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for eclipse across america, special live coverage starting monday, april 8 at 01:00 p.m. eastern where you can stream it on max, >> the lead with jake >> tapper stars right now >> just moments ago, specifics on what will be a massive operation to reopen a critical shipping port. the lead starts right now cut the bridge into pieces. that's the new plan to get that collapsed bridge off a cargo ship in baltimore plus tug boats, barges, even more cranes with the latest on the east coast, already, the largest please go to off coast already on the scene. who's paying for this intense mission? >> i'm >> going ask a republican who calls himself a budget hawk about the role of congress plus breaking in just the last few minutes, donald trump is making a new demand saying that if needed ethan wade is kicked off the georgia election case. fani willis has to go two, had a live report on what that means, if anything, for one of the biggest cases against the
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former president plus what has so many fish freaked out near south florida spinning and swimming upside down cnn went to investigate if there's a larger problem here hello i'm jim sciutto up into the lead, filling in for jake tapper today, we just heard what it will take to move that massive bridge still blocking a critical baltimore port. cruise say the huge crane brought in today just can't lift all that heavy metal. they'll need more. >> just listen to what the maryland governor says is now on the way ten tug boats, nine bridges, eight salvage vessels, seven floating cranes, five coast guard boats. and that's just for starters, let me remind you why they need all this equipment the moment early tuesday morning when the unthinkable happened, when a ship the size of a building slammed into the bridge. there's that moment forcing it
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to fall in a matter of just seconds. it killed six construction workers who were filling potholes on the span at the time the remains of four of those workers are still underwater, believed to be trapped under concrete. the collapse cut off a critical shipping terminal, crippling a major economic hub that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars every single day here is maryland's governor wes moore just moments ago about the difficult task of cleaning up to see if three that is nearly the size of the eiffel tower and i see that same freight with the key bridge resting on top of it, the seat up close, you realize just how daunting a task this is >> let's go now to cnn's bryan todd live from baltimore. todd. >> i mean, we knew this to some degree going in. it's going to be a massive cleanup effort, but but boy, the more you hear about it, you really get a sense of it
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>> that's right. a gym. the governor and we have also just spoken to general scott spellmon of the army corps of engineers, both of them together have given us some very good information just now on the scale of this operation and what it's going to okay. as i talk about that, are photojournalists, harlan schmidt is going to kind of zoom over my right shoulder and show you what's going on at the site right now. there is a crane there. you can hardly see it because there's another bridge behind it that's kind of obscuring it a little bit, but there's a crane there right next to the wreckage of the bridge that's one of the floating cranes that they are brought to bear, but it is not one of the heavier ones. the heaviest crane that they have brought the chesapeake 1,000 is not right at the site yet, but it's very close by their ramping it up as we speak. it's going to be deployed shortly, but it is not there yet. here's what the governor said a short time ago. they're going to be deploying seven cranes, ten tugboats, nine barges, eight cells what vessels five coast guard boats, and one key piece of information, jim, is that they have got to remove first that wreckage and the steel and the
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concrete records that is draped over the bow of the dali. and that according to the governor, could be between 3.4 thousand tons just of records that is just sitting on the boat. that's what they've got to try to remove first. now we just also spoke to general scott spellmon of the army corps of engineers, who told us that the chesapeake 1,000, that large crane and some of the other large cranes cannot even start to remove that wreckage from the bow of the boat until they cut it up into smaller pieces. the chesapeake 1,000 can lift 1,000 tons of wreckage at a time that's obviously an enormous amount but with 4,000 tons of wreckage on the boat, that means that they have to cut it up into four smaller chunks in order just to get that off the boat and that's one of the first things they've got to do. we've also spoken to a mechanical engineer at morgan state university, dr. oscar barton who said they're going to have to survey the area first. they're going to still have to use divers. this is incredibly dangerous work. it
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is arduous and it's just going, it's going to take what the governor said. it's not going to be days, weeks, or months, which gives you an idea that this is going to take a long time and it's going to be very dangerous, jim. >> no question. and it's gonna have a huge impact on the port there as well. brian todd in baltimore. thanks so much there was rolling debate in the republican party over who should pay to fix this bridge, which is a huge expensive and still necessary project. federal government already giving some $60 million efn is really just a down payment toward cleaning up. and then later repairing the bridge but a heck of a lot more money is likely needed and to get that money you need to sign off from the critical house appropriations committee. so i want to speak now to a republican who wants to lead that committee, has congressman tom cole of oklahoma congressman, thanks so much for taking the time this afternoon. >> hey, jim, thanks for having me >> as i'm sure you've heard some of your colleagues are concerned about the federal
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government footing the bill here. i want to play congressman dan moise or pennsylvania talking about this. have a listen it was kind of outrageous immediately for biden to express in this tragedy the idea that he's going to use >> federal funds to pay for the entirety this is one of the country's most vital ports. it has a crucial role in the auto, the anicia energy industries. i wonder why wouldn't the federal government stepped in to help pay for this? >> oh actually it should gem look, this is a national disaster. it's not certainly caused by anybody in baltimore city liability, it would rest with the foreign company and ownership and we don't even know that yet to be fair, no investigation has been completed, but help us coming as it should immediately we have that ability where are you removal and your emergency funds available at dot longer-term though this is a major rebuilding project as you point out, it's got real
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implications for the national economy in terms of the importance of baltimore as a port. so i would expect there will be a very robust federal response here. i certainly would be supportive that and certainly maryland aza, quite frankly, really excellent representation on the committee on appropriations on both sides of the aisle. so we'll be looking to work with our colleagues and try to make sure that the people in baltimore, maryland and frankly beyond that in the region get the help they need >> i spoke to a lawmaker, was briefed today on just the scale of this, the amount of money involved, the time can you can you give us a sense of ballpark figures, but also just a rough timeline as to how long this is all going to take or do we even know? yet it's going to take a while as you know it's going to take committee months, probably to get to the portfolio operational and every single day that which people out of work and that disrupts supply chains. not dimension, obviously, here's the massive job of reconstructing the bridge itself. there's no
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question this is a ten figure kind of disaster. that means you'll run into the billions of dollars beyond that, be a little premature to say, i've dealt with a lot of these disaster situations over the course of a long career and your dangerous to estimate too low, too early >> yeah. >> usually takes a while to really do the full investigation. and so i would urge people maryland, i know the federal government will take their time to make sure we get it right. but i don't have any doubt that congress is going to be forthcoming and be helpful to these people. again, these are our citizens are in stress. it's a disaster. this is the role of the federal government. >> i want to ask you about another funding issue, but one that relates to an overseas partner, that of course funding to ukraine for its continuing defense against the russian. the russian invasion. republican congressman michael mccaul, he says that the house speaker, mike johnson will bring a bill for this after the easter break. the trouble is we've heard this for some time, right? and it's hasn't happened will it finally
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happened? i mean, do you envision a vote on the floor and up or down vote on ukraine funding and the coming days, weeks or suspect we will see some sort of package. they're probably the biggest single holed up as we needed to take care of our own government first and it took us a while. we finally got there last week and march we got two packages of six appropriations bills done. we've got urgent business around the world. it's not just ukraine, obviously israel were worried about also the western pacific. so i would envision a package, but there's a variety of ideas. a couple of the ideas that have been put forward in addition to aid to ukraine have been that the ability to seize russian sovereign wealth by the ukraine by ourselves, by other countries to help defray the cost. there's some discussion of a lend-lease type loan. we've actually had that provision in previous packages of aid for ukraine that basically meets part of its alone, but it's an interesting free loan with no definite time
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to repayment. and frankly, we're the loan can be forgiven as appropriate. so again, i look, there is a robust debate about ukraine. i respect those who have a different point of view, but i've been consistently supportive of assistance for ukraine and i'll continue to do so. victim of pretty neck and russian aggression, they fought back valiantly and quite frankly i don't think if they were not to be if they were unsuccessful. >> i think >> we would see more of this behavior from russia. so we have a stake in the outcome of this struggle and we ought to be helping them do, do you find that some of your republican colleagues, how do they respond when you make that argument to them? because as you know, some of them are quite publicly against this. the former president trump now the gop nominee for reelection he, he has said he doesn't have much interest in this aid. in fact, he claims that he it end you end the war on day one as president what do you say to them about this aid and how
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necessary it is >> well, look, i think a lot of my my republican friends are frustrated. they think we're here in part because of the disastrous pull out from afghanistan by the biden administration, which we think said putin all the wrong signals. and we think played a role in this, and we think i do not. everyone would share my view. we were actually slow to get aid to ukraine beforehand when we could have sent a message to the russians that we were serious about this. but that's water under the bridge. i didn't change the reality now, i would say in the house are leading being foreign policy experts are actually mike mccaul, the chair of foreign relations mike rogers who's the chair of the house armed services committee. mike turner, who's the chair of the defense intelligence committee or excuse me, the intelligence community, all of those experts are in favor of aid to ukraine. so there's substantial republicans support i recognize some of my colleagues have a difference. i respect that they're trying to keep america
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out of being entangled and what they like to call legitimately forever wars. but again, i think we have a big stake in this. i think the ukrainians have resisted heroically and but they've done so not just with our health, there europe is in this, in a big way. we actually have 11 countries that have contributed larger percentage of their budget and of their gdp to this effort then the united sneak fast. so that's something i think some of my colleagues aren't aware of. this is not america being asked to act alone. there were acting in concert with our friend tens with common values and common interests. and frankly, the ukrainians are not only i've done extraordinarily well on the battlefield much better than >> this >> has pushed finland and sweden into nato. i think it's a big strategic defeat for russia and for putin. but again, i think american assistance has going to be required, going forward. and i'm supportive of that. >> we will see if that warning is heated at representative
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tom. cool. thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. >> hey, jim. great to be with you. >> all right. no. now, a so-called social media storm coordinated by staff at the wall street journal is encouraging the world to support their colleague, evan gershkovich today marks one year since the reporter has been detained in russia a close friend of gershkovich. it's going to join me next. plus word of a new group of journalists detained in russia just this week plus cnn's kfile on earth thing, the not so flattering messages about donald trump from a republicans. some people say is now on trump's shortlist for vp space shuttle columbia the final flight from your sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn to type two diabetes >> discover the ozempic tries zone i got the power of three. >> i load my a1c cv risk and lost some weight >> and studies the majority of people reached an a1c under
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just gershkovich, us-russian dual citizen and journalist. our sue karma shiva is also behind bars and just this week six journalist working for, you independent pennant media outlets in russia were arrested according to reporters without borders, cnn's matthew chance reports from russia as gershkovich's family and friends remain cautiously hopeful for a prisoner swap this was our latest brief glimpse of evan gershkovich appearing in a moscow court this week. >> that's >> in the past. we've been kicked out of the courtroom is where you can see evan gershkovich's in there. hi matthew from cnn. you holding up. all right. >> goodman, i love we learned? >> what he wants to do? >> this time journalists weren't even allowed >> in the detention of the wall street journal reporter on espionage charges was extended for another three months this verdict to further prolonged evans detention feels particularly painful as this week marks. the one-year
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anniversary since >> evan was arrested and wrongfully detained and you, catherine berg for simply doing his job as a journalist >> us officials say then it goes shading with moscow for his release. even the kremlin confirm this week contacts on a prisoner swap are continuing for the russian president, the 32-year-old american newspaper reporter is a valuable bargaining chip. >> we're willing to solve it but there are certain terms being discussed. the via special services channels >> let me and spit solution mega i believe an agreement can be reached. >> the kremlin knows painful agreements have been reached in the past in 2022, us basketball star brittney griner, convicted of possessing cannabis in russia, was swapped for victor boot and the tourists russian arms trafficker jim, russia is also holding other americans behind bars, including former us marine paul whelan, who's
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been in jail convicted of espionage since 2018. but gershkovich and whelan, i'd like you to stay behind bars unless another deal with the united sites can be agreed >> the next hostages taken, matthew chance reported from russia. thank you. >> evan gershkovich's year long detention has also brought in measurable pain on his family and close friends, his friend and former roommate, jeremy berg, recalls waking up a year ago today to his partner saying, quote they got them. and jeremy berg joins us now. jeremy, thanks so much for taking time on a day. i know it's gotta be difficult for you >> yeah. thanks so much for the time and attention >> to evan storage and we really appreciate it. >> what we're doing our best to keep the headlines. i want to get your reflection from that de and particularly this year later, they realize your friend was taken by the fsb
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>> yeah. look, it was a really emotional day and obviously on year anniversary, it brings up those emotions again the way i like to talk about it is i woke up around 08:00 in the morning emily riser and there was a push alert on my phone that a reporter had been detained in russia. your mind obviously goes to the absolute worst place when that happens. i rushed over to the tv and their evan was with this image seared into my mind. it was him get a yellow hood drawn close around his head. there was a gloved hand on the back of his head and he was getting shuffled into a waiting please vehicle i think about that image every night i go to sleep for the past 365 days and i will until he's home, >> you must know we're showing the image now of human glass box in the courtroom and russia, the front page of the wall street journal was blank today. this to symbolize his silence reporting, his family says reporting is his dream. job. i wonder how you think
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he's managing while he's in prison. how does he manage to keep saying and hopeful? >> yeah look, i mean, we are hearing from him. >> it's >> stilted communication, but he's writing letters and we are trying to insert some measure of levity into his life. he's confined in a cell for 23 hours a day. i think he's okay. but he's okay through sheer force of will has a unique ability to remain okay in these situations, i don't believe he was naive to the risks of reporting in russia, but he's in there and he's meditating, is watching russian tv, is writing letters. he's reading books and he's still practicing the russian language, which is what? when over there as a reporter to do. and so look, he's, he's maintaining a sanity and it's quite impressive >> but we're trying our >> best to ensure he stays connected to us here at home for people watching now who want to help do their best to help. i wonder how you would recommend they do that there's
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a few things people can do. number one, i'd say, look, evan is an extroverts extrovert. he wants to hear from you, please write him a letter. you can do that on free gershkovich.com. it will get to him. we can assure you of that. >> the >> second thing i would do is share his story both him as a person and also so here's recording, you want nothing more than for his work to be shared for his mission to tell the stories of both the russian people and to explain what's happening in russia to us here at home, he wants nothing more for that to be shared with all of us. so please go ahead and do that. you can find his by-line on the wall street journal. >> that's great to hear that the letters actually do get to him as well. jeremy birth, we wish you the best we hope that good news about your good friend come soon >> thank you so much, jim >> back here at home and named floated as a vp pick for donald trump, has not always had the highest praise of the, former president and businessman, cnn's kfile, has the receipts and that's next plus a new
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cnn's kfile unearthed numerous examples of donalds directly criticizing trump in social media posts. in 2,011.2012 when he was running unsuccessfully, then for a seat in congress, andrew kaczynski, senior editor, of cnn's kfile joins us now, andrew, tell us how extensive these comments were >> well, that's right, jim donalds is a trump loyalist and he is one of the former president's most trusted surrogates. but during his time as a tea party candidate and activist, more than a decade ago, donalds with harshly critical of the former president. he strongly condemned those birth or claims from trump in 2011 about barack obama comparing it in facebook post to democrats claims that the bush administration orchestrated the 911 terrorist attacks. and in post, he called him a quote self-promoter, yelling about 25 if present tariffs on china. and a quote, huhuge distraction. who cares
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more about himself than the country, in my opinion >> interesting, he's still talking about those tariffs on china, by the way. he didn't just criticize trump himself. he also took aim at a lot of trump's policy ideas yeah, that's absolutely right. donald was staunchly opposed to tariffs and trade restrictions during his tea party years, and that failed run for congress. he actually said while hosting a radio show that we shouldn't be manufacturing things in michigan, he said we should make you be making them in china because it's cheaper for consumers and that's obviously something that is so incredibly different from what trump has been saying, but it wasn't just trade. donald supported raising the retirement age and the privatization of both social security and medicare democrats, people might remember at that time were disparaging republicans over medicare thing that they were going to turn it into a voucher system. but donald, unlike a lot of republicans, actually embraced that term during that campaign, take a listen to this
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>> when it comes to medicare reform, i think we'll call rhymes. i started to say is correct. >> we do have to go to two up to a payment subsidized system where we give that voucher if they want to call it, i'm not afraid to call it a voucher. that's exactly what it's gonna be. a voucher to that person, to that person who was on medicare. here is the amount of dollars we have allocated towards, you know, is your responsibility to allocate those dollars effectively >> so jim, we did reach out to donalds office to ask about those clips, how they square what he said then with what he's saying now. and they told us in a statement, quote president trump is considering byron as his running mate because of the congressman's steadfast support for the 45th president and his historic policy agenda. the fact that these decade-old posts are now resurfacing in the middle of running mate deliberations is weak, but typical cnn, so it's gonna be really interesting to see how all of this place these out and how old it goes into the vp considerations
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>> of course, i'd statement did not address the existence of those statements themselves. as often happens, andrew kaczynski, thanks so much. just to see an end, the blistering words from trump's legal team as the former president makes another attempt to unravel one of the most significant cases against him erin burnett outfront tonight, it's seven odd cnn >> congrats carroll, your youngest finally popped the question, but now you're really going to have to get those new dentures after all, you need to smile that matches the moment so this might be a good time to mention that has been dental can create natural looking dentures in no time just for you. and that comes with $0 down plus 0% interest. if paid in poland, 18 months, helping mothers or grooms look their best it's one more way. aspen dental is in your corner
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>> well, jim, remember the judge mcafee had granted that certificate for immediate review, and so we had anticipated this filing to happen and now it's official. steve sadow, the former president's attorney here in georgia, has filed this along with eight other attorneys for co-defendants in this case, 840 the teen including the former chief of staff, mark meadows, and the personal attorney for donald trump, rudy giuliani. and what they're saying here is they're asking the appeals court to overturn judge mcafee decision and some really scathing language in this legal filing. this is what they're saying in part. >> d. willis has covered herself and her office and scandal and disrepute the trial court's decision not to disqualify da willis under these circumstances is a structural error, a violation the defendants due process rights and seriously denigrate the public's confidence in the integrity of the criminal justice system. we did reach out to the fulton county da's office. they declined to comment, but we should expect the response in writing. and so once the georgia appellate court has both those responses, they'll have 45 days to decide what to do next. but obviously, this really underscores just
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how fani willis is disqualification still lingers over this case. even and as the da's office is trying really desperately to get the focus back on the criminal charges against the former president and his remaining co-defendants, jim miklaszewski of thanks so much. let's dive in now with our panel, ashley amid this has been a typical strategy of the trump team. they they have the right to appeal. they often lengthen those appeals and appeal everything, right does this one have any chance? i mean, the judge considered this issue already said removed nathan wade, fani willis can go forward does this latest appeal have a chance of if not delaying forcing her out? >> i think it will delay the trial, which is part of trump's strategy to continue to have it going longer and longer to go past the election with the hope that he wins and then all of these things fall apart. the only difference is this is the state case. and so this cannot be overturned by the president i'd say it it's not federal law this is also an attempt to continue to smear fani willis's reputation and undermine her and undermine that office. so regardless of what the outcome is of the case
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people and voters, particularly voters, support him, feel like whether he is convicted or not, because a lot of voters have said, if he is convicted of a crime they would find it hard for an impossible to vote form. they don't think you should be elected president. this is another attempt to say, even if i am convicted, it's not enough not to consider me, not to vote for me because she's she's not a credible source or a credible attorney to been prosecuted in the first place. >> dug. this is this has been a consistent strategy but by the trump team and beyond what he says, calling himself a victim, et cetera. fact is we've seen them in court. we're going to see him in court again >> is he is it so working for him four republican voters, certainly for base voters, is working for him for independent voters, for independent voters, that's an entirely different conversation, but for his base which is what he's trying to hold on to. the most, not only does this strategy work for him but what we've seen over the past couple of weeks strengthens that case form the ruling that the judge made in this was not exactly complimentary to the district
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attorney. in fact, said serious lapse of judgment that plays into donald trump's case if they're out to get them at the system's rigged and all that. the other thing that this does is it allows them to raise money. we spent a lot of the conversation this week talking about how biden's raise a ton of money and trump in the rnc haven't the longer this goes on, the more trump can pump out emails to his door to a small dollar donors and help, help with some of those shortcomings that he's had thus far. that's important to them. >> trouble is he's still has shortcomings as we saw in this biden's big fundraiser last night in new york. i do want to play one of the videos, the biden campaign released from the event. have a listen, get your reaction. >> donald trump, as far as we can tell, has just been trying to win a third championship, but his own golf course. >> my question to you, sir, can >> voters trust a presidential candidate who is not won a single trump international golf club trophy at long last, sir, have you know, chip shot >> we'll look i'd be happy to play. i told them once before
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when he came into the oval, when he was being before you go sworn in i said, i'll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag i mean, does that fact in dollar terms, he still far outpacing, got donald trump so far. but what you also see there is an attempt to kind of laugh at trump. >> just so angry. yeah. yeah. and that's that's deliberate, i imagine. >> yeah absolutely. you know, you're trying but but the biden team has been a little bit all over the place here because sometimes they're mocking him, sometimes they're saying he's the greatest threat to the republic is going to fall if he's elected in november, it was also interesting about that comment? i've covered joe biden for 54 or five years now, i've never heard him tell that story and it just sort of interesting. the bringing this out now joe biden certainly doesn't lie as much donald trump has a habit of telling some tall tales. i think that was interesting, and i want to just follow up on one thing that you, you said in terms of how these appeals affect the campaign, donald
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trump, when he was elected, didn't really know a lot about government, but he may have known more about how to delay trials than any man in america. one of the most litigious men and all of american history. and that's, you're seeing this now on a presidential election on stage with every trial. and he's fani willis gave him a little bit of an opening here. >> you could say the doj get gave him an opening to by taking time to appoint special counsel, et cetera. but to your point about the combination of humerus let's messages and serious messages. i want to play this other moment from the biden event last night. also released by the campaign, have a listen >> this guy denies. there's a global warming. this guy wants to get rid of. not only roe v. wade, but which is you prepare brags about having done he wants to get rid of the ability of anyone anywhere in america ever choose all the things he's doing are so old speaking, old that's a laugh
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line at the end, actually, but that's the other side of the message here, right? is that not only threat to democracy, but threat to all these things that you hold dear >> yeah, absolutely. i think it is the weight of what people are feeling right now. everyday voters is real. and so i think weaving in some humor is important because we can't always be on edge and tense we want, we'll break like that. but we also have to actually acknowledge the fact of what a risk of a second term of donald trump is. and i think that's what campaign has continued to do and will do. and it's not a theoretical conversation. it is actually using the words in the action of the former president. he did appoint the three justices that overturned roe he said the litmus test to be appointed as a supreme court justice was that you would overturn roe. and so here we are. in a world where roe was overturned. so again, it's not a theoretical question of what would happen. we've seen it for four years and he's making promises for another four.
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>> doug. hi, as jonathan martin reported, we know that there are independent voters who don't like trump, but we also know that republican voters who have even said, and some of the some of the some of the polls following the primaries, nikki haley, voters who said, i'm never going to vote for trump. and yet jonathan martin reporting that biden has not reached out to the republican leaders who are also at a minimum, trump skeptical, i'm talking about susan collins and mitt romney, todd young, bill cassidy, lisa murkowski has, is that a missed opportunity for him or is that just a fundamentally difficult thing to do? a democratic president for canada to seek the ally ship of senior republicans. well, it's a tough thing to do. but remember this part of joe biden's core promises that i'm the guy that can do all of this. and i say that because my first political job i was an intern for jesse helms he worked very closely with joe biden. my last political job, i worked for eric cantor. he worked very closely with joe biden. i know that joe biden is dna is sort of hardwired to do that, but he's not doing any of that. and you also hear that surprisingly from congressional
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democrats as well well, we'll see if that changes as we get closer to election day. thanks so much. all of you for joining this programming note this sunday on state of the union, maryland governor wes moore republican congressman mike lawler of new york, and democratic senator raphael warnock of georgia. that's sunday morning, 09:00 eastern time and again at noon here on cnn and coming up next on the lead this hour or something rather fishy happening in the waters off the florida keys. the mystery has more than scientists heads spinning. cnn went to ask what has the fish? so well, loopy, that's coming up ai is redefining work artificial intelligence is supercharging our own human intelligence and that's what we'll move business colon, machine learning, robotics and generative ai are increasing productivity, accelerating decision-making, and the impacting our lives at work and beyond >> ai's real value is and how
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anything like this i noticed the fish were spinning and so i started taking video of that that i really had no idea what i was looking at since last fall, he's seen >> stingrays moving upside down. goliath groupers, flailing on their sides and dozens of other species swimming and tortured flailing loops well, i mean, i've said that, you know, it's like i'm in the middle of a disaster movie and i'm that guy yelling from the mountain top, trying to get people to pay attention, state fish and >> wildlife officials, and florida's bonefish and tarp and trust have logged nearly 200 incidents with over 30 species acting this way, mostly in the lower keys but as far north as miami. >> yeah, this is crazy. i was out on a six-hour charter. i had two people on the boat and we were down off a ligament by the bank and we've happened to see a fish flattering on the flats and then so we got close to him were wants to see if there was a problem and we can obviously tell that he was in
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distress. >> it turned out to be a soft-ish, a critically endangered species that might lose four or five mature adults a year but in just a few months, at least 27, beach themselves or died after intense episodes of what anglers are calling the spins. >> so typically when we think of fish acting strangely are dying, we think of low oxygen conditions in the water for or red tide. and so we saw neither at the water school florida gulf coast university, my parsons team is part of a statewide effort to solve the mystery three of the spinning fish. and while tests for most toxins have turned up empty the most promising suspect is found living off seaweed at the bottom. a tiny critter named gambia discuss this is the highest we've seen of the gamers to cells of the keys. we don't know if it's the main cause the single-cell >> algae can produce various neurotoxins and is showing up at record high levels but it's just one more stressor on marine life already reeling from pollution overfishing, and
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