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the hook for some $1.6 billion and historic defamation lawsuit . we have the latest from inside the courtroom. charged the man accused of shooting a teenage boy is now facing two felony counts. we're live in kansas city as they wait for andrew lester to turn himself in, and the family of young ralph charles is speaking out to cnn. follow from the leak of highly classified panama pentagon documents after the arrest of the alleged leaker. authorities are now looking at what role of pro russian social media account played in the case. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. at this moment in a delaware courtroom dominions historic $1.6 billion defamation trial against fox news could soon get underway. this is by far the
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most significant defamation trial in generations and most significant case against a media company, perhaps ever it all comes after this mysterious 24 hour delay that did raise questions about possible settlement talks. but if one is not announced in the coming minutes, and believe me, we are moderate, very closely. opening statements will begin after a jury is seated now, if dominion gets what it's asking for, it would mark the largest defamation decision against the us media outlet. cnn's danny freeman is outside the courthouse in delaware. danny bring us up to speed about what's happening right now because the delay was until about right exactly at this moment. that's right, john. good morning. well, right now we're expecting the judge to come out and begin jury selection in the courthouse behind me and the judge, i should say is very prompt and has been all throughout this court proceeding so far, so we should expect him any minute and then after that jury selection, we're expecting opening statements to take up
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the book the bulk of the majority of the day now, as you said yesterday, this time there was a delay in this case for about 24 hours, prompting a lot of speculation about a potential settlement. but i can tell you today. neither side is expecting a settlement at this point, and both sides are getting ready and preparing for their opening statements and to embark on this potentially six week trial. i want to read you some statements. as a scene setter from both dominion and fox. first, dominion said, quote in the coming weeks we will prove fox spread lies, causing enormous damage to dominion and we look forward to trial. meanwhile fox this week also released a statement saying dominions lawsuit is a political crusade in search of a financial windfall, but the real cost would be the cherished first amendment rights. again we've been watching these two parties go back and forth for number of weeks, really? since for two years since this case was first brought up this lawsuit first filed but now opening statements expected sometime later today, john it's game on. it certainly looks like it. of course, it is no game for either of these two
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major companies involved. any opening statements could begin today and then witnesses, including high profile witnesses faces that people know who are we talking about that we could see soon? very high profile witnesses. john and i just want to say and set the stage for you out here. obviously as you can imagine, there are a lot of media members out here all covering this trial from all over the world. but the interesting thing is while this is the main entrance of the courthouse, there is actually a back entrance of the courthouse where sometimes sensitive or high profile witnesses do have the option of going through. we were able to get some shots of that yesterday and that may be in use for some of the witnesses that we potentially could see over the course of the next few weeks testifying at this trial that could include murdoch, of course. the chairman of the fox corporation, lachlan murdoch, his son, suzanne scott, the current president of fox news, and, of course, the highest profile perhaps would be many of those foxes personalities. sean hannity, tucker carlson, laura ingram, we're not sure 100% right now, which, if any, frankly of those will be called
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to testify, but we expect that dominion would want at least some of those folks to take the witness stand as this trial gets underway to prove their case, saying that fox news defend them, of course, fox still standing strong but again. the trial seems to be as you said, game on starting today. and this morning, john, you're there for us watching it very closely, danny. great to have you here on cnn news, central. great work. thank you, sarah. alright there are 20 specific fox broadcast or tweets that dominion's lawyers say were defamatory or set a different way straight up lies that they argue fox host new were lies. let's walk through five of them. the first was on november 8th 2020 remember that's five days after the presidential election. that's when fox host maria bartiromo interviewed trump lawyer sydney powell. listen. in sydney. we talked about the dominion software. i know that there were voting irregularities. tell me about that. that's to put it mildly, the computer glitches
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could not and should not have happened in at all. those those where the fraud took place. alright four days later. fox business house. lou dobbs interviewed then trump lawyer rudy giuliani on november 12th. giuliani falsely stated dominion was quote owned by venezuelans and claimed they were founded to fix elections two days later, dobbs then retweeted this aki false quote from giuliani. his tweet, in part, read all about dominion and smartmatic voting companies, and you'll soon understand how pervasive this democrat electoral fraud is that same day on november 14th edition of justice with judge jeannie. janine sidney powell again was allowed on the air and touted conspiracies calling for an investigation and host janine pirro agreed with her. and on january 26 2021 came this interview between host tucker carlson and trump ally and my pillow ceo mike lindell. i had
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the evidence i dare people to put it on. i dare dominion to sue me because i didn't get all faster. so this is you know, they don't. they don't want to talk about it. they don't want to say they just say you're wrong and i'm going there not making conspiracy theories go away by doing that. and dominion did sue but sued fox news and this is what carlson privately texted someone months earlier. carlson said the claims against dominion were shockingly reckless, and yet they kept being spread by fox news, kate this morning an 84 year old man is now charged with two felonies for shooting 16 year old ralph jarrell allegedly shooting the teenager through a glass door after the team mistakenly showed up to the wrong address to pick up his younger brothers, andrew lester told police that night that he was quote scared. to death when he saw young ralph ja rule at his doorstep. he also says that he opened fire because
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he thought the team was trying to break in. but this is a photo of ralph carol at the hospital as he is just after being shot. he is now home recovering and his mother spoke out this morning. listen to this. he went around the doorbell and he was supposed to stay outside and his brothers were supposed to run outside, get in the car, and they and they come home and that was what was supposed to happen and why he was standing there. his brothers didn't run outside, but he got a couple of bullets in his body instead of a couple of twins coming up out and giving them a heart. jeez. cnn's lucy captain office following this for us is joining us now. lucy the prosecutor, there has made clear that he has he has he put it thinks there is a racial component to this case. walk through what the charges are that andrew lester now is facing . that's right. kate kate for the 84 year old andrew lester to turn himself into police custody . we can talk about the charges he's facing two of them. one is
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armed criminal action that could earn him about 3 to 15 years behind bars is also the more serious charge of first degree felony assault that could see andrew lester spent the rest of his life behind bars in prison. now this whole incident unfolded effectively on the porch of that home. behind me, was on april 13th that ralph ural showed up here he was in tending to pick up his younger siblings. but he had made a mistake. when he rang the doorbell of that home behind me, he was actually supposed to be 115th terrorists. this kate and 15th street now, according to court documents, andrew lester told police that he had just laid down in bed that evening. he was going to go to sleep. he heard the doorbell ring. he said he picked up a 32 caribou caliber revolver. he went to the front door to check who it was. he didn't recognize the teenager at the door. he described this as a stranger who was six ft. tall, pulling at the storm door. he told the police that somebody he thought somebody was trying to break into his house and that he was
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quote scared to death of your old size. and so he shot twice, lester said. no words were exchanged. but you told police that the teenagers said to police that he i heard the man say, quote. don't come around here. now you're all was shot twice the bullet. one of the bullets hit him in the side of his head. the other one grazed his arm. he ran across the street. my producer actually spoke to one of the neighbors who saw him bleeding. she said he was alert. he was taken to the hospital. he's going to survive. but neighbors say pardon me, his family says. this is going to be a long road to recovery, not just the physical injuries, but the emotional and mental trauma. kate. yeah and that's that. that's almost the least of it. absolutely lucy. thank you very much for waiting for andrew lester to turn himself in as lucy lays out sarah, but still so many questions so disturbing, amazing, though, that he is alive and able to communicate right now. alright. kansas city mayor quinton lucas joins us now to discuss this case. i want to talk to you first. and thank you so much for coming on our show. we appreciate your time. i know
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you're a busy person. a man shoots a black teenager in the head a few seconds after the teenager rings his doorbell. do you think that police did the right thing by letting the suspect go after talking to him initially, anyway? i think the police department will review the entirety of the situation in missouri. you can have a 24 hour hold. it is clear here that this was two or three hours where they questioned the suspect he was able to go back home that evening. the investigation continued. i share the outrage and the concern of many and asking why. we will make sure we do that there will will not be a hesitance and doing that sort of thing, but that's something we'll be part of our investigation. following up on this very important investigation, which brought charges yesterday. i think this begs the question that a lot of people are asking as to whether or not the outrage that you just spoke of from the family from some members, particularly of
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the black community, and the publicity that followed may have had influence here on the decision to arrest this man after they let him go. do do you think that's what happened? i think there are two ways to see that the first of which is i think the collective outrage starting with people here in the kansas city community, ralph's family and others did help lead to more attention on this incredibly tragic issue. i think secondary to that, though, is that these are solid charges. this was strong investigative work, and that this is a case that i believe should be one that ends in a conviction when this goes to trial. i think we do need to look at the fact though not just this case, but many others where we have these incidents involved with black teens and too many situations. it seems like we need a public grounds. well to give full attention. i will admit, and i look to my own office and our own review. i didn't know about
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the details of this case until several days later. that is problematic. and this is the thing that people of kansas city and our entire country should expect better. you shouldn't have to need halle berry tweeting about you to get justice and i think we're going to continue to make sure that whatever happens here, particularly with the delayed issue we investigate and we make sure that people know that we're addressing these issues faster. i do want to quickly ask you. you said that you did not hear about this until a few days afterwards. how did you hear about it? did you hear it from halle berry tweet or from somebody from the community that came to you? or did you get the information from officials from police or the da's office? my initial information came from the public as well. often people will start kind of calling about these sorts of things. i don't and i don't say this with respect to our police. they don't tell me about every shooting because there were too many. and i think that what was missed here was perhaps the magnitude of the situation. i did then did talk to the chief
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on sunday morning conference after but there's a lot we need to discuss here how to do better. this 16 year old was an incredible student musician, family incredibly lucky that he is alive and able to speak after what he went through. i do want to, lastly ask you because you brought up the racial disparity eventually here. do you think that this was a scenario that if it hadn't been reversed if it had have been a black man who had shot a white teenager? that the same treatment would have happened because a lot of people in your community who have been able to get on the phone have been really concerned that there is a racial bias here in how police acted in this case. do you agree with that? i'm uh, assigned racial bias to the police without further discussion and investigation, and i think that we did have officers, white officers what it's worth who did a lot of hard work to get this case file to the prosecutor having charges filed shortly thereafter that being said to pretend that race is not a part of this whole situation would be to have your
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head in the sand. this boy was shot because he was existing while black. and he knocked on the door of someone who clearly clearly fears black people. black boys, black children, and i think that that is that is clear as day and so i hope that is not mistaken or forgotten the reason why many black people and black parents myself included are concerned is because if one day it's ringing on the doorbell, they can get you shot. then then what else is next? this is normal existence in life , and somebody came to a door and shot through a door. not once but twice. that's what is horrifying. that's why i think i'm glad to see this first step towards justice and why we all need to investigate how we handle this and how we can do better in the future. mayor lucas. thank you so much for joining us and being so candid about this case, and we're so happy to hear that the teenage boy is doing alright this morning. appreciate it, john. absolutely thank you. sarah sweeping new gun safety bills up
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fbi has arrested two alleged chinese agents. they say we're operating a secret police station inside this building in new york city's chinatown neighborhood. federal prosecutors have also charged dozens of others with working to silence and harassed chinese dissidents here in the united states. china is calling it a smear campaign. also philadelphia eagles quarterback jalen hurts, is now the highest paid player in nfl history hurt , signed a record breaking $255 . million.05 year contract extension with the eagles. the deal reportedly contains a no trade clause a first in the team's history, john this morning, the texas state legislature is holding a hearing on more than a dozen guns safety bills. the measures include background checks mandatory reporting for some gun purchases , restricting unlawful transfer and carrying permits. it has been nearly one year since the sovaldi elementary school massacre that killed 19 children
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and two teachers. the gun safety bills being considered today are supported by the families of the victims. cnn's shimon prokupecz is in austin, texas. i should say polk award winning shimon procure. pez is in austin, texas , this morning covering this hearing, and i say that shimon because you've covered the situation involved in the aftermath for so long in such depth you're there today. these families are asking for these bills. how are they're pleased landing with the legislators. while the fact that they're even here today, and we're going to see many of the family members and even some survivors showing up here is significant. they never even thought they would get this day to be able to come and speak before the select committee here at the state cast at the state capitol, so it's certainly a significant day for the family members who really are just asking for what they think are simple. changes things that can protect other loved ones from having to ever face
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something like this, john, one of the big things that they're asking for, is raised the age they want the state to raise the age. the legal age when someone can purchase an ar 15 style rifle, an assault rifle, which is what was used in the massacre from 18. 2 21. this is something that governor abbott, the texas governor says it's unconstitutional. they don't really have the backing of legislators here. the majority of legislators to see this law to see the change, but certainly that's not stopping. family members were going to see them here today. come before this select committee. this was kind of a late add they didn't expect that even this committee would take this up, but they are taking it up and then we'll see . we'll see if it leaves the committee and goes to the full house. the full floor the senate and house here for a vote. it's unlikely they're not very optimistic. but the fact that they're getting this day the fact that they're getting this to even happen on this day is
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significant. and john, you can already see several people here gathered to come to this hearing moms demand action. this is a group of mothers who are demanding all sorts of gun reform all across the country. they are coming here in mass to also be heard and to try and push for this change determined group shimon, but a group that has already lost so much we thank you for being there. please keep us posted. on the events of the day. kate. officials are digging into a new aspect of the leaked classified pentagon documents. now, multiple sources tell cnn, the fbi and navy are now investigating whether a pro russia social media account crucial role in spreading the highly sensitive information online sources say. investigators have been in contact with the former u. s. navy officer linked to the account. cnn's natasha bertrand has this reporting. she's joining us now. natasha. what is this about? yeah. so this really centers around a pro russian telegram account called donbass
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devotional, which roughly translates to roughly translates to donbass girl, and it has about 70,000 subscribers, so not an insignificant amount of followers here, and it's run by roughly 15 different people. and what we're told is that this account is being investigated by the fbi as well as by the navy for its role in spreading photos of these classified documents that have leaked online within the last several months, and so one aspect of this investigation has involved. reaching out to one of the administrators of this donbass dedushka account, who is a former navy noncommissioned officer who left the military late last year now she told cnn that she has been contacted by the fbi, but that she was not part of the cadre of people who posted those documents on this telegram channel and those documents were posted on april 5th. that is really when they started
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circulating more widely after they were initially leaked in a very, a much smaller group chat by the airmen who allegedly by the airman who has now been arrested by the fbi. so the reason why the fbi and the navy are now investigating this account is because they want to know. basically what their role was in getting these documents and then spreading them wider and then, as part of that they have spoken. we are told to this former navy noncommissioned officer kate, it's gets suit motivation, even if this navy officer has nothing to do with jack to share a. there's a lot of questions still to go around. it's great reporting. natasha's always thank you. john the wall street journal reporter detained in russia appeared in a moscow courtroom this morning. new details on what happened when evan gorski bishop peeled the terms of his pre child attention. and we are just minutes away from the opening bill on wall street futurism higher this morning look at that . investigators are watching corporate earnings. bank of america just reported its
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on cnn. welcome back to cnn news central. here is a look at a few of the top stories we're following for you this morning. 84 year old andrew lester is facing felony charges now for shooting a black teenager on his doorstep. in kansas city, missouri, teenagers showed up to the house. he was supposed to be. at another address to the siblings, 16 year old ralph carol has left the hospital. and amazingly, he's being able to recover at home after being shot in the head and happening. the millions voting defamation trial against fox news, the trapped away after a 24 hour delay that raised questions about possible settlement talks. kate this morning in moscow court has denied the detention appeal from american journalist from the american journalists charged with espionage and russia and appearing in court today was the first time that we were able to see wall street journal reporter
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evan evan herskovits since his detainment. the u. s ambassador to russia was on hand to support herskovits in court, and she also spoke, spoke out forcefully outside the court. once the proceedings wrapped. cnn's matthew chance is joining me now he's been watching all of these proceedings. it was it's hard to say great to see him because he was behind this glass partition, but it was great to see evan gersh kravitz's face. this appeal denied matthew but what all happened? but you're right. it was good to statement is the first time that we've seen him in the weeks really properly since he was detained back at the end of march, and you know he had a consular visit as well from us diplomats yesterday and they said he was he seemed to be healthy, very strong, and that seems to be borne out by the images. we saw ceviches standing in that glass courtroom cage in the moscow court earlier today as well, you write the appeal against his detention was rejected his defense lawyers had asked for him. to be released on
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house arrest or to be granted bail of 50. they offered 50 million rubles, which is just over 600,000. us dollars that was rejected out of hand is facing charges of espionage. remember which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years outside the court. lynne tracy, the u. s ambassador to russia, expressed her outrage and her concern. take a listen. i was able to meet evan yesterday at lefortovo prison. it was the first time we were granted consular access cities wrongful detention more than two weeks ago. i can report that using good health. and remain strong despite his circumstances, charges against evan are baseless and we call on the russian federation to immediately release him. yeah ambassador tracy also said that she found it troubling to see
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evan has described as an innocent journalist held in the circumstances and for her trouble. she was summoned along with the british and the canadian ambassador's just after disappearance to the russian foreign ministry. the russian foreign ministry issued a statement saying that she was gross interference in the affairs of russia that do not correspond to her. diplomatic status. we just still don't know what what sanctions have introduced against her, she says . she says this administration strongly believes the charges against evan herskovits are baseless. matthew thank you very much. this is one step in what could be a very long road, john today. the world remembers the millions of lives lost during the holocaust to never forget. never forget the more than six million jews and five million others who were killed between 1933 and 1945. holocaust remembrance day is not only to remember the dead but also to honor those who survived and to keep the memory of what happened alive. to that end, i am honored
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to be joined by two of our cnn, colleagues and friends themselves, children and grandchildren or survivor, cnn's wolf blitzer and dana bash on the ground at auschwitz in poland. friends very nice to see you there today. why don't you just tell me where you are exactly? and what is happening there today? i'm just starting to start its holocaust remembrance day, and people all over the world are remembering the holocaust, especially here at auschwitz birkenau right now we're birkenau. this is where the main gas chambers the crematorium. the death chambers were at birkenau. we were just at auschwitz and people from all over the world, especially tens of thousands of young people. have come here from so many countries around the world to do the march from auschwitz to birkenau, mama and down and i just did it and it was so moving to see what happened, then to
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see the remnants of gas chambers and if you look over dennis shoulder over there, you can see one gas chamber, the remnants of one gas chamber here at birkenau. where tens of thousands of jews and others were brought in cattle cars and the immediately decided they were going to be killed. most of them were in fact killed and it's just a painful story, especially for those of us who lost loved ones. all four of my grandparents were killed during the holocaust. two of them here at auschwitz. and you know, john, we were person. i guess they call it auschwitz. auschwitz won. the two of us walked into the gas chamber, the gas chamber there. and you were told that that was almost certainly where your grandparents were murdered and we saw that and also saw where they were put into the crematorium. the my paternal. my dad's parents. my dad grew up in a town right outside of this death camp. it was called the yiddish protein in polish team.
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and because of those days, all these towns have three names the german name auschwitz, polish name, yiddish name and the jews . the elderly jews. the grandparents, for example, who were brought here were sent to that death camp and i learned today the specific gas chamber where almost certainly my paternal grandparents were murdered. and if i may, he didn't just learn it. we were standing inside of it. it was. certainly an experience i will never forget. and obviously it was. it was moving and jarring and horrific, and i just want to say, john before i toss back to you that you just wolf just talked about the remnants of the gas chamber here. this is birkenau. this is the end of the march of the living. they call it auschwitz two and one of the guides here said that my great grandparents who were hungarian , who were okay until 1944 almost certainly came right here and probably perished. and. what's left of the gas chamber
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behind us and. it's really too overwhelming to, uh, to absorb. it's going to take some time. i'm lucky enough to be here not just with wolf and his wife, lynn, but my brother, so we are. we are remembering our family, remembering those who were killed but also, uh, frankly, to be blunt, sticking it to the to say, look, we're here we're alive and we're thriving and we're able to tell the world what happened what is still happening when it comes to hate and to educate, especially a younger generation of what happened, especially at this time of increased anti semitism and holocaust denial, that's sadly out there. yeah dana, you made my point. for me. it's so moving. and sad, but also inspiring. to see you there because for the both of you, both of you, your presence there. is an act of defiance against the evil. that people wanted to do still. i want to do
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and we should note you did the walk today, which is got to be so moving tomorrow is what the 80th anniversary of the warsaw ghetto uprising. so these important days continue in the survivors. the people who were there there are fewer and fewer of them. it's so important for us to hear from them now. and when we see these survivors, it's so moving to hear their stories. and as you, john correctly point out, there are fewer and fewer of these survivors left most of them. maybe in their nineties now or even older, and you hear their personal stories what they went through how they managed to survive. it is so heartbreaking the stories, but these are wonderful, wonderful people. and they've got a true story to tell. and the uprising of the warsaw ghetto and we'll see more about that in warsaw. tomorrow was one of the first times that the had opposition had real
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opposition, and it was from a bunch of starving. ah sickly jews who they had held behind walls and a ghetto for years. who got some really rudimentary arms and fought back. they didn't last that long. i mean, it lasted about a month, but the fact that they fought back is a story that that is worth telling . and again if i may just on a personal note, my mom told me before coming here that because she and her and her mother, my grandmother, they didn't know when. their parents were murdered. turns out it was here. they used to use the anniversary of the uprising inside the warsaw ghetto as the time that they would commemorate and honor. their lives. i love your mom for that and so many other reasons. dana bash. wolf blitzer again. we are honored to have you here today, wolf. thank you for everything you've told us from poland from the concentration camps in your reporting. and dana, you've done
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as he welcome customers to the first physical store in india. katelyn polantz and getting that . so if you are hearing this for the first time, you may have a bit of a scramble ahead of you. today. it is tax day friends this year. we all got a few extra days, actually, because the usual deadline of april 15th fell over the weekend. but if you're still hard up against the tax filing deadline, there is still hope for all of us. there is still time to file an extension. cnn's christine romans is here to help us out a little bit. help us out, as always, christine, but what are you hearing about where the average secretary funding is lining up this season? are getting a little bit less this year, and the reason is because those generous tax benefits related to covid and the pandemic relief those have all expired. so on average people are getting this year. as of yesterday, $2933 and you can see that's about 10% less than they were receiving last year. but what we're really seeing the difference this year is better customer service from the irs. this has been an agency that has been underfunded for more than a
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