The new york times is reporting that, during trump s final weeks in office, get this, his chief of staff, mark meadows, repeatedly pushed the justice department to investigate unfounded conspiracy theories about the election. Including the theory that people in italy had used military technology in satellites to remotely tamper with voting machines here, in the u. S. And switch votes for trump to j votes for joe biden. That just seems as far fetched as anything could possibly be. Cnn s martin savidge joins me now, ahead of trump speaking tonight at the north carolina gop convention in greenville. Martin, what are we expecting to hear out of the former president tonight? well, that s the big question, isn t it, jim? i mean, that s what s tgot the crowd here. Only about 1,200 people here but here is the thing. This speech tonight is the first of what is expected to be a series of speeches and rallies that the former president is going to hold throughout the summer. Across the country. So
Survive, president biden issues a memorial day warning, his words, democracy itself is in peril. Listen here, one of former president trump s cronies gives a green light for a military coup. I want to know why what happened in myanmar can t happen here? no reason. It should happen, no reason, that s right. That was the former trump national security adviser michael flynn, a retired three star general offering words that border on sedition. General flynn now says he didn t mean it, or he sometimes says he didn t even say it. You just heard him right there, you heard him say, sure, to copying the myanmar model, basic claims of fraud followed by the military forcibly seizing power from the democratically elected government. And joining us from the new york times julie brittany shepherd of yahoo news and jackie kucinich. First day of three people at the table. Many people would roll their eyes and say, so what, that is why on memorial day president biden said this. Democracy itself is in p
Police say one of the two killed may have been the shooter. They are reviewing the surveillance video. A close call in las vegas where a fight broke out on fremont street in broad daylight while a local news crew was filming a story about pandemic reopenings. He s got a gun. He s got a gun. Get away. That man pulled a gun from his backpack but eventually walked away before anyone was shot. In miami, the manhunt continues for three suspects who open fire outside of a concert venue. Miamidade police released this surveillance. It shows three masked men jumping out of this nissan pathfinder and returning ten seconds later after two people were killed and 21 others wounded in those ten seconds. What s the latest? reporter: alisyn, police calling it very active when it comes to the investigation, but still no arrests. Meanwhile here where the shooting took place, a memorial has come to be a mourning site for this community. Balloons, flowers, stuffed animals left there throughout the day. I
Journal columnist and editorial board member james freeman and editorial board member kyle peterson. James, what did we learn from those emails from this week that we didn t learn before? james: well, we saw the researcher from california scripts institute noting that dr. Fauci that when you look closely at covid19, it appeared to have certain parts that looked like they might have been engineered. In other words, not natural. This is in february of 2020. A month later, that same researcher, christian anderson, writes the paper with colleagues essentially ruling out this possibility saying that it could not have been manufactured and that really ended for a time, the pursuit of this question, but we saw at the same time dr. Fauci downplaying the possibility that this thing originated in a lab. Now we see that they knew it was a possibility and a year later as there s still the lack of evidence that this was natural is why didn t dr. Fauci shared with us everything he knew at the time a
nightclub shooting five years ago, cities across the country are dealing with new mass shootings every day. grappling with an offduty flight attendant who police say was threatening to take the plane down. joe biden is the 12th u.s. president to meet queen elizabeth ii during her reign. joe biden is someone that this special relationship means something. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this saturday. you are in the cnn newsroom. it s great to have you along with us. we begin tonight with america s gun violence epidemic showing no sign of abating or claiming fewer victims. right now in orlando, florida, a community gathers outside the pulse nightclub to remember the 49 people murdered and the more than 50 others wounded on this date five years ago. at the same time, people in several american communities are dealing with the shock of deadly shootings just within the past day. the biggest is in austin,