. >>> breaking news, i'm ashleigh banfield.'m coming to you live from the west village of new york city at a place where there was genesis of a gay rights movement, the stonewall in, the site of a 1969 riot that lead to a robust gay rights movement that today has culminated in perhaps the most sweeping landmark decision in recent era with regard to civil rights. it is a new era across the country. as of this morning at 10:00 a.m. where in a 5-4 decision the justices handed down clearance to everyone the right to marry right across the states from sea to shining sea. no state can ban gay marriage after the decision -- [ cheers and applause ] today. you can hear a lot of the reaction. the crowds have begun to swell in this location. not surprisingly, there is something else this weekend. this happens to coincide with a very robust gay pride celebration weekend. [ cheers and applause ] the gay pride parade scheduled for sunday in new york city, promising to be more exuberant, more attended and more robust than any that have come b

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talked to ashleigh banfield at length about how you have one sort of mandatory appeal.hat is his life i don't know the next six months year five years? what does it look like? >> well while appeal is going on brooke he'll be in a jail. i don't know if he'll immediately go to terre haute, but once they get ready to carry out execution that's where he'll go because it's the only federal prison that administers the death penalty, but would i like to add here, that you know his crime isn't just against the people that died at in a bombing or the survivors that are injured for life or the families or boston. it's a crime againstled united states. it's a crime against the country -- >> sorry, tom. we've got to go back to boston. the u.s. attorney is speaking. >> we've arrived at the end of another chapter in this long process and in these criminal proceedings. many of you who listened to what was happening in the courtroom today, today really was a day not just for the conclusion of this piece but really for the victims to have a voice, and many of them submitted victim impac

joey jackson and ashleigh banfield are with me on set. if he goes to terre haute and talk about the appeals, i think it's just worth repeating, some of the family members and certainly the youngest of those victims, martin richard and his parents who came forward who said we hope he isn't sentenced to death because we don't want to be put through appeal after appeal after appeal and be dragged through this. you can't blame him. you only hope that he has this mandatory appeal as you were discussing and like timothy mcveigh no more. >> he walked from all the others yeah. >> think about this for a moment though. let's just say that he does go through the appellate process. let's just say it's overturned. nobody should be concerned about the life that dzhokhar tsarnaev would live otherwise. he was sentenced to multiple life sentences. the boy is 21, i believe. that amounts to about 60 or 70 years in effectively solitary confinement, 60 to 70 years. think about what a life sentence for a kid who is 21 means. he's not going anywhere any time ev

thank you so much for joining u and i will hand you off to my colleague ashleigh banfield. ashleigh? >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield and i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and right around the world. we have breaking news to bring you. it is 12:00 noon in charleston, south carolina, where the police have wrapped up a news conference in which they gave us the basicsings, but at this point, the basics are good enough. the arrest of a 21-year-old suspect who had been on the lam, armed and dangerous, and his name dylann roof, and photograph, you can think for yourself what you make of that. they found him in the black hyundai, license plate broadcast all over america, lgf-330 and he was in that car when they approached him and the sources in the police and the authorities departments that were involved in this say that he was in fact armed with a handgun when he was taken into custody. why was this the manhunt that it was? nine people dead after a church massacre, a prayer vigil and a bible study group with whom he had al

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we begin with breaking news in the scandal swirling around former house speaker dennis hastert. the sister of a man who died in 1995, a man named steve reinboldt here in pictures tells abc news that reinboldt was sexually abused by hastert as a teenager in the late '60s are and early '70s. her name is jolene and she says hastert then a high schools wrestling coach abused her brother who was the team's equipment manager. and she says, it happened repeatedly for years. burdge said she learned of it when her brother told her he was gay in 1979. >> i asked him, steve, when was your first same-sex experience. he just looked at me and said, it was with dens nis hastert. and i just -- i know i was stunned. i said, why didn't you ever tell anybody? i mean, he was your teacher. why didn't you ever tell anybody? he looked at me and said, who is ever going to believe me? >> well, apparently people are certainly starting to believe. the fbi for one, contacted miss burdge two weeks ago. mr. haster

. >>> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to leigh view. we begin hour in upstate new york. escaped killer david sweat is back in custody and a sense of relief and a spirit of gratitude has rolled across the entire community. for the officials who worked tirelessly to make that a reality. this morning in malone, new york, thank you signs on the local dairy queen, the mcdonald's and pretty much anything else that could put together the letters. after a 22-day manhunt, sweat is no longer a dangerous throat that community or to any of the neighboring towns. instead he is in serious condition at the albany medical center and a team of specialists is involved in his care. i said "serious" not critical. he's apparently doing a little bit better. the nightmare ended with one lone officer, and you're looking at him. new york state police sergeant jay cook. it was officer cook who spotted sweat near a barn in constable, new york, just two miles from the canadian border. but when sweat took off running, sergeant cook took off

. >>> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfieldgh view. we begin hour in upstate new york. escaped killer david sweat is back in custody and a sense of relief and a spirit of gratitude has rolled across the entire community. for the officials who worked tirelessly to make that a reality. this morning in malone, new york, thank you signs on the local dairy queen, the mcdonald's and pretty much anything else that could put together the letters. after a

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"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." any moment now, the national president of the naacp is set to step before the cameras and the microphones in charleston, south carolina. what is on the agenda? the massacre at the mother emmanuel ame church on wednesday night. the reverend cornell brooks has said his organization is "outraged" at the cold blooded killing to which a ninth grade dropout named dylann roof has now reportedly confessed. late this morning, roof was charged with nine counts of murder and the firearms offense as well. and at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, two hours from now, he is said to appear that a court via video from the county jail where he is now spending all of his moments. a law enforcement source telling cnn that roof told police he wanted to start a race war and this that pretty well echoes what he said to his friends as well. roof's roommate told the "new york times" that he briefly took roof's gun away fearing he might "do something crazy." but ended up giving it back to him and now fe

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfielde to "legal view." any minute we'll take you live to hear what is happening in the massive manhunt for two escaped murderers in upstate new york. the district attorney, state police, they're going to give a full update, so they say, and tell where the search goes from here and where it goes forward because get a map of north america, why not just get yourself a globe and plunk your finger down anywhere on it. that's pretty much where richard matt and david sweat could be right about now. now it's day 12 and police are expanding the search area after telling us

the investigation is far from over. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we have breaking news off the bat out of boston because officials have released the surveillance video of last week's public shooting death of a terror suspect there. his name, usaama rahim. in the yellow circle. he was killed near this cvs pharmacy in boston's roslindale neighborhood and allegedly because of flashing a knife and advancing on counterterrorism officers. officials say they were tracking rahim because they believe he was about to carry out a plan to attack a boston police officer. cnn's alexandra field is in boston and joining me is harry houk, cnn's law enforcement analyst and cnn legal analyst danny cevallos. so walk me through process whereby the authorities released this video to us, the public. >> ashleigh, we've known this video existed for almost a week now and obviously investigators were taking a close look at this. members of the clergy, community leaders had been given an opportunity to see this at the police department headquarters. t

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."s breaking news comes via the supreme court of the united states of america. two big decisions i want to talk about today. one overturned the conviction of a man who made some violent threats on facebook towards a woman that he knew, including harming police and also shooting up a school. to be seriously clear, that went to the top court and the decision will affect you. in the other case i want to tell you about, the high court

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view."s the charleston church massacre not set off the race war that dylann roof so desperately wanted, not only has it brought about unity over division, forgiveness over revenge, but it may well succeed in eradicating what many consider a symbol of

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." not only has the charleston church massacre not set off the race war that dylann roof so desperately wanted, not only has it brought about unity over division, forgiveness over revenge, but it may well succeed in eradicating what many consider a symbol of racist oppression, a symbol that had seemed indelible. right now church leaders, public official, activists and ordinary citizens are rising up at the south carolina capital, demanding that lawmakers take down the confederate battle flag once and for all from the state grounds. my colleague ana cabrera is on the steps of the statehouse. set the scene for me there and tell me what comes today within that legislature. >> there's so much anticipation into what's going to happen, when the legislature reconvenes in about an hour from, now ashleigh, and these folks are trying to apply pressure on lawmakers of this state to get this issue of removing the flag to the forefront and to take action immediately. i want to take a look at all the

thank you so much for joining u and i will hand you off to my colleague ashleigh banfield. is cnn breaking news. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield and i want to welcome our viewers in the

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."g news in the scandal swirling around former house speaker dennis hastert. the sister of a man who died in 1995, a man named steve reinboldt here in pictures tells abc news that reinboldt was sexually abused by hastert as a teenager in the late '60s are and early '70s. her name is jolene and she says hastert then a high schools wrestling coach abused her brother who was the team's equipment manager. and she says, it happened

i'm ashleigh banfield. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, welcome, this is "legal view." any moment now, we're expecting a news conference on that manhunt for two very dangerous escaped killers, murderers, who made their way out of the clinton correctional facility in new york, and that was 19 days ago. the search has been on ever since. we have a lot of new developments to tell you about. first, a law enforcement official tells cnn that prison tailor joyce mitchell used baked goods to essentially facilitate their escape. we're going to break from those developments for a moment to bring you the news out of south carolina. i mentioned earlier a horse-drawn carriage known in these terms as a caisson. right now, what you're seeing in columbia, the capital of south carolina, is the procession from levy's funeral home to the state capital where senator clemente pinckney, who was also a reverend and a victim of that terrible murderous rampage in the mother emanuel church, his body is going

view," i'm ashleigh banfield. the manhunt has dominated the headline for days and just when you thought the new york prison break story couldn't get any more salacious, it has. new details about the relationship between prison tailor and the two convicted killer, murderers. a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation says joyce mitchell was, indeed, having a sexual relationship with richard matt and before that she was investigated for having an inappropriate relationship with david sweat. they're the two who are on the run which leads us to this. the same source who told us matt and sweat had a plan to kill mitchell's husband who worked in the same tailoring block as his wife. we don't know how much mitchell actually knew about this plan but we know. mitchell, in her stripes, is being held at the clinton county jail in a 6 x 9 cell with round-the-clock supervision. an officer is sitting in the doorway of her cell documenting what she is doing every 30 minutes. in the meantime, the search for matt and sw

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." this breaking news comes via the supreme court of the united states of america. two big decisions i want to talk about today. one overturned the conviction of a man who made some violent threats on facebook towards a woman that he knew, including harming police and also shooting up a school. to be seriously clear, that went to the top court and the decision will affect you. in the other case i want to tell you about, the high court citing with a muslim woman who was turned down for a job because of this, that is what is known as hijab, a head scarf, head covering. apparently according to the store, it violated the store's dress code. according to her, that store wasn't accommodating her religious needs and she's smiling because she won. i want to take you to justin correspondent pam brown who joins us with the details. i have danny cevallos stand big live. first to the man named anthony elonis, sentenced to 44 months for post something extremely serious threats on facebook, and today

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world.nt to begin with this breaking news, those two escaped murderers in upstate new york now have eluded hundreds of police and state troopers for six days. that is far longer than the norm and possibly a record. but as we speak, search teams are zeroing in on a site where dogs apparently picked up the scent of richard matt and/or david sweat, and it's just three miles from the dannemora prison where matt and sweat were cell mates and where they broke fre

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we want to begin with this breaking news, those two escaped murderers in upstate new york now have eluded hundreds of police and state troopers for six days. that is far longer than the norm and possibly a record. but as we speak, search teams are zeroing in on a site where dogs apparently picked up the scent of richard matt and/or david sweat, and it's just three miles from the dannemora prison where matt and sweat were cell mates and where they broke free. it might end up where they find themselves again. investigators found an apparent human shoeprint at the site along with multiple fad wrappers suggesting the men may have bedded down there. the county department a. says police have set up, quote, a large perimeter . earlier authorities shut down an eight-mile stretch of state route 374 citing an undisclosed tip and nearby schools, which were taking prekaucautions alre, ended up closed for the entire day instead. we also now know official information that authorities suspect a pris

. >> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield and welcome to "legal view." any minute we'll take you live to hear what is happening in the massive manhunt for two escaped murderers in upstate new york. the district attorney, state police, they're going to give a full update, so they say, and tell where the search goes from here and where it goes forward because get a map of north america, why not just get yourself a globe and plunk your finger down anywhere on it. that's pretty much where richard matt and david sweat could be right about now. now it's day 12 and police are expanding the search area after telling us the trail has gone cold. until now, they have been concentrating on a 10,000 acre area around the prison. the sheriff says he's confident they're not there. so they're moving on but where do they go? the two fugitives have left no clues, no trail but a couple candy wrappers, maybe a footprint. but as far as we know, no one has seen them, interacted with them, or even gotten a whiff of them. they're either hunkered down

view," i'm ashleigh banfield.he manhunt has dominated the headline for days and just when you thought the new york prison break story couldn't get any more salacious, it has. new details about the relationship between prison tailor and the two convicted killer, murderers. a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation says joyce mitchell was, indeed, h

"legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts right now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome" any moment now, the national president of the naacp is set to step before the cameras and the microphones in charleston, south carolina. what is on the agenda? the massacre at the mother emmanuel ame church on wednesday night. the reverend cornell brooks has said his organization is "outraged" at the cold blooded killing to which a ninth grade dropout named dylann roof has now reportedly confessed. late this morning, roof was charged with nine counts of murder and the

and we're here to help start yours. >>> breaking news, i'm ashleigh banfield. coming to you live from the west village of new york city at a place where there was genesis of a gay rights movement, the stonewall in, the site of a 1969 riot that lead to a robust gay cughts movement that today has

i'm ashleigh banfield and welcome to "legal view." if you rely on government subsidies to help pay for obamacare, as more than 6 million americans do, you can relax. if you happen to be the namesake of obamacare, you can really, really relax. yeah, like, look how relaxed. as you may have gathered, from the president's appearance in the rose garden just minutes ago, for the second time in three years, the supreme court of the united states of america has upheld

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." we want to begin with breaking news out of boston.llance by the fbi's joint terrorism task force was shot and killed after allegedly pulling a knife on boston police and federal agents. moments ago commissioner bill evans spoke briefly to reporters. have as listen. >> 6:59 this morning, officers in conjunction with joint terrorism task force had a suspect under surveillance at this location. at that time, along with the fbi confronted the suspect, identified themselves as boston police and fbi. at that particular time, the suspect turned, he pulled out a military-type knife. the officers asked him several times to put that knife down. they gave him several commands. he -- the officers tried their best retreating. again several more orders to put down. at that point, he came within the proximity that the officers use deadly force. >> cnn's deb feyerick has been working the phones, just got off the phone seconds ago. so look, i'm used to hearing about police shootings, if someone is waving a knife, but not used to hearing a police offic

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view."r ten of a massive search for escaped inmates richard matt and david sweat, two convicted murderers. this morning, joyce mitchell, the prison tailor accused of helpi ining them break free appd in court in her own prison outfit, a white and black ensemble you see on your screen. it was complete with a vest, her wrists and ankles were shackled and she was standing with her new

. >>> "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. >>> three very important stories breaking thisabout to hear from the police who are hot on the trail of those two escaped killers in new york state. in south carolina, the body of state senator and pastor clemente pinckney, one of those nine people killed in a charleston church, is going to make its way via horse drawn carriage to the state capitol building. also live this hour, president obama announcing a major policy shift to help bring home some americans held hostage by

i'm ashleigh banfield and welcome to "legal view." if you rely on government subsidies to help pay for obamacare, as more than 6 million americans do, you can relax. if you happen to be the namesake of obamacare, you can really, really relax. yeah, like, look how relaxed. as you may have gathered, from the president's appearance in the rose garden just minutes ago, for the second time in three years, the supreme court of the united states of america has upheld a vital component of the affordable care act. >> today, after more than 50 votes in congress to repeal or weaken this law, after a presidential election based in part on preserving or repealing this law, after multiple challenges to this law before the supreme court, the affordable care act is here to stay. >> you thought it was going to be close, it really wasn't. it was a 6-3 decision this morning. the court said obamacare premium subsidies are legal, from sea to shining sea, whether you bought your coverage on state exchanges, which you're seeing here in the yellow, or on the

. >>> breaking news, i'm ashleigh banfield. i want to get you live to cadyville, new york, where authorities are updating us on the search for two escaped murderers. >> the description provided by by the witness was similar to the description of our escapees. we conducted a thorough search that has ended. we have declared that area clear. we continue to purr evidence in both counties which includes analyzing security camera footage provided by by a business owner in stuben county. as of right now, both sightings remain unconfirmed. on a separate track that also started over the weekend, we're investigating a lead in the owls head area of franklin county, new york. we have developed evidence that the suspects may have spent time in a cabin in this area. we have law enforcement officers from around the state and around the nation here today searching for more evidence. we can not get into the spefb specifics of the evidence. we don't want to jeopardize the investigation or our number one objective which is to find david sweat and

. >> "legal view with ashleigh banfield" starts right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breakingston police finally revealing this -- the disturbing video. a terror suspect with a military knife gunned down in a confrontation with counterterrorism police. also this hour, two dangerous killers on the run, a community on high alert after a daring prison break in upstate new york. 250 police officers now joining the search, but they admit these guys could be anywhere. >>> and outrage over the police takedown of a teenager in a bikini. but why were police

i'm ashleigh banfield, welcome to "legal view." so much had to go so right for two killers in order to break out of their fortress like prison in upstate new york but it's one thing that went almost laughably wrong that could be the inmates 'un doing. the focus remains on a prison employee named joyce mitchell. according to a source familiar with the investigation, mitchell apparently was set to be the getaway driver, the person to pick up matt and sweat when they crawled out of their manhole and then they were supposed to have a driver to take them to places unknown. but that did not happen. instead, the source says mitchell went to a hospital with a panic attack instead, at this point two extremely dangerous men most likely felt panic themselves which most likely turned to desperation which made them even more dangerous, likely, than before. a former accomplice of matt's in the kidnapping and killing and dismembering of a new york businessman describes matt as "evil, cunning and a master manipulator." but the opposite seems to be

. >>> breaking news, i'm ashleigh banfield.nt to get you live to cadyville, new york, where authorities are updating us on the search for two escaped murderers. >> the description provided by by the witness was similar to the description of our escapees. we conducted a thorough search that has ended. we have declared that area clear. we continue to purr evidence in both counties which includes analyzing security camera footage provided by by a business owner in stuben county. as of right now, both sightings remain unconfirmed. on a separate track that also started over the weekend, we're investigating a lead in the owls head area of franklin county,

i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." it's day number ten of a massive search for escaped inmates richard matt and david sweat, two convicted murderers. this morning, joyce mitchell, the prison tailor accused of helpi ining them break free appd in court in her own prison outfit, a white and black ensemble you see on your screen. it was complete with a vest, her wrists and ankles were shackled and she was standing with her new attorney, her court-appointed attorney. her previous attorney had a conflict with another case. the only matter of business today -- she waived her preliminary felony hearing. that felony charge being promoting prison contraband. it has a hefty sentence. as far as the search goes, though, because it's still on, more than 800 law enforcement officers from state, local, and federal agencies are trying to find mr. matt and mr. sweat and they are working around the clock to do so. more than 900 leads have now developed at this point and according to the clinton county district attorney, the search has a