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hi priscilla alvarez at the white house. >> and this is cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. >> i'm alex marquardt and washington. thank you so much for joining us. we are just hours away from a historic moment in america tomorrow. opening arguments are set to begin in the first ever criminal trial of a former us president trump is facing dozens of charges in new york related to an alleged hush money payment to the adult film actress stormy daniels that was in the lead up to the 2016 in election. but tonight, trump is lashing out of the judge, calling for the gag order to be removed ahead of a hearing on tuesday, prosecutor said last week that trump had already
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violated that order seven times, seen as marshall cohen >> hello, and joins me now so marshall, what can we expect? what are we going to be learning over the course the next few days as the historic trial gets underway. yeah, heavy dose of history in new york city. this has this is an election interference case going back to 2016. >> their indictment frames this as a scheme to falsify business records that hush money payment to stormy daniels routed through michael cohen reimburse through the trump organization according to the prosecutors, they say that trump and his company basically cooked the books to hide this payment in violation of new york state law. >> a lot of legal experts are saying it's a terrible idea for donald trump to take the stand that he would only hurt himself in doing so. but who else could we expect to see up
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there? >> he's been sort of playing with some fire here in the last few days saying that he wants to do it. he did testify in some of those civil trials earlier this year, but this is a totally different situation. his personal liberty is on the line, not just money but potential incarceration if he is ultimately convicted. but let's not get ahead of ourselves. the prosecution goes from first and they have a pretty big lineups of heavy hitters. michael cohen, the longtime attorney to donald trump turned trump enemy they will be squaring off we don't know exactly when, but he is definitely a big one. there's also stormy daniels. she'll have an opportunity to tell her side of the story. you can see on the screen here some other figures, hope hicks, who was a campaign official back in 2016 david, also on the bottom right, he's not necessarily a household name, but he's super important according to the prosecutor's, it was and trump who agreed to use news outlet
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or more of more of a tabloid really nationally enquirer to use that company to catch and kill damaging stories that could have harmed donald trump to buy the rights of those stories and bury them. so they never saw the light of day and so much has been made of this schedule because you have all these different trials in different cases. but of course the same time this is a man who was running for president. yet again how are we expecting this trial to play out and for how long so the estimate is probably about six weeks. >> that gets us through april, may, and into june. but sometimes these things have a way of going a little faster, a little slower. i think a lot of people thought that jury selection might take longer than it ultimately did. but yeah, that'll trump. he has to be in court just like pretty much any american citizen charged with a crime, you have to attend your trial. that means you won't be on the campaign trail as much as he would like to be four days a week, he will have to be in lower manhattan in court. >> certainly not a place he is used to being and not having
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any control over proceedings, really, marshall cohen, we know you'd be watching closely. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> let's discuss some joined now by scott jennings and shan wu. >> ocean is a defense attorney and a former federal prosecutor. he served in the clinton administration as a council to attorney general janet reno and scott jennings is a cnn senior political computer. and a former special assistant to president george w. bo. thank you both. for joining me. shan, i want to start with you as a former federal prosecutor, how would you approach these opening statements as marshall with just saying this is a chance for them to start telling a story for both sides i would keep it very simple to them, which is, this is a story about payments. >> and then the covering up of the payments and you're going to hear from people who will explain the documentation for following the money. and you're going to hear from people who were there talking about that money trail. and that's good. just going to bring it to life for you. >> they. need to be careful as in any prosecution, you don't
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want to over lead dramatically. present the opening. it's really here's what the evidence is going to show you. it helps set the tone for the jury to really just keep your eye on the ball, just follow the evidence and also, you don't want to over-promise. you don't want to be bragging that you're going to hear this from such and such a witness, they're going to cover everything for you, then turns out to be a problem with that witness. so you want to be a little bit minimalist. stick to the facts and keep it very simple for them and scott politically, trump has spent the last few years telling everyone that he's the victim in all this in all these cases, the image of trump appearing in court is that still a rallying point for his face or do you think that some of his voters can start to tire of all this legal drama well we've got more legal drama to go for the rest of the year. this particular case in new york city, i think virtually all trump's supporters and basically, most republicans think that it's a dog, that it's a partisan case that the prosecutor is grinding partisan acts, that this has
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been contorted into a felony, that the justice department and added not to pursue. and so he's been obviously using that and using it to rally the base. i think this case is different politically truthfully than the january 6 case. or even the documents case, because this one's in new york, this one is sort of lurid and its again, it's novel. i mean, this is something that other people looked at and decided to take a pass on, but i suspect you're going to see trump go right after go right after the politics of it and use it to to get his base all, all on a froth over it. absolutely. >> and it's got as you note, this is a new york trial and in shan sitting in that jury box will be not just new yorkers, but manhattan nights in particular, there are 12 of them who have been selected plus six more who are serving his alternates and they are going to be meeting as a group for the first time on monday morning and this is an interesting group of people. we know a little bit about them and about their news habits for
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example, we know that they, that they are highly educated and informed. two in particular lawyers, two or engineers, many with master's degrees. so what does that tell you? do you think about how they're going to handle this case? >> well, from a prosecutor standpoint, you like well-educated savvy jurors because you feel they won't be daunted by emotional issues. they can fall it personally. i don't like engineers, lead jury feel they're a little bit to mechanically oriented. they want certainty. it's like having a mathematician bright and then jury. i'm lawyers are fine as long as they're not criminal defense flares are prosecutors because then their expertise may interfere a bit. would their objectivity and also cause other jurors to look too much to them. but generally the legal training is fine. generally higher education is very fine. they're meeting together for the first time. it's gonna be a very important moment related. they're getting eyes on each other. we're going to be living on this case for a while. i'll and i think the one area that's been underestimated by the court and prosecutors is the amount of pressure on these jurors. i
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think judge merchan did a great job and going through the selection process fairly quickly. but we're seeing the stress on these folks and they may be dipping into that alternate pool faster than they think there's a question over sequestration. do you think? if that's something that's going to happen i don't think he wants to do that, but i think he needs to reconsider. >> that is particularly with that terribly event that happened on friday, there he's got to think about what effect the publicity is really having on them. i think it'd be smart to sequester them for deliberations certainly problem with sequestering them now is none of them planned to be sequestered? you hadn't told them that and you might lose a couple of saying i just can't do that for family work, whatever obligations there are. but would this kind of pressure with people, are you saying after they made it through the voir dire that i'm feeling stressed. i'm too anxious to do this. i think he needs to reconsider it's got there are questions about whether trump will testify. he said that this is something that he's considering their number of legal experts who say that's a
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terrible idea i was speaking with norm eisen who said that his lawyer should throw themselves in front of trump to prevent that from happening this is not a trial that's going to be on camera. the most received from inside hi, the courtroom or our sketches. >> but the perception of him testifying in his own defense, does that have political benefits well the political benefit is obviously why he's saying that he wants to do it, is that, hey, i got nothing to hide. i did nothing wrong. i'm happy to answer your question. so the political benefit of at least saying you'll do it is obvious. i'm not a lawyer, don't take legal advice from me. call shan if you've been in an accident, but i but i would just say it strikes me. is fundamentally dangerous to put them on the stand and put them under oath and after all, there is a reasonable chance he's going to avoid a conviction here. it only takes one juror, of course. and so you wouldn't want to put them in a position just for political purposes that would hurt the prospect of him actually beating the case. so politically though, i mean, you can easily see why trump
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would say that, because you want the public i like to believe i got nothing to hide. this is a witch on i'm willing to say that under oath. and so that's what he's doing right now. i think is stoking that image of a man who is being persecuted and is more than willing to tell his own for it in terms of the witnesses, the prosecutor prosecution so far has refused to reveal their witness list with the defense they they've talked about trump's previous tweets about witnesses as a pretext for that, we know that there are some members of trump's inner circle who he could see testify marshall laid out some of those big names. >> who do you think is going to take a stand and when can we find out? >> well, i think the former national enquirer publisher, mr. or may be taking a stand early and that would be a smart witness to start with because he can really lay out this question of the strategy involved and why they wanted to catch and kill these bad stories. and that plays right into the campaign aspect of it. and also here's a less
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volatile witness to start with. it kinda sets the framework for not as much baggage perhaps as michael cohen & will certainly hear from cohen ultimate insider who can talk about how if there's a defense being raised and maybe trump wasn't aware of what was going on. you'll hear from cohen. that's impossible. trump was a micromanager to all these things. and i think stormy daniels will be a very powerful witness. she comes across, i think very sympathetically. i think the jury is really going to love her and the prep for her is you just want to keep a very focused on just actually what happened. i think those are the three main people that you're going to hear from scott. >> we saw the former president trying to campaign over the weekend. he was supposed to be in wilmington, north carolina yesterday and then that rally got canceled at the last minute because of weather. so we heard marshall say that the president, former president's expected to be in the courtroom four days a week how how much is that going to hurt? obvious it'll hurt his campaigning, but how much does the lack of being on the campaign pain
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trail actually hurt his chances at getting elected well look i have maintained this is a strange election in that you've got two presidents who are fully known basically fully vetted by the american people. >> i've wondered, is there a single tv ad that's going to make a difference? is there a single rally that's going to make a difference? people know how they feel. so i don't actually think it's going to diminish his chances to get reelected if he doesn't have a few rallies, i don't think so. now, you noted he was supposed to be an old carolina this weekend, and obviously that's become a battleground state. i do hear that it's pretty close down there. so if you're trump, you'd rather be able to do things than not do them. but at the end of the day, i do think trump and biden in are both going to end up winning or losing this rais based on their records, which are both really fresh in the minds of the american people more so than a rally that happened a few months before the november election all right. >> well, i know you'll both be watching very closely tomorrow's those opening statements happen in that new
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york courtroom. shan wu, scott jennings. thank you. both for joining us and cnn will have special coverage tomorrow starting at nine eastern time just before those opening statements get underway. you can watch that here on cnn or stream it on max work fast. that's the white house is message to senators will take up a 61 billion aid bill for ukraine. as the director of the cia warns that ukraine could lose the battlefield by the end of the year without more help with mu the fight against climate change. this is in-car business blue carbon. >> we just need to protect nature will do the rest blue carbon plus cnn filled tonight at noon freeze, dryness, breakage, new dove, ten in one serum hair mask with peptide complex fortifies hair bonds at a molecular level, helps reverse ten signs of damage in
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>> talk to a doctor or pharmacist today how we really haven't. next sunday at nine on cnn president joe biden is now urging the senate to move quickly and passed the mass of $95 billion foreign aid package that finally cleared the house yesterday, after months of delays senators will have to come back from recess this week to vote on it before biden can sign the package. >> once it has biden's signature, it will greenlight 61 billion others for ukraine, much of it and desperately needed military aid along with billions more to israel and allies in asia, particularly taiwan, for more on what this means for ukraine in particular, let's go to kyiv and cnn's senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen either alex, well, look, as far as the ukrainians are concerned, these ammunition and the weapons from the united states can't come fast enough. they acknowledged that right now, the situation for them on the battlefield in the east of the country and also in the south of the country is extremely difficult. they say
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that they're outgunned as far as artillery amylose concern, but they also have a huge problem with air defense missiles as well. on the front lines where they say that the russians are much more effective at using their air force, but also in cities like the one that i am right now, of course, one of the things that we've been reporting on is in the past couple of weeks, the russians have drastically stepped up their ariel campaign, especially against energy infrastructure here in this country. and so therefore, the president of ukraine, a lot of years, lenski, he came out today and he said that in general, from when political decisions are made to give aid to ukraine to those weapons, actually making adhere to ukraine, that process needs to be sped up drastically. also here in key of today, i was able to speak to vladimir klitschko, who is of course the former world heavyweight boxing champion. he's also the brother of the mayor of kyiv, and he's also still very much involved in the defense of this country. and he told me why he thinks this aid package is so important to this a great,
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potential to change the frontline so we can in ukraine defend us better it sends also very important signal to putin's russia that you're not going to win this war, this senseless war that has been started over 2.5 years ago, almost two years ago it said hence, the message of motivation for us ukrainians, that we are not alone it did send also for republicans and democrats in the, in this critical moments to stand together and make this decision together. >> to protect democracy in this world. >> now the russians, for their part, alex, are criticizing the united states, accusing the us of using ukrainians as what the russian say is cannon fodder that ukrainians, of course, take a very different view of that. they say for them right now this is absolutely key to their survival the leadership of this country has said in the past but this aid package
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hadn't gone through that. there's a real chance that the ukrainians could lose this war, right now, they believe that they have a real chance to fight back and possibly even turn things around on the battlefield. alex for it's like an in kyiv are thanks to him for that report and joining us now is dimitri, i'll petrovich, the co-founder and chairman of these silverado policy accelerator and author of the soon to be released book, world on the brink. >> how america can beat china in the race for the 21st century. dmitry great to have you with us huge congratulations on the book. i do want to start with ukraine and pick up where fred left off. you speak all the time with ukrainian officials and their supporters. what do you think this injection of aid is going to mean in practical terms for ukraine? defending their cities and for those troops on the front lines. well, first of all, this is a huge morale boost for them. we've heard stories of troops in the front lines watching the votes in the congress and yelling yes, when the vote was concluded and the reality is
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though you cannot have the ukrainians go on the offensive this year. they do not have the capacity to do so. so we're talking really about trying to stabilize the frontline, prevent further losses of ukrainian territory and maybe next year they can get into a position where they can try to take back some of the territory. >> you do believe that there is a scenario in which it's not just about defending, but going back on offense because they just try to counter offensive and it didn't work out very well. it didn't work out. i think they're going to try to go back and actually train the troops that the problem was that they didn't have sufficient training. they didn't have all the capabilities that they needed to go on the offensive. but the other thing that they're doing is these deep strike missions against the energy infrastructure in russia. we just had an incredibly powerful strike mission against the naval port in crimea, sevastopol, where they sank the only d deep submarine recovery vessel that the russians have in the black sea that will make the submarine operations in black sea incredibly risky for them. because if something happens, they'll not be able to do a rescue mission. >> and on that 0.1 of the biggest ticket items that ukrainians have been begging for for a very long time, or
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these american missiles called atacms. and now it looks it's like they're set to get the longer range version around almost just shy of 200 miles, i believe according to senator mark warner, one of the fears by the biden administration in giving those to the ukrainians was provoking vladimir putin and escalating the conflict. do you think that the biden administration is getting a little bit bolder when it comes to confronting putin. >> well, i think they were pushed into this action because congress actually authorizing the sade package for the biden administration to provide atacms or at least come back and explain to congress why they're not going to do that. >> the reality is that you can control the ukrainians from striking russian territory, which would indeed be escalatory, use us weapons to do so, but they can use those weapons to strike further into crimea, further behind the front line to hit russian logistics. i think it's really important obviously, mike johnson had been against opposed ukrainian aid packages and then he came around and one of the reasons we're told is because he got a detailed briefing on all these global issues from the cia director
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bill burns and my colleagues reported that johnson became increasingly convinced that the fate of western democracy was on his shoulders not just on ukraine, but, but let's broaden this out to china and taiwan. >> what do you think it is that burns told johnson that convinced him that he had to bring these packages to the floor. i think he explained what's at stake on ukraine. the reality was that ukraine was losing the war without the say, they can't fight a war without ammunition, they can't fight a war without it. air-defense. >> so you could see a situation where the russians troops would once again one day appear on the outskirts of kyiv and try to change that government that would change the dynamics of security enamel in europe and would be very, would make things very dangerous for naibe and united states, in asia, you also have a devastating situation unfolding, as i write in the book, you have a looming conflict a conflict that's not going to happen this year or next, but in the next 48 years, you can have china tried to invade taiwan and bring the united states into a devastating war with china. >> so it's 8 billion for the indo-pacific. if taiwan is now trying to build up their
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defenses, what does that mean? again, in practical terms for taiwan? >> well it's actually considerably more. its 4 billion directly to taiwan and foreign military assistance, but it's actually a lot of the money for the us military to build up submarine bases and the pacific to secure guam, to build up capabilities across that entire region. really, really important because the reality is, i've walked the beaches of taiwan. this is a very difficult operation for the chinese hello probably one of the most complex military operations in history. and we can absolutely deter them from doing so. and if we can do that, we can stabilize this conflict that i believe will be much more devastating than a, than a war in ukraine. >> we just have a couple of moments left, butt what do you think goes through president xi's head when he sees this billions in support for taiwan i think he very concerned because he is trying to build up the capabilities of the pla as quickly as possible to prevent a situation where the united states, taiwan, japan are gonna be ready for this invasion. >> all right, do mutual pair always appreciate your your time and your thoughts.
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8,000, almost 9,000. in fact, reports of anti-semitic incidents including harassment, assault, and vandalism. that's according to the anti-defamation league. and they say it's the worst they've seen since they started tracking data 45 years ago. just last week, fbi director chris wray said that threats to the jewish community have tripled since the october 7 hamas attacks and the war that has followed, protests are still going on at columbia university in new york city. and today, an orthodox rabbi associated with columbia is warning jewish students they should quote, return home until the campus has safer. now attention is running high after several days of pro-palestinian protests and more than 100 arrests on campus, the governor of new york, kathy hochul is tweeting today saying, quote, the first amendment protects the right to protest, but students also have a right to learn in an environment free from an environment free, excuse me from harassment or violence that columbia or on any campus threatening jewish students with violence or glorifying the terrorism of october 7 is antisemitism
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cnn's polo sandoval joins us now from new york. so polo, what's the latest, what's happening today? >> so alex, what we continue to see our two demonstrations that show no signs of stopping here and to be clear, there are demonstrations supporting palestinian people, both on the campus of columbia diversity and off as well, which is the one that you're able to see and hear directly behind me. this is a demonstration that is essentially walked up to the gates of columbia university since access to the campus remains restricted, and they have been chanting, reading for much of the weekend. their voices, what they're trying to do is join with an encampment. what's called the gop odds of solidarity and kaag main cabin still located on the south lawn as of this hour to gamut, as you recall that it was on thursday than the nypd was called? and to assess by columbia university officials to help clear out that in cabinet and resulted in well over 100 people to be detained, arrested, and even suspended to the question is just how long will they be allowed to be there on both sides of the
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fence? you see behind me the message is clear. it's a very unified message. so it's calling on colorbar university to divest funds for many companies with associations to israel, but separately in the other vain that you just touched on, a really important what here is that there are growing in concerns among jewish students on campus about be made to feel unsafe while making their way to and from class because of these growing demonstrations, it reached a point where for that rabbi that you just mentioned a short while ago, sent a message to about 300 students saying that his best, that they simply go home until more is done to guarantee their safety now, columbia university three responding saying that they are acting on those concerns and they're also assuring that they students do have the right to protest. so long as it does not disrupt university the operations and it does not intimidate any of the students here, but we've spoken to jewish students at some of the students at columbia diversity. one in particular, noah later and you told me to double-major studying hagar columbia, but he's afraid to come back until the university does more saying that he's angry, he's terrified, he's upset. and
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these are the concerns that are being highlighted. fraud by university officials. the new york city mayor, all the way to the white house. but the larger picture here, alex, important to remind also viewers. this is still essentially equation that cup campuses and universities throughout the country are forced to grapple with as we are likely going to continue to see these kinds of demonstrations, just a grow these universities horse to walk that very delicate line of making sure that the students on campus feel safe, but ensuring that students the right to free speech and to assemble. >> yeah, this is not an isolated issue at columbia university. polo sandoval in new york. thank you very much. >> ahead. the parallels between former president trump's historic criminal trial and the last time a former presidential candidate ran into legal trouble because of an alleged affair that's coming up in the cnn newsroom. >> stay with us every piece of
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true, trump is the first former president to stand trial against criminal charges. another well-known politician has similar story play out in the past. john edwards obviously was prosecuted for the same thing. >> and justice department failed acquitted on one and miss trial and the others, but they decided not to proceed. >> in 2011, then failed democratic presidential candidate john edwards faced as six count indictment for allegedly accepting and using campaign contributions to cover up an extramarital affair and hide his mistress and their child from the public while edwards ran for president while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was doing anything illegal i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. >> the jury acquitted edwards on one charge and split on the other five leaving the justice department to ultimately dropped the case. >> well, the election interference and it's got to stop. it's a third world country. >> trump is charged with 34
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some arizona lawmakers say they want to prevent the banned from going back into effect. but when it came to a vote, a number of republicans didn't allow any discussion about about a repeal. i want to bring in and caroline kitchener, who won a pulitzer prize for her reporting on abortion last year. she's a national political reporter for the washington post, caroline, thank you so much for joining us. you just got back from arizona. so does it look like this is going to indeed go into effect next week? or are there still efforts? >> to repeal the ban it is really hard to say what is going to happen next in arizona. last week, i really thought going into the vote that we were going to have it repealed and that didn't end up happening and that's relatively rare. i think with a vote in the legislature that you truly don't know what is going many of these republicans, many of these republicans, especially in swing districts, are having a really hard time with this vote, having to reckon both
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with their own personal very anti-abortion convictions, but also the reality that the people in their districts just do not want this yeah, it really seems like the reaction to this, to this band caught many by surprise in arizona, particularly republicans and so it does seem like some republicans are trying to have it both ways saying that they're against abortion, but also that this band goes too far. >> kari lake, who is running for senate coming mr. mind. so how are they trying to walk that line well, i mean, several of them told me when i was there last week that this was going to be the most difficult decision of their careers. >> and i think you really see what was interesting last week is that you didn't even get to a vote on the repeal. and i think that that is very much intentional at several lawmakers told me that that first vote in order to get to the boat, the procedural vote was actually going to be much more difficult because it was
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easier for these moderate republicans to vote against getting to the vote than it would be to vote no on the actual repeal that's just it's harder to make a political ad saying. so and so didn't vote to get to the vote than it would be to say so. and so voted to keep this ban in place so i think it's anybody's guess what's going to happen this week. but i think they will certainly try to bring it up again. >> what are you hearing from women in arizona across the political spectrum i think it's you know, it's a very scary and uncertain time there has been access to abortion in arizona until 15 weeks which is when the vast majority of abortions occur but now it's just it seems like anytime now this could go into effect in that could all be wiped away. >> i think there's a lot of confusion. now, actually, the
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attorney general has said that this actually could not take effect until june 8th, but there's just a lot of confusion. people calling clinics, people don't understand and don't know, and they're hearing conflicting things and i think it's just a very, very scary and difficult time carolina, in terms of the presidential race, arizona, of course, is so important, what kind of impact do you think it is going to have on a national level? >> what kind of implications? for the presumptive republican nominee donald trump i think it's going to have massive implications. >> i mean, you already have kari lake calling these, making direct calls to these republicans and swing district saying you must vote to repeal this ban, which is pretty remarkable because she was it's all in calling this civil war era ban of good thing until very recently. so i think that just really speaks volumes. she is now calling them making sure that they understand the political stakes, both for her and for donald trump and for the whole republican party. if
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this ban continues to stay in a, goes into effect and of course, we've seen president biden seizing on this playing clips of president former president trump bragging about breaking roe versus wade, karoline kitchener. thank you very much for your time tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back new ally in the fight against climate change. this is the car business blue carbon yes, need to protect nature will do the rest carbon plus cnn filled tonight at nine what some people just node is a better way to do things and some people don't funder joham& auto with allstate and safe you're in good hands with all state freeze dryness breakage, new dove ten and ones serum hair mask with peptide complex
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kinda bring people together and the students at payson high also contributed 5,000 resource kits to bacon's foundation, which provides essentials to communities in need sri lanka is experiencing a unique war, one between its people and local elephants due to rapid development, more people are being pushed farther into the wild where the elephants once lived on interrupted. >> now tension between both groups, man and animal is turning deadly. cnn's nick paton walsh traveled to sri lanka the document, this deadly battle for tonight's episode of the whole story with anderson cooper alex, although we got to see some of them are beautiful parts of srilanka and some of the most stunning creatures that nature can furnish you with a site of elephants. >> it's a very dark story, and it's one really that's yes, about elephants and humans clashing over the land. they both need to survive, but it's really, i think a metaphor for how crowd not at our planet is
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becoming. because while you see elephants clashing with humans here, that sort of tension over land, over space is reflected in the conflicts that you and i cover on a regular basis across the planet? this increasingly lacking in space for the number of beings that are on it. now, in sri lanka, there are said to be about 6,000 elephants. they're not entirely sure, but just last year alone, 476 of them were killed in confrontations with humans at 169 people were killed through the same sort of violence. and this happens every night in basic farm villages firecrackers used to kick elephants away from farmland. because if people lose their crops, they lose their harvest, they lose their livelihood, their ability to feed their children. it's existential frankly for both sides, when we've got a taste of some of that violence, some of that tension ourselves these are this conflicts, weapons firecrackers fund the flashes
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well suddenly the numbers have grown from couple here, possibly to ten, maybe 20 over by the tree line over there possibly coming in this direction this is already too close if they charge, it would all be over a torchlight. >> use to always be enough. or they were banging pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft. so they reach straight from gunpowder usually the elephants just run button but sometimes they charge and it's us who have to run and, nic story on the all new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper, one whole hour, one whole story that air is