Attorney general. Who yesterday, wisconsins took the issue court of appeals out of chicago to keep dassey in prison. A federal judge had asked dassey to be released by friday at 8pm. That will no longer happen as he waits for the appeal process on an overturned conviction for the murder of teresa halbach. His family was hoping he would be able to celebrate thanksgiving with them. As of now, brendan will not walk out of prison after being locked up nearly a decade. We will be keeping you updated if any other appeals process is possible. Reporting live in portage. A warm midnovember day in southeast wisconsin. Possibly southeast november day in a warm mida warm midnovember day in southeast from meteorologist rebecca shuld in the ready weather center. Rebecca in wx center today increasing afternoon sun and wildly mild for mid november with highs in the upper 60s nearing the record of 690. Breezy with wind gusts to 25 mph out of the south. Tonight very mild. Lows in the lower 50s. Stays br
Increase in deaths over the past week. And the number of new infections are now back to about 50,000 a day. So here we are, halfway through another round and it is abundantly clear that once again, as a country, we are losing valuable time. It was just a few weeks ago dr. Anthony fauci said the infection rate never got low enough. And that when we and that was when we averaged about 20,000 cases a day. Now our average is more than double that. And as more schools open up and more children head back to class, dr. Fauci is making it clear that he does not like where things are headed. Bottom line is, im not pleased with how things are going. This is the thing that is disturbing to me is that were starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent of the tests that are positive. Which we know now from sad past experience that that is a predictor that youre going to have more surges. To think that you can ignore the buy logic and get the economy back, its not going to happen. Its ju
About todays closed door testimony by the inspector general, Michael Atkinson. This is the same guy who deemed the whistleblower complaint credible and of urgent concern. What has he told lawmakers . Reporter what hes telling lawmakers is that essentially hes walking them through the process of how he handled this complaint and how he went about corroborating it. We have now learned from two sources that what was turned over last night were documents related to how the icig went about corroborating that complaint. I think thats one of the Key Takeaways from today. But sources are telling me this is mostly about process and so far there arent these big explosive, you know, moments in this hearing but of course its still ongoing. Well still keep you posted, brooke, on exactly what comes out of this meeting. We know you will. Thank you very much. Lets get you back to those Text Messages now and the people involved. Former u. S. Special envoy kurt volker handed them over to congress. He re
Treating very unfairly. Very different from anybody else. The House Speaker is pushing back arguing that the american democracy is at take. He may not be, but our constitution is worth it. Our democracy is worth it. How democrats are also demanding that mike pence hand over documents on ukraine. The Vice President has ten days to respond. This as the u. S. Tech ssecretar state mike pompeo missed his deadline. A second potential whistleblower is considering filing a separate formal complaint. The original whistleblower sparked the impeachment inquiry, and now there are more concerned from the president s aids about his calls with other World Leaders that left one official genuinely horrified. In one of the calls he fawned over Vladimir Putin telling the russian putin telling him he was a great leader. Lets go to kristin homes. He seems to be sending a message to the world, to america, and particularly to other republicans, and now he is the target of the president s tweets this morning.
So protecting yourself isnt a one time job, its an ongoing need. Now is the time to make sure that you have the right plan in place. Dont wait. [announcer] norton 360 with lifelock. Use promo code get25 to save 25 off your first year and get a free shredder with annual membership. Call now to start your membership or visit lifelock. Com tv this is a special edition of cnn tonight. All the president s men and an in depth look at the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. Im don lemon. Were going to begin with the breaking news. The New York Times saying a second official is ready to file a whistleblower complaint. That report coming hours after House Democrats issued a subpoena to the white house for documents related to the ukraine scandal. Separately, democrats sent a request today to mike pence, the Vice President , for ukraine documents within the next ten days. Were learning more tonight about the extent of Rudy Giulianis role. Was he carrying out a shadow Foreign Policy