several democratic officials. then a new discovery about a revolutionary weight loss drug. patients say it actually helps curb other addictions such as smoking or drinking. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. the first public reaction from former president donald trump in response to cnn s blockbuster reor thing, since matched by the new york times and washington post, in his classified documents case. mr. trump refused to directly answer questions about a recording now in the hands of federal prosecutors where trump is said to be talking about classified materials he kept in his possession after leaving the white house. but the former president did go after those investigators with his usual complaints of being a victim of a witch hunt. in moments i ll be joined by trump s former lawyer, tim parm tory who left the legal team a few weeks ago and played a key role in the classified documents investigation. first, we ll start
government blocking schools from teaching classes, for african american history. really. plus i ll speak to director of the oscar nominated documentary, stranger at the gate. a powerful story about how love, and community, conquered islamophobia and a small american town. that is all coming up, we re gonna start the show. good evening. you know what stood out to me on friday night, as i, like many of you at home, watched the video of the brutal police assault on 29-year-old father, son, an amateur photographer, tyre nichols in memphis? tyre nichols who died in hospital three days later on january the 10th? the moment where he called out to his mother screamed her, name again, and again. as they beat him. i don t know about you. but that broke me. i m not gonna played for you because i m sure you ve already seen some of those videos on this network. another networks, on social media. and if you haven t, watch it somewhere. you can go supercell for. tyre nichols, this unarmed f
i had so many thoughts leading up to this assignment as to what it was gonna be like. trying to imagine going down this road, knowing it s a one-way trap. there s this moment when you get this last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steal match. louisiana s highway 66. it s a beautiful countryside. it s undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they ll most likely die. but road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary. a former plantation the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola, named after the african country that was home to the slaves who once worked these very fields. now, angela is the largest maximum security prison in the country, where today, i ll be housed with about 5500 men. i m heading into ground zero of mass incarceration. there s certainly a heightened awareness as i walk through here. no guards. for the next couple days, i ll be staying here, explain key issues of the pri
another batch of questions raised about the lies of george santos. but now, the department of is asking the questions this time about the campaign, and its finances. our saturday night panel is going to weigh in on that. and the worst of the week, will it be trump s former secretary of state, mark pompeo or social media giant meta? i will explain when i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. we begin this hour with the breaking news on the tragic death of 29 year old tyre nichols at the hands of police in memphis, tennessee. there are demonstrations again tonight, we have seen this across the nation after friday s release of four harrowing videos of the deadly police assault. this comes as the memphis police department announced that it has permanently deactivated its so-called scorpion unit. that is a group of five of the officers involved in tyre nichols s death were members of. those officers have already been fired by the police department, and they are now charged with
hello and welcome to our viewer here is in the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up this hour on the program, the home stretch. candidates making their final pitch to voters ahead of the u.s. midterms. we re following all the key races that could tip the balance of power in washington. but the shadow of 2020 still hanging over the ballot box in some parts of the u.s. why there are growing fears some candidates might not accept the election results. plus, ukraine bracing for a bitter winter as russian strikes hammer the power grid, leaving millions in the cold and the dark. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we are now just one day from the critical midterm elections in the united states, and the stakes couldn t be higher. the candidates now making their final pitches ahead of election day. up for grabs, all 435 house seats and 35 of the 100 senate seats. the outcome of this elec