good evening. there's a lot to get to tonight. in a moment we have breaking news, a startling admission from pfizer on the efficacy of its vaccine against the delta variant of the coronavirus. also ahead, senator bernie sanders on senators' plans to protect voting rights. we begin with breaking news from haiti. moments ago the country's acting prime minister just paraded out individuals they say were involved in the assassination of the former prime minister just a few days ago. we're hoping to get that video for you. among those individuals were, according to the acting prime minister, two americans. separately, officials a short while ago updated the number of suspects killed in a shootout in haiti, that number is seven. the suspects were previously

described as foreign mercenaries. cnn obtained video purpose ported to be from that shootout yesterday. cnn has not confirmed the authenticity of this video. [ sound of gunfire ] now, as we said, authorities are saying there were seven people in that shootout, all dead. they also are saying there are six people in custody tonight. today haitian media showed two men authorities are calling suspects in the back of a police pickup surrounded by armed guards, but blurred their faces. again, cnn cannot confirm the details provided by haitian authorities. all of this of course taking place in a country under former

martial law where two men now claim the mantle of leadership in an already destitute country growing weaker due to the growing humanitarian crisis and worsening covid epidemic. journalist harold isaac is in haiti tonight. there are rumors flying around haiti, with good reason, obviously, because of the lack of transparency and all that's happened to quickly. what do you know about americans being resarrested, now they're saying two? >> reporter: anderson, this is a spectacular development in the last hour. the investigation seems to have sped up with regards to the assassination of president moise. we're finding out two haitian americans are among those detained and apprehended by the haitian police. but we've learned more about the whole team that has led this

operation. >> what more have you learned? because there was just a press briefing from haiti's acting prime minister claude joseph. >> reporter: yes. so the whole current government just held this presser, where they presented 26 colombian national -- so basically had 26 attackers but they arrested 15 colombian nationals, let me get the numbers right. they say there were 26 colombians. they have the passport to show it. and 15 of them were arrested. eight of them are on the run. and three are dead. so it's just in, and we're still trying to see what the implications are with such a large contingent of foreign nationals carrying out this operation in haiti. >> so this is the first time i'm

hearing this. can you just eruprepeat that? you said 26 colombians? >> reporter: yes. so the prime minister and chief of police brought in the numbers. they claim 26 colombian nationals were involved in the operations. 15 were arrested. and eight would be on the run. three dead. so it still is very fresh, very early to determine what that may entail. but it certainly is an unexpected turn into the detail and what the implications could be, because it is a large contingent of foreign nationals that have carried out this operation. >> is there any more information about where the investigation itself is leading? >> reporter: well, as per chief of police in the presser, he said that they were expecting to

carry on more -- they're still searching for those that are on the run. they're still pursuing them. the issue is that they want the population to be cooperative and not to seek vigilante justice with regard to those still mis missing. it's very early to know exactly what are going to be the next steps. but it seems the scene remains active and they're still looking for these people. >> harold isaac, i appreciate the update. >> now to the news we mentioned from pfizer. days after president biden spoke about gaining independence from the virus, pfizer says it's seen waning immunity to its covid vaccine and is seeking emergency use authorization for a booster dose in august. in its statement, pfizer is citing data which was compiled by the israeli government which we've talked about in days past

which shows that from may to june 6, as the delta virus spread in israel, the vaccine's efficacy against all infections dropped substantially from 95.3% to 64%. and this is a very important "but" here, efficacy against severe illness and hospitalization did remain high, going from 97% to still-high 93%. so people were not getting hospitalized, were not getting a bad, very serious version of the illness, of the infection, but more people were getting infected. the spread of the coronavirus is on the rise, as you know, again here in the united states. one factor that sent all three major stock market indices down today, there's new data from georgetown university when identifies at least five large clusters of unvaccinated people, most in the southern u.s., that are vulnerable to surges and could become breeding grounds for even more deadly variants. as politico remarked today,

quote, we may have turned a corner but the delta variant was waiting just around the bend. now due to its spread and due to low vaccination rates in certain areas of the country, it threatens to plunge the country into a new era of covid restrictions. i'm joined by dr. leana wen, author of "lifelines: a doctor's journey in the fight for public health." dr. wen, with cases up at least 10% in 24 states, how concerned are you? according to the cdc, more than 84 million americans have received both doses of the vaccine. >> i'm actually confused about the pfizer news confusing people. as you mentioned, it's not as if they have new data. they're actually going off what the israelis ministry of health reported earlier this week. and the key take home from that is the vaccines we have are still very effective against protecting against severe disease. no one should be listening to this and saying, i need to go out and get a booster shot right now. it does appear that immunity

might wane or that the vaccines are less effective against the delta variant. and so i think that's something we need more information about when it comes to mild or asymptomatic illness. and i think it's fine for pfizer to apply for emergency use authorization so into boosters can be made available. but we should also say the israeli data conflicts with other data that shows the immunity may last for years and that the mrna vaccines in particular are very effective against the delta veterinarian. -- variant. >> when israel made this report, the actual numbers of people involved was very small. that was one thing to note about the report, that there wasn't a huge volume of people who they were basing this report on. >> right. and i don't think we even know what the report exactly is. as in, we still don't know, is

it modelling studies, what are they basing their numbers on? part of the problem is that here in the u.s., we don't have our own numbers, because the cdc stopped tracking mild and asymptomatic breakthrough infections, which is a big mistake, because what we really need to know at this point is what is happening with breakthroughs, who is getting breakthrough infections. is it people who have got the vaccine earlier on? so is immunity actually waning? is it all the delta variant? also, are people getting breakthrough infections, so they're vaccinated, and still getting infected, do they have long haul symptoms or do the vaccines protect against that? and critically, if you have a breakthrough infection, are you still able to infect other people? if so, that has real implications on, for example, vaccinated parents living with unvaccinated children and the kinds of activities they may be engaged in. >> pfizer also says next month it will seek emergency authorization from the fda for a booster dose. there's obviously a lot of people who have not received the pfizer vaccine, have either

gotten another vaccine or haven't gotten any vaccine. will people who haven't taken the pfizer vaccine, should they be able to get the pfizer booster? if they've taken an astrazeneca or johnson & johnson or whatever it may be? >> there's no reason to believe that you have to stick somehow with one vaccine. in fact there are good scientific reasons for why mixing vaccines may actually boost your immune response. so i definitely think for people who got astrazeneca or johnson & johnson, which is the adenovirus vector vaccine, if they were to need a booster, that having a pfizer or moderna, an mrna booster, may actually be helpful. >> dr. leana wen, appreciate it. thank you very much. today missouri governor mike parson called the surge in his state, quote, totally misleading. miguel marquez is in one of those spots we referred to earlier in missouri and has details of the difficulties of the fight against the virus

there. >> reporter: louis michael and patty bunch held off getting vaccinated. not anti-vaxxers. it just wasn't a priority. then they got sick. >> how sick did you two get? >> umm, i remember i was working, and then it felt like a bomb dropped on me. i just wasn't feeling good at all. and i thought, oh, no. >> reporter: you're still recovering. >> i'm still recovering. >> reporter: this is not your normal voice. >> no. this is a month later. it has totally devastated me. >> reporter: so sick, she thought she would never see her daughter ashley again. >> from the ambulance i could see my daughter ashley driving behind us. and i just thought i knew that once they took me there, i wouldn't see her, see my family. and you just have no control. >> reporter: this is louis and patty holding hands in the icu. he thinks he picked up the virus in las vegas, then without

knowing it, gave it to his wife of 30 years. >> we got to that point where she needed to go first. i thought i would be tough and hold on and stay home and try to recuperate, but that wasn't the case, i went immediately downhill. >> reporter: coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths again on the rise in missouri. the state's health department estimates more than 70% of the virus circulating in the state is the more infectious, possibly more dangerous delta variant. >> we're seeing more people, 30 years and older, getting sick and needing hospitalization. also we have seen in this wave people are getting sicker faster. >> reporter: springfield's mercy hospital has seen hospitalizations rise so quickly, they brought ventilators in from other hospitals. at springfield's cox health, 90% of coronavirus patients tested have the delta variant. >> this is going to keep happening. you know, it may peak here and then it's going to spread to

other places. if we don't get enough vaccinated, there's going to be another variant that's probably worse. that's the way viruses work. >> reporter: in green county, population nearly 300,000, health officials sounding the alarm. how concerned are you about the weeks and months ahead? >> terribly concerned. i mean, yesterday we reported another 240 cases in one day. we're not a huge community. that's a really large number. and we haven't seen these numbers since we had a surge back in december and january. >> reporter: in nearby branson, a huge tourist draw, it is business as usual. vaccinations here in taney county even lower than the state. just 25% of all residents here vaccinated. what is the biggest barrier you hear to people not getting vaccinated? >> it runs kind of the gamut. maybe they feel like they just want to wait and see, they're not quite ready yet.

maybe they're just not someone that vaccinates. we've also heard a little bit of concern over how quickly the vaccine was developed. >> reporter: louis and patty think of it this way. the unknown possibilities of getting the vaccine far outweigh the known horrors of the virus. >> the vaccine, i feel personally, is nothing compared to taking your chances and getting -- >> it's russian roulette, really. if you want to take your odds and see if you get it and how well you do it it. unfortunately you're not going to do as well as you think you a are. >> miguel marquez joins us from springfield, missouri. is it clear why hospitals are rising in some parts of missouri and not in others? >> reporter: it's a confluence of factors. branson is just down the road from here, it's a big tourist destination. it's business as usual there. the masking, the social distancing, all of that has gone

out the window as the vaccines have rolled out, even though people are not getting vaccinated. very low vaccination rates across this entire area. then that delta variant. it was first identified in branson and here in springfield in may. it is everywhere in this area. and they are afraid it's going to stay in this area until fall when it will cause another outbreak and a lot more misery, anderson. >> miguel marquez, appreciate it. still to come, senator bernie sanders joins us live to talk about what democrats can do now that another state is working to enact strict voting laws and after the supreme court and republican senators have thwarted their agenda thus far. plus a live report from florida on the latest on recovery efforts in surfside as the death toll makes it one of the deadliest mass casualty events in recent u.s. history.

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protect voting rights. this after a supreme court decision that will limit potential challenges to new state laws that many democrats believe are discriminatory under the voting rights act. also after senate republicans blocked a sweeping election reform bill from being debated. a special legislative session on voting was called by texas governor greg abbott, among the republican party's determination to continue the big lie former president trump has been spreading. the legislation takes aim at 24-hour voting and drive-through voting. republicans are hoping to follow in the footsteps of other states that have already passed restrictions. vice president harris spoke about the importance of voting rights at her address at a historically black university. >> this is the fight of our lifetime. this is the fight of our lifetime. we all stand on the shoulders of

giants. we will always remember our history. we also understand their legacy and that we are a part of that. >> i'm joined now by senator bernie sanders, also chairman of the budget committee. chairman sanders, you hear kamala harris saying this is the fight of our lifetime. that implies there's not much that can be done now on voting rights. democrats in congress tried and failed to pass federal legislation to stop gop state by state restrictions. president biden says he plans on, quote, speaking extensively on this issue. but is it going to have any impact? >> i hope and expect it will. the house has already passed hr 1. that is sweeping legislation to protect voting rights, to deal with gerrymandering and to take dark corporate money out of the political process, something we have to do. as you know, in the senate we can only get 50 votes and the challenge right now is on that

particular piece of legislation. we've got to end the filibuster and let the majority rule. we as a nation can disagree on policy, you can disagree on health care, on education, on economics, that's fine. but you cannot disagree about whether or not ordinary americans, in this case african-americans, latinos, young people, people with disabilities, have the right to vote. that's not debatable. so we are going to have to win that struggle in order to preserve american democracy and end this big lie of trump that he won the election by a landslide. it is a sad day that so many of the republican leaders actually perpetuate that lie. >> the supreme court, as you know, recently upheld an arizona voting law that restricts how ballots can be cast. republicans have obviously taken that as an encouraging sign. they control 30 state legislatures across the country. democrats control 18. how do you go state by state and stop voting restrictions from being passed into law with the

political reality that you pointed out, which is you have to get rid of the filibuster in order to get movement in anything passed through the senate and that seems right now impossible? >> i don't know that it is impossible. it's something that many of us are working on. and i think we can do everything we can politically to rally the american people, everything we can do legally. and in the united states senate, do everything we can to put pressure on our colleagues to finally stand up and say on this issue at least, i would go further, on this issue at least, the majority should rule. 50 votes plus the vice president says we're going to pass a voting rights legislation and end this outrageous republican attack on voting rights. that is what we've got to do. >> do you see any change with joe manchin, some of the others who -- democrats who are not for

getting rid of the filibuster? >> we're working on that, anderson. what i've been focusing on for the last many weeks is what i believe to be the most consequential piece of legislation for working families that we have seen since the great depression. it is no secret to the average american that the very rich are getting richer, and yet half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. people can't afford childcare. people can't afford to put dentures in their mouth if they're on medicare. people can't afford to go to higher education. everybody i hope understands that climate change is an existential threat to the existence of our entire planet. and we have got to deal with that. what i have been working on with a number of my colleagues is a major, major piece of legislation which finally addresses the long term crisis facing the working families of this country. i hope we can get something passed within the next month. >> just in terms of getting things passed, i want to play

for our viewers something that republican congressman chip roy said. he was caught on video saying behind closed regarding what the gop's strategy is in regards to your priorities, president biden's priorities in particular he was talking about. take a look. >> honestly, right now for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to slow that down, to get to december 2022 and then get a lead. i actually say 18 more months of chaos and inability to get stuff done, that's number one. >> that's usually the kind of stuff, maybe a republican thinks inside, inside their head, and doesn't say out loud. he just basically said the silent part out loud. >> let's give him credit for honesty. mitch mcconnell has more or less said the same thing. look, they understand that what we are trying to do, address the

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we're following breaking news on the condo collapse. we want to go to "360"'s randi kaye in surfside, florida. what's the latest on the recovery efforts, randi? >> reporter: anderson, late today they located another four bodies. first responders say the death toll is 64 and they believe another 76 are missing. also today, families, missing loved ones did get to the site. they wanted to pay their respect once again to their family members that have not been recovered yet. they held a moment of silence with first responders. families of course still trying to make sense of this tragedy here. i spoke with one man who lost both of his parents in this collapse. he says all he has left of his parents is his mother's wedding ring, found alongside her body in the rubble. >> even after 31 years they were very much in love. >> reporter: jonathan epstein's parents were asleep on the ninth

floor of champlain towers south when the building suddenly collapsed. david and bonnie epstein lived in apartment 901. when did you last speak to your parents? >> i had actually spoken with my mom about an hour before the building collapsed. we were both night owls. and just really casual kind of late night text. i think i sent her something funny. that was about, yeah, i think that was around 12:10. i think the building came down around 1:20. i sent her a paul mccartney song i thoughts with cool. we bonded over music a lot. just a really quick text. >> reporter: how did you find out what happened with the building? >> i was about to fall asleep and i saw the cnn alert come across my phone that a building in north miami had collapsed. and i immediately went to text my mom thinking, you know, there's a million buildings, how could it possibly be theirs.

and the message on the iphone went from blue to green, meaning it hadn't been received. >> reporter: back home in brooklyn, jonathan didn't sleep at all that night. then he saw the surveillance video of the collapse. when you saw that, what was that like for you? >> it was tough. it was unbelievable. i still -- i'm still struggling to understand this. and, you know, i immediately tried to call over and over again. i started following everything on twitter. >> reporter: desperate for answers, jonathan called around to hospitals and filed missing persons reports. like so many other families, he gave a dna sample. then last week, detectives knocked on his door. >> i'm strange right now, i'm struggling to keep track of the days. i believe the detectives showed up at my apartment on thursday or friday to tell me that my mom had been recovered, her remains had been recovered. and then two days later, that my

father had also been found. >> reporter: david epstein was 58. his wife bonnie was 56. they had celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary just two months before the collapse. together, they were enjoying early retirement, spending their days scuba diving, kite surfing and jet skiing in the florida sunshine. they had a dog too named chance. for the last decade and a half, his parents returned to the northeast in the summer, april or may. but not this year. they stayed longer bearcause hi father was treating a shoulder injury and their dog was sick. jonathan is an only child. how are you doing, how are you coping? >> denial is helping a little bit. i'm just in shock. i don't know how i'm feeling. this is so weird and surreal, that it's breaking in slowly. for the time being i just want to live in my parents' memory,

to live the way that i think they would want me to live and to honor their lives and make up for the time that they lost. they were just the best. i'm thinking, you know, i'm thinking of what i'm going to say at the funeral now. and i just want to emphasize, they were so cool. people would -- when i was younger, my friends would come over and i always felt they were coming to hang out with my parents, because they were way cooler than i was. and i'll miss them so much. >> there's so much pain. what is the process like so much at the site of the collapse? >> reporter: anderson, they're still working around the clock to recover these victims. they are really taking such care. oftentimes, if you see them up close, they're digging with their hands in this pile. they're trying to recover

mementos from these apartments, from these victims, they put them aside in a bucket, they give them to police to be able to return to the families. in terms of how they're handling the bodies that are recovered, they have faith leaders here from all different faiths. they have rabbis and priests on the site to make sure the bodies are handled with care. many, as you know, were jewish people in this building, they're making sure their bodies are taken care of in the way the jewish faith does require. certainly, anderson, taking the best care they can here on site. >> randi, i appreciate you being there, thank you. coming up, remember the walkout by democrats in the texas legislature prevented the passage of a bill the democrats said would curtail voting rights. the legislature is back in special session today. i'll ask the chair of the democratic caucus what his party is planning to do this time around.

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we're following breaking news on the condo collapse. "360"s randi kaye is live in

surfside, florida. >> reporter: anderson, first responders say the death toll is 64. they believe another 76 are missing. today families missing loved ones did get to the site to pay their respects to those not recovered yet. families are still trying to make sense of this tragedy here. i spoke with one man who lost both parents in this collapse. he says all he has left from his parents is his mother's wedding ring, found alongside her body in the rubble. >> even after 31 years, they were very much in love. >> reporter: jonathan epstein's parents were asleep on the ninth floor of champlain towers south when the building suddenly collapsed. david and bonnie epstein lived in apartment 901. >> when did you last speak to your parents? >> i had actually spoken with my mom about an hour before the building collapsed.

we were both night owls. just really casual kind of late night texts. i think i sent her something funny. that was about, yeah, i think that was around 12:10. i think the building came down around 1:20. i sent her a paul mccartney song i thought was cool. we bonded over music a lot. just a really quick text. >> reporter: how did you find out what happened with the building? >> i was about to fall asleep and i saw the cnn alert come across my phone that a building in north miami had collapsed. and i immediately went to text my mom, thinking, you know, there's a million buildings, how could it possibly be theirs. and the message on the iphone went from blue to green meaning that it hasn't been received. >> reporter: back home in brooklyn, jonathan didn't sleep at all that night. then he saw the surveillance video of the collapse. >> when you saw that, what was that like for you? >> it was tough. it was unbelievable.

i still -- i'm still struggling to understand this. and, you know, i immediately tried to call over and over again. i started following everything on twitter. >> reporter: desperate for answers, jonathan called around to hospitals and filed missing persons reports. like so many other families, he gave a dna sample. then last week, detectives knocked on his door. >> time is strange right now, i'm struggling to keep track of the days. i believe detectives showed up at my apartment on thursday or friday to tell me that my mom had been recovered, her remains had been recovered. then two days later, that my father had also been found. >> reporter: david epstein was 58. his wife bonnie was 56. they had celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary two months before the collapse. together they were enjoying early retirement, spending their

days scuba diving and jet skiing. they had a dog too named chance. for the last decade and a half, his parents returned to the northeast for the summer in april or may, but not this year. they stayed longer because his father was treating a shoulder injury and their dog was sick. jonathan is an only child. >> how are you doing and how are you coping? >> i think denial is helping a little bit or just shock. i don't know how i'm feeling. this is so weird and surreal, that it's breaking in slowly. and for the time being, i just want to live in my parents' memory, to live the way that i think they would want me to live and to honor their lives. and make up for the time that they lost. they were just the best. i'm thinking, you know, i'm thinking of what i'm going to say at the funeral now.

and i just want to emphasize, they were so cool. people would -- you know, when i was younger, my friends would come over, i always felt like they were coming over to hang out with my parents because they were way cooler than i was. and i'll miss them so much. >> there's so much pain. what is the process like right now at the site of the collapse? >> reporter: anderson, they're still working around the clock to recover these vehiclictims. they're really taking such care. if you see them up close, they're oftentimes digging with their hands in this pile. they're trying to recover mementos from these apartments, from these victims. they put them aside in a bucket, give them to the police to be able to return to the families. in terms of how they're handling the bodies that have been recovered, they have faith leaders from all different faiths. they have rabbis and priests on the site to make sure these bodies are handled with care.

as you know, many were jewish people who lived in this building so they're making sure their bodies are taken care of along -- in the way that the jewish faith does require. so certainly, anderson, taking the best care they can here onsite. >> randi, appreciate you being there, thank you. coming up, remember the walkout by democrats in the texas legislature prevented the passage of a bill the democrats said would curtail voting rights. but the legislature is back in special session today. next i'll ask the chair of the state democratic caucus what his party is planning to do this time around.

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the texas house democratic caucus. he joins me now. chairman turner, you released a statement in which you say in part, the governor's agenda for the special session shows he is pandering to die-hard trump supporters than he is with everyday texans. how do you see this playing out, particularly in regards to -- to voting rights? is there really anything you can do? >> good evening, anderson, thanks for having me back and, absolutely, i think there are a number of things democrats can do. as you know, we are in the minority here, in texas. in the statehouse, the senate, and republicans control the the statewide offices. but democrats in texas have proven to be very effective in fighting back, against extreme-republican ideas that would harm the people of texas. and let's be clear about what this is with this voting bill. republicans are trying to rig the system. so that they can hang onto power. and they are doing it, based on the foundation of the big lie that donald trump actually, really, won the last election, that everybody knows that he lost. and it wasn't even close.

but because greg abbott and other republicans are so -- um -- intimidated by the trump base of the republican party. really, indistinguishable now. the trump base is the republican party. they are moving forward with these anti-voter bills and democrats are going to fight them, every step of the way. and we're going to do all we can to protect the voting rights of all texans. >> i mean, it -- given all that, though, i mean, they do have the votes to pass what they want in this bill. you can walk out, again, i assume. but they have the votes. >> well, you're absolutely right about that, which is why we need congress to pass h.r. 1, for the people act, and h.r. 4, the john lewis voting rights act, to -- to -- to safeguard voters in texas and across the country against these republican efforts to make it more difficult for people to vote. in their efforts to rig the system. and it is just imperative that

the u.s. senate do whatever it has to do to pass those bills. so that we can protect the voting rights of all americans in texas and all across the country. >> right. yeah. we just talked to senator bernie sanders about that. obviously, what they don't have the votes in the senate without changing the filibuster. the new voting bill, put forward by texas house republicans, it's obviously got a lot in it that -- that democrats criticize. it doesn't, however, no longer has this limitation on sunday voting. the previous bill had limited voting hours until after 1:00 in the afternoon, which would affect churches doing early-morning voting drives which, often, favor democrats. they claimed it was just a -- a -- a -- you know, a typographical error, that they always meant to have it be 11:00 a.m., not 1:00 p.m. but the fact is this is not -- which is, clearly, seems ridiculous -- but it's not in this new bill. so what's bad about this bill,

now? >> sure. well, and -- and those two particularly onerous provisions are out of the bill and credit all the democratic members of the legislature, who fought so hard to kill that bill. that -- that those provisions are now gone. republicans have run away from those. and -- and don't want to claim any credit for ever having authored them, in the first place. when obviously, they were their ideas. but this new bill, while it does not include those provisions, is still a terrible bill. it makes it more difficult to vote by mail, in texas. it empowers partisan-poll watchers, who have -- republicans have used to intimidate voters. and in some cases, election officials in predominantly-minority neighborhoods in texas. and -- and -- and fundamentally, the bill is based on a lie. on the first page of the bill, it -- it alludes to the fact that the legislature finds that people don't have confidence in elections and we need to pass this bill, so that they have

confidence in the elections. well, if people, to the extent people don't have confidence in elections, it's because republican leaders, like donald trump and greg abbott and others, tell them they shouldn't have confidence. republican leaders would start telling the truth about our elections, to their supporters, there wouldn't be a lack of public confidence in elections. >> yeah. and it's an endless circle, that argument. chairman chris turner, i really appreciate it. thanks very much. up next, a federal judge handed down a prison sentence today for the california lawyer who rose to fame representing stormy daniels. details on that, when we return. . but with carvana, i can finally breathe easy, buying my car 100% online without any tense negotiation. smells like the internet. shop now at carvana.com. when i'm not racing, i'm personalizing, just like how carvana lets you personalize your financing. you can customize your down payment and monthly payment in a matter of minutes for some truly dazzling results. financing has never felt so fabulous.

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michael avenatti, the california lawyer who grabbed the spotlight by representing stormy daniels, who was sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison today for attempting to extort nike for millions of dollars. when details emerged daniels' alleged relationship with the former president, avenatti almost instantly became a presence on network and cable television news show, including this one. but he was convicted back in february for publicly

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