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top of the hour. i'm erica hill. >> and i'm jim sciutto. soon the january 6 committee will make the closing argument after a 17-month investigation nearly a year and a half. hours upon hours of witness testimony as well as multiple
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public hearings. the committee is expected to refer criminal charges against former president donald trump and others. >> those charges include insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. the panel also considering referrals against some of trump's closest allies and potential ethic sanctions for current lawmakers who refused to comply with the investigation. >> joining us now, paula reid. i know for folks at home, it is hard to keep track of the multiple developments and investigations along the way. and there will be allegations of politics through this committee here. but this is quite a moment for this committee. which does have republican members and quite prominent republican members in senior roles here. they're going to make a criminal referral against a former president. >> it is historic. and today is the culmination of the investigation going on for a year and a half. this is not the type of hearing where we see more witnesses testify. the investigation itself is
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done. today is a business meeting. and there is two key items on agenda. the first is as you noted, the question of a criminal referral. who does the committee believe after this investigation should be held criminally responsible for what happened. they're going to make recommendations to the justice department, we expect at the top of the list will be former president trump. they are expected to recommend that he be charged for three different crimes, including insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the federal government. now, we know from our reporting that they're also considering criminal referrals for other individuals but at this point it is not clear if that will happen today or at all. but these are largely symbolic. the justice department, they're on it. they're already investigating the former president and associates for roles in january 6. that is handed off to jack smith. there is no guarantee to be an indictment just because they made this referral. and we could expect that the committee will vote to approve the final report, the big
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summary of everything that they've uncovered. we'll get a summary of the report later today. final report went be released until wednesday. and it is a historic day no doubt. >> and this is public information, right. and that the doj has access to all of the testimony that is uncovered. paula reid, thank you so much. a big question for the january 6 committee, among many, has to be how to hold accountable republican lawmakers who defied the panel subpoenas. >> cnn assist katelyn polantz joins us with that angle. do we have any further indication about what the committee plans to do there? >> well jim and erica, we know that congress, the house select committee, one of things this he flexed their muscles on is their subpoenas. and so now with this final meeting with their report coming out, we have to watch and see what they do with any subpoenas that nobody responded to. and there are five subpoenas that went to members of the
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house all republicans, that we are waiting to see what the house will do with them. those went to kevin mccarthy, and jim jordan of ohio, mo brooks of alabama, andy bigs of arizona and scott perry of pennsylvania, people who wanted to ask questions of, and people who backed trump and some were taking part in the rally on the ellipse or the efforts to question the election to put pressure on mike pence and the justice department. and so the question now is what does the committee do, what does congress do? one of the options is not a criminal referral, it could be something like an ethics referral. the house has its own ethics regulators, the house ethics committee, they could look into these members of congress and decide what to do when congress subpoenas their own. and there isn't a response there. but this really is a big question of how do you leave it at the end of this monumental historic investigation and the
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way they leave it could become the path forward for other congressional investigations where members of congress are subpoenaed as well. so there is a lot at stake here. with what this committee decides to do with these five members of congress who doesn't respond to their subpoenas so we'll have to wait and see how that plays out with the referrals and with the vote today. kale lynn pollance, thank you very much. and joining us, kirsten powers and analyst elliott williams, also back with us. elliott, if we can, let's set aside what this is not. it is not binding for the justice department to follow through with its own indictments. it will make its own judgment. to what it is. and this is a remarkable moment. a bipartisan committee, accusing a former president of multiple crimes. did the committee sufficiently make its case? >> well, again, the question is what the committee's case to make. and the question of proving someone guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that is for the justice department. now did they create a compelling set of, i believe it was nine
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hearings, where witnesses put on believable testimony, sworn under oath that will populate a thousand page report, then, yes, they did that. it is really what their charge was as the congress of the united states, is to compel in effect, to compel the public to act, to plant the seed in people's heads as to what mapped and to help sort of clarify issues and there they did. now the question is, can anyone be convicted of a crime based on what they've seen thus far. of course not. and that is for prosecutors to decide. >> kirsten, looking at the broader picture, what do you see if legacy or impact is the right term here when we look at committee and the findings which we'll ultimately have this week, in this country that feels so dug in, so divided in many ways. what is that impact? >> well, i think no matter where you stand on the political spectrum, obviously this is a very momentous event.
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the fact that you have a former president of the united states who has been investigated by congress for trying to overthrow the government essentially. you know, at a minimum, inspiring people to storm the capitol. so i think that that just as a historical matter is extremely momentous. now, who will it impact? who will pay attention to this? you know, integrate the findings of the report, that is an open question. i think generally as we've seen there is a core group of people who are always behind donald trump no matter what and everything is a persecution against him if you -- the investigation was just yet another persecution, but i think there are a lot of people in the country who are open minded and more in the middle and certainly if we're going to talk politics, are people who are the swing voters who could be impacted by this. but the findings. and what is in the report, and a
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criminal referral and what the justice department ultimately does. >> kirsten, question, so you have this other issue of how to punish, if at all, members of congress who defied congressional subpoenas. republicans are in a pickle because they're about to start their own investigations where their subpoenaing democrats having undermined the work of this committee and supporting their colleagues who defied subpoenas. are they in a pickle or just say that was not a good investigation, ours is just fine? >> yeah, i mean, they doan -- they probably don't see it as a pickle. they have a way around these things. but i guess the issue for the committee is looking forward and thinking it is something where subpoenas are going to start being used as a weapon, you know, making criminal referrals will start being used as a weapon rather than being used as something that is, you know, which they would argue they're doing in this case which is we're just trying to get information here that is
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relevant to a very important investigation. and so i think that that is the thing that they're balancing. what do we do with members of congress that aren't going to answer subpoenas, knowing that whatever we do is going to be sat a minimum imitated by the republicans when they go into power. i would say, you should probably just do what is the right thing to do and because the republicans are going to do what their going to do. i don't think by not -- not referring it to the ethics committee or not doing a criminal referral is going to mean that the republicans aren't going to do that. i t i think that, you know, that there has to be repercussions for this. you just can't ignore a subpoena. if you have pertinent information to an investigation. >> and would you hope, too, to your point, if democrats do care
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that deeply about how things play out, they should do the right thing. in terms of policing themselves, if this is referred, elliott, to the ethics committee, bipartisan but the party in power has chair there, right? so even if it is referred to the ethics committee, how do you see that playing out january 3. >> the ethics committee is set up to be bipartisan but at end of the day, the leadership will be republicans and i don't envision a scenario in which the committee holds anyone accountable. they have a choice to make here. yes, they have a week if democrats wanted to or the committee wanted to go down the road of charging their colleagues with crimes, they certainly could try to. but to back up kirsten's point, look, come next year, republicans will have these gavels and it might be in democrats' interest to let them blow the subpoenas off because turn about is fair play and they'll have every opportunity to block off subpoenas next year if they are -- and they're going to be subpoenaed, let's be
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clear. >> dep pleat the value of subpoena over time. thanks so much to both of you. please do join us for special coverage of the committee final meeting. that special coverage begins at noon eastern time. and still to come, this hour bracing for the surge. the u.s. is preparing for a massive influx of migrants at the border with the expiration of title 42. we're going to go live back to el paso, texas, next. plus elon musk putting his fate in the hands of twitter users with a user poll asking if he should go. the results are in. will he follow through on his promise to abide by them? which is a lot. so t take care of that heart with lipton. because sippin' on unsweetened lipton can help support a healthy heart. lipton. stop chuggin'. start sippin'.'. not flossing well? then add the whoa! of listerine to your routine. new science shows it gets in between teeth
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federal state and local officials on the u.s./mexico border are preparing for a surge of migrants as title 42 comes to an end on wednesday. the measure was a covid policy to help slow the spread of the virus. it allowed officials to quickly expel migrants caught at the southern border. >> with as many as 10,000 people waiting to cross the border, officials predict the end of that pandemic era measure could increase the flow of migrants two-fold. ed lavendera is live in el paso where the mayor has declared a state of emergency, concerns about the city and how prepared it is understandably, ed, for the wave of migrants. >> reporter: good morning, erica and jim. it is logistical nightmare that many border communities will be facing in the days and very possibly weeks ahead. and the concern here is being able to be in a position to move migrants through -- who have
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been processed by border patrol to other parts of the country where they await the immigration court process and that is the challenge facing starting perhaps on wednesday. it is 39 degrees and getting colder. this is roberto cordova's first night sleeping on the el paso streets. he said he's never experienced anything close to homelessness. he left cuba last month and is hoping to get to miami soon. [ speaking non-english ] he said this is the first time in his life he's had to spend the night on the street and he feels completely lost. a thin pair of new york giants socks and unlaced shoes won't be enough to get through the frigid night. everything that he's wearing now, the jackets and the heavy clothing, is donated to people who have dropped it off here.
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he hopes there is something to keep him warm. for days this woman has handed out donated goods. >> it is fight-or-flight for them. >> reporter: the long lines of migrants from juarez, mexico, waiting to get escorted into the country is dwindled, a sign that the latest migration surge has slowed down for now. but that could change with the title 42 public health rule set to expire. that order allows for the swift expulsion of migrants at the border. officials plan to bring in more buses to move them to destinations in the u.s. faster hoping to prevent a backlog of people on the streets. >> and that might be bringing in transportation to get them to that transportation hub, whether it is dallas or denver or phoenix or whatever the next large airport or bus terminal is. its to move them on to those locations. >> reporter: el paso emergency
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management outreach teams are helping migrants find shelter space at night. but albert and his wife have been sleeping on the street, buried under blankets since monday night. their bus ticket to connecticut isn't good until this weekend. [ speaking non-english ] he said the first night that he was sleeping on the street it was drilsing and cold but he's been dreaming of this moment there was no way he would turn back. and the robles family did move on to their next destination here in the u.s. but a familiar site playing out here this morning, jim and erica. every morning we see migrants who were still on the streets here waking up and they clean up these areas every morning and many of the migrants have told me over last few days it was -- it is their way of showing the el paso community here they're gratitude for them being welcomed here on the streets as they await their immigration court process. jim and erica.
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>> goodness. and could often last years that, process. ed lavendera, thank you so much. well far from the southern borders, cities in the north, new york are expecting migs to arrive there. >> tens of thousands have sought asylum in the city. many buses by texas governor greg abbott. polo sandoval joining us live in new york. so the city is preparing for the next wave. what does that preparation look like polo? >> reporter: the city has learned exactly what it looks like over the last several months to see these asylum-seekers who cross along the southern border. many bused here or coming here on their own but all of them adding strain to the situation here with roughly 100 asylum seekers arrived here this morning. part of that on going trend ever buses coming here to new york city. still two more buses expected later today. and, yes, the flow has greatly reduced compared to where we
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were but the numbers will not stay like that according to new york city officials that are warning that the city does need financial help. spending roughly $1 billion to house, feed and educate some of the asylum seekers. talking about their children and in some of the city schools and the city recognizing that now with title 42, potentially going away, the numbers will continue to increase. you mentioned the numbers. 31,000 processed by officials and 21,000 still shellered here in new york. so what they expect here, according to a new financial analysis prepared by the city, if these trends continue, then new york city stands to spread roughly a billion dollars a year for the next four years according to the comptroller. this has created a certain financial factor that city has to deal with it. and so we're hearing for growing calls for not just the federal government to step in and assist financially, but also the state
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of new york which according to new york city mayor eric adams, both have been unresponsive right now. but state and the federal government, when it comes to helping foot the bill. so it is interesting to see with title 42 going away, as we know, many of the families that were coming in were venezuela asylum seekers and so relying on the government to house them and we'll see more central americans and more south americans coming in and if they do have some of the social ties and perhaps they would be less of a burden but we'll see there is still a lot up in the air as we get closer to the removal of the title 42. >> polo, thank you. just ahead here, what is being described as a horrendous scene in canada. five people are dead after a gunman opened fire in a condo outside of toronto. we'll have the latest for you on
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a second instance if you could believe it of severe turbulence and now two of them on two different flights in the last 24 hours have injured more
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than 40 people. this morning three crew members and two passengers on the flight from rio de janeiro had to be taken to the hospital after the plain encountered turbulence. yesterday it caused a mass casualty emergency. this on a flight from phoenix to h honolulu. 36 were injured when the turbulence hit about a half hour before the flight, the flight landed. passengers described sudden chaos of people being thrown from their seats. >> the plane shook and then like it went in a sudden drop, how would you go into a drop on a roller coaster. my mom wasn't buckle and so i turned to my right and i saw that she was like, she hit the ceiling and hit the floor. >> emergency responders took some 20 people to hospitals including a 14--month-old child. the faa is investigating. the airline said it is thoroughly inspecting the airbus
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330 plane before ureturning it o service. well the story we're following this morning and that shooting rampage in the suburb of toronto which left five people dead. police still searching for a motive for the gunman. the gunman opened fire at a condo on sunday night and was later shot and killed in a confrontation with police. >> what more are police saying this about shooting this morning, jane? >> they want to know the motive. and that is the big question. why would someone go to this high end condo building and shoot six people and we understand that they were not altogether. there were various condos that were targeted at that moment by the gunman. there is one surviving victim, rushed to hospital, serious injuries but they could be extremely valuable in this homicide investigation. i want to you listen to york regional police chief jim mcswain talk about the facts as we know them at this point. >> at about 7:20 p.m. tonight
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our officers responded to what was an active shooting call here at 9235 jane street. once the officers arrived, they were met with a scene of horrendous scene where numerous victims were deceased and there was an engagement between the officers and a subject. and throughout that engagement and after the engagement the subject was deceased as well. as a result of that, the special investigation unit has been called in to do that portion of the investigation. our homicide unit is also engaged as well to do a parallel investigation on the shooting portion that occurred prior to our officers engaging here. >> reporter: so this is a crime scene and the forensics unit is also on the scene right now. one thing to note, obviously canada has extremely district shotgun control and it was just in october that went into effect banning the sale of the purchase
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or transfer of handguns. now we don't know what type of a gun was used in this situation. but it was a mass shooting and this is very rare in canada. >> yeah. absolutely. jean, appreciate the update. thank you. millions of twitter users have now spoken and they say it is time for elon musk to go. he posted a poll after another major decision, whether users should be allowed to post links to other social media providers on platforms. is this a ploy or will musk follow the results of the poll, that yes, he should step down. joining us to discuss, sarah fisher. when we look at this, it is important to note there is no succession plan in place in that poll. i guess it is a two-part question. do we think he's going to step down and, if so, are there any
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adults left? do we have a sense of who could or would run the company? >> two very good questions. i do think he'll step down for two reasons. one, he's facing enormous pressures from tesla to step down. they're seeing the stock plummet l leading up to the vote and it is up to the response that he might be going away and the second reason that elon musk has a track record of using polls to make actual decisions even though they're not very scientific. he polled his user base asked whether or not he should bring donald trump back. of course the user base said yes and then he invited donald trump to return. so i do think elon musk will step down but to your point, is there an obvious successor. there is a group of people who came in to help elon musk do those mass layoffs in the early november to help him reshape the company. a lot of those people are now gone and who is remain rg a few close allies from spacex and other companies. it is unclear if he's going to tackle one of those folks to be
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a ceo. some of them have already said, like david sax, an investor in california, he doesn't plan to move on with twitter full time or bring in an outsider. but what remains clear, erica, is whoever this person is that he brings in, it is definitely an ali, someone will run the company even if he's not the day-to-day ceo. >> it could be elon musk still pulling the strings. who knows. and there is floating out there in the twitter verse, there is talk about whether this is perhaps just part of elon musk's plan to drive the company into the ground. is there any evidence of that and how could that help him. >> i don't think that is his plan. i think means what he said when he he's trying to turn things around. ads aleving and he's going to fulfill a promise that he told
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tesla that he would and that is getting a new ceo and it might be sooner rather than later given all of the fallout around him. >> one of the issues that cropped up over the weekend and in brian fung's reporting were people, right, pushing to their accounts on other social media platforms, you could find me on twitter, now we're seeing me on mastodon, and some people trying to post those links. they were told that there was potentially mal-ware so they couldn't be posted on twitter. is that running afoul of the ftc? where do those concerns stand? >> well it is definitely not great for users. users might be able to tweet and promote links to other social media sites and it seems like what elon musk is doing is very arbitrary. as far as whether or not there is a consumer deception problem with the ftc, i think at this point it is unlikely. this seems that elon musk is starting to reinstate some of the companies where he blocked
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links and he'll notice that it is bad for user engagement so it is not something that he does long-term. but if he does continue to move forward, there could be a problem. i just think regulators at this point, they're in the same position as us as journalists, they're waiting to see what actually happens, if anything permanent happens before they would step in. >> and what about, we saw threats are people are leaving and you could find me both places. are we see in significant numbers, a., people leaving, or to a post or a mastodon, do they see an increase in their numbers? is that an alternative now? >> i think for the most part engagement with twitter continues to rise and elon musk thinks what what he's doing is bringing more people to the platform but the question is who. now i think a lot of the established twitter users like journalists and politicians and hollywood celebrities they're sick of this and they're moving
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on and endorsing other platforms like you mentioned, mastodon, et cetera. but do i think that in mass droves we're seeing exit, not at this point. and part of the reason is that the other platforms aren't as sophisticated yet as twitter continues to be even with all of the these challenges. >> right. and big flame people, aside the concern is for the average joe and we think about ferguson and why it is important in those moments. we'll see it moving forward. sarah, appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, slipping the switch. the biden administration poised to phase out fluorescent lights in favor of more energy efficient l.e.d. bulbs. ♪ over the last 100 years,
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this first on cnn, we've learned the biden administration is proposing a new rule that would phase out fluorescent light bulbs and move to l.e.d. >> they aim to finalize the rule by the end of the first term and they will save both energy and money. joining us now with more, cnn national correspondent rene marsh. so just how much money are we talking that we could save? >> these are the light bulbs that we're talking about here. this is the compact fluorescent light bulb and this is the l.e.d. this is let efficient than this one and when we say less efficient, we mean it takes more
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energy to jengenerate light in s bulb in this one that is why they're pushing toward l.e.d. how much is it going to save? the department of energy estimate that it could save some $20 billion over the course of 30 years. but not only that, it could cut greenhouse gas emissions roughly equal to the electricity used in 29 million homes over the course of a year. now this spring the biden administration finalized a rule that basically phased out this thing here. this is the old school thomas edison with the filament in the middle. this is phased out by next summer. but what they're doing now is to look to phase out all of the less efficient light bulbs in the name of savings for consumers as well as cutting these greenhouse gas emissions. saz you remember, both jim and erica, this is biden's goal, to be a net zero emissions economy
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by the year 2050. so this is part of that. >> one of things that i could do is the home is change lyle bulbs. and they are a fraction of incandescent bulbs. has this been in the works for a long time? >> it has been. for quite sometime. but if you remember, the trump administration kind of put up the brakes on this -- this light revolution in a sense. trying to make it difficult to make this move to l.e.d.s. but now the biden administration now moving forward. jim. >> we'll be watching. renee, appreciate the update. thank you. >> sure. well some, including us, these two folks right here, calling it the greatest world cup final ever plays. it was great to watch. >> one was happier with the outcome than the other but i'm there to cheer on a good match. >> and five dollars richer. >> argentina lifting the trophy after a thrilling final against
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france the defending champions. we have more on this epic showdown between two of the soccer biggest stars. it was a match for the ages. >> it was so good. and lionel messi going up against kylian mbappe, and this final was like if michael jordan went up against lebron and both of them went for 50. people will be talking about this game forever. and for messi, it cements his legacy. only thing missing from his trophy case was a world cup title for argentina. and at 35 years old, in his fifth and final world cup, he got it. >> translator: it is madness that it happened the way that it did. but it is amazing. i said at one point that god will give it to me.
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i don't know why i foresay it. i thought it would be this one. >> check out buenos aries, more than a million people in the streets celebrating their first world cup title since 1986 and just a little while ago messi posting on instagram on the plane with the trophy, the team is going to arrive back home in argentina later on tonight. there were three nfl games that ended on walk-off touchdowns an the one in vegas is being called the dumbest play in nfl history. the game was tied at 24-24 with three seconds on the clock and it looked like overtime. new england hands the ball off to stevenson who is going for a big game but for some reason stevenson latterle as it to jacoby myers and he throws it across the field and jones grabs it out of mid-air and stiff arms before going in for the game-winning touchdown with no time on the clock. vegas won 30-24 and after the
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game myers taking responsibility for that blunder. >> just trying to do too much. trying to be a hero, i guess. i tried to throw the ball. i was just doing too much. i should have just went down. >> probably the most insane ending i've been a part of. but we'll take it. >> and we had a controversial ending to the commanders and giant. so they were on the goal line trying to tie the game in the final minute. brian robinson scores but the official called terry mclaren for illegal formation for not being on the line. you could see him talk to the official before the snap. and he said after the game, he even asked the official, and the official said he was good. but then still flagged him. the giants were able to hold the commanders out of the end zone to win 20-12. but a lot of people are shaking their heads and wondering what was going on with that play. because usually you see the receiver point to the official and he said your good and it is good. but the official still flew the flag. really fishy stuff there. >> no questions from the giants
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in that time he was responsible for some of the most impactful journalism of the company and in politics and sports an a good man and huge part of this network. >> he asked the tough questions as anyone who watched cnn knows. he chased down folks who didn't want to hear them or answer them. he made a real difference in the lives of countless people. here is anderson cooper now with a look back at drew's remarkable life. >> it was so hot. >> during her nearly two decades at cnn, he was known for his tenacious reporting. >> are you worried you'll be indicted? >> his interviews were unwavering. >> i don't think you understand how votes are cast collected in this country. >> and he gave a voice though those who didn't have one. >> we don't expect it to be easy. we don't expect the truth to be easy. >> drew was dedicated to seeking the truth and holding the powerful accountable.
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>> what did you continue to push the lie that 2020 election was stolen? >> it is not a lie. >> you have no proofs. we've looked at all of the facts. >> his stories had a real world impact. >> they don't release the number of drivers who are accused of sexual assault to cnn decided to count up ourselves. >> after they questions ubers about a string of sexual assaults by drivers, the company made safety changes to the app and revised its policies. >> excellent reporting, thanks to you and your team. >> drew exposed serious issues at v.a. hospitals across the country, revealing a broken system, veterans dying while waiting for care. >> this veteran was saying please do whatever you can. don't let the v.a. do this to another veteran. we do not deserve this time of treatment. >> that led to the resignation of the v.a. secretary and an overhaul of the v.a. scheduling system. he covered business and terrorism, the environment and politics.
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world. but his favorite place was home. he was deeply devoted to his family and his wife margaret and his three children,ella and louie and miles and two grandchildren. drew griffin will be missed by all of us. >> of course this is a loss of a friend primarily. but also a great journalist and if you talk about impactful journalism, his story on v.a. hospitals, likely saved lives in the wake of that saved veterans lives. >> such important reporting and such a colleague and friend to so many of us. and a gifted storyteller and so devoted to his family, our heart goes out to all of them. cnn continues after this quick break. i was born on the south side of chicago.
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