amazing spouse back at home. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. i made an honest mistake and i hope that it doesn t end my life here. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no intent. i did not conspire or plan to commit this crime. i hope they can take into account all the documents, all the character lists everybody sent in on my behalf. i want to apologize to my teammates and the organization for any damage that i may have done to them. i never intended on hurting them. this is my second home and all i want to do is just win championships and make them proud. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is outside the courthouse near moscow. fred, visibly emotional, griner, apologizing to the court, taking responsibility fo
lies he s made directly to the parents of those slain children. during a wild day in court yesterday, jones did finally admit the truth. it s 100% real, as i said on the radio yesterday, as i said here yesterday. it s 100% real. in another stunning development in that courtroom, the plaintiffs attorney revealed that jones lawyer had in an apparent mishap sent him two years worth of jones cell phone records which included every text message jones had sent. cnn national correspondent erica hill is following the story. erica, we re waiting on this verdict now. but in the meantime you have this, i think you could say, bombshell dropped in the middle of that trial. just a remarkable oversight here. what s the impact on this? paul callan called it a colossal error on the part of jonesen
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want to do is just win championships and make them proud. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is outside the courthouse near moscow. fred, visibly emotional, griner, apologizing to the court, taking responsibility for her actions there. you mentioned last hour moscow courts don t have a record for leniency, though? reporter: no, you re absolutely right, they certainly don t. i don t think it s something that can be expected of a moscow court and that dependence could rely on. if you look at the conviction rates for russian courts, they re around 99%, so that obviously is a huge number. if you look at some of the sentences recently doled out, like against mark fogle, he received 14 years in court so the sentences here usually here in russia are very high. nevertheless, brittney griner s defense team told me as far as russian courts go, they believe they have done as good a job as possible to try and get some sort of leniency. part of it was exactly for the
oh, can you show me those comments i played? and the plaintiffs attorney queued it up. to see him admitting after a decade that sandy hook did happen. can you imagine the parents reaction to that? erica hill, goodness, good to have you covering it. if you want to learn more about how jones got to this place with his platform, don t miss the excellent cnn special report alex jones, megaphone for conspiracy. that airs tomorrow night at 11:00 eastern time. well, the justice department is setting its sights on former white house trade advisor peter navarro and he is not the only former trump official facing the heat. plus president biden has sent an apparent message to his party s lone remaining holdout on the tax climate and health bill. what senator kyrsten sinema is reportedly objecting to in what s known as the inflation reduction act. later, emotional moments inside a broward county, florida, courtroom. parents of some of the parkland