she rules on the motion that s a prediction. i don t do them often, but there s one elie honig. thanks for bringing your sources to the source. night. thank you so much for joining us. the news continues right here on cnn hello and welcome 12. you was joining us from here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom. and i most, which search? just to hit the cnn presidential debate is now just one day away, we will discuss how each candidate s stance on abortion impacts their chances. in november, julian assange is free for the first time and it doesn t use his on his way home to australia after pleading guilty in a deal with the united states. and behind closed doors, the trial for jailed wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich is underway right now in russia live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church thanks for joining us and we begin this out with a preview of the first us presidential debate of the 2024 elect
after spending the majority of the last decade behind bars or inside the ecuadorian embassy in london. speaking outside the court, julian assange s lawyer, barry pollock, said the prosecution of the wikileaks founder was unprecedented . in the hundred years of the espionage act, it has never been used by the united states to pursue a publisher, a journalist like mr assange. mr assange revealed truthful, important and newsworthy information including revealing the united states had committed war crimes and he has suffered tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom tremendously in his fight for free speech, forfreedom of tremendously in his fight for free speech, for freedom of the press, and to make sure the american public and the world community gets truthful and important newsworthy information. we firmly believe that mr assange never should have been charged under the espionage act and engaged in exercise that journalists engage in every day and we are thankfu
the wikileaks cofounder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade. let s look at the key dates that have brought us here. in 2010, julian assange was part of a flood of classified military files and diplomatic cables spilled by wikileaks that year. months later, an international arrest warrant was issued. sweden wanted to question him about sexual assault allegations made by two women. to avoid extradition, he sought refuge in ecuador s london embassy. he d spend seven years there. but in 2019 in a dramatic moment he was dragged out of the embassy after the ecuadorian government withdrew his political asylum. he was thenjailed for skipping bail. and soon, the americans were asking for his extradition. backed by his supporters, he fought against it in the courts and lost. his extradition was approved in 2022. butjulian assange kept appealing until finally this new plea deal with the us allowed him to fly out of the uk. more on our websi
failures, and the surgeon general of the united states declaring gun violence a public health crisis. this move, one of the strikes longest tools his office has. the surgeon general is our guest and a family is desperate for answers this morning after a woman disappears while attending we ll go retreat in bahamas. new details on the search i m kate bolduan, this era signer and john berman, this is cnn news central he might as two days to cnn s historic debate and the countdown right now is entering a cripple a window with president biden hunkered down at camp david and facing a flurry of new advice are new reporting this morning, it binds outside biden s campaign are urging him to not talk about his own first-term policies on the debate stage, but instead focus on going after former president donald trump today, a new attack ad from biden s team he was taking direct aim at trump s economic plans. also this morning, the only person who has ever debated both men is sharing he
about nine times what it brought in in sales last year by comparison, trump media is trading at more than 1,400 times it sells last year and jim, look, this is not a trivial matter, right? it means trump s stake is worth around 4 billion. in this company. and there s a lot of real people who do own stock here and they would get hurt if gravity sets all right, we ll be watching that madigan. thanks very much. they should you relied on cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, right? now. trump s defense team is launching yet another attack on the special counsel in that case, jack smith and his office. it s the former president s latest bid to have the classified documents case tossed out. right now, judge aileen cannon is holding a confidential hearing. we re told with both sides ahead of today s public hearing at follows monday s back-to-back hearings were tensions flared between the judge and the prosecution at one point, cannon saying, quote, i don t appreciate you