call it benefit of the doubt. those cops give jerry the benefit of the doubt that his life matters. that his life is worth saving. even when he takes one of their guns and shoots it. of course, when you are black, we really get the benefit of the doubt. cops murdered quan mcdonald in less than 30 seconds. cops killed tamir rice in less than two seconds. jared, he got probation and a fine, and a bump on the forehead. in this episode, we are talking about the difference between two minutes and a few seconds. you want to call the police on them for having a barbecue on a sunday at the lake? yes. you have seen the videos. i am white and i am hot. the last couple of years, they have been sweeping the nation. like a new beyonce album, they drop without warning and are all anybody can talk about for days afterward. which one is your favorite? it is illegal to have a charcoal grill in the park here. calling the police on people barbecuing in the park or a whiteley will
in a country that has no universal health care, no universal child care and no guaranteed paid or family medical leave. this relates to a whole host of supreme court decisions coming through and still to come. this is an america that has seen more mass shootings than the number of days so far this year. according to data from the gun violence archive, year-over-year mass shootings in the u.s. all on the rise. yet the court ruled cities and states across the country can no longer enact their own gun regulations, within the limitations defined by thursday s decision. by the end of the week the high court could strip the environmental protection agency, founded under republican president nixon, from enacting regulations that protect against pollution and climate change. this is a changing america. this weekend, many americans took to the streets in protest. some in favor, others opposed to the court s ruling. while most protests were peaceful, there were some arrests followi
machines, declare the election corrupt and investigate conspiracy claims. watch. between december 23rd and january 3rd, the president either called me or met with me virtually every day. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election, how did the president respond to that, sir? he responded very quickly and said, essentially, that s not what i m asking you to do, what i m just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. just say it was corrupt. we also learned that when top doj officials refused to back his false election claims, trump wanted to install a little known doj environmental attorney and trump loyalist jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on the details of that in a moment. let s begin with cnn political correspond
on girls and women s reproductive autonomy. cnn is live as crowds swell outside the supreme court. plus, the widespread impact, where trigger laws now or soon will make abortion entirely illegal for any girl or woman regardless of circumstances. also on this monumental day, the first major gun safety legislation in decades on its way to the white house for president biden s signature. how democrats and republicans came together to compromise. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with the historic decision from the united states supreme court which has overturned roe v. wade. finding that the 167 million girls and women in the united states have no constitutional right to an abortion. massive crowds gathered outside the high court in washington, d.c. this afternoon. some celebrating, some protesting the 5-4 decision. conservative justices samuel alito, clarence thomas, neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett leaving abortion rights as a que
the scheme going anyway. a former georgia election official telling the panel she and her family paid a horrible price for trump s lies, their lives threatened after the president falsely accused her of ballot fraud. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight the american people have gotten a deeper look into donald trump s attack on democracy through the testimony of state level officials who defied him and wound up actually fearing for their own lives. let s get to all the testimony from the january 6th investigation. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju reports. you re a tyrant. you re a felon reporter: tonight the january 6th committee laying out in stark terms intimidation and pressure campaign from then president donald trump and his allies against state officials attempting to uphold democracy in states where joe biden won. what are we going to do, besides k