what i keep telling her in my mind. i don t stop on cnn good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m john acosta in washington. we begin with new questions about donald trump s extreme rhetoric. perhaps the biggest question of them all will trump face any accountability and will republican leaders call him out after the former president shared a video on social media, that could pose a security risk for president biden. here s that horrific video posted by trump showing the president hogtied in the back of a pickup truck over the weekend, biden and trump offered distinctly different easter messages. president calling for peace, security, and dignity for people around the world as for trump, he wished a happy easter to those he totally despises in the failing nation end quote. but he hopes to lead. he reshared articles suggesting he is a modern-day jesus who was being crucified and the accused president of a quote, years-long assault on the christian faith the
get you are in the cnn newsroom. i m alison camerota in new york right now, a tough day already underway for recovery teams in baltimore at the site of that collapsed, francis scott key bridge, the six missing construction workers who were on the bridge when a container ships slammed into one of its support columns are now presumed dead. dive crews are back in the water this morning and investigators from the national transportation safety board will return to the ship. they went on board the ship briefly late last night. and here s what we just heard from the chair of the ntsb right now, we do have the data recorder, which is essentially the black box. we ve sent that back to our lab to evaluate and begin to develop a timeline of events that led up to the strike on the bridge and we hope to have that information to share with the public later today okay, so let s go to the scene right now. we have cnn s gabe cohen reporting for us. so gabe, what is going to happen toda
include controversial cluster bombs in its next round of military aid to ukraine. it follows months of debate over whether to supply the munitions as ukraine s stockpile of weapons runs low. some democrats oppose the decision. president biden justified his decision to approve the transfer. we re in a situation where ukraine continues cto be brutaly attacked by these cluster munitions that have dud rates that are very, very high that are a danger to civilians, number one. number two, the ukrainians are running out of ammunition. they call them 155 millimeter weapons. this is a war relating to munitions and they re runnning out of those. the bombs are canisters that carry anywhere from dozens to hundreds of mini bombs. ukraine and russia are already using them. sometimes the bomblets don t explode and can later pose threats to civilians. the white house announcement on the cluster munitions comes as ukraine continues its counteroffensive against russia. ben wedeman is in ea
of falsifying business records, typically just a misdemeanor, and district attorney s alvin bragg s strategy for elevating the charges is on shaky legal ground. here s the new york post, calling the case trumped up. the paper writes, is that it? bragg s historic cases versus don falls flat. meanwhile the da defending his controversial decision to bring a case against a former u.s. president. your predecessor took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. federal prosecutors took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. do you believe you have new evidence that led you to decide to charge this, or why now? we ve had additional evidence. this is the business capital of the world. we regularly do cases involving false business statements. the bedrock, in fact the basis for business integrity at a well-functioning business marketplace is true and accurate record-keeping. that s the charge that s brought here. falsifying new york state busine
the latest on the district s new security measures just ahead. plus, bracing for blackouts, a brutal heat wave blankets parts of the nation. people are cranking up their ac units, and it could be more than the power grid can handle. and we obtained surveillance video that shows a georgia election official escorting two trump operatives into an election office the same day the voting system was breached. let s begin in memphis. el eliza fletcher s body has now been recovered. gary, what are officials saying this hour? reporter: well, the accused kidnapper of eliza fletcher is now the accused murder of eliza fletcher. we were told this morning that a body that was recovered yesterday late in the afternoon behind a vacant duplex is indeed the body of the 34-year-old mother of two, wife, and schoolteacher. already before this happened, before the confirmation, a hearing was going to be held in the courtroom 13 here in the shelby county courthouse. an arraignment on the