Nobody no average citizen is going to buy them. Once they have the facts in front of the jury, there is no way that the citizens are going to make some kind of connection between my client, what leland yee was doing. Reporter yees attorneys have not returned call for comment but legal analysts say making the senator a racketeer ups the ante for the jury. That makes him appear to be a very nefarious evil character, much beyond just some politician who has to get caught taking money that he shouldnt have taken. A third major player in the case is consultant Keith Jackson who was a fundraiser for yee campaign for his secretary of state run. The government says during the campaign, they engaged in criminal activity together including extortion and money laundering. Linda yee, kpix 5. Senator yee, raymond chow and Keith Jackson with 27 other defendants are due back in court august 7 for pretrial motions. A rise in homicides and increased Gang Activity has more high risk inmates heading to j
A day behind the united states, brazil and india. Meanwhile, in new york, where cases spiked in march and april, sunday marked the first day with no confirmed or probably coronavirus deaths. With the virus now hitting states in the south and the west in particular, arizona, california, florida, mississippi and texas, all have broken their records for average daily fatalities. President trump had this to say. We are, we test more than anybody by far and when you test, you create cases. So weve created cases. Were doing a great job. Were doing very well with vaccines and very, very well with therapeutics. Theyre always talk iing about cases. The number of cases. Well, it is a big factor that we do have a lolt of cases because we have a lot of testing. Had we not done what did, mike and i were talking about it before, 2 to 3 million lives lost, but we did that so were at about 135,000 and well be at somewhat higher than that by the time it ends. On the ground, doctors and nurses are paint
World, you are watching cnn newsroom and im rosemary church. Just ahead, california, florida, texas, coronavirus hot spots across the United States look to roll back their reopenings in the face of surging case numbers. Plus, Health Officials say facemasks can save lives so why have some people on both sides of the atlantic been reluctant to wear them . We are live in london this hour. And a growing epidemic of gun violence. We will look at why shootings are on the rise in the u. S. And how the very youngest are too often caught in the line of fire. Thanks for joining us. The coronavirus pandemic has surpassed a somber milestone. More than 13. 1 Million People globally have been infected with covid19 and more than half a million have died from the virus. That is according to data from Johns Hopkins university. Many of those cases are right here in the United States. Nearly 1 out of every 100 americans has tested positive for the virus. 35 states reported a growing number of infections
Getting our first look at an oped from four former directors of the cdc speaking out in support of government guidelines. They write in the Washington Post this morning, quote, unfortunately, their sound silence is being challenged with partisan pot shots sowing confusion and mistrust. Public servants have been harassed, threatened, forced to resign when we need them the most. This is uncontionable and dangerous. Joining us we have cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta and dr. Minor. Dr. Minor, obviously, dr. Fauci has not been as available on tv shows but he has been more available on sorts of these teleconferences and zoom calls. So what were the headlines, what did he tell you . Well, dr. Fauci spoke about the importance of community engagement. The importance of observing the guidelines that had been announced and that we know to be effective and that is wearing a mask, social distancing. You know, were seeing a spike maybe well talk about florida in a moment. We saw a spike
And Zerlina Maxwell will be swroining our discussi joining our discussion which gens with the braking news of rachels interview that mary trump has heard donald trump use the nword and other hateful expressions including antisemitic expressions. A post quote she was saying, growing up it was normal to hear them use the nword or use antisemitic expressions. I just wanted you to expand on that. Do you mean just jen wale within the family that was an accepted thing or do you mean specifically you heard your uncle donald use that kind of language . Just generally with the older generations as if it were perfectly commonplace and ordinary to say such things. I had the benefit of living in jamaica, not jamaica states and going to school in forest hills, so i didnt share their ideas about race and and judaism at all. But, you know, when you grow up with that being perfectly normal, then you dont really think twice about it. I have to press you on it a little bit just to ask if the president ,