Menendez and his Co Defendants were found guilty across the board in all of these charges that will be waiting for this senator to leave the courtroom. He usually walks out on his own, even without his attorneys and often speaks to the cameras behind me, waiting for the senator to make his way out. It will be a few things left that the judge will do, including sentencing, set a sentencing date, but well be standing by to hear what the senator have to say every has been found guilty on all these charges, charges, dana okay. Kara . Absolutely. Extraordinary that we have this united States Senator senior senator who has a lot has had a lot of power. Now, being found guilty, as you said, on 18 counts of corruption using that position that he has elected by the people of New Jersey according to this jury, to sell his office to foreign powers and also to corrupt business people. Really remarkable. Brianna keeler is going to pick up our coverage now stay with us cnn Breaking News we are follo
coroner is saying about how she died. plus, the multiple court cases going down today with jury selection in the trial of this guy, lev parnas, the former associate of rudy giuliani. and we re seeing the two accused american spies in court for the first time. the big question, whether a hard drive and peanut butter sandwich could land the couple life in prison. on access to abortion what the supreme court is saying about a new law in kentucky. and in texas, the state now set to tell an appeals court why its near total abortion ban should stay in effect. good afternoon to you. i m hallie jackson in washington along with leigh ann caldwell on capitol hill, and punch bowl news founder and msnbc political contributor jake sherman. so, guys, here s what we re watching, right. let s throw it up on the calendar. sometime in the next hour or two the house vote to extend the debt ceiling. you think, okay, that might get us through to december 3rd that happens to be the day government
southwest airlines cancelling thousands of flights, stranding tens of thousands of passengers. what caused this meltdown? and the spies next door. an fbi sting ensnaring two would-be spies. we ll tell you about a couple accused of trying to sell nuclear secrets in peanut butter sandwiches. we begin with encouraging developments on the pandemic as the u.s. appears to be turning a coroner the fight against coronavirus. the u.s. averaging about 93,000 new cases per day, the lowest daily average in more than two months. hospitalizations and deaths also down significantly. and there s promising news on the vaccine front as well. the u.s. now averaging a million doses administered a day. that s the first time the nation has hit that mark in weeks. and new this morning, merck asking the fda for emergency use authorization of its new antiviral pill, which the drugmaker says cuts hospitalizations and death by half in those with early symptoms. elizabeth cohen, a lot of signs for o
absolutely. republicans who once again rejected the big lie are now falling in line with trump. even the most senior republican says it s smart politics not to push back on trump s un-american attack on our democracy. just another sign that the party is no longer defined by policy, but by loyalty for one man. tonight, growing signs of democracy in peril. nearly a year into the biden administration, top republicans doubling down on the big lie. as they turn to the 2022 midterms. on surrenday, the number two ho republican refused to acknowledge that president biden was legitimately elected. if you look at a number of states, they didn t follow their state-passed laws that govern the election for president. that is what the united states constitution says. they don t say that the states determine what the rules are. they say the state legislatetures determine. are we going to follow what the constitution says or not? over the weekend, republican senator chuck grassley appe