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here. you're looking at a power pole that was literally snapped like a toothpick. and then this vehicle that you see over my right shoulder that was literally in a garage that no longer exists. let's take you to the skies. so you can see a bird's eye perspective of the damage that is ravaged this trump troop county and it's incredible. the national weather service, saying the tornado was on the ground for 30 minutes and over 20 miles and winds sustained at 150 mph listen to the owner of this house behind me, sarah sheri bennett. about how she endured the storm. i was right there. that window came in. you wrote out the tornado here? yes, i was there when it when it hit and, uh, the glass. just what woke me up with glass , just flying everywhere. everything falling. i. i couldn't get out the door. there
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was a picture behind the door and i couldn't get out the door and i managed to get out there and then one of the neighbors came and got the debris out from in front of the door. sure he said that god protected her as the glass fell around her within her bed, but i want you to see the roof that is no longer there as this opened up and revealed the tornado twister above her during that terrifying moment sunday morning. back to you. damage just highlights the destruction. those powerful tornadoes. derek grant, dan, thank you. it is the top of the hour you were live in the cnn newsroom onboard. sanchez bianna golodryga. america's children have been failed once again and just over 24 hours later, enormous transparency of how another school shooting unfolded yesterday in nashville, metro nashville police have released stunning videos of the 14
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minutes between the initial 911 call and the takedown of the suspect, identified as 28 year old audrey hale. surveillance video from the school shows the shooter's first movements, firing through the glass doors as a way to enter police today provided the public with this gut wrenching body cam video from two of the officers who were part of the team who encountered and neutralize the shooter. hale had just gunned down 39 year old kids and three staff members. warning for our viewers we're about to see is disturbing and it starts with officers entering the covenant school after receiving the very first call that came in at 10 13 am, let's watch. three more. let's go. metro police. i mean,
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you know me. i don't know where he is. bathroom, bathroom, small bathroom. next. let's go. door door with me with me all the door. next. open it. i got it. i got it. let's go. now go go! right cover! cover left! cover luck, right. take this with him.
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take this. no that's locked. take this stories. take this store. take it . upstairs. sounds like it's something that's. hmm. right, right, right. bbo. moments after
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that exchange of gunfire. the body cam footage shows the shooter lifeless on the ground. cnn's carlos suarez is live in nashville today and carlos the metro police also revealed new details about the shooter and the number of weapons that the shooter possessed at. tell us more about what we learned. yeah bianna and boris, the chief of police here in nashville, said that the 28 year old shooter was being treated for a quote emotional disorder. it is a treatment that, according to the chief of police, law enforcement was not aware but the treatment . the condition was severe enough that, according to the police chief, the shooter's parents felt that the shooter should not have any guns. in fact, it was under they were under the impression rather that the 28 year old had sold one gun, but we now know, according
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to law enforcement officials out here that the 28 year old shooter the attacker in this had legally purchased seven guns. we're talking about three that were used at the school shooting two that were removed from the family's home yesterday after a search warrant was executed, one that they believe was sold and the other what we're told. that one is still missing. the chief of police gave an update on the investigation here earlier today. here's what he said. we've determined that audrey about seven firearms. from five different local gun stores here legally. ah they were legally purchased. three of those weapons were used yesterday, parents felt that she should not own weapons. they were under the impression that was when she sold the one weapon that she did not own any more. as it turned out, she had been hiding several weapons within the house. and in
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the last hour, cnn has been able to confirm with law enforcement officials here in nashville that a nearby mall was mentioned in some of the writings and the statements that were left behind by the 28 year old shooter. we're told that a mall was mentioned in some of these writings. now there is a location, um all just up the street from where we are. it is just a few minutes. walk a few minutes drive. we're told that that the mall was mentioned in some of these riding yes, and some of these statements however , law enforcement officials did not want to confirm the exact location of this small boris and bianna. yeah. carlos investigators still piecing together a possible motive, saying that it's unclear exactly why the shooter chose the school even though they were at one point a student there. carlos we also want to focus on those that were killed yesterday, beginning with the three kids, all of them
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nine years old. yeah that's right. the three kids 39 year olds that died in the shooting. we know their names were talking about evelyn dick house. haley scruggs, whose father, chad scruggs, is the lead pastor at the covenant presbyterian church . she was the second child that died in the shooting, as well as william kenny. he was also nine years old. three other victims that died in the shooting all work for the school. we know cynthia peak was 61 years old. she was a beloved substitute teacher here at the school. catherine was 60 years old. she was the head of the school here and in fact we were told earlier this afternoon that it appears that coots died in some sort of confrontation with the 28 year old shooter. it appears that surveillance video captured kunz as well as the shooter in a
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hallway there and then the last person that died was 61 year old mike hill. he was a custodian, and it's believed he was the first one that died in the shooting. because according to police hill was near the front entrance of the school when the 28 year old shooter first entrance into the building. yeah, the chief essentially confirming reporting that the shooter targeted the school but did not target any specific individuals just sort of shooting indiscriminately. carlos suarez from nashville. thank you so much for that report. moments ago, president biden repeated his plea with congress to act on gun reform after once again, the nation is mourning the death of more children because of gun violence. i never thought when i started my public life. guns will be the number one killer of children in america. guns. number one. it's sick. and overwhelmingly, a majority of gun owners agree. we have to do something. not just everybody. gun owners agree. this there's a
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moral price to pay for an action. he's right. it is sick. it is sick that that is the number one cause of death in 2023 in this country of children. before the president said that some republican lawmakers today revealed that there once again not budging on gun laws. cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is here with the story. so, lauren, um i can't say this is a surprise to hear that they're not budging. but what exactly are you hearing from republican lawmakers in terms of why yeah, i've asked republicans over and over again today if they see any future of gun legislation passing in congress. this, of course, comes after there was a modest proposal that passed out of the house and senate last year. what i've heard resoundingly from republicans today is that no, there is no appetite to pass. additional legislation, including that assault weapons ban that the president has repeatedly called for in moments after these mass shootings. in
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fact, here is one republican temp urgent talking a little bit more about why he's opposed to more gun laws. we've got evil in this country and everybody else needs to tone down the rhetoric a little bit because all that does is janet up in both sides, and then they point the finger and nothing happens because nothing if you think washington is going to fix this problem, you're wrong. they're not going to fix this problem. they are the problem. it doesn't continue that other countries don't have this level of other countries don't have our freedom, either. yeah. the united states of america. my father fought for this country. my mama flew an airplane. my mama lost a brother fighting the dead, but the japanese got incredible freedom in this country. and when people abuse that freedom, that's what happens. and i talked to one of the leading republican negotiators in that bipartisan gun compromised last year, senator thom tillis told me that at this point, he thinks that lawmakers should work together
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to make sure that the implementation of the law that they passed in the summer of 2022 is the focus rather than trying to pass additional legislation. but of course, democrats continuing to call for an assault weapons ban as well as other gun reform measures in order to prevent these future tragedies. bianna. it is just difficult to accept that gun violence is the number one death of children in this country and that is the price we pay for freedom. it doesn't make sense. it shouldn't be a binary choice. lauren fox. thank you. well joining us now is brianna fox, a former fbi agent who is now an associate professor at the university of south florida and cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow. who was a secret service agent. welcome both of you, jonathan. let me begin with you and to get you to weigh in on that hurricane chilling video of the law enforcement those brave officers rushing into the school going room by room, you know, juxtaposed against the walls of
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a beautiful preschool and drawings and little backpacks. you see these armed men going in doing what they were trained to do. what is your reaction to what you saw in the video released. listen first, let's let's set the stage. i mean, as they were going in, we all watched the video. everyone's you know, anxiety starts to rise , right, but not for those law enforcement officers. why because they're training tactics and experience took over. they went in. they knew that the call for service was that there was an active shooter, the rapidly mobilized and entered into the building to go after the assailant. um you know, hastily searching each and every room along the way until they heard the sound of gunfire, which allowed them to figure out what part of the building the assailant was in. they went to that, and then they neutralize the threat. this was a textbook operation by law enforcement that was executed flawlessly.
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they did a phenomenal job the time to response the way that they address the threat. and neutralize it actually saved more lives. time is essential in these in these situations, and everything that they did was appropriate. brianna over to you one of the things we heard from the chief of police in nashville earlier today was that the suspect purchased seven weapons from five local gun stores, all of them legally. they were under the supervision of a doctor for emotional distress. the suspect's parents apparently did not believe that they should own a weapon. we don't have details on the extent of why, but i think that signals something in and of itself. um, it seems like any system that's in place to try to prevent somebody who shouldn't have a weapon. should have prevented this from happening, but it didn't. absolutely and you know, i
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constantly say people point at mental health issues or emotional distress as the cause of these types of mass shootings. everybody across the globe has mental distress and mental health issues. only media in the united states do we see people eat easily able to access guns, purchased them, purchase multiple and then be able to use them so quickly. i think the last gun was purchased just 10 days ago. that means in 10 days, the set of the shooter was able to buy these legally and that says there's something wrong with our system and whether or not you know the families should have, you know called police or had done something. that's a different story. but the fact that the suspect was able to walk into a store and buy one so easily, really says there's something going on here in the united states. it's different from the rest of the planet. yeah you're absolutely right. the u. s doesn't have the monopoly of people who are suffering from mental issues. jonathan short of legislative action in from what we know now, about the response time in the
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video that you saw was there anything that could have been done to prevent the death of four innocent people? six innocent people, i should say. well. yeah i mean, great question. you know, we have to take instance like this, and we need to get better on identifying what are the red flags and you know time and time again, you know, there's been 100 and 29 mass shootings this year. we see this pattern and the secret service and fbi. you know they've looked at patterns of mass shootings in the past that have identified these video, uh, red flags, one of one of which is concerning communication. we know that this suspect had writings. had you know, basically telegraphed the fact that there was going to be some sort of action, you know, through instagram messages to a friend. you know whether it was , you know, suicidal ideation or stating directly that they want to die by suicide. those are concerning communications. um you know, oftentimes, social media can be used as an outlet
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for rage, and we have to be able to identify that better. the second part of this was there was a significant amount of planning and preparation put into you know this attack everything from pre attack surveillance to mapping the target location, identifying the easiest pathway in in 33 is the targeting. they targeted a soft location, right so well. we're hearing in the reporting earlier that there was a mall that was potentially targeted as well as this, uh, you know, school houses of worship. they're all soft targets. what is my point here? my point is, we have to understand. what are these? red flags. what are these warning signs that we need to get smarter about? and then? to how do we alert the right authorities at the right time to prevent these tragedies from happening? and as we saw in this case, the shooter apparently did send a note to a former classmate, whether anything could have been prevented. there is a knowable, but nevertheless you see it often in these cases
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that they do show signs that something is going to happen. brianna fox, jonathan wackrow, we have to leave the conversation there. thank you so much. joining us now is state senator heidi campbell. she represents the area where the shooting occurred. state senator . thank you so much for being with us yesterday when we spoke with you. you mentioned that you knew families that were close to the school and that you knew parents that had children there as well. now that we know the names of the victims have you heard from them? how are they holding up? i haven't heard from them and you know, certainly would not want to intrude. they're dealing with the most horrific possible aftermath that i could imagine. so i have not reached out to them. we did hold some vigils in our city last night. um and our community has been very supportive, and i know that they know that whenever they want to reach out, we're all available. can i ask you to comment on the actions of those
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law enforcement officers who went into the school bravely as we just saw on their body cam footage and when in classroom by classroom textbook as what we're hearing from law enforcement experts into how they conducted that operation and ultimately taking down the shooter, just what went through your mind when you saw that, knowing that they very well likely prevented other deaths. i could not be more proud of our police force. they did an amazing job and handled this perfectly. and i'll also say one thing that hasn't been discussed is how well they dealt with the aftermath. i was in the, um in the church all day yesterday, while we were reuniting children with their families, and it's a very difficult thing to do for so many reasons, and they did a beautiful job of making sure that there were counselors available and that the children were being reunited safely with their with their families, and that every child was counted for
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. state senator. i wanted to revisit something we talked about yesterday as well. this executive order that governor bill lee signed in 2022 following what happened in you've aldi. it was an executive order designed to prevent the very thing that we saw yesterday it was meant to harden schools in the case of a potential shooting. but it didn't include any new restrictions on guns. i'm wondering if you have spoken to fellow legislators, perhaps somebody at the governor's office about revisiting laws to restrict access to weapons. let's just be honest about this . we do all these acrobatic maneuvers to try and get around the idea that really, inevitably , the common denominator here our guns and we can. we can do all of these things to try and make shootings. um you know a little bit safer. but in the final analysis, we've had 367
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shootings, school shootings since columbine happens. and um and you know, i don't know what it says about a society when we're not willing to defend our nine year old children from getting gunned down on a regular school day. this is insane, and we need common sense gun reform and inevitably, you know, listening to some of your guests who think this is about freedom? i would say that we have the freedom to which we should have the freedom to send our kids to school without having to worry about them getting shot. that's the freedom that we need to have in our country, and i guess it's not gonna happen until we vote for individuals who will pass common sense camera form, and that is the power that we have. the power that we have at this point is in the voting booth because it's clear that our legislators in congress are intractable. yeah that was representative republican representative tim burchett. who you're referring to from your state of tennessee, who said
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this is the price you pay for freedom and quote. we're not going to fix it. he said that earlier as well. state senator heidi campbell. thank you for your time and thank you for being there for your community when they need you most. massive protest massive protests across france over controversial changes to the national retirement age live in paris just ahead. and israeli prime minister benjamin and yahoo! backing down, at least for now, after facing major backlash over his judicial reform plans. we have details next. the hiring prprocess used to be the death f me, but without work. with up work. the hiriring process is ft and flexible. behold all that challenge. wt kind of feeng
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in paris setting fires. and as you're seeing on your screen right now clashing with police officers, cnn sam kiley is live on the streets of paris for us, sam. what is the situation like right now? well that tanouye announcement from the police that you just heard there, boris, as you were coming to me is an announcement from the police that as far as they're concerned, the legal protest period is now over. and therefore if people remain on the streets, demonstrating that is, and i have to say there's only a small rump of people left here very heavily outnumbered by the police and the french gendarmerie, then they risk arrest. that is what essentially , the police are saying that the police have also reduced their own numbers. at the peak here, there were 5.5 1000 were being deployed 13,000 around the country. the size of the demonstration here is down and what it was last thursday,
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according to the interior ministry, down from about 120,000 to about 73,000, there was quite a lot of back and forth earlier on today in the late afternoon early evening clashes with the burning of rubbish and garbage, with protesters throwing bottles and rocks at the police and the police responding with charges and tear gas, a number of arrests have been made. we've seen quite a few arrests, but relative restraint on both sides , particularly by the standards of clashes over the weekend at a very violent environmental protest outside of paris, not connected with the ongoing demonstrations against president macron's plans to raise the pension. age. by two years to 64 . now that is going to go ahead . boris indiana, that is almost definitely going to end up on the on the on the books in france, so the only way that this can be turned around is by forcing you turn on the macron ministrations to do that.
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hardliners in the opposition believe you need to see a lot more of these street protests. the unions are trying to have dialogue. they were allowed dialogue with the government. the government says fine. but they are not going to discuss the government is not going to discuss changing that retirement age or backing down on that very key issue, so there is what the french would call an m past. there is nowhere particularly to go apart from more of these demonstrations, but some of the energy is going out of the strikes across the country because many of these strikes have been going on and off since mid january, and the strikers themselves are workers and running out of money. they need wages in their pockets. so here in paris, for example, garbage collection is going to happen tomorrow for the first time in many weeks in many of the main districts of paris back to you. perhaps reality setting in day 10 now of these protests, as you noted sam that these changes in legislation will go through president macron not budging. thank you. so much for your
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reporting. we want to get some news just into the cnn newsroom and update from manhattan on that new york grand jury that's looking into former president donald trump's alleged role in that hush money scheme. cnn's kara scannell joins us now, so what more are you learning? well boris indiana's sources tell my colleague lauren duvalier that the grand jury hearing this testimony about the hush money probe will not be meeting again this week. so the next time that they will take up but not be hearing evidence on the trump related case this week. the next time they will take that up will be monday. the grand jury, which normally meets mondays, wednesdays and thursdays, we know they were in yesterday they heard from david packer, the former chairman of the national enquirer. they're not meeting on wednesday and they will be in on thursday, but they won't be hearing any trump related investigations, so the next time that there will be an opportunity for them to either here additional evidence or potentially if the d a alvin bragg decides to go forward to seek charges, they could be
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hearing evidence related to be asked to take a vote on the indictment as soon as monday. so at this point, we're not expecting any other activity related to the trump investigation by the grand jury this week. boris madonna, an important development outside of that courthouse, caress canal. thank you so much for watching that for us. meantime, we want to focus on another big international story. this time in israel were thousands of protesters took to the streets of television today. despite prime minister benjamin netanyahu's decision to halt the overhaul of the judicial system. thousands went on strike yesterday, which prompted the prime minister to delay votes on the overhaul and allow time for debate. but one thing netanyahu made clear is that this pause is only temporary. meantime the country's largest labor union is threatening to strike again if the legislation is revived. dennis ross is a former us envoy to the middle east, and he's a counselor at the washington institute for near east policy, dennis. it's great to have you
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on so a pause from netanyahu, but he also made clear yesterday that he believes is over. the hall is in fact necessary and he only got the sign off from the far right. national security minister. nmr been veer when he was promised the role of really essentially controlling the country's national guard. so given that do you think that this will be something that protesters will accept? i think the protesters are going to watch and see what actually happens right now. and by that, i mean, is there a dialogue a serious dialogue that takes place today? president herzog posted both the government and the opposition together for the first time directly. there were indirect talks before under his aegis, never direct talks. i think the you're going to find those who've been leading the protests. they want to see how real is the style log. many question whether it will be real. i suspect actually, it will be and i said the reason i say that is because you know there we are seeing
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unprecedented action we've never seen before. reservists won't report for duty. you're looking at the largest labor federation . the history a green with the leaders of the banking and the business sector for the first time ever to have a general strike, universities shut down. all this came together and i think that's one of the reasons i think that netanyahu made the decision to do a pause. i think so long as people perceive this to be a genuine dialogue. they may not stop demonstrations generally because they're gonna want to keep some leverage, but i think they're gonna wait and see what happens. dennis for those that aren't as red in can you explain what this judicial overhaul really entails? because it's worth noting that israel does not have a constitution and that it's its supreme court had up until now the authority to weigh in and overrule legislative decisions. right? look there are several
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provisions, but there are really two that are critical here. one is the idea of the knesset, which is the parliament of israel would have the right to override the judiciary. in israel is a parliamentary system , which means the executive branch and the parliament are one the same. it's a majority coalition that effectively elects the government. so if there isn't a judicial arm that's independent, and it can be overridden by the knesset. that means you have no separation of powers whatsoever. a lot of focus was on that issue because initially that provision was going to allow a narrow majority of 61 out of 1 20 to be able to determine override. that is a provision that has been put on hold even even before the pause that we've met that prime minister netanyahu announced. the other provisions that was going to be enacted into law and actually went through three readings, which means it was right on the brink of being enacted into law. was going to change how judges were selected.
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and instead of having what is basically a nonpartisan yeah. judiciary elected by judges, you're going to have the government control the selection of judges. that was the provision that was simply going to be imposed, and that's what really triggered. the reaction that we've seen it's what led to the minister of defense gallant saying that there needed to be a posy wasn't going to be a party to what was in effect, not just tearing apart the country but tearing apart the military, and that's why he called for a pause. what when he was fired that produces spontaneous outpouring of more than 100,000 people late in the evening. intel aviv and produced these calls for a general strike. that's when the prime minister made the decision to back off. he said to ben gruber, that we will proceed if we don't reach an agreement. but he's also said that all right, there's a pause. we're going to have a dialogue. let's see if we can come up with an agreement. i think it will be very difficult if you were simply to try to impose what was
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agreed upon before as a law, i think that will be very difficult not to produce a reaction. i suspect there's a good chance that we'll see some kind of adjustment, whether that adjustment to the law is going to be sufficient for the protests that remains to be seen, because these took on a life of their own. think about it. i mean, you're talking about 12 weeks in a role of 3 to 4% of the entire population out there , protesting, including people who never ever would have dreamed of going to the street. it's unprecedented. he had reservists refusing to serve calling this the anti democracy . if this legislation went through, we have the united states president biden urging both sides for compromise. of course, we will continue to follow this story out of israel. dennis ross, thank you so much for your expertise. my pleasure. what we're getting word of back channel talks between former president trump and top house republicans about the investigations they're planning on capitol hill will have details on those communications up next. what does itit mean toe
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house. majorities priorities. let's take you to capitol hill now. and cnn reporter melanie zone ona. she has more on how trump continues to wield enormous amounts of power within the halls of congress and melanie. this reporting indicates that he is either in constant direct communication or in constant communication through intermediaries. yeah that's right. there has been regular communication between trump world and these gop investigative committees on capitol hill. in some cases, it is the former president himself , who is speaking directly to members on these committees that includes at least stefanek, a member of gop leadership. other times it's been his aides or advisers who are speaking with the lawmakers or their committee staff and the council to these committees, and much of the conversation has been keeping him in the loop. making sure that they're all on the same page and really briefing him and the peace and progress of their investigations. but in other instances, we have seen examples where trump world has tried to exert influence over these investigations. in fact, last
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month trump lawyer joe tackle penis and an email to house judiciary chairman jim jordans and asked him to open an investigation into the manhattan district attorney's office over their investigation into donald trump. and these hush money payments and that, as you know, is exactly what house republicans ended up doing so that is just one example of how this back channeling on capitol hill really is influencing and shaping the gop s investigative priorities, and it really shows just how much influence the former president still has here on capitol hill, at least when it comes to the house republican conference. they are using their new majority and their new committee gavels to play defense for trump manhattan, d a is only one of several examples here. they also dropped an investigation into trump's finances. they are pursuing an investigation into the january 6th select committee that investigated trump over the attack on the capital. and so you are seeing how republicans are trying to curry favor with the former president. and of course, they see the political upsides to defending him as well. they either getting endorsements, increasing their fundraise abilities or, in some
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cases, getting shoutouts at some of trump's rallies beyond and boris alright. melanie zenoni. thanks so much for your reporting. tonight on cnn. primetime a former trump attorney and former manhattan assistant district attorney will debate the future of the hush money case. it's hosted by pamela brown and airs tonight at nine pm we'll be right back. tonight on cnn primetime as former president trump faces a possible indictment in the stormy daniels case. developments in the investigations that could put him in legal jeopardy. what happens next inside the trump investigations live tonight at ne. most important kitchen tool, my brain, so ihoose doriva plus unlike some others, areva plus is a multitasker supporting six key indicators of brain health. help. keep me sharp. areva think bigger take a piece sized amount. apply it like a lotion pits under boob
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