optimistic. and inflation hits a 30-year high just days before president biden is expected to sign his massive infrastructure bill. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. in the coming hours, the trial of kyle rittenhouse is set to resume in kenosha, wisconsin, following a dramatic day of emotional and high stakes testimony from the defendant himself. the defense is expected to call several more witnesses, including a doctor and police officer. rittenhouse charged with killing two people during the protests in kenosha last august took the stand wednesday and testified that he acted in self-defense. cnn s omar jimenez has more on the teen s testimony and the tense moments between the judge and the prosecution. reporter: the most anticipated moment in the trial, kyle rittenhouse taking the stand in his own defense. did you come to downtown kenosha to look for trouble? no. reporter: he took the jury back to august 5th, 2020, whe
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
rittenhouse took the witness stand in his own defense, and this is what the jury saw. sobbing. the defendant appearing unable to speak at times as he explained how he fatally shot two people and wounding a third during unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. there were three people right there take a deep breath, kyle. that s what his mother also appeared to cry as she looked on. rittenhouse testified that he was acting in self-defense while protecting private property and providing first aid, even though he said he knew one of the men he killed was unarmed. prosecutors repeatedly questioned his motives, saying he was just looking for trouble that night. the fireworks didn t stop there. the other moment came from the judge in this case. throughout the day he unleashed on the prosecution, accusing them of a grave constitutional violation as they cross-examined the teenager. and at one point, the judge s cell phone rang out loud, playing the patriotic anthem, god bless the
spend nearly a decade relying on russian soyuz rockets to get our astronauts up to the international space station. brianna, the other thing that was so remarkable is the fact that the turnaround time on monday, crew 2, the previous crew, splashed down. and less than 48 hours we saw the launch of crew 3. nasa said that was the shortest turnaround between a splashdown and launch in human space flight history. so this is all important because this is exactly the moment that spacex and nasa have been working towards for so many years, this rapid reusability, this quick turnaround time to make space flight to orbit and eventually the moon and mars much faster. it was exciting to watch last night. it was. that turnaround time i think is what is striking. it s like they re coming up, they re going. it is just very regular. it s regular. and it s up to us to make it to remind folks that it is so incredible what they are doing. they just make it look easy. it really is. krist
fatally shoot two people and wound a third during unrest in kenosha, wisconsin. there were people right there [ sobbing ]. take a deep breath, kyle. his mother also cried as she watched the testimony. moments ago we heard from a man who was also shot by kyle rittenhouse that nice and was the only one to survive. listen. to me it seemed like a child who had just gotten caught doing something he wasn t supposed to, more upset that he was caught and less upset about what he had done and what he had taken and the numerous lives that he affected through his actions that night. let s bring in cnn s shimon prokupecz. he s live in kenosha, wisconsin, covering this trial from the start. this, shimon, was by far the most dramatic day we ve seen. reporter: yeah, the most dramatic, most riveting. it was a highly anticipated moment. kyle rittenhouse was expected to testify. certainly him taking the stand is going to come down as one of the biggest days of this trial he tol