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southern border. in a few hours he and the first lady will be welcomed at an official ceremony from mexico's president, kicking off this north american leaders summit. the talks also include canada's prime minister justin trudeau. >> the president is facing bipartisan criticism for not taking a closer look at the migrant dilemma during a visit to el paso, ex-text yesterday. his first trip to the border as president. now, he did not see nor did he meet with any migrants while there. for weeks cnn has been covering the crisis in el paso. thousands have been arriving, waiting for the potential easing of a policy that restricted migrants' entry. cnn's m.j. lee is in mexico city. m.j., let's start with a preview of the summit. >> reporter: yeah, you know, the action is really going to be right behind us tonight at the national palace, where president biden will hold a bilateral meeting with the mexican president and then those two presidents will be joined by the canadian prime minister for a ceremonial dinner. of course we are going to see
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the u.s. president and the mexican president try to show that goodwill and try to discuss areas of cooperation, but there are also going to be other issues that are simply going to be incredibly tough and complicated, chief among them of course is going to be immigration. keep all of this in the context of last week and the announcement from the biden administration to essentially expand title 42, this controversial program that goes back to the trump era where migrants trying to come into the united states can be quickly expelled. part of that agreement was mexico saying they would be willing to accept up to 30,000 migrants who are turned away at the u.s. border back into mexico. notably, though, this gives you a sense of what a work in progress all of this is, jake sullivan telling reporters here this morning that they're just going to have to simply take some time to see whether that initial agreement works out and that as a part of this meeting they're not really expecting to make any new announcements or
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any new plans as far as immigration is concerned. so obviously, this will again be a top issue for these three leaders. they'll obviously talk about a number of other issues like trade and just general economic cooperation between the three countries. >> m.j., when president biden was at the border in el paso, he didn't encounter or meet with or talk to any of the migrants. so what's the white house saying about that? >> reporter: yeah, you know, that was so notable, particularly given that president biden has come under so much pressure in recent months from all sides, particularly republican lawmakers to go down to the u.s. southern border for the first time and see with his own eyes the situation there. and he did of course get a good sense by talking to border o'officials, meeting with local leaders and community leaders about the situation but he also ended up going to a migrant aid center and that aid center yesterday at least when the president was there didn't seem to have any migrants at the time. and what a senior official told me yesterday was that was purely
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coincidental, that when he was there there just were no migrants at center. and jake sullivan this morning telling reporters that really the focus was to meet with groups that are providing essential services to the migrants. but again, just seemed like a notable only igs given how much pressure the president has been under to go to a place like el paso and see with his own eyes some of the scenes that our colleagues have been seeing as they have been reporting there for the last several weeks. so again, all of this just brings and highlights what a complicated issue and potentially a political liability this has all been for president biden. >> okay. m.j. lee, thank you very much for the reporting. we're one step closer to knowing whether former president donald trump or some of his allies will face criminal charges in georgia. the fulton county special grand jury investigating whether there was any criminal interference in attempts to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work. >> cnn's sara murray has been tracking every development of
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this special grand jury for nearly a year now. so sara, what happens now that this investigation is finished? >> reporter: well, this leg of it is over. the special grand jury part is over. you know, this is a grand jury that was seated in may of 2022. they had, you know, the ability to subpoena witnesses, to begin gathering documents, to gather testimony. but they did not have the ability to actually bring indictments. so what happens is that they conclude their work and they've written this report that we have not seen publicly, and it includes any recommendations for whether there are any of donald trump's allies or if the former president should face charges what kind of charges those should be. that goes to the district attorney. there is a hearing later on this month where the judge is going to consider whether this information should be made public. but let's remember how this whole investigation started. this got started when donald trump made the now infamous phone call to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger asking raffensperger to find the votes necessary for trump to win
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the 2020 election. trump had lost georgia by nearly 12,000 votes. it's roughly what he asked brad raffensperger for. this investigation has grown so much, though. it's gone beyond that call to include the fake elector probe, to include harassing election workers, to include an effort by unauthorized people to access voting machines. so it's really a lot this grand jury has been poring over. now their work is done and it goes over to the d.a. she's going to have to decide based on the recommendation she gets who if anyone to bring charges against. >> sara murray, thank you very much. in brazil we're seeing echoes of the january 6th insurrection, including the baseless claims of rigged elections. rioters stormed brazil's congressional building, supreme court and presidential palace sunday. they're supporters of former president jair bolsonaro and they're furious over his election loss. >> security forces used tear gas to clear the rioters out. about 1,500 people are reportedly under arrest. brazil's newly inaugurated president, lula da silva, is
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promising swift punishment. he saw firsthand the damage from the rioting and issued a joint statement today with the other heads of brazil's government denouncing sunday's attack. cnn's rafael romo joins us now. so rafael, what is the situation at this hour in brazil? >> reporter: victor and alisyn, the situation is finally, finally under control, but the brazilian capital looked like a war zone this morning. rioters smashed windows and demolished offices. they even tried to set on fire the carpet in the main hall of the congressional building. the damage is extensive. one official, imagine this, says blood, feces and urine were found in palace rooms. president luiz inacio lula da silva has only been in power since january 1st and he was barely beginning the process of getting his new government up and running. now he has a full-blown institutional and political crisis in his hands. and brazilian officials in the capital met again monday in the presidential palace that the day before was under siege. the new president met with his cabinet for the first time
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monday to make the vandalized buildings operational again and ensure the security situation across the country doesn't get any worse. president lula da silva is vowing to prosecute the rioters. and it's hard to overstate the seriousness of what happened. we have learned that at least 70 people were injured, six of them severely. but no one died according to the brazilian health ministry. supporters of former president jair bolsonaro stormed those key buildings over claims that the presidential runoff election in october was stolen. victor and alisyn, back to you. >> rafael, one of those supporters we understand was bolsonaro's nephew. tell us about that. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. it's a nephew who, imagine this, he was identified because he decided to take pictures of himself and post them on social media. and that's how brazilian media first found out that it was him, that he was participatinging and was in the middle of the chaos on sunday. imagine that, victor and alisyn.
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>> yeah. he just posted there on the internet. >> wonder how he was caught. wow. what sleuths. >> the mystery is solved. rafael romo, thank you so much. joining us now, brian winter, editor in chief of "america's quarterly" and expert on brazil. and cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozier. she's an international affairs fellow with the council on foreign relations. brian, let me start with you. at the top i said that this is echoes of january 6th complete with the claims of a stolen election, voting machines switching votes. p am i oversimplified that or is it as clear and simple as it looks? >> as an american analyst who follows brazil for a living i'm constantly asking myself whether these similarities are misleading or not. and here the answer is no. so many similarities between january 6th in the united states and january 8th in brazil. even the date is almost the same. albeit with two years of delay. and it's no coincidence. bolsonaro and his followers have
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been openly following the example of donald trump going all the way back to 2016, which is the year that trump was elected and that bolsonaro launched his candidacy. we know that there are people including steve bannon and jason miller, the former trump aides who talk to members of the bolsonaro family. so i think that in many cases the similarities are very valid. >> kim, i mean, absolutely. it's not -- it's more than a copycat crime. it was stoked by, as brian just said, steve bannon. i mean, he once again on social media, on his podcast, he talked about how it was time for the brazilians to rise up and do this. it was all of the exact same tactics that we saw to stoke this outrage. >> absolutely. the most concerning thing about this is that it is the january 6th playbook being exported to brazil and being followed in a way that may show other
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opponents of election victories that look, you don't have to accept what happened at the ballot box, you can fight it by creating your own disinformation reality that your followers will believe in and rise up. now, what's worse about the brazil situation is it appears from initial reporting that parts of the military and the security forces may have been complicit or at least looked the other way and allowed this to happen. so that leaves everyone with, you know, holding your breath, is this going to be the thing that starts a large series of protests across the country, which could be much more dangerous and bring back, you know, shades of the 1964 coup in brazil when a right-wing dictatorship took over from a leftist government like brazil has right now. >> i want to come back to that in just a moment. but bolsonaro is in the u.s., in florida, vacationing. brian, fit that piece of the puzzle into this, that before he
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left he said that he condemns any violence, told his supporters to stay away from the violence, although there were months of claiming that the election system was not reliable. what's the relevance of his being here at this time? >> well, that's the thing. while it's true that bolsonaro on sunday was not out there actively egging these insurrectionists on in the way that donald trump was on january 6th, 2021, he still bears a lot of political responsibility for what happened because he spent all of 2022 casting doubt on the integrity of brazil's election system. he said that there could be violence if he lost. he said the only way that he would lose would be through fraud. and then he refused to explicitly concede defeat. so all of these things created an environment where events like the ones we saw on sunday could happen even if he wasn't actually out there egging them on. that said, i mean, i think that
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this was incredibly bad strategy on the part of the people who did this because just as january 6th ended up backfiring in many ways in the united states we see signs that the same thing is happening in brazil. all three -- members of all three branches of government signed a statement today expressing -- repudiating what happened on sunday. that includes, by the way, the head of congress, who was a bolsonaro ally. that was like the equivalent of mitch mcconnell doing that in the united states. so -- and there are signs, early signs that the vast majority of the brazilian people are not sympathetic and in fact are turned off by what happened on sunday. so the risks are still there. but this so far looks to have backfired on bolsonaro and his supporters. >> kim, i don't know if you've had a chance to talk to any of your administration sources. but they can't be happy about bolsonaro using orlando, florida as his base of operations. i mean, can they expel him?
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is he going home soon? >> you know, he didn't publicly endorse the -- what happened yesterday. he has been very careful to condemn aspects of it in a twitter thread. so at this point there doesn't seem to be legal standing for expelling him. also there are reports that he's been admitted for -- to the hospital for stomach pain for a long-standing medical issue ever since he was stabbed back in 2018 at some sort of a public event. so you're not going to expel a guy who's in the u.s. at the invitation of your main political opposition in florida since he spent new year's eve at mar-a-lago and receiving medical treatment. >> thank you. very good context for us to know. brian winter, kim dozier, thank you. well, now that he has the gavel, finally, the real work
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begins for kevin mccarthy. details on his first big test as speaker and the concessions he made that are already not sitting well with some in his party. and prince harry is sharing all. with the release of his memoir, how he thinks his mother would feel about his relationship today with his brother william. . like at the coffee shop, at the park, or on the moon. just kidding. it's another coffee shop. ♪ the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over house. [ coughing/sneezing ] dude, you coming? alka-seltzer plus powermax gels with more concentrated power. because the only thing dripping should be your style! plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus. also try for fast sinus and pain relief! hi, we've both got a big birthday coming up.
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fresh off the grueling 15-round battle to back house speaker, kevin mccarthy is now facing his first big test in the new job. >> today house lawmakers will hold a major vote on the rules package. now, the package was at the heart of negotiations between mccarthy and republican hard-liners to secure the gavel. some gop moderates, they're already unhappy with some of the conce concessions. cnn's manu raju joins us now from capitol hill. so manu, he can afford to only lose just a few votes on anything. are they certain that this will pass? >> reporter: well, the house republican leaders are confident that they will get the votes to pass this, is what the number 3 republican tom emmer just told reporters. also the number 2 republican steve scalise told me that earlier today. even though there is consternation in the ranks about some of the deal cutting. among the concession that's are included in this package is to allow one single member to call for a vote to oust the sitting
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speaker. that was a key part of the negotiations going forward. members on the far right had demanded that. this rules package also would make it harder to raise taxes, harder to raise spending as well, to demand some spending cuts if that were to happen. but there were other concessions that mccarthy made that were not part of this proposal that are also causing some concerns, giving members of that hard right freedom caucus more say in the legislative process as well as capping spending, domestic spe spending, which could lead to potential cuts in defense programs. now, in talking to members today the issue about whether or not one member should be allowed to simply oust the speaker from his job has caused some angst about whether mccarthy will be able to keep this job for two years or whether he'll be constantly threatened by people unhappy by his decisions. >> does that concern you, that some members may take advantage of that? >> i'm not the speaker. so you know, it should concern kevin more than it concerns me.
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but look, that's just taking it back the way it was originally. and i don't think it's going to change the way we do business around here. it's not meant for everyday policy decisions. >> but everybody agrees with that? >> probably not. >> there's a lot of concern that instability in the speakership. what do you say to those folks who are concerned about that? >> that's the way congress worked for over 200 years. nancy pelosi's the one who changed it. we're changing it back to what it used to be. and then ultimately opening up the process. >> reporter: so that last part about how nancy pelosi changed the rules. that was after the threats were made to john boehner back in 2015 to use the vote to oust him from the speakership. that les to the resignation of boehner from the job in 2015. and then nancy pelosi when she came in she made it much harder to call for such a vote. but now mccarthy was forced to cut that deal. it just shows you the difficult line he had to move to actually secure the speakership. and then when it comes down to policy issues, whether it's raising the national debt limit or trying to fund the government, those are things he'll have to get done with -- get the senate democrats who
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control that chamber on board behind whatever that plan to get to the president's desk. and you can see the challenge he has in governing only starting today. >> manu raju on capitol hill. thank you, manu. >> with us now is congressman dan muser, republican from pennsylvania. congressman, thanks so much for being here. as manu just laid out, i'll put it up for all of our viewers, what we believe is in this rules package which again allows for a single member to call to vote for ousting the speaker. it targets federal officials' salaries. it caps spending to lower levels for defense and domestic programs, pairs debt limits with spending cuts and allows freedom caucus members on the rules committee. are you comfortable with all of this? >> well, very nice to be with you. i am. we had much negotiation taking place well before the votes even began, certainly two or three votes in 99.9% of this was covered. you're talking about this vacate the chair as mentioned by now
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majority leader steve scalise. this has been in effect for 150 years. so shouldn't be a concern. i'd prefer it to be 50 plus one on the conference side. but i think it's going to be fine. mccarthy's going to have to just deal with that. look, it really brings a high level of accountability. everybody's voice on the republican side is going to make a difference. and as you can see we have a pretty diverse group. a lot of this could have gotten done without a lot of the drama. but the main provisions of this rules package, of accountability in spending, in taxes, you need 3/5 in order to raise taxes, in transparency in bills are all positive developments. >> well, i'm surprised to hear you say that because when the -- when we had heard that the threshold was going to be five members to vacate the chair, so five members to oust the speaker, you had said back then, i think this was as recently as
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last week, that's a, quote, really bad idea. so how is one member better? >> well, there's no difference between one and five in the end. if they were going to have five -- if they were going to have one they would certainly be able to get five if there was something that egregious to take this on. and you're right. i don't think it's necessarily a good idea. but in the -- for the matter of compromising and negotiating and getting it done and realizing that this has been in effect for the last 150 years and the new speaker, kevin mccarthy, was okay with it as was others in discussions, i've come to see that, you know, it's part of the rules and you've got to take the good with the bad. >> how about the military cuts? how about the potential cuts to the defense budget? >> well, look, alisyn, we're in very serious times here.
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i came into congress four years ago. the debt, national debt was 19 trillion. today it's 31 trillion. granted, we had covid disasters and responses. so that cost us 5 trillion. but we haven't learned. we added another $5 trillion. so we've got some real serious issues here. and i will tell you this. this debt is the root of a lot of evils. it's the reason -- main reason behind inflation. that and the assault on our american energy industry. it's the main reason now for higher interest rates. it's the main reason now for the workforce shortages that exist. so if we don't get this under control, it's a big reason for the level of payment on the debt because we're paying higher even at higher interest rates. hundreds of millions of dollars more of taxpayer money. so we've got to get control of it. it needs to be managed. it can be. we can reduce discretionary at the very least, and we can jointly work on how to rein in
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mandatory and v annexes. the more you spend the more you waste. and american people are really getting tired of that. >> some of your republican colleagues say that they don't like whatever secret back room deals were struck to get to this point, to get kevin mccarthy the speakership. are you comfortable with those? >> well, no. right? who would be comfortable with a back room deal that you're not necessarily part of? but come the end of the day we're talking about very good people here. i have a lot of trust in kevin mccarthy. he's earned that trust with me. i've learned to trust him over the years. i was in business for nearly 25 years. i came into this job pretty cynical of congress, as most people are. but i have faith in him and i have faith in the people that have -- that are part of any other arrangements. and what i mean by that is some of it's the so-called freedom caucus.
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right? they're good people. so if they're placed on committees to balance it out, maybe in the past there was an imbalance. now maybe this balances it out and that is not a bad thing, particularly if it strengthens us, unites us and puts us behind a pro-growth winning conservative -- but when i say conservative i mean an agenda that works for the vast majority of americans if not all. that's my definition of conservative. >> and so -- >> and is responsible. so i think in the end it's going to work out okay. >> so what do you say to congressman nancy mase or tony gonzalez who say they don't support that? nancy mase said this is what nancy pelosi does, they shouldn't be doing these back room deals, it shouldn't all happened this way in secret. >> i have great respect for both of them, both nancy mase and tony gonzalez. that's going to be up to them. they'll review the situation, have their conversations, hopefully get comfortable with it. hopefully i continue to be comfortable with it because we are going to have these rules
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discussions and debates tonight. but in the end i hope it's just, i hope it's reasonable, i hope it does create the balance that i'm talking about. and if that's the case i certainly plan on supporting it. >> okay. very quickly, one last question, he yes or no, will kevin mccarthy keep this job for two years? >> i certainly hope so and i believe so. and i hope he continues to earn it. knowing kevin, he will. >> congressman dan meweser, thanks so much for being on our he show. >> thanks. new accusations ahead of the release of prince harry's tell-all. why he says his stepmother, queen consort camilla, was dangerous. less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the number one cold shortening brand! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam'm's unique zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam. zinc that cold! dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin
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prince harry continues to spill the tea about revelations in miz memoir "spare." for a family famous for keeping personal matters private, harry is sparing no details. >> he addressed his relationship with his brother prince william. he says they are no longer speaking. and when asked what his mother would think of it, the current rift, he said this. >> i think she'd be sad. i think she'd be looking at it long term to know that there are certain things we need to go through to be able to heal the relationship. i think she would be heartbroken that it's ended up where it's ended up. i think she'd be heartbroken about the fact that william, his office were part of these stories. >> joining us now, cnn royal historian kate williams and sharon carpenter. she's a host for bbc america.
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thank you for being with us. kate, let me start with you. and just what we heard from prince harry there. and you see the pictures of diana with the boys and you know how dedicated she was to her sons and that she was the target of the media plants of the stories and how this would impact her. it was just really deflating to hear him describe how his mother would feel. >> yes. it's a heartbreaking book. there are two things in this book i think, really. portraits of a dysfunctional family and its relationship with the press. but also a picture of a really heartbroken little boy who lost his mother when he was just so young and couldn't -- felt guilt, he was saying to anderson cooper on cbs, felt guilt that he couldn't cry like everyone else was crying, struggled with his feelings, also believed that maybe she was coming back in ten years' time, she'd just gone for a break. it's absolutely heartbreaking. and this is -- to hear her say that she would suffer at the
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thought of the rift, she always wanted her boys to be together, and yet here we are in a situation when as harry puts it it's a full-scale rupture between him, william and charles, they aren't speaking. it's not very likely at this moment that harry's going to come to the coronation. he feels the relationship has been very damaged by all the briefing against him, the struggles that meghan has had. and i think he feels that speaking out is his only recourse now. >> sharon, what has surprised you the most and/or the british people about all these revelations? >> i have to say one of the biggest surprises actually came out during the tom bradley interview, the itv interview that aired yesterday. of course everyone remembers the bombshell oprah winfrey interview where the takeaway from that was that there was somebody racist within the royal family who'd been asking, who had questions and concerns and conversations about how dark archie's skin complexion would be while meghan markle was pregnant. and you remember oprah's reaction to that.
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who would be having such conversations? meghan said, well, i can't speak about this because this would be very damaging. and then harry followed onto that saying he will never elaborate on that conversation. well, tom bradby asked harry about those accusations and harry is now saying he never said the royal family is racist or a member of the royal family is racist. he said meghan didn't say that either. and in fact it was the british pes who ran with that narrative. of course the royals faced a racism crisis because of this. the queen put out a statement saying that these issues that have been spoken about in the oprah interview were very concerning, especially those around the matter of race. and then harry is saying that this is really unconscious bias, those comments about archie, not ra racism. he says there's a difference between the two. but the question here that has to be posed is why didn't he speak out about this earlier because it's been almost two years since the oprah interview
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came out. and remember when prince william was asked directly is your family racist by a reporter, he responded no. so it's not like prince harry didn't know that that was the narrative out there. it's interesting he didn't clear things up when he'd spoken so much about how he and meghan would have loved the palace to step in and protect them. >> kate, listen to this exchange between anderson and prince harry. and this is about queen consort camilla. in which he calls her dangerous. and then we'll talk. >> she was the villain. she was the third person in the marriage. she needed to rehabilitate her image. >> you wrote that she started a campaign in the british press to pave the way for a marriage and you wrote, "i even wanted camilla to be happy. maybe she'd be less dangerous if she was happy." >> mm-hmm. >> how was she dangerous? >> because of the need for her to rehabilitate her image. >> that made her dangerous?
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>> that made her dangerous because of the connections she v she was forging within the british press. >> and this description from the book, exchanging stories maybe to protect her own child and handing up the prince to protect her family, to protect her image. explain what we're hearing here and how that's being received in the uk. >> yes. we've seen allegations about william before, and there were quite a lot about the book about the rift between charles, william and charles and harry and william. but this is about camilla. and harry is here saying, he actually uses the phrase she got in bed with the devil, that she is working with the press and she gave stories to the press about him to protect herself, to protect her family, to keep them out of the spotlight when she was really seen as the bad guy in the aftermath of the exposure of the affair between charles and camilla, that they were trying to rehabilitate her image. and he said she was on a long-term campaign to be queen.
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this is extremely severe allegations against the queen consort. and we know before sources have told us that charles felt this was a red line. criticize him, okay. criticize camilla and that was a red line for him. and certainly harry says he loves his stepmother, he understands the position she was in, but this i think is extremely tough. and it does seem to me a slight contradiction here. because if camilla was trying to rehabilitate her image, if she was doing this aas a pr campaign, if that was happening it would have had to have been with the assent of charles. so he is also responsible if that is the case. >> i mean, that's one of the biggest i think revelations. all this gossip trading. all this planting from within the royal family. i didn't know that that's how it worked until prince harry's been talking about it. >> yeah. we'll see if there's any response in front of or behind the curtain. kate williams, sharon carpenter, thank you. and do not miss prince harry's sit-down with cnn's anderson cooper. that is all tonight at 8:00 p.m.
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>> reporter: that's right, alisyn and victory. what we're told by police is that this student targeted the teacher after an altercation between the teacher and the 6-year-old boy. not a whole lot of other details other than that. we did report earlier today as you mentioned that police tell us that they have made contact with the parents of that young boy. they're not able to give any more details than that. i asked police officials whether the parents will be charged, whether the parents are cooperating. any other details they can give us. they are not able to give us those details just yet. we hope to get more details in about an hour and a half when police and school officials hold a news conference in newport news at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. also, a short time ago i spoke with a grandmother who was here to pick up her two grandsons at the school right at the time of the shooting. lawanda sample rusk was in the school's main office at the time of the shooting, and the teacher staggered into the office bleeding, telling them that she'd been shot. lawanda sample rusk administered cpr to the teacher.
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here's what lawanda had to say to us. >> the teacher that was shot, she came into the office saying that she had been shot. she had blood on her hand and blood on her shirt. and she said that she had been shot. she -- i don't know if she fainted but she had fallen to the floor, and i screamed at that point. we were trying to locate where her wound was because we knew that she had been shot but we were trying to locate exactly where her wound was. so at that point we started to apply pressure to her wounds. >> and lawonda told us the wounds were to the teacher's chest area. lawonda also told us she has no training in cpr but she as able to help stabilize the teacher along with a couple of others in the office there in time for first responders to get there and lend their assistance. one other quick thing on the security situation at the school, this school, elementary schools here in newport news do
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not have police officers at school, resource officers. those school resource officers are assigned to middle schools and high schools. elementary schools have what they call school security officers that are not police. they are trained but they do not carry weapons. but the security officer at this school splits his or her time between this school and another elementary school during the course of a day. school officials not able to tell us whether the security officer assigned to the school was at this school at the time of the shooting or whether they were at the other elementary school that they were assigned to. alisyn, victor? >> brian, is there any indication of where or how this 6-year-old got that gun? >> reporter: we've been asking those questions for a couple of days now, victor. police not able to tell us that. we're really trying to drill down on what the parents have been telling police as we've been saying, the parents have been in contact with the police but they're not p able to answer those questions as to how the child got this gharngun, what t knew about the gun, how they were able to get the gun into the school.
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buffalo bills player damar hamlin, this is fantastic, could be released from the hospital in the coming days just a week after he suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field. yesterday hamlin posted this picture to instagram. he also tweeted more than a dozen times as he watched his teammates defeat the patriots
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during their last game of the regular season. >> nfl teams and fans across the nation showed their support for hamlin yesterday with signs and clothing featuring his name and number. joining us now is our own former buffalo bills player, cnn sports anchor, coy wire. coy, it's been great to have you there, obviously for a multitude of reasons, and i know you spoke to one of hamlin's teammates. what did he tell you, and this is just miraculous to hear about hamlin's condition. >> reporter: it is absolutely remarkable. i have been told that in the coming days, if not, very soon, damar hamlin could be leaving that hospital in cincinnati. it was just a week ago that he nearly lost his life on the football field after having a cardiac arrest. there is a press conference with doctors in cincinnati scheduled just minutes from now. then a press conference about an hour later with head coach sean mcdermott and other coaches as well. this journey has been an emotional roller coaster for the players, and i caught up on the
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field moments after the game with one of the stars of the team, pro bowl lineman deion dawkins, and he talked about an emotional turning point at one point this week. listen. >> his father, like, speaking to us and that giving us just a huge shot of energy and mcdermott bringing in the facetime call on and hearing his voice and seeing his face and seeing him put his arms up and his heart up. those were all huge energy sources that just hit us, you know, like, but almost like whatever. like a cannon. just boom, dropped right on us, and now to this moment now of happy tears and these happy tears are real tears as well as the sad tears, and just to see that when a group comes together, we put our mind to it and we got it done. >> reporter: victor and alisyn, you could write a hollywood script about perseverance, the power of faith, how people can rise up and rally together when
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someone is down. this story turned from being about hamlin to being about humanity. his gofundme that initially set out to raise $2,500 shot up to over $8.5 million. the world rallying for one man, but really just sending a powerful message to everyone through it. >> it's great to see that generosity. that is absolutely the silver lining here, but of course, that will be a lot of questions as we go forward about the game about what changes if any should be made. >> as there should be. that return for kickoff for a touchdown, and right after the tribute. it was fantastic. the timing could not be better. when you say a hollywood script, that is just -- it's just perfect. v >> reporter: victor, you're a great writer, and if you handed me a script and said that number 3 damar hamlin, the buffalo
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