through an act of violence at the hands and the feet of people who had been charged with keeping them safe. with the brother of george floyd and the mother of breonna taylor in attendance, tyre nichols, yet another young, black life snuffed out by the brutality of police is mourned in memphis. and later, congresswoman omar joins me as republicans continue their revenge tour. plotting to deny her a seat on the foreign affairs committee. we begin tonight on the first day of black history month, while it s still legal, presumably even in florida. in memphis, tyre nichols was eulogized today by reverend al sharpton, vice president kamala harris, ben crump, and tyree s family in an emotional and powerful ceremony in the city that was once the site of the final speech of reverend dr. martin luther king jr. on the night before his assassination in april, 1968. looking at the balcony where martin luther king shed his blood, for city workers, for black city workers, to be able
on the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. in that explosive decision, they not only overturned that landmark decision, the court also galvanized liberals and triggered backlash at the polls. and today, they also triggered counter-protesters. while the march began as a response to roe, we don t end as a response to roe being overturned. why? because we re not yet done. i am here. it is to show that we will not let america be bullied out of the right to abortion. everything that happened before roe, that was just the preseason. [ chanting: abortion is essential ] not when roe will be reversed, but when. our work just began. it felt more pressing this year. at this point, we no longer have a constitutionally protected right to abortion. the landmark decision from the supreme court overruling roe has not only sparked pushback from the left, it has also given rise to a growing fear and confusion among conservatives as they struggle to define the future of their move
it is 4:00 new york. it is not every day that a former president of the united states is in a courthouse. much less as a defendant in the case that threatens to bring down the entire brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place. today, donald trump was back in court in the $250 million civil fraud trial in new york. before walking in, trump lashed out as he so often does at the judge, the trial, at the new york attorney general who brought the lawsuit. he did not mention judge engoron s clerk, who has been a frequent target of his, he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff. inside the courtroom, accounting expert eli bartov took the stand and testified that in his expert opinion the attorney general s claims of a years long pattern of fraud, manipulating the values of trump s real estate assets were baseless. there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said. dold trump was reportedly visibly pleased.
canceled meeting the white house, no longer hosting israeli officials after prime minister benjamin the ten you publicly posted a video criticizing the us for withholding weapons shipments plus safety in the sky families of passage killed in to boeing plane crashes and whistleblowers pushing for more accountability as boeing ceo says, he s proud of the company s record. will speak to a whistleblower live, who says he got off a plane when he realized it was a 737 max. and extreme weather across the nation in new mexico, thousands of people are racing to escape to wildfires. at least one person has died in the number of destroyed buildings has just tripled in just a few hours hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and you re in the cnn newsroom all that coming up. and let s begin with some breaking news. the weather system churning in the gulf of mexico, right now and it just got elevated to a tropical storm, becoming the first named storm of the atlantic hurricane season. n