that ruling came down hours after new york s attorney general hit the former president with a lawsuit accusing him, his family, their firm of years of fraud. now, in the mar-a-lago documents case the appeals court ruled the doj can now resume its review of classified documents seized from trump s home, and that overturns an earlier ruling that had paused the criminal investigation. let s go to cnn s jessica schneider. jessica, the appellate court, they had problems, several problems with arguments from the trump attorneys. yeah, they did. and this is a unanimous three-judge panel including two trump appointees. and they really did, victor, seem to take down the arguments from trump s legal team on every level. so the first thing they did is they said that by not allowing doj to incorporate these 100 classified documents into the criminal review the court said in their words it would impose real and significant harm on the united states and on the public since as the doj sai
governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure president biden will be on the ballot this fall. and louisiana will soon be the first state to classify apportion pills as controlled, dangerous substances. we ll go through the legislation and its possible impact in november s elections. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, may 24th. we made it to friday. it was in doubt there for a while. thank goodness. i m jonathan lemire. i m alongside the bbc s katty kay. we are in for joe, mika, and willie. good friday morning, katty. yeah, news flash, donald trump knows how to put his trousers on. i think that is worth waiting for friday for. we now have that at least. i suppose we can put it in the appropriate context later, or we leave it out there like that and make people wonder just what he was talking about. hanging, yeah. with us to dive into this important story, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washingt
You can see the protesters here fighting back against riot police in the northern part of the country yesterday. crowds are pouring into the streets. women are burning head be scarves. authorities are now issuing internet blackouts. mahsa amin s father is accusing authorities of lying about her death. the 22-year-old died last week in the custody of the so-called morality police for allegedly violating iran s law on head scarves. after more than two weeks on the run the mastermind behind the biggest corruption scandal in u.s. naval history is now in custody in venezuela. former military contractor leonard francis, nicknamed fat leonard, escaped house arrest by cutting off his gps monitoring ankle bracelet. he was facing charges of bribery and fraud. cnn s oren liebermann is at the pentagon with the latest. what do we know? reporter: well, right now leonard francis, also known as fat leopard-s in custody in venezuela after he went missing just a couple of weeks ago. at the time he w
Sanjay gupta. you can listen to it on spotify or apple podcasts. the former military contractor who orchestrated the largest corruption scandal in u.s. history is back in custody. we ll have more on the arrest of the fugitive known as fat leonard, next. you re making all the difference out there kid. next big american. pressure, pressure? pressure, pressure. so wre do you think this pressure s coming from? everyo. i m st here for the mints. [ cheering crowd so much pressure. pressure makes diamonds. true. pulisic! he scores! incredible! medium latte, half-caff, no foam.