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you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with disturbing new video out of virginia. a traffic stop that quickly escalated, with police drawing their guns and pepper spraying a black and latino army center in uniform. the army officer is now suing the police involved alleging excessive force. just in, ralph northern is weighing in with this statement. here it is. the governor saying the incident in windsor is disturbing and angered me and i am directing the virginia state police to conduct an independent investigation. let's get to cnn's natasha chen, who has that video that is so difficult to watch. natasha, tell us more. >> jim, i have had to watch this video a number of times to put this story together.
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it just doesn't get any i yesh. we -- any easier. we are talking about witnessing a man who thinks he is going to be killed. you are going the see it from three an else, the two police officers and the cell phone of the lieutenant they pulled over. 6:30, the lieutenant is driving in his army fatigues through the small town of windsor, virginia, saw flashing lights in his rearview mirror. he wasn't sure why he was being pulled over. according to his lawsuit, he slowed down and put his blinker on, indicating his intention to pull over but didn't do so for another minute and 40 second when which he later explained was in order to find a well-lit area. >> driver, roll the window down. put your hand out the window. turn the vehicle off, put your hand out the window. >> reporter: hearing thinks different commands while sitting
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in his car with his seat belt on he began recording if his cell phone and put his hands out the window as ordered. turns out the officer had not seen the temporary license plate taped to the background of his brand-new tahoe. seeing tinted window and a driver not stopping right away crocker decided it was a high reason risk traffic stop. but this was never explained to the lieutenant, who for several minutes continued to ask why he was pulled over. >> what's going on? >> how many occupants in are your vehicle. >> it is only myself. why are your weapons republican? what's going on. >> get out of the car now. >> i am serving this country and this is how i am treated. >> i am a veteran, too, i know how to obey, get out of the car. >> the video shows one of the officers unpassening the velcro around what is his taser. >> i am honestly afraid to get out. >> get out, now.
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>> i have not commit i had in crimes. >> you are being stopped, you are not cooperating at this point right now you are under arrest for -- you are being detained. you are being detained. >> for a traffic violation, i do not have to get out of the vehicle. you haven't even told me why i am being stopped. >> about two to three minutes in, officer crocker dried the open the driver's door n. his report he wrote quote when i attempted to unlock and open the driver's door the driver assaulted myself by striking my hand away and pld away from officer gutierrez's grip. but in his body camera if theage the lieutenant is not seen striking anyone. crocker says at this point gutierrez quote gave several more commands to comply with orders or he would be sprayed with his oc spray. but no search warnings could be heard. gutierrez just sprayed the lieutenant still without either officer having told him what exactly he was pulled over for. >> that's [ bleep ] up. >> get out of the car. >> i don't want to reach for my
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seat belt. can you. >> take your seat belt off and get out of the car. you made this way more difficult than it has to be. >> get on the ground now. >> can you please talk to me about what's going on? why am i being treated like this? >> because you are not cooperating. get on the ground. lay down or you are going to get tased. >> >> reporter: the officers handcuffed had him and stood him back up. he said the dog was in the back and was coughing because of being peppered strayed. later on. >> what could have been a two minute traffic stop turned into this. the lieutenant explained why he didn't pull over. >> i was pulling over into a well-lit area for my safety and yours. i have respect for law enforcement. >> reporter: but the officer saying that's not the problem. >> with the race relations and media and all that i get it. you wanted a well lit spot. it happened the me all the time.
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80% of the time, 80% of the time it is a minority. >> reporter: why the officers couldn't understand why the lieutenant didn't get out of the car as instructed. >> why didn't you comply. >> reporter: the lieutenant said he didn't know why he was being stopped. >> i never looked out the window and saw guns blazing immediately. >> reporter: gutierrez told the lieutenant he had a conversation with the chief of police and was giving him the option to let this all go. there is no need to have this on your record. i don't want it on your record. however it is entirely up to you. if you want to -- i don't want this disrespectfully, i mean you have that right as a citizen. if that's what you want. we will charge you. it doesn't change my life one way either way. >> reporter: i want to read to you more from the governor's statement, governor northam's statement released in the past hour. he said our commonwealth has done important work on police
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reform but he wanted to continue endowners are safe, the enforcement of law is fair and equitable and people are held accountable. he invites the lieutenant to meet with him and speak soon. cnn hasn't been able to reach the officers involved at this time. it's not clear if they have legal representation for this lawsuit. cnn also reached out to wind soar police and town leaders and we have yet to hear back from them. >> natasha, so disturbing. i mean, to see this soldier, you know, in uniform, treated in this fashion, it's certainly just raises all sorts of disturbing questions, questions we hear about and see so many times over and over again. >> natasha, we know you will stay on top of it. thanks, we appreciate it. as we have been saying all along the nation is already gripped by the case of former officer derek chauvin in minnesota. as we get set to watch the defense take center stage in that trial this week last hour i spoke with george floyd's family
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attorney benjamin crump and wanted to know how he's feeling two weeks into the testimony in this trial. >> i will say this, jim. i have been a civil rights lawyer for the balance of my entire professional career. but i have been black all of my life. and so i know that we can never take for granted that a police officer will be held accountable for killing a black person in america unjustly despite whatever evidence we have. >> i want to bring in cnn's adrian brad as from minneapolis. here comes the defense. it is going to be trying for the floyd family. we talked about that with benjamin crump. what can we expect? >> jim, as the prosecution prepares to rest its case, it's likely they will call a member of george floyd's family to the stand. this family member will be able the remind the jury that this
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isn't just a case, but george floyd was someone they loved to the prosecution, obviously, this is a case they want to win. to the defense, this is a case of the wants to win. but to the family members, floyd was a father, an uncle, a brother. on the video that we have heard played throughout the trial the last few weeks we heard floyd pleading for his life. toward the end of the video he calls out and says, tell my children i love them. this family member will be able to speak intimately about floyd's love for his daughter. they will probably also tell us how the family didn't even call george, george. they referred to him as perry. and floyd's sister said he was someone she could turn to when the family was hurting. this week, the family is turning to their faith in the higher power and leaning on each other, especially after hearing some of this testimony. listen in. >> on the right image, you see
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his knuckle against the tire. and to most people, this doesn't look terribly signature can't. but to a physiologist, this is extraordinarily significant. because this tells you that he has used up his resources and he's now literally trying to breathe with his fingers and knuckles. >> mr. floyd's use of fentanyl did not cause the subdual or neck restraint. his disease did not cause the subdual or the neck restraint. in my opinion, the subdual and the neck restrint was more he could take as a result of those conditions. >> there was no reason to believe george floyd would have died were it not for his encounter with law enforcement. >> as we enter into the third
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week the family is bracing to more pain because the man they love will be described in a different light because the defense will fry to paint the picture that george floyd died as a result of drug overdose and possibly his underlying medical conditions. but the family is prepared and keeping hope. jim? >> it should be an emotional week. adrian, thank you so much we appreciate it. so how do we get to a place where these incidents keep occurring? how can we stop them from continuing to occur? radley ballco is the authorize of "the rise of warrior cop" and an opinion columnist for the "washington post." thank you for joining us. i want to talk to you about both this body cam footage out of virginia and the derek chauvin trial. first the trial. let's play some of the testimony that struck me this week. let's listen. >> when he last takes a breath the knee remains on the neck for another 3 minutes and 27 second,
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after he takes his last breath. the knee remains. after there is no pulse, the knee remains on the neck for another 2 minutes and 44 second. after the officers have found themselves there is no pulse, the knee remains on the neck another 2 minutes, 44 second. radley, are you shocked when you hear something like that? >> i mean, it's shocking sort of as a human being to hear something like that. as somebody who has been writing about and -- neither of these stories is all that shocking. for a long time, there have been kind two of battling forces in policing. there's the kind of reform, deescalationist movement which you see sort of in police leadership in places like minneapolis, but then there is this counter-movement of trainers, of police union leaders, and kind of rank and
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file law enforcement officers who are increasingly talking about the threats that police face. i would say sort of exaggerating them. when police go through training, go through police academies they are shown images of officers getting assaulted during traffic stops, video after video after video. while that is something certainly that police officers need to think about and to take precautions for it's also extremely rare. it is part of this underlying philosophy of policing that i am auctioning about that every sort of -- they should look at every encounter with a citizen as a potential threat. every interaction with a citizen could be their last. you see this in the video from virginia, definitely. you see it in the chauvin trial. when i watched that video of george floyd i saw a desperate man, a man who was scared, he said he was claustrophobic. he was afraid of getting shot. and then we saw video of somebody protesting afterwards
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asking why did you do that? he can't remember his exact words and he said george floyd was a big man, he was probably on something and he was a threat. we saw a desperate man who was scared. chauvin saw a potential threat. i think that's all the difference. >> yeah, those two police officers in virginia, they were going in there like they were something out of rambo. then you see the man handling of george floyd. it is just absolutely disturbing. it seems with the advent of body cam footage we are seeing these incidents over and over again. i want to read something you wrote this week. i read your column about this, it struck me as important. you write unless reforms come with real teeth including diminishing the power of police unions and being able to fire police officers who stand in the way of change no hesitationists
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will continue to we would their influence. >> in minneapolis, an officer pulled over castillo who was a legal gun owner, had a permit. told the officer i have got a gun, i have got a per mitt. yet as he reached for his driver's license he misinterpreted that as reaching for a gun and shot and killed him. that officer had attended a training class a few months, maybe year earlier called the bulletproof warrior. those classes teach officers the see threats behind every corner. they tell them there is a target on their back, that every swer action with a citizen could be their last. and it puts officers on edge and creates this us versus them kind of mindset. and it creates the kind of situations that you see in these videos where they treat people not as citizens with rights but as potential threats. the interesting thing about what happened with castillo, a that
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officer is that after it was revealed he went to one of these classes the mayor banned police officers in minneapolis from attending these classes and the police union responded by saying they would pay the tuition of any officer who wanted to attend one of these casses. so it really was an illustration of how you can have political leadership, even police leadership saying one thing while sort the police culture, the police unions and rank and file officers are doing something sbishl different. >> i talked with attorney ben crump last hour. he represents george floyd's family as you know. i want to play you something that he told me in the last hour. >> as long as we focus in on what we saw occur on may 25th, 2020, that this will set a precedence in america. george floyd's case is a tipping point. hopefully for equal justice for all american citizens so we can make when we say liberty and
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justice for all really mean just that. >> are you optimistic that fundamental change is coming sooner rather than later? could this trial be the tipping point for that? >> i think it's a mistake to put too much of our sense of justice or whether george floyd's death will sort of achieve real change in the outcome of this trial. trials tend to turn on things that kind of have nothing to do with the issues that we assign to them. certainly, i think derek chauvin should be found guilty of at least one of the charges and should be punished for it. however, i mean, i think we need the look at the big picture here. i mean the george floyd protests have changed the world. i have been covering these issues for subpoena, 18 years now. and i have never seen the kind of change that we are seeing at the state and local level in response to these protests. you have got police departments across the country that are banning choke hold, banning no-knock raids. we are seeing significant changes in funding, the funding
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of violence interruption groups, of groups that send counsellors to mental health calls instead of police officers. there is still a long way to go but we are seeing change like we have never seen before. i think no matter what happens in this trial i think george floyd's family, obviously if chauvin is acquitted they are going to be disappointed. we all are. i understand that. but we should always remember that floyd's death did matter and the protests that resulted from it have is brought subsequently change across the country. >> that's absolutely true. radley, thanks for all of your insights we appreciate it thank for coming up. lies about a stollen election, slamming his own vice president and calling mitch mcconnell a name not safe for kids. another night in the post president lee world of donald trump. that's next. [sfx: revving trucks] pilot over radio: here we go, let's do this. ♪ pilot over radio: right there, right there.
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day. it seems he gets up every day, gripes about the election and wakes up the next day still a loser. after airing complaints about the election in his easter message and at a recent wedding toast, he kept it up at a rnc donor dinner last night. he called the results bs, slammed his own vice president for certifying them and said, this is a direct quote, if that were schumer instead of that some son of a bitch mitch mcconnell they would never have allowed it to happen. end quote. that is the former president of the united states. the comments, by the way, were met with applause. what a retreat, indeed. joining me now, cnn's john avlon and margaret hoover. let me you go to you first, margaret. this is who republicans are flocking to right now? trump just won't give it up. >> i don't know how much republicans are flocking to him. mitch mcconnell isn't. mitch mcconnell has his eye on
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2022. mitch's operative is trying to did what he can to maximize his chances of winning back party. this was a republican national retreat. they all had to go to him? the fact that he -- i mean, he thinks it's in his interest to have taken his visage from their ability to fund raise. he is going the find that if you are a president -- [ no audio ] -- not so sure this is his formula for -- back or frankly -- [ indiscernible ] >> what's your take on it? >> first all, i think you get points for coming up with grievance ground hog day. >> bill murray references are always welcome on this program. >> this guy -- the shtick is wearing thin even among donors.
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there were applause when he talked about how the republicans were going to take the house in '22 and the white house in '24. but railing against mcconnell and repeating the big lie it is a shtick that's starting to fall flat because it is for nas simple and more grievance and more negative partisanship. and that's all he's got to offer. and folks in the republican party know even if he is popular with the base that that divisive message isn't going to help. the question is whether mitch mcconnell will stop playing ftse with the stockholm syndrome and come out and say, no, he should not be the nominee in 2024, draw line in the sand. >> mitch mcconnell should do what liz cheney did custom is to say he shunt be doing that by calling the election a fraud. he is undermining the constitution, the rule of law, and our judicial system. and that is against the premise of the founding of this country and we need to be for the constitution.
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we need way more of liz cheney and way less of donald trump. >> we will see about that. speaking of there is no bottom. the anti-defamation league is calling for fox's tucker carlson to be fired after his remarks about the white strem cyst so-called replace men theory. let's take a listen to that this. >> i know that the left and all the tate gate keepers on twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term replacement. if you suggest the democratic party is trying to replace the current electorate. if you change the population you dilute the political power of the people who live there. so every time they import a new voter, i become disenfranchised as a current voter. i don't understand -- everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. white replace men theory. no. no, no, this is a voting rights question. >> john, is fox going to do
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anything about this? >> no. but they should. and here's why. you know, when tucker says that the people want to make a racial issue out of this great replacement theory, do you know who wanted to make a racial issue out of the great replacement theory? the el paso mass shooter who drove hundreds of miles in order to target hispanic shoppers at walmart. it has been bottled up, encouraged. when you have someone with that kind of a platform trying to dignify replacement theory, they were 100% right to call it out. lombardi, a swiss german came here. he and italians and germans were accused of taking away votes and influence from folks whose families had been here for longer generations. tucker should look in the mirror, look at who has been
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echoing replacement theory. if he knows who it is already, then it makes it all the worse. >> may i say -- >> okay. i want to shift gears while we can. we have a little bit of time left to talk about matt gaetz. he is resisting calls to resign amid a sex trafficking allegation. i spoke with kayte hill, who resigned after nude photos of her with a staffer were leaked on line. she highlighted not just the difference between men and women in these scenarios, which there appears to be a big difference, but also between republicans and democrats. let's listen. >> in men's' case in general when they are faced with this kind of scandal we see over and over again that they deny, deny, deny, and they refuse to apologize and they wait it out. the difference between republicans and democrats is that democrats at least want to held our people to high standards. and the gop just circles the wag obs and says, they are our
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people, we are going to protect them, and that's that. >> margaret, is she wrong? >> no, she's not. she's kpabtly right. you just want to say, there was a curious case of matt gaetz defending kayte hill when her case came out. at the time, if you roll the tape i am sure i said on cnn i said matt gaetz is laying the foundation for his future defense right now. >> interesting. >> exactly what happened. she's exactly right. if you know matt gaetz, look, where there is smoke there is probably fire. we believe in due process, lets a he see what the investigation find. but i am not confident since donald trump's attorney wanted to be seen nowhere near matt gaetz in a photograph this is probably not going to end well for matt gaetz. she's right, nancy pelosi really leaned on her to resign and she did. she did the right thing. that was the appropriate thing. that is the thing that bestows dignity on the office, you respect the office and the integrity of those who put you there and their descendsy f.
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this end up in that direction, matt gaetz absolutely should resign, swiftly. >> jen, we are kind of keting to this point where it is like nobody resigns now. everybody says i am going to hang in there, i am not going to resign no matter what. kayte hill is kind of an anomaly. >> she is. she is right in saying the democrat kratz exert pressure. al franken resigned. a lot of folks regretted that action, not least of which, al franken. it is about toughing it out in politics. project, deflect, and play the victim card. which is what matt gaetz did this weekend. he is all of a sudden a victim for being under investigation for sex trafficking and other claims, that the trump justice department did. and that's what i think speaks to the deeper sickness in our politics, it's this play the victim after you have been credibly accused and see if you can raise more money from the base. >> incredible. matt gaetz playing the victim. i think that's putting it best right there.
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john, margaret, great to have you on. we appreciate it. >> take care. >> stay well. up next, why experts are still urging caution as the u.s. hits a record number of covid vaccine doses administered in one day. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na... ♪ hey hey hey. ♪ goodbye. ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na... the world's first six-function multipro tailgate. available on the gmc sierra.
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americans sheefd a shot. that's almost as many vaccines given in the first six weeks kind. but the threat remains high, especially in states like michigan, which is reporting thousands of new cases a day as vary yantsd become even more widespread. joining us now is cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. great to see you. he's also the professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. doctor, first on these vaccine numbers, is this where the u.s. needs to be right now? >> boy, was in a a great day yesterday. absolutely. we are averaging about 3.1 million vaccinations per day. we have vaccinated the vast majority of people in this country at greatest risk. that is people over the age of 65. the next big challenge is to vaccinate the people that are powering some of the hot spots in this country, particularly the surge in michigan which are the young people. and within about a week, every state will be open to every
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adult in the united states at any age. and we need to really focus on getting vaccine into young people because that's where the transmission is coming from. >> absolutely. and 20 states are reporting an uptick in new cases. but michigan is arguably the worst right now. you have been seeing these reports. what concerns you the most when you see the surge in new cases there? and what needs to happen right now? >> right. so michigan has about 3% the country's population. but every day, about 10% of the new cases are coming out of michigan. you know, over the last couple of weeks, cases in michigan have risen 60%. other parts of the country, they have been flat. not enough is being done in michigan. bars and restaurants are still open. hospitals are being inundated in michigan. i am not sure how you can have bars open and restaurants open, and at the same time have your icus full. so michigan needs to shut down. that's one thing they need do.
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governor whitmer has been reluctant to do that. we need to surge vaccine into michigan. and the bide has been reluctant to do that. think about it this way. every year during fire season when forest fires get out of control, we don't just leave the states to manage it as best they can. we surge fire fighting forces into those states. so michigan is on fire now. and we need to put that out. so they need more vaccine. and they need more vaccinators to extinguish the fire. we can do that. we have the ability to do that. it's time to do that, this week. >> it certainly seems like michigan is on fire right now. 18% of texans -- switching over to texans. they are fully vaccinated, according to the cdc. but i want you to listen to listen to something governor greg abbott said earlier today about herd immunity. let's listen. >> when you look at the senior population for example, more than 70% of our seniors have
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received a vaccine shot. more than 50% of those who are 50 to 65 received a vaccine shot. i don't know what herd immunity, but when you add that to the people that have acquired immunity it looks like it could be very close the herd immunity. >> doctor, does the governor's math add up? >> herd immunity is between 70 and 80% of the population of the state having been vaccinated or recovered from the virus. we are not close to that in texas, actually not close to that in the united states yet. in the next two to three months we have the ability to got there. the way to do that is is to vaccinate like crazy. you know, the last 20 to 30% are going to be the hardest because a lot of folks in this country are still hesitant to get the vaccine. we are seeing it all over the country. we are even seeing it in the military right now.
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so we need to really get down to the grassroots level, talk to people about their hesitancy and get shots into arms. because if we don't vaccinate that last 30% or so, we are still going to have to live with this virus for a very long time. >> let me quickly get you to what we hear from a source telling cnn that former president donald trump said in a speech last night in mar-a-lago he was talking to a republican donor conference down there. he said that everybody should be calling the coronavirus vaccine the trump-cine instead the vaccine. and he was highly critical of dr. anthony fauci. i don't recall former president trump ever being in a lab coat looking through a microscope working on a vaccine. what is your reaction to that? >> well, my reaction to that is if this president wanted to take credit for this vaccine, and he wanted to do the country an
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enormous favor, he would have been photographed or videoed being vaccinated. because about 40% of the gop faithful are vaccine hesitant. about 50% of republican men say they will not get the vaccine. so if the president wants to take credit for the vaccine, he should be reaching out to these folks and explaining why the vaccine is important. and maybe he should explain why he was vax ccinated in secret. i will say that the federal government did a great job in terms of taking the financial risk out from vaccine manufacturers. but these vaccines were developed through the brilliance of nih and industry scientists and the courage of the clinical trial participants. i applaud the former administration for funding it. but the hard work was deny by scientists and clinical trialists, and people who stood up and took the risk and got
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vaccine. that's what i give the biggest credit to. >> they were certainly in the trenches, for sure. dr. jonathan rhine e thanks so much for those insights. we appreciate it. in the new cnn original series the people versus the klan tells the little-known story of buhla may donald a black mother who took down the klu klux klan after the brutal lynching of her son michael in mobile, alabama, in 1981. here's a preview. >> living in mobile was a quiet town. it's nothing but oak trees. but after march, 1981, it was kind of like creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through. i just visualize her face, and i
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action is how they put it. they haven't said who they think is behind it or who they are going to place the blame on for this terrorist action. they have said, however, they might retaliate. it was interesting because earlier this even we had the head the israeli army come out and sort of hint that it may be the israelis who were in some way, shape, or form behind this. he said the iranians are cheslie watching israel's actions and reacting to it. there were also reports in israel that seem to indicate israel's intelligent service might be behind it. it is difficult to verify at this point in time. however, jim, this incident comes at an extremely important point of time. yesterday you had iran's national nuclear dade where they unveiled new centrifuges that could up their nuclear program and it comes at a time that the u.s. and iran aren't at the same
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and a big company is about to go public on wall street. here's julia chatterley with of before the bell report. >> this time they are not something to dread. the quarter results this week will be reported, and overall they expect profits to rise nearly 24% from a year ago and the question is how much of this good news is already priced into stocks. that's why forward-looking guidance from companies will be absolutely critical. the debut of coin base will grab investor attention this week. the digital currency exchange is the highest profile company yet in the crypto space to go public.
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the u.s. breaking records as it races to vaccinate americans against the virus. we're seeing a surge in michigan despite the fact that we have some of the strongest policies in place. we are seeing a surge because of these variants. >> the speech add a republican national committee retreat at ma mar-a-lago, and trump called mitch mcconnell a dumb son of a bitch, end quote. i am pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around add the

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