Newsroom up next good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin the hour with Donald Trump returning in front of a judge this morning as lawyers for the former President And E Jean Carroll are set to square off in manhattans federal Appeals Court Trump is seeking an appeal after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former columnist, awarding her 5 following a trial last year, the case is separate from the related Defamation Trial that was held earlier this year when a jury awarded carroll 83 Million in damages, Youll Recall that cnns Kristen Holmes is with me now. Kristen what do we know about this pill and why is trump expected in court . Hes not expected in court. He has chosen to go to court and just a reminder, after he was awarded a 5 Million that was a twoweek trial. A jury determined that he never once was in the courtroom and he never once called a single witness. So clearly, he is putting on a bit of a show here something that h
us. do something. just do something. for god s sake, do something. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time, that cannot be true. this time we must actually do something. they issue we face is one of conscience and common sense. the second amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute. it was justice scalia who wrote, and i quote, like most rights, the right of the second amendment the rights granted by the second amendment are not unlimited. not unlimited. they never have been. it comes to the carnage we are willing to accept. how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. let there be no mistake about the silent collage kaletra that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in uvalde, who smeared blood off of her murdered friends body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in her classroom to
that address the challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues. there will be a committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws that will be passed in the state of texas because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here and talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get past to make our communities and schools safer. [overlapping voices] universal background checks. [inaudible] governor abbott: let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks. if everyone wants to seize on a particular strategy and assume that is the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy w
Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
The system will separately categorize sales at gun and ammunition stores, which advocates say can help track suspicious transactions of firearms and ammunition.