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hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. >> and i'm bianna golodryga. a tragic discovery in the search for the four americans abducted in mexico. two of them were found dead and two are pack on u.s. soil. they were all found in a medical clinic in a boerder town. one of the two survives is injured. the group was traveling from south carolina so one of them could undergo a medical procedure. >> authorities say a group of unidentified men shot at the victims' vehicles and took them away. investigators believe the americans were targeted by a mexican cartel that likely mistook them for haitian drug
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smugglers. diane dgallagher is in south carolina, kylie atwood is monitoring the situation from the state department. diane, let's start with you and what we're learning about the victims and what happened. >> reporter: victor, i'm in lake city, south carolina, which family says is where three of the four americans who were abducted grew up here together. they describe them as a friend group that is tight knit. the sister of one of the americans says they were like glue when they got together. they just stuck. look, we are starting to get a better picture from friends and family members of how this journey to mexico unfolded and how it seemed very normal until it wasn't. they talked about them all renting this minivan and driving down from here in south carolina to mexico. according to a friend of latavia washington mcgee who was getting that medical procedure, they
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rented a hotel in brownsville, texas. she struggled, the group, when they went into mexico to find the doctor's office. the friend describes the fact that mcgee said they were lost. they were having a hard time communicating with the doctor's office because of spotty and poor cell phone signal. on saturday when this friend had not heard from mcgee or any of the others, she became concerned and reached out to that doctor's office. they confirmed that they had been trying to communicate but mcgee never showed up. mcgee's mother also confirms the doctor was concerned she had never showed up and contacted them. she says that the fbi contacted her on sunday telling her that her daughter had in fact been kidnapped and that she was in danger. mcgee's aunt says that she began looking online for information and found a video where she recognized her niece being kidnapped because of the blonde hair and because of the clothes she was wearing. again, this was a friend road trip. they were going to support their friend who was getting a medical
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procedure. they were live streaming. they were face timing.until the. family members have said that they suddenly couldn't get in touch with them anymore. it was all going to voice mail. it was just ringing until they couldn't get in touch with them and they became worried and began communicating with the conf fbi. mcgee is the mother of six children. in speaking last night they were holding out hope that it wouldn't end like this, bianna, victor. >> i heard you say earlier today that they viewed it as no news was good news. we're thinking of those six children. kylie, how is the biden administration responding? >> listen, it's clearly an all hands on deck effort here. we just heard from the white house press secretary talking about how dhs is involved, the
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fbi is involved, dea is involved. we know of course the state department and the justice department are involved. and all of those u.s. government agencies are working their contacts in mexico, working with their counterparts in mexico to try to figure out -- >> ned price at the state department giving an update. let's listen. >> we extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. we thank our mexican and u.s. law enforcement partners for their efforts to find these innocent victims and the task forward is to ensure that justice is done. next, earlier today at the launch of the 2023 joint response plan for the rohingya humanitarian crisis in bangladesh, the united states announced $26 million in additional humanitarian assistance -- >> coming in at the tail end of his comment. all right. so we had ned price there, the spokesman for the state department giving a few moments
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about these four americans, two of whom are dead, one injured, one unharmed. let's go back to kylie atwood at the state department. i'm sure we'll get more as the questions begin for ned, but kylie, continue. >> yeah, well, i don't think we'll hear too much more from the state department if he didn't include them in the opening remarks. that's probably because the state department is still working to get in touch with the family members of those who actually died in this incident. we know according to mexican officials that two of the americans died and two of them are still alive. but we still haven't gotten, you know, specific confirmation on that from the u.s. government. they need to reach out to the families first and then we'll learn more. they also haven't given us many details about the circumstances surrounding this. we have on taped video that helps tell the story here. mexican officials have provided some details and the fbi have provided some details but there are still a lot of remaining
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questions about how all of this went down. i think it's really important to note that the state department has warned against u.s. citizens traveling to this area of mexico for some time now. it has a do not travel advisory. that is specifically because of the criminal activity in the area, because of the gangs, because of the murders that happened. and the cdc has also warned americans against traveling to this area for medical procedures. obviously we know that tragically this american who went for a medical cosmetic medical procedure didn't actually get it as far as we know on this trip because of this run-in that they had, this violent run-in with the individuals that they ran into. but it is an area that is known for there being medical tourism, if you will. americans going down there to get cheaper medical procedures. the cdc has warned that there can be a lot of complications that arise even when you do actually get those medical procedures, let alone what the
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kind of issues you could run into when you're trying to get those. so we'll wait to hear more from the state department in terms of what they're collecting. the other thing that we'll watch is we've heard from u.s. officials throughout the day talking about justice being served and we'll watch to see what that looks like from the standpoint of the biden administration. >> you'll be following this closely for us, kylie. let us know when you get any updates. our thanks to diane gallagher as well. we now have new footage of a harrowing incident on a boston-bound united airlines flight yesterday. a passenger captured this video when francisco torres charged the front of the plane trying to stab a flight attendant in the neck with a broken spoon. lisa olson tells cnn what happened next. >> many men from the plane jumped up, followed him, tackled him to the ground. there were probably four to six of them that sat on top of him
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to restain him. the flight crew had zip ties to zip tie his feet and his arms. he was still screaming. and he somehow escaped from the zip ties. they put new ones on him once we knew that there were only one additional set of zip ties left, people were sending up their we belts. >> cnn's pete muntean shows us how it all started. >> reporter: united airlines flight 2609 from los angeles to boston, it was a smooth flight for the first five hours on sunday until -- >> so where's the homeland security with the gun, because i'm waiting for them to point the gun at me so i will show everybody that i will die when i take every bullet in that clip and then i will kill every man on this plane. >> reporter: the agitated passenger is identified as francisco torres of
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massachusetts. the video obtained by cnn was recorded by a passenger. it shows torres having violent outbursts towards other passengers and flight attendants. >> i'm coming for you. i'm coming for you, bianca. >> reporter: for minutes nervous passengers sat down and listened. >> nobody cares. nobody cares. where's homeland security? there should be homeland security? where are they diverting us? >> reporter: 15 seconds later he walks out of his seat, pulls a makeshift weapon and said what no airline passenger ever wants to hear. >> i'm taking over this plane. >> oh, my god. uh id uh-oh. >> reporter: while united airlines says there were no reported injuries, the justice department says torres rushed towards one of the flight attendants in a stabbing motion with a broken metal spoon hitting the flight attendant on the neck area three times.
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torres also told law enforcement that he tried to open the emergency door to jump out of the plane. torres also claimed he was defending himself because he believed the flight crew was trying to kill him. video shows passengers and crew members tackling and restraining torres. a passenger told cnn torres remained restrained for another 30 minutes before the plane landed safely at boston logan international airport where torres was arrested. this is the second high-profile case of an unruly passenger in as many weeks. torres is now banned from flying on united airlines. he is being detained pending a hearing before a judge on thursday. >> it could have turned out so much worse for those passengers on that flight. >> glad some jumped up to help. >> multiple people did. for the first time in more than 20 years, the federal government is suing to block a u.s. airline merger. the department of justice announced this morning that it wants to stop jetblue's proposed
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$3.8 billion deal to buy spirit airlines. >> attorney general merrick garland said the merger would significantly harm consumers by causing higher fares and fewer choices for customers. fed chair jerome powell says interest rates will rise more than people real ease and that the process of getting inflation under control is likely to be bumpy. ahead what this all means for you. and a stern, fresh warning to the u.s. from china. beijing's foreign minister says conflict and confrontation are inevitable if washington does not change course. how the white house is responding. that's next. no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. bebetween the high interest, the fees... i felt trapped. debt, debt, debt. so i broke up with my y credit card debt and consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. i finally feel like a grown-up. break up with bad credit card debt. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k. go to sofi.com to view your rate. sofi. get your money right.
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man: mom, really? the white house said today the u.s. does not seek conflict with china and there is no change in u.s. policy toward beijing. the reassurance followed combative public comments by chinesexi jinping and his new foreign minister. >> she accused the u.s. and its allies of suppressing china's economic development. hours later china's ambassador to the u.s. turned foreign minister also lashed out. cnn's lena wang is in beijing with details. >> reporter: victor, bianna,
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chinese foreign minister said conflict with the u.s. is inevitable if washington does not change course, warning there could be catastrophic consequences. up until recently he was china's ambassador to the u.s. he has a reputation for being a careful and accomplished diplomat, so it's significant that he struck this much more combative tone in his first appearance in this role. we heard him make this argument that beijing has been making for a long time which is the u.s. is trying to contain china. he lashed out at the indo-pacific strategy. he defended chinese partnership with russia as imperative and said china has not supplied weapons to russia or ukraine this was a fiery press conference and sets the tone for china's policy for years to come and there's not going to be an
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off-ramp to chinese tensions any time soon. this is part of china's biggest annual political gathering. it's the first one held since china aban onned its covid policy. they had to stay at a quarantine hotel, get on on-site pcr test. restrictions were surprising considering they have completely opened up from covid. the question is were these covid controls or just to restrict press access. what is clear is that the communist leadership only wants the world to see one from china and that is one of unity, strength and victory. >> max baccus served in the obama administration. mr. ambassador, good to see you. you said your approach to china is to be patient, positive and persistent.
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when you hear these comments from xi, are you as optimistic that this relationship can go in the right direction? what do you make of what you hear from the foreign minister? >> i was not terribly surprised. he is terribly close to president xi. he became chinese ambassador to the u.s. and also chinese foreign minister because he is close to president xi. he worked for president xi. nevertheless, i think we have to listen to what he said and not dismiss it. the chinese are beginning to believe that they can no longer deal with the u.s. they look at u.s. actions, whether it's the administration and/or congress on taiwan and they say, gee, america professes a one china policy but is not following it by sending so many arms and visits over to taiwan. at the same time, we're quite concerned with china because they're not helping us in ukraine. the main point i'm trying to make here is we are heading if
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not toward a conflict something close to it. there is no meaningful communication between our two countries, northbound whatsoever in any meaningful way. when that happens, we tend to assume the worst about the other. americans are assuming that china wants to control much of the world. the u.s. and chinese think that the united states wants the whole world controlled by the u.s. the fact of the matter is china and the united states are two large powerful proud countries. we have to work together. we have to learn to live with each other better. we're not doing that. there's no communication. we call ourselves names, both sides, and frankly i don't think it will get better until after the 2024 elections. >> acseparately president biden and president xi have a cordial relationship but we are seeing
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this heated rhetoric coming from a bipartisan congress and hearing publicly over the past year from military officials who are publicly saying that they believe that conflict between china and taiwan is almost inevitable. it could come in the next couple of years. is that helpful to be hearing these words publicly at this point? to your point about trying to tone down the rhetoric. >> i think it's not helpful. i'm surprised there's not more discipline by u.s. military commanders in statements that they make. if they believe that, that should be internal u.s. policy decision or recommendation, it should not be stated publicly. the more we call each other names and use rhetoric that accuses the other of various actions, what's going to happen. i think it's going to happen eventually and not just in the u.s. but also china. we have to realize neither country is going away. we have to live with each other
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some way. china does not want war. the u.s. does not want war. we have to live with each other understanding that we are two separate systems. we have our democratic system and we're very proud of our values, the constitution, the declaration of independence. china is equally proud. they're very proud and their population is four times the size of ours. so we've got to figure out a way to respect each other and to work with each other and not try to control the other. >> ambassador, i heard you end your answer to my first question by saying -- you said this is not going to change until after the 2024 presidential election. i am to interpret that that there is something specific and inherent about the biden administration that makes this worse? there needs to be another voice from the u.s.? i'm pulling that thread of why you think this will change after 2024. >> well, no, i think whoever is
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president, whether it's joe biden or whomever it might be is going to be pretty tough on china because president biden wants to be re-elected probably and he has to be very tough on china. he does not want to be perceived as soft at china. it's domestic politics in the u.s. which causes u.s. politicians to be very anti-china. but i do think after the '24 election we'll see who's president. joe biden might get re-elected, somebody else might be president. that's an opportunity for our administration to look toward a reset to say, gee, what should we be doing? my hunch is by then it will be even worse than it is today and the realization that, hey, we better start doing something differently. >> this is one of the few areas that you're seeing bipartisan agreement and it's not necessarily on toning things down. it's a hawkish view towards china as of late. >> correct. >> max bacucus, thank you.
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fighting has had a heavy toll on ukrainian forces. given that, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin even suggested continuing to fight for control of a city may not bow in ukraine's strategic longer term interest it clear that the fight for es are not leaving. >> translator: this is tactical for us. we understand that after bakhmut they could go further. it would be an open road for the russians after bakhmut to other towns in ukraine in the donetsk direction. that's why our guys are standing there. >> chief foreign affairs correspondent at the "wall street journal" joins us now.
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thank you for joining us. i know you were on the front lines reporting on the fighting there in bakhmut. how sustainable is the current level of battle? >> well, thank you. it's a very, very tough battle there. you have several brigades inside the city of bakhmut. you have the forces of wagner trying to circle the city. right now there are no roads that are passable for forces so they'll have to use dirt tracks that are basically mud right now. so vehicles get stuck, they get shelled. it's going to be harder and harder every day to supply the ukrainian defenders of bakhmut. >> what do you make of these conflicting views militarily? you have the pentagon saying this would not be a strategic loss for ukraine if they retreated. there you heard from president zelenskyy saying that it would be, it is of tactical
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significance for ukraine to remain and for reinforcements to come in because he says if russians get hold of bakhmut, they could get on to other cities. what do you make of the differences and does ukraine have the resources needed to continue this fight? >> the question is does it want to use its resources for bakhmut because krukraine is preparing r a spring offensive to retake 18% of ukraine taken by russia. this is a far more important area strategically. so the exchange is that wagner is throwing mostly convict recruits and taken russian prison camps, murderers, rapists and robbers. ukraine has to fight them with their best military units getting ground up over eight months of fighting in that small
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city. the question is will it deprive ukraine of its ability to launch a spring offensive when the ground dies up. >> you brought up the wagner group and the ukrainian side is suggesting the opposite, they view this -- since there's tension between its leader and the kremlin at this point. they are running out of convicts to throw into battle there so many ukrainians are viewing this as a point to weaken them more so they don't have to continue fighting valwagner in future ti. what do you make of that? >> as we are encircling bakhmut -- it remains to be seen if the ukrainian military is able to execute such a maneuver
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and wants to do it at the cost of perhaps undermining its ability to advance elsewhere. but it's a very daily battle. both sides are incurring very heavy casualties every day there. >> you mentioned this spring offensive that's highly anticipated from the ukrainians. the longer that ukraine spends time, energy and resources both in terms of troops and ammunition, does that threaten the offensive that they are planning in the weeks ahead, possibly in the south? >> that is exactly what i heard from speaking to military commanders on the ground, on the battalion and company level on the bakhmut front. a lot of them are saying maybe ukraine should not be trying to hold on to bakhmut for so long and should have kept its eyes on regaining access to the south, to the sea and coming to the doorstep of crimea.
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>> it doesn't look like that's where president zelenskyy is viewing this war right now. he's not leaving bakhmut any time soon given his comments to wolf blitzer. thank you so much. >> thank you. and be sure to tune in tomorrow to see more of wolf blitzer's exclusive interview with ukrainian president zelenskyy. it airs tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. lawmakers in mississippi are considering a controversial bill that would create an unelected and instead state appointed court system for the capital city of jackson. ahead, why critics are comparing it to apartheid and jim crow for the predominantltly black city. delicious anany time of day.e only from ihop. download the app and earnn free food with every orderer.
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stocks are down right now after fed chairman jerome powell's assertion that higher inflation is here to stay at least for now. >> powell testified before the senate banking committee about the strength of the u.s. economy and addressed what's on top of everyone's meind. of course that's interest rates. >> although inflation has been moderating in recent months, the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go and is likely to be bumpy. as i mentioned, the latest economic data have come in stronger than expected which suggests that the ultimate level of interest rates is likely to be higher than previously anticipated. >> cnn's matt egan is here with more on powell's testimony. he's suggesting more rate hikes and at a larger scale. >> he's basically saying that this war on inflation could drag on perhaps through the summer. the economy is off to a
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sprosproigz surprisingly hot start. americans are shopping aggressively and inflation remains way too high. in fact if you look at the fed's preferred inflation metric you can see that, yes, inflation has cooled off but it ticked higher in january so that is a problem. and that is despite the fact that the fed has been aggressively raising interest rates. eight straight times they have raised interest rates. notably they slowed the pace of these rate hikes and lowered the dosage of this inflation ng. but after today's hearing investors have started pricing in a growing chance of a 50 basis point move later this month. this is not setting well with wall street. all three major indexes were down on the day. they were basically up changed before powell started talking. what does this mean for main street? high interest rates of course. also potentially job loss. elizabeth warren got into a back and forth with powell on just
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that topic, listen. >> chair powell, if you hit your projections, do you know how many people who are currently working going about their lives will lose their jobs? >> i don't -- i don't have that number in front of me. >> it's just a math problem. >> ununintended consequences. >> it is, and that would be about 2 million people that would lose their jobs. what would you say to them? how would you explain your view that they need to lose their jobs? >> inflation is extremely high and it's hurting the working people of this country, all of them are suffering under high inflation. >> so powell is basically saying that rate hikes are their best tool to fight inflation. of course they can be painful too. >> he also talked about the debt ceiling. what did he say? >> yeah. powell, he doesn't really want to get into politics, but he did make it clear that congress should not mess around with the debt ceiling because the stakes are just too great here.
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listen to what he said. >> congress really needs to raise the debt ceiling. that's the only way out in a timely way that allows us to pay all of our bills when and as due. if we fail to do so, i think the consequences are hard to estimate, but they could be extraordinarily averse -- adverse and could do long-standing harm. >> just to remind you, the debt limit is this $31.4 trillion cap on borrowing. it was last raised at the end of 2021. the congressional budget office estimates that the united states is not going to run out of cash until at least july 2023, but moody's analytics warn that a breach of the debt limit could be catastrophic. they say even a brief breach could cause a mild recession and the loss of almost a million jobs. >> matt egan, thanks so much. a memphis city attorney says the internal investigation into
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♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ the city attorney for memphis now says the internal investigation into tyre nichols' arrest and death is complete. she also says more video and documents will be released in the coming days. >> nichols died three days after being beaten during a traffic stop in january. five former memphis police officers have since been charged in his death. shimon prokupecz is following this for us. what more do we know about this video? >> reporter: it's significant that the investigation by the city of memphis is now complete.
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they're done. they're done with their internal investigation. and what they said today was that 13 officers in total were charged administratively. and of those 13, seven have been fired, three were suspended, two actually had their charges dismissed because these officers have to go before an administrative hearing, and one of the officers resigned. so it's a significant number. more than a dozen officers now believed to be involved in this assault and were there. though they were just administratively charged, obviously fired, now the district attorney has to decide whether or not any other officers are going to face charges. so tomorrow we're going to see more video. that's what the city said today. at least 40 more hours of video is what they're saying we're going to see. some of which we learned could be video of tyre nichols' mother talking to police, being told what happened. other video is the officers talking to each other about what happened perhaps. so there's all of that. we also learned also there were
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four fire department officials also charged. three of them were fired and one was suspended. so this investigation has just been continuing and continuing. the civil part of this, the administrative part is now over and now everything is up to the district attorney. we know five officers obvious he were charged. on waiting on word from the d.a. on whether any other officers are going to be charged. and then we're also going to start to see some records, paperwork, other information perhaps that the memphis police department is going to finally release, which would shed light on some of what else happened. there are many questions about what led up to the ultimate stop of tyre nichols. why were the police so aggressive? what was happening in the moments before that? perhaps we may get more information on that tomorrow. around this time we expect this video to come out tomorrow. >> shimon prokupecz, thank you. in mississippi a controversial republican bill in the state legislature calls for
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creating an unelected state appointed court system in the city of jackson. critics call it a takeover of the predominantly black capital city and worry it will put white conservative officials in control of jackson's criminal justice system. robert johnson is a democratic legislator in mississippi. leader johnson, thank you so much for being with me. i imagine that you would acknowledge that crime is a significant problem in the city of jackson. you'll acknowledge there is a backlog there in the circuit court system. so why is this the wrong plan to alleviate that, to add these judges to try to deal with some of these cases? >> thank you for having me, victor. the reason it's wrong, and let me correct something about the backlog. there is a backlog but there are jurisdictions in this state that have a greater backlog than jackson, a higher number. and there is no provision -- but
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they're in counties that are majority white and districts that are majority white. they have not suggested one time that they will appoint judges. let me point out the reason it's wrong is because the constitution of the state of mississippi, article 6, section 153, expressly says that judges shall be appointed. and furthermore, we have a provision, a way if you want to have more judges to handle this backlog. we do it every year. we have people come and request additional judges. this county, this district has requested additional judges to be elected and they have been turned down and denied at every turn. and so this is just a racist, unconstitutional power grab. there is a solution. you just don't do it by coming in and taking over a city that you've tried to choke the life out of up until this point. look, the other thing i'd like to point out too is there have been -- go ahead. >> so there are two bills now. we have a bit of a delay so
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that's why we have a challenge. you finish your answer and then i'll ask the question. >> all right, i'm done. you ask the question. >> all right, thank you, leader johnson. here's the question. we've got the house pbill that has passed. the senate bill is being debated, they're offering amendments right now. again, there is a super majority by riepublicans there in the legislature. the house bill would create this jurisdiction that would cover a wealthier, whiter portion of the city of jackson with this new district. the senate bill would expand throughout the city. if you had to choose between the two that you don't like, is there one that you think is fairer to the people of jackson? >> well, equal protection under the law is always better. segregating people and carving out a portion where you have a part of the city that will
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warrant more investment and more attention than the other part and just ignore the problems and the issues that you have in the other part of the city is never a good solution. so if i had to choose. but trust me, there is nothing good about either of these bills. they both don't meet constitutional muster. and this is something we have to continue to fight. we're continuing to try to talk to other legislators, the leadership in this house and senate, and encourage them to look back on the pieces of legislation that have been introduced to address this problem. this is a money problem. this is a problem that they can't solve even by their appointments without spending money. we have $3.9 billion in the bank. -wee we could help with the water system and a lot of things without taking over the city and robbing these citizens of their constitutional right to elect their leaders. >> you say taking over the city
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and this is a question i genuinely do not know the answer to and i've been digging through all morning to try to find it. in 2021 there were additional judges added there in heinz county sponsored or paid for by the state through the c.a.r.e.s. act. 2022, more judges through the american rescue plan. those appointments expired in january. part of the circuit court system they were under the purview or the cases were assigned by senior circuit judges. how would this be different than what the state did in 2021 and 2022? >> it would be different in the sense that under this bill, the supreme court justice would appoint those judges and he currently does that. but the distribution of cases, where the cases would assigned by a senior judge. under ccid they would not be
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under the authority of the senior judge in the seventh circuit. they would simply answer to the supreme court justice and the state's court system. and that -- under this system that would exist now, that we did to address the backlog caused by covid, that was something that the district judges here in the county had authority over. leader robert l. johnson thank you for your time and the expla explanation. we'll be watching. we'll be right back. nonot part of it but the whwhole upstairs the whole dodownstairs the whole fridge and the whole secret nap room because is it really a vacation home if you have to share a house with a host? ♪ only with vrbo you go by lots of titles.
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