welcome back to cnn this morning. it is 07:00 a.m. eastern. i ve amara walker alongside viktor blackwell. thank you so much for joining us on this easter sunday morning. here is what s going on this morning. the pope just finished presiding over mass at the vatican. just a couple of days after pulling out of good friday event, his message should have fateful this easter sunday. and these are live pictures from winsor working charles just attended easter services. it is his most significant appearance since being diagnosed with cancer. we will take you there, but pictures out of baltimore here where crews have started going to remove the first parts of the francis scott key bridge, the latest on the cleanup effort and the search for those still missing. that s coming up. well as the superbloom is back in in california, is covered in flowers. this spectacular sights and what s causing them just ahead and we begin this morning with breaking news out of indianapolis l
president lyndon b. johnson signed the voting rights act into law. removing legal barriers for black voters, johnson not only made a quality at the ballot box of reality for everyone but he also ensured this nation s laws matched its revered ideals. and yeah, it s over the ensuing indicates protections under the act have been chipped away. most notably after the 2013 supreme court decision in shelby v. holder which made it easier for states to pass restrictive voting laws. still, the outcome of our elections and our democracy held firm. until january six 2020 line. an angry red violent mob stormed the capitol driven by one terrified goal. overturn a free and fair election. they were motivated by the lives of one. dan donald j trump. the new twice impeached thrice indicted for now former president of the united states. that dark day expose just how fragile american democracy, our democracy, really is. but, trump is now finally facing accountability for trying to illegally stat
tonight s lead, with the house. with the 2024 race ramping up, democrats are aiming to win back the house. and a new political action committee is centering black voters in that effort. expanding tens of millions of dollars to boost block democrats and make house minority leader hakeem jeffries out for his black speaker of the house. the chair of the congressional black caucus joins me in a minute. with the details. meanwhile, the drag of investigations targeting donald trump continues to tighten by the week. as his legal team prepares for trump s classified documents trial. now slated to begin in may. yet another federal indictment appears to be looming over trump s head. spelled out in a target letter, trump repealed last week from special counsel jack smith. signaling that the former president might be staring down federal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and later, congressman john lewis left us three years ago this past week. his people
. rachel: it is christmas time that is christina aguilera. look at the box christmas tree that is up and bright and attracting tourist from all over the country for their christmas photos and we are here it is 7:00 a.m. i am with will and pete will is jazzed up about sports he has not stopped working to keep going, are you going to keep going on sports? will: i don t want to wear everybody out. i m a partisan and i m right i m a partisan. pete: i m worn out. i reached the depth of my knowledge. will: you want to pick a fight you been trying but i win in the green room. that s a problem he is probably right. will: i was going out with the cameraman. rachel: witness a decision made tonight? pete: this afternoon. we will text you what happened. will: it s good to tear the nation apart. rachel: that is funny you think that will tear the nation apart meanwhile politics is turning the nation apart, in many ways the republican party has a lot of deep division particularly a
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