washington. penny is charged with the death of neely. alvin bragg needs the go-ahead from a grand jury before he can prosecute. neely made comments and his attorney describing something the grand jury will have to consider, penny s state of mind when he restrained neely. what was his mindset when he put jordan neely in a choke hold? well, the mindset is pretty simple. he was fearful for the safety of those passengers. so when he acted, his mindset was to keep his fellow passengers safe from attack. dana: nate foye is live with more. the vet says he would do the same thing again in similar circumstances and denies race played any role. he said i judge a person based on their character, i m not a white supremacist. he is charged with second degree manslaughter for this alteration on the subway you see here. he said he was on his way to the gym when he encountered jordan neely. his lawyers say he was protecting others after neely was threatening people on the train. he s
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
sexual battery and defamation. e. jean carroll claims the former president attacked her in a department store in the 1990s. trump ordered to pay her $5 million. bryan llenas is following the breaking news. judge, good evening. and less than three hours of deliberations, a jury of mine unanimously found former president trump liable of sexual battery, specifically finding he sexually abused and forcibly touched e. jean carroll in a department store in 1996. they also found him liable for defamation, finding he maliciously smeared carroll s reputation and must pay carroll $5 million in damages. the jury did not find trump liable for rape, which was the central claim from carroll. trump told fox news digital he will appeal this decision. to post on truth social, trump wrote is a very unfair trial and said i have absolutely no idea who this woman is. this verdict is a disgrace, a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time. this was a civil case, which means the bu
tonight, television takes a look at itself. what s on the idiot box? it s only an idiot box if an idiot is watching. at this period of time will be looked upon as the platinum age. our obligation is to entertain. if we ve left something to think about, so much the better. television should not be just entertainment. charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. congress has no right to interfere in the media. excuse me! we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. when i think of tv, i think of the 70s. what is this world coming to? the american public was hungry for more. more was allowed that hadn t been before. it was the last decade where it was a campfire televisi
paula reid in for jim acosta. you re in the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with a potential new milestone in russia s war in ukraine. ukraine has announced that it has used a u.s. made patriot air defense system like this to bring down a russian hypersonic missile. if true, it would be the first time ukraine was able to intercept a missile that travels at ten times the speed of sound. cnn s sam kiley joins us from kyiv with the latest. sam, how significant is this? reporter: i think it s very significant indeed, for two reasons. first of all, it s kind of proving the need for highly sophisticated weapons such as the patriot missile that the ukrainians have been asking for effectively since 2014 when they were first invaded by the russians. but then on a technological level, paula, this is a very significant development because patriot was never designed for hypersonic missiles because they didn t exist when patriot was designed. this is a missile that can travel up to te