have you ever seen this much chocolate, at least in the cityo of new york? that s why people are hatinghato on me. the race card officially over, but oh, oh, oh. disney canceled conservative star wars actress gina carano strikes back on prime time. plus, cocaine, hippos. last night, we invited senator lankford on from oklahoma. t he s the republican who coauthored the border bill with democrats who admittedd the border never closes. he said he was in a meeting last night cond he couldn t make it. so we invited him on again tonight becausuldn t make we hat of questions like, why would you spend $20 billion on a border bill that doesn t close the border0 billio ? langford lankford told our team he didn t want to come in tonight to get his skult wan cracked in. he probably doesn t realize i m a pussycat. he wrote the bill. i read the bill. why not tell me how it worksl. read? instead, lankford went on cnnt twice to talk with danona bash and jake tapper, anchors who cov
reporters at length. we re going to tell you what he said, and what it means for this evening because mccarthy and president biden are meeting again at 5:30, face to face at the white house. keep an eye on what each side says coming out of that meeting, the third one in as many weeks. if they can t start coming together now, when will they? because although we say eight working days, that doesn t mean a deal and a bill and a vote will happen overnight. marking it up, debating it, signing off on it all take time even when congress is trying to go quickly, and according to treasury secretary, janet yellen, there isn t exactly wiggle room. june 1st is a hard deadline, she told meet the press over the weekend, even invoking the 14th amendment would take time, which by the way, yellen says would be potentially inappropriate and legally uncertain. so what would be left, aside from defaulting? again, watch what comes out of this meeting. house democrats have 210 vote for their dis
hear what u.s. vice president kamala harris will tell world leaders at the munich security conference a few hours from now, a live report from germany just ahead and in ohio. for those five wells have all come back clean, the water is safe to drink. that s the word from the state s governor despite thousands of dead fish found in water near the train crash site, ahead how some residents are reacting to it. plus, five former memphis police officers are arraigned for the murder of tyre nichols. coming up you ll hear what they told the judge in court. announcer: live in cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we ll have those stories in a moment. but first, yet another missile launch by north korea. south korea s joint chiefs of staff say north korea fired at least one unidentified ballistic missile on saturday, landing in the waters off the east coast of the korean peninsula. this is pyongyang s second ballistic missile launch of the year. this comes as north korea warns of
i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven t done that yet. and now the district attorney is reviewing dozens of other cases connected to those officers. plus, in the middle of the january 6th insurrection then-president donald trump did not call the secretary of defense, the attorney general or the head of homeland security. wait until you hear who he did call. then the proposal in a mostly black city to put unelected white officials in charge of handpicking some of the city s judges and prosecutors. will it create a separate justice system for blacks and whites in mississippi s capital? welcome to the lead. i m briana keeler in for jake tapper. we are starting in the national lead. five former memphis police officers charged with murder in the death of tyre nichols in court today where they all pleaded not guilty. tadarrius bean, hailey, justice smith, emmitt martin iii and desmond mills junior face up to 60 ye
good thursday morning i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. we are following breaking news this morning out of michigan. cnn learning disturbing details about a plot aimed at killing jewish elected officials in the state. among those targeted the michigan attorney general. we ll break down the details of that plot. coming up. plus today a pennsylvania man is expected in court after investigators say he hid explosives inside his luggage headed for orlando. investigators arrested him after he fled the airport. the latest on that case and the growing skcrutiny facing the aviation industry. and meeting with sergey lavrov for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. we ll bring that conversation to you. we want to begin with the breaking news out of michigan. the state s attorney general confirming she was one of the targets in a plot to kill jewish elected officials in that state. polo sandoval and john miller joining us now. polo, first tell us the details of the plot as