i m i very innocent man and we ll fight for our constitution. dana: defiant in defeat. former president trump vowing to fight his conviction for falsifying business records. that begins at 11:00 a.m. eastern when he holds a news conference on trump tower. bill is off today, good morning, brett. bret: good morning, i m bret baier. this is america s newsroom. dana, yesterday in the afternoon we thought judge merchan was going to dismiss the jury, wrap up for the day. suddenly it all came down that they had the verdict and what we have seen over the past few hours, the reaction to that and then now this news conference is going to be something as we go forward. dana: we were getting ready for the five and all of a sudden it changed and it felt you could feel a shift change really in the country and in the election. bret: really is. we don t know the entire fallout yet. unprecedented conviction. further complicating the former president s schedule. sentencing is set
president s, convicted felon s rants about sharks, electric boats, rather he would be electrocuted or eaten by a shark have everybody talking about his state of minds. at that moment, a merchant of right wing talking points and sometimes even disinformation is going into overdrive with calculated and relentless regional attacks on president joe biden. statements by donald trump on the other hand so unhinged. fox news didn t carry them or broadcast them. didn t air them after the fact. in the words of stephen king that speech was like listening to your senile uncle after he has that third drink. that performance and others like it or reviving questions about trump s stability, mental acuity, questions trump loves to talk about. watch. the next day they ll say he s crazy. the next day they ll say he s incompetent. this is one of the dumbest human beings ever. that wasn t working. i didn t like that one as much. that was bad. i said what do you think about a cognitive test
assault. troops are surrounding the city. at least 30 people are reported killed today. saudi arabia has drafted a formal condemnation saying the government there is violating human rights and the u.s. ambassador to syria directly blames the syrian military for killing hundreds. here now is ivan watson. reporter: residents of the besieged city of homs a woke once again at dawn on saturday morning to another day of sustained bombardment. that is routine. a deadly routine they have lived for for the better part of a week, a routine that has killed hundreds of people and wounded hundreds more. at the hands according to the u.s. ambassador to syria of the syrian military. take a listen to what ambassador robert ford had to say to wolf blitzer friday night. we know who is shelling homs and it is not the armed opposition groups. it s the government. and that s why i wanted that picture put on our facebook account so people could see there is the artillery and that s what s firi
i m joined now by graham washington deputy fire chief gary franz, the deputy fire chief in washington. what s the latest on this? two bodies believed to be the children and a third body found. yes, that s correct. that third body appears to be an adult, can t tell at this point if it s male or female, but, you know, everything that we have, we have very credible reports of, you know, a person working with the powell children who brought those children to this house just prior to this event and then after the children were let inside, she was prevented from going inside herself. she smelled some gas and tried to get back in but as i understand it, but she just couldn t do it. she saw mr. powell, and she brought these two powell kids to this home. so within moments to have minutes after those kids were let into the house, this place exploded. there s every reason to believe these are, in fact this is the powell familiar here. deputy chief, not confirmed the identities but
energy and china when he was campaigning. he promised us thousands of green jobs. he shut down drilling in the gulf more or less. he hasn t replaced them with another industry. in china he simply hasn t acted. that trade debt is choking the economy, there s not enough demand for what americans make and the economy doesn t move forward. he doesn t have a compliant congress at the moment, specifically parts of the house of representatives. that s true. the reason he doesn t is because he squandered his first year. now as a consequence, the country elected a congress that wants a change in direction. the congress for its part doesn t seem much capable of providing it. to say mr. obama is alone in not getting us out of this mess would not be fair. the republicans aren t providing a path either. this is a senior fellow at demos and author of it takes a pillage, epic power, deceit and untold trillions. the americans condition to give president obama low marks, only 9% say t