More charges could be on the way, but for now, three white men have been charged with assault in the third degree for allegedly attacking a black boat cocaptain in a fight that quickly morphed into an Ugly Riverside Brawl in alabama this weekend. Videos of the incident went viral. And it showed fighting broke down largely along racial lines. But last hour, police in montgomery said, none of the actions they have investigated so far have met the threshold for hate crime charges. Heres cnns ryan young who was at the Press Conference where we just learned a whole lot. And, ryan, i know that you have been speaking to officials there. Youve been speaking to witnesses. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah, absolutely. After talking to mayor reed, its pretty clear here everyone in the city was shocked. This is obviously a place a lot of people like to enjoy on the weekends. The video has obviously shocked the nation as its gone viral. We do believe the suspects theyre looking for are in
The Special Counsel charges donald trump with conspireing to shatter the american experiment. The ha 45page indictment nar tat rates a plot to stay in power after losing an election. And it does so with some new evidence, including realtime notes from then Vice President mike pence. The politics, the third Trump Indictment slipped the field into familiar camps. The charges will also test joe bidens resolve to do what is sometimes unnatural. Stay quiet. The consequences, how the prosecution plays out in court may determine the future of both donald trump and american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Tomorrow a court date for the former president here in washington. Today the country gets a line by line look at The Plot Against America and the alleged crimes of donald trump. Central to the indictment is the Special Counsels assertion that trump knew that he lost the election and pushed lies to stay in office any way. Describe d in the indictment
smith and his lawyers have been out there. he hasn t been, neither has giuliani. and of course, bernie kerik was highly involved in what turned out to be fraudulent, unfounded evidence of election fraud. katelyn polantz, thank you so much, as always. brianna. let s discuss this with michael moore and u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia and currently a partner at the moore-hall law firm, michael, first, what do you mean of the grand jury continuing to meet, continuing what does this mean? do you think we ll see unindictmented co-conspirators possibly indicted? you took the words out of my mouth, i think that s the scenario that we ll be seeing, we know that special counsel likes to come back and add
didn t make that argument. let s listen to a little bit about what he told kaitlan collins. the government has had three years to investigate this. now they want to rush this to trial in the middle of a political season. what does that tell you? our focus is on the fact this is an attack on free speech. and there s nothing that s more protected under the first amendment than political speech. so it s the timing. it s free speech, and i just before i bring you in, i m really curious to know your take on this, let s hear from one of the, what we believe to be one of the unindictmented cocon spoor torts on this same topic. that s rudy giuliani. violating the right of free speech of an american citizen, never mind whether he was president or not. it could be anybody.