only 1% of those facing trials in russia are acquitted. 99% are found guilty. reaction from a few moments from the executive director of the women s national basketball player s association, who has been fighting for her return. plus, any moment, we re expecting a civil rights announcement from attorney general merrick garland at the department of justice. but we begin this hour, of course, with the brittney griner drug trial in in russia. the russian court finding her guilty. they have asked to sentence her to nine and a half years in prison and fine her $1 million ruble, which is more than $16,000. a conviction now has certainly been announced in that court in russian. today, greiner addressing thecl appealing for leniency. i made an honest mistake, and i hope that in your ruling, that it doesn t end my life here. i know that everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. i want to say again that i had no intent
you would look at me and see a nice lady, probably very happy person, very outgoing. an older woman, who has a retired life and goes to church. but my life was not normal. it was a lie. everyone thought that i was just a mom. they never knew what i was actually doing because i lied to everyone about who i was. for almost 32 years. but i didn t do it for the thrill of it. i did it because i had to do it. october 1972, i became a widow. after that, i needed to work. i thought about it and i had spoken foreign languages. i had lived overseas and i had a masters degree. so, i decided to apply for cia. it wasn t that easy, though. they wanted to make me into a secretary. but i said, no, i really wanted to be a case officer. i really wanted to do covert operations. and eventually, i became a cia officers during the cold war. people today don t realize how serious the cold-war threat really was. i don t think it is an exaggeration that our survival was at stake. they were anti
full-throated embrace of the big lie of the his efforts to steal the election for donald trump were knot nothing short exhaustive. he was in regular communication with trump after the election and led the charge to create a slate of so-called alternate electors. mastiono attended the rally on january 6th and spent thousands of state senate campaign dollars to busing true believers for the event. he s been subpoenaed by the house january 6th committee over his involvement with the fake elector scheme. in short, he s a full-barone coup-supporting threat to democracy running for governor of the keystone state where the governor appoints the secretary of state meaning that he could set up a nightmare scenario in 2024. mastiano s hand picked secretary of state could just toss out as many votes as are necessary to hand the election to trump or desantis or whoever the republican nominee, is even if they lose the involvement after all, we learned this week that trump lawyer john east
them as they recover from all of them the gravis and great to see you this morning. thank you very much. and new hours. cnn news central stars right now history will be made on several levels when president joe biden and former president donald trump take the stage for the cnn debate in atlanta with polls showing there in a dead heat, we have new details on the candidate strategies and the u.s. embassy in moscow fighting back as russia puts detained american journalist evan gershkovich on trial for what the state department says is a sham espionage charge and cities swamped by a deluge of flooding, roadways washed out and river gouges still at major flood stage across the upper midwest when will that water some side nine sarah side or john berman and kate bolduan, this is cnn news central the big day is here nearly here basically, here, joe biden, donald trump preparing to make history the first time a sitting president and debates a former president. in this first debate
bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, for the second time in a little more than two years, major u.s. supreme court ruling on abortion appears to have been leaked to the public ahead of its official release. this time the high court is apparently poised to allow emergency abortions in idaho when a pregnant patient s health is at serious risk. this happens as we await a major decision on presidential immunity from the justices who did issue some rulings today. fox news chief legal correspondent, anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream takes a look tonight. good evening, shannon. what do we know about this abortion case online posting? yeah. so the court said today there was briefly a document that was posted on the website but a spokesman for the court says it was inadvertent uploading of a document to the opinion itself out of idaho this case has not been released yet. bloomberg captured the document. it appears to show that the