It is a good day. We made progress today. Embrace that. Thank you for watching. Its good to share it with you. The big show, don Lemon Tonight, big star, d lemon, right now. How are we going to celebrate juneteenth . When there is progress, we should celebrate. Oh, well figure it out, this weekend. But i am just going to celebrate by honoring the people who came before me. I try to celebrate it, every day, by honoring the people who came before me. Who fought for me to be able to sit in this seat, every night. To be able to speak, with authority. To be able to give my Point Of View, not opinion, theres a difference. Opinion is not based in fact. A Point Of View is based in fact and in truth. And it is my particular lens, through which i am speaking, as a Black Man in america, who happens to be gay. And i have the incredible opportunity to have this platform to to speak, directly, not only to The American people but, to the world. To more than 200 countries around the world. So thats ho
submitted by the democrats. we know then, the ex-president s lawyers forced to scramble the defense. i ll be quite frank with you. we changed what we were going to do on account that we thought that the house managers presentation was well done. tonight what we learn from day one while even republicans were shocked by trump s defense and what it means for conviction and the country moving forward. senators, this cannot be our future. this cannot be the future of america. all in starts right ndour. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today the second impeachment trial of former donald j. trump officially began and the argument before the u.s. senate today was focused, it was whether or not the trial itself was constitutional. because it takes place after trump has left office. the end result is that the trial will actually move forward. the measure to move the trial forward passed this evening, 56-44. a bipartisan vote with six republican senators joi
for a second weekend. is trumpism taking root in canada? and queen elizabeth just announced a new title for camilla. we re live at buckingham palace with all the details. announcer: live from cnn center, this is c cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. u.s. officials now believe russian president vladimir putin has assembled about 70% of the military force he needs to launch a full-scale invasion of ukraine. the latest satellite images show russian forces gathering force in belarus.ed less than 50 kilometers from ukraine s northern border. u.s. troops have began arriving in poland to help boost nato s defenses there. american forces have also been sent to romania and germany. france s president is heading to moscow on monday to try to discourage further russian aggression. cnn s melissa bell is standing by live for us in kyiv. melissa, on one hand, russian troops positioned in belarus and u.s. troops on the move. on the other hand, hope for diplomacy still alive. what s the
suggesting he might pardon rioters if he s re-elected. i heard this week that president trump said i had the right to return the election. president trump is wrong. i have no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and, frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. under the constitution, i had no right to change the outcome of our election. and now we re seeing new video of the violence and carnage from january 6th. we should warn you some viewers might find it disturbing, but it shows the actions that just yesterday the republican national committee declared legitimate political discourse. you see in this video a pierce battle between rioters and capitol police. you hear chants of usa, usa as glass breaks and rioters launch objects and police. more than 700 people and just of this video are comments that the justice department is u
to do. so let me find out pence let me find out myself that you treasoned the country. meanwhile, the republican national committee censured congresswoman liz cheney and adam kinzinger for, quote, participating in a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in, listen to this part, legitimate political discourse. that was discourse? the moments you are looking at right now, legitimate political discourse. the rnc later had to clean that up. senator mitt romney ripped his party s desession to censure the pair saying, in part, shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscious that speak truth in the face of vitreal. and on top of all this, new details about when trump loyalist, republican congressman jim jordan spoke to the president on january 6th. two sources are telling cnn that president trump spoke on the phone from the white house residence with jordan for ten minutes on the morning of january 6th. let s start with that forceful rebuke by fo