includes after he escaped from a prison outside philadelphia. using k-9s, drones and helicopters in the search. the prison is under pressure because of staffing levels, funding levels. this is someone who has nothing to lose. i don t know what he s capable of doing. supreme court justice clarence thomas is officially disclosing private jet trips in a vacation that was funded by a republican mega donor. these were trips he had to disclose. it s better to have the transparency we didn t have in the past. there is the core issue of the gifts themselves. josephine says her family s home has been on this land. my ancestors are buried here. community members say development threatens those families who still call it home. why should we give up such a precious gift god has given us? good friday morning. audie cornish is with us. several fronts across the country, we re going to start this morning on the questions that are swirling and senate minority leader mitch
friends, it s a jobs report smack dab in the middle of the presidential election. we have the details for you. plus hours after entering a not guilty plea donald trump filing a motion to sever his case from his accused co-conspirators, the former president wants to delay while others want a speedy trial so how will the judge respond? plus a record number of americans are packing in one last summer trip this labor day weekend. i m rahel solomon alongside kate bolduan and boris sanchez this morning and cnn news central starts right now. the latest jobs report has just crossed and here is what the report shows on the surface, 187,000 jobs were added last month, the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.8%, but there is so much more in there than just that. cnn s vanessa yurkevich has the details for us. what do you see inside these top line numbers? this is a good report, a little bit above expectations but still a comfortable number both on the jobs added and the unemplo
good morning to you and welcome tonn this morning, happy easter. it is sunday, march 31st on victor blackboard. i amro walker hears what we re working on for you this morning removing wreckage. there are signs of progress. is cruised, clear, massive mounds of steel and concrete from the deadly baltimore bridge collapse. we are live on the scene with a work, a look at what the work happening right now, happening now also king charles at easter service, it s his first significant public appearance into cancer diagnosis we live in windsor this morning and firing back the white house is on the offensive. this morning, republicans blast president biden for proclaiming easter sunday as a transgender de, of visibility, although they both fall on the same day this year by chance. we re live with the fallout plus how soaring cocoa prices are leaving a bit of a bitter taste for chocolate lovers. this easter we begin this morning with breaking news out of indianapolis, where
hello everyone. thank you so much for joining me this saturday i m fredricka whitfield. aren t new today, former president donald trump setting off a firestorm of controversy after an incendiary social media post trump posted the video on friday. this one featuring an image of president joe biden hogtied on the back of that pickup truck. the biden campaign is blasting the post inciting political violence. cnn s steve contorno joining us now with more on all of this, steve, i mean, what is the trump s campaign saying about this well fred perhaps. it s no surprise that there are downplaying the severity of this video that trump posted last night on truth social. if you take a look at the video, you can see there are two trucks, both of them sporting pro trump decals and flags. and on the second trump, there is this image of president biden, as you said, hogtied rather large image. and in a statement to cnn, does trump campaign said, quote, that picture was on the back of a
i think what we have is a lot of conspiracy realists, and so if i m one of them reporter: some prefer him to the republican front-runner. do you think he can beat trump? yes. we re tired of losing. trump lost. it doesn t make sense. how will you beat trump when you have a trump base and he is running. the way i m going to do is is speaking in an uninhibited way. i think i m the only candidate speaking my mind truly without running it through preordained filters. that is proving to be a competitive advantage. it draws backlash at times, but i think that s what people are hungry for. in your book you re saying much difficult. reporter: it is true. he praised parts of trump s records while offering sharp criticism of how trump handled his 2020 election defeat. we might as well embraces it reporter: he takes trump s style even further on the issue, pledging to fire 75% of federal workers, eliminate all of affirmative action in america, and use u.s. drones