with over to laura coates, anderson, i m laura coats and this is cnn tonight. and look, i gotta get right to it i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today, but i gotta tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories to pretend that sandy hook the tragedy never even happened and the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously, that s not even cruel, it s absurd. because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today then. because something else he claims never existed, text messages, communications about sandy hook. well it turns out they also exist. the attorney for the parents of one victims suing alex jones for damages over his defamat
the department of public safety that he drives into a ditch. this is after the shooting where the grandmother is shot. sometime after that he s in this incident where the car ends up in a ditch, and then somehow manages to get past the shootout with law enforcement there to get into the school and kills these 19 kids. so that s what we know at this point. we don t know very much about the motivation. we know from law enforcement that that is focus right now, talking to people who are in touch with him on some of the social media. we heard now from some people who were in touch with him who talked about him being a quiet person, a loner, so to speak, and he was able to purchase these firearms legally. that s now the focus of federal law enforcement to try to support the work there of the local authorities that are doing this investigation. we re learning about the shooter. according to a classmate, he had been bullied, that he worked at a local fast food place. what else are
Fourmonth trial time line. Also raising what might happen if any or all of the motions to remove are granted or appeal to the 11th circuit. For the first televised hearing regarding the attempts to overturn the 2020 election, it was fascinating, if a little complicated. Were going to begin with georgia. Please dont go anywhere, there is also news out of the Special Counsels classified documents case. More on what one of Donald Trumps lawyers said on tape, warning the former president , what the government would do if he did not comply. Lets start, though, in georgia. Joining us now is nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and outside the Fulton County courthouse for us, nbc legal contributor, katie phang. I was surprised how quickly he denied the motion to sever from kenneth chesebro. Reporter we were pleasantly surprised to see how quickly judge mcafee ruled. Ruling from the bench not that often but especially in a case like this. Hes under a quick time line. October 23rd, a little bi
What ive had a great past, but anything Closing Arguments are on tuesday. We will see what the jury decides after the six weeks of evidence in this case that they have heard laid out. Thank you so much for joining us here on the source cnn news night starts right now. Once a mistake, twice something more ominous. Thats tonight on this good evening. Im abbyhillip in new york and tonight, the benefit of the doubt is shrinking for an associate Supreme Court justice of the United States, samuel alito, the New York Times. Now when covering four different photos taken on four different dates at the second house owned by the justice, Where A Second Insurrection Sympathizing Flag was hoisted yes, really, the photographs show an appeal to heaven flag that is outside of the Long Beach Island home. Several times between july and september of 2020, Google Street View even shows the flag how long do you think the flag would have had to been out there for google maps to capture it. Now, this appeal
Is only the second oval address of his presidency. Positioning america as a bulwark against the door forces that are amassing across the globe from ukraine to gaza. Hamas and putin represent different threats, but they share this and comment. They want to annihilate a neighboring democracy. Completely annihilated. American democracy is what hope the world together. American airlines are what keep us safe. American values are what make us a part of what other nations want to work with. We put all that at risk people away from ukraine. We turn our backs on israel. Its just not worth it. But this message comes as the world is essentially holding its collective breath, waiting for what comes next in the middle east. Do you see all of the little talks and this Satellite Images . Those are hundreds of tanks and Armored Vehicles that israel has deployed ahead of a potential Ground Invasion. That massive Military Buildup is sitting, is waiting just about four miles north of that main entry poi