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scenes, officials say what they would do if that were to occur. the presidents point here is, there is no half measure. anytime any move in this direction with set up an exculpatory ladder that would not end, leading to armageddon. it's a warning. a belong to one. but a very clear warning about the stakes and the dangers. here >> i want to bring you in, general, because, as phil said, i don't think there is anything is the ability to easily use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with armageddon. are we right to qualify this as startling? is this terrifying to hear, but is it a real possibility as well? >> it certainly is, don. a lot of people have been concerned about this since the beginning. let me tell you, the last time i observed a russian exercise in moscow, outside of moscow, they had a tendency, inner exercises, their training events, to always and their training events with a nuclear
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index. and of exercise. it is something they practice. it is something they are very comfortable with. they have never use them for real, other than in tests. so this is something, and i think it's why the biden administration, rightfully so, in my view, has had this concern on the back of their minds since the beginning of this conflict. >> susan glasser, the president also said here he is trying to figure out what is putin's off ramp. where does he find a way out here? where does he find himself in a position that he does not only lose face but also lose significant power within russia? that's the presidents quote. putin has backed himself into a corner. how does he get out of it? >> i think that is one of the words, when i hear off ramp and american officials talking about putin, because again and again and again, putin has showed over the last two decades that he is heedless, largely, of american efforts to guide him in any direction and
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off-ramps are not appreciated. one thing is that here we are, just a few months into putin's war in ukraine and in a way, one of the consequences that we have normalized talk about nuclear war, putin's nuclear saber war war rattling his produced a response, and the president united states in which we are essentially routinely talking about what would have been unthinkable just a year ago. i think that's one problem. the other thing is, does putin feel encouraged the despite his reverses on the battlefield, his nuclear back blackmail has encouraged the united states to possibly be more open to seeking a settlement and that's one worry and one risk for president biden in talking about this. but again, we are in uncharted territory here. just a year ago, can you imagine even having this conversation? >> right on. not at all that we could even imagine, it but look at the
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turn of events over the last year. max, when you think the president is speaking so freely about the use of nuclear weapons? >> i think what he was trying to do, don, was deter putin. he was trying to signal that even if putin were to use only a tactical nuclear weapon, it could still escalate into a strategic nuclear x change and a major nuclear war. i suspect he was trying to signal putin about the dangers of tactical nuclear use, but there is a danger intern in doing what biden said, because remember, what putin is trying to do is scare us. he is trying to make up for major reversals that his ground forces are suffering in ukraine as we speak. and eastern to scare us that unless we leave ukraine he may go nuclear. there's a thin line between during deterring putin and amplifying his threats, and i'm not sure it's helpful to talk about nuclear armageddon or the
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cuban missile crisis. we need to make clear that we won't be deterred, that we will stay the course, and that there will be unacceptable consequences for him for any use of nuclear weapons. we should not amplify those threats, and thereby do his bidding for him. >> so, to be clear, you are not a fan of the language the president uses? >> i understand what the president is trying to do, i'm not sure that some of the inflammatory language was helpful. but again, as susan said, we are in uncharted territory, so i don't think anyone has the right playbook in another quote from the president, speaking about putin, he is not joking when he speaks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military is, you might say, significantly underperforming. so explain just how bad things have gotten for russia on the battlefield. >> they are bad. they are extremely bad.
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exceedingly bad, don. i can't emphasize that enough. putin has failed in every strategic of operational tactical objective he is set for himself over the last seven months, in every phase of this operation, and i believe we are entering phase for. he has not been successful in any of those phases in ukraine's army and the military and their political body, with president zelenskyy, has done a masterful work and brilliantly executed this campaign with the help of nato and the united states. so yes, the mobilization, and i have talked about it multiple times, it is not going well and it will not go well. he cannot get 200,000 forces, soldiers on the battlefield as reinforcing force. he doesn't have the capability to lead them, to train them, to mobilize them, to prepare them, and even to equip them to get them to reinforce the force that currently is losing on the battlefield.
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and they're going to reinforce forest with extremely low morale, extremely poor leadership, and a force that hasn't accomplished any of their objectives, as i said earlier. so putin is in a very bad place right now. so the decision-making, we can war game and exercise what might happen with nuclear weapons. i disagree with max. i think it was prudent for the president to say this. i have been in a lot of conferences lately and every time i am at a conference or a dinner somebody says, do you think the russians are going to use, do you think putin is going to use a new? you don't know, because he's a lunatic. and he is losing very badly. so you have to prepare for the worst. that's what a prudent leader does. >> and that is the discussion. people who agree with the president said or how he said it, and there will be those who won't. and speaking of that, phil, if the white house would come out and walk this back, they have not. it would not be the first time that this has happened.
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no discussion from the white house about even an explanation of trying to clarify further what the president said tonight? >> officials broke into say there was not going to be any follow-up statement, not going to be any walk back. they don't see, necessarily, that the president's comments and the public positions from the state department in the white house podium and the pentagon over the course of the last several weeks are mutually exclusive. while this is a different strategy, rhetorically, then we have seen from his top administration officials. i think they understand that -- >> even when the secretary of defense. >> even for the secretary of state or his national security advisor. and to, what i have picked up speaking to folks tonight is this idea that this is something that is very much on the mind of the president and his team every single day. they are constantly thinking about scenarios when it comes to ukraine and what might happen next. there is no worse or more dire scenario than this. the speech friday from
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president putin said that off. we are almost 60 year anniversary of the cuban missile crisis. here is a very big difference between that moment in this moment. khrushchev was very cognizant of the idea of mutually assured destruction. there is a question now is putin's particularly when his forces are doing so poorly on the ground. that weighs on the presidents mind, and his troops. >> susan glasser, this reminds me of how the biden administration was revealing information about friends plans out of the invasion. is the president trying to unnerve putin here or make sure that he is held responsible if something does happen? is this that i told you so, or is it a signal to putin to, you know, knock it off? >> well, certainly it is a signal to putin to knock it off. whether it is received as such is really the question. it's hard to sleep at night when the president of the united states is warning about armageddon. i have to say that. but look, right now putin is in
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a very dangerous position, and the history of him in power suggests that when he has faced adversity as when he is at his worst. he has breached lines in the past and other world leaders have been moved to do so. he has used, in fact, banned nerve agents to try to assassinate regime opponents outside the country in other countries he has ordered assassinations. he has been willing to use unconventional weapons when conventional weapons failed him in the past. and so i think the risk factor it has gone way up as putin has destabilized his own country from within with this disastrous mobilization where they're going to send hundreds of thousands of russians fleeing the country. i think that this is some thing like the worst crisis of his entire two decades in office. to me the fear is that this
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would lead him toward inevitable it escalation and this is where tactical nuclear weapons being part of the military doctrine makes it particularly concerning. >> thank you all. >> john don, if i could jump in. i think what susan and saying is right but we also need to be worried about the other scenario. we don't want to be in a scenario where putin is losing the war, he threatens nuclear weapons, use and all of a sudden we back off and he gets to keep a good chunk of ukraine, because that would send a horrific message, not only to putin but also it is threats payoff. he will send that message to china, or to north korea, to iran, to every country around the world. all you have to do to get the u.s. to back office to threat nuclear weapons use. we can't allow that message to be sent either. we have to have that middle course, the steady course of avoiding escalation, but making clear we are not going to cower before his nuclear saber rattling. >> i think we have a military general here that will respond to that.
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what do you think of that? >> i think that two and degrees absolutely right. but one of the things that i keep saying, when you are military commander, when you are on the battlefield, the thought is always in your mind, first of all, hide how do i succeed? but also the other thought, to counter that is, what is the worst that can happen? i think president biden and his administration have been close crystal clear on saying that they are not going to back off in terms of the support of ukraine. they are doing that extremely well, but they also have to understand the dangers and they have to plan for any considerations that might be part of a scenario that could occur. >> thank you all. appreciate it. does the former president still have classified documents at mar-a-lago? that's with the doj believes. what will it take to get them back? of risk and reward.. so you can enjoy more of...this. this iss the planning effect.
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>> tonight, a source tells cnn the doj has been demanding in recent weeks the former president return any classified documents he still has, making clear they don't believe he returned, or he has returned from the white house. alex burns is here, coauthor of this will not pass. also, national security attorney bradley moss is here, and former federal prosecutor jim walden joins us as well. good evening, gentlemen. jim, i'm going to start with you. your reaction to this new reporting on what we can expect next from the justice department. >> donald trump is bleeding to death from 1000 cuts. the idea that he would continue to have these documents and maryland one other place is astounding, but who can put anything past him? but this is exactly where the pests special master process, despite factor judge dearie,
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the special master, is a fantastic choice, it should never have been in the first place. there are 11,000 documents that are sitting there that could tell the doj exactly how many classified documents are missing, how they got, there how they might be story. they can't do anything because they're sitting in a database, and reviewed. this is why special masters in the circumstances are almost unheard of, and that is a problem for the doj. but it is more importantly a problem for our national security. >> bradley, with the doj even put out this kind of demand if they didn't know trump still had classified documents in his possession? and how do you think they know? could it be a source within mar-a-lago? >> it could be a source. it could be based off witness interviews. but more likely than anything, it is coming from narrow, the national archives. when the administration comes to this mostly boxing up all the stuff and shipping everything under the presidential records act, to
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nara, like a grocery list. you check everything off. nara had a good sense of what was supposed to receive, what it has received though, after various efforts to recover them, and what is still doesn't have. so they have a good sense here of what is still missing, what could be located, or may have just been disposed, of former likely, what remains in some trump property, what he remains in control of. that's why doj is pushing on this, that they have this sense that you have more in you're just not telling us. >> trump has been told over and over again, for well over a year now, to return classified documents that he took from the white house. what does this say that he still is not complying? >> well, don, it certainly says that the former president is not taking a particularly cautious view of his own legal exposure in this situation, that the justice department and other government entities have pushed him and his attorneys
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over and over now to either return documents or to certify or to attest that they have returned all the documents. the fact that the we are having this conversation now about whether all the documents have in fact been returned shows that donald trump, no big surprise here, playing fast and loose. i think it bears a stepping back from the specifics of this report of this evening and taking in the bigger picture of this, that he still, for all intents and purposes, the head of one of america's two major political parties, a likely candidate, and as we are speaking tonight, likely nominee of one of those two parties, and he has this legal sort of how michaels hanging over his head that he's not taking seriously. it's an unprecedented political and legal situation. >> jim i want to get your take on the former oath keeper tests to find that far-right leader, the far-right groups leader was
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in touch with the secret service in 2020. how big of a deal is? that >> i think it's a huge deal. don, everybody is looking for the holy grail. what is the connection between donald trump in the insurrectionists? and you see the pieces start to come together. they were communicating over a channel that oath keepers were that we're friends of stone, you have this new testimony about a person he was trying to get in touch with to pass a message to trump. you have the oath keepers and the proud boys protecting roger stone. and most importantly, you have them in touch with the secret service. and then what happens? right after the breach, i think, when stone realized the president has not declared an insurrection of martial law, he realized that the gig was up and he fled out of d.c. is vast as he could. because that's why the documentary film members were there. it was his alibi. so this is great fodder for the upcoming january six committee.
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i think it's really going to tell the story of the connection, the pipeline between the insurrectionists and trump. >> the secret service says that they don't have enough information to know if there was contact between stewart rhodes and an agent, but occasionally agents will make contact with protest groups for situational awareness. does that add up to you? >> here's the thing. it could. not to throw cold water on everything we just heard, but the one problem we have here is that we are talking about a group of individuals, whether roger storm stone or stewart rhodes who talk a lot. they talk a big game. we haven't seen the connecting pieces. yet it might be there. whether it's in the text messages that some of them were recovered from the secret service they were turned over to the january six committee, we will see what comes of that with the next hearing, or if it's in some messages we will never see, that were disposed of. we haven't seen the connection here. we see a lot of people talking about what they say they had connections to, what they say they could pull off.
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we haven't seen that link yet. that's what i am waiting to see if the committee can throw clarity on next week. >> we're talking about an agency that erased messages from january six after oversight officials asked for them, according to a watchdog. is this a coincidence? >> well, the previous point, this is a sort of a major credibility fog of war problem that we have here on all sides. on the one hand you have these folks on the far-right and, i don't think anybody is covered anyone on the political fringe knows talking a big game about their plans in their connections and we go to see whether those hard evidence to substantiate the disturbing link suggested. here on the other side, a government agency that has been opaque at best, being responsive to some of the big questions that are in play in this case. and so it's really hard to know
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precisely what to make of this, but certainly from the outside, and with that veil of uncertainty over this, it doesn't seem like anything -- >> alex, jim, bradley, thank you all. i appreciate it. a new cnn poll shows arizona democratic senator mark kelly within a narrow lead over gop opponent blake masters. tonight they face off in the first debate. hear what they are saying, next. we can replace your windshield ...and recalibrate your safety system. >> customer: and they recycled my old glass. >> tech: don't wait. schedule today. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪
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standing off tonight in their first debate. this is the new cnn poll shows kelly holding a mirror lead over masters, 41% to 55%. that same polling also suggests that the underlying political climate in the state favors the gop. with 44% of voters saying that the country will be better off if republicans are in control of congress compared to 38% who say the country will be worse off. want to bring in now cnn's national correspondent, kyung lah, along with cnn data reporter, data harry enten. good evening to both of you. i'm gonna start with you. you're in phoenix. so talk to us about some of the big moments from tonight's debate. >> one of the key themes that really we saw right out of the gate, don, is something that really is borne out of some of what we're seeing in the cnn poll. you have an incumbent here that is feeling the drag of this party. so he is seeking to distance himself, not just from his party, but president joe biden
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as well. the republican challenger, blake masters, really going after him, again and again on the issues of the economy as well as immigration. take a listen. >> joe biden is spending like a drunken sailors, at every single opportunity, mark kelly just says yes. >> i've been strong on border security, i've stood up to democrats when the wrong on this issue. including, by the way, including the president. when the president decided he was going to do something dumb on this, and change the rules, you know, that would create a bigger crisis, i told him he was wrong. >> so, creating some daylight there, some serious daylight between him and the president. and really making a play there, don, for the middle. and really focusing on those undecided voters that he's hoping to win over to vote for the incumbent once again, gone. >> let's hear from harry enten, we got this new polling into key battleground states to talk about, nevada and arizona.
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let's start with arizona. right now, senator kelly has a narrow lead over blake masters, walk us through that and what's going on in that race. >> sure, i mean look, if you look at arizona right, our poll has mark kelly up by six, four polls conducted over the last ten days from various media organizations. they all find that mark kelly is ahead by anywhere from 3 to 6 points. i do think that lead is real. i do think the interesting thing about arizona, our polls show that joe biden through rating was well above 30%. what our poll also shows that mark kelly's net favorability rating, his favorable rating minus is unfavorable, was in the positive territory. look at blake masters on the other hand, his favorability rating was underwater. i think this is something that we've seen across the entire u.s. senate map this year. where you have what is a strong environment for republicans, but they're basically screwing it up by nominating these candidates who are simply put, not very well liked by the electorate. >> here's the thing, keyon. blake masters is trying to
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moderate. he wants to win over independents. did you see any signs of that tonight? >> we saw two very big signs, two very key moments. one of them is that masters really dodged the question, since -- refusing to answer the question about what happened to his website after he won the primary. suddenly, some of the extreme abortion language that was on his website suddenly disappeared. and he just didn't want to answer that. instead, he stuck to the language that he is with a 15-week abortion limit. that is something that lindsey graham has put forward. and he says he does support the. he wouldn't go anywhere to where he was pre-primary, where he was much more extreme, wanted to present pro-life from the moment of conception. he also saw him really moderating on the issue of democracy. this is a candidate in the republican primary who put out an ad that said, quote, i believe trump won in 2020.
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but when directly asked by the moderator, do you believe this election was stolen when it comes to vote counting, as well as the election, the way the election is processed, he says, i don't see any evidence of that. so, a dramatic change there. >> wow. okay. >> whatever works, right? you're trying to win a race, i guess. >> i mean will the real blake masterfully stand up? >> tell the truth, i love katie carlisle. >> harry, in nevada there's no clear lead in the senate race. gop lead is adam rexall, -- well democratic senator catherine cortez mastroianni's 46%. how do you expect this race to shape up heading into next month? >> again, i like looking at a lot of polls, our poll has -- up within the margin of error. that's where most of the polls have this race. republican's with the slightly. this might be surprising to some, given that nevada has voted for the democratic presidential candidate 08,
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12:16 20. but i will note, in 12, the margin was less than it wasn't a weight, and 16, the margin was less than it wasn't 12, and in 20, the democratic margin for presidential margin for joe biden won it by less of a margin than hillary clinton did in 2016, and was by only a little bit more than two percentage points. so, it wouldn't be shocking to me if he won. but here's the thing that i think is important, don. look, at the end of the day, it's the road to 50 seats. right, it's the road to 50 seats. so there's essentially these six races that i'm looking at, democrats need to win four of the six. and then you can see, they're trailing in nevada right now. but they're leading in new hampshire. they're leading in arizona. they're leading in pennsylvania. they're leading in georgia where, obviously, we have a whole slew of things going on there. but if they win the states where they're headed right now, they could lose in nevada and in wisconsin and it wouldn't matter, they would still get to that 50 seats and maintain a majority with kamala harris. obviously the tie breaking vote. >> wow. guess what, we're gonna know soon. >> that's true.
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time marches forward. having gone backwards at least as i've been live. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it. president biden pardoning all federal marijuana possession commissions. freeing thousands from prison. this story was a top of the day. we have the details next, but first, i want to tell you about stanley tucci's all new season of searching for italy. he is continuing his extraordinary journey through italy, exploring the people, the places and the cuisine that make each region of the country unique. here's a preview. >> stanley tucci is back in italy. and there are more surprises to be found. i've never seen anything quite like it. oh, there you go, dad, if your family home. >> 1 million different flavors. i'm not answering a question. man, incredible. amazing.
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>> president joe biden taking the first major steps toward decriminalizing marijuana. today filled campaign pledge to race prior federal possession convictions and starting the process of loosening federal classification of the drug. >> no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana. it's already legal in many states. criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, to housing, to educational opportunities. that's before you address the racial disparities around who suffers the consequences. >> the president pending all federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, a move that will affect thousands of americans, joining me now cnn political commentator ashley allison, and also alice do, it
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a cnn political commentator. welcome back, alison. hello, actually. welcome to the program. what do you think? this is a big deal, and a complaint campaign prom promise he's delivering on. >> i'm so excited to hear joe biden keeping this campaign process promise. this is not only pollack politics it's good policy not only for democrats but for republicans. don't trump signed one of his few bipartisan bills on criminal justice reform. right now we live in a country where people are literally sitting behind bars for a simple marijuana possession while others can sell it in many states from dispensaries and make millions in one year. and so people elected joe biden to deliver on this promise. right now, 37 states literally, you can buy marijuana for medical use. and that is not democratic governor states. that's states like alabama and arkansas. and 19 states there is
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literally the ability to buy marijuana for recreational, use what they call adult use or non medical use. those are states like arizona, montana, south dakota, also with republican governors. so he also, when he did this today, he didn't just do it for the federal government because we know that most people are incarcerated at the state prison level, he made a call to states to actually do the same thing. and so there is so much opportunity to remove people who are necessarily behind bars, spending taxpayer dollars for simple possession of marijuana when the system just hasn't caught up to where our laws are now and where the authority of american people are on this issue. >> so alison, city percent of people say that part should be legal for legal and medical use. some say it should be legal just for medical russ. that's really all of americans.
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you don't agree with that? >> i don't. i'm fine with his for medical use, if that's the intended purpose, having family members that would have avail themselves of that, i think that's fine. but i also happen to think that marijuana is a gateway drug that leads to bigger things. there's a real problem with this in that the large-scale across the board pardoning of people for this. it is clearly what we are seeing is an election year ploy to get votes. i'm glad my friend actually mentioned the state of arkansas. i checked with our concealer governor asia hutchison and he is a big problem with this because part of what the president has done is to ask state governors to follow suit and issue pardons for these criminals. governor hutchison does not approve of this and doesn't plan to do so because he looks at this as simply waving the flag on policies that will save lives there impacted -- >> there are republicans though,
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nancy, maze congresswoman nancy mace supports biden's move, saying it's a great for step. there are republicans who support this. also there are people who are sitting in jail for minor marijuana possession, and there are people who are making millions of dollars on selling marijuana now. >> in terms of governors doing this in the state level, and i understand, may see this differently from congress, but governor hutchinson, like other governors that i have seen responses from, he has a problem with the blanket policy of issuing these pardons. he has done countless pardons at this level but they need to be done in a case by case basis. also should be done with people that have shown a pattern of law-abiding activity in order to gain this privilege. and that is not the case here. that's the problem -- >> if it's legal, than, how can it be legal in one place, but go on, i'm sorry. go ahead. >> i remember in 2016 actually
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inviting governor hutchison to sit down across from president biden to talk about criminal justice reform. and how this disproportionately affected black and brown people. because now you have a system where people are incarcerated for laws that are no longer on the books in his very own state. so is it fair for those people who can now make money in his state? he's one of the states that is allowed to sell medical marijuana, maybe some of those were selling marijuana on that day for medical use. we just need to bring this up. this is why president biden did not eliminated all drug use but simple possession. now it's one step in to reform our criminal justice system, but i think right now what we are seeing is that there is an unjust system, and people are sitting behind bars while other people are making money on the same thing. most of those people are black and brown. >> that was my point. how are you going to say to someone, i'm going to arrest you for a joint or whatever,
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whatever you're carrying, and then someone else, go ahead, you can make millions of dollars. i'm not saying it should or shouldn't bay. i actually personally think alcohol is worse than marijuana. it is more of a gateway drug and more addictive and causes more problems in peoples lives. but listen, who am i to say? i just say, as you say, it's not uniform across the board, and you can't tell one person you can't smoke and you can possess it and then another person go ahead and make a fortune on it. the two just don't compute. thank you both. >> thanks don. >> thanks. ashley thanks alison. i did it again. tonight the aftermath of hurricane ian some of the residents of florida's predominantly black neighborhoods are saying that they are being neglected by the state. cnn has the story. that's next. if you have type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure...
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the death toll from hurricane ian is rising as rescuers comb through the rubble. the massive storm claiming at least 126 lives in the state. and as a recovery and relief experts expand, residents of some majority black communities in southwest florida feel they are being left behind. more tonight from cnn's randi kaye. >> this is how high the water got. you can see it's going all the way across there. >> this woman rode out the storm at home with her family in the river park neighborhood of naples. >> there was not one dry spot. >> she says the water from the gordon river rose so fast and flooded her home in this historically black community. she showed me how the water came up above the fancy outback, and covered the dock. in the middle of the storm, she and others waited through deep
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water to get to higher ground at this nearby 7-eleven. all the while terrified there were alligators or snakes in the water. >> it was scary. walking and not knowing -- it was scary. it was very scary. i never want to go through that again. never. it's heartbreaking. >> two hours later, she says police and fire rescue pick them up at 7:11. and drop them at coastland centre mall nearby. she said they were soaked and left without any blankets or supplies. >> i would think they would've brought some type of blankets or something, being that we all just water and wind was blowing like crazy, hitting stuff. >> do you think this community was sort of forgotten during the storm? >> i do. >> multiple residents here in river park, which is right on the water, told us they didn't receive notification to evacuate their homes. but the city of naples told us, the day before the storm, they
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ordered a mandatory evacuation. which included this community. telling us in a statement, they reached out to thousands of residents. the notice was sent via email, code red, press release to all media outlets and neighborhoods, fire rescue app and social media. the city says first responders did not go door to door in any neighborhood in the city of naples. this man lives across the street from showed a. his house flooded and nearly everything he owns was destroyed. >> not one city employee police or whatever came through the neighborhood. before the floodwater and said it was a mandatory evacuation. not one. >> he says they easily could've driven through the neighborhood with a bull horn, telling people to leave. 21-year-old trinity williams, show her cousin, says the floodwater came up to her chest. she's furious by what she calls lack of action from officials
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and emergency responders. >> you see people yelling at the 7-eleven, there's water, and they came, they seen, and they left. they came, they seen and they left. >> the city tells him that the fire station flooded during the storm and stop responding. and that the first responders were trapped in areas throughout the city, as waters rose quickly. the city told us they sent a high water rescue vehicle to this community, and drove three loads of residents to higher ground at the coastline central. as numerous people in the area were trapped, the goal was to get everyone to safety and high ground, the statement said. >> excuse me. >> and after the storm -- >> did search and rescue teams come? >> no. i have not seen them -- the fire trucks came bringing food and stuff, but not as far as trying to get people out, and make sure that homes and stuff were okay. none of that. >> don, the city tells me that they are providing food and water to the river park community, and also helping pick up debris. but as far as those shelters go,
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the local naacp says that there are shelters, but they're simply too far away from this community for many people to get to before the storm, because they don't have the means of transportation. as far as rebuilding, many in that community do not have flood insurance, they've lost everything. that woman trinity, 21 years old who we spoke with, she lost all of her clothes and she still has to go back to work. she has to figure that out. and 64-year-old curtis, who we spoke with, he is going to be sleeping on an air mattress, he told me. and rebuilding his home from the inside while staying there. he's going to fix all of the damage from the inside while sleeping on that air mattress. don? >> randi kaye, thanks. and thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. our coverage continues. they were the first to be verified by usp... ...an independent orgaganization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.
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good evening, a day after than of all the school district just hired a former texas state trooper underinvested a shun during the role of the robb elementary massacre. that officer is now out of a job. crimson elizondo is her name. she was on the shooting within a few minutes on that terrible day. but like many of those early arrivals on the scene, they did not follow the universally accepted protocols for stopping an active shooter. mike more than 375 of the law enforcement personnel, she too would and of standing by for 77 minutes before anyone could confronting kill the gunman. how she reviewed her responsibility that, day how she saw her duty to protect the children inside. listen to this moment from the report that is captured on the video of her outside the school that morning. >> an officer asked if her children attend robb elementary. alessandro's response,?
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