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>> and for more you can -- yeah, so good -- you can go to cnnheroes.com and nominate your hero there. >> our hero, you guys for watching this week. thank you so much. we will see you next week. have a great weekend. happy st. patrick's day. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >> have a good one. ♪ very good friday morning to you, i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm erica hill. new overnight, an alarming high stakes meeting now on the books, a meeting that could have global ramifications.
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for the first time since russia invaded ukraine china's president xi jinping will meet face-to-face with vladimir putin. so what could this mean for the war and also tensions between the u.s. and china? we are on it. plus a cnn exclusive, dozens of mar-a-lago staffers, members of trump's inner circle as well, have now been subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing probe of classified documents. find out who is on that list. and big banks to the rescue, 11 of them are now offering a $30 billion lifeline to one of the regional banks in danger of collapsing after this week's banking turmoil. we will be watching for reaction when the markets open in less than 30 minutes. we do begin this hour with next week's meeting in moscow between the russian president, putin, chinese president xi. cnn's senior international correspondent will ripley is with us. what more are we learning about the talks and what they're expected to focus on? >> reporter: the timing is
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certainly significant, it was xi's first overseas trip since this unprecedented third presidential term and certainly gives us a clue as to what's on his agenda, which is to get right over to moscow and meet with vladimir putin where china is putting out the statement saying it's about urging peace and promoting talks and that china has an objective and impartial position. remember, they put out that 12-point peace document, but refused to actually call the war an invasion, refused to condemn russia's actions and are asking ukraine to slice up its country and give russia some of their territory that it stole to try to end what china calls a special military operation, parroting russian propaganda. the kremlin saying that the two are going to be talking about strategic cooperation and signing important bilateral documents. what neither the kremlin or beijing talked about was whether they are going to be talking about providing lethal weapons, whether china will be willing to provide ammunition and lethal weapons that could actually
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shift the course of the conflict and it would be not good for ukraine, even with the influx of western weapons. analysts say if china were to actually decide to just give up this, you know, illusion of being a neutral party here, even though president xi hasn't even talked by phone yet with president zelenskyy of ukraine, and if they actually start arming russia potentially, trying to support russia's war and then that raises the whole question of, okay, they're backing russia in what they're doing in ukraine and then would they expect russia's support for what's widely believed to be an ambition at some point to make a move here on the self-ruled democracy of taiwan. a lot of people around the world and the west are nervous and waiting to see what happens at this big meeting in moscow next week. >> absolutely. will ripley, appreciate it. thank you. new reporting this morning, u.s. officials tell me and my colleagues, oren liebermann and natasha bertrand that the u.s. is reassessing its drone operations over the black sea, this after russia harassed that
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mq-9 reaper drone earlier this week, forced it down. we are told the u.s. has not stopped these flights entirely, the military, in fact, sent the same type of reaper on a mission in approximately the same area over the black sea shortly after that collision, however, the u.s. military is, quote, taking a close look at the drone's roots and assessing how to better deconflict with russian forces. there is concern among some in the u.s. military that limiting routes will impact intelligence gathering related to the war in ukraine. joining us now to speak about all of this, cnn national security analyst, steve hall, former cia chief of russia operations. steve, good to have you on this morning. >> good to be here. >> so, first, i want to ask you how serious you think this collision was between this drone and after the deliberate harassment by two russian jets here, clearly there's concern in the pentagon about the chances for escalation after 13 months of deliberately trying to avoid u.s. and russian forces coming
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into direct contact. is there real danger from escalation from an event like this? >> well, jim, for some perspective, these types of intercepts happen routinely. there's all sorts of aircraft up in the air all the time in this particular area and other areas that russia and nato sort of play this game where they launch intercept planes to not only determine response times, but also just monitor what they're up to and also there is a display of force there. what's a little more unusual is when one of those planes go down, in this case an unmanned vehicle, that part isn't quite as normal. the other thing i think that's important for viewers to understand is whenever you have an incident like this, a significant incident where one of our planes go down, the u.s. military is going to do hot wash, they're going to look at this and say what happened, how did it happen, should we make any adjustments. all of that sort of thing i think is pretty routine for the u.s. military. >> routine and as we just heard from jim's reporting with the team, the u.s. reassessing these
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joint operations over the black sea, could be routine. is there any concern, though frrks your view about the impact overall on intelligence gathering in the region? >> you know, the united states and our nato allies have really significant intelligence resources, you know, starting from things like these drones that are doing isr missions, intelligence collection missions as well as all sorts of other capabilities. i don't think it's as if -- if the thought is we're going to change routes or cut back on these missions i don't think that's going to significantly impact. i just think it's a responsible professional thing to do to look at this and double-check the flight plans. see if we can continue to detection and minimize the possibility of escalation in the future. >> xi and putin will meet in moscow, the latest in their growing closer relationship here. part of the conversation will be potential peace, some settlement
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to ukraine. china has backed russia in this war to some degree but not by sending weapons. does it have, one, the power, but two, the credibility to be a mediator that all sides would be -- would be comfortable with? >> i don't think so. i don't see how the ukrainians are really any other pre world can look at the chinese position on this, which is failing to call it what it is, which is a war. failing to recognize that it was a russian invasion. and then, of course, really not taking into consideration any of ukraine's completely valid issues with regard to sovereignty. i don't see how they can really be considered real brokers here, but the chinese are interested in being part of this because they see -- as a future of -- a future large power in the world and want to dominate that and part of that is playing this kind of role where they try to get into these conflicts. >> it will be interested to see what we learn after that meeting on monday. steve hall, always appreciate your insight.
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thank you. now a cnn exclusive this morning, at least two dozen staffers at mar-a-lago as well as members of former president trump's inner circle have been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating trump's handling of classified documents. >> special counsel jack smith is seeking testimony from everyone from a housekeeper and restaurant servers to the former president's own attorneys. cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid joining us with more. when we look at this list it sort of feels like anybody who may have taken a breath in the same air space where any of these documents could have been, which could be a smart move. >> absolutely. look, the message here is that if you worked at mar-a-lago either as an attorney to the former president, an adviser or you are the guy that serves burgers at the restaurant, jack smith wants to talk to you. why does he want to talk to you? because he and his investigators they want to know what you've seen and what you've heard about any potential classified documents, any boxes that could have contained classified materials and how these things
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moved around the resort. now, the former president's team, folks in his orbit argue this is a little excessive, why are you bugging the groundskeeper? but this is an unprecedented situation. we have never had a former president who lived at a resort and there are these legitimate questions, this investigation not only about classified documents, but also about any efforts to obstruct this investigation. so in our reporting we learned that, for example, there is one young man who was caught on security camera moving boxes with a young man that was one of the president's aides who has also spoken to investigators. they want to talk to him. who told you to move those boxes, where did they go? to make sense that they are trying to turn over every single rock but it leaves open the question who is left. yesterday we got one of the answers to that, one of his close advisers, margot martin, she was at the white house, not a household name but is in his inner circle. she was in the white house, one of a handful of advisers who followed the former president to
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florida. she appeared before the grand jury yesterday and we know that special counsel is still fighting to try to talk to one of his attorneys, evan corcoran, and by 5:00 p.m. today we expect a decision from the judge on whether prosecutors will be able to get around attorney/client privilege and ask him more questions. full steam ahead on the special counsel investigation, where it leads and how much information they're getting from these folks, unclear. >> that's still unclear. important reporting, paula. thank you. now to your money and the $30 billion lifeline big u.s. banks gave a regional bank to shore it up. this morning a sense of calmness returning to u.s. markets. the question is what happens from here. >> cnn crew chief business correspondent christine romans has been working overtimekeeping us up to speed on all of this this week. happy friday, i guess, my friend. maybe you will get a break this weekend. the question is will this be a happy friday on wall street? >> well, look, the efforts to try to reassure the public that the banking system is safe have
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been almost without precedent over the past few days. when you look at this bank-led bailout, i'm going to call it a booster, actually, a bank-led booster of a rival bank it's remarkable here. some of the nation's biggest banks putting cash into the coffers of first republic to show that the system is safe, the system is solid and to make sure that this bank does not teeter anymore. so this has been remarkable and this has been led by jamie dimon jpmorgan chase and by the treasury secretary janet yellen putting together this package to show support for first republic and try to draw a line under what has been a tumultuous seven or eight days. the regional bank stocks, we will watch them closely today, they're leaning lower in the premarket. it's not existential, it's not worries about these going out of business, now it's worries about their earnings. they will have to cut dividends, they will probably have to raise the interest rates they pay you, the saver, as they're trying to
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attract -- you know, attract deposits. so that's going to hurt their profits and their earnings. so this appears to be profit driven, not sort of like, you know, staying in business driven. the weakness you're seeing on wall street. so in a way that's a sign we're moving forward in what has been a really remarkable six or seven days here. >> what's notable, this is a private bailout of a private bank. >> yeah. >> it's private banks that are putting up the money. that's different, right, to some degree than what we saw in 2008. >> it is. this is not the taxpayer at all here, this is the industry in coordination with the treasury secretary frankly saying we're going to -- look, it's good for them to have financial stability. financial stability is almost like a public utility, like, you know, clean water and electricity, right? if you don't have financial stability, nothing else can really work here. and those banks know it and they know that it's good for them not to have a banking system that's being questioned and doubted. so i think that it is a remarkable -- a remarkable, you know, self-preservation but
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preservation of your industry and it's capitalistic and it's patriotic all at the same time. so it's remarkable here what we've seen over the past 48 hours. >> $30 billion, that's a lot of money. christine romans, thanks very much. >> you're welcome. coming up next, ron desantis is headed to new hampshire, interestingly enough, next month in what seems to be an inevitable lead up to a presidential bid, but our next guest, a conservative, argues his campaign may be flaming out or could be before it gets started. plus, three hospital workers are now charged with murder after the death of a virginia man in police custody. these charges come on top of these -- of the charges to seven officers already charged in that man's death. what we're learning about the potential defense now from a court hearing. and a bit later tiktok ceo will be on capitol hill next week as some lawmakers push for a nationwide ban of the app. how he's responding to calls for chinese owners to sell their u.s. stake in the app.
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republicans on the house oversight committee say that financial records show that members of the biden family indirectly received more than a million dollars from a chinese company, not clear exactly the details of such records as they make this disturbing allegation. the committee issued a memo yesterday that names -- and this is remarkable -- hallie biden, the widow of the president's son beau biden, as one of the family members allegedly receiving the money. >> cnn congressional correspondent melanie zanona joining us now. this goes back to the promises that republicans had made that they would be investigating hunter biden, but how does this line up with those promises? what's the deal with this money? >> yeah, so we already knew that members of biden's family had received money indirectly from a chinese-based energy company, but the house oversight committee is providing new details about those payments, including, as you mentioned, that one of the residents was
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hallie biden, the widow of beau biden, also was romantically involved with hunter biden after beau's death. the house oversight committee was able to obtain this information by seeking financial records from a business associate of hunter biden, his name is john robinson walker, he is someone who republicans have scrutinized for many years. we know that he did transfer around a million dollars to members of joe biden's family after he received $3 million from that chinese-based energy company. republicans say this raises questions about foreign influence and also whether biden's family members were using his name to try to make money, but the memo does not link these payments in any way to president joe biden. i want to be crystal clear about that. and the memo does not show that president joe biden while he was vice president used his position to either direct these payments or to try to enrich his own family members in any way, which republicans have said is the entire purpose of their investigation. meanwhile, hunter biden's legal
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team says that he pursued these business deals legitimately and he has a right as a private citizen to do that. i want to read you part of the statement from his legal team, they said, hunter biden, a private citizen with every right to pursue his own business every defers joined several business partners in seeking a joint venture with a privately owned legitimate energy company in china. as part of that joint venture hunter received his portion of good faith seed funds which he shared with his uncle james biden and hallie biden with whom he was involved with at the time and sharing expenses. so, again, republicans are digging into this issue, they are trying to make this a political liability for president joe biden, but so far they have not provided any evidence of wrongdoing. jim and erica. >> melanie, thanks for that important context. thanks very much. the battle for 2024 is heating up, south carolina playing host to several republican presidential candidates and potential contenders. former arkansas governor asa hutchinson is traveling to the
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critical early primary state today, he will join senator tim scott and declared candidates nikki haley. >> former trump official ken cuccinelli is continuing his push for florida governor ron desantis to run for president. neither desantis nor hutchinson have officially announce add 2024 run but desantis is making more than ripples in the party this week with his statement that the u.s. should deprioritize engagement with ukraine as the party watches very closely what he will do next. we're joined now by david from a staff writer at the atlantic he wrote a piece titled "is ron desantis flaming out already". good to have you on this morning. >> thank you. >> you write that desantis is a rational actor and is following what somebody has convinced him is a sound strategy, it looks like woo the fox audience and
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win the republican nomination, two, question marks, three, become president. seems your essential argument is he's winning the far right of the party, but without setting himself up for being able to win a coalition to actually win the presidency. explain why you think so. >> well, as governor of florida ron desantis played a double game, he both nodded to the far right of the republican party, supported anti-vaccination -- promoted an anti-vaccination surgeon general, fed all kinds of anti-vax paranoia, but at the same time he delivered results for more moderate voters. he invested heavily in reclaiming the everglades and he made big bets on reopening schools during covid, which looks like a good bet for millions of kids who didn't lose learning. that's what got him reelected with 59% of the vote. the problem is as running for president he's only playing a single game, he is talking to
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the republican base, the most extreme voices in the party and that's getting him so far, but not all the way. >> and to that point, it's very clear where desantis stands on the culture wars, for example, but it is less clear, as you point out, what his policy and even his passion is when it comes to things like jobs, the economy, health care. is this at the end of the day, then, simply about getting the nomination in the hopes of ultimately winning the white house? is it just about power? is it actually about governing and doing anything for the american people? >> well, i'm not sure it's such a good strategy even for winning the nomination. desantis has in the past -- in the past month has fallen behind in a lot of polls, behind former president trump. so he's got a path for getting air time on fox news. this is really working. the fox audience gets very excited about these cultural issues. and that's what his ukraine statement seems to have been about. desantis went a long way to
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avoid making comments about ukraine but he liked quite frightened. on the eve of the russian invasion of ukraine there were 165 members of the florida national guard on a training mission inside ukraine. they were of course evacuated when the russians attacked, moved to a neighboring nato country where they continued their training mission and they returned to florida in august of 2022 by which time it was clear the situates was helping ukraine. now, a lot of governors would have used that as an opportunity to welcome the troops, maybe appear in in-person, certainly send a letter or statement thanking them for their service. he stayed clear because he knew the fox news primetime lineup wouldn't like it, so he didn't thank his own state's national guard for their contributions to the defense of ukraine and for the defense of the west. >> let me ask you this because trump and desantis are far ahead of the rest of the field right now, you and others have made the point it's early and other folks who led the field at this stage flamed out, but i wonder
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is there a path in the primaries -- of course, primary is different from the general election -- is there a path in the primary with the current republican electorate for someone who does not take a maga path to that nomination? is there a path for a moderate republican or is that the way the party stands today? >> well, there may be a math path, but the record in the republican world is pretty clear that if you are leading in the summer of -- before the election, we are not at the summer yet, if donald trump declared in the summer of 2015 moving to first place by beginning of july of 2015 and pretty much stayed there all the way through, if desantis is 12 -- still 12 points behind trump as he has been in the most recent polls in two or three months it's hard to see how he makes up ground. he has already raised this gigantic pot of money, he's using it to run a kind of rose garden campaign before any of the primaries. donald trump, mean while, has reverted to more retail politics
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which he did not do in 2016 but he is right now -- or he was this week in eye warnings on his way to new hampshire where he is going to be doing the kind of person to person contact that iowa and new hampshire voters like so much. >> david frum, good to have you with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. still to come here, three hospital workers are now facing second-degree murder charges in the death of a 28-year-old virginia man. this is on top of the seven deputies who have already been charged. the latest on their arrests and also the video of that violent encounter. the other day...and forgot where she was. you can always s spot a first timer. gain flings with oxi boost anand febreze. ♪ ♪ start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and suppment brand.
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facing murder charges after 28-year-old man died in police custody at a mental health facility last week. >> these charges come after seven deputies were charged earlier in irvo otieno's death. prosecutors say they fatally smothered him, holding him down for as long as 12 minutes. yesterday otieno's family were shown surveillance video of the moments leading up to his death. brian todd is live outside the county courthouse in virginia. brian, there are new charges, also the fact that the family saw that video. are there plans to release it to the public? >> reporter: erica, jim, there are no plans right now to release that video to the public, that's according to the prosecutor here, but that could change in the days ahead. as you mentioned, that family has now had a chance to view the security footage of irvo otieno's death, they did give us jarring details of what they saw in it and they said it was horrific to watch.
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three more people charged with second-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old irvo otieno in custody, all three are employees of the central state hospital mental health facility in virginia where otieno was taken on march 6th. that's in addition to seven sheriff's deputies also charged with second-degree murder. >> they smothered the death out of my baby. they murdered my baby. >> reporter: his family has now seen video of the fatal incident. >> at what point do we stop preserving life? at what point do we consider mental illness a crime? >> reporter: prosecutors say otieno died of asphyxiation after being held down for 11 or 12 minutes. >> restrained so brutally with knee on his neck, the weight of seven individuals on his body while he's face down, handcuffed
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with leg irons. >> reporter: otieno was arrested on march 3rd after police say they responded to a lurg larry call next door to his home and took him to the hospital for evaluation where he became, quote, physically a saul testify. his mother said she pleaded with the police. >> they took him off treatment, took him to jail, didn't take him down without any medicine. >> reporter: after a weekend in jail where otieno was pepper sprayed, punched and mistreated he was brought to the central state mental facility on march 6th where authorities allege he became combative. >> and the videos are never confrontational with them. he is not posing a threat to them. he is not violent or aggressive with them. >> reporter: in court this week an early glimpse of the deputy's potential defense, one lawyer citing this. >> the ongoing issues that he had been -- that they had been
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having with this individual with regards to his disorderly conduct, with regards to his aggression, with regards to his resistance. >> reporter: but his family says what he needed was help. >> what do you want to see happen to these deputies, either of you? >> justice. i would like them put away, if you ask me, for life. that they don't see the light of day again. what they did to my son was horrific. horrific. >> reporter: we've reached out to the central state hospital mental health facility for their response to the charging of three of their employees with second-degree murder. we have not heard back. we have also reached out to all of the attorneys identified so far for the seven deputies that were charged. we have only heard in detail from the attorney for one of them, deputy bradley dis, that attorney telling us that his client looks forward to being vindicated in court.
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saying about the vulnerability of user data. >> jim, erica, the ceo of tiktok is saying basically that tiktok's data will be safe under a number of technical and organizational changes the company has made and is making to meet some of the security concerns that u.s. officials have raised. the ceo here is basically sticking to his guns on a line that the company has been saying for months now, arguing that the project texas which is an initiative that the company rolled out to make these changes will basically insulate u.s. user data on servers controlled by or rickel and they will be you had a kited by oracle with transparency. here is what chu is telling the "wall street journal," the idea behind project texas is it won't matter what the chinese law or any law says because we're
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taking u.s. user data and putting it out of the reach. we're obviously seeing here that the u.s. government in trying to push tiktok to spin off from its chinese owners, you know, u.s. officials are plainly unconvinced by this argument and that's why we've seen the u.s. government as well as more than half of u.s. states imposing restrictions on tiktok on government devices. we've also seen similar restrictions imposed throughout the world with the uk, new zealand, the eu and canada also imposing many similar bans on tiktok on government devices as well. so this is overall western government's appear to be largely united and unconvinced by what tiktok is selling here. >> it's a huge, huge international move away from the platform. remarkable. >> brian fung, appreciate it.
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thank you. not tiktok, let's be realistic here, there are plenty of other social media sites, social media apps out there where many of us spend a lot more time than we should aimlessly scrolling through posts. >> i feel like you're looking at me when you're saying that. >> i'm looking directly at you. this is for you. there is more and more we're learning about how that time spent on these apps specifically looking at these seemingly picture perfect images, the impact that that can have on your mood and on your overall psychological health. >> there is some real effects here, it's known as the selfie effect. dr. sanjay gupta he has been digging into it for the latest episode of his podcast. tell us, there are a lot of parents watching, i'm a parent here, tell us what we know about this phenomenon. >> this is fascinating and i have to tell you i've learned so much working on this podcast season, as you both know i have three teenage daughters so part of this was a very personal sort of reporting mission as well. but it's exactly what you said, it's called the selfie effect,
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this is a term coined by professor sinclair mcbryde who basically was looking at this idea of people scrolling through heavily filtered photo shopped images of realistic-looking people and in realtime compare it to your own selfies. what that does to one's brain, what that does to a developing brain, the feelings of inadequacy that come up as a result of that, that's sort of the real selfie effect. it's real, not only in terms of how people feel, but also, again, what is happening in their brains. what was interesting is that, you know, people are aware that the images they are looking at on social media are often not real in the sense that they are filtered, photo shopped, et cetera, but it doesn't really insulate them from comparing those images still to their own images in realtime and that's what's happening more and more as more and more selfies are out there and they're paired with
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these other images you get that selfie impact, selfie effect which can be a negative impact. >> it makes me think i'm going to really date all of you, you know what i'm talking about when i say this, this makes me think of when i was the same age as your daughters as my kids when i would look through a magazine and you ultimately compare yourself to an image there that you know is photo shopped as well. how is that different from now the social media generation looking at those images? >> i think it's two words, it's abundance and persistence. what i mean by that is that magazines in the past, i know exactly what you are talking about, you might read it and then it was a disposable commodity. now you're walking around with these images on your phone and there's tons of them and they're just persistent. they're there all the time. people even though they may not realize it, they're oftentimes now, again, in realtime comparing themselves to those images. that's the part that was sort of stunning. when i spoke to professor
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sinclair mcbryde about this i asked if you're going to ask the tech companies as brian fung was just talking about, if you are going to ask them to do something with regard to this selfie effect, with regard to filters specifically, what would you do? here is what she said. >> a lot of filters kind of have a very euro centric lens so it would be great if they did not make people's skin colors lighter or change the shape of their noses or change how big their eyes are or do things that make them towards a certain -- beauty that may not be from the cultural background that they're from, right? i think that would be really clutch. it would be nice if when you put a filter on it's that you're beautiful as you are, but you can play with this if you want. it's just a tool, just a thing that is here, but also this picture of you without the filter is also really cool. >> i had never really realized that until she pointed it out. if you look at these filters, they do push these images
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towards a more conformist sort of look, lighter skin, changing the morphology of the face. we don't realize it sometimes because we're so inundated with it, but these are the sorts of things that these psychologists and tech companies are increasingly paying attention to. >> no question. listen, it has an enormous effect on kids. dr. sanjay gupta, thanks so much. please don't miss the cnn podcast "chasing life" with dr. gupta ji m. you get your po podcasts. just ahead here furman and princeton breaking brackets and hearts everywhere. i do love those moments, though, even if my bracket is totally busted. the drama we love and the games you may want to watch today for a little bit more of the madness.
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just like that, brackets are busted nationwide and tears streaming down faces for furman and princeton who both had
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stunning upsets and i did not pick either one, but stunning upsets. and what about you, jim? >> i said that i picked furman and princeton, and someone believed me, and not. i did not pick either of them and i am one of the crying folks, and the folks are waiting to see how far they go. and andy scholes is joining us. andy, it happens every year, and it is happening when you have upsets in the first round, and the question is what the upsets are going to be. >> and you are feeling really poor today if you are one of the people like president biden who had arizona going all of the way and winning it all, and this is president biden's bracket which has a whole bunch of red xs all over the it. a and just like president biden, they have no chance with the pool they are in, but we saw some surprises yesterday. impossible for the bracket to be right, but 787 is the only
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brackets that are remaining. and by the end of the day, it is going to be in the single digits, and probably zero if we get any stunning upsets. but it got started with the second game of the day when the furman palatines pulled it off. >> it is mcgeese for three, and the win, and he got it with 2.2 to go. >> and virginia fans were just shocked at what they witnessed and check out this furman fan, and she was praying, and every single prayer she knew to pull off the upset, and they did. and it is furman, the smallest school in the tournament, and cavaliers have been knocked out in the last three of four tournaments. and meanwhile, making the most
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of their tournament there, and that is not the biggest upset of the day, but 15th seed princeton is taking lead against two-seed arizona, and they could not buy a basket at the end of the game, and they went the last 4:04 at the end of the game, and they pulled off the upset going 55 59, and these are some games to keep your eye on, michigan state and usc and that is expected to be a nail-biter. remember, i told you earlier in the week, since 2010, the 11 seeds have a winning record against the 6 seeds and both of the game iowa state and pitt and providence, and this is a 5/12 against miami and drake, and the oddsmakers have just a two-point win there. >> to be said, i'm not above the
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prayers for the bracket game, but ererrica is probably better than me. >> i look at andy with the seven seed matchups, and then i go with the good stories. >> i picked indiana. >> i married a hoosier and he is like, really? you picked iu? so clearly, yeah. it is going to be great. thank you, andy. >> thank you so much. in this march madness season is looking different now that the supreme court has opened up the door for college athletes to be paid endorsements and the amount of money out there is insane. >> that is why you may see more basketball players like drew timme who is going to be rock a
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stash like this one, and we are looking at this trend, and as jim pointed out, this is a lot of money, and not just some spending money and not the beer money on the college campus. >> it is not the beer money, and the college athletes have been saying for years, they should be compensated to get endorsements from brands just like the pros. and so from 2021, the athletes have said that they could be profiting from the nil deals, name, image and likeness deals, and it is expected to hit $1 billion this year, and ahead of march madness the more brands are sponsoring the college athletes, and looking at the players with the top nil valuations is trayce jackson
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davis, and zach edey with about 1 821,000, and timme who is a fifth-year senior in the pringles ad, and he is also sponsored by the beats by dre and also, some more players are being sponsored by brands this year. >> it is wild. i like the first two teams that you have in the final by the way, so i went all in on the indiana final there. nathaniel, thank you. >> next week, two of the world's most powerful leaders the russian and chinese leaders are set to meet in moscow, and a face-to-face meeting that could have major implications for the war in ukraine, and we will tell you what they said about the agenda for that t meeting.
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