it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. it s great to be with you. we are following a major development in a criminal case against donald trump and his allies. the special grand jury in georgia investigating possible illegal interference in the 2020 election is now done. this is the panel set up by fulton county s district attorney after trump lost the election and made this call to georgia s secretary of state. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. well, since its inception nearly a year ago, the special grand jury has interviewed some of trump s closest allies. a new court filing reveals the panel is now dissolved and that its investigation is complete. cnn s correspondent nick valencia joins us now. this kind of grand jury we now understand, does not issue indictments. so now what? reporter: their work of may of 2022, this grand jury did not have the power or authori
he met with border officials. he did not see or meet any migrants along the way or residents that live along the boarder that have to deal with the situation there. the migrant camps in the city with cleared from the streets in the days and weeks prior to his announced visit. border farmers and ranchers had this to say about it. you don t come after all the mess has been dealt with and cleaned up. you come when the emergency is happening. everything is picked up and clean. everybody is like on their best behavior. martha: yeah. so monica de la cruz represents texas border district. she has someone she wants you to understand about the president s trip and victor davis hanson weighs in as well. first to jacqui heinrich in mexico city covering this trip of the president of the united states. hi, jacqui. hey, martha. the big question coming out of the summit is whether there is any plan to address the cartels which are driving this human smuggling across the u.s. border
case. people who had their campaigns funded by david macintosh and club for growth are not listening to him. they re not listening to former president trump so do they really have the influence that they think they have? yeah, chaos feeds on chaos, happy birthday, congressman. we ll go up to the capitol to manu raju and, manu, tell us about the key meeting of these rebels, of these conservative holeouts happening right now. tell us more. reporter: this can be a pivotal meeting. several members we are looking closely to see how they will vote are holed up in emmer s office, a member of the republican leadership. it includes chip roy, scott perry, byron donalds, dan bishop, all people who have not three of the four haven t indicated how they may vote on this particular round. i asked byron donalds himself who first had been nominated here in this ballot whether he will vote for himself. he refused to say. he would not say whether he would vote for himself. you guys have a
oh say can you see by the dawn s early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight over the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave will: the tradition continues. our nation s and them live from a different location. we are honored to be at the us military academy at west point for fox and friends weekend and it is a beautiful seen both behind us and in front of us. good morning, what a remarkable shot. will: what you are seeing is the banjo, and a cripple independence day celebration, fireworks show, the 3 of us will be hosting it for the fox news channel, the next two mornings with this incredible backdrop of the hudson ri
world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won t say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she s signaling an openness to finding legislative solutions because her office has been flooded with calls from constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. let s bring in cnn s pamela brown about some of the latest reporting we re hearing on these negotiations and where this discussion goes from here. what are you learning, pam? so i m learning, me and my colleague manu raju have learned that the senate minority leader mitch mcco