0 speaking with him. it has been once again, as usual, now he s the man of the center of the question of what can or cannot be done in washington. but the biden administration can or cannot get past. we ll be speaking with senator schumer, live in just a moment. today of course is january 5th, a year ago today in the great state of georgia, georgia voters elected to new u.s. senators, democrat jon ossoff and democrat raphael warnock. they were runoff elections for both of georgia s u.s. senate seat one year ago today. at the democrats won both of those races. now, georgia electing to democrats to their two u.s. senate seats. that is how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that is what flipped control of the u.s. senator from republican control to democratic control. that is what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to an act all the legislation that they have passed in the past year. including covid relief, the big infrastructure bill, and all the re
we the jury find kyle rittenhouse not guilty. welcome to the cross connection. as you can see, we have a lot to get into today. we re obviously going to begin with the kyle rittenhouse case who walks free out of a kenosha courthouse on friday having been acquitted on all five counts of homicide and endangering safety. he had been on trial for fatally shooting two men and wounding one other during protests over the police shooting of jacob blake. and none of this was the least bit surprising. the ar-15 rittenhouse will suffer no criminal consequences for his actions and he has already become a darling of the right. and this trial is not the only one we ve been watching this week. and in georgia a judge denied the defendant s motion for a mistrial in the shooting death of ahmaud arbery after the
look, i understand you know what they mean by that, what they re trying to say but the fact is we have one justice system. unfortunately, that justice system is not always fair. we should respect the jury s verdict in kenosha, as americans we have the right to disagree and make the system to work for everyone and have the right to change the laws because the laws in place, those are the reasons, the main reasons that kyle rittenhouse was acquitted. it is hard to separate race out of all of these things. race is there. it may not be exactly the same in every case. it a difference of degrees, right? it s always there in all of these cases. they re not the exact same thing but it is there. the rittenhouse trial is about whether or not the prosecution was able to prove its case. the jury found him not guilty. but in a courtroom in georgia a
i m like okay. they re still shooting. but the music is playing. i reached up and urn turned the music off. i m like let me peep the scene. people were frantic and wanted out fast. meanwhile, investigators are trying tomotive in the downtown of st. paul a short block away from the xcel energy center home to the minnesota wild. that s the state s hockey team as well as other concerts. it s right in the heart of downtown st. paul and parker says this was a fun atmosphere and normally, he can tell when the mood is about to shift, but that did not happen sunday morning. he said they were all surprised and the shooting happened abruptly. parker said he will not be able to return to that venue to d.j. ever again because of what he saw. pamela? yeah, understandable. adrian, thank you. in georgia a swat team is
this past holiday weekend was an especially violent one. in georgia a police officer was killed in an ambush while working his very first shift. in new jersey, a nurse died after being knocked to the ground in times square. one person was killed. 14 others injured in a mass shooting in minnesota. these are just a few of the violent incidents reported across the country over the last 48 hours. cnn s omar jimenez is here with an update. first, what do we know about this minnesota shooting. any arrests? yeah, victor, while an arrest into minnesota shooting, three men were arrested. in the georgia shooting a man has been taken into custody and charged with murder. in georgia, 26-year-old dillon harrison was the police officer shot and killed during his very first shift on the job. police say he was ambushed outside the alamo police department, and about a mile away from where the shooting took place, damian ferguson was taken into custody, and he s now