welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. and tonight we re less than a month, 27 days, away from one of the weirdest and least predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what s happening now and ending on election day, november 8th, is not typical. it s not. as of now it s not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. no. it s more like a sharknado. now, typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins, feeling good because things are bad. with high inflation and fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power right now, that s democrats responsible and accountable. because phrases are up almost everywhere you look. life is more expensive. by which of course i mean life cereal, wheat and processed wheat products up more than 20% year-to-year. and as humpty hump might say, straight butter baby, by which butter is up 30% august to august. an
predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what is happening now and ending on election day november 8th is not typical, it is not. as of now, it is not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. now it is more like a shark nato. typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances. to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins. feeling good because things are bad. high inflation, fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power. right now, that is democrats. they are responsible and accountable. phrases are up nearly everywhere you look. life is more expensive, but which of course i mean life cereal, weak and processed wheat products. up more than 20% here. as the late great rapper might say, straight butter baby. by which of course, i mean the tuck cost butter is up 30% august to august. of course, our friends in saudi arabia are making sure that we all continue to feel more pain at the pump. tha
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amendment says if you state comes against you, you get a good lawyer. we need to point out your organization, the innocence project, has done such important work. and you highlight how mistaken eyewitness identifications are the leading factor for wrongful convictions. nearly 70% of your 375 dna exonerations involved eyewitnesses who have been proven to be wrong. but this is not something that the american people necessarily know. and if they re not told it, they just believe people. well, i think we ve made a lot of progress as chief ramsy actually instituted some reforms in philadelphia, and pennsylvania has done something on eyewitness identification. but the ineffectiveness of council issue is the hardest. justice marshall dissented in the case which setout the standard and what he said is the
rich and guilty then poor and innocent. if you are poor and innocent, the chances of getting a good lawyer or not what they should be. this is a case that shows you did more work to figure out what happened then the cops, the prosecutors or the defense attorney. once you start looking under these rocks, what you find is a system that is broken. it is a broken system that the sixth amendment, all these conservatives love the constitution, the six of them and says that if the state comes and get you, you get a good lawyer. it s no longer true in america. very, we need to point out, your organization the innocence project has does such great work. you highlighted how mistaken identifications are the leading factor for wrongful convictions. nearly 70% of your 375 dna exonerations involved eyewitnesses who have proven to be wrong. this is not something that the american people necessarily know and they are not told it, they just believe people.