defend that. the lead starts right now. with cameras rolling, mr. trump s lawyers appeared in georgia and began their attempt to defend their client. what they presented today before judge mcafee and what s likely to come down the pike. we re going dive into all of it. plus, the cease-fire is over. the white house is blaming hamas and israeli strikes resumed in gaza, while prime minister netanyahu is facing new criticism and tough questions about warnings his government received and dismissed as recently as last summer about a pending hamas attack. and the locks changed on george santos office already, just hours after the historic vote, expelling him from congress. all the day s drama, the fire, the fury, the tears, the cheers, as we say not good-bye to george santos, but let us say, until we meet again. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with two major developments in donald trump s legal battles. first off to fulton county, georgia, trump s lawyers arg
i am here because of crooked joe biden. the worst president in the history of our country. he is destroying our country. this country is being destroyed rapidly. not slowly. rapidly. this is the time to stop him by voting him out once and for all. we don t want to wake up after the election saying again? my god. what the hell have we done. we can t have that happen again peered we have been here for six weeks. nobody has said trump did anything wrong. we have a highly conflicted judge with unconstitutional gag order and everybody sees this case for what it is. sandra: a live look now from the new york state supreme court there is nowhere manhattan where the defense just wrapped in donald trump s criminal trial. they are in a lunch paper that was a former president moments ago as he departed the courtroom and prosecutors will have their chair. and welcome. john, great to be with you today kicking off a new week. john: it will be of big week. i m john roberts from washi
conservative manifesto launch. last night saw four party leaders grilled by a challenging question time audience on bbc one. rishi sunak was asked about the investigation into alleged bets made by two tory candidates as well as the party s director of campaigning and one of his own close protection officers. the prime minister said he was incredibly angry and that anyone with connections to him or the conservative party found to have broken gambling rules should face the full force of the law. the labour leader sir keir starmer was pushed on his previous support for former leaderjeremy corbyn, who he said would have made a better prime minister than borisjohnson. sir ed davey of the liberal democrats and the snp sjohn swinney were also grilled on the nhs, trust and past promises. but it was the prime minister who arguably faced the most challenging questions of the evening on the alleged betting scandal. when asked why those under investigation hadn t been suspended fro
juneteenth, celebrating freedom and legacy wednesday at ten hello and welcome everyone to cnn this morning it is sunday, june 16th i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. we are following several breaking stores for you this morning. first, police say the man who shot and injured nine people at a splash pad and michigan is did we have new details this morning about how this happened and why police believed that shooter may have been planning a second attack. israeli military has announced what is hauling up, quote, tactical pause and southern gaza for humanitarian reasons. what that means for israel s ongoing war with hamas and refugees and desperate need of aid president biden criticized the supreme court at a fundraiser last night after a string of high-profile decisions, what he s saying about the justices and the possibility of more vacancies on the court and were tracking a significant flood threat along the gulf coast with some areas in for n
this is from homs where government troops have free reign. body after body, truck after truck. according to the opposition, these were women and children stabbed, burned to death late sunday. some had their throats slit. you see 22 body bags in all of the 45 who were reported dead. as always, we can t independently verify the claims of the video, but today at least we got a kind of confirmation from syrian state media. it, too, broadcast the victim ofs in homs. normally they limit themselves to footage of funerals of police officers and security forces. now at least it is showing civilian victims, but on syrian state television, they blame those killings on so-called armed terrorist groups. it s a narrative we ve heard over and over again from the regime. the military has taken control of the neighborhoods in homs. the pictures you saw may, in fact, support that assessment. in his meeting, kofi anan, the syrian dictator stuck to the story that the violence is being committed