and defamation case brought by author e. jean carroll. court resumes this hour. and a man accused of a shooting rampage inside a medical center is about to appear in court. what we re learning about the suspect and what his mother is blaming today. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming up right here on cnn news central. this morning the white house is pushing back hard on russia s baseless accusation that the u.s. directed ukraine to carry out an alleged attack on the kremlin. moscow claims it was an attempt to assassinate president vladimir putin. the white house calls the allegation the u.s. was behind that ridiculous, and ukraine is also strongly denying any involvement in that attack. after making that claim with no evidence, russia ramped up its attacks on ukraine. at least 23 people were killed by russian shelling in the kherson region wednesday. and kyiv s military chief said the city was hit by the most intense air strikes so far thi
what we know. the judge is on the bench right now. there s some discussion going on in court of how this is going to proceed. but it is an important day because it s really been seen as the center piece case, the center piece trial, the center piece of all of the prosecutions that the justice department has brought as it relates to january 6th. and you ve covered this so closely, sarah. enrique tarrio is an interesting character. you were talking before about how four of these men were at in the riots, amongst the group on january 6th. enrique tarrio was not. yes, he was not there and that was because of another case. he was convicted of a case where he had burned a black lives matter flag hanging on a church, and he also had some gun cartridges not legal in d.c. so the judge after he was caught with that said you re not allowed to come back into the district of columbia while this is being hashed out. so he was not there while all of