none of them are stand any chance at all. in fact, latest opinion polls so much you can trust them here, said they don't even register in the double digits in terms of popular i actually spoke to one of them at an election event a few days ago. leonard sloot ski and he told me, look, he wasn't even trying to when he was trying to come second which is extraordinary for a presidential candidate, although it's realistic given how the odds stacked against anyone in this country standing against putin. >> matthew chance from moscow, matthew, thank you. the news continues right here on cnn >> i'd right next, don lemon live on why elon musk is telling him that his ex contract is quote canceled. the abrupt announcement after lemons wide ranging interview with moscow we now have never before seen clips from that interview. what's that musk gauff plus putin's red line, the russian dictator directly

threatening the united states and again, raising the possibility of using nuclear weapons as the us is issuing a new warning about putin and news and senator katie britt tonight defiant, speaking out today about her misleading state of the union story and the new attention she's getting. >> whether she wants it or not. >> let's go outfront good evening. i'm erin burnett, outfront tonight. elon musk tells don lemon, quote, contract is canceled and quote now in a moment, i'm going to speak exclusively with don lemon and he has clips of the nearly hour and-a-half interview with musk clips like this one that we receive from dawns production team >> on the only reason i'm doing this interview is because you're on the x platform and you asked for it. otherwise, there would not do so. you don't think you >> do you think that you wouldn't get in trouble or you wouldn't be criticized for the same crossover. i could care less >> we're gonna have more clips from lemons interview with musk in a moment, in a statement earlier today, lemon writes in

part quote, there were no restrictions on the interview that he willingly agreed to. we had a good conversation jim clearly, he felt differently. his commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared, seems not to include questions of him from people like me now cnn reached out to x for their comment and their response is what we reserve the right to make decisions about our business partnerships. and after careful consideration, x decided not to enter into a commercial partnership with the show now, this decision coming as muscat, of course, publicly courted lemon and has repeatedly made a commitment to free speech. >> when he >> bought twitter again and again and again. >> well, i think it's very importt for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech, where so, yeah twitter has become kind of facto townsquare

>> free speech is meaningless. bless your allow people you don't like to say things. you don't like. >> otherwise, it's relevant. i really can't emphasize this enough. we must we must protect free speech. and free speech only matters. it's only relevant when it's someone you don't like saying something like it's annoying when someone you don't like so something you don't like that is a sign of a healthy functioning free-speech situation >> again and again and again. remember, musk's x has over a quarter billion daily active users a quarter billion people on this planet resolve it, it, use it, it is the town square joining me exclusively outfront is don lemon. so don you do this 90 minute long interview with musk. you sit down with them. this is the culmination he had actively courted you to come on one of his tweets. have you considered doing your show on this platform maybe worth a

try hi audience is much bigger. it had been public, then you had reached a deal. i'll talk about that later. then. he texts 24 hours after this 90 minute long interview, which is the first of your show launching, he says, contract is canceled what happened? >> first of all, it's good to see you, aaron. thank you for having me on. that's a good question for elon musk. quite frankly, what happened? i don't know, as i said in my statement, i felt really good about the interview. i said to him as we were doing the interview and it was tense at moments, but you've been involved in tents interviews. i said to him, i think it's good that people see folks like you and i who have different worldviews come together and talk. as he says have free speech. free speech is only important when someone you don't like, or i would say someone who doesn't have your same point of view are someone if they're allowed to speak freely and to say their point of view apparently that doesn't matter to elon musk is just for maybe talking points for him or rhetoric because it

doesn't seem to matter when it's about him. questions about him from people like me >> all right. so when you said that i wanted to play some of the clips because some of them are illuminating. these are clips that you shared with us >> this is a part of the conversation with mosque where you ask him about hate speech here it is >> hate speech >> on the platform is up. >> do you believe that x and you have some responsibility to moderate hate speech on the platform that you wouldn't have to answer these questions from reporters about the great replacement theory as it relates. i don't have to answer his bedroom placement theory as it relates to jewish people. do you think that? >> i don't have to answer questions from reporters, da on the only reason i'm doing this interview is because you're on the x platform and you asked for it otherwise there would not do this interview >> so you don't think you do you think that you wouldn't get in trouble or you wouldn't be criticized for these things. >> possibly i could care less illuminating in so many ways, but i have to i've two things i

want to ask you about that don first, the great replacement theory, as you bring it up you know, he has tweeted a tweet. he shared increasing illegals, boost dem, voting power, causing them to recruit more if dems when present house and senate, they'll grant citizenship to all legals and america will become a permanent one party dpp, socialist state, right? he has gone there directly. how much does he stand by these ideas? we didn't quite >> seem to understand that he did. >> originally, he did that with jewish people, >> sort of a great replacement theory thing that he did with jewish people. >> and he gotten probably need to go to auschwitz and answer questions and apologize and go with ben shapiro. >> but he doesn't understand >> that that sort of rhetoric that he talks about the great replacement theory and a migrant invasion that's what radicalize shooters using their manifestos, those exact words the people who go and shoot up people, whether they be latino people who live in texas, or

black people who are in a supermarket in buffalo, or jewish people who are, who are worshiping those people use the same rhetoric that they are tropes, that they're either racist for latinos or black people or for jewish people. and i wanted to know if he, if he felt any responsibility as someone who has the one of the largest social media information platforms in the world, quarter billion people, quarter billion people. >> i >> think it's 400 dirt and 55 or 500 million users a week. and it doesn't seem that he feels that he has any responsibility with that because he seemed really averse to facts. that facts did not matter to him. it didn't matter that he retweeted things that were offensive to people. and this >> whole, the whole idea of what i was asking her about. it, was it offensive? and did he feel that his platform should have better moderation >> because the >> things that i asked him about, we're not supposed to be on his platform according to his own rules, his own content

rules. there were supposed to be removed from the platform. he says, well, we don't amplify them, but it doesn't matter there there there in the public forum and people can find them photographs of our tweets of jewish people depicting them with big noses and his caricatures of african in the bag >> all right. i use the word amplify. i want to use that word in a moment because it's very important to what is happening to you and to try to understand this in the context of how news worthy this is to talk about free speech in a platform where a quarter billion people use it today half 1 billion people every week. but one other thing he said there, he said, the only reason i'm doing this interview, don is because you're on the x platform and you asked for it. otherwise, i wouldn't do it. >> no accountability, no. no. no. i'll be honest on when this was announced, you were criticized, you know that i know it. we all heard it. people were saying, why would you do this? why would you go on x? >> then they see your first interview. >> is with well, for 24 hours, but is with what your boss? so

what do you say to that critical? >> well, first of all, he's now my boss because x was only a it was only content. it was there were they were a distribution partner. so he never was my boss. they never had any editorial control of the show. the only reason i was doing it is because of distribution. i wanted to i want it what i was doing my work to be seen by the the biggest number of people who could see it. and when you have what did you say? 300 and well, however many millions of people a day, 500 million or billion, 250,500 million weekly. >> that is >> the largest you know, opportunity for people to be able to see what i do. and i truly believe in free speech. i may not agree with what you say, but i will fight for your right to say it and so if i took x, i tour took him literally at all those soundbites musk. i took x, i took their managers at their words because they pursued me so hard that they were going to put me on the platform and give

me as much assistance and support as they promised and they did not do that >> the chief of twitter, who ilan hired, elon musk card, linda yaccarino. when you're deal was announced in january, she was onstage at the largest tech got conference in the world and las vegas, she said, we've been waiting for your return. welcome, don lemon so they said in the context of amplify. so they are trying to really understand the impact of what free speech is. you'll be able to post your show on monday. but this interview on twitter, but it won't be the same because contract is canceled. can you tell me why in the context of the power of that platform, what changes? >> well, it's similar to your last question again x was a distribution partner. >> there were >> it was limited content for them that i had to do a couple of things that were exclusive to x per week or per month. and that was 24 hours occlusive exclusive to them for 24 hours. right. and then it went everywhere. my show is always

going to go on let me swaying platform, but they were giving you marketing. they were giving you a rhythmical amplification to make up a word, right? that's, that's what it was about and that was also special content that had two that we partnered with advertisers that we're going to be exclusive to x or exclusive to whatever. yeah, i'm different distribution partner that we were. >> all right. so when you said talking to someone like me musk has a controversial history of tweets recently on a lot of issues right? that involve race, ethnicity in america. dei is one of them so he responds to a post on x, the post was speculating that the iq of lack airline pilots is lower than air force graduates musk responds, quote, it will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of die which appeared to be a purposeful of a flipping dei, which has criticized in many tweets. i understand you talked about this with him, specifically with facts. what did he say? >> he said that he was it would be awful if if that were

happening if because of dei is at the skies were less safe he said the same thing about about students in medical school. and i told him i as i pointed out to him, there was no evidence about that. when it comes to the airlines, there was no evidence that that was happening when it came to you said what you were saying, how many what percent of pilots are black, right. >> but it was also just to give it context. so we're talking about the alaska airlines flight, right? >> right >> where the door blew off and a woman pilot landed it. the woman pilot landed that plane safely without incident and boeing took responsibility for it. >> so >> i did not understand his logic when he was talking about black pilots are women pilots or minority pilots? when that woman landed the plane safely and boeing said it was because of a faulty door. so i think what elon musk is doing is getting information from right-wing bloggers or extremists.

>> and was that clear to you from what he said? yes. because when you go and look at the things that he points to it is often quite often from extremist groups and extremist groups who are putting out information that is just false. >> all right, let me play another clip. this is a clip where you actually talked about and by the way area 5% of airline pilots in this country are african-american, 5% so it's completely bogus. and what he's saying, and he has a responsibility as the owner of the biggest social media platform, at least one to moderate his content and to be more careful about it. that is just simply a fact. >> so here's another clip you talked about ketamine in this particular instance, something that he has discussed before here he is you talk about your ketamine use and depression hit you. you also have said the reason i should say like like the reason i mentioned the karami's with prescription on next platform was because i

thought maybe this is something that can help other people. that's why i mentioned it. i'm not a dr. but i would say if someone has depression issues, as you can senator, talking to their dr. about ketamine instead of ssris >> very civil conversation, but that is where it got very personal. >> well, i got personal but i didn't put that out there. he has spoken very freely about here is use of those are prescription drugs, but about his use of ketamine, i would not have brought it up on x. >> he posted >> he posted it yet, so i would not have brought it up because that's someone's personal information. so i asked him about it also. it's no secret. his drug use or alleged drug use. i should say, has been extensively written about it by very credible news organizations. it's like the wall street journal and i asked him that. he said, listen, i have not read the wall street journal. i don't read the wall street journal if i don't have time to read about everything that people write about, that would never get anything done. but also, remember on joe rogan, he took a puff of marijuana, right? and he said it was just joking. only took

one puff elon musk is responsible for satellites for starlink. he's responsible for tesla. he's responsible for a number of different companies on the stock market. and i think that it is important for people to understand his mindset, whether he's using drugs legally or not, even even if the ones he that he's using that power for people. >> but that's >> what he's wanted, but ones that he's supposed to be, that he is using prescription. why is it that he's following the doctor's orders under that? >> but >> yes, he's one of the most consequential people to the planet. and that was one reason why i was attracted to two acts, right? >> obviously, we don't have any evidence either way on his drug use, but i think it's important that comes up, obviously, we've got a clip there. there's more. >> cnn did not report that the wall street journal's strictly reported that that was not my reporting, but i had to ask him about it and i also asked him if he was concerned about about another biden administration. one reason i wanted to ask him those questions if he was going

to lose his security clearance because of that, or he might be in jeopardy of losing a security clearance and he said no because he did say to me, i do not use drugs illegally. i have random drug tests and i've always pass those drug tests. so >> all right. so you mentioned biden and in this conversation, you did talk about trump. and again, given his role, it's one of the most powerful people in the world running aks, who he is going to support, whether he donates the meeting that he took at mar-a-lago he's a huge consequences in the context of everything that he tweets. and here's part of the conversations you had with him about trump >> you recently met with donald trump and florida. what did you guys talk about? >> how is that a breakfast at a friend's place? and donald trump came by. that's it. >> would you discussed >> i don't let's just say he did most of the top okay. >> did he ask you for money >> he didn't. >> are you going to loan him money to help pay his legal bills? >> i'm not i'm not paying his legal bills in any way, shape,

or form the asking for her donation? no. are you leaning towards anyone know you're not lead to because you've been blimpson leaving leading away from biden the trademark laugh there, which by the way, in the context of the contract is canceled 24 hours after that interview. it just shows there was a lot of back-and-forth and given take what did you take away from his comments on politics? >> well, he says he's not going to endorse anyone now be made do it later. he says he's not going to give money to anyone now, but he may do it later. you never know with him he may be endorsing someone now on the platform but, you know what's interesting to me in all of that and all these questions about what people are asking me, what i asked you on what happened, what did i do during the course of that interview? i never i never raise my voice. i told him i think this is important for people to hear especially considering how the

type of discourse that we're having in the country right now. and he supposedly says this is a public square for all maybe we're learning that a public square should not be privately owned by someone who doesn't think that there should be any moderation on that platform so it was interesting because at the end, i could tell that he was upset he was uncomfortable. it was tense and i said, listen, i'm not trying to make you uncomfortable. it's a matter of fact, i would go and have a beer and hash things out. you and i do not disagree. you and i do not agree on much but i will fight for your right to be able to say what you want to say. that's what freedom of speech means to me. >> and 24 hours later than 24 hours later, freedom of speech does not mean, i guess the same thing to him as it does to me. >> contract is canceled. don. thank you very much. i appreciate i appreciate every wouldn't be able to hear part of these clips and don's full interview with elon musk comes out on monday. you can watch the don lemon show on youtube

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scale. >> we know what american combat troops on russian territory for er, they are interventionists. he said that is how we will treat it even if they appear on ukrainian territory >> and putin, >> even taking his threats nuclear, saying russia would have the edge of the us in the war using atomic weapons on land in the air, using strategic bombers and at sea with moscow's powerful fleet of nuclear armed subs. >> way that you can use skipped wish because union from a technical point of view, of course we're ready for nuclear war. he said the missiles are constantly combat ready. secondly, and this is accepted by everybody. our nuclear triad is more moderate than any other triad. actually only us and the americans have have a triad struggling on the battlefield. ukraine says it has hit russian oil refineries, including this one just over 100 miles outside moscow, with long distance drones putin calling this

attempt interference in the upcoming russian presidential election. he said to win by a landslide let's the main goal is to, if not disrupt the presidential elections in russia. he said, then at least to somehow interfere in the normal process of expressing the will of citizens ahead of that vote. and after the death and burial of opposition leader alexey navalny, navalny supporters say the kremlin's crackdown is .'s glady. >> we would have slipped in >> the former head of navalny's anti-corruption foundation, leonid volkov assaulted and beaten with a hammer outside his home in lithuania while the kremlin hasn't commented so far, volkov blaming putin for the attack because it was another obvious typical classic gangster. hello, from putin, from the st. petersburg gangster, vladimir vladimirovich. hello to you too. what else can i say? continue working against putin? that's what needs to be done. let's go on. and aaron, lithuanian intelligence also

say they believe that this attack on leonid volkov was organized an orchestrated by the russians. they believe that one of the goals of that operation may i've been to stop the russian opposition in lithuania from conducting operations that of what they call the undemocratic elections coming up in russia. they also believe another goal might be to soar oh panic and the baltic states, of course, the baltics key nato allies, the us in europe, erin. >> all right, fred, thank you very much. and i want to go straight out front now to the democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee and congressman, it's great to see you and to see you here in person. but look, the us the context of these nuclear threats is the latest us intelligence assessment, which we've seen. you've obviously seen in much, in much more detail in a classified sense. but what we've seen is a report assessing that putin could use nukes due to an inability to achieve the decisive wins he needs in the ukraine. but that is, that is very much on the

table. >> are you more >> concerned now that putin could cross that line? >> i'm less concerned now. and the reason i'm less concerned is that first of all, i think i think collectively the government believes that he would not use nuclear weapons unless he thought that his own survival, his own personal survival, and his regime survival was at stake. and we're obviously a long way from there. yeah. you know, there's a lot of reasons why he may be doing what he's doing right now. of course, the french president macron weirdly, a couple of weeks ago said that we shouldn't rule out nato troops on the ground. the mayor has an election coming up not only he's going to lose that election, but a pre-election, people say crazy things. bottom line, when he was talking about using tactical nukes in ukraine. i think he got some very strong messages from the two countries that are allowing him and his economy to survive. china and india. and those messages were pretty clear >> so when alexey navalny's wife yulia, says that that election that you mentioned is probably going when the inevitability of course of that, that he shouldn't eat, not be recognized by the us

even as a leader, do you agree with that >> yeah, i do. i mean, there's lots of international law implications here and what that really means. but the man is a murderer. the man is a gangster. the man has violated every tenant of international law and the united nations charter russia being a member of the security council in the united nations. so i'll tell you what we really need to do and what's really important is that the congress passed the supply mental package that allows the ukrainians to continue to fight as well as they have up until the point where they started running out of ammunition. that's frankly on us, not on the ukrainians >> and so you mentioned gangster and that brings me to what fred was reporting that alexey navalny's former chief of staff struck by hammer, tear gassed last night outside his home in lithuania. was there any doubt in your mind who is behind that? >> well, i don't like to absolutely jump to conclusions without seeing the evidence, but come on you know, the only question is how is it that he avoided falling out of a seven story window? >> that it could have been worse

>> and obviously an >> great seriousness, of course, could be in the future. i mean, we see this happen again and again i want to ask you about two other things. first, the vote today on tiktok, it's significant house overwhelmingly bipartisan, 352 to 65 mean, i don't know when we've seen anything in this particular house like that to ban tiktok unless it's spun off from its chinese parent company. now i don't know what that really means. once you've already technologically owned something, does that really change anything? but nonetheless, it was significant. it was bipartisan bill supporters say tiktok is a serious national security threat to the us. you've seen it banned and a lot of states from us and state devices. >> but as the top >> democrat on the intel committee, you voted against this >> yep. >> yep. you voted against it. so tell me why. yeah. look, is the top democrat on the intelligence >> committee have a pretty good and specific field for what the chinese threat is. i also know that while it is a very serious potential threat, meaning they could demand information from tiktok personal information, by the way by that information to they can steal that information

that pretty i guess that's what we do worry that maybe in a moment of crisis they would use that platform to try to insert messages. but here's why i voted no. first of all, it was enormously rushed. secondly, when you say states have banded one state bandit and the united states federal district courts. and you cannot ban it there first, there are first amendment implications at stake. that's the state of montana. >> so i >> am a very serious first amendment person and the notion that the united states and i understand the risks, i really do would say we are going to ban this venue for 150 million americans to express themselves to have political conversations. you know, there may be a way to square that circle, but it doesn't happen in a three-day legislative process that it was constricted and oh, by the way, remember, we don't countries we tell vladimir putin, we tell in chinese, we tell the iranians, you shouldn't be shutting down newspapers, television stations, social media sites. >> so you say you're being consistent freedom of expression really matters. >> all right, for your question really matters. i just want to ask you about this issue of what don lemon was talking about, right? he had to deal with x, formerly twitter, elon

musk that would have amplified marketing support. all the things that happen with tucker carlson and acts. and after this interview, musk didn't like it. and that has been canceled. contract is canceled >> what do you make of that? not that specific. but if the power that elon musk has over who is heard in this country and whose voice is amplified to a quarter billion people every single day, half 1 billion people every single week. >> they'll look, we live in world where we have lots of media outlets. i'm sitting in one of them right now. we have foxnews, we have msnbc, both of them with well-known the torial biases you know, x is twitter's bias is not predictable because it's dependent on elon musk but more than ever before in our lifetimes or anybody's lifetimes, we have a choice of media, so i don't necessarily think that it is a problem that those different media outlets have different biases he's, it's up to us as citizens of a

democracy, aaron, to be critical consumers of that media, to be thoughtful about it. look, if we don't take there's so much credulity out there. that's the thing. >> well, two things to say about that. yes. i was in the chamber on january 6 and came face-to-face with a lot of people who are absolutely convinced all evidence to the contrary that the election had been rigged. but i also want to be very careful because we can't decide that the american public is not capable of making their own choices. if we decide that that will lead us toward away from democracy, let's put it that way. so there are things that we can do, but we just need to make sure that americans are more better critical thinkers in the way they consume media yeah. >> all right. well, thank you so much, congressman. i appreciate i appreciate the thoughtful conversation. thank you >> all right. next trump's takeover of the rnc includes a new legal team focused on election fraud. and here is the person he has chosen to lead. that effort. >> it's becoming glaringly apparent that donald trump absolutely crushed joe biden in

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indication of foul play >> this is the latest step in trump's clear takeover of the rnc. dozens of staffers were laid off this week as he cemented his hold on, the nominee nation, his handpicked candidate for chair michael whatley elected to lead the organization. his daughter-in-law, lara trump, is serving as co-chair after suggesting that republican voters want to pay trump's legal bills outfront. now, stephen richer up the republican official who heads maricopa county, which is the largest election department in arizona it's even spoke out about republicans attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia, stood up for the facts and the numbers there. he is now facing a primary challenge for his job. as trump's team is attempting to take over the elections apparatus in arizona. so steven i really appreciate your time and i know over these past couple of years, we have spoken more times and either you or i would ever have hoped we would have to speak, although i do always enjoy seeing you does not in the context so kristen

holmes, our reporter, obviously, who covers trump campaign. she is reporting that there's some fear inside the rnc as trump's team takes over and that those who were not already fired are scared. they could get fired for it in any way appearing to be out of line are part of the old guard do you see this as the routine to the extent that it is occurring, the party's presidential candidate exerting such influence over the rnc? or is this something somewhat different? >> i don't know the history of the rnc, but that does seem like a toxic environment as far as attorney hires, it's really a tale of two attorneys, one attorney that was hired as charlie species who is the commensurate he's a consummate professional who's a longtime attorney and election law at a very reputable law firm represented the romney team in 2008. lots of superpacs, very credentialed person. but then christina bobb is somebody who had struggled to be a senior associate at a major law firm

whose only qualifications or that she's willing to say extremely crazy things. and so you look at something like that. you don't really know what's going to happen at the rnc and how is that going to manifest for the attorneys that the rnc hires on the local level because those are the attorneys that are very important did election process that we run here in arizona. >> and let me just make this very clear. so people understand, right? it's not just a puts in somebody who will say what he wants to say. it's at that comes with power and it comes with power, steven that you see that we may not see but you're saying that that enables them to have incredible influence at the local level >> so the rnc will always hire local counsel to represent it in all of its election disputes and in really ensuring the peaceful and successful administration of elections and in 2022 and in 2020, the rnc had very responsible legal counsel for local council in arizona, and we worked closely

with those people and they would help us out and we would work with them. we would get them what they needed and they wouldn't do too crazy of things. and so we really appreciated that now with christina bobb in there, i don't know if this is a signaling that they will have similarly minded people who just want to allege every crazy conspiracy theory under the sun as their local counsel for arizona, and that will damage that productive relationship that we've had with past counsel and and and and throw into question the thing that matters most right. which is how local elections are operated in this country. it is, it operates at the lower, at the local level you obviously have been were in charge and maricopa county, the largest most important in arizona, a state that was a 10,000 vote margin last time around must win. a columnist for the arizona republic has referred to your primary challenger in this race that you are in now as part of the quote, maga drive to take over maricopa county and the headline refers to it as an impending bloodbath what is at stake here? do you think

stephen >> i just hope after everything that we've seen over the past few years that that is figurative and not literal. and his characterization of this as a bloodbath because we all know that election officials and election administration has been a very it's been a powder keg and so i'm going to continue to push back where there are falsehoods, whether it's christina bobb or whether it's anyone else regarding the election administration practice in arizona. that's what i view as my responsibility and my duty to the people of arizona that being said, i don't know if that's necessarily the best play in arizona primary, but i think we stand a strong chance. i've made a lot of improvements to the office. i've been a no nonsense administrator and i'm a longtime conservative and so i think that that will ultimately win out with arizona primary voters, even if it's not the superager in terms of what's popular to talk about at the local grassroots party meetings. >> all right, steven, thank you so much. good to see you again. >> thanks very much.

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among black voters is central to biden's reelection. he said, fear of trump winning may not be the same motivator as last time. what's the balance of no trial? pumping yes to buy? well, you know, i think that there's a delicate balance, but for me, i don't just vote against something i wanted to vote for something. i want to think about president biden. he has given us a lot to vote for wisconsin is among the states with the tightest margins. trump won by nearly 23,000 votes in 2016 and biden carried the state by less than 21,000 votes. four years later, the 2024 campaign is hardly a perfect sequel. a set of complex policy and political challenges hanging over the race. the israel gaza war it's both no change in policy. >> he >> will be the reason that the democrats lose and wisconsin is a swing state without the constituents that worked so hard to help him get elected last time myself included, he definitely will not win a fight over reproductive rights has also injected a new dynamic into the presidential race.

>> people have not moved on. it >> motivates martin a nurse, midwife, end mother of three, who said she has started to look at the old race in a new light. is this something think that excites you a rematch with donald trump >> know that's the word that excited. i think there's a couple of words. it is what it is for all the similarities in this race, certainly the same characters, aaron, you can already feel it has actually so much different think of everything that's happened in the last four years. the supreme court overturning roe versus wade of course, the israeli war in gaza immigration, the economy let me the biden administration accomplishments on infrastructure. this race is about new issues. the question is, how will all of these fall at all becomes part of the dynasty amoc here, going into the next eight months campaign. but one thing is clear, like all presidential races, this one also will tell us something about the country. and it's getting underway thank you so much, jeff zeleny in milwaukee with the president tonight. and

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>> grow your business with freelance ai experts, kluyver united states of scandal with jake tapper. sunday at nine on cnn tonight, quote, they slaughtered me. those are the words of katie britt speaking out today about the fallout over her state of the union rebuttal, which included a very misleading story about a sex trafficking victim, sunlen serfaty is outfront >> that's where i spoke to a woman who shared her story with me senator katie britt, defiant in hitting back the liberal media isn't interested in the truth. they're interested in burying the truth about joe biden and his border crisis not accepting responsibility for her misleading portrayal of a woman who survived sex trafficking in her response, to the president's state of the >> union address, they want to silence a conservative woman for speaking out on this topic.

they don't want to bring light and help the women who are actually being trafficked in her speech, britt says she traveled to the del rio sector of texas where she spoke to a woman who had been sex trafficked starting at age 12, then >> suggesting that it had happened in the us before saying president biden's border policies are a disgrace. this crisis is despicable. and the truth is, it is almost entirely preventable. >> but karla has seen to the survivors, spoke to cnn saying the abuse happened in mexico not the us. and when president george w bush was in office, not biden, hardly ever cooperate with politicians because it seems to me that they only want an image. they only want a photo. and that to me is not fair. >> all this as britt has faced, days of the fallout of her speech and relentless mocking of her style. i'll be honest with you. a bingo card of 2024

for katie britt. i did not have this on it. right. and so certainly didn't have scarlet johansson plague makes spoofed on saturday night live. >> my name is katie britt and i have the honor of serving the great people of alabama. but tonight i'll be auditioning for the part of scary mom i'll be performing an original monologue called this country is hell through it, trying to get political mileage out of the piling on attempting to pope one at herself. >> everybody knows when your mom gives into scary mom mode, like get out of the way because stuff's about to get done and a firestorm, she is now in samy irony is that speaker johnson before her speech, tried to assure her there wouldn't be one. >> he's like, no, don't worry about, you know, people are gonna tell you horror stories about all of these things that happened and people's career

being blown up over it and die. he's like, it'll be fine. >> and senator britt typically does not do hallway interviews on capitol hill. unlike other senators. so it's notable that the few times that we have heard from her since last week speech have been on friendly platforms. erin. all right. sunlen, thank you very much. thanks for joining us. king charles starts now thank you. okay. mr. brockie >> know, walk in cnn studio in new york city. it's king charles. >> you're not going to waste your time with gayle but you can call me gail and charles barkley >> i pulled out here tonight from saturday night live, kenan thompson, former alabama with senator doug jones. cnn's own, kaitlan collins, and the producer and songwriter of i'm just ken