votes, which is one more than we have. and despite all the revelations so far, the former the president revived his attack against mike pence on friday insisting the rioters were patriots and dangling pardons for them if he runs again and is reelected. trump s lies about the election are reinvestigator rating in texas where they adopted a platform calling president biden s win illegitimate. and there are growing fears about a recession next year as americans are paying higher prices while cutting back on travel and leisure and paying more for loans. the biden administration still arking it s not certain after being wrong on inflation. the president said that today himself. we ll talk about whether that interest rate hike will have an impact. also this hour, the raging bat until ukraine where russia has a firm grip on the eastern part of the country and the families of three americans allege captured in combat are desperately trying to get them home. but first, to the atta
school in person. federal health officials now say students need to remain only 3 feet apart as opposed to 6 feet as long as everyone is wearing a mask. that is a major policy change of interest to so many parents and so many kids who are eager to close the laptop on telelearning and get back to the classroom. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. the president s visit to atlanta was originally scheduled as part of the white house s help is here tour, touting that $2 trillion rescue plan, and although the main focus of the trip has turned to the aftermath of that deadly shooting rampage, the president and vice president will meet later this afternoon with asian american community leaders to discuss the escalating threats and violence against asian americans since the start of the pandemic. we re also learning a lot more today about the victims of those shootings, not only their names and their ages, but their stories. like delainie yan who went to the spa for mas
argument that the prosecutor put out there. she went through each one of the charges, actually said to the jury the order in which she thought they should consider those charges. she kept coming back to two phrases, common sense and critical thinking. how effective is it when a prosecutor approaches the jury in that way? i thought she was really effective, erica. the defense has been factually deprived in this case from the get-go. mcmichael s testimony did not help at all. we saw the defendant become the prosecution star witness. he confirmed there was no threat, that really the only threat were the three defendants committing multiple felonies that this prosecutor laid out very clearly, refuting self-defense. you don t get to commit felonies and be the first aggressor and under the self-defense law in georgia claim self-defense. she went through this methodically in terms of the analysis. the first part was the citizens arrest. if you don t have a valid