christiane and i want poor returns to bucha, ukraine two years later, leading this hour, we are very close to learning whether president biden has a major problem in a crucial battleground state the final primary before super tuesday is underway in michigan, and there s a movement against biden within his own party over the ongoing war in gaza, joining us now from waterford, michigan is cnn correspondent omar jimenez. omar, what are you hearing on the ground from voters, especially