read a series of frantic text messages from january 6th aloud. messages pleading with meadows to convince his boss to do something about this. barricades, attacking officers, smashing through windows, and pushing through doors. as the violence continued, one of the president s sons texted mr. meadows. quote, he s got to condemn this shut asap. the capitol police is not enough, donald trump, jr., texted. meadows responded, quote, i m pushing it hard. i agree. still, president trump did not immediately act. donald trump, jr., texted again and again, urging action by the president. quote, we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it has gone too far and gotten out of hand. the texts show that the same fox news hosts and members of the trump inner circle who have now spent months downplaying the insurrection were, in fact, on january 6th begging the former president to call off the rioters. multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immediately. they
the key is convincing the jury he acted in self-defense when he killed two people and injured another. in the courtroom, a highly unusual scene there as the judge had rittenhouse himself randomly pick six juror numbers from a raffle drum of 18. those six numbers, people that the court then dismissed as alternates. the final 12-person jury, seven women and five men, nearly all white, cnn s omar jimenez starts our coverage off this morning from the courthouse. reporter: laura, good morning. well, after close to nine hours of deliberations, this jury could not come to a verdict on day one. but they will be back this morning. what we saw early in the day over the course of tuesday, though, was the jury asking for more copies of the juror instructions, instructions that deal with crucial concepts like self-defense, provocation, intent and, of course, the circumstances around the charges in this case as well. to begin the day, though, on tuesday, what we saw was kyle rittenhouse
heard from the biden administration, and food, gas and household goods continue to soar. we are going to see ease, yes i say ease lower inflationary pressures on our economy. and we will be carrying this out, what i call blue collar blue print for america. the white house says the hard infrastructure bill the president will sign will eventually be supply chain issue and more big spending democrats want to pass in the social infrastructure package will eventually get americans back to work. it was specifically designed to bring down the costs of child care. but even democrats are urging the white house to pull other levers now. i have said let s have the president tap the strategic petroleum reserve that would bring down the cost of gas. administration says there is nothing to preview on that front. also challenging the assertion there is no relief in sight by touting the coming end to their own programs. democrats passed along party lines in march. but these are l
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this broadcast with the rapidly growing legal perils for donald j trump. his codefendants and his closest allies. along with his pending criminal trials, the former president, some of his kids and his business now face a whopping 250 million dollar civil lawsuit from new york attorney general tish james. in new court documents filed earlier, james alleges that donald trump routinely overstated his personal net worth to financial institutions, in one single year, by as much as 2. 2 billion dollars. according to james s lawsuit, the asset inflation went on for ten years in an effort to get better loan agreements. the trial is supposed to begin in early october, ahead of any of trump s criminal cases. meanwhile, a federal judge ruled that former trump lawyer and advisor rudy giuliani defamed georgia election workers, ruby freeman and her daughter, shaye moss. giuliani made repeated false claims about the two of them as he wo
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this broadcast with the rapidly growing legal perils for donald j trump. his codefendants and his closest allies. along with his pending criminal trials, the former president, some of his, kids and his business, they now face a whopping 250 million dollar civil lawsuit from new york attorney general tissue james. that case was going away? no, sir, it is front and center today. in new court documents filed earlier, james alleges that donald trump routinely overstated his personal net worth to financial institutions, in one single year, by as much as 2.2 billion dollars. according to james s lawsuit, the asset inflation went on for ten years in an effort to get better loan agreements. the trial is supposed to begin in early october, ahead of any of trump s criminal cases. meanwhile, a federal judge ruled that former trump lawyer and advisor rudy giuliani defamed georgia election workers, ruby freeman and her daughter, shaye