go to mcclain hospital. they will help you.tance from conrad roy. >> one of the main points of your argument was that conrad roy had tried it before. he researched various ways to take his own life. that this was not something that was just created by michelle carter. >> right. michelle for a year and a half always tried to persuade him not to commit suicide. he always rejected her thoughts of staying alive. and it was not until literally the last two weeks of his life where michelle finally endorsed his plan. >> i think that's where people have the biggest problem with this case is why? why would she encourage him? and she is supposed to be his friend? >> well, she came to the realizization that he did not want to live anymore. and his words were, i will only hate you if you tell somebody about my plan. while the prosecution presented michel as a -- >> the defense portrayed her as a victim who was taking antidepressants for her own mental health issues and ways no shape to help a suicidal friend. >> she was going through her o

cnn's scott mcclain live in london for us with more.le this morning, i didn't think you could get in more trouble than liz truss has been. can she survive all of this? >> reporter: the odds are starting to look pretty staked against her at this point, christine. even her new home secretary suggested liz truss has an everest to survive. she can't seem to catch a break. yesterday her home secretary resigned. this is one of the most senior positions in cabinet and ostensibly this was over a rather minor administrative error but she took some pretty heavy swipes on the government on her way out. criticizing her commitments to its own policies and then taking a -- i won't even call it a thinly veiled swipe. this was grade a trolling in her resignation letter. the business of government relies on people accepting responsibility for their mis mistakes. pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see we have made them and hoping things will magically come right is not serious politics. i have made a mistake. i accept r

scott mcclain for us for now outside of 10 downing street. joining me now a professor of politics and economy. thank you for your time this morning. the suggestion was, andrew, that if boris johnson had managed to make that 100 vote count that he wouldn't have had enough supporters, enough minister tuesday actually have formed a government. how much have the party and the country here avoided more political chaos with boris johnson deciding to withdraw last night? >> i think had johnson secured that support, decided to go forward and actually really had the support which he claimed to have which is not clear, the vote would have gone to the members. there's a reason i'm supposing the members might well have chosen him. but i think as you said at that point it might have been incredible push back from within his own parliamentary party. and i think although these things don't happen very often in u.k. politics and i hez hate to make these kinds of predictions i think there's a real chance the conservative party would actually have split over t

scott mcclain live in london. three weeks before the mid-term elections.l problem, scott. >> undoubtedly. liz truss after meeting with the cabinet said she wanted to be honest with her public about the hard times ahead. that statement turned out to be pretty prescient given the new numbers. inflation as of september ticking up from 9.9% to 10.1% driven largely by the increase in food and drink prices up 14%. a lot of critics of the prime minister say her own policies tend to slash taxes and spend money that the government hadn't accounted for undoubtedly helped to kron tribute to some of this inflation. she managed to roll back almost all of those policies. now she is fighting for her political life. she will face the music and questions from opposition. even tough questions from the back benches of her party. they want to see her replaced as prime minister if you don't think she can regain the trust of the markets. even a clear ma joertd they want to see her replaced. why haven't they pushed her out already? they had this answer. >> they are not convinced

>> scott mcclain, thank you so much for that. >>> cnn has learned the u.s.getting ready to take action against those cracking down on protesters in iran. >> we have already sanctioned some of the morality police, some other iranian intelligence officials that we know were responsible for cracking down on these protestors and were responsible for ms. amini's death. you will see us issue more sanctions going forward. >>> sweeping protests by a woman who died in police custody. she was detained for violating iran's dress code. jomana karadsheh has the story. >> reporter: well, as you heard there, christine, we expect the united states to announce these additional sanctions this week. what they look like we really don't know yet. we're going to have to wait and see. perhaps more symbolic than anything. the united states and other countries have been under a lot of pressure, lots of rising calls to do more to support those rising up in iran. with or without that support, three weeks into this, christine, we are still seeing people taking to the streets and now we

. >> scott mcclain is live in london.in absolute turmoil. is liz truss in trouble here? >> reporter: it sure seems that way, christine. there's an impression in this country liz truss is a prime minister who is no longer in control of her own government. yesterday she didn't do a whole lot to dispel that notion. her brand new chancellor on the job only a few days stood in the house to announce almost all of the measures that were announced in her infamous budget were scrapped. that means a planned cut to the dividend tax, highest earners tax cut and a plan for a corporate tax hike. the estimate total savings is $36 billion, money that the government hadn't accounted for. sma smaller, less expensive items did survive the krull. energy bills will only survive in its current form until april. the markets seemed to like this. the u.k. stock index, ftse 100 is almost at the level it was when liz truss first took office. all of this leaves liz truss in a pretty awkward position. the signature campaign promises that got her -- t

scott mcclain is outside of 10 drowning street and richard quest is standing by as well. six weeks in office and gone after a disastrous budget plan. so what happens next? >> yeah, that is a great question. we'll have a new prime minister by the end of next week. i think that liz truss tried everything that she possibly could to save her premiership. that also started to go wrong from the minute that she announced her disastrous economic plan. essentially a series of tax cuts, some of them for the wealthiest people in this country, amidst a cot of living crisis and that was too much for truss to come back from. first she tried to roll back part of the plan, that wasn't enough. so then she swapped chancellors, and picked a new one from the moderate wing of her party. that wasn't enough. he rolled back almost everything in that economic plan. that still wasn't quite enough. she seeped to be on more level footing yesterday after prime minister questions but then we have more chaos. the resignation of her home secretary who suggested she ought to follow her out the door and t

joining us is emily mcclain.t worry, emily, i'm not going to ask you about the weather because we don't know what's going to happen there, although i will say we've been really lucky one of the calmest storm seasons in texas and louisiana in 70 years. okay that said, why have natural gas prices absolutely collapsed in the last month or so >> hi, brian thanks for having me again so just to start here in the u.s., domestic prices. we've seen prices drop mostly on an improvement in supply so supply's been growing throughout the year and really on a year-over-year basis as well as an improvement in storage inventories. we've seen triple digit inventory injections and we expect by the end of season to be in a healthy position in terms of storage levels. that's on the u.s. side. on the european side, kind of a similar story. very strong storage injections in lg imports into the region really all year. that's enabled europe to be in a good position plus like you mentioned, the weather's been on our side and we've seen a

amy: that is charlie mcclain. children of the descendants of the 1919 black massacre in elaine, arkansas, gathered memorial soil from where richard wright's uncle silas hoskins was thought to have been lynched near elaine and brought it in august to the national memorial for peace and justice, the national lynching memorial, in montgomery, alabama, where founder bryan stevenson personally received the jar of memorial il. >> he said, silas hoskins of elaine, arkansas, 1916. this is a significant one because silas hoskins was the uncle of richard wright, the very famous author, who wrote amazing books. richard wright talked about what happened to his uncle and that is how we know his stories. and because you have these two jars, we will be able to put them in our exhibit and i'm really grateful for that. so if you will turn that over, i will take it and we will put this in our museum. in the next time you come, you'll see the words -- thank you, thank you. amy: for more, we are joined by julia wright, the daughter o

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. >> scott mcclain following all of this extraordinary historic political process in the united kingdomwill be looking at that thinking she's totally del delu delusional. >> yesterday liz truss is trying to show she was in control of her party. you had this question come from the opposition, urgent question from the house of commons. liz truss wasn't there for it. you had her dep pew advertised penny morton, her leadership rival. she assured everyone to some laughter, some jeers, liz truss was gone for a greend, wasn't hiding under a new desk. you have the new chancellor proceed to almost completely scrap her economic plans which scrapped her list, planned cut to dividends tax, planned income tax for high earners, a few other things as well. all told this saves $36 million of money that the government didn't have to spend in the first place. as you showed there in the first place, the markets responded, the pound rebounded as well and then you have liz truss apologizing later in the day as well for the damage that has been done. now the primary question that seems to be asked in british

. >> cnn's scott mcclain following this live from 10 downing street.bsolute chaos in parliament last night after that resignation after the prime minister's questions. another eventful day ahead. some mps suggesting she won't last a day. >> reporter: yeah. how long she can last certainly is the question of the day. yesterday we stopped with the pliep minister. as you mentioned, it's not clear whether her resignation was by her own accord or whether she was asked to resign over this relatively minor infraction of sending an email -- a work-related email from her personal account. on her way out she questioned the government's commitments to its own policies when it comes to things like immigration. she wrote this not so veiled -- not veiled at all swipe at lis truss saying the bits of government relies on people accepting responsibility. pretending we haven't made mistakes and hoping things will magically stop coming right. i have made a mistake. i accept responsibility. i resign. didn't end there. you have the chaos in par parliament. yesterday it was

. >> scott mcclain on downy street, thank you very much. >>> now the all important u.s. mid-term elections a little over two weeks away. early voting is already underway in some states. at stake is the balance of power in congress which largely determines what president biden will be able to do on his legislative agenda. cnn's latest polling found voters evenly split. in other words, no obvious preference for one party over the other. we get more on the key races to watch now from cnn's eva mckend. >> reporter: democratic senate nominee john fetterman getting a boost. n >> john, thank you very much for running. >> reporter: president biden giving him a boost touting the signature infrastructure law. >> this law is more about rebuilding the middle class, something john knows a lot about and talks a lot about. >> reporter: and to fund raise for the democrat who is running in one of the most competitive races in the country against republican mehmet oz. some taking a sharper approach, like knows georgia. >> herschel walker wants to ban abortion. >> reporter: senator raphael

. >> thanks so much, scott mcclain. appreciate it. >>> u.s. billionaire elon musk seems to have backed off a threat to stop funding his spacex firm's star link system in ukraine. the nation uses starlink for military communications. one senior ukrainian official said it's essential. musk said the u.s. should pay tens of millions of dollars. now he's quoted, the hell with it, even though starlink is losing millions, we'll just keep funding the ukraine government for free. >>> russia is focusing a lot of its time, attention and resources on its war in ukraine and that's raised concerns among some close neighbors that were once soviet republics. as cnn's ivan watson reports, russia's influence them is on decline. >> reporter: on the 70th birthday, vladimir putin met with leaders of the other soviet countries. of course, putin is directly responsible for launching the biggest war in recent history in this part of the world. russia's invasion of ukraine was aimed at reasserting moscow's control. instead, this increasingly disastrous war has weakene

. >> scott mcclain. >> thank you. >>> now to a stunning image captured far above earth.n astronaut on the international space station took this photo, what appears to be two bright blue orbs of the atmosphere. it's two unrelated events. the blue sphere is a lightning strike. usually hard to see from the space station because they become white clouds. in this case there was a gap in the clouds and the lightning illuminated the surrounding cloud walls. the other blue sphere in the upper right was created by light from the moon hitting tiny particles in the earth's atmosphere. now you know. >>> still ahead on cnn. the nba season off to a bang. the golden state warriors take to court against lebron james and the lakers. effortlessly responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. ♪ age before beauty? why not both? visibly diminish wrinkled skin in just two days. new crepe corrector lotion only from gold bond. champion your skin. oh yeah, that is them. (that is howard) yeah, that's on howar

cnn's scott mcclain is tracking this for us from london. so the new prime minister's first public speech happened this morning. what did he have to say? >> reporter: hey, kate. well, president biden has already managed to badly pron pronounce rishi sunak's name but it is a name he should be familiar with, he is the youngest prime minister in british history in the last 200 years at least. and also the very first british prime minister who is not white. and yet neither of those milestones were mentioned in rishi sunak's very first speech as britain prime minister and perhaps because there is so much on his plate and so much to do. this country needs to get inflation under control. and this country has a massive hole in its budget right now. we've learned this morning that rishi sunak intends to keep on the chancellor, the financin mister who had been on track to take back the tax cuts that liz truss had previously announced. he also has a huge task in uniting his fractured party between the boris johnson and liz truss and his moderate wing o

. >> scott mcclain is following developments for us.redible progress really on the ukrainian side. how are they doing it? >> reporter: well, even the russians are acknowledging there is progress being made. you know, there's a series of reasons why the russians say the ukrainians have been so suc succ successful. it's remarkable how quickly they've acknowledged it. a russian briefing, two of them. one took place yesterday and another yesterday. a series of maps show the situation. the map on the left shows monday's -- the map from monday's military briefing. the one on the right is from tuesday's. the pink is russian occupied areas, the white is ukrainian. look at the area left of the blue part. that's the dnipro river. this is russia acknowledging they are losing territory in the southern part of the country after they also lost territory in the eastern part of the country, specifically the key town of lyman. this is showing how the front lines have changed and the russian troop presence how they have started to shrink or started to st

men like guy burgess, john mcclain, can cross. who are also major soviet spies at the same period, but they were racked with guilt. they tracked themselves into early graves on. instead of standing trial, they escaped behind the iron curtain and went to moscow. where they literally died of alcoholism in their moscow daca's. they were men who are absolutely written by their spying and their betrayal. but not alger hiss, alger hiss, for whatever reason, maintained his secrecy to the day he died. he went through numerous appeals processes, he went on speaking tours, college campuses, trying to establish his innocence. when all was said and done, he was a cool customer. and he maintained that right to the end. >> one of the things that you talked about is, the title of the book is gods of deception, and i immediately went back and looked up my god. nemesis, a parfait, i don't think that's what you're talking about with gods of deception. i think you're talking about the ability to deceive. for example, like the cia, the kgb and also a

men like guy burgess, john mcclain, can cross. who are also major soviet spies at the same period, but they were racked with guilt. they tracked themselves into early graves on. instead of standing trial, they escaped behind the iron curtain and went to moscow. where they literally died of alcoholism in their moscow daca's. they were men who are absolutely written by their spying and their betrayal. but not alger hiss, alger hiss, for whatever reason, maintained his secrecy to the day he died. he went through numerous appeals processes, he went on speaking tours, college campuses, trying to establish his innocence. when all was said and done, he was a cool customer. and he maintained that right to the end. >> one of the things that you talked about is, the title of the book is gods of deception, and i immediately went back and looked up my god. nemesis, a parfait, i don't think that's what you're talking about with gods of deception. i think you're talking about the ability to deceive. for example, like the cia, the kgb and also a

cnn's scott mcclain is following developments for us in london. what more are we learning there, scott? >> reporter: ukrainians are saying nothing about this. ukrainian defense intelligence official says ukraine has nothing to add to this. this happened back on august 25th. her car was turning onto the main highway when a bomb planted underneath herr jeep detonated, as you mentioned, because she was driving her father's car, the initial thought was alexander duggan was the actual target. it is important to remember, though, this is a u.s. intelligence assessment, this is not a proven fact. there are also plenty of question marks. this assessment does not say exactly who within the ukrainian government may have been responsible for this. there's also plenty of questions -- still the open question about whether president zelenskyy was aware of this at all. the sources who spoke to cnn made clear the united states was not aware of this prior to. this is obviously making a lot of news in russia. it bolsters the russian initial explanations. they said

autopsy results for eli mcclain, a young black man who died during a police encounter in 2019, showst he actually died from a lethal dose of ketamine. a sedative given to him by paramedics. the autopsy report concluded that the paramedics gave him, quote, higher dose than recommended for his weight. three officers and two paramedics are currently facing charges for his death. a former police officer in texas has been acquitted on murder charges following the shooting of jonathan price two years ago. civil rights attorney, lee merritt, who represents the price family, says, he will appeal the doj to the doj, to bring federal criminal charges against the officers. and the white house another conference on hunger, nutrition, and health for the first time in over five decades. president biden revealed his national plan to end hunger and increase healthy eating, and physical activity by the year of 2030. monday is my birthday, but my real attention will be on tuesday, when the supreme court hears this voting case. we must really look and see if this conservative court will take race out o

i believe even mcclain's daughter there is a dull that was taken or sold, whichever the case may be by a union soldier. here's evidence i was there. >> exactly recite the men that took on that apple tree and took it home. [laughter] so before we leave appomattox there's one more thing that's created there that is important to your story that revolves on the terms of surrender. grant famously generous terms of surrender, which creates a little bit of legal questionable legal standing. which of a practical effect on the standard itself is a try to get home. can you talk about the terms before he fell the confederates onto the road? >> the terms that grant offers which she will later say in his memoirs just came to him for he did not know what he was going to write with pen to paper the terms he offers are the men will surrender their weapons and their flags. and they will go home on parole. that is an important term we should maybe flush out a bit. but they are prisoners of war and other words. they are prisoners of war who were vowing not to take up arms again against the united states

scott mcclain, appreciate it.ou. >>> let's bring in a cnn global economic analyst and the new book "home coming", and good to see you. let's stick with the u.k. for a moment because we do know this has broader implications. liz truss financial plan plunged the pound to historic lows. based on what you know about rishi sunak, talk about the challenges he just inherited. >> yeah. well you know, truss-anomics, as it were, broke because liz truss was using a playbook from the 1980s. i mean she was basically trying to channel margaret thatcher and say look, we could cut taxes on the rich as we're giving out energy subsidies and everything is going to be okay and the markets didn't buy it. and that is reflective of a broader shift that i do cover in my book, away from sort of hyper globalized financialized trickle down markets where governments think that cutting taxes is the only thing that you could do to achieve prosperity. so i think the new prime minister is going to have to figure out what is the game plan, what i

cnn's scott mcclain is live. where do things stand right now?> reporter: christine, there are no candidates who have officially declared themselves in the race, but the leadership race is well underway happening though largely behind closed doors. that is because candidates will be horse trading, negotiating, trying to persuade their parliamentary colleagues to support them. it will take the support of at least 100 to get into the race. this does not favor more minor candidates with a certain wing, this favors the known quantities already, people who already have a well-established track record already. it's possible that there could only be one candidate who actually reaches that 100 vote threshold in which case we'll have a new prime minister of brittain on monday. otherwise, there could eve eventually be up to three. if that's the case, they'll whittle it down to two and take a vote. it has to be an online vote of the party membership which brings up all kinds of concerns about reaching members. the top is rishi sunak. he has plenty of credib

little banks wasn't born yet but my dad holding mcclain and holding hayden. amazing recover from we would hire. he does beautiful work. these are the pictures you always see. we are grateful for those. she had diabetes. diagnosed at 39. then she had a stroke. she was on dialysis. gallbladder issues. in and out of the hospital. she lived at home. my dad and her were married 50 years. last five years he and wonderful nurse maggie took great care of my mom. allowed my dad some peace. my dad got to the point breaking point. maggie said i have got. this you go play golf. enjoy some time with your friends. my sister and i were coming home every weekend first year every other second year. she is at peace. i say all of that maybe wondering how can i come to work today. mom would have wanted me to. my sister is going back to school tomorrow to teach her little kids. we are grateful we know her faith was strong. we know where she is. she is with jesus. she loved the lord and taught all of us about jesus and took us to church every single sunday. dad was kind of not the

let's get straight over to scott mcclain. he's outside of the prime minister's residence in london. so, scott, what now? >> reporter: if you ask the opposition labor party, there ought to be a general election but the conservative party has zero incentive to actually call a general election. because if you consult the polls, you will find that the conservative party were an election be held today would be absolutely trounced by the labor party. labor likely getting twice or por than twice the share of the vote as the conservative party. and so there is very few scenarios if any that the conservatives would be able to hold on to power after a general election. what we know for certain, kate, is that there will be a new prime minister, liz truss is still the prime minister until the new one is chosen. and that leader should be chosen by the end of next week. now, in theory, this should work with party mp's whittling down the potential candidates to just two and then letting the party membership vote. perhaps, though, party may be a little bit skittish about doing that considering what

here is the prep president biden's chief of staff ron mcclain, earlier today. >> i think the most importantmphasize, is there is a choice about where we go from here. all we can and continue to do the things that will bring prices down next year. that will control inflation next year, with the inflation reduction act, or will republican leaders in congress, succeed in repealing all those things, helping big corporations, cutting taxes, and seeking prices for consumers, families. seeing those prices go up. that's the real choice between where the democrats are adding on the economy, and where the republican leadership's head and on the economy. >> can democrats actually communicate that message to voters in time? should they be doing more? could they even be doing more? we have just the person tax. joining us now is jan psaki, former white house press secretary, an msnbc host. -- so, it is a tightrope. admittedly, it's complicated, the economy is complicated, the messaging is complicated. on the one hand, there's good news, right, but then there's the reality. we keep getting these data poin

cnn's scott mcclain is following all developments and is joining us live from outside 10 downing street. and scott, johnson says he had the 100 votes but chose not to stand, as he couldn't guarantee the unity. his withdrawal is likely going to be key for, in particular, penny mordaunt to reach that 100 vote mark. even though it is considered that sunak is definitely the front-runner here. >> reporter: according to the british press association, rishi sunak, undoubtedly the front-runner. the former chancellor has the public support of more than 140 mps. of course, there may be plenty more who are privately supporting him but haven't said so publicly. while penny mordaunt has the public support of less than 30. so there are still a few different possible scenarios as to how this race ends. but the fact that boris johnson is no longer in it undoubtedly changes the calculus for everyone involved here. as you mentioned, boris johnson says he had the support to not only get into the race but also to win it. but he says, quote, over the course of the last days, i have sadly come to the conclus

>> back in the parlor -- >> and mcclain didn't want to sell his furniture for 20 dollars on the ground. i've heard that. one of the many stories i've heard. we will keep going. and a shout outs -- one of them, thanks for this program, i enjoy the book. what's up next? in terms of book projects? we will get to that. but he says, go wahoos and that is newsom. >> when -- hansen. >> we will check in here before we sign off. but it's a good time. it is a good time out there on the road. and -- oh, this is something that is really interesting, in the way that you are perspective of the book is. you start with the math but you look out. and suddenly it's a story of appomattox in the post war days, talking about other places and the people there. no longer those kinds of soldiers. what and winchester, virginia. the farm in lynch bergh. this is a place where women come into the story. and become the protagonist in the story and what is their story at the end of the war. one of those points? >> you asked me, there is a company of 20,000 soldiers who weren't paroled at appomattox. some of them ha

. >> well then, let's say you are ron mcclain, tonight.his. does this suddenly make this white house take a second look at the agency that is protecting the president. >> well, as you know, there have been some changes in some of the people who played the most problematic roles that we know up to date, stephanie. right? but the reason that i almost think that there is no way today was the last hearing is that i there are so many questions about what the secret service knew and didn't know, what the fbi knew, who knew what in the white house. and questions the committee is still reviewing a lot of this documentation. so there are more questions, i bet, that the current white house and my former colleagues may have as more is learned. but there are a lot more threats to pull here which is why i think they're probably has to be at least another hearing. >> hi, jen, it is nicole. you may have to be in the political nerds club of ex white house staffers to have been most -- >> i am such a political narrative. i am happy to embrace it, nicole. >

gas prices, chief of staff ron mcclain says he checks every day checking the price of gas. that's not going to be a great number. republicans bullish right now. they feel like the national conversation is turning to the economy, to inflation. they think that's good for their candidates. they're briefing reporters on a daily basis, hey, we think we've got momentum. democrats have pushed back with this. they think dobbs is still a factor. republicans with trump have had more success bringing new voters to the polls. democrats think this time around it's them, new women voters who will vote democratic in november. >> the state of georgia, herschel walker, another allegation, the woman who told "the daily beast" that walker paid for her to have an abortion in 2009 now says she also had a child with him. if true, that claim would undercut walker's defense that he did not know the woman who claimed to be an ex-girlfriend. "the daily beast" article states this, when the woman first told "the daily beast" her story, we agreed not to reveal details over concerns for safety and priva