i m john berman alongside brianna keilar on this new day . the jury is about to reconvene in the trial of kyle rittenhouse. a verdict may not be far away. sorry, not sorry. that is from fan of violent anime paul gosar hours before the house is set to vote on censuring him. and a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 olympics. and my pillow guy saying to meltdown to make prison bars. and you ll never guess who is endorsing the idea. a very good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is wednesday, november 17th. we are on verdict watch this morning. the jury in the kyle rittenhouse homicide trial reconvening in a few hours after seven plus hours on tuesday. the seven women and five men have already requested more copies of the written jury instructions. in an unusual move, the judge gave the defendant a role in the random process of identifying which jurors would actually deliberate. you can see it right there. rittenhouse reached into a raffle dru
with so many complicated issues on the table, we ll tell you if they were able to break any ground. plus donald trump s onetime top adviser appears in court for stonewalling congress. but will this make steve bannon talk? we ll take a look. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. just hours from now, a jury in wisconsin will begin deliberating the fate of a teenager accused of fatally shooting two men and wounding another during protests last year. 500 national guard troops are on standby outside kenosha as the high-profile trial starts to wind down. kyle rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to all counts against him, including intentional homicide. cnn s omar jimenez has been following the trial and has more now from kenosha. in this entire sequence of events from the shooting of jacob blake on sunday, august 23rd, 2020, all the way after that, everything this community went through, the only person who sho
tomorrow is a big day for president biden as he gets ready to step signed that landmark bipartisan infrastructure bill into law. but donald trump is now threatening the republicans who supported it. plus bracing for a verdict. closing arguments in the trial of kyle rittenhouse, set to begin tomorrow morning. the national guard on standby, prepared for rising tensions in kenosha. everyone is on edge on what the results are either way. i m just. white either way, people are going to be upset, no matter what. fair to play. packers quarterback aaron rodgers back on the field tonight, after coming down with covid. and the misleading the public about his vaccination status. all of that and more as we say good morning. it is sunday november 14th. i m lindsey reiser. and i m kendis gibson. we have a lot to get to right now. here from headquarters at nbc. we re gonna take you overseas right away from the live pictures taking place at this hour. our team of corresponden
it s 5:00 in the morning. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. welcome back, christine. i m laura jarrett. we begin with testimony in the trial of kyle rittenhouse. the defense team plans to call several more witnesses today in the teen s murder trial including a doctor and a kenosha police officer. rittenhouse broke down in tears on the stand wednesday describing the moments before he fired his ar-15. he insists he was acting in self-defense and didn t do anything wrong. everybody that you shot at that night you intended to kill, correct? i didn t intend to kill them. i intended to stop the people who were attacking me. by killing them. i did what i had to do to stop the person who was attacking me. by killing them? two of them passed away, but i stopped the threat from attacking me. one problem with that testimony, in cross-examination rittenhouse said he knew one of the men he killed was unarmed. the nation is watching closely toe see the next mov
i don t know. someone did try to hurt me. you re talking later on. yes. this is before the shootings. yes. this is before you crossed 60th and dealt with rosenbaum and all of them. yes. so at this point in time, you don t think there s a hostile crowd, you re there to help people and running out with an ar-15. i don t understand why you felt you were in danger in what you thought was a friendly crowd helping them? i didn t say i didn t think they were hostile. i didn t think they were hostile towards us. why do you need the gun when you go out there? i need the gun if somebody attacked me. why did you think anybody would do that? i don t know. you were preparing for it. you thought it would happen. no, i didn t. that s the reason you brought the gun. i brought the gun to protect myself. because you thought you were going to be in danger. right? yes. you thought you were going to be in danger, right? i didn t think i would be put in to