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♪ the battle for the nation's soul is not over yet. those words from president joe biden as he officially tells america he wants four more years to finish the job. the mission statement he just laid out and his message to those he called maga extremists. prosecutors call them donald trump's army. five members of the proud boys on trial accused of assembling and leading the mob on january 6. that trial is now coming to an end. will a jury soon find them guilty? just as the u.s. was getting in position to rescue americans trapped in sudan, reports of a ceasefire breach. what this means for the thousands of u.s. citizens in that war-torn nation. all this and more on cnn "news central." ♪

let's finish the job. president biden making it official as he makes his 2024 case to america. after two years in the oval office, months of speculation and a lifetime of politics, he officially now wants four more years. >> when i ran for president four years ago, i said we were in a battle for the soul of america and we still are. the question we're facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be and i think you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent. that's why i'm running for reelection. >> it was exactly four years ago today that biden threw his hat into the 2020 ring. his message then, donald trump is dangerous. his message now, more of the same, but do voters think his job as unifier in chief deserves

a second term? let's get to arlette saenz who is outside the white house. arlette, biden has set the stage to defend his record and job so far. what more are you learning about the message that he is sending to the american public? >> reporter: sara, president biden finally made it official, announcing his reelection bid, really drawing on similar themes from his 2020 campaign as he argues that the battle for the soul this have country is not yet complete and voters should give him a second term in office. the president in that announcement video, which rolled out this morning, also warned that americans' freedoms are facing threats from what he described as maga extremism and in that video he highlighted the january 6 insurrection as well as efforts to limit access to abortion here in this country, and he also highlighted two republican men who one of which who could potentially be his matchup in a general election. >> around the country maga extremists are lining up to take

on those bedrock freedoms. cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy, dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books and telling people who they can love. >> reporter: so the president there trying to lay out the stakes of this election. advisers tell me that he is not expected to immediately hit the campaign trail with these large rallies. instead they believe one of the ways he can sell his record to the american people is by simply doing the job of president. a bit later this afternoon he will be addressing a union group, one of their legislative conferences here in washington, d.c., he's already picked up the endorsements of some unions, including the ibew, and later this evening he is set to visit the korean war memorial with south korea's president who is here for a state visit. they will be at the white house here tomorrow. one thing his team is eyeing is trying to pick up the pace when it comes to fundraising, this will be a very expensive campaign, the president at the end of the week is expected to host top donors here in

washington, d.c. for a meeting and the campaign is also soon expected to start mobilizing those grassroots supporters. but even as this entire campaign operation begins to take shape, the president is facing challenges when it comes to americans and whether or not they believe he should be running for president. many raising issues -- concerns about the issue of his age, but ultimately the president is hoping that he can run on his record and that voters will side with him compared to the republican alternatives. >> arlette saenz, thank you for all of that. kate? and with president biden's announcement this morning, the 2024 presidential race is entering a new phase. the field is beginning to take shape. let's take stock of who, then, is now in, who is out and who still has yet to declare. here are the candidates that we know are running, on the republican side you have former donald trump, former governor and former ambassador nikki haley, asa hutchinson, larry elder, vivek vam swaen.

you have the front runner president biden and robert kennedy jr. and mary ann williamson. here are the potential candidates we are tracking, all of them republicans. mike pence, liz cheney, chris christie, ron desantis still has not declared, kristi noem, tim scott, chris sununu, and governor sununu. >> we've got a legislative session that we're working on, we have a few more weeks to go with that, we will be putting up a lot of wins on the board and so i'm not going to be making any announcements before that's concluded. >> okay. are you leaning one way or another? >> state tuned. >> so if you pull out your calendar you can decipher a little bit of what he's talk being in terms of timing. here is what he means, florida's legislative session ends on may 5th so that is coming up which

means the stay tuned might end shortly thereafter at least when it comes to ron desantis. mike pence says he's going to decide, quote, well before late june and in the meantime we have seen him making multiple visits to critical primary states. chris sununu he has laid out something of a calendar, he says he's going to be making his decision before the fourth of july. john has that all marked on his calendar. >> that's right. mark every day i have marked in the calendar as these candidates decide. thanks so much, kate. with us now spectrum news political anchor errol louis and julian zelizer. i want to start with president biden's campaign video. it is like a set piece in soccer, you can see the planning that went into it and judge the intentionality. so in this video when literally the first frame of the video after you press play -- and we can show this hopefully -- is scenes from january 6, the very beginning of the video, scenes

from january 6, errol, when you see this, what does that tell you? >> it tells you that he's setting himself up a set piece for either a rerun of 2020 or a strong reminder to people that what he is trying to counter, what he's offering is not just competent technical management of the economy and of the government, but a way to counter this dangerous movement. it was really president biden who sort of brought to the fore front always talk about this maga movement, these maga republicans. he's not trying to defeat an opponent who isn't named just yet but trying to defeat a movement. that's i think what he is evoking from the first minute this have video. >> before you even see joe biden you see scenes from january 6. professor, the other thing and arlette got to this, the biden campaign team knows that age will be an issue so when you do see president biden in this video, when he does start to talk, is there anything in there that you think they are putting

out there to counter or affect or influence that discussion? >> absolutely. when they show him he's very articulate, there's one scene where he's moving fast and physically looks as if he's in great shape and i think that's a counterweight to some of the imagery. i think the theme of extremism that looms large isn't disconnected. with age and experience comes stability. i think the message of this campaign is the opposition is kind of unstable and dangerous. >> does this remind you of any other reelection campaigns you have studied in history? this doesn't feel like bill clinton 1996 bridge to the 21st century. >> it reminded me of 1964 when lyndon johnson ran against barry goldwater, a right wing republican, and one of the central themes was that the republican party was extreme, it would take away your freedoms and liberties and there was even an ad where you saw two hands tearing up a social security card and saying if barry goldwater is elected you're going to lose your social

security. so it is a little reminiscent of that theme and that campaign. >> you can see in this video they want this, the biden team, to be a choice not a referendum. errol louis, one other thing that was striking in this video is how much you saw vice president kamala harris. we have strung together some of the video. how much she is part of this. why? >> well, look, part of the answer to the fact that he's old is he has a lot of dynamic young people around him. there's kamala harris, there's can a tangy brown jackson. >> she's in the video a lot, too. >> she's in the video a lot, too. going into his administration you have breakout stars, karine jean-pierre, jen psaki, symone sanders. all of these people he has surrounded himself with and the choice of campaign manager, the granddaughter of cesar chavez, that's a way of saying i'm trapped into something that's dynamic and young and moving

along. if you are not comfortable with me please understand that i got it and i've got a whole lot of energy behind me. >> very quickly, both of you, if his republican opponent doesn't turn out to be donald trump, does this same strategy work? >> it gets very, very different. it gets very different. again, he's planning to run against a movement, a trump-led movement. if trump is not there, if somebody else takes over the movement, there will have to be some adjustments or he runs the risk of being outmaneuvered. >> if it's governor desantis, desantis is helping the strategy by taking a continued shift to the right. i think the theme would still work and, look, biden can pull a ronald reagan as he did with mondale and say he wouldn't use his opponent's youth and inexperience against him. >> professor, professor, thank you both for being here. kate? let's turn to capitol hill where top house republicans say they are confident that they have the votes to pass their debt limit bill but there's still already clear and not so quiet rumblings that mccarthy

and his team have real work still to do to lock in support from their own team on this. cnn's lauren fox is tracking all this have for us from capitol hill, she's joining me now. lauren, the word is that they're trying to push for a vote on this bill as soon as tomorrow, but what's going on behind the scenes? >> yeah, there's still work to do, kate, that's the bottom line and this is such an important moment for republican leaders because they have to prove that their party is united behind this legislation. if they're going to get back to the negotiating table with the white house. so this week is going to be crucial for house republicans. a couple of things to lay out behind the scenes. they are really dealing with two separate factions that they are trying to get on board with this legislation, one of them is a group of lawmakers from the midwest, from places like iowa, because of a repeal of some ethanol subsidies that are included in this debt ceiling package. they are also working to try to shore up support from conservatives, some of whom believe that the work requirements in this bill are

not stringent enough. some of those individuals include people like matt gaetz who made clear on twitter over the weekend that they still are undecided on this legislation. i talked to the republican whip tom emmer yesterday in his office. he said they're confident that they will be able to get there. a couple of things to watch for, if this vote timing starts to slip beyond tomorrow, beyond thursday into friday, that could be a sign that leadership is still trying to shore up the votes. also if you start to hear from folks from the places like iowa, which cnn still has not heard back from many of those members, that could also be a sign that trouble is looming. so, kate, a lot of moving pieces here, a very important week on capitol hill for the house republican leaders. >> let's also talk about west virginia. senator joe manchin is calling out joe biden over democratic reminder, joe manchin, is calling out joe biden over this debt limit standoff. what's happening here? what's he doing? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, joe

manchin has been pretty vocal against the president but here he was yesterday on fox news talking about the fact that president biden needs to start negotiating. >> this is his job, this is the responsibility of the leader of the free world and definitely the united states president. he has to negotiate. they can't play russian roulette with the debt, with the debt ceiling. that is going to be disastrous for our economy and all of our people. >> reporter: and manchin last week released a statement after house republicans put out their debt ceiling bill saying he didn't like everything in the bill, reminder, they are repealing large parts of the inflation reduction act he fought really hard to pass in the senate but he said at the moment it's the only bill moving through congress that would increase the country's borrowing limit. kate? >> the pressure for regular order that always seems to fall by the wayside at the very end when they're up against the deadline. good to see you. let's see what happens next, especially in the house.

sara? she said donald trump sexually assaulted her decades before he became president. today e. jean carroll's civil battery and defamation trial against donald trump begins. we will have the details. plus, fox ousts its highest-rated star. what was behind the abrupt firing of tucker carlson? and a golden gun found in an american woman's luggage lands her in jail in australia. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® ooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. ooths the look of so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! utrogena® back when i had a working circulatory system,

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also expected to face court battles. in just a few hours five of the six suspects charged with murder in a sweet 16 party will be in a alabama courtroom, the other suspect a 15-year-old will not be part of that hearing. according to the alabama attorney general the court will address whether the suspects can be denied bail. after 18 seasons with the green bay packers quarterback aaron rodgers is headed to the new york jets in a blockbuster trade for draft picks. rodgers is a four-time league mvp and 2011 super bowl champ but the flip side is he now has to play for the jets. the nfl draft begins thursday night. sara? this morning jury selection begins in e. jean carroll's battery and defamation lawsuit against donald trump. here she is arriving to court just there moments ago. this civil trial is one of many legal trials hang ng over the former president's head. she claims trump raped her in a new york city department store dressing room in the 1990s and then she says he defamed her

when he repeatedly denied her claims. cnn's kara scannell is outsight the court in new york. kara, how can we expect this trial to go forward? he is already facing another one as we all know? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, sara, jury selection is about to get under way. the judge in this case said that the jury will be anonymous, both to him and to the lawyers involved in this case, part of the reason he said is because of the rhetoric from the former president that from that other indictment that you just mentioned, but this is a civil trial and e. jean carroll has accused trump of battery for allegedly raping her in a new york city department store in the mid 1990s and defaming her when he denied the rapes, saying she wasn't his type and called it a hoax, suggesting she did it to boost sales of her book. trump is not required to attend this trial because it's a civil lawsuit. his lawyer has left open the possibility whether he would

attend. either side could call him as a witness. e. jean carroll is expected to testify and won a couple of pretrial motions in her favor. she can call the two women she told in the mid '90s about the alleged assault, she can also call two other women who have previously come forward with allegations of sexual assault against the former president and she can also play the infamous "access hollywood" tape where trump is on camera talking about his aggressive moves towards women. those are big victories that carroll won. trump denied that this ever took place. his defense will be to attack the credibility of all of these witnesses. we do expect jury selection to wrap up pretty quickly once it gets under way momentarily. we could have opening statements in this case as soon as this afternoon. carroll, if she is successful, is seeking a retraction as well as damages and the trial is expected to last about two weeks. sara? >> all right. opening statements could happen very soon. thank you so much. kara scannell live outside the

court in yoork. >> joining us is former federal prosecutor danya perry for more on this. let's start with e. jean carroll. she filed this lawsuit in 2019. this dates back to, sara and kara were talking about, dates back to allegation 30 years ago. the timing in this, the years that have lapsed, is that a problem for this case, do you think? >> it definitely presents some hurdles for the plaintiff in this case. the new york state legislature recently enacted the survivors act which reopens or opens the statute of limitations allowing exactly these kinds of claims, but of course there are proof problems, memories lapse, witnesses leave town or die and so that is going to be difficult. as alleged in the complaint, she doesn't remember even the exact date that this happened. so she does have those problems, but as kara said in the introduction, she has won many important evidentiary and other rulings, including allowing the

testimony of outcry witnesses, other women who claim to have been assaulted, various experts and she will testify. so she's got all of that in her favor. on the other side, mr. trump has lost several key rulings. >> and i want to ask you about in addition on the other side is the big question, well, i would say i'm probably not going too far out there to say unlikely he is going to testify and there's even a question if he's going to show up in court at all. not required to. but what impact do you think that has if he doesn't show in court for this? >> the jury is not going to like that. they're going to think either he doesn't care enough about this case to show up or that he has something bad to say. i do think it's highly unlikely in this case that he will, in fact, show up for trial. he's not known for being focused, so i think direct examination would be difficult and of course on cross-examination there's all manner of impeachment evidence that the plaintiff's lawyers can

use so that can go on and that probably will not be favorable. i think all of the signs point to him not showing up for trial, which, again, juries don't like. >> let me ask you about also what's -- some movement in fulton county, georgia, where the president is facing -- former president is facing other legal issues and potentially criminal charges, not just a civil lawsuit here. the da has now said that she will be announcing if she's going to be announcing anything, charges will come later this summer. cnn is learning this morning that part of that delay has to do with the district attorney's office having picked up more cooperators. i know that's something that has caught your attention as well. what do you think this means in terms of the timing and where things are headed here? >> this often happens at the end of an investigation. you have a lot of targets who know that they're under, you know -- in the crosshairs or under investigation and there's always this prisoners dilemma, a classic prisoners dilemma where they try to decide do i hold out

or do i turn and flip and provide testimony. here it sounds like from reporting that is happening exactly what typically happens, which is that there are witnesses or targets who are now thinking it's in their best interest to actually turn states witness and provide testimony. so it sounds like that's happening and there was also recently emotion by da fani willis to disqualify a lawyer for ten targets. so there's a conflict there, she says, because it sounds like at least one of them or several of them are testifying or cooperating against another. so that also is occasion, i think, for the delay, but it is all part and parcel of what happens at the end of an investigation as it's wrapping up, people start to think about their interests differently and think in a very self-interested way and decide whether or not to cooperate and it sounds like that's exactly what's happened here. >> so interesting. i will see late this summer how this is going to end up one way

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welcome back to cnn "news central." politics is grabbing the headlines with one big announcement, president biden makes it official, he is running for reelection, putting it out in a video this morning. in the video biden framed this election as a fight for freedom, making clear that he's leaning into fight against what he considers republican extremism, attacks on abortion rights, voting rights and other moves like banning certain books in schools. this rollout sets the stage for a possible rematch with donald trump, of course. president biden is not expected

to face a major challenge in the democratic primary. sara? more on the fallout at fox news after the network severed ties with host tucker carlson. no explanation has been given as to why the right win channel's highest rated anchor was abruptly fired. it sent fox shares tumbling, the company closed down nearly 3% and lost about $600 million in market value. cnn's senior media reporter oliver darcy joins me live. oliver, have you learned anything more about what precipitated this decision? >> well, share ration we know how this decision went down, we know that fox cooperation chief executive lachlan murdoch talked to fox news ceo suzanne scott on friday evening and they made the decision to fire tucker carlson, obviously a decision like that would also have the blessing of fox news -- or fox chief rupert murdoch. what we don't know is why this

decision was made. we can obviously connect the dots, this comes a week after fox news settled that massive lawsuit with dominion voting systems for a record $787.5 million. so something as a result of that lawsuit obviously led to carlson's ouster, but what specifically remains a little murky. it could be the lawsuit filed by his former booker abby grossberg alleging anti-semitism behind the scenes on tucker carlson's show, it could be the disparaging text that came out as a result of the discovery process, many redact that had show tucker carlson not speaking kindly about his colleagues, including fox brass. there are a number different parts of this lawsuit that could have potentially led to carlson's ouster from the network. we don't know what it was specifically, but we should also say that outside this being a major media move this is also huge -- has huge ramifications

for the republican party, tucker carlson was one of the -- one of the most influential forces inside the gop and he really pushed it to the extreme, to the conspiratorial. so with him no longer on that fox news prime time perch, i think it's going to have significant impacts on the gop. sara? >> and certainly fox facing another lawsuits coming up, like smartmatic. we will have to wait and see if this starts to become apparent as to exactly why this happened. thank you so much, oliver darcy, with all of that. new this morning two u.s. war ships the u.s.s. trucks secret service ston and suh s.s. polar are reading towards sudan as the u.s. is mulling a plan to send troops to that port in order to assist with the evacuation of u.s. citizens from that country. at this moment a three day ceasefire is supposed to be under way there. humanitarian corridors are supposed to be open which would allow for the safe movement of

civilians. secretary of state antony blinken says that will give americans the chance to evacuate. thousands of u.s. nationals do remain in the country. cnn senior international correspondent sam kiley is in djibouti on the tarmac there, also on the coast where people have been evacuated from. sam, do you have a sense if this ceasefire in sudan is holding? >> reporter: well, john, all things are relative, i think, in the case of a civil war in sudan. there has been reportedly a reduction in the level of violence, but, my goodness, violence still continuing. but the news of a ceasefire that went into effect at midnight sudanese syme last night meant that the raf, for example, and the british government have accelerated plans to try to continue airlifting their citizens out of sudan by means of a road move from khartoum to a desert air base. we don't have any information yet as to whether or not that's

gotten under way but they did see it as a, quote, more permissive environment. if that is her definition of permissive it's quite a broad one because we also spoke to a sudanese gentleman whose name we are keeping back for his own safety, but he sent us an audio message and if you listen carefully you can actually hear the sounds of explosions in this message that he sent exclusively to cnn. this is what it said. >> i don't know if you can hear this, but there's now shots fired as i'm speaking with you. as for the food situation and the supplies, food is okay, but shops are running out of food completely. all the factories have been looted by some people and as for the water supply, still we don't have water for the 11th day continuously. we only get water from a well nearby. i wish to see how this is going to be -- going to progress, if it's going to be worsened,

definitely i will escape. there is no other way out. there is no -- it is what it is. war, you cannot stay at war situations. >> reporter: now, that is the situation for a sudanese gentleman, but of course the same troubles will be affecting the international people still there. there's estimated possibly some 16,000 americans, some 4,000 britains and an enormous effort is ongoing to try to get people out over land. there is still certainly a lot of movement here. a lot of these missions are going to remain secret, on the edge effectively on the other side of this airfield is lamp lemon year. we have just seen a spanish c 130 take off, one of many different national groups here, there is a japanese base here, too. there is an ongoing effort to get people out by air but ultimately escape is going to depend on the ceasefire holding,

on it being safe to use those roads and possibly safe to travel the 800 kilometers, 500 miles to get out to ships waiting offshore. today there was an egyptian ship that took a number of egyptian nationals out of port sudan. so it is possible, the u.n. also trying to run convoys in that direction, ugd january da is trying to get out. there is a fragility to the ceasefire. >> sam kiley in djibouti describing this large effort to help get people out, some of which we can see, some remains secret but we do appreciate you giving us a window into that. sam, thank you. kate? >> definitely not over yet, that's for sure. coming up for us, mississippi rising, the country's second longest river is hitting new and dangerous heights as melting snow is pushing the mississippi to levels not seen in more than 20 years. and a woman flies from los angeles to australia, a place with some of the world's

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so we are learning this morning that an american woman was arrested in australia after staff at the sydney airport found a handgun in her luggage. not just any gun, this is what officials pulled out of her bag. it is 24 carat gold-plated handgun. authorities say the woman who had just flown in from los angeles did not have a permit to bring the firearm into australia, not even a gold-plated one. australia has some of the

world's toughest rules on gun ownership, it's illegal for a person to intentionally import a firearm without prior approval. the maximum penalty is ten years in prison. the woman appeared in court yesterday and could be deported. kate? . >> there are all sorts of questionable decisions that happened there. moving on, though, in the midwest this morning this incredible new drone footage we want to show you showing how serious the situation is unfolding, that is in minnesota. this is as river levels continue to rise along the mississippi. at least 20 river gauges are hitting major flood stage due to snow melt. iowa's governor issued a disaster proclamation for ten counties near the river. you can see them all lined up along the river there. these are just some of the areas where the flooding is hitting rural areas and parks along the mississippi. cnn's derek van dam is tracking this threat and what it means right now and he's joining us. what are you seeing? >> yeah, kate, this is really a

slow motion disaster. mind you, it happens every year, it's just that this year it's different for many of the communities that line the mississippi river. we're talking about some of the worst flooding in several decades. take, for instance, minnesota, this is just upstream along the minnesota -- or the mississippi river from lacrosse, wisconsin, which we will talk about in just a minute but these are people's homes. these are people's businesses that are being inundated by this rising flood water, this slow motion disaster that i'm talking about. the way that we monitor the progress of the cresting mississippi river or similar rivers just like that, the red river, are river gauges, you are looking at the ones in flood gauge. the purple ones between minneapolis and lacrosse are the river gauges at major flood stage. there's 20 of them right now but we anticipate about another ten or so in the coming days as the water continues to pile up and we start to melt out some of the epic record shattering snowfall that has fallen across the upper

midwest. what you are looking at now is the current snow pack and this blue line that i'm drawing is actually anywhere south of that is the mississippi river valley. so all of this water needs to melt, it filters through the tributaries, eventually ending up in the mississippi river valley and then we start to see the flooding pile up across that area. that's why we have over 400 miles of the mississippi river that's under flood warning as we speak lining the border of minnesota, wisconsin, iowa, into illinois as well. take, for example, lacrosse, you can see we're expecting that peak later this week, 16 foot forecast crest for that region, but even higher downstream just south of the davenport region. look at iowa. kate, we're anticipating above average snow melt here as this water continues to move down the mississippi. >> absolutely really fascinating view. thank you so much for that. sara? federal prosecutors say they thought of themselves as donald trump's army, now closing arguments are under way in the seditious conspiracy trial against five proud boys accused

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it's been weeks but closing arguments are finally under way in washington, d.c. for the five proud boys accused of plotting to attack the u.s. capitol. prosecutors say the defendants stirred fellow members of the far right group towards violence in the lead up to january 6th and then directed them that day to attack the building. all five defendants have pleaded not guilty. cnn's katelyn polantz joins us now. what can we expect today? >> reporter: well, sara, we're at exactly the halfway point of the long slow finish of this trial for the proud boys. five men accused of seditious conspiracy. ethan nordean, joseph bigs, zachary real, enrique tore joe, they have been on trial for 60 days. jury selection in this started well before christmas but now the jury is listening to those closing arguments, they began yesterday with prosecutors essentially saying that these men were leaders, they were

plotters, they were ready for battle and excited to see what they were doing on january 6. they pointed out through many, many videos and photos of the riot on january 6 how the men broke off to the crowd . the against team has tried to distance all of the defendants from president trump at the time. they've also tried to undermine this idea that there was a plan or an agreement. some of the defense lawyers yesterday were arguing that these were just guys at the capitol who ended up being stupid on the scene, they shouldn't have been there, but they weren't the instigators.

there was no advanced planning. right now our two producers are inside of the courthouse and they are watching the defense team for enrique tarrio, he's giving his closing arguments right now. we don't expect closings to end today but very soon a jury will be deliberating over whether these men should be found guilty or not guilty of seditious conspiracy. sara? >> please thank hannah and holmes for me and thank you, katelyn polantz for all of that. days after some of the right wing extremist proud boys were charged in the capitol insurrection i was able to speak with then leader enrique tarrio, it was february 2022 and tarrio had not yet been charged in the case. he told me he did not think his fellow proud boys should have gone into the capitol that day but made clear he felt no sympathy for congress members who feared for their life that day. >> i'm not going to cry about a

group of people that don't give a crap about their constituents. i'm not going to -- i'm not going to sympathize with them. >> they are doing the job that the people put them there to do and if they don't like it they can vote them out. they are still americans. they are still human beings who felt that their lives were in danger. how can you not feel any sympathy or any empathy towards someone like that? >> i'm not going to worry about people that their only worry in life is to be reelected. >> now, tarrio is the only defendant in this case who was not in washington, d.c. during the attack on the capitol. that is because days before the u.s. capitol insurrection he was arrested for burning a church's black lives matter banner and bringing a high capacity rifle magazine to washington, d.c. which is illegal. a judge ordered him to stay out of washington, d.c., he was later convicted in that case. now, he and four others await their fate in a much more serious seditious con

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we do have breaking news. we just learned that famous singer, actor and civil rights actor harry belafonte has died. a ledge 1yegend in so many ways he was 96. stephanie elam has a look at his li life. >> reporter: the banana boat song "day-o" put harry belafonte

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