at the white house, right now, president joe biden preparing to face congress and the american people and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. they ll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the union address. less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. welcome to a special edition of ac360. i m anderson cooper and i m jake tapper. about an hour from now, president biden will walk into the house chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. mister president biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. he will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his
they saw something they never have. before today, the house judiciary committee traveled up from washington to hold what they call the field hearing in manhattan. it was supposedly focused on crime in manhattan, which is interesting because the murder rate in manhattan is below the murder rate in washington, d. c. where the house judiciary committee is based. and it s lower than a number of big cities in republican controlled states like tampa or jacksonville or dallas or nashville or tulsa, oklahoma. so why did the judiciary committee headed by republican jim jordan come here because manhattan is where district attorney alvin bragg works and he brought charges against donald trump and jim jordan s doing all he can to protect the former president and ensure he becomes the next president of the united states. at the hearing today. jordan attacked district attorney brag , calling him soft on crime in response, bragged called today s hearing a political stunt and last week brag,
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go. police releasing the mug shot of the suspect charged in the shooting of a black teenager in kansas city. 16 year old ralph yara will bring the wrong doorbell while he was trying to pick up his siblings. last week , he was shot two times. 84 year old andrew lester is charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. thank you so much for joining us. i ll be back here tomorrow night, cnn tonight with alison camerata starts now. hey, alison. great to see you and we ll be talking about that case, of course, as well. good evening, everyone. i m alyson camerota. welcome to cnn tonight that 84 year old man in kansas city was charged this evening with shooting 16 year old ralph ural in the head. this was last week after you re all apparently rang the wrong doorbell. is this a valid case of stand your ground law, or is this the law of the instrument? which says when all you have is a hammer? you treat every problem like a nail. here. the instrument is a gun. our
and that was what was supposed to happen and why he was standing there. his brothers didn t run outside, but he got a couple of bullets in his body instead of a couple of twins coming up out and giving them my heart. hmm good morning, everyone. thank you so much for joining us at is ralph. yours. mom speaking just moments ago, caitlin is off today. but now we have another mother, who is said who s crying. thankfully her son is still with us. but we re going to speak to her aunt to his aunt just moments from now, and the attorney ralph ja rule. all he did was ring a doorbell. and now prosecutors have announced that they re bringing felony charges against the homeowners who shot him moments from now again, as we said, is an is going to join us live to weigh in on how he is doing plus, after a surprise delay the high stakes fox news defamation trial begins in one hour this morning. moscow courtroom there just denied the appeal of wall street journal reporter evan gorski, which w