top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m bianna golodryga. president biden is in florida to rally democrats ahead of the midterms. meantime two major developments in the two separate investigations involving the former president the supreme court has just rejected senator lindsey graham s request to block a subpoena into the 2020 election in georgia where a district attorney is demanding that he testify before a grand jury. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection they could be one step closer to getting former president trump to testify. the committee s in discussions with president trump s attorneys, and he has an obligation to comply and we, you know, treat this and take this very seriously we haven t made determinations about the format itself but it will be done under oath, it will be done potentially over multiple days, we have significant questions based on the evidence that we developed and as i said what we know already
i suppose, to the outsider, we might seem a little unorthodox, but what does this outsider know anyway? who is he to judge us? the whole notion of the outsider. i mean, it s a strand that goes through most sitcoms, i think. you took tongue right out of my mouth. outsiders help us relate as an audience. what are you some kind of nerd? i m not some kind of nerd, i am the king of nerds. [ laughs ] they re seeing everything with fresh eyes. you rang? that dynamic is pretty awesome, it s special. that confidence really made people feel like they could be okay to be whoever they are. did i do that? and i think, if i believe in who i am and own it, i can still be cool. hello? anybody in there? fly, be free! the absolute essence of a successful sitcom is one word, and that is emotion. we abolished emotions on ork a billion bleams ago. they took a vote, and everyone said all in favor? eh. we have a great love for these alien characters who were st
city and so this 6 month to demonstrate is barricaded themselves in hong kong polytechnic university while dozens of pro-government supporters trying to clean the area. and got a buyout rajapaksa has been officially declared winner of sri lanka s presidential election rajapaksa took more than half the vote in the south asian island nation which is still recovering from a series of day of deadly bombings last a stuff. up next for a shift living in the digital age more news headlines coming up the top of the hour i m rebecca that isn t done and thank you. susan and now we re going to look at me affectionately ancient but as affectionately as you can. be in your continent in the middle of his election campaign in the year 2000 the documentary was filmed for russian television to turn the camera back on of course the film secretly chronicled the power grab actually
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Atlanta making that exact argument it s two black americans, especially in state like georgia you know the birthplace of the civil rights movement to put up a candidate like herschel walker who, you know, in the words of some of these critics is a caricature of, you know, of a certain type of black man, someone who had infidelity problems, many children out of wedlock, self-proclaimed not a very smart person. the broader point of nicole s piece is that there s a problem for democrats among black men, even latino men where there s little bit of drifting over to the republican party and the reasons for that are very diverse and there are many but i think those voters want to be spoken to directly by the democratic party, they don t
it s all right cause i m saved by the bell saved by the bell is all about the kids and their world. i mean, screech is just weird. whatever you re doing don t. with the shift toward teenagers on the sitcom, you also see the advent of the nerd. hey, lisa, my horoscope says we re destined to dance together. my horoscope says, beware of dorks. but there s sort of this lost puppy aspect to screech that takes him from a caricature of, you know, just the nerd, to someone that the viewer actually roots for. then with fresh prince, carlton was the first one of the first black nerds on screen. wait till we come downstairs in those tuxes. people may not think we re twins, but i ll bet they think we re brothers. you know, i don t think you have to worry about anybody mistaking you for a brother. [ laughter ] i always loved carlton, just the way he was true to himself. go carlton! go carlton! go carlton! go carlton!