powering progress >> hydrozoa, alvarez at the white house. and this is cnn >> welcome to bleed. i'm jake tapper this hour on one city council right now as a member, man new marched in charlottesville alongside the neo-nazis and white supremacists, the new organized effort taking place today to kick him out of that city council seat plus less than one week out from the solar eclipse. what cities will have a full view of the event plus who will only see parts of the eclipse will map out where are you need to travel as you scramble to find those specialty design glasses, please do not look up at the eclipse, please. we're going to start this hour with breaking news were less than two weeks away from the start of dahman trump's hush money trial in new york, the case involving his alleged affair with porn star and directors stormy daniels. and now his legal team

is making another move to try to get the judge on the case thrown off. let's get straight to cnn's paula. paula with the breaking news. what exactly are trump's lawyers attempting? here? which i were less than two weeks out from the beginning of this trial and hear trump's lawyers are asking the judge to allow them to file a motion for the judge, juan to recuse himself. they are arguing that he is conflicted by his daughter's work as a democratic political consultant. now, last year they made a similar similar request which was rejected by the judge. i'm saying that it would not be in the pu inrest for him to recu hielf.ut nowrump's lawyers are arguing sce this should be reconsidere because the judge's dahter they argue is in a position to potentially financially benetf' unclear if this will succeed, jake, but again, this is just another effort by the trump team. it appears to if nothing else delay this trial further. >> all right. paula reid, thanks so much from trump, the defendant to trump, the candidate into the form

candidate for the former the president returned to the campaign trail this afternoon and he's getting ready to hold a rally in the key battleground state of wisconsin. that's where we find cnn's kristen holmes specifically in green bay, where trump's event is scheduled to start in less than an hour. kristen trump trying trying hard to win back some voters he won there in 2016 but lost in 2020. what sorts of opportunities as he looking for >> what we're going to hear from donald trump and his campaign is essentially sweden painting the status quo of the country under president biden know so terrible that it re-energize is republicans to come out to the polls in november. now, they are very aware that there is a section of republicans that are particularly critical in a state like wisconsin, which he narrowly lost in 2020, that just didn't show up to vote in 2020 because because they were exhausted after four years of donald trump, what he is doing economy, immigration to try and re-energize some of these reports publican supporters. you we heard him just now in michigan. he gave a speech on

bloodbath. he stoking fear der out gration thsame way here did in 16. but he might have a little t mo hel th time around giv the fact that vots rank immigration as one of their top issues when they going goi to the polls in november. so you've heard him, they're talking about w violent crime wa link to imgration. one thing should note as we have doneefore, is that a of the data shows that it may immigrants and mrants arfar less likely to commit a crime than citizens, however, the have been a numb of high profile cases late that donald trump has completed lee latconto. so he is using th fear, stoking once again, hoping that this topic of immigration will help him back to the white house in 2024. >> all right. kristen? now, homes in battleground, wisconsin. thanks so much. while trump focuses on wisconsin and michigan his current home state is becoming the center of a different battle in american battle over abortion yesterday, the florida supreme court said that the states six-week abortion ban

can take effect in 30 days at the same time. the court also ruled that floridians in november can vote to enshrine abortion rights in the florida state constitution. let's discuss with our panel and we're joined. we have jonah and eva with us and mehdi hasan joins us as well. eva, if florida voters want to get rid of the abortion ban the six-week abortion bill. they need to get 60% turnout 60%. that's the margin they have to get support to enshrine abortion rights in the constitution 60%. how are democrats and abortion rights activists reacting to this ballot measure? >> well, that's not going to be easy, but what i can tell you is that they are ready to mobilize. if you look in ohio, for instance, anti-abortion advocates were heavily outspent a lot of attention recently for the alabama race where it marilyn lands she just won a state now it's contests and

folks there were trying to get me to pay attention to that race prior to her winning and i was sort of not really paying attention to it and she got a significant amount of help, a boost funding for that content. so i don't think we should underestimate how willing people are to invest when it comes to this issue of abortion. it was underestimated in the midterms. i spoke to young men who were worried about the women in their lives who were motivated to vote for democrats on this issue. and i think that it does put florida in play. i don't know if democrats win there. they've suffered a lot on a heartbreak in florida. but it certainly helps. >> yeah. and obviously, the biden harris team are going all in on it. there's a brand new ad bashing trump on this issue. jonah, take a listen the 54 years they were trying to get roe v. wade terminated. and i did it and i'm proud to have done it in 2016, donald trump

>> ran two over turn roe v. wade >> now, in 2024, he's running the past a national ban on a woman's right to choose. i'm running to make roe v. wade the law of the land again >> what's interesting, jonah, is that trump has not yet taken a position on the six-week abortion ban in his home state, how long can you not take a position? well, i think he did during the primaries, he kinda poo-pooed it and said what desantis did was a terrible thing. i'm not six weeks. i think the level i think there's very unlikely that this puts florida in jeopardy of going for biden. i think that's unlikely. i think it's really bad news for rick scott, the senator running for reelection, bid for reelection in florida. and it's still good for the biden team because at the very least, when biden has a lot more money and we'll have a lot more money. it could very easily cost the trump campaign to spend money in a very expensive state out of fear of possibly losing it what's your take on this canvas actually, potentially bring enough turnout to a gets 60% to enshrine abortion rights

in the constitution be maybe >> even help democrats running for the house. and whoever ends up facing off against senator rick scott it's on the first point. yes. i mean, it would be mad for anyone to underestimate the power of the abortion rights movement, given what we've seen in the last couple of years, given what we see in iowa or in many other states in ohio. and i'll alabama, it no, don't write it off. there's a very good chance they could pull it off. and that leads to the second point i agree with jonah, even if they can't win, florida and he what he went by full points. so whatever it wasn't 20 it will force trump and republicans to defend their both down-ballot and the presidential ticket, which only helps the democrats anything that gets the democratic base out is a good thing right now, because the parts of the democratic, because i'm not that induced this is the, this is one of the issues that end-users mehdi has an op-ed in the guardian i want others to weigh in on mehdi. you praise 69 year-old us supreme court justice sonia sotomayor, while also arguing she should do what her sister, justice ruth bader ginsburg did not do, and step down now, while the democrats control the white house and the

us senate, so they can support a point a democrat to take her place. you write quote, with joe biden trailing trump in several swing states and democrats also in danger of losing their razor-thin majority in the senate are we really prepared for history to repeat itself? >> you agree? >> yeah, that's a look. first of all, i'm skeptical of your the way you portray the six justice majority as this monolithic thing you've had gorsuch siding with criminal defendants more than almost anybody that kagan siding with conservatives you've had contingent brown, jackson and gorsuch having an alliance. i just don't think it's as all that monolithic at the same time by all means, if the democrats want to spend a lot of time having confirmation battle in the senate i'm not sure it's the highest best use dime of media exposure and arguments, but no skin off my nose. >> but what is your essential arguments? so first of all, i don't think that model >> nothing i say in the piece actually, currently you're able to get some 5-4 wins for progressive causes.

>> doesn't happen. you have six, three ones at doesn't happen othis, but th n'happen under sen t myorry iseve, i ha ptsd he from 2020, i think the democrats didn'arn leons. look, what are we talking about tion rhts? how did that happen? dobbs, how did the florida desion happened day? desantis appointed five of the seven judges republins are very >> good at stacking. courts e getting their peoplen courts at stinking strategically about filling courts. democrats i'm very good at seeing the power of the supremeourt. and that's why i worry. i worry repeat history? why take the risk? yohave a democratic president and a democratic senate, and you have a justice's about seven, 70 >> i've only really heard mehdi make this argument. i haven't heard this becomes sort of a battle cry among democrats is yet. so maybe you were the first one out on this issue. and i could understand why, because democrats do have ptsd from ruth bader ginsburg, i will say not so sure with my your it is a personal choice. but that republicans have shown more of a ruthlessness when it comes to the courts and even have a podcast called ruthless

>> and determination >> not only the supreme court, but remaking the federal judiciary. it's sort of senator mcconnell's entire reason for being, although biden has done a pretty good job in getting a lot of progressive on the personal choice since want to say very important point because he said personal choice, karine jean-pierre said personal choice when she was asked about this the other day, it shouldn't be a personal choice. us supreme court is one of the only supreme courts in a democratic world that has lifetime tenure. it's mad, no, england doesn't have it. belgium doesn't have it. spain doesn't have it. australia new zealand, you have either have term limits. we have a 70 retirement age. what are people doing in their 80s on the supremum? good or running for presidency. >> if the shoe was on the other foot, i think republicans would be pushing even maybe harder until he kennedy probably have enough. are their side, on their side because they are a little bit more aggressive when it goes to the court. >> they did they did orchestrate that pretty well. the kennedy cabinets swap. thanks. one and all for being here. even mechanic jonah goldberg, mehdi hassan, if trump were to win a second term, this what does he want his controversial aid, stephen

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wants to make the federal government be all lives matter, which essentially is there's any program, not just in the government, but in private enterprise that is meant to benefit minorities. make sure to remedy some past injustices of racism. he is basically saying that is implicitly discriminating against white people. and he's already started this. he's already started suing. he filed a civil rights complaint under the civil rights act of 1964 against the nfl for their rooney rule, which requires you to interview minority candidates for open positions, arguing that's inherently discriminating against non-minority or white candidates who want those jobs. is his position that there is no discrimination in america today against it's minorities. i mean, these, these, these, as you know, i mean, this is about the historical legacy of racism in the united states, not just passed, but current. >> what he's saying is that there is, there is >> discrimination against black and brown people. but his

argument is that there's also a lot of discrimination against white people, and that the civil rights era laws that are meant to basically remedy the past injustices of white racism against black people, against brown people have ignored this plight of anti-white racism. what he wants to do, it what they do is they justify it as saying we're going to make civil rights era laws colorblind. and so we are going to and that these laws have not been used to defend white people in response to your reporting, trump's campaign said, quote, as president trump has said all staff, offices and initiatives connected to biden's >> un-american policy will be immediately terminated. how expansive would the sovo overhaul been some cases of now established basic civil rights? could be >> incredible, and this is not just, just dei offices or hr trainings, but what we're talking about is almost any federal government program that

is meant to help minorities, people of color, even just women, access federal funds in a way that they haven't historically been able to. those could be completely canceled and that this was not stephen miller is doing, but just recently, a trump affiliated group has managed to stop a commerce department program that allowed minorities to access business funds. essentially, they said, this is inherently discriminatory. you have to let white people access these it's funds two, you can see basically any minority minority program and the federal government outlawed under a trump administration >> alex thompson, thanks so much interesting reporting. continuing in our law and justice lead a new feature from the lead launching today about donald trump the all-but-certain republican presidential nominee. mr. trump, has declared that the criminals in prison for their role in the attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. our quote, hostages, the former president has repeatedly made this reference to hostages see

the spirit from the hostages, and that's what they are as hostages. they'd been treated terribly and very unfairly. they're to release the j6 hostages. they've suffered data released i call them the j6 hostages not prisoners. i call them the hostages. what's happened >> in point of fact, these are not hostages. they are locked up, convicted of breaking the law in light of mr. trump's insistence on using this term, j6 hostages, we thought it might behoove the american people to know exactly who it is that he's talking about. so here are two of trump's j6 hostages that prosecutors say are seen in photos from that de their names are far odd and far bad. a zaria father and son from richmond, virginia. there's always both pleaded guilty and past january 2 felony charges, including one count of civil disorder and one

count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain law enforcement officers with a deadly are dangerous weapon outside the capital. prosecutors say that the sun far bads spat at officers and threw a water bottle at law enforcement officers. the father for odd, tried to break a police line with a bike rack and hurled a flag pole at police officers. prosecutors say the dad for rod was one of the first writers to enter the capital getting in through a broken window. and that's where prosecutors say for rod tried to direct other writers to rush the police while his son was outside throwing another flag pole police. this father and son are currently in the dc jail and will be sentenced to may 21. trump said in march on truth social that one of his first acts as president will be to quote free the january 6 hostages being wrongfully imprisoned these two are two of those so-called january 6 hostages. stay tuned. we're going to tell you about a bunch

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abducted from her home by at least ten menn and october 7, she told her story to sheryl sandberg's documentary crew, regard recording these atrocities. we want to warn viewers, even this excerpt of her story is quite disturbing. >> i was chained for three weeks in gaza i was kept in a really dark room without being able to move and whenever i needed to go and use the bathroom, i need to ask for permission is name was mohamad used to sit on the bed in front of me wearing shorts laying down. i remember i couldn't look at him. i was just like looking away and covering myself with the blanket so i wouldn't have to look at him with made me feel really uncomfortable >> you >> also kept asking me do i

like six, do i have sex with my boyfriend? i whenever he talked about it? i just like giggled and say, come on, stop, stop trying to change the subject i knew that is up to something i knew that something bad is going to happen and >> so on day >> mohammad came and gave me woman's sanitary pads. >> it said >> when you get your period after that, you'll take a shower and you'll wash your clothes and he kept repeating that every couple of times a day >> and >> then i got my period and the period was just for one day. but i fooled him to think that the period is continuing until i could not lie anymore. he

untied me and took me to the kitchen and showed me a pot now remember thinking, how can i avoid that there's nothing i can do >> sheryl sandberg, who has been the lead in the new documentary, screams before silence joins me now cheryl, me is the first hostage to speak out publicly. on the sexual abuse she endured in hamas captivity. tell us more >> sober story is heroin most of the victims of hamas who experienced sexual abuse, sexual violence on october 7 were killed but this is her story and she has so bravely spoken out. she's spoke to the new york times. she interviewed with us on film as you just saw for this documentary. and she tells her story. she was held hostage for 55 days she was chained to a bet in a dark room

for several weeks of that, she was beaten she was sexually abused at gunpoint, and that is a terrible thing. and i think one of the reasons she has been brave enough to speak out is she like so many people are very worried about what is happening right now to the hospital just that's still remaining gaza >> were coming up on six months since those horrific october 7 terrorist attacks what's it been like to be on the ground in the months after? >> in filming this documentary, i had an opportunity to bear witness. i think when people watch the documentary, they'll have a chance to bear witness but it's incredibly sad. you know, you go to a kibbutz second, what's that was filled with people who are his loving really believed and living in peace with their neighbors. and what you see is the buildings are in shambles just like their lives are in shambles. as part of the documentary, i went with

a mother and the daughter to their home it's completely devoid any showed me. here's where our father was killed. here's where our sister was killed. here's the door we were taken out as hostages seven minutes later, they were across the border being held for so long and they're the lucky ones because they got released. but what you see at the nova site, what you see at the cubic seen when you see in all of these places are shambles, wreckage, wreckage of people and one sign after another of the people that were counts when is this documentary expected to come out >> in a few weeks and we're putting it out online because we want everyone to have access no paywalls or subscriptions. anyone who wants to bear witness and see the very, very compelling evidence of the sexual assaults of october 7. we'll be able to do that i

don't know how you react, but as somebody who has reported on sexual violence in the united states and throughout the world. i continue to find it unbelievable how many people just deny the facts of what you are bearing witness to what i went borne witness to the experience of these women and girls how do you respond when you hear from people who are falsely saying none of this ever happened >> i cannot agree with you more. it is why i spoke out, why i agreed to do this documentary. it's why i'm talking to you right now and i know it's why you're talking to me. the politics of this moment are blinding us and we need to be very clear. rape is not resistance. sexual violence is never acceptable, no matter what else, no matter what you believe, no matter what you think should happen in the middle east it is incredibly

clear that there was mass sexual violence, that it came from the top that was part of the remit of october 7 and there is no excuse for that. no excuse rape is not resistance >> what >> particularly, i think upsets me is when people say that cleaning their sexual violence here is politicization. it's exactly the opposite. not being willing to look at the fact and name the fact that there was sexual violence here is where the politicization the volatilization comes in and what we need to remember is great sexual violence has been part of war over history. it's only been 30 years since the drc, yugoslavia, bosnia where the world said no human rights organization said no women's organization said no, we will never stand for sexual violence as party but any conflict that needs to hold for this conflict, as well as all others. we stand to lose too much. >> sheryl sandberg. thank you

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white nationalist hate groups march through charlottesville, virginia in 2017. >> this man and named judd blevins from oklahoma, was in the crowd. he says he was there to protest the removal of confederate statues blevins returned to oklahoma we're the monitoring group known as right wing watch. later reported he worked as a recruiter for a white nationalist group and posted offensive comments in an online discussion forum. he has since said he disavows these messages then last year, blevins was elected to the city council in he needed oklahoma, 808 people voted. blevins one by 36 votes. blevins past had mostly flown under the radar until a small group of progressive activists in enid sounded the alarm about blevins joining the charlottesville march. they're trying to get him voted off the council.

>> it wasn't very, very disturbing and frightening. and i thought, how is this still happening in this this year? >> kristi balden volunteers with the enid social justice committee, which organized a recall drive. today, voters will decide if blevins keeps his city council seat. >> we want to hit as many doors, as many addresses as we can efficiently play and politely get everybody out to vote. >> these volunteers are asking residents to vote for the other candidates on the ballot. cheryl patterson but they're finding not all voters are turning against blevins, who was a marine veteran and is fighting to keep his counsel seat does have supporters in ina then that's the really frightening part. >> there's real tension around this case. >> yes, there really is >> i will stand before the voters of board one one, and i will defend the job. i've done here. >> 11s makes it hard to know where he stands at times apologetic at other times defiant. he denies identifying as a white nationalist or white it's a premises, but has also

asked for forgiveness. >> i am a different man today than i was yesterday there is no hate in my heart that hasn't convinced the city's conservative leadership. they tried to censor him last fall for his failure to apologize and explain his connections to white nationalism, saying his statements have caused disruption and discontent in the city. judd blevins declined to speak with cnn, but he's tried to distance himself from why nationalist organizations >> and if i've offended anyone in here, then i ask to be forgiven. >> that speech led to this extraordinary moment with the only black city council member, derwin norwood would i wanna do one thing before we quit >> can you stand up do you love me? >> yes, i do. >> as a brother i love you too >> i'll forgive you >> up until that moment, i struggled with it but i forgave

them in our realized that in forgiving him i freed myself from becoming what he was or still may be, blevins has tried to disavow his controversial history, but he's also tried to justify his past raising questions about whether he's truly changed. >> but i'm not going to play this game where i take things that the media says are problems from america's past that are no longer problems today and pretend like they're serious issues. they're not these latest comments have convinced norwood that blevins doesn't belong on the city council. when you heard that, what did you think? >> he doesn't understand what he's saying? >> our >> last council meeting i looked out, i'm just like i'm looking at you and i said man, do you realize it was a that put his blood and reputation out there on ther you

frankly, pushing back on this anti-white hatred that is so common in media and entertainment. >> if someone's like that in their private life, do they have any business serving? the government position? absolutely not. absolutely not because we gave an oath, we raised our right hand and we swore to the people that we were serve everyone equally. and rifle name >> jake judd blevins says that if he were to win the election section again, keep his seat, that he will probably not seek another term as a council member here in enid, and it's also interesting to point out that there have been a number of whiteness personalized groups that have been trying to raise money for judd blevins online. but this election is creating a great deal of intense turnout or interest among the enid residence here we've seen in turn out, we don't know exactly officially how much turnout there has been today. we won't know until after polls close, but at this one particular polling location, they've already been more than 300 voters and there

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>> it's so good. >> it's really good. and so everybody should, should buy it. let's get, this is not your first book. i liked. i liked your first book. amanda wakes up. that's a novel about a fictional tv reporter, and that drew from your life experiences, that network that shall not be named. sure. this book is all about you and you're struggles with your family and teenage rebellion why >> why >> lay it all out there? why it's so good, but why do it? why opened my diary? yeah. yes, i understand that. i think that >> i felt that are stories of struggle and survival can bond us and i feel like when i read somebody's story that they've struggled and they've achieved their dreams, which ultimately i did though, was really hard. it's inspiring to me. and i think in this time nobody knows better than you, how divided these times are. yeah. >> get our stores have struggled, are actually what are connection is and our stories of survival are what

our connection is. and if i can help that, and i can help a teenage girl feel went in the depths of her despair that she's still going to be able to reach her dreams, then i hope that that's worth it. >> and this teen years are tough. yeah, they are. >> your parents divorce had a big impact on your childhood and your search for belonging as a young teenager lead you to a local punk band called shrapnel from new jersey. look at there, there, there they are the title of your memoir, combat love is from one of shrapnel. your first six songs you filed the band around new york and new jersey during your teens during the 80s and era of wildness on parented, i was saying sex, drugs, rock and roll. yes. yes. everyone who grew up in the 80s knows there was a >> free range quality to growing up in the 80s where you were semi parented or and parented. and i do want to let the viewers know that in terms of the sex, drugs and punk rock, you know, you were so instrumental to me because you were one of my early rigueur as and you read this really raw personal yeah. and what you

basically told me was that you thought that i was glossing over some of that a little too much. and your words were, i think you're a yada, yada going over some important things. and so i had to go back and really dive deeper and peel away some of the layers and tell it even more personal, raw story as a memoir warrants. and that was really helpful. so we want people to know that my take was that it was a great book that wanted to be greater, and that it was so candid. but you are because you are charming and beautiful and clever and everything, you are able to jati he got through all sorts of stuff like, i bet you've never gotten a speeding ticket, for example. so when i've gotten pulled up, a lot >> right. but had never gotten a ticket as opposed to me, i get them. they don't i'm not even my car and i knew that you had that skill. but like you have more depths to plumb, right? i >> really appreciated that because you were right, but it's hard. obviously, you can do that and to go back to your most painful memories and to write about them. and i did

open the pages of my journal. you will read my diary entries, some of them in there, but it does make it a truer, more authentic, more connected story. it was the right thing. do >> so that brings me to my question about your mom, who i know you love dearly and utah, she's watching right now? yes, of course. but who doesn't love you. but if she's watching right now, i know you cared and worried about how is she going to deal with this? because she's a character in the book and let's just say that it's a difficult time for you. >> yes, she's a primary character. >> the book. >> and >> my mother spent >> several years before last week saying, can't you wait until i'm dead to publish it. >> but hopefully that will be for another hundred years, right? i know. i could actually wait until she was dead because i needed her. she's the family historian she remembers the stories about me and about our family even before i was born. and so i needed to use her as a source course and you guys remembered stories differently >> i tried to respect when she >> was when she said, i don't

remember it that way. i tried to respect her memories and add it in there and i'm happy to report jake that it was really hard for her, but it was ultimately cathartic for both of us to understand each other's perspectives. >> what we were both going through during my teenage years in my 20s and it has a happy ending were really close and she is now a big cheer leader of the book and coming to some of my book events >> that is so amazing, so lucky lastly, i only have 30 seconds left, but you're the mom of three teenagers? yes. >> what did they think about what crazy mom was doing in the 80s stay? >> they haven't read it. i haven't kept it from them. i want them to read it, but now that they're teenagers 1919 and 17, the last thing they have time to do is curl up with their mothers memoir. >> yeah. from her teenage years, they're busy being teenagers themselves all i said to them was guys, you know, the 80s were a lot different than now, right? >> right. you remember that? so i've warned them >> yeah. >> i'm >> sure that the reaction would be like boring >> or grow profit or anything

like my kids definitely. well, the book out there is combat, love story of leaving longing and searching for home. it's really good. check it out and camerota >> really appreciate it. have >> you heard the big salt? solar eclipses monday, but you cannot see a full view from some of the biggest cities on the east coast, where can you see it? we're going to map that out for you. >> that's next >> this situation with blitzer. >> next, one, cnn when these business owners need cash fast, they turn two bids to credit to fund what's next from fitness studios to medical offices and every small business in between. we've got lecture covered whether you need new equipment, funds to expand or need money to cover unforeseen business expenses, bids to credit is the trusted partner for your small business funding needs scan the code on your screen now or go to biz to credit.com to apply this to credit funding. what's next

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