martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president biden s oval office address on america s role in two wars. now in israel and also in ukraine. we re going live to the pentagon. a very important briefing about to get underway. we ll take you there live as soon as that gets started. in israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. mike tobin in southern israel and israeli prime minister netanyahu s spokesman joins us live. first, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships now in the region. our u.s. forces are in the region as well or headed to the region. a huge u.s. commitment is underway and we expect that we re going hear more about that from the pentagon in just moments. a u.s. cargo plane delivered armored vehicles. here s video of that as they rolled off of this c-17 in israel. the israeli defense minister gives his troops the green light
and for that reason we re very pleased to happy to have c-span with us today. c-span2 will be broadcasting this live at this time. and for that reason when you ask questions we d ask that you please identify yourself both so that the, our speakers know who you are as well as the larger audience. another of the missions of the aba is in non-partisan as well as bipartisan fashion to talk about highlight and advance the interests of national security law and do so in two-ways. one, to stand up for the principle of physical security, but do so consistent with our national security values. that s the essence of what the aba standing committee on law and national security is all about. that s also why i m so pleased today that our speakers are discussing in fact are two people who spent their entire careers doing just that. standing up for the physical security of the united states but doing so in a manner consistent with our values. our discussants are harvey rishikof and fran tow
when a defendant maintains his innocence and insists on testing the prosecution on its burden of proof, the constitution prohibits a trial court from permitting the defendants own lawyer over the defendants objection to tell the jury that he is guilty. the six amendment guarantees a personal defense that belongs to the accused and whether to admit or contest guilt is the example of that of the personal defense. not only because it affects the life and liberty of the accused but also because making that decision requires wayne subject of aspirations and value judgments that are unique to every individual. suppose the charge is murder and the lawyer says, based on what i ve looked, i think your best case is self-defense. the defendant says no, i didn t shoot the person. and the lawyer says well, i think the evidence is going to show that you did, self-defense. if the lawyer goes that ever since that defense, does that fall under your theory? well, mr. chief justice, i think
not as strong as yesterday, but the 40s along the peninsula. 48 degrees right now. and even in san francisco, also at 48. the north bay at 43, so if you are taking mom wine tasting, keep that in mind. and up to 60 in the north bay and up to the 70s and all in all a perfect day to celebrate mom. we do see a couple of lingering low clouds on the doppler radar but the temperature trend is showing a positive out look in terms of the icons. if you look at about 10:00 a.m. we still see sun and clouds by 11:00 and 12:00, it is mainly just sunshine from that point on so a great day to celebrate mom. i ll have a closer look at the day planner for mom coming up at 7:16. thank you. sounds good. a major intersection closed for hours after a deadly crash overnight. officers say it happened at about 3:00 this morning at fremont boulevard and passio parkway. a car ran a red light and hit another car head on and killing one person and seriously injured another. they were traveling at
july, they had to start from scratch. but before they did, they installed numerous security cameras and hired a different security firm, which was to patrol the site 24 hours a day.sotit s hard to understand how someone can get in and start a fire with so much protection but i hope the cameras will help us.july s fire generated a 15 million dollar loss and holliday thinks saturday s fire will be similar, but he says that s not going to stop him from getting this development built. sotvery very frustrating but i just can t quit because i cant let somebody of some people throw a wrench into this (grant) breaking news out of washington d-c..for the second straight week.shock- waves are revurburating through the political world. where there is a report out tonight that president trump shared highly classified information about an islamic state plot with russian officials. president trump met russia s foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the u-s last week at the white