comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th
and releasing a report giving biden a free pass on his disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan and blames allesidel on his predecessor. of course, the president theredcouldn t be bothered to ar questions. biden sent john kirby out forck an embarrassing news conference while he snuck away to cam awap david for some hour an hour. the liberal media is furiousus r after only getting a ten minutee heads up on the bombshellas release. and it looks there. it looks like they re having a hard time spinning it. ak the word mistake appears once in his 12 page report, national security adviser jake sullivan said they were going to a hot wash. this 12 page document is a whitewash. there. it is narrative. it is light on specifics. it s devoid of citations. there s considerablederabl frustration that some people at the department think they re not being honest. the white house needs to take responsibility for what happened in augustd on its watn over which it had controlled the father
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kat: okay, really? because everything is kind of rough right now if you ask me. i mean, sometimes the news can feel like depressing story after depressing story. if i want to see that i d just flip through my old diary. a former united states president being arrested, a current united states president who can t pronounce the word arrested. deadly storms, inflation, violence, and that s just in the fox and friends green room. the only thing that might be more depressing than the news is the power that all of this sad traumatic stuff has to divide us. but there is a way to heal. both with individuals and with those around us. and thankfully it doesn t involve any advice from dr. fauci. it s candid open speech and especially comedy. deep down, people do know this. how it might even be why people tune into this show. either that or the tasteful eroticism. looking great. you re looking great. the power of speech and comedy to heal and unite us is so desperately needed right now
be indicted. there s huge ramifications. andy mccarthy is here on the trump case and what happens next. first to bryan llenas in new york city. high, bryan. hi, martha. yeah, this is a pretty interesting information coming out. brooks singman confirming that trump has hired a new lead counsel, todd blanche. he was recently a partner at a law firm a top white collar attorney. he was a former u.s. assistant attorney in the manhattan u.s. attorney s office. he will leads the charge in defending the former president here today when the former president surrenders himself to manhattan criminal courthouse behind me. more about todd blanche. he represented paul manafort, the former trump campaign manager. not only did he represent manafort, he successfully represented him, getting state charges that were filed by then cyrus vance, the district attorney of manhattan dropped. he hat state charges including mortgage fraud and a dozen other charges dropped against paul manafort arguin