tomorrow imagine the roof if the 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the first people in to decide whether to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county georgia. today about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them but you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was there. she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury a and grand jury b. h one was made up of 20 jurors plus alternates. now other than a $25 a day these grand jurors will get further, time they may also get the chance to make history. for more than two years, now fani willis has been investigating trump s alleged election interference in the state of georgia. last, yea
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Wideranging conversation the two of them had. Let me play a tape here from senator Lindsey Graham, senior senator from south carolina, responding to all of this. When it comes to Michael Cohen, you should be very suspicious of anything he says. Hes on the hot seat. Mr. Cohen, if youve got something new to say, you need to come to congress and say it under oath. Everyone is a lawyer. I should say, Lindsey Graham is actually a lawyer. So he has some justification there weighing in, i guess, on what happens on the hot seat. Sara, give me your perspective on this. We have seen teases here from Michael Cohen, lanny davis releasing that tape, memobly on tuesday night. We listened to it in realtime as it was played out on cable news. Weve heard it subsequently. Whats your sense here of what Michael Cohens thinking, his frame of mind here as we approach a new week . Well, its true that cohen is in the hot
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Unless they comply with equally bizarre set of convictions. I feel torn, playing around the margins of how ludicrous this is and part of me want to probe the implications of the investigation. Sean hannity is a person who shared a lawyer with the president , michael cohen, that he hid from the public who is now under Serious Investigation and strain who just last night the if hes finished dealing with the privileged aspects of all of the materials they raided on him including seized Tape Recordings of the president. Whats it say about not only sean hannity who can do whatever he does in the media who says hes not a journalist and Doesnt Follow rules thats freed freedom, whats it say about the president and the two lawyers taking the place of sean hannity substituting for him while continuing their public advocacy on behalf of their client, the president. What it says very seriously
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tomorrow imagine the roof if the 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the first people in to decide whether to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county georgia. today about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them but you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was there. she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury a and grand jury b. h one was made up of 20 jurors