that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words, after ten years, 100 percent real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom in texas, because his legal battles are actually far from over. the compensatory damages are supposed to make you hole in some way, bring you back this where you are before this all happened, well punitive damages, they are meant to punish. tomorrow, that same jury will begin considering just how much to financially punish alex jones. the judge said no to his claim for a mistrial
u.s. has made its own mistakes. with covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise, los angeles likely reinstating indoor masking. with these very high rates, unless we start seeing a slowdown in spread, a slowdown in what s happening in our hospitals, in two weeks we ll do a universal indoor masking here. londoners being urged not to travel as a heat wave engulfs europe. other cities now seeing all-time records as blistering records bake the continent. i m laura coates. pamela brown has the day off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. on this saturday even more new information is coming to light on the vast efforts to overturn the 2020 election. a memo now obtained by the new york times only surfacing now shows a conservative lawyer you may have never heard of aggressively pushing a scheme that even he admitted would draw comparisons to martial law and the saturday night massacre from watergate. our caitlin is with us now. this centers around a supposed phone c
the request to unseal the warrant before any charges are brought really marks a significant and notable step outside of doj norms. now trump s legal team has until 3:00 today to formally respond in court and make clear if they have any objections to unsealing that. we re also learning stunning details about why the fbi may have been looking for these documents so urgently. according to the washington post, federal agents sought classified documents related to nuclear weapons. that s right. the new york times reports officials expressed concerns that allowing those highly sensitive documents to stay at mar-a-lago could leave them vulnerable to access by foreign adversaries and then there is the abc news reporting overnight that the information the fbi sought was so sensitive, authorities felt it had to be taken back immediately. the mind runs wild here. for me, what on earth was the motivation for taking this kind of data from the white house to an unsecured area like ma
shelling on critical infrastructure. we ll bring you the very latest from kyiv. and ahead of a major hearing on title 42, we ll bring you a live report from the u.s. southern border in texas. right now, out west, over 20 homes are feared to be destroyed. evacuation orders are now in effect as a wind-driven wildfire rages in southern california. we begin with breaking news from the white house moments ago. president biden addressed the global summit on covid where he marked the 1 million lives lost here in the u.s. due to the pandemic. the president signed a proclamation order flags to be flown at half-staff to honor all the lives lost. biden called on congress to pass emergency funding to help protect more americans. that s why i continue to call on congress here at home to take the urgent action to provide emergency covid-19 funding that is vital to protect americans, to make sure that we maintain our supplies of covid-19 tests, treatments. right now, 45 states are
nationwide by nbc s count, cases are up 58% over the last two weeks and it s adding urgency to a covid summit happening virtually right now. president biden s message this morning, don t grow numb to this unimaginable loss. our heart goes out to all of those who are struggling, asking themselves, how do i go on without him? how do i go on without her? today we are at a new stage in fighting this pandemic, facing an evolving set of challenges. we have to double down on our efforts to get shots in peoples arms, country by country, community by community. we are focusing on eastern europe. president zelenskyy said joining nato would have saved his country. part of putin s justification for invading was to prevent nato expansion, and now finland s leader says they want to join nato without delay, and how russia is reacting this morning. plus, the spotlight is on the supreme court. where the justices are meeting today in private for the first time since the draft opinion leak