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held in niger while working there as an american aid worker. humanity on thin ice and that ice melting fast. that warning courtesy of the secretary-general made in tandem with the brand-new united nations report labeling the planet a ticking time bomb. the document says every nation needs to bump up net zero climate goals by a decade to avert irreversible climate consequences. a special visit to the white house today. jason sudeikis and the cast of "ted lasso" will meet with president biden and the first lady to discuss the importance of mental health. thanks for time your on "inside politics." we'll see you tomorrow. hello, i'm brianna keilar in washington. authorities in new york preparing for a potential indictment of former president donald trump. look at this video from this morning. the nypd installing security cameras on lightposts outside a
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manhattan courthouse. that's where a grand jury could soon decide to charge trump for his alleged role in hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. trump over the weekend saying he expects to be arrested tomorrow and calling on his supporters to protest and, quote, take our nation back. his personal attorney telling cnn if trump is arrested to expect, quote, mayhem. >> if they choose to do so for a misdemeanor which frankly he didn't even do, it is going to cause mayhem, paula. i mean it's just a very scary time in our country. if this is what we're doing in this country you better secure the premises because it's dangerous. people will get upset. >> one of several legal problems he's facing. a second trump investigation, the one in fulton county, georgia, a source telling cnn that prosecutors are thinking about bringing racketeering and conspiracy charges over his
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effort to overturn the 2020 election in that state. we have move on that in a moment. first let's start with the latest out of new york, cnn's kara scannell joining us. the manhattan grand jury is bringing in a new witness today, an attorney highly connected in the trump world. what more can you tell us about this? >> yeah, brianna, we expect bob costello to arrive at the building behind me where the grand jury is meeting in about an hour or so from now, so he is going to be brought in to testify at the request of donald trump's attorneys, costello, according to a source, reached out to the manhattan district attorney's office and trump's lawyers saying that he had information that would contradict what michael cohen has been saying, cohen, of course, has said that trump directed him to make the hush money payment when he pleaded guilty a couple of years ago to those federal charges. so costello, we're told, has provided hundreds of pages of documents and emails, all from that period when he was representing cohen and trump's attorney asking the d.a.'s
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office to call him him believe that he knew of no illegal activity by trump so clearly an effort to try to get some potentially ex-pull pa tri material before the grand jury or at least some material that could have them question the credibility of cohen. cohen is also on standby today to appear before the grand jury or meet with the prosecutors after costello's testimony, he wasn't sure if he was going to meet or testify but he is on standby as a potential rebuttal witness. this all taking place as we're seeing the security around the courthouse really start to pick up here. as you said, they put security cameras on the lightposts this morning and have seen barricades placed all around the courthouse in the perimeter, so certainly everyone with the expectation that an end game and decision is near, brianna. >> all right, kara, thank you so much. i want to go to manu raju and
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you are covering the retreat and many lawmakers are having to answer questions about trump's potential indictment in new york. what are they saying? >> yeah, they're planning to use the power of their new house gop majority to go after the district attorney that could bring charges against the former president. just today three key committee chairmen sending a letter in a pretty extraordinary move and demanding alvin bragg, the drshth attorney in manhattan, to come and sit down for a transcribed intervow and asking for a range of communications, even as one key committee chairman asking for that information acknowledged he does not yet know the full scope of the potential charges against trump. >> what changed? president trump announced he is are yous for president and now they are -- we're going to have some bookkeeping error from sevens ago and it makes no sense. >> you don't know what the charges are against the former -- >> we're going on what you told
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us. that's all been reported. >> jumping to conclusions. he may have broken the law. does that concern you? >> we don't think president trump broke the law at all. >> it's a misdemeanor. so it's not, you know, really the crime of the century either. but, yeah, this thing is going to be -- it's going to have a political taint to it, you know, any way you spin it. >> but it's allegedly falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment. does that concern you. >> sure. if a crime was committed, that would concern me. i think the law -- don't break the law. that needs to be enforced. >> now, speaker mccarthy has directed his committee to press ahead on an investigation and asking whether or not any federal funding was used as part of this local investigation. i asked chairman jim jordan about that, as well. he said, it is still -- they're asking questions. they don't have answers about that as republicans are going after the district attorney trying to shift the page away from trump and onto the
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investigator himself, brianna. >> all right, manu, thank you. sara, that is new york. take us to georgia where there is another investigation. what is the latest there? >> the investigation all started back when trump called georgia's secretary of state, brad raffensperger and pressed him to find the votes so we're learning and don lemon, my colleague, that the district attorney is considering racketeering charges. this is something on her radar for awhile considering bringing this wide-ranging case that would look at donald trump and his associates as a criminal enterprise. of course, no one has been charged yet in the case and seen the first move by trump's legal team related to this case and it's an aggressive one today. in a new court filing they went into court in georgia basically asking for a judge, not the judge who is overseeing the special purpose grand jury but any other judge on the bench to hear their motion that essentially the special grand jury's final report and all of the evidence that it collected should be tossed.
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so all of those witnesses that provided testimony to the grand jury, all of the documents they may have collected pursuant to subpoenas had all of that evidence should be rendered essentially inadmissible and not be under consideration. they're also asking for a judge to disqualify the fulton county district attorney's office for pursuing any charges related in this case. it was a very long filing in court today. they took a lot of issues with the way the fulton county district attorney fani willis has conducted herself and also took issue with a number of rulings that the judge overseeing the special grand jury has made as well as some interviews he's given to the press including cnn and, remember, in an unusual turn we saw the foreperson for the special grand jury go on this media tour. she was allowed to talk to the press. the judge made that clear, but trump's attorneys are raising concerns about her media tour as well essentially saying you have tainted the jury pool. so what they are arguing here is the last seven, eight months of investigation should essentially be thrown out and be
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inadmissible. we will wait for a judge to hear those arguments and see what the judge decides. >> all right, sara murray, manu r raju, kara scannell, thank you. let's talk about it with jennifer rogers and joined by jackie kucinich, washington bureau chief for "the boston globe." we'll remember cnn obtained a copy of who emails that robert costello wrote to michael cohen in 2018 and costello said he was speaking to trump lawyer, then trump lawyer rudy giuliani and then he went on to tell cohen he, quote, could sleep well tonight, because he had, quote, friends in high places. cohen provided those emails to congress in an effort to show that a pardon was dangled before he decided to go ahead and cooperate with federal prosecutors, so knowing what the grand jury in manhattan is hearing today, i guess the question is, who is more credible? michael cohen, or robert costello in your view? >> well, you know, it's hard to
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say. we don't know what the testimony is and the grand jurors can draw their own conclusions. we have the emails you described so that's on paper and grand jurors and ultimately prosecutors as they contemplate charges will have to think about if robert costello is testifying that michael cohen told him something and there's no actual record of that, do they believe him? you know, this is something that they've been thinking about for a long time, the credibility of michael cohen came up years ago in connection with the southern district of new york's case and manhattan prosecutors have met with him probably a couple dozen times by now so his credibility has been front and center the whole time but every time a new piece of evidence comes out if robert costello is providing new evidence about supposedly a lack of credibility on michael cohen's part, prosecutor also have to consider that as they decide whether to move forward or not. >> i guess a bigger picture question here because you hear trump's lawyers saying that this is something that shouldn't be
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prosecuted so, jennifer, from what you've seen up till now, is this case worth prosecuteing? >> that's an interesting question. it seems to me they have the factual basis to charge certainly the falsification of records, misdemeanor and also the enhancement because it does appear that it was done for the purpose of affecting the election, so they have the facts. the question is, is it a big enough deal to charge the former president with this, because it carries a four-year maximum but often in these case the person who is charged and convicted gets no time at all, gets probation so that's a different question. is it worth charging if ultimately it's not a hugely important case? and some of that, the calculation that alvin bragg and his team are talking about right now might have to do with whether they, in fact, intend to bring the other investigation they've been working on, the manipulation of assets to avoid taxes and to get loans and also whether other charges are going to be brought. you know, if they're thinking the feds will charge, georgia will charge they might as well throw theirs in so all of these
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things i think are kind of swirling around as they decide whether or not to charge it. it is a factually solid case, i believe, and they've clearly, if they do charge, made the assessment that they would have charged someone else with it. so if that's the case they should charge the former president with it. >> so, jackie, sources are telling cnn trump maybe sees opportunity here, i believes an indictment would help him politically with his base. what do you think? >> so you're actually hearing that as a point of concern from republicans who might challenge the former president in the primary. that sympathy could be gained from the fact that, you know, from even his supporters and people who don't support him who think that, you know, perhaps he's being picked on for political reason, that's certainly something he's putting out there. it is certainly something you're hearing, someone like a ron desantis just recently say, go after the prosecutor, go after the investigation rather than
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the charges that may or may not be filed. >> i wonder if you think, jackie, you've been watching trump as he's giving some speeches, he's dealing with a lot, right? he's got a lot besides just trying to run for president, he's dealing with some of these legal walls closing in. do you see any of this bleeding off any energy from him as he's trying to make his case for why his supporters should put him back in the white house again? >> we're certainly not seeing the same campaign i think that we were used to seeing though in the last cycle. however, yes and no, right? it's a lot more sporadic, but we are very early in the process, and right now he just seems to be focusing on making sure that those who have expressed loyalty in the past remain loyal. house republicans, you know, other republicans who may or may not be challenging him to make sure he still has them on his side and using every part of
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his -- in his power and in his media structure to ensure that that continues lest they lose some of the more energetic parts of the republican base. >> jennifer, i want to revisit something that trump's lawyer said on sunday warning that there would be mayhem if trump is indicted. >> yeah, that's really an outrageous thing to say because that's what they're trying to do is to stir up this mayhem. i mean, trump's posts on social media protests, protests, protests in all caps calling for protests not warning about possible protests so i think it's irresponsible. i think they're trying to bring out people to protest and, you know, if that leads to violence, then obviously that's a major security problem, a major public safety problem here in new york and, you know, we've seen this before on january 6th and seeing it again. i think it's really -- i think the lawyers should not talk about this. i think trump should probably just be quiet and wait and see
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what happens. i don't think it's going to serve him well. you know, all of his statements are fair game at a trial. any statement he makes can be used, and this is just kind of another one of those things that shows where his mind is, that he's not concerned about fighting these charges fair and square. that he wants to cause mayhem. >> there's been some pressure, jackie, from trump world, on florida governor ron desantis that maybe he needed to come out and defend trump a little bit in some of this. well, he did comment on this today, and this is what he said. >> i don't know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star, to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. i just -- i can't speak to that. but what i can speak to is that if you have a prosecutor who is ignoring crimes happening every single day in his jurisdiction and he chooses to go back many, many years ago to try to use something about porn star hush
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money payments, you know, that's an example pursuing a political agenda and weaponizing the office. >> interesting response, i'm not sure it's the exact one that trump world was looking for, jackie. >> a little backhanded. >> yeah. >> yeah, i mean, i think the preamble there says all you need to say about the friction and the competitiveness going on between the two men, but the latter part, that was, i'm sure, will make some in trump world happy there had been a pressure campaign to get him to weigh in to what was going on with the various investigations, but that first part, i think, is what he was -- even like the pause between the two statements, i think, tells you all you need to know about where we are in this almost contest between the two men. >> yeah, he's seeing opportunity
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certainly. jackie and jennifer, thank you so much. i do appreciate the conversation. so is the banking roller coaster? is it final over? markets back in the green after another major financial institution is rescued. what it means for all of us ahead, plus, two of the biggest thorns in america's side. meeting today in moscow, what the u.s. is watching for as putin rolls out the red carpet for chinese president xi jinping. miami beach cracking down on crowds ordering a strict curfew after two deadly shootings over the weekend. we'll have miami beach's mayor joining us live.
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seem optimistic now that ubs is buying out credit suisse becoming a megabank worth near think $2 trillion as a result. is this roller coaster ride over? matt egan is here to explain. are things stabilizing here? >> reporter: well, bring an that, the mood on wall street is certainly improved, but this is a fast-moving situation, and sentiment can change in the blink of an eye. let's look where u.s. markets are trading right now. the dow is up 400 point, 1.2%. this is near session high, the nasdaq, the s&p moving higher as well. so what we've seen is that officials around the world are moving from the weakest link to the weakest link in the banking system trying to put out fires, first it was silicon valley bank and signature bank, the two lenders that collapsed recently then the industry came to the rescue of first republic and now all the attention is on credit suisse so what's happening here? ubs agreed to buy them for $3.25 billion. that's a 60% discount to where
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this stock was trading on friday. they're getting a lot of money from the government and from the swiss central bank to try to backstop the losses and, as you mentioned this, did a banking giant with $1.7 trillion in assets. as you can see credit suisse closing the day in europe sharply lower, ubs moving higher, what's important here to note ubs did not want to buy credit suisse. credit suisse has been in trouble for years but regulators basically forced them to do this deal. i mean this, would be like if the nfl forced the new england patriots to buy my beloved jets because the jets keep losing but they said it's not good for the league so the patriots would in this instance the patriots would be ubs and they sort of reluctantly agreed to do the deal. how regional banks are doing, mixed, some of the new developments here is that u.s. officials telling cnn that the deposit outflows from the regional banks have eased and stabilized according to officials. that is important. let's look at first republic
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bank down 26% on the day. the latest is that "the wall street journal" is reporting that jpmorgan's ceo jamie dimon and other ceos are in talks about another potential rescue for first republic bank and "the journal" says the talks are preliminary and none of the banks are commenting yet but we should stay tuned for that. >> is this going to change, any of this, the fed's approach? >> reporter: well, that is definitely a huge question right now. what is the fed going to do? investors don't know what the fed is going to do. even though the decision is coming in just 48 hours, about a one in three chance the fed doesn't do anything at all because they're worried about the banking system. two in three chance they raise rates anyway to try to get inflation under control by raising them by a quarter of a point. here's why all of this really matters. it's because the more nervous bankers are, the more difficult it's going to be and more expensive to borrow for
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everyone. right? we're talking about mortgage rate, credit card, auto loan, student loans, all of them are going to get more expensive the longest this lasts and that is going to slow down the economy and the risk is that this banking crisis lasts so long that it ends up causing the recession that everyone has been worried about. >> well, let's hope not. matt, thank you so much for taking us through all of that. we do appreciate it. i want to bring in cnn global economic analyst ronna fatruha from "the financial times." 15 years ago banks were getting bailed out. this time big banks keep coming to the rescue. is this a good thing, this kind of different role they're playing? does that mean the system, the failsafes are actually working? is that how you're reading it? >> well, it depends on your point of view. this is not 2008 all over again. back then there was a big single problem which was sliced and diced mortgage loans that were collapsing and ricocheted
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through the whole banking system. this time around has alluded to individual banks with their own weaknesses subject to deposit series pulling out funds. we are in a fundamentally changing economy. we have had not just the financial crisis but before that low rates for a long time. since the financial crisis we've had even easier money, lots of money poured into the system by the central banks and in the last year or two that's been changing so those rising rates really kind of -- it's like what warren buffett says when the tide pulls out you see who is swimming without their shorts on. it starts to expose risk. who doesn't have enough lshg? who is holding too much debt? so it's not about the banking sector alone. it's about who is going to be vulnerable as interest rates rise and that could be companies, it could be consumers, entire countries so i look at this and i say, you
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know, i'm glad that the biden administration has taken a firm hand. i'm glad ubs is being forced to buy out credit suisse, but i would also say this takes us a step further towards the nationalization, the sort of socialization in some ways of the financial system. you can argue for a long time about whether that's a good thing or not. >> so, rana, i wonder how much of this turmoil is the result of bad management, i guess the swimming with their shorts off, right, as you described there in that quote, how much is from ineffective regulation? how much is just, hey, this is where we are with inflation? >> yeah, great question. i think silicon valley bank, to me that was, hey, we knew interest rates were going to rise, you knew you were going to be in kind of an uncomfortable long/short position where you were losing on bonds that were eventually going to lose value as rates went up that, to me is a management question. i mean, i would really be asking if i was looking at that bank, why did folks not start to correct those positions?
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in terms of credit suisse, matt is right. this is just a weak player. they have had problems for years. i mean at the end of last year they were already having deposit runs. so this is a case of, you know, a very swiss solution actually, one bank coming in, being sort of nudged along by the government to buy another one. the question is, is this going to make the big bigger in both the u.s. and in europe and what does that mean? i mean eventually are you going to kind of end up with almost like a turn of the century system where you bash back in 1907 which is, you know, what this period reminds me of in some ways. you had one guy, jpmo.p. morgan saying i'm calling the shot. in a way jamie dimon sort of playing that role and i think that will mean more regulation and maybe come to jesus talk about what kind of financial
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situation do we want to have and that's 15 years overdue. >> certainly is. even though we can't believe it's been 15 years, it is that long overdue. rana, thank you so much for walking us through. still to come, chinese leader xi jinping is in russia for a three-day state visit. what we're learning from his meeting with vladimir putin next. with five flavors that are delicicious any time of day. only from ihop. download the app andnd earn free food with everyry order. ever get a sign the universe is trying to tell you something? the clues are all around us! not that one. that's the one. at university of phoenix, you could earnour master's degree in less than a year for under $11k. ♪ ♪ ♪ a feeling this dynamic
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china's president xi jinping arriving in moscow this morning in a show of support for embattled president vladimir putin. let's listen. ♪ this summit could have mame consequences for the war in ukraine. the two leaders are meeting right now on the first day of xi's three-day state visit. china is framing this as a chance to promote a peaceful resolution to the war. russia is already saying that it is open to hearing china's proposals. let's bring in beth sanner, a cnn national security analyst, also a former deputy director of national intelligence and we're also joined by retired lieutenant general mark hertling, a cnn military analyst and former commanding general for u.s. army europe and 7th army. beth, what is china trying to do here? >> well, you know, i think -- i like to phrase it as china is -- wants to have their cake and eat it too. what xi wants out of this visit
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more than anything is to build up xi's position as a global statesman and to be seen across the world as this great statesman that can bring peace. but this isn't a trip about peace. this is a trip about xi. this is a trip about china, and this is a trip that is designed to really reinforce whatever is in the interests of china and at some point russia is going to figure out that being the supplicant in this relationship won't be such a great deal. >> general, i wonder, do you think that china is ultimately going to give russia assistance, and if china does that, how does that affect the global dynamics of this war? >> you know, first i got to say i agree completely with beth. it's a difficult situation for china to be in as with xi as the new senior strategic partner in this relationship, i wants two things, he wants to prove to mr. putin that he can deepen
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support and trade and cooperation with russia. he's doing that in the shadows, but he also wants china to be perceived especially in europe where he has a lot of trade as a peace broker and that's more the public facing piece of this. so, you know, putin is going to ask china for a lifeline in several areas, brianna, equipment, ammo, support on the world stage, you know, xi is shaking hands with putin three days after putin's been -- has a warrant for his arrest by the icc, so it's not really a good time for xi to be there. so there's some real problems in this relationship and what is shown in public versus what's going on behind the scenes are two different things. >> you know, beth, if xi wants to be seen as a peace broker, i mean, who is going -- it's one thing if he wants to project that including to some countries in europe. who is going to buy that? >> a lot of countries in the
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global south really do buy that and want to buy that because they're suffering so much, the consequences of this war from inflation, higher interest rates, growing debt, and shortages of food, so they have said that at the g20 meetings and in bali at previous meetings, so there is an audience there, but i also want to point out that the icc arrest that mark raised are important to the global south as well and had the south african spokesman for the president of south africa come out today and say that south africa understands its obligations, in other words, to arrest president putin and was planning on showing up in south africa for a brc summit and he is definitely more isolated. >> john kirby said any peace
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plan that might come out of this would likely include a cease-fire as a starting point and this is what kirby says about why the u.s. wouldn't support it. >> a cease-fire called right now would basically just ratify russia's conquest and give mr. putin more time to requip and retrain and restart operations at a time and a place of his choosing. >> general, at what point and under what circumstances if at all could a cease-fire serve ukraine instead of undercutting ukraine? >> well, we don't know, brianna. but for a cease-fire to be viable and sustainable, ukraine has to be at the table to discuss it. so far, xi has not called president zelenskyy that we know of. he may in the future, but, you know, one of the things that i think russia is attempting to do, this is my view, is they are attempting to create another frozen conflict inside ukraine. they have four others throughout europe we used to track on a
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daily basis. if he can create that frozen conflict and not be forced out of ukraine, that's desirable right now because his military and his political machine has failed so miserably. so if he can create a frozen conflict, freeze things the way they are, putin sees success, that's not success to mr. zelenskyy. you know, in china's 12-point plan that they gave and has been publicized, they say in point number one they want to respect the sovereignty of all countries and international law. that's what china says, so how do you do that when sovereignty and international law is constantly being violated by their junior partner under mr. putin? >> it's a very good question. general, beth, thank you to you both. and coming up, spring break chaos. a state of emergency and curfew in miami beach after two deadly shootings and city leaders are thinking about even more
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miami beach is cracking down on what is turning into a deadly and chaotic spring break. one visitor captured this video from his hotel room window showing the chaos after a deadly shooting on friday night. the city has declared a state of emergency and a strict curfew from midnight to 6:00 a.m. after a second fatal shooting early sunday morning. the mayor has called for a special commission meeting later
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this afternoon to discuss what to do next and miami beach mayor dan gelber is joining me now. mayor, i'm really sorry for what your city is dealing with. is this working? do you expect it to be extended. >> last night it worked and i believe it will be extended through thursday to monday of next weekend. so, you know, it's one of the things in our toolbox. we don't have a whole lot because we really are not allowed to act ahead of spring break to roll back things like alcohol sales and things like that, so we're doing what we can do. >> so that's part of it here, right? the curfew includes no liquor sales after 6:00 p.m. do you see that as a big mart of the problem and how is that sitting with tourists and business owners? >> it is part of the problem because, look, we don't want spring break. we don't ask for it. we don't advertise for it. we don't think it's good for
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residential communities to have tens of thousands of young people looking to do a rite of passage and then throwing guns into it becomes an entirely different thing. we don't want it. if we can take away some attracts like liquor and late night partying, then that should help somewhat. in terms of the business community, listen, this is a pretty simple question for me, at least, if people are getting shot on ocean drive, then we're not going to weigh that and balance that against, you know, receipts for a business. we have to protect the public and that's all we can do. >> and there was a surge in crime and unruly behavior during last year's spring break. you saw that. is there anything you could do to preempt the violence when you are sort of expecting maybe a cycle each year? could you have put a curfew in place ahead of time already? >> no, we tried last -- a couple
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of years ago, we tried to roll back liquor sales just in march. a judge told us we couldn't do that ahead of time because there wasn't anything to document the need for it. perhaps now after a couple of years in the same few weeks, a judge will reconsider that but we tried that and we were shut down. we do have an immense amount of police, by the way. we have all of our police are out. we borrow police from the county, from other cities. we have police on atvs, police on horses. we have park rangers, all sorts of presence everywhere we have a goodwill ambassador walking through the crowd. we have learned how to at least create a great presence, and, in fact, the two incidents you referred to, within seconds, there were police on the scene, and within minutes people were apprehended, so obviously we are, you know -- we have a police presence we need, but events are still happening, and crimes are still happening, so the only solution at this point is just to stop spring break, which is something i've been
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trying to do for years, and i hope we can find a way to do it because we don't want a spring break in our city. >> how do you do that? you mentioned having limited tools in your toolbox. other than locking down the city, maybe going for a preemptive curfew, it sounds like maybe that is something you're considering. what else do you do? >> i think the preemptive actions are the only way to project out to the community that might want to participate in the spring break that they might not want to come here because it's not going to be the good time they're hoping for. you know, they know there are police everywhere but that doesn't seem to bother anyone and most of the people aren't here to break the law. i don't want to make it sound like tens of thousands come here to break the law. the problem is when you have tens of thousands of young people all crowded together looking to participate in a rite of passage, you know, how many have to sort of go beyond the pale of conduct or to criminal misconduct before you have total
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chaos and things like we saw over the weekend. so for us it's a question of volume. it's a question of young people acting out and a question of guns, all mixed together to make an entire li ungovernable situation, which we don't want any part of, and i've been saying this for some time, and i know it's not what typically a mayor of a resort city might say, but this is not what we're looking for and it's not what my residents want, and, frankly, it doesn't fit our brand. we are a cultural city. we are an arts city and i think people typically -- the rest of the year, they come here for that, but during spring break we got a whole different kind of tourist. >> there are some reports, we've seen, that say that crime was rising even before spring break. was that what you saw? has that your been experience yearly? >> no, i think crime rate has been actually going down generally, and, remember, almost all of our substantial crime, serious crime is almost always visitors acting on visitors.
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we don't -- residents are not typically perpetrators or victims of serious crime so it's a little bit of a different scenario than most cities, and we're policing essentially a playground of other people. that said, crime is not going up in our city, and we've been increasing our police force, i think, since i've been mayor, we've added 40 positions and we've increased substantially our park ranger program, which is a uniformed presence, as well. >> well, mayor, we are glad to hear that things seem to have calmed down a little bit. we wish you luck. mayor dan gelber, thank you. >> thank you very much, brianna. >> breaking news, a jury in the conspiracy trial against six people affiliated with the right wing oath keepers militia group has found all six guilty on varying degrees for the actions, their actions on january 6th. joining me now is cnn's kaitlan
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p pollantz. >> a jury returned a verdict convicting another set of people affiliated with the oath keepers, members of that far right paramilitary or militia group that had gone to the capitol on january 6th, had been moving together as part of a stack formation. in this group all six were found guilty of different types of charges. four of the people of the six people who were on trial here were convicted on all charges including that serious charge of conspiracy to obstruct the official proceeding of congress on that day, january 6th, two others were convicted of a lesser charge, entering or remaining on restricted grounds but really whenever you step back and look at this, this is the third trial that the justice department has put on of -- against members of the oath keepers, the two previous trials were about seditious conspiracy so it was really -- those were looking at leaders of the group and on each of these
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prosecutors needed wins to make the point they're trying to make about january 6th. this is the centerpiece of the cross putians and able to secure convictions before a jury at every single one of these trials thus far. brianna? >> what does it do to narratives about what january 6th was and was not? >> well, in this situation, it just underlines that juries in d.c. -- so the place where all of these charges are being brought, because this is the community that was affected on january 6th. it hamme happen january 6th. it hammeed in the district of columbia on capitol hill and guilty blocking congress at times maybe not all in this case but many of the people in these cases that are going to trial. the juries are finding they wanted to be disruptive.
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potentially even violent. in this case related to only keepers, all of those cases are not just about what happened on the grounds of the capitol. also about what happens before. how much planning and coordination was going on. why they are conspiracy case as well. four conspiracy convictions today. and related to the oath keepers, much talk about people bringing guns around the capitol and potentially using those, if they needed to, on the grounds that day. so the justice department found this all out, and making it a case. that they are being successful on. >> kateitlytelyn popolantz. thank you for that. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ an all-star menu of delicious subs. like #8 the great garlic - rotisserie style chicken,
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resulting in dozens of infections, vision loss, even surgical removing of eyeballs and even one death. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us. so serious, elizabeth. eyedrops in question recalled. tell us about this bacteria? >> brianna, really very, very serious, as you said. it is a rare strain of pseudomonas originalosa not found in the united states and resistant to drugs. look what's found so far. so you can see the name there of the brand of artificial tears lubricant eyedrops. 68 patients in 16 states found to have infections of various kinds. 8 people known to have lost vision. 4 people have had surgery to remove eyeballs and even one death. let's look at symptoms. obviously, if you're using eyedrops and having these symptoms talk to your doctor
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definitely. eye pain, discomfort. redness, discharge. feel like something is in your eye, blurry vanision and incread sensitivity to light. this is not the first time we've heard of eyedrops recalled recently. other brands recalled. give you the names. to be clear, only the first, just talking about. other three on the list we're about to shows have not had any sort of bad effects from them. reported. they are being recalled out of an abundance of caution. if you look. only that top one, ezricare and the other ones recalled out of what, some of them, they say, abundance of caution. you want to make sure you're seeing these names. they are, of course, also on cnn.com. make shure you don't have them n your eye cabinet. >> if people use this, quick, and don't have symptoms, check with their doctor? >> i don't think it's ever a bad idea to check with your doctor,
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but from what the cdc has said, there's not a reason to be worried necessarily without symptoms. they say if you have symptoms definitely go to your doctor. you know what? never a bad idea to talk to your doctor. >> very good. elizabeth cohen, thank you. that's it for me. thank you for joining us. "cnn newsroom" continues after a break. with five flavors that are delicious any time of day.y. only f from ihop. download the app and earn free food with every order. my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicats neurivaof brain health.tasker to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. ♪ ♪
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