aboard our family-friendly skies cnn, new york. hello, again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with live pictures from the nation s capital where thousands are gathering to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the historic march on washington. organizers say today s event is not a commemoration but a continuation of the dream dr. martin luther king jr. outlined at the lincoln memorial in 1963. cnn national correspondent jason carroll joining me live now from the march. jason, what can we expect and what are people saying? reporter: well, first of all, let me, fredricka, tell you where we are right here. as i ve been telling you all morning long, we ve been talking to people from all over the country and this is a sampling of what we ve been seeing. i ve been talking to people from california, from maryland, from ohio, from new york, from all across the country to talk about the issues being discussed here today. the speakers have been
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we have some breaking news coming into cnn. multiple fatalities from a shooting in jacksonville, florida, according to the mayor there. here s what she said just moments ago. there are a number of fatalities. we know that there is there is a white male that is barricaded inside the dollar general from what we understand, and i suspect you know all of this already. but that is all i know at this point. i m just out here really to make sure that the folks in the neighborhood know that we re here and that we re here to help and to answer any questions they have when we can. but that s all i know at this point. cnn s isabel rosales is following this, and steve moore retired advisoriy agents for the fbi. isab isabel, what are you learning? i got off the phone with the presls liaison for jacksonville and she tells me they re working on getting together a press conference in this hour. we re goin
and i have been thinking about it. here we are in the summer and there s a lot of rico bookings this week. i know you got to go and i m going to see you in roughly an hour, but i wanted to share that with you and give you thoughts for what might be the biggest booking yet. i invoked you in the first hour of my show, or second hour, when he told me donald trump switched lawyers in georgia from cardi b. s lawyer to usher s lawyer, and i said, where is ari melber when you need him? i m sure there s some journey analysis when you go from the lawyer who helped cardi b. to the lawyer that helped usher. you re so right. georgia and atlanta have a rich history, some go through the booking process and get acquitted. others don t. the new lawyer represented gunna who got out of a rico case that s still pending by the same d.a. and rick ross, who has skirted the law i think that s fair to say. but neither of those two individuals are in as much trouble as trump and giuliani tonigh
georgia election interference case. he s facing a friday noon deadline to surrender at the county jail. that night, he posted on social media that he would be arrested this thursday. the day, trump s bond was set at hundred thousand dollars. the agreement bars in from intimidating or threatening codefendants or witnesses, including post or post on social media. his lawyers have appeared they spent a good part of the day at the courthouse, meeting with members at the office about that the and to surrender. meanwhile, in the federal election case, special counsel jack smith is pushing back against trump s attempt to push the trial to april 2026. and a new court filing, smith writes that with the 90 public its right to a speedy trial. both sides were said to me here on the issue next monday. also following the latest on another key figure in trump s legal battles. abc news reports that his former chief of staff mark meadows told jack smith and is investigators that he could not
washington, we have reporters and analysts covering every angle here of this invaluable event, tens of thousands are in attendance on the national mall, we ve been listening to civil rights, religious, and political leaders take the stand. advocating for a dream of a quality that martin luther king, junior, so eloquently pleaded for all those years ago. and today s organizers are clear in their message, this is not a remembrance. there is too much work left to be done. this is a continuance. this afternoon s mark gets underway, we are going to hear from the king family and reverend al sharpton, host of msnbc s politicsnation and president of the national action network. we have reporters, i mentioned, station around the avenue through all angles of what s happening. terrific national mall, we just heard from nbc s antonia hylton. trymaine lee is there as well, and also with me on set, going to have any glad to speak to him, of course, msnbc contributor and professor of africa