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see so many people come out. i think it highlighted the need and the fears that many folks like me are experiencing right now. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> stay safe. >> i hope that our work saves lives. that's our only hope moving forward. >> to learn more about michelle and her organization, head on over to cnnheroes.com. how horrible that that even has to exist. >> yeah, people shouldn't have to use that, but it's really amazing she's stepping in and providing that. you can see a lot of people are interested in it, and she's doing a really good thing. >> a real spike in those types of hate crimes. >> really. >> cnn's coverage continues right now. >> take care. >> good morning, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga. former president trump set to respond as he faces a
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congressional subpoena to appear and testify under oath before the january 6th committee. that revelation, the crescendo to a day filled with stunning developments. the committee sharing new evidence from the secret service illustrating the knowledge and the threat that existed going into january 6th, as well as the advanced planning from the trump orbit to declare victory on election day. and this morning, in a cnn exclusive, new never before seen footage of a rare moment of bipartisan effort to push forward on january 6th. we'll hear the pivotal phone calls between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and then vice president mike pence on that day. >> our team is following all of the latest developments surrounding this investigation. the overnight subpoena to donald trump just one of the major advances that the committee put forward. so let's begin with cnn political correspondent sara murray. walk us through the big takeaways from the hearing yesterday because there were quite a few. >> yeah, that's right. the committee wanted to break new ground in that hearing and i think they did that. obviously, the big headline they got was the decision to move ahead with the unanimous vote to
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subpoena documents and testimony for the former president, that's obviously a big step. a historic step. we also saw a lot of this footage of the congressional leaders when they had to evacuate the capitol. we saw the efforts that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer were going to to try to get outside help, assistance from the national guard. we also heard snippets of an interview the committee did with elaine chao, who was donald trump's former transportation secretary. she resigned after the capitol riots that happened on january 6th. she essential said she was an immigrant, came to this country, she believes in the peaceful in the trump administration after that. we got sort of more stunning testimony from cassidy hutchinson woo was a top aide to mark meadows talking more about how the former president knew he lost but wasn't willing to let it go. that was a big one. we saw documentation that trump planned ahead of the election results to just declare victory no matter what happened and we
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got a little more detail on what the committee had uncovered from this trove of communications they got from the u.s. secret service, including warnings back in december coming to the u.s. secret service from people saying, look, extremist groups are planning on go to the capitol, they want to kill people while they are there. i want to go back to the cassidy hutchinson testimony. she was such a bombshell witness in the public hearing. listen to what she said in the video testimony they showed yesterday. >> he had said something to the effect of, i don't want people to know we lost, mark. this is embarrassing. figure it out. we need to figure it out. i don't want people to know we lost. he said mark, you can't possibly think we're going to pull this off. that call was crazy. he looked at me and shook his head and said, no, cass, he knows it's over. he knows he lost, but we're going to keep trying. >> one of the hardest things for this committee to do is show what donald trump was actually thinking because so many people around him have refused to
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testify or pleaded the fifth, so to have that video from cassidy hutchinson, sort of relaying what mark meadows said in his conversations with the president, i think, was big for the committee to sort of make their point that donald trump knew that he had lost but just was not willing to drop it. >> to hear her say that mark meadows said he knows he lost, he knows it's over. quite compelling indeed. sara murray, thank you. let's get right to cnn's kristen holmes with more on the footage of a bipartisan group of lawmakers scrambling to restore order on january 6th. how does this incredible video demonstrate the chaos that surrounded that day? >> bianna, it doesn't just demonstrate it, it highlights it. we see for the first time speaker of the house nancy pelosi fleeing the capitol amid that riot. we also see, as you said, this bipartisan group of lawmakers essentially working together two pliel miles away at ft. mcnair, trying to get control over this
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increasingly volatile situation. at one point we learned as late as 4:30 p.m. on the day of the riot they were still talking about whether they should move the joint session of congress to that military base in order to certify the election. i want to play for you a clip of some of that incredible footage. >> they're breaking windows and going in. obviously, ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. that's nothing. the concern we have about personal harm -- >> safety. >> personal safety is just transcends everything, but the fact is on any given day, they're breaking the law in many different ways. and quite frankly, much of it at the instigation of the president of the united states. and now, if he could at least -- somebody -- >> why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general, and your law enforcement responsibility. a public statement they should
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all leave. [ chanting usa ] >> this cannot be just we're waiting for so-and-so. we need them there now, whoever you've got. >> you also have troops, this is steny hoyer. you have troops, andrews air force base, other military bases. we need active duty national guard. >> how soon in the future can you have the place evacuated? cleaned out? >> i don't want to speak for the leadership that's going to be responsible for executing the operation, so i'm not going to say that because they're on the ground. >> just pretend for a moment that we're the white house or some other entity that was under siege. let me say, you can logistically get people there as you make the
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plan. >> trying to figure out how we can get this job done today. we talked to mitch about it earlier. he's not in the room right now, but he was with us earlier. and said we want to expedite this and hopefully they can confine it to just one complaint, arizona, and we can vote and that would be, you know, then just move forward with the rest of the states. overriding wish is to do it at the capitol. what we're being told very directly is it's going to take days for the capitol to be okay again. we have gotten a very bad report about the conditions of the house floor, defecation and all that kind of thing as well. i don't think that that's hard to clean up. but i do think it is more from a security standpoint of making
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sure that everybody is out of the building and how long will that take. >> i just got off with the vice president. >> i got off with the vice president elect. >> okay. what we left the conversation with, because he said he had the impression from mitch that mitch wants to get everybody back to do it there. >> yes. >> i said, we're getting a counterpoint that is it could take time to clean up the poo-poo they're making literally and figuratively in the capitol, and it may take days to get back. >> the capitol building, i'm literally standing with the chief of police of the u.s. capitol police. he just informed me what you will hear from official channels. we'll inform you their best information is that they fully -- the house and the senate will be able to reconvene
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in roughly an hour. >> good news. >> we're getting members back in the building. >> thank you very much, mr. vice president. that's good news. >> now, while you see the collaboration there between pence and pelosi, one thing that you don't actually see is this moment of softness where pelosi seems genuinely concerned about pence when he's hiding, saying don't tell anyone where you are, asking about his wellbeing, this is interesting to see given the juxtaposition given what trump, pence's president was doing at that time, which we learned was tweeting out something that said mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should be done. again, a big juxtaposition as you watch the video unfold. >> yeah, you see the vice president at the time speaking throughout the day there, reassuring nancy pelosi that they literally are on the same
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page and trying to reconvene. quite opposite from what the president was doing at the time, kristen holmes, thank you. >> let's break all of this down with our experts, joining us now former deputy assistant attorney general elliot williams, former special assistant to george w. bush, scott jennings and senior political analyst john avlon. i should note former president trump has indeed responded to the subpoena to truth social. it's a lengthy page response. we don't have it with us now. we'll go over it in the next coming minutes. let's talk first just big picture, john. your reaction to the video that we saw yesterday. >> the contrast between, as i think the key point, pelosi and pence and mitch mcconnell, the leading republicans and democrats in that moment of crisis for our country, coming together to work together in the spirit of civility and civic commitment to the people's business getting done. certifying an election. after the president of the united states at the time had basically instigated a mob to attack the capitol, which they
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also understood to be a fact at the time. that's a sign of civic strength and it's nothing we can take for granted but something we should celebrate. the contrast between the president's actions, the information that came out yesterday showing that the former president and his henchmen were planning to lie about the election well before the election. >> and yesterday's hearing really culminated with that live vote subpoenaing the president and the committee agreeing to subpoena the president. as we said, we're going through his response now. i want to get, scott, your reaction to what jamie raskin said about why they think it would be compelling for him to speak with them. let's listen. >> but even if he thinks that it was a righteous manifestation o come over. if he wants to be the mousselina of a mass right wing populist movement, he should come forward and explain that. >> so present day mussolini of this new movement.
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do you think that there's enough there to goad him, to compel him to come forward? >> there are people in his orbit saying he wants to do it. that he -- that he feels inclined to want to get out and have his colonel jesup moment, i guess, at the end of the january 6th hearing. elliot is a lawyer and he would tell you it's a crazy idea given this guy is under about 1,000 investigations right now. >> we know donald trump doesn't always listen to his lawyers. >> i know, but he has a lot of confidence in his ability to communicate and sway people and to always be right, but boy, it seems like a perilous idea to me. what do you think? >> before we get to you, i want to play sound of those who did work, a former adviser to president trump who says he does think the president would want to speak out now and comply. let's listen. >> in my time working for donald trump, one thing that i learned is simply donald trump kaechbt avoid a show. if the committee were to agree
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to carry this on national television. i'm not convinced he wouldn't show up. there's a question of will he, i'm not really sure. does he want to, yes, i think he does. >> so elliot, there's never a show he wants to miss. what is your take legally? >> legally, to echo scott, this would be crazy. he's under 1,000 investigations. every time he opens his mouth, he's subjecting himself to contradictory statements, statements used to impeach him, or step in it even further as someone who is investigated. look, all four of us would say it would make for great television, no question about that. but even somebody receiving bad legal advice, as maybe he is, maybe he isn't, no lawyer is going to let him get on the stage with that committee. >> but hold on. this isn't about the spectacle. it may be for donald trump. he's moth to a flame for the prospect of more attention. the critical difference is he would be under oath. >> yeah. >> right. that's the critical difference. for the american people, he may perjure himself in the pursuit
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of great tv and grandstanding but that would have legal implications potentially. i think as we saw from cassidy hutchinson's testimony, one of the things that was so striking to me yesterday is where there was an acknowledgment by trump that he lost the election, it was embarrassing, and we couldn't let people know the truth. >> what does that do to his argument, though, a potential argument in a legal case, if his initial argument would have been, i always thought i won and there's that. if you have witnesses, now multiple witnesses, i believe alyssa farrah grithen said he said can you believe i lost to that blanking guy. >> when you're talking about campaign related offenses, if someone genuinely thinks they won, you're not able to prosecute them successfully for a campaign violation. number one, when it's clear he was lying on the record about losing or when people around him were, that's evidence of these campaign offenses i'm talking about, but also if any of them
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gave those statements, not even sworn, to an fbi agent or something else, that's an additional crime, too. so it starts getting a little murkier. and not even murkier, it is clearer that it's a crime. >> my assumption is he would call these people liars. >> every one of them? >> that's what he does. i mean, don't you think, john? i think he would say, i never said that to her. that person never heard me say that. that person wasn't in the room with me. that would probably be the tactic. >> can i ask you for the republicans' response. aside from elise stefanik, they have been quiet. we saw that republicans and democrats stood huddled together trying to get to reconvene congress and get things back on track. after the fact, you had scalise, who we saw on camera standing there with nancy pelosi, saying where was she, what was she doing that night? what does that say about the one bipartisan moment we saw when it really mattered but what the public would see in the month
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that ensued after? >> i think on the front end, the fact that they were all there together trying to get the gres back in session, that was the most vital thing that happened. had they not done that, had the thing gotten delayed to the next day, that's all the foothold trump would have needed to say, well, we're off schedule now and now there's uncertainty and maybe they see it my way. time has a way of eroding momentum. and so it was vital that they all worked together to get back in. what we have heard in the months since and the way certain people have acted -- >> it's telling that the public didn't see what we ended up seeing, because that would have been important. >> what's clear is they all know the truth. they were there. >> they were fearful for their lives. >> a lot of theater to politics. we were talking about this beforehand. >> we have a lot to talk about. sit tight. we're going through this response from the former president trump and we'll have more on that. bet you can't wait to read it. >> next, we go to north carolina
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of the deadly gun violence. >> as you know, five individuals lost their lives, including an off-duty raleigh police department officer. two others were injured, includingaroly police officer who has been treated and released from the hospital. the other injured victim is 59-year-old marcile gardener who is still in critical condition. a 15-year-old white male suspect was taken into custody and is in critical condition. >> cnn ryan young is in raleigh with the latest. so ryan, what more did we learn? >> so very tough for the people in this community. you can feel the pain, and as you talk to folks, of course, they're trying to figure out exactly why did this happen. a 15-year-old teenager who apparently opened fire. that's according to police. we just learned from a source that he had two guns. there was a long gun and also a handgun. so that's something police are going through right now to try
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to figure out exactly where he got those guns, going to go to his house and try to gain some evidence in terms of motive because right now, no motive has been released. police are ticking through the names and ages of the people shot, there is no motive in terms of trying to put the victimology together. and it was a beautiful day yesterday here in the raleigh area so there might have been people in the park, going about their daily lives when someone in camouflage apparently started opening fire and those calls to 911 started happening immediately. you can understand why the governor is so angry about what's happened in this community. take a listen. >> no neighborhood, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in their communities. no one. as policymakers, we cannot and we will not turn away from what has happened here.
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happening right now, former president donald trump responding this morning after the january 6th committee's vote to subpoena him yesterday. cnn's sara murray joins us again. a lengthy response, sara, with plenty of exhibits. what stood out to you here? >> it a lengthy response. it is 14 pages long. and nowhere in these 14 pages does donald trump actually address the question or the demand rather from the subpoena
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that he provide testimony and documents to the committee. that remains unaddressed. you can probably guess what his response is going to be based on the tone of this letter, though, which is essentially railing against the january 6th committee. he calls them the unselect committee. he says this is another witch hunt. he goes through in these pages sort of repeating the falsehoods he has spread about the 2020 election. you mentioned the exhibits there. he runs through five different states that he has been sort of obsessed with in the wake of the 2020 election. again reiterated a lot of false claims we have seen from him before about the election. he also sort of in the form of donald trump says that the committee has not spent long enough focused on the crowd size that he got when he held his rally on january 6th. he also includes photos around the national mall on january 6th, again, pointing to the crowd size that he had there. you know, which is an interesting decision to make
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considering the number of those folks that later marched into the capitol and led a riot at the capitol. but this is his response that he posted on his social media page to the committee. again, does not actually address the demand for his testimony or for documents. >> yeah, four photos here of the crowd size that day. really, really interesting response. we'll leave it at that. sara murray, thank you so much. >> so let's bring back our panel of experts. elliot williams, scott jennings, john avlon. you have been going through this page by page. let's start one of the first lines. a majority of people in our country say the presidential election of 2020 was determinatively dishonest. >> that's not true. it's another lie. a majority of republicans do, and i can understand why donald trump would mistake republicans for americans. but that's sort of part of the problem here. look, this is all just more evident that the former president is an unhinged liar. this is vomit. this is bluster. it is a repetition of lies that
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have been thoroughly debunked and an obsession with crowd size that speaks to the real weakness of donald trump. >> scott, he goes on to also say, and this is an argument he's made throughout these h hearings, there is no due process, no cross-examination, no, in quotes, no real republican members and no legitimacy because you don't talk about election fraud or calling up the troops. what we always remind viewers at home is because he did not want this to be a bipartisan committee that it turned out the way it did where you only had adam kinzinger and liz cheney, the sole republicans on the committee. >> they're real republicans, elected to congress as republicans. they aren't donald trump republicans. they're quarreling with him so he doesn't consider hem to be real. that stuck out to me. the other thing that jumped out, he goes through the litany of the arguments that it's not possible he lost. when you talk to republicans,
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you hear this sometimes. it's not possible we lost an election. anybody can lose an election. it's quite possible. you go through it, since 1888, this that and the other. i won this state and the other state, and he uses that as evidence about how it's not possible to have lost. no, it is quite possible. we had a massive turnout. and he did get more votes than he got in the previous election, but so did the democrats. so did in this case joe biden, and what i find intriguing about it is like, they accept that he got more votes, so that more people turned out for him, but they don't accept that a single other person might have turned out for the other party. >> i guess there was a nonresponse in terms of whether he will appear before this committee. i think we have it here in these 14 pages. if we can move on and talk about more of what we saw yesterday and new revelations that came out of secret service emails and messages that the committee had obtained, can it showed sort of this build-up to the anticipation of violence
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throughout the day. let's just read some of these texts. one person saying gallows don't require electricity. others say our lawmakers can leave one of two ways. in a body bag after rightfully certified trump the winner. these comments people were spreading online and knowing the secret service was very worried about what was to come, does that not bring further conclusive evidence tying it back to his iinner circle? >> to some extent. we spent a lot of time focusing on what the texts say about criminal responsibility for the folks who sent them, and nothing changes there. this is just more evidence of that. i actually think what this -- this is an invitation to congress to do some more oversight of the secret service. they do not have an effective way of managing what their agents or senior staff do with their text messages, number one. number two, they don't have a clear way of really knowing, of identifying threats and so on. this is a failure of government as much as it is a failure of intelligence or public safety or
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so on. it's a poorly managed agency. if these kinds of texts are bouncing around, and number one, they're not turned over to congress. so there's a number of committees in congress that ought to be hauling the leadership of secret service up and having them testify about what went wrong. >> also, don't forget, we didn't include the deleted texts that we didn't have access to. they had access to over a million other documents. do you think this ultimately leads to this committee recommending that the doj prosecute the president? >> yes. >> criminal referral. >> whether the doj will do that is the critical question. they can recommend whatever they want. every step of the way the information that has come out that was initially sort of attempted to be suppressed shows this was a premeditated plan. before a single vote had been cast, they were planning to contest the election and declare victory. so as you look at this unprecedented assault on our democracy, by a sitting president, there needs to be culpability and it should be across partisan lines. that's what was hopeful about those videos, but so there is
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plenty of important questions we need to answer, particularly about the violence that was unleashed and the lie that was perpetrated, but what i really hope beyond our partisan bubbles filters through, the donald trump supporters who were lied to, that they were lied to knowingly by the president who is perpetuating a lie. and that's the greatest disrespect to them and our country. >> go ahead. >> aside from her work with this committee, liz cheney has said multiple times her number one priority is to make sure that donald trump never returns to the oval office again. did anything you saw yesterday and over the course of these hearings give you any indication that she could actually get that wish? >> you know, i don't know if she's going to be a very effective messenger to most republican voters. i think the party is about 50/50. 50% want him back and 50% want to do something else. the greatest impediment of her mission is the rules of how we nominate the republican nominee
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for president. it's this winner take all system where in a fragmented system you can win 35% of the vote and get the nomition, which is what happened in 2016 when he got it in the first place. i think her effectiveness among republicans is limited. but i do think a lot of republicans would rather, a, not lose another presidential election, and b, know deep down it would be better if we nominated someone else. the question is, does someone have the wherewithal to beat him in a primary inside this system that makes it pretty difficult. >> as of now, is there someone? >> i think there are people who could beat him, but inside the system in a fragmented structure, it does protect him or anybody that brings 35%, 40% to the table to start. >> scott, elliot, and john, always great to have you on. both segments. a treat for me. thank you. well, still ahead, we're joined by democratic senator chris coons, as the biden administration faces challenges from russia on several fronts
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areas cut off by russian attacks on infrastructure. musk appears to confirm the reporting this morning saying he's just following the advice of a ukrainian diplomat who dismissed his proposed peace plan with a tweet saying, f off. to be clear, spacex requested funding from the pentagon nearly a month before this exchange. meanwhile, russia continues to bombard ukraine with air strikes, today focusing on zaporizhzhia. joining me is senator chris coons a democrat from delaware who sits on the foreign relations and judiciary committee. thank you for joining us. let's talk about starlink. it has been an essential asset for the ukrainians there on the battlefield, and they have described being their outages being catastrophic over the past few weeks, as they have gained ground and getting back some of that territory that had been taken by russia. i'm just curious, given this seemingly confusing, erratic, volatile, however you want to describe it behavior by elon
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musk, the ukrainians very indebted to him for this technology. in your view, is it safe, is it wise for one man to control such crucial technology? >> well, bianna, as putin continues targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure across ukraine with punishing missile striems day after day after day, president biden, leaders in the administration, leaders here in congress are urging the rapid delivery of more sophisticated air defense systems and we have gotten positive responses from our european allies and from our military. you raise a critical question about elon musk and starlink. one of the key issues that has sustained ukraine's effective resistance, not just their holding off russian advances but now actually retaking significant amounts of ground, is how the russians failed in their cybersecurity attacks to shut down ukraine's access to the internet and their ability to communicate unit to unit on the battlefield.
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and how russia failed to take either air superiority or cybersuperiority early in this conflict. so this is a challenge for all of us, for the administration, for everyone who wants to see ukraine succeed, to have elon musk acting in a somewhat mercurial way, throwing out proposals for diplomatic resolution of a brutal war where frankly the only acceptable outcome should be that ukraine continues to retake its territory from russian invaders. i'm hopeful that the administration will be able to work out a path forward, either through starlink or another service to continue this vital support for ukraine. >> so there is the possibility of the pentagon either providing this funding or another service replacing it? >> i technologically don't know whether there is a comparable service to starlink where it is relatively easy to deliver the systems to ukraine. starlink is something they have
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relied on for months and months now. so i would have to get into the details. but i have to be optimistic that the west will continue to provide critical communications and air defense systems. the g-7 just unanimously restated publicly their strong support for ukraine in the face of putin's ongoing missile attacks. >> elon musk hasn't been funding all of this himself through spacex, the u.s. government and other allies have been funding s starlink throughout the war. as the war has intensified both on the battlefield and the barrage of missiles and strikes we have seen this week into major western cities, there has been concern, heightened level perhaps, of this turning into a nuclear escalation with vladimir putin once again saying that this is something that the united states set the precedent for, the u.s. president biden using words like nuclear armageddon, the foreign policy chief saying the russian army
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would be, quote, annihilated if russia was to deploy a nuke, and nato warns of a physical response perhaps if a nuclear weapon was deployed. are you getting any intelligence or are our allies getting intelligence that vladimir putin is closer to deploying a nuclear weapon today than he was a few weeks ago? >> the only insight i have got is open source insight on this exact question. which is repeated reporting that the russians are losing on the battlefield, that putin is increasingly desperate as his troops are retreating, abandoning positions they fought very hard to take just weeks or months ago. and that as putin is flailing, as his troops are failing on the battlefield, there is an increased likelihood that he will use a more extreme measure. he has been saber rattling throughout this entire conflict. he has tried to push back and brush back nato, the united
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states, those who support ukraine from around the world by threatening to cut off energy supplies, by cutting off supplies of fertilizer and food, by cutting off access to other vital resources, and by threatening the use of a tactical nuclear weapon. we are doing everything we can to mobilize the world, including those countries that have stayed on the sidelines, like india and south africa and china, to communicate to putin that this would be a red line. that for russia to be the first country since the second world war to use nuclear weapon and the first country ever to use a nuclear weapon in a war of aggression started by russia would isolate them completely, would lead to their being declared a terrorist nation by the world and completely is iso isolated. >> quickly, he continues to fund this war through the sale of oil. with opec plus's surprising decision to slash production by 2 million barrels a day, the president promised a response, a
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consequential response. what will that be? will he do as has been proposed, ban or freeze the sale of arms to saudi arabia for a year? >> well, bianna, the foreign relations committee here in the senate also has a role in that, and i think it's unlikely we will support any additional arms sales to the saudis. this was a punch in the gut for us at this moment to have a long-standing partner like saudi arabia help russia fund their war of aggression against ukraine was a very bitter disappointment and a big surprise. i think you'll see both the administration and the senate take action and one of the most likely actions is to stop any future arms sales. >> making some news there. senator chris coons, thank you. great to see you. >> thank you. >> and still ahead, did a juror in the parkland shooter trial inappropriately pressure another juror? that's the focus for the prosecution this morning. we'll go to florida live next for the very latest.
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also upset. there is say 1:30 hearing scheduled for today where the state, the prosecution is going to ask the lawmak enforcement t investigate one juror saying they felt threatened during deliberation. according to wfor here in miami, there were three no votes against the death penalty. one of them appears was steadfast in their decision. the family members yesterday, they all expressed a great deal of frustration and anger about the jury's decision. a lot of them were surprised by the fact that the jury only deliberated for about a day. here now are one of the parkland family members. >> i just don't understand how quickly they came to this decision. they had time and they really should have gone through the evidence, it almost makes me feel like there was somebody
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that already had this notion that they were going to have life in prison. that they were never going to give the death penalty. >> reporter: to looking ahead. the victims' family members, they're ault ll going to get on more opportunity to address the court on november 1st. that is when the judge is going to formally sentence nikolas cruz to life there prison without the possibility of parole. b it is important to note, that in order for the jury to come back with a death penalty verdict, all 12 members of the jury needs to come back with a yes on all of the 17, or at least one of the 17 counts. in the aeend there was one to three holdouts on all of the charges and which is why cruz will die in prison. that hearing is scheduled to take place at 1:30 this afternoon. the jury in the question
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