ways, provided you, the jury, believe that it existed from proven facts before you. it may be inferred from the proven circumstances or by acts and conduct, or it may be in your discretion inferred when it is the natural and necessary consequence of the act. whether or not you draw such an inference is a matter solely within your discretion. criminal intent does not mean an intention to violate the law or to violate a penal statute but means simply the intention to commit the act that is prohibited by the statute. the defendants will not be presumed to have acted with criminal intent, but you may find such an intention upon a consideration of words, conduct, demeanor, motive, and other circumstances connected with the act for which the accused are being prosecuted. now, every party to a crime may be charged with and continue viktded of commission of the crime. a person is a party to a crime only if that person, a, directly commits the crime, b, intentionally helps in the comm
reckless conspiracy theorist. roger stone and alex jones the late toast receive subpoenas related to the insurrection, and the prosecution rests just moments ago in the ahmaud arbery murder trial. the jury right now has that case, and america waits for an important verdict. we begin though with president biden and a new effort by the white house to lower your pain at the gas pump. the president later today will announce he s releasing 50 million barrels of oil from the nation s strategic stockpile and at the ask of the biden white house a handful of other big economic powers is to tap their reserves in order to bring down gas prices to thanksgiving, christmas and into ain r an election year. the average price for a gallon of gasoline is $3.57, a seven year high. president biden is trying to show first and foremost that he is acutely aware of these inflation concerns of americans so he s going to order the department of energy to release, as you said, 50 million barrels of
hey there i m stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is tuesday, november 23rd. and we begin this morning s broadcast with breaking news. all eyes on brunswick, georgia, where closing arguments are resuming right now. in the trial of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. this is the prosecution s rebuttal to the defense s closing argument from yesterday. let s listen in. so don t leave the house. here s an alternative. call the police. don t chase down strangers to confront them. don t go after pedestrians in your truck. common sense tells you, you go in a truck after a pedestrian, have you ever had a strange truck with people start yelling at you? would that startle you? i don t know. we don t know what was in the mind of ahmaud arbery. i mean, what do you think? these strange men pulling up in a truck, then not relenting and not backing off. how about some empathy. remember, listen, emphasize. where is the empathy, where did they go
world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news in the investigation into the capitol insurrection. new subpoenas targeting allies of president trump. whitney is working with story for us. the targets of these subpoenas include some high profile names. we ve seen these names before. they ve been in trouble before. these are names we ve been waiting for. we re talking about alex jones, excuse me, yeah, alex jones and roger stone. forgive me. they are two people at the very center of these stop the steal rallies. those are the two most well-known names in this list of subpoenas which includes dustin stockton, jennifer lawrence and taylor budowich. these indicate they re really going for the people at the center of the top the steal moment and involved in the organization of the rallies that proceeded the riot. the subpoena for jones notes he was denied a speaking role
police are now questioning an official person of interest who may have significant criminal history with four senior law enforcement officials telling nbc news that person may have been fleeing from an earlier incident involving a knife. tom winter has been digging into this investigation. tom llamas is live at the crime scene. meagan fitzgerald outside a childrens hospital where several victims were transported. we have nbc security analyst, clint watts. what do we know about this person of interest? we can name, based on five law enforcement officials to myself, and my colleagues, that the individual who is being questioned now, this is the person who has not yet been formally charged, but the person who has actually not even been named a suspect, but that individual has been identified as darrell brooks, he s 39 years of age, has a significant criminal history, including possible charges as recent as november 5th. this individual is believed to have been involved