deliberating a verdict could come this morning breaking this morning, a suspect arrested for stabbing for americans in china the video censored on chinese social media. new questions this morning about what happened and why health experts expressing concern that a bird flu outbreak in the united states could become a much bigger problem there are a assignor is out today. i m john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central happening now alive, look at the federal court in wilmington, delaware, where everyone is waiting for work when the jury now they will be resuming deliberations in hunter biden s federal gun trial. they met for only about one our yesterday. so maybe they have hours of work ahead, but word could come any moment really, the jury is weighing three felony gun charges against the president s son. that together here gray maximum penalty of 25 years if convicted, cnn s evan perez is outside the court, and then it was a big day of closing arguments yeste
constitution. so, jackie, what are you guys looking at this morning in the power-up newsletter as we start off the week here? well, sort of in this vein, we re looking at critical race issue, more of an issue, but a web issue. republicans see it going into the 2022 midterms. it s a decades-old academic theory that teaches that racism is bigger than individual prejudice and is actually ingrained into our education systems and american institutions and really permeates society as a whole. republicans have seized on this and making it the latest wedge issue to campaign against, claiming, you know, that the federal government is trying to, you know, teach our children bad values about american history. so we go into that and also looking ahead to the senate
made clear that that i ve got his support. he called me this morning to say if asked that our relationship is excellent too. pamela brown is outfront live outside the white house. and pamela we marry acosta s version of what trump thinks. what did trump think of what acosta did today, that defiant hour long question and ansari. over embattled secretary acosta is getting high marks from the white house over the nearly hour long press conference that trump directed him to do. white house officials tell me he still does have the president s support and the president wants him to keep his job. now, vice president pence he spoke moments ago and he said that the administration welcomes acosta s explanation for that controversial 2008 plea deal that critics as you ointed out laid out there say was inadequate. now here at the white house erin i m told the posture is to find the controversy and stand behind the labor secretary. nas not always been the case in the past with a cabinet secre
perhaps in that primary with the first caucus in iowa which is a very, very progressive place. and so in that sense it is. just in terms of falent i think aiysha makes a great point. aoc is an enormously talented. i can t think of someone that new, that new to congress who has been this influential. now, having said that, democrats need web issue nas can stitch together their base and knows voters they need to win the majority. they did that in 2018. pick up on aiysha s point, democrats ran the most diverse field in 2018 and the most moderate field of candidates they have ever put together. people like sharice david won in kansas when the last time a democrat won in kansas. native american lesbian kick boxer and moderate. you need two wings to fly a plane. left and right wegenke. democrat haves to find ways to stitch together the base they
this this is the last thing left. black and whites weren t allowed to marry 40 years ago. this will take a little time. between the chick-fil-a demonstrations, the plapping of the dnc flat form and opposition from the black pastors, same-sex marriage is shaping up to a potent web issue in the fall campaign. who could have predicted the flash point would be a chicken sandwich? shannon? shannon: john, thank you very much. the tennessee democratic party disavowing the nomination of the u.s. senate candidate. they say mark clayton is a member of a hate group. vice president of public advocate of the united states. it calls himself conservative advocacy group and he received twice the vote of the nearest competitor in thursday s primary. we ll talk about the obama campaign lawsuit over military voting rights in one key state when the fox all-stars join us next. [ dad ] i m usually checking up on my kids.