really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well
their children called me yesterday and said, i m with jessica.k she hasn t heard from her husband. can you find out if he is alive? i called the police department they were quick in their response i had to call back and say, i cannot confirm anything, but he is not on the list of survivors. she had to tell their two small children that their father would never come home from work. juliana farmer, tommy elliott, my friend, no longer with us because it s louisville, i didn t just know tommy i knew tommy well. his wife even worked with my wife for a time at a company here in town their lives have been forever changed. the people who knew them are forever changed. our community is forever changed. i am so grateful to the quick response of the louisville metro police department. chief, your team was incredible yesterday. to run head first into that gunfire without question saved lives. it also changed lives. officer wilt, as we know, is fighting right now after being struck in the
the news continues. was handed over to the next level. transparency. that is a word you are hearing a lot from the former president and his allies in the wake of the fbi search of his former home. he is calling for the unredacted affidavit used to justify the search to be released. but his interest in transparency does not seem to extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the special grand jury investigating republican efforts to under overturn these election results. refusing to put on hold their own ruling that the senator must appear. but he s also filed an emergency request with the court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold running it up the chain. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today said the doj has to make public that internally legal memo that was pushed by william barr. do you remember the one that he had to analyze whether not he should charge the then president wi
him and he deserves it. he put these people through hell. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 5, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re getting more revelations in the january 6 investigation including this cnn exclusive. donald trump s lawyers are now in direct talks with the justice department for the very first time. sources tell cnn that they are discussing the claims of executive privilege which he hopes will stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations. we know that the federal investigators have subpoenaed trump s white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy patrick philbin to answer questions about schemes to overturn the 2020 election and there is more, sources tell cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. the former president apparently skeptical grilling his legal team about whether they think that he will actually
quadafi raged on for 95 minutes and 8 seconds, a diatribe against the u.n. from a jumble of handwritten notes and waving a copy of the u.n. charter and pretending to rip it up. it should not be called a security council. and he made no mention of the lockerde by scotland plane. and who called him? somebody by the name of lee harvey and jack ruby called lee harvey. whyle did he kill him? mystified the u.n. and the white house i t wouldn t try to begin to explain the actions today. the speech from the libyan dictator was weird. really weird.at he called for the u.n. headquarters to be relocated to libya so that he could avoid jet lag, but remarkably, this was not even the weirdest part of quadafi s visit to the united states. the weirdest part was his attempts to find somewhere to pitch his tent literally. he liked to travel with a tent that we set up wherever he is going and not talking about a small camping tent, a big structure to hang out with entourage and