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"cnn newsroom." were grateful to you have this afternoon. im boris sanchez. >> hi, everyone. it im jessica dean. political lines deepening, law enforcement preparing for what would be a first in american history. the criminal indictment of a former president. the key witness in a case against donald trump is expected to be challenged today before a grand jury in new york. a former legal advisor to michael cohen telling cnn testifying at the request of donald trumps attorneys. look at v...

His opinion in employment versus smith continues to cast a shuj shadow over the law of religious freedom. It was the reason the religious freedom restoration act was passed and that dominated the courts religious freedom indications since then, including the cases that are coming before the court this term, the obama contraceptive mandate. The truth is that his landmark opinions are almost too many to try to even count. In every area, he has made a contribution that was original and, you know, h...

At first, my publisher, editor, and i were thinking should we just call it scalia but we wanted something larger because he is larger. It talks about his italian ba background. And the originalism is him looking back at what they founders wanted in the document and how it should be interpreted today. It was the committee, the title of the original, reflecting him as an original, and a first generation and a proponent of the originalism theory. There is no one like him ever on the Supreme Court. ...

Number three today. Heres what i know about my bff Jacki Schechner. Shes always perfect in every way. Melissa fitzgerald and jacki and i have a thing. You send me ambien texts. It is a thing. Melissas are all misspelled. Jacki sent one yesterday spelled with perfect grammar. What does it take to get you to loosen up, Jacki Schechner . I think youve seen me loosen up from time to time. I think jim and chris have seen it too. Oh, yeah, youre fun when youre loosened up. Stephanie lets just go with ...

Everybody fellow americans and welcome to the full court press. Here we go on thursday, december 20. How about it. Four shopping days left until christmas. And lot to talk about because finally we see some action here in washington, d. C. I was there yesterday in the White House Briefing room when president obama announces a task force on guns. He put Vice President joe biden in charge. He gave them only one month to come up with a set of recommendations that he would then push through congress....

Good evening, rachel. So 98 women now have seats in the house of representatives. A new record high. Could be 99 depending on how some of the rest of these counts shakeout. It really was an extraordinary night for women candidates. Yeah, and people said this was going to be the year of the woman, year of the woman and lots of cynics and nay sayers were like you always say that whenever you want democrats to win. First of all, democrats did win. But second of all youve got 1en women in the house ...

His nickname was big luther, which is not a particularly original nickname when you are 69 and your name is luther. What else are they going to call you, tiny . He played varsity basketball at tulane back in his college days, back the day of short basketball shorts. He eventually ended up as attorney general of the great state of alabama when the republican governor of alabama found himself involved in a particularly visceral sex scandal. This is the governor. There were tapes. There were actual...

Maryland following reports of an active shooter. Authorities say five people are dead at least two others injured. Tonight, new details on the target targeted attack. We have a look at the reported suspect first to the scene in annapolis to correspondent kristin fisher. Reporter what happened was one of the worst attacks on journalist in the history of the United States. It all started around 2 30 this afternoon. A gunman entered the headquarters of the Capital Gazette newspaper with a shotgun a...

Consumed by the mueller probe. Woodward depicts trumps anger and paranoia. Former trump lawyer quote was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he even talked to special counsel mueller. So he quote staged a practice session. Peppered trump with questions about the Russian Investigation provoking stumbling tricks and lies until the president eventually lost his cool. Starting a 30minute rant that finished with him saying i dont really want to testify. Clients testimony was a bad ...

On friday, at the moment that the Senate Judiciary committee was expected to vote quickly along party lines to advance kavanaughs nomination, the process was suddenly thrown into disarray when republican senator jeff flake made an unexpected lastminute deal with the Committee Democrats to secure a oneweek delay in the full senate vote during which the fbi would look into dr. Fords allegations and possibly into other allegations too. It was not really clear at the time. Later that day, we learned...