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weekend weekend, every embracing for what's gonna happen this week. you ready for this week? we are expecting a very busy one. so let's get started with five things to know for this monday, april 3rd 2023 donald trump. set to arrive in new york today ahead of his arraignment tomorrow. trump facing more than 30 counts related to business fraud. also former arkansas governor asa hutchinson says he is now running for president. the former governor says that he has already also calling on trump to step out of the race. meanwhile, oil prices spiking overnight after opec plus announced a surprise cut in production. by the administration, slamming the move in their response. also this morning, nasa set to announce the astronauts chosen for it are two mission. it will be the first manned space flight around the moon in 50 years and go so tigers g e a u x the way we spell it in louisiana, by the way, all shoes women's basketball team as we say, lady tigers, if you're from louisiana

has won its first to title, beating iowa, cnn this morning starts right now. there you go. what's it called fights on national title down? it's amazing. i know it's amazing. they were great. and the coach as kayla. i always talk about the coaches. my gosh , she's going. this is this brings me back. i feel like it's the eighties all over again with me being an l. c. but this is great their first time so proud, like all of my friends from homework. so excited and texting my mom and my sister all watching. we're all on system. really really great. by the way. katelyn polantz obama. i'm not like you know, busting your chops, but we thought alabama was going to. we had no idea this was a surprise at lsu end up and this is a women's team.

it's still amazing because they were playing iowa katelyn polantz on i was team is incredible. i love what a great game coach said about her. she's a generational player about she really is, really is. there's no one like that. but i also was interesting. it was to see her on asked questions. she was so emotional she could barely get it out. so everybody was crying. okay so we'll have a lot more on that later. but there's a lot going on here in new york just hours from now. former president trump will return here in new york city as he prepares to turn himself in tomorrow to face criminal charges. here's a live look. trump's private plane in west palm beach, florida trump says he will leave florida around noon today, he was spotted waving to supporters over the weekend as he left his golf club. this will be the first time in us history that next president will be arraigned in court later today. the judge expected to decide if he'll allow cameras in that courtroom to the american public and watch all of it. because it is history unfolding here. the secret service has been helping coordinate security at the courthouse in lower manhattan. we're told secret service employees will be at the metal

detectors and the former president is not expected to be handcuffed because he'll be surrounded by federal agents when he's processed, fingerprinted and has his mug shot taken. so let's begin this hour with senior legal affairs correspondent polaroid public mourning. good morning. all right. so he gets here today and then tomorrow it will be in court. the question is between this morning and the court hearing tomorrow. will this indictment be unsealed? that's one of the big questions right now because the charges in this historic case are still under steel. now, mind you that has not stopped the former president from attacking the district attorney. even the judge will oversee the case. and his lawyers tried to do a little cleanup on those attacks over the weekend, but they've made it clear that whatever these charges are, they're gonna fight. former president donald trump is expected to arrive in new york monday afternoon ahead of what will be the first ever arrangement of a former president of the united states. over the weekend, his legal team was on the attack. the team will

look at every every, um, potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge and of course i very much anticipated motion to dismiss coming because there's no law that fits this, but the charges against trump have not yet been revealed, even to his lawyers and will only be unsealed tuesday unless the judge agrees to grant a request made by several media outlets, including cnn to unseal it sooner. cnn has learned the charges include more than 30 counts related to business fraud . grand jury returned an indictment thursday after a years long probe into a hush money payments made to adult film star stormy daniels in the days leading up to the 2016 election, trump has gone on the offense attacking district attorney alvin bragg, calling him corrupt claiming brag is using a venue where it is impossible for him to get a fair trial. and as he has done before , even going after the judge who

will oversee this case, claiming he hates him and alleging he treated his company's viciously in a prior case. it's deeply ironic that a person who spent a good part of his four years in the white house trying to weaponize the justice department against his political enemies, is now saying he's the victim of persecution. it's sort of what comes around goes around. security preparations are underway for trump's initial appearance in this manhattan courthouse is expected to be fingerprinted, but it's not clear if you will have a mug shot. sources tell cnn concerns it could leak in violation of state law and sources tell cnn trump is keeping track of who is publicly supporting him the case. based again on what's being reported the case lacks any legal basis. it's pursuing somebody on the there's nothing inherently wrong or illegal about making a hush payment. we're not dealing with a blind, blindfolded lady justice in this

situation. we're dealing with a political prosecutor who has stated that he is going after president trump one of the big questions now is whether there will be cameras in the courtroom for this arrangement that is ultimately up to the judge, and this judge historically has not been in favor of having cameras in his courtroom. but several media organizations, including cnn, are pushing for this, arguing that the public interest is at its zenith when we're talking about the arrangement of a former president of the united states of time, that was that likely it's a based based on the history here with this judge. it is not likely, but he gave both sides the prosecutors and the defense until one pm to raise any objections. i reached out to the trump legal team last night to see if they would be in favor of this respond. thank you very much. and as we wait to see if there will be cameras in the courtroom, we do know we will hear from former president trump this week. christian homes is in west palm beach, florida outside or near mar-a-lago. i should say

kristen for president trump says he's leaving mar-a-lago at noon today is flying here to new york. what else do we know about what? the logistics of his trip here before? that arraignment tomorrow is going to look like katelyn polantz going to be staying at trump tower. he's going to land in laguardia airport. this is all, according to a source i just heard from then he's going to overnight there go to that arrangement on tuesday, and then he will be wheels up back to florida immediately afterwards and as you noted, he will be delivering remarks from his mar-a-lago home about 8 15 tuesday night, and those invitations have already gone out. i have talked to novels, sources who have received them. they are lawmakers, allies, club members and i'm told by some source source. to trump that this is really his opportunity to take control of the narrative after we learn what those charges are so far he has painted this as a political hoax and they witch hunt. it will be interesting to see whether or not that changes once we learn what those charges are, but i am told by sources who spoke to trump members of

his inner circle that in between rounds of golf this weekend, trump spent his time on the phone texting, calling allies and touting the political positive of this indictment. he went over pull numbers that showed him leading in a hypothetical head to head with ron desantis. and he talked about those fundraising numbers. we know the campaign has said that they raised $5 million in the 1st 48 hours after that indictment was announced. we've also learned that trump and his advisers are looking at ways to politically capitalize on this indictment, one of the things that they had been batting around was actually putting trump's mug shot onto campaign merchandise like shirts and mugs . that's something as sort of a rallying cry for his supporters . obviously as we know we are still uncertain whether or not he will actually get a mug shot, as we heard from paula authorities are worried about that potentially leaking, which would be a violation of state law. katelyn polantz this already though, christian homes will stay with you. thanks so much. all right, let's turn now

to the justice department's probe. this is a separate investigation into classified documents found in mar-a-lago. the washington post yesterday reporting this that federal investigators have quote amassed fresh evidence pointing to possible obstruction by former president trump. here's what the post is reporting that investigators now suspect the boxes of classified documents for moved from a storage area and mar-a-lago. this is after and this this matters. the timing after the doj served a subpoena to recover those documents from florida and that trump personally, investigators believe examined at least some of those boxes again after the subpoena, trump's team only returned some documents with classified markings and fbi search at mar-a-lago would later find more than 100 classified items that were not turned over. including top secret documents supposed reports, investigators have obtained emails and text messages of a former trump staffer, and they give a detailed understanding of what was happening during those months at mar-a-lago more on that, as we get it, let's get

perspective on what's happening, especially here in new york city and senior legal analyst and former assistant u. s attorney for the southern district of new york. mr elie honig joins us now and we should point out that he also knows manhattan, d. alvin bragg. personally here, so we just want to disclose that l a good morning to you. let's start with new york indictment. what we're going to see this week. what are we learning about the charges that he might be facing basically what's in the indictment? right so we have not seen the indictment yet, but we're getting really important indicators that give us a sense of what could be in their first of all, don. on friday, the judge in this case issued the first official order in the case. basically just saying alvin bragg, the d a. can disclose that there's an indictment. it will be unsealed on tuesday. but this was really important moment because we saw for the first time. the case caption. people of the state of new york against donald j. trump defendant this is real. we also learned over the weekend that there will be at least one felony charge in this indictment. there better be, by the way. if this is just a bunch of misdemeanors, the day is gonna have some serious questions to answer. but here's what that could mean. it looks

like some of the charges will relate to falsification of business records. the idea is they falsely log these payments as attorneys fees, but that would just be a misdemeanor, the less serious type of charge with one year maximum the dividing line between a misdemeanor and felony by the way. is one year if it's one year or less. it's a misdemeanor as the max and if it's above one year, then it's a felony. how could they make this a felony if they can tie those business records to some other crime to some second crime, and the theory here is that second crime could be a campaign finance violation. if prosecutors charge and prove that it's a class e felony, the lowest level of felony in new york state, which has a maximum of four years and finally done we know from our reporting from john miller and others here that the indictment is expected to have 34 counts. that's a lot, but each individual entry in the business records could be its own count out of the trump folks out this weekend, the attorney saying that they're going to fight this is going to seek to dismiss this. what kind of legal tactics will they use it to do that? they're not playing this one very close to the vest. they

spend a lot of the weekend talking to dana bash and others. out their strategy. they are going to argue that legally, we're in state court here in new york state court, you cannot charge a violation of a federal election law. this is a presidential election under state law, and if they do that, by the way, they could knock out this because that other crime is the federal election violation, leaving them with only misdemeanors. so that's going to be a really important argument. we also know from listening to trump's lawyers this weekend. they're going to argue there was no intent to defraud here, meaning in most business records cases, somebody takes a record falsifies. it gives it to somebody else in order to steal money. that's not the case here. it's a little different scenario. they're going to argue that as well. trump's team is also going to argue statute of limitations, meaning you typically have five years from the time of felonies committed to charge it two years for a misdemeanor. now we're beyond both of those time periods. however they are going to be rescued here because there's a prosecutors are going to be rescued because there's a new york law that says you can pause that time period when someone's living continuously out of state. trump has lived in the white house and mar-a-lago. and

then finally, i am certain that trump's team and they've more than signal this is going to argue selective prosecution. they're going to say he's been singled out for political purposes. that's a really difficult argument to succeed there. john edwards argument, right in this case, right? what about the jessica's? trump has talked about the judge. what about the judge? in this case? we know the judge here, juan russian, by the way, let me just point out. this is called new york supreme court. little bit confusing. that's what they call the trial level court here in new york. the judge is a former prosecutor. he was with the hes office. same office is prosecuting this case and the a g s office. let me say nothing unusual or inappropriate about that many judges are former prosecutors. he's been on the bench since 2006 best known before this because he presided over the case against allen weisberg, who pled guilty and the trial of the trump organization. trump's lawyers, by the way, may object to this because the way this judge got put on this case is prosecutor said. it's related to these cases so he should get it as opposed to just going into the wheel for random assignment. watch for trump's lawyers to

chat challenge that and say. this should not be related to that we should get a randomly assigned judge and finally done . the judge has to make his first really big decision probably today about whether he'll allow cameras in the courtroom for tomorrow's proceeding. we at cnn are part of a group of media outlets that have asked the judge let us see it open up the courtroom. it's a public proceeding. let the cameras in. he'll have to decide that soon. you think that'll happen. you know, he has a history of not allowing cameras in. but given the level of public interest here, i don't see how he says. no i think it's i think he look. if i can opinionated second, he should let cameras in because the public interest in this is through the roof. alright, elie honig. thank you very much. i appreciate that, papi. one explosion at a cafe in st petersburg, russia, has killed a prominent russian blogger, and now officials suspect that he was targeted. we'll take you live to moscow. we're also tracking other important news here in the united states this morning. communities across the south and midwest are now facing a massive cleanup after tornadoes ripped through the region will take you live to the ground in arkansas when we're

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efforts here in the u. s and abroad to curb inflation. jeremy diamond joins us now live from the white house. jeremy i imagine the white house was not too pleased when this was announced by opec. no, certainly not. caitlyn appear to be surprised, just like the rest of us who are learning about this surprise cut that didn't come at one of those quarterly opec meetings, but instead simply announced by the opec plus group and keep in mind the reason why is that cutting oil production leads to higher oil prices, which could lead to higher gas prices here in the united states and, of course prolonging this lingering inflation the president biden has been dealing with in the country has been dealing with this production cut is expected to go into play in may, could last until the end of the year, and saudi arabia is building this as a precautionary move to try and stabilize oil markets. but that's not how the white house sees this, and this is a statement from the national security council spokesperson who says quote we don't think cuts are advisable at this moment, given market uncertainty , and we've made that clear we

will continue to work with all producers and consumers to ensure energy markets. support economic growth and lower prices for american consumers. now you'll recall that this follows a similar cut that opec did back in october of two million barrels per day at the white house. the at the time the white house reacted quite angrily, with president biden, vowing that there would be consequences for saudi arabia doing this and the opec group doing this, saying that it was intended to try and mitigate the economic consequences that russia was facing as a result of its war in ukraine, and this comes at a critical time we've seen gas price this is already begin to take up over the last month by about 10 cents per gallon. we're currently sitting at about 3 51 per gallon a year ago. that was 4 20 per gallon, though so down , we will see exactly what the effect will be on gas prices. it's hard to predict, but for now, at least, we're already seeing those crude oil prices beginning to surge as a reaction to this decision. caitlin us wanted to see jeremy thank you so much. alright this morning. a

tornado watch has been issued for portions of southern mississippi, southern alabama and the florida panhandle. this comes after a severe tornado outbreak killed at least 32 people across the south and the midwest watch. holy. more than 50. tornadoes reportedly ripped through at least seven states crushing homes, tearing roofs off buildings and tossing around vehicles are derek van dam is live in arkansas this morning, with more five deaths so far reported in arkansas from these storms, what areas were the hardest hit? yeah papi, you know so much heartache this morning, waking up across america and we're in one of those areas where unfortunately, a woman lost her life in the home. what we used to be a home directly behind me. you can see just

nothing left. in fact, some of the trees completely spiral spiraled around themselves in the distance there, you can see this vehicle. just the windows completely smashed out the national weather service calling this an ef three that's wins. 165 mph. the rolling fork, mississippi tornado from over a week ago was 190 mph so comparable, but when you talk about the number of fatalities that have occurred so far this year in 2023, we've doubled. more than doubled what took place last year and we are only entering the peak of the season. i want you to listen to jesse wilson. she wrote out this tornado as it ripped through her home. i want you to hear her heroine account of what happened to her neighbors. put them out. she was looking around, and then all of sudden, she said, where's my mother? just said where is my mother? she said. i can't find my mama. she started calling mama mama and she started calling her name and when they found her up on the board, she

was smashed. she was dead. it was just horrible daughter just started screaming and hollering. it was horrible. it was horrible . where's her house? there's no house. everything was just gone. it is so sad that that woman lost her life behind her. we're happy that jessie is alive and well, to tell that story. you know, it is so important to pay attention to meteorologists as they warned these oncoming tornadoes, because right where i stand and to the north as we head into the midwest, another round of severe weather possible tomorrow we're going to keep a very close eye to the sky poppy. done, caitlin. derek thank you very much for that. reporting from arkansas done turn out to another train derailment because cruz in western montana are racing to clean up after a freight train derail, sending at least 25 cars off the track. fire officials say it happened yesterday morning train cars

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313504 or go online to gotham set dot com. this is cnn. the world's news network. a suspect is in custody this morning after sunday's deadly blast in russia . the moment of the explosion at a st petersburg cafe was caught on tape. claimed the life of a prominent pro kremlin military blogger, matthew chance live for us or seeing them this morning in moscow, matthew good morning to you. what do we know? well i

mean, this military blogger who was very pro war vlad lent tartasky. he's dead. there are something like 32 other people who are in hospital in st petersburg, the russian city where this explosion took place , eight of them, according to russian health officials are in grave condition. you can see why. when you look at those video, that video of the cafe and its front being completely blown off by the force of the explosion that has been an arrest already a young woman. her name is daria trip over and she was at the event in which to toschi was a guest speaker, and she actually handed him a gift. a small statue a small figurine , which eyewitnesses say it was the source of the explosion, and that's what russian investigators say. now they're looking at most of all. that this statute that was handed to tartasky by this this this woman daria trip over was actually an

explosive device, and it detonated and caused all this destruction has been an announcement from the russian anti terrorism committee as well. they're the organization that are investigating what's going on here. they're calling it a terrorist act, as is the kremlin, and they're blaming the ukrainian special services for carrying this out for planning it in conjunction with agents, they say from alexei navalny's anti corruption campaign, so that's what the official line is . at the moment this was a ukrainian special services act in conjunction with alexey navalny's anti corruption campaign. the valley group, by the way, has categorically denied any connection. all right, matthew chance in moscow this morning. thank you, matthew. also back here in the us, and just a few hours for president trump is expected to leave mar-a-lago. you can see a live look at his plane there. he's going to fly, then to new york, where he is going to be arraigned tomorrow. we are learning this morning that the former president is expected to spend the night at trump tower and then returned straight to

florida after his appearance. that is where he's going to be speaking tomorrow night. right now he is facing what we believe about 30 counts related to the business to business fraud and this historic indictment by a manhattan grand jury. we're still waiting on it to be an unsealed. but we should note that his indictment is the first of a current or former president in us history. it stems from that alleged 2016 hush money payment covering up cover up involving the adult film star stormy daniels, and it appears that trump is preparing to capitalize politically on this source is telling cnn that as he was playing golf over the weekend, he was also strategizing with his allies about how to use this. to his advantage. it's certainly working when it comes to fundraising, his reelection campaigns as they've already raised more than $5 million since news of the indictment came down thursday night. trump is expected to give a speech at mar-a-lago tomorrow night. so first for perspective on all of this, i want to bring in the editor in chief of semaphore, ben smith. i think peter baker has it right in the way he's talking about. trump is

flourishing this morning on the front page of the new york times, he says the ex president is at home in the indictments glare. you know that this has always been to some degree of the core of trump's appeal that the establishment hates him that they're out to get him that he sort of. you know that he's transgressive and stands for people who feel really alienated from the establishment. and so, yeah, i mean, i think this is some ways back to basics back to him coming down the golden staircase and saying things that are incredibly offensive. look what he's fund raised. yeah i mean, i saw and i think it's you know, i do think there's a second question of is there anybody who says now i like him more? i don't know, but in terms of just keeping the faith with the people who really fell in love with him in the first place who are already on all his email list and clicking to whatever he's asking them to click forward to give him money. i mean, it's a bit that's obviously working, and it also just lets him totally blot out the sun in terms of the republican primary. there these other republicans whose names everyone is now forgotten, running for president while donald trump just absolutely dominates the conversation, which is where he likes to be there, speaking there speaking

about trump right now, desantis and everyone, and it shouldn't be a surprise that people are clicking, especially his hardcore supporters. it that's what they do the small donations small donations, which adds up to a whole lot of bucks in 24 hours after the indictment, can i ask you about this? because what's going to happen tomorrow? as we know the reporting is expedite arrangement that he probably won't be in a holding cell as part of my reporting. from last week. definitely fingerprinting but then mug shot part is up in the air. his there's a reporting that trump's advisers thought that putting his mug shot on t shirts and merchandise they were concerned about that. not sure about what happens with the mug shot. but this all leads to the spectacle. is he going to want that in order to continue to raise money in order to continue to have people you know i love you. just a drum things up. what do you think of the spectacle of all of this? you gotta assume he's kind of staring at the mirror practicing exactly which you know, kind of eye contact he's going to make for the mug shot. i mean, that's very much his think he will do that because you know he's going to do something at trump tower

scheduled for tuesday night after the arraignment, do you think mar-a-lago excuse me after the arraignment? do you think that he's going to make a spectacle at the courthouse. no i don't. i don't know. and i think that i think that is a really good question. it sounds like he wants to pick his place and time to do it wants to look like the president not look like a felon and you know, and i do think you know the way that the new york justice system works, he'll he'll have a lot of control over as he often does over his appearance over the situation. i think he'll make the most of that about the 60 minutes interview last night that leslie stall did with congressman marjorie taylor green. um i would like, i think we have a clip. let's play it for people who didn't see the whole thing. are you saying that you don't stand by what's on your social media? well, of course i stay in for what's on my social media. but at times, not you're not always in control. we have all kinds of people that work on our social media. did you apologize for your position on parkland, florida? what was my position on parkland, florida that it was a false don't know. you actually

have my no. i never said a parkland was a false like no. i've never said that. we fact checked before i got to this interview. have you fact checked all my statements from kindergarten through 12th grade , and in college, the democrats are a party of pedophiles. i would definitely say so they support grooming children. they are not pedophiles. why would you say that? democrats democrats support even job. and the president himself supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. sexualizing children is what pedophiles due to children. wow. okay she is someone who in just her second term in congress has got a lot of power a lot more power than she had before. thanks kevin mccarthy fund raises a lot of money. so yes, there are critics who are saying why did 60 minutes give for that platform? i think leslie saul did a good job in that

interview, and i just wonder what you took away from it. yes i mean, it's a fellow leslie stall. finn yeah, i can't fault them. i mean, 60 minutes has interviewed, you know rapists and hit men and all sorts of people. you know who are who are in the news? i mean, i think that one of the most interesting is happening here is that marjorie taylor greene, who obviously, as you say, is a significant figure. whatever you think of her as a lot of power in washington, it was made a decision. to attempt to kind of get to a more mainstream place. by doing things like 60 minutes. we have a big story could diego has coming out this morning and some before about really about how this is part of her media strategy to embrace the media, she criticizes around desantis for not talking to the media enough. and yet at the same time as she's trying to become more mainstream, she's still calling democrats pedophiles, and she in i don't know if you can do both those things at the same time she is trying to sort of say, look, this is the republican party. now take us or leave us. you have to deal with us on our terms, but but she is also walking away from some of the

crazier stuff. she said she was misled was like a normal american race. basically true in normal american who was reading all sorts of nonsense on facebook and believing a lot of it found it really interesting that she told leslie stahl that the reason she got in and ran and left the construction business etcetera is because of her fellow republicans, not because of democrats. yeah i mean, you know, i think she really does embody this kind of new trump movement in the party . whether it totally takes over the party or not, is an open question. but i think the idea which was a bit of always a bit of a fantasy that journalists that democrats just sort of can ignore. that wing of the republican party is totally over . and the 60 minutes interview sort of codifies that in a certain way, you're not putting her in that group with when you're talking about who else 60 minutes interview saying how people just want to say thanks for letting me clean that up, caitlin. even people far more controversial green prominence in the in the republican, but that is a constant struggle that we have been dealing with. since trump trumpism is who do you give a platform to who's

legitimate and who's not in this? especially when you have election deniers and people who are just you know, making things up as they go along with? no, not based in fact, do you actually put them on traditional media to elevate them. that is a struggle that you know that we all face so i can understand why yeah. and you have to be fast on your feet as a journalist the way the way leslie stall this just as interesting why she did it as why they did it to your point. ben smith, thanks for bringing the table. hospital that cannot deliver babies. why facility in idaho is joining a concerning growing list of these hospitals that are closing their maternity wards. talk about that next. age is just a number. and mine's u unlisted boost high protein witith 20 g of protein r muscle health versus 16 g and ensure high proteinn boost high protein now available in cinnabon. bakery inspired flavor learn more boost dot com slash tv care were easy, everyone

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that you mentioned. not enough staff. not enough money. let's take a look at a statement from valor health, which you just talked about an idaho this decision was made in response to continued staffing and financial challenges that valor helped is facing due to various factors, including covid 19 impacts, inflation, staff shortages and decreasing reimbursements. now i want to zero in on that last one there. birth do not pay. well if you've got a bed in the hospital , you are better off giving it to a patient who needs bypass surgery financially. speaking of bypass surgery, or someone who needs an artificial hip births don't pay well, especially because nearly half of all births in the u. s are paid for by medicaid. medicaid only pays about $6500 for birth, whereas employer sponsored insurance pays about 15,000 in the past 12 months. these are all the places we found. on that have shutdown either their labor and delivery or their entire hospital. that's a lot of places just in the past

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great read, and it has rave reviews. and it's just so perfect to talk about this part of your reporting from the book, joan in this moment as trump literally prepares to go before a judge in court, you start your piece this morning on cnn this way, quote some supreme court justices thought donald trump was setting them up. tell us more sure this is back in october of 2018 after the very contentious senate confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh. president trump wanted all the justices to come over to the white house for a celebration celebration of the kavanaugh confirmation now in the past, when presidents had invited the justices over they resisted going because they didn't like the optics of, you know, a political event and breaching the separation of powers, but the some of the justices encouraged the chief chief justice john roberts to check with the white house counsel's office. for what kind of ceremony it would be, and they were persuaded that it would be a reserved, you know, fitting session for them to attend. so

they all go over there, and it opens with president trump first announcing all of their names and bragging that he was able to draw all of them to the event, and then he goes on and offers a public apology to brett kavanaugh. you know, so it's very political moment. they all just sat there. stone faced later later, confirm guided that they regretted going and only justice. thomas was noticeably enthusiastic, and he was the only justice who then went two years later when president trump had a celebration for amy coney barrett. that's right. that's right, you know, looking at what president trump said over the weekend about the judge that he will be before in manhattan tomorrow and criticizing him publicly as he has done too many judges. it's notable to look in your book where you right, trump treated the judiciary as if it were his to command from his early weeks in office to his final weeks after he lost the 2020 election, and that is where he and the chief justice john roberts, really butted heads.

yep you probably remember it was really an unprecedented clash a few months, actually, a few weeks only after the break. kavanaugh hearing when president trump was complaining about a judge who ruled against him in an asylum case, and he referred to the judge as an obama judge to, you know, deride him, and that was the only time the chief justice decided to say something public, and he issued that statement that said, we have no obama judges. we have no trump judges. we don't have bush or clinton judges. we just have these new neutral judges. and trump and fires back, but it was just so i thought it was so symbolic of exactly what finally pushed chief justice john roberts over the edge to say i have to speak out against him because the point was and as we see right now, with these proceedings that are going to be held tomorrow, poppy donald trump is always trying to undermine judges who will be handling cases and the judiciary more broadly, and we'll see if trump's legal team is going to ask for a change of judges. they

wouldn't answer that question over the weekend, so we'll see what they have to say. given what their client has said about this judge john thanks very much. congrats on the book again. it's out tomorrow. thanks, poppy. and go tigers. the l s u women's basketball team, of course, has won the double a championship. we're live with the highlights for you. hey, man, you could sasave hundreds for safe drivining with liberty mutual customize your car insurance. so you only pay for what you need. who we gotta go again for what? you need liberties, everybody, are you ready for a fresh new bath or shower will now is th best time with 50% off installatn and no interest and no payments for one year high. i'm christina and it's time to flip your old worn out bath or shower jacuzzi bath

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s u has captured very first. national championship. an incredible game last night pointed to her ring finger. i know it was so cute. such a great game. i mean, like amazing , competitive spirit there were watching. don tell us, you tigers if you did not see put on a show for the ages, they ran past iowa to win their first national championship for the women's team in school history. oy wire is live in houston with this morning's bleacher report coy. i mean, it was an awesome game just to see these athletes. um going back and forth. obviously seeing i was caitlin is amazing in her game, but also just watching them go back and forth. absolutely it's been so exciting. the games have have been breaking viewership records as well. i am shocked on lemon is not wearing purple and gold today is l s u tigers, led by hall of fame coach with players

full of confidence and swagger, outshining iowa in historic fashion. speaking of fashion, would you rock this? don lemon coach kim mulkey trendsetter tiger whisperer, leading with a palpable passion taking on iowa and national player of the year caitlin generational. talent was once again lights out, hitting threes from way downtown, dropping a game high 30 points. 83 pointers, setting a new record for most points in any attorney now l s u s total team effort just too much about the buzzer beater three before halftime unexpected hero, jasmine carson coming off the bench to score a team high 22 points when she hadn't scored a single point in their previous three games, the bayou bengals scoring a championship game record 102 points. else you start sophomore angel reese rallying with a record 34th double double. and coach kim mulkey, louisiana native former olympic gold medalist player becomes the first women's coach to win two different schools and

national title. now all eyes will shift right here to this court and caitlin title game tonight. san diego state they're coming off an iconic march madness moment. lamont butler's game winning buzzer beater, sending the aztecs to their first ever championship game. coach brian duchess building something special in san diego yukon. our conquerors, winning by an average of 20 points per game. this tournament led by one of the most fiery leaders, you'll meet coach dan hurley. i caught up with both coaches in the locker room yesterday, and i found out that both are superstitious. coach hurley has no shame over his lucky fire breathing dragon under rules, and he says he's not changing anything. now, listen. i would be a complete idiot. if at this point, i mean, and i don't know if you know this, but it's been the same suit. it's been the same dress shirt. my guy, chris mastrangelo has, uh, has hit the dry cleaner, you know, so it's the same socks. obviousl