comcast business. powering possibilities. top of the hour now on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor black well. and i m bianna golodryga. any minute now the jury will return from lunch and receive instructions from the judge. just before the defense was getting ready to begin this morning, a judge dismissed a juror for discussing the case with people outside the jury. you have had some discussions with some folks not on the jury, which is going to require me to remove you from the jury. i m not suggesting that you intentionally did anything wrong, but that in order to preserve the integrity of the process and in fairness to all the parties involved, we re going to replace you with one of the other jurors. cnn national correspondent diane gallagher is outside the courthouse there in walterboro for us. walk us through this final day of the closing arguments. reporter: victor, right now we are waiting for court to return essentially so the judge can charge th
when they see what s playing out in washington, where we re continuing to see an increasing number of republicans and even some democrats question the amount of support militarily, financially, that the united states is providing for ukraine, going to your point that putin thinks that time is on his side. do they view that as something that could benefit them knowing that you have a constant question of republicans asking when will this end, we re not writing a blank check? thes deat s definitely th the card putin was always using. he used to think of himself as all the western politicians come and go. they are getting re-elected or not re-elected every four or five years. he remains the same. his next presidential term is supposed to start in 2024. and he knows he thinks at least that he is going to stay in kremlin. and he loves that situation when he s not dependent on the
because they you know, they respect them as former members of congress. so i think it s really interesting that they actually summoned and not subpoenaed him. i think that also jim jordan is probably looking and saying, hey, i was on the list to begin with. they didn t use me then. they probably don t need me now. i think that he should go. but my guess is these are this is the dynamic that s playing out in washington. yeah. congressman walsh, you also served in the house with jim jordan. you said you used to be good friends. what do you think his end game is here? politically i understand why he wouldn t do it. it certainly plays to the people who support him, i assume. anderson, this is what s so sad about this republican party. jim jordan, who i do know well can t testify in front of this committee because if he testified under oath, he would have to tell the truth. and if jim jordan told the truth about that day, his his career as a republican would be
allies. the committee investigating the january 6th attack says it is officially moving forward with contempt charges against steve bannon after he failed to comply with a subpoena. everything you need to know about the fight playing out in washington. meanwhile, across the country massive labor strikes are under way. more than 10,000 auto workers standing up to agricultural mega giant john deere, while thousands of hollywood workers could take to the picket line any day now. and it is the end of a very big week in the fight against covid. right now an fda advisory panel is meeting to review the johnson & johnson booster shot, after giving a unanimous go-ahead to the moderna shot yesterday. we ve got to start with breaking news. former president bill clinton is recovering in a california hospital this morning. we are just learning that he went in on tuesday for an infection, but doctors are hoping to send him home soon. nbc s steve patterson joins us with the latest. it sounds like thi
and the governor has called up the national guard to drive kids to school. we could be doing that to ships across the country. and then finally we need to be working much more closely with china and our other trading partners, even just a small number of covid cases is enough to shut down a port in china. we ve seen that in august. and then other countries like vietnam, sri lanka, we ve seen the delta variant is really just slowing things down there. so, again, fighting the virus is going to help us fight and win for the economy. michael, are you getting big-footed by bigger companies? bigger companies can afford to charter their own cargo ships, this can pressure suppliers and say, if you don t deliver to me first, you re done with me forever, and they ve got much deeper pockets than you do. without a doubt. we were sitting on a port waiting probably a month ago in vietnam for us to get on a boat and we were ready to go, and