More charges could be on the way, but for now, three white men have been charged with assault in the third degree for allegedly attacking a black boat cocaptain in a fight that quickly morphed into an Ugly Riverside Brawl in alabama this weekend. Videos of the incident went viral. And it showed fighting broke down largely along racial lines. But last hour, police in montgomery said, none of the actions they have investigated so far have met the threshold for hate crime charges. Heres cnns ryan young who was at the Press Conference where we just learned a whole lot. And, ryan, i know that you have been speaking to officials there. Youve been speaking to witnesses. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, absolutely. After talking to mayor reed, its pretty clear here everyone in the city was shocked. This is obviously a place a lot of people like to enjoy on the weekends. The video has obviously shocked the nation as its gone viral. We do believe the suspects theyre looking for are in
Offences in 2020. The new York State Court of appeals ruled that the original trial made a mistake by Hearing Evidence from women who claimed they had been assaulted, even though their allegations were not part of the charges being heard. He was jailed for 23 years. The judges have ordered that a new trial be held. He has also been sentenced in california to 16 years in prison for raping an actress in los angeles, and that conviction is not directly affected by this ruling. Lets speak to our North America correspondent nomia iqbal is not going to be walking out of jail because of the other conviction in los angeles, but talk is through the 2020 case that was so huge in terms of the Metoo Movement. The harve terms of the Metoo Movement. Tue Harvey Weinstein terms of the Metoo Movement. Tte Harvey Weinstein conviction case was almost the founding case of the metoo, one of the most important social media movements in modern American History where people spoke out against Sexual Violence a
party. the report says the goal was also to undermine confidence in the u.s. election and to further divide the american people. let s go straight to our senior national security correspondent alex marquardt who is working the story for us. alex, this very detailed, lengthy, declassified report says proxies linked to russian intelligence and to putin directly pushed misleading, you be substantiated allegations against now president biden, pushed those allegations to american media organizations, officials, prominent individuals, including some very close to the former president. reporter: that s right, wolf. it says russian intelligence at the behest of vladimir putin, the russian president, targeted allies and people close to trump and hits administration. this is the most comprehensive report we ve gotten about the 2020 election and foreign intelligence by the intelligence community and it makes clear that this massive russian influence campaign was designed, orchestrated
american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting
urging americans not to let their guard down. also the justice department here in washington announcing today that two men have now been arrested and charged with assaulting officer brian sicknick with a toxic chemical spray. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the president is taking his covid relief package straight to the american public. give us the latest. reporter: yes, wolf. he s basically mentioning it every time he gets near a microphone. tomorrow he ll be going to pennsylvania. i ll be traveling with him. that s going to continue with several more stops this week not just for president biden, but for his top aides. he want to pitch this plan to the american people, make sure they know it s not just stimulus checks. all this means the bigger plan you have to have to implement that bill. that s the challenge facing the biden administration right now. today it is going to be complicated, but he says he wants to make sure