visit coventry direct.com i m more liebermann at the pentagon. and this cnn you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new questions as sporting about donald trump and extreme rhetoric well as incendiary comments lead his party to ruin for a contrast, take a look at president biden s easter message calling for peace, security, and dignity for people around the world trump s message this past weekend was unsurprisingly trumpian. he railed against the crooked and corrupt legal system unleashed as millions of followers on a federal judge s daughter and shared this far-right op-ed equating his legal troubles with the crucifixion. and all comes after he posted this video depicting the president, president biden, that is being hogtied and the back of a pickup truck when pressed republicans once again, refused to condemn trump s actions i think everyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, the language and you know, obviously social media has become a vehicle
tornado outbreak wreaking havoc across much of the midwest and south friday. there are now at least 50 preliminary tornado reports in seven states. at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others are injured. most of the deaths are in arkansas, where the damage is catastrophic reports of at least a dozen tornadoes there. governor sarah huckabee sanders , declaring a state of emergency and activating the national guard. as the storms gutted entire communities. she s expected to give an update on the storm damage at any moment now and the hardest hit areas of arkansas. that was the town of when. we don t know what s left . all my neighbors house is about destroyed. my two boys are out now trying to help dig people out of their homes. little rock also bearing the brunt of these storms, the city s mayor, telling cnn today that entire neighborhoods were flattened. impact is devastating . i just came out of nowhere. clearly no, it was coming. everyone took cover, as relate
counsel investigating donald trump could finally get testimony from former vice president mike pence. that could be incredibly significant. you know, it s a month of pushback, and now pence, it appears, is going to finally testifying. the special counsel s investigation into trump and his actions on january. six. a spokesman for the former vice president says he will not appeal a judge s ruling in order that he must appear before the grand jury that s investigating the insurrection and trump s efforts to overturn the election. that means pence could testify about the one on one conversations he had with trump leading up to that day, including what we know is a heated phone call that happened the morning of the riot when pence, refused trump s efforts to get him to try to block the certification of president biden s win, plus a cnn exclusive this morning as cnn sources are telling cnn that former national security officials have testified that trump was repeatedly warned he di
at the intersection of the second amendment, and the first protesters are rallying at the tennessee state capitol as three democratic lawmakers could lose their jobs today for doing this a week ago. democratic state representatives . justin jones, justin pearson and gloria johnson, using a bullhorn during a gun control rally at the capitol to call for action in the wake of last month s deadly shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead. the three democratic lawmakers are accused of breaking house rules at any moment. we expect their colleagues to vote on whether or not they should be expelled. cnn national reporter ryan young is live for us in nashville ryan lots of noise still ongoing, a lot of protesters that were with the lawmakers one week ago are back there today to support these three legislatures. yeah we really seen this swell fred. in terms of protesters, we have thousands earlier outside. now you can see this small crowd that s still behind me. som
cnn newsroom. i m abby phillip in washington to very serious charges for that 21 year old air national guardsman accused of leaking a trove of sensitive classified documents online. you can see there jack to share as parents outside of the courthouse this morning in boston. there, son was in shackles facing a judge less than 24 hours after he peacefully surrendered to a swarm of heavily armed fbi agents. prosecutors revealed today that to share a had a top secret clearance since 2021 that he allegedly leaked the alleged leading began long afterward in a online discord group. the pentagon says that this was a deliberate criminal act, and the new court documents show that members of that chat group gave the fbi information that could be key to making that case. cnn s natasha bertrand is at the pentagon, natasha so lay out what the charges that he s facing our yeah, abby, so he did appear in court in massachusetts this morning, and he was officially charged with two separate cou