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Meanwhile, in pennsylvania, police are now expanding their manhunt for a convicted killer who has been on the run since escaping from prison a week ago. On capitol hill, Senate Republicans are hoping for answers today about minority leader Mitch Mcconnells health after he apparently froze twice in two months. And excessive heat is expected to break records across the country today while we have got our eyes on Tropical Storm lee expected to become a major hurricane in just a couple of days. And we begin this morning with the very latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. The judge overseeing the case will hold a hearing today on motions by codefendants Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney P ....
Ask your doctor about xarelto® today. it s hard to believe, jonbenet ramsey would be 25 years old if she were alive today. but the little girl never saw another birthday after her murder in december of 1996. the mystery is still unsolved after nearly two decades now. but now we re learning new details about the crime that may shed new light on this case. cnn s annika cabrera reports. reporter: who killed jonbenet ramsey? there is a killer on the loose. reporter: the 6-year-old beauty queen was found dead in the basement of her family s boulder home the day after christmas in 1996. i will tell my friends to ....
Most famous politician in the country not named bill clinton. a time poll, december of 1996, said a whopping 9% of americans wanted him to be president. 9%. the time at which he was most known by the american people was not only a time at which he was greatly disliked. he was also the stuff of nightmares, almost literally. in the same time magazine poll which i said was 1996, it was actually 1995, sorry. the same time magazine poll, 1995, 49% of americans chose the adjective scary to describe their feelings about newt gingrich. that actual word, scary. but now he s back. tomorrow night there is a $1,000 a head fund-raiser for gingrich in washington hosted by k. street lobbyists, one lobbyist, robert livingston who succeeded gingrich as speaker-elect and was forced to resign from a sex scandal a few weeks later. ....
In our election. reporter: one republican, mark sanford, who voted to re-elect gingrich speaker two weeks ago, has changed his mind. if you knew then what you know today, would you have voted to elect newt gingrich speaker? no, i wouldn t have. great footage, right? a lot of the guys still familiar faces. the republican disgust for newt gingrich as speaker was such, when he was at the height of his powers, there was an attempted coop against him after other republicans in the house. after the ethics charges and his party turning against him, when he resigned in 1998, he denounced his own party as being filled with, quote, cannibals. as republicans now start to try to get to know newt gingrich all over again, it s amazing how recently it was that the country knew him so very well. by the time of the ethics investigation 16 years ago today, newt gingrich was the most famous politician in the country not named bill clinton. a time poll, december of 1996, said a whopping 9% of amer ....
Does have a blind spot. the republican revolution is not about newt gingrich. it s about the ideas we advance in our election. reporter: one republican, mark sanford, who voted to re-elect gingrich speaker two weeks ago, has changed his mind. if you knew then what you know today, would you have voted to elect newt gingrich speaker? no, i wouldn t have. great footage, right? a lot of the guys still familiar faces. the republican disgust for newt gingrich as speaker was such, when he was at the height of his powers, there was an attempted coop against him after other republicans in the house. after the ethics charges and his party turning against him, when he resigned in 1998, he denounced his own party as being filled with, quote, cannibals. as republicans now start to try to get to know newt gingrich all over again, it s amazing how recently it was that the country knew him so very well. by the time of the ethics investigation 16 years ago today, newt gingrich was the most famo ....