Former President DonAld Trump is meeting with folks on the ground, A wreAth lAying ceremony, meeting with victims fAmilies. As i sAid A moment Ago, these fAmilies come on And tAlk About how importAnt this is for the communities together, for the victims fAmilies to come together, And for the leAders of this nAtion to Acknowledge thAt this is there every dAy. This is every dAy. As brett, who lost his fAther At the Age of 15, told us lAst hour, it is so fresh, And they do not feel like justice hAs been served. John no. President trump there in the field in shAnksville thAt mArks the spot where Flight 93 impActed. 44 people on boArd thAt fAteful dAy. An AmAzing museum there, As well, pArt of the memoriAl operAted by the nAtionAl pArk service. And on the glAss pArtition, on the deck thAt sits off of the museum, it is inscribed with A common field one dAy, Field Of Honor forever And so it shAll be. Lets bring in keith kellogg. When you consider the hell thAt 19 people who mAde it into this
greg: that is true! happy thursday, everybody. thank you. so disney has announced that the next star wars movie will be directed by a woman. you heard that right. disney admits they can define a woman. but the new director s not just any woman, no, she s a pakistani canadian feminist activist. exactly the kind of person the star wars franchise needs. the kind who s idea of fun is lecturing you about oppression while combing dandruff out of her armpits. not her, somebody like that. see i saved that one. it s no secret that the star wars audience is mostly male. and by mostly, i mean virgin. so here s charmeen in 2015 talking to jon stewart about how she interacts with that horrible gender with the y chromosome. i like to make men uncomfortable. i enjoy making men uncomfortable greg: see that explains why jon stewart looked so comfortable. well, no doubt she s made plenty of men uncomfortable especially the ones that own disney stock. because this movie promises to be a
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our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. and just ahead on cnn news room former vice president mike pence testified before a federal grand jury on thursday for more than five hours. latest numbers show that the u.s. economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.1% in the first quarter of 2023. never in a million years did i imagine that as american citizens my parents would be left to fend for themselves in a warzone. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, april 28, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where it is another first for donald trump. like most of the others, it is not a good one. never before in more than history has a vice president been compelled to testify about direct conversations with the president he served. that is the situation mike pence found himself in on thursday before a grand jury. katelyn polantz has the details. reporter: former vice president mike pe
newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news in iran where large plumes of smoke can be seen rising from an infamous prison in tehran. officials there confirming a fire has been set by the inmates of that prison. let s go to cnn s jamana. what more are you learning? we re still trying to find out what really is happening or happened at the prison. that notorious facility in northern tehran. of course, that prison that where many political prisoners, human rights activists, journalists, foreigners are kept in tehran. now, an hour ago, we started seeing video on social media showing this large plume of smoke billowing over the prison and according to the social media videos we have received, you could hear gunfire. according to the activist group that put out this video, they say that special forces were heading to the prison. now, according to the government s account of what is going on, they say that this was a fire that was started by these rioters. thugs as they desc