Days leading up to the maga invasion at the capital. The basis of the president s second Impeachment Trial starting next week. The genesis of the siege, revealing it wasnt an up rising but a coordinated campaign by the former president and his allies. That was rooted in a lie that was so convincing to some of his most devoted followers it made the assault on the capitol almost inevitable. And a growing list of people and organizations involved in planning, promoting and financing the rallies that precipitated the insurrection. Alex jones, ali alexander, the pilly gee, mike lindell, and people who have been in the Republican Party, and establishment groups like the republican attorneys general association. The heiress to the publix supermarket fortune. Her money paid for the lions share of the 500,000 at the ellipse where the former president spoke. Before they converged on washington, all the forces rallied around a single goal of stopping the socalled steal. And the times reveal, some
top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with
dissent? we had three of us writing a dissent. we thought it was for many, many reasons harmful to the court and we thought for many reasons it was generally a harmful decision. we thought it was wrong and five people thought it was right. so the truthful answer is, at this moment i don t know exactly. there are people who spend a lot of time on this matter. i can say it is a very important thing, this right to abortion, and i think casey is a better opinion from a legal point of view than roe, and i am very, very, very sorry. thank you for watching. you can catch my full interviews with bernie sanders and carol burnett anytime you want on hbo max. and join us here on cnn every friday night to find out who s talking next. good evening, everyone. i m allison, welcome to cnn tonight. it s friday night. the culture wars are in full swing. there is a plot television. in the republican-controlled state legislatures of south carolina and nebraska restrictive abortion bills
organizations after the brutal killing of americans. instead of focusing on root causes like kamala is supposed to be doing, we need to stop the cartel carnage once and for all. they are flooding america with fentanyl. over 100,000 americans are now dying from poisoning. they are overwhelming our border, making $13 billion a year in human trafficking. now these narco terrorists are kidnapping, torturing, and killing american citizens. mexico is so dangerous right now that the state department is warning spring breakers about even going to the country. republicans say enough is enough. it s time to take action. we are going to unleash the fury and might of the united states against these cartels. we re going to introduce legislation in the coming days and try to make it bipartisan to designate the keys groups foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law. lindsey graham is right. we are losing 100,000 americans every year to drug deaths almost exclusively because of mexic
john: fox team coverage from across the country. bill will begin things for us on the ground in uvalde, texas for us. our coverage continues. bill. bill: sandra, a lot of conflicting reporting whether or not there was a school police officer on campus when the shooting took place. texas d.p.s. tells me there was a school officer on campus who exchanged gunfire with this gunman. i m told that the officer was shot and injured and that is when the shooter ran inside the school, got into a classroom, barricaded himself and started shooting in discrimnatly, shows the 18-year-old local resident armed with the rifle going into the school. he shot his grandmother in the face a short time before this, then drove to the school, crashed his car, got out, apparently engaged in gunfire with the school officer, hurt him, went inside, then committed this heinous shooting. take a listen to the 911 dispatch audio. all units stand by. bill: if you look at video of children evacuated