Tapper starts right down a split second. This courthouse went from the scene of a highprofile trial to a highprofile security seen elites starts right now hey horrific scene outside this courthouse after man lit himself on fire. Inside the courthouse, theres a major developing and then in the Hush Money Case against former President Donald Trump, a full jury plus alternates. Now, all seated, setting the stage for Opening Statements. This hour, were gonna go all in on this okay. Its dissecting the next steps. How long can the prosecution hold out and keep its witness list out of the hands of donald trump and his defense team also this hour, in an extreme jordan, berry moves from 100 House Democrats came to the aid of republican speaker mike johnson, drawing the ire of hardline republicans in putting johnson even close closer to potentially losing his job welcome to lead on mattingly in today for jake tapper and we are live outside the new york courthouse where the former president s Cri
Members, is a reflection of the frustration that we have had and the complete insistence that we cannot go through another moment of silence without taking action. Moment of silence just left there is a moment of denial of the need to do something more. So i think that youll see more spontaneity as to the form things will take. On the floor of the house we were responding in terms of the maloney amendment, and by the way the maloney amendment for those who dont know, president obama issued an executive order enabling lgbt, otherwise qualified lgbt companies to participate in government contracts. Republicans put in their bill a reversal of that. Codifying discrimination in fact. We won on the floor to remove that. Until they reversed the vote. And thats when the activism started. We didnt go to the floor intending to do anything except hopefully win the vote. But when they in a very contrary to regular order way did what they did, then that evoked a response. So again, its the setting
There are revelations we are waiting for a briefing from the ntsb and the biggest revelation today occurred 90 minutes ago with the information from the ntsb that the train was traveling in excess of 100 Miles Per Hour through a significant curve. At a News Conference scheduled to start shortly, the head of the ntsb says the train was traveling at more than 100 Miles Per Hour, that is more than twice the posted limit for the curve where the train jumped the tracks, today they discovered an additional victim bringing the death toll to seven. The city continues to struggling for the 240 plus that were suppose to be on the train at the time of the crash. We are still waiting to hear from folks someone that left the scene and who is doing well have them call to the amtrak 1800number that is 18005239101. Again, 18005239101. Back live now we are waiting for the ntsb News Conference to begin. It looks like it will shortly. Back to you all. Thank you john. The trains engineer and his attorney
Fred haren from Bensalem Police department, we got an email from buck county prison to look for an individual wlanted for escape. Matthew miller out of ben salem, 23 years of able, he walked away from work release from the prison. He was spotted near route 13, and another officer went to make a pedestrian stop on the suspect, at the time, the individual seemed to be complying and the officer when to put handcuffs be the individual lunged up with a knife and stabbed the officer in his stomach, the bruntd of stab was taken to the vest. The subject then gave chase and ran from the officer and jumped into his police car and took off. The car was located from the Philadelphia Police department and bensalem officers and Pennsylvania State police on fair hill road in philadelphia. Then the police saw the individual running through Rush Elementary School in philadelphia and he was apprehended by philadelphia pd, and the suspect has been retaken into custody and will be arraigned this evening o
Force is telling states we are in a very dangerous place in this country now. The u. S. Reporting its second highest day of deaths on tuesday, hospitalizations signal that that number could get a lot worse. And in the middle of this Health Crisis a white house in chaos as the president s own attorney general breaks with him on the president s false claims of Election Fraud. A source tells cnn the president is discussing preemptively pardoning members of his own family and his inner circle as well. Preemptive pardons. Our correspondents are standing by with the latest. Lets beginning, though, with cnns max foster in be delivered per week from each location and the a dumpings will be that everyone will need two doses and the priority will be given to those over 80, residents and staff at Nursing Homes and Health Care Workers as well. Then it will be broadened out, the government says they are expecting millions of doses from pfizer by the end of the year. This is what the ceo of biontech