Inside politics. Im Dana Bash and we are following breaking news. You are looking at live pictures of Trump Tower where Donald Trump is speaking to reporters, which he has been doing for more than 100 an hour at this time im after leaving a new York City courtroom where his lawyers are pushing in federal Appeals Panel to throw out the Jury Verdict that found him liable of Sexually Abusing and feigning Writer E Jean carroll has focus so far has been attacking carroll and not just carroll other several other women who have accused him of Sexual Assault or Sexual Misconduct over the past several decades. He has been attacking them and their stories One By one, i am lucky to be surrounded by legal and political experts. Cnns Paula Reid and elliot williams, as well as Kristen Holmes and Jeff Zeleny were going to monitor this and go back and because i really feel that its important for our viewers to hear some of the way that he is talking and continuing to talk as we speak because we have t
Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, march 9. Im Victor Blackwell. His horizontals in for amara walker. Thanks for joining us. And you look refreshed, coming back from vacation. Thank you very much. Im a couple of shades. Darker. Got a little red toner into there. What i want to beat, feel better all right. Heres what were watching. Were you this weekend will get a preview of what to expect in a headtohead rematch between President Biden and former President Trump as the to hold dueling rallies here in georgia today. Plus, well discuss a Biden Campaign strategy to try to seize on momentum from the state of the Union Address Tornado Watches are in effect across parts of the southeast this morning with some major cities at risk for tornados and dangerous hail were also tracking a significant flood threat. Cnn got exclusive access to one of the first ship set to bring cool. So humanitarian supplies to gaza well, show you whats being delivered and how the us is helping in t
To leave israel. Hes never going to cut off all weapons, leave them without an iron dome or anything like that . Clearly that did not come across as much of a threat to the israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, who said, as you mentioned, that the offensive in rafah on the ground will press ahead as planned he said that the fighting there could take two months, maybe six weeks, perhaps only one month, but it will happen regardless, despite warnings from the us and from even israels closest allies, that going into rafah, given you have well over 1 Million People sheltering there and really no other safe place for them to go inside gaza would be catastrophic. And he also said that that is israelis are byinlarge behind him. This was in response to President Biden saying that, yeah, whose policies are hurting israel more than its helping. Heres netanyahu well, i dont know exactly what the president meant but if you meant by that done, im pursuing private policies against the majority
This is a very sad day for america. And it was also very sad driving through washington, dc and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that i left. Its a very sad thing to see it. When you look at whats happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person thats leading by very, very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot. So, if you cant beat him, you persecute him or you prosecute him. We cant let this happen in america. Thank you very much. Earlier, my colleague Sumi Somaskanda spoke to former congresswoman stephanie murphy. She served as a democratic representative for the State Of Florida and also worked on the House Select Committee to investigate the january 6th attack. Thank you so much forjoining us. Firstly, you served on the january Six Committee in the house of representatives. At
I encourage everyone to read it in full. The attack on our nations capitol onjanuary 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment it was fuelled by lies, lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the us government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The men and women of Law Enforcement who defended the us capitol on january 6 are heroes. They are patriots and they are the very best of us. They did notjust defend a building with people sheltering in it, they put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and a people. They defended the very institutions and principles that define the United States. Since the attack on our capitol, the Department Ofjustice Has remained committed to ensuring accountability of those criminally responsible for what happened that day. This case is brought consistent with that commitment. And o