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>> 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 hear. >> so people stopping in our little town just because of that, it makes my heart gland. >> the glory days of payroll, illinois have gone for a long time. but for a few minutes on monday and a very different sense, it will be most glorious to be here in k row so you need five businesses. they're 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 its day in the sun. >> maybe the next time you come this way, you'll see a totally different change in. >> gary joins us now, i hope the weather is going to be good for qarrah. a. do we know
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>> 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 restaurant say they have great barbecue here. there are lots of reasons to come to cairo, illinois to see if the solar eclipse and actually have a lot of people come. gary tuckman, thanks. the news continues right here on cnn >> outright. next, major losses for trump tonight. a judge denied and get another attempt to get his georgia election case tossed as the judge trump appointed in florida rejects his bid on paper, but is she actually handing trump a big win >> was biden gives >> netanyahu and ultimatum because the parents of the american citizen killed in the idf strikes speaks out front why they believe their son was targeted and the questions they have tonight, >> standing up to elam musk, and arizona election official taking down a conspiracy theory that musk promoted about election fraud, 263 million people. and he took it down
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point-by-point. these my guests tonight show my musk is wrong. let's go out front >> and good evening. i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. a ruling against trump, the judge in trump's georgia election interference case, rejecting trump's attempt to throw the entire case out to just completely dismiss it. >> now, trump >> had claimed that the case violated his right to free speech. judge scott mcafee having none of that writing quote, but defense is not presented nor has the court been able to find any authority. but the speech and conduct alleged is protected political speech. so that means trump is on track to go to trial in georgia as soon as august, if the district attorney there, fani willis, has her way. >> so that means two trials >> will be in progress, or done by election day okay? because of course, just 24 hours ago, the judge in the hush money case in new york also rejected trump's latest delay attempt keeping that trial on track for start next week. but the news tonight out of florida on trump's mar-a-lago documents case is a bit more complicated when you look at the headline it looks like a defeat for
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trump because judge aileen cannon also rejected one of trump's request to have that case tossed, but that rejection is just the surface headline. can actually handed trump a victory by allowing him to continue with an argument of defense that is not relevant. it's basically spurious to the case but the former trump white house attorney ty cobb says that this ruling by qanon would quote, permit an acquittal where none is warranted. tie will be with me in just a moment. >> this is >> all why cannons ruling though today, could have been a very big victory for trump. and once again, he saw it that way. he complimented her as he unleashed an attack on the special counsel, jack smith, trump today writing quote, that smith's should be sanctioned or center for the way he is attacking a highly respected judge, aileen cannon, who is presiding over his fake documents hoax case in florida. he's low light, is nasty, rude, and condescending and obviously trying to play the raf there's a lot to cover tonight. i want to start with paula reid, though it paula's outfront in washington and it appears that trump has two big losses today, but that isn't
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really the case, is it? >> no, he's losing buddies, winning it, speaking with sources close to these cases, aaron untold, they are playing a long game. look, we said in 1 million times they're number one strategy right now is to delay all of these criminal cases as long as they can. if trump's reelected. the federal cases dismissed the state-level cases stalled. >> and each motion, >> each hearing helps to push these cases back. let me tell you, judge cannon down in florida, she's has eight motions to dismiss sitting on her desk, in addition to several other issues, including setting a trial date in georgia and florida. yeah, they lost their motions to dismiss, but i will remind everyone there's no firm date for either one of those cases on the calendar fani willis would like to start in august, but after the efforts to just disqualify her push at that case back, that seems really pretty optimistic and in florida, the judges also allowing trump to possibly use this argument that he had the right to bring classified documents home if they were personal documents. as a
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defense in trials, something the special counsel has strenuously objected to now earn in terms of this long game, i'm told look, even if eventually there are trials, if there are convictions, they're also thinking about appeals and the hope is that each one of these motions, each one of these hearings helps them build a record that they could eventually use to appeal and kill any convection sort of in a death by 1,000 cuts all right. thank you very much, paula. and i want to go now to ryan goodman are legal analysts and alyssa farah griffin, former trump white house communications director, to begin our coverage. so ryan, let's just started. there's a lot here. let's start with georgia. that was a loss for trump in terms of what he wanted rejecting the free speech claim that he was making in that particular case. so but you hear what paul is saying that yes. fani willis says, okay, i want this to start in august, but that that's very optimistic given the broader context here of they tried to get rid of her. now, she's gotta kinda get the wheels back on the bus. >> is this >> case still on trial to start
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before the election? >> it very well might start before the election. i don't think they're cases at all going to end before the election. the american public will not have a verdict even according to penny willis's most optimistic preview of her own schedule. that said, i do think the pace might actually start in early august, so we aren't that's not dislodged at this point. and there's some inklings from the judge that that might be the case. the fact that he invited a gag order against the prosecutor, usually that's done when you're close to selecting a jury. that's one tea leaf i wouldn't say it's tea leaves. and it might indicate that he's on track to approve it at some point, but right now he's remain mm. we don't know where he land. >> well, of course, the closer could see election ironically then if you've publicized televised, you only hear one side. it gets complicated write-in, brought the gag order issues, so ceremonies reporting, the trump allies are pushing for a gag order against fani willis in the georgia case. now that's quite choice, right? given the gag order situation out there, he's
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gotten multiple gag orders that he's been dealing with. any slams them, all the time upping the ante on whole concept of gag order i mean, just listen to these judge put on a gag order >> i'll be the only politician in >> history that runs with a gag order where i'm not allowed to criticize people. can you imagine this? do you believe this or you saw yesterday where they take away my right to speak judge, gave a gag are today. did you hear that on speech? which i believe is totally unconstitutional >> and then he keeps up in the ante in terms of the things that he says. i guess the question is, is he going to push these orders to the limit, try to force one of these judges to go ahead. if you're too scared to put me in jail, this is rank hypocrisy on full display. but what donald trump has proved a master of, i'm in these numerous trials is that he is going to use the legal system and take it as far as he can and he's got the resources to do it. the average citizen wouldn't be able to delay the way that he has, but because he has the resources he can do it. he's pushed the limit on what
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he's saying and listen, fani willis has hardly covers self in glory in this, but i would have a hard time arguing that anything she has said is anything near the attacks that she's faced by him and his supporters? yeah. i mean, it would just important point to make ryan can i ask you about the judge cannon ruling today we've made the point that the headline seemed seemed that it was a loss for trump. but when you look underneath it, actually there was a pretty significant victory. and it you say it's not only a fig leaf of a ruling, it could help him even more than it seems. can you explain? absolutely. >> so his >> claim is that the classified documents or personal he could somehow magically make these most highly classified documents his own it's it's not what the law says. that's just ludicrous so instead of the judge saying, okay, of course, that's ludicrous. she just said, i'm not deciding that pretrial i might let that happen during the trial and maybe that's what i'll decide in the midst of the trial. now i'll actually say oh, those are your personal documents i issue a judgment for acquittal
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and that's called rule 29. she could do it in the middle of the trial and then it's too late. that is not appealable. so she's actually given him a kind of a loss here, but not really. i think this is not what jack smith wanted to hear if she had ruled now that these could be his personal documents than jack smith can appeal that and have the 11th 11th circuit and they could just make a basically remove her from the case, right. >> 100%. and i think they might very well want to do that because she's not overseeing the case in a way in which they i think with themselves would want to see a judge do this. so alyssa at trump goes to social media today defending cannon very clear how he saw that ruling today. i mean, there's no question about that >> he called her >> highly respected now, i just i just have to contrast that with how he talks about judges in his other cases in many the other judges. and just so everyone knows highly respected for her, here's everybody else. >> this judge is a lunatic, is a nasty judge. i have a trump-hating judge. her whole life is not liking me that her is. not aileen cannon. aileen cannon, again, highly respected.
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>> what do you >> make of his defense of cannon, alyssa? >> well, there's >> two things. he's trying to do here. he's trying to sway the court of public opinion. he wants to prejudice the public or his supporters against judges. he doesn't like, and he wants to make them favorable to the ones that he does. but he also it's a nod to the judge. i mean, it's very similar to one of his attorneys referred to break a kavanaugh when who's going to be ruling on immunity saying, you know trump appointed him. so we think he'll be with us this is something that they do and kinda put out there publicly in hopes of swaying the judges in their favor. now of course, judges should be unbiased. that shouldn't affect them, but that's what he's thinking and saying this will there be repercussions for it >> well, not really. i mean, he can get away >> with them and it's very funny because you always accuses others, often accuses others and what he's doing, he's playing the rough >> yeah. i did that. i >> already you're playing the rap. i'm glad you brought that up and make sure we could bring that one home. all right. thanks so much to both of you. great to see you. >> and former trump white house lawyer ty cobb joins me now. so tie latin night. we were on together. you were talking about judge aileen cannon you had said that, quote, evidence of her bias is pretty palpable. you said she was grossly
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incompetent. then today you got to read the ruling. how do you feel after you saw it? >> so i think >> she had an opportunity >> today to listen to review that criticism she received yesterday in not just from me, but from many other commentators and i think it triggered a fight or flight moment for her and instead of fighting our leaf flying she failed >> this. >> keep in mind >> that this ruling is on a motion that has probably a cumulative total of 50 plus pages of legal briefs. detail held citations to the case law. jack smith, making it plain that the presidential records act has nothing to do with the case. and that not only should trump loses the motion to dismiss the presidential records act considerations should be completely withdrawn from the case. instead, she issues instead of citing a
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single one of those cases, where the authority is very compelling, she's she issues a two-and-a-half page ruling that doesn't include a single citation. and then she has the hubris to suggest that jack smith demanded these jury instructions. she's the one who demanded the jury instructions. that's what provoked smith's response. he didn't demand anything. he just he asked as he was required to do that, she rule on this issue prior to trial, he's entitled to a ruling on this issue prior to trial this this ruling actually does give him a basis to mandamus or if he so chooses and i think that on, at least on this issue alone, putting aside whether she would be removed from the case. >> but on >> this issue alone, as to whether the presidential records act has any relevance to trial he would win in the 11th circuit >> and you had made the point
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that if her ruling here today stands, it could set the lineup for acquittal as ryan was laying out in the actual trial jackson >> and that's why he has i'm sorry. go ahead. >> oh, i would say jack smith at that point is ryan was pointing out could do nothing about it. so is there any way for him off the case at this point prior to that >> so he can ask i'm not sure that he will ask on this initial appeal hill, i've multiple opportunities because she will not be able to make it through the cba process on solid he'll have multiple opportunities, i believe. but you keep in mind that every time you go up there and back, it serves trump's interest in terms of delight. she can kick the can down the road with the bessemer if she took two outfits into a changing room at a clothing store, it might be days before you saw as analogy that we all can understand >> no >> citations needed ty, thank you and next, the breaking news continues. israel's initial
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investigation into the strikes that killed seven workers in aid workers in gaza complete tonight. and the parents of the american who was killed in that attack will speak out next. why they believe that their son was targeted >> plus the trump spin >> machine kicking into high gear as his truth social stock, fungi's trump claiming the company has to $100 million in cash and zero debt. does that add up? and a real life ocean's 11, it is >> one of the largest cash heists in la history. 30 million gone. >> and police tonight are baffled >> a heart attack. >> do they have life insurance? >> no. >> but we have life insurance john, i'm trying to find something we can afford >> fortunately, in only a few minutes, select boat found john a $500,000 policy for only $29 a month and his wife and a $500,000 policy for only $21 a month go to select quote.com. now and get the insurance your
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favorite pair of jeans today. i'm taylor available on the apple app store or android >> i'm zachary cohen in washington in this is cnn breaking news is real announcing its initial investigation into the deaths of seven world central kitchen aid workers is complete, >> but so far, i'm not saying anything about it publicly. this is president biden issues is harshest message yet to netanyahu an ultimatum of sorts, protect innocent civilians or us aid is at risk. it's first time it's been said that directly, it all comes as questions grow over the idf's use of artificial intelligence to pick targets and the fatal consequences of this fred pleitgen is outfront after
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israel's attack on a world central kitchen aid convoy in gaza. questions about the idf's targeting process are front and center. >> these was not use mud lag situation where, oops, we dropped the bomb in the braam place or or not, this was over 1.51, 0.8 kilometers with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top row israel calls the targeted strike quote a tragic mistake. but there are general questions about how the idf decides who to target after israeli magazine plus 972 published an article claiming israel's military widely uses artificial intelligence when going after alleged militants sometimes with very little human oversight, says investigative reporter, you, while abraham, after speaking to six israeli intelligence officers. >> so one source told me that
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he would spend roughly 20 seconds before authorizing each target. and the only supervision he needed to do is to check if the targets, the machine marked was a male or female >> according to the reporting, the ai program called lavender identifies and marks alleged militants in gaza from low level ones two senior commanders one source told me it's 90% of the people, so hundreds of thousands of people. >> and it gives, >> gives each one and rating based on this long list of features. and the rating shows how probable the machine thinks that a particular individual is that belongs to the hamas it's or islamic jihad military wings. >> but abraham says, his sources told them vi program also makes mistakes with lethal consequences for civilians in gaza it would mark people who have a loose connection to hamas or no connection at all to hamas as potential targets. and they knew that the supervision mechanism in place
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would not be able to find all of these mistakes >> the israel defense forces have not denied the use of ai on the battlefield in gaza, but in a statement say quote jury to claims the idf does not use an artificial intelligence system that identifies terrorist operatives or tries to predict whether a person is a terrorist. information systems are merely tools for analysts in the target identification process well, israel says it has concluded the initial investigation into the bombing of the aid convoy. the former top us general in europe told out front, here troubled by some of what he sees from israel's military, does i think that the idf has become i don't want to say callous towards civilian casualties, but their tolerance for collateral damage is much higher. what for us, it's zero >> the idf says, it takes care to prevent civilian casualties, but the us has warned more needs to be done to prevent the death toll among noncombatant
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gazans from increasing even further an aaron as far as the use of ai and the targeting process is concerned, the idf says that even if ai is used, that their analysts need to conduct independent investigations to verify that targets meet certain criteria under international law. but also according to the idf's own restrictions, aaron. >> all right, fred, thank you. >> i'd front now, john flickinger and sylvie labrecque, their son jacob, an american and canadian citizen, was killed in the attack and gaza he was delivering food on behalf of world central kitchen. he was 33 years old and an 18 month there'll baby and appears to be the first american killed by the idf since the october 7 attacks. john and sylvia >> no one >> watching can imagine your pain right now? could you first just tell us a bit about your son, your child, jacob
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>> well, chica for sure was great human being. he was a wonderful child. and i mean, he was very athletic, very dynamic he loved nature. he loves playing outside and later on, you know, enjoyed doing what he was doing as a military guy. he did that for 11 years and even when he left the army, i always told him that he was a deep down inside. he was a warrior. >> and >> i think that this is what we've been seeing through this past few days jacob was a very special human being. very loyal real good heart >> he was >> someone to remember. i think he was kind of like bigger than life and that's what we've
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we're seeing right now with all the help and the support we're receiving hoping that wherever he is up in the above, i hold that he can feel all that support and that love that. we're trying to express and show it to him jacob was loving son a loving father, and partner with his life partner, >> sandi, clerk they recently joined and had a 18 month old son they were just starting their life together and he was very, very happy he's also dedicated his life to service first thing to military in canada he served in afghanistan for a year and served with the world central kitchen starting this past fall and he loved the
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work with wck and was eager to continue with them. >> and when you mentioned he was in a deconflicted zone, the convoy was coordinated with the idf. we know these these realities jose andres has been very vocal. i know you both have heard what he said. he said that this attack was targeted. it was not an accident. i just wanted to play part of what he said again, so that all of our viewers can hear it as well >> but i know is that we were targeted deliberately now until everybody was dead in these convoy >> that >> that cannot be that cannot be the role of an army do you believe your son was targeted >> absolutely there's no doubt about it and i think that the most important thing is to
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speak out, to express it the way we're doing it, the way the the man did. i think it's important and that way we're hoping that it may change certain things >> so yes. by all appearances, the facts as they've been as they become known as presented. so far, seem to indicate that it was a deliberate targeting of a food aid convoy we would like an independent investigation. we asked everyone that we've talked to from canadian government, from the us government that to persist and demanding for an independent investigation so that all the facts can be known. but from what we know now your viewers can make their
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own judgment. >> but >> all the facts point to that. yeah, this was a deliberate attempt to a target or hur's. >> how do you i guess it's just too soon even asked such a question. but how do you even process that? >> did you feel to feel a rage about it or you know, there were worse crushed. >> now sad i don't feel any anger might feel some anger, but the overwhelming feeling is just sadness for our son and for his partner. and, his young son, and for the other aid workers who were killed and four over 200 aid workers who've been killed since the beginning of this conflict they haven't gotten the same attention that our son jacob
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has but their lives were of no less value and our hearts go out to the families of the world central kitchen staff who were killed. the families of the palestinian aid workers who have been killed trying to serve as starving population and to everyone both sides of the conflict who are suffering through this i know the citizens of israel want peace. i know the people of palestine. and gaza want peace so if we can move the needle toward that in a small fraction of an inch then jacob's life. and the other words, likes won't be in vain >> yeah president biden, we understand at least the word that was shared with us by those around him was shaken. were they use a shaken when he
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heard about the strike in which jacob died. and today, he spoke to the israeli prime minister netanyahu and we understand that president biden told him more needs to be done to protect civilians. or there will be consequences that that was the message. >> do you >> feel that that's what it should be? is that strong enough given what has happened? >> well, he's been saying that i support him in repeating to israel and not the aye. who that things need to change, but no actions speak louder than words the united states and use these to use its leverage to force a change. >> we need to >> suspend a israel until they make some changes with the way they're deducting this operation at the same time, the
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hostages need to be released and the humanitarian corridors need to be opened up the idf needs to stop targeting civilians and aid workers so, yeah, there's a lot that needs to happen and words are great, but actions speak louder than words. >> yeah. >> have you heard from president biden? >> we haven't heard we've heard from the embassy in jerusalem, united states embassy in jerusalem, but otherwise we have not heard from anyone in the government we just got off the phone with the canadian prime i'm minister pierre trudeau. >> yeah >> we spoke also today with the canadian foreign minister, who was in europe, who called us to offer her console condolences and help canada. it was organizing some support where they can for jacob's family we'd like to see someone from
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our government. my government, because i'm a us citizen and jacob was a us citizen? >> yes. someone reach out to us to offer more than condolences >> can only hope that they will and i'd like to say that this story is so much bigger than what happened to our son it happened to so many people. there's already been thousands of people that died. it's about humanity and right now, we're living in a very messy weld. there's gotta be some kind of clean up that is done somewhere on the road. and just like john was saying, even if it's just a tiny inch, a change that will protect some children's, some mothers, some human beings i would be so proud and jacob would be so proud of it. so we're just hoping that his light is signing all around the
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world the way that there's a massive change somewhere somehow >> i'm so sorry for both of you. thank you so very much for being able to speak with us >> you're very and thanks for thinking of us a family has set up a gofundme to help a jacobs young family. there's partners. they mentioned sandi and their 18 month old son. people can donate and the us and canada will next, trump is claiming is truth. social has hundreds >> of millions of dollars in cash and 7 million followers so why are shares wanje plus i'll talk to the arizona election official who is calling out elon musk is the billionaire, promotes a clean that hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants friends, could have registered to vote in arizona just so far this year >> and would you >> pay nearly $1,000 for an itis super eight motel while other people are you're, looking at why
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zero debt upfront. now, de and alexander forbes, senior editor and dan, a lot of people are looking at this closely. we're going to see where the story goes because this isn't, this isn't your normal company that suddenly goes goes public and goes through the rigueur and scrutiny of the legal process prior to that it was done a bit differently so let's just start with what trump is saying here. he's saying it's solid $200 million in cash, zero debt and you say yes so if you look at the most recent financials that the company has released, that's as of the end of 2023. >> and remember, >> this is a merger of between a spec company which was just a pile of cash, and then trump's company, the pile of cash out about 293 million in the coffers. so now that i've apparently lost a lot lot of that because that spec incurred significant amounts of expenses and legal expenses to try to take this deal public. secondly, trump's company was also taking on major debt because it wasn't making any money. but the way that he was
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taking on debt was who's taking notes that would convert to equity at huge discounts. so ultimately what you're looking at for them retail shareholder, is that you have less cash than you would have expected and you have more shareholders diluting everybody else except for the insiders you've got an early forgotten who got an early and of course, when you say spac, special purpose acquisition corp basically constructed just to go out and buy something in this case, it was true social. so trump's also trying to push how popular it type danny saying he's got 7 million followers and it's good for a startup, very good for a startup and growing fast. okay, you look at the comps, you look at this. is that true? >> 7 million is nothing on twitter. he had over 80 million followers and that was just him. the overall company had hundreds of millions of active users. this is a tiny, tiny minnow in an ocean of a social media company. what's especially troubling for investors is if you look at the growth trajectory of it it's not adding many users. and so
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normally if you had a company that was generating very few revenues and losing money, you'd at least expect to see huge growth. and here you're not even seeing that there's really from a business fundamentals perspective, little reason for hope here. >> i mean, it's pretty shocking. i mean, it past few days you've got to investors there's an it pleading guilty to insider trading scheme linked to a deal in this whole process of bringing it public as you are explaining the company itself as sued two of its co-founders who are former apprentice contestants, boston globe, brandon op-ed were investment experts compared this ipo to a ponzi scheme, storied investor in so many successful things, including expedia, barry diller said this scam, just like everything he's ever been involved in is some sort of calm >> i mean, that's that's that's something to go out and say that very doesn't go. i'd just say that for nothing. >> what does all this mean for donalds know
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>> well, the question is, how long it takes for retail investors to catch on to the fact that there's nothing there. this is a business that's generating that $750,000 per quarter. it's losing about $5.3 million a year on an opera greeting basis, far more on a net basis it doesn't have major growth. >> so >> trump, who shares are locked up, meaning he can't sell them for about six months. is really just hoping to hang on and hope that this all this mess, all this in fighting the lawsuits, all the controversy, just doesn't scare people off in the next 5.5 for six months. and at that point, but he can somehow tap into a shares either by leveraging them or selling them and get the money. >> all right. dan alexander. thank you so much for explaining and always good to see you. >> yeah likewise >> and also saw this tweet and it really stood out to me. so here it is. it comes down to elon musk mosque, went out and retweeted something amplifying a post. this post suggests that more than 220,000 undocumented
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migrants could have registered to vote in the state of arizona without a photo id this year alone. this year alone. so what april 3rd, 4th, whatever it is today, let me check. april 4. okay 63 million people >> viewed this repost by musk. and musk's addition to the 220,000 claim was quote, extremely concerning well, the most concerning thing about this whole thing is 63 million people saw it and it is not true this is according to the top republican official and arizona's largest county, who pushed back in a lengthy rebuttal point-by-point, of course, on x, the platform where musk posted this to begin with maricopa county recorder stephen richer is out front and steven, i'm glad to talk to you, so it was your post that i saw going through a point by point because of course, i saw elon 220,000 illegal migrants voting registering to vote in arizona in the past three months in anybody's job will go to the floor. so let's go through it 220,000 is nearly four times the number, total
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number of voters who registered and all of arizona this year four times. >> so that number is totally off. can you explain >> yeah. so this isn't as complicated as the previous segment. there's no complex investment schemes here. there's just an allegation of 220,000 illegal immigrants registering to vote in the past three months, we only >> have 4 million registered voters in arizona total. and for all of 2024, we've only had 60,000 new registrants, and so we keep track of all of these things this is just one of those instances in which i would ask people's spidey sentences to be a little more alert and say, is that just pulling out my emotions, saying 220,000 illegal immigrants registered to vote in the last three months. is that realistic? >> i mean, look, it was shocking and i think what's most shocking is of those 63 million people, a lot of people are going to take away at the very least hey, mass numbers of
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illegal migrants are voting registering to vote in arizona. but i do want to point out one thing and you noted this, right? so obviously the musk repost did not get to this level of, of nuance, but you did you in your rebuttal, you said there about 30,000 registered voters in arizona the total right. not registered this year, but total. >> who >> wants something called a federal only list, which means that they have come to you and said that they're us citizens, but have not provided documents to prove it. okay. so at first when you see that you say, wow, that's 30,000 too many. >> but can you tell us a little >> bit more about who those people are and why that is it's also prone to conspiracy theory >> that's right. so arizona is actually comparatively quite vigilant in checking citizenship. so if you register through the arizona motor vehicle division as the vast majority of our voters do, or if you register at all since 1996 then we're going to ask for documented proof of citizenship. now, if you don't
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provide that and that's typically a birth certificate, you don't provide that, but you still say i attest under penalty of law that i am a united states citizen, but i have not, for whatever reason provided this documentation in federal law, holds, requires that we still allow that person to vote a federal only ballot. but we keep close numbers on those. so we keep close tabs and we have about 30,000 in the entire state of arizona. and from the studies that i've seen in the studies that we've run, these are disproportionate ly centered around universe first, the areas and if you think about it, that probably makes sense. people might be going to university and just have, don't have access to their parents home or maybe their birth certificate, his cat and so really we have no reason to believe that those people aren't citizens. it's just that they haven't proven it to the documentation level required by the state of arizona for all all other voters. >> all right. well, all of this crucial context to a, to a
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retweet of something that was false, that was seen 63 million times. steven, thanks so much. always going to see you did you see my posts first or his post first? >> you know what i saw? yours >> excellent >> then i said, what is it that elon hosting and i went up and i thought i read the debunking the light ready to lead lesson is people need to follow me rather than elon musk >> all right. thank you, stephen >> and next, it's being called a real life oceans 11, million in cash stolen without a trace. its left investigators in los angeles totally stumped. >> and we're going to >> tell you what all these little dots on the mat have to do with the upcoming solar eclipse long. >> after >> guests leave viruses and bacteria lingers air fresheners at ascent, but only lysol air sanitizer helps erase the trace, eliminating odor and
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ocean's 11. the fbi and los angeles police investigating after $30 million in cash was stolen from this storage facility that you're looking at on screen right now? it's one of the largest cash heist and city history investigators looking into whether it was an inside job, but no clues yet. josh campbell is out front and los angeles and josh, you've been following this massive heist. what else can you tell us about it? >> yeah, aaron, this seems like something that you might find it a hollywood screenplay, but this highest all too real, as you mentioned, $30 million from this private security pretty firm, a law enforcement source told me that happened on easter sunday, but wasn't discovered until the next day on monday, this group of criminals making their way in, not setting off any alarm it's making their way into the vault and then carrying out all of this money at the sour the fbi and lapd trying to identify the persons who are responsible. of course, that investigation comes as law enforcement hearing california and in many communities across the country are grappling with a different kind of thread this one that is targeting wealthy homes. it has authorities
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then immediately started working once they found the safe, start working on the site >> police say the break in as part of a sophisticated ring of thieves who arrived from south america, often from chile. prosecutors say where it's easy to get a tourist visa waiver to the us, then joined with others in a coordinated effort to scout and break into home they lie in wait in these guilty suits, so they remain camouflaged while they're watching the behaviors of the homeowners when >> they come and go, they have wi-fi jammers to stop the alarm company from being notified >> hundreds of wealthy homes targeted authority say, from scottsdale arizona to raleigh, north carolina. and nassau county, new york. recent arrests have highlighted a nationwide issue. >> so we have to be willing to start asking some hard questions. of our federal government. >> the so-called burglary tourists have law enforcement demanding change to the electronic system for travel authorization or sda, which allows up to 90 day visits to
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the us from certain countries, including chile, which spitzer says is not providing the required background checks on its citizens. >> well, if we don't know the criminal background of these individuals then we can't tell the judge anything or represent anything about the background which means the person's released on no bail and they never come back again to answer for the charges. >> spitzer claims another chilean suspect was out on bail when he broke into this dana point, california home in july. >> this is the window the burglar came through. >> the sand are family built their dream home. now, rebuilding their peace of mind, we want to move away from here. and not going to secure it off. >> they say for a problem, so well-known to public officials, it's time to put an end to these crimes. i want to know what these >> politicians are doing up there. their support let's help us because i want a politician to go through this experience and he may feel exactly as i feel >> now, erin, chilean officials
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didn't respond to cnn's request for comment. our colleague jason rivera did get a statement from the department of homeland security. they say they're working with the chilean government to urgently address this issue. that statement goes on to say, chalet at officials have responded by improving operational coordination with dhs offices and efforts to detect, deter, and prevent travel to the us by known criminal actors. they say that once those changes are fully implemented, they will have access to some of this background information, but of course, aaron and for a crime, a type of crime that has been going on for so many years. the victims we interviewed are asking what's taken so long. >> aaron >> unbelievable. thank you very much. josh. campbell and next one of nature's greatest sights, a total eclipse of the sun is actually is dependent thing to see and it's going to happen in the now wait till you see just how much people are now paying in order to witness it? >> how far would you go to set the ambiance of your space? try the air wigwe with air wake essential myth infused with
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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? you look at that from dallas, texas all the way up to lancaster, new hampshire, millions though 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 new york 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 normal rate is $95.10 times >> wow. >> well, are special coverage of the eclipse for those of you who were too l g
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