server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S
bianna golodryga picks up our coverage now. hello everyone. i m bianna golodryga. airports are scrambling to get back on schedule after an early morning glitch throws the nation s air travel into chaos. a key safety system for the faa went down forcing a nationwide ground stoup on all domestic departing flights. that s left travelers stranded in airports or trapped on board parked airliners. the ground stop is now lifted, but the backlog of flights is still jamming airports across the country. cnn correspondents and analysts have been following these developments. let s begin with adrienne broaddus. adrienne, are things get back to normal there this morning? reporter: hello, bianna. things are getting back to normal. travelers passing through chicago o hare will experience delays and cancellations. if they stop at the information board, they will see boarding. that s a nice sign for folks leaving the airport. there s also other indications that there have been technology
Sobriety test. Still there are serious questions about the incident. Lets go to cnns erin mcpike at the white house with the latest. Erinl. Reporter michael, first we should point out there has been no Public Accounting from the secret service about what actually happened. It has all been background information. The only thing that we know from the secret service from their spokesman is that there is an investigation into this incident. Now, the incident occurred march 4th and what happened is that there was a Retirement Party at a bar in china town that is seven blocks due east of the white house. And these two Senior Secret Service agents were at this party for their colleague, they came back at the end of the night in a government car, so that the other agent could get his car which was located here. At the time there was an area blocked off by the barricade at the white house because there was some suspicious activity. There had been a bomb threat and there were secret Service Agen
Thanks for joining me. Im Fredricka Whitfield live in baltimore. People are starting ging to gather here near city fall. An interfaith rally is about to get under way outside the plaza here. Hours after the mayor lifts the citywide curfew and the government announces National Guard troops are starting to draw down. Nick valencia and athena jones are here in baltimore with me. Nick the governor says he is drawing down the National Guard. Are you seeing any signs of a pullback from the National Guard . Reporter not where we are. We still see that National Guard presence. We were told earlier about two hours ago that withdrawal or that winddown will continue to happen. It might not happen as fast as some people in this community would like it to. Many here expected to be a part of this 3 00 p. M. Faithbased coalition. To continue the conversation surrounding the death of freddie gray. A couple of people in attendance here Law Enforcement executives. You have a unique perspective. So much