good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry. and meeting with sergey lavrov for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we ll bring that conversation to you. we want to begin with the breaking news out of michigan. the state s attorney general confirming she was one of the targets in a plot to kill jewish elected officials in that state. polo sandoval and john miller joining us now. polo, first tell us the details of the plot as
or not he should be attending those briefings, that he had the ability to attend them because he has a security clearance as a united states member of the senate. so i think thats there s a lot of questions right now about whether or not more skcrutiny comes on senator menendez when they return next week on capitol hill, but so far, we have not heard any reaction to this superseding indictment from chuck schumer s office. lauren fox, thank you so much. back with us now is jason osbourne and christine quinn. when you have another indictment that talks about gold bars and it seems a little old. i want to read what his attorney is saying. an all-time acted entirely appropriately with respect to qatar, egypt and the many other countries he routinely interacts with. it only exposes the lengths to which these prosecutors will go to poison the public before the trial even begins. the latest indictment is key
e-mail saying go do this or that. heis s not writing a text messa saying to do this so to prove that strikes me that the justice department has a high bar to reach in terms of evidence, understanding also the incredible amount of skcrutiny that they will be under, not just for this case, but other the others that trump faces. for so many reasons. he s a former president. the second, among equal reasons, he s a candidate for president. we know that the legal strategy and the political strategy, we have said this so many times, they are one in the same. and donald trump leads with the political strategy. why disclose this today on a day ron desantis is having a big interview on this network. on a day there s a big hearing on florida in the classified documents case. donald trump tries to poison the well and keep his people. we don t know a lot about this yet. we know what donald trump is telling us. let s rely on recent history
good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry.
it s on sovereign territory and have a right to do it. this will put russia under further skcrutiny. the tlaez o more from kyiv. abandoned factory near kyiv. is now a training ground for civilians who volunteered to fight off the possible russian invasion. out numbered here by journalists and armed at best with pellet guns. they know they ll be out matched by moscows military machine. they are keen. we have a curable moment for the country. a crucial moment. risk that russian invasion might occur. so this why even civilians have to be ready. these men believe it s their