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>> what i keep telling her >> in my mind. i >> don't stop on cnn good morning. >> you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i'm john acosta in washington. we begin with new questions about donald trump's extreme rhetoric. perhaps the biggest question of them all will trump face any accountability and will republican leaders call him out after the former president shared a video on social media, that could pose a security risk for president biden. here's that horrific video posted by trump showing the president hogtied in the back of a pickup truck over the weekend, biden and trump offered distinctly different easter messages. president calling for peace, security, and dignity for people around the world as for trump, he wished a happy easter to those he totally despises in the
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failing nation end quote. but he hopes to lead. he reshared articles suggesting he is a modern-day jesus who was being crucified and the accused president of a quote, years-long assault on the christian faith the president of course, is a devout catholic this week he's pledging to address a quote, biden's border bloodbath, putting a lot of these in quotes just to make sure you understand this is trump's rhetoric this just 11 days after insisting that rhetoric was exclusive. sibley about the economic consequences of a biden victory here with me to discuss trump's increasingly inflammatory and violent rhetoric has ruth and she's a professor of history at nyu. she's also the author of multiple books, including strong men mussolini to the president, and ruth, a great to have you on as always when we talk about trump's sharing this violent video, the president, a president biden, hogtied in the bed of a pickup truck. you
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know, we saw the consequences of his words on january 6, how concerned are you about? this kind of stuff sparking some kind of violence. what do you think >> i'm very concerned and it's, you know, when you work on cuz and authoritarian takeovers, you look at this a bit differently. it's not just a joke. the fact it's a life-size image, it's really performing a work of imagination for americans because a sitting president of the united states whose hogtied as though he sub, hostage this implies, shall we say, not a democratic transition of power but something a bad end that is happening to the sitting president of united states get it shared on social media by somebody who already tried to overthrow the government then, of course that is, that is extremely serious and and be speaks a very an intent to continue to incite violence
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against anyone who's trying to hold them accountable. but now also so the president of the united states right? >> and typically, when if somebody out there just in the general public were to share an image like this that they might expect a visit from the united states secret service. but now it just seems that this kind of violent imagery, this kind of dangerous political rhetoric has become so commonplace it makes you wonder what the authorities do with this kind of stuff >> i i share those concerns and, you know, it's very important to strike back and hold people accountable and especially, someone like trump who has a history of this in 2023 he posted an image of himself, a baseball bat and the manhattan de alvin bragg, who was trying to hold him accountable. and you know, he he doesn't have to explicitly say, please go bash the head of this prosecutor, this member of
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the judiciary trying to uphold the rule of law. he just posts the images together. so he's a very skilled propagandist and he knows what his followers will. will do with this. but this is not isolated. it's not just him. the kansas gop recently held a fundraiser sir, and invited donors as a reward for giving money to be able to bash an assault, an effigy of fightin with sticks >> and >> the official party distance itself, but it's still happened and it had lots of takers. so there's been this attempt to delegitimize and discredit and incite violence again, since judges, their families. but now we're seeing it arrive up to the sitting president of the united states >> and ruth trump's campaign claimed that those blood bath comments that we were discussing a couple of weeks ago were exclusive to the economy. now he's using the term to talk about the southern border is your reaction to that when he brought up this quote,
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unquote, border bloodbath, there's that term again, bloodbath >> because with propaganda, it's not just about getting somebody to believe a lie, a specific lie like who won the 2020 election. it's really about creating associated deviations and inciting emotions and people. so trump knows very well, he's very skilled at this, that when he talks about the bloodbath that will overcome the whole country, he wasn't only talking about the auto industry is not only about the border, it's about instilling a kind of existential fear in people and that's how you have, you get them to either commit violence on your behalf, which happened on january 6, when he said, if you don't fight like hell, you won't have a country anymore. so or they look away when violence is committed by others. and so trump is slowly and relentlessly kind of shaping the emotional climate of psychological climate that
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is needed for a >> and ruth, the other thing that's popped up in the last couple of days, trump going after judge merchan's daughter by name on truth, social, of course, he's the judge overseeing the alvin bragg case and you just mentioned a few moments go what is this been for the judicial system when this repeatedly happens? and there aren't any consequences for trump, he's been admonished by judges not to cross the line rhetorically in certain ways or been limited gag orders put in place here and there nothing really does the trick yeah. >> and this is a huge mistake because this is exactly what authoritarians do. they go after prosecutors, lawyers, judges, anybody who can try and hold them accountable, and they go after their families this is one of the regular things been happening since mussolini, even if people go into exile, if regime takes hold they go after your family, who might be left
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in the country so what trump did here was called the judges daughter, a rabbit. trump haider though, that's a phrase which he knows is going to anger his opponents, were very loyal to him and fest, he's doing things deliberately to create a climate of hostility that could result in physical violence. he knows exactly what he's doing all right. >> ruth, thank you. yeah. thanks as always for coming on. i'm sure we'll be having this conversation again and again. but as always, we appreciate the insights. thanks a lot >> i was. a, pleasure >> all right. >> in the meantime, in northern gaza, at least 300 bodies have been found at the al shifa hospital after israeli forces withdrew following an intense two weeks siege. that's according to gaza's civil defense cnn, we should note, cannot independently verify those casualty numbers, but you can see parts of the hospital were reduced to rubble israel has maintained at targeted armed militants who were using the facility. and it has detained. it says some 900
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suspects. cnn's melissa bell joins us now from outside the israeli parliament and jerusalem were anti netanyahu protests are taking place for a second day. and melissa, we'll talk about that in a moment. what can you tell us though about the idf withdrawal from al-shifa and what what's being seen on the ground there >> were pretty horrific pictures that are beginning to come to us from what was gaza's largest hospital complex, jim we've been hearing from the idf this was they say a prison it's ice and deadly attack in two weeks of seeds that they say led them to make those 900 arrests that you mentioned of which they say 500 were identified as hamas or islamic jihad terrorists at many of them senior commanders what we're hearing from civilians now, trying to get back to the al-shifa complex are really horrific allegations being made about what's happened to the civilians, not just a hundreds of bodies that have been found but talk and we can see this on some of the
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video evidence. it seems so crushed body isn't that speaks to what we've been hearing from civilians on the ground over the last couple of weeks of bulldozers taking on parts of the hospital complex and the mutilated bodies that find themselves underneath the rubble. now, the idf has yet to answer to those claims. but i think what's interesting about the al shifa hospital beyond the undoubted pressure that these fresh images are likely to bring on benjamin, and the way he's prosecuting his origin is that this was a part of that country in the north of gaza that the idf had reduced its operations in announcing in january that the intent, intention it's part of the battle was done because they roots it out of them as terrorist then they said the return that mass terrorists would oblige them to head back. and i think that is interesting when we consider what's likely to come next in raffa, we've where we understand that the idf is pounding its next operations. the idea that there are four remaining battalions there. but even as they look towards that, they've been heard of it having to head back to the north as we've seen in
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that devastating two weeks siege that helps build complex at al shifa jim and melissa, there are these high-level talks between the us and israeli officials over what might take place and rafah, what do we know about those talks? what's the latest on that? and these protests are going on. do they amount to any kind of political weakness that might threaten the leadership of bibi netanyahu are not really what do you think? >> well, first of all, on those, on those torques, we understand they're taking place brutally before america, between american and israeli officials today, perhaps later, later in personally united states, the american immiseration qt, trying to convince israel to find another way then that ground assault that once again last night, benjamin netanyahu for the fourth time this month, jim announced had been cleared with the idf >> one can estimate. we will go into rafah and eliminate >> hamas battalions there for one simple reason, there is no victory without entering rafah and there is no victory without eliminating hamas battalions.
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there now, he was speaking, they're at a press conference held just before these protests began. now, last night, many thousands of people here on the streets of jerusalem what's left of that, jim, are these tens now what the protestors says that they're going to stay here for wednesday. their plan to continue putting pressure on benjamin netanyahu. they want him to resign, they want elections cool think what's interesting is that this is the first substantial protests to return to the streets of jerusalem since the war began, that unity that we saw off the october 7 appears to be disinterested greetings in. >> all right. fascinating moos, belt and jerusalem. thank you very much. in the meantime, with the speakership in jeopardy, what speaker mike johnson is saying about a vote on aid to ukraine, what that might mean? for his hold on the leadership in the house that's next >> spatial colombia, the final flight premieres sunday at nine on cnn. >> we had to take our old gas heating. that was a huge
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>> if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we'll come to you >> 881, 4,000 new on capitol hill, one republican lawmakers says a vote on ukraine funding could land on the house floor after members returned from easter recess next week, but that poses a big problem for house speaker mike johnson. many far-right republicans oppose any new money to ukraine with johnson's speakership on the line, how he hand handles of funding vote could determine if he remains in power. cnn, congressional correspondent lauren fox is with you now lauren, i mean, we saw the drama that unfolded before they went on a break just over keeping the government running. this is about funding for ukraine. what does this mean for speakership? >> speaker johnson is sort of finding himself between a rock and a hard place right now, this is the position ten. he's been in before? this is a position that former speaker kevin mccarthy found himself in the concern right now for johnson is just keeping the
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right flank at bay and he's consulting with some of those members are colleagues, melanie zanona, manu raju, and annie grayer have a terrific story out this morning that lays out, he's actually consulting with representative matt gaetz, who was the key architect of ousting kevin mccarthy back in october, and the guidance and unsolicited advice, gaetz is giving him is you have to get republican and conservative wins. this is where that issue over ukraine aid becomes so hard for speaker johnson because that is an issue that is going to alienate his right flank and he has signaled he's open to it. it will look different than what the senate, $85 billion package looked like. but he is interested in doing something >> the question is, what >> can he do? >> now speaker johnson did >> respond to >> marjorie taylor greene's threats against him, her warning shots. so she's calling it. here's what he said >> how was this motion to vacate help went back the
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majority or when a bigger majority? >> i don't. think it does and i think all of my other republican colleagues recognize this is 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. >> the problem for johnson, of course, is that it's such a narrow majority right now. it's a to vote majority. he's going to have a one vote majority. his best chances of keeping a speakership is that message convincing members that this would not be good for the party going into the november >> and laurel, what about this republican congress? from michigan? he's walking back these comments that were made about gaza, can you tell us about that? >> yeah. tim walberg on march 25th, was asked at a town hall about humanitarian aid in gaza. and this is how he responded we shouldn't be spending a dime and humanitarian it should be like nagasaki and hiroshima now
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walberg put out a statement yesterday walking this back. i want to read it to you at said in a shortened clip, i used a metaphor to convey the need for both israel and ukraine to win their wars as swiftly as possible without putting american troops in harm's way. my reasoning was the exact opposite of what is being reported. the quicker these wars end, the fewer innocent lives will be caught in a crossfire. but again, this is a very candid moment at a town hall. you can't see him on video, but you can hear him there yeah. >> and anytime you talking about hiroshima and nagasaki, i mean, i think people understand the implication. all right. lauren fox, thank you very much. let's discuss that and more now, a cnn senior political commentator in navarro and cnn, a little bit commentator, maria cardona, i do want to talk about my johnson. i do want to talk about donald trump in a moment, but anna, can i go to you first and let me just ask you, do you buy with this congressman from michigan is saying when he says, oh, i wasn't really talking about you know
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hiroshima and nagasaki when he when he drops those names in, that comment it's unreal >> hiroshima and nagasaki or not. it's not something that's to be left to the interpretation, right? we all know what it was >> and you know, i often see this the session going on in the democratic party about this in the question i asked democrats war expressing discontent with a biden administration on the issue of gaza. and i think they have a right to express that discontent. but the question is, do you think helping people like that congressman or helping donald trump get an office is going to do anything to help the people you care about more and i think the question is again, no so what that congressman said it's a larger problem and it's a larger problem that i think in part a result of donald trump, where people think that words don't matter, that dog whistles, you can say are not
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dog-whistles that you can just say things that are horrible, offensive did visit triggering and then you can pretend you didn't and that people are not hearing what they heard. >> and it's >> terrible it's terrible example for our elected officials to be setting. >> and it's happening from the top to the bottom on the republican side >> yeah, i am maria. i mean and has absolutely right. i mean, words words matter and i mean it's just reckless for this congressmen to be talking about in that, in that kind of way, especially given the tremendous amount of human suffering that is going on in gaza right now, there's no question about that, jim. >> and look >> when you use that kind of rhetoric know what you're saying, regardless of the kind of walking back that this congressman tried to do, he knows exactly what he's saying. the same way that donald trump knows exactly what he's saying when he uses his kind of violent rhetoric. and what i think should really concern us all is that we have already
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proven the writ large political society, our country, that donald trump's words don't just cause violence. they have caused death >> and he is now ratcheting >> up those words as is his leaders within the maga republican base and those words nagasaki and hiroshima, are very triggering and again, they are directed at their base and they know exactly what they're doing and what really concerns me is donald trump's rhetoric was an inspiration to the el paso shooter. it was an inspiration to the shooter in charleston. it was an inspiration to so many who have already caused violence, especially on january 6. so what are we to wait for when donald trump loses this coming election? in terms of what's going to happen. >> and that leads me to this. and i mean, you i wanted to get your reaction to this thing on this pickup truck that he shared the last few days of joe
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biden hogtied on the back of a pickup truck. i mean, i was talking about this with roofing. yeah. earlier on in this program in any other administration, there would be a secret service visit to whoever did that. there is just note there would happen no matter who's in office republican an office democrat in office if you had that on the back of your pickup truck and you shared it on social media and the secret service could track you down. you would get a visit from the secret service now, nowadays, trump has secret service protection. so i guess it's a little bit different >> you don't fit to me, frankly, he should not be above the law. he should not be different just because he's are former president. and you're absolutely right. just ask my friend kathy griffin. whose entire career was jettison because of a very inappropriate image that she shared with that head of trump's. and so and it goes back to this, you know, what we can't take these things that trump is doing and saying now, when he talks about bloodbath, when he calls
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migrants invaders who are poisoning the blood of america when he shares images like these, we can't take in a vacuum because this is not the first time he does this. you and i, jim. know what it's like to be attacked person by this precedent. you and i know the threats that come from it and so i keep asking myself we really going to go into four more years of this chaos of this recklessness of waking up with the stress in the morning of not knowing what scandal what international incident what the mastic incident this man is going to foster does america really have that level of amnesia that they don't remember just the horrible aspects of donald trump that we live with for four years. and these things are real. i am sure that, you and i can attest to receiving threats because of things that donald trump shared. and we can take in a
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vacuum because we just had january because i've marina said we just had the el paso shooter. we have the buffalo should we have the shooter's of people? okay. so normal people may not be triggered by watching, by seeing that image but there are people who will be, who will be, who will trigger it, will promote, it, will foster all sorts of feelings and that's where the problem is. and if kathy griffin had to have consequences, social donald trump she got canceled. they they canceled her. they tried to cancel me. she has made a come back at her career. maria, the other question i have is a little bit her in her head you're right if you're right. >> yeah. and maria, the other question is, and i can hear that some of the folks at home saying, gosh, why do you guys talk about this while i'm sure you hear this, i'm sure anna here, why do you guys talk about this? you know, he's just playing you guys. he does this thing in the back of the pickup truck today. he does the blood path comment tomorrow and he's just cabinet with the media. he's just playing you guys
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>> and i think that is exactly the danger of ignoring it. so i'm actually so glad that we are not ignoring that regardless of those complaints and what i would say to the people who are complaining about that, look back at what has happened as a result of donald trump's rhetoric. >> and >> anna's right, and this frustrates me to no end about the kind of amnesia that we're kind of seeing that the american people are going through and look, it's not unheard of because if you've talked to a psychologist, right, the american human psyche and human minds are trained to forget trauma. and this country went through four years of trauma. we did wake up every morning nervous hypertension blood pressure spiking. i can't tell you how many people i have heard of during those four years is saying, i'm just i'm not even going to look at the news anymore because i can't take it that's what the country went through. so it is not surprising that people want it forget that we cannot let them forget that. because as i said
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before and what we are hearing from donald trump is not that he's walking it back. he doesn't understand that he's in a general election or maybe he doesn't he just doesn't care and he thinks that by inciting more of this hateful violent rhetoric. he's going to create more maga, extremists. my hope and my faith in the american people, in the common sense, republicans, independence, suburban voters, latinos, african americans, women, lgbtq, everyone who understands that we live, we want to live in a saint the civil decent society will ultimately go to the polls in november and vote for that. >> yeah. >> well i mean, it's being consumed in conservative media, maga media, and so on. whether we covered or not. so i mean, if we if we think it's important to cover this stuff, we ought to cover it okay marina, great to talk to you guys as always, ladies. thank you so much and happy monday. really appreciate it. all right. >> in the meantime, right now in baltimore, officials are racing to open an alternate channel for central ships we
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>> yeah, jim, that's absolutely right in those crews are dealing with a lot of rain and wind and cold this morning as they tried to work on the river. and now the focus has turned a toward opening this alternate channel that they're trying to create in the river at some point soon for commercially essential vessels would the hoping that it's the first step toward reopening the port of baltimore, as you mentioned, thousands of jobs are at stake right now with work basically shut down in the port, potentially millions of dollars an impact to the local economy. but at this point, it's unclear what the timeline is to actually get that alternate vessel. that alternate channel open and what vessels are going to be able to use it, whether or not it will be able to handle larger ships at some point soon, i can tell you. i just spoke with a joint information center that told me at this point in the short term, the only vessels that are going to be using that channel are the ones directly involved in this salvage operation actually getting the bridge out of the water and gave you two spoke with a man who was one of the last people who crossed the bridge before it's collapsed
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that must be some kind of story. what can you tell us >> yeah a remarkable story, jim, i spoke with larry desantis. he was on his way to work that morning driving the key bridge as he did every morning at that same time, just seconds over the bridge, he saw those construction workers cleared the edge of the bridge and seconds later got a phone call about the collapse. here's what he told me. take a listen >> really hard to believe i >> feel sorry for those workers why do they're going to ground, lost their lives >> it's hard i really like by him. >> i saw >> just a minute before they'd probably guide jim, you can hear the emotion in his voice, something so many people here in baltimore are still feel
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like >> yeah, unbelievable. wow, what a story are gabe cohen, thank you very much joining me now, democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland, senator. i mean, you just heard what gabe cohen was according there are a few moments ago. this is just a critically important part of the baltimore economy. are you satisfied with the pace of the efforts to reopen this channel, get things going well, jim, i am. and first, let me just say about >> six, that we lost in this terrible tragedy. we are working very hard to support their, families and their kids i am satisfied the army corps of engineer was on the job immediately as has the coast guard and the us navy. they're working 24/7 as you just heard, they're trying to open a portion of the passage way on the pap store river under the bridge. this will be for vessels that don't draw as much
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water. so about 11, eight as work goes on at the same time to clear the main channel. that's 50 feet and that's the channel we have to clear to get more container ships back into the port baltimore's you say it is a credible critical economic hub. i'm going to be going very shortly to meet with some of the longshoremen's who won a regular on a regular de, would be unloading and offloading cargo from these ships. so we've got to get this up and running. and i thank the president for dispatching the army corps of engineers immediately. and they're on the job >> i've been out there voting on the chesapeake bay. i mean, you >> see those cargo ships go with you. there's just a vital part of this entire region's economy and senator, i mean, are you hearing from administration officials as to how quickly we could see this? channel getting reopened. and what about the bridge itself? i know that's a long way off, but any new estimates in terms of timing, there
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>> so we don't have a specific timeline on opening the channel, which is essential to getting the port operations going there. just so many variables. what i can say is i've been down there usually every day and they are working 24/7. so even as they tried to clear this one passageway under the bridge to make room for barges. there at the same time doing all the engineering analysis to open the deeper channel. as for the bridge we are determined to rebuild the key bridge. and again, the federal government has stepped up maryland has been included in the emergency relief program, which is a federal program for these kind of emergencies. and we'll pick up the federal government will pick up 90% of the costs through that program and then center ricard and myself and congressman, who may will be introducing legislation to make up that difference so that we meet the president's request
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and insistence that the federal government step in during this national emergency. and it is national given the scope of the port activities and the number of jobs are impacted >> yes. but center i mean, what do you have to say to whether republicans who have been blasting president biden for pledging federal funding for the rebuilding. congressman geoff duncan of south carolina told fox he was quote, while i mourn the lives lost in baltimore, we cannot haphazardly spent over 1 billion as america is 34 trillion in debt before we spend more and more dime for domestic infrastructure, we must build a domestic border wall it goes on and on what's your response to that >> well, first of all, jim, i've got a long list of projects that other states have submitted in which had been accepted under the emergency relief program red states, blue states, purple states. this is essentially what this program was designed to do with respect
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to the remainder. if you go back to the time of the minneapolis bridge collapse, congress within a very short period of time, overwhelmingly said the federal government should help a great american city in need. that was the great city of the app less. baltimore is a great american city and has this bribing or and so we believe that we should come together again as americans put aside party labels and get it done all right, senator chris van hollen, maryland. thanks so much. best of luck on those efforts to get the situation taken care of there in baltimore, they surely need some help as soon as possible. center. thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thank you, joe. >> all right. coming up, the personal information of 73 million at&t customer now exposed on the dark web, i had what the company is saying about who is behind the hack
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former customers of at&t have been caught up in this i know everyone's wondering, you know, have i been impacted? will at&t says they've already reached out to and reset the past codes of current customers who've been impacted. so if you don't get an email or a letter from 18 and t in the coming days, you're likely in the clear and the company says they're going to reach out to former customers as well. now, beyond the scope of this, what's concerning is what was actually taken in stolen at&t says it varies from case to case, but at this includes full names, dates of birth, bone numbers, email, mailing addresses, account numbers, passcodes and most alarmingly social security numbers. now, one cyber-security research researcher told me that this is more than enough information for criminals to do everything from phishing campaigns to potentially even in personalizing impersonating customers, or even trying to steal their identity here one interesting element here is the timing. it was nearly three
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years ago that a well-known hacker claimed to have customer information on 70 million people from at&t. and at the time, at&t denied that its systems had been penetrated. now, the company says that they realized that about two weeks ago customer information was leaked on the dark web, but at&t says they're investigating. they don't know yet if this was taken directly from the company or from a vendor. gym. there's a number of things that customers can do if they fear that they've been impacted, including changing their pass codes, they can freeze their credit accounts that can also sign up for fraud alerts gym. so this is a major major league here >> yeah. i know what i'm going to be doing later today. all right. matt egan, it's like mowing the grass now it's like go into the store. we just have to make this part of our lives updating passwords, making them more complex is just what we do. now you're right gem, you're right. all right. matt egan, thanks a lot. appreciate you. are is still had the men's final four is set as north carolina state and sea state looks to make history where there her cinderella run
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this run by nc state, it's unbelievable yeah, you know, uconn is looking unbeatable the way that they have handled this tournament, alabama has a really potent offense. i think that's going to be a really compelling game. the boilermakers have lived up to their billing and now you've got the wolfpack that would become the darlings of the tournament. the teams that we expected to be there are there and then we get a cinderella of sorts in nc state and 11 seed led by a pair of super seniors and dj burns and dj horne just pulling off another upset this time against do burns just seem to bully his way to a team-high 29 points? horne added 20 against the blue devils in this 76, 64, come back when and what's fascinating is that the wolfpack needed to win five games and five days to win the acc tournament just to get invited to be here and now they have somehow oh managed to rattle off nine in a row heading to the final four for the first time in 41 years, you've got purdue heading to the final four for the first time in 40 years, map painter. so deserving of this tennessee
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all american dollars on connect was just brilliant in this game for the vaults, yet 37, but it was the boilermakers big-man zach edey proving why he is the front-runner in a wind second straight national player of the year award. he put up a career-high 40. he did it at the free throw line and then the game on the line, he had this huge block to seal the sixth point when and i loved watching him after the game to jim because he seven, four, so he doesn't necessarily even need the ladder to cut down the nets. i just grabbing the scissors going up there and taking it. but he said a lot of people have doubted him over the course of his career. and this is really a redemptive moment for him. so that was really funny to watch. you can watch saturday's final four as well as next monday is national championship game on her sister channel tbs. and streaming on macs. i have to agree with you. uconn is looking so confident right now, but i hesitate to say anything. i don't know if kaitlan collins is close by in dc. i don't i don't want her calling me, but they look really good zach edey, does he do odd jobs around the house changing lightbulbs. i mean, he
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could really cover a couple of things that i might like him to do around absolutely. >> those hard-to-reach places. >> and >> the women's tournament has also been just insane. it's been terrific. tell us about the three-point line discrepancy though. i saw something about this it had just i what is going on, how did this get mixed up? >> yeah, this is strange. i mean, the focus tonight is rightly on lsu and iowa exactly where it should be, but the ncw has faced a lot of criticism over the years for how it has failed to support women's sports. this is something that's just downright bizarre. i mean, nc, state and texas were getting ready they for their game in portland, oregon yesterday and officials came onto the court with measuring tapes. they realized that the lines weren't adding up. and what's even wilder about that is that for games had already been played without anybody noticing that the three-point lines were off. but rather than delay the game, both teams agreed to play and just kinda deal with the wonk enos of a miscalculation in the end it was nc state that toppled top-seeded texas 76, 66 to reach her first final force since 1998. but you think about
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tonight's game, lsu and iowa, this incredible opportunity for 200 superstars and caitlin clark and angel reese to go toe to toe with one another. they are both confident they both talk trash. they both have swagger. they're both great teammates. and so to have this be must-see primetime television later on this evening is just gonna be so fun this rematch to the national championship last year that everybody just cannot wait for and with good reason yeah, that's gonna be a huge match up. i'll definitely be watching. all right. caroline. no, thank you so much. that was great rundown of everything that's took place over the weekend. thanks so much and our next our newsroom continues after a short break. >> this is the big game >> kane who that do covid-19.
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