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moment. but we'll start this morning in atlanta, where investigators say that a violent mob of protesters attacked the construction site of a police and firefighter training facility, throwing bricks, rocks, fireworks, molotov cocktails at officers. they were dressed in camo, their faces were hidden behind masks. some of them were carrying shields. they torched police and construction vehicles along with a trailer that was on site. police officers were outnumbered and overwhelmed. they had to retreat and take cover. you can see fireworks exploding here right next to the officers. this is not exactly a surprise. tensions have been escalating for months over this as some of the protesters and activists are fighting to preserve the forest, while others are opposed to the facility in and of itself. cnn's nick valencia is live in atlanta. nick, police say that about 35 people have been detained. what else do we know about this morning? >> good morning, kaitlan. some dramatic video that we're showing there, in what police are calling a coordinated attack on police. protesters had been promoting
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this weekend as the start of a week of protests and festivities, with the goal of being to stop the construction of this proposed $90 million, 85-acre police and fire training facility. it would be the largest of its kind in the country, if it ends up being built. and what according to police, they say happened, at least 35 people were taken into custody. they say several of those that were detained were from outside of the atlanta area. and this really has become a staging area for activists across the country to protest police and we have seen several acts of violence in recent months. listen to what police had to say at a press conference late last night. >> this is not appropriate. this is criminal activity. and the charges that will be brought forth will show that. when you throw commercial-grade fireworks, when you throw molotov cocktails, large rocks, a number of items at officers, your only intent is to harm. >> reporter: opponents of this fire and police training
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facility have dubbed it cop city and it's be target of a robust coalition of activists, some say that this is further militarizing police, some say that the environment is being compromised by the building of this 85-acre facility. in january, tensions were fueled by the death of one of the climate activists there, manuel tehran. a georgia state trooper was also wounded in that incident. kaitlan? >> definitely worth noting what you're hearing from police that they believe that most of these people were not even from the atlanta area. i think the question is, as this construction is continuing, are they anticipating more protests over the coming days? >> they are. and as i mentioned, this was the start of a proposed week of action by these demonstrationers. we understand, we did reach out to the mayor and we understand that they are in a meeting right now to figure out how to address this situation going forward. kaitlan? >> we'll see what they decide. nick valencia, thank you. a southwest flight from cuba to florida forcing an emergency landing. watch this.
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>> the airline saying that birds hit the plane's engine and nose, a cabin filling with dark smoke and the pilots decided to turn around. no reports of any injuries, thankfully, there. in a statement, southwest says the pilots safely returned to havana, where customers evacuated the aircraft via slides. we commend the swift, professional actions of our pilots and flight attendants in responding to this event. we are getting the clearest preview yet so far of a possible trump/desantis primary matchup in 2024. they delivered back-to-back speeches over the weekend, trump headlining the conservative conference in cpac. desantis made the pilgrimage to ronald reagan library in california and now they're both heading to iowa in just a couple of days. desantis still hasn't announced if he will run for president. he is certainly positioning himself as a leading rival, though, for trump's bid for re-election. trump's 106-minute address to the right-wing gathering in maryland had its fair share of
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inaccurate claims. our daniel dale dubbed the speech, quote, wildly dishonest. so he's here with the facts. good morning, daniel. >> good morning. >> let's start with the economy. it's what so many people care so much about. and the former president promised to save american jobs if he's elected again. here's what he said. >> with the greatest job history of any president ever. >> is that true? >> that's not even close to true, poppy. over the four years of trump's presidency, the economy lost a net 2.7 million jobs. that is the worst net jobs record of any modern-day president. you can say, well, we did have a covid-19 pandemic. let's go pre-pandemic, but over those three years, the economy gained 6.7 million, better than losing, but not even close to the record in bill clinton's first term in the early mid-90s, the economy added 11.5 million jobs. even pre-pandemic, trump's job record was not even close to the greatest.
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>> that's a really important thing for people to know, given the uncertainty of this economy. let's go on to this. he said in that speech, trump, that he went above and beyond his promise when it came to building that border wall. here's his claim. >> as you know, i built hundreds of miles of wall and completed that task, as promised. and then i began to add even more in areas seemed to be allowing a lot of people to come in. >> what does your fact check say on that? >> that is not true. former president trump is trying to justify why they were still building at the end of his presidency, when he claims that he was going to finish it. that's because it was not finished. we know this from an official border wall status report from the government's customs and border protection two days after trump left office, they reported about 458 miles of wall had, indeed, been completed under president trump. however, about 280 additional miles that had been identified for wall construction had not been completed. so, again, it just was not done.
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>> can we talk nordstream 2, this significant pipeline project that was. can you talk about -- well, let's just let people listen to his claim and explain if it's true or false. >> because i ended the pipeline, right? do you remember? nord stream 2, nobody ever heard of it, right, rick? nobody ever heard of nord stream 2 until i came along. but i ended it. it was dead. >> both parts of this are false. of course it's not true that no one had ever heard of this before he came along. then president vice president denounced it in 2016. second of all, he did not end the project. by the time he imposed sanctions on companies constructing the project in late 2019, that's about three years into his presidency, the pipeline was about 90% completed. now, the sanctions did appear to slow down the project, but the russian state-owned company behind it said about a year later, hey, we're just going to finish it ourselves. they announced they were resuming construction, germany announced also under trump that
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it was granting another permit for construction in its waters. the project was eventually completed before being abandoned by germany under biden, as russia was about to invade ukraine last year. so trump certainly did not kill nord stream 2. >> and it ended under this current administration. >> it did, indeed. >> given germany's moves. daniel, thanks very much on all of that. also this morning, the 2024 gop not so official, but pretty much official, are all taking aim at the same term, "woke." listen to this. >> and i think these liberal states have gotten it wrong and why are they getting it wrong? i think it goes back to this woke mind virus that's infected the left and all of these other institutions. >> change only happens if we plow fearlessly ahead and declare with one voice that the era of woke and weaponized government is over. we will demolish woke tyranny and we will restore the american republic. >> i'm running for president to
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renew an america that's strong and proud, not weak and woke. wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down. >> hmm. why is wokeness or at least republican's understanding of it become such a unifying theme for clearly 2024 and their platforms? joining us now with her perspective is cnn political analyst and the vice president of the digital content and senior correspondent for the grio, natasha offford. there are a lot of things that republicans all agree on these days, but this is a message that all of them are using in their platform so far as. >> i always say so-called wokeness with quotes, right? because we know that the origin of wokeness, it's a term that we used in the black community, it was about being socially conscious. it's almost like when your grandparents find a word or someone finds a word and you know, they're using it out of context, they're using it wrong, on fleek. i cringe every time i hear it, because the origin intent of the word is not represented.
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but it's a grate to be a dog whistle, to essentially talk about issues that have to do with racial justice and social justice without saying that race is a part of the issue. and also, it becomes this umbrella term for anyone who is liberal, right? i think by keeping it vague, it's strategic. it allows them to use it broadly, whether you're talking about education or environmentalism. and yeah, essentially, it's a cover for attacking anything that is progressive. >> a pejorative for anything that is -- people who are at least socially aware, and aware of the ills of society, and comparing to it pandemic, saying it's worse than a pandemic is beyond. >> there are so many elements that are being attacked as woke that are part of american principles and democracy. the vyings movement, fighting for social justice. allies were part of that movement. what do you say about america when you attack things that actually make america better and call it woke as a pejorative. >> civil rights, gay rights, women's rights, is that all wokeness?
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>> right, no. >> it would be under the wokeness umbrella, wouldn't it? >> absolutely. it's both insulting, but again, it's strategic, because as long as you keep your -- keep it vague, right, then you can just attack any and everything as woke and the average person who doesn't understand the nuance, they're going to just go along with it and rally them against certain policies, like so-called parental rights or what's happening with disney in florida and it undermines the true value of the word. >> it's interesting what you just said to reflect on what was said by president biden this weekend in selma on the edmond pettus bridge and president trump at cpac. let's just listen to the two of them. >> the sinister forces trying to kill america have done everything they can to stop me, to silence you, and to turn this nation into a socialist dumping ground for criminals, junkies,
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marxists, thugs, radicals. i am your warrior, i am your justice. and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. >> the right to vote, to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. and this fundamental right remains under assault. the conservative supreme court has gutted the voting rights act over the years. >> what are your thoughts as you listen to the former president and the current president addressing -- >> why'd you look at me? >> the juxtaposition -- >> it's like american carnage and then optimism. >> thank you. i thought of that day when -- there were people who were holding out hope that maybe donald trump maybe could be a president for all. and then he gave that speech about american carnage. and it's the same. does america have an appetite for vengeance right now? do they have an appetite for a president who represents this, this retribution that i'm going to come back in office and sort
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of get revenge for the things that were taken away, for the progress that was interrupted. we saw with january 6th, what that type of rhetoric produced. so, again, i don't think -- i think it plays to the base. i think that there are people who are certainly moved by this. and they want a champion, but again, this is another reason why so many republicans are saying, we need an alternative. >> i thought it was interesting. it seemed almost like steve bannon made a more effective case for trump 2024 than trump himself did at cpac. steve bannon saying, the other candidates are fine, but we don't have time for on the job training. but i want to say something else with president biden. this week, the senate will have a vote on that d.c. crime bill that he has said, he's not going to veto this republican-led effort to overturn it. even though he's said that d.c. should have its own statehood, it should be self-governing. he caused a lot of controversy by saying that he's going to sign this and do that, as given what we've seen happening in chicago and other places. what do you make of that? >> i think it is a reaction to
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the national politics of the moment, right? we saw that crime was a concern. and this is not just for republican voters. this is for democratic voters, too. in democratic cities. and that is what mayor eric adams was getting at. you can't put your head in the sand on this. so even though he supported local control, he knows that this is an opportunity where the gop can come back later and say, you reduced -- you supported reducing, you know, the maximum sentence for carjackings at a time when, you know, people are afraid of their lives. but the devil is in the details. that code reform in d.c. also increased the penalties for sexual assault, for example, right? but we live in such a time where people don't care about those details. they don't care that activists worked for ten years with the community to try to revise this code in d.c., and they're really just reflecting proportionality. this code was last revised in 1901. it's a totally common sense
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criminal justice reform that's happening, but the political consequences of being seen as soft on crime are part of why i believe president biden made that decision. the question that we, i think, as the media, we have to be vigilant about, making a distinction between soft on crime rhetoric and policy that actually reduces crime. just because you're a tough on crime, you know, politician, so to speak, it doesn't mean the policies you're advocating for actually reduce crime in communities. and make people safer. so that it's very important to distinguish that. >> a lot of house democrats unhappy that they voted against that before this announcement from the white house. but a very good point on the nuance there. thank you for joining us. >> i think you touched on the theme of the weekend. details and nuance, when you look at what happened with chris rock, when you look at what the president was saying, look at what happened at cpac. there's a lot of nuance, and also, mayor adams, and the devil is in the detail. the theme of the weekend. you hit it. thank you very much.
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>> thanks for having me. meantime, san bernardino county still digging out from the nearly 100 inches of record snowfall in the past week alone. in crestline, residents are at a standstill. i have noticed this weekend, like, we have switched coasts, right? this is what the east coast would usually look like. we're talking about the west coast. they're at a standstill there, as they worry about access to food and emergency supplies after the roof of their one and only grocery store caved in from the weight of the snow. let's get straight to cnn's camilla bernal live from san bernardino. good morning to you. the situation this morning there dire. >> reporter: it really is, don. and the grocery store is the one here behind me, it's obviously still closed, people need food. people need help. a lot of the residents here are frustrated, they are angry, and they say they need a lot more help than what they've been getting over the last couple of days. authorities say that they've already cleared out about 80% of the county roads.
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the problem is that there are a lot of side roads and small roads that lead to their home, so they are stuck, even though the main roads are clear. authorities also say they're working 24/7, doing everything they can, but it's just not enough. they're apologizing for how slow this process is going. and i've been talking to a lot of residents, derek hayes being one of them. he's been stuck at home for more than ten days. and he says he feels forgotten. here's what he told me. >> we were promised that help is coming, but we're getting a little impatient here. we maybe have a week's worth of food left. a lot of our stores are closed now because of roof collapse. and the gas stations seem to be short on fuel still. so i'm not real sure how much longer it's going to take for help to get here, but i'm also not sure how much longer we can hold out. >> and they've had food donations here at the supermarket, people coming to pick stuff up, but the reality is that people like derek, he's
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12 miles from where i am. he cannot get here to get donations. so a lot of people just don't have that access, because of the snow. authorities say it's going to take a couple of more days before these people can get out. it's a really frustrating situation and it has been very difficult for the people who live here, don. >> camilla bernal, thank you. well, chris rock takes on what he calls selective outrage and addresses that infamous will smith oscar slap in his new netflix special. we'll tell you all about it, ahead. out here, you're more than just a landowner. >> but i'm not a victim, baby! you will never see me on oprah or gayle, cryingng. you will never see it. never gonna happen! versatile, powerful, durable kubota equipment. more goes into it. so you get more out of it. the first time you connected your website and your store
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i will try to do a show tonight without offending nobody, okay? i'm going to try my best. you know why? because you never know who might get triggered? you know what people say, they always say, words hurt. that's what they say. got to watch what you say, because words hurt. you know, anybody that says words hurt has never been punched in the face. >> chris rock debuting his much-anticipated netflix special, finally giving his take about being slapped by will smith at the oscars. it took almost a year for the comedian to respond, and he held very little back. more. >> y'all know what happened to me, getting smacked by suge
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smith. it still hurts. it got summertime ringing in my ear. i love will smith, my whole love, i loved this [ bleep ]. my whole i root for this [ bleep ], okay? and now, i watch "emancipation" just to see him get whooped. >> joining me now, "l.a. times" op-ed columnist and host of "life out loud," the podcast, l.z. granderson. why are you laughing? >> good morning. because that was funny! >> okay, so before -- >> that's a good joke. >> so a lot of it was social commentary, which dave chappelle does as well, but this was more of a mixture of chappelle as far as laughing out loud, am i wrong about that? >> no, no, no, but that's kind of been chris rock's hallmark. you know, i think comparing those two comedians, while i understand why people want to do it, they're very different when it comes to stand-up. dave has gotten a lot more into
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satirical commentary and social commentary, while chris still likes to hold on to the fantastical, so he can make these over-the-top joke that makes a big laugh. >> let's rewind a little bit, because last year you said it was wrong for will smith to hit chris rock, but you understand it. now that rock is speaking out in his own terms, do you still understand it? what do you think? >> yeah, absolutely. i think it's important that we still have oxygen for nuance. i know nuance doesn't do well in this country. i know we like black and white things. but to me, what transpired last year at the oscars is filled with gray. because there's a backstory here, there's a present conditioning happening. and there's also individual conversations that people are having with themselves that we're just not privy to. and i think oversimplification does more damage in terms of commentary and what happened last year than good. >> he used what happened in his life, he used will smith and
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jada pinkett, at least the story, as a broader conversation about selective outrage, right? there was a lesson, not only in it for will schmitmith and what did, according to chris rock, but the larger culture, for all of us. where he talks about, this is from avogue, janelle talks about when will smith mentions exercise companies and supposedly being too woke and what have you. he said, rock's targets are united by what he considers hypocrisy. this selective outrage that allows luxury brands to tout their anti-racism stance while using exploitive labor practices and allows bad actors to shield themselves by co-opting the language of social justice. meaning, people don't actually walk the walk. they fake it and in their real lives, they're not living up to the actual language they're putting out there. >> well, absolutely. but we've known that for a very
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long time, right? and i wouldn't say, you know, it's just about corporations, but i think rock did a very good job in talking about how we are also personal hypocrites in a lot of ways, by comparing people who listen to r. kelly, but have a problem with michael jackson, or vice versa. exactly. so i think that chris did a really good job of pointing out not just the corporate hypocrisy when it comes to outrage, but also the personal outrage and hypocrisy and reminding us at the end of the day, we can control what we do, but we can't control what lululemon does. >> right. so let's talk about what folks are saying sort of on the street, right? so he ended by saying that his -- the lesson in it for him is that the reason he didn't do it because his parents taught him not to fight in front of white people. really, i thought it was the best review. she writes, while it provided a suitably pithy ending to the special, it also offered a glimpse of what could have been had rock talked a bit more about
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what it means to be a black man underneath the crushi i ing glaf the spotlight. >> it's spot-on, spot-on statement, spot-on passage. there were opportunities there for chris rock to push the conversation forward. you know, one of my criticisms from last year, you know, wasn't just about the violence that happened on stage, but also the fact that i felt that chris was kind of lazy in doing a j.i. jane joke to begin with in 2022, especially after, you know, if you want to talk about bald black woman, you have all of wakanda to make that joke, but there was an opportunity for chris to not just talk about will smith's unresolved anger, but if you listen to chris rock, i felt like he was still very angry and hadn't processed a lot of things. he made a joke that everybody basically in the hip-hop community, you know, thought he was emasculated. how emasculated did he feel knowing that he was the one person that will smith felt
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secure enough to actually strike. that's also a mental toll that i'm not sure if chris rock has processed enough. i think that's an aspect of the conversation that would have been interesting for him to flesh out a little bit more, but he's not required to do so. and i don't think that is fair to require black artists and black comedians to address every single ill that impacts the pl black community. there needs to be a space for them to have levity and fun. i think it's a fair balance. i think there was a missed opportunity there from rock. but he wasn't required to take that opportunity. z >> i love that it was live. it wasn't all shiny and edited, in that it was messy, messed up, acknowledged it, and went back and did it. i thought it was pretty brilliant. thank you, l.z. >> he's a beast, man. he was an spabsolute beast that night. that's not easy, what he did. >> thank you, sir. >> always fascinating hearing from l.z. ahead, the economy, former
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. all right. today might be the start of a pretty volatile week on wall street. we'll get key readings on the u.s. labor market, also testimony, two days of it from the federal reserve chair, jerome powell. the fed will announce its decision on interest rates a little bit later this month. this, of course, follows eight consecutive rate hikes going back to march of last year. also, over the weekend, notably, federal reserve president mary daly of the san francisco fed said in a speech this weekend, quote, it's clear there is more work to do, suggesting that the fed will need to raise rates higher than expected and keep them higher for longer. what does it mean for you. former treasury secretary larry summers joins us now, someone who has been spot-on when it comes to the risks in inflation for a number of years now, warning the biden administration and others of what is to come. so, secretary summers, thanks very much for your time. it wasn't just mary daly of the
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san francisco fed, it's also the minneapolis federal reserve, president neel kashkari, who we've had on the program, atlanta fed chief, raphael bostb bostic. do you think the fed will need to increase rates more than expected, maybe 50 basis points at the meeting next month? >> look, i don't think there's any question, poppy, that we do not yet have inflation on a secure glide path anywhere near down to the 2% level. and until the fed can be confident of that, it's going to have to be tightening rather than easing. so my guess is that rates are going to reach a higher level than the market is now expecting. that it's going to certainly reach a much higher level than the fed was expecting last
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december. and that once again, the data will record that the fed underestimated inflation and underestimated how much policy was going to be necessary. that's a risky thing, because historically, we don't tend to be able to engineer soft landings from significant inflation. and so, my guess is that at some point, the fed will push and push. we will not get inflation accelerate and skyrocket out of control. but my guess is that the process of bringing down inflation will bring on a recession at some stage, as it almost always has in the past. >> how much higher, larry? >> are we talking 6%? look what goldman is saying
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right now. >> i wouldn't be amazed if we had 6%. 6% would probably not be my best guess. my best guess would probably be 5.5 or a little above 5.5. but 6% would not surprise me greatly. and i think anyone who thinks that that's off the radar screen is making a real mistake, given all of the uncertainties that we have in our economy right now. and i think what people have to do is just be prepared for a lot of things. and the old advice, hope for the best, but plan for the worst, i think, is the right advice for your listeners. i think it's the right advice for companies. i think it's the right advice
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for policy makers. >> you know, like you, jpmorgan's ceo jamie dimon has always been warning about what's ahead, especially when people deplete all of that covid stimulus savings. listen to what he said, this was on cnbc on february 23rd. >> this is the contradiction. the u.s. economy is doing quite well. consumers have a lot of money. they're spending it, jobs are plentiful. that's today. out in front of us, there's some scary stuff. you and i know there's always uncertainty. that's a normal thing. >> okay. this uncertainty is a little bit more than that. >> do you agree with him? this uncertainty is more than normal and there is some, quote, scary stuff ahead. and if you do agree, what does that feel like for the average american? >> poppy, i've used the term risk of a wylie coyote moment to refer to the fact that the economy could hit an air pocket in a few months, my guess is
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that the overhang, the savings, the consumers have accumulated has a few more months to run, bu to runn inventories. right now, businesses are holding on to workers, because there's been a labor shortage for the last couple of years, but if that starts to go away, then they're going to feel less pressure to hold on to workers. it may be that interest rates are going to eventually work their way through the system and, you know, that's going to have a significant effect on employment, for example, building houses. so you've got a variety of dynamics that could kick in. i thought it was interesting in a survey of households, they said they were feeling really quite good now, and they are
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worried about the future. and when you ask some of the big retail companies, when they reported their earnings, like walmart, they said something quite similar. so i think between the risk of inflation and the risk of some kind of air pocket, the fed is trying to walk along a very, very narrow ledge, and it's not an easy situation. >> it's a tightrope. li there is no question about that. larry summers, thank you, and we'll see what members of the senate and the house ask fed chair jay powell when he testifies this week. i appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you. four american citizens kidnapped just over the border in mexico. what the fbi is saying about the incicident, next. also, hard to believe, but a month after that toxic train disastster in east palestine, , second norfolk southern train
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minivan with north carolina plates and forced them into another vehicle. they are so dangerous that the state department had issued a do not travel warning, citing crime and kidnapping. >> ukrainian forces are struggling to hold on to the eastern city of bakhmut, as russian troops close in on three sides. ukrainian officials say that their forces may need to retreat to avoid being trapped. defense secretary lloyd austin telling reporters today if the ukrainians decide to reposition in bakhmut, it would not be an operational or strategic setback. the ntsb is sending investigators to the site of another separate derailment in ohio. saturday's derailment was also a norfolk southern freight train. officials say unlike the one that derailed in east palestine, ohio, last month, this time, no toxic chemicals were released. >> also, former governor larry hogan will not seek the election for president in 2024, saying, the stiks are too high for me to risk being part of another
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> ♪ i know that last night we lit the liquor talk ♪ ♪ i can't remember everything we said but we said it all ♪ ♪ you told me that you wish i was somebody you never met ♪ ♪ but baby, baby, something is telling me ♪ >> that song from morgan wallen's new album "one thing at a time" that has broken spotify's streaming records more than 52 million streams on friday alone. that is the most ever for a country album in a single day by a male artist according to spotify. to celebrate his new album's release wallen returned to his high school in knoxville, tennessee. ♪
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>> my name is morgan wallen, i graduated from here in 2011. this place is special to me, a lot of the people are special to me, in honor of that i'm going to play a concert just for you guys plus one, every single one of y'all. >> that success is coming two years after wallen as many remember was caught on video using a racial slur. he apologized, it caused his label to temporarily suspend him. let's bring in cnn's senior data reporter harry enten who has been looking at these numbers. it's remarkable how many people are listening to this new album. >> you hit it right on the head, 52 million streams, that's the most in one day ever for a country male artist. one thing at a time album. i just want to go a little deeper and take a step back and get an understanding of what it means to have album -- >> this is amaze to go me. >> yes. so the number of songs on top selling albums, i think we're much used to saying closer to 11 or 12, that was the 1991 to '95 average. 2018 to 2022 we get up to 23.
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now "one thing at a time" look at that, 36 tracks. it's a little bit of cheating, right? it's like i have all these streams for this album he has 36 songs on this album, kaitlan, 36. >> that used to be three different albums, 36 songs. >> that's exactly right. this is something that wallen has done before. look at the topical bum of 2021. if you go off of album sales ever adele's "thirty" was number one. album sales plus equivalents which includes digital sales and streams he was number one. there were 30 songs on this album, there has been 12 on this bum. he has been pumping up his numbers through the streaming. >> how are their individual songs doing on top charts? is he often on there? >> he is often on the hot country 100 but he is not somebody who has the same number one song on the hot and hot country 100. not like these artists. but i should note country has
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broken through. the top sellers all have roots in country, lil nas x had the song with the most weeks at number one and garth brooks had the most sold albums of all time for a single artist. >> i love that song and one of the best concerts i have ever seen was garth brooks. do you remember when he made all the tickets the same price. if you were sitting on the front row or up in the rafters, everyone paid the same amount for their tickets. >> a good guy but i like his stuff as well. >> harry, thanks for the numbers. good luck listening and streaming morgan wallen. best segment, last segment. >> coming up next, cnn anchor kasie hunt just gave birth to her second child during 13 minutes of suddeden labor befor there was even time to call the paramemedics. kasie hunt joins us with our morning moment. >> hopefefully with the baby. a third kid. what if she likekes playing golf? it's expensive.
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all right. this morning moment comes from one of our very own, one of our favorites, our very own kasie hunt. no strange tore breaking news but this one took her totally by surprise, she was home when her daughter decided to enter the world pretty quickly, just 13 minutes of labor, they didn't even have time to dial 911. her husband stepped in and helped deliver their second child right there on the bathroom floor of their home. beautiful baby, beautiful name, grey hunt rivera. mom reports she is a healthy 8 pounds 4 ounces and is with us
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on the phone. how are you doing? i know a loaded question, right? >> wait. you couldn't go to hair and makeup? >> come on. when i saw this on -- when i saw your instagram story and the "people" magazine article i thought you are even more our hero now than you were before. >> you guys are so sweet and thank you so much for having me. yeah, i mean, you said i'm no stranger to breaking news. this was -- i'm definitely a stranger to this. >> well, how are you doing? >> we're both doing very, very well. honestly, you know, all the women out there who have been babies a 13-minute labor is pretty great when you think about it. honestly it's a great story because nothing bad happened, we had really great care from the d.c. fire and ems folks who showed up when we were able to call them in ten minutes flat and talked us through what to do because, you know, your instincts take over but all of a sudden there is a baby and my husband and i sort of looked at each other thinking what do we
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do now? thank god an operator picked up and helped us walk us through what to do to keep her safe. we're just grateful. >> they didn't actually show up while this was happening, they showed up after and talked you through it while you guys were at the home, is that right? >> that's right, kaitlan, yeah. it was -- it was one of these things where honestly the only reason i know it was 13 minutes looking back at call logs on my phone because i was up early, you know, as, you know, poppy, i'm sure you've been uncomfortable late in pregnancy, i wasn't sleeping very well. >> yeah. >> i was awake and down stairs and all of a sudden i started to feel funny and i called my dual loui -- dula, you don't want to call the doctor and say i'm in labor, actually, never mind. while we were on the phone it became clear that something was happening very fast. she said get off the phone, call the doctor, which i d i woke up my husband, he was only awake for five minutes before he delivered the baby on the floor.
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it went from, hey, get up right now, we're going to the hospital, call our friends who are going to take care of our other son to, please come in here, the baby is going to be in here right now. that's how fast it happened. >> i was just going to ask about your son because we just saw the beautiful pictures of him meeting his little sister for the first time. how is he doing? how is she doing? >> they're both doing great and my son mars could not be more proud to be a big brother. he has just been the absolute sweetest and it's these moments, right, that you absolutely live for as a parent and so it's just been wonderful to see him and i'm excited to watch him grow into the role. she's been great, everything a baby is supposed to do. >> i bet your husband was like, wait. i'm going to wake up, right? wait a minute, this is a dream, right? and it is a dream. it's a great dream come true, actually. >> it really is and, you know, we've gotten a lot of comments from people who have said,
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