to governor itself, the district should have autonomy and some of them are saying they re disappointed. d.c. has this right, it s a sad day for d.c. home rule. deeply disappointed. it is a very divisive issue for the democrats and it is a har b harbinger on the issue that democrats may have on crime going into this election. certainly something to watch. thank you so much. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. today disgraced former south carolina attorney alex murdaugh was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his wife, maggie and his youngest son paul. a judge handed down two consecutive life sentences without parole for the killings. his defense team plans to file an appeal in the next few days. before he was sentenced, the former lawyer maintained his innocence. i ll say it again. i respect this court. but i m innocent. i would never under any circumstances hurt my wife maggie and i would never under any circumstances hurt my son p
the u.s. is arming ukraine with more american ammo and rocket launchers. the lead starts right now. stocking up ahead of a likely russian spring offensive. the u.s. deploys another $400 million in military aid to ukraine. can president biden secure even more as russians encircle the strategic town of bakhmut? plus, from prominent attorney to convict, the swift prison sentence today for alex murdaugh after a jury took only a few hours to find him guilty of killing his wife and son. and drag shows shut down. tennessee becomes the first in the nation to put new restrictions on the performances. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper today. we start with our health lead. moments ago, the white house announced a lesion removed from president biden s chest last month was a common type of skin cancer. cnn s phil mattingly joins us now from the white house. tell us more about this diagnosis. reporter: that lesion was removed during the president s annual phy
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will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregar
committee, and while the subpoena was expected, it is the committee s most aggressive step yet. it could result in an epic legal battle which frankly is also anticipated. the panel is asking for phone calls, texts, videos from the former president relating to the attack on the u.s. capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. it s also demanding trump testify under oath on november 14th. in a letter accompanying the subpoena, the panel said this. as demonstrated in our hearing, we have assembled overwhelming evidence including from dozens of your former appointees and staff that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter joins us now. the january 6th committee making it clear that they see trump as the central figure of this effort. reporter: exactly, victor. the center of everything. that is what this cover letter and