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oo this is a good book title. often has gone to right now. >> so what are you waiting for erin burnett outfront weeknights at seven on cnn? you were in the cnn newsroom with me. i'm sara sidner here in new york. we're entering a new phase of the race for the next president, donald trump. just held his first campaign rally after officially becoming the republican presidential nominee. while joe biden spent another day in isolation due of course, to his covid as his reelection bid continues to be complicated with 108 days until election day. more democrats are coming out against president biden running for a second time. there are now 35 lawmakers from him its own party, urging him to drop out and more than 50 former national security officials and foreign policy experts wrote
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him a letter requesting the same all of them expressing an urgent message that donald trump cannot return to the white house and their view. but trump is showing major momentum you know, exactly one week since surviving an assassination attempt, he wore a smaller bandage over his wounded ear and gave this message just a short time ago. >> republicans must win. we have to win, win, win, win, win we want a landslide that is too big to rig. if you want to save america, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know, and vote get a vote early, vote absentee. i don't care how you well now we'll give you an update in just a bit on that maddening technical glitch that has left tens of thousands of people wondering if they will ever get their flight to their destination. >> but we do begin this hour with the revving up of the political campaigns tonight was the first time the former president stumped with his new vice presidential pick, j.d. vance they were at an indoor
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event in grand rapids, michigan. >> this is the first on the trail test for the secret service since the attempt on trump's life at an outdoor venue last weekend, cnn's kristen holmes has been following this campaign from the beginning here's what she has to set sara. >> this is the first time we saw donald trump up there on a rally stage. >> sense, that is as a nation attempt last week in butler, pennsylvania, and he seemed to be fully in his element. he spoke for roughly two hours. he engaged with the crowd at one point, he was pulling them on various aspects, saying who should he run again? should it be joe biden should be commonly harris and other points he was riffing on various things that happened while he was in office completely off script, but again, feeding to the crowd, there were thousands of people in this arena cheering for him. he came out with just a small band aid on his ear. he has placed that gauze from that shooting that happened last week. now, one notable part
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about him being here in michigan, obviously critical battleground state. he also appeared for the first time with vice presidential nominee j.d vance on the campaign trail, vance introduced him, left the stage, then donald trump's book, the reason why that is notable is a part of vance's appeal, least if you talk to people who are close to the former we're president said he might be able to help with voters, working class voters, particularly in areas like michigan, like pennsylvania, like wisconsin. all of those being again critical states of donald trump won in 2016 and then lost in 2020. now i do want to point to one specific moment during the speech where he tried to distance himself again from project 2025. that of course, being the overall plan transition plan put into place, or at least developed by the heritage foundation and a bunch of other conservative groups that would be a plan for whatever the next republican president is. people who are authors of that plan. many of them worked for former president donald trump's administration are currently the allies of his, but it has come under a lot of fire for how conservative some of those
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policies are. take a listen to what donald trump said, like some on the right severe right came up with this project 25 and i don't even know. i mean, some of them, randa, who they are, but they're very, very conservative. like you have this sort of the opposite of the radical left. you have the radical left and you have the radical right and they come up with this. i don't know what the hell it is. it's project already five he's involved in project. and then they read some of the things that they are extreme i mean, there's seriously extreme. but i don't know anything about it. >> now it is clear fair from the times that donald trump has made to try and distance himself from project 2025 that he and his team view this as some sort of vulnerability however, it's not just them who see it as a vulnerability. president joe biden steam also has gone after trump on torch project 2025, linking him to it, pudding ads out, and attacking him on the various issues sara. >> all right. thank you. to our kristen holmes turning to the
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latest on president joe biden, he is in isolation as he should be. at his beach home in delaware as he is recovering from covid after testing positive. but he released a statement saying he's looking forward to getting back on the trail next week. the campaign trail, cnn course want to priscilla alvarez in rehoboth beach, delaware covering the president brazil. there's been a lot of pressure. it's growing to get him to leave the race, but he is doubling down. he says he's staying and he'll be on the campaign trail next week. what are you hearing? >> even in the last several hours, that pressure has been mounting with even more democratic lawmakers coming out today telling the president to step aside. of course, this has been a deeply frustrating and challenging time for president biden as he continues to face those calls from members of his own party the from allies, from donors who think he is just not up to the task to take on former president donald trump. now, when pressed on this, the biden campaign maintains that
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he is going to stay in the race. they've taken to the airwaves over the last 24 hours. they've really statements essentially say that the president is looking for forward to hitting the campaign trail. again, that there is no plan b and that they are full steam ahead with the biden harris ticket but of course the president is having to grapple with all of this behind closed doors because he has tested positive for covid. he continues to test positive. and so he has to self-isolate and his clothes advisers are here in rehoboth beach, delaware. they often do travel with the president, the white house has been notifying reporters of the briefings that he is having with his team virtually, but certainly it is his inner circle that is pivotal in moments like this, these challenging moments where he is facing this pressure from the party and it remains unclear whether he can survive this. of course, some officials find this wholly untenable, while
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loyal aides say that the president is dug in. so the resounding message ultimately from the biden campaign and from the president himself, is that he is saying in until november with plans they say to win in november, but those around him are many of those around him are really questioning that and concerned about whether he can in fact be the best democratic nominee for them. this election year personally, who is the president directly communicating with about all of this term while and sort of the fracture in the party over whether or not he should continue his campaign so again, the president is in regular touch with his senior advisers, many of whom are here in rehoboth beach, delaware where he has a residence and were key is self-isolating. but in really pivotal moments, it is often his family that matters most they carry the most influence. now the first lady is also here with him, and it
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is those people who are in conversations with him particularly as they continue to face this mounting pressure on these calls from democratic lawmakers. and he was also hear last week working the phones and talking to key groups lawmakers to try to get them in line, to try to ease their concerns. so this has been a moment of turmoil for the democratic party and the biden campaign. and the way that they have tried to work through that is to work the phones now, we have gotten to the point where a lot of those conversations are really between the president and his interests circle. and inner circle. by the way, that sources tell us, has grown even tighter as they wrestle with this moment priscilla alvarez. >> thank you so much for your reporting out there and rehoboth all right. we've got a lot to discuss tonight up next, a defiant president biden reportedly seething at his fellow democrat, nancy pelosi, who pulled him in private. he can't win.
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sources to our cnn reporters, that president biden is seething at nancy pelosi over her lack of support for continuing his reelection bid. >> the speaker emerita, is headlining a fund-raiser known as the unity dinner in north carolina's capital rally you can see some live pictures there of that event on your screen. nancy pelosi speaking right now, joining me now to talk about nancy pelosi. and of course, the state of the race. republican strategists, lanhee chen, democratic strategist, caroline heldman and presidential historian allan lichtman. thank you all for staying with us. saturday evening. caroline, i want to begin with you what do you see as nancy pelosi's next steps in all this because she is there, she is raising money but she according to all of our reporting and the background has been putting a lot of pressure on joe biden telling him he cannot win and he is defiant, saying, i'm not budging sara. >> what's so significant i
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think is how much of a role nancy pelosi has played in joe biden's rise in success so the folks who are turning on him and asking him to step out of this race. it appears that president obama is working behind the scenes. chuck schumer pretty seven democratic leaders are now publicly calling for him to step down. these are folks who have supported him over the years, but they're looking at the numbers. they're looking at three out of four americans don't think he has the mental fitness for the office to 30 of democrats want him to step aside. >> he's down, he's losing ground in 14 states according to the latest polls, he's behind i'm trump in all seven key swing states and states like minnesota and virginia even new mexico, that shouldn't be in play that he easily want to 2020 are now in place with the election were held today, it would be a trump blow out and that is what nancy pelosi and others who supported biden over the years are responding to all right. >> i want to get to you, lanhee, donald trump had his rally today did use some of the
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same sort of attack language that he's used in the past there wasn't a whole lot of unity spoken at that at that rally but j.d vance, alongside with him, when you look at this combination do you think that donald trump's sort of missed a chance to expand the appeal of the republican ticket i don't know that he missed the chance. >> i think that what you get with j.d. vance is you get someone who can really articulately talk about the the so-called maga agenda. so in that sense, i think that agenda has appeal beyond the traditional white working class voters we've talked about so much. it has appealed with some hispanic voters. it has appealed with some african american voters. and so i think that it's a, obviously, if he'd gone in the direction of marco rubio, let's say that would have been a more overt play for a different part of the electorate. but i think j.d. vance does bring an interesting much younger, energetic complexion to the ticket. now, whether in fact
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that'll be enough to get trump across the finish line, whether that will be helpful to him down the road, we'll see. but my sense is that the trump campaign does believe that vance brings an element that no other candidate would have certainly loyalty to trump as well as another factor that they were looking at when when vance was picked, allen now to you, i know you you predict pretty well who the president will be, perhaps one of the things that you can look at right now, is that all democrats agreeing on this thing that this division inside the party especially that has become so public is not good for the democrats period where 108 days from election day. i mean, how much more time is left to try to bring the party together behind the candidate. they believe is going to win so that the public it feels good about it to you know, i've been studying american politics from the founding to the present. and i have never seen a
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political party engage in such a foolish self-destructed escapade as the democrats trashing they were incumbent president, the nominee nauta members of congress, but of the voters. >> and sadly, the media and the pollsters, pundits, or the operatives are all complicit. in this. in fact, they are pushing the democrats into a situation where the white house party has never prevailed since 1,900 and open seat with no incumbent running and a contested nomination, whereas if biden stays in and gets the nomination, you then have a situation of an incumbent running an uncontested nomination. he got 87% of the primary vote almost always the white house party wins under those conditions. what all of these critics, every one of them have in common is they have zero track record in predicting the outcomes of
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elections. and yet they all claim to know what the democrats should do to be predicted winners this time, i do have a 40 year track record and my keys to the white house. and it takes six of them to go negative to count out the incumbent party biden ticks off incumbency and contest. that means six of the remaining 11 would have to fall to predict the democrats defeat. he's not running. you have a party contest. only four more keys would have to fall to predict their defeat. not only other democrats running against the verdict of history, they are contradicting the only political system that's been right before years. but there is one positive here. by mentioned stay in. >> he shouldn't become the nominee. >> and then i guarantee you all those spineless, cowardly democrats. who have turned against him will come a running back and give us a big show party unity plus is a lot, yet to happen. we can't write off
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biden right now. remember everyone wrote donald trump after the access hollywood tape and that was wrong. what biden succeeds in brokering a ceasefire and a hostage release in gaza that went totally changed the tone of the entire conversation. thank god. we don't govern by. polls when donald trump would have been doing to 2016 obama would withdrawn after that disastrous debate with mitt romney when the polls turn against harry truman, would it would drawn because every poll and every pundits that he was losing, george h w bush would it was drawn when in june of the election year he fell 17 points behind mike dukakis carolyn, i do want to ask you. thank you, eleni, for that. i want to ask you about the polls that show that biden is behind in some of them that he is very, very close with donald trump. but is there a poll out there that you've seen that shows he has no chance of winning, which is
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what he's being told by some in the the, in private well, i wouldn't i would assume that they're looking at internal polls that are better than what we have access to. >> but yes, if the election were held today, it would be in a trump blowout because he's ahead in enough key swing states by outside of the margin of error allen is right that we have time between now and then. >> but as a student of history, we have never been here before. >> these are not stupid people. nancy pelosi is a very politically savvy person. the fact that we have a dashboard with flashing lights going off, it's not just one poll, it's a lot of different metrics. i think the most important being that any he time a president has been an incumbent president in the modern political age has been under 40% they have lost jimmy carter, george herbert, walker bush, and of course donald trump in 2020. but at the end of the day, we've never been here before, we have not had a candidate for major
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political party this close to an election who appears to be physically unfit the thing is, biden had some time to turn this around. >> he doesn't appear able to turn it around so again, history is obviously data and history are great ways to look at this through that the long context and look at what's happening in the electoral college and the popular vote right now. >> but we haven't been here before. >> so trying to bass predictions on something like this, it's a black swan if you will lani, can caroline heldman, allan lichtman. what we want we have been in very worst positions for incumbent party's george hw bush down 17 points, came back to win by at a 20 five five-point swing in the polls. biden is not down close to that. >> harry truman, 36% approval, won by five points in the general election, brought it in a democratic house and a democratic senate. >> and you notion this guy
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being physically able, not able to perform so worst kind of ageist and ableism. yes, he does have a small disability gutters. he's not quick on his feet. he makes gaffes. >> he always has now been what you saw is insult. >> let me finish. is insulting to the tens of millions of americans with similar small disabilities who do their job extremely well as as john by not a single critic has said, oh, it's supposed deficiencies have led to a bad presidency has been one of the best president of the modern era. >> great agreed, but apparently we saw very different debate and we're assessing a very different joe biden. i've been defending him against ableism and ageism up until the point where it was very obvious that something has happened to him physically. and that's why three and four years, like no one should allen. >> allen like carolina. like carolina? go ahead. carolina sure i agree. i think joe biden has been one of the most
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consequential consequential presidents. certainly he shifted the paradigm away from government being the problem that reagan instituted. he's gonna be in the annals of policy achievements along with fdr in terms of providing a social safety net during the covid-19 dean pandemic? i mean, it is obvious at donald trump poses a massive threat to democracy because he inspired violent insurrection, but to act like we're not all seeing what's happening with joe biden. i think is really missing the point. there is a reason why so many americans are looking at this and they are panicked. and he hasn't turned it around in the two weeks that he's had alright. >> we're going to get to talk more about why donald will waltz to the point. we're going to loni just had to put that in there. we're going to talk with you just after the break, so we're not going away. we're going to continue this conversation as spicy as it is at ahead. we will wait to see what joe biden will do. it stopped him new questions emerging tonight about vice president kamala harris. we will talk a lot more later with
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19th. that is just over four weeks from today. let us continue our discussion now with our panel lanhee chen caroline heldman, and allan lichtman, loni, i'm going to start with you. i interviewed kamala harris when she was the district attorney in san francisco many moons ago. and then of course, she moved on to higher office in california. how would you describe what she was like back then? >> well, look, i think she's had a little bit of an evolution, her own political career obviously, she's had various points at which she has been maybe a little bit more conservative, been kicked around criminal justice issues and over time, i think she's gotten probably more progressive as the base of her party's gotten more progress but there are still some things from her california history that will haunt her. for example, the decision not to pursue the death penalty for slain police officer in san francisco in 2004, even amidst opposition from her own party, the likes of senator dianne feinstein, former senator dianne feinstein, for example, who who argued at the
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officer's funeral in front of kamala harris is face that frankly, the death penalty should have been pursued. so that will haunt her. i think her policies on energy are going to be very challenging. she's been anti fracking, anti an all of the above energy strategy. i think that will be a challenge in states like pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin, which the democrats have to win the last thing i'll just say is this in california? foreign if she had won tough race and that was when she first ran for attorney general back in 2010 against steve cooley, a moderate republican. she has not had to run a tough race since then. so i think a lot of people wonder, does she have what she needs that she had it in her to run a tough race against donald trump. so i think those are the questions from her california background that people will look at if she does indeed become the democratic nominee because she's certainly won two races and got the vice president position. caroline, we hear from kamala harris, she talks about being a tough prosecutor, but somebody who was fair
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though san francisco, to be fair as one of the most progressive some places which seemed to be softer on crime than most places. what do you know about her record well, kamala harris is going to have a difficult time paying herself as a centrist as loni pointed out i actually think she'd been underestimated and is painted as far more liberal than she actually is. >> but there has been a concerted campaign sent he took the vice presidency, assuming that she was the natural heir. >> the next time around to discredit her and it's been as we saw with hillary clinton, donald trump knows the presidential contests are always, there are a lot of different things, but they're always a contest about competing notions of manhood and so he's, he's talking about doing push-ups in hand size and golf handicaps. >> and you put a woman on the racing, you see that straight up the mussabini we saw with hillary clinton talked about her voice. he tried to paint her as frail, a very feminized thing frame. he's also done that with male contenders. and i think what's commonly harris, we know that there's
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this blanket about a 13 percentage to point to bias against women who worked for the presidency, it gets smaller when it's a specific woman. but as a black woman and an indian american woman, pamela harris is going to face a lot of sexism and racism, and we've seen some of this with the jazzagals trope that comes up where donald trump and others talk about her sleeping the way to the top of being a dei, a candidate i think she's going to have an uphill battle. ai there's no good option for democrats at this point i do want to ask you, alan, we haven't seen this in history, certainly not in recent history. >> how would it even work if biden stepped down from the campaign i mean how would they go forward? with such a short period of time before the election it's going to be almost impossible. >> we're going to see a repeat of a convention roll, like we saw in 1968. after lyndon johnson has stepped down. and what was the upshot of this we've got richard nixon as
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president and we also almost lost our democracy. that if in fact the supreme court's immunity decision had been in effect in the 1970s nixon would have gotten away scot-free with watergate and likely our democracy would die. and so all of these credits who have no record of accessible prediction are exactly pushing us to the scenario of 1968 and to the scenario of 2016 that led to the election of donald trump. and this time, you know, donald trump, you write in the open, he's going to govern like his buddy viktor orban in hungary. and what does that mean? snuffing out the political opposition and snuffing out the free press protected by immunity, and couldn't disagree more about the criticism of kamala harris as that's exactly what they said about barack obama in 2008. he can't when he's a black man america is not ready for a black man and the republicans typically
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massage analysts attack on her, couldn't well backfire when you don't know that, particularly given that abortion rights are on the ballot in many key states, and abortion rights for women are a critical component of this election. so republicans are playing with fire, with their massaging and elon, we should point out that in 1968, the convention was held in chicago the better democrats will be back in chicago in 2024 on august 19th. i liked how you put your hands on your head because that says everything. thank you to lanny. thank you. caroline, for coming in this evening instead of going out and having a great dinner at 9:35 p.m. i really do appreciate you coming in on a saturday for us. >> thank, you sir thank you all right. we have new details tonight about the young man who attempted to assassinate donald trump. what investigators found in his car and how it played a
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drone, we have more from cnn's gloria pazmino well, sara, this new detail about the drone that was found in thomas matthew crooks ao car is significant because law enforcement sources have told us they believe he was able to deploy the drone on saturday morning, the morning of the rally. >> presumably he got a bird's-eye view at the location where the rally was set to take place and that's significant because we know that he positioned himself on a rooftop and had that very clear direct shot at the former president now investigators are still trying to pull all the pieces together. why? if this happened and how could it have happened? >> the motive behind all of this remains elusive, but there are a few things that we do know. and that is about the deal details and the kind of internet searches that thomas
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matthew crooks was doing in the days before the rally. >> he looked up information both about the former for president donald trump and about the current president joe biden. he looked up information about the democratic national convention as well as information shan about other high-profile political figures, including congressman hakeem jeffries. we also know that thomas matthew crooks locked up information patient on the internet about ethan crumbley and his parents. you might remember ethan crumbley and his parents were recently prosecuted and convicted in a mass shooting at a high school in michigan. what we do not know is why he was looking up that information. we do know that the i've been he used on saturday belong to his father. it was illegally obtained along with about 20 other weapons that will recover but here at this house, a family home, which you see behind me sara,
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we have also been able to pinpoint some of the movements that crooks made bowl on the day before the rally on friday, he went to a local a local shooting practice where he spent some time and then on saturday morning, he purchased a ladder at a local home depot and about 50 rounds of ammunition before returning here to his house grabbing the weapon, and then driving about an hour north of here where that rally was taking place. now, over the next several days, as we enter for next week and investigators continue to gather information and more clues about how this happened and why it happened. with lawmakers public, this community still looking to understand what drove thomas matthew crooks. thomas matthew crooks, i should say to, this, why he did this, and they've
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there was anything that could have been done to prevent it sir. >> all right thank you. to gloria last hour, i spoke with chris mcclintick, who was a senior special agent at the us secret service. here is part of that conversation i want to start with trump's rally. it was indoors tonight it's likely to remain in the future because of what happened in the outdoor rally where he was nearly assassinated. a father and firefighter was killed and two others injured well, first things first, good evening, sara and thank you for having me i can only imagine that. yeah, that's probably going to be the case at this point, this late stage of b of the campaign that better safe than sorry, they probably will lean more towards indoor rallies as opposed to the outdoor ones for what would pretty much obvious reasons into rallies are easier to control, their easy to
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maintain. an overall safer so i would imagine that they would be pushing more for them than for obviously, he since the outdoor rallies i'm curious your assessment on some of our reporting that says that the gunmen apparently used a drone for reconnaissance over the trump rally just a few hours before the president was there on the podium. >> what does it tell you about his state of mind, but also what does it tell you about the secret service and how they handled this clearly a admitting that they made some very big mistakes well, i'd like to answer those questions in reverse order that you ask them i can't speak on what they were thinking at this site, but i can say that i was an agent while the drone craze, if you will? >> he became what it is today and the secret service absolutely has policies and procedures in reference to drones and drone activity. so i
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would imagine there's going to be a lot of questions in regards to how this individual, if in fact it's true he did use a drone to do basically surveillance. so that strikes me as a little odd that service did not take greater action against the drone now, with regards to his mindset it appears he was doing his homework by using a drone to do surveillance. that's something that's being utilized more both with law enforcement and even with military, where you are able to get a bird's-eye view if you will, of an area that you're planning to infiltrate. if in fact he did do that? then yeah, that's becoming standard operation procedure for bad guys, if you will. >> certainly premeditation for many of the different things that he did i do want to ask you this question that the public and all the victims, families often want to know. it doesn't change things in any
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way, doesn't take away the hurt, but they want to know why, what was the reason exactly? a week on we still have no motive investigators saying that they're not sure they haven't found the exact motive. do you think we'll ever know that there's been this long i've talked to 100 people, including family members and friends, look, they're a social media looked through his phone and we still don't have a clear answer yes. >> to answer your question, i do believe that they will eventually find it. i know that they've sifted through, like you said, hundreds of witnesses all of his all of his videos all of his social media accounts, and they have not found anything distinctive as of yet, but i have faith every one of these experiences that i've seen in my law enforcement career, spans over 35 years. there has been a motive. sometimes took a while to find it, but there has been
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history tonight. people all over the united states are remembering the life of a true trailblazer texas lawmaker, sheila jackson lee. her family confirmed her death friday night she was 74-years-old during her time in congress, jackson lee represented her houston area district for decades, advocating especially hard for women and black americans she also spurred change. the congresswoman was one of the legislative sponsors who turned the juneteenth movement and into a national holiday signed by president biden. and tonight, the tribute are pouring in house minority leader hakeem jeffries remembers her as a quote, accomplished legislator, passionate public servant, loving mentor, and wonderful friend, president joe biden, all for also offered his condolences remembering jackson lee as a great american, adding she's part of a long line of patriots who delivered the promise of america to all
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americans and fellow texas representative al green had this to say she had a work ethic that all who knew her admired, you could not help but admire her work ethic the congresswoman's death comes after she announced in june that she'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer may she rest in peace? >> and as someone who is dealing with cancer herself, although in a different part of the body she had a very hard fight and she did a lot for this country. thank you so much for joining me this evening. i'm sara sidner. i'll see you monday on cnn news central starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern, hbo's real time with bill maher up next sanity needs a safe space you have a show were right and left talk to him cnn presents an encore presentation of hbo's real time with bill
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