impeached twice including once for trying to illegally remain in power, a star who is been indicted in four different jurisdictions and faces a minimum of 91 charges, a star preparing for six scheduled criminal and civil trials over the next nine months while running for the 2024 republican presidential nomination, a star who has not been hurt politically by any of this at all. a recent wall street journal poll of republicans pushed donald trump s support at 59%, a full 46 percentage points higher than second place ron desantis. it actually kicks off in atlanta on wednesday, arraignment a for the 19 defendants in the case helmed by fulton county dna fani willis. trump and 11 codefendants way for the right to appear in court. trump also pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts. not only that, trump has requested to sever his case from other codefendants seeking a speedy trial like this guy, not that guy, but like his former attorney ken cheeseborough who is set to go to trial.
you don t own pads like that, do you? i was a basketball guy. i couldn t take hits like those in football. it s not my game. you are still tough. i want someone to call foul if i get hit. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have lot to talk with. so glad you are back. it is back to work this week for lawmakers on capitol hill and with the dwindling number of days, their to-do list is quite long. can they avoid a government shutdown? a major question. also, right now tens of thousands of people are stuck in the desert at the burning man festival after a rainstorm turned the site into a mud pit. people are being told to shelter in place. amazon s ceo tells employees to get back in the office or their days may be numbered. they are not alone. we talk to an expert about whether whizzes and their employees can find some common ground. and college sports before to look a whole lot different.
such a date for trump s trial. we now know it will be monday march 4th, 2024. if that does sound familiar to you, that s probably because you re familiar with politics and it happens to be just one day before what is perhaps the most important day in any presidential primary season. super tuesday. on march 5th, republican voters in over a dozen states are set to cast ballots for their 2024 pick. in total, you ve got about one third of all delegates that will be up for grabs on super tuesday. that s more than any other day on the primary calendar. meaning the parties presumptive nominee could very well be decided right then and there, on that day. and since trump s lead over the republicans is growing, that means the disgraced ex president could officially become his party s pick, while his lawyers are in court, fighting for his freedom. just think about that for a moment. it s quite the split screen image. and here s how the atlantic s david graham summed up the pending uncha
now. camila, i was just amazed. you probably couldn t see the video from where you re standing. as i was talking to this woman, she picked up her foot and showed what looked like two or three inches of thick mud stuck to the bottom of her shoe. and i guess this is what people are dealing with in the middle of all this. but i guess things are improving somewhat. give us the latest. reporter: well, jim, it s still really messy, and i don t have to see the video because there were so many people that i saw here walking out of the playa. just to give you some perspective of where i am, the playa is right here behind me. so the festival is only just a couple of miles from where i am. throughout the day, i saw dozens and dozens of people with those cakey shoes with mud all over their bodies. the cars are covered in mud. i saw a number of rvs getting stuck behind me here in the desert. that s what you re seeing today. people are saying, look, i want to get out no matter what. the
going to find damage from the heavy equipment, from, you know, people not being able to procure their items and leave now trace. those a there s a restoration department here at burning man and they do a phenomenal job year in and year out and this year is going to be a really tough job. some people have trucked out on foot, including comedian chris rock, who up see in the blue coat and others hiking for six miles before they were able to hitch a ride from a fan. earlier i spoke with a different attendee who was able to make it back home to south carolina. she described how others were coping with the conditions. take a listen. most of the season folks that have been out there a number of times had really positive attitudes. i mean, we all know we re signing up for something that anything could happen. i ve been out there during a hail storm, i ve been out there during rain. i ve been out there when it was, like, too hot to function. so i felt like overall it was pretty