over to cnn tonight. everyone now hates this whole thing. is there a caramel burrito coming at some point? if the push pop goes, i m out of here. thank you so much, everyone. that just ruined our day. thank you, anderson cooper. we appreciate it. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. so, for everyone out there wondering which came first, the chicken or the egg? or maybe the doj or the committee investigation. it might become more clear. the committee maybe flexing its legislative and oversight powers to illuminate what led up to and what really happened on january 6th. but the doj isn t waiting for the torch to be passed. it appears to be investigating the actions of donald trump himself. that s according to the washington post tonight. cnn can confirm the key aide to mike pence, his former chief of staff, mike short, and his lead counsel, greg jacob have already testified before a federal grand jury. pretty high up! the prosecutors asked hours and asked questions of m
continues its offensive in the donbas. the russian ambassador to the uk tells the bbc that moscow will not use tactical nuclear weapons in the battle for ukraine. time to take a look at all the sporting action this weekend. it has already been a busy start to the weekend. there is more to come, chethan? good morning, liverpool football club have called for an investigation into the security arrangements of last night s champions league final after thousands of fans were stopped from gaining access to the ground. police fired tear gas and pepper spray at supporters as some people attempted to climb over the security barriers, delaying kick off for more than half an hour. liverpool went on to lose 1 0 to real madrid, as andy swiss reports. both on and off the pitch for liverpool, it was the toughest of nights. after the chaos their fans experienced outside the ground caused a delayed kick off, they started the brighter. sadio mane agonisingly close to the breakthrough, denied o
Separate the cases of Sidney Powell and ken i. Neth cheseboro. Also tonight, Breaking News. A new court filing reveals that the Special Counsel investigating hunter biden intends to indict the president s son on at least one gun charge within a matter of weeks. A Pennsylvania Prison just released video showing a killers brazen escape climbing up a wall. Were tracking the week long manhunt for a dangerous murderer. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with an early and important new ruling by the judge presiding over the Georgia Election subversion case, playing out on live television, offering clues about critical decisions ahead, including when donald trump might stand trial. We have a team of legal and political experts ready to break it down for us. First, lets go to cnns Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reed. Tell our viewers all that we learned from this very important and historic hea
Today on this special labor day edition of inside politics. Tries to earn his nickname. Joe biden spends labor day in philadelphia making the case to the union Rank And File he is still their man in washington and deserves another it turn in the white house. A 2024 snapshot makes clear the republican primary is Donald Trumps to lose, but are the four criminal indictments a sugar high, putting the former president on a course crash. A mess of their own making. Reporting from cnns Capitol Hill Team underline the Mountain Congress needs to climb and climb quickly to avoid a shutdown. Im manu raju in for dana bash. Behind the headlines and inside politics. Joe biden this labor day who hes talking to and what it tells us about 2024. The current president s team sees shaky ground. Mr. Biden is in philadelphia home turf, the audience is what we would think of as reliably blue voters, union workers. But how organized the labor vote is behind the incumbent is simply not a lock. Polling and just
Not credible as a matter of law is not something that judges really do i think that to a certain extent the judge was cutting through and saying the standard here is that no reasonable juror could possibly find on these facts and that usually is successful. If the evidence produced the trial skips and element entirely, you have no evidence of a Shooting Evidence is somebody got shot and then they just forget to bring in the autopsy so that nobody actually testifies the guy died. Then you ask for judgment as a matter of law that acquitting on the murder case because there was no evidence of a death and so its unlikely to do here and so i think the judge is kinda needling todd a little bit there with the with the whole idea of not quite able as a matter of law, i will say though these types of motions, even though from the defense sayyed, you know that youre unlikely to win its very useful to prepare for the closing because you kind of preview your argument and then you see what the pros