The most unpatriotic, and sadly not unprecedented. Time and again weve weathered threats to the right to vote in free and fair elections. Each time we founding a way to overcome. The 21st century jim Crow Assault is real. Its unrelenting. And were going to challenge it vigorously. Biden mirrored Lyndon Johnsons voting Rights Speech in 1965 invoking the civil Rights Anthem we shall overcome. In assailing what he called the greatest threat to democracy since the civil war. But biden didnt offer much in The Way of a plan. When President Johnson delivered his speech to a joint session of congress, he was urging passage of the voting Rights Act. A law thats now essentially dead. And today texas democrats continued their fight against republican Voter Suppression efforts in their state after more than 50 elected democrats left texas last night to block the passage of new Voter Suppression laws. The longest serving black woman in the Texas Legislature outlined exactly whats at stake for her c
major developments in two trials that could shake this nation. the lead starts right now. the man who shot unarmed black jogger ahmaud arbery on the defensive as prosecutors try to punch holes in his story. the stunning step by step account of the final moments of arbery s life. a critical day for the president s $1.7 trillion spending plan as we find out whether it will pay for itself like the white house claims. she was thrown in prison for reporting on the early days of covid in china. the new push to free her as her health now fails. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we begin with our national lead. a pair of emotionally charged trials are attracting nationwide attention. in just a moment we ll get to the latest developments as a jury deliberates the fate of kyle rittenhouse, a teenager facing homicide charges in the killings of two men during last year s black lives matter demonstrations in kenosha, wisconsin. let s start in georgia where th
he would have been killed. there s no question about it. they were brutal to other residents on that street. he knew the risk he was taking. he felt it was important one day those photos could be important and he wanted to document what was happening. we ll have your full report from bucha a little later on in the show. the inhumanity. i know you ve been in many war zones but to watch what is happening there to the people, each one is unique but it s indescribable what they are enduring and what our folks on the ground, including you are witnessing. yeah. the behavior of russian forces in a number of places has been really across the board pretty awful that not only obviously there s the shelling of several yans but individual acts of terror especially in bucha. documented incidents of individual shooting. civilians and bringing potatoes home to his family to get something to eat. shot to death for no reason at all other than to terrorize the population. they killed him b
good evening to you, i am sara sidner, welcome to cnn tonight. the grand jury investigating donald trump and his allies were efforts to up and joe biden s election victory, it s expected to meet again tomorrow cnn exclusively learning prosecutors are asking witnesses about a never forward oval office meeting in february 2022. what donald trump praised election security protections. then just a few weeks later started spreading all this voter fraud conspiracy theory. what else has jack smith learned? and will it lead to trump s third indictment? that is tomorrow s news, tonight. also ahead for you, a momentous time in u.s. history, finally getting its due, president joe biden expected to sign a proclamation tomorrow establishing a national monument honoring emmett till and his mother maybe till-mobley, on what would have been emmitt s 82nd birthday. till was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered at the age of 14, in 1955. his death shocked america, it also helped fuel the ci
new reporting on the biggest political speech of the year just hours now away from president biden s state of the union address. six to be exact. set to take place on the building on your screen, just a couple of blocks from where i m sitting. sources telling the president he will focus on his accomplishments and to finish the job. a job that will require bipartisan ship with the republicans. we ve got our team standing by live at the white house and on capitol hill. also standing by across the country asking voters what they think about our state of the union just months before 2024 campaigning gets into full swing. also this hour, you have u.s. aid workers now on their way overseas as the dual crisis in turkey and syria are going from bad to worse. more than 7,000 people now confirmed dead from those powerful earthquakes. our team is there live on the ground as the rescue efforts continue. i m hallie jackson with you in washington where we ll with the rest of the evening. w