between the lawyers and the judge, and testimony from rittenhouse himself, the jury may begin deliberating as soon as later today. rittenhouse faces multiple homicide charges for killing two protesters and injuring another during unrest last august. he was charged with being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. that charge was dismissed by the judge earlier this morning. protests broke out in kenosha last summer after jacob blake, a black man was shot by a white officer. rittenhouse then 17 was among other armed civilians who say they came to kenosha to protect businesses from the protesters. when the jury receives the case, they ll have to consider if rittenhouse was acting in self-defense and if the amount of force he used was reasonable in response to the amount of danger he was in. joining us now to break this down, shaq brewster, covering the trial from kenosha, wisconsin. and i m joined by legal analysts. in a moment danny have a us. give us the latest, shaq.
kyrie irving said his decision to not get vaccinated is not politically motivated but does he carry the message his actions will send. let s get started. but before we begin on all these topics, i wanted to tell you about some breaking news, the international alliance of stage employees have reached an agreement averting a strike that would have started at midnight on sunday. moving on to other issues, republicans have spent much of the country working for their dilutions and the big lie making it easier to refute elections that have been won by democrats. trump is undercutting them at every turn. he threatened to tell republican voters to stay at home in 2022 or 2024 unless his election fraud hoax is solved first. it was this kind of behavior that helped the georgia gop election seats. he phoned in as a surprise guest at a campaign event of candidate hosted by steve bannon. yes, the same man being subpoenaed. trump supporters made a show of reciting the pledge in front of
you are live in the cnn newsroom. good evening, tomorrow is labor day. that means this week, the presidential campaign will get a lot busier. the same for capitol hill as lawmakers begin to return from their biggest recess. big item, passing a short-term spending bill to keep the government funded. if a spending bill is not passed , four weeks from today on october 1, members of both parties say they want to avoid that. a government shutdown is not good for anybody. we want to avoid that. that means republicans and democrats are going to have to come together to get a consistency to avoid a government shutdown. let s begin the process of talking about our spending. joining us, commentator and democratic strategist maria cardona. ladies, happy labor day weekend, to have you both on. outlets, let me start with you. kevin mccarthy has urged fellow republicans to back the short- term spending deal to avoid a short-term shutdown. what do you think his chances are given what w
will have to also cover this story. one expert is saying that it is sufficient for a real federal probe into bribery and money laundering and the joe biden family that means the big guy himself, joe biden, and this was on about a half hour ago, coming up tonight, ted cruz, the former acting attorney general, matt whitaker, they will be here to break down the law, how much trouble are they really in. let s jump into what we are calling the evolution. as you may remember, they all swore, joe biden cited as president and candidate that never once ever did he ever speak or talk to hunter biden or his brother joe or anybody for that matter about his foreign business dealings and he never discussed this with anybody ever. and then they said joe biden was never in business with hunter biden or his brother or foreign business partners and that has evolved into an admission. joe biden met with the business partners, two dozen of them on the phone, but he did not discuss business over
time time time time time greg: yeah. did you ever wonder how local news becomes national? it napped montgomery, alabama. a city-owned river boat tried to dock in its designated spot along the water front but a pontoon boat was mored there they asked the pontoon owner to move but when they were asked to move the owners were happy about it at all and then this happened. mind you what you re about to see is disturbing. so if you have children in the room, punch them hard in the face as a diversion. get out the way! [screaming and yelling] greg: well, that s disgusting. appalling. and when i m disgusted and appalled, i need to see more. oh, new angle. check the two guys in the water, make sure nobody drowns. hey, hey, hey! oh, my god! that hurts. and then more people jumped in to defend the guy and it turned into quite the melee or what the irish call, friday night. but it s what the rest of us might call just plain good tv which explains how this quickly went fro