i m okay with it. sorry see you in a week. good morning. you re going caitlin s gone back monday . welcome to cnn this morning. we re glad you re with us on this friday. caitlin is off. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, march 24th overnight, significant breaking news the us launching strikes in syria. after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. there are five other u. s. service members wounded. the pentagon suspects it wasn t iranian affiliated drone. developing news soon a top attorney, though for donald trump said testified today before the grand jury in the classified documents investigation. the new york times reports that evan corcoran is not intending to plead the fifth utah banning kids under 18 from using social media unless they get their parents permission. it is the first state to enact this type of law today, the united states and canada announcing a deal to turn away asylum seekers at their border, president biden set to
significant is that? yes this is interesting because tim oversaw additional searches so after the search warrant was executed at mara lago back in august, they searched additional locations. they did another search of mara lago. they searched his bedminster property and offices storage space. tim was the one running that show. so we ve learned that he went before the grand jury and he had to testify about how did you choose the locations who searched them because they did hire investigators to help with that search? he was also we ve learned pressed on whether there was a shell game where you moving things from mara lago to a storage space, and he also had to hand over reports that he had compiled about these searches actually did an exclusive interview with tim about a month ago. i think it s only tv interview, let s take a listen to how he described the interactions with the o. j. we conducted a search back in december, which is where we found these documents, and we turned them over
appreciate it. we re going to turn now to new developments in the investigations. plural into donald trump s, starting with the mar a lago classified documents case, the ex president s main defense lawyer is scheduled to testify today before a federal grand jury without attorney client privilege. prosecutors will ask about his communications with trump ahead of the fbi search of mara lago last summer. he was also ordered to turn over his notes. from that time, corcoran s appearances potential , make or break moment for the special counsel s investigation into the handling of those classified documents. possible obstruction of justice when the federal government tried to get those documents back, okay, so that s one is, don said plural investigations. that s the classified documents case. we re also very quickly. closely tracking developments and that hush money investigation here in new york. the district attorney s office is firing back this morning at house republicans who sent a let