georgia bulldogs edges out ohio state here in atlanta. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom on this holiday. happy new year. we begin tonight with a major development in the idaho murder investigation. for the first time we re hearing from the parents the suspect in the case, bryan kohberger. he s facing four counts of first-degree murder. jean casarez is in pennsylvania where kohberger remains in isolation at the correctional facility. what are the parents saying? well, pamela, they have released a statement and i want to read this to you. the attorney for bryan kohberger, jason labar, tells me that when he was arrested friday morning and the family is telling him about 3:00 in the morning, but brian labar tells me what happened was they wept to the front door and that bryan s father actually answered the door. it was law enforcement. we know it was the fbi. we know it was pennsylvania state police. it was in the middle of the night. we al
life as well when he held on to documents contain something of the nation s most sensitive national security secrets and then stonewalled efforts by the government to retrieve those documents. we ll start with the trump organization going on trial. jury selection began in the case brought by the manhattan d.a. against the trump family business alleging a 15-year scheme in which top executives were compensated off the books in order to avoid paying taxes. as the new york times reports the trial marks a reversal of fortune for the ex-president s business. the business that was the basis for the image trump peddled to voters as a businessman and deal maker, even if that image was smoke and mirrors. from the reporting the dawn of donald trump s presidency his family business appeared poised for a windfall. it unveiled new hotel lines, held ribbon cuttings around the world and attracted major tournaments to his golf clubs enough for eric trump who ran the company while his fathe
and houston rushes out. the country that put the first man in space is quitting the international space station. the impact on future missions just ahead. but first, your money and cnn business reporter matt egan is here with us. today s consumer confidence report was the first major data point in this critical week for the u.s. economy. what did it show? simply put americans are not happy with this economy. consumer confidence dropping for a third month in a row in july. to put this into context, the lowest level for consumer confidence since february of 2021. not only is confidence well below the peak of last year, it s not even close to the pre-covid levels, closer to the covid lows, which is pretty amazing. this is a telling stat despite the very strong jobs market, just 17% of consumers said business conditions were good. 24% say conditions are bad. now this is a big deal because consumer spending is the biggest driver of the economy. if people slow their spending, a
we have talked at length on this program about project 2025, the heritage foundation s nightmarish plan to transform the nation into a trump dystopia. the 900 page project would provide trump a maga blueprint for a potential second term. yesterday, my colleagues had the chance to actually sit down with kevin roberts, president of the heritage foundation, and the top architect for press operation 2025. here s how that interview began. you reject the assertion that this is a plan that was cooked up specifically for the second coming of the trump administration? we couldn t do that, because we are nonpartisan. i would have been thrilled if president biden and his team asked for a briefing. setting aside the laughable claim that the conservative think tank would have been thrilled to work with joe biden, route the interview, roberts laid out a series of talking points that made him sound indistinguishable from donald trump. like, say, wanting to remove state department empl
is? what if the question isn t are we really going to do this, are we going to maybe elect a convicted felon running explicitly on a platform that ends the american experiment in democracy but on a more basic level should we be asking a different question like is he all right? watch as the presumptive republican presidential nominee celebrates a deadly domestic terrorist attack he helped incite on the united states capitol, as he openly shows contempt for and toward his own supporters standing in front of him, as he rambles on and on and on and on about sharks of all things in rants so bizarre that unhinged doesn t come close to capturing it. he just came up. are the teleprompters not working? said not even a little bit! great job. and then i don t pay the company that does it, right? and then i end up with a story, trump doesn t pay. i don t pay contractors that do a [ bleep ] job. and that s a [ bleep ] job. that s a [ bleep ] job. this is the worst border in the hist