question. i find the answer a bit counterintuitive. this will surprise people. any kind of movement, intense, brisk, whatever movement, is, obviously, good for your body, and it also helps produce something that is known as bdnf, this neurotroveic factor which helps neurons grow and different things. what they find interestingly is with intense activity you also make a lot of cortisol. a stress hormone. so that can inhibit that miracle-gro for the brain. both types of activity good for the body, but intense activity better for the heart, whereas moderate activity, not releasing much cortisol, good for the brain. >> good to know. as always, we love having you on. >> the brain guy. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> the brain guy. >> also a reminder, if you want to hear his podcast chasing life is out now.

and "cnn this morning" continues right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. we are following breaking news this hour out of greece. a train full of passengers colliding head on with a freight train. so far at least 36 people have been confirmed dead. we are hearing harrowing stories from survivors who say that the train cars quickly filled with smoke and with flames. >> worried that the death toll could go up. one of america's prominent mayors, lori lightfoot, defeated. and the price of insulin, that is just moments away. we begin with that devastating train crash that we were talking about in greece. it has killed more than 36

people and injured dozens of others. you can see the images here of the aftermath. it's a passenger train. it was carrying about 350 people at least. it collided head on with a freight train. multiple cars derailed and several caught fire north of athens where this happened. it it left carriages and heaps of debris in the wake. both were traveling on the same track for several miles before the collision happened. first responders have been racing to find survivors in the twisted, melted wreckage you see here. i know that the prime minister was there on the ground. what are you learning about the recovery efforts underway? >> reporter: yeah, and the recovery efforts are still underway. and you have about 150 firefighters and first responders on the ground just outside where the two trains collided. you mentioned the fire.

those two main carriages at the front caught alight. the fire department just came out with a statement that the fire was so intense and reached such high temperatures that inhibited the initial response teams. 36 people have lost their lives. dna testing is now required to try and identify the victims. there are people gathered outside the hospital waiting for news of their loved ones. we also understand 200 people were taken to safety, 72 people are injured, 7 in critical condition. now, the question becomes why would two trains traveling on the same track when there are two tracks available and that now has become the big issue. how did this happen? was it human error? was it a technical fault. the prime minister saying he will spare no effort in figuring out what happened and what went on. but then, importantly, on the flip side of this, many experts

are appearing on state tv saying they are concerned about the overall process, the modernization of the railway systems. 350 people, kaitlin, were on that passenger train and we are waiting for more news. rescue efforts are on the go, three days of national mourning also announced. >> yeah, there will be major questions about the decisions that were made here. thank you so much for that update. now to chicago where the mayor there losing re-election. in a race that was dominated by the issue of rising crime. lori lightfoot failed to make the cutoff for the runoff. a democrat who was endorsed by chicago's police union received nearly double her votes. >> i am grateful we worked together to remove a record number of guns off our streets, reduced homicides and started making real progress on public safety. >> under mayor lori lightfoot's watch violent crime spiked in

chicago. it made national headlines and became a talking point for republicans and the former president. shootings and murders dropped last year, but other crimes, including carjackings and robberies are up according to police. so the candidate who won the most votes had a tough on crime message and made it a focus of his campaign. omar jimenez live in chicago, the windy city. called the windy city not because of the wind but because of the hot air and politics and now that is coming to the fore. good morning to you, omar. >> reporter: good morning, don. yeah, politics in chicago is a unique scene when it comes to major cities. when you look at what happened here, i mean, violent crime has been an issue, obviously, for a long time in the city. i spoke to mayor lori lightfoot midway through her administration and she told me if people don't feel safe, literally nothing else matters. and this appears to be at least

in part a referendum on that. she was the city's first female black mayor. she was the first openly gay mayor here in chicago. now is set to be the first full-term incumbent mayor in 40 years to lose re-election here in chicago. this comes on the other side of what she described as a once-in-a-lifetime set of challenges from the peak of the pandemic, spikes in gun violence in places here and across the country as well, civil unrest and more. >> first time in 40 years. the last one was jane burn. she didn't win because she didn't plow the streets during a storm. always politics in chicago. let's talk about the two men who are going to be facing each other in april. brandon johnson and then paul valles. one is a progressive, a progressive teachers union support, the other has the support of police, really tough on crime stance. what do we know about them? >> reporter: yes. essentially, turning into a battle between the police union and teachers union.

paul valles former head of schools in chicago and philadelphia. he ran largely a campaign on public safety. brandon johnson a cook county commissioner and former teacher has the support of the teachers union. take a listen to them both as they celebrated their projected victories. >> we will make chicago the safest city in america. [ cheers and applause ] >> months ago they said they didn't know who i was. well, if you didn't know, now you know! >> reporter: and johnson, obviously, very excited and went on to talk about how he wants to end the tale of two cities here in chicago where one side of the city sees investment and the other doesn't. both of them headed to an april 4th runoff. >> that's going to be interesting to watch. omar jimenez live in chicago. thank you, and stay warm. this morning the devastating

winter storm that dumped several feet of snow on some parts of southern california is now moving east. this is san bernardino county declares a state of emergency after residents in mountain communities were left stranded. stephanie owe lam is live in san bernardino with more. a shock to so many people there. >> reporter: definitely. a long time since i seen anything like this in the san bernardino mountains. we know that they got 7 to 8 feet of snow in the last system over the weekend and right now you can see it's torrentially raining where i am and now another 3 feet is expected before this system moves out. heavy snow mere lonear los ange the san bernardino mountains, potentially life-threatening blizzard warns. >> this is the most i have ever seen. >> reporter: across california more powerful winter storms are slamming the west coast and heading into the southwest. more than 30 million people across the country are under winter weather alerts today. most in the western u.s.

in the san bernardino mountains some residents snowed in with 7 to 8 feet of accumulation are unable to dig out of their homes. some say they are running out of food, gas and supplies. >> this part of southern california three times the annual amount of snow that they get here fell in three days. you see this red flag here. it's actually because the owners want to make sure that the snowplow is actually a car. lake arrowhead, an area that usually gets five inches of snow in february, was buried under 68 inches in just a matter of days. >> just started coming down. high winds. there was cars going up and they were slipping and sliding. >> reporter: and several more feet of snow are on the way. in northern california, snow in the sierra nevadas is fall at a rate of 2 inches per hour and wind gusts could reach up to 60 miles an hour.

the staurms, rockslides and blizzard conditions making travel extremely hazardous. the national weather service issuing a travel warning this week saying first responders may not be able to rescue you. >> stay home. don't come up here, please. >> reporter: one father with two young girls trying to travel home says he was stranded on a sierra mountain road for 13 hours before being rescued by snowplows. >> it was a crazy storm. >> reporter: elsewhere in southern california a happy homecoming for more than 600 students returning home this week after being snowed in at their camp in the san bernardino mountains. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: obviously, a lot of precipitation here in southern california. these mountains now the snowpack standing at more than 220% of their annual records. so that just shows you how much snow, how much rain we have gotten this season. such a difference from last year when the first three months of the year were the driest on record in california.

>> just one extreme to the next. both very dangerous. thank you for being out there in the middle of all of it. all right. we have new cnn reporting this morning on how allies of former president trump are privately working to get some of the further right house republicans to put their support behind his campaign to be the next republican nominee hoping to put momentum behind that race that he announced last fall. but they seem it have their work cut out for them. listen to what some of those republicans that are privately being lobbied told cnn yesterday. >> i am looking for someone that attract more voters and a little less divisive message i think is important. >> got to have someone that can appeal to independent voters, not just republicans, not just democrats. >> a lot of times our leaders their morals aren't where we need them to be, but the leadership skills and putting people in place are. so that's kind of what everybody is concerned about.

>> one of the reporters on the story joins us live from capitol hill. i listen to some of these lawmakers. some were trump's biggest allies when he was last in office. what is your sense of why they aren't ready to support him yet? why are these lobbying efforts so far not being successful? >> reporter: it is interesting because this is trump's base of support on capitol hill, maga members, members of the freedom democracy and we interviewed two dozen of them and most of them were reluctant to commit to donald trump for president right now. some said they want to wait to tee h see how the field develops, and others were gushing about some of donald trump's potential rivals. congressman ralph norman is already officially endorsed nikki haley, the former south carolina governor, and chip roy, a conservative said he was impressed by governor ron desantis a founding member of the freedom caucus here on

capitol hill and actually met with members of the group in florida earlier this month. so clearly trump is going to have his work cut out for him in winning back his coalition. endorsements are something on his mind. people are lobbying house republicans to back him. . he is paying close attention to who is and is not endorsing him. >> guaranteed. thank you. a "cnn this morning" broadcast exclusive on the price of insulin. the ceo of pharmaceutical giant eli lilly joins me next with an announcement that impact tens of millions of american including many who may have had to r rati their own medicine. and effortlessly responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number. ♪ma ma ma ma♪ [clears throut] for fast sore throat relief, try vicks vapocool drops with two times more menthol per drop*, and the powerful rush of vicks vapo for fast-acting relief you can feel.

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very important here. so please pay attention because millions of americans are affected by this. major news for millions suffering from diabetes and high prescription drug costs. the pharmaceutical company eli lilly cutting the price of insulin so none of the customers have to pay more than $35 a month for the drug. no more than $35 a month for the drug. let's talk about why this is such a big deal, okay? according to the cdc, in the u.s. alone more than 37 million people now have diabetes and another 96 million americans are pre-diabetic. millions of americans rely on insulin to survive and that costs money. so here in the u.s. the average price for a vial of the drug costs about $100. that's magnitude more expensive than other countries around the world for a drug that does not cost much to make. and that high price tag has

forced more than 1 million americans to ration the life safz medication. let's discuss this now. the ceo and the chair of eli lilly and company dave ricks. thank you so much. i appreciate you joining us this morning. this is really important news. >> it is. and thank you for having me on. you know, today we are announcing a 70% price cut on our most commonly used insulins, which we will phase in over this year. effective today, a $35 cap. >> why now? >> so this is a culmination of seven years of work we have been doing to reduce the price of our insulins. launching our own generic to our own best selling brand. but with the change last year in the medicare part d benefit, senior benefit, to $35 we think that should be the new standard in america. we could wait for congress to act or the healthcare system in general to apply that standard. we are just applying it ourselves. we are going to buy down our

customers' out-of-pocket costs to $35 at the pharmacy counter automatically. >> you said buy down $35 cost at the counter automatically. tell us more about how this is going to work. how does the insurance coverage factor in and could it drop the price even more? >> well, the average price people pay for our insulins in our studies is $21. if that was your price before, there wasn't be an effect. we heard about and you are reporting about people who unfortunately can't afford their insulin or they are forced to ration it because of the price point. that's because of the growth in high deductible plans or plans that people have to contribute out of pocket early in the year to the full cost of their medical care, including insulin. in the case of lily insulin now, they won't be subjected to the high deductible costs. they pay $35 or $1.20 a day no matter houchins slin they use. >> i am wondering how many

people it's willing gl to affect because 7 in 10 insulin users don't use your company's medicine. what do you say to other manufacturers about their prices? because in order to bring it down for the majority of americans to really make a dent, it's going to have to be more than just lilly. >> glad you raised that point. we have a big complicated test system. the other manufacturers have to make their own decisions. we are calling on our partners in the insurance industry, government policy makers, employers who set the policies for their own insurance to match this effort to reduce the cost to more than $35 a month for insulin for all americans. we are doing that for our products. we call on everyone to meet us at this point and take this issue away from, you know, a disease that is stressful and difficult to manage already, take away the affordability challenges. >> one of the key groups likely to ration insulin, i have to be honest with you, african

americans. one of the key groups to ration insulin. black americans. how do you make sure that black people with diabetes know that they will not have to pay as much for insulin? can you promise that this price drop is going to be equitable? >> such an important issue. so two things we are doing. first, this is price drop, this $35 cap will be automatically applied at about 85% of u.s. pharmacies. why not the rest? because they don't subscribe to the electronic system that allows us to intervene at the pharmacy counter even if the patient doesn't ask for 85% it will happen automatically. what about the other 15%? they will need to go to lily.com our website and download a barcode and use a quick coupon themselves. to get the word out and thank you, cnn, for putting us on air today to get the word out, for those where it's not automatically applied, people can find out about that. we are launching a big media

campaign later this spring, a bus tour, to get in the communities and make sure people know that the savings available to them. >> there was a picture up on the screen. i need to explain what that was. that was my dad who died in the late '70s due to complications from diabetes. it happens to so many families, especially african american families. i understand it is personal. so it's personal to a lot of people watching here. we talked about the effects on african americans and also personal to you? >> it is. yeah. thank you for -- sorry to hear about your father. diabetes is a common condition, it touches millions of americans as you mentioned, and of course even more families. so that's why this issue i think has been a hot topic and why the kind of become insulin has become such a pivotal issue in terms of drug affordability. we are proud today to lead again in reducing the price to consumers and, hopefully, the rest of the system can match us

and really take this issue and put it behind us. >> listen, a lot of people wish that this would have happened sooner, about you we are where we are. and so we'll go from there and we thank you for joining us. the ceo and chair of eli lilly and company, dave ricks. thank you, sir. appreciate you coming on cnn. >> thanks, don. thanks for having me on today. we have new details about the lawsuit against fox news. how members of the fox corporation and their board could even face more legal exposure if they fail to act. >> we are going to speak to an attorney who says his former client suffered from what he called foxitis and foxmania and says that the lies his former client heard on the network partly inspired him to storm the capitol. ♪ experience t the elevation ofof electrification at the invitation to lexus saleles event. ♪ ♪ wow, we're crunching tons of polygons here!

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welcome back. there are new questions this morning after just stunning revelations from the $1.6 billion lawsuit against fox news. the network's chairman rupert murdoch knew they were spreading lies about the 2020 presidential election. legal experts are calling on fox news to take immediate action

like removing high-ranking personnel and settling the case with dominion or else the legal exposure include increase with a lot more. this is interesting. you wrote about it in your newsletter last night. paul ryan is on the board, right, and other big-name individuals. the question is, is there culpability of the board and if there is and there is no action what is the legal liability for these individuals? >> we have to remember that fox corporation is a publicly traded company. so they have a board of directors who owe a responsibility to the shareholders to make sure that there is some sort of corporate governance. what you are seeing in the documents is there is no semblance of normal corporate governance at fox corporation. people like the ceo of fox news seemingly engaged in massive wrongdoing. and so when i was talking to jeffrey sonnenfeld, the renowned professor at yale management school, he said that the board of fox, people like paul ryan, need to take immediate action,

including possibly removing people like the fox news ceo suzanne scott to at least attempt to clean up this wrongdoing because they have a responsibility to shareholders. and by their lack of corporate governance, they have effectively opened up fox news and fox corporation -- >> to a huge financial hit. >> huge legal exposure so they have to do something. i was talking to paul ryan. he privately warned the mar docks and said that's not enough. he has responsibility to the shareholders and not the murdochs. we will see what happens. there is some history here. murdochs news of the world scandal there was some high-profile resignations there, including james murdoch, murdoch's son. this story is only getting start. >> imagine if it goes to stand, some of fox high-profile personalities. >> it would be devastating. imagine rupert murdoch on the

stand, loughlin murdoch, sean hannity, tucker carlson on the stand. weeks and weeks of damnk headlines which could damage fox's brand- to preserve the business relationships they have to have some reputation that they are a legitimate news company. i have been saying that's not the case. but the perception is crumbling and this could result in damage to the fox corporation brand and result in problems for shareholders. their shareholders are going to wonder what's going on at fox. dominion has that leverage and they know it. so do something, i am sure. thank you. >> thanks. fascinating. as we are learning about the lawsuit, it's raising more questions about the real-lifetime pact that it has on fox's viewers, their audience. an attorney who once represented a january 6th defendant at the time blamed the network's coverage for his client's actions that day saying that he

developed what the attorney called foxitis and believed lies told on the network and by former president trump about the election. the writer was known as -- rioter is anthony antonio. he lost hit job a the beginning of the pandemic and the next six months he watched fox news constantly with his roommates. >> election night happened and everything was going on. i truly believe that trump won the election. but i felt like, you know, maybe i believed that america was being robbed of a president and i now know that that was a lie. >> anthony antonio's former lawyer joins us now. joseph, thank you for being here. you talked to your former client about this lawsuit, about what we were just hearing from oliver and these revelations. what is he making of it? >> good morning. i indicated i would do this, but i ask that you find somebody who is not smarter than me, what

would be the co-interviewee and i see you couldn't find anybody. so they don't exist. let me tell you why i'm here. i am here because i saw in real time what those -- and the words i would use and shouldn't use, so i won't, tpeople at fox, tucker carlson with a look on his face and hannity with his smug look and that group of people. they don't know what they do to people. and this unimaginable thing that they can change the course of who a human being is because of my offty. the person i represented was a religious non-political individual who devoted his -- part of his time to working in children's group research, going to the south america three different times for weeks at a time to work in an orphanage, a good guy, no criminality, no bad traits that would hurt society and he ended up in his job

location out in illinois and couldn't leave the house that he lived in with three other people for seven months before the election and those people watched fox 24/7, 7/24, and it started to seep -- and these are my words -- seep into his brain and things that he had never thought of before, he started to accept. and he ended up, when trump said come to washington, it will be wild, him feeling a devotion to his country, the united states of america, not trump per se, and he ended up that washington and ended up with 11 or 12 charges. he is facing that because of the tuckers and the seans and the other people that are there that don't give a damn about anybody but themselves and money. and it's disgusting. >> i want to get to the money part because that is something rupert murdoch acknowledged in his deposition. some people say your client was

responsible for his own actions that day. have you talked to him about what he thinks of this lawsuit? what he thinks of these hosts were actually saying and texting to one another versus what he was listening to and watching on air? >> i had talked to him when he first came in the door. i wasn't going to represent any of those people down there. if anybody doesn't deserve representation, you try to take down this country and democracy, you don't deserve it. go to prison, good-bye, nice life. he came in and i didn't know he had this particular problem and i met with him. he sat down. i began talking to him and it's like, what are you doing here? had nothing to do with what i perceived as the individual who would be there. and i found out what i just told you in more detail, of course. and at that point i realized that he realized that he had been made a fool of and he felt victimized by fox and that was an immediate reaction.

and where he worked, he wanted to come on television. i think he was on with me or i was on with him, i should say, two or three times on cnn, and he was told at work, if you say -- he is from south carolina. if you say anything about trump bad, you are fired. so he became very reluctant to say anything. but he had an abiding disgust for fox and what they had done to him. and some of the people that he hooked up with, meaning started chatting with and dumb stuff they do to while away their time, they were the result of that as well. so there is an army of people out there who are naive or stupid or whatever you want to call it, or looking for power, and they just listen to fox and whatever fox tells them, that's what they will do. i don't think that -- >> have you -- >> the money amount is going to make a difference. >> have you spoken to your client lately? is he still watching fox?

what does he make of this though, the new revelations? >> he does not speak with fox at all. he doesn't like to talk about fox because he considers the ruining of his life that he was foolish enough to belief in them. he is not the kind of person that would -- i feel this. he is a private individual, complacent individual, no withstanding that day, and he doesn't want to talk about it. it's a horrible edition of his life and still going on. his trial is scheduled for august 7th. >> we will be paying close attention. joe hurley, thanks for joining us. coming up -- >> you are very welcome. >> coming up, fascinating interview, especially with the fox item ois. christiane amanpour is going to show you -- she is going to do what she does best. watch this. rz. >> we have seen some of cnn's reports that are targeted and false.

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wait until you see this. it is a cnn exclusive. our chief international anchor christiane amanpour confronts iran's foreign minister and presses him with the facts of cnn's reporting on the sexual abuse of protesters in the custody of iran's revolutionary guard. live in london with more, christian an, this is a remarkable interview. everyone can see it online a little bit later today. what is most striking? >> reporter: i, obviously, had to start with the global condemnation of iran over the crackdown after the death against the women's rights protest. he absolutely denied there was any crackdown of, quote, peaceful protesters.

he said the crackdown game when the protests were infiltrated by those sponsored by outside, in his words, who wanted to create a counter revolution. i brought up cnn reporting, "new york times" reporting, human rights reporting on the allegations of multiple sexual abuses committed in detention against females who had been arrested. here was his -- here is the back and forth. >> when you say the islamic republic of iran respects human rights, one female protester says that she was detained inside a revolutionary guard facility for more than a month and raped by three different men. she went to a cleric afterwards because she was vgs suicide thoughts, she was so upset. cnn spoke about that cleric. is that acceptable? is it acceptable for a woman, whatever she has done, to be arrested and raped?

and there are many, many, many reports of sexual abuse in this situation against women and men. >> translator: firstly, in the peaceful demonstrations in the fall, no one was arrested. >> you are just denying that? >> translator: however, in those protests that have become violent, some individuals, some of whom had entered iran from the outside, and were using firearms and killing the police, were arrested. you do know that the supreme leader actually issued an amnesty and all those imprisoned were released with the exception of those who killed someone or were being sued. regarding the iranian woman you mentioned, i cannot confirm it. there have been so many baseless claims made on social media and in media. >> reporter: these are not baseless and they weren't on the internet. it's cnn spoke to a cleric, a religious person, inside your country and got this story. >> translator: we have seen some

of cnn's reports that are targeted and false. >> reporter: that's not true. we report the facts and we report the truth and that's why you are sitting with me here, mr. foreign minister. >> reporter: and it carries on, as i press him on more of those allegations and what we have seen of abuses of human rights against the women and protesters, but also of course i asked him about helping russia, the allegations that they are helping russia target ukrainians during this war and of course about the iranian nuclear deal. and the u.s. is now saying that iran may be some 12 days away from so-called breakout if it wants to create enough enriched fissile material for a nuclear weapon. iran says it wants to go back into the jcpoa and is calling on the united states to do so. >> we cannot wait to see the full interview. we will have that online at cnn.com and also on your pbs show later today.

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oversight and operations, but usually they are grilled on the most politically charged issues and cases of the day. as garland makes his first trip to capitol hill this year, there's no shortage of topics for either party to ask him about, right? this comes as the justice department is overseeing investigations into former president trump and president biden in their handling of classified documents. republicans are also pushing this idea that the justice department has been, quote, weaponized. democrats also are likely to ask him about police use of force, whether he's doing enough on police reform. and, don, there are other issues that members of either party will likely have questions about, like a top fbi official in new york who is charged with illegally working for one of russia's most notorious oligarchs, what is happening there? but the attorney general is unlikely to answer too many questions about ongoing investigations, that would be against justice department policy. so it would be really interesting to see how he handles this today. >> i think you buried the lede

here. as i understand you have new reporting about what garland would like to accomplish today. >> reporter: that's right, don. we always have more stuff, don. there is attention here between what lawmakers want to ask him about and what he wants to highlight. we have learned that in particular he wants to highlight the work of the rank and file. there are over 100,000 employees at the justice department, he specifically wants to highlight their work on violent crime, on hate crimes, their work to protect reproductive rights, as well as their efforts in ukraine. and that is going to be his challenge today, to try to highlight that work, the bread and butter of the justice department outside of special counsels, that doesn't really make the headlines while a lot of these lawmakers they're going to try to be the headlines themselves. he's got his work cut out for him today. >> all right. you got more? no, i'm kidding. thank you, paula. >> we can keep going. >> thank you, paula. i appreciate it. all right. do you have to write a best selling book in order to become president? maybe. harry enten dug into the history

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some political news today, florida governor ron desantis released his autobiography the courage to be free. the book is already a number one best seller, especially in florida where it's literally the only book on the shelf. >> late night having a field day with this. florida governor ron desantis doing all things that any potential white house contender would do, including writing and promoting a new book. is that a prerequisite for the presidency? it's hit number one, the book. >> it is doing incredibly well so far and, you know, if we look at this morning's number, that is going to be the focus, it's

ron desantis' book. look at this, ron desantis' "the courage to be free" is number one on the amazon best sellers, i was checking "the new york times," i don't think it's there yet but on amazon it is number one. the thing that got me interested was, okay, ron desantis has written a book, have the other 2024 contenders written a book and if essentially we look -- look here. polled for the 2024 gop primary and wrote a book. look at all these candidates, donald trump, nikki haley, mike pence, greg abbott, liz cheney, kristi noem, mike pompeo, tim scott, ron desantis, pretty much all of them have written a book. the only one polling at 1% that i don't think has is glenn youngkin. so in this particular year at least the republicans who we think are potential nominees for 2024 and probably are going to run or already declared, they have, in fact, written a book so they at least think so, guys. >> because it gives you the

visibility without having to actually get into the race and so it seems like a no-brainer. >> it seems like a no-brainer to me, you know, it's something you put out there and it's sorts of this signal flag, we are always looking, is this person going to run, are they not going to run? writing a book is an indication to me that they are going to run. the thing that got me interested in this as well is, okay, in the past have presidents actually written books? and what we see here is, take a look here, okay, presidents who wrote books before winning since 1976, look at all of these candidates. jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, george w. bush, barack obama, donald trump who actually had two "new york times" best sellers, joe biden, the only one on the list who is not on the list, excuse me, was bill clinton. bill clinton of course wrote a best seller after he left the presidency but not beforehand. here is the question, though, do you, in fact, need to have a best seller to actually win? okay. so presidents with "new york

times" best sellers before winning since 1976, among those who wrote a book pre-election, did they in fact have a best seller. look at the yes column, barack obama, donald trump, joe biden, but in the no, look how many no's there are, jimmy carter, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, george w. bush. so it doesn't necessarily seem to me that actually having a book that sells is a p prerequisite for winning, it's writing the book itself. jimmy carter wrote a book that was just in religious book stores, he wasn't interested in writing a book to go to the "new york times" best sellers. when i look at all of this data i'm not saying to myself i'm not going to look towards "the new york times" best seller to understand if someone is going to win, i'm actually going to look towards the polls and what do we see? we see here -- well, this is a little surprise for my dear friend donny over here, this is a special bonus number, it's the 60th day of the year and do you know what that is, that is don

lemon's birthday, baby. we've got you, donny. >> thank you. thank you. by the way, i hate surprises, but, any way, i was looking at the slide that you had, i think it was like presidents who wrote books. >> yeah. >> i voted in every one of those elections except for carter. carter and the first ronald reagan. i was thinking, man -- >> do you know what, you grow more beautiful with age, don. that's what i have to say. >> thank you very much. >> you even surprised us with that. we know you hate surprises. >> yeah. >> i hope that was a nice surprise. >> do you not think i would have had a cake with candles out here? >> on the night show they surprised me one and rolled the breaking news thing and i was like what is going on? what's happening? and they were like it's your birthday. i was like i hate surprises, don't do this. >> thank you. >> thanks, harry, appreciate it. >> happy birthday. >> thank you. have a great day, everyone. "cnn newsroom" starts right now.