Sentenced to years in prison for the crime of putting tiny little notes on supermarket shelves. Putting little notes on Store Shelves where the Price Tags usually go. Its basically the Tiniest Act Of Protest Imaginable against russia invading one of its Ad Neighboring countries and g starting a war with ukraine. Now this effort started in countries outside of russia. It started e in poland. People did this at a Hardware Store that decided to expand its operations in russia, even when lots of other companies were pulling out of because of the war. People started doing it outside of russia but then some very brave people inside russia started doing it too, including this young woman, this artist in st. Petersburg in russia. Om we covered it on the show, Whenu She was arrested, her friends turning up at the Police Statioe to bring her her things, to a support her when she was put on trial Behind Closed Doors for again, this tiniest act of peaceful protest. This was her being brought out o
This is just the Opening Statements. It is the beginning. Mr. Jerry blackwell, the lead prosecutor i thought making an effective methodical presentation about the final nine minutes and 29 seconds of mr. Floyds life. Essentially saying that whatever you think happened here what you see with your own eyes is indefensible. Eric nelson the Defense Attorney saying this is a lot more than that, there floyd was there for a long period of time. He lied to Police Officers, he was high. He struggled with Police Officers and you have to take into account the officers were dealing with a crowd that they at least perceived to be a threat. Just as a Veteran Attorney your sense so far of the Opening Statements. I give no weight to the defenses Opening Statement whatsoever because the bulk of their statements have to do with that very notion of a crowd, of information that they would have known perhaps about whether george floyd actually had illegal substances in his body. These are things you would
Resources to seize Voting Machines. A bombshell new piece of reporting in the New York Times cites multiple sources familiar with conversations inside the Trump Administration and the Trump Campaign that lays out just how the disgraced expresident himself pushed to get federal agencies to do his bidding only to be rebuffed by allies of his own government by powers of the u. S. Government to take Voting Machines and take them to trumps inner circle was a bridge too far. The times reports this, quote, President Trump directed his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to make a remarkable call. Trump wanted hem to ask the department of Homeland Security if it could legally take control of Voting Machines in key swing states. Giuliani did so, calling the departments Acting Deputy Secretary who said he lacked the authority to audit or impound the machines. Trump pressed giuliani to make that inquiry after rejecting a separate effort to have the pentagon take control of the machines and the outreach to the
house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout th
back 6:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. the lead with jake tapper starts right now the first witness has taken the stand and donald trump s hush money cover up, try all the leads, starts right now former publisher, david, first to testify today about what prosecutors are alleging was a criminal conspiracy and cover up of donald trump s alleged tryst with a film star in director stormy daniels. how strong is this case? here, the line of defense trump himself offered today right outside the courtroom, plus the first order of business when court resumes tomorrow did trump violate judge merchan s gag order? the fine line for the judge as he considers this ruling and a crisis on college campuses, perhaps most at columbia university in new york protests there spiraling into tense confrontations. jewish students harassed the atmosphere so charged in-person classes were called off today. can safety on campus be restored? new york city mayor eric adams will be here in minutes we