Athena jones sets the stage. The most serious charges ever brought against the president. Reporter house manager jerry nadler started pointing a long list of constitutional experts and invoking the framers of the constitution. Abuse, betrayal, corruption. This is exactly the understanding that the framers incorporated into the constitution. Reporter democrats using visual aids to bolster their case that trump used the power of his office to pressure ukraine to serve his own political interests using comments from the president s own allies, notably attorney general bill barr, Alan Dershowitz and lindsey graham, one of the jurors in the trial to make the point an Impeachable Offense does not have to be a statutory crime. I think thats what they meant by high crimes, it doesnt have to be a crime. Its just when you start using your office and youre acting in a way that hurts people youve committed a high crime. Reporter hitting trump for blocking witnesses. If the president had any exculp
Police made just six arrests compared to 47 the night before. Sign that even though tensions remain high, calm is returning to the community, at least for now. Overnight, supporters of officer Darren Wilson took to the streets, but as you can see from this video, cops were quick to whisk them away. Were also hearing from a new witness. Hes debunking the theory that brown bumrushed the officer who shot him. About time i gets outside, hes already turned around, facing the officer. Hes balled, he have his arms under his stomach and he was halfway down like he was going down and the officer lets out about three or four shots at him. And on the same day attorney general eric holder visited ferguson, promising a fair and independent investigation, browns mother viewed her sons body at a local morgue for the first time. Lets get the latest from ferguson from cnns chris cuomo. Good morning, chris. Reporter good morning, carol. She had to wait 12 days, no matter what you think about the situati
Hello, everyone, im john berman. Im michaela pereira. Reaction to a grand jurys decision to clear Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Peaceful protests are back on the streets of ferguson, missouri, this morning. Such a different scene than the one we saw last night. The violence, the looting, the chaos that erupted after the grand jurys decision was announced. After their exhaustive review of the evidence, the grand jury deliberated over two days, making their final decision. They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against officer wilson and returned a no true bill on each of the five viemts. That announcement and the way that it was announced by st. Louis county prosecutor was tough to hear for many, many people. Michael browns mother became very emotion al tears streaming down her face. Other protesters were also emotional. Some crying and chanting in the streets. Stephanie elam reports on how those peaceful protests quickly
Blame. Two exwives ended up working side by side with the president and right hand of the chief of staff. The story magically, conveniently changed hours after the fbi director testified about a time line that directly contradicted what the white house had said just yesterday. The white house tried to make a case that you shouldnt believe your own eyes and ears you should believe each version of the white houses shifting narrative and you should believe the white house when you hear the president cares about victims of Domestic Violence. Again, this centers around porter who resigned last week after news broke had accused him of abuse. The picture showing his first wife with the black eye, the white house has been scrambling to come up with a consistent story when they learned about the allegations. They still have not been able to do that. Cnn reported that don mcgahn new a year ago and learned more details over the past year. Yesterday the white house said it learned of the extent of
More power for state and local governments to choose projects. We want them to choose the projects they want the most important projects. They know best the needs of their people. We want the states to be very much involved in the choice of where this money goes. After spending trillions of dollars overseas rebuilding other countries, its time to rebuild our own country and take care of our citizens. The money that we have spent overseas not to mention in the middle east where as of two months ago we spent 7 trillion. Yet, if we have to fix a road, we cant fix it. If we have to fix a tunnel, we dont do it because we dont have the money. We spent 7 trillion in the middle east. Its ridiculous. The American People expect all of us to Work Together to serve their needs. This is an issue where i really plooef believe we can find common ground. Its the infrastructure issue. Its something great for our country. Its something our country needs. We have democrats here. We have republicans here.