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erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, donald trump making his case in court and not ruling out violence if his case is moved ahead. the former trump white house lawyer ty cobb is out front. and federal investigators looking for four bolts crucial to securing the door plug that blew off that alaska airlines plane. but were they ever on the door in the first place? its an incredible question. we go inside the investigation as boeing calls an all emergency staff mee...

performing on this weekend. former navy seal how we remember to remember. thanks to the service members we have onset this morning. joey, who you hanging out with? >> theres no better place for a marine than surrounded bay bunch of sailors and im in the safest place. you were surprised to find out i was in the marine corp.; is that right? >> yes, sir. >> tell me about your service. jaire im here with the uss wasp from tennessee and ive been here for 13 years. reporter: 13 years and in ...

>> that does it for us on this friday morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. ♪♪ happy friday. so glad you are with us. its 10:00 eastern. im ana cabrera reporting from new york, and it may be friday, but theres still a lot of news this morning, including big economic shifts. we just got the april jobs report, and instead of the decline economists expected, unemployment numbers ticked down. the unemployment rate is 3.4%. jobs were added, many more than expected. tha...

democratic officials. republicans are demanding more answers from president biden over his handling of classified material, but the white house says those answers do not exist. well explain. in ukraine, hope of finding survivors is fading after a reportedly russian missile sliced an apartment building in half on saturday. were live with the latest. on capitol hill, a battle is brewing over the debt limit. the deadline to raise is two day was. congress isnt in session, so what happens...

Hello, everyone. Good morning. It is saturday, september 30th. Im amara walker. And im omar jimenez. Youre in the cnn newsroom. The government is barrelling towards a shutdown with no solution in sight. Today is the last day for congress to pass a funding bill to keep the government open. You see the count down. Now the clock is ticking. Right now House Republicans are in a closed door meeting to try and come up with a last minute solution. But just last night House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy once a...

Always. i want to go to david axelrod now, the former senior advisor to president obama joining me now six days before the iowa caucuses. as you hear all this what did you take away from the political per spect of the chicken and egg argument we heard from trumps attorneys in court today that a president cant be prosecuted unless a president has been impeached and we run around that circle. >> you remember the argument made when there was an impeachment is no, we can wait and let the courts hand...

Grounds for impeachment, treason, bribery. >> that goes to what you are talking from the criminal per spect, can you point to simple things and say this is corrupt, this is a bribe, this is a high crime. jennifer, thank you so much for joining us. we continue here onset and turning to how this house vote tees up a different kind of lawyering on capitol hill. for that we welcome a former congressional senior counsel, tom rogers, who has been on both sides of high stakes hearings on washington, ha...

Weve seen it in other state facilities as well. i believe it was late last year when we saw an escape of a high security inmate in france that was effective by a helicopter. it is not outside the realm of possibilities. >> help us understand how one could pull off when youre in the mcc and youre this inmate and youre barely seeing the light of day and you would be given maybe a little bit of outside time which would allow you to interact with other people and you have a lot of money back in the ...

Its another legal problem for the president. and its a fairly big one. from my per spect i have its a good week in ethics in goth government. we havent had a lot of those lately in government. in one of the three cases this is involving the state of maryland and the district of columbia. with help from a citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. defended against a motion from the government to dismiss the case. they initially survived one when the government claimed they lack standin...

Personal lawyer and the payments from a u.s. company linked to a russian oligarch or russian billionaire. what are the areas from your per spect -- perspective of potential illegality. >> the areas are possibly bank fraud in false statements that michael cohen made to the banks that were dealing with him and second violations of the foreign lobbying act and registration requirements which may not appear huge in themselves but in combination with other possible violations like money laundering co...