There is a good deal of complicated scheduling going on in the senate, which is particularly busy right now. So we may or may not be joined by Ranking Member, kennedy, i see as other obligations. But ive been cleared by his team to proceed with the hearing, if you can make it here i will give him the chance to make an Opening Statement at a convenient juncture. But, in the meantime, the witnesses are ready and im cleared to proceed. So we will go forward. Two weeks ago, in a speech to the american law institute, chief justice, roberts, said he wanted to assure people he was committed to making certain that the Supreme Court would adhere to the highest standards of conduct, more important, the chief justice acknowledged the court has more to do, that justices are continuing to look at things they can do to give practical effect to that ethics commitment, and that he is confident that there are ways to do that. Ways to do more. The chief justice is right. There are plenty of ways. The co
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
And lets just say that a lot happened today in lower manhattan. Lucky for us, we have the perfect person to talk about it with. Diane perry has been serving as counsel for Michael Cohen during the trial and has given an interview about the testimony. We will talk to her in a moment. Her client, Michael Cohen, of course is the star witness in the case and he returned to the stand today for a third day of crossexamination. From the beginning, we have known that putting Michael Cohen on the Witness Stand was a high risk and high reward proposition for the prosecution. On one hand, he is the central player. After all, he paid Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket pick he said he did it at Donald Trumps direction and said donald trump was fully aware of the plan to cover it up. Those are the key details. At the same time, cohen is a convicted felon who pled guilty to lying to congress and making false statements to a bank. Not to mention he spent over a decade doing trumps dirty work. And th
Right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicole, thanks so much. Today marks a serious, even grim day for defendant donald trump, who of course, was indicted, booked, and had his mug shot taken very famously in an election case regarding possible crimes in the 2020 race in the georgia rico case. He was also indicted by federal Prosecutor Jack Smith in two cases which carry serious charges but, like the georgia case, are actually not currently on track to go to trial by the election. But for trump, the only case where it now matters that he is a criminal defendant is in new york, where trumps trial reached its Inflection Point today as d. A. Braggs team has just told the judge today that the d. A. s office has proven its case based on the evidence and ethus intoning the well known phrase, quote, your honor, the people rest. Thats today in the only case that looks to be going to trial by the eelection. That means the prosecutors literally rest their case and take the position theyve supplied enough evide
Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage