member. for more understanding new allegations let s bring in marshall koehn. marshall, good to see you. what more can you tell us about this new court filing? frederika, this is from the most important criminal cases stemming from january 6th. the dishes conspiracy case against several members of the old keepers and people at the tip of the spear of that attack making their way into the capitol. you laid out the crazy horrifying allegations from the justice department that are trying to bolster this very challenging charge. seditious conspiracy. it is important here for the prosecutors to prove these people did not want to just disrupt what was going on in january 6 that they wanted to use force and violence to stop the transfer of power to president joe biden. in two bolster those claims about violence, these filings mentioned how there were training sessions in the weeks after the 2020 election for what they called unconventional warfare and ambushes. the prosecutors her
one person who will not be in the room? yeah, that s committee chairman congressman bennie thompson. he s announced that he has covid. it s not clear if the chairman will appear virtually, but he says that his covid diagnosis will not disrupt the committee s plan. members say this eighth hearing will focus on the 187 minutes the former president trump failed to intervene as his supporters marched on the capitol, swarmed the halls of congress, and did this, took over the building there. also today, a jury has now been seated in the trial of trump s chief strategist, steve bannon. bannon is facing two criminal counts for failing to comply with subpoenas from the house january 6th committee. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us now from capitol hill. so, what is the committee hoping to learn from these witnesses, matthew pottinger and sara matthews? reporter: victor and alisyn, they re firsthand witnesses to what was happening inside the white house on janu
after a costumed character appeared to snub two little black girls. mother s response right here on cnn as the park called the incident a misunderstanding. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our earth matters series. half of humanity is in a climate danger zone. that is the message today from the very top of the united nations and the record temperatures many of you are feeling right now are just a symptom, multiple heat waves across the globe are creating a series of crises just look at this video from london. a row of houses on fire. officials say because of the heat. the london fire brigade says they have never seen weather related incidents, quote, on this scale before. in spain, in france, in italy, wildfires spreading rapidly. the flames on top of an extreme drought in italy, destroying crops, which could cut off a source of food this fall. in major cities, travel disrupted. trains and flights canceled over and over, due to the heat and causing a glob
abortion rights. removing federal protections for abortions after nearly 50 years. several states already have restricted or banned abortion begun moving while many other states will keep it legal or past laws expanding abortion access. our legal panel is standing by to discuss this and other major cases before the supreme court. fox team coverage as well, alexis mcadams live on the protests nationwide, first, david spunt live outside the supreme court. just after 6:00 eastern time, several thousand people outside the u.s. supreme court they can t go to the steps yet because of high fences but people have been out here since late morning. you hear loud. [background noises] behind me and angry people, i will say it has been peaceful, no teargas or violence, it s been a peaceful protest, that s what authorities were hoping for today but the issue is after the supreme court s narrative meets washington d.c., it goes back to the state and that is where we are looking at a map i
side. the truth is what we as a country moving forward, will we continue to operate the truth? do we continue to be the place where the truth matters or will we fall to the lies where we succumb to the biggest lie of them all? you know the big lie i am talking about, that s the lie of the stolen election of the big fraud. it is not hyperbole to say the january 6th hearing that s hours away of what comes out of them will be an indication of whether we can keep our fragile democracy right now. it is hanging by a thread whether we can keep it or not. are you paying attention? you should. tomorrow we ll listen to testimonies, live, from three republicans who know exactly how far the former president was willing to go to overturn our free and fair election. all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have because we won the state. it is outrageous. this is not just about what happened more than a year ago. it is about what s happening