it s 5:00 in the morning. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. welcome back, christine. i m laura jarrett. we begin with testimony in the trial of kyle rittenhouse. the defense team plans to call several more witnesses today in the teen s murder trial including a doctor and a kenosha police officer. rittenhouse broke down in tears on the stand wednesday describing the moments before he fired his ar-15. he insists he was acting in self-defense and didn t do anything wrong. everybody that you shot at that night you intended to kill, correct? i didn t intend to kill them. i intended to stop the people who were attacking me. by killing them. i did what i had to do to stop the person who was attacking me. by killing them? two of them passed away, but i stopped the threat from attacking me. one problem with that testimony, in cross-examination rittenhouse said he knew one of the men he killed was unarmed. the nation is watching closely toe see the next mov