appointed judge who will make that call. plus, trump s legal liability. simultaneous investigations are underway from january 6th to georgia. what poses the most peril for the former president? also, rudy giuliani s role in january 6th should come as no surprise to those of you who remember the new york police riots. we ll talk about rudy event than in rudy now. i ve ever jury guesses comedy paves the way for others to follow. this is american voices. erican voices. we begin this hour and texas. a judge will hand down a ruling that could affect the future of abortion access across the country. it could affect laws that protect reproductive freedom. it comes down to one man, a judge with a long history of antiabortion beliefs. judge matthew because merrick has, quote, the opportunity to impose the most far-reaching limit on abortion access since the supreme court overturned roe. he will soon rule on a lawsuit seeking to revoke u.s. government approval of mifepristone, a ke
lead lawyer of one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. still a part of preparing the case? yes, sir. still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together for trial? in a criminal case, we didn t do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? yes, sir. presenting evidence in court? yes, sir. giving jury arguments? i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, either pled out or were dismissed for some reason? you know, i m sure that at some point over between 1998 and 2021 that i took some plea, but as we sit here today i can t specifically remember that, and i don t ever remember working a case up for trial that didn t go to trial, but i m sure at some point in time i was involved in some level of a guilty plea or guilty pleas. you would agree with me that t
you understand what it s actually worth. then they auction it to their network of professional buyers get more for your jewelry with worthy .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with the catastrophic destruction and rising death toll from the most recent outbreak of tornadoes here in the u. s. more than 50. tornadoes have been reported in the south of midwest. beginning yesterday afternoon. this afternoon, the death toll more than doubled. 21 people are now confirmed killed by these storms. this is do video we re receiving from when arkansas, one of the many devastated communities. take a look at this video. it s just heartbreaking. there are reports of at least a dozen tornadoes touching down in that state. the national guard in arkansas, also rolling in to help and in northern illinois. one of the storm related deaths came during a crowded concert last night
and what will probably be a bumpy ride all the way to november 8th. president biden is talking about the normalization of political violence, the spread of big lies, and one ever-growing donald trump who is calling for lawlessness and promises, even promising pardons to those convicted of violent insurrection and crimes. trump took the stage last night for the first time since the fbi searched his home. he claimed that they searched the room of his wife and teenaged son, and again ramped up the dangerous rhetoric against president biden, and against law enforcement. because we should not forget the good news, the cdc recommending a new booster to fight the highly contagious omicron subvariant, and the economy guesting a boost with another solid month of job creation, and there may be some hope ahead for the residents of jackson, mississippi, who are now in their seventh door without clean water. in a moment, i will ask the head of fema about the progress made to end that cris
as the oath keepers. a new court filing is revealing the extensive planning of the far right malitia group, including a death list and attempts to obtain weapons ahead of january 6th. also today, former trump strategist steve bannon having a sudden change of heart. he faces possible jail time and now just days before his contempt trial, he says he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee after all. let s start with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what are investigators hoping to reveal to the public during tomorrow s hearing? reporter: i think it s twofold. first, they want to make it clear those right wing extremist groups that came to the capitol on january 6th, the oath keepers, the proud boys, they came here with a specific intent, and that was to cause chaos and even use violence if it meant accomplishing their goals. and they re going to show that there was premeditation here to basically establish the fact that what happened on january 6th