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>> plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. >> welcome to "the lead." im cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trumps legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about t...

cnn has learned that christina bobb was at least one of the people giving those assurances, even signing a letter saying so. the doj filing goes on to say the documents were, quote, likely concealed and remove frd a storage room at mar-a-lago as an effort to, quote, obstruct, unquote, the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so classified that even some fbi counterintelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, thats for ...

$4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive damages of $750,000 per plaintiff. so it seems he wont be forced to fork over quite that much yet. hes still facing two more defamation trials, and one of them is in connecticut. but it appears the jury did listen to this plea from the attor...

conspiracy theorist alex jones has been ordered to pay even more to the parents of a 6-year-old little boy who was killed in the 2012 massacre at sandy hook elementary school. $45.2 million more in punitive damages on top of the more than $4 million in compensatory damages already award at the civil trial just yesterday for those deeply harmful lies that the shooting was a hoax among many other completely false and outrageous claims. now, under texas law there are limits on punitive da...

after u.s. house speaker nancy pelosis visit to the self-governing island. details plus the warnings from china about how volatile the situation is. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with lynda kinkade. right now its 10:00 saturday morning in gaza, where israeli warplanes continue to pound islamic jihad for a second day. israels military says its air strikes on friday hit militants inside gaza who were allegedly about to launch a terror attack. 19 members of ...

just in the nomination process, essentially theyre to get all 50 senate democrats here. were looking for them to start this whole process in a matter of hours. the big question mark is when exactly will they do that. we dont quite know. theyre waiting on a couple of things. you mentioned the senate parliamentarian. theyre using a specialized budget process to move forward. they only need democratic senate support to get it through the senate but in order to use that process they have t...

sanders said the bill does not go far enough, what does that mean? >> he represents the further left of the democratic party and wrangling all 50 of the democratic senators has been no small fete, getting senator manchin and kyrsten sinema on board. ultimately we believe this bill will move forward, the question is when. this is a very, very lengthy, complex, tedious process theyre using, a specific budget process theyre using to get it through. let me tell you about whats in the bill,...

conversation in november, 2020, in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the conversation he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona, quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? >> i did have a conversation with the president, that certainly isnt it. there are parts of it that are true, but parts that are not, sir. >> the part that i read you...

president was going to turn publicly against the vice president, and there could be a security risk to mr. pence because of the. the vice president team feared that the president of united states posed a legitimate threat to him, believe it or not. in the very next day, sure enough, the trump mob stormed the capitol, chanting, hang mike pence. more from the report, quote, mike meadows, the white house chief of staff, is reported to have told colleagues that mr. trump said that perhaps ...

learned of a memo approach up attorney, john eastman, that sketched out a plan for mike pence to hold out the certification of the victory, overturning the election. a judge memo said that it is potential criminal acts committed by donald trump and john eastman. against the backdrop of all these new details, a shift is taking place within the republican party. theyre in the 2020 election, as we all know, republicans claim that voter fraud was happening everywhere you look, all the time...