states. but there is a potential for more relief right. from a higher european court. is that right >> yes, it could potentially go to the european court of justice, but the judges today could also say they want to look into this a bit. more and have more hearings so if he's saying he has evidence that there was a cia assassination plot against him. and they say that they do, then they may want to hear that and see that they could just dismiss it all. in which case that 28 days does apply okay. >> max foster, keep us posted as this continues. thanks very much. and cnn this morning continues right now >> the former fbi informant charged with lying about the biden's business dealings in ukraine, says he got his dirt from russian intelligence officials republicans have touted those claims as part of their effort to impeach president biden. if they continue with this investigation, they are simply doing the work of life from your putin >> but times june. so as trump,

he's gotten more unstable and on nikki haley ramping up for it for tax on the former president that she wants served under xi's down by 30, 35 points. you're not supposed to lose your home state and she's losing it big. >> i'm not going anywhere tragic ending in the search for missing 11 year-old girl in texas. >> we believe the appropriate arrest warrant is going to be for capital murder in the death of adre cunningham >> he cried over this several nights he is my home. i feel that pain differently good wednesday morning. >> everyone has stopped the hour. i'm phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york, bx fbi and foreman charged with lying about the bidens is now telling investigators that russian spies fed him the false information. alexander sprint off. his face when see him there under a scarf, a hoodie and mask, and sunglasses as he left the courthouse in las vegas yesterday prosecutors say

smirnoff claims to have net with russian intelligence officials as recently as three months ago so the justice department is warning that smirnoff is still, quote, actively pedaling new lies that could impact the presidential election coming up in november. also, prosecutors say the effects from i'm smirnoff fabricated stories about the bidens quote continued to be felt today. this is a major twist and it's raising questions about part of the doj's probe against hunter biden and also the effort by house republicans to impeach president biden, but sort things office, cnn's kaitlan, poland's katelyn, walk us through what's actually in this filing, what the justice department is saying about it? let's concerns not just with what has happened, what could happen heading into the election. >> well, phil and poppy, this information about alexander's smirnoff comes to us because the justice department is afraid of what he will be doing if and now that he is going to be released. so what happened here was this man, alexander smirnoff, un american citizen, was charged with a crime of lying to the fbi. he had been

talking to them as an informant for ten years, talking to his handler nearly every day, passing them information, and then some of that information, the justice department says was false. the information where he was trying to connect joe biden and hunter biden at a time when joe biden was the vice president to burisma, that ukrainian energy company, something that has smeared the bidens politically for a couple of years now, that was false. that's what he was arrested on. and then just after he was arrested, alexander smirnoff, tell the fbi just a week ago, that information from from russian officials about hunter biden was being passed to them. so now this calls into question a lot of what has been out there about hunter biden, a lot of these political smears trying to connect him to russian intelligence. one of the things the justice department wrote to the federal court before smear knobs hearing yesterday in las vegas. was smirnoff so efforts to

spread misinformation about a candidate of one of the two major parties in the united states. that's joe biden continues what this shows is that the misinformation he is spreading is not confined to 2020. he is actively pedaling new lives that could impact you us elections after meeting with russian intelligence officials in november. so a lot of questions remain. what is true from this person who was funneling information to the fbi? was he lying about all of this? was he going to continue meeting with russian intelligence? >> the >> judge released him yesterday at this court hearing, allowing him to be released on his own personal recognizance. so you didn't have to post a bunch of money or anything like that. >> the judge said >> political ramifications were not enough to keep him in jail no matter what the justice department fears. >> all right. katelyn polantz. thank you. >> joining us now, >> cnn senior legal analyst elie honig. elie, there's a lot to get to hear, but as a former prosecutor, i know this national security world, but as a former prosecutor, can you

answer the glaring question for me is how can you be running a confidential informant for a decade? and then this indictment just paints a picture of an absolute fabulust where's the disconnect there is that normal? how does that actually work well, phil, the short answer is the fbi got burned here. the fbi handles thousands of what we call confidential informants at any given time. and what a confidential informant is as a person and who's providing information to the fbi, to the justice department, but without the expectation of that person ever taking the stand and testifying, it's essentially a secret source of information. and one of the challenges with any confidential informant is the fbi and doj have to verify that person, have to confirm the things that they're being told and here they clearly we failed to do that. it is a real embarrassment for the fbi. it's a blackeye to have someone who has been providing information, apparently very what the fbi took as important information for a decade. and now to learn that he liked to them, they got played, they failed here. that happens, i'm

not excusing it, but it's a failure by the fbi for people waking up to this news who may think, oh, this changes everything in terms of the doj probe. against hunter biden. that's about firearm possession and tax issues. does this impact at all? >> right so this should have no impact on the actual pending indictments plural, against hunter biden. and it's important to note, by the way, the person who's running all of these investigations is the special counsel, david weiss, a person who was put in office as us attorney by donald trump in 2018, then confirmed to the senate in 2019. now the special counsel russell has brought two indictments against hunter biden, one of them, the federal case in delaware relating to firearms possession. the other federal case in california relating to tax fraud, neither of those cases appears to be implicated by anything. this particular informed mr. smirnoff said or any of his information. so i think those two cases will continue on we have seen reporting the hunter

biden's attorneys are going to argue that well, to the extent the fbi relied on this person statement at all they should have to go back to the deal. the plea deal that they had in place because the reason that the fbi backed out on that plea deal, according to hunter biden's lawyers, is because they were relying on faulty information from mr. smirnoff. i think that's an interesting argument think it's perhaps overly aggressive. so i think those two indictments are going to stay in place and proceed. >> elie, if you're reading this indictment, you'll say, wow, a lot of that looks familiar to what we've heard from house republicans over the course of the last several months related to their impeachment inquiry in the reason why is because it is i think my question is, does this undercut that? what happens next if you're jim jordan or if you're james comer >> oh, yeah. this is an embarrassment for jim jordan and for james comer anyway, you cook it. look, the impeachment inquiry, which was officially authorized by the house in december, i believe, was already built on a shaky foundation, but this guy was a big part of that foundation. and now it is crumbled altogether. i mean, the primary

information that he provided to the fbi on which the house relied is essentially that there was this multi-million-do llar bribed payoff made to hunter biden and to joe biden. and now the fbi has figured out that that was false, so false. so obviously false that they've now charged smear enough with making false statements for say so, i think the house impeachment inquiry, he had a flimsy basis to begin with, and now they've gotten nothing changing gears here on a major way. i think it's really interesting what the new york attorney general, letitia james told abc news, she is going to do if trump cannot afford to pay the 300 million plus in penalties from his civil fraud trial. here's what she said >> if he does not have funds to pay off the judgment and then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court. and we will ask the judge to cease his assets. >> those assets include big buildings here in new york city, including shocked a bit

about 40 wall street. is that what would play out here normally for someone and do you see this happening? >> yes. so this is the way it will go. poppy. first of all, donald trump within the next 25 days or so is going to post a bond, meaning some cash element plus the deeds, the rights to some of his properties, including potentially some of those buildings, then donald trump will have the right to appeal. of course and whatever comes out of that appeal, whatever's left of this verdict, maybe all 350 plus million dollars, maybe some smaller number, maybe none of it, but whatever comes out of it donald trump then has to pay. this is not negotiable. this will be a judgment owed not to individuals, but to this state of new york. and if he cannot put up cash to satisfy that judgment the next move that a prosecutor makes is you season liquidate assets until you get up to that number and correct me if i'm wrong with the way understand it is he can't wait for an appeal to play out before paying anything he would at least have to put that money and ask grow or those assets we can take it now or all of it waits till after

an appeal >> so nothing technically gets taken from him now it is essentially an escrow situation, but he doesn't necessarily have to put $350 million cash in escrow. the judge will decide how much cash is necessary and usually it will be some fraction of the amount and then the rest, perhaps the judge will say, well, also, we need the de to a certain property and you just sort of hold that as well. >> okay. elie, thank you very much. >> no >> condemnation of the kremlin or vladmir putin, but donald trump is finally talking publicly about the death of alexei navalny. he called it sad and also praise the russian dissidents, courage calling and brave. he's it's also suggesting though that he and navalny, that's right. trump and navalny somehow have a lot in common. listen >> navalny use a very sad situation and he's very brave. he was very brave guy because he went back he could to stay away. and frankly probably would have been a lot better off staying away. it's happening in our country too. we are turning into a communist

country in many ways. and if you look at it, i'm the leading candidate. i guess. i never heard of being indicted before i was i got indicted four times. i have eight or nine trials. all because of the fact that, you know this all because of the fact that i'm in politics alrighty presser biden is waking up with the west coast this morning where he's there for a fundraising swing and what he's doing. so because the money is pouring in right now for his campaign new filing show it campaign intern february nearly $56 million on hand. that's nearly double the amount trump's campaign had available a bidens also directing his campaign aides to r& up the attacks on trump's inflammatory comments. cnn's arlette saenz joins us now from the white house. arlette, as is the case, every single day when i want to know what biden is actually thinking, i read what he says in closed-door fundraisers, very late at night and west coast in the pool notes he as he always does let it rip a little bit last night. what did he say? >> yeah, phil president biden

once again, went on the attack against former president donald trump and republicans calling the gop a party of chaos. the president spoke to donors at a closed-door fundraiser out in los angeles. and he really went after and took aim at trump over the fact that he is not condemned vladimir putin for the death of alexey navalny, the president, calling that outrageous, and it really echoed comments the president made in a video, the white house released last night. take a listen the former president has said, so dangerous, it does nothing but encourage bad behavior. why does trump always blame america? putin is responsible for navalny's death? why can't trump just say that putin is responsible >> and it comes as the president has really shown this willingness to take on donald trump's since the start of the year and behind the scenes, he's been more direct with his team telling them that they need to turn up the heat as well. sources told cnn that the president, a personally told hold his senior aides that they

really needed to start highlighting the crazy stuff that they believe trump says the sources, a a more colorful language than the word stuff to described trump's inflammatory remarks. and it really comes as the campaign has sought to put these contrast between biden and trump front and center, whether it's on temperament or policy see issues. and one thing that campaign firmly believes that they need to remind voters of what another four years of trump in the white house would look like. and that, that will work to their advantage in november. >> okay. arlette time for the white house. thanks very much. >> vladimir putin calling ukraine's withdrawal from a key city, a quote, unconditional success christiane amanpour joins us live from kyiv to discuss next, also coming up award-winning journalist savannah guthrie opens up in a new book about her faith journey knowing god and believing in god is how i hold hands with my father. total is how i hold hands with them because i believe god has one hand in the heavens where i believe my father is on one hand holding mine

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points cnn. >> can you hold out? you say you will not fall, but but a big town has fallen, or medium-sized town. and they are putting pressure on the second biggest city in ukraine right now we wouldn't lose a leaf cry if we had received all the artillery ammunition that we needed to defend it. that is my answer to your question >> simple as that i don't think it requires any additional comments. >> a very stark message there that was our christiane amanpour speaking with ukraine's foreign minister on tuesday. meantime, vladimir putin calling ukraine's withdrawal from the eastern city of a dv coke quote, and unconditional success this has putin is awarding the soldiers who capture that town and it is clearly not the end of the russian offensive with who nabbing that his troops must be prepared to push further. the white house, blaming the loss of a def con, republican inaction in congress when it comes to additional us aid for ukraine that same congress that is on a two-week break, the

white house is targeting russia in another way, listen i told you we be announcing sanctions on russia will have a major package announced on friday joining us now from kyiv, our chief international anchor, christiane amanpour. christiane, thank you for being with us the question about sanctions though, is it hasn't deterred putin, not with navalny and not in ukraine can the white house do more that would actually deter him >> it's a very difficult question, poppy, because the world thought that they would isolate putin with the unprecedented level of sanctions that started rolling out after the beginning of this invasion, two years ago. but what they've seen instead is that off to some stumbling putin pivoted his economy to the home grown defense production, and that industry. and it is proven much more resilient and much more fruitful than the west had realized. and not only that is

proving hugely impactful on the front line because they are churning out ammunition, they're churning out armored vehicles and tanks another missile systems. they have aid from iran, north korea in terms of actual drones and missiles. so there are getting a huge amount of extra weaponry to fight this war while the pipeline to ukraine is blocked from the united states. so this is causing a big imbalance on the battlefield right now. >> now, to that point i want to play something from a little bit more from your interview with foreign minister dmytro kuleba, where he talks about the juxtaposition between what we've seen on the battlefield and the debate that's ongoing and washington, listen they are making miracles and they must be credited for that. but the reason they have to sacrifice themselves and die is because someone is still debating a decision christiane has reference there to ukrainian soldiers. >> can you talk about morale right now? is there a sense of what soldiers on the front line

are thinking and feeling as washington continues to debate do you know that is because i've actually reached some of them via skype and facetime and we're going to be putting that report out. they are desperate as our people in the city, which is quite far from the frontline, but they remember what nearly happened to them two years ago, and they are really in the state of despair because they see that these promises that were made remember, we will support ukraine for as long as it takes. we will give, we will do, we will help because this is the biggest battle for democracy, freedom the rules of the international road that exists right now in terms of what the us and its allies want to achieve, they always said we must be sure that ukraine way ends and putin doesn't doesn't win, et cetera, et cetera. and right now, it's hanging on really, it's on a knife-edge. so they are literally scrolling their phones. i've been told on the battlefield to see when this news will come through of a

potential unblocking of the congressional budget for ukrainian and military hardware. and i think it's really important to say that dmytro kuleba is a very diplomatic man, but you could sense the frustration, the controlled disappointment, the anxiety, and you can sense that all over this country in the few days that we've been here going from west to here, we're going to go further east and south and people are very, very concerned and they say, look, we've proved that we've been able to use all the military aid you've greatly centers over the last two years. we've done it well, we've held off the russians, but now you can see as it's drying up, the russians are taking towns, avdiivka over the weekend potentially they're moving up towards that is the second biggest city in this country. and they know that they want to pressure as much as they can. now, this is the russians before. eventually, hopefully for the ukrainians anyway, they get more weapons one of the things that is just so stark,

just in comparison to the us inaction in terms of more funding for ukraine is what sweden just did. i mean, giving their biggest foreign aid package ever to ukraine, 600 million the significance of that, and if you expect other european countries to follow you know, poppy, this is a really interesting question because the rhetoric from the maga wing of the republican party is that united states is shouldering the entire burden for ukraine and europe, essentially it is a deadbeat. this could not be further from the truth because the europeans have also been providing a huge amount of money and military assistance. sweden is hoping to get into nato. it's still being blocked, but they hope to get into nato and it has put its money where its mouth is throughout. and this is its biggest, recent and single we'll donation canada up. its donation just yesterday or the other countries, the baltics, poland, all the others are

doing their best and doing a considerable amount. and eu itself as a whole, sent 50 billion worth a few weeks ago when it was clear the us package wouldn't pass so they are paying the way they are contributing as much as the united states, although the us obviously is the biggest in terms of actual military hardware they are paying comparatively what the us is doing towards nato. so all these tropes about the us, not rather eu, not doing its bit a designed essentially to confuse the story for americans who still think nato is good. the polls show american support nato. >> their christiane amanpour much more to come, i think in the days ahead, live for us in kyiv. thanks so much. well, coming up, a united airlines plane makes an emergency landing and denver the details on that ahead also the body of an 11 year-old girl in texas is found, then police have identified a suspect with a

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on the cunningham property, was already in custody on an unrelated assault charts. cnn's rosa flores joins us live from livingston, texas. rosa, what more are we learning about the suspect now? >> you know, feel the details of this case are so disturbing for every parent watching this morning because macdougal wind from being a family friend who was trusted to take adri to the bus stop to a person of interest in her disappearance, who was also out in the community searching, trying to find thanked her. and now to a suspect in her murder authority say that they have enough evidence to link this man to her killing, and that they expect to charge him with capital murder. >> take a listen. >> at this time, we believe the appropriate arrest warrant is going to be for capital murder in the death of adre cunningham he is currently still in jail under an unrelated felony charge here, we will continue to process the evidence that

has been gathered to assure that the justice for adre now, all this as we learn more about a long criminal history for don >> mcdougal that includes aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and also enticing a child which raises the question, why was he not a registered sex offender? now, the sheriff was asked that question. he said he didn't know the details of the case, but he said that the charge was not enough to require him to register as a sex offender. now, we've exhausted efforts to seek comment from mcdougal's family and attorney, and we have not been successful and it phil and poppy, i know you guys are parents and there's so many parents watching this morning. i spoke briefly with audrey's mom last night and she says that she is still trying to process all of this. she says that reality really hasn't hit her yet what that reality is of living without her daughter.

and as you might imagine, that she needs a little time. >> i mean, of course she does. our hearts are with them. rosa, thank you. live and living in texas for us so alabama supreme court has ruled that frozen embryos are children under their state's law. why fertility care groups are calling that ruling terrifying. that's ahead. >> if you struggle with cdpap, you should check out inspire inspire, sleep apnea, innovation, learn more and view important safety information at inspires leap.com, if advanced lung cancer has you searching for possibilities, discover a different first treatment, immunotherapies work with your

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devastating consequences, including for the standard of care in the states, five fertility clinics isabel rosales joins us now with more. this ruling is obviously drawing strong reaction from people on both sides of the debate. can you explain the ruling to us and then also the practical implications >> poppy, phil, good morning to you. this first of its kind, ruling puts back into the national focus this question of when life begins. now, critics say that this ruling could have consequences on a national scale as other states begin to attempt to define embryos as people. now already we're seeing one religious group using this alabama ruling as precedent in a florida abortion rights case. so let's take a step back here. this ruling, it stems from two wrongful death lawsuits filed by the parents of coat and brink briana, children, core documents indicate that their embryos were in a cryogenic anniversary awaiting implantation when a patient gained access to that

nursery and then drop those embryos on the floor, destroying them. so this created a question of whether frozen embryos count as humans or children. and obviously we've seen here that the alabama must supreme court has sided with the parents here reproductive rights advocates, they say that this could have huge implications in ivf going forward and making it less accessible and more costly to patients where we could see liability costs skyrocketing and also forcing parents to perhaps consider paying storage fees life as long storage fees for those frozen embryos. then there's the question of who gets to decide what happens with unwanted or unneeded embryos. listen the goal of ivf is to create as many embryos as possible so that you have the greatest number of attempts at pregnancy. those embryos are the rights of the people who created them. they may decide to donate them to someone else. they may decide to donate them to medical science. they may keep them frozen, but they are their choice to do. now we simply don't so who has the

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3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1 8, 8, 5, 2, 3, 4, 9, 8, 7 >> vegas. the story of sin city sunday at ten on cnn >> she has the brightest smile on television welcoming you into each morning. she is a fixture in homes across america. >> good morning. good morning. this is today >> morning. everybody. welcome to you today. >> she's a masterful interviewer >> you have said repeatedly, the only way we lose this election is if it is rigged now, that is simply not true. i feel i should check your hands for calluses. you actually learn to play the guitar and they're gone. >> i've been an opera singer for five months. >> i wonder what it feels like to have eight wimbledon titles. is it like your children, you

love them all equally, or is this one extra special? you've been asked for 1 billion times. i think if you buy me, would you ever run for elected office and you say and a woman not scared of taking big leaps comfortable is not where the action is. comfortable is not what you're going to find out, who you really are >> she is now the author of a new book about her very personal relationship with god and a roadmap for all of us finding our way. it's called mostly what god does reflections on seeking and finding his love everywhere. i'm so happy to be joined by award-winning journalist savannah guthrie co-host of the today show on nbc in new york times bestselling author, but she would be the first to tell you her most important job is as mom of two amazing, wonderful children. it's great to have you friend poppy. thank you so much. and poppies. but that an intro to and brooklyn mom's house that this book touched me. it's going to touch america and people all over the

world. mostly what god does is love you, love, you, love us, and you write, i like to tell people about the god i know, yeah. who's the god, you know, you know, i grew up in faith since i was a little girl. we had a really churchly family and i think people will recognize that version of face and it's one that i hold really dear and don't walk away from or shy away from at all but i think it took me a lot of time, a lot of mistakes, a lot of ups, lot of downs to find out that fundamental truth, that all this time that i was wondering what god thought of me, what he thought of my choices, whether i was a good person or a bat god person, you know, whether i deserved forgiveness or love or not. i read a verse written by this is not my line, mostly what god does is love you. there's a pastor named eugene peterson who retranslated a bible verse and it said, mostly what god does is love you. that meant so much to me. have i made the right choices? mostly what god does is love you. that's a fundamental reframing of faith

and it's not a throwaway line. it's not easy. it's simple, but it isn't easy. but if you could believe it, if you can really absorb it, it would be transforming chapter for this is the chapter that meant the most to me because you talk about how god loves us like a mother loves, like we love our kids. >> yeah. can you talk about that love? gosh. i mean that i thought motherhood was such a revelation on every level physically, emotionally, but also spiritually because it helped me understand how god loves us when you have kids first of all, it's such an ecstasy, the love that you feel for real, the way you delight over there, tiniest little milestones you relish there every accomplishment god. the metaphor that god uses in scriptures, his father, father to children the parenting metaphor is totally apt. >> that's how >> god feels about us. if you could actually let that in, that god loves you tenderly, an intimately, like a mother or

father? loves her child, loves his child that changes everything. >> you've called this the most personal and vulnerable thing you've ever done. i've literally walked by your side as you were in the middle of this journey. and you open the book by saying, writing a book about anything, let alone faith is a bit forward as well. you write in the forward a bit bolder, audacious, a bit terrifying, a bit intimidating. and i wonder what this journey has been like for you. why did you put yourself out there in this way? >> you know, it's funny. i'm the last person who thought that i would do with this. it's the last thing i ever thought i would want to do. and it's actually to me an amazing example of how sometimes god can work in our lives if you told me five years ago, hey, savannah, you know, you're gonna be on the today show is not great. and here's the other thing as part of that you're going to write a book about your faith i would. just said, oh, you know what, that's fine. i'll just stand back. i'd rather just kind of blend into the background. i was never

shamed of my faith, all my friends and family certainly know you and i are friends is something you've always known about me. but i just never thought i'd want to write a book and put it all out there. it's super personal. it is. >> you can't write a book about faith and standard a blackboard with putting out principles. first of all, what credibility, what i have, i'm not a minister, i'm not a scholar, theologian. you have to write about your own circumstances in your own life and how what, what you learned about faith when your feet were walking on that burning hot sidewalk, not from some removed and antiseptic place. so the short answer is, was amazing. i feel like somehow god made it seem like this was my idea. >> and >> i also had to take my own advice. you played that part from the graduation speech, get out of your comfort zone. yeah. it'd been a long time since i did gotten out of my comfort zone. and this is way out of my comfort zone. one of the best parts of our job as we see the best of humanity, one of the hardest parts of our job as we see the worst of humanity. and we cover the worst tragedies in

the world i wonder how that has informed your belief in god, but also your questioning of the belief because one of the reasons i hope everyone reads this book, whether they are a person of faith or not, is because you get into the years when you didn't have a deep relationship with god, the years when you doubted so when we question our belief or when our kids asked us mom, why does god let bad things happen >> how do you answer that? >> well, the short answer is spoiler alert. there is no answer and that's not really all that satisfying but what i write a lot about in the book, and i don't avoid those questions because i didn't think i didn't think it will be right to be writing a book that says mostly what god does is love you, which i believe truly but not take on the suffering that we see every day. good people >> we see it every day in our >> jobs, undergoing the unimaginable. why would a good

god do that? i think what i learned and what i've come to believe is that what god says is bring your doubts, bring your questions. i don't think god requires a pious and perfect approach. i think he says, come here, wrestle with me. he yearns to engage in these matters. though we can't really understand what the answer is not in this life. anyway, what we will get if we draw near with arts sincere questions, or even are mixed motives. >> what we >> will find as god's presence to us. and i can explain why this is why it's a leap of faith. for some reason, i have found that to be quite comforting and i talked to people for the book who i talked to a woman who lost her daughter for new town at sandy hook massacre. she's a person of deep faith. i had to meet her. i cold called her. i wanted to understand how she could still believe when she survived. what i thought would be a warm sable that could not be overcome. and you leave us

with a sense of hope that we can always hope for better. your dad? >> yes. your dad, you open the book talking about something maybe not everyone knows about savannah guthrie has a tattoo. >> i know. >> i think i like mike. i'm doing my teen rebellion in my 50 there's my tattoo. my mom was like, did you really get a tattoo? >> you did on the air? i did almost all my love. it's my father's handwriting. he died when i was 16, suddenly something you and i have in common, and i decided to put it on my wrist not only to remind me of him but also i thought it was a good mantra, yes, for life, all my love, if we could just send our love out there. but it also reminds me of faith that reminds me of what i'm trying to say about this book. all my love. i think that's what god is saying to us. and this is what comes from a certain point of view. there's no question i grew up in this in a baptist church and i come from the christian upbringing that will be familiar to a lot of people, but i've had a lot of people look at this book now

from different faiths and no faith at all. and the thing that makes me happiest is that they've said there have been things that resonate with them. there are universal seems and i think we all wrestle with god in a way. we do those questions are in here too. this is not, i'm not writing from some mountaintop. this isn't boilerplate happy talk. this is the real stuff. this is like it's your journey, gritty struggles. yes, it's everyone's telling us to spoon with god the chapter i don't want to. >> thank god. i know your dad would be is your dad is >> so perhaps i hope so. >> this >> i talk about death in this book. i thought to myself, savannah, why can't you just write it like a nice, happy book, but let's take it on and my faith is a huge part of how i dealt with my father's death deaths, but i also feel like knowing god and believing in god is how i hold hands with my father. is how i hold hands

with him because i believe god has one hand in the heavens where i believe my father is on one hand holding mine and that is our bond and safe gives us hope. i say in the book, you know, i have asked myself what if this is all just a fiction? what if it's just some self-soothing are a crutch that i grew attached to what i've figured out a long time ago is i would rather spend my life hopeful and ultimately wrong, then hopeless and write i'd rather be helpful now, it's a better way to live. i don't know how it ends. you don't none of us do. but being hopeful, believing in god, believing in something bigger, believing in a god that loves you letting it soak in, absorbing it and then what you will find is that love cannot be contained it has to be shared out into the world >> and if you felt that love and shared it with everyone, well, that will change the

world. and the world that breaks our heart might get a little bit better person by person. and i believe that was always god's plan a and your purpose that you reveal at the end of the book. i know my purpose isn't to be on television. it isn't to be famous. it isn't even to tell important stories. it is to share thank you for sharing this your heart, your journey with all of us. >> i love you poppy. i love here in the book there's a little cameo congratulations, thanks for going out on this limb for everyone. thank you. thanks >> i'm so impressed by her, inspired by her so brave to talk about your faith in such a public way. she's a light i. encourage everyone to read this book that touched my heart. i think it'll touch all of yours as well. >> people often wonder how people are that they see on tv. she's one of the good ones. the real deal. >> there was two of the good ones talking back and forth to one another. >> thanks. very good. >> what kind of an extreme your

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cnn's vanessa yurkevich joins us now, vanessa, we have seen this industry by industry, by industry over the course of the year what's happening here? >> well, this morning, you have workers on strike from the second largest brewer, brewer in the country in sri, and potentially 5,000 more by next week. and essentially what they are saying and what we've heard time and time again is we want better wages, we want better benefits, and we want respect pointing to the fact that a lot of these companies have made record profits over the last year. so at molson coors, you have about 400 people on strike right now. one brewery in fort worth, texas. and they are saying that the offer they received from molson coors was about $101 raise per hour. and that is simply not going to cut it according to them. and they point to those profits 1.5 billion in earnings pre-tax is and 2023, that's an increase of 39% from the year earlier. then we look to anheuser-busch, the largest beer producer in north america right now, you

could see by next week, by next friday, 5,000 members walking off the job. if they do not receive a contract that they believe is fair, they say the contract that was given to them initially was insulting they are looking for a best and final offer and anheuser-busch says that they are working on that right now. >> sounds like they're pretty far apart, at least on this initial contract offer. what our core is saying, what anheuser-busch both companies say they have contingency plans in place. this is ahead of march madness. that is a big month for basketball that is the time when a lot of people are out at bars drinking both companies say that they obviously want to come to a deal in terms of molson coors, they said that what they have offered exceeded what the market dictates in the fort worth area. anheuser-busch a little more optimistic. they believe that they can come to a deal. but listen, we know how these things go. one minute, things are looking good. the next people are on strike. >> it's been a full a year

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