Violence. Were erasing generations of traumatized americans. That concerns me as a faith leader. Good morning. Top of the hour. So glad youre with us here on cnn this morning. Another historic day, a really important day for our democracy in court today. Not just about an arraignment its much bigger than that. Down in washington. Just hours from now, former President Donald Trump set to appear in a courtroom in washington, d. C. On charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election and hold on to power. Night. Ty barriers went upover secret service has done walkthrough of the d. C. Courthouse. Trump is expected to plead not guilty to four counts including conspiracy to defraud the United States. His fingerprints will be taken digitally. A preview of trumps lawyers will argue, among those his claims of Election Fraud are protected by the first amendments free speech. He truly believed that the debunked fraud claims. Our Kaitlin Collins spoke with bill barr with these m potential legal avenu
Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. A fresh start to your weekend. We thank you for starting with us. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us. The fight between Special Counsel and donald trump is heating up. Why theyre calling on the judge to take action after a social media post by the former president. This was crazy in new york city. Look at these pictures. There was some violence but a lot of chaos after a social Media Influencer posted about a give away and now that influencer is facing charges. And simone biles gets ready for a comeback after taking a break from the sport. We will have the latest on tonights competition. We begin with this latenight court filing from Special Counsel jack smith. He is now asking a federal judge to quickly set Disclosure Rules in the January 6th Case against former president donald trump. In the filing smith cited this social media post from trump earlier in the day that reads, if you go af
lot has happened in between. i have gone to a lot of amazon events where a huge part of it is about security and privacy. constantly. but then they do something like sidewalk, which uses all the devices and creates a mesh network and they did it and didn t tell everybody they were sort of opted into it and had to say, no, no, you guys don t have to be a part of that. amazon is learning. you know, by the way, with the ring thing, what happened there, they bought that in 2018, right? so after this happened and, of course, ring again, oh, let s put video cameras throughout the house? what s that going to be like when thousands of people can see the data and we don t really have they didn t have encryption, two-factor authentication. they atdded that in 2018, 2019, 2020. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. did you show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right to. what do you mean not really? not that i can think of. g
there s a game seven back in boston! good morning, everyone. i mean, the ultimate buzzer-beater there, when they didn t know for a moment, did they get it in, did they not. is it going to count? oh, it counted. and tonight the boston celtics will try to make the greatest comeback in nba playoff history if they beat the miami heat tonight, the celtics would be the first-ever team to win game seven after losing the first three games of the series. also this morning, we are about to get an update from officials in davenport, iowa, where a search and rescue operation is underway after a six-story apartment building partially collapsed. plus, president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy reaching a deal on the debt limit. now, though, they have to persuade lawmakers to pass it. we ll speak with the white house moments from now. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin in davenport, iowa, this hour, where as rahel mentioned, any minute now, we are expecting to
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