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>> kate is out. i'm john berman with sara sidner, and this is cnn news central >> don. >> trump launching an all out verbal attack on prosecutors and judges and the criminal cases against me spacing a month filled with crucial legal challenges in an easter day post on truth social, the former president went out after special counsel jack smith, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, and fulton county district attorney fani willis. those attacks coming as he faces three big legal dates this month, you see them there. the fourth, 15th, and the 25th of april the criminal trial for the new york hush money case set to begin just two weeks from today, cnn's that cohen is joining us now, exactly these increased attacks are really fueling concern it's about security for those he has going after there is already a gag order in place and one of the cases >> yes. there that's right.
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look, donald trump using his easter day message to do what we've seen him do so many times already, go after an attack, the prosecutors and the judges who are overseeing and prosecuting him in these criminal cases. he named checks jack smith the special counsel, who is prosecuting him in two different criminal cases. he also mentioned da fani willis done a georgia who is running the criminal or criminal case against him there and alvin bragg, the da in new york. but we've what we've seen really drawing a lot of concern due to the proximity of the upcoming trial or his attacks against the judge overseeing his new york hush money the case that's a trial, as you mentioned, that is scheduled to begin in about two weeks. it's overseen by judge merchant and trump is not only attack judge merchant personally, but singled out his daughter as well. so those concerns fueling criticism from retired and current judges who have said they've really never seen any other defendant in their courtroom pave the way trump is. and some even warning that his attacks on prosecutors and judges could really undermine the future of democracy and the judicial system. just on a
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practical level, the security concerns that these comments are raising do in the opinion of us district judge reggie walton, they do feel concerns that judges can't do their jobs but they're constantly worried about threats and their own security. so a lot of concerns around here and donald trump obviously continuing to ramp up his attacks and we don't expect those concerns to stem those attacks from donald trump. there's also a political element here too, and we've seen this play out over throughout trump's presidency. and in the time since where republicans really are eager and are not willing to criticize donald trump directly for comments like this. listen to what a congressman, mike lawler, who is a republican from new york, but one in one of those swing districts in new york, how he tried to walk the line really underscored the way republicans are trying to delicately address what donald trump is saying. i >> think everyone needs to tone down the rhetoric, the language and you know, obviously social media has become a vehicle by
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which to bludgeon people. i just think at the end of the day the former president, current president, and on down l, all of us have a responsibility to check our language, to watch what we're saying. >> so we're colleagues, stephen collinson made a good point in his article today on cnn.com that ultimately at the end of the day this election is not about health care in the republican policy on the economy, it is gonna be because of donald trump and donald trump trying to make this election about him and about the criminal proceedings against them. ultimately, if he wins but it could be validated. and if he loses we'll have to look back at some of the comments, like he's been making in recent weeks >> zach cohen. thank you so much for that reporting. >> john, are with me now cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, just very quickly when it comes to gag orders, there are generally carve-outs. are there have been for the prosecutors and the judges? why >> for carve-outs in terms of in terms of what people can say
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about donald trump can say whatever he wants about prosecutors and judges, right? >> well, they have to be narrowly drafted in order to be constitutional and the notion is that the boldfaced names, if you will, the judge, the da, they are public officials and the da's an elected official, right? they can take the heat you? really do have to allow litigants to say some things. i mean, trump wants to attack the process. he wants to attack some people so that kind of gives them a way to have middle-ground there when it comes to the judge's family, though, which is what's happening here in the new york case. how is that different? >> well, there's no justification for attacking family members, right there. private citizens, they're not public officials in any way, and they don't have anything to do with the process. i mean, what's the point of attacking someone who isn't actually involved are participating in the trial. so for those reasons, it makes sense to carve them out. he can say what he needs to say to defend himself and attack the process and so on. but not put into danger. people who have really nothing to do. here in new york that they could the judge mug shot could explicitly widen the
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scope of this gag order, given any everything that donald trump is saying, oh, definitely. and the da's office has asked him to do that. they've said we want some clarification, really, it would be an expansion, i think, but they want the da's family and the judges family to be explicitly added to the categories of people who cannot be attacked under this question becomes jan. what happens if and when donald trump crosses the line, what incentive is there for him to stop short of going over that line? >> so in a normal case, you would start with a warning and then progress to a fine and then only after a few steps get to jail, the da's letter mentions criminal contempt as an option for judge mark sean, if he finds that donald trump continues to violate the order. so under that provision, you would have a fine and then jail up to 30 days. so we'll see what the judge does. i will say he has not violated the current order in place. so it's possible that even if the judge expands it to include family members of alvin bragg and judge martian, that he will stay within the bounds of the new order but as he gets more
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desperate, is trial comes closer. we'll see whether he can do that. he may >> have a political and said, look how much does donald trump care about a fine. i mean, that's the question that becomes a political question. not so much a legal one, but as a fine enough to keep him from saying something probably not >> prison >> probably would be, but i know the >> judge won't want to go there and just the logistical and security nightmare that it would be to try to put them in for any period of time. i think the judge wants to stay in the new york civil case is a different animal read, judge gordon was the judge and the jury in this case. the only person overseeing the whole thing and making the decision in the new york criminal case, if donald trump continues to poke at the judge, poke at the judges family, how could that impact trump in the trial itself? well, in >> theory, it shouldn't, right. i mean, the judges is neutral. he is supposed to put his biases to the side and presumably he can. but most people think if you continue to anger the judge, he's not just the person overseeing the trial, making the evidentiary rulings and so on. he would
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sentenced donald trump if he's convicted in this trial. so the notion of do you want to keep attacking the judge like that when this is the person who holds your fate in his hands at sentencing is that smarter? is that not smart >> yeah. again, this all begins in about two weeks. we think with jury selection and whatnot, a very, very big month for donald trump, jennifer rodgers. thank you very much for being okay here. thanks. >> all right. >> just ahead >> he's not even been in the job for six months yet and he's fighting for his job now, we'll mike johnson, be able to keep the speakership also critical talks a day as a white house and israeli officials to discuss how to go forward in gaza after weeks of tension between president biden and prime minister netanyahu plus a massive data breach, more than 73,000,018 tnt customers had sensitive information stolen and put onto the dark web how to know if you're impacted and what to do if you want. that's ahead. >> get your viewing glasses ready eclipse across america,
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warning speaker johnson you're on notice. and so in the meantime, everyone around her and everyone around speaker johnson and it's really maneuvering behind the scenes to try to avert what they view could be a political crisis for republicans. what you have right now with speaker johnson is behind the scenes. he is seeking guidance from, as you pointed out, matt gaetz, the very man who brought the resolution to oust kevin mccarthy. carthy back in october, and the guidance he's getting from gates according to this great reporting from our colleagues, melanie zanona, annie grayer, and manu raju. >> is >> that matt gaetz is arguing they need to get some republican wins on the board, but that could be very difficult for speaker johnson in the months ahead. that's because he's already given some signs that he could move on ukraine aid in some form or fashion. now, what state that actually takes remains to be seen. they could serve structure. this was some kind
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of loan program. he's still working out those details, but that's something else that house conservatives do not want to see on before. meanwhile, speaker johnson making a political argument that marjorie taylor greene may want to rethink her decision-making process here, here's what he said >> how. does, this motion to vacate help went back the majority or when a bigger majority >> i don't think it does and i think all of my other republican colleagues recognize this as a distraction from our mission. again, the mission is to save the republic. and the only way we can do that is if we grow the house majority win the senate. and when the white house, so we don't need any dissension right now >> and speaker johnson could talk to marjorie taylor greene this week, have some kind of conversation. he is really known behind the scenes as someone who is really affable, someone who's very friendly, perhaps a lot of conservatives view him as much less defensive
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than kevin mccarthy. he has someone who's tried to have a good relationship with many republicans. and again, it's not clear. marjorie taylor greene would have the votes to actually move forward with this john, but again, she made it very clear that speaker johnson is on notice, at least with her yes, i'm like double secret or double not-so-secret probation, maybe right now, lauren, the matt gaetz path for getting republican wins. >> what's >> available, i mean, especially given that the impeachment of president biden seems to have fallen flat completely yeah. >> i mean, i'm thinking back to the fall when kevin mccarthy was in trouble. remember, he announced that they were going to be moving forward with an impeachment inquiry before they even had a vote on the floor of the house. and that was really seen as an effort by mccarthy to try to stop the right flank from moving forward with this this motion to vacate. now eventually that didn't work, but speaker johnson really doesn't have that tool at his disposal because everyone knows, right now the votes
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aren't there to move forward with impeachment. is there something else he could do if you keep in mind the fact that they have moved forward with impeaching secretary mayorkas. that's one victory. he gave consent derivatives. there's other pet legislation that lawmakers always have that potentially he could bring to the floor. but the reason it's so difficult to get some of those conservative wins is he has majority makers, people who are running in swing districts who don't want to vote on red meat. republican legislation in an election year. and he has such a narrow margin that if he brings something to the floor, he either has to pass it or if he's just bringing it to the floor to make conservatives happy knowing it won't pass, he gets the ear of those governing republicans who argue he's not an efficient leader. so that's the really difficult position that speaker johnson is finding himself april could be a very long month for speaker johnson or not, maybe a short month. this beaker will see lauren fox. thank you so much for your reporting. >> is there with his caucus rock hard place speaker
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the lock all new tonight at nine on hgtv >> high-level talks between the us and israel on gaza are expected to resume today. axios is reporting officials will hold a virtual meeting to discuss the biden administration's alternative options to an israeli military ground offensive in rafah offer netanyahu has so far not been swayed from going forward with that ground offensive in rafah, where more than 1 million palestinians have fled to try and survive the war in gaza. now at the same time, netanyahu is facing one of the largest protests in israel since the war began, thousands of israelis took to the streets over the weekend. and, and this morning demanding netanyahu resign, netanyahu says he will not call early elections, insisting that would only benefit hamas and paralyze israel joining us. now cnn global affairs analyst kim dozer, thank you so much for being here this, virtual meeting comes after the us allowed a un council resolution last week calling for a
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ceasefire in gaza and the release of all hostages to pass by, abstaining from the vote netanyahu was very unhappy with that and announced he was canceling the meeting at the white house a day later. can you give us some sense of what were expected to see and hear in these virtual talks >> a look from the biden administration's >> point of view. they know that for netanyahu continuing the war and being able to tell his people that we have gotten every high level hamas leader and we have dismayed man told the tunnel structure beneath rafah, that's what netanyahu needs for his political survival. so the biden white house knows they've got to find a way to safely do this or a safe as possible, because with the political winds that netanyahu is facing, he's not going to stop and the majority of israelis, they don't trust netanyahu. according to recent polls, but they trust the palestinians less. and while they're protesting,
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netanyahu's government, they're not yet protesting the war in gaza. and i think you only see that if every last hostage had been returned. i did want to ask you about the israeli protests because they are massive. they're, they're really, really, really large and the largest we've seen since the war began will there be any pressured to have netanyahu change tax in any way? i know that most of the pressure is to try to get the hostages out >> well this is the >> first of several planned days of demonstrations and the netanyahu government had faced this kind of protest before the october 7 attacks over its attempts to change the way the judiciary operates in a way high court judges are chosen. so there was already this unrest. residents in much of the israeli population. but right now he's facing opposition from both the left, the middle over the handling of the hostage situation, and the right over a local issue, right
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now, israel's high court has stripped away the government's ability to pay haredi. these are open true religious jews for studying instead of serving in the military. so that could dissolve netanyahu's government and trigger new elections if the right-wing of his coalition pulls out. but if they don't he can stay in office for three years until the next elections officially take place. >> and just >> round that out, there has been a longstanding for many, many decades of this fight between the ultra-orthodox and the israelis, it's all over military conscription that all israeli jews have to go into the military except with the exception of the ultra-orthodox. and you think that that makes that break up his coalition. if, if he goes forward with this, there is a new change in policy and a deadline for a change in policy on how the ultra-orthodox are treated you think that if he
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says they have to go into service like everyone else, so that would blow up his coalition >> well, the problem is >> the policy about these 50 to 60,000 men of military age who are instead paid the stay in new shiva and pray the policy has expired netanyahu's government hasn't come up with the new one yet. so the high court has stepped in with this interim ruling saying, you can no longer pay these people for praying rather than serving and there's a large number of israelis who are also saying, why should they get out of service while our young men are in harm's way they've also been a bunch of investigative reports done where these ultra religious people are followed and they're not praying from 08:00 a.m. to 08:00 p.m. luck, they're supposed to be doing there instead, we're working on the economy. this internal situation could trigger some sort of dissolution of the government. but so far, the
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>> this morning convicted murderer or alec murdoch faces a new round of sentencing. in a federal courtroom this time for pleading guilty to 20 financial crimes and included stealing millions from his clients and law firm murdock is currently serving two life sentences for the murders of his wife and son, cnn's dianne gallagher outside the courthouse in charleston, south carolina, where this will take place today. what do we expect? >> john? this is likely the final sentencing for alec murdoch for the major crimes with which he is charged. he signed a federal plea agreement with prosecutors back in september that hinged on just one thing. alec murdock had to be honest and forthright last sweet those prosecutors said that he had failed a polygraph and ask the judge to hold murdoch in breach of that agreement, releasing prosecutors from their end of the deal. now, murdoch's attorneys today are going to argue that they haven't seen that exam yet and that they say the polygrapher distributed are
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exhibited weird behavior, odd behavior talking about another high-profile crime it is the latest in many twists in this years-long saga with alex murdaugh for the third time and just over a year, a judge will sentence alec murdoch to prison. >> that is a sentence of the court. and you are remanded to the state department of corrections. >> the ones prominent now, disgraced attorneys fall from grace, a fixation in the true crime industry and the subject of several documentaries monday's federal sentencing likely won't immediately impacted the current situation of the onetime heir to a low country legal dynasty, who theft and death seemed to follow. >> a sentence you for term of the rest of your natural life already serving two consecutive life sentences for the gruesome murders of his wife, maggie, and son paul. >> nobody. they're not his dramatic six-week murder trial captivated the nation last year
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>> we couldn't bring you any eyewitnesses because they were murdered >> prosecutors painted murdoch as a desperate thief, living a lie in fear of being found out, who killed his own family to distract from a decade long scheme of stealing millions from his clients law firm partners other victims. >> i'm innocent i would never hurt my wife, maggie, and i would never hurt my son, paul. >> paul, it took the jury less than three hours to find him guilty. >> guilty. he attempted to get a new trial this year when his attorneys claimed the clerk of court tampered with the jury, which the clerk denied, but a judge, while critical of the clerk's conduct, determined it did not affect the outcome >> not fine. the defendants motion for a new trial on the factual record before me must be denied and it is so order. >> murdoch maintains his innocence in the murderers and plans to restart his appeal. he is also currently serving a 27
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years state sentence after pleading guilty in november murcia, 22 counts of fraud and money laundering. prosecutors estimated he stole around 12 million from clients and his law firm >> hey, things that i did i am so sorry. >> a fraudster who claims he embezzled from vulnerable people to support a crippling opioid addiction, like the family of the murdock's housekeeper, gloria satterfield, who died after an alleged trip and fall at his home in 2018 murdoch encouraged her son's to sue him setting them up with an attorney who then worked with murdoch to pocket millions and insurance settlement funds that her kids should have received. >> i really don't have words. he lied. you cheated, he stole you've your trade, me and my family and everybody else >> so why does this matter? how long he sentenced if he's already serving two life sentences for those murders well, the original plea agreement would have allowed murdoch to serve his federal sentence concurrent at the same
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time as those same sentences. >> and >> why at this point, federal prosecutors say they might want that too. now be consecutive after the state sentences. all this hinges on whether or not alec murdoch win that appeal for those murder charges. if he does. >> and this federal >> sentence was served, confession get ablie. john is would effectively keep him in prison for the rest of his life between the state and the federal charges, even if he were able to successfully appeal the murder charges. >> so it bears watching to the shore, dianne gallagher in charleston. thanks so much. there. >> all right. thank you. john, joining me now on the phone is eric bland of malpractice attorney representing several victims of murdoch's federal financial crimes you are on the phone with us and i know you're going to be in court today. your clients are the victims of murdoch's theft. what do they want to see happen? what will you be arguing for today >> we will be arguing share for concurrent sense so that means
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against a concurrent sentence, so that he will be serving it consecutively, meaning the federal sentence will be served after the state sentence of 27 years has completed. now he's a 55-year-old man. so the odds are he's going to die in prison, but we want to make sure that there's no opportunity for him to get out or get his state sentence reduced by having the federal sentence served consecutively. that will ensure that if the murder charges and convictions are reversed, he still will serve the rest of his time. remember this this is a career criminal who's hit for the cycle he is a double murder it's a convicted the isa convicted money launderer and his an extremely dangerous man who is constantly scheming with his attorneys to try to game the system.
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>> and so >> it's up to this federal judge today. to give a consecutive sec instead of a concurrent sentence. and that will ensure that once and for all, alex murdaugh will be imprison for the rest of his natural life. and none of his victims or society will have to worry about him again can you talk to me a little bit about the polygraph tests because he's agreed to it as part of the plea agreement. do you know exactly what prosecutors say he lied about on this polygraph? >> it appears that he lied about sarah, where 6 million of the 12 million. ended up the receivers that were appointed by the court to find his assets could only find $1.7 million. so there's a lot of money out there and there's rumors that we put money in the bahamas so according >> to the >> prosecution he was untruthful about where the $6
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million when and whether he had the assistance of another attorney, they didn't name that other attorney and so that is according to the prosecution of breach of his plea agreement which will entitle the judge to give him a consecutive sentence and also give him upward enhancement the defense is going to argue that the polygraph is inadmissible but he didn't fail. it his answers may have been uncertain, but they weren't lives. so we're going to have a battle over what does it molly graph or an inconsistent answer and a polygraph means this morning. >> so there were still 6 million out there somewhere that has not been accounted for. i'm curious if you can describe to me the damage that murdoch did to your clients? >> oh the damage is on told this is not like sam bankman-fried where it's a faceless victim or people that
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were investing money to try to make more money. these were people who were vulnerable, who lost loved ones and needed lifetime medical treatment and they went to alex murdaugh and most vulnerable time and he exploited them and took advantage of them and stole their money at a time when they needed it most. i mean, the loss of a loved one it's hard enough but to be the trade by somebody that they revered in the community, revered. there are still scarred now tony satterfield, who is going to speak this morning in court is a devout, religious man. and he has forgiven aleksey, hasn't forgotten his behavior, which is really magnanimous on his part. >> but i'm >> going to be speaking. i don't forgive alex and i will never forget what he's done to my clients. >> eric plan. thank you so much. i know you're heading into cord very soon now. i appreciate your time john. thanks for having
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>> bye-bye. >> interesting conversation with the lawyer on the way to that federal sentencing hearing right now new this morning, there may be a new path forward on aid to ukraine. i want you to listen to what house speaker mike johnson said overnight when we return after this work period will be moving a product, but it's, going to, i think have some important innovations. the repo act. if we use the seized assets of russian oligarchs to allow the gradients to fight them. that's just pure poetry. get even president trump has talked about the lone concept where we set up, we're not just giving foreign aid, where we're setting up in a relationship where they can provide it back to us when the time is right and then we want to unleash american energy. we want to have natural gas exports that will help unfunded vladimir putin's war effort with me now, democratic strategists to former clinton white house aide keith blinken and cnn political commentator and president of the manhattan institute's reihan salam. i think what we
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just heard round was the sound of a door opening, a little bit, speaker johnson has said over the last few weeks, he would put ukraine aid on the floor in some fashion. he seems to be explaining now how he might do that. >> that's right. he wants to do it in a way that's going to broaden his coalition and address some of the concerns about the idea of a blank check for ukraine aid, but also the fact that many members of his conference really do believe that ukraine needs to be backed up and needs to be done in a response ansible, sustainable way. so this seems like an encouraging development for the speaker. >> how much >> room does he have with republicans who don't want aid to ukraine? and there are some, maybe even including donald trump. >> absolutely. the big challenge for those folks for the rebels who essentially depose speaker mccarthy before him, is that there aren't a lot of other options there isn't a huge line of republicans were itching to be speaker at a time when the speakership is highly vulnerable to a vote motion to vacate. so in a way, those members are a bit chastened right now by the fact that speaker johnson might be their
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best bet. >> so one important point to make here is, is he can't do this. speaker johnson without democrats, maybe even a significant number of democrats. so how much do you think the minority leader hakeem jeffries and the other people in the house, the democrats in the house might be willing to give speakers johnson here >> well, if the question is about voting for ukraine, and i think democrats would likely be willing to support that if the question is about supporting mike johnson's speakership, then we have a whole different issue at hand. and i think the problem for mike johnson though, is if he's relying on democratic votes to bail him out of any situation republicans in the so-called chaos caucus have already indicated that they are opposed to any such attempts to work with democrats. so that puts him in an untenable position where he finds himself susceptible to marjorie taylor greene's motion to vacate. so he's stuck between a rock and a hard place if it goes that well, let's talk about his position a little bit more
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because he really went into what it's like for him in a more expansive way that i've heard overnight. and >> how he plans perhaps to survive this month. let's listen we have to unite. >> we have to stand together because when we do that especially with a radius of razor-thin majority as we have, we will have better negotiation in the backroom, will be able to have greater standing when we argue with the democrats about it. third look, we've got to drive our conservative agenda and get the incremental winds that are still possible, right now. but we got to realize i can throw a hail mary pass on every single play gets three yards in a clouded das. we've got to get the next first down. keep moving and we'll do that and we can show the american people what would four now there were those who noted that he was making football metaphor is during march madness and maybe they didn't mix so well there. but keith, when you think about that well, the incremental wednesday is talking about what are those? i mean, public has had been in power now for a year-and-a-half, almost two
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years, they said they're going to pass a budget on time or spending bills on time they haven't done that. we're halfway through the 2024 spit fiscal year and they just passed a bill last month and they're ready to blow up the house again, we've had three speakers are already in the past year, including patrick henry, kevin mccarthy, and mike johnson. and now marjorie taylor greene is setting ourselves so we might have a fourth speaker. they haven't done anything to raise the minimum wage or create new jobs you haven't done anything about health care, haven't done anything about education or housing, or anything that american people wanted them to do that when they came in office. instead, they're addressed inflation and corruption. they haven't done either of those things. they spend all their time wasting their effort on. i'm trying to impeach hunter biden, who's not even the president united states, because they were trying to go after him to get to joe biden. and so it's it's a reflection of the fact that republicans are not a serious governing party. they've seriously become only a grievance party. i don't know how mike johnson works his way out of this situation. i feel sorry for him in some ways, except for the fact they don't agree with them on anything, but know how he works himself
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out of the problem with this party that is ungoverned. we're >> not sure. i believe you that you feel sorry for him, but ray head cannons i certainly think he can survive the month and i think one element of this is that donald trump does not want republicans in the house to be fractures. he wants them to be largely united. and i think that that's a very powerful incentive for those dissenting members of congress. but another thing i'll note is that look the issue is that republicans with the house majority were not in a position to govern because they control one house of congress, right? and you have a democratic president in the white house right now, i believe they're going to pull together to help ensure that there's a republican president the next time around. and i think that that's a powerful incentive for them to not blow up the speaker. >> all right, rasul on keep waking. thank you both so much for being with us. appreciate both your time. there >> all right are you one of the 73 million at&t customers whose personal information has been leaked to the dark web. if you are what you can do to protect yourself measles cases are
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fubotv.com sunday on a special episode of the whole story, new interviews with the return israeli hostages in someone with you, a terrorist with you every day our second it's a very deep aspects of humanity that are taking away and the flank for the release of those still in captivity. >> hey worry most that she will despair and this is why i keep telling her in my mind, i don't the whole, story with anderson cooper, sunday et eight on cnn this morning, their personal information might be up for grabs on the dark web. it is all due to a data breach at at&t involving 73 million customers. the massive privacy breach includes data like social security numbers, addresses, passwords
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and other personal information for current and former customers and us as now, our us tech trader editor at large, lance on and off. thank you so much for joining us this morning. first of all, how did this happen? is there an explanation from at&t as to how this data breach happened >> not exactly, although it's safe to guess that it may have been a partner that often happens. it's usually not directly with the telcos, but they are usually working with third parties with the data. what's interesting about this case is that three years ago, at&t denied this happened. they said they didn't see any evidence and now because it really is 2019 and before that, so it's really confirmation that in fact the breach did happen and all that data personal data is out on the dark web. lands when you look at all of these things, such security numbers, names, dates
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of birth, phone number. these are all the things you need to steal someone's identity. i mean, what can people do and how can they tell if their information was leaked? >> yeah well, i mean, they really have to start by. first of all, we talked about things like passwords, social security number. now you can't change your social security number, but you can't change your passwords. it's very concerning when a password is out on the dark web, because so many people reuse passwords, i keep telling people stop doing that used tool just like last pass, one password to create passwords for them and store them for them so they don't have to remember them. >> but they need >> to, if you are an at&t customer, certainly you want to start doing a credit check you having your identity watched by services like live lock and experience, they can give you ports about the details if your data is sitting out there and then keep an eye on your credit change passwords definitely. if you have an at&t password
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update, all of that information and keep a close eye on it the fact of the matter is so much of our data is out there in the dark web if people are not doing sort of a regular rinse and repeat on their security and privacy and making sure they're updating their passwords regularly they're going to be subject to this. >> yeah, because once it's on the dark web, it can be sold and sold and sold to the highest bidder basically, who's trying to to impact your credit. i hear that at&t is going to pay if you are one of the effect of customers, they will pay for getting your credit reports or whatever the recommendations that you make. i do want to ask you if there is any indication of how at&t is fixing this and putting in measures to stop this from happening again >> we've not heard you >> that is not a good sign >> i know because the thing is it takes it is a long, hard investigation. it's difficult to figure out exactly where
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this happened. it happened with the third party that's even more difficult if it happened internally, was it what's it like some sort of phishing attack? as i always say, the same thing, the weakest link in security are human beings social engineering attacks happen every day and companies are the biggest, richest targets. and so people have to be very smart and make sure that they're not responding to and clicking on links on email. and this is something that companies literally go through training we need to teach people to do, to be careful about, yet, it still happens. so i'm sure we'll hear more about this in the coming weeks and months. it is a shame. it took three years for at&t to figure out that had in fact happened. hopefully, the resolution on how it happened won't take another three years yeah, three years of the heck of a long time if your information is out there for people to grab onto. and i just want to go down your list reset passcodes, monitor account additivity, monitor credit reports is there going to be a time in which people get compensation if for example, this data breach happens and
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you're, you're out a whole bunch of money because someone's stolen your identity. what is it a lawsuit that has to go forward or what? because it skews keeps happening with company after company after company. >> i mean, look, the person the company that owns the data, they're responsible for securing your data. so it really doesn't matter who where the breach happened, right? it's this really lies at at&t's feet. now, what it's going to say is that it's paying for these, these lifelong accounts for all these people that may be affected. and maybe that's like $99 a year for a single year. and that may be what they consider renumeration. on the other hand, if it goes beyond that, and this is the thing at&t right now says that he has no indication that this data is actually been sold to other parties. so it's not even though it's found on the dark web, people have not started to use it so potentially no one's been impacted. but if you have been impacted, well, that's something you're going to have to find out whether or not you can go after at&t. and i'm no lawyer, so i have no idea really how they can do that,
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but certainly, if it were me, i would feel like, well, somebody ought to pay for this lance on off. thank you so much for breaking that down for us. lots of people affected by the 73 million john. >> all right. this morning a new health alert from the cdc as measles cases this year have shot past the total for all of 2023. it's only april 1, 97 cases have been reported across 17 states, more than half of those have ended in hospitalizations cnn's jacqueline howard is with us now. or three months in one day into the year and we've already surpassed all the measles cases from last year. what's happening here? >> that's right john. and we see two things happening here. one, we know that some of these cases are travel-related, so someone acquired the measles virus outside of the us and then traveled here. but what's really conrning number two, we know that many of these outbreaks are happening and pockets of communities where there are low vaccination
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nation rates and these low vaccination rates are driving these cases. as you mentioned, john, we know that at least so far is 17 states and new york city have reported a total of 97 cases. those 97 are way higher than all of last year in all of 2023, a total of 58 measles cases were ported. the reason why this is concerning measles is so contagious if someone coughs or sneezes the virus can linger in the air for up to two hours. so this is what we're dealing with, but we do have a tool against this. the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. and vaccines will really help reduce the risk of these outbreaks happening in john. >> yeah, if you're not vaccinated and you are exposed to measles, the percentages are you get measles almost exactly in every time. >> if you're not vaccinated. i understand that there's an ongoing outbreak right now that's being moderate. chicago was the latest there that's right. actually, about half of all cases in the country are concentrated in chicago. we
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know that chicago has reported a total of 53 cases. we know that about 58% of those cases are in young children younger than the age of five. so that's an area where health officials are watching, right? now. john, and as we continue the year, it'll be interesting to see total net nationally, how many cases we're going to end the year of 2024 width, if we're already at a total of 97, john it up on the screen a moment ago, we had that that statistic 97% effective, that measles vaccine is that's right, 7% effect so important. >> yeah >> jacqueline howard, great to see you this morning. thank you very much. >> we got a lot of >> developments on some major stories and new our cnn news central starts now donald trump raging against >> prosecutors as the lead legal cases begin closing in on him. it's a critical month for the former president. his first

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