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you for joining us. i'm abby phillip in washington. i want to take you straight to dublin, where president biden is delivering and addressed to the irish parliament. let's take a listen. i'll also revisit county mayo. remember the history and hope and the heartbreak my blue and ancestors must have felt leaving their beloved homeland to begin their new lives in america. i sell this not to wax poetic about bygone days, but because of the story of my family's journey, those who left and those who stayed is emblematic of the stories of so many irish and american families, not just irish american families. and these stories are the very heart of what binds ireland america together. they speak to a history defined by our dreams. they speak to a president written by our shared responsibility. possibilities so today i'd like to reflect on the enduring strength of the connections between ireland and
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the united states, a partnership for the ages. begins in our shared history dating back to the very founding of the united states. hmm the irish hearts that helped kindle the torch of liberty in my country and fire. it's revolutionary spirit, the irish blood from across this island. that was willingly given for my country's independence. the irish hands that laid the foundations of a new kind of future one from the bottom up in the middle out, one build on freedom. you know the great ways immigration? that brought our ancestors to the united states and succeeding decades carried millions more irishmen across the sea. most of them arrived a little more than with hope in their hearts and strengthen their dreams and beautiful memories of an emerald green green isle home. they would never fully leave behind. i've never met. an irishman in america doesn't think he will hope we could see ireland someday. you know, they're sweet . they're excuse me, their sweaters soaked with the
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foundations of communities across the nation. all across america. you can't go anywhere and not find it by the way, tip o'neill of former speaker of the house. she used to say that he never would have a reception for all the irish and the congress, the house and the senate and all those who wish their irish and everybody showed up. look. the journeys of our ancestors expanded our horizons. and literally excited our imaginations. they became the untiring backbone. america's progress as a nation. even as they endured discrimination and were denied opportunity. i'll tell you a story. i was campaigning for president and i was out in colorado and i was with a man whose family had been it was a former senator, a man whose family had been in the united states since the conquistadors for generations. and he kept in. there are a whole lot of people standing
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across the refurbished rail station in western and if you mean eastern colorado, and there was literally 10,000 people on the other side of the track, waiting to hear me speak, and he kept saying that, joe, remember , remember, these people are not . these are my people, their spanish. they're not used to be taken. you gotta show respect, and i said, i understand kept it up. finally turned mr god's truth. this refurbished train station, okay? and i was like lenin kind of wallpaper on it. and about every 20 ft. there was a brass plaque the same. no irish allowed. i said, i get it. i get it. but tissue to speak above all to the values of the stain these people throughout their hardships in their lives. freedom. equality, dignity. family. courage. my mom used to have an expression of joey. courage is the greatest virtue all for that courage you can't love with abandon. courage you
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cannot love with abandon. these are the values that were handed down generation to generation of my family, graft and honor, the american character tended as they transformed an entire nation. like so many countries around the world, but perhaps more than most, the united states was shaped by ireland, and that's not hyperbole. that's a fact. in the values we share remained to this day, the core of our historic partnership between our people and our governments. as nations. we've known hardship and division. we've also found solace and sympathy in one another. just four years before we issued our declaration of independence, benjamin franklin came to the irish parliament and declared and described it as i quote disposed to be friends of america and of quote in turn the next ireland turned the text of ireland's 1960 proclamation displayed mainly in the main
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foyer of this building thrives on the support of ireland's exiled children in america. quote draws on the support of exiled children in america. where nations and know what it means to persevere for freedom. the bravest civil war toil in the vineyards of democracy, and that's again not hyperbole. it's a fact it's a fact. it's not just the hope. but the conviction that better days lie ahead and brought us along. we have the power to build a better future. 60 years ago was referenced, the first irish catholic president of the united states made historic trip here speaking to this assembly and capturing the imaginations of irish and irish american families alike when john kennedy addressed parliament, he honored the more than 150,000 irish immigrants who joined the army of the north. during america's civil war. among them. one or two of them were my relatives as
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well. they signed up. in a new land. to stand for all values. to defend freedom and the dignity of all people think about this name, another country and whatever their languages. that used the word dignity as much as we irish use the word dignity. it matters. my dad. you say everybody, joey, everybody d dignity, no matter who they are. president kennedy honored their courage and sacrifice by presenting to this body. the flag of the irish brigade, which hangs out here to this very day. like why i was honored received. an irish flag from the t shirt during the recent st patrick's day celebration in washington. it was flown to commemorate the irish. you first raised the tri color in ireland, 100 and 75 years ago and who suppose, such as subsequently made his way to america, where he led the irish brigade and that civil war the
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civil war battle. these like symbols. holding a place of honor and leinster house and the white house and body century of history between our countries. connections that are revocable e have shaped the understanding of the world and our hope that we put in it. forestry reminds us our history ours yours and mine reminds us of responsibilities we have to the president should be the president. to the hopes of our ancestors. to the expectation of future generations. because you know what it means to fight for democracy today. ireland, united states are standing together. oppose russia's brutal aggression and support the brave people of ukraine. i spent many days in uk.
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president kennedy said 60 years ago and i quote ireland pursues an independent course and foreign policy. but it is not neutral between liberty and tyranny, and it never will be. thank you for that. the past year. ireland has proved him right. speaker said ireland has stood proudly with the united states and partners around the world for liberty against tyranny. ireland has committed more than ■7170 millin and non lethal aid to ukraine. including including vital protective gear, medical equipment, humanitarian support and a to minimize the impacts of war on food, insecurity and child malnutrition. you don't forget. you have memories go deep. as a member of the european union, ireland's
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working together the united states and other partners to hold russia accountable for its actions, including through significant sanctions and export controlled. i've known putin for over 25 years. thought the world would look the other way. i was confident. he would break nato and the european union. the unity of western nations with fracture and fall at the moment of testing. that's what he thought. but he was wrong. he was wrong on every point, and every front today were more united and more determined than ever to defend the values that make us strong. i want to sincerely thank you for ireland's vital leadership last year in the us in the united security council. working together. ireland the united states up changed the way the un
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sanctions are implemented to ensure they do not hamper humanitarian efforts. the new humanitarian carve out will make sanctions more effective and save lives. ireland support for ukraine is especially meaningful because you carry them moral authority with nations around the world. alan ireland's always been a voice for liberty, global cooperation and equality of all mankind. because ireland remembers the terrible cost of war. you build an international credibility as peacekeepers stepping up continuously to serve in the u. n case keeping missions since ireland first development since iron first deployment in 1958, because ireland remembers what it means to have to flee home, leaving everything behind to begin again on foreign shore's the irish people have generously opened their hearts, their homes and you welcome as you said nearly 80,000. 80,000 ukrainian refugees. i would argue the rest
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of the world has a obligation to help you maintain that as well. because island remembers how painful hollows of the great hunger and your today global leader in food security as well. ireland's committed fully 20% of your aid budget to fighting global hunger, and in a moment where people around the world are struggling with the economic fallout of the pandemic. russia's war in ukraine, ireland is growing and sage budget expanded its commitment to help vulnerable people, especially partner nations across africa. i particularly want to thank you for stepping up alongside the united states help unicef and the world health organization fight malnutrition and child wasting ireland's contribution of ■750 million is helping prevent the treat. wasted child wasting and supply, ready to use therapeutic food and reach a half a million children in africa, half a million children. you're changing lives. ireland also remembers as i do. peace is
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indispensable. pieces and necessary foundation for progress for vote for growth from locking enormous potentials exist in every part of this island. this week marks of vital milestone for peace. 25 years ago. the belfast good friday agreement. 25 years ago. one of my best friends in the senate. a great great friend of his days. george mitchell. he said there were 300 days of failure. 700 days of failure. and one day of success. but it was a success that one day but more is to be done. yesterday i was in belfast honor those who commit themselves to peace. to reiterate enduring supporting the united states for the good friday agreement in northern ireland's democratic institutions. and help accelerate the enormous economic growth that is opening new futures for young people in northern ireland. as i pointed out there are literally hundreds
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of american corporations ready to come and invest. investment. they're cautious. because institutions are not a place we must never forget that peace even as has become. and lived reality for entire generation of young people. peace is precious. it still needs his champions still needs to be nurtured. good friday agreement didn't change. just change lives for the better northern ireland that significant positive impact across the republic of ireland as well. as a teacher and i have discussed including last month in washington and again today how ireland united states can work together with the united kingdom and the european union to support the people of northern ireland. i think i think that. united kingdom should be working closer with ireland in this forever. and there's this endeavor. political violence must never again be allowed to take hold on this island.
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presumption me to say from the united states, but that must be the goal which guides us and all our efforts. because the greatest piece to evidence of the good friday agreement is an entire generation of young people. entire generation of young people. heart of in shape , not by grievances of the past. by confidence. that there's no checkpoints on their dreams. the writing new future future of unlimited possibilities. for too long. ireland has talked about. in the task in the past tense. we tell old stories of days gone by. it is good to remember. stories of irish grit, ingenious saints and scholars, poets and politicians. in the face of it. they're good stories on his face. let's face it. but as a
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poet bowling wrote in her poem, mother, ireland, she said, i've learned my name. i rise. i rose up. i remembered it. now now i could tell my story. it was different from the stories told about me and of quote. today ireland stories no one to tell but its own, but the united states will be your closest partner. your most dependable partner and your most enthusiastic supporter. every step of the way, i promise you. we've always been and we've been together. and we're going to continue to grow our enormous economic relationship as a foundation for both our nation's prosperity. we're going to continue to strengthen our economies, building them from the bottom up in the middle out. yesterday and always already, ireland draws its disproportionate amount of foreign direct investment from the united states of america. the same is true for ireland's
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investment into the united states of america, which is a nice signal mostly giving investment of any nation in the world and america. you know, we share more than $1 trillion in bilateral trade and investment in 2021. more than 950 american companies. and the national companies have international headquarters in ireland. supporting hundreds of thousands of jobs. 700 irish companies located in 50 states employ more than 100,000 people in the united states of america. together ireland, united states are building the future of greater economic dignity. one we're rights of workers are respected and corporations pay their fair share. global minimum tax will continue fair competition for investing while creating benefits for all our people, and i have no doubt that the thriving economic
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relations between our countries is going to continue to grow. i am grateful for ireland's partnership and delivering the game changed this game changing international agreement. similarly. the deep connection is always used to be tune our people in the land has translated into a commitment to fight climate crisis to preserve our planet for future generations. the single existential threat to the world. is climate change. we don't have a lot of time. and that's a fact. even recognizing finally, everyone's recognizing america. i've flown over more territory in the united states since i've been president helicopter. has been burned to the ground and comprises the entire state of maryland. they can equal to the entire state of maryland. ireland's famous 40 shades of green are being supplemented by green energy. green agriculture , green jobs make no mistake the entire world sees and is drawn to the opportunities that exist
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on this island. skilled workers. the high tech infrastructure innovators are breaking barriers that connection in kinship you share not just united states and the countries around the globe. i know you all know it. maybe sometimes we forget it. ireland is a hotbed of cutting edge science, research and emerging technologies can influence so much of our shared future. for real. working in partnership with ireland, the united states. together the european union and like minded parties around the world are going to ensure that those technologies are grounded the same core values we have championed for so long democracy , human rights, freedom of opportunity. for everyone, not just for some for everyone. you know? i hadn't planned on running for president again. 2020. my son, beau, who had just died of glue upstage for glioblastoma after coming back from iraq after the year. here's
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the attorney general of delaware. as a matter of fact, he should be the one standing here giving this speech to you. but, you know um i started to write a book. talking about how technology has always changed the world and we were in an inflection point in the world. technology is changing so rapidly and things were changing so significantly. then it wasn't so much who led any country. it was the changes that are just happy and incredible speed. incredible speed. look what's happening with artificial intelligence right now. polls are not an enormous concern. our our world stands in an inflection point. where the choices we make today. are living in the determine future in the history of this world for the next 4 to 5 decades. literally not figuratively at one of those points to professor school said inflection. point is
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when you're riding down the highway at 60 miles an hour and you make a radical turn six degrees in one direction. you can never get back in the course you're on. that's who we are as a world. as we meet these eighth of struggles. they continue to cast a shadow on our world struggle between the rights of many desires are few. between liberty and oppression. and i know i get criticized for saying this around the world but between democracy and autocracy. it is a competition. that's real. and we're called his work just as every generation before us is back. in this moment. the world needs ireland. and the united states and are limitless imaginations. i meant more with xi jinping, any world leader has over the last 10 years. over in extremely 91 hours of just one on one conversations, 68 person traveled 17,000 miles with him.
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through asia, primarily through china. do you want to ask me that tibetan plateau, he said, can you define america for me? it's the god's truth. i said yes, i can. in one word. but if you ask me what ireland could have said the same thing. one word. possibilities we believe anything is possible. we set our mind to it and we do it together. this is the united states of america and ireland. there's nothing beyond our capacity. if we do it together, and we got to believe that we've got to know that because that's the history of both our countries. this is about defending the values handed down to us by our ancestors, keeping the flame of freedom. we inherited the beacon that's going to guide our children and grandchildren. it's a struggle we have to. we were fit to fight together. now. how is ireland united states? now is their time to meet every challenge together. i really mean this. to raise together. to rise up. and
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our joys and our triumphs. preserved together. and persevered through sorrows and setbacks to dream together over horizons. we can't see. and to build together a future that maybe that doesn't exist. future that can be you know? as has been mentioned as today. seamus heaney's birthday. and, uh, i was always quoting irish poetry in the united states senate over my career. so long, career 36 years. my colleagues always thought i did it because i was irish. that's not the reason the best poets in the world. or your husband? thank you for sending me an autographed copy. is your husband? my favorite
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poem. security troy and, uh, coz you all know the words. you know, i've just heard of so many times. he wrote. don't hope on this side of the grave. but then once in a lifetime. that long for tidal wave of justice can rise up. and hope. and history rhyme. it's everything i've been taught. rise up. we have in the past made hope and history rhyme. ladies and gentlemen. as we celebrate enduring partnership between our nations , our shared past our present. let's set our eyes squarely on the future. let's harness what's best in us. our courage. our
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creativity. our loyalty, our tenacity. and our loyalty again. that's once more. for our generation and generations to come. to strive to make open history rhyme. because i have never been more optimistic about the future that i am today. at the end of my career. not the beginning. i think i bring to this career after my agent, as you can see. how old i am. little bit of wisdom. i come to the job with more experience than any president. american history doesn't make me better or worse. give me a few excuses. this. one of the great honor of my career would be here today. i
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mean it from the bottom of my heart. you have no idea. what this my greatest regret. i'm going to sound like a kid, but my mom's not here to hear it. my greatest regret. as my grandfather, finnegan. who was an irish american whose grandfather was owned finnegan and made the effort. and he was a great athlete. i went to santa clara university and he was a newspaper guy in the business side. and i never understood what he meant when he said joey. i worry about you lean over. i say, pop. what do you worry about? he sent you too much too much. like that guy. who led the revolution. he said to the guy who was the prime minister. eisen, who's he said, you've got to be less like the military guy . they shot him more like more like peter lorre.
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folks, i really mean that we can do so much. we really got we can. we can breakdown and ideology. breaks down on faith in ourselves our values. there's no matter what party. we belong to values are the same. it's about honesty, dignity. justice. and you all have every ingredient to make it work. it's an honor to be here. thank you very much. all right. you were just listening there to president biden receiving a very warm welcome from members of the irish parliament on a trip that has deep personal ancestral significance for him. he's also
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touting their the ties between these two countries. but we also know that while president biden has been on the ground overseas , he has been repeatedly briefed on a very serious national security leak. currently being investigated by members of his administration now, just in to cnn. a law enforcement source has confirmed that an arrest is soon is expected soon of a 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman. let's get straight to cnn's natasha bertrand, who is over at the pentagon for us, natasha. what are you learning about this potential arrest? yeah so we are told that an arrest could happen as soon as today of a 21 year old air national guardsman who is believed to be the leader of a group chat in which a lot of these leaked documents have appeared over the last several months now we are told that this could happen as soon as today. but the new york times is
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reporting his name. and according to the times, this is 21 year old jack texeira. who was the leader of this group chat that had been he had been posting these classified documents over the course of several months as part of a chat that was filled with teenagers and young men and what what the washington post has reported in the last several hours is that this is someone who started this chat during the pandemic. he wanted to show off to younger, you know, younger members of that community. he wanted to show that he had access to these kinds of highly classified documents. and importantly, there were, according to the washington post foreign nationals in this group chat, which we should note appeared on the social media platform discord, which is now itself cooperating with law enforcement . so we are learning a little bit more here about who could have been behind this league. we had heard earlier that law enforcement wanted to speak to this 21 year old air national guardsman. now we are learning that an arrest is expected
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pretty imminently, abby. all right, natasha bertrand. this is a very fast moving story. we know you'll stay on top of it. thank you very much. but let's continue this conversation now with retired lieutenant general mark hertling. he's a cnn military analyst and former commanding general for the u. s. europe and seventh army and also with us is sean turner. he was an official in the director of national intelligence is office . sean i want to start with you. as i said, this story is moving very quickly. first last night. the washington post reporting a lot of details about this online discord group where there were about two dozen members of the group. but this individual is believed to have been the leader of the group. are you surprised to see the speedy nous with which this investigation is moving? a potential arrest could happen as soon as today. well, not terribly surprised, abby. i you know, the pentagon and the department of justice. there was a need to relate to try to triangulate and identify where
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these documents may have been coming from, based on the nature of the documents and based on sort of where these documents were being discussed. so when you take all of the facts with regard to the fact that this was on discord and you look at that community when you look at the type of documents, you can sort of narrow down where these documents may have been posted. in our government system and who may have had access to him. you take all of those details, and there was enough information for officials to be able to sort of narrow down the universe of people who may have had access. also think that this reporting that we've got certainly helped to end this, uh, in this effort , but i think that this is a really great example of once these documents were realized of officials moving quickly. the bigger question that i have is why it took so long to realize that these documents were floating around online. i think that's got to be part of the after action here. absolutely a major question, according to the reporting, it seems that they were being posted online in the small group for months before
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they were posted to a wider audience. general hertling the report of the reporting that what they are looking at the person they are looking at, is a member of the intelligence wing of the massachusetts air national guard. so a military member who may have had access to those documents. what questions does that raise for you? well the first couple of questions. first of all i'd like to say sean is exactly right. these are not mastermind criminals. these are gamers online passing information in a small group that suddenly got out of control, allegedly, according to the washington post article, and it's easy to then zoom in on those i p addresses and capabilities to find the individuals do it. that's what occurred today. the questions i had abby the ones that everyone's going to ask what kind of security clearance did this individual hat if he's handling top secret, no foreign documents. that tells me he
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probably had a security clearance. but that might not be the case because he's assigned to the one oh second intelligence wing of a massachusetts air guard, uh, unit that could mean he's either an intelligence analysts. but the new york times is reporting that he was an i t specialist, so these kind of documents are passed over computers, two different commands. you know, there's a lot of questions about. why do so many people have to see this but because our military communicate it's with one another. we have to get a coordination and cooperation between commands, and unfortunately it's not the kernels and the generals that are always, you know, printing things off and putting things out there. they have members of their staff that are doing the intelligence analysis and some even doing the things like they call power point rangers, the guys that and gals that actually make up the power points. there's a lot of people that see these things. and unfortunately young mr ticks era if he is the one that's any implicated in
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this, he's violated the air force values of integrity first service before self and excellence in all we do, and that's just really unfortunate, because that's all part of being cleared for classified information. it's all of this just raises the question about how the federal government the military can protect these documents from getting in the wrong hands, because in all of the reporting, it seems to indicate that the motivation here may very well have been clout within a relatively small group of people, sean i wonder, what do you make of what is driving some of this and how it can be addressed. yeah, well, you know if i can just address this issue of cloud, you know, as i looked at the reporting about this individual, i you know the general, remember this? you know what we had. we had two major leaks and the past decade , you know, we had chelsea manning and we had edward snowden. and when we look at
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those individuals, i think that what we're going to find what this individual is that there are some really interesting similarities here. you know, both of those previous who individuals snowden manning. they were sort of disillusioned with some aspect of our government or the state of affairs in in this country what we were doing. and so you know that when we think about why, what's the what's the reason behind this is that this is very similar to those sorts of things with regard to what we do here. you know, we talk a lot about this issue of over classification and who has access to these documents. but as a general said, you know, we have to balance that with our needs to communicate and our need to share information so that we can give our leaders that decision advantage they need right now. what i see is i think that balances maybe a little off. be we do need fewer people who have access to these classified documents. i would. maybe we need better systems in place to tag the data and tag the people as we used to say so that we know so that we can follow sort of follow the track of who's handling these
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documents. but again, we can't have a knee jerk reaction overreact because we still have to run military and government organizations so that we can protect the national security and general hertling. you raised the prospect that this individual could have had a security clearance. we're also learning that this group they shared, you know, racist memes and things like that. that he there's a video allegedly of him making racist and anti semitic comments. i wonder does and does all of this put together point to potential problems if he did have a security clearance with that clearance process that would allow someone like that to have access to this kind of sensitive information. yeah it certainly does, abby. but truthfully, we've talked about this many times in the past where you can't be 100% 0 defects. you know this is an individual, sean just said i think this implicates truthfully part of our culture to the desire to be famous. the desire to be bigger than everybody else. this was a young man, 21
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years old. he's evidently been doing this for several years with a group of teenagers and he's the big guy in the scene. somehow he has access to this kind of information, and that makes him even larger. there's been a lot of articles written about that culture. toral dynamic. so you know, it's problematic because when you go through an intelligence clearance process, background checks are part of it. vetting or part of it. all of these things play a part in whether or not individuals should see information. you can't be 100% perfect all the time. sometimes individuals that have these kind of personality defects. get through and unfortunately caused these kind of problems. all right, general mark hertling and shawn turner. both of you. thank you very much for all of that analysis. and up next more breaking news. the battle over the abortion pill could be going to the supreme court. stay with us. double check that thahat's
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the bad administration isn't wasting any time. the justice department says it will ask the supreme court to intervene after an appeals court ruling overnight effectively made the abortion pill crestone harder to obtain. the appeals court did say that the drug will remain available for now. but with some restrictions. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is joining us now. so, jess, what is the doj saying about this appeals court ruling? yes so abby, the attorney general, just announcing that the justice department is preparing right now to ask the supreme court to step in on this issue. so merrick garland just releasing a statement, saying not only that doj strongly disagrees with the fifth circuit's decision overnight, but also saying this will be seeking emergency relief from the supreme court to defend the fda, scientific judgment and protect americans access to safe and effective reproductive care. so what's the timing on all this? it looks like doj could file today or tomorrow because
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they want the supreme court to weigh in before midnight friday night because that, of course, is when this new fifth circuit decision would take effect. so right now, though, it's crucial to remember that there is this continued access to the abortion pill. it's the same access as it was before this legal fight was all set into motion by the texas judge last friday night, however, crucially here, the clock is ticking. if the supreme court doesn't step in to pause, the effect of these rulings and really the next two days we will see those restrictions on kristen take effect late friday night into saturday. so what that means is that mifepristone will still be available. but the fda, they've been allowing it to be used up to 10 weeks. that, however, will be wiped out and approval will only be up to seven weeks of pregnancy pregnancy, so shortening the time women have the opportunity to use this and in person pick up of this drug. it will be back in effect over the past several years. in the wake of the
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pandemic, women were actually allowed to be prescribed this via telehealth over the phone or on video, and they were able to get mifepristone by mail, but those to ease of access benefits . they will be removed if the fifth circuit decision goes into effect, because abby really that part of it. the in person part is significant here because my colleague tierney sneed is actually reported that since the dabs decision last june, overturning roe v. wade, which of course made abortion access more difficult and even non existent, certain states 9% of abortions have been done over telehealth, meaning these women went online to talk to their doctors. they got their prescription by mail. so this if this fifth circuit decision goes into effect, this could really create difficulty for women. when it comes to accessing this drug, so a lot will play out in the next 24 to 48 hours here, we'll keep an eye on the supreme court. abby another critical period. and, as you pointed out, this is how the majority of abortions are conducted right now in this country. thank you
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very much. jessica schneider. and up next for us, california senator dianne feinstein is asking to be temporarily replaced on the powerful judiciary committee has health issues delay her return to work by some of her fellow democrats are now calling for her to resign. there's some e things tt go betteter together. hey. like your workplace benefits and retirement suits with voya, considering all your financial choices together and help you be better prepared for unexpected events for brighter financial future, thanks, ah, pretzels and mustard. another great combo fire. voya well planned, well invested well protected.ou need new replacement windows, but you're just no sure if they're in the budget this year, right? brian gary her with ted coons frorenewable anderson, and he's here to talk about how to make window replacement more
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asking to be temporarily replaced on the judiciary committee as she recovers from the shingles. the key word here is temporarily, but some of her fellow democrats, they want her to step down from the senate because her absence has slowed their party's push to confirm a judicial nominees. cnn's lauren fox is joining us now. so lauren what would need to happen in order for feinstein to actually give up her seat temporarily here? yeah, i mean, so there's not really a precedent for this, which is part of the reason that it's complicated one of the ways that you get your committee assignments at the beginning of the year is the senate has an organizing resolution, and usually it is so easy to do that members just agreed to do it by unanimous consent, meaning that no one objects to it. they don't really have to have a formal up or down vote where they count the votes. here though you have a question of whether or not republicans are going to go along with a request by chuck schumer, the majority leader next week to go ahead and temporary replace her on the committee and the reason that
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they may not agree to. that is because this is about lower court judges and whether or not republicans are going to allow democrats really to advance some nominees out of committee in an expeditious way that really benefits democrats politically in the lower courts, not republicans given what is happening on this abortion case right now in texas, it really underscores the reason why these lower court nominations are so important. so we have reached out to republicans. we've reached out to leadership. no word yet on how republicans are going to deal with this next week when they get back from their recess, abby all right, lauren fox. thank you very much. and joining us now is cnn political analyst sung min kim, a white house reporter for the associated press. sandman, you also spent a lot of time on capitol hill. so you know the players here and also the game as well. what do you think is going to happen here? is it possible that schumer can allow feinstein to be replaced temporarily? and would that
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satisfy democrats who are very much unhappy with feinstein, perhaps slowing down the judicial nomination process? well i think it's pretty clear that chuck schumer just can't unilaterally replaced senator feinstein on the judiciary committee, and i think you saw that with a very careful wording from senator feinstein from senator schumer's office. thank you will ask the senate. basically, that means you need republican support. so like, lauren said, well, republicans go along with something that will help democrats speed up that judicial pipeline that has been such a big accomplishment for the biden administration for democrats in the senate, and that's the big question. right now, there has been a lot of agitation growing. in the last couple of weeks, mostly whispers but obviously as spilled out into the open yesterday among democrats among outside groups who work on judicial issues that senator feinstein's prolonged absence was really stopping their work. so you know the procedures have to be worked out , but it doesn't seem like they can be satisfied anytime soon. i also noted that former house
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speaker nancy pelosi, she defended feinstein yesterday, saying, i've never seen them go after a man who was sick in the senate in this way, and it's also worth noting senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is out because he had an injury as well. what do you make of her? her comments there. i think there are a couple of interesting elements. they're one the reason why all this aggravation all this frustration is coming out about senator feinstein is because there's a direct correlation between her absence and their ability to get things done. you know, sometimes a lot of the elder men in the senate didn't necessarily halt you know their respective party's agendas, which is why perhaps other members, other senators kept it a little bit more kept their concerns a little bit more quiet. but you know dick durbin, other senators have been pretty blunt about the fact that senator feinstein's absence was really impeding their work on the judiciary committee. and now one other
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good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. in the republican controlled arizona state house. we just saw something extremely rare state lawmakers punishing one of their own first spreading election conspiracies, choosing ethics over party loyalty. 46 arizona representatives voted to oust newly elected liz harris.
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the resolution to expel her says that she brought quote, disrepute and embarrassment to the state legislature when she invited a conspiracy theorist publicly testified before lawmakers when the resolution passed, you can hear a voice off camera screaming in protest. for the motion. all in favor of that. i opposed vote. no eyes have it's ordered the house is adjourned. cnn's kyung lah is following this extraordinary story. so kyung what happens now? well the maricopa county board will now select a temporary replacement until there can be an election. but let's take a step back, abby. and look at what all of this is coming from because there's been a lot of attention out of what's been happening in tennessee. this is a similar process, but a totally different story. we're talking about a republican. her name is liz harris. she was elected in november of last year, so in the midterm election
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and before she became a lawmaker, she was a well known conspiracy theorists through the partisan lead battle review in arizona, known as the so called arizona audit, she spread all kinds of outlandish lies. once an office, she held a hearing where she invited a conspiracy theories. there is abby to testify. and this person spread lies like the governor of arizona is laundering money for the mexican drug cartel. so here , the republicans said, that's our line. you are out, abby. fascinating story there. kyung lah thank you very much. and that does it for me. i'll see you back here tomorrow. there's more news coming up right now. this is cnn breaking news. thank you for joining us in the cnn newsroom at the top of the hour. i'm erica hill. and i'm bianna. golodryga we're going to bring you that breakin