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and they have slammed what they saw here saying that this is yet another example of the political violence that former president donald trump is inciting. let me read you that that statement from biden campaign spokesman michael tyler, it says this image from donald trump is the type of crap you post when you're calling for a quote, bloodbath, or when you tell the proud boys to quote stand back and standby, trump has regularly inciting political violence, and it's time people take him seriously. just ask the capital police officers who were attacked, protecting our democracy on january 6. we also ask the us secret service about this and they said they do not confirm or comment on matters of protective intelligence. now, of course, this comes against the backdrop of the biden campaign, also trying to shore up support among nikki haley voters, those voters who may be turned off by this type of rhetoric or actions by the former president. now, they did read the biden campaign released a 32nd ad in battleground states specifically appealing to those supporters of nikki haley, including clips of the former
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president saying that the republican candidate or the former republican candidate it was a very angry person and the one, and the moments that trump said that he didn't need haley voters take a listen >> birdbrain, i call it >> haley has made an >> unholy alliance with rhinos, never trumpers foreign goodness for no prosperity, chew sitting electric >> she's gone crazy. she's a very angry person. she used not to presidential timber. >> i don't need the vote we have all of those women >> she got haywire. >> aren't that many never trumpers anymore? >> how do you bring his nikki haley voters back into the tech? i'm not sure we need to manage now the biden campaign is trying to directly appeal to those voters in the suburban areas where nikki haley did well and >> recall that president biden issued a statement after haley dropped out of the race saying that there is a place for her voters and in the last few weeks, campaign officials have
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been meeting with some of the donors on haley's list. so all of this coming together as the biden campaign tries to shore up more support not only among democratic voters, but also parts of republican of the republican constituency priscilla left to about that record breaking 26 million in fundraising that president biden made this week with that event with >> president clinton and president obama. how are they going to use that money? >> well, fundraising has been a continuous bright spot for the biden campaign this week was no exception. now, they're using that money to build out their campaign infrastructure, for example, 30 new offices in battleground, michigan, a state that president biden only narrowly won in 2020. so they're hiring more personnel they're opening more brick-and-mortar offices to try to engage with voters one-on-one that has been a key part of this campaign strategy is to make sure that they are reaching voters where they are.
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that's also part of the reason why president biden has been traveling so much over the last few weeks, especially to those battleground state. so all of this fundraising is going to a lot of these components and especially those brick and motor mortar offices as they look and stare down a very close race come november, allison. >> okay. priscilla alvarez. thank you very much. let's get some analysis now, joining me, we have cnn contributor podcast host and journalist for the new york times lula garcia navarro and cnn political commentator and republican strategist. sure. michael singleton, great to see both of you. >> i >> just want to start lulu with you because obviously it's no longer an academic exercise, maybe at one time it was where we could say, oh i wonder if violent imagery and violent rhetoric leads to real-world violence. >> it >> does. we have seen a straight line. i mean, look no further than the 2019 hideous walmart mass shooting where the shooter had a manifesto echoing then president trump's words, look no further than january 6,
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where his supporters showed up in combat gear and battle fatigues saying they were ready for battle >> and so >> what now, what now that we know that where are we with this what happens now that we see yet another one of these violent images? >> i think we are at a place where the degradation of political discourse in this country is clearly a bright straight line, to political violence. >> and we have seen political violence as you rightly node in these elections. and even though the trump, trauma team tries to disavow that connection, they always try to do this dance by saying, oh, he was just showing a picture of what was on the highway he didn't mean it. it was about cars, it was about the auto industry >> i >> think is very fair to show
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that this actually isn't just rhetoric. that rhetoric actually has real life consequences. and i think there is a real concern as we go into what is going to be a very contentious election season >> that we're going to see more and more evidence that this can lead to actual action heaven forbid. >> sriracha, why are republicans who are supporting former president trump? >> why are they >> okay with this? do they excuse it? i mean, what is it okay to say violent things and threatened judges and post violent imagery? >> well, happy easter allison. i mean, i don't think that they necessarily condone it. i just don't think that they're willing to say anything about it, particularly in a heightened political climate, where many of them are more focused on the prize to prize being electoral success to prize being trying to keep the house, for example, trying to win back control so the senate
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and ultimately trying to win, the white house, now, morally and ethically does that make it okay? i think the three of us would say absolutely not. and i think the vast majority of the american people would say absolutely not a politics is a very contentious process if you will. we're used to people going back and forth with each other trying to contest a various ideas. iron sharpens iron, but we've always believed allison in the past that that's just stopped short of becoming physically violent with one another. and so i was certainly encourage the former president and encouraged many of my republican friends too. let's debate ideas but stopped short of of causing potential violence. >> yeah, i mean, we used to say politics ain't beanbag. this is a far cry from that, you know, lulu, it's interesting. they, they weren't saying his campaign wasn't saying, oh, it's just on the back of a truck. it was different what they were saying basically they said, oh, well, the democrats have wished horrible things on the trump family play they
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didn't give any examples, so it's very hard to know what they're referring to or compare, but that tells you that they don't like it. in other words, they were saying it's awful, right. >> and then they're doing it. so i just found there their logic to be a little circular. >> i don't think that there is logic in this i don't think that this is really the real question here. allison is, who are they >> speaking to when they put this out, right? who are they trying to draw in by this? what are they trying to say? who are they trying to activate? those are the questions that i have when i see this imagery go out >> because >> clearly they are not speaking to people who they're trying to bring into the campaign. this is, as you again rightly point out, going to be a very close election. they're going to have to bring in other voters it might not be the sort of meat and potatoes of the trump megabase and so who are
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they >> were >> already hearing from some of the people surrounding trump. oh, this election might be stolen if trump doesn't do well, a lot of the rhetoric that we saw in 2020 this is what concerns me when you see this kind of imagery. who are they speaking to you? because it isn't the voters that they're trying to bring it for michael. >> do you have an answer to that? >> i mean, i would say this simply. i think a lot of this rhetoric is red meat for the base we've had these conversations allison for a couple of years now. >> i don't >> think it's necessarily frankly as a strategist, i think many of the individuals who you may attempt to appease or appeal to what that rhetoric are already solidly in the former president's corner. allison, they're not going to move. they're enthusiastic about voting for donald trump in there. and susie asks about being a part of the process to help him get elected to lose point. the question becomes, when you look at some of those battleground states, there were very, very close in 2020 that
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really made the difference where the former president lost by slim margins if i'm in that war room, i'm trying to figure out looking at those different precincts, looking at those counties who are the voters that i can turn out, who are the voters who i can shift back over to my principal's side. and that means the rhetoric the language, the focus, the targeted, the engagement is going to be drastically different. >> lulu, is this something that exactly, i mean, and michael's exactly right? >> yes, but i'm sure my god, i understand. but but then how why this violent rhetoric in that case or imagery? >> allison, if i had the answer, i'd be the richest guy in i don't have the answer for that. and i'm asked a question oftentimes and even when i speak with folks who are close to the former president or who still work for him. >> my strategic advice always as guys, >> you have those voters, you have to reach out to some of those moderate republican can you have to reach out to some of those folks in the middle who are principally concerned
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with the economy, immigration, foreign affairs, and some of them will look at trump are saying he's somewhat strong on some of these issues, but i don't like the host of other things that come with him. you gotta suppress those things and speak to the things i really matter to most people. >> yeah luis, also using threatening language a quick go sorry. there's a delay which makes it hard, but i want to hear your reaction to that little go ahead >> no >> i just want to say that we've heard so many times about trump eventually going to pivot to the middle and try to reach out to those voters. maybe the disaffected negation haley voters or other people who might be conflicted and might want to vote for him if he would only just use different language or appeal to them in different ways. >> and i think >> we know who we're dealing with at this point. and i think actually that is what constrains many people because we know who we're dealing with it this and we've seen the results of this rhetoric. and so if, if donald trump can't contain himself and is still doing this, then again, i ask
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the question, why, what is he actually trying to achieve? because we again, have seen the results of it >> sure. michael, he's also used threatening language against a judge and the judges daughter. he is under a gag order for one of the criminal trials that he's facing. it doesn't it seemed to be working >> yeah. >> i'm of the mindset as it pertains to the trials. if i were advising the former president, allow the lawyers to deal with this in court >> it's not >> wise in my opinion to try to litigate this in a public circle. again, to lulu's point, you when you back that question, who are you appealing with this rhetoric? whose minds are you changing? if you really are to win this election in november those voters that you're going to need in georgia state, he lost by less than 12,000 votes are in arizona or nevada, or wisconsin, or pennsylvania allison, those voters are not compelled to vote for the former president when they hear
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that type of very ugly and divisive languages. so again, as a strategist, my thought process is you're going about this wrong. >> and if >> you want to win, this is not going to help. in fact, i would argue it's going to more than like lead to you not winning the poll numbers showcase that he's leading, but i guarantee you alice, and if you continue on this path, you're going to see those numbers shift pretty quickly as we get closer to november >> sure. michael lulu. thank you very much for the conversation. great to see you guys. >> thank you. allison. >> wall street journal reporter, evan gershkovich has now been wrongfully imprisoned in a russian jail for an entire year. what is being done? today to get him out plus new details into just how damaged that ship is that took down the francis scott key bridge in baltimore >> we'll be right back space shuttle columbia, the final flight from your sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn >> honestly, i was scared when i was told age-related macular
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wall street journal reporter. no surprise. he's his detention was extended yet again through june 30th. the us ambassador to russia, ripping into the verdict, the accusations against evan are categorically untrue. they are not a different interpretation of circumstances they are fiction >> evan gershkovich was arrested and charged with espionage a year ago while on assignment in yekaterinburg central russia gangs, i was motoring i do not know if there are any other cases, but the allegations made by our intelligence services today, we're not related to his journalism. is near >> ms the wall street journal and gershkovich families strongly denied the allegations. to work out the polina ivanovo of the financial times is one of evans best friends and still keeps in regular contact with him, writing letters. >> he's doing rerkably well. he's absolutely staying strong. he's not allowing himself to waller to get too upset by everything. in fact,
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he spends most of his time in let us two us trying to make us feel better, >> just cove which faces a jail sentence of up to 20 years if convicted. but cnn has reported that gershkovich and former us marine paul whelan were part of a proposed prisoner swap with a now dead opposition leader, alexey navalny the russian president, taunted on his reelection day that he approved a swap on the condition he'd get back a high-profile russian intelligence officer in prison for murder in germany, the diem cross, a cough. >> the person who spoke to me had not finished his sentence yet. i said, i agree, but unfortunately, what happened happened for those close to evan, that means the weight he didn't continues outcome uncertain. when >> you see britain talk about it and very clear terms that this is what they want to see happen, that they are looking for a deal just gives you hope that at some point this will this, but he will be home. he needs to be home, needs to be back with his family, with his
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friends from luckin cnn, berlin >> and we're joined now by cnn contributor and cnn's former moscow bureau chief, jill dougherty. jill great to see you. so there was this rare show of unity in congress, top republicans and democrats joined together to call for evan to be released does that tell us anything about what's happening behind this? since i don't think it really does. i mean, obviously it's good that the united states congress is coming out, especially in a bipartisan way. but i think it's putin and his interests that you have to deal with. he is going to do a deal or not if he feels that it's soon as interest and right now, we really don't know unclear exactly where we're going. i do think it was interesting though that roger kersten's who is us diplomat, whose the us envoy for hostage affairs did seem to indicate that now is a moment of opportunity
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kennedy, because once the trial starts very difficult to do a deal. so carsten is saying, you have to do it now, and that gives a little bit of hope >> yeah. that was a glimmer of something. what is in it for putin? what's in it for putin to release gershkovich? he gets what >> he wants. what he wants, as fred talked about is this fsb assassin who is held in germany that here's what the deal would have been. so that we don't know if there's anything else he wants i'm sure he always wants more, but that seems to be it. and whether they can really strike a deal at this point is unclear and helped me understand why does alexey navalny's death, scuttle that deal? >> well you have to listen to what putin saying and then do believe it or don't you. i mean, putin is saying yes, we
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are close to a deal, but then sadly, alexey navalny die because nevada they would have been part of that deal but again, we don't know whether that is correct. that putin actually did want to do a deal at that point. we know that there were some type of discussions, but whether they were formal or informal, i think it's a way of putin saying, yes, i'm open, but it's very uncommitted because of course, it never happened because navalny died >> so as you know, evans supporters have been planning all of these social media campaigns and doing them. i mean, we see in times square they're big posters erected for evan to meant for him to be released. people saying, i stand with them and there was a read-a-thon that some of our own journalists took part in all of this to keep his name in the news top of mind >> does any of >> that register with vladimir putin that kind of pressure?
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>> well i think keeping evan out there, being talked about and is very obvious issue right now really is important. now whether it's sways proved in one way or the other that's unclear, but i think that if if people we're not talking about him then putin would have less of a reason to do a deal. so putin knows that he is very important and we have other american, sadly, paul whelan is there. i'll sue carma shiva these are they've been held for quite awhile. also, mark vogel so it's important to keep their names out there and it does provide some type of worldwide pressure. again, whether it affects putin is not clear in the past what has worked, what has ultimately worked with bouton just getting one of his guys back is that the only thing that moves the needle for him
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>> i think as i said, getting what he wants. so getting one of his guys back could do it also. putin wants to appear like sometimes a good guy. and so if he does something, he will do it because he thinks it's in his interest or he will look good right now, it appears that he wants to get back that guy. so that's what in his interest. whether there's another factor that might come into play. we had that hint in that interview with putin but again, this is all very murky. and remember the russians are constantly saying, we don't want to talk about this in public, no discussion publicly. it should be private and secret because we want to talk kinds of scenes. that's fine. >> but >> it remains a little murky. what putins end goal is by design. of course, jill dougherty, thanks for helping us understand this sure officials say the first pieces
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obviously, this is any captains worst nightmare from what you've seen and heard now about this catastrophe, do you have a sense of why and how this could happen? >> preliminary indications are that there is some sort of engine issue with the ship as it was coming out of baltimore harbor and approaching the bridge. that's not uncommon for vessels of this size. unfortunately, the timing and location of this particular instance was catastrophic. and it's just incredible what, what actually occurred, bringing down that bridge in one fell swoop. >> i don't >> think anybody could have imagined this happening, but preliminary indications are that it's an engine issue and the ntsb report which maybe is a year out, maybe longer, it will give the final determination. >> but i mean, from your experience on ships, don't you have multiple redundancies? i mean, if if one engine goes
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out, aren't there things built in that it doesn't you don't have an entire power shutdown well, unfortunately, merchant cargo ships are built. so that there isn't a lot of extra expense. so you have one major engine, you have one propeller. there are backup emergency generators and those would have been online during this maneuvering operation and i think when you watch the video when you see the lights flickering on and off, that's an indication of those generators kidding online. but reports coming out of the area are that the engine did power down or whatever reason, the emergency generators kicked on. so that's why you saw the lights, but they never really brigade propulsion. and unfortunately, there is is only that one engine that provides the propulsion. and when that goes out, that's your only hope for getting back on line >> that's really interesting. i hadn't heard that before, so i understand that you personally experienced an engine shutdown at see what happened and how did you handle that?
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>> well, i've been on ships just like this all around the world. i've been in and out of the baltimore port dozens of times unfortunately or fortunately, we've never had an engine failure in confined waters like in this instance, we have had them out at sea. it's not uncommon. sometimes it's due to bad fuel well, sometimes it's due to just a mechanical failure somewhere in the system and you have a team of engineers in the room who are the most highly trained mechanical engineers in the world on all of these vessels. and so you float in the open water and here the water rushing by for some time and hope and pray that they get the answer back online before some bad weather hits are before you get in extremis as they say into bad waters >> captain, when you said bad fuel, i've i've read this since this catastrophe contaminated fuel might've been the cause. what does that mean? where do you get contaminated fuel? why would that be? in the tanks of this ship
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>> well the fuel that's used on merchant cargo vessels is the lowest possible grade fuel that you can source. and it's the cheapest. and so it allows cargo to be moved cheaply. and typically, you load the fuel on the vessel and then the vessel is responsible for eating that fuel, purifying it, and making it sufficient so that it can be used in the engine and the combustion cycle sometimes because it is a low-grade fuel, you do have fuel issues there are no indications that that was the case here. it's a possibility, just one of many possibilities, but it is not uncommon in these larger vessels >> this ship is the size of the empire state building. and of course it was fully loaded with cargo and hazardous material. so what are the logistics now of moving a vessel like this? >> well, first, they're going to have to remove the pieces of the bridge, which in itself is going to be an astonishing
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feat. and the fact that they had are crane on-site already just shows the will that the city and the state of maryland and the federal government for that matter are willing to put forward to solve this issue. so the bridge pieces are going to have to be removed. there may be some lettering of the containers from off the vessel, but ultimately once the vessel is freed up and we know that she's safe for maneuvering, isn't going to sink or have any whole bridges which i'm sure they've determined already, then the vessel can be towed to somewhere on the dock where a crane connect excessive and the other target but i think that's months. months away at this point. >> that's what we keep hearing. and i mean, as you said, we may not have answers from the ntsb for a year, but from what you experienced, your personal experience, as well as what you've seen, can anything changed right now to prevent an accident like this? >> i think what you'll see happening in short order is that vessels like this, when they're operating in sensitive
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areas near bridges, near sensitive shorelines, things like that. there i would expect to see in short order implement implementation of tog escorts. so this happens in busy ports in japan all the time in the port of yokohama, for example, if you have a large ship going in and out of the port, you have a very large, powerful target escorting you in and escorting you out, just running ahead of you. so i would expect to see that happening in ports all around the us now just for this very reason, in this instance, with a vessel that large, i don't know that a tug could have prevented this, but it should certainly could have been positive influence in some way, even if just redirecting ship in another direction. so i think we're going to see tbs sort order >> really interesting captain clause allude to thank you for all the information >> thank you >> since the first time since naming his running mate, robert kennedy jr. hits the campaign
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guatemalan mother, who liked so many migrants arrived with a crushed heart in search for opportunity to feed their family we met so many families just like the ones that you saw in our story, who want to shirt the border wall and turn themselves in to immigration authorities. and according to the tucson border patrol chief, he says that at the current pace migrant preventions this fiscal year could hit 800,000 and just to give you some context on that figure, that nears the total number of the past three fiscal years combined allison >> thank you, rosa. all right. we have more news ahead, but first, a quick note. be sure to check out the saturday edition of our five things podcast called five good things. this is where you can take a breather. and hear all of the uplifting stories across the world. >> can >> find it wherever you get your podcasts
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