good morning, everyone and happy easter weekend. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday. april 8th camera walker. i m victor blackwell. it is good to spend a little time with you. let what every time i see you now, i just see you know, bunny ears and i mentioned i had bunny tail have no cocktail, but i was a mall easter bunny. and that s the thing. yeah you have this thing with you got it. bring the picture tomorrow. here s what we re watching today. conflicting rulings when it comes to access to a medical abortion pill. one judge halts availability of the drug another preserves access to it in some states were joined by doctor for more on what this means for women across the country. the latest jobs report shows economy is still trucking along, but we re seeing signs that things are cooling down what the numbers say about the fight to tame inflation. at least three people are dead following separate attacks in the middle east. we are live in jerusalem with the latest on
original heaven s gate sunday at 10 on cnn. good morning to you. so glad to have you with us. i m jessica dean to have jessica with us. i m jim sciutto as investigators continue searching for a motive, new details are emerging about the shooter who killed murdered three children and three teachers and staffers at a christian elementary school. former teacher says the shooter was suffering years ago. all of this coming to light as the community tries to respond and take care of each other to face the painful reality. at the time like this, you you love each other. you support each other. you re there for each other, and nobody is walking through this alone. but this has been a tragic and horrible situation. and the lines of communication open with former president donald trump. top house republican lawmakers regularly reporting to him as his enormous power with them on capitol hill indoors, plus just months after walking out of freeman adnan syed, the subject of a popular podc
220400 or go to miso book dot com. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. it is a very, very busy news day. thanks for sharing your time. some new cnn polling releasing this hour. it is a sober reality check for president biden. tough performance grades and a big wow on the question of deserving four more years, plus a simply blockbuster blonde bombshell report. get this supreme court justice clarence thomas. did not disclose luxury trips around the world worth hundreds of thousands of dollars paid for by a billionaire, conservative activist and protests and controversy right now in tennessee, three democrats in the legislature could soon be expelled for staging a gun reform protests on the floor of the statehouse, and today they are still making their case for change. we are making this political statement today by trying to act like we re doing something that is not going to do anything to prevent what occurred. more police officers in schools. u
ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack smith notches a major victory, securing a
huddling with advisors in new york as he is about to make history as the first president to formally charged with a crime. and just hours, trump will head downtown and he will turn himself in. and at this late hour this monday evening, we re still waiting for the judge in the case to rule on two important motions, and this could come at any time. the first of these is whether to allow cameras in the courtroom. trump s legal team opposes that move. they say it would create a circus like atmosphere. that s the first motion and then the second one that we re awaiting a ruling from the judge on is the motion to unseal the indictment before tomorrow s arraignment. again we are told that these rulings could be issued tonight and if they are, it would be an incredible cap off to what has been pretty unbelievable day. the former president, leaving his home in mar-a-lago this afternoon followed there in his convoy. supporters lining the roads flying to new york, where he made his way