welcome to the beat weekend, i m ari melber. let s get to the headlines, lawrence he concludes with what should be the easy one, careful to discuss the seriousness of the attempted assassination of former president donald trump last weekend, we have heard from trump officials, i had several in the program this week. we call balls and strikes are in your, the fact is as a lyrical matter, the situation donald trump in last night should have been straightforward . a lot of sympathy and support in that room, a lot of interest around the nation, given a standard or average or typical speech would have been enough. but he did not do that, he gave a very unusual, historically long, meandering, winding speech, that i can type as political matter, not just on the left or trump resistance, from a lot of different sources today, seeing reaction that has revived excitement, energy, even confidence among democrats, who still see this individual, now nominee donald trump, as eminently read
welcome to the beat. i ll bet you know this because you have your tv on. you re watching the news. a busy friday after an absolutely unprecedented, historic, serious, political, and at times bizarre week in political life. the rnc concludes with the speech that should have been the easy one. and we have been careful to discuss the seriousness of the attempted assassination of former president trump last weekend. we ve heard from trump officials. i ve had several on the program this week. we also call ball and strikes around here. as a political matter, the situation donald trump entered last night should have been straightforward. a lot of sympathy and support in that room. a lot of support around the room. giving a typical speech would have been enough. but he did not do that. he gave a very unusual, historically long meandering, winding speech that i can tell you as a political matter, not just on the left or the trump resistance but for a lot of sources today, we re seei
ukraine shelled a settlement in a region on the russian side of the border. ukraine says russia launched the attack to justify new attacks on kyiv. a u.s. defense official says russia is laying the groundwork for the invasion of donbas, bringing air support, artillery, and command and control units to that region. at last count, russia has about 45,000 troops in the eastern and southern parts of ukraine but many more are still being resupplied after leaving the area around kyiv. in his daily message, president zelenskyy said, russia wants to destroy donbas. the russian forces are destroying luhansk and donetsk as if they want nothing to be left so there wouldn t be any people left at all. the fight for mariupol has been the bloodiest in the war and the situation may be reaching a tipping point. russian forces reportedly have advanced now into the center of the city, seizing a metal plant where ukrainian troops have been holding out for weeks. we just got word a few minute
three-to-one. today this the bar or club is no victory without entering raw photo and there is no victory without eliminating hamas battalions we have talked, wrote up, we had flowered rise, we have got writing the next day failed to win back major cities in this country, but it appears that they are bradley also lose some areas that had been entered never did any defendants in my courtroom shows such for the courts some is what s shown by donald trump. he s literally thumbing his nose at the courts. and he s making a mockery of a legal system live from london this is cnn newsroom with max foster hello, and a warm welcome, dr. yunus joining us from around the world and the united states. i, max foster, it is monday, april the 1st, 09:00 a.m. here in london. i will get to those stories in just a moment. but first we get to baltimore where it s 04:00 a.m. and we have breaking news on the recovery from the bridge disaster. there. a big step being taken towards gett
minutes before the massive cargo ship crashed into baltimore s francis scott key bridge. crews found two victims in a pickup truck deep under the waters. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. attorneys for donald trump and one of his co-defendants were back in fulton county trying to get the georgia charges dismissed. after losing their bid to have fulton county prosecutor fani willis disqualified, his legal team is trying to have the charges tossed out, arguing his alleged attempts to stay in power are protected by the first amendment as protected political speech. the judge sounded skeptical. some crimes can be achieved through speech, terroristic threats, solicitation. why is that not what s happening here? what we have here, we have election speech. one must determine immediately whether that constitutes core political speech, and i suggest it does. there s nothing alleged factually against president trump that is not political speech. he is no