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biden once again headed to philadelphia, this time making his way to unveil his budget. he said his plan will reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade. how? by raising taxes on the wealthy and big corporations. the plan will set up a battle with republicans. we'll look at the looming show down on capitol hill later this morning. stunning details from a justice department report which found a pattern of racism, excessive force and abuse by the louisville police department. the investigation coming after the killing of breonna taylor. she, of course, was killed in a botched raid. just ahead, more fallout from that report. right now air-raid sirens blaring across ukraine after a barrage of strikes by russia. this morning at least 11 people are killed, several others injured. we'll have the latest from ukraine on what was a devastating night. we begin with president
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biden set to lay out his budget proposal to the nation in a few hours. mj lee is following this. walk us through what we believe the president's priorities will be, particularly now since he does not control both houses of congress. >> reporter: we do expect the full details of this budget to come out in a matter of hours but there are major come po ne components of the budget that we know. we know the president is going to propose cutting the deficit by $3 trillion, this is notable because in recent weeks he's been talking about that figure being more like 2 trillion so this is more aggressive. we know he wants the cuts to the deficit coming in part from taxing high earners and large corporations. he has said he doesn't want to put extra taxes on people learning less than $400,000. we are talking ant tbout thingse
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allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices and savings there would go back to the program. and boosting federal fund for early education and child care, including making free preschool for all 4-year-olds across the country and expanding tax credits for businesses that do provide child care for their workers. this is the priorities the president has been working on the past two years. this has no chance, really, of passing on capitol hill, it is not going to go anywhere on capitol hill, especially given that the house is now controlled by republicans. but what we are seeing here is a political blueprint that the president and democrats are now going to use to try to set up some of those key political contrasts on some of the domestic priorities that we talked about. that they want to make headed
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into 2024 against house republicans. of course, we have that battle looming between the president. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy in the coming months on the issue of raising the debt ceiling. so a lot more details that we expect in the coming hours but a lot that we already know so far as well. >> appreciate the reporting as always. thank you. joining us now to discuss, politico's managing e editor elana shore. and from bunch bowl news alice kegle. while this budget is late, we should point out later than anticipated, elana when we look at this in terms of how it's setting up the fight for congress with the president coming out with these very specific narratives, specifically talking about entitlements. does that give democrats the narrative at this point? >> they certainly hope it does.
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particularly with donald trump out there in the presidential primary slamming nikki haley, any republican who would consider touching entitlements. democrats see an advantage in terms of how this budget treats social security and medicare. but republicans would rather make the conversation about overall debt cutting and avoiding the types of tax increases the president is proposing. so it's a jump ball for a narrative. >> we've been watching beyond the budget a possibility of default on the nation's debt as republicans push for other spending cuts. kevin mccarthy speaking about that yesterday. complaining the white house isn't negotiating. it's kevin mccarthy and the gop threa thr threatening. are negotiates going on? sorry, that's to you heather. >> sorry, i thought you were
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talking to elana. >> no worries. >> biden and mccarthy met once, as we know, and had a top level conversation. they agreed to keep the conversations going but they haven't met again and we have, like you said, seen mccarthy kind of complain about that publically. but the fact of the matter is, biden is putting out his budget today. republicans have repeatedly said let's see where you want to cut federal spending, see how you want to bring down the debt and deficit. so he's doing this. now it's republicans' turn in the house to do that. what i heard on the hill from top house republicans is their budget was they planned to release it in april now they're going to put it out in may. and again, they have a lot of problems in their conference because they can only lose five votes on the floor. there are competing factions you have hard line republicans, moderate republicans. they have promised to cut
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$130 billion and not touch defense spending and entitlements which means it comes from discretionary programs. and there are republicans saying i don't know if we can get our budget passed on the floor. so really, yes, these negotiations are just starting. i expect biden and mccarthy to m come back together later this summer as we get closer to the debt limit deadline but let's see what republicans put out and when they put it out. >> there are headaches for both sides, as you laid out, but when we look at this, in terms of the president and the speaker wrangling some of those members of their representative caucuses, who do you see as potentially the biggest headaches on each side? >> well, you know, i think the biggest headache is honestly going to be wrangling the middle, in my view. i know we're talking as heather
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pointed out about the conservatives in mccarthy's conference insistent on spending cuttings. but to me you have to get the 11 republicans in the senate maybe to go along with some kind of deal to save the nation from hitting the debt limit deadline. and we can see the debt limit deadline and the government spending deadline fuse in the summer. because we kick this can on the budget to may and we could see september featuring a last minute deadline fight with extraordinary measures to extend the deadline. and a funding fight. to me it's a hot take but the middle is most important to both parties because it's the only way it gets solved. news about mitch mcconnell who had a fall, he's hospitalized. what do we know? >> so he stayed in the hospital overnight. he had a fall. we actually at punch bowl rick gates -- we actually at punch
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bowl broke the news. he was at a private dinner and had a fall and was taken to a hospital in d.c. by ambulance. several sources reached out, they kept him overnight. that's all we know. senator mcconnell is 81 years old, he has spoken openly about how he suffered from polio as a child and recovered from that but has had some longer term issues, walking up stairs and things like that. he had a fall in 2019 where he was injured. we're hoping for an update from his office some time today but all we know is he was kept in the hospital overnight. >> thanks so much to both of you. louisville police routinely used excessive force against black people, calling them monk monkeys, even targeting disabled victims, those are a few of the
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stunning findings from the justice department's two-year investigation following the death of breonna taylor. >> leaders are now vowing to make changes following the justice department's scathing report. >> to those whose voices were not heard over the past several years, over the past decades, yesterday was an important day. the united states department of justice said yes, we have heard you, heard your complaints and you are right. and as painful as that is as a city, we have to acknowledge that. that's the only way we can heal the wounds that still exist in our city. and that's the only way that we can now work to come together better than we have to move forward. >> ryan young joins us live. another alarming piece of this report is it found that leaders have noun about this for some time but they ignored findings, buried reports of violence
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directed towards black people. it's been going on for years. >> reporter: there's a lot of questions here, jim. especially when it comes to management and how police oversight works. when you arrive at a city like louisville and cover a story like this, you have people coming up all the time saying they experienced this with the police department. it's hard to prove but the way this is latheid out. when you think about the idea of being called animal, monkey, or boy. you can feel how offensive it is for people who live in the communities. but the report lays out there was use of force, unjustified neck restraints, searches without announcing. when you think about breonna taylor's family and the idea they've been saying they need oversight you can understand the
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pain they're going through. listen to her family talk about these findings. >> it's heartbreaking to know that everything you've been saying from day one has to be said again. through this manner, you know. that it took this to have somebody look into this department. >> reporter: jim and erika, we cover this stuff all the time. we cover when police officers do the right thing as well. but something we put out here after listening to the mayor and new police chief talk about this this morning, what are the next steps? how do they move forward in a community experiencing crime? how do they build that trust again? what would be the measurable steps they need to take moving forward? those are questions that rarely get answered, especially when these oversights get put in place in police departments because obviously you have a city experiencing crime or gun violence. people want something done but how do you treat people with respect?
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let's not forget. in this officers were videotaping themselves as they were abusing people, laughing about it. when you read this report, it stands out the utter disregard for people who live in the community who have done nothing wrong except being black. >> when you hear from breonna taylor's mom, everything from day one i've said has to be said again. trust is an important part of the planning. >> we have to continue to cover it. we do, thank you. overnight, russian forces bombarding the ukrainian capital and several other cities far from the front lines. the smoke here that's from a power plant in kyiv. we'll bring you a live update from the ground. a gut wrenching hearing on capitol hill as military veterans shared the impact of the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan and the many u.s. allies left behind.
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>> i never imagined i would witness the kind of gross abandonment followed by career-preserving silence of senior leaders military and civilian. >> i'll speak with that man in moments. coming up, an alarming development for tesla owners. looking at reports of the steering wheel falling off one of its models while driving. ♪ helping you discover untapped possibilities and relentlessssly working with you to make them real. ♪ because grit and vision working in lockstep ♪ puts you on the path to your full potential. ♪ -that's it? -yeah. progressive's homequote explorer makes it easy to compare home insurance options. man...i told my wife i'd be in here for hours.
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not yet have the capability to shoot down. that's key. the most deaths happened in lviv. five people died when fragments of a missile struck down caused several residential buildings to catch fire. >> fire was seen from kyiv, after a direct hit, you see the aftermath there. at least three people were hurt, ivan watson is in kyiv for us this hour. you have seen the damage firsthand and are getting new information about the first wave of attacks. what have you learned, ivan? >> reporter: the ukrainian armed forces is calling this a barrage against the infrastructure. i'm at one of the sites hit across the country. in this case people here are lucky, nobody here was killed. the cars were destroyed. it was a frightening morning for residents of this apartment block over here, massive
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apartment building and it shattered windows around here. but to give you context, i spoke to two women, a mother and her adult daughter whose windows on the seventh floor were shattered. they still went to work this morning, one went to teach, the other went to work at a bank. as you pointed out in the intro, other people were not as fortunate in lviv, at least five people killed, two women, three men. the attacks came from land, sea and air. you had cruise missiles, different types of missiles fired by planes, by ships in the black sea. this appears to have been very much coordinated. russia's ministry of defense claimed responsibility for this. they say it was retaliation for this shadowy incident that russia called a terrorist attack that took place in russia on march 2nd. cnn has not been able to confirm
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what happened, we've never seen images of what happened in the alleged terrorist attack and ukraine never claimed responsibility. but the result there were deadly objects flying in the air crashing into ukrainian cities and towns. ukrainian air defense shot down at least 34 of the missiles and four of the iranian made shaw head suicide drones but a lot of other weapons got through. and the ukrainian air force have said that some of the missiles like the hyper sonic missiles, they do not have the defenses to try to stop them and they're going to face this potentially in the future. this isn't the first time russia has done one of the missile barrages. they come every couple weeks and it'll likely happen again sometime. >> part of the message, they need more capable missile defense systems to go after more capable missiles.
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ivan watson stay safe in kyiv. and another story we followed closely the catastrophic withdraw in afghanistan a little more than a year and a half ago. u.s. marine sergeant tyler andrews overcome with emotion during a hearing on capitol hill yesterday. he encountered in horrific detail the attack that killed 13 u.s. service members in 2021 outside kabul's airport. sergeant vargas andrews himself was badly injured. >> the withdrawal was a catastrophe, inpy opinion. and there was an inexcusable lack of accountability and negligence. 11 marines, 11 sailor, and one soldier that were murdered that day have not been answered for.
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>> the wounds for u.s. service members still burn today. not just those who directly witnessed that attack. a leader in the veteran community, retired lieutenant colonel scott mann is warning of a mental health tsunami as they try to help afghan allies escape. colonel mann shared this personal story. >> my friend brad was found dead a few months ago in a mississippi hotel room. his wife confirmed to me that the afghan abandonment had brought back the demons he had managed to put behind him after our time in afghanistan together. >> lieutenant colonel scott mann joins me now. thank you. >> thank you very having me on.
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>> service members in the wake of the withdrawal and there was also a mental health problem but that has been worsened by that withdrawal. i wonder if you can describe to folks exactly how, how that works and just how broad this problem is when you describe a mental health tsunami. >> yeah. i mean, i appreciate you having me on, jim. just the big thing i try to communicate to people is these war fighters who voluntarily went into harm's way to keep the country safe. and one of the things that's required of that is working with partner forces be with your afghan partners. and there's a promise to that, i have your back. many of us are alive today because of their sacrifices for us. and then to be told there's nothing we can do for you, you're on your own with no warning and then to see your friends killed, slaughtered, arrested and beaten, it's a
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moral injury to the soul. when you add that on top of 22 a day, growing, traumatic brain injury and the pts i believe it's a tsunami of mental health if we don't get ahead of it. >> the u.s. military has been and become more aware of mental health consequences for years, in my experience. but where are they, are they providing enough resources for those folks? >> there was a study, jim, not long after the fall of kabul called after kabul. they found a majority of americans believe the country and our leaders are going to try to turn the page quickly on afghanistan. but they believe our afghan war veterans are going to have a hard time moving past this. what i'm seeing all around at the leadership levels, particularly institutional leaders in the administration, congress, the military, and state department.
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it's as if afghanistan didn't happen. as if the withdrawal didn't happen. and we're just moving on. nothing to see here. the fact that it hasn't been mentioned in the state of the union twice now -- and again, you know me, this is not a republican or democrat issue, this is an american issue. and i think leaders need to acknowledge what happened with the withdrawal and what can we put in place to keep this systemic abandonment of our allies from happening again. that's the only way to move to moral recovery. >> another piece are the afghan allies left behind, many thousands who fought behind u.s. forces who are now under risk, targets from the taliban, i know personally people in that category as well. it's a mess for them and their families to get out. perhaps a couple hundred a week actually getting out. the administration is aware of this, i know it, is it ignoring that problem? is anybody responding?
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is anybody making changes to get those folks out more quickly? >> it's a great question and i believe it's starting to look -- or at least seem more and more like the administration is ignoring it. i was encouraged yesterday in the hearing to hear both parties talking about the afghan adjustment act, which is a first step in good legislation to broaden the apture, so we can give a pathway to freedom for so many of those afghans who served at a our shoulder. it's not the final step but a good start. i'm hoping the administration will recognize this and the house foreign affairs committee will push to pass the afghan adjustment act. i hope viewers reach out to the committee as well and let them know they expect to see something like this as well. if you want to see veteran mental health improve let's help resettle the allies who served beside us. >> when you speak to people who served in iraq or afghanistan, they saw friends die, suffering
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themselves from other consequences, including brain injury, ptsd, other mental health issues, what do you say to them to help them process this and get beyond that very real pain? the withdrawal happened. the consequences are real. so how do you counsel them? >> well, i always try to say that it mattered. that what you did mattered. that you -- what you did allowed us to hold space for 20 years for an 8 million afghan kids to go to school for special forces to be created and stood up. because you held that space and as a family member you sacrificed your loved one holding that space for 20 years, i don't think it's over yet. i wouldn't count the afghan people out. i think what we did will enable a new generation of afghans to take their country back and define what it looks like to
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them. i think it was worth it and it mattered. >> thank you so much. you've done a lot of your own work getting some of those afghan allies out, we appreciate that, i'm sure our viewers appreciate that. thank you for joining us today. >> jim, you've deone the same. we thank you for giving us a voice. >> we'll be right back. ♪ you said close your eyes ♪ ♪ don't t look down ♪ ♪ fall into me and i'll catch you, darlrlin ♪ ♪ we'll dance in n the street like nobody's watching ♪ ♪ it's just you and me ♪ celebrate every kiss. get zero down special financing with the kay jewelers credit card. ♪ i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k. sofi. get yo money right.
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tesla is facing a new investigation now. this after at least two drivers said their steering wheels detached while they were driving. you heard that correctly. federal safety regulators are looking at tesla's model y suv. so you see this here.
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>> that's a problem. >> yeah. >> he tells cnn his two children were in the car with him when the steering wheel simply fell off, five days after receiving their vehicle. five days. luckily the road was straight, everyone was safe. i can imagine the fear. gabe, i wonder what tesla's response is here, is this to your knowledge, an isolated case? >> reporter: no surprise tesla hasn't said anything publically at this point neither has elon musk. but we know the highway traffic and safety administration is investigating these two terrifying incidents you laid out, when the steering wheels on these model y suvs completely detached, came off while the cars were being driven. the cars were delivered to the owners without a bolt that
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attached it to the steering column. fortunately there were no crashes or injuries in the incidents. there were however, three other model ys found in dealer inventories also missing the bolts. how that happened and how many other cars like that are out there we don't know that at this point. that's what investigators are looking at, to be clear, at this point it is not a recall. this is an investigation. but it could impact 120,000 suvs if a recall does eventually happen. erika, jim, tesla is not the only car maker to be clear that dealt with a problem like this, nissan is also recalling a thousand suvs missing a bolt on its steering wheel also. but obviously tesla has been under the microscope. >> yes. under the investigation for the auto driver. i understand it's an add on where does that stand?
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>> nhtsa has launched a special crash investigation trying to figure out whether tesla's controversial self-driving features may have played a role in a violent crash, this last month in california when a tesla plowed into a fire truck parked on a freeway. it was blocking lanes after another collision and that crash so powerful it killed the tesla driver and critically injured a passenger inside. it was so violent that that violence had to be cut out of the vehicle. and we know there were four firefighters in the truck. but they only had minor injuries fortunately. but again it's part of the broader nhtsa investigation into the self-driving technology that includes 40 tesla crashes and 20 fatalities. you can obviously add this sad one to the list. >> thanks so much, gabe. new this morning, some
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weekly job less numbers the claims rising to 211,000 up from 190,000 the week prior and it comes on the heels of testimony of jerome powell. yesterday he said they hadn't made a decision about more rate hikes. laura is joining us now with more. when we look at all of this, what also stood out is he hinted perhaps at 50 basis points. you say that gives him wiggle room. i know you would like to see him stay the course slow and steady, 25 basis points but is this the federal reserve's promise of over delivered category. if i warn you it's 50 and it's 25, not too bad? >> i any that's right. remember they have several goals here, first is to bring down inflation. the other is to try to get this really, really robust and probably too hot of a job market
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under control. but he's also pushing back against financial conditions and on that store, the market keeps really testing the fed's nerve to see if they're really serious about rate hikes. and i think yesterday his message and the day before, on tuesday, was really to, once again, just push back and point to the fact that inflation is still too high. and if they need to go, they're going to. >> so it's not just about inflation, though. what are the other factors that the fed will be considering here? >> it is -- it's inflation and i want to bring in this notion that wacges are now probably a more critical piece to the inflation picture. we were so focused last year on consumer price, the consumer price index. and going forward, the job market data and tomorrow we're going to get that big monthly employment report. it has a wage piece in it that to me is almost more important now going forward. and part of that is just the
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fact that we keep adding so many jobs. the unemployment rate at 3.4% is so strong, and it's stronger than the fed thinks it needs to be to keep our economy on the right footing and to keep inflation low. >> we know that's part of it, quite a lot of back and forth between powell and senator elizabeth warren. let's set that aside for a minute. i'm curious your take, we're waiting for the president to get to philadelphia to release his budget plan. there's the issue of the debt ceiling. americans see this happen quite often, over the last decade or so, in terms of this vicious cycle do you think there -- or when or if will there be an appetite to fix the real issue here and break this cycle? >> i hope that there is. actually, you know, something -- the debt ceiling is something
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i've been warning our clients and investors about because i don't want us to go into this environment feeling too compl comp complacent. i cringe when i hear people say it'll resolve like it did in 2011. that was bad. we had a big risk off rotation. equity markets were down. ironically treasuries were up. but it also hit consumer confidence. this coming year when we know that the fed is trying to slow the economy down, that's a tough thing to manage without a recession. we need to be careful around events that could hit consumer confidence more head on and the debt ceiling i think is a kind of ripe situation for a problem like that to emerge. i don't want to be overly alarmist but i think we need to avoid complacency, because a negotiated solution is going to be the path forward and neither side right now seems to be
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interested in negotiation. >> maybe we're lucky and they were listening to you just now and they will get to the job at hand. lauren, great to have you with us this morning. thank you. >> thank you. coming up next. the latest ai capability which can be funny but also worrying. computer generated voices that sound like you or me. donie o'sullivan has been having some fun finding out how this could be dangerously exploited. >> i've been doing this a long time. i have to say donie o'sullivan is probably the best in the business. >> incredible. that's very kind of him to say that as well. >> you should be honored, really. ♪ experirience the elevation of electrification at the invitation to lexuxus sales event. and mine's unlisted. try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein.
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so called deep fake technology has given us sometimes funny videos of dancing celebrities, but, and this is crucial, it can pose a serious security risk a new artificial intelligence tool makes it so easy to fake someone's voice you cann even trick their own mom and dad. >> that's right. our own donie o'sullivan found that out for himself. you actually used this on your parents, people who we at cnn and around the globe, love your parents. i hope you were treating them with kid gloves here. >> my long-suffering parents, yes. as jim mentioned this can be a bit of fun. a lot of fun uses like pranking your mom and dad. but there's potentially dangerous consequences. but first, take a look at this. >> hello? >> hi, mom. >> hi, how are you? >> does my voice sound different to you? >> i said, yeah, donie sounds so
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american. >> this is not actually me. this is a voice made by computer. >> are you serious? >> yeah, mom, sorry. >> there's been an explosion in fake audio and voices generated through artificial technology. >> this is an ai clone of leonardo dicaprio's voice. >> you just need a couple minutes of anyone's voice and you can make it sound like they said anything. >> anderson cooper. we came to uc berkeley to find out how easy it is to put words in other people's mouths. >> it's a lot of fun. >> sure. >> but also scary. >> once you put aside the gee whiz factor it doesn't take long to look at the risk. >> this is wolf blitzer, you are in "the situation room." >> by uploading a few moments of
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me and my colleagues' voices i was able to create some convincing fakes. including this one of anderson cooper. >> donie o'sullivan is a real piece of [bleep]. >> that's ai. >> is it really? >> anderson is really good. because anderson doesn't have a stupid irish accent. of course anderson would never say that about me in reality. >> sure. never said that to me about you donie, not once. >> people go to cnn.com to see the whole video there. but ultimately it did trick my parents. my dad had a long conversation with the ai donie about our local football team back home in ireland. all fun and games, it's not hard to see how this can go badly quickly especially as we go into the 2024 election. >> scary. >> faking in a political race. faking statements by people
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running for office. you can make accusations about people based on ai generated voices. this is remarkable. >> it also gives people a chance to deny reality. the "access hollywood" tape in 2016, it would have been easy with this technology for trump to say i never said that, that's a deep fake. >> he's raised that before, sort of floated that out there. i imagine we'll see -- prepare yourself to see it again. donie o'sullivan thanks so much. >> thanks. still ahead, the personal information of hundreds of lawmakers, their families, and staff members have been compromised. this after yet another major data breach. that story, how it happened coming up.
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a lawyer for one of the proud boys on trial now for seditious conspiracy has had asked a federal judge to throw out his case based on the footage that kevin mccarthy released to the fox host tucker carlson that he has used to look
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at all of the violence that we witnessed that day. >> and he is trying to rewrite history, and now, joining us is the crime reporter kaitlan moyer. >> this is a snippet used, but in the case of the proud boys in the middle of the trial, they still have defense witnesses and still they don't have closing arguments, and in the middle of the trial one of the proud boys is arguing that the trial should be dismissed or a mistrial should be declareded and they have been trying this tactic many time, and they are seizing on the fox news video out there saying that it is plainly exculpatory for them, and the proud boys defendants that are not even in that video, but this about the qanon shaman who is in this case, but for the other defendants who say they should have more access to the video and that it is exculpatory, and
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the justice department has been slowly responding to them saying that this footage for many, many and most of the defendants and even chanceley at this point, it is immaterial, and likely already in the defendant's possession, and they have likely have been able to see it among the thousands of hours of video that they have, and that this is really all about the jacob chanceley case that at this point is closed. he has been sentenced to prison, and he admitted in court to his crimes, and that is including him admitting that he is riling up the people at the capitol with the bull horn and that he left a note to the vice president in the senate chamber and that he admitted the guilt and begged for forgiveness at his sentencing. jim and erica. >> minor details. those facts are kind of important. >> okay. we will stick to the facts. the case of hundreds of
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members of the staffers identity has been stolen amid the case of the marketplace. >> and this is very sensitive data and someone who claims to have stolen the data then advertised to have selling the information on the dark web saying that breach impacted 170,000 people, and shawn lingas joining us, and a familiar pattern here, and this is ransomware in effect? >> well, we are not sure if it is ransomware, jim, but it could have been as a breach or hacker getting into the network and stealing data, and we don't know, because it is a developing situation. this kind of thing happens all of the time, but what makes this different, jim is that house lawmakers are the ones victimized and so you have social security numbers and other things floating around on the internet, and that is going to get people's attention, but i
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will say that this happens a lot the other people, but right now, we are dealing with another case in minnesota where there's a school district where students were victimized, and you don't see the same level of 59 tension on that, and it is an evolving situation, and i tried to contact the person claiming to have sold the data last night, and i asked them how much they sold it for, and i did not get a response, and shortly after i asked the question, the advertisement. on the web form went down. so i don't think that the person is appreciating the attention right now, and certainly does have the full attention of the fbi. jim and erica. >> i think it is going to be interesting how that happened and 170,000 people is nothing to sneeze at. sean, thank you. just ahead, we are live on the ground in ukraine on the heels of one of the deadliest missile strikes on the part of russia, and those missiles are raining down overnight. stay with us.
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