Weekend. Here the weeks top stories. Standing before congress and from of the same people who aided and abetted donald trump in trying to overturn the 2020 election the very Scene Of The Crime that is the january 6th insurrection, President Biden on thursday night, painted a picture of a Republican Party that has fallen so far that it no longer respects or adheres to the very basic norms of our democracy. Many of you are here on the darkest of days, we all saw with their own eyes the insurrectionists were not patriots, they have come to stop the peaceful transfer of st power. January 6th lies about the 2020 election and the plots to steal the election pose the greatest threat to you as democracy since the civil war. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6th. I will not do that. This is a moment to speak the truth and to bury the lies. Heres the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Remember your oath of office, re defending to al
Movement led by sdon don. He is mon shod the 13 13 times. Trump and the threat he thoses to our democracy here at home to our standing in the world looms large over every line of the speech. New york times describing the president s State Of The Union quote unleashed an unyielding. Mr. Biden seemed to relish the showdown. While he boasted his accomplishments as president s do, he made no aspiration to rhetorical flourishes. He men shod his utty agenda with no utty in it and he. We will not walk away biden said in his address we will not bow down. He was speaking go russia and he seemed to intend it for the fight for his own presidency. President biden came out swinging against donald trump and the gop in the speech that laid out in the bluntest terms the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. With us at the Table Board Member Analyst is here and National Affairs analyst is here. The host of politics nation here, and the president of the Nation
just two weeks ago he was leading an armed insurrection against vladimir putin. meantime russian state media reporting that police have allegedly found passports, wigs, cash, gold and guns during a raid on prigozhin s homes stepping up an apparent propaganda campaign against prigozhin. let s bring in nada bashir from london. obviously a lot to unpack here. the reason this is so noteworthy of course is because we thought prigozhin was in exile in belarus. he has not been seen from or heard from since the armed rebellion on june 23rd. what are you hearing? you re right. there have been questions since he hasn t been seen the failed insurrection. they believe there was a deal struck with the belarusian president lukasalexander lukash but of course as we ve just learned, according to lukashenko who was speaking at a press conference, yevgeny prigozhin is said to be in st. petersburg in russia. this is as russian state media has released video footage purportedly from yevgeny pr
children were on lockdown this afternoon. i have two small children and their schools were on lockdown responding to this tragedy. they re there, i m here hoping and praying that they are safe. but the truth is none of us is safe. that s senator rafael warnock of georgia on the senate floor yesterday addressing another mass shooting in america, this one at a medical center in atlanta. we ll have much more on the deadly attack and the senator s call to action in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the suspicious claims out of russia accusing ukraine of a drone strike on the kremlin. plus donald trump s legal team makes an odd choice for its defense strategy in a civil rape and defamation trial. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 4th. i m jonathan lemire, thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest mass shooting in america this time in atlanta, georgia. at least five women inside a medical center there were shot,
killed during a shooting at a military checkpoint, we will have the latest from jerusalem. announcer: live from the cnn center in, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia where residents are now urged to head to air raid shelters after a second deadly rocket strike within days. have a look here. these are scenes of the aftermath after multiple rockets slammed into residential areas saturday, reportedly killing at least 17 people. further south moscow is scrambling to get the bring linking the occupied crimea with russia back up and running, a part of the bridge collapsed after a huge explosion and fire saturday. now russia says repair work will be under way around the clock, some train and road traffic has already resumed but divers will go into the water later today to see if the structure can support trucks. ukraine isn t claiming responsibility for what happened but president zelenskyy made it clear he s far from feelin