we begin with new charges in the trunk classified documents case, he is now being accused of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his property. the department of justice has announced an indictment to tr trump s classified documents case. he now faces an additional charge and two new additional counts of obstruction. he is accused of asking a staff member to erase camera footage in an attempt to obstruct the probe into classified documents that wound up at his palm beach resort. some news of the charges came as he awaited a third indictment today by a d.c. grand jury. his campaign has said jack smith has no case. tonight, the president as firing back, accusing the justice department of abuse, saying if i were not leading in numerous polls i was not going to be the republican nominee, it would not be happening. he is not the only one facing new charges. his associate faces to new obstruction counts. the indictment names a third defender. he is the head of maintenance
what was unfolding. make no mistake those responsible for wednesday s chaos will be brought to justice. what do they do now? weaponize government. go after their number one opponent. the president bears responsibility for wednesday s attack. those who are responsible for wednesday s chaos will be brought to justice. well, you wonder who will brought to justice in the republican party. republican party that now, because of kevin mccarthy and others like him, now defend a man, former president, who stole nuclear secrets for the federal government. who stole military secrets from the federal government. who stole top secret classified plans for the federal government. to invade iran. a house speaker who s perfectly fine, now, with donald trump sitting back after launching a riot to overthrow the federal government. who said that? my gosh, that s so terrible that i would say something like that. kevin mccarthy must think that s the weaponization of federal government. those are
spring arrived weeks ago. i was just out west. it was like 30 degrees colder. it was the weird est thing. the weather is just all out of whack. it s crazy on the west coast we re seeing these blid saturday, but here on the east coast,s there was an 80-degree day in d.c. in february. that is not a good sign for the future. it really isn t. get your skiing in now before it all goes away. here s what we are watching on cnn this morning. you don t think he needs f-16s now? he doesn t. president biden rules out sending f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. and this morning russia continues to hammer targets there. we re going to take you live. and number two, gripping testimony in alex murdaugh s murder trial. are you a family annihilator? a family anigh lite r later? did i shoot my wife and son, no. we re going to take you to the courtroom as murdaugh takes the stand. why he says he lied to police but had had nothing to do with the their deaths. a hotter than expected
said about six truckloads of soil were headed to michigan. officials in michigan said they never received a warning about those shipments. a representative saying our priority is to keep the people we represent safe. with me now is congresswoman dingle. how did you find out about these reported shipments to your state and what can you do? it began in the grapevine late afternoon yesterday that we have two different sites in my district. one is an injection well, which is accepting liquids. the other is a contamination site in belleville township. i quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. we learned that the governor of ohio had posted it on his website that they were headed for here. i called everybody. i called the epa, the norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that no one had been given a heads-up that it was coming here. there are issues related to the injection well, specifically
judge cannon seems to say that a former president might be different in her view than a regular joe. quoting her now, as plaintiff articulated at the hearing, the investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public, and the country is best served by an orderly process that promotes the interest and perception of fairness. unique interest, she writes, before granting what the former attorney general under president trump, no less, recently said this about. well, i think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red herring at this stage since they ve already gone through the documents. i think it s a waste of time. agree or disagree with that notion and whatever you might think of how judge cannon arrived at her decision, we ll talk about what it portends with our legal experts in just a moment. first, cnn s sara murray who has all the latest on the ruling itself. walk us through what the judge issued today. reporter: as y