breaking news now. he crossed into america illegally. he came from ecuador already wanted for murder. and now he is inside a courthouse in queens, new york after being rounded up accused of raping a 13-year-old child. a little girl in broad daylight at a public park. the suspect goes before a judge at any moment. the latest example of high-profile illegal immigrant crime in recent months and it is putting the spotlight on a critical question, do we really know who is coming across our southern border? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. we now know the 25-year-old suspect did enter our nation illegally in 2021 through eagle pass, texas. and he has had several several arrests since. last week he allegedly held a child and 13-year-old boy who was with her at knife point with police are calling a machete-stale blade and raped that 13-year-old girl. dramatic new video shows members of the community are holding that suspect down after recognizing him. they k
difference between having proceedings in federal court if they are moved there versus state court. state court we get the cameras and get to see a lot and judges, witness, but instead today we re just going to be sitting inside the court watching, paper and pen, courtroom sketch artists and delivering the information to you when we can. busy day as always. katelyn polantz, thanks very much. to washington, d.c. in just a few hours the judge and the federal investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election will hold a hearing in that case. judge tanya chutkan will consider dueling arguments by jack smith and trump s defense team over the date for a trial. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez in washington for us. evan, what does team trump want to do, and what are we expecting the special counsel to ask for. we know the former president doesn t want the trial to happen any time soon. his lawyers have suggested a
and kent county. again, he was told this after he summoned our senate majority leader and our speaker of the house to washington, d.c., to an oval office meeting, where they were browbeaten by the likes of rudy giuliani and sidney powell on encouraging them to do something illegal, which was to undermine the certification process in our state. was told time and time again by those individuals and by many others here in michigan that what he was asking could not happen because it was illegal to do so. again, i think it s a very strong case. for those people still supporting donald trump, i don t think it s because they don t think that what the allegations are really occurred. it s that they don t care that those things really happened,
i will help you out with that. you can do better. corvette z06. get the z07 package. just numbers and letters to me. this makes a mockery of our system of justice. unequal, equal justice under the law. it has been blown to shreds. i agree with you. merrick garland, i think lied to congress. he should resign in disgrace. i will give you one example. he said david weiss the u.s. attorney in delaware has complete jurisdiction to do anything he wants. he knows that is not true. he was a federal judge. maybe he was a lousy federal judge. david weiss s jurisdiction ends at the state line. he tried to go for other tax cheating violations, felonies, to washington, d.c. these are places where hunter biden also committed crimes. he was denied by biden appointed
is a slippery slope if you do something. to me, a legislator now, a conservative republican legislator, i believe can go forward and say, look, there are reasonable things we can do. as governor, i can t tell you how frustrated i was by the fact that i couldn t get more done when i was there i could tell you what would move them if all of a sudden there were on a consistent basis, 5,000, 10,000 people on the lawns of the state house, those politicians would shrivel up they would live in fear of the fact they might lose their jobs, and some places you have seen reforms happen after tragedies like this, all too often it doesn t happen katy, again, it s in our hands you know, i would love to be able to be part of a million person march to d.c., to washington, d.c. to the lincoln memorial, to say enough is enough already you know, that s what i think has to happen.