we are very grateful. i will be back with you tomorrow. the beat with katy faang in for ari melber starts right now. hello. what a fantastic show. good to see you. thanks so much for everything. and welcome to the rest of you to the the beat. i m katy faang in for ari melber. breaking news on donald trump s coup charges and the united states supreme court. late today donald trump s lawyers urging the united states supreme court to delay hearing arguments on a monumental question, whether he has absuit immunity criminal prosecution from actions trying to overturn the 2020 election. the filing coming in response to special counsel jack smith who is urging the high court to fast track this case. today trump s lawyers telling the court it should wait until a lower court has ruled while questioning why smith wants to move so quickly. arguing that smith s proposal would lead to a, quote, radically compressed timetable, and that, quote, the special counsel identifies no dpelg re
your son, hunter, is on trial , and i know you can t speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. but would you accept the jeannie rhee jerry soutcome no matter what it is? have you ruled out a pardon for your son? john: president biden making it clear he will not pardon his son if he is convicted in the federal gun trial as prosecutor s rep of the case and the gents put the first witnesses on the stand. the court in a lunch break right now, but we are learning the president s brother, james biden, is expected to testify, and naomi has already taken the stand. sandra: we will bring you a live report on that and just moments. we also have an all-star lineup to take us through today s proceedings. jonathan turley, mercedes colwin, and mark eiglarsh are all on deck. they could have brought the case seven years ago. it s only when you run for office they bring cases. right after the announcement of this, more campaign funds were given to this campaign then any campaign, they
from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn sunday morning for october 9. 6:00 a.m. in atlanta. i m t.j. holmes. as always, we want to say a special good morning to our service men and women watching us right now, the american forces network. thank you for being here, and thank you for what you do. let s talk about the president first and the jobs bill. this is going to be an important week. in just a couple of days, the president s jobs bill will get an important test. the senate is expected to vote on his $447 billion package. the congressional budget office says the plan s tax on millionaires would raise an estimated $453 billion. still, republican leaders, they don t like that tax. the president this weekend, we heard from him. he s pushing ahead anyway. some see this as class warfare. i see it as a simple choice. we can either keep taxes exactly as they are for millionaires and approximatelynair and billionaires, or we can ask them to pay at least the
dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two words. tax hikes. and you could hear the opposition digging in. the biggest hike by far would be a cap on itemized deductions for high earners. the white house estimates that would raise $400 billion over four years. the bill would also close loopholes enjoyed by oil and gas companies, raising an estimated $40 billion. it would raise taxes on investment fund managers and scale back depreciation rules for corporate jets and suddenly republicans who had been promising to hear the president out had h
tepco bows out as the world s largest energy company pays a record price. and they double on their market debut. ceo jeff weiner tells us there s no trouble in the media sector. we begin with the former imf managing director, strauss-kahn, who s expected to walk out of jail in a few hours from now, but he will not be a free man. the judge granted him bail on thursday but with strict conditions and a warning. and even as the judge was approving the bail request, grand jury indicted strauss-kahn on multiple felony charges including attempted rape. he s accused of attacking a maid last saturday at a manhattan hotel. he denies it. he has to post a $1 million in cash and a $5 million bond. he also has to agree to a 24-hour confinement and an armed guard at the door. he has to surrender his travel documents and agree to wear a monitoring device. the judge said, quote, we don t want his money. we just want to make sure that he comes back. so the top job of the imf has been v