try to make this story something that it wasn t early on and remember, there wouldn t be an arrest. you and i were trying to get this videotape on the air. your remember the beginnings of this. this was before george floyd and having mrs. cooper and wanda cooper-jones on and family members and the attorneys bringing light to this case and then we were going with ahmaud arbery. i remember you had the man on who was the neighbor, right? remember that? the guy who made the video. right. right. with his lawyer who basically said, you know, my client is the village idiot and he s not sophisticated enough to answer questions about this. i don t even know why he put the guy on tv. couldn t have made him look worse. the situation has always been pipefully obvious. there was no move on it because it was a home job on theside ea that s a part of the justice process here but you have to see it through because even the id yao what they want to use as a defense here. they will u
said that. much like in the george floyd case, this is the center really of this case, of getting that on videotape. i mean if it hadn t been on videotape look, even what they had on videotape was twisted, to try to make this story something that it wasn t early on. remember, there wouldn t be an arrest. remember, you and i were trying to get this videotape on the air. you remember the beginnings of this. this was before george floyd and having mrs. cooper wanda cooper-jones on and, you know, family members and the attorneys bringing light to this case. then we were going with ahmaud arbery. i remember you had the man on who was the neighbor, right? remember that? roddie, the man who made the video, with his lawyer, who basically said, you know, my client is the village idiot, and he s not sophisticated enough to answer any questions about this. i don t even know why he put the guy on tv. he couldn t have made him look any worse. but the situation has always been pa
control of the direction of our government or not. finally, there s former trump national security adviser michael flynn, who floated invoking martial law after the election. if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election. the big question is how far will the committee go to enforce these subpoenas if, like others, steve bannon, in particular, will not comply? joining me now, cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, state and federal, he s done it all, elie honig. big, controversial names in this new batch of six people who have received subpoenas. first of all, michael flynn. yes, that michael flynn. he was one of the biggest proponents of the big lie, and he was part of one of the craziest meetings of this whole thing in december 2020 when he met in the oval office with donald trump and others. they talk about seizing election machines, imposing martial law. speaking of crazy theor
scott s concert over the weekend. cnn has obtained documents showing detailed operations plans did not contain a contingency plan for surging crowds despite a history of crowd issues at this very same people. three people were trampled and hospitalized at the astroworld hospital just two years ago. the number of new lawsuits filed against the rapper and live nation is increase big the day. now 18 lawsuits claiming negligence related to the show exist. houston s fire chief telling nbc this morning travis scott should have, quote, absolutely called an end to the concert when he noticed something was wrong. the artist has command of that crowd. in my opinion, this is my opinion, because everything is going to be fleshed out throughout this investigation, but certainly a the artist, if he notices something is going on, he can certainly pause that performance, turn on the lights and say, hey, we re not going to continue until this thing is resolved. now the wall street jour
sacrifice themselves on the basic principle that we should live free. while the cause is the same everyone has a different reason for serving. maybe they are following in their father s footsteps or felt a calling after the terrorists tore down the twin towers. for me it was a patriotic parade or a series of them in a small town. motherly day and fourth of july parades in a tiny town in southern minnesota where my parents grew up. the whole town lined up on the tree sign side of the main street waiting for the veterans to walk by and when they came older vets and younger vets, crowd clapped and saluted. the reverence that town had for the veterans made me say, wow, those men really did something special. something bigger than this town. something bigger than themselves. these men were willing to put on a uniform and face danger for me, a kid they never met. it was just a handful of veterans, from one town. but every town in america gave men like that. out of sheer patriotism