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washington. disgraced south carolina lawyer and now convicted killer alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handing down that sentence this morning after a jury needed less than three hours to find murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, maggie, and his son, paul. >> -- in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to priso...

facing a classified documents investigation and battles over the nations economy and police reform after the death of tyre nichols. lesson plans with hitler quotes. one state investigating a nazi home-schooling network, putting white supremacy into the coverage. curriculum. is it the smoking gun? the evidence putting alex murdaugh at the scene of the murders contradicting his alibi. "cnn this morning" starts right now. we begin with the breaking news out of ukraine this morning. ...

>> see you monday. >> "cnn this morning" have a good vacation. cnn "newsroom" is now. ♪ good morning, everyone. im bianna golodryga. right now president biden is on capitol hill speaking moments ago at the annual national prayer breakfast and calling on republicans and democrats to unite in the wake of tyre nichols death as he makes a push for national police reform. it comes ahead of his and vice president harris meeting with the members of the black caucus. it comes after the vic...

condemning the u.s.s move to create military bases after strikes on taiwan. and now, after a meeting with the president and kevin mccarthy on the debt ceiling. and this comes after a move to remove democratic congresswoman ilhan omar from her committee. joining me live from cr kramatorsk is fred pleitgen, and we know that as rescuers were coming into the apartment complex, there was an attack? >> yes, that is correct. there was an attack in kramatorsk coming into the apartment buil...

>> plus, hunter biden is now fighting back and now calling for a criminal investigation into those sharing his personal information. and the lead prosecutors in memphis is considering additional charges in the beating death of tyre nichols. this is what we are watchingt that hour. thank you all for being here. im kate bolduan, and several stories developing overseas. russia is releasing a fresh barrage of missiles in the hub city of kramatorsk. you can see the search crews there, a...

to governor itself, the district should have autonomy and some of them are saying theyre disappointed. d.c. has this right, its a sad day for d.c. home rule. deeply disappointed. it is a very divisive issue for the democrats and it is a har b harbinger on the issue that democrats may have on crime going into this election. >> certainly something to watch. thank you so much. it is the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." hello, everyone. >> today disgraced former south carolina attorney...

ripped across more than 100-mile path. that is in just one state. one resident in roland park mississippi said the town is gone. welcome everybody. its good to be with you on this tragic day after a storm, a series of storms that hit much of the southeast. well be focusing on mississippi in just a second work most of this wrath played out. right now i want to go to well who is in texas who got this nasty weather so the states try to dig out as well. what is it look like there? >> our d...

hello, everyone, im alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn newsroom. >> im victor blackwell. today the republican-led house voted to remove democrat ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. omar calls it revenge. it passed along a party line vote of 218-211. she faced backlash over her anti-israel comments in the past which were criticized by members of both parties as anti-semitic. before he was even house speaker, republican leader kevin mccarthy promised he would take this step. >> h...

at the white house, marking the 30th anniversary of the family and medical leave act. lets listen. >> i had my brother and sister and chris knows them both well. i asked them to come into the incoming governor. we elected an incoming governor. we hadnt had a progressive senator in delaware for a while. it was very conservative. used to be a red state. we didnt call it that then. and so -- but a group of senators who were really so good to me, saved my sanity, starting with mike mansfie...

con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. "the lead" starts right now. >> my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. >> republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this...