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anticipated images to come from the webb space telescope and it did not disappoint. that is of the pillars of creation which were made famous by the hubble space telescope back in 1995, and now webb has turned its lens towards it and given us this incredible view and right there on your screen is kind of a side by side comparison. on the left, that's taken by the hubble telescope. it's an optical telescope,s so that's what it looks like, what our eyes would be able to see in space, and on the right is an infrared telescope. it's able to peer into those clouds of interstellar gas and dust, which make up what appear to be those rock formations, but the star of the show here are the baby stars, erica, and right, they are quite cute, right? what's unique is this is where baby stars are born, and those bright red spots, those are actually baby stars. the red, wavy lines, are some of
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the ejections from the stars and a lot of people have different takes on, you know, what this actually looks like. some people say they see the hand of god coming up. the producer for this show says he sees the galloping horse. i don't know about that. what do you think? >> i see a horse. i do see it. >> do you see a horse? >> i see a horse. >> i could be convinced to see the horse. >> yeah. >> i love there's a such thing as a baby star, but just how detailed this picture is. hubble was nice. it was nice. this is fantastic. >> yeah. it really is impressive. it's so cool, except now i have stuck in my head and i give it to the both of you -- ♪ baby stars, doo-doo doo-doo ♪ >> we didn't plan that. >> we didn't. thank you as always. top of the hour. i'm erica hill. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to have you along. any moment we will see president
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biden make his now second economic announcement of the day. the president is expected to award $2.8 billion in grants targeting the electric grid and electric vehicles. earlier today he announced he's releasing 15 million barrels from the national oil reserve. this is in hopes of keeping gas prices coming down. >> context here is key. midterm elections of course, now just 20 days away. folks in many states have already started voting. inflation and the economy as we know still the number one issues for consumers and voters. so the president says these moves, he says they are not political. >> it's not politically motivated at all. it's motivated to make sure that i continue to push on what i have been pushing on, and that is making sure there's enough oil that's being pumped by the companies so that we have the ability to be able to produce enough gas that we need here at home, oil we need here at home, and at the same time, keep moving in the direction of providing for alternative
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energy. >> cnn white house correspondent mj lee joining us live. what was announcement number one. what are we expecting from the president at this hour? >> reporter: it is definitely shaping up to be an economy-heavy day here at the white house. let me just lay out for you this announcement from the president that we're about to hear any minute now. as you pointed out, it is a $2.8 billion investment program, a grant that will be spread out across some 12 states to really invest in the battery supply chain. it is related to things like electric vehicles, the electric grid, and it is going to be something that the president rolls out in person at an event in pittsburgh tomorrow. so you can just imagine that the event is going to have multiple layers where he is, one, able to talk about this big legislative accomplishment because remember, the money for all of this comes from that bipartisan infrastructure bill that congress was able to pass last year. it is also something where he can talk about trying to take action to bring down inflation,
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and also invest in clean energy. all of these things are obviously big, important priorities for this administration, and politically significant too, you were just talking about the midterms. some of these grants are going to be handed out in states that have very important and competitive races coming up in just a couple of weeks. now you mentioned this first announcement that we saw at the white house earlier today. this was, of course, the announcement of releasing 15 million additional barrels of oil from the strategic reserve. this comes from the 180 million barrels of oil that the administration previously had announced would be coming out over the course of six months, and this, of course, is another action that the administration is taking to try to sort of move the needle to bring gas prices down. if you remember earlier this summer, they saw some good news, they felt like gasris were coming down. in recent weeks we saw prices
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coming up a little bit. this is something they were certainly trying to tackle and on all of these fronts, we're getting a reminder that it is really all about the economy. yesterday we were talking about the abortion-related political messaging. well, today it's back to the economy and that's really where the focus is for this administration and the white house. >> mj lee setting the table for us. thank you very much. let's talk more about these moves from the biden administration with cnn's matt egan. matt, how do you see the decisions about the 15 million barrels, the petroleum reserve affecting consumers? >> well, victor and erica, i think the impact looked bigger about 24 hours ago because we saw oil prices move down sharply and that usually moves prices at the piump, but we've seen a reversal and they're back to where they were 24 hours ago. i think there's been some confusion, even in the energy market about exactly what's going on. you remember in late march the president announced he would release 180 million barrels, a
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record-setting amount and that was in response to the war in ukraine. he said that would happen by the end of october. we're almost at the end of october and they had about 15 million barrels left. so this is not a new emergency release. it's really the same one. i mean, it would be like if i announced i was going to run five miles and after four, i stopped and held a press conference to say, i'm going to run a mile. it's not a longer run. i'm just making a bigger deal about that final mile. so i don't think we should expect to see a dramatic impact for prices at the pump. it probably helps on the margin, and i think if you zoom out, this president has clearly been more aggressive than his predecessors at releasing oil from the oil reserve, and a lot of experts i talk to say, you know what? it has been at least somewhat effective at keeping a lid on energy prices. we can debate how effective, but it's certainly been a factor. looking forward, i think the two big factors are going to be, what happens to the flow of energy out of russia as the war in ukraine continues and sanctions bite, and what happens
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to the economy because while presidents can't make gas prices cheap again, recessions can, and that's obviously a big concern that's out there. >> it certainly is, and also looking forward, one thing we did learn more about today, but i need you to explain it to me because you're our numbers guy. they're going to adjust for inflation. what does this mean? >> well, normally these adjustments are pretty subtle, but because inflation is so high, the adjustments have been bigger. in fact, the adjustment for the standard deductions, this is the biggest increase that we've seen since the cost of living adjustments started in 1985 for individuals. there's an increase of $900. married couples, $1,800. that is significant. the irs is also bumping up the income threshold for tax brackets. i'll give you an example. in 2022, if your income is $90,000, you're in that 24% tax
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rate, 2023, that same $90,000 will be taxed at a 22% rate. same story for joint filers. so i think if you put all this together, it shows at least one silver lining of inflation, less money to uncle sam and more money in your pocket. >> all right. we'll tykeake what we can get. matt egan, thank you. a record number of georgia voters are turning out for this year's midterm election. more than 268,000 in just the first two days of early voting according to the secretary of state. that's up 75% than during the 2018 midterms. >> let's discuss now with political commentator tara palmeri, charlie dent, and democratic strategist, zach pat canus. i like matt's analogy there. i run five miles and i stop at four and say, i'm going to run this last one. the president didn't hold a news
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conference every 15 million barrels along the way. only 20 days before the election, how voters are supposed to see this as anything other than a political announcement? >> they're supposed to see it as part of a package of activity that the administration has done to get prices down, and it's not just by releasing oil by the strategic oil reserve. it's passing the inflation reduction act which is about getting prescription drug costs down for folks and care down for folks. getting utility bills that they start coming down, and this is one of a number of actions that the administration has taken to get costs down for people because that's what inflation is. it's higher costs for folks. it doesn't matter where it's coming from, and so the administration has been really laser focused on showing the actions that they are taking, that democrats are taking to get prices down for people, and that's what people are talking about on the campaign trail. >> they're focused on the actions and the messaging though may not be landing the way they would like it to. when it comes to talking about inflation, pretty consistently
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as this is global, it's a lot worse other places so it's not as bad as it looks. maybe true. it doesn't land well when things are tough in your household. i was stroke. nancy pelosi said dems need a better message when it comes to inflation. i'm curious. is there any sense that there is a new message coming for these last three weeks from democrats on inflation? >> there really isn't, and frankly the republicans don't really have a message on inflation either other than we'll do it better, right? they're both kind of claiming that they can handle the issue, but obviously it's on the incumbents who are up for re-election who are saying, we know you're suffering right now, you be we'll do it better and i'm sure voters are thinking, why hasn't it been fixed right now? why should we give democrats the key to leadership in the house, the senate and, you know, the white house? as it is, if they haven't changed anything, they don't seem to have a plan on how to change the inflation problem, but neither do republicans. it just seems that perhaps voters are willing to take the
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risk, go on a gut feeling that republicans are better with the economy. that's what polling shows, that voters feel that way about republicans, but again, nancy pelosi said republicans haven't shown how they would fix it either. >> congressman, do you see a republican plan to bring down inflation, bring down gas prices? >> well, look. let's start with this administration. the inflation reduction act is really going to have a neglnegligent jibable -- i supported the administration when they released and opened up the reserves back at the time putin invaded ukraine. this is going to be a drop in the barrel so to speak this 15 million barrels. not going to do much. inflation is caused largely because the fed had been too easy with the money for too long. they've tapped the brakes and waited too long. it's partly a monetary stimulus that occurred and partly a
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fiscal stimulus and the democrats should take some blame for this. the protection plan overspent. they juiced the man when the man was already high in supply, and it was low. that's on them. i'm not blaming the democrats entirely for this, but they are partially responsible. not that the republicans have an ideal plan either, but i think we're all realizing now that all this fiscal stimulus and monetary stimulus, you know, has caused the situation that we're in. >> you say republicans -- republicans don't have an ideal plan. is there any plan? i was listening very closely for the republican plan to bring down inflation and bring down gas prices. >> they always connect it to the debt ceiling and they say that we shouldn't be, you know, we should balance the books. they say very general things about how to deal with inflation, but you haven't heard any real specifics from republicans on how they would deal with inflation and charlie, you can correct me if i'm wrong on that, but i haven't heard anything other than balance the books, stop stimulus spending,
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and debt ceiling issues, but they're probably going to have to raise the debt ceiling anyway in the next congress. >> tara, the only thing i would say to that, the debt ceiling, i would not screw around with the debt ceiling if i were republicans. do not do that, but at the same time there has to be fiscal tightening because there has been just too much money thrown out there. i mean, that's a big part of it. what's the definition of inflation? too much money chasing too few goods and services. we can try and assign blame all we want to the fed, the congress, the president, but that's the reality of the situation we're in not just in the united states, but much of the world. >> i want to talk about what's happening here in new york. lee zeldin is really gaining on kathy hochul in the governor's race, really tightening in the suburbs. we're also talking about where house seats are ready. which is going to drive more in new york? is it the governor's race or the house seats up for grabs? what's fueling voters? >> look. we are facing, i think, a
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national climate here where a lot of democratic base voters are enraged about what's happening and the policies that are being pushed by the republicans? starting with the supreme court overturning roe v. wade which is fueling a huge rush amongst democratic voters. there's anger amongst the gun rulings from the supreme court and what's being pushed on republicans on the state legislature. i think it's going to be a combination here in new york. >> mm-hmm. >> it's not just the top of the ticket at the governor's race. i think that there's a real feeling that we need to make sure we don't give the house over to these republicans who are pushing national abortion bans, who are pushing book banning and these really extremist positions that are not doing things that need to address -- that people feel like they need to be addressed like inflation. >> you're saying that can't be tied because those would be democratic voters. that wouldn't be tied to the lee zeldin push running for
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governor? >> i would take one poll with a grain of salt. i think we're going to be okay here in new york, but i think that that is part of the national dynamic we're seeing with it. >> all right. zach, tara, charlie, thank you. vladimir putin declares martial law in the regions of ukraine he claims to have annexed. the western world does not recognize those. details on what that means ahead. plus, the son of an american citizen imprisoned in saudi arabia is speaking out saying his father is nowhere near a dissonant. we'll have more on that story next. supporting 6 key indicators ofof brain health. to h help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. (vo) get ththe new iphone 14 pro on us. right now t-mobile is including apple business essentials so you can easily manage your team's devices. on the netwo with more 5g coverage. so yonly from t-mobile forour teambusiness.s.
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started a new stage of terror after slatvladimir putin declar martial law in portions that he claims russia has annexed. that means they take over the civilian government. ukraine's foreign ministry says the move is a guise so that russia can deprive people living in these areas of basic rights and allow russia to legalize looting and force deportations and mobilization. >> the images show thousands being moved in the kherson area just a short time ago. president biden says martial law shows that putin is just running out of options. >> vladimir putin finds himself in an incredibly difficult position, and what it reflects to me is it seems his only tool available to him is to brutalize individual citizens in ukraine, ukrainian citizens, to try to
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intimidate them into capi capitulating. they're not going to do that. >> all right. we'll come back to ukraine in just a moment. nic robertson there. president biden is speaking about an investment in electric vehicles and the electric grid. >> 10 million new jobs have been created just since my presidency began. 3.5 pr 3.5% of unemployment, the lowest in 50 years. nearly 307,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since i took office and y'all are going to create a lot more up there on the screen, and some people gave up on american manufacturing, but not me, not the american secretary, not the american people. where is it written we can't be the manufacturing hub of the world? well, we are now, and that's what we're going to be announcing and talking about today. it's about my industrial strategy to bring america back
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manufacturing industries of the future, semiconductors and clean energy. that includes the bipartisan infrastructure law that i signed and it was a once in a generation investment on our generation's roads, railroads, bridges, and high speed internet. federal infrastructure funding is helping states and cities with these projects all across the country, but the infrastructure law also invests in people and companies that are going to build our future like electric vehicles and advanced batteries that are going to power those vehicles. this is critically important because the future of vehicles is electric, but the battery is the key part of that electric vehicle, and right now 75% as the folks on the screen can tell you, 75% of that battery manufacturing is done in china, and for some battery components, critical materials, china controls nearly half the global production, but china's battery
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technology is not more innovative than anyone else's. in fact, our national labs, our research universities, our automakers led the development of this technology here in america, but by undercutting u.s. manufacturers with their unfair subsidies and trade practices, china seized the significant portion of the market. today we're stepping up to hold -- really to take it back. not all of it, but bold goals in action to make sure we're back in the game in a big way, and we're doing it right away centered around workers and communities and building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out. last year i signed an executive order setting the goal of having 50% of all new cars and trucks sold by 2030 to be electric. electric vehicles. auto companies, unions, and the federal government are all
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working together to meet this goal. i signed into law the inflation reduction act, the biggest investment in climate ever. ever in all of history. it includes tax credits for up to $7,500 for folks to buy new electric vehicles or fuel cell vehicles made in america, and for the first time you get a tax credit for buying a used electric vehicle. the chips and science act that i signed into law is literally supercharging our efforts to make those semiconductors, those small computer chips that power our everyday lives including our vehicles here in america, and the infrastructure law is investing $7.5 billion to build electric vehicle charging stations all across america. so find a place to charge up your vehicle is going to be as easy as pulling into a gas station. so earlier today, talked about our efforts to keep gas prices down at the pump without
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delaying or deferring our transition to clean energy. luckily vehicles are part of that plan, and since i took office, electric vehicle sales have more than tripled, but with more electric vehicle sales, the demand for batteries and the critical minerals that go into those batteries has grown and it's going to continue to grow. in fact, the demand for critical materials is set to skyrocket by 400% to 600% over the next several decades. the demand for minerals like lithium and graphite is expected to grow as much as 4,000%. we see an opportunity, a real opportunity to shift to a net-zero sum carbon world in one of the most significant economic transitions since the great
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repr repr repr depression. we're pushing head-on with american ingenuity. we have battery supply chains that are going to bolster processing, manufacturing, and recycling critical minerals like lithium, nickel and graphite and that's why today i'm proud to announce $2.8 billion in awards to 20 companies represented on the screen across 12 states funded by the infrastructure law to build electric vehicles and the battery future here in america. nearly 200 companies applied for these grants. only 20 were selected from georgia to north carolina and from nevada to the state of washington. we have awarded this funding and we've asked companies how they're going to partner with community colleges, minority-serving institutions, labor unions, and local
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organizations to provide job training for workers and benefits for the whole community. together, these 20 companies are going to build new commercial-scale battery production and processing facilities all across america. they're going to develop lithium to supply over 2 million vehicles every year and that $2.8 billion investment is going to unlock billions of dollars in private investments from these companies. that means the projects are going to generate $9 million for total manufacturing and the battery supply chain across america. that's going to create thousands of good-paying jobs. many of them union jobs that require college degrees -- that don't require -- i should say, college degrees. you know, on top of the $9 billion -- since i became president, other companies including gm, ford, honda,
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seaman's have announced over $100 billion to produce electric vehicles, batteries and charging stations here in america, creating thousands more jobs. today i'm announcing the launch of the american battery materials initiative. it's going to coordinate the effort across the federal government, and work closely with the private sector, labor unions, tribes, community organizations, and our partners and allies abroad. this initiative is going to lead -- going to be led by the white house and housed in the department of energy with the support of department of interiors to support the electric vehicle supply chain, and we're going to do it the right way, respecting the rights of tribes, creating good-paying union jobs and protecting the environment in local communities. folks -- >> there is his second economic announcement of the day talking about this $2.8 billion in
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grants. this is part of the infrastructure act. they're now being rewarded to some 20 manufacturing and processing centers. the goal in some of these cases we're talking about batteries to reduce that dependence on china, chinese minerals. the president talking about the 8,000 or so jobs to move away from that dependence on china. let's get back now to ukraine and the declaration of martial law in these four illegally annexed areas of ukraine and go to nic robertson who joins us from kyiv. ukrainians are urging a response to putin. are they saying how? >> reporter: they are. they're being clear about it, laying it out point-blank. they're saying, look. what russia is doing here with this martial law is null and void. they're saying it has no legal meaning or enforcement for
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critical assistance. ukrainians who are trapped under russian control and those illegally annexed areas, they're at the point of a gun now. the military is in charge, and what ukrainian authorities are saying is look. you have to stand up right now. you have to denounce this. you have to say very clearly those ukrainian citizens are being denied their human rights, that what the russians are facilitating here is the legalization of looting, of forced deportations, and potentially mobilization. ukrainians being forced to join the russian army to fight against ukrainians. this is the reality that the ukrainian government sees about this martial law, and so they're appealing, you know, for all the allies and friends to make it very clear as they did when russia forcibly annexed these areas and the u.n. security council almost unanimously by a
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massive majority rejected russia's illegal annexation. >> we've also learned, nic, about these forced evacuations, right? as they're being condemned, as we're learning more about them, do we have a sense of how many people have been moved at this point? what's really point that? one former official told the bbc -- he said he thought this was about some cover to get russian troops out. >> reporter: yeah, look. there's a real reality of that happening here because what russia is doing is forcing the civilians to it of kherson, strategic town, important for the russians, but they're losing territory. ukrainian officials say the russians are whipping up hysteria by saying, you know, you're going to get shelled in your houses. the ukrainians are going to blow the dam. they're going to flood your river. it's your last chance to get out. you have got to get out, but what other part of the conflict when you analyze this has russia really cared about, is ukrainian
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signa civilians caught up in the war? they're bombing them every day. there's a level of skepticism about what the russians are saying here. they -- the reality is there's a potential they could use these forcibly evacuated civilians as human shields as cover to pull back their forces. their military general says they're losing territory. the civilian commander says his moving is command to the other side of the river. it looks very much like russia is preparing to pull its troops out and what safer way for them to do it than hidden among or at least with the cover of civilians who are being forced out, and by the way, the civilians there woke up to a text message this morning telling them to get out. by the middle of the day, that text message had turned into martial law which meant the army was in control, and we don't know what powers the army has if somebody says, no. i would like to stay in my home.
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i have a choice. i want to stay. under martial law, that could be a very ugly picture. >> all right. nic robertson us. thank you so much there in kyiv. joining us now is steve hall, former chief of russia operations. why now? putin has declared these annexes of russia. he's got his hand-picked civil leaders, the government leaders, the military is already there. why now a declaration of martial law? >> well, there are some interesting things going on here. the first thing is the martial law that's been declared by russia inside the so-called annexed area of ukraine, the donbas, that's just sort of silly. i mean, you can't really impose any type of law, martial or otherwise if you don't actually control, you know, the levers of government in the territory itself. it's quite clear that inside of that portion of ukraine that the
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russians have tried to take and annex that they don't control it. it's almost more of a domestic thing. it's being able for russians and russia to say, look. we control those areas and we can do martial law there. what really interests me though is these regions that surround the areas where the war is going on in ukraine, the decoration of martial law inside russian territories and we oftentimes say, why does -- you'll hear me say, there's no rule of law in russia, but then something like this happens. i think what's really going on in this location is that, you know, the military just needs to be able to take over from the local governors and say, look. we are now running these areas of russia because they're concerned about sabotage and military operations coming from ukraine. it's a complicated -- different situation for different martial law areas in and outside of russia. >> is it also a sign or an acknowledgment in some ways that russia recognizing that things aren't going in their favor at this point in those areas? >> well, certainly that's the implication because i mean, you don't declare martial law unless
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you absolutely have to. that's certainly true in those areas that are inside of russia that are bordering on, you know, the war that's going on in ukraine. so yeah. that's a tacit admission that i think the ukrainians might get behind the front lin tt part of russia and conduct, you know, blow up bridges and things like that. i think it is a tacit admission there's weakness on the russian side, which of course, we know from the military activity. >> we'll bring it back as you know. thank you. on oathkeeper cooperating with the government says he felt he had to conquer or die after attempts to overturn the 2020 election results and courts were failing. new details from court, next. so, how does that work? well, stores pay rakuten to send them shoppers. rakuten shares that money with us, in a check o or paypal payment. it's free and easy. it's nice to unwind afteter a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! (limu squawks)
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afraid. cnn's whitney wilde joins us with more on the case. so many discoveries coming out of this testimony. >> reporter: absolutely. jason dolan is the first cooperating witness, and what i mean by that is he's the first person to plead guilty as part of the conspiracy who is now a cooperating witness for the prosecution. notably he did not plead guilty to seditious conspiracy, but another charge that was obstructing an official proceeding. the prosecution is trying to use jason dolan as a translator, to translate the text messages and evidence that has been presented so far from an insider's perspective because a lot of this case hinges on intention and mindset, and what jason dolan said throughout his testimony when he was interviewed by prosecutors was that he was there for the purpose of stopping joe biden from assuming the presidency, and further he wanted congress to fear him. he thought that if they were afraid of him that maybe he could coerce them into doing
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what he thought they were on ga -- obligated to do. he said, i wanted them to be afraid of me. them being congress. again, primarily prosecutors want to use him as a window into the intention. the defense attorneys also keyed in on that because they really pushed him to try to admit that the -- basically the pieces of the conspiracy were not in themselves illegal. so for example, he admitted to bringing a mass of wes to virginia. nobody's been charged with a weapons crime. another example, the defense really keyed in on was jason dolan admitting that there was no overarching plan to go into the capitol. right at this moment, the prosecutors are working on their redirect where they will try to get jason dolan to basically offer a rebuttal to the defense attorney's theories. back to you. >> wow. i mean, no shortage of revelations coming out of that courtroom, whitney. appreciate it. thank you. the latest study on heart health shows just how important
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the state department confirming an american is detained in saudi arabia and now his son is condemning the saudis for sentencing his father. he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for tweets that he sent while he was living in florida. he's american. the 72-year-old was first detained in november when he was on a visit. he was there to see family. >> he says he has been tortured while in custody. kylie eckwood has the latest. what do we know? >> reporter: yeah, the state department said that they have been consistently in touch with saudi officials over concerns regarding his detention and now of course, his 16-year prison sentence they said they have had those discussions with folks from the saudi embassy here in washington, d.c. this week. they have had those discussions with saudi officials over in
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saudi arabia, and they've also brought that up as soon as they found out that he had been detained. that was last year. of course, he was detain when had he arrived in the country in november of last year and he has been sentenced as you said to 16 years in prison. we heard from his son just last night on cnn talking about the fact that he has been told his father has been tortured while he has been in that prison cell. he has not been able to talk to his father at all while he has been in prison, and he is calling on the state department to declare his father's wrongfully detained. that's something we will watch for because if that is given to him in this situation, that would essentially galvanize the u.s. government two work activey to secure his release and this comes as a contentious moment in u.s./saudi relations with president biden calling out their position with russia on
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the opec production decision. >> a lot of focus on it for those reasons. kylie, appreciate it. thank you. the miami dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa is revealing new details about the hit that sparked questions about concussion protocols. what he remembers and what he does not. that's next. here's a pool party. ♪ good times. insurance! ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. libertyty. ♪ our clients come to us with complicated d situations that occur in their lives. for them it's the biggest milestone, the biggest accomplishment, the sale of a business, or an important event for their family. for them, it's the fir and only time. we have seen this literally ousands of times, in thousands of iterations. ♪ ♪ i am vince lumia, head of field management at morgan stanley. whether that's retirement, paying for their children's college education, or their son or daughter getting married,
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exercise are not the only paths you can take to better health and a healthy heart. a new study says getting good night sleep is important and maybe just as important. >> dr. sanjay gupta is with us now. there are two new studies reinforcing the benefits of sleep. start with duration and how long they say people should sleep and the importance of it. >> the magic number you hear a
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lot is getting at least 7 hours of sleep. i think i'd tuck that in the back of your brain in terms of the right amount. what was interesting about the study, though, they followed 8,000 people for 25 years and they started at age 50 and they were perfectly healthy 50-year-olds, they wanted to see what happened to people who weren't getting enough sleep, five hours or less on average. they found if you were 50 and not getting adequate sleep you had a 30% increased risk of developing significant chronic diseases, not just one but several diseases over the next several year. the risk went up sleeping poorly at 60 and even higher sleeping poorly at age 70. this was a long study that looked at this, which i found interesting. the second study showed a lot of the same things but found for americans in particular about 63% of people are getting inadequate sleep. this is a real problem.
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in fact, the american heart association has their healthy seven lists of things you should do to avoid heart disease, biggest killer of men and women, they now added number eight to the list, which is healthy sleep. tons of study out there about sleep but long studies showing the long term impact of poor sleep. >> just really quickly before we finish on the sleep. is this really all about, in terms of what sleep does for your body recharging your batteries? >> there's a lot that goes on when you sleep. people think about as hibernation. it's not that, it's a restorative process and your brain can be active. there's four stages of sleep, the way they come up with the seven hours is you have to go through these four cycles several times, four to six times a night, doing the math that's seven hours of sleep. but each of the stages do different things. that's part of the reason you arrive at the seven hours.
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there's one stage of sleep where the brain cells are clearing lots of waste from your brain, really important. there's a second one, which always gets people's attention, shows if you're not sleeping enough there's a hormone that signals to the brain that you've had enough to eat, you're full, that that production goes down if you're not getting enough sleep. these are the reasons that people develop long term diseases as a result of poor sleep. >> good to know. doctor sanjay gupta, thank you. >> thank you. stay tune, the lead starts after this break. thank you for joining us. g hehe, triangle shaped ingredients lolong as the yellow brick road. we dididn't know how bad it was for her until we actually got ththe good food. we g got her the farmer's dog sent in the mail. it w was all fresh, when she started eating healthier, she started being more active and smiling more, running more, playing more. i want my dog to have a healthy and long life.
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president biden's foot is on the gas hoping he can drive to a democratic victory. "the lead" starts right now. the white house announces a new release of oil from the nation's stock pile, is it enough to make a dent in gas prices and perhaps as importantly for the president put the brakes on predicted republican gains in the midterms. then, martial law, vladimir putin with that desperate declaration today in ukrainian territory that russia illegally annexed. people in those regions being forced to evacuate. why putin is making the move
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