spiking. >> sorry. i won't done. well. >> i really all right. i will leave you with this after baltimore had a rough and emotional start this week, the orioles gave their city plenty of reasons to cheer whereby everybody the team's new owners bought around for fans of pickles pub. i love pickles >> nothing goes better with free beer than a dominating win. the orioles just soared to an 11 to three win against the angels to start their 2024 season, >> mark. i don't know how long you've been in this area. if you're an os fan and that's fan, i'm a huge os mangoes my dagger up in baltimore. i am so excited for this season. >> they call you strum ski and ted williams slave for the orioles >> read sox come on >> we'll see you soon here >> all right. thanks very much to our panel. thanks to you for

joining us. i hope times more owes fans me what's this about? nonsense? i'm casing, don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now >> our first look this morning at what might be the biggest political fundraiser ever. tv cameras, not really allowed inside, but we are getting the inside scoop of what happened on stage with three presidents, a queen, and a few pairs of sunglasses >> and breaking news, the largest crane on the eastern seaboard just arrived to help clear what's left of the collapsed baltimore bridge as officials work to get the court moving again, the beyhive is buzzing this morning after months of anticipation beyond saying his new album, cowboy carter is here from jolene to the beatles. this is a beyond say like we've never seen or heard before. i'm satisfied with john berman, frederik so whitfield is in for kate bolduan. this is cnn news central

>> so this morning these are images you have never seen before from an event the likes of which no one as ever seen before. and by the way, you will not really see it in full because television cameras are not allowed inside for what the biden campaign is calling the most successful fundraiser in american in political history, 26 million. we are though getting a readout of what happened behind those closed doors with former presidents clinton and obama joining president biden onstage with a host of the biggest it's names and entertainment. there were protests to over israel's war on hamas at one point, president obama said, you can't just talk and not listen. that's what the other side does as for the other side, we're just now hearing from him donald trump for the first time about his trip to new york. he was there to attend the wake of a fallen police office what is the

message to the president's at radio city right now, before you leave new york and go back to >> florida, what did he, ms today >> while i missed a very sad moment for our country, but it's a moment that they have to be a part of whether they like it or not. did they can't skip this moment. i've never seen show many police. i've never seen so many firemen. lot of firemen, they view it. you in a very similar way. and i understand that but they're going to have to get involved a little bit because this country is going to help right? >> cnn senior white house >> correspondent, mj lee is with us this morning. i'll start with this event in new york. and what actually happened there on that stage for all the big money donors to see yeah, john, first of all, that total fundraising haul has actually now been updated to upwards of $26 million. obviously, a result of all of the sirius star power that we saw gathered in one room, the three presidents, a number of

celebrities and artists, and very, very expensive tickets. it's clear from the readouts that we've gotten so far from last night. but the main overarching theme of the evening was the threat of donald trump you know, given that the setting was what it was, and given that it was steven cole bear, that was moderating this event, the three presidents clearly at times used humor to talk about this for example talking about trust i'm giving himself these trophies that his own golf tournament president biden at one point saying all the things that he's doing are so old, a little old, and out of shape. but i think under all of that was clearly this sober picture of what a donald trump presidency would look like according to these three presidents, talking about the events of january 6, the threats that they believe he poses to everyday freedoms and rights, including reproductive rights. president biden, at one point saying, i think democracy is literally at stake. >> and i think >> the real force from the

evening clearly came from the fact that it wasn't just joe biden talking about all these things we've heard him do so many times over the last few months, but that these messages were echoed by two of his predecessors, barack obama and bill clinton, who were on stage. the idea, of course, being that they would know better than almost anybody else. what really is at stake out come november, and i think the three prime president's and the picture that they painted together on stage was clearly one of party unity, but also urgency about, again, the donald trump's second term that they're trying to prevent from taking place. >> each party unity. there were protests at this event over gaza in those have happened around the country as president isn't a biden has been campaigning >> yeah, that's right. you know, we were outside of radio city music hall all evening and we saw probably a couple of hundred protesters angry about wanting a ceasefire in gaza, angry about the way that president biden has handled

this conflict. and to an extent we saw that at actually follow the three presidents inside to the spun rings. are we know that it was interrupted multiple times throughout the evening. stephen cole bear it sounded like lead or actually very substantive conversation about the situation in the middle east. all three presidents weighing in on this issue all three of them, of course, very familiar with the israeli palestinian conflict one woman who came out of this event that i talked to briefly. she says she paid $500 for her ticket. she says she was generally impressed by the way that the three presidents responded to these live interruptions during the evening that they try to be not critical of the interruptions and try to be empathetic to the situation in gaza. but i think this was such a clear reminder of how much the situation in israel and the middle east has been a political problem for president biden to all right. >> mj lee here in new york, rdc

mj. thanks very much sir. >> and a special treat we've got cnn's john king joining us live and in person this morning here on seeing a new central just what are your thoughts about these three presidents? to former presidents, the current president coming together, but also facing some real issues while at the same time, the former president is at a funeral of an nypd officer and those juxtapositions that are happening there, there's several important pieces. they're number one, the democrats tried and to say that all of our top guns are on the same field, all hands on deck and look, president biden needs that. he's struggling right now. he needs all the help you can get financially. they need that money. fundraising does not win campaigns, but if you spend that money wisely, you can win a campaign because you have the money and he has an advantage right now, you will not see george w bush raising money for donald trump. you will not even see his own vice president mike pence raising money for donald trump's. so it does tell you that the big heavy hitters in the democratic party are going to try to help president biden. now, president biden is underwater on the economy underwater and immigration underwater and other issues has a historically low approval rating. he has a

lot of problems, so he needs that money but he needs that. they're already on television. it costs more money if you're an incumbent president because air force one can cost more than another plane. what is trump doing? number one is playing to the base crime here in new york. he's going to michigan next week to do immigration that plays to the base, but also placed the suburbs biden has a lot of cracks in his coalition. trump has one giant problem, which is the suburbs. that's his cryptic tonight and crime and immigration can plan the suburbs. the issue plays well, sometimes trump over, does it with his tone so we'll see how that goes. the crime debate is interesting because overall the violent crime is down but personal property crime is up. motor vehicle theft, syrup, and it gets a lot of attention on local news and on a certain network that is clearly trying to help the former president they play it up more than maybe out of context a bit that's fair enough. let me ask you about this poll of polls that is coming out the four polls have come out, how tight are we, how close are these two men running for president at this point in time? >> if you look at that right there, 47, 44. so we would say

no clear leader because you're averaging the latest three or four natioional polls, which isa smart way to do it, don't focus on any one poll. i would also argue as we get closer to the election, 200 plus days away now, national polls or less meaningful, you want to look at the battle ground states. however, if you look at that 44% for president biden and our polar pulse just at the beginning of the month, he was at 46, 47%. so again, his share of the vote is down a little bit. he stopped bargaining, right now, i would argue that we need to pay attention to the third-party candidates increasingly not just trump versus biden, because if trump's have 47 and biden said 44, where's the rest of that vote? right? and so you look at that number one, the third party candidates and then again, the most important thing, where do they get on the ballot, which states are they on the ballot? and then try to study who they're helping or hurting as you look at that, the general thinking is, if you lower the bar, you can win with less than 50 the percent that helps trump. but i think state-by-state, it's going to be complicated. can you say some of the other >> candidates, rfk, we know >> that the biden administration has said there are the biden campaign has said they're going to start going on the attack when it comes to to that particular question, i

don't forget the green party candidate, jill stein eskelund, clin, michigan, wisconsin 2016. ouch. >> yeah. >> that's one way to put it john king. it's always a pleasure thank you so much for being here this morning. fred. >> all right. crews have started the difficult job of dismantling the twisted wreckage of that collapsed baltimore bridge. the challenging work ahead in one of the nation's busiest ports and a grim milestone, it has been one year since american journalist evan gershkovich, which wrongful police detained in russia, how his family and coworkers are pushing for his release and an eight-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a deadly crash that sent a boss full of easter worshippers off a bridge and down a ravine if you work in spaceflight, this is the worst thing that can happen >> space shuttle columbia, final flight for mirror sunday, april 7 at night. and see, you from real two.com, real view

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scene. it's the biggest crane vessel on the east coast that is a major development is just arriving at the scene. we should say the word has not begun. we understand that uh, two more of those vessels are on their way right now, according to the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg judge >> but this >> is going to be a process right now even before those vessels can start removing the bridge coast guard officials engineers from the army corps of engineers are trying to figure out how they're actually going to cut that bridge into pieces. so that it can be safely removed by these vessels. and as we've watched them come into the channel, this first one it is clear what a project this is going to be because it is so small in comparison to this massive container ship, the size of the eiffel tower that has a huge bridge, still laying across it. fred, take a listen. this this is how a coast guard official talked about the project ahead when he spoke to media yesterday >> we are doing those

assessments right now with underwater surveys, with engineering teams back in unified command for the army corps of engineers with our navy supsalv with coast guard, with all of our partners that you see up here. that is our number one priority is to reopen the port of baltimore as fast as we can. and do it safely >> and it is so critical, fred, for them to get the port reopened. we are talking about thousands of jobs on the line millions of dollars in salaries and impacted the economy here in baltimore. and then of course, there's the ripple effect within the supply chain for the us, a call anna me, so there are major implications. the federal government approving that first 60 million package, but in reality, fred, that's just a downpayment here, $60 is going to help them in these first stages of demolition, even rerouting traffic. some of the little stuff that's happening in the days ahead in terms of the weeks and months so ahead, it's going to cost a lot more

money than that. >> it will indeed. all right. a very tough time. and gabe cohen, thank you so much. of course later on we'll be able to show some of those pictures of that tribute at the orioles opener game all right, john, thanks. >> this morning in new explanation from republican insiders about why the national committee is asking potential hires this question was the 2020 election stolen? >> and breaking overnight? the new album from bryansk is out this morning and in-depth analysis of each melody, each key change, each lyric, and how they very well could change life as we know it julian? >> don't this year, the one thing republicans and democrats have been common, they're both waiting for their nominee i'm used to die this such white

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classic jolene cnn anchor and beyond say fan also, as you can tell, he is, you understood the assignment viktor blackwell this morning, you understood the what was your reaction? i know you've already dropped this. i know you've pretty gotten it. you were listening to all the songs. what's what's your favorite >> alarm went off this morning and i started playing the album. listen to it twice so far through my favorite, so far is sweet honey bucket is 27 trucks in interludes, including some of the legends we know, like dolly parton and willie nelson in those interlude, but also some names that may be most folks don't know, like she and willie jones and tanner adele as well. you play jolene and texas hold em, which has been number one on billboard country chart for six weeks now, other tracks like just for fund are easily. identifiable as country, but there are also some net play with this question of genre and where

does this music live? here's my early favorite, just a portion of sweet honey bucket and you'll understand what i'm talking about. >> so >> you hear the patsy cline referenced there. you hear the beats kind of mixing through genres and certainly sarah, beyond say, fans will hear a beyond say they recognize, but also here in the country genre, those fans will hear the music that they love to the mix. there is incredible. you wouldn't, you wouldn't, as

just a regular old plebeian put those two things together beyond say, does it with absolute beauty? when she does something victor, there's always though a deeper meanings sort of a personal journey and broader themes to society. what broader cultural or social commentary is she trying to say with cowboy carter >> well, in addition to the genre, she also addresses the question of race in music. there's a track spaghetti that starts with lynda martell saying that genres are a funny little concept. and if you've never heard the name in linda martell, she was the first black female country singer to have real commercial and charts success. first to sing at the grand ole opry, first to perform on that old show. hee haw. and she was pilloried from moving from gospel and r&b into country and faced issues on plantation records. if you can imagine in the 1960s, a black woman singing on that label.

there's a track also on this album called black bird, which is a play on and it'll using the original lyrics of the beatles blackbird, and paul mccartney back in the '60s, he said that he wrote this thinking not about a black bird, but a black woman in the civil rights era. well, in this version beyond say sings it with three other black women in country listen to a portion of blackbird here only. waiting for the small >> sarah, there is a lot on this album. she says that it's not a country album it's a beyond say, album. but i am here for the country yes, you

are and you are dressed for the part just fyi blackbird is my alarm in the morning. the original ones or maybe i'll change it to the beyond say version. it's beautiful >> it is beautiful victor blackwell. thank you so much and watch more with victor blackwell. he will probably not be wearing that happened can guarantee tomorrow morning and every saturday morning on first of all, starting at 08:00 a.m. all right. john. >> all right. >> police say he was >> paranoid >> on drugs will new charges be filed against the suspect in a stack? having rampage. >> and today, wall street >> journal reporter, evan gershkovich is waking up in a russian prison for the 365th time. remember journalism is not a crime. >> at least it's not supposed to >> this is the big dam it's. time to

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>> get your viewing glasses ready, and experience so rare it won't happen again for another two decades. joint cnn for live coverage around the country of this spectacle in the skies, eclipse across america, april 8 and one on cnn or streaming on macs >> police say this aspect in a brutal stabbing rampage that left four people dead, confessed to the attack, claiming he was under the influence of marijuana that he thinks had been laced with some kind of narcotic 22-year-old christian soto faces first-degree murder, attempted murder, and home invasion charges, and the mayor of rockford, illinois, where this happened, says his heart is breaking over the lives lost cnn's veronica miracle, joining us now from chicago with more on this. tell us more about what you've learned >> well, fred, as we learn more about this case, it just becomes war horrific, 22-year-old christian soto accused of 13 charges that this point, but investigators say

that number could get bigger as they get deeper into this investigation. they say that he was covered in blood when he was arrested and actually admitted to some of the crimes that he is accused of committing to investigators, including, as you said, going to the home of two of his friends, jacob and ramona shoebox and stabbing them and then going outside and telling investigators that he had taken out the mailman. he said that he went to his friend's house to smoke marijuana. that he started to become paranoid. he thought he was laced with something and then stabbed ramona and jc bach. excuse me, ramona and jacob shoebox to death. he said that he then went outside and saw the mailman and a witness described christian soto beating that mailman and then stabbing him to death and running over him twice with a pickup truck or the horrors do not end there. he is then accused of breaking into the home where three children were home alone, beating them with a baseball bat, including one to death,

15. jenna newcomb cnn spoke to her friends, take a listen as they tried to grapple with this loss >> couldn't be a mean to you always such a nice person i've never seen her angry once she put everything into a softball basketball, those were her sports. >> i didn't ever really see her give up on anything. she's really i really hard worker. our team >> we really cared for her. we really loved her >> and christian soto is then accused of breaking into two other homes and attempting to kill five other people. again, investigators say more charges could be on the way, including federal charges as they learn more in this investigation, he is due next in court on april 2, back to you, fred. >> all right. veronica miracle. it's unbelievable and quite frankly, unthinkable to john already this >> morning new reporting that donald trump plans to increase

the number of rallies and campaign events he does. he really has had a light schedule of yet late. >> the focus >> will be on the border and crime. so how will that play with voters john king has been asking you a series all over the map. his latest trip, arizona a wall as far as the eye can see this is the tucson sector. by far the busiest corridor for illegal border crossings. smuggling is a big problem and a big business faith ramon knows all too well. >> i needed money. i needed money quick and because of my alcohol and my addiction, i just went to a party, met some friends. they offer me some quick money. i took it and it was so easy, it will so easy. i did it again and i did it again. sure enough. i was doing it for years because of it being so easy. >> then he got caught and then i got caught. my luck >> ran out a felony conviction set ramon in search of sobriety under 2018 to hone oldham

tribal ritual would again put the border front and center, the sweat lodge ceremony >> and i walked in and that was a very first time i heard that there was a border wall that was going to be built on the reservation separating and destroying some of our sacred sites. >> mode is now an active is two registers voters and is eligible to have her own voting rights restored. your mom, her first choice for president would be this november in battle battleground, arizona. >> i will vote for >> biden or donald trump is not an option. >> i don't like the fact that our reservation was destroyed by racist wall to win here again, biden needs big margins here in south central arizona, tucson, itself to the mexican begin border. ray flores is no fan of biden or trump thinks both are too old to be president. >> at this juncture, they both had four years and i am just eight years more frustrated than i was for flores runs el

charro, a family business for 102 years to san landmark, famous for carney seca, and the chimichanga >> washington his immigration paralysis hurts business. >> i mean, a clear process for work visas would be amazing. you have your technology company, you can get an engineer and you can get them immigrated and you can get a work visa can i be able to do that with a chef or with a really good waiter. >> the immigration conversation tends to be different in places at or near the border. more polite, more nuanced focused on on solutions, not slogans. so how long it's a unique >> situation where you have two countries that create a community. and actually it's mutually beneficial for both countries. >> walk through the nogales border crossing in the first business you see is kory's bridal shop evan kory is fine with the wall but didn't like it when trump added the razor wire, he bristles when the former president talks about the border and mexicans. >> we've always depended on our mexican neighbors to support our local economy. >> corey, a democrat also

bristles though, and liberals oppose more money for the border patrol and other security measures yeah. >> i mean, that's equally frustrating too, because you have to have a balance between all the needs and find a way to somehow work together. >> handmade boots or a specialty at david's western wear for 44 years of favorite of customers on both sides of the border that we david moore says 99% of his business was from mexico before the covid shutdown. it's about 70% now in the last, moore says the wall helped stop illegal crossings and he wants more agents to cut long wait times that discourage mexicans for making day trips to shop. and he says, the asylum process assess is broken. >> yeah, i don't know how that works. >> that >> people from africa are coming in through mexico up through the mexican border. i would want them to regulate that a little more more as a registered republican, but a likely biden voter because trump offense him. >> he >> said that the immigrants are poisoning our blood what would

you say? >> i'd say my my mother was born in mexico and she came across the border legally >> so >> that's poison. i can deal with, i guess moore says, the way trump and allies talk about the border is exaggerated and alarmist. and he says he pays the price. customers call and say they're worried about making the trip to nogales pupil from everywhere. >> do >> that because when they say on the news that the borders are award zone that's those are the images they get. they think it's unsafe, but your host not a warsaw, my home is not a war zone we've been here for a long time a long time, at what is now a major line of america's political divide and so >> john, you remember how >> close arizona was in 2020? this is where we were these two counties right here in the southern part of the state. notice they're blue. these people vote democratic. they want to conversation about him immigration, not the fighting

we get, but the former president, donald trump will be in michigan next week, grand rapids for an event that's kent county right here. he wanted in 20 joe biden won in 2020 and he won michigan donald trump won it by 10,000 votes. that was his statewide margin in michigan in 2016 the people zona, we talked to on a conversation they're not going to get it enough from donald trump anyway, in this campaign, because if you look at this quinnipiac new poll this week, immigration for the first time, the number one issue among voters, they ask voters ten different issues list what's number one? immigration for the first time? number one, and then look at the president on this, you look at this, the president's approval rating on all of the top issues, right now, underwater. underwater on the economy, underwater inflation. look at that 30%. that is a low and fox polling for the president's approval rate on immigration at 30%. now 67% disapproved. so if you're biden, you have to fix that. if you're trump that's an issue >> i mean, this is deep underwater. if you're the president profoundly on all of them. but this one here immigration, we know, we know that this is trump it's wheelhouse. this is what he wants to talk about, helps with the base, but it also can help in the suburbs. the question

is, will it but he's going to michigan to talk about it, not arizona, it's a great point. michigan to talk about the border, not an arizona, a county that actually votes democratic as you report pointing out, but if you look along the border, these counties, a lot of them do even texas, you see a lot of this here. this is where eagle passes maverick county. if votes blue, the people close to the border want a conversation, not a fight >> john, can you were having that conversation out there? thanks so much for being here this morning. is >> there's a great piece. all right, one year. that is how long it's now been since wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich was wrongfully arrested and jailed by russian authorities. he was charged with espionage, but gershkovich, the wall street journal and the us government, all denying that charge this morning. this is what the wall street journal's front page looks like. it's a powerful statement marking where gershkovich, his story could have been and it says a powerful statement a year and a russian prison, a year. if of stolen stories, a year of

stolen joys, stolen memories, the crime journalism, cnn's matthew chance is joining us now from st. petersburg matthew, what can you tell about tell us about the latest about evan gershkovich and how he's doing well, i mean, he seems to be holding up pretty well under the circumstances that we saw some pictures of him, a couple of >> days ago, just six seconds of video was given to us by the court, which didn't allow journalists to go inside. get on this occasion as they extended evans pretrial detention for another three months. so his trial for espionage hasn't even begun yet, and we've got no idea when it will begin. we don't even know what evidence there is because it's an issue to do with nationals security espionage. and said that under the law here have to tell us what they've got on him. but obviously it's not going to be much because everybody from the united states to his employees, to his friend prince and his family absolutely adamant that evan gershkovich's a journalist

and did absolutely nothing wrong. he just was arrested while he was doing at his job we do know though that talks behind the scenes have gone going the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov said as much a couple of days ago, saying that certain contacts x is he phrased it, were still underway, but just like the us, the russians have categorically refused to publicly discuss exactly what the terms of that go station are. so we're pretty much in the dark. it in terms of that, we do think we know what the russians want or who the russians want in return. that's it. a russian security services operative who killed a checked dissident in a park in germany. we understand the kremlin wants him back in exchange for americans in russian jail well, matthew chance. thank you so much for that. update. their from russia for us. >> and >> joining me now is the chief international digital editor for the wall street journal rania mccarty. thank you so much for joining us. i know this is a very, very, very

difficult time when a colleague is in this kind of terrible predicament. this week, of course, marked a year since evan gershkovich was arrested and jailed in russia for being a journalist are you hearing anything about him being any closer to being freed? >> we'd already genuinely don't know as nathy was just alluding to, there has been some coverage and some comments made by president putin before christmas on after christmas in which she did speak in, appear potentially willing to do a deal to get evan out. but his pretrial detention was extended on tuesday until june 30. so today marks one year who's already passed his 32nd birthday in prison we're it's very hard day for us all to bear. and he is there at least for another three months and we really don't know when when when we will see him free are you hearing from his parents and authorities what kind of

access do us officials even have >> to him as he's languishing there in russian detention i can you some basilar to russia? lynne tracy gets him to c. evan with some regularity. there are there is consular access we also have local lawyers on the ground in moscow and they get into c. evan about once a week. so there is regular contact with evan. we don't have direct contact with him, but we hear from him a few letters i mean, the thousands and thousands of people around the world have written to evan since over this past year and it's possible to write to him using the email three there is a process that's been set up by his amazing friends through which she gets those letters. they are read by russian authorities, but he does get we hear from him that way. we get to see him when he appears in court in that glass cage, which is really hard to see. i always think of it as heartening and heartbreaking. and his parents

are truly incredibly brave people. we have an interview with them on our website today with our editor in chief and they have been just incredible ambassadors for their son and that's all the rest of us. that's what the rest of us are trying to do as well as to stand with them and support them that's incredible that he is able to get some of those messages. that that's new to me and i think it could be so helpful for him as he's going through all this do you have a sense of how he's doing? do you have a sense of because we see him in these glass cage and he tries to smile but he also looks at exhausted as anyone would be its terrifying what the ordeal he finds himself in >> he is incredibly resilient and i just inspired by him every single day as i know, are all of my colleagues and his family and everybody else evan is an extremely gregarious outgoing person who these

brands describe him as a friend magnet he has got groups of friends all around the world who've been very active on his behalf >> he's >> doing, i would say as well as he could be under these difficult circumstances, he is an a notorious stalinist era prison in moscow. he is an a tiny cell which he shares with another individual he gets one hour of exercise, a de, so 23 of those 24 hours he's in that cell he is reading, he is meditating, he is trying to do the exercise that he can and he is communicating sending letters to his family and to others. so he is mentally strong and physically strong. and when we see him in that glass cage smiling, it gives us some hearts. i know it gives hard to his family carnegie mccarty. thank you so much of his one year since evan gershkovich has been taken into custody in russia. we appreciate your time >> all right. and why we're new

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advances to the elite eight. the tide pulled off last-minute upset over top right north carolina in the sweet 16. now, alabama phase is six seed clemson in los angeles tomorrow >> all so excited. and this is going to be exciting to it's a must-see event, but will you be able to see it at all? the solar eclipse happens april 8 and with 20 years until the next one, everyone wants let's dig at a piece of the action, but cloud cover could spoil the fund for some folks, cnn's derek van dam joins us now from the weather center. derek tell us about i guess see now how previous weather patterns either interrupted or revealed at all? >> all right, say it with me, fredricka, the eclipse is still 11 days away via 11, 11 days away. >> yeah. >> thank you. we're not having fun. what are we doing here? right? okay. so let's take this with a huge grain of salt, but i can fill you in on what colombia to logically please

speaking, the weather models we're going to talk to us about and show us in terms of what we should expect. >> we >> see signs that a ridge of high pressure will dominate much of the northeastern us. that's good news for potential viewing conditions across new england. now we also see an approaching trough that could bring rain cloud and some overcast conditions to the south portions of the totality of the eclipse. but regardless, we still have over 2,500 miles of eclipse potential with 31 million people in this path. now when we look at previous april eighths, we have climate to logically speaking the claudius, whether in the northeast and the clearest conditions across the southwestern portion of this totally path. but it looks like it may be reversed. in fact, climate prediction center highlighting that with a five-day window that does include april 8 of below average precipitation across the northeast. that's what we want to see. now speaking of rainfall, we have again

long-range models indicating some sort of movement in terms of precipitation, cloud cover, and chances of rain across the central us and the southwestern parts of the eclipse, less than fredreka. i was at the super eclipse in august of 2017. i was located in nashville take it from me. it is totality or nothing if you're not in that line of totality, we're talking about the skies will not dark. and even if it's 99 of an eclipse, it is all about the full eclipse of the sun. i'm obviously quoting bonnie tyler there and lot people enjoying that possibility from illinois all the way to new hampshire and vermont, where i'll be located. >> oh, my god. okay. well, we look forward to it even though it's 11 days away, people are making my friends in arkansas who are making plans. i want to see it so we don't need any interruptions. >> all right. >> five days to shade plants. >> all right. very good. derek van dam. appreciate it. john.

derek van dam lives >> his lab, his life in totality >> all right. this morning a new explanation about why the republican national committee is asking perspective hires the question was the 2020 election stolen? axios reporter sophia cai is with us now. sophia cnn, you others have all been reporting on this question. the rnc is asking people apparently in job interviews, but you've gone to officials and say, why, why are you doing this? what are you hearing back? >> so they're trying to explain this now by saying that they want to know if job candidates are curious and can think through these complex problems. and if they're bringing them in for 2024, they want to know what these folks in this states have seen and heard and what they think about what happened in 2020. we know that this is not systematic. the job interviews have been conducted by at least four people, but they've been conducted in pairs and only one person has been asking this

question and it is not been asked of every job up candidate, but it is a very unusual question and it just shows that the issue of the 2020 election is not over and it's a central role in trump's political identity. >> sophia, do you happen to know what would happen if a perspective higher said, when asked who won the 2020 election, if you want to instead? >> joe biden won >> fair and square would that person get hired >> i'm not sure. right. and asked point-blank. that trump officials have said that it is not a litmus test. but then we had a second trump official jump in and said saying there is a litmus test and that is do you support president trump? and that just puts job candidates in a very tough spot where they feel like there's only one good way to answer that question. >> right? in that way has got to be what that the election they say they have to basically say it was stolen in some way

>> yeah, in some way. i think so. >> yeah. and i think this is all happening in the context of a new rnc that is trained to move very quickly. they've been stirred hurting from a bare bones standpoint when it comes to staffing in the states, they're behind the dnc and they've been all doing this within just one week. they've given job candidates less than 24 hours. notice to come for an interview, but that also means that they themselves have very little time to get on board on the same page about what it's looking for for job candidates, how it's going to staff up, how many people they're going to bring back. they've cut at least 20 staffers in these states. that is the backbone of the rnc's political operation in the state's sophia cai great to have you on this morning. thanks so much. is there? >> all right. knew this morning rare and striking comments from a federal judge who says he's very concerned about donald trump's attacks against the new york judge overseeing his

hush money case. and more specifically, the judges daughter trump lashed out after judge juan rashawn imposed a gag order on him in the case, the former president called machines daughter, quote, a rabid trump hater on truth, social. federal judge reggie walton told cnn's kaitlan collins, it's extremely difficult for judges to do their jobs it's when their families are being threatened >> it's very disconcerting to have someone making comments about a judge and it's particularly problematic when those comments our in the form of a threat especially if they're directed at one's family i mean, we do these jobs because we're committed to the rule of law and we believe in the rule of law and the rule of law can only function effectively when we have judges who are prepared to carry out their duties without the threat potential of physical harm. >> have you been on the receiving end of more threats since you've had the january 6

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