Garage gate. Some of that sensitive material was stored in the same space bidens beloved corvette is stored. Attorney general Merrick Garland under a lot of pressure to appoint a Special Counsel. Yesterday he tapped robert hur for the role. This means the current president and his predecessor are now both facing Special Counsel investigations. President biden meanwhile was openly critical if you remember of former President Trumps handling of classified documents. Now he is getting the same. These facts and circumstances are outrageous. Completely miss handling. Did he get them when he was Vice President and take them with him when he left . He clearly mishandled them. Putting it in a garage next to a leaf blower is not secure. Julie bidens Corvette Excuse wont cut it. Adding the newly appointed Special Counsel has a lot to do. Matt whitaker weighs in and first we go to peter doocy at the White House Joining us live. Good morning. Good morning. Somebody on the biden team knew that ther
letting substance abuse your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. today, may 4th, marks one legal conclusion in a quest for justice began on january 26th, 2021. today federal prosecutors won their big case against a key militia that first breaches the capitol, the proud boys, who donald trump specifically shouted out. now convict of sedition, the most series possible charge for an insurrection, and a rare charge in american life and law. it is proven against these four sedition conspiracy including top gun. you may remember the nation was watching in realtime, and from casual observers to security experts, many were aghast and astounded that a group would so quickly overrun the security apparatus, the police during one of the most significant national security gatherings of the year, during a time when we know all of congress and the
regulators seize control of first republic bank, selling its assets to jpmorgan chase. what does it mean for your money? a mundt under way in texas. hundreds of police officers are searching for a gunman accused of killing five people, including a 9-year-old boy. the latest on the search ahead. fleeing sudan. thousands are l leaving. we re live where a u.s. ship carrying american evacuees has just docked. we re following these developing stories and more coming in to cnn news central. overnight, regulatorings seizing control of first republic bank and its $230 billion worth of assets. jpmorgan stepping in as a buyer and assuming responsibility. we re less than 30 minutes before the opening bell. we want to see how wall street reacts, futures down but only a little bit. wall street seems to be taking this in stride. this is the second largest bank failure in u.s. history, the largest since the 2008 financial crisis and the third u.s. bank to fail since march. cnn chie
and new columnist at the times, and for the first half of our programme, professor peter hotez is with us, expert in molecular virology and microbiology at the baylor college of medicine. what we ve known for some time about the uk s response to the covid pandemic is that the protective ring the government claimed to have thrown around care homes wasn t very protective at all. between march 2020 and april 2021, some 39,000 people died in care homes from covid. the public inquiry, which is still to begin, will examine whether more could have been done. in the interim, some of the evidence the panel will consider is now being tested in the court of public opinion. the reporter isabelle 0akshott, who co authored a book with matt hancock, has now shared with the telegraph 100,000 whatsapp messages which the former health secretary had shared with government officials. the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month. in one message, from april 14th 2020, mr hancock te
tell, it is to keep the voters miserable. it seems democrats misery because it s demoralizing and the more demoralized the populace feels, the more powerful the parties politicians become. as a result, take your average democratic voter and there is one. have you ever noticed how modern progressives seem so unsatisfied? they seemed anxious of unhinged, little angry nose rings, purple hair. a recent survey by yougov found that liberals were roughly two times less likely than conservatives to feel completely satisfied with their lives. now liberals also reported feeling less satisfied with their own mental health. i ll back them up on that and their family lives and you can see why their entire belief system is in part dedicated and predicated on the idea that the world is about to end due to climate change. it s been in the schools forever. they re hearing it from powerful politicians like aoc, and it means they re willing to do anything, even destroy priceless torrico pieces