Trumps criminal trial. The judge late today denying another attempt by trumps lawyers to just run away from this thing. Indeed, the judge admonishing trumps lawyers for insinuating that actor Stormy Daniels changed her story while rejkting the mistrial request. The judge said, i disagree with your narrative that theres any new account here. Daniels wrapped up her testimony. She spoke under oath for hours and rhetorically stood her ground during the reports we have we dont have the cameras but we have a lot of reporting from people inside the room that it got very tense with the questioning from trumps Defense Lawyers, trying to make a bet the jury wouldnt be as offended by the line of questions as they would be concerned about the potential questions raised around her credibility. You wanted money. That phrase repeated multiple times by Donald Trumps lawyer today, as she grilled Stormy Daniels during crossexamination. It bordered on, i think, shaming a sex worker. Of course Stormy Dani
Aware of that in making this decision. why do you think this was so important to him? it very hard to say. i know that theread been a lot written about chelsea manning s dilts, the transgender issues in prison, that might have had something to do with the commutation. but this is a tough one. obviously it s going to be controversial, but which close to the transfer of power, obviously obama feels free to do what is in his heart. and andrea, just in terms of the original case against chelsea manning, bradley manning when this was brought, the damage that the administration at the time said was done to national security, can you talk a little bit about what that was. what the case was? disinvolved the original wikileaks and of course the damage that was done was disclosing confidential messaging and all levels of the
Gives a speech to the grievance group that s picked up by everybody in the united states. all right? no attorney general is treat this way. brit hume is going to deal with it in a minute. now, are you telling me, doctor, that the people in the national action network don t believe what holder is saying? they do. a lot of them do, i agree. here is what we have to concentrate on. here there are tens of millions of people who have disinvolved themselves with the political process. who haven t sort of been drinking the kool-aid you might say. and there are a lot of minorities, i talk to them all the time who really are seeing through this whole thing and know that they are being manipulated. i m much more optimistic than a lot of people are about what s going to happen in the future. it s antidotal with you though because the polling and that s what i rely a lot on my analysis shows that still 85% of
A grievance group and he gives a speech to the grievance group that s picked up by everybody in the united states. all right? no attorney general is treat this way. brit hume is going to deal with it in a minute. now, are you telling me, doctor, that the people in the national action network don t believe what holder is saying? they do. a lot of them do, i agree. here is what we have to concentrate on. here there are tens of millions of people who have disinvolved themselves with the political process. who haven t sort of been drinking the kool-aid you might say. and there are a lot of minorities, i talk to them all the time who really are seeing through this whole thing and know that they are being manipulated. i m much more optimistic than a lot of people are about what s going to happen in the future. it s antidotal with you though because the polling and that s what i rely a lot on my analysis shows that
It s just my high school. this is incredible. how high the water came up. kathleen, how did you tell me about the transformation from you as reporter on a story that was so close to you into being able to be the narrator of a story about it. you couldn t be objective. once you got on to that story, there was no turning back. no, you couldn t be objective, ali. i tried to be honest. that s what i ve done with all my reporting on katrina because it was so personal. and therefore, i couldn t pretend that i was just completely disinvolved. and we did what we could when we were there to help people, but a lot of folks never saw that on camera. that was something that we did when we were done with our jobs. and most people at cnn don t know what we did behind the