rioters stormed the capitol one year earlier, president biden cast donald trump as holding a dagger at the throat of america, spreading lies that undermined core democratic values. a remarkable speech on a remarkable day, cnn s jasmine wright joins us live from washington. good morning. what do we know? reporter: that s right, christine. we can think of it as a political reset of sorts. really, president biden over the last few months has had a lot of highs, but also some lows. so really at the start of this year, it was one of, if not the strongest speeches that he s given since being in office for about a year, and it did something, as you said, he has been reluctant to do. it took on former president donald trump directly. and even though he did not say him by name, about 16 times he made references to the former president, the former defeated president, and i think it really is a strong look at president biden because he did spend a lot of time writing a lot of parts of
in prison. the big question today, will the judge decide whether or not the men will have the possibility of parole. we also expect to hear from ahmaud arbery s mother during the hearing with a victim impact statement. she spoke with cnn earlier this morning. ahmaud didn t get a chance to live. so with that being said, travis should not get a chance to live as a free man. travis should go to prison for life without parole, and that being said, he should remain in prison forever. let s go to our national correspondent dianne gallagher on the scene for us in brunswick, georgia, for us this morning. set the scene for us. what do we expect? reporter: well, wolf, as things get under way inside that courtroom here, we expect for it to be a day of hearing statements, both from the defense and from the state. wanda cooper jones, the mother of ahmaud arbery, is expected to speak. she s going to give that victim impact statement to the court. we think we ll be hearing from ahmaud
getting media training for months now to try to fix the problem. cnn s chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins broke the story. so ckaitlan, how is she responding to the criticism. we heard from her today. it is the first time the cdc has held its own independent briefing since the summer of 2021. normally they do it once a week and dr. fauci is often on the briefings but today it is just the cdc director, and some other scientists at the cdc taking questions from reporters and we re told by sources that is a decision that dr. walensky made this week pretty abruptly wanted to take the incoming questions given there are many generated by guidance head on. and she took the questions. a lot of questions that came up during today s briefing had to do not just with the new guidance coming out of the cdc, but the credibility overall because there is so much confusion over the changes to the guidance, the updates to the changes and she defended it as saying the science is
Students, parents and colleagues of Kelsey Dunn spent Wednesday mourning the loss of North Hardin High School s 28-year-old band director, a passionate teacher who "taught people how to pursue their