break. there s five charges related to three separate shoot that is left two people dead and another injured. the shootings taking place in kenosha, which is wes last summer after police shot jacob blake. here are the charges against rip the house. reckless homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment. intentional homicide and attempted intensional homicide. the most serious charge carries a sentence of life in prison. rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to all charges. the judge has allowed lesser charges for two of these original council to be considered. if the prosecutors are unable to prove those more serious counts are, you know, beyond a reasonable doubt, they are not able to prove them beyond a reasonable doubt. also today, a sixth misdemeanor weapons charge was dropped, and that marked a stunning blow to the prosecution. we ll discuss all that have in just a moment, but here s where the trial stands right now. court is in lunch break. up next, the prosecution will fu
by my side. happy to be back. you worked all weekend. yes, i did. really severe weather is dominating the headlines. here are five things to know for monday, august 21st. right now what is left of tropical storm hillary pounding the southwest with record rainfall. states of emergency declared roads inundated with water. the national hurricane center warns catastrophic flooding is still a threat. happening today, president biden will visit maui to meet with survivors of the devastating wildfires. the number killed there, 114 with hundreds still unaccounted for. new overnight, president trump makes it official. he says he will not show up to this week s gop primary debate and even suggests he may not show up to any of them. that s right. ferreras-copeland jail in georgia bracing for a very busy week. d.a. fani willis has given donald trump and his 18 co-defendants until friday to overturn the election. major news here from russia. the first lunar mission in 47 y
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d.c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1.6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy theories about dominion in the 2020 election, even as foxes fact-checker s, in what it calls
room found no evidence for fraud, but host continued to push the conspiracy theories on air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d. c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1. 6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy the