hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
back here in the u.s., the horrific scene. the rookie police officer fired from the force after shooting an unarmed teenager who was in his car eating a burger at mcdonald s. the disturbing body camera video showing the officer opening the car door and then opening fire. the uproar tonight involving the los angeles city council. the council president now resigning as president 24 hours after a leaked recording. what she is heard saying about a white councilman s black son. other council members also heard on that audio. the urgent search tonight for a missing 14-year-old girl in boulder, colorado. last seen with two older men at a high school football game. the alleged messages from another state to her friends. and what authorities are now saying tonight. the concern at several major airports in the u.s. after hackers based in russia targeted laguardia, l.a.x., o hare, hartsfield-jackson in atlanta. hacking their websites. if they can do this, what else can they do? gi
good evening, i m alicia menendez. federal investigators may now be turning up the heat on members of trump s legal team. those documents are stashed at mar-a-lago. christina bob spoke to federal investigators on friday. in name two other lawyers who investigated the case. nbc news also reported and trump s possession had been returned to the government. it has been nine weeks since the trump of there s still no explanation as to why he took the documents and what he intended to do with them. the new york times is reporting on one possible plan. the time said since late last year, trump told his advisers he would return the records if the national archives handed over material that he believed would discredit the fbi s 2016 rush investigation. trump never pursued the idea. this weekend, trump again spread the false claims that those white house records are his. even though they are not and will never will be. i had a small number of boxes in storage at mar-a-lago guarde
race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge on a personal level, for voting this cell for the year. this so it really will matter. the selection is going to be very tight and very very interesting. i will be very consequential. if the polling bears out and election day looks anything like the polls say it s going to look today. we will be talking with the man in charge of the democratic parties in the senate are obviously super high stakes job super difficult job still to who would you rather be but you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now would you rather be the senate guy for the republicans who tomorrow has to go to the state of georgia and say that everybody vote for herschel walker because when you look at herschel walker take it for me we want you to know that that s what republicans stand for. now, we will not be taking questions about the holding a gun to a woman s head. nor will we take
midterms. exactly one month away. early voting under way with issues like abortion and inflation driing people to the polls. many say democracy itself is on the ballot. we have special stuff planned. want to get right to it with michael steele. you know the music, sir. en why the beat. i know it well. when you hear that early voting is under way and look at what s going on out here, i m coming right to you, regular beat viewers know we have a set up. coming right to you. what do you see right now in this homestretch? what i see right now are voter deciding to hunker down around a vote. the early voting, as you noted, has started. there s some anticipation and trepidation. the anticipation is voters are going to take seriously not just their concerns about the economy that s being stressed by some, but also the democracy. that it will matter the kind of men and women they select, choose to be an extension of them to be the best representative for them in the statehouse