otherwise it s out the window. el paso, which has seen an uptick with the policy in place is preparing for the worst. border patrol setting up a massive tent city just outside of downtown. the new york post cover this morning calls the tents a welcome mat for illegal immigration. newly-erected processing center is for the overflow in addition to the permanent one they already have there. the state s governor greg abbott still doing his best to send a border message to the biden administration on christmas eve he dropped three bus loads of illegal immigrants outside of the vice president s home. not the first time he has done this. those on the bus willingly chose to go to the nation s capital. democrats were quick to call him out as heartless. one guest not holding back. why republicans would love to say they re pro-life they only care about children and families when it comes to babies that are in the womb. when they are outside of the womb look at what happened. republi
world. it is thursday, october 13th. i m christine romans. donald trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy. that s the case the january 6th committee plans to make in this afternoon s final hearing before the november mid terms. sources tell cnn we ll hear new testimony and recently uncovered evidence. the political coup and all of the events surrounding the attempt to overthrow joe biden s majority electoral college, the insurrection nair ray violence, the mobilization of the mob, all of it flowed out of the will and determination of one man to seize the presidency and that s donald trump. danielle diaz joins us live from washington. what else can we expect this afternoon? it s really important to emphasize this will be the last time we ll publicly hear in this kind of format from the committee. of course, the last time that they will have some sort of hearing to present to the american people publicly what they found in this investigation of donald trump
we start with the breaking news. a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to sandy hook elementary families and an fbi agent in the connecticut defamation trial against alex jones. eight families and a first responder sued the far right conspiracy theer orists for the lies he told. this is the second of three against jones, concerning the sandy hook massacre, comes after a texas jury decided in august that jones and his company should pay nearly $50 million. the connecticut jury, nearly a billion. let s go outside the courtroom. bryn, you were in there when the big figures were read out. walk us through the jury s decision. reporter: big figures leading up to the announcement of the numbers, even the jurors were taking a deep sigh. there was just so much pressure and tension inside that room. then what a release from these family members when those numbers were being read and tallied. i can tell you as we talked about, robbie parker, he received the biggest amou
tomorrow s climactic hearing by the january 6th select committee, the last before election day. cnn political correspondent sara murray has new details on what to expect. reporter: the january 6th committee making its closing argument ahead of the november midterms. there s some new material that, you know, i found as we got into it pretty surprising. reporter: sources say they re aiming to drive home that former president donald trump still poses a danger to democracy, using a mix of new evidence and reminders of their prior work. it s really demonstrated the breadth and the depth of the effort to overturn the election. and to stop the peaceful transfer of power. and it was an effort that, at every step of the way, the former president was deeply involved in, personally engaged in. reporter: while live witnesses are not expected, members are preparing to showcase previously unseen emails from secret service which recently turned over more than 1 million communicati
for democrats it s full steam ahead and working in a rare saturday session. the process is very lengthy. we ll see it kick off tomorrow afternoon and stretch over the course of the weekend because the rules would tell you once they go on the motion to proceed, the first process in order to get on to this bill, they then have to go through 20 hours of debate at least and then there are other things that republicans can do to try to slow it down before this so-called vote-a-rama period, an unlimited period of amendments and then they could ultimately pass it. we re only here talking about that because of senator kyrsten sinema, who was able to get the changes she wanted on the bill. they, contrary to what schumer and manchin may have wanted. i believe strongly in the carried loophole and i pushed for it to be in this bill. senator sinema said she would not even move to proceed unless she took it out so we had no choice. they re going to do lots of amendments. we don t know wh