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>> speak, president biden, brother is in the hotseat on capitol hill in a closed-door meeting with house republicans who seem determined to try and impeach his brother joe biden. this all happening as new revelations they're coming out about a former fbi informant who republicans called highly credible more on his lies and his ties to russian officials >> and it's all about the money and biden's camp has a sizable advantage. how his war chest compares to his republican rivals and jury selection. now underway for the woman who was in charge of the guns on the set of the movie rust. i'm john berman with sara sidner fredricka whitfield is in for kate today this is cnn news central at this moment, house republicans are questioning president biden's brother, james behind closed doors as part of their each been row, not behind closed doors. the
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fact that the now indicted informant at the center of their probe says he got false information from russia the lead democrat on the house oversight committee moments ago, hit back at republicans still pushing impeachment >> now, we know that russian intelligence operatives were behind creating the propaganda and disinformation at the very foundation of this investigation. so i think it's time for chairman comer and the republicans to fold up the circus tent. and we should get back to work from american people. this impeachment investigation is nothing but a wild goose chase that is based on russian disinformation and propaganda. right? >> cnn anchor and chief congressional correspondent manu raju, in the middle of where it is all well happening this morning on capitol hill, manu, what are you here >> yeah. this is the first time we've had a chance to question the republicans who are leading the charge in the investigation in the aftermath of that revelation that the fbi informant, alexander smirnoff,
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allegedly made up the whole bribery scheme that has been really central there's impeachment investigation for several months has been part of this larger biden family, proehl that has gone on now for several years, republicans have essentially been defiant in the face of these new revelations, including the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jim jordan, who just a few weeks ago said that that fbi informants testimony was central the most corroborating piece of evidence that they had. and just moments ago, i had a chance to question him about the new allegations that this is all made up do you take back what you said about the presence involvement in a bribery scheme now that alexander smirnoff is proven, made it up, and it was based off russian intelligence, doesn't change the four fundamental facts. hunter biden was on the put on the board of burisma, gets paid $1 million a year. >> you said the 1023 is the most corroborating piece of information you outbreaks, but it doesn't, it doesn't change those fundamental facts. so now it's not true. well, so okay.
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so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi when we we were trying to get the 1023, they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security, this aid to this source didn't want to release it. and now they're saying how he he he gave false information. the other thing is a story out to they scott braised, the us attorney did check the travel records of this confidential human source and found that he was at those places. he said he was so put your promotion of a bribery scheme he was false. >> not at all. we're we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true absolutely true. but joe biden bragged about it >> what's mute? i've said is not true to concede that. well, yeah, that's what >> the fbi saying and this is a critical moment for this impeachment probe, because not only is the president's >> brother james biden now, behind closed doors, but hunter biden, the president's son who has been at the center of this investigation is also expected to come behind closed doors next week and then the question
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is gonna be for the republican leadership, what do they do from here? do they actually go forward with articles of impeachment despite the fact that the iv yet to prove that joe biden acted corruptly to benefit his son something that has essentially blown up in some ways because of that fbi informant allegation that he'd made up that bright hybrid scheme here. so big questions for the republican leadership because if they do go ahead, john, getting the votes to impeach the president in this razor thin republican majority in an election year will be incredibly difficult. but a key decision ahead for the speaker of the house >> speaking, finding an off-ramp may not be so easy amongst some some of the more conservative members of the house either manu raju, this will be fascinating to watch. thanks so much for being there. >> fred. all right, john with the south carolina primary just a few days away, nikki haley is marching on with her campaign and saying she won't quit i'm not going anywhere i'm
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campaigning every day until the last person votes. >> i don't think she knows how to get out. actually >> i really don't as donald trump and haley go head-to-head and south carolina, new reports show president biden and the dnc have a considerable >> cash edge over trump and the rnc by the end of last month, the biden campaign and dnc had a combined war chest of about $80 in cash on hand. that's roughly double what the trump campaign and the rnc had. cnn's alayna treene joining us now with more on this. so alayna break down the numbers for us. what is his main for trump and the rnc moving forward? >> well for the big takeaway here is that joe biden's political operation has really expanded their financial advantage over donald trump's campaign as the two men are preparing for a potential general election rematch. and i do want to break down the numbers for you because i do find them pretty striking a
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heading in to february, the biden campaign had 50 b6 million cash on hand compared to 30.5 million that the trump campaign had. haley campaign for her part, had 13 million heading in to five-year. now, the dnc had $24.1 million in their cache revert in their cash reserves going into february, compared to 8.7 million from the rnc. but look, i do you think there's important a few port and things to note right here at the top. one of which is that, of course, unlike joe biden, donald trump is still in a primary and he has a primary challenger who's continuing to raise a ton of money from donors, even though there are questions about nikki haley's viability as a candidate, joe biden as well, is the incumbent, so he does enjoy some financial benefits from that, but, you know, big picture here, the trump campaign really is having to confront a lot of very concerning issues about their own financial situation. and the leading problem here, concern from them is really how much money is being siphoned
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away from donors to pay for him? his mounting legal fees last year alone, his leading super pac save america, spent more than $55 on legal fees that accounts for about 85% of their spending so far. and so i think this is something i know from my conversations i should say with donald trump's campaign that they are really trying to figure out how are we going to continue to pay? hey for his legal fees and his different settlements that we're seeing come in the hundreds of millions of dollars that he is being told he must pay in light of some of these trials as he heads forward toward a general election fraud. >> and alayna trump also spoke about russia and opposition leader alexey navalny at his town hall last night, devolve me no. died in a russian prison last week. what to trump have to say about that? >> yeah. well, donald trump tried to argue that the plight of alexei navalny and the political persecution that he faced is similar to his own. take a listen to how trump put
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it at the townhall navalny is 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 led better off staying away and talking from outside of the country as opposed to having to go back. and because because people thought that could happen, it did happen. and it's a horrible thing. but it's happening in our country to we are turning into a communist country in many ways. and if you look at it, i'm the leading candidate. i got into. i never heard of being indicted before i was going 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 now fred i think the main thing to note here is that donald trump has not condemned russia or >> its president vladimir putin for the death of alexey navalny's something that has drawn a lot of criticism from both nikki haley, but also president joe biden, who addressed this last night and continued to push donald trump
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and ask why is he not being able to come out and blamed russia for what has happened? >> fred no comparison between the plight of an eovaldi and donald trump. all right. alayna treene. thank you so much, sara. thank you. fred. right. new this morning, president donald trump, the former president, floating an extreme proposal on how to deal with the migrant surge if he israel elected ended includes militarized mass deportations and migrant detention camps. that's according to the washington post, who broke the story. a former trump administration official says the former president is quote, obsessed with getting the military involved. his campaign says trump wants to pull off the biggest deportation operation ever un american history. i am joined now by washington post political investigations reporter josh dawsey. you are one of the reporters who broke this story what more are you learning about this plan of this militarized deportation? if donald trump ends up back in the white house president
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trump's campaign as saying less on the record that they wanted to pour millions of people. they would have the largest deportation force and history if he wins the presidency again. but what we were trying to report out of the challenges of doing such aggressive operation, right? it's going the goal to find, you would have to build potentially detainment camps for people that you would have to put them in. their watson challenges with finding judges, with finding the personnel to do all this. but it looks like according the our reporting that it's going to be one of his top priorities if he starts back in the administration, led by his immigration advisor, stephen miller i trump believes that at talking about immigration promising this sort of drastic approach is something that the american people want. i guess i remain to be seen. but what he's saying is it becomes not only we continue track the border wall with mexico, but that the deportations will be immensely bigger than in his first presidency former administration officials told us that when he was in the
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white house the first time he was not new, it's focused on deportations. it was more focused on the wall on other administrative actions that they could take have regretted immigration. but this time, he's a pretty clear that one of the first goals of his presidency will be to deport millions of people i want to ask you about something that's in your reporting. it talks about the late 50s and 60s, the last time this was done in a very large way was in the eisenhower white house, where he had a program known as operation. and the word they used his derogatory that people use for mexican migrants. did the president or the people around him use those very words or were they sort of likening their program to what eisenhower did? back in the day >> no, they didn't use those very wise to ask to be clear. it just it's a similar comparison of trying to round up out a lot of people in a short period of time. so i think there are some parallels
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to that program that could potentially happen here. but they did not use works to be clear, i in describing their approach to okay. >> i do want to ask you about what current and former officials are saying about a plan like this to use the military on the southern border for this particular purpose. >> yeah. and there's a lot of concern from folks who worked in the first trump administration that if he was back in office, that he would use the military for things like ms john kelly, his former chief of staff, would repeatedly tried to stop him from using the military for things that way in the domestic interests, a junk i did not think the military should be used for. there were lots of concerns. did he wanted to put the military into a large role of trying to secure the border or trying to do what he wants on immigration. this time, you can imagine that he would we would want to do that again, stephen miller sort of chief immigration advisor, he said we have to take drastic action. we don't want to wait for the courts to give us these rulings. so what his former
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administration officials fear is that the military would have a big role and in such a plan like this, josh dawsey, thank you to you and the other two reporters who were on this story breaking this information, appreciate it. >> now cnn senior political analyst, gloria borger, first of all, great to see you. gloria, thanks so much for coming on, saying them all there's something about this, which sort of harkens back to 2015, 2016 when trump would say muslim ban or the trump campaign would throw things out there and then it would get a ton of talk. it would dominate the discussion. and then sort of set the tone for the campaign. so how should statements like this be treated now, do you think? >> seriously, i think very seriously, i mean, the one thing about this campaign is that donald trump has not hidden any of the ideas about what he would do about how he would prosecute his enemies through the justice department, for example, how he wants mass
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deportations of, of people coming into this country illegally. i think the use of the military is something that would be very controversial. but he's saying it out loud. they're not shying away from it because they believe these are issues that the public cares about. we know particularly in the republican electorate immigration is issue number one in some polls that this would be popular. so i think we need to take this seriously and literally because i think they're making plans, they've got thing tanks working on these plans. this isn't something out of thin air here, and i think he's very committed to this. >> look. and again, back in 2016, people mock the idea of build the wall, which he never did. but she was popular with some people and not as abhorrence as i think some people on the left thought it sounded what it was presented >> exactly. exactly. and, you
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know, compared to the wall, this is huge and we know he didn't succeed in building the wall nor did he get any money from mexico as he promised, if you'll recall? but but i think this is something that he's got people working on. and stephen miller was a trusted advisor in the administration and remains one of the few left who's a trusted advisor and is behind all of this. and we know how dog and he is on immigration. >> this is pretty much all he's been thinking about. you get the sense that's the last four years. gloria, i want to ask we had money on just a few minutes ago and he was outside the james biden here and he's testifying in the impeachment inquiry into president biden in after all these revelations about this fbi informant who is now charged with perjury getting information from the russians. you still hear jim jordan being defiant about this. is there an off-ramp or what is the off-ramp for
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republicans who were pushing so hard to impeach president biden. is there one? >> well, it seems to me like what he was hinting at was placing the blame on the fbi saying, you know, they told us that this was a very credible and format and would be a very credible witness. they told us to trust him and we trusted him. and that is why we came down so hard on these charges. so it seems to me and he was doing quite a job of spinning there. but it was a miraculous effort. it's spinning. but it seems to me what they're going to go at is the politicized justice department and say, did they feed us someone who was giving them false and from giving us false information. and did they know it and you could hear a little bit of that in what jim jordan was saying to manu just kinda placing the
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blame on the fbi not on the committee for pursuing something that was not true when the launched the official impeachment inquiry, when they when they got the votes for it there were those who said, look, you don't launch an impeachment inquiry without ultimately getting an impeachment vote that the fact that of an inquiry means there will definitely be a vote on impeachment is that still hold though, given that they've turned up so little concrete evidence tying president biden himself to shady business dealings and the fact that you have some blue district republicans sort of wobbly on this. >> yeah. well, if they had a vote now, they probably wouldn't get it so they're not going to have a vote and i don't even know, given this new information whether they're going to go through with it. i mean, calmer has been a little wobbly lately. jordan was spinning and, you know, given this new information about somebody who is acting more like a russian and, you know
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operative than anything else. i think they're going to have to pull back and what they decide to do and how they decide to do it without having a goal over their face. i think is trying to put the blame elsewhere. >> a dizzy morning. thank you for sharing it with this gloria borger. appreciate right. >> i'm feeling wobbly too. john. >> all right. jury selection is now underway for the armorer charged in a cinematographer shooting on the rust movie set. what we're learning about who could be called to testify. and the pentagon is pleading with the house to pass more aid for ukraine as russia and makes more gains and global pressure mounts on the speaker to act vegas. >> the story of sin city. sunday at ten on cnn. >> the first time you made a sale online with godaddy was also the first time you heard of a town named dinosaur, colorado's got an order from
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cases. across the country. we will be watching to see what happens in these pretrial motions here, also happening right now jury selection is underway in new mexico and the trial of hannah gutierrez reed. she was the armorer. that's the person in charge of weapons on the set of the movie rust in 2021. she has pleaded not guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter slaughter and tampering with evidence in connection with the fatal shooting of the film's cinematographer, halyna hutchins, cnn's josh campbell is joining me now. you've been following this case from the very beginning. what are we learning now about this particular trial? >> hey, my friend will prosecutors say that this is the road to accountability and the death of halyna hutchins and prosecutors continue to repeat that someone died as a result of this incident. no one is disputing that it's an accident, but it led to a death, which is why we're seeing these charges, obviously against alec baldwin. but today's hearing focused on hannah gutierrez reed, who was what was called the armorer on the said, this is a person responsible for the safety of
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weapons, for the safe storage of ammunition and prosecutors alleged that she was negligent, charging her with involuntary manslaughter. she's also charged with that separate charge of tampering with evidence. what prosecutors say, they allege that on the day of the shooting, after being interviewed read by police, she had handed off a small bag of cocaine to someone. the reason why that's important is because prosecutors are really focusing on her sobriety surrounding this whole incident. they write in filings that she was likely hung over when the gun was loaded. witnesses indicate that during the filming of this set, she had been smoking marijuana out during the evenings and of course, if you if there's anyone on a movie set who needs to be a lucid and aware of what's happening is the person responsible for safety? now it's worth pointing out that all along her attorney has claimed that his client is innocent. they say that she is being scapegoated and beyond her. i want to take you back to last year when all these charges first came out. i spoke exclusively with the district attorney who first brought those charges asking why now, describe more this concept of
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negligence. listen here to what she said. investigators found that there was such a lack of safety and safety standards on that set that there were live rounds on set. they were mixed in with regular dummy rounds. nobody was checking those or at least they weren't checking them consistently. and then they somehow got loaded into a gun handed off to alec baldwin now again, gutierrez reed's attorney. he's dispute that she is to blame here. finally, it's important to note sara as we watch this trial. one thing that i will be listening for is this notion that hannah gutierrez reed was not just assign the role of armor, but she was given other duties such as handling props. i've talked to numerous safety experts here in hollywood who say that's just unheard of. if you have a gun on a movie set, you need to have someone whose sole job is to focus on that. so imagine we will hear her defense saying, look, she was saddled with all these other responsibilities that probably led to this incident. sara well, all right. josh campbell. thank you so much for your reporting there. fred. >> all right. sara joining me right now to discuss more about
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the cases, defense and trial attorney misty marris. i misty great to see you, so we're talking about hannah gutierrez, reed facing involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence. but how much of this case is also going to be predicated on iowa witness accounts about the history of read as an armorer everything from weeks leading up to the being on this set to days to the moment of the shooting? yeah. all of that is going to be relevant. first of all, on the witness list, there's 40 witnesses were all related to that set. one of them some is her stepfather, who's a well-known armorer in the business. so we're going to hear not only about her qualifications, but we're gonna hear a lot of grain away at your training. we're going to hear a lot about the way that set and the safety standards on the set in general from these witnesses. and that's gonna be critical to both sides of the case. the prosecution and the fence. >> so perhaps most critical is how in the world would live rounds end up on this set? an in what scenario would you need
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them? she has to justify all of that. right. and that's been the critical question. and now we're hearing prosecutors say they have evidence that not only was she the one that loaded the live round into the gun and and did it to alec baldwin. but there were six boxes of the live rounds on the set, and that she was the one who in fact brought them to the set. of course, she's denying that >> and they're also saying in >> addition to her being the one who actually brought them to the set, that she had ample opportunity to check these bullets and ensure that they were actually dummy rounds and not live bullets. and she failed to do so. that speaks to the gross negligence component. there's also this issue of potential drug use and heavy alcohol use. they're saying that she was impaired on the set. of course, she's denying all of that. and interestingly enough, no toxicology was done that day hi, not but it's it's interesting to see, but they obviously didn't believe it was an issue at the time. but then how are you if you're the prosecutor, how are you going to go about proving someone sobriety without that, this was
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a huge win for prosecutors and pretrial motions. they're bringing in text messages which allegedly show conversations regarding drug use including the night before the death, lord. and so that's how that's all going to come into the courtroom. okay. jury selection, how complicated might it be especially when you're talking about a very well-known actor also at the center of this with alec baldwin, he has been recharged with involuntary manslaughter as well. sure. that's a separate case. but in association, rust, alec baldwin that's synonymous. so how are they going to find a jury? it doesn't have it's prejudicial. oh, absolutely. because this case has been around remembered. this was 2021 so we're hearing about it for years and years and years. simply knowing about the case isn't going to be enough for a juror to be disqualified. it's whether or not they formed an opinion and they'll likely be questions in jury selection regarding jurors opinions on drugs, firearms, all of this including the movie industry in
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>> new video this morning out of russia, of vladimir putin rewarding his soldiers for taking control of abdivka a ukraine that is a critical town near the eastern front. ukrainian troops are forced to withdraw last week something president biden has blamed directly on congress's inability to pass more aid for ukraine. now, as the war enters, its third year, the president is running out of ways to help the nation fight off russia's invasion friday, the white house will announce a new round of significant as they have called it sanctions against russia. but that's about all that the president can do unless the house finally agrees to take up the funding belt joining us now, deputy pentagon press secretary sabrina singh thank you so much for coming on this morning. i do want to ask you about this. our christian amanpour is in ukraine right now, and she just spoke with ukraine's foreign minister and he was very clear why ukraine and could not stop russia from taking another
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city. here's what he said >> can you hold out? you say you will not full but but a big town has fallen or medium-sized town and they're putting pressure on the second biggest city in ukraine right now we wouldn't lose a leaf guy if we had received all the ammunition that when you did to defend it, that is my answer to your question >> simple as that i don't think it requires any additional comments. >> when you hear those words that they wouldn't have fallen if it wasn't for the fact they didn't have enough ammunition, do you think the united states is partly to blame for failing to help fund a bill that would help fund ukraine's defenses well, thanks, sara so much for having me on today. >> what was said was absolutely right. it's as simple as that. >> what >> happened in a defka is the exact result of congressional inaction. we've been raising the sound bells on this, the ringing the alarm since october to pass are urgent supplemental request to allow us to continue to flow aid to ukraine
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unfortunately, ukraine has not seen an aid package from the united states since december 27 there in the fight of their lives, they're still pushing in the eastern the south, but they had to make a strategic withdrawal from of defka in order to preserve their resources, to conserve their ammunition and artillery. so we are going to continue to urge congress to act to pass this supplemental that the senate took up just last week and passed with bipartisan support. but we really need the house to act in order for us to continue to flow these presidential drawdown packages to ukraine in their, in their fight against russia i'm curious if the house fails to pass a supplemental national security supplemental, what won't >> ukraine be getting from the united states? >> well, some of the things, some of the priorities that ukraine needs are air defenses, artillery, and ammunition. those are some of their top priorities. and that's exactly what they won't be getting if the house fails to pass a supplemental and just imagine what type of message that sends
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to our adversaries and our allies who are watching all around the world. if we don't send a message so that we stand with our allies, that we stand with a sovereign country that was invaded by another. it's in the detrimental message. and so we here at the pentagon, the secretary is continuing to urge congress to pass this critical aid and also, we're urging congress to pass our budget request. we are still operating under a short-term scene we are as you are well tracking, i know the house comes back into session on fury 28th and three days later, the government could shut down. so not only is that detrimental to our forces, but also detrimental to ukraine in its ability to not be able to receive packages, aid packages from this building i have a question about some of the pushback from mostly republicans are all republicans who have looked at this and those who have talked about the amount of >> money they are concerned about the amount of money that united states white be pouring into ukraine to help with its defenses. how do you, how do
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you respond to two people concerned about that when, when this country has its own issues and own problems, what i would say is that arming ukraine is the best option we have right now from allowing putin to expand his operations, to expand his sights beyond ukraine as the president has said, we will defend every single inch of nato and nato so countries, if putin wants to and decides to expand into nato, countries, we will be pulled into a wider regional war. that's not something we want, that's not something i'm sure congress wants. that's not something republicans want. and so arming ukraine with what it needs right now, those air defenses, the artillery, the ammunition it needs in its fight against russia is the best, most cost-effective way we prevent ourselves from getting into a wider war. and also can continue to arm ukraine with what it needs to defend its sovereign territory. >> sabrina singh, i appreciate your time. appreciate you coming on this morning. >> thanks, sara >> fred. >> all right, sara, another
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>> new this morning. and the united auto workers union and ford have reached a deal on a local agreement dodging a potential strike at the automakers largest and most profitable plant union leaders
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have not yet released details of the tentative deal meanwhile, in texas, hundreds of teamsters are on strike at the core is brewery there with thousands more expected to join at anheuser-busch seen as vanessa yurkevich is here with the details. >> well, he does. >> so you have the two largest brewers in north america right now, you either have workers on strike or threatening to go on strike. so it molten cores that one brewery in fort worth, texas, you have about 400 people that are on the picket lines right now. they say that the offer that they got from the company was about a an hour increase in wages. they call that deal insulting and they said it was in part because we know that in 2023, the company reported 1.5 billion billion dollars in earnings pretax, but that was the 39% increase from 2022 and they say yes, just because of huge are going all that beer. but they said that that's not an acceptable offer based on those kinds of profits. and then you have anheuser-busch. this is the largest brewer in north america
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right? now, you have about 5,000 you didn't teamsters threatening to go on strike a week from friday. and this is also over wages and benefits. they've seen in the third quarter of last year, or 5% increase in profits and the union also calling the offer that was put on the table insulting the teamsters going back to anheuser-busch and saying we need your best and final according to the two companies, they clearly want to work this out, but they are putting contingency plans in place to make sure that there is supply, to make sure that there are people working. as we know, we're heading into march madness. this is a huge time for sports, a huge time for beer drinking. and the last thing these it's two companies want is a strike at any of these locations are expanded strikes. anheuser-busch feeling a little more confident that they can come to a deal by a week from friday. but this is really a continuation of what we saw last year, right? with the auto strikes, with hollywood.
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>> and in 2023, three, we just got new numbers. there were 33 work stoppages totaling almost 500,000 workers heading to the picket lines. that's the most we've seen since 2009 >> all the dump your jokes aside. yes, there is something that's been going on with the labor movement the last two years where they have had success they've, in some cases waited a long time to push these demands and they are getting much of what they asked for at the end. they do they do. minister kabore's. thank you very much >> all right, john, something tantalizing, dark roast meats, pig roast. >> i mean, yeah we will show you the wild concoction rolling out at starbucks in china the match yeah see that. >> matches all
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take unique to starbucks reserve here in china. >> let's go okay, all right, let's get this a try all right, so let's take a closer walk. you got coffee, you've got milk, and you've got some barbie what you style sauce in todd, we don't have the garnish of the piece of pork. what you've seen that promotional materials, but let's give this a try. >> well more one more sip all right. >> so it pretty much tastes like a latte with a little bit of like a sweet, savory topping i can see why people may like it. it's kind of that sweet, savory savory mix this costs about $9.50 us i think for me personally, i'm going to stick to an almond latte. marc stewart, cnn, beijing.
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>> okay. for the record, thank you to mark, i've 40 written mark yelling at him. i'm like $9 >> i like a commercial almost it was like, hey, mikey, he took one sip and then another said, i think he's okay with but barbecue sauce and port with i i don't do savory and sweet. so this is not my jam it's not my ham. oh god, you try for yourself thank you so much for joining us. this has been cnn news central inside politics up next
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