begin this hour, with the rising death toll from the tornado outbreak that has ripped across much of the south and midwest just minutes ago, officials in illinois confirmed for more storm related deaths, the overall death toll over the last 24 hours now jumps to 21 lives lost more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in seven states. in the south and the midwest. the state of emergency now blankets, much of arkansas and the national guard is rolling into devastated communities. there are reports of at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in the state. these images are of the hard hit town of wynne, arkansas, and that s where we find cnn s derek van dam. jim i was just talking to my crew a moment ago, and the scene behind us reminds us of being on the set of a major blockbuster movie. i mean, just look at what we have with this destruction coming out of wynne, arkansas, that is a church steeple that was blown off by this tornado. look at the incredible damage in front of tha
expectation that he d be arrested this past tuesday. manhattan, d a. alvin bragg said that was never the plan. maybe it was all a head fake, designed by trump to rally his gop supporters in the house. or paved the way for last monday s grand jury testimony by former prosecutor and michael cohen, critic robert costello. perhaps it was just to make brag. think twice before indicting a former president. trump even posted this on a social media site, making it look like he s raising a baseball bat against bragg. he also called him an animal. that post was later deleted. on friday, a law enforcement source told cnn that bragg had been threatened with assassination in a letter containing nonhazardous white powder it s a lot to process let me try and sort it out. remember signs initially pointed to the first trump indictment, possibly coming out of georgia, where fulton county d a funny willis is investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election there. and then it seemed t
Chorus of support from prominent republicans, including trump s 2016 rival, jeb bush, who tweeted that manhattan d. a alvin brags cases very political , not a matter of justice. also today, trump s potential 2024 competitor, governor, ron desantis offered his own blistering take on brag at a leadership conference in pennsylvania. now he turns around purely for political purposes and indict the former president on misdemeanor offenses that they re straining to try to convert into felonies . that is when you know that the law has been weaponized for political purposes. that is when you know that the left is using that to target their political opponents. joining us now with more democratic congresswoman zoloft, and she was a member of the january 6th select committee , congresswoman. thanks so much again for being with us. we always appreciate it. what s your reaction to what governor desantis is saying? others are saying and the gop that this is
Need time to prepare, so the coordination was most likely between the d. a s office and the nypd. ideally you wouldn t want a arraignment on a friday. you know? should there be large crowds, you know that made transcend into any type of civil unrest. you don t want that bleeding into the weekend. you want to be able to be prepared earlier in the week. you have a law enforcement all the law enforcement stakeholders coordinated and able to address any type of issue that rises now to that point, nypd is focused around the courthouse, but they have a remit citywide and you know, there could be incidents that happened outside of trump tower on. you know, monday evening, there could be things that happen over you know, after the former president departs, so they have the remit of the entire city, so they want to make sure that they are prepared. but to the to your question again, the secret service did not ask for any type of delay. that s just that s just not true. and jonathan, let me ask
Going to have to be navigated in the very near future. ellie. that was excellent. by the way, i ll remind everybody in your book like you broke the fact that the southern district passed on that which alvin bragg is now taking a long hard look at thank you, ellie. thanks, michael. still to come in the investigation into hush money trump allegedly paid to adult film star stormy daniels. his defense team put a witness before the grand jury to refute the allegations of his former attorney, michael cohen. his manhattan d. a alvin brags case in jeopardy or is he just cooling his jets? michael cohen s attorney, lanny davis, is here and joins me next. plus tiktok ceo, was grilled on capitol hill about his company s ties to china and its protections for user data. the very same day utah became the first state to pass social media regulations aimed at protecting minors. mental health. is it too little too late? i want to know what you think, go to smerconish .com and answer this week s poll