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>> anderson cooper 360. >> next on cnn tonight. what is being billed as a once in a lifetime experience. this is the solar eclipse coming across north america. if you're traveling to try to see it and you haven't already booked a place to stay. it's >> just too late. sorry. sorry to be so negative, but you'll be hard-pressed to find one. what you see here is the eclipse path on monday, right? so you look get that from dallas, texas all the way up to lancaster, new hampshire. millions that we're now flocking to cities and towns along that path. >> so >> when you look at the map here, it's exact same line, right? but this is not an artistic aversion of it. these red dots actually represent where airbnbs are 100% booked it's really amazing to look at it right? in your state alone searches for airbnbs this weekend are up 900% from the same time last year. and hotels, well, there's a super eight motel in illinois. now advertising rooms for $949 the
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normal rate is $95 times >> wow. well, >> are special coverage of the eclipse for those of you who were too late to get off the couch starts on monday afternoon. thanks so much for joining us. anderson starts now tonight on three 60. the judge he appointed says the former president cannot escape prosecution by claiming the highly classified documents he took were personal property that in her answer who potentially significant demand by the special counsel also tonight, the biden administration putting israel on notice, american support now hinging on israel's treatment of civilians in gaza plus countdown to eclipse or gary tuckman visits a town that seen better days but is now looking up thanks to its location in the path of monday's pick event. good evening. thanks for joining us today. judge. aileen cannon gave special counsel, jack smith a victory of sorts, but denied him the ruling he wants in the classified documents case she rejected the former president's claim that he cannot be prosecuted because he converted the highly
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sensitive material into personal items under the presidential records act but she refused to do with special counsel smith wanted which is two visually clarify how she wants that law applied. if in fact it even should be smith wants to get her on record so we can ask the 11th circuit court of appeals to reverse her if needed, which the court has done before. today, judge cannon refused to be pinned down writing quote, the court declines that demand is unprecedented and unjust now this comes after mr. trump erupted on social media, yet again, attacking jack smith and praising the judge he appointed. apparently the only judges seems to like cnn's evan perez joins us now with more on judge cannons ruling. so what else did she say? >> what anderson she was pushing back at the special counsel, jack smith. i mean, look, the back-and-forth between the special counsel, between the government and the judge has gotten downright sassy, right today. today, she pushes that illegal it might as well be in this case. and look,
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i mean, things are getting definitely spicy because she definitely realized that the special counsel was criticizing her for the way she's handled this case, especially because she's refusing to actually say whether donald trump can use the presidential records act. a post nixon law to essentially claim that he had the right to take these documents when he left the presidency, when he left the presidency to take him back to mar-a-lago. and so by the fact that she's not doing that, it means that that issue is still alive. and so what she's doing here is she's letting that continue but she pushes back. let me point let me read you just a part of what she she wrote in this two-page order. she says the courts ordered soliciting preliminary draft instructions on certain counts should not be construed as declaring a final definition on any essential element or asserted defense in this case, nor should it be interpreted as anything other than what it was a genuine attempt in the context so the upcoming trial to better understand the
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parties competing positions and the questions to be submitted to the jury in this complex case. now, look as you heard from a judge who you talk to just a couple of days ago on your air, anderson it's very unusual for the judge to be getting to the question of what other jury instructions and whether to use the presidential records act as part of those jury instructions at this at this stage of the case. and so the fact that these special counsel was pushing her nudging her to do that in order to be able to at least appeal is quite notable at this point. >> so there's still more than a dozen outstanding motions for this, judge to decide including several other motions to dismiss the case. how much could that impact the timing of this trial >> it impacts all of the timing and here's the other thing is that from what we can tell, she's planning to do hearings on every one of these motions. and so those take time and eats up a lot of the calendar which
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as you pointed out is already being eaten away. and so that's part of the beef that is developing between the government and this judge because the fact that every one of these in normal cases, a lot of judges would just have lawyers brief the various disputes and then make rulings in this case. she's not doing that. she's she's she's having them brief and then bringing the menn for hearings, which takes up a lot of time. and then in this case, for instance, this is a pretty simple ruling that she did. but it took some time for her to even make this ruling and okay. centers impressed. thanks so much for more on what to make of the judge's ruling. judge cannons ruling. we're joined tonight, but former federal judge nancy gertner, also, david kelly, who served as us attorney for the southern district of new york during the george w bush administration. and another former federal prosecutor from the southern district, district jessica roth. so judge gertner, let me start with you. you've been critical of how judge cannon has handled the case so far, particularly how she's dealt with the presidential records act and proposed jury
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instructions which you called. and i quote, very, very troubling. you also said in recent weeks, the judges quote, giving credence to arguments that are on their face absurd so what do you make of her ruling today >> well, i want to step back for a second. so what she did today is to say that the presidential records act can't lead to the dismissal of all charges, right? and that to some degree is an easy decision to have made. you can't say, >> i'm leaving with the nuclear plan of attack, because i want to, because i've just decided to. so she said it's not going to be the basis to dismiss, but she's keeping it in play for the trial. so either trump would be able to say or at least for now, she's keeping it in play. i these were personal records even though i never told anyone in the white house that they were personal, even though they count on their face, be personal she's going to keep that in play as a trial at the trial, rather, it makes a
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potential for the trial to be chaotic and dangerous for the special prosecutor, chaotic because trump is going to get their screen screaming that somehow these were things, these are personal records or that he was these are selective prosecution, all sorts of things that he's claiming in these motions. and dangerous for the special prosecutor because she'll be putting her finger on the scale, putting her thumb on the scale >> but judge >> to decide things that they shouldn't. but judge isn't any defendant allowed to make whatever defense they want them? it can't why couldn't form the president argue? well, i think the presidential records act applies here, even if it doesn't because it doesn't it doesn't. you can't you can't make you can't bring defenses that are based on air. you can't bring defenses that have absolutely no grounding in the law, right. i mean, i killed someone and i had a right to kill that someone
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because i'm the messiah. i mean, there's there is a limit and most judges will basically cabin what they can say. this offers a possibility that this trial is going to be wide open and she's going to not control it at all >> david, i want to read another portion. the judge's order declining to dismiss the indictment. she said the counts make no reference. the president central records act in order they rely on that statute for purposes of stating an offence what do you make of the argument that she is making? >> well i think she did this made it look like it's strictly a legal issue. and i think she's kind of hedging a little bit leaving the door open for trump to follow up on. the judge said to follow up on what she said is it's kinda like a factual defense for him to assert that. well, i thought i was covered by the presidential records act, one of the problems with that as number one, she could rule that inadmissible, but number two, and essentially to do that i think you'd have to testify what chant going to do. so it's i'm not quite sure what
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the design was behind the ruling it's >> mysterious, jessica, what do you think jack smith's next move is then? >> well, this has to be incredibly frustrating to him because as the judge was saying, this is an issue of law that the judge should have decided i think she could have decided. okay. no one's talking about the presidential records act. >> she should rule that it's not relevant in the context of this case she doesn't seem to be willing to do that. and this is part of a pattern of her not only being delayed in issuing decisions when when she does issue what looks like a decision, it's actually not a committal decision as you essentially kicks it down the road and say, well, the dismissal is it's without prejudice to bringing it back later in the case here, the real risk is that she's not going to issue a definitive statement or ruling on whether she's going to instruct the jury on the application of the presidential records act until we get to the point where the jury has been empaneled in jeopardy would attach and that's a really dangerous point for the special counsel to be at. because once jeopardy attaches, there's going to be a real risk that he's not going to be able to try this
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case. because he's not going to be able to perhaps get her reversed by the 11th circuit in time and he wouldn't be able to retry it because of double jeopardy. so he's trying to avoid being in that situation where the jury's already in paneled and that's when he finds out how she's going to instruct the jury so judge gertner, can you can you wrap your head around the former president defending judge cannon in the social media post earlier today because she she ruled against him saying jack >> smith and somehow treated her terribly and that he should be sanctioned all while trump himself attacks to other judges and prosecutors and the substances their family, i mean, it seems like this is the only judge. he doesn't attack >> well, of course it's the only dirty he doesn't attack. but what step back for a moment? the way he has attacked other judges is not in terms of their particular decisions. they didn't rule on this they didn't rule on that. it is sort of ad hominem attacks against the judge's before they have even open their mouth. they're trump haters with with judge cannon. he's basically
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not saying anything and he's attacking jack smith has two arranged the notion that the human beings, or even spending time on this is extraordinary. i mean, what he's saying makes absolutely no sense. certainly jack smith's latest filing was much more pointed. there's no basis whatsoever to the presidential records act. he's saying and make a decision so that that we can we can appeal. and that was it was appointed filing much less pointed than i've seen in my career as a judge, but that's what he needs to do because otherwise, really this trial, if and when it takes place will be chaos just chaos. >> david, what stops it from being cast? i mean, if it's going down this road are your guess is as good as mine. it's really hard. she hasn't put any structure here she hasn't really you need to establish who's running the courtroom and she hasn't done that. and in fact, an inviting the parties to do jury charge just at this stage. that's like
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asking them, can you please give me the law for dummies or cliff's notes on the law because i don't know what it is. maybe you can help me figure it out and so i think that whole package is just kinda sets a tone and he sees an opportunity there of butter in her up i mean, the other judges yeah. he's gone after them before they even ruled on stuff, but his expectation is that they're going to be against me. his expectation here clearly and it seems to be coming to fruit is that she's going to be really good for him. so why not keep bundling are up end. >> he goes to all the hearings in front of her or most of them if she does seem to have a very hard time ruling against him in any definitive way. i have no i know insight into exactly what's motivating those decisions. but his presence certainly as i think something he sees as a strategy and all of his cases actually to be there, perhaps for political reasons, but also to be communicating how much he cares and perhaps intimidating just
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go right. thank you. david kelley as well. good to have you on judge gardner always. thank you. the next breaking news out of israel after a day that saw the biden administration warns israel that american sport now depends on how civilians in gaza are treated. we have to lie purports. and later surprising new presidential polling from the key swing state pennsylvania and the central role latino voters might play there in the outcome so what's the codes as 547, but that's all working >> that's really needs to pay. >> we're gonna get into it's not of all present with her son you are valued customer centered deve, we can go in the window just a moment. >> meanwhile, at a vrbo >> when other vacation rentals leave you hanging, try one where you can reach a human in about a minute >> you've got better things to do than clean out clog gutters, call me filter today and never clean out clog gutters again,
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>> go to deal dash.com right now and see how much you can save >> i'm arlette saenz at the white house. and this is cnn some breaking news now and israeli official tells cnn that israel's cabinet has approved the reopening of the erez crossing into northern gaza for the first time >> since hamas is october 7 attack. this and cabinet approval to use the nearby port of ashdod would allow more humanitarian aid into the strip this comes after a day that saw a big change in the body administration's approach toward how israel is conducting the war apparently triggered by this week's deadly israeli strike on a world central kitchen food convoy. the president's age disgust the attack with israel's prime minister or the white house, just tweeted out a photo of him on the call and speaking from brussels for the 75th anniversary of nato secretary of state antony blinken underscored the line that the president laid down >> this week's horrific attack on the world central kitchen was not the first such incident
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it must be the last president biden spoke a short while ago with prime minister netanyahu for leaders discussed the situation in gaza the president emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. >> he made clear that >> us policy with respect to gaza will be determined by our assessment of israel's immediate action on these steps. just say this >> if we don't >> see the changes that we need to see there'll be changes in our own policy seen this kayla tau, she is at the white house for us tonight with more than administration's apparent new approach, you heard secretary blinken their referencing potential changes in us policy. did the president tell the prime minister of those changes could look like? do we know >> anderson in a word? no, i'm told by senior administration official that president biden stuck too broad strokes and generalization when he was talking to prime minister
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netanyahu. and used pretty much exactly the same language that you heard secretary of state antony blinken use right there, that if there are not changes in israel's policy than there would need to be changes in us policy without going into detail about exactly what could change how the us could shift its policy or what types of aid could see being strapped with certain conditions. >> do we know what netanyahu, whether he pushed back on the call or at all the call was described to me as direct as business like as forceful at times and that while the two litres did have some times of disagreement, which i'm told is not unusual for for these two leaders who have known each other for decades. that it was very aboveboard. there was no sparring. and when i asked about the response of prime minister netanyahu, when biden delivered that message, that there could potentially be a change in us policy toward israel. i asked how he responded a senior administration official told me he understood anderson, the israeli security cabinet, as we said, has approved the opening
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of the erez crossing with gaza strip the first time since october 7. in order to let humanitarian aid through, does the white house believed that there's a connection to today's phone call yes, this official tells me that during the call, netanyahu made specific pledges to open more humanitarian crossings and to announce some procedural >> changes for the idf. now of course, the white house's position is trust, but verify they're waiting to see some of these specific changes. actually, not not just get announced, but go into effect, take place and produce results. but just this evening, anderson the white house, putting out a statement on the opening of that erez crossing and calling it a welcome step here, the township thanks so much coming next and to israeli signature from the diamond with more on the breaking news and how the netanyahu government is reacting to the biden administration's apparently tougher new lines. so what have you learned since that call >> well interest in these really prime minister's office isn't commenting on the call directly, but instead what they appear to be doing is letting the actions that these really
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government is taking speak in their place. and this evening, the israeli security cabinet, as you were just discussing, approving the opening of the erez crossing for the first time since october 7, also approving the use of the port of ashdod some 20 miles north of that very same crossing to be used to bring in additional humanitarian aid. now, this is significant for a few reasons. first of all, this will allow more aid to be brought directly into northern gaza where the looming famine is most acute more than the million people in gaza currently on the brink of that famine. and even as we have watched the ramp-up in airdrops, for example, these new maritime corridor to bring in more humanitarian aid. it's very clear and every humanitarian aid agency as said, that it is land crossings that are necessary to bring in the scale of humanitarian aid that is necessary and beyond that, we know the us has been pressuring israel for months now to open up more land crossings including
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specifically this erez crossing and yet even as israeli officials for months have said, they are doing everything they can to get in enough humanitarian aid. tonight, we are clearly learning that they could have done more sooner, but instead it took the deaths of these seven humanitarian aid workers. and this massive international pressure, including from the us, it's actually result in the opening think of this crossing. >> the other question, of course, jeremy is how is it then distributed? i mean, if aid groups are afraid of being targeted as world central kitchen's, i mean, those vehicles were clearly targeted for whatever reason we don't know and there's they say there's an investigation underway, but do we know when we're going to learn the details from this investigation >> yeah i mean into first of all, in terms of the humanitarian aid, we don't know a lot in terms of when this erez crossing will open and yes, the work of aid workers still remains very dangerous in gaza, but the israeli government has signaled it will take more steps to d
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conflict further between its military operations and these eight operations happening inside the gaza strip by these ngos. now, in terms of this investigation into the world central kitchen strike, i'm told that the israeli military has begun to brief out the findings of this investigation to relevant parties and tomorrow morning or this morning here in israel and a matter of a few hours, we expect that they will actually release the findings of that investigation. we don't know how detailed it will be, whether soldiers will be reprimanded here. but there's no question anderson sen. that this is the most public accounting of any kind of israeli strike by the israeli military itself since the beginning of this war. of course, part of that has to do with the fact of the brazen nature of this with two vehicles that were clearly marked as aid vehicles coordinated with the israeli military. but there's also certainly a part of this anderson that has to do with
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the fact that six of the seven aid workers were not palestinians. they were foreigners. and that is certainly playing a part in the international uproar. and the israeli response that has followed. >> yeah. i mean, it took it foreigners been killed for this kind of investigation which says a lot, jeremy diamond, thank you. some perspective. now on the administration's new position. mission and how israel is conducting operations in gaza, joining us for that mark esper, who's served as defense secretary during the trump administration. first of all, expert, what do you make this warning from the white house of israel doesn't do more to protect civilians and aid workers. there could be changes to us policy yeah. >> good evening, anderson. >> first of all, >> it's obviously significant. president biden had this conversation, prime minister netanyahu, and 70 did, which was an ultimatum in many ways. and i think it's also notable that we're seeing some changes already as the reporter noted, the ezra crossing is being opened. we have the port opening as well. i'd like to see them double or increase the number of inspectors to also
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enhance the throughput of humanitarian aid going through. and then tomorrow morning, we should find out the results of the investigation into the attack on the world central kitchen workers so it looks like there's some movements so far in terms of distributing aid. i mean, we've obviously seen the issues with that even once the few trucks that have gotten through are the number of trucks that have gone through. the problems that in distributing we've seen people killed in people jumping onto these convoys, all sorts of mayhem, trying to get supplies. people are so desperate doesn't israel have some responsibility? i mean, if the us military was in control of this operation, i mean, i've seen the us military work in situations like this there. i mean, isn't that the occupying force isn't the the the israeli army doesn't. they have some responsibility for the orderly distribution of aid in areas that they have taken control of yes if they are retaining control, but i do they do believe they have some degree of responsibility. this is also where it gets murky on
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a palestinian side, because obviously there were reports of looting alluding by hungry people, looting by bandits who are trying to steal the goods and resell them on the black market. and of course, there are reports that hamas is in there trying to still the humanitarian aid for them for their own militants or to deny the palestinian people the aid. so it gets really murky there, but you need some type of some type of force scenario because the police force has been dismantled to control that, to prevent whatever those factions are actually on the ground, preventing the people who need it, the innocence the billions from getting that aid >> when you have i mean, i don't know if you've looked at the targeting of these vehicles. it was three separate vehicles over a great distance. it seems quite deliberate for the reasons are inexplicable at this point. i talked to brock reviewed is very well sourced who talked who said that? a number of the people he's talked to who have served on the ground in gaza, kind of talk about a breakdown between
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what commanders from the idf may be saying as policy at their headquarters and how troops on the ground and commanders on the ground are actually executing those policies that the attitude on the ground is different perhaps than what central command is saying. if that is true, that seems like a huge issue do you have those concerns and when you look at some of the things we have seen going on in gaza yeah when you look at what happened with the vehicles clearly marked, they identified where they were moving prom and when they were going to move and the fact they were still targeted indicates that was at least a breakdown somewhere or are the commanders on the ground being reckless because they are afraid or because they don't agree with the policy being said forth. i think this is why the investigation is so very important, and i've argued that maybe we need to put provide us military experts in there as well to assist to look over their shoulders, to help out where they can, and to kinda referee some of this because i think that is a
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fundamental question is, is the guidance being ignored from the top? is this widespread or wasn't just a lot? okay. oh, incident where a mistake was made and look in combat, mistakes are made. i know from my service in the gulf war. and then of course my subsequent service, these things happen and that's why investigations are important to get to the bottom of it hold people accountable, and then make sure you take corrective actions, actions to prevent any breakdowns are miscoordination or mistaken and identity from happening. again, how would you compare the i mean, i've heard prime minister netanyahu in the past sort of talk about the death toll in gaza and say essentially that the ratio of civilians to what he says are hamas members that the ratio of killings between how many civilians are killed per hamas member are about equal to what the us military would tolerate. is that when you look at the numbers, when you look at the numbers of wound knew and he looked at the numbers of dead. do you think a us operation
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would have been handled a lot differently? >> yeah. first of all, they say that 32,000 killed at least a third are militants from the hamas's what was 20 battalions of hamas, of which four are remaining believed to be in rafah, which is why netanyahu wants to go into rafah to get rid of, to disable those remaining four battalions look, i hate to say it sounds really cold methodical, but yes, us experts have said that the ratio of civilians killed two militants killed is roughly on par, if not better than other western militaries. now, every circumstance is different. obviously, gaza is highly dense >> we know that >> hamas is using civilians in civilian infrastructure to occupy and they're putting them out there as human shields. that complicates at all, which has all the more reason why the attacking force in this case, the idf has to take extra special care and to avoid as much collateral damage and the killing of civilians as possible. >> i mean, say they've done that to you, did it look like they've done that
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>> it's hard to say sitting over here and not being on the ground and not looking at each situation and of itself as president biden has ramped up, is concerns, one would think that they would limit the use of airstrikes and increase the use of ground forces of course that means that you expose your ground forces two more risk. two more, the likelihood of them being killed or injured, but that's that's the risk military takes its soldiers take when you're undergoing urban combat. because you are trying to avoid civilian casualties, know the rule of thumb that we took out of iraq and afghanistan is, you don't want to create more terrorists that you kill in the middle sorry operation and clear clearly at this point, you no one would believe they are creating more militants, but certainly they've lost the strategic imperative of global support. >> and >> are now on the cusp of maybe losing some degree of us support as well. and the united states is its greatest ally. and we've got to remember too that hamas isn't the only threat day okay, so i got hezbollah in the north when they're exchanging constant fire with them in southern
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lebanon. and given what's happened in recent days so they ron, there's a palpable concern israel today that they may see some type of strikes from iran after what happened monday and syria secretary esper, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. anderson. >> this weekend will mark six months since the october 7 terror attacks, six months of captivity for the hostages taken on that day by hamas and islamic jihad and others. up next i'll talk with the parents who won the american hostages, hirsch goldberg, poland, who are trying to keep attention on the plight of their son and all the others who are in captivity the day you get your clear choice, dental implants, changes your struggle >> with missing teeth forever. it changes how you eat, how you feel, and how how you, in your life it changes your smile. and now others smile at you. clear choice. network doctors have changed over 100,000 lives with dental plants and they can change yours too because a clear choice day changes every
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>> four imprint.com for certain. >> this is the big dam time that do >> this sunday will mark six months since the october 7 hamas attack, more than 1,000 israelis were killed that day. the deadliest attack in the country, 70 five-year history, hundreds of others were taken captive by hamas israeli prime minister's office recently said there are still around 130 hostages in gaza and includes dual israeli american citizen hirsch goldberg poland. i first spoke to her, says parents shortly after he was taken hostage. i'd found a video of
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their sons kidnapping. this is it. his left-hand and part of his arm had been blown are shot off and he was being loaded into a pickup truck by armed gunmen. i sent them the video which they hadn't previously known about joining me now are rachel goldberg and jon polin thank you for being here. i'm sorry, you are here under these circumstances, 181 days. you have the numbers on your chest i remember when you started putting those numbers on. i did not expect to see numbers this high. did you >> know? >> i mean, we're living on another planet, so i don't know that we comprehend time the way that you do or normal people, it feels like you're living on another planet. >> oh, without a doubt it's very unfamiliar can you talk about what life on that planet is like >> it's staggeringly profound
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trauma and terror at all times >> you know, part of a number is that rachel started wearing and day 26 is the conscious effort every day of pull off a piece of tape, writing a new number. you've no choice but to think about that we also have a number on our balcony of our apartments in jerusalem and i remember on day 40, something somebody said to us because it was, made for two digits, the sign and somebody said, what are you gonna do if it gets too day 100? and we both thought that's awesome are fine of course, these people are gonna be home before day 100. >> and so >> the fact or a day 1801 is kind of impossible to grasp it >> would be walking down a street and walking in a mall to get to a place and seeing
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people just going about their de and life, going on. it's got to be i don't know if it's infuriating or i mean, i would think i would want to stand there and scream at people. >> i don't even really digest the people around me that i'm passing. i'm were too busy strategizing, talking about what are we doing today? what are we going to do so that i finally had someone explained to me because i kept feeling we would get into bet at night and say, well, we're failures because he's not home. we've got another day down and he's not home. and i had someone explained to me that i had to switch my inner narrative to did i do every single thing today that i could to help get them home? so that i stopped feeling like such a failure that we started to feel like we're trying as hard as we possibly can. but that's what we're doing all day, is trying as hard as we possibly can. so
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there's really no time for me to even digest in many ways that the world is being normal. >> i mean, i'm a failure. the world the world is a failure incorrect. >> and we say that often that we feel that everybody has failed, are leaders, all of them had failed to make this suffering on all sides stop we feel that we as parents have failed because as a parent, your job is to keep your children safe. and if they get in trouble to save them i think we feel that the human species has failed to allow this to continue there's still 134 human beings being held
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representing 25 different nations still. there, still muslims, jews, christians, hindus, and buddhists there and the age range is still a range from the youngest fear be biases now 14 months old, and the oldest is a grandfather who's 86 >> on the failure front what's in some ways even scarier for me than the fact that we've gotten today 1801 is the fact that it sometimes feels to me like they want at one could become day too, at one day three at one, they've 581 we can't allow that to happen but world leaders don't seem to have that sense of urgency. there's a complacency will go negotiate for a couple of days. we'll go back home. >> wait a week. we'll talk about whether we should go back. >> i've asked you this before and i sadly, i think i know the answer, but have you had any word at all about hershey's
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condition about anything? i mean there's an assumption that he was treated on the seventh because the hostages who were released at the end of november did share that. the first stop for everyone and especially the people who were stolen early. and we know that hirsh was stolen early because of the texts that we got and the video that you shared with us that the first stop was medical treatment and we understand from surgeons who we've shared the video with that you gave to us that the procedure that hirsch needed the surgery he needed was actually surely not a complicated surgery. and because we can see in the video, he doesn't lose consciousness. he was clearly dazed in shock, in trauma, but
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composed the assumption is that he is alive >> after that first hostage hostage release >> young woman named maya this has been reported publicly, shared that she was operated on her fourth, but it was by a veterinarian and it's amazing, but we had probably 100 veterinarians from around the world reach out to us to give support and say, don't worry, if hirsch was operated on by a veterinarian it's fine. the kind of surgery he needs is the most similar surgery between animals and humans. so vet could do it. and that's the kinda stuff that normally would be disturbing to us, but we're like, okay, great. >> we >> hope they got treated by a veterinarian and had his amputated arm somehow surgically addressed we'll take that news >> rachel, john, thank you >> thank you
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pennsylvania's fastest growing demographic? >> you see the city of allentown where 55% of the city's latino you'll see bethlehem with 30% is latino. you see reading, pennsylvania were 69, 70% is latino. again, that's happened within the last five years from his radio station and allen town, once white working class rust belt stronghold martinez has watched his spanish-speaking listeners rapidly increase across central and eastern pennsylvania over the past decade now, martinez show has become a must stop for several state and local politicians. >> i'm >> glad to be with you >> evicted. >> and just last month, vice president kamala harris called it what is the potential? of latino voters in this area of pennsylvania? >> i think it's huge. i think the latino vote could be the deciding factor in 2020 president biden beat former president trump in pennsylvania by roughly 80,000 votes. recent polling in the state shows a close race, meaning the estimated 615,000 eligible latino voters could eat easily
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republican commissioner of nearby berks county. >> i've seen a change, a shift from that mentality that all latinos have to be a democrat, >> a recent new york times sienna college poll shows former president trump gaining ground among latino voters. the rnc recently outlined in a memo that they would focus on reaching out to voters who have been habitually missed by the party, but did not really specific plans how it will go after the vote. rivera knows republicans have to do more. >> well, you need to understand your local latino population and have people locally they're reaching out to them and it has to be something that's ongoing. >> well, donald trump's incendiary language on migrants continues to frustrate many latino voters. >> in some cases, they're not people in my opinion. they're poisoning the blood of our country. >> those we spoke with told us other issues will likely be the deciding factor why are you supporting biden over former president trump? >> i think the continued i front of the democracy, it's something important. or willows election, he will transfer
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coming just four days away, monday afternoon for just a few minutes if the weather cooperates, this will be the view for >> americans in the path of the total solar eclipse. other areas of the country will only see the moon covering part of the sun. and as always reminder that wherever you are, you must wear certified eye protection to look at it. the path of totality will stretch across portions of 13 states, including kaye kaye row, illinois, a small city preparing for a big influx of tourists. gary tuckman is there what does it like to be the manager of the only hotel in a city that is about to experience solar eclipse totality. the city of cairo, illinois. >> well, >> it's pretty darn good today. i think the rate is what, $80 a night? yep. >> it will be due dollars listener $80 plus tax the night before the eclipse. how much is it >> around 500. $500. $500. and it's sold out? yeah >> k row named after the capital of egypt per pronounced differently, has had a
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pronounced economic decline over generations but once prosperous southern illinois city sits adjacent to where the mississippi and ohio rivers meet qarrah is lost almost 90% of its population from a century ago this is a look at downtown key role in the 1950s. now, the same exact downtown street is almost abandoned. robb wolf, for example, those buildings hasn't been touched in years many businesses, including hotels, restaurants, stores in a hospital have been shut down there are still some elegant homes and museums. a former homes >> people we >> talked to who remain are very loyal >> i love it here >> gabriel harris owns g and l clothing with his wife, luanda, like the hotel manager, they're excited about the tourists coming to see the eclipse and what it could mean for k rho. do you feel that there's this could perhaps make things better for your business in the weeks and definitely yes, opportunity to grow it's an opportunity to expose, you
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know, the core of what carroll is gem wales barbecue is one of only two sit-down restaurants that remain in k wrote brittany harel is a private employee >> we've been here for 100 years, so i guess would do something right? >> the best thing that you could tell everyone about kiva right now is what that we have good barbecue and we have friendly people. >> and brittany also tells us she has a wish. a wish that the solar eclipse could be a turning point i hope that one day we could be that thriving city that's we once were. >> you have lived in qarrah your entire life? >> my entire life, 57 years. i've been here. >> we meet carol childress and her husband, glen, and the city's only grocery store that opened about a year ago after seven years of having no grocery store. they're also looking forward to tourists arriving for the solar eclipse. >> it's a lot of people don't even know we here so people stopping in our little town just because of that it makes
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my heart glad. >> the glory days of payroll illinois have been gone for a long time. >> but for a few minutes >> on monday in a very different sense it will be most glorious to be here in k row. >> so you need five >> businesses are passing out eclipse glasses. chairs will be set up in the business district for eclipse viewers who want a comfortable seat kaye row, illinois, the city of solar eclipse totality is getting ready for it. day in the sun maybe the next time you come this way, you'll see a totally different change >> in gary joined us now, i hope the weather is going to be good for qarrah. do we know >> great forecast, anderson, it's supposed to be mostly sunny here monday afternoon, great visibility, warm temperatures in the upper 70s, perfect for sitting outside. and as you heard that woman who works at the restaurants say they have great barbecue here there are lots of reasons to come to cairo, illinois to see the solar eclipse >> understanand how a lot of
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people come. gary tuckman,