Mayor vincent gray knew of the scheme to funnel illegal money into the Shadow Campaign before gray ever announced that he would run for office. He says that gray agreed to call him uncle earl to keep his identity a secret, and he said that during the campaign, gray personally asked thompson for 400,000 in cash for efforts to get out the vote. And thompson told the judge that he gave 10,000 to a Family Member of vincent gray and additional 40,000 to a close friend of vincent grays for home improvement. In addition to all of the money that was funneled to mayor gr grays campaign, thompson admitted to funneling another 2. 5 million to various campaigns from 2006 to 2012 and that is d. C. Council races as well as federal races for house, the senate and including several primaries that Hillary Clinton ran in. He says that he admitted to funneling more than 600,000 to the clinton campaign. That is the very latest here at u. S. District court. And now, tom sherwood is at the Wilson Building w
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Top of the hour, everyone. Im don lemon in the cnn newsroom, and thank you for joining us. We will begin with tense moments inside of a florida courtroom. It is the trial of michael dunn who is the admitted shooter of a teen who was shot and killed over a dispute over loud music at a gas station parking lot. In day three of the testimony, the fiancee took the stand called as a witness by the prosecution. When the defendant pulled into the parking space, could you hear any music coming from the red suv . Yes. You could tell it was coming from that car . Yes. From where you were sitting inside of the car, could you hear any of the lyrics of the music . No sh, i could not make out lyrics. Could you tell what kind of music it was . Yes sh, i could. Could you hear the bass . Yes. From inside of the car, was anything in the car rattling from the bass . No. Did the defendant say anything about the music when he parked the car next to the red car . Yes. What did the defendant say . Oh, i hate
There and here in israel in the next two hours. Plus, Nick Paton Walsh taking cover tonight from the fighting that is all around him, shots going off a few blocks from him with a growing russian threat across the boarder. Weve heard sustained automatic gunfire here in donetsk, a real sign, i think, the militants must be edgy or perhaps in the worst situation any exchange of gunfire with the Ukraine Military if they are this close. Reporter keeping his lights off and voice low because gunmen were close by. Well have more from nic in a few minutes. The second ebola patient comes home. A Progress Report on both patients and so far, the news seems to be hopeful. Another tragic first in the longest war since vietnam. The highest ranking u. S. Service member killed since the vietnam war. Major general harold green shot dead by an afghan soldier that bad badly wounded more. What are we learning how this happened . This took place in part of a routine visit to afghanistans National Defense uni
Someone in some place, but what i know is ive never sexually assaulted anyone. But here is why this particular interview is so extraordinary. It was an interview with the president s favorite media outlet, fox news, and it is worth asking, as nbcs first read did this morning, how impartial can a Supreme Court nominee be and remember, theyre supposed to be impartial when he goes on fox news of all possible platforms to defend himself . On thursday in front of the senate, kavanaugh is expected to continue adamantly denying he did anything wrong while his first accuser, dr. Christine blasey ford, will testify that he did. But theres another problem here. Lots of those involved in deciding whether kavanaugh gets confirmed seem to have already made up their mind. The president certainly has. I think its horrible what the democrats have done. Its a con game theyre playing. Theyre really con artists. Theyre trying to convince you know they dont believe it themselves, okay. They know hes a hig