Charged with any crime. Will they be or there they flip on him . The testimony of former Vice President mike pence proving to be a key part of this historic indictment. Sara is off today. Im john berman with kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. Great to have you back, first of all. Thank you. Quite a day it is. This morning donald trump has been charged with trying to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. It is unprecedented. It is historic. And it puts the nation in truly uncharted territory. Two monumental almost foundational forces directly at odds. On the one hand as peter baker of the New York Times writes, can a sitting president spread lies about an election and try to employ the authority of the government to overturn the will of the voters without consequence . On the other hand the wall street Journal Editorial Board suggests it, quote, potentially criminalizes many kinds of actions and statements by a president that a prosecutor deems to be false. We will explain how S
like other ukrainian cities from bucha to mariupol, another enormous mass grave has been discovered. this time in a forest near the city of izium. authorities continue to exhumed the bodies of which there are reportedly more than 450, including civilians, children and soldiers a. like many of the bodies show signs of, quote, violent. death while several have their hands bound and show signs of torture. it is now day 207 of russia s invasion, with putin s plan to take all of three days to capture the capital of kyiv. right now ukraine continues to gain ground with a successful counteroffensive in the northeast, reclaiming several thousand square miles of territory. ukraine also continues to have success with a counteroffensive in the south. at the same, time russia is making small gains in some towns in donetsk. one of the regions that make up the donbas. to say that russian soldiers are making those gains might be misleading. as the new york times reports, the frontline ukrai
swiped two firearms from democrat congresswoman aaron bass home. she feels safe in her neighborhood. i would say a 10 i feel safe. yesterday treasury secretary janet yellen said a it federal reserve strategy launch the country into a recession. the fed is going to need great skill and also some good luck. to achieve a soft landing. rhinestone house. the kick by bullock is on the way and it is no good. missed it to the left. yeah, yeah, brian: you are looking at charlotte, north carolina, where they are feeling the effects of the giant victory. okay, they are not. but i am. desperate to try to take emphasis off the panthers. by the way, if you are in charlotte interstate 85 there has been a crash to exit 23. mecklenburg county there were two accidents and goes all the way to exit 68. 73 degrees and the wind is 3 miles per hour. steve: welcome back to traffic and transit on the 1. brian: i m just telling you have a bunch of accidents. ainsley: if you t
documents found by the fbi at trump s private residence and golf club. they dismissed the criminal investigation as a document storage dispute that has sfie ruld out of control. most notable aspect of their filing, trump s lawyers tip-toeing around trump s claim that he declassified any or all of the documents. it s a claim for which they can t and don t provide a single shred of evidence. instead, saying this. quote, the government has not proven these records remain classified. that issue is to be determined later. the washington post notes, a section of their 21 page filing does not say that trump declassified the material before he left office. while trump s lawyers would like us to think this is what they say, document storage dispute, it s worth remembering in the court filing last week doj made clear that the country s national security may very well be in jeopardy if the government loses access and time, even temporarily, to the documents that were seized. from the
this is a map where they occurred from phoenix to philadelphia. there s also a look at locations of all the mass shootings so far this year. at least 246 and that s just so far. according to the gun violence archive which compiles these statistics, it puts the country on pace to match or exceed the worst year on record. now, in a moment, we ll have the latest from congress, first, though, cnn s brian todd on the weekend. reporter: a physical altercation escalated to a shootout saturday, according to police, with bullets flying into the crowd in an entertainment district. when police responded they on bserved civil civil s suffering from gunshot wounds, lying on the sidewalk and in the street. reporter: police believe at least four gunmans, 14 shot, three killed, one a suspected gunman. charges filed today including attempted murder against one of two suspects, one already in custody. authorities say a responding officer shot and injured him, the other still at large.