here in new york by all appearances it looks like da alvin brag is wrapping up his investigation into potential hush money payments before the 2016 election. and there is a chance that criminal charges could be filed against donald trump a chance his former attorney, michael cohen, who served time for violating campaign finance rules when he paid porn star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about the affair she said she has with donald trump is testifying before a grand jury as we speak. michael cohen is he said that donald trump knew what he was paying for and knew that michael cohen, his lawyer, was doing it on his behalf we ll get into the evidence he could be presenting to the jury in a moment. we also have an answer from donald trump s lawyers about whether he, donald trump, will accept his own invitation from da alvin bragg to also sit for the grand jury. we have no plans on participating in that proceeding it s a decision that needs to be made still, no deadline h
recent comment likening some in the latino community to tacos. a heated exchange on capital hearing focused on abortion rights. republican senator clashing with a law professor over whether men could get pregnant. the missouri senator is being accused of being transphobic and encouraging violence because he thinks only women could get pregnant. increasingly brazen shoplifters targeting bodegas and supermarkets across new york city walking out with a suitcase closed up amid new fuels that the crisis is being fueled by soft on crime policies. the president sets up for a crucial trip to the middle east. white house correspondent kevin corke has the very latest for us tonight. evening, kevin. reporter: evening, shannon. president has the trip to the middle east. frankly, it an opportunity to right the ship f you will, on a ship, if you will, on a number of friends. that won t be easy given his popularity over there is just about as low as it is here. after two years of str
killers could be stopped. illinois democratic governor joins me exclusively. plus, safe and legal? president biden signs an executive order on abortion rights but says the best options for frustrated americans are. vote, vote, vote, vote. will voters agree with him in november that republicans have overreached ? the governor of new hampshire will be here and unconventional war fair. the justice department says january 6th could have been more deadly. what will the committee reveal in its hearings this week? i ll ask ahead. hello. the state of our union is finding it difficult to relax this summer as we wrap up a holiday, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable. the divide over abortion rights, unease over the economy, an election lie that s getting more entrenched. but i want to start by talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting at a july 4th parade in highland park, illinois outside chicago. while
as we wrap up a holiday week, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable, the divide over abortion rights, the unease over the economy, an election lie getting more entrenched. we ll talk about all of that, but i want to start today talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting of the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois, outside of chicago. while shattered families are still grappling with all they lost in that senseless slaughter, cnn is learning more about the warning signs from the alleged shooter that despite illinois s red flag law did not prevent him from buying that semi-automatic rifle police say he used last week. the young man spent time at his father s highland park deli growing up, and police were often called to the home for domestic disturbances between the parents. in 2019 police came to briefly confiscate a collection of knives after the then 18-year-old threatened to, quote, kill everyone
investigate vote fraud essentially, and so he was one of the persons who was at that what people call an unhinged meeting in december of 2020, and he is obviously s ly somebody ws sympathetic to this idea that the former president was not being served by his lawyers, by people inside the white house who were telling him this is not legal, this is not how you do things. finally, breaking a few minutes ago, business insider issued a freedom of information act request to the pentagon and found out that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was finding out about the attack on the capitol from tweets being sent by me and phil mattingly and manu raju, that that was how the chairman of the joint chiefs was finding out about the attack on the capitol. you tweet well, so that s good. but this is not how the joint chiefs of staff should be getting information, and it s clear from these records that were released to business insider that there s a lot of emails and messages that