the supreme court is now smack in the middle of the 2024 campaign and donald trump could be asking the high court to both stay out of and jump into his legal troubles at the very same time. exactly. and republican-led house committee is launching an investigation into harvard s president over plagiarism allegation, and what the president is saying in the scrutiny of the new embattled president. and cnn is flying over the volcano in iceland. that is what you have to say. the best or the worst assignment ever. the volcano that is still erupting. i m kate bolduan with omar jim jimenez. john and kate are both off today. this is cnn news central. the supreme court of the united states is now in the spotlight and unwittingly front and center in the 2024 presidential election. the high court is facing a number of decisions that could directly impact how this election is going to play out. special counsel jack smith has asked the justices to fast-track a decision on wheth
rival, reasserted communist party control over every aspect of chinese city. what we know is tomorrow when we see his top advisers revealed, is that he s going to be stacking it with his closest advisers and loyalists. so in this next term, expect xi jinping to double down on his ironclad rule, so a more authoritarian china at home and a more aggressive china abroad. fredricka? possibly more surprises. selina wang, thank you so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. with just over two weeks until midterm election decides who controls congress, voters are turning out in big numbers across the country to cast their ballots early. so far nearly 6 million people have already voted in the midterm elections. in georgia, more than 660,000 voter have already cast their ballots. that number is not far off the early voting turnout for the 2020 presidential election, and it s a quarter of a million more than the early voting turnout f
Also wired money to some of these vendors that we heard about last week, including the clothing people that ostrich jacket. He explained how those money flows went there. So hes connecting the dots for prosecutors. He also explained how he helped falsify documents at manaforts request at the banks so manafort could get mortgages and he also explained how they falsified his tax returns, explaining how they moved things that should have been income to loans and back to back dated documents. At One Point Manafort was under financial duress. Prosecutors showed an email of manafort sending to gates which manafort says w. T. F. , we need to discuss options. This is a disaster. Hes Instructing Gates to help him come up with some solution with the accountants about how to fix his tax returns so he doesnt get hit with quite a large of bill as he was expecting. So gates testimony is continuing and we expected the crossexamination to begin in a
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we re not going to lit go. to be president of this country, you need tremendous stamina. we ve done more than any thought b possible. not even two years. let s go to the white house now to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. can you define this, what exactly is executive time? i think that s in the eye of the beholder. there are trump critics who will say he s spending a lot f time behind the scenes, come peposin tweets and watching tv. i ve talked to the white house just in the last hour and this is somebody who speaks regularly with the president who says no, he does spend a will the lot of twitter and watching tv, but he s also on the phone. talking to outside advisers. that s something we ve talked about before. that he talks to these outside advisers and friends, really to the frustration of people like the former chief of staff john
that will happen, but the main focus right now is the east coast. i know you ll be watching it. derek, thanks. now we turn to the u.s. open tennis championship. in case you haven t heard, where 20-year-old naomi osaka won her first grand slam title. she s the first japanese player ever to accomplish the feat and upset a heavily-favored veteran serena williams. the match will be remembered for williams clashing with the chair umpire and calling him a thief. andy schultz has more about it. reporter: absolute chaos breaking out at the women s final on saturday. lit go down as one of the most controversial matches in tennis history. serena williams already dropped the first set to naomi osaka. then in the second set, carlos ramos issued her a warning for getting coaching from the stands. that s when serena pushed ramos