quit. and the jury in the trial of the three men charged in ahmaud arbery s death to hear closing arguments this morning. we are live in georgia with the latest on that. a wild fight broke out on the basketball court between lebron james and isaiah stewart. it left one star s face bloody and bruised. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, november 22nd. we are beginning with breaking news this morning. another community left reeling from yet another senseless act of violence coming days before the thanksgiving holiday. on sunday in waukesha, wisconsin, a i day that was supposed to be a day of celebration, it turned into a deadly nightmare. five are dead, 40 are injured. a catholic priest and at least a dozen children were among those injured. lawn chairs, hot chocolate, shoes spilled all over the streets. police, we have learned, have a person of interest in custody, but they are not sayin
and tonight kyle rittenhouse, the kid who brought an ar-15 to a protest as one does, apparently, is no longer a defendant in a case that became a flash point over gun rights and fatal land heel-ism and self-defense in our country. after three and a half days of deliberation, a jury in kenosha, wisconsin found 18 year old rittenhouse not guilty of fatally shooting two men, injuring another during a protest with police conduct back in august of 2020. that unrest erupted after the police shooting of black kenosha resident jacob blake, during the trial, rittenhouse took the stand testifying that he was targeted and attacked in the midst of those protests, and fired his ar-15 insults defense. late today the family of anthony huber, one of the two men killed by rittenhouse issued this reaction to today s verdict quote, it sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people
a pro-censorship organization called politifact published what it called a fact check of the case. in a posting on its website, politifact complained kyle rittenhouse had committed a crime by carrying a firearm in the state of wisconsin. here s the quote, it is against the law in wisconsin for someone younger than 18 to possess a dangerous weapon. period. now, you notice in that statement complete unwavering certainty. this is common for politifact which issues opinions like they re edicts from gods themselves. they do it because the social media companies are reward. social media companies use politifact s ediths. politifact agrees with what you re disagrees with what you re posting, you re spreading misinformation and you must be silent. naturally, other media organizations echoed this position immediately. kyle rittenhouse 17, declared the milwaukee journal sentinel, wasn t old enough to legally carry the assault-style rifle he had. end quote. just stating it as fact.
deplatformed expresident who still leads the republican party found yet another way to spread his election fraud conspiracies, this time in the form of a letter to the editor in the wall street journal. we are not going the read it for you. it s chock full of lies that have been debunked over and over and over again by multiple media outlets, notably today, including the wall street journal. but the washington post describes it like this. the nearly 600 word letter is replete with loosely sourced and largely debunked claims of fraud in pennsylvania a state that president biden won by 81,661 votes handing him the electoral college votes he need to secure his victory. this is published 358 days after the 2020 election. for nearly every one of those days donald trump and his republican allies have sewn the seeds of distrust in our country s election. now a year later the big lie is making itself felt in the virginia governor s race. the washington post is reporting on a
he has been hiding behind the former president s insufficient and vague statements regarding privileges he purported to invoke. we reject his position entirely. he adds, the select committee will use every tool in its disposal to get the information it seeks. and witnesses who try to stonewall the select committee will not succeed. it is worth noting that expentagon official and trump adviser cash patel, former chief of staff mark meadows and his deputy dan scavino were also set to appear today and tomorrow. their testimony has been delayed by the committee. but committee s action against bannon today backing up assurances from its members in recent days that they are going to go the distance in pursuing exact will you how donald trump came to gather the insurrectionists in washington, d.c., dispatch the insurrectionists to the capitol, then lavish them with praise and declare his love for them in a way that guaranteed the conduct of that day would become our nation s new nor