Police shooting of jacob blake. Im looking into it very strongly. Ill be getting reports. Ill certainly let you know. We are so grateful for your company, as always. Its saturday, august 29th, im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Youre in the cnn newsroom. Were starting this morning with kenoshas police union and an attorney for the family of jacob blake. Theyre describing very different versions of what they say led to blakes shooting. Weve seen the video of the moments before the shooting. There is no agreement as far as we can tell on what that video actually shows, though. Walk us through this, will you . Reporter yeah. There is no agreement yet. And so weve heard from the union now. The union that represents this officer that was involved in the shooting. The family, though, is not buying that argument. Mr. Blakes family, obviously the moments in that video that weve seen what led to the attack. Theyre saying that there has to be an imminent threat. They dont see it. That is acco
U. S. Intelligence officials warned that russia continues to target the 2020 election. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house with the latest. Jeremy, what more are you learning about the surprising decision . Reporter well, a Senior Administration official is telling our colleague, jake tapper, that indeed the office of the director of National Intelligence will no longer be carrying out any inperson briefings with the two congressional committees on the house or senate side who deal with Intelligence Matters as it relates to the crucial issues of Election Security. Of course we are now in the home stretch of this 2020 election, were certainly entering it, and Election Security issues are of paramount concern, not only to lawmakers on capitol hill in both parties, but also, of course, to many in the American Public who saw what happened in 2016, who saw russias influence and interference in that election and our concerns about the potential influence and interference by russia and
Committees in congress that are responsible for oversight of the Intelligence Community, that is the House Select Committee on intelligence chaired by congressman adam schiff of california and the senates select committee on intelligence, which has been held by senator richard burr from north carolina, that senator marco rubio has assumed those responsibilities as of recently. Those two committees will no longer be receiving inperson briefings from the office of the director of National Intelligence on the issue of Election Security. Instead, they will be provided with written updates, i am told. Now, obviously, this is going to come as alarming news for a lot of people who care about Election Security. Democrats and republicans. But right now the story is breaking so we have not gotten any official ontherecord responses. We should note that republicans and democrats on those committees prefer inperson briefings so that they can ask questions, challenge assumptions, conduct their overs
Supreme Court Justice thurgood marshal, Chadwick Boseman rose to fame playing american icons. He died on the day baseball celebrated one of them, Jackie Robinson who boseman embodied in his 2013 break out film 42. But it was his portrayal of african superhero in black panther that made Chadwick Boseman a household name. I knew it was an the opportunity to pull from real things, so if anybody believes, you know, that didnt have empire, didnt have art, didnt have science, you know, you see it in this movie. Reporter the actionpacked blockbuster got 1. 3 billion at the Box Office Worldwide becoming a cultural phenomenon and proving a predominantly black cast could draw audiences. In 2019 black panther became the first superhero never be nominated for best picture at the academy award. The film also won best ensemble cast at the sag awards. Boseman accepted the award on behalf of the cast speaking about the historic win and why it meant so much. You have equal if not more talent at times b
Rioting and looting and violence we have seen sprung out of alternately peaceful protests, weve seen a alternate reality from donald trump. The president made his most explicit attempt to try to tie joe biden to the protests and some of the outbursts of violence that happened in cities. Saying it happened not just in democratic cities and but cities run by joe biden and the democratic party. Listen to a bit of what the president was saying. And, jim, let me just tell you beyond that, of course, we heard those attacks from the president but joe biden for his part, he was very clear today in denouncing these attacks and the president suggested that joe biden would instead focus on police and on condemning and attacking the police. That is not at all what we heard from joe biden. What we did hear from joe biden though is putting some of the violence at least on the president , saying the president fueled this fire. Listen to joe biden earlier today. Fires are burning and we have a preside