a frightening look at what our future holds if nothing is done to fix the crisis. and we will get to those stories in a moment, but first the latest developments in the breaking news we re covering out of haiti. a group of 17 christian missionaries abducted by gangs outside of port-au-prince. the washington post reports one of the victims posted a call for help on the whatsapp messaging service while they were being kidnapped. an ohio-based organization called christian aid ministries has confirmed the victims are members of its group. we get more now from cnn s matt rivers. we spoke to him earlier. so this is basically very much an ongoing situation at this point. what i can tell you, though, is that, you know, we were doing stories about kidnappings months ago when we were there after the haitian president was assassinated back on july 7th. and this has been an issue that has plagued haiti for a long time, but this year specifically, a significant spike in kidnappings
social media. hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. we have made it to wednesday, rich. rich: we have indeed, i m rich in for john roberts. according to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. sandra: also show biden administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. rich: hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. that s the big take away from the documents that we obtained. really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence o
good day, i m chris jansing, along with my colleague, katy tur. what a day it has been with tremendous legal and political consequences, two hearings, both with huge consequences, in fact, for donald trump and the november election. one of them s pretty cut and try. the basic question was when can we get this thing started? in new york, the judge was straightforward, no more delays. the former president s hush money trial set to go forward a mere 40 days from now. chris, the other one, which is happening as we speak in fulton county is not so cut and dry, very much the opposite. it s getting messy, playing out you could say like a tv drama or even a soap opera. the hearing will start again any moment now, and it s already been pretty contentious, some would say borderline salacious. we are waiting for dramatic testimony to continue from special prosecutor nathan wade. he was forced to testify about his relationship with d.a. fani willis. before this break, wade was grille
more inside as to what led to the approval for that search warrant and the what the underlying basis for this criminal investigation is. abby, we ve just hit noon. we re expecting more activity on the court s docket very shortly. we ll keep checking it and get back to you as soon as something is filed. jessica, stand by. we ll get back with you as soon as you have that document. joining me around the table is elliott williams and cnn legal and national security analyst carrie cordero. while everybody is hitting refresh right now, we have a moment where the judge in this case has said, government, i agree with your decision to redact certain elements of it, but yet he still sees fit to release this document. elliot, what sddoes that tell y? it s important to take a step back and what the law governing all of this is. in criminal proceedings, documents are presumed proceedings are presumed to be open, right? that s put in the constitution. things should be open. we have a
hello, everyone. i m kate baldwin, with john berman in new york. sara sidner is in jerusalem. house republicans are headed back behind closed doors. again, trying to fix their mess and come together after no house speaker for three weeks. we re on day 21 without a speaker of the house. there s eight republicans left or still vying for the job. there really is no clear path at this moment for any of them. what is clear, is that republican lawmakers, some of them, are exhausted by the chaos and getting an earful from constituents back home. i think people are so discouraged the last few weeks, they want to come together. we have to act like mature adults and come to a conclusion. i think with can. i think half of them can get their agent together. we need to get it done. new developments out of israel. a top u.s. marine general is now on the ground advising the idf. you see james glen right there. they had troops waiting to cross the border at a moment s notice. they mi