thanks for joining me. i m jessica dean. and we have sad news to report to you. former first lady rosalynn carter has passed away at the age of 96. the carter center confirming her death just a short time ago. here is wolf blitzer with a look back at her life. reporter: she was one of america s most charming first ladies . born in plains georgia in 1927, she was valedictorian of her high school class. and met and married jimmy carter when he was in the u.s. navy. i love, respect and cherish my wife. reporter: when mr. carter s father died in 1953, they moved back to plains to manage the family s peanut farm. i didn t want to go home. i was having a good time. i think i had thought i had outgrown plains. gotten a little too big for my britches. only pouted for about a year after we got home. reporter: they had four children, three boys, jack, chip and jeff and later daughter amy. in 1962, jimmy carter entered politics and rosalynn hit the campaign trail. campaignin
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. we re continuing to follow the sad breaking news. former first lady rosalynn carter has passed away peacefully in her home this afternoon at the age of 96. she is being remembered as a mental health champion and a tireless humanitarian. governor brian kemp of georgia praising the proud georgian, saying she had an indelible impact on our state and nation. former president george w. bush calling carter a woman of dignity and strength. and first lady jill biden noting carter s commitment to mental health. former first lady rosalynn carter has just passed, and she was well-known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women s rights. so i hope that during the holidays, you ll consider saying include the carter family in your prayers. cnn s wolf blitzer takes a look back on her remarkable life and legacy. reporter: a soft-spoken, small-town girl, rosalynn smit
we pledge to you that we will wow the communists, marxists, fascists and the radical left dogs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. data from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within. calling your political opponents vermin and the threat from within, we ve heard that before. in mein kampf, adolf hitler referred to jews as vermin, worthy of eradication, and benito miscellany would ve referred to his opponents as parasites and reptiles. so, donald trump is following in some appalling and tories footsteps of the most violent, dangerous man of the 20th century, or at least some of them. trump did not end there. here he was in the same stump speech, talking about the home invasion and the brutal attack on speaker nancy pelosi s has been, and attack carried out by a right-wing extremists. nancy pelosi, who is a crazed lunatic. [applause] she s a lunatic. she is a crazed lunatic, what the hell was going on with
judge chutkan might rule on this? i think those are very different questions. the rules and federal courts are clear. cameras are prohibited. media groups have come in and they have argued a couple of different things, and one is that the rule is unconstitutional, that it violates first amendment rights so judge chutkan should set it aside. the other is a technical argument about the nature of broadcast which says that this can be done in a way that wouldn t violate the rule. i think it s unlikely that judge chutkan would go ahead and alter the long-standing practice in federal court, but that s very unfortunate because this is a case that should be put on television so that everyone can see it as it happens. the real problem is that donald trump s response in this case, this sort of last-minute response that he files, saying they jacks mitt is engaging in a show trial that he wants to conduct under cover of darkness, is really nothing other than theater because that is sim
tonight. she s the chair of the usually obscure senate rules committee i know where you re going with this one. it did the weirdest thing today. the senate rules committee voted to change a senate rule and so we ve got to hear about that. don t do that every day. they sure don t. and it s a good tease, lawrence. it took the madness of tuberville to provoke the senate rules committee to actually vote to change a senate rule. the madness of tuberville could be a three by bbc series but unfortunately it s an american drama playing out in real life, right here. it will be the title of a limited series at some point. i am sure. thanks, alex. today, in response to leaks of prosecution video interviews in the case of georgia versus don trump and multiple codefendants, just attorney fani willis did exactly, and i mean exactly, what joyce vance predicted she would do last night on this program. there wasn t a formal protective order in place that i think we ll see