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just faced a judge standing in court in shackles, his family also in the courtroom. what we're learning this hour about when he got his top secret clearance are a stage now set for some big name republicans trump desantis haley pence, all heading to the gun convention of america's gun violence crisis right now, parisian authorities are tightening security as protesters prepare to learn the fate of the pension reform changes they've been fighting against four weeks. these major stories and more right here on cnn news, central. this just in to cnn court documents show that dak jack to share a had top secret clearance . 20 run your 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman appeared in a boston federal courtroom this morning.
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he has now been charged with allegedly being behind that massive leak of classified military documents, according to new detail from uh, new deal t of detail from court this morning to share allegedly began posting the documents around december of last year to share a was an i t specialist and he entered the air national guard in september of 2019 and was recently promoted to the rank of airman first class. let's get to the courthouse and find out what happened inside outside the courthouse as jason carroll for us in boston. what do you what happened in court? jason? well it's not just what happened. katie's you can imagine in court but outside of court as well, just a few moments ago, right outside federal accord to women who were sitting in the family road during the court proceedings exited the cord and we're surrounded by a pack of reporters and cameras myself included. as we headed down the street. i repeatedly asked if they had any comments at all. about what? it just happened
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with jack to share a. they refused to comment kept walking down the street to find their car. in terms of what happened inside court. this was jack to sarah's first initial court appearance appeared in front of the federal judge where he was read the charges that he's now faces, including unauthorized for tension and transmission of national defense information. 7 93 under the espionage act also number two unauthorized removal. and retention of classified documents. and or material again . this happened during his initial court appearance. the judge overseeing the proceeding asked him if he understood the charges that he was facing very softly. he said. yes also, we should just point out that during this, the affidavit with with this particular case was unsealed as well, where we learned more information. to share a apparently holds a top top secret security clearance
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that he was granted back in 2021 . he had access to highly classified programs since 2021. this alleges that he began posting classified documents starting in 2022. apparently he used a government computer. to search a database using the term leak looking for that term. that was on april 6th, of course, after it became known in the public that someone was leaking classified documents throughout the proceeding. there was a section set up for family members. few people sitting there two women, one of them wearing purple, who you also saw exiting. the courtroom who we were shouting questions. at one point she was praying during the proceeding. she was crying during the proceeding as well as it ended during its conclusion. a man also sitting in the front row shouted out! we love you, jack! love you, jack. and then the defendant in this case, jack to share a did not look back,
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but said you, too, dad at that point, the judge in the case, said a detention hearing. that's going to be for next wednesday next wednesday, but again some dramatic moments inside court, but even more dramatic moments outside court as these two women were leaving, and lots of questions shouted to them about it. they had any comment about jack to sarah. they had none. jason. thank you so much, sarah. joining us now. this information, cnn's evan perez and cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analysts, john miller. thank you gentlemen for being here. there is a lot to go over. i want to start with you, john. he was 21 years old. but when he was 19 and 2021, he had access and top six secret clearance. is that unusual in a sort of world of i don't know. cybersecurity you know, it's not unusual in this context. we have to look at this two ways. because this question sarah keeps coming up is how is a low ranking 21 year old, you know,
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granted access to such sensitive material number one where he works. he works at an intelligence operation for the air force as a member of the national guard. their job is literally to live in the classified world. you can't get into the building where he works without a secret or top secret clearance number two. the what he does. what he does is he is a cyber transport engineer, basically in english, outside of the military, norman nature, that means he's a network engineer. so in this classified facility that's launching drones conducting surveillance and overseas theaters supporting soldiers special operations unit back in this space where kids are sitting, you know, i call them kids where 20 something year old soldiers are sitting in dark rooms controlling these drones. there are a team of people who keep those systems running, and because of that, they need access wide access to those systems. if there's a glitch, they have to go in and
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straighten it out. that's what he did. it's just i think for a lot of people looking at from the outside, and it just seems like someone of his stature in this in the government shouldn't have access. but like you said, it's literally his job to know what the heck is going on. he's he's the guy who keeps it running. mr. fix it now. here's the here's. the difference is his access is supposed to keep the system running. he's not supposed to be going in becoming a consumer of that intelligence printing out documents distributing them. um but he had his access for a reason. all right, evan, we've learned some new information coming out of that first hearing. what did you hear? what struck you? well i think you know you can see from this document how hasty the government had to move to make this arrest and to bring this case is john knows. i mean, you know we've covered these cases over the years and they can take months. sometimes years to put together an espionage case act case, and in this case, you know the news breaks on just last week, you know that this that these documents were out there.
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the fbi launches an investigation the following day, which was last week last friday . by monday, they're interviewing one of the users of this of this discord group that he was a member that he led that teixeira led. and certainly two days later, they have all of the user information from this cord provided all of this information , and they pretty much know who he is, and that they have their man within a couple of days of the launch of this investigation that it's that's that's five days. that's extraordinary, fast right for an investigation of this kind and it really what it shows you. it goes to it, perhaps a reflection of his age. um you know, he did not really take very good care to hide himself. you know, this is not someone like edward snowden or chelsea manning, who was trying to blow the whistle on on something that they thought was , you know, government wrongdoing. he was just showing off to a group of you know young men on a chat group. you know who are fans of gaming and wars
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and stuff like that, so that's why it appears that the fbi was able to pretty much very quickly figure out who he was and tried to put together the case. now the question is, you know, for the fbi is, you know they need a few days to try to figure out how bad is this right? was he working for a foreign intelligence service? things like that? you know that took a few more days for them to do, and that's why you saw that extraordinary scene that we have now seen so many times. you know, the fbi sitting on his house. news reporters walking to the front door and news helicopters overhead and you execute an arrest in a public way that the fbi usually doesn't do live on tv, and you see him which were remarkable to me is that before the arrest, you see him sitting on his porch sort of going through some papers in the sun and the next thing you know he's being arrested, enjoying the last bit of sunshine. he's going to have potentially absolutely i do want to ask because you brought up chelsea manning. you brought up wikileaks. chelsea manning got 35 years. wikileaks was a huge trove of information. this
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information that was out was out for an entire month. they think on discord, which is a long time for it to be sitting there and people to be sifting through it. it touched on some of the allies of the united states as well as the enemies. what could he face? is this big enough similar to the chelsea manning case, or is this something that is a little less damaging? although certainly a bit damaging. so i was talking to evan just before we went on trying to figure out what is the scope of this, you know, we originally talking about 100 documents. now there's published reports out there saying, you know, there may be 500. so first you have to get a handle of it. but let's zero in on the legal piece, which is he's going to be charged with unauthorized access of these documents on our authorized use of these documents, but how many documents every one of those can become a count. okay mint. so now we have a probable cause arrest. today we have an affidavit filed in the form of a complaint. soon there will be an indictment by a grand jury, and that's where we'll see all these counts where he could be facing.
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consecutive sentences for each count now. what's the judge gonna do at the end of the saga , and that's gonna really hang on the questions that evan brought up. which is was he working for a foreign government? was this really espionage? or was this very irresponsible handling and a violation of his oath and that will be somewhat determinant in the sentence along with the damage done? you don't have you know robert snowden? you don't have you know the fbi agent who gave up names of sources in russia. robert hanssen. what? you have a kit. at what we're looking at. now is it appears you have a kid who was trying to be cool to his friends by showing his access to classified reporting, and the plan is still to, i think, eventually bring him to the northern district of virginia, which is where the pentagon is located. and there he is going to be facing a some very tough judges and a jury, probably of military members. people who take that same oath and so he's in for a very tough , tough road ahead, you know, and of course, in a lot of these cases, often you have defendants who will plead, you know as a
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way to try to minimize what they get. so there's a lot of things that are in the works here. and as john pointed out, every one of these documents could be a charge and so he's going. you know, it's going to be a little while before the prosecutors have a full handle on how bad this is. the arrest happened quickly. so now they're looking deeper into what this may turn out to be. which may not be what it appears right now. both of you, thank you so much for joining us. john miller never progress. we appreciate you being here, john. yeah. great discussion. new retail sales figures released just this morning. what do they show down 1% from the previous month? cnn's vanessa your cave, which is with me now, that's the big number. what's underneath? this tells us that the federal reserve is going to like this number because it's a sign that the economy is cooling, and that is what they want to see consumer spending. retail sales make up such a big part of the overall economy and u. s gdp. so let's dig into those numbers. we saw nearly every category fall. we saw carson sales down 1.6.
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you're over here just up a little bit. we saw electronic on the decline down 2.1% year over year down 10.3% that's significant year over year and then groceries. this is where people really feel it day to day. groceries down 0.1% that's good, but year over year still spending a little more than they are used to are comfortable with gas prices also on the decline, month over month and year over year. partly because gas prices have fallen over the last year, and this is the one place where we really saw a jump in spending by consumers, food services and drinking places. this is a sign that people really still want to go out. this is where they want to put their money. they're spending up about 10.1% month over month and up 13% year over year. people want to spend to go out. and this is coming on the heels of two inflation reports that we saw this week consumer spending and producer prices. those were down this all put
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together. these retail sales with those two reports signify that maybe just maybe the federal reserve is sort of hovering over the territory of a soft landing. that's their goal, putting all these reports together signal they might be moving in that direction. might be some good news there. in the meantime, i'm gonna go look for some drinking places. at some point. it's friday missing f okay. and then you tossed to me . mm joining us now global business columnist and associate editor editor for the financial times, rana fruit hearts great to see you. thank you for coming in. let's start where john, and we're john and vanessa. we're talking about these retail sales numbers out this morning. how do they fold into the larger picture that complicated picture that we're seeing with us economy right now. so complicated is the right word. i mean, are we up? are we down? you know, i think that we are basically in a pretty good place, given everything that is happening in the world. i mean, think about it. you know, we've we've come through a pandemic. we have major interest rates hike hikes happening that are
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very unusual in the context. historically that tends to cause a lot more disruption even than we have seen. i'm not saying that we haven't seen some disruption. also consumers were in a better position going into whatever turmoil we're seeing right now because their balance sheets were in pretty good shape. you know. after the great financial crisis, people stopped taking on a lot of debt. and then, of course, all the fiscal payments that you had during covid helped to cushion things. you mentioned interest rates, and i saw something from the atlanta fed president that i wanted to ask you about. he's not saying that the fed may be able to pause the interest rate hikes after one more move, and i think believe, he said, move of a what quarter percentage point and the reason he's and what that means in saying that is he's really expressing confidence that what they've done is working. do you do you share in that confidence? i do. i will say that cautiously, but you can see labor inflation, for example, which you know little labor. inflation is okay. you don't want it run away. it's actually starting to moderate
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part of that. actually, this is a whole another story, but immigration is up. immigration is actually cooled off the labor market a little bit and created some some flexibility. so that's really great. yeah, it's a good thing to remember. i think the fed feels like, look, we don't want to err on the side of being too dovish because we don't want to repeat the mistakes that seventies, but, yeah, i think they're watchful and yet pretty optimistic. and i want to ask you about france as well. when you talk about everything going on and how it all the ripple effects and what it actually impacts we've been seeing and covering these protests over the over macron's pension plan. pension reform plan for weeks now, today we're expected to learn kind of the fate of if this pension plan is going to go through and what that is really what that's going to look like then, if it sets in, then september, macron says he's making these changes because it's necessary that the entire pension system will collapse. the right. you know, it's always funny as an american to hear the french with their hair on fire about. oh, my gosh, we want to work two years less. oh my gosh,
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the whole pension systems going to collapse, but let's face it. european pensions and particularly french pensions are pretty generous. you know, i don't think that having folks worked two years longer in what is a pretty cushy system is going to be make a huge difference. i think what this fight is about in a broader way , and this is a fight that i think we're going to see another countries and possibly even the u. s is look, there's a public pie that is shrinking, right? i mean state budgets are country budgets are under pressure and a lot of different places and baby boomers who are ready to retire . want their piece of the pie. but young millennials are saying wait a minute. i'm going out into this crazy job market. maybe i want some debt forgiveness. maybe i want my share of the pie. so i think in some ways this french fight, even though it's particular to france actually reflects this bigger issue that we're all going to be seeing boomers be millennials as a political and economic conflict. so interesting. it's great to see you, rana. thank you for you, sarah. all right. thank you. kate. several 2024 republican nominees are going to be taking
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will help the commanders finally win, sarah. well boeing has just disclosed yet another complication with their 7 37 max aircraft, this one being described by a company as a manufacturing issue, but boeing says there is no immediate safety concern here. this is the same plane that was grounded worldwide for nearly two years after a pair of deadly crashes. cnn's peterman teen has more on this, pete. this has to be very bad news. for boeing. what more do we know? boeing stock already down, but we have to be clear here, sarah. this is very different from the issue in the system that warned pilots that they were about to stall that was at the center of those crashes back in 2018 and 2019 of the 7 37 mags that killed almost 350 people abroad. this is a manufacturing defect. still a very big deal, and boeing is now disclosing a non standard manufacturing process used in a
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fitting in the rear part of the fuselage. of the boeing 7 37 max . boeing is disclosing this just now, it says the biggest impact is on planes still on the production line. although the current fleet that is out there now could also be impacted, though the planes are still safe to fly, the faa says there is no immediate safety issue for the 950 some odd boeing 7 37 maxes max eights that are flying out there right now, so we will have to wait and see exactly help boeing deals with this a big commentary here a major problem for boeing when it comes to their quality control issues. they've had it not only now with a 7 37 max, but also with the 787, and this has the potential to slow deliveries, boeing says of this airplane. it's the best selling airplane right now for boeing, and they're trying to get these off the factory floor . united airlines has about 200 on order just took delivery of
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their 107 37 mags southwest airlines also waiting for these of course, that's the airline that only flies this 7 37, so this is a really big back in business issue for boeing will see if it has a much larger issue on the flying public, although right now no impact on passengers and their flights just yet, sarah yeah, it's interesting because i remember where some of the airlines were saying. hey you know if you don't want to fly this airline after what happened with the 7 37 max, you can change. i mean, that's how big of a deal it went for two years that these were pulled from the market. now we're hearing of another thing, it may not be a safety issue, according to boeing, but it is something that is concerning pete 19. thank you so much. okay let's stick with airlines right now. because this morning the faa is cracking down on unruly passengers on flights are now asking the fbi to investigate more than a dozen cases and this includes last month's incident, you'll probably remember onboard a united airlines flight. this is one of 33 year old man. he tried to stab a flight attendant on the flight with a metal spoon
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your money is good, you feel good. china the number one most loved banking up melanie's nana in washington, and this is cnn. welcome back to cnn news central. here is a look at some of our top stories the suspect accused of leaking classified pentagon documents, just wrapping up his first court appearance this morning, jack to sarah was charged with unauthorized attention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified information detention hearing is scheduled for wednesday to share a did not enter a formal plea. this morning. the ford lauderdale hollywood international airport has reopened finally. a south florida tries to move past the
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historic flooding their passengers now checking in which is welcome news after what looked like 24 hours ago. yeah that's the picture of it. more storms are expected, though, today kate moments from now we are expecting to get a verdict from france's highest constitutional court on the pension reform plan that has sparked massive protests across france. if the court signs off on the plan. the reforms including raising the retirement age, thereby two years could go into effect in september. cnn's fred pleitgen joins me now from paris. what is the mood? what are you hearing? there is everyone is kind of waiting for this final word from the country's highest court. waiting and very anxious to see what the constitution is going to say. you can already feel a lot of the anger here on the streets in paris. i want to show you a little bit. that's going on right now. i'm actually in front of city hall here in paris. it's mostly a student groups that are protesting here, but then also some of the trade unions as
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well. and you know, we saw yesterday that explosion of anger that took place on the streets of paris you do have a lot of the anger here as well. but of course you don't have any of the violence here. it's very colorful here. whether people certainly are very very serious. about the fact that they are very much against this reform bill, and one of the things that we spoke about yesterday is that on the one hand it's the raising of the retirement age here in france, from 62 to 64. it gets a lot of people very angry results of the way that emmanuel macron is pushing this reform bill through essentially bypassing the legislative process. and of course, today is really an important milestone in all that, because if the constitutional council okay is this law then it can go into effect, and then it will start going into real effect in september of this year. obviously the people here are hoping that that won't be the case. most people don't ever believe that maybe some parts of it will not be declared constitutional, but that retirement age thing will probably complicated, fred. thank you, john. alright 2024 republican presidential hopefuls
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are set to take the stage at the annual nra convention in indianapolis this weekend. both former president trump and his vice president, mike pence will be there. the convention is happening just days after a gunman in louisville killed five people out of bank and weeks after a shooter killed 39 year olds and three adults at a nashville school. cnn's christian homes at the event in indianapolis and kristen. this is something of a pilgrimage for presidential hopefuls. yes it is. absolutely and i will know that this has become somewhat of a pattern having this event right after a mass shooting likely because of the frequency . we're seeing that last year. this fell three days after that shooting at the you baldy elementary school. but when you look at the slate of people who is coming to speak today, whether they're doing it in person, or they submitted a video, you can see just how important this voting bloc is to republicans, particularly in a primary year. you have former president trump former vice president mike pence. we have the background. a swami nikki haley is submitted. video tim
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scott's have been in a video florida governor ron desantis submitted video. these are all of the top 2024 candidates and hopeful that are out there in this field and remember when they are speaking to the crowd. today they are trying to court some of the most extreme parts of the republican party when it comes to gun rights restrictions . this is a group who opposes almost even the most moderate restrictions on gun ownership, so something to keep in mind there. you did also mention that trump and pence will be here. this is the first time that we are seeing them in person at an event in years. obviously the two haven't spoken in more than two years, but it is notable they probably won't overlap given the timing. all right, christine homes for us in indianapolis. kristen, keep us posted. sarah. supreme court justice clarence thomas is facing scrutiny yet again, this time for a reportedly undisclosed real estate transaction with that republican mega donor, according to propublica, thomas sold three
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family properties to billionaire harlan crow in 2014. he is the same person linked to thomas in last week's bombshell report the detailed, undisclosed luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. cnn's jessica schneider is following this story. jessica thomas has has it said he was advised not to report the travel gifts. what's he saying about this transaction that for the first time real money was exchanged. yes so as for this latest report , sarah, we have not heard any response from justice thomas just yet, even though he was on the bench this morning as the supreme court issued one opinion , but really, this new propublica report is drawing even more criticism than that first report that disclosed justice thomas had received that free luxury travel from republican mega donor as they put it nearly every year for the last decade and the reason for the outcry about this most recent report is that the requirements for disclosure in this case they seem pretty cool. clear, so i'll lay it out for
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you. propublica has now reported that the same republican mega donor harlan crow actually purchased three pieces of property directly from justice thomas in 2014 the sale, according to the records they uncovered was about $130,000. this is significant because there is a federal disclosure law that was passed after watergate that does require justices and other officials to disclose details of most real estate sales over $1000 in propublica is finding that justice thomas never actually disclosed the deal at all. so there's been no comment from justice thomas on this, but here's what that mega donor harlan crow actually told propublica in the wake of their report. he said. my intention is to one day create a public museum at the thomas home dedicated to telling the story of our nation's second black supreme court justice. i approached the thomas family about my desire to maintain this historic site so future generations can learn about the inspiring life of one of our greatest americans. but sarah
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that's still really doesn't answer any of the questions and the response on this has been very swift, senator sheldon white house on the judiciary committee. he had previously asked the chief justice john roberts to investigate that initial report about free travel. but now the senator is asking the judicial conference which serves as this policy making body for all of federal courts. sarah he wants that body to refer justice thomas to the attorney general merrick garland for what he's calling brazen disregard of disclosure laws and violent violations of ethics laws. so there's a lot swirling now. that propublica has yet uncovered another transaction that hasn't been disclosed. sarah jessica schneider, thank you for all of that, john. alright. thanks, sarah. a story you will only see here on cnn and exclusive look at the dangerous in sometimes deadly trek that migrants take through central and south america. stay with us. i i am christine, man.i
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nfl is taking a major step to protect quarterbacks. now the league and its players union have revealed a newly designed helmets specifically for quarterbacks to wear in an effort to reduce the severity of impacts that can cause concussions. so the announcement follows last season's high profile injuries that we all saw suffered by dolphins quarterback to a tackle by low on two separate occasions, the 25 year old fell backwards and hit his head on the turf. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard joins us now live with more details. jacqueline can you give us some more details about what this helmet does that the others don't well, sarah, this is the first time that we're hearing from the nfl that it's announcing a quarterback specific helmet that was engineered in tailored to reduce the severity of impact when a quarterback hits the ground now this is the first time we're
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hearing about it helmet of this kind. it will be available for the 2023 season. the nfl says it's not required for quarterbacks to wear this specific helmet, but they do say that, according to lab tests, this helmet was found. to perform 7% better than the type of helmets that were the most popular among quarterbacks last year, and this isn't the first time that the nfl has leaned on helmet technology in an effort to make the game safer, sarah, we do know that in 2021, there was a helmet specifically for offensive and defensive lineman . we also know that the nfl encourages players to what are called guardian caps under their helmets. that's a layer of cushioning during practice, but i should say that no helmet is 100. sent concussion proof helmets originally are intended to reduce the risk of skull fracture. so the risk of a concussion sarah is always going to be a looming concern when we talk about football, and when we talk about safety you know you talked about you know that the
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design of this new helmet um and we heard about tagovailoa er, hitting his head on the turf. what do we know about the health implications of this particular helmet in a case like that? yeah well, the nfl did say in its announcement that 50% half of concussions suffered by quarterbacks are results from the quarterback, hitting the his head on the ground and what we do know, just in general, with any blow to the body, any blow to the head that can actually cause the brain to kind of slosh around in the skull, and that is what impacts brain function and that's the concern here, and we also know that the more blows the head that you received that can raise the risk of cte, and that occurs when there's a build up of protein around the blood vessels in the brain, so that's why i said, sarah that no helmet is really 100% concussion proof because there is always that risk of the brain hitting against the skull, and that's
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the health concern here when we talk about head injuries and the sport of football, sarah jacqueline howard, thank you so much all very interesting. i think the first helmet was the don't quote me because you're going to come for me the key helmet. it looks very odd like it wouldn't do anything. so the evolution is real pictures of like when they wore leather helmets. that's what that was leatherheads. nicely done. yeah no, for sure. do you think a helmet like that could have helped the red sox last night? that's mean that's mean, locate friday be nice to him swept but by tampa who like just tied a record for the most wins to start season, but you know what? they were like eight people in the stands. if tampa is going to win all these games, tampa fans you've got to start showing up to watch. the wind doesn't count because they like the tree in the forest. exactly campbell wins the game doesn't make a sound. we don't know because there weren't necessarily any fans there and there you have
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