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Brittney griner has been undergoing medical checks in a hospital in texas, after flying back home following her release from a russian prison. she was freed in exchange for the convicted russian arms dealer, viktor bout. russias president vladimir putin has said further prisoner swaps with america could be possible if the two countries can continue to reach a compromise. a former minneapolis police officer who knelt on the back of an unarmed black man, george floyd, has been sentenced to 3.5 yea...

With breaking the national security law. in one of the biggest mass arrests relating to this law, hundreds of police officers basically stormed into apple daily and made the arrests. i think some of our viewers will remember the pictures ofjimmy lai being taken around the newsroom by police in handcuffs, and he has been in custody since december 2020. apple daily closed last year, following further raids, and many people argue it is not just an attack on apple daily but also an attack on the med...

Million followers. >> we should be able to all engage in passionate political discourse but still remain respectful of one another. violence certainly has no place in san francisco or in politics. >> reporter: the san francisco district attorney just completed her press conference here at her office where she announced those state charge, meanwhile, paul pelosi remains at the icu recovering from surgery, speaker pelosi says his condition continues to improve, enough so, david, that he has been a...

President, multiple former trump administration officials have said on the record, in magazine articles, in a very lengthy piece in the atlantic magazine, or have said in my words, that they see felt that steve bannon reemerge after being exult from trump world that he kind of reemerged in order to obtain a pardon. but this is a state charge, so he doesnt have access to a presidential pardon. this is no longer [inaudible] its a similar set of charges that we saw the federal government investigat...

About that is as a state charge, even if donald trump ultimately take the white house or an ally does, he cannot pardon me himself for a state offense. >> there we, have it barbara and david thank you for coming back cobb with us. -- coming, got the party that claim to stand for lawn or a day -- when new conspiracy theories targeting the fbi are raising concerns about more political violence. and what makes this far-right rhetoric so dangerous in the first place, we will discuss after the break....

Assault charges, video of the incident there. the 43-year-old man is charged congress with a dangerous weapon. cnns evan perez is following this and other developments for us. evan, what do you know about the suspect? >> reporter: jim, we know he was facing, first, a state charge. he was released almost immediately after he was charged with a second-degree assault at the state level and now federal prosecutors have decided to charge him on a federal charge. that charge is for assaulting a member...

Man who is scared trying to get away, trying to get a gun out of someones hand. not to use it on them but so that he wont get shot. its a perfectly rational reaction. but to them, because theyve been encouraged to think of black men as dangerous, they figured everyone else would see that the same way. >> so with a conviction in this hate crimes trial, do you believe that this is an instrument in which to penetrate that thinking that that approach that you just described has become and is a cultu...

Those older gentlemen. but its not just closure today in the state case, though. theres a federal hate crimes trial thats coming up in just a few weeks on february 7th, 2022. 1,000 perspective jurors have received a 14-page jury questionnaire. as we know, it took two and a half weeks to seat a jury for the state charge, but now we actually have federal hate crimes, as well as attempted kidnapping charges, and that could be an additional sentence of life in prison for these three defendants if th...

Prosecutor made sure that the focus was on the facts so that justice could be handed out. and that has taken place in this case, the jury reached their decision in the process is now at an end. but there are other court cases pending. could you explain that to us? absolutely. we have now completed what was happening from a state charge. there was malice murder, felony murder, assault, aggravated assault while imprisonment —— false imprisonment. these were state charges against the defendants...

Will they agree? when it comes to hypothetical murder? >> hopefully the murder charge wont go to the supreme court. i thought it was interesting that the presidents lawyer tried to dodge the question initially by pushing it forward to say its -- some day hell leave office. when the judge pushed him and said whats your answer to the hypothetical, he had to take this absolutely silly position that it doesnt matter what the presidents conduct is he cant be charged while in office. if you really wan...