programs. top 20, all of the nfl. top 50, 49 are the nfl. you look at the top 100, 93 are the nfl. a lot more folks are like me, wearing their nice little head scarves to work today, than you in a suit. >> head scarf. that's what we're calling that. which fans are the most loyal? >> which fans are the most loyal? how about this? teams most watched in their local markets, the buffalo bills are number one. number two, the team they're taking on this weekend, the kansas city chiefs. number three, the green bay packers. more loyal than your 49er fans. >> do you have predictions for this weekend? >> i do have predictions for this weekend. look, here's some nonbiased odds. of course, i believe the bills will crush the chiefs or at least i hope so, but they're favored by 2 1/2 points. but let's go, buffalo. come on. you got to be rooting for them. >> if you cared you would be jumping through a table right now like a real buffalo bills fan, one that is flaming. the head scarf doesn't do it for me. do you actually care? >> i might do it this weekend.

>> harry enten, a pleasure. cnn news central starts right now. the final sprint to the make or break primary in new hampshire. nikki haley, donald trump, ron desantis all campaigning there today. their message to voters and their stepped up attacks on each other. >> a cnn exclusive, the push for a speedy trial, why attorney general merrick garland says the timing of donald trump's election subversion case is incredibly significant. and the notorious case back in the spotlight after decades. the innocence project now working to clear scott peterson. the man found guilty 20 years ago of murdering his pregnant wife. is there new evidence that could free the convicted killer? i'm sara sidner with our kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central.

>> this morning, nikki haley is continuing her campaign blitz through new hampshire, and with that is also ramping up her attacks on donald trump. haley projecting confidence when she met with voters this morning. >> when you look at iowa, i mean, president trump won a state of 3 million people with 56,000 votes. we had a very low turnout in iowa. we're going to have a really good turnout in new hampshire. i think we're going to have a great day. >> donald trump and ron desantis are also headed back to new hampshire, and even though trump is trying to convince voters that the primary is already over, he is spending an increasing amount of time focused on nikki haley. >> she is not going to make it. she has no chance, no way. maga is not going to be with her. i know nikki very well. she worked for me for a long

time. she would not be able to handle that position. she would not be able to handle the onslaught. >> cnn's kylie atwood is in hampton, new hampshire, where haley just held an event. how are -- what are you hearing from voters now, days out with this final pitch? >> reporter: well, listen, i was just talking to voters here at this event. her second of the day. nikki haley has six events across new hampshire today. and they're saying that they really do think that she will do incredibly well here in new hampshire. now, she has six events across the state today. ron desantis is also in new hampshire today. he has a few events. he really hasn't been competing aggressively in this state, though. he went right to south carolina after iowa. he spent some time in florida. he hasn't hit 10% in most polls. it's effectively a one-on-one competition here in new hampshire between former president trump and nikki haley. that's exactly what her campaign wanted it to be. when you look at their strategy, one thing they're trying to do

is reach out to independent voters here. they make up almost 40% of the electorate, so it could be key to her success here. of course, not all of those folks are going to vote for her, but it's a big bucket of voters in new hampshire. they are a group that she is targeted. the other thing that nikki haley is doing is really stepping up her attacks against trump a little bit more aggressively here in new hampshire than she has been doing throughout the course of her campaign. she said to his allegation that she could never win the republican nomination, responded to that last night by saying, then why is he going after her with all of these million dollars in ads in new hampshire? she's also trying to tie him in more directly with president biden. saying why would voters want two folks running for president who are in their 80s. listen to what she told jake tapper in the town hall last night. >> do we really want to have two 80-year-olds running for

president? when we have a country in disarray and a world on fire? they are so distracted by their own investigations and by their own grievances, we don't need people who are distracted. we need people who love america and realize if your time is gone, move out of the way and let a new generational leader come in and start to fix things. >> reporter: now, of course, the question is how well does nikki haley think she can do here in new hampshire, how well does she need to do here? she said last night she wants to do strong, that she wants to do better than she did in iowa where she was obviously third place, more than 30 points behind former president trump. of course, her campaign is trying to get every voter that they can over the course of the next four days before that primary on tuesday. kate. >> absolutely. six events today in new hampshire. definitely in the final sprint. kylie atwood there for all of them. great to see you. thank you. sara. >> with us now, our cnn political commentators, attorney and former south carolina state

representative bakari sellers and former special assistance to president george w. bush, scott jennings. nice to see you again. let's talk about this situation between donald trump and nikki haley. they're treating this really at this point in new hampshire at least as a two-person race. ignoring ron desantis. the big question here, i think that everyone has is, can nikki haley pull out a win in new hampshire and what does it mean? i'll start with you, scott. >> well, the polling that's come out in new hampshire over the last couple days indicates donald trump has a lead. if you look at the splits inside of the polling, he's dominating among republicans. among independents who is vote in this semi open primary, there is some preference for haley. that's what she's relying upon. and of course, donald trump is attacking her for that, relying on non-republicans to tilt the primary. i think it's advantage trump. but obviously, haley wanted this essentially a head to head race, and she's got it.

we'll see what she can do with it. i think it's a long shot, but there won't be any more fertile ground for her than this electorate here. >> this is where she has really made a name for herself, at least in new hampshire. i want to talk about this. racism is playing a real and prebt role in this battle. mostly because of nikki haley's two takes on race in this country, and then donald trump's racist rhetoric against her. i want you to listen to nikki haley first, when asked by jake tapper whether or not this country was a racist country. here's what she had to say. >> when you look at, you know, the declaration of independence. was that men are created equal, with unalienable rights, right? i was a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town. we had plenty of racism that we had to deal with. but my parents never said we lived in a racist country. for every brown and black child

out there, if you tell them they live or are born in a racist country, you're immediately telling them they don't have a chance. >> i'm going to go to that. all right, so you see that. i want you to see what donald trump put out on his truth social. he did a couple posts, if we can pull that up. you see governor chris sununu, the now failing governor of new hampshire, which he's not, where i am beating his endorsed candidate, nimrada, which is supposed to be nimirata, which is nikki haley's name. doesn't matter because nimrada doesn't have what it takes. you have these -- obviously, that's not her name. and he knows that. when you look at this rhetoric, and you take it all in, what does it tell us about this race and about how these candidates see this country, bakari? >> well, first, let me address nikki haley.

i think either that's intellectual dishonestly or cognitive dissidence. i grew up close to her. our desks were side by side. we're from the same county, which is a majority black county. she went to a white flight school which is preparatory, one of those schools created after brown v. the board of education. her father taught at an historically black college and university, presumably because he couldn't get a job at another university. my mother used to shop where her mother had a women's clothing store. so for her not to be able to comprehend the issues of race and for her to stumble through questions about the declaration of independence, you know, fundamentally at that time, black folk were just deemed to be three -fifth of a human bein. it wasn't necessarily written for me and you. further to the point, we're a relatively young democracy. you know, without the 1964-'65

voting rights act and civil rights act, we would not be here today. and so we're relatively young when it comes to everyone having that full faith and credit. so i think that she's trying to do something which is dishonest, which is play to a bunch of different sides of the republican party. and she's tripping over herself. as for donald trump, look, nikki's a little tougher than that. she's been through the rough and tumble nature of south carolina politics. they posted pictures of her parents wearing turbans or her dad wearing turbans and they have talked about the fact that she grew up in a sikh household. they called her every racist name. we had former state senators on podcasts calling her racist names in 2010. and look, she beat all the boys. she beat gresham barry, harry mcmaster, and andre bower. that's not going to work against her, but it comes to show the republican party has an issue, and a lot of folk in this country, it's not just the republican party. a lot of folk in this country

have a problem with the issue of race and don't know how to handle it. until we handle it, be truthful and honest, we'll never make progress. >> scott, i would like get your take as well. what is nikki haley doing here? we know donald trump by now and what he does. but what is she trying to do? because some of the things she says definitely resonates with the base that she believed this country was not founded on racist ideals but it was inherently racist at the very beginning. and there's still issues to this day. what's she doing? >> i think she's trying to communicate that today, she believes the united states is a great country, that it is not a racist country, that we have come a tremendous distance on these issues. but while simultaneously glossing over the incredibly difficult periods that we have encountered from the time of our founding through the civil war, by the way, the period after the civil war was one of the most perilous times for race in this

country. the attempt to reinstitute the horrors of the way african americans were treated in this country, even after the civil war had been completed. as bakari mentioned, up to the period of the civil rights movement. so i actually think it's possible to do both. you can acknowledge the long road and the long journey we have been on, but also embrace the absolute greatness of the united states today and say we are miles better than we were. but i think it's hard to do that if you are glossing over the periods that we lived through and that we're all well aware of from our own history books. i don't know why this has become such a difficult thing. also, she's a republican. and one of the reasons i'm a republican is because i come from kentucky, the land of abraham lincoln and i'm enormously proud of my party's history in trying to rescue the united states from its original sin. and i think if i were running for president as a republican, i would lean on his values and legacy and his name every single

day. so that's what i would like to hear more out of is acknowledgment, leaning into the tradition of what it means at least to me to be a republican, and also leaning into the greatness of the united states and her people. i agree with her, where don't think the united states is a racist country today, but certainly you can acknowledge we have been through extraordinarily difficult periods that were extremely vileabouts and hurtful to large swaths of people throughout periods in this country's history. >> bakari sellers i know you have a different opinion on whether or not this country is racist. we're going to leave it there. we know what it is. scott jennings, thank you very much. to the both of you. this is always a hard conversation and it needs to be had, and you do it brilliantly. we want to talk about why nikki haley's prospects are different in new hampshire than they were in iowa. i'm joined by senior data reporter harry enten. this has to do with where the voters are in new hampshire and who they are. let's talk about where they are.

let's look at the population. >> you know, when i think we're looking at over here is take a look. where is most of this population located? it's in a very concentrated span down here in the southeast portion of the state. very little population to the northwest, in fact, in most of the state over there, and this of course, if you were to -- >> you pull it up right here. see, right here. pull it up right there. >> there we go. these are all suburbs of boston. that's a way to think about a lot of the population in the state of new hampshire, where it's located. they are really suburbs of boston and they behave like suburbs. this is very different from what we see generally speaking in the state of iowa. if you look in iowa, what do we see? we see a lot of the population is really spread out there, where you see, yes, there's some populated centers around des moines and iowa city, but it's a much more rural community in iowa than it is in the state of new hampshire where it's much more suburban. >> new hampshire what you're looking at is basically one

giant suburb. i said and got in trouble with kate for saying much of new hampshire is basically a boston suburb. you draw a line here. it's all an hour commute to boston. everyone who lives here down can commute easily to massachusetts. one other way is if you look at who voted and where they voted in 2016, the bigger the circle, everyone is down here. everyone is down in this part of the state in the suburbs you were talking about. all right, let's talk about who the voters are now, harry. let's go back there and let's talk largely about education. okay. this is a much more educated population than in iowa. just to be clear, the lighter the shade, the more college degrees. >> that's right. one of the groups nikki haley does well with are those who have a college degree. in this case, what you see are the lighter shades where you have more college educated voters. what do we have in the southeast portion? a lot of folks with college

degrees around portsmouth, in the boston suburbs, and then in the connecticut river valley which is a place i'm familiar with, that's where hanover new hampshire is, where dartmouth college is. a lot of folks with college degrees in the state of new hamp hampshire. a much more college educated electorate than the state of iowa. >> look at basically all of the white and light pink. you go back to iowa and there's not much of the white and light pink. they're vastly different in new hampshire. we have talked about this a little bit already, but i want to reiterate it, who the voters are. a lot of this has to do with voter registration. talk to me about these voters in iowa. >> essentially, what you saw in the state of iowa when you have a caucus, when you have a caucus, you're really talking about die-hard republicans. you can go on the day of and change your registration, but in new hampshire, what's number one? undeclared voters. they can vote in the republican primary in the state of new hampshire. that's what nikki haley is counting on. if we look historically speaking, what do we see?

they make up a large portion of the electorate, we're projecting about 45%, that's generally in line with what we saw in 2012, the last time there was a republican primary without a democrat. >> bigger percentage in theory, the better for nikki haley. a lot of gettable independent and moderate voters. next hour, we'll be back to talk about the history, what candidates who run a little bit like nikki haley is running, how they have done in the past. great stuff. but you did still get me in trouble while i was sitting in new hampshire, calling new hampshire a suburb of massachusetts. that did get me in trouble. we'll discuss this later. coming up for us, merrick garland is calling for a speedy trial in donald trump's election subversion case. how he's defending the justice department against the criticism prosecutors should have brought the case sooner. it's a cnn exclusive. plus, house republicans are calling on the defense secretary, lloyd austin, to now come before them and testify about his secret hospital visit. and why a group of attorneys is now taking on an infamous murder

case. now fighting to exonerate scott peterson, the man convicted of killing his pregnant wife, laci. we'll be back.

exclusive. senior justice correspondent evan perez one-on-one with attorney general merrick garland. evan pressing garland about special counsel jack smith's call for a speedy trial of donald trump in the federal election subversion case. with americans now casting real votes in the 2024 election season. evan joins us now live. this timing is incredibly important and significant right now that you're able to sit down with the attorney general. what did he tell you as you peppered him with questions that a lot of americans want to know the answer to?

>> reporter: yes, these are the most extensive comments we have heard from the attorney general on this issue. and you know, one of the things hoe did is defended the independence of the special counsels, including jack smith, and the idea that this trial, that the special counsel is trying to push forward with in march possibly despite of course the collision course it is on with the political calendar. here's what he had to say when i asked about that. >> one of the trials for the former president, donald trump, is scheduled for march. you know, some of the polling recently shows that three-quarters of republicans believe that he's being targeted for political reasons. does it concern you that this public perception exists and what can you do to try to change that? >> look, of course it concerns me. our special prosecutor has said from the beginning that he thinks public interest requires a speedy trial. which i agree with. >> you agree.

>> i do. and the matter is now in the hands of the trial judge to determine when the trial will take place. >> the department has policies about steering clear of elections. is there a date in your mind where it might be too late to bring these trials to fruition? again, to stay out of the way of t theelections? >> i'll say what i said which is the cases were brought last year. prosecutor has urged speedy trials. with which i agree. and it's now in the hands of the judicial system. >> reporter: and sara, we also asked him about these incidents of swatting and these threats to public officials nationwide, the rise in the number of those threats. the attorney general said that obviously it's a very big concern for the justice

department. they're doing an arrest almost one a week as a result of this. he also said these pose a threat to the fabric of our democracy. >> yeah, the swatting incidents are terrifying, and people have been killed in them for no reason. it was really good to get some insight there, and to really hear from him and answer those questions that you posed to him. good for the american public and good for you. thank you so much, evan perez. kate. joining us now to talk more about evan's interview and what we heard from the attorney general, elliot williams. elliot, what do you think of the attorney general's comments there? what do you hear in how he's speaking? >> absolutely, he's not saying anything that's that remarkable. i think it's in this world of the former president's testing the limits of the legal system. there are basic rules. and defendants are entitled to speedy trials.

it's not that the former president is being extended some special treatment or being treated differently. or that the attorney general is going out on a limb here. he's stating what the constitution says. and it's in the interest both of the defendant and the public that the defendant be given a speedy trial. it benefits all of us. so it is a very important rule, and you know, the president should get a speedy trial, full stop. >> when he says the public interest requires a speedy trial, that is his way of nodding to there's an election hanging over all of this. but what if the defendant doesn't want a speedy trial? which seems to be donald trump's position. >> sure. now, i push back a little bit on the notion that the speedy trial question is just about the election. because, and the special counsel has put this in some of their filing, the public has an interest in insuring that justice is served. whether that is the acquittal of an individual who is not guilty

or whether that's deterring similar people, similar positioned people, i guess, future presidents, from committing the same type of crimes. it's not just about the defendant. it is a public and speedy trial that's the language in the constitution. so certainly, the defendant has every right to slow things down and insure that his case is argued fairly and zealously. but we, as the public, also have an interest in seeing that justice is served, whatever that may mean. >> i want to ask about donald trump's kind of social media commentary about on all of this which is that the president now he's saying presidents should have full immunity from prosecution, and part of it within of his postings says even events that cross the line must fall under total immunity. i mean, coming from a place of he never makes legal arguments, he's always making a political argument, does this impact the appellate judges who are currently considering this question in his case? >> no, i really don't think so.

it could certainly have an impact on trial judges if we got to a point where there was a jury because the statements by the defendant could have an impact on who could be selected for the jury and whether the jury has been tainted if they heard statements like this. it doesn't really have an impact on appeal. with respect to the former president's behavior generally, there's a lit bit of a pattern which is taking a statement which is itself at its core legally true. it's true, presidents are entitled to some measure of immunity. we have seen that since the 1970s, but it's not absolute. no one, no sensible attorney, no sensible judge in america believes it's absolute. but the former president can make a statement, and there are people who will believe it because it sorpt of smacks of common sense even though it's not legally accurate to extend it that far. >> trump's legal team has also filed a brief with the u.s. supreme court setting up their argument for why the state of

colorado can't or shouldn't remove him from the state's ballot. their argument is that the efforts the way they write is promise to unleash chaos and bedlam if other state courts and state officials follow colorado's lead. are they right? are they wrong? is this a concern, this question that the supreme court justices are considering? >> it depends on what he means by bedlam. if it's a nod about violence or unrest in the country, god, i hope not. more importantly, why the supreme court exists is to minimize conflict in the law. and it is an entirely fair point to say that if the supreme court does not weigh in, you could end up having a patchwork of laws about who is eligible for the ballot, who is eligible to run for president, who is an insurrectionist or not that could vary state by state. once again, to accept there's a kernel of truth, we have an interest in seeing the laws across the country are

consistent. >> thank you. john. this morning, new reaction from the families of those killed in uvalde, now that they have seen the scathing federal report on the police response. and the number of threats against lawmakers increasing. more than 8,000 threats in one single year. to duckduckgo on all your devie

duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browse like chrome, but it blocks cooi and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today.

get over here kids. join the millions of people ttime for today's lesson. wow. -whoa. what are those? these are humans. they rely on something called the internet to survive. huh, powers out. [ gasp ] are they gonna to die? worse, they are gonna get bored. [ gasp ] wait look! they figured out a way to keep the internet on. yeah! -nature finds a way. [ grunt ] stay connected when the power goes out, with storm ready wifi from xfinity. and see migration in theaters now. in a nearly 600-page scathing report, the doj laid out the cascading failures that led to the botched response to the uvalde school massacre. 19 children were killed alongside 2 teachers. the report named then school

police chief pete arredondo and sheriff reuben nolasco, it blamed them for not taking courageous action to stop the shooter for over an hour. while arredondo was called de facto on scene commander, the sheriff failed to establish a command post and withheld vital information about the gunman. the sheriff reacted to this report saying criticism against him is all false and arredondo was the person in charge that day. listen. >> i got there 16 minutes later. i entrusted in the man with the gold badge -- >> which is who? >> would be the chief of police that was there. >> which one? >> so and really that's really, i mean, you entrust in somebody. and that's the information that you're receiving. it's a very -- >> joining us now, jesse rizzo,

he lost his 9-year-old daughter. she was killed in the robb elementary school massacre. sir, thank you so much for joining us. your daughter jackie went through hell and now your family is going through hell as well. and it's such a beautiful picture of her. jesse, i just want to ask you, as you're going through this nightmare, what did you see in this doj report? was there anything, any detail that you really didn't know that fired your anger up again about how police handled this? >> hearing the details, hearing somebody like his level explain that every second counts, that it doesn't matter what you have in your position, you have to go in no matter what, details like that. the other detail i found that really angered me is hearing the -- you know, the parents are being misled and told there's another bus coming that has children in there, and giving

them a false pretense that their child is still alive and could be exiting the bus. i cannot imagine the pain someone's parent, a mom or father, hoping that there's a bus that will arrive, that is going to arrive, but the bus never arrived. when you hear those details, it just breaks your heart. and you look over to your left, to your right, you see the parents, and you just want to hug them. you want to hold them and tell them it's going to be okay. but also what it does when you hear these details, things you have never heard before, it will push you to the next level to where you demand justice. >> i do want to ask you, and i'm sorry i said your daughter and i meant to say your niece. you had to bury your niece, and this report said that there's no other way around it, police failed you and the other 21 families inside the school as they waited for help for 77 minutes. what kind of accountability are

you looking for as the uncle of someone, of a child who was killed? >> i take, if they would have entered within seconds or minutes afterwards, that maybe my niece or a lot of other children would have been saved, a teacher would have been saved. so the accountability, the justice of it is basically to put pressure on the d.a. to let the d.a. know we're not going to go anywhere. we're going to stay here until charges are filed, they get indicted and we hold them accountable for that, because their failure led to somebody else's death. so it encourages us to continue fighting for the truth, to continue fighting for transparency and continue fighting for justice. >> can you tell us just lastly as we look at these pictures of parents comforting each other. i know you all have come together in this really loving, supportive way. but also, in a way to push

forward the justice that you really are demanding. and that i'm hearing you say is that you want to see charges from the d.a.'s office. but i do want to ask you lastly about your niece. can you tell me a little bit about her? no one should ever forget who these children and teachers were. their lives taken for absolutely no reason at all. >> yes, ma'am. every child, every teacher was a special person, and everybody brought love. everybody brought something to the table. as far as my niece is concerned, you know, the smile. the hugs, the greeting, the way she took pictures. the love for her animals. the love for really anything and anybody. just she was so warm, and to think that her life was cut short like that. you know, in the short period of time she was here with us, she gave us so much, and to think how much more she could have

given us, it tears us up. it is hurtful and painful. >> and it's even hard, i'm sure, to look at the pictures, but she's there smiling, and i know she did have a wonderful life while she was with us. so i thank you. i thank her parents as well for doing that for her, and i'm so sorry for your loss and having to go through this. over and over and over again, as you demand some accountability here. thank you so much for joining us today. >> you're welcome. >> kate. >> great point. over and over and over again. the pain and trauma that they have to endure again and again. coming up still for us, a new statement from the israeli prime minister and how it's putting him in direct odds once again really with president biden, and an historic donation to a historically black college, what $100 million is going to mean. we'll be back.

new, pretty harsh pushback in israel this morning after secretary of state anthony bli blinken's call for a separate palestinian state. he insured this was key for regional support for security. benjamin netanyahu flat out rejected that idea. >> the state of israel must control the security of all the land which is west of the yjordn river. that is a truth i'm saying to our friends the americans and i have blocked an attempt to force upon us a reality which will hurt the security of israel. the prime minister in israel must be able to say no, even to

the closest of our friends. >> natasha bertrand live at the pentagon. israel must be able to say no. saying neto the united states after all of the support the united states has given. >> reporter: yeah, john. it's a really stark departure, of course, from the stated position of president biden, which has been for a long time now that the creation of a palestinian state is really the only solution to the conflict that we have been seeing. and speaking of security matters, blinken, the secretary of state, he emphasized at davos the other day that the only path for regional security for israel's security is to have this two-state solution. now, u.s. officials are saying that netanyahu's comments there are not the final word on the issue. and a senior administration official told my colleagues just yesterday that if we took such statements as the final word, then there would be no humanitarian assistant going into gaza and no hostages

released, essentially saying they have been able to change netanyahu's position on things he was previously a hard liner on in the last few months, over the course of this war. they have managed to change israel's behavior and posture successfully. but this is clearly a pretty stark departure from the stated u.s. position, and it comes as president biden and prime minister netanyahu have not actually spoken, if white house read-outs are any indication, really since last month. they had previously been speaking much more regularly. a rift is opening here, and the administration is emphatic about the need for this two-state solution because they say this is the only path towards israel's normalization with its arab and muslim partners. saudi arabia, which the u.s. has been pushing to agree to a normalization of diplomatic relations with israel for, they say very emphatically as well that they need to see progress being made towards the creation of a palestinian state, really before these normal zaz talks

can continue in earnest. now, state department spokesperson matthew miller spoke to this yesterday and he said, quote, i will say there is a historic opportunity that israel has to deal with challenges that it has faced since its founding and we hope the country will take that opportunity. so the u.s. making clear here, they do not think this is the final word, but clearly, the relationship has gotten a lot more difficult. john. >> whatever you think of netten ya yahoo, a shrewd politician who chooses his words carefully. thank you very much. kate. coming up for us, it was a crime that captivated the nation. now a group of attorneys is taking on the scott peterson case. calling for another look at the evident decades after he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife laci. we'll be back.

not just any whiteboard... ...katie porter's whiteboard is one way she's: [news anchor] ...often seen grilling top executives of banks, big pharma, even top administration officials. katie porter. never taken corporate pac money - never will. leading the fight to ban congressional stock trading. and the only democrat who opposed wasteful “earmarks” that fund politicians' pet projects. katie porter. focused on your challenges - from lowering housing costs to fighting climate change. shake up the senate - with democrat katie porter. i'm katie porter and i approve this message.

this election is a choice between results or just rhetoric. californians deserve a senator who is going to deliver for them every day and not just talk a good game. adam schiff. he held a dangerous president accountable. he also helped lower drug costs, bring good jobs back home, and build affordable housing. now he's running for the senate. our economy, our democracy, our planet. this is why we fight. i'm adam schiff, and i approve this message. new this morning, defense secretary lloyd austin has been called to testify before congress about his recent hospital stay, specifically his apparent failure to immediate mri notify president biden or lawmakers about it.

mike rogers september austin a letter requesting him to testify before the panel on february 14th. the defense secretary was hospitalized on new year's day and was release twod weeks later. but the white house lawmakers and the public did not find out about that until several days. and it took even longer for austin to disclose that he is being treated for prostate cancer. sparks seen flying from a cargo plane in miami. the engine malfunctioned about three minutes into the atlas air flight last night. you can hear a bystander watching this. >> it's on fire! mom! >> we're told all the crew -- the crew followed all standard safety procedures and landed at miami international airport. atlas will conduct an inspection to figure out what caused all this. >> that's a wild video. thank god. we're also watching this, a murder conviction decades ago and a case that captivated the

country. the los angeles innocence project is taking on the conviction of scott peterson. remember that notorious case. he was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, laci, and their unborn son. the sentence was overturned in 2020. now the l.a. innocence project says key evidence was missing from trial. gjean casarez is with me. she's bringing us up to speed. >> when you're a capital defendant, everything is paid for. once the death penalty is overturned, he's indigent. innocence project, government dollars from the department of justice will pay for this. he is claiming actual innocence. here are some basic facts. it was december of 2002. laci peterson, eight months pregnant with their unborn child. that's terminology from the california court, conner. she, on december 24th, scott peterson said he left the house

about 11:30. he decided to go fishing, took the fushing boat, went out, came back to the house, she's gone. she was reported missing. several months later, that's when her body washed up on shore along with that unborn son, conner. obviously animals are out in the sea, but they washed up separately, close together, but two miles away from where scott had gone fishing. now, amber fry, star witness for the prosecution. she started dating him in november of 2002. she asked him, are you married. he said, no, i'm not married. my wife died. one month later is when laci went missing. she immediately went to the police when she heard this. the tapes were part of the criminal trial. now they're saying there is dna testing never done on this case.

this could show his actual innocence. they are asking for a 15.5 inch length of duct tape that was recovered from laci peterson's pants when her remains washed up on shore. a 50-inch twine or tape tied in a bow around the neck of conner, which is curious because she was eight months pregnant when she went missing. a target bag from the area where her remains are found duct taped from the target bag. a black tarp that was discovered along the shoreline, and items from a van that was burned in close proximity and time to when she went missing. they're saying some of these items were never tested. some did not have sophisticated dna testing. this is new evidence, couldn't come back to the trial in 2004. we want to test it now to show his innocence. >> wow. we'll see what happens. scott peterson, everyone remembers at least that case or that conviction. now this. >> i was at the courthouse.

there were hundreds -- hundreds -- of people that went to california just to stand outside of the courthouse because they cared so much. >> i remember this too. great to see you, jean. thank you so much. sarah? still ahead, our even perez getting an exclusive sitdown with attorney general merrick garland. why he's agreeing with calls for a, quote, speedy trump election subversion trial. we'll have that and more from their conversationon ahead.

in order for small businesses to thrive, they need to be smart, efficient, savvy. making the most of every opportunity. that's why comcast business is introducing the small business bonus. for a limited time you can get up to $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yup, $1000. so switch to business internet from the company with the largest fastest reliable network. give your business a head start in 2024 with this great offer. plus, ask how to get up to $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. switch today. here's why you should switch fo to duckduckgo on all your devie duckduckgo comes with a built-n engine like google, but it's pi