775383882 or visit homeserve .com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. tonight this has to stop. that's a direct quote. those are the words of fox news chief suzanne scott about anchors and correspondents at the network who were fact checking then president trump's election lies on air writing in one email coming to light and filings from dominions $1.6 billion defamation suit against fox news, scott writes. this has to stop now the audience is furious. bad for business. scott lashing out in another message, saying, in part quote, i can't keep defending these reporters who don't understand our viewers and how to handle stories and in another email written on inauguration day, rupert murdoch , obviously the ultimate boss of the company, lays into the former president himself. in this case, the totally opposite side, murdoch, saying trump's election lies were quote a huge disservice to the country.

pretty much a crime. amazing. thank you so much for joining us. 3 60 begins now. moments ago , a vigil for the three adults and 39 year olds who were murdered at the covenant school two days ago ended in nashville. a city still in mourning. tonight was a moment for people to gather to console and to remember. first lady jill biden was in nashville tonight. earlier she placed flowers at the memorial for the six who were killed three children, all nine years old ali scruggs, the daughter of covenant presbyterian churches, senior pastor evelyn dick house and william kinney and the adults the head of the school. katherine coons. age 80. excuse me, 60 mike hill, who's 61, the school custodian. and cynthia peak, who was also 61, a substitute teacher. a city councilman now says he believes that koons may have died trying to protect the children. he says a witness told him kunz was on a zoom call, heard the shots and

then abruptly ended the call and left the office. nashville's police chief, can't confirm how she died, but did say, quote. i do know she was in the hallway by herself. there was a confrontation. i'm sure so many are mourning tonight, including steven curtis chapman, a grammy award winning singer songwriter and his family knew katherine coons very well, not just as an educator, but as a friend and a lifesaver after a tragic accident when steven's daughter , maria, was accidentally struck by a vehicle driven by one of his sons, stephen says that coon stepped into their lives in a powerful way, walking with them and their anguish and they're suffering. i'm grateful steven curtis chapman could join us tonight. stephen, i know you and your family are grieving, and i appreciate you taking the time to talk with us about about katherine. she sounded like such an incredible person. the police chief has said that he can't confirm it. but he says it's very possible that that she was running toward the shooter. that probably doesn't surprise you, given that when your family was

grieving, she ran toward toward toward your grief towards your trouble. yeah. absolutely um, katherine. um. miss says my boys called her. um she was a amazing. person and she would run that would be like her move towards step into trouble pain, hard things. that's why her life , um marked our family. so significantly. we knew her, um, before we walked through the great tragedy of losing our youngest daughter, my son's, um , we're we had made a decision to go have them go on the road with me tour with me for a season. and she being an educator, the aca academic dean

of the school that all my kids attended c p a christ presbyterian academy and here in nashville, she would have naturally said no. you need to, you know, do it's a college prep school. go to college get, you know education, but she is the way she was, she said. i see a different story and you guys and i see it in your eyes and your heart. and so she found a way with us to help them go on tour with maybe in my band and do kind of home school tutoring with her, so when they weren't on the road, they were either in her office or at her house. um she had an unusual amazing way with boys to know when it was time to, you know, close the books and because, you know, let them do their shenanigans or whatever, and laugh with him and then be you know, stern and all of that, so they already had an amazing relationship. and we did our whole family with her, um but then when, um when we lost our youngest daughter, maria, and in a very tragic way that as

the story um would be our son will in particular was carrying a very, very heavy weight. um and through the time that she was working with them and would continue to be so much more. my son, caleb, said. mentor friend um confidant. i mean, she was all of those things and teacher of so much more than what they learn in books that they it's not an overstatement. we would have said this a week ago, we would have said it a month ago. we did say it all the time. even before this terrible incident and this this devastating thing that's happened, we would say katherine coons is one of the people who helped save her son's life. um through walking with him. and uh, yeah, just caring for him and moving into as hard and as awful as that story was for us. she just she ran towards it. and so, yeah, it does would

not surprise us. in fact, when we first heard what was happening, and we were huddled up, praying, crying, begging god that this wasn't even true. um we knew catherine was there. we knew this. she was the head of the school and my wife even said as much as i don't want to believe katherine is one of those that we're hearing about. i know her well enough to know she probably was doing everything she could to change this story to stop this thing from happening to talk to this person, whatever she could do, because that's just your your son will posted a tribute instead, in part of this incredible woman walk by my side through the darkest time in my life and was a mentor and a friend. give maria and that's your daughter a hug for me, and i can't wait to all be together again sooner than later. and caleb also posted a tribute and i love what caleb wrote. he said. i'll be a student of your kindness forever about katherine . that's such a great great way to say it. you said that she had a supernatural power. what? in what way? uh, it was, um. it was

really it was. it was kindness. and um, when i read those words, my son, obviously you can imagine as a dad reading the words of both of my sons so very proud of them and how they have stewarded their their whole story. um and their journey and with the music and all that they're doing, but she was hmm. you know those people that you encounter and you if you're fortunate enough, and god allows your path to cross, um, with people that you just there's just something they see into your soul, and they see they they see something that most people kind of miss and just passed by. she saw it in her. our daughter, shoshana, our first of our three adopted daughters show he was was gifted . uh as a kindergartener. um she

catherine saw that and said, hey, you guys, let me talk to you all let me and she she saw kind of in even just what most people saw. bush's a really bright student. but she just had this ability and god gave her i believe, um, to see into the heart and the soul and the story of the student the person that she was with help them steward that i mean, i feel like that's what she helped her boys do. and even even our daughter show hannah, um in a just a really profound way. what are the things i've learned about grief really in the last year or two talking to people who are who are in it moving through it living with it. um is that one's relationship with somebody who has died doesn't necessarily have to end. in fact, that relationship can change over time, and you can still have a relationship. um i know you said to our producer that you hope that this is not the end of katherine's story and that that

her story will go on. um and i love that idea that that this is not her aunt. yeah um, i mean, it is the hope that really connected our lives. um you know, with catherine. it's the hope that i know, uh, fueled her life her teaching her vocation, but really, for her. it was a mission and even a ministry and knew that about her, and it was a hope that and i think it's why she could see this story in my son's, you know, and their journey, and they even even said that it's like you know the she she helped them even when they didn't believe. in the story that god was writing with their lives themselves. she kind of pulled that out and the hope that fuel that for her is i hope that sustained our family and our journey that we've been on still now for 14 years since we lost our daughter is the hope that the story isn't over that. it's not a fairy tale. it's not

wishful thinking to believe that just like god promised in scripture that there's a day coming when all the broken things will be made whole when all the um, all the sad things will come untrue. as you know, gandalf told frodo. it's i believe that is and that's what has we've held onto its anchor that we've held onto and i know it's what fueled catherine and so i really believe it's not wishful thinking to say i know we're going to see her again. we're going to see our daughter again. um and it's that's the hope that keeps us moving forward. steven curtis chapman. i really appreciate your time, and i wish you continued. peace and strengthen your grief. thank you so much. anderson bless you. the trauma of mesh school shootings. unfortunately familiar to my next guest. jordan jones was nine just like the children of the covenant school tuesday when a mass shooter murdered 20 children and six adults at sandy hook

elementary school in connecticut . i appreciate you being with us, and you have been an advocate for making change for something to happen, so we're speaking both as somebody who has to use both somebody who's been through this but also trying to fight for change. now, um every time something like this happens, it must bring everything back. absolutely and it doesn't just bring it back. i think as an advocate who has been working in the sphere for about five or six years now. as much as every day is putting one ft in front of the other. it's impossible to hold off this feeling of hopelessness. even for just a second. i feel it every time i open my phone and it's a new mass shooting, and i would be lying if i said that it didn't affect me. especially when i saw that it happened to children such as the ball the shootings, such as the covenant shooting that we now have seen the police response on this and you know, there's this video of

the police moving through these empty classrooms and it really struck me watching it. um not only the police today very professional job, but just how routine this is now for an entire generation or generations of kids. they know how to go into lockdown mode. they know they've had active shooter drills. they've had lockdown drills. throughout their entire time, and i never had that when i was a kid in school. it's extraordinary how this has filtered into your generation and bolos lives. absolutely. and i honestly speaking of someone who not just went through school shooting, but even afterwards still did lockdown drills. i find it disturbing. i find it disgusting and i feel that it's a symptom of a larger problem to me. this is or gun violence, i should say is not just a culture failure, but it's a policy failure. and i think it says a lot that we're expecting kids to go through these lockdown drills to know how to defend themselves in case of a school shooting.

rather so than past meaningful legislation, which has been i've been a part of that fight for, you know, like i said, five or six years, and it's ongoing. still despite everything that happens, and yet we still put a band aid. where we need much more than that, and it's just awful to see you think people get, um sort of immune to this. do you think people just sort of it just you know it's a routine now and everybody knows what to say and what to do. we asked the same questions and do the same stories and then people move on. oh, i mean, you know what's the most common phrase after a school shooting happens or a mass shooting in general? even my thoughts and prayers are with you. god bless you. i hope you're doing well. it's something that we're so conditioned to. and i mean, it breaks my heart and at some point you know, it starts to feel hollow, i think, especially when it comes from elected officials who have the power to

make change who are sitting and offering us nothing but words and i think i'm at that point where i no longer accept them. and i no longer believe them to be substantial. and i will always appreciate those words, because i know they mean so much coming from those around me from media such as yourself or from people all across the world. just regular average people who want to express something that is so difficult because how can you really sit and tell someone you're sorry for a school shooting that you survived it that you know someone who died in it that you were a victim yourself. you can't. it's hard and i don't expect people to know what to say. but i expect elected officials to act which is something that they haven't been doing so. it's an uphill battle. unfortunately i appreciate you being with us tonight. thank you. combs still to come tonight. what is going on with the grand jury

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month. anticipation has been building for that conclusion. the proceedings was at hand in part because of the comments by the former president, which were made up but also because the manhattan d a had invited him to testify, and that's something that seemed to signal a possible end of the investigation. the source says. the grand jury is not expected to hear the case tomorrow. they generally don't convene on fridays, and they're expected to your other cases next week. after that. there's a planned hiatus surrounding upcoming religious holidays and spring break vacations. i want to get perspective now from cnn senior legal analyst alejo, former assistant u s attorney and author of untouchable how powerful people get away with it . also with us is former federal prosecutor jessica rother, professor cordoza school of law here in new york. so what is going on? is this the is the d a blinking on this is this just school holidays coming up? so two ways to look at this? and that is the question. what on earth is happening here on the one hand? alvin bragg as the d a. has the power to indict this case whenever he wants. he's not up against any legal deadline. he doesn't need anyone's

approval. no one can force him to indict. no one can slow him down. and so it may be that he's just taking more than a moment now, but sometime to pause, think about it before bringing the first ever charged in the history of probably not a bad idea to not a terrible idea. let me give you the others to do. the other way of looking at it, though, is it doesn't look good. it doesn't signal confidence. it gives the impression that there's some hesitancy some reluctance. maybe some question about the evidence and by leaving it for this long you're leaving the field wide open for donald trump to spin spin spin away, which he's already doing. trump's already out there saying, i've been cleared thanks to the grand jury, not accurate , but it does leave it open for that impression would agree that we don't know what's happening. it doesn't single signal confidence at the same time. it doesn't necessarily mean anything at all. it doesn't mean that the district attorney is getting cold feet as some people have suggested. it could be that he's taking a long moment to decide whether there's any additional evidence or witnesses that they want to put into the grand jury or whether they just want to get their papers ready

for the motions and the blowback that they know are coming. but there's also plenty of reason to pause and think about the actual legal ramifications of this and i mean, this is a novel. proceeding this is not. not only is it a former president, but the charges themselves if he was indicted, it's not really but something that's been done a lot and the charges that have been reported as being contemplated are novel and i think that it is appropriate for him to take some time to make sure explain what what's novel about them? well, if it's in fact, a charge for falsifying business records charges of felony based on a falsification with the intent to commit or conceal another felony and that is based on a campaign finance violation under federal law, and so that the other felony would be a campaign finance violations under federal law, right and so that's part of what makes this so new york is new uk, says the new york felony provisions for falsification of business records with intent to conceal another felony. does that work when the other felony

that's essentially being uh, being a hidden by the falsification is a federal crime ? that's one of the many actually novel legal issues that would have to be decided. goes right and the law is not good for them on that. the law in new york suggests when we say campaign finance, we mean a new york state campaign finance violation, not a federal violation. but i will say this the grand jury and jessica knows that we were colleagues together is supposed to be the easy part. there's no real opposition there. it's just the prosecutor . and if you're struggling like this at the grand jury, getting a grand jury died somebody different than getting a an actual jury walk. all you need is a majority. of course in trial. you need unanimous grand jury. all you need is probable cause much lower standard than unanimous. here's another thing. in new york state. you cannot go in front. as a prosecutor, jessica and ice feds, you would have the luxury of going in front of the grand jury and summarizing you could say okay, folks you've heard from these seven witnesses here. some of the things they said can't do that in new york state. so if you're going to let a month

lapse between the end of the evidence, and now they may not remember this and the fact that you can't essentially do a summation before the grand jury helps explain why the district attorney brought back david pecker, essentially as a rebuttal witness to remind the grand jurors of what they had heard from him. previously with respect to the day doesn't do a summation at the ends kind of tying everything up. why is that? uh it's just the rules in new york. what what you do do as a d a. and as a federal prosecutor, as you say, okay, folks, here's the draft indictment. it has three counts. count one is this count two. is this count three? is this what we were allowed to do is fed to say, and let me remind you of the testimony state level. they cannot do that. that's just the rules and practices in the state. and this is a nuanced case. this isn't just like a bank robbery. this has to do with the fine details of the way that this payment was accounted for, and there's a, he said. he said, element to this, so i would be worried about leaving this to the jury's memories a month from now, if the d a decided that this was his top priority, how quickly could he get? he could already have an indictment under seal at this

moment? i mean, just to put that on the table. i don't think that's likely, but he could, and he could go in tomorrow and seek the indictment. i mean, i'm sure they have it drafted already, and so it's really within his control and his decision about when he think it's ready to go forward. all he has to do is ask the grand jury to vote. this is when you get a trial date. you're at the mercy of the judge the calendar, the defense lawyer. but with an indictment. all he has to do is go in there. say we're doing this case first, folks, here's your vote takes an hour. honing appreciate it. thanks so much appreciate it. jessica roth right now to the latest revelations and ongoing billion dollar lawsuit involving fox news and dominion voting systems, including what fox is ceo said about fact, checking the former president's lies about the 2020 election, joined now by our senior media reporter oliver darcy, who has been following the story from day one. um stunning that the ceo of fox sent in an email or a text, said that fact checking the former president, which some fox employees were trying to do was bad for business. not something you would expect from a leader of a purported news network. right, anderson. this is just there's just more fallout every

day from this $1.6 billion lawsuit against fox news from dominion voting systems, and now we're having new emails that really shed light on the pressure that fox news is under as a business after they called the election accurately for joe biden. i want to read to you an email that suzanne scott, the ceo, sent another executive after a correspondent eric shawn, fact check trump slides and a guest who went on sean hannity's program and spread. some election lies and she said, this has to stop and goes on to say this is a bad business, and there clearly is a lack of understanding. what is happening in these shows. the audience is furious, and we are just feeding the material. bad for business. it's incredible. it's incredible . now. fox news will say that this was because they fact checked a guest that was spreading again. these election conspiracy theories on sean hannity's show, but still regardless like if i guess when on cnn and spread election conspiracy theories, it would be pretty normal. it would be expected that other incurs would

then call it out. in fact, check that for the audience. there was also emails about concern about viewers dropping out of their their streaming services that right viewers left in pretty large numbers after the election. when there were rebelling against fox news, they switched over to newsmax, which donald trump was telling them to do. but now we're also learning in this new email that 25,000 subscribers to fox nation. fox news is streaming service had also dropped. they had just unsubscribed, apparently because there were so angry that fox news had the nerve to actually accurately called the election. for joe biden and in other another email that we also see we see dobbs producers talking about how putting on election liars like rudy giuliani, like sidney powell was actually good for the ratings in one email that right, i mean to keep this alive. we really need rudy or cindy. i mean, extremely stunning emails again. there's just a mountain of evidence now

showing the behind the scenes at fox news, and fox traditionally has said with these things are release that they're cherry picking text and quotes. what are they saying? that's exactly what they're saying tonight. they're saying these are more examples of dominion cherry picking quotes to make them network look bad. they say they have a good legal argument against dominion. and we'll see what happens if this case does go to trial in a few weeks. this judge is still we're still waiting to hear from the judge, whether they're going to rule on the summary judgment motions, which basically dominion is asking fox to declare themselves the winner. fox is saying. we should be declared the winner without a trial that's unlikely to happen from the legal experts i've spoken to is a very high bar, so this should go to trial in a few weeks. jury selection set to start april 13th and then the trial will get underway. april 17th alright oliver darcy appreciate it. thanks so much coming up in the next hour of cnn, primetime katelyn polantz. they joined by the daily show's jordan plepler, chronicler of trump rallies for the past many years. i don't know how he does

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with fentanyl, but the fight to stop fentanyl from actually reaching the u. s. has proven to be a tough challenge for both the u. s and mexican governments. tonight's news. david culvert traces the origins the deadly drug and why it spread so quickly. the u. s s largest port of entry where we're going today, also its busiest each day more than 100,000 people into the us through the san ysidro crossing about 800 customs and border protection officers tasked with keeping the bad from seeping through this part of the border , very difficult and complex job for them, too. in a matter of moments and sometimes seconds identify whether it's someone presents a threat coming into the station or not among the deadliest threats, illicit fentanyl want to feel the door to make sure doesn't feel heavy, and there's nothing in their ppe tells us that more than half of all the fentanyl found over us borders comes from ports here in san diego, officials say this is ground zero for illicit fentanyl

smuggling. we will probably double what we saw last year within the next month or two. that's double the amount of fentanyl seized in all of 2022 just the first four months of this year, but before the fentanyl even reaches the u. s border, you need to know where it's coming from. and for that we start not over there in mexico but in china specifically should dodge wong china, a city some 200 miles south of beijing , known for manufacturing, pharmaceutical drugs and once a major hub for fentanyl production in may. 2019 facing mounting us pressure, china took a major step and banned the production and sale of all known forms of fentanyl, including any variants of the drug. that was a big step that stopped fentanyl. fitting all the powder coming in from china directing the united states. matt donahue worked for the d e, a for more than three decades, retiring last year as its chief of foreign operations . while he says finished,

fentanyl is no longer flowing out of china. precursor chemicals. the ingredients to make fentanyl are if you can get to the precursor chemicals, you're going to have less fentanyl. you have less fentanyl. you have less over those deaths using that same approach in recent years, the us levied new sanctions against a handful of chinese chemical manufacturers to combat the global illicit drug trade. we looked into one of them trading company accused of being involved in fentanyl precursor chemical sales, public records show the company was dissolved in 2021, but our investigation found the same email address once listed for hope by a tune now linked to this chinese company. shanxi ni pu, registered just days after kobe tune began to shut down and look at hobie itunes facebook page still active. it links to shanxi. ooh! not to mention the whatsapp contacts advertised for both companies the same, so i texted a number listed on one of

shanxi knipe, who's for websites without even mentioning the word fentanyl. the seller linda wang asked if we wanted this substance, which can be used to make fentanyl then sent me this full menu of chemical products reveals these are mostly precursors legal to buy, but ones that chemist tell us can be used to manufacturer illicit drugs from fentanyl. to cocaine . the company offers fast delivery and safety shipping door to door to usa. logan paulie is an intelligence analyst who has been investigating the flow of fentanyl precursors out of china for years. we showed him our conversation with wong warehouse in mexico city. wow wondered if one would reveal any ties to the sanction company. tell me you are the same company as kobe tune your now called sanitary knight who import and export. ha ha! yes smiley face. sorry i don't want to cheat you. i think it's wild that they confirmed that they're the same company in an email. responding to our request for comment, shanxi knight, who told us we are not

related at all to obey a tune. adding that they bought the sanction companies facebook account email and cell phone number in order to quote attract internet traffic. they also deny selling the fentanyl precursor that they offered to us in multiple exchanges, and the company denies having any warehouses in the u. s or mexico, stressing that everything they sell is legal. we found hundreds of other chinese chemical companies selling the same fentanyl precursors legally. i mean, does this show? do you think that us sanctions aren't working or are ineffective the way in which the system is being exploited by these chinese companies makes it hard. to enforce everything. another problem when one precursor is banned, a substitute chemical quickly takes its place. so what they're doing now is they're buying compounds that are structurally very, very similar chemist point out the ease of creating a substitute ingredient called amassed precursor. simply put,

make one small chemical change, and it's no longer a band precursor to legal substitute one that's readily available to purchase by essentially anyone with internet access. officials tell us the majority of precursors ship directly to mexico. cartels cook up fentanyl in secret labs. we wanted to see for ourselves traveling into the state of sinaloa cartel country as some see it. we got exclusive access with the mexican army as they hunt for drug labs. garden they took us to their latest fentanyl lab bust this unassuming home white building right there. that's the fentanyl lab. the army says they seized 270,000 pills here all containing fentanyl. soldiers keep watch 24 7, preserving the scenes for prosecutors and preventing cartel members from restarting production here,

despite what we saw and scenes like these mexico's president claims here in mexico. we do not produce fentanyl, he said, instead turning it on the us essentially asking why the u. s can't fix its own social decay, comments that immediately made headlines across the country. china's foreign ministry points the finger in the same direction , they told us quote using china as a scapegoat will not solve the drug crisis in the united states. with us drug overdoses at record levels and a relentless demand for opioids blame shifts from one country to another international cooperation appears increasingly unlikely. if we had mexico actually working with us, you can actually work against precursors coming in and actually target chinese companies from mexico. instead the burden falls here on the u. s southern border where drugs continue to pour in. narcotics

narcotics don't know what it is yet they found obviously significant amount of drugs in the back trunk will continue as a will continue over this way you can get out of their way because they're going to continue to investigate that finding. do you see yourself as the last line of defense, the last line of defense holding the border. but we're the first line of defense in the expansion and hold the government outreach approach. it's not just an enforcement mission. it's a humanitarian mission. and david culliver is with me now, obviously narcan nasal spray being available over the counter . that's a very positive development for the you know, people who have overdosed getting the stuff to stop it from coming in. the narcan is going after the symptom, right? i mean, but to get to the root of that, it's exactly what we showed you right there. it's going to the precursors those chemical ingredients, and here's the frustrating part of all this. you look at a story like this in the investigation. and you almost feel helpless because it's so overwhelming, but there are steps that can be taken and

we talked to a lot of experts in this who say go after the individuals who are behind those companies in china, right? not just the company's because you see sometimes, as we pointed out in our investigation, you'll go after a company we were questioning sanction. i pu for their ties with the sanction company, and they and response does have said oh, we started to basically dissolve any connection to that sanction company, and we've even noticed today they started to pull some of their websites to sell. her linda, who we spoke with in that piece. they say she no longer works for the company. so they try to disassociate. the other thing you can look at here is the quantities. one law enforcement officer likened it to suit effect and creation of meth, right. if you see somebody go into a store, and they buy a couple of boxes of sudafed head, not all that surprising. they're buying 500 boxes. that's a flag that suggests that something more suspicious is going on and deserves to be investigated. that's what has to happen from the u. s law enforcement perspective, but ultimately, anderson you need international cooperation here over appreciate it. thank you. great report earlier this year, we told you about our russian teenager who was put under house arrest

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russia's wagner group and oligarch who likes to dress up like a soldier and make videos of himself holding a rifle admitted that the fight has battered them. earlier this year, we reported on russian teenager who was labeled a terrorist by russian officials and put on house arrest for criticizing the war on social media. alessia stove is her name. she faced up to 10 years in prison. now she has escaped. she's out of russia and talking to cnn's melissa bell. she's now a wanted fugitive escaping the law. but unless you aircraft sova was a teenager, like any other. unless you're krivtsov, um, is now on moscow's most wanted list. but enjoying the streets and the freedoms of the european union. for the safety of those who helped her to get here. we've agreed not to give too much away about how she escaped. no one expected that the case would grow so much that

the residents would be huge solvers. social media was typical of her age. but some of her social posts criticizing the war in ukraine were brought to the attention of authorities by fellow students, one of them distinguishing between snitching and patriotic, did not see a shin, would you? the only difference is that in stalin's time, people disappeared for good and it wasn't clear wear now because of social media. almost the same thing is happening except it's very public. from the start. krivtsov a was made an example of most of the many hundreds prosecuted france he wore activity in russia have been charged with disseminating false information . sova was charged with terrorism instead. stage why are you so scary to them? because i'm not the first and i won't be the last in the era of the information war between

propaganda and reality words can get through to someone. that is why the authorities are afraid because words are the most terrible weapon had been on her way to meeting her husband for coffee when she was arrested for the second time. she was placed under house arrest on trumped up charges. so in february, as she turned 20, she made her decision to go. but i see very little. do you regret the posts across? it's a difficult question. i lost a lot and went through a lot. my mother's tears faced with this situation, i lost my husband, grandfather and grandmother. this is a huge price for anyone. but if silva would not be silenced, even as big brother watched orwell's quote tattooed above an image of vladimir putin as a spider, and i think it's now my daily job to discredit the russian army because the russian army is

committing crimes on the territory of ukraine. tell me about this place. how it's been. yes the stairwell looks very russian because the building was constructed in the ussr. it's only my second day here. i haven't had a chance yet to tidy up my new place properly. or to get my bearings around the courtyard and the surrounding area. nova has already set up a new instagram channel. a girl interrupted on her way to getting coffee. now in lithuania freer and intending to be louder than ever. and melissa bell joins us now. the way the war has played out in social media is pretty extraordinary. are you seeing more young people like her speaking out online? we are , and it does tend to be the young, apparently anderson that is speaking out the most loudly indeed, one of the human rights groups inside russia the tracks these things over the info, reckons that of the 6000 russians that have been accused so far of denigrating the

russian army 2000 of those relate to social media posts. i think one of the most chilling things that you heard there is that in the end, she was denounced by her fellow students. it's a reminder of the anderson of just how corrosive to wider society. these kinds of laws can be, but she was really remarkable, determined to carry on and what she explained. is that essentially a second set of charges meant trumped up charges meant that she would certainly be facing time in appeal colleague in many ways she wasn't given much of a choice but to go but determined despite those harrowing last few months in the uncertainties she faces in the future. to continue making that voice heard. anderson appreciate it. thank you up next opening day tomorrow for major league baseball. so harry antin is here to teach me about something i know nothing about. double e check that thats pretty good. yes crying. are you taking that? and what was that? that? no, don't worry about that. here we go. the right question can greatly impact your

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judge or mike trout versus 90% of people who can name babe ruth 1945 such an outlier. you're not such an outlier and that i think speaks to the problem that baseball has right now. it doesn't have really stars that people recognize and you know when we think about baseball, right, and we say, okay, what's your favorite sport to watch? look at the trend line for baseball right now, compared to where we were, say, 70 years ago. look at this in 1948 was 39% 1960 down to 34 are now just 11% of that. is it? just. not the game for the times. i would argue that it's not necessarily a game for the time, so i want to break it down by young people, right 18 to 29 year olds and say, okay, are you a fan of these given sports baseball? guess where baseball ranks. it ranks. fifth it ranks fifth. look here. baseball 38% guess what ranks above it. soccer sports video games. younger people refer to them. they love them football way about. i don't know. i don't really play video

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