, it's devastating. i want you to hear from richard glossip's attorney about how he reacted to this news. he said today to me, don, you know? should i be prepared to be killed on may 18th and that was about as low a point as i've seen him and this is his ninth execution date. this is this is tough. he's he's been down this road far too many times. no one should have to endure that. okay so what comes next? we said that his attorney is going to appeal to the u. s. supreme court, but also the oklahoma legislature has been so much involved in this case. and we just learned that kevin mcdougal, who the representative who has really been the leader of that this, you know effort is basically saying that he's going to try to change the state law. get the governor to sign it to try to bring this case back to the criminal court of appeals. and if that doesn't work, he's going to even try to impeach these justices, so this could get very explosive and alcohol and what's so notable about him is he's a republican who is pro death penalty, but not in this

case, he said. why should someone die? if they didn't do it, like you know what that should be reserved for people who you know other crimes? i should say and thank you very much. you know, this morning continues right now. president biden's announcement to run for a second term. now, maybe days away, there's clearly a desire in the american public to see a generational change, but voters are willing to put that aside if they feel like the alternative is a much bigger problem plan on running out, but we're not prepared to announce it yet didn't know when the wind appears to be next week. criminal charges will be dropped . 2021 fatal shooting the cinematographer on the western film, rust can't convince jurors beyond reasonable doubt that alec baldwin is guilty of involuntary manslaughter, prosecute people you change and affect their lives. someone is responsible for what happened, but i know it's not me the idea that the person holding the gun

is not responsible is absurd. a note left behind by the gunman. in another mass shooting show that at least part of the motivation here was to show how easy it is in the united states to get an assault weapon is so much easier to get a weapon in this country than it is to get mental health services. it's straight out of a hollywood script. $15 million worth of gold stolen from an airport value container was removed by illegal means from the holding facility. investigators have got their eyes opened all avenues starship of spacex, sending out a mask as it lifted off and then tumbled and exploded about four minutes later. people were describing scenes in their neighborhoods that it was raining sand on them. expectations were here and today we went here. i got one word. holy smokes. different people

were excited about that. listen there's a lot to talk about. there's lots to talk about guns, including, you know, with people that have been making mistakes and then getting killed and are severely injured for it, but also the gun on the set of rust . the alec baldwin movie prosecutors have dropped the criminal charges against him, but now there's new reporting as it relates to the gun that you want to stand by for also smartmatic. now saying they're not going to settle for anything less than what dominion got from fox news. fascinating plus, they want an apology. all of that coming this hour. good morning, everyone. we're so happy that you could join us and we're going to start with this. president biden about to make it official. sources are telling cnn he is planning to formally announced he is running for re election next week. we're expecting a campaign style video announcement to drop on tuesday . it is a symbolic day for the president. tuesday marks the four year anniversary of him entering the 2020 presidential race. new polls, i should say a

new poll shows more than 80% of democrats say that they would either definitely or probably support him. in the general election if he is a nominee, so let's straight out now to the white house. cnn's arlette sends joins us all it sounds joins us our let good morning to you. the president loves an anniversary next tuesday. is that going to be the day? well done. the waiting game may soon be over president biden for months, has said that he intends to run for president. but a p. it appears the plan to actually do that are finally being set into motion. his team is eyeing next week as a possible venue for his launch and doing that through a video, possibly to be released as soon as tuesday. tuesday is a very important day for president biden as it was the day four years ago that he launched his last bid for the white house, which he also timidly was successful on this would put to end months of speculation about whether the 80 year old president would seek a second term in office. sources have told us that he settled on wilmington's delaware as his

campaign headquarters. but we're still waiting for some of the other campaign apparatus, details to shake out but one thing his advisers are eager to get the ball rolling on is fundraising sources have told us that top democrats from the president's last campaign in 2020. they've been invited to washington, d. c for a meeting with the president. on friday, and the advisors are hoping that they can really ramp up fundraising when it comes to both grassroots supporters. and those big dollar donors. okay, but what about real support? people really want him to want run our let yeah, you know, there's some interesting polling that shows just exactly how many people want president biden to run in 2024. if you take a look at those numbers, his numbers are actually up a little bit amongst both democrats and the overall public, but right now, only 40 per 7% of democrats say they want him to run and 26% of the overall public say they want him to seek a second term. but as you noted, those democrats in that poll also suggest that they would possibly fall in line with

a presidential reelection bid, with 81% of democrats, saying they would probably support the president in his run for the white house. now energizing and mobilizing these democratic voters will be key for president biden as he heads into this reelection race, but he will also need to win over those moderate republicans and independent voters, especially at a moment where he could face a possible rematch with former president donald trump. let's signs at the white house for us this morning. thank you. i appreciate it. today is don was saying prosecutors in new mexico are set to drop all charges against alec baldwin in the 2021 deadly rust film, shooting a source familiar with this investigation. tell cnn prosecutors made this decision after new evidence showed somebody modified that gun. those sources say that leaves open the possibility that indeed, baldwin did not pull the trigger, and this is something he has repeatedly said. i never once said never that the gun went off in my hand automatically. i always said i pulled the hammer back. and i

pulled it back as far as i could. i never took a gun and pointed at somebody and click the thing i let go of the hammer the gun and the gun goes off. let go of the hammer the gun, the gun goes off the moment. the decisive moment the gun went off. yeah that was the moment going on. it wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. well the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. never pulled the trigger. no, no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them. never baldwin was facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the deadly shooting of the film cinematographer helena hutchins . a year and a half ago, the actor was rehearsing on set with the prop gun when it fired off, killing hutchins and hurting director joel souza. baldwin has said a crew member yelled cold gun, meaning it had no live rounds in it before handing him the weapon. prosecutors announced they will drop the charges during a hearing today, but they say their investigation is still active. they could press further criminal charges later. what would those be? where does this go? criminal

defense attorney joe jackson is here. good morning. good morning, two weeks before trial . vindication vindication, vindication. i think in a significant way he's been claiming repeatedly that he did not at all pulled the trigger. the modification seems to be consistent with that. what modification the gun modification, but it's more troubling than that. the trouble for me is that i'm horrified with respect to how prosecutors have handled this case. this happened in october. 2021 you're telling me now that you have information with respect to the gun with that? not be critical to know before you charge someone, would it not be critical to know before you proceed and really say that someone is responsible criminally, and the significance of this is really twofold as it relates to the law number one if you're charging someone with being reckless or negligent even now we have the issue of the gun which suggests, hey, maybe he wasn't now you have the second issue with respect to causation causing of the death if the gun

were modified, and he did not pull the trigger. then you have an issue with causation, but he was charged and he was charged in january of this past year. 14 months later, you didn't know that and so i'm very troubled this for now. they said. they dropped the charges. but then how how do you go back because his attorneys will say you already said the government's modified? yeah said that it's so i think what prosecutors need to do really is to is to come clean and really just say look, we investigated the case, and this is a tragedy by all accounts, but we know that many tragedies not result in prosecutions. there are times when there's a tragedy that results in civil litigation as this has rights, civil relating to monetary damages. carelessness etcetera. come clean. do you think? do you think he should have been charged? you saying that saying that initially he shouldn't have been charged in the first instance why prosecutors don't even consult the union right with respect to this. why is that important? would it not be

critical to know what an actor's responsibility is when the union came out and said to them look actors are not firearm experts. we're going to hold them to that standard. then prosecutors charged him. this is important to know under a law that wasn't even in existence at the time, which is called the enhancement law where you get five years in the event that you discharge a firearm at someone. i mean it was dismissed because of the fact that it shouldn't have been charged. do your investigation. the investigation determines his criminality. move forward. if it doesn't don't do it for political reasons, because he's alec baldwin say we don't have the evidence. and don't move. they did. and here's where we are. i was thinking all morning . you know, when are we? we haven't just to be clear because i want to keep a focus also on the woman who died. helena hutchins. we don't have a statement. a new statement from her family yet obviously will bring viewers out when we have it and want to hear their voice in all of this, but you bring up an interesting point, because now the lawyers for the armor right they're responsible for getting the guns ready. all these props, etcetera. says they expect that the charges against

her will also be dropped. is it apples to apples because of this , there not completely similarly situated and here's why, papi, you have one who is the one who is responsible for the care, custody and control of that firearm. where is that firearm? is it loaded? is it loaded with dummy rounds? is that really secured properly? is it given to the actor in a condition where it is a cold gun, meaning not going to go off? so they're not similarly situated to the extent that the actor alec baldwin reasonably relies upon a team right? so while it's different, the result could be the same in terms of the dismissal. if the gun was defective. would it be her responsibility, also which she have known that? and so i think the prosecutor is going to have a problem as to her also, that might be the next dismissal to come. okay look, can i ask you about the prosecution had some missteps, said that ultimately forcing the case to be assigned to a whole new team and wondering if politics could be interfering in this because you have you seem to have concerns about the prosecutor.

there was this email from a prosecutor saying at some point, though, i'd like i at least like to get out there that i am assisting you as it might help me in my campaign. l o l prosecutor right was crazy. what happened was a special prosecutor apparently was running for office at the time or held the position as a state senator, or some such thing. what ended up happening was that she was also prosecuting the case. you can't prosecute cases predicated upon politics. you have to prosecute them predicated upon facts, although we see the political element you know, coming into these all the time, and so she steps aside, another special prosecutors appointed the actual district attorney steps aside and then you have new special prosecutors who say guess what? there's new evidence we have to dismiss. this case should not have been brought jackson. wow indeed. thank you. thank you. thank you moving on. we're going to talk about the suspect accused of shooting a six year old neighbor and her parents in north carolina will appear in court today. 24 year old robert louis

singletary turned himself into authorities in florida. on thursday. singletary allegedly opened fire after being angered by a basketball that rolled into his yard on tuesday, joining us now from gaston county, north carolina. cnn national correspondent dianne gallagher diane good morning to you, i mean, wow. this is unbelievable . we're learning that their, um there's some clear red flags here with this man in the neighborhood. what are you hearing about that that's right. don. i spent all day yesterday with the people of that neighborhood who told me that they had not slept since that shooting because they were so afraid because this alleged shooter robert singletary was still on the loose. there was a manhunt that involved u. s marshals. but yesterday evening on thursday, he turned himself into authorities nearly 600 miles away in hillsborough, florida now he does have a hearing later today regarding potential x. tradition here back

to guests in county neighbors told me that look, there were issues there since about a couple of weeks that he had moved in to stay with his girlfriend in a room she was renting in a house there. he had been yelling at children. he did not seem to like the children of the neighborhood, they said. it's a very kid friendly neighborhood. dozens of them were outside on tuesday evening , when a basketball rolled into singletary's yard, according to neighbors. they say that apparent came to confront him about cursing out his child, and then singletary went inside, got the gun and began shooting. of course, six year old ken's lee white. her father and mother were all shot. don talked to that mother after the arrest, and she told me that she was glad, and she felt relieved. but she also wasn't sure exactly how he managed to get all the way to florida. mm hmm. mm hmm. and also the little girl speaking out yesterday as well. what is the latest on the health of all of the people who were shot? all right. you know, we're talking

to her mother. she says that kinsley. she had fragments of a bullet in her cheek that doctors had promotions, stitches in her face. and of course, it's a traumatizing event. but right now, the big concern is the father, jamie white. he was shot in the back. according to the family. he has damage to his liver, his lung. his ribs were broken and his abdomen and he has a very long road to recovery . don he remains in the hospital in charlotte, still this morning , all right. thank you, diane gallagher. and we wish all of them. well, thank you so much. well this morning. six people, four of them teenagers are now facing murder charges in connection with the mass shooting at a sweet 16 party in alabama last weekend. they were arrested over the course of the last week, all of them except a 15 year old, who has not been identified or being held without bond in the local jail. they opened fire last saturday while the party was in full swing. four people were killed, including the birthday girl's brother, at least 32 people were injured 15 of them teens. this rampage is one of the latest 165

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in the closed meetings, so their incentives are different. what i've seen is that members of congress are surrounded by negative incentives, there are rewards for bad behavior. fake it till you make it. joining us now is the man behind the video freshman congressman from north carolina, jeff jackson. we will don and i were stunned watching this and you thought we would know this is obvious, but to have you say it. really says something. who are you talking about both parties. well sure. i think this is not unique to either party. i don't think it's the same in both parties, though. i think the incentive structure to win a republican primary right now is basically to try and be the angriest voice in the room. i think we're seeing a lot of that this week. but the reason i did the video was because, as the new guy you have a special brand of credibility and being able to show up to a place and look around and then sort of report back to everyone. what they need to know. and i thought people needed to know. i don't think it

was a newsflash to you or a lot of people who follow politics closely, but a lot of america doesn't know that this anger is fake that you've got a group of people in congress who are on team outrage and what they're doing is auditioning every day to be the captain of team outrage. do you have any specific examples? i have so many questions when it comes to this, but do you have any specific examples? examples for us congressman i think you know the people on this list and what i would give people is the formula for figuring out who's on this list. it's not who gets angry. it's who is always angry folks who are always angry. they're the ones who are auditioning. they're looking for the media outlets who are trying to keep their audience angry. and so if you can get access to those media, which is a huge win for these folks, and they're up there not to do public service, but just to get as much out access to those outlets as possible, okay, i'm i'm glad you said that because we would say, often say that especially during the 2016 election and also in

2020 as well. people would say one thing in the green room. they say one thing in a pre interview, they say one thing before the commercial break during the commercial break, and then when you came out on television, they say the complete opposite all of a sudden there was outrage. and you know your fake news and you know you lived or whatever. and they do that right. so this plays into what is happening now, with dominion and now smart medic. what was your response to the dominion settlement and the dominion case, and as it moves forward smartmatic as it comes to suing media companies for not telling the truth. i thought the settlement was justice for dominion. it was clearly fair to that company. but it wasn't the outcome that would have served our country the best. what would serve our country? the best is an episodic explanation and textual proof that so much of this is fake that it's intentionally it's intended to deceive people. a long lesson in how the incentive structure

really works behind the scenes to produce fake anger would have been very instructive for the american people. basically, i was sad that it didn't go to trial really interesting, and that's what former fox news anchor gretchen carlson also said that she wanted to go to trial to expose more of this. so i watched your tiktok a few times this morning. one of the things you say is, um that because there aren't cameras in the closed meetings are incentives are different. and it got me thinking about the how you weigh the interests of transparency right? because there's a real press interest in the public interest in transparency and seeing a lot of what you do what we pay you guys to do on camera, but at the same time you're saying a lot of what's on camera is fake. how do you weigh those two things? i think that's a really good question. i think your assumption here is correct behind closed doors. there's way more consensus. there is way more compromise and then people

step out into public and it's a lot of song and dance. what i can tell you is that i had an assumption before i got to congress about what percentage of people in congress were serious and what percentage were basically team outrage. i thought team outrage was going to be about a third of the people who were there. it's not it's less than 10% and that's the good news. i try to give to my constituents when i report back to them about 1st 1st impressions here. yeah 22. you can see that the cameras in there, but they're also playing for the camera. so right again. can we talk about the debt ceiling? now the deadline is coming up. what do you think? should should the house negotiate with kevin mccarthy? the white house? the white house. i should say. excuse me. well, i think that's going to be very difficult until speaker mccarthy puts forth something that's at least in the ballpark of reasonable i don't think this initial bill from him is and he's expressed a lot of confidence that he's got the vote in his own party to get this passed. i'm not sure he does. this is a lot of very steep cuts and a lot of

different areas. veterans affairs, air traffic control nutrition plans for seniors and to ask a lot of his vulnerable members. he has 18 republicans who are in districts that biden one to ask them to vote for all of these cuts for something that we know is dead on arrival in the senate. i wouldn't be surprised if they're being a little too optimistic about odds for passage out of his caucus next week. congressman jeff jackson. thank you. are you ready for the president to say he's gonna run again on right on tuesday? i think that's the least surprising political news. i think we've all been operating under the assumption for several months that the president will be running for reelection. thank you. thank you. are you going to vote for him? yep yep, i'd like that. answer. yep that's a good answer. thank you for calling this out. it's something that's for calling out the hypocrisy and we didn't talk about the people who come on and do interviews and then go on and, you know, raise money afterwards , right right away there on social media raising money.

look, i gave it to the live. i gave it to the liberal media would have you so we appreciate you keep doing what you're doing. it's good stuff. thanks so much take care very much, so let's talk more about this illegal nightmare for fox news just beginning. really. the battle withio for lawyer tells cnn that the company wants a full retraction and it won't accept anything smaller than the historic $787 million settlement that dominion god. clearly facts knew that the election wasn't rigged. they clearly knew the election machines weren't involved in rigging something. all that evidence is out there and we get to layer. on top of that. smartmatic is in this case for the long haul. they are looking to take this case through trial . they are looking through the vindication of a jury verdict in their favor. fox news, has

denied any wrongdoing and is fighting the smartmatic lawsuit . last minute settlement with dominion spared fox from having to do an on air retraction or apology about spreading election lies, and the network avoided a potentially embarrassing trial with rupert murdoch took carlson and other fox news stars taking the stand smart maddox lawyer will join us live in the next hour to talk about all of that. that will be really interesting this morning. sad have the u. ss bracing for more potential violence and a russian warplane accidentally bombed its own city . look at the devastation is next. do their fragging seeds in the onion bag. you don't get it . do you go all in the limited slip diff lets you hammer the throttle sports sedan. ego

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secure the embassy there and assist with the potential evacuation. hundreds of marines are already based in camp lemonier in djibouti. as of december, there were 14 active duty. u. s military personnel in sudan, providing embassy security. all this comes as a 72 hour ceasefire was announced overnight. the truce aligns with the muslim holiday that marks the end of ramadan. the ceasefire could provide a crucial window for aid to be distributed to the people caught in the conflict zones world health program warned that if the fighting continues, millions could be forced into hunger. tens of thousands of people have already fled sudan and are now refugees to russian what some are describing as an accidental firing. at least two people have been injured, and this happened because of russian warplane dropped a bomb on the russian city. of belgorod last night. it's about 25 miles north of the country's border with ukraine. the region has been the scene of several explosions and bombings since russia invaded ukraine over a year ago and take a look

at this because here you can see some of the damage from the explosion, according to state news agencies. russia's defense ministry said it was caused by an emergency drop of aviation munition. it's not clear what kind of weapon was involved, and no deaths so far have been reported at toronto's pearson airport. police say daring thieves madoff with about $15 million worth of gold and other valuables stored in a cargo container taken a legally from an airport holding facility. cnn's paula newton live in ottawa, canada. paula good morning to you tell us more. what happened. it is quite a head scratcher. don and think about it. this is an airport. it's supposed to be one of the most secure places. and yet on monday evening, it seems a cargo container. about five or six ft square was loaded off an airplane. so far, so normal was put into a holding warehouse and then in terms of what the police said it was taken illegally. you got it, john. this is high value

contents. they're saying about $15 million worth. some of it was gold. some of it was other articles. they weren't really willing to say what and i think that's the point of this. police weren't really willing to say too much. they wouldn't tell us which airline was involved who they thought was involved. what else was in the cargo hold there , but i want you to listen now to police at the airport yesterday during the press conference when asked if they thought this was a professional job, listen. for investigators have got their eyes open all avenues so we really don't want to be making a rare and sort of focus on one particular area. we're kind of keeping abroad outlook on it. so we're looking at all angles on how this item was stolen. but i mean for me to come in the record and say it's professional at this time would be really, really early for me, and i would be hesitant to say such thing. but think about this at this point. they're not telling us whether there is any surveillance video of how and when this container was stolen, and they don't even know if it

is still in the country. now one wants to be too flippant about this right? this is an airport. it should be much more secure. cargo containers shouldn't just go missing but you can't help but have your ocean's 11 soundtrack playing in the background here because it is still quite a mystery. yeah and if they don't know any of that, like they don't know. surveillance you don't even know if it's in the country. does that mean the police don't have any leads? you know there are no suspects. certainly they didn't ask the public for help, poppy, and this is what was so extraordinary and you got the feeling that the press conference was hastily arranged because it had already leaked out from the press on monday. they wanted people to know about this at the latest, we would have had some kind of police statement by tuesday. that didn't happen night. you got it, poppy for them to say that, you know, it's not. they don't even know if it's in the country, right? not too many leads. as far as we understand. right now. it's when i read about it waking up this morning. i was like this is out of a movie. it's real though, paula, thanks very much. thank you, paula. today two of

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camera house, solomon in new york, and this is cnn. hours from now. two men accused of marching through charlottesville , virginia, with a group of white nationalists set to appear in court in 2017. the group's shocked the country when they carried lit tiki torches through the city during the march chanted hateful phrases like you will not replace us jews will not replace us while on tuesday six years later, a judge in virginia announcing a grand jury indicted three men on charges of intent to intimidate during that

march six years later, as brian todd todd live for us in charlottesville this morning with the very latest, brian, what are we expecting today? well don in a couple of hours. this is going to be a bond hearing for one of the men, and that's will zachary smith from texas. he's been in custody since january. it's going to be an initial court appearance for another one of the defendants, his name tyler bradley dykes from bluffton, south carolina. a third defendant, dallas medina from ohio, has been arrested, but it's not in custody. at least he wasn't as of a couple of days ago. so a bond hearing for one initial appearance for the other these men as you mentioned, don charged with quote, burning an object with the intent to intimidate, and that was related to that torch march that was held in charlottesville the night before the unite the right rally this the night of friday, august 11th 2017, these white nationalists marched through the campus of the university of virginia. don mentioned those horrible slogans that they chanted. jews will not

replace us. one of the slogans was blood and soil, which is a reference, and for many years, the people who led that torch march were not charged. the former commonwealth's attorney for album, oral county, robert tragedy, declined to press charges against them. but the current commonwealth's attorney for the county, his name james hindley, he was the one who kind of led the charge to bring charges against these defendants , and so we'll see where it goes from. here are other people who took part in that torch march going to be charged. could there be others who were involved in the united right rally on that saturday, which, of course, led to so much horrible violence that day and the death of a counter protest. heather higher. when she was struck by a vehicle that rammed a crowd of protesters. is there going to be? are they going to be charges for any of the people who were involved in that? interestingly don, this is kind of a continuation of an effort to bring some justice for that event six years ago because i was here about a year and a half

ago, when there was a big civil trial, some of the leaders of the unite the right rally. some of these white nationalists were successfully sued. for about $26 million and this was the plaintiffs were people who were victims of the violence and civil rights groups. they won a lawsuit against them. so interestingly, you know, continuation here, don of the effort to bring justice for those events in 2017. thank you, brian. i'm glad you answered my question. i was wondering what took so long. there's a different prosecutor now. thank you, brian todd. in charlottesville, virginia. appreciate it. absolutely oclock, colorado school bus driver who intentionally slammed the brakes while driving children now faces 30 years 30 child abuse charges. i should say he defends his actions, saying it was to educate them. listen. you guys want to see how dangerous that is? god get that. that's why you need to be in your seat. turn around and sit down properly. the children from

douglas county's council rock elementary school, or between five years old and 12 years old . one girl called her mom from the bus, telling her mom someone was hurt. please. get out. 61 year old former bus driver brian fitzgerald has his first court appearance in may, a sheriff's department in california going beyond the call of duty deputies in fresno county risked their own lives last month to deliver life saving medication to a man stranded in a home surrounded by feet of snow. cnn's veronica miracle has more on the heroic mission. came in early march after unusually heavy snowfall closed off this mountain

community near fresno, california never seen a year like this. jared cook was at his family's cabin near huntington's like for what he thought would be a weekend getaway until a monster storm hit every day. another two ft of snow kept coming in and there was no way to get out. ultimately i was just trapped 10 to 12 ft of snow had piled up. the national weather service issued a dangerous weather alert and the only road in was completely shut down for weeks. came so fast and so dense between each storm, so within that it was just powder on top of powder. it was kind of like groundhogs day like a couple of days thing turned into two weeks of you in isolation, total isolation, total solitude with no other human beings. around two weeks in jared was running out of his three heart medications. out of desperation , he reached out to the local huntington's lake fire department, but even they had no way to reach him. so they called

in the fresno county sheriff's office, which tried to reach jared by helicopter during extreme weather conditions. we cannot reserve. this one as a rescue conference is the one that we're actually flying that day. in a remote location cabin was stuck between kind of foot tall trees, snow piled higher than the cabin. we land. we could get what we call white out condition where the snow just comes up, and basically you lose all visual reference. the team in the air had to come up with an alternative way to get the medicine to jared. when you hear us. go outside and try to get in view and wave us down. we ended up going with plan b and just kind of hovering over the house over the roadway, and we dropped it off to him in flight. he got the door open. you're about to drop it. what's going through your mind about like what could go wrong number one. it was flying high enough so we don't hit the trees. number two would be probably not hitting the gentleman with the bag. and the

most important is probably not damaging the helicopter while learning flight. have to hold the door open with my left hand had dropped the bag in between the skin and drop it into this little area right here. they did the drop and i just saw powder fly. the bag had dropped through the snow. so i dug it out. and once i had it located it. you know, i just gave him the thumbs up. i think that's what we all do the job. you know the teamwork. the sheriff's office came together the team we made a plan quickly and were able to help somebody that wasn't really are heroes to me. veronica miracle, cnn. heroes real heroes . of course, house just passed a bill that bans transgender athletes. athletes from competing in female school sports. but what is the polling say about american support for lgbtq protections? beyond the call o of duty brought to you ba

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conversation here. let's ferry griffin, cnn, political commentator and former white house communications director or under president trump. is with us. it's great to have you here. good morning. we were really intrigued by this sort of tweet thread you posted yesterday, um , referring to polling about lgbtq support. there is a distinction here as you want to point out between support for transgender women and girls playing in in, um male sports, but my question to you is what is the bigger picture? you're trying to point to here? big picture? i think the gop is going way too far pushing anti lgbtq policies. the so called don't say gay bill and florida will lose your a generation of voters. of course, it was first presented is only affecting education up to third grade, but now it's going up to 12th grade . you're talking about high school students, you know, raising questions about how can you talk about your gay parents in the classroom? or if you happen to be gay? how is that even discussed? that's something my generation rejects the polling shows eight in 10, americans believe there should be more protections for the lgbt

community to avoid discrimination. 67% of republicans. i don't have the breakdown. i would assume a lot of those are younger voters. so i think that there's a there's this really big overreach on the right to try to appeal to primary voters, ma who have more traditional old school views on these issues, but i think it's a total loser general election. i think ron desantis numbers dropping is partially because of this, he's alienating an entire community. the trans women in sports issue is a very nuanced issue and congresses were nuanced goes to die. i mean, the breakdown of that vote just shows that there was absolutely no effort to try to meet in the middle and find something that works for both sides. i have talked to a lot of parents mostly, you know who have female daughters who have concerns over this issue. but there is certainly something that i think is a step below a federal bar on trans athletes competing in women's sports that could be reached. so the u. s census says we have about 1.5 million transgender americans. that's a minority within a

minority the number of those who then go on to be elite athletes competing at this level. this is not an issue that is affecting a ton of people. and i would think that there is something frankly i would have. i would say that we should come up with a standard that would make sure that you know biological women feel comfortable. but you're also not alienating trans women from being able to compete altogether. the white house has come down very strongly on one side and republicans on the other, neither or even trying to meet in the middle of your exactly right. it is. it's an it's an important issue. but when you see the number of people who are affected by really, really, really small as you said that the question is that the sort of you know social wedge issues. why then why are republicans still because it's a losing issue for them? they're very they're very animating issues in a primary and with a certain wing of the donor class , but then i would argue on the flip side. some prominent donors came matt against governor desantis and said, you're going too far in some of these social issues. and pulled back support. but i do think it's a you know, there are donors who would like to see the gop be a party of the

19 nineties. where were you know against gay marriage? we're against marriage equality. that's not where the country is moving. no one wants to go backward on the answer. if you said to me because it works, don okay because it works. but i'm asking the question because it appears not to be working. it doesn't and i hate to make this analogy because there's so much i disagree with donald trump on and he certainly did have some stances that i think affected the lgbtq community also never made it front and center in his campaign, and i actually think it helped with some young supporters that they're like, finally, we don't have to get into these highly toxic cultural wedge issues. they just are not reflective of where we are generally generationally. other candidates are leaning very hard into it, and i think it's going to make it extremely hard to win a general election. but what's going on with governor desantis ? because so many people sort of crowned him even before he hasn't even officially gone? in in the race. and yet all the headlines this week are about you know how he struggling. he just lost. uh he didn't get the endorsement of the congressman for his own. former district in

florida, the republican congressman, what's going on a big donor? yeah that big donor. i think he's still working to establish a professional team around him. actually the number of friends who were on his pack that are very experienced operatives, but there are still in this firewall until he's an announced candidate. he's got some very bad advice. i mean, the single thing that hurt him the most was calling ukraine a territorial dispute. you are the most prominent republicans saying, whoa! that is not where we are. but i also think this these cultural wedge issues are hurting him in the continued war against disney. um it's too soon to certainly too soon to write his obituary politically, but i said from the outside, you know, let's see him tested on a national stage for someone like ron desantis. if you take a position that is, you know, perhaps controversial, like the so called don't say gay bill. then he needs to come and sit down with mainstream media and explain this is why we think this is best for florida or six week abortion ban, you have to be able to defend it to unfriendly audiences and i can't

think of a single time i've seen him do that yet to trump's credit in 2016, he'd go on morning. joe would go on cnn and need to argue, and it wasn't always good. it wasn't always healthier right for debate, but he at least had the conversation. desantis doesn't doing that. and it makes people wonder if he's capable. every single interview. i mean, he would call and say, you know, can you, mr trump, will you come on? sure i'll come on. do i have to come on? the set will cause i think i did eight interviews with him then and it's interesting. ron desantis seems to be doing the victory lap before he's even, you know, run the race, so which we can't forget how early it is in the primary with this who fights with mickey mouse on come on, weirdly. i think he got married at disney to be real. serious yeah, he did. ah the way this is going to get the magic castle or whatever, um kingdom magic kingdom pride month. every major corporation in america is going to be flying the flag and you can take the fight with all them because that is where the mood of the country is going to run

again tuesday. you think that's a day? i have no idea. ah we'll see. listen thanks. thank you, and we'll be watching a little bit later on some other show. we call it the view. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. i never once said never that the gun went off in my hand. automatic trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. you never pulled the trigger. no, no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at the trigger at them. never morning, everyone it's friday. it's friday eight a.m. eight a. m it's friday eight am caitlin is off poppy and i are here. but this is when, if you people who are involved in any kind of litigation, they tell you trust the process. trust the process because things look bleak for a long time for alec baldwin, and now it seems to be coming around. we'll see. not quite

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