it cannot come at a more critical time. with more legal exposure for the twice impeached former president after cassidy hutchinson provided a smoking gun, starting with as she exposed in the clearest detail yet that the former president was aware of the threat of violence from his supporters on january 6. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don t fin care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. take the fin mags away. let my people in. they can march to the capitol here. that s damning in light of the former president s speech to his armed followers. fight like hell. if you don t fight like hell, you are not going to have a country anymore. that kind of fight like hell, fight, fight, fight language was what the former president s lawyers said would be foolish to include. they were urging the speech writers to not include that language for legal concerns and also for the optics of wh
on girls and women s reproductive autonomy. cnn is live as crowds swell outside the supreme court. plus, the widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal for any girl or woman regardless of circumstances. also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation in decades on its way to the white house for president biden s signature. how democrats and republicans came together to compromise. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the historic decision from the united states supreme court which has overturned roe v. wade. finding that the 167 million girls and women in the united states have no constitutional right to an abortion. massive crowds gathered outside the high court in washington, d.c. this afternoon. some celebrating, some protesting the 5-4 decision. conservative justices samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett leaving abortion rights as a que
reporter: but the president is laughing off questions about what exactly he gains by being so cozy. coming under a lot of fire for your fist bump with the crown prince. [laughter] are i want to give you a chance to respond to that, but also how can you be sure another murder or like that won t happen again in. ■ç god love you, what a silly question. i just made it clear if anything like that occurs again, he ll get that response and much more. reporter: president biden said the big takeaway from his meeting with the crown prince and others here in jeddah was a commitment between the u.s. and saudi arabia to clean energy in the future. he did also say that the saudis agreed to increase oil production here, but the prices back here at home might not go down for several weeks. back to you. will: hey, peter, i d love to ask you■ç this, it was clearly coordinated. that had to have been something that was discussed ahead of time to see that entire reception line. d
now got what it wanted from talks at the summit in madrid. how much time have you spent scrolling on your phone so far today? the fact that so many of us spend so much time on our mobiles means some are swapping smartphones for so called dumb ones, which have fewer distractions. even the man who helped to invent the very first mobile believes his creation is now out of control. jayne mccubbin has been talking to him. this is what the very first mobile phone looked like. as you can see, it s huge. this is martin cooper, the man who helped to invent the very first mobile phone. do you know how many people have a mobile phone right now? and way back when, could you ever have imagined it would be that prolific? of course, jayne, we knew. but one thing we did not anticipate was this powerful computer in your phone because none of those things existed. good afternoon, sir. today, more than 6.5 billion people own a mobile, almost 84% of the world s population. but. let s stop and as
for a second day. hundreds of people mostly opposed to friday s landmark ruling gathered outside the supreme court building in washington. norwegian police say they are treating friday s attack on a series of oslo bars and nightclubs including a popular gay one as islamist terrorism. two people were killed. the assailant a norwegian citizen of iranian descent has been detained. now on bbc news, our world. in july 2021, anti government protests took place across iran. the protests were triggered by water shortages in the southern province of khuzestan. failing crops, dying wildlife, no drinking water. dry rivers. people in khuzestan face a water crisis. i m siavash ardalan, and i report on the environment for bbc persian. seeing people suffering, i wanted to understand what caused these water shortages. is it climate change or are there other factors? what is happening in iran today is the outcome of decades of bad management, poor environmental governance and a la