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♪ the coronavirus hits a new milestone with more than 100,000 cases confirmed in italy, even the prime minister is refusing to shake hands as the death toll in that country jumps. and violence in the afghan capital during what is supposed to be a time of peace. where do we go from here? we'll discuss. and live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world.
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i'm michael holmes, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. well, the coronavirus appears to be tapering off in china, at least for now. the new cases are surging elsewhere, all around the world. nearly 21,000 infections now confirmed outside of china. a third of those in south korea. the country has just reported 270 new cases. here you can see long lines of people waiting to buy face masks. around the world, well over 100,000 people are infected. nearly 3500 of them have died. off the california coast, at least 21 people aboard the "grand presenincess" cruise shi
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tested positive. cnn's nick watt with that situation. >> reporter: aboard the "grand princess" cruise ship, uncertainty and fear. how many if any passengers are tested and at least five of the ship's last leg of the voyage caught the virus. one died. >> he was around a lot of us around the cruise. >> reporter: it's an older crowd. and that demo is hardest hit. >> those over the age of 70, we're looking at 10%, 15% case fatality rates. >> reporter: in washington state where at least seven deaths are now tied to this nursing home. there's grief, fear and now confusion. pat's mom among the dead. >> i want her body tested. and i've been today, well, we don't do that. it's not okay, i need to have her tested for the larger picture. >> reporter: university of washington just announced no
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more classes on campus. the northshore school district already shut down at least 80,000 students in the seattle area are now being kept home. >> they said they might be closed. >> reporter: are you concerned that the virus is going to get inside your home or you or your kids might be infected? >> yes, my middle son has asthma. it's mild asthma. but that's a big concern. that's really what it's going for is the lungs. >> reporter: the number of confirmed cases across the country climbing nearly three per hour in just the past day. in connecticut, emma, just back from italy where nearly 200 have died is in self-quarantine just in case. >> i've been allowed to pet my dog every once in a while. but it's pretty lonely. >> reporter: in new york state, more than 4,000 in a similar situation. >> this is like the flu on
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steroids. >> reporter: 11 new states announced today, all connected to contact with one man who is now being treated in a manhattan hospital. >> reporting there, now more than 100 additional cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the u.s. just on friday. a 50% increase from the day before. american health experts now recommending that the elderly, as well as people with chronic medical conditions stay home and avoid social events and crowds. during a visit to the u.s. centers for centers for disease control and prevention, president donald trump again saying any american can be tested who needs it. that's not quite true. and that's not what his vice president said. >> anybody right now and yesterday, anybody that needs a test, anybody that needs a test, gets a test. there's a doctor that wants to test. >> we trust in the matter of weeks, the coronavirus test will be broadly available to the
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public and available to any american that is symptomatic and has a concern about the possibility of having contracted the coronavirus. >> well, the mixed message underscores what critics have been saying for weeks that the trump white house is downplaying a very real threat. let's get more now from jim acosta. >> reporter: with president trump urging americans to remain calm and avoid panicking over the coronavirus -- >> you have to be calm. it will go away. >> reporter: -- top white house officials are misleading the public about the true nature of the outbreak. when in fact the data shows the virus is spreading causes more illnesses and more deaths. the officials offering those rosy assessments, kellyanne conway -- >> what i am pleased to report the 14 deaths so far that are completely tragic and very sad in this country shows that this is being contained because the president took action. and a lot of you criticized him
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for doing that. >> reporter: and economic adviser larry kudlow or not infectious disease experts. >> we don't exactly know what the magnitude of the virus is going to be. although, frankly, so far it looks relatively contained. >> reporter: one big problem, officials have yet to understand the full scope of the outbreak as testing kits are still being distributed. >> i just want to make it clear, in terms of tests, we have provided all of the tests in the state of washington and state of california that they've asked for. the production and shipping of tests that we've talked about all week is completely on schedule. >> reporter: a top adviser on the coronavirus task force talked about missteps for the centers for disease control. >> it's unfortunate we got off to a slow start. there's some missteps with regard to the cdc's test. they had a problem, they fixed the problem. >> reporter: despite the rocky response, secretary of state mike pompeo said the united states is outperforming in its
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response. >> i'm confident we're handling it better than anybody in the world. >> the cdc says basically anyone who needs a test should go to their doctor and ask for a test. the vice president says, we don't have enough testing capacity to address all the tests that we need to take. >> reporter: there was even confusion over whether the president would visit ethe cdc. first, his plans were scrapped over concerns that somebody at cdc might have the coronavirus -- >> we thought there was a problem with cdc that somebody had the virus. it turned out negative so we're seeing if we can do it. >> reporter: then the white house cleared mr. prump trump t. a silver lining that maybe more americans will choose to stay in the u.s. >> i have to say people are spending their money in the u.s. and i like that.
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>> cnn's jim acosta reporting there. in the throes of the health crisis, president trump has chose to name a new chief of staff. mick mulvaney being replaced by mark meadows. mulvaney will become special enjoy for northern ireland. meadows will president trump's fourth chief of staff since taking office a little more than three years ago. joining me now from london to talk more about this is independe inderjeet parmar, visiting professor at the london school of economics. good to see you. >> good morning. >> let's talk about president trump's response to the coronavirus. the president said he would stop in, and as kellyanne conway told reporters the outbreak had been
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skeine ske contained. those statements are not true. what damage is done to the messaging to the public when you're hearing that? >> well, i think the credibility of that message is going to be questioned more and more. we don't really know yet the scale of this particular epidemic because the number of testing kits is so inadequate. and i think it seems to be that the administration is more interested in protecting president trump's own position, his ratings, the damage is which being done -- which is going to be done possibly to raise the election campaign. and it would appear he's equally damaged in the process of the stock market that he holds to his administration. what really shows if you like if the kind of biggest sense that president trump deconstruction of the american state, his various undermining of science and expertise. his cutting of funding to the centers for disease control have these undermining of international corporation.
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which now is shown to be so important in this global kind of what is like an epidemic. so i think there are a number of steps they're taking, but they're trying to keep control of them as the political -- to control the political damage, much more than deal with the actual level of crisis which the world health organization is indicating. >> at one point, at the cdc, he was talking about how all of the doctors were amazed how much he knew about it. and perhaps he should have gone into that industry. he did also speak, and just sort of to talk a little bit about tone and appropriateness, he did speak about the governor of the state of washington, jay inslee in that cdc setting. let's have a quick listen. >> i told them not to be confident because that governor is a snake, insley, i said if
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you're nice to him he might take advantage, and i said, no, let me just tell you, we have a lot of problems with the governor, the governor of washington which we have many problems. >> the governor obviously suffering a bit with the coronavirus and in that sentence, you've got the president referring to the governor as a snake. speak to that kind of tone, partisan politics at the time like this, in a setting like that? >> i think it's as much the tone as the message. in a way it goes back to the whole idea of president trump's support base. he wants to keep his support base together, united, as we approach november 9th, 2020. and he doesn't really seem to see that the message of unity, with the kind of unity of action where all organizations of the government, regardless of what
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their party affiliation needs to be needs to be united behind this particular effort. and it goes to the america first message to the world which is we're actually better handling this which is not actually correct at the moment. and then the feeling that i am in charge, i know what is right. and it's a very self-centered kind of government and that's the price that the american public pay, not necessarily the people in the american society as a society. >> and reading into it what you said earlier, the coronavirus has $9 trillion of global stock markets. they're still falling. in some forecasters pointing to chance of recession. a lot of industries are being hurt. a lot of jobs have been lost. the president has hung his presidency on the stock market, the economy. what if that's not so rosy a few months from now. >> well, i think that people may well begin to see, look at what president trump actually did in
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regard to dealing with the health epidemic itself. in the end, that's what everybody is going to have to answer to. what did you do? how did you marshal the resources the entire country to deal with the crisis? and health care is going to be front and center of the debate. the american health care system has been under criticism for a period of time. and now we're going to be able to see how is it going to able to handle itself on the scale that the world health organization is suggesting it will reach. we don't know what's going to happen in new york and other cities once the testing takes place, the economic ramifications, all of the elections are going to have a big impact on the campaign as well as the democratic primaries. i think we can expect to see, a lot more people question him,
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what exactly are you doing to try to help us deal with this crisis? as opposed to just saying well, sneeze into a tissue, or those kind of things that individuals can take responsibility for. because a lot of the responsibility now falls on the authorities themselves. >> inderjeet parmar, thank you for being with us, appreciate it, professor. >> thank you. meanwhile, italy reporting 49 new deaths from coronavirus. and that's almost 800 new cases on friday alone. one image that perhaps underscores how cautious people are being around others, the italian prime minister avoiding a handshake. that's going to do it, he says. and ben wedeman has more details 0 that country's outbreak. >> reporter: italy is reporting the largest single increase in the new coronavirus cases yet, according to the civil protection agency there are 4,636 reported cases of
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coronavirus. among them, 197 dead. the authorities continue to struggle to bring this outbreak under control. meanwhile, the cardinal vickar of rome are calling all christians to fast and pray or wednesday. he's calling for the help on the city and the world. while the islamic community is calling for all public acts to stop the spread of this virus. >> ben wedeman reporting there. the slowdown of the chinese travel in the wake of the coronavirus is being felt across the globe. how the tourism industry is now coping with this outbreak. also, when we come back, another deadly attack in afghanistan, despite a deal to work with peace in the region. what the taliban has to stay
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afghanistan, isis has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack at a ceremony in kabul. 32 people were killed, and another 58 wounded, the taliban denying any involvement in that attack, cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson with details. >> reporter: well, the audience said the event literally had to duck for cover on the floor beneath their seats when gunfire broke out, it was gunfire followed by protect fire according to dr. abdullah abdullah, the sort of number two in afghanistan. he spoke exclusively to cnn and explained the gunfire that was going on, it lasted well over two hours. the government forces eventually being able to take on the gunman, killing the three gunmen who were attacking this national event. now, this was a national event for a national martyr. but the martyr was an ethnic
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czar. and they're also shia muslims and it's more typical for isis to target shia muslims for their faith than the taliban. the fact that the taliban denied this was their attack seems to point to isis being responsible. and this comes at a time of rising events in afghanistan, part of the deal of the gun fight in doha last week that it would end in violence and the afghanistan government has released 5,000 prisoners. the afghan government said it's too quick to do that. they're not able to do that ahead of the deadline of march 10th which is just a few days away. and on top of that, you have the inauguration of the new
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president. and a lot at play in the moment. this attack very deadly, though, even by afghan standards. nic robertson, cnn london. >> joining me in new york, cnn analyst max boot, and he's a columnist in the. william and you have within about this in "the washington post" and i urge people to go have a look at it. let's talk about the deal. since it was signed there have been dozens of attacks by the
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and there's no question, everybody wants to go home. nobody wants to have u.s. troops sent to afghanistan for 18-plus years, but the reason previous presidents have not withdrawn is
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because they're afraid of the consequences of that withdrawal. and it's possible that donald trump will rethink this. and certainly, if the taliban are not abiding by the accord, he has every right to maintain u.s. forces but he certainly sounds like he wants to pull them out, no matter what, regardless of the huge risk we run by doing so. >> good points as always, max boot, appreciate you coming on and discussing. >> thanks, michael. well, with countries around the globe racing to get ahead of the coronavirus and its spread, why has the united states lagged behind other countries when it comes to testing for the new disease? we'll be back with that. in one step. mini brush... tinted gel. ♪ for natural brows made easy. new brow fast sculpt. only from maybelline new york.
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and welcome welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes. let's update you on the hour's top stories. the coronavirus has infected 100,000 people around the world, 80 of those cases in china, new cases emerging daly around the world. the death toll is 3500. at least 31 people on board a cruise ship off the coast of california testing positive for the virus. the u.s. coast guard said the "grand princess" is moving closer to shore to get medical supplies for one of the passengers. the u.s. is reporting 100 cases of coronavirus on friday, raising it to 130. president trump with the centers
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for disease control and prevention in atlanta to get a first hand look at how the government is responding to the outbreak. well, one major concern in the united states has been the very limited testing, especially compared to other countries. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta looks at why that has happened. >> we're going to need millions and millions and millions of tests. >> problem is, more than a month after the first patient was diagnosed in the united states, we still don't have nearly enough tests. according to our review of cdc reports, only around 1500 people have been tested. total. it's a big different from other countries like south korea, where nearly 160,000 people have been tested. even in the drive-through. and in the uk, more than 20,000 people. it's basically surveillance. and in the united states, that lack of testing has led to a lack of planning. >> it's very important that there's an aggressive approach in the beginning. that you look for all of those cases and because as case
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numbers increase, it will become overwhelmed. as much can be done in the early stages of this, the better chance you have to delay and reduce and suppress transmission. >> the test itself is one similar for one done from the flu. a swab from the nose or the throat. the culture is then sent to a lab to see if there are any genetic traces of coronavirus. takes about six hours. so what happened here? many point to two issues. the initial test kits sent to state and county labs were defective. and the initial cdc criteria limited testing only those who had travelled to areas impacted by the epidemic or been around someone who had tested positive. that greatly limited the number of people who qualified to get a test. on thursday, the vice president publicly acknowledged the u.s. effort is behind. >> we don't have enough tests today to meet what we anticipate
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will be the demand going forward. >> and even dr. anthony fauci is making no promises that the problem will be fixed anytime soon. >> got off to a slow start. there was some missteps up to this point, there has been a lag in the ability to get tested. >> now, this is not to suggest that everyone should run out and start asking for tests. if you go to your doctor with symptoms, the doctor may say, first, hey, look, let's rule out common things first, such as the cold or the flu. if you don't have anything to explain your symptoms, this coronavirus test may be ordered at that point. it may still, though, take a few weeks for all of these tests that you just heard about, to make their way into clinics and hospitals around the country. back to you. >> our thanks to sanjay gupta there. now, earlier i spoke to dr. robert kimfaly at ucla about
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the importance of instant messaging and getting ready for what might happen next. as the million plus kits come out in the next week or so, i believe we'll have a number of cases reported just because there's more testing going on. >> and the president saying on friday, anyone who wants a test can have a test. he called the test kit beautiful. but that's not the case. think of the transparent message at a time like this for the public's perspective? >> max, you bring up a good point. it's very important for public health officials to be consistent. and when it comes to having to do communitywide measures that there's a very clear understanding of what things need to be closed, what needs to be changed in terms of going to events. things like that. but they have to be very clearly messaged so there's no confusion
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on the part of people in the community. >> i also want to ask you about the redness for what might come, there are modeling scenarios out there. even moderate ones, that show the potential for perhaps a hospitalizations going forward. perhaps 200,000 people needing intensive care. tens of thousands needing ventilators. that would overwhelm resources, wouldn't it? what planning is being made for that situation? can you play for that? >> it certainly is going to be a challenge for the health care and public health officials in the united states. i think what is being done, we're more prepared today than we were yesterday. and we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today. but the thing is, we need to make sure that we can try through such measures such as personal nonpharmaceutical interventions basically again, covering the cough and ensuring that we're not shaking hands
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more like namaste greeting. and the procedures that will blunt the epidemic, make if go over time slower and that will help ease some of the pressures that we will see on the health care system. >> well, the outbreak is causing havoc, of course, with tourism, as the global travel industry seems set to lose billions of dollars. bethleh bethlehem, one of the latest places to feel the impact. the streets empty as tourists are prohibited from visiting the churches of the that t. >> reporter: the chinese industry was booming but all of that came to a halt in january when the coronavirus struck mainland china turning major tourist spots into ghost towns. as the virus spreads globally, the knock-on effects being felt around the world. tour groups cancelling trips as
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demand calls. and italy, shelved. causing companies to avoid traveling. >> the outbreak is command anyone's imagination. >> reporter: this woman heads trip.com. china's biggest travel industry. she's grounded like many of her countrymen. >> once i return to china, there are many countries that i couldn't go, or the team and myself. >> reporter: trip.com has been waiving cancellation fees. sun says the first parts of 2020 are going to hurt. you're going to see a hit? >> all of china. >> reporter: chinese tourists spend more traveling abroad than anyone else. without them, international hubs
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including hong kong will suffer. one expert estimates that the coronavirus outbreak could mean 25 million fewer trips abroad by tourists this year. that could wipe out $73 billion in chinese spending. hotels and airlines starting to count the costs. hilton intercontinental and marriotts says they'll lose tens of millions of dollars. global trips, and then crises -- >> we might not be for everybody, but we might be perfect for you. >> reporter: the industry in crisis mode after several hundred coronavirus cases and several deaths linked to the cruise ships. asia markets in particular are key markets for cruise ships. here in hong kong -- >> for new bookings, i'm actually down by 95%. we're having different plans,
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instead of targeting the second quarter or the first quarter, we're telling you to shelf the fourth quarter. >> reporter: even once the outbreak ends, it will take months before the travel industry returns to normal. until then, the few people who are going out can have iconic places all to themselves. sherisse pham, hong kong. a decade's old abuse scandal, ohio state university why a growing number of former wrestlers say ohio congressmen knew all about it and did nothing to stop it. we'll have that when we come back. 2x the hydration for supple, bouncy skin. neutrogena®.
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u.s. republican congressman jim jordan is facing renewed accusations about what he knew about a decade's old scandal at ohio state university. it dates back to when he served
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there as an assistant wrestling coach. a growing number of athletes said he was aware of the abuse at the hand of the team's doctor. >> reporter: he calls them all liars but more and more former ohio state university wrestlers are coming forward to say their former assistant coach, congressman jim jordan, knew student athletes were being sexually abused and dumbfounded to know that. >> he's a liar. period, he's a liar. >> reporter: peter vasquez is the latest. wake-on wrestler in 1989 who took an elbow to the nose. sent to the team doctor. >> said something to the eck that doc's hands are freezing. he examed me thoroughly.
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extremely thoroughly. you know, my private parts and everybody was afraid, you know, kind of snickering. jordan said, i have nothing to do with this. >> but jordan heard what you said? >> oh, he heard what i said. >> reporter: vasquez, a public school teacher for the past 27 years is the sixth former ohio state wrestlers who told cnn that they directly told jim jordan about the abuse or they knew. and eight said the abuse by dr. richard straus was such a routine topic of conversation that it's inconceivable that jordan did not know. and yet jordan a powerful republican congressman refuses to butcdge. >> they either told you at the time or you were there and heard it -- >> you guys are questioning about this after the law firm investigated this and didn't mention my name once?
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>> well, they didn't mention your name, but they knew -- >> all of the athletes have said that because it's the truth. look, i don't know if there was some kind of a problem. i don't know. what the athletes are saying is just not true. >> reporter: richard straus killed himself in 2005. last year, an independent investigation concluded while dr. straus worked at osu over two decades he sexual abused at least 177 male patients. jim jordan called the report a vindication because the report did not name him. the report did not find documentary evidence that coaches were aware of the evidence against straus, but 24 confirmed they were aware of rumors about strauss.
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the former wrestlerer said jordan was one that knew because he told him. went to see the dock for for a thumb sprain, the doctor tried to pull down his pants. he kicked open the door. and jordan was right outside. >> he just tried to give me a physical exam. i was like, man if he ever tried that, i'd kill him. >> reporter: jordan said he can't be trusted. >> what dr. strauss took from me that day was my dignity. >> reporter: last year former wrestlers dan richie and mike flu flushi saying that strauss' abuse was an open discussion. >> i do recall somebody bringing up something to the one of the
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assistant coaches and his response was simply well, if he ever tried that with me i'd snap his neck like a stick of dry balsa wood. >> reporter: the coach who talked about breaking strauss' neck was jim jordan according to both richie and flushi who didn't name him but confirmed. >> you don't remember telling them you'd break the guy's neck if he did that to you? >> what is odd to the wrestlers that we spoke with almost to a mend, they liked and admired jordan as a fellow and as a mentor. but told us they could not keep quiet to lie about what was an open secret at ohio state. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. well, speaking out about the monica lewinsky scandal decades later, just ahead, a new documentary reveals very painful moments from the lives of bill
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filmmaker woody allen has been cancelled by the book's publisher. his estranged children publicly criticized book. some walked out in protest. farrow and allen has been estranged for years. allen has consistently denied the allegation and was never charged. well, get ready to see bill and hillary clinton perhaps like you've never seen them before. it has been more than two decades since the former president was impeached for lying about his affair with monica lewinsky. but a new documentary series takes a very candid look at the scandal from both sides. cnn's tom foreman explains. >> i was just devastated. i could not believe it. i was so, you know, personally
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just hurt, you know. i can't believe this. i can't believe you lied. >> more than 20 years after the sordid revelations about clinton and monica lewinsky, here's the former first couple laying ahead their details. >> i thought it wasn't feasible what i did. >> i said if this is going public, you got to go and tell chels chelsea. >> so i did that, which was awful. >> reporter: an explanation, he said this? >> everybody's life has disappointments, terrors, fears of whatever. things i did to manage my anxiety for years, i'm a different -- i'm a totally different person than i was. >> i feel terrible about this, the fact that monica lewinsky's
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life was defined by it unfair, i think. ♪ >> reporter: there's, of course, much more to the story and many others in the docuseries "hillary" four hours tracking her life into the white house, the state department and the presidency and the presidential bid. >> she doesn't look like president. >> reporter: she is at times on the attack, for example when she sums up the senate record for her challenger for the democratic nod, bernie sanders. >> honestly, bernie just drove me crazy. nobody likes him. nobody wants to work with him. he got nothing done. >> reporter: even more so when she discusses her republican challenger donald trump. >> nobody was going to hold him accountable accept for me. >> reporter: fans will take comments as simple truth, others as denials. >> the most investigated person
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in america. >> reporter: what anyone can see final defeat on election night 2016 was crushing. >> obama called me and she said, i'm really sorry. but he said you probably should concede. i'm not going to concede until the morning. i can't. hillary, you need to call trump. oh, brother. >> reporter: in some ways this really is an epic about what the nation has been going try about changing views on morality and sexuality and truth and partisanship and women. it probably won't change anybody's view on any of that, but these days, what does. tom foreman, cnn, washington. and that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." thanks for company. i'm michael holmes. if you are in the united states, "new day" is just ahead. for our international viewers, stay tuned for "supercharged." ♪
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