What they found on the suspect. That backpack, the Gopro Camera and nk 47. Ryan Wesley Routh was born in 1966 and according to records he lives in hawaii but previously lived in greensboro, North Carolina. He is in custody in the last few minutes some of the social Media Profiles, facebook page, and his Linkedin Account have been identified. Joining us is Law Enforcement Intelligence correspondent. We are checking in with you as we learn more. We have learned a little more about his background, his criminal record and social Media Profile. Give a composite of what we are learning this man is in the early hours of this investigation. We were told he had a criminal record but we didnt know how extensive it was. According to public records, our research department, he is over 100 criminal charges previously. Most are in North Carolina. The question we are trying to sift through is what was real and made its way to court . What was adjudicated . Was he ever convicted . Did he ever plead gu
are decided before election day? plus, any minute now, president biden will be weighing in on the border bill, a last ditch effort to turn it into law. but, on the hill, is it already a lost cause? so we ll get to that, we start with the breaking news, the d.c. circuit court unanimously rejecting donald trump s claims of immunity from federal prosecution, declaring them to be contrary to the constitution and america s founding principles. this is a massive legal blow to the former president, in and of itself, but moves the d.c. election interference case closer to a trial, at least bombly. potentially. in the opinion, they said, we cannot accept forum president trump s claim that a president has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power, the recognition and implementation of election results. and, in fact, they say, it would be a striking paradox if the president, who alone is vested with the constitutional du
6th. i think i have that date right. there have been 4,001 gun deaths. 4,001 in the first month and few days. i want to put the pictures back up of the four people who died at the hand of ethan crumbley. madison, justin, just 17. what do we owe those 4,001 people this year? those four oxford students, and everyone who dies at the hands of gun violence? we live in a society where we can t control everything that happens outside of our household. we expect and demand a lot of each other every day to protect and keep our communities safe. one of the things that s most important is to talk about it with each other and to insure if you have a firearm, safely store it. that means having the gun unloaded, locked and ammunition separate. that s one of the major things we can do. if all of us did that, we could change the trajectory of gun violence in this country. 76% of school shooters get their gun from a home. we would have families who have lost their children at school. let s
the price, first to report that homeless veterans are being kicked out of hotels in upstate new york in an effort to make room for more migrants a local nonprofit says 20 homeless and vulnerable veterans were displaced in total with 15 of them being evicted from a single hotel. our veterans, the brave men and women who risked their lives to keep america free now being kicked to the curb because of the disaster unfolding on our border? new york assemblyman bryan mayor calls it a complete embarrassment. the biden administration, governor hochul and city of new york, slap in the face of veterans, citizens of new york and this country who are being cast aside to allow for asylum seeker toss come here. when it comes to this particular situation you had combat veterans who are homeless, who were told to get out of their hotel after one day. sharon and their team scrambled to find locations, let those veterans know we appreciate them. we have their backs. kayleigh contrast,
top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with