Welcome to all of you watching us here in the United States, canada and all around the world, im Kim Brunhuber ahead on cnn newsroom. New Bribery Charges against the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his wife. The evidence includes bars of gold and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. Well bring you all the details. Plus, dramatic scenes at the u. S. Southern border as thousands of migrants attempt to cross the rio grande and enter the United States. And ukraine says a major attack on russias Black Sea Fleet headquarters has left dozens dead or wounded. Well have a live report this hour. Announcer live in cnn center this is cnn newsroom with Kim Brunhuber. U. S. Democratic senator Robert Menendez of new jersey is angrily rejecting calls of resigning after he and his wife were charged with corruption related offenses, the second time since 2016 hes faced criminal charges. Hes remained defiant as calls for his resignation multiplied on friday. He said its not lost o
choices, too. hamas could immediately release all of the hostages it holds. it could stop using civilians as human shields and stop using civilian infrastructure to stage hamas attack. hamas could lay down its arms, surrender the leaders responsible for the slaughter, the torture, the rapes of october 7th. hamas could renounce its stated goal of eliminating israel, killing jews, and repeating the atrocities of october 7th again and again and again. meanwhile, everyone around the world who cares about protecting innocent civilians, innocent lives should be calling on hamas, indeed demanding hamas that it immediately stop its murderous acts of terror and deplorable use of innocent, men, women and children as human shields. in our meetings with israeli leaders here and in jerusalem and palestinian leaders in ramallah, we discussed our continued focus from preventing the conflict from spreading whether to the west bank, to israel s northern border, or to the broader region. i rai
scene to investigate and was shot and killed. 1991 troy davis was convicted for the murder based on eyewitness testimony. seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted or changed their testimony raising doubts that have gone global. joining us is david mattingly. also senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, what is happening right now? explain this. the state won t go forward with this until they get word from the supreme court? right. what happened this morning was troy davis lawyers filed suit in the trial court in georgia saying we want a stay of execution based on false testimony given in a hearing that took place last year. late this afternoon the georgia supreme court excuse me. first the trial court denied the stay. late this afternoon the georgia supreme court denied the stay. at around 6:00 eastern sometime, an hour before the execution was supposed to take place, troy davis lawyers went to the u.s. supreme court asking for a stay. we have not heard