congressman jim jordan s over alleged interference in his case against former president donald trump. the former president, of course, was indicted last week. cnn s kara scannell and cnn s manu raju join us with the latest so things are getting more and more acrimonious here, carol what is the latest that you re hearing? yes it certainly is getting more acrimonious piano. we ve learned that the manhattan district attorney s office has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the subpoena from jim jordans committee, the house judiciary committee that they made last week to one of the top prosecutors who worked on this investigation. jim jordan has also reached out to the district attorney s office. brag saying they wanted him to come in and testify. but this is a significant step. forward to combat this effort. bragg s law suit is alleging that this is an unconstitutional effort by congress to try to interfere in the state prosecution. they also say that congress has
Its 6 00 a. M. On the east coast. May 8th, 2024. Our lead story this morning is a fox news alert. Cops in d. C. Clashing with protesters, arresting at least close to 3 dozen as they clear the encampment at George Washington university. [bleep] [bleep] [shouting] [bleep] [bleep] of course, all this happened just hours before d. C. s mayor and police chief head to capitol hill to testify about why they didnt clean things up. Steve, its just a coincidence. Probably right. Plus, a fox weather alert, tornadoes causing all kinds of chaos for our friends in the midwest, for a second day in a row. Even trapping 50 people inside a fedex facility and in a bit of a segue stretch. Stormy on the stand. The judge denying a mistrial but warning prosecutors during her prejudicial testimony and that the view by the way is giddy over the thought of donald trump going behind bars. I dont want this to sound like im doing wishful thinking. Yes. But, which prison would be best . What about Guantanamo Bay .
explained his rulings? a series of rulings today about what can be mentioned at the trial, which begins in about a week and what can can be mentioned in. the judge says that january 6th that cannot be mentioned that will not be mentioned when this case does go to trial. he says that maybe another courts at another time, but it s not for this court at this time. and so that s a legal victory for fox, which wanted to borrow references to the capital attack . when this goes to trial that said, the judge did rule in favor of some of dominions motion. tions as well. and these are pre trial motions are very common before a case goes to trial. he said that the dominion voting systems can bring up financial information related to the case. he said. economics are very important and he talked about how fox news cannot show broadcast where they did fact check some of trump s election lies. he says that just because of some broadcast did that that doesn t excuse the broadcast
other athletes she lost that flag draped around her shoulder. ainsley: i love representing the u.s. i freaking love living there i love it, and i m so happy i get to represent u.s.a. lawrence: a proud moment from that olympian she is from the great state of texas, of course. she talked about her love for god. she talked about the fact that she had been working so hard and her coaches are so hard on her but she just kept fighting and fighting. this was the moment. and she was so humble in that moment as well. thanking her family. it was a beautiful moment. and with all the talk of the other athletes and some of them. ainsley: taking a knee. lawrence: didn t even win. it s great to talk about this winner. ainsley: right a gold meldist. steve: nbc has the rights to the olympics they have restricted what we can and cannot show. that s why we were unable to show any of the video.
to issues such as deportations, our policy is always under review, when the world is in a terrible state. and i think we must reflect right now in terms of what is happening in afghanistan and in the region itself. this government is absolutely clear in terms of our own commitments to the british nationals over there that we are bringing out, but also to the people of afghanistan who we have spent a great deal of time and resource over a number of years, women and girls included as well, to give them support, and our resettlement scheme is absolutely speaking to that. the shadow foreign secretary has said that if the government cannot show a clear strategy to deal with the situation in afghanistan then there may be pressure to recall parliament. she told the bbc that if the government cannot step up now and show that it has a clear strategy, then it may well fall to mps try to put that pressure on to persuade the speaker that we need a recall of parliament.