this hour in our country s history stands in contrast to a republican party devoid of an agenda, other than serving a disgraced twice impeached ex-president who tried to overturn and steal the results of the 2020 election. president biden described the 2022 election has a, quote, defining moment for the country, denouncing the gop s embrace of rhetoric that all too often has resulted in or coincided with violence, most recently with the attack on speaker pelosi s husband paul pelosi and his democratic predecessor president barack obama used his talent as a speaker, as a message deliver, as a leader, and lent his credibility as a popular two-term president to that message that democrats are right now the only ones, the only party, that believes in democracy and fundamental american values. it was something. watch. what we have to remind ourselves is that there s this common thread, there s this thing that binds us together as americans, a belief that no matter who we are or
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper what were going to start today with our Law And Justice lead a stern warning for donald trump today from the bench. Keep violating your gag order and your Hush Money Cover of case, and you may well end up in jail. Judge juan merchan, Finding Today The Trump via lord, violated that gag order for the 10th time. He find a trump 1,000 which is the maximum penalty. But judge, where shine went on to tell the former president , quote, at the end of the de, i have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system and compel respect as much as i do not want to impose a jail sanctioned and ive done everything i can to avoid doing so i want you to understand that i will if necessary, and appropriate, unquote. Today weve also heard testimony from two witnesses who went through check by check, the payments made by donald trump to his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Those payments are at the very heart of this case because
This is the video that Britney Spears posted to social media. Shes there dancing and as you can see, shes got two large chefs knives. That prompted police in Southern California to knock on her door in a wellness check. Police say someone close to the singer was so concerned about her safety and wellbeing they alerted authorities, but officers never got the chance to speak with spears. Her reps turned them away saying that shes fine. We certainly hope that she is. Cnn tonight with pamela brown starts right now. Hey, i can see why theyre concerned. Thanks so much for that. Good evening, everyone. Im pamela brown. Votes going on at the moment on capitol hill. Youre looking live at the house floor where members are voting on Appropriation Bills, the last one expected to fail and its just another example of the dysfunction pushing this country that much closer to a Government Shutdown saturday at midnight. Amid this parade of dysfunction, its real americans who will be paying the price whi
A door in a wellness check. Please Say Something close to the singer that she was they were aware of her safety while being that they had alerted the authorities. Officers never got the chance to speak to spears. Her reps turned them away, saying she is fine. We certainly hope she is. Cnn tonight with pamela brown starts right. No i can see how your concern, hey abby thanks so much for that. Good evening everyone im pamela brown. Lots going on on capitol hill. Right now youre looking at the house floor live where members are voting on the appropriation bill, the last one expected to fail and its just another example of the dysfunction pushing the this country that much closer to a Government Shutdown saturday and midnight. And amid this parade of dysfunction, its real americans will be paying the price while the elected representatives were supposed to be working for you, they arent doing that. If there is a shutdown, 4 million federal employees and more than 1 million active duty troo
the time we re living in and the character and quality of the candidates, and that s why we re going to see really close races. it s very smart when running in places like that to reach out. the question is, for candidates that don t reach out, like the trump candidates who really haven t tried to reach out, are they going to get those folks that went with trump because of free vance like a lot of the union guys and some of the people that decided they wanted to go people that voted for obama and then voted for trump. someone else who has run a great campaign, gretchen whitner. we re going to get to michigan. she deserves some credit for how she s run her campaign, held her own, under difficult circumstances as an incumbent. and those circumstances include not just political headwinds but threats of violence. we re going to get to it and working our way. we re going to go east to west. sorry. feel free to jump around.