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viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead on cnn newsroom, president biden finalizing his 2024 campaign plans, hours ahead of his expected announcement. this has new polling shows most americn' him or donald trump to run again. shakeup at fox news with legal troubles counting and troubles with the truth. tucker carlson is shown the door. both warring factions in sudan agree to a cease-fire. concerns exist how long it will hold and how to get american expats out. thanks for joining us. all eyes are on the white house today, with president joe biden
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expects to announce his bid to run for a second term in 2024. mr. biden has teased and dropped hints at the announcement for quite some time. sources close to the president confirmed that he's picked a campaign manager and decided where the headquarters will be. with a formal announcement just hours away, there's more questions what the 2024 race will look like. cnn's phil mattingly reports. >> reporter: after months of waiting, speculating, everybody knowing it was coming but not knowing when it was coming, president biden may, i stress may, be announcing his run for re-election. that's contingent on the president himself. his closest advisers and outside allies have been accelerating efforts for a re-election announcement to come on tuesday morning. that would come four years to the way after his presidential
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announcement in 2020. during that campaign, he took on and defeated incumbent president donald trump. donald trump, who is now the front-runner for the republican nomination once again. therein lies challenges for both, particularly for president biden, who would be 86 at the time of his second term coming to an end. american clearly in poll after poll aren't enthused about the match-up. only 26% of americans want to see biden run again. democrats by a majority, don't want biden to run again. those are the headwinds the president will face. he was able to get past congress his agenda in the first two years. he will be able to overcome who he will be facing. whether it's trump or some other republican where, advisers are clear they will have a clear
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message that resonates with the american people. the president not committing to running again. asked by reporters, he said it would come really soon. it's clear after months of closely guarded secrecy, when it came to personnel and time laynes and what they were planning, moves are being made. donors will be in town later this week. personnel announcements are coming in the fore monday. other personnel will be announced, as well. all that's necessary at this point is the announcement, which is expected on tuesday. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. joining me now is michael genevase. he is president of the political college institute at loyola
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mount university. president biden is poised to announce his election campaign in the coming hours. most polls suggest the majority ahead of democrats unenthused about him running again. particularly worried about his age. at the same time, many consider him the only viable option on the democratic side. how likely will the match-up with donald trump or ron desantis? >> i think at this stage of the g game, joe biden is in pretty good shape. however, the majority of the party don't want him to run. but he's in a good position that no one in the party is challenging him. you would expect a president with that rating to be vulnerable in his own party. in the past, when a president has been challenged in his own party, it spelled electoral
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trouble. 1976, ronald reagan challenged president ford, ford lost. a few years later, ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter, he lost. in 1992, george w. bush was challenged by pat buchanan. he lost. it takes time, effort and money. and biden has escaped that. he's in a pretty good position despite his low popularity rankings. >> a recent poll showed that americans don't want donald trump to run again. 35 said they did. his main rival, ron desantis is on a world tour, with a top in israel, to boost his stocks ahead of announcing a run against champion. even though the former president's numbers don't look that great, they are better than
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the florida governor's approval rat rating. where is all of this going? >> think back a few years. in the last presidential election, the candidates were unpopular. think of 2016, donald trump versus hillary clinton. two unpopular candidates. 2020, much of the same thing. we've welcome accustomed to candidates we're dissatisfied with. so, there's something really wrong with the party system that keeps producing candidates we just don't like. >> it is problematic. in that situation with dump and de desantis, do you think that trump will stay ahead of desantis or it's hard to tell at this juncture?
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>> desantis is shooting himself in the foot. he said that ukraine was a territorial dispute. he is fighting disney in his own state. and people are making jokes about you can't handle mickey mouse, how are you doing to handle putin? desantis has gotten off to a horrible start. he may be considering whether he wants to run or not. he can bow out now and say i'll do it in four years. it looked like my moment, maybe it's not. deta desantis has to make tough positions. donald trump is in and in 100% until the end. donald trump will plow ahead. there's no one in the republican party that seems capable of challenging him and giveliing ha good race. >> the debt ceiling deadline approaches. house speaker kevin mccarthy facing his biggest test so far this week.
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what happens if he can't pull that off? and more importantly, what are the consequences if republicans don't lift the debt limit in time. and this country goes into default? >> the democrats and the republicans continually lift the debt ceiling year after year after year. whether it's a democrat or a republican in the white house. it ought not to be a tough decision to make. the republicans have made a battle plan out of the debt ceiling. and so, every time it gets to this point and the president shuts down a government and they get punished at the ballot box. it makes no sense to do this. they should pass a bill and pass
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approval of it and move on. this is a no-win situation for the republicans. it will probably hurt them dramatically. >> all right. we'll see what happens this week. michael genovse, good to have you with us. the district attorney working to overturn the election results will decide whether to bring charges against trump and his allies. she plans to make an announcement on possible charges between july 11 and september 1st. ahead of that, she is pressing the fulton county sheriff for heightened security and preparedness. her letter is another strong indication he is seriously considering bringing racketeering and conspiracy charges in connection with trump's actions a in georgia around the 2020 election. a new three-day cease-fire
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between sudan's warring factions is in effect, after previous attempts to stop the violence failed. the u.s. says it brokered the new deal and plans to help create a committee to try to implement a permanent truce. before the agreement was announced, more clashes erupted around khartoum. thick plumes of smoke were rising from charred buildings, covering entire city blocks. that's one of many places that fighting has been reported. over the last ten days, it's left 400 people and countless others, for needs like food, water and medicine. it says the warring factions must restore calm immediately. >> have to engage directly to press them to extend and expand the cease-fire to a sustainable
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hostilities that upholds humanitarian obligations. >> with the cease-fire in place, the u.k. has started a la large-scale movement of british passport holders from sudan. priority will be given to the most vulnerable, including families with children and the elderly. let's get more for cnn's senior editor joining us now live. what is the latest on the hopes of getting more people out of the country? >> thank you, rosemary. we've been here before. a cease-fire has been promised but they're very fragile. it's prepared to put down arms
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and allow people to get much-needed supplies for humanitarian corridors to be open. it remains to be seen, if both sides will keep to this agreement. nations are continuing evacuations. pakistan and britain have been trying to evacuate citizens. previously, the focus has been on evacuating diplomatic personnel and their families, which caused a lot of anger among citizens, who tell abandoned. now, the focus is on trying to get as many foreign citizens out. sudanese are making journeys to get out to neighboring countries, such as egypt. we spoke to one woman, american women, who packed into a bus with 16 or 17 members of her family. and here's what it has to say about the journey.
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>> i think the most terrifying thing of the journey was just thinking about who would bury us if we were to get killed. when you're in the desert in the road, the darkest thought i had was, am i going to get killed in front of my family or are they going to get killed in front of me? if so, who is going to bury the body. >> she is speaking to people making this dangerous journey by road, about 1,000 kilometers to egypt. and many sudanese are saying they need help. they don't want to be left behind once all of the foreign citizens and their families have been taken out. there's a humanitarian crisis looming and sudan has been a
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fragile country with food insecurity and con tickets. this compounds a dire situation. and people are urgently asking for help to come in. >> terrifying choices that people are having to make. many thanks. given the deteriorating and dangerous conditions in sudan, many people are looking for exits out of the country. >> two residents were visiting family and sheltering in khartoum. at that time, fighting had been going on for three days. this is what she told me. >> this is war. we're not prepared for that. we're civilians. we don't have anything in our hand. to be prepared for something like that, we didn't even know
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that some -- something like that is going to happen. we're in an anxious situation. >> today, this woman, u.s. permanent resident, saying a desperate message on whatsapp. we are stuck between the two borders for more than seven hours, she writes. very elderly members and they are sick. we tried everything to get to the other side but can't find the solution. please shed light on that to get emergency assistance and help. she sent these photos at the green border crossing, sudan's border with egypt, about a 15-hour bus ride. she and her family are still stuck at the border. another woman, a sudanese national, shared her journey on a twitter threat.
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she sent us this video from the same border crossing. she took the route from khartoum to the neighboring city to one of the major bus stations. she described being stopped twice bile the military and once by the rsf, and being let go. from there, she took the long 13-hour journey before crossing into egypt. it took 20 hours after crossing the border, traveling to egypt and taking a train to the capital cairo. the trip was around $200, which may not sound like a lot to some people. but keep in mind that gpd per capita in sudan, of 2021, last year's data, was around $750 per person, annually. after detailing her journey, she offered this advice. put your money in different places so not all of it gets
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taken if anything happens. if you are stopped by anyone at a checkpoint and they are asking for anything, please cooperate. your life is more important. stop to buy food and carry plenty of water as there aren't shops or restaurants after you leave khartoum. the trip was long and scary and tiring but worth it in the end. still to come, tuckered out. fox news fires one of its more popular host of all-time. why executives made the decision to show tucker carlson the door. pastst the pain, and past your limits. no matter what, we go on. biofreeze
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conspiracy theories about covid and the 2020 presidential election. it showed carlson disparaging senior fox executives. leading "the wall street journal" to report this, and i'm quoting. the company took issue with remarks that mr. carlson made that were derogatory with the network people familiar with the matter said. and here's oliver darcy. >> he was critical, to be generous to him, about the people running fox. that may have played a role. and there's that pending lawsuit now, from his exbooker, who alleged rampant sexism, anti-semitic behave that was running wild on his show. he's also got this legal notice from ray epps, who he made part of his central january 6th conspiracy on his program. there's all this litigation
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that's got carlson's name over it. you have the dominion lawsuit and fox said enough is enough. >> tucker carlson has not responded to his firing. gary tuchman reports on his controversial rear. >> reporter: tucker carlson is an instigator. >> the election was seized by voters. >> reporter: the capitol insurrection. >> they were sightseers. >> the former cop that murdered george floyd. >> i'm worried about the rest of the country, thanks to police in action, if you haven't noticed, is boarded up. that's more my concern. >> and recording the green m&m candy no wearing go-go boots. >> m&ms won't wait until every cartoon character is appealing
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and en and. >> carlson told his viewers this after the 2020 election. >> what happened last night could have not been worse for this country, for our children, for our grandchildren, for our future. >> reporter: as donald trump continued to beat his drum of lies -- >> this is a fraud on the american public. so, we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court. >> reporter: carlson continued to enable him. >> 72 million voters believe this election is unfair. they're right about that. >> reporter: behind trump's back, tucker carlson was blasting him, contradicting what he was saying on his tv show. part of texas mestext messages, said this to co-workers. trump needs to concede. he's starting to do damage to the party.
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and we're able to ignore trump most nights. i truly can't wait. and two days before the january 6th insurrection he wrote, i hate him passionately. i can't handle much more of this. carlson was a vocal proponent to ethnically and culturally white people, a racist conspiracy theor theory. that but illustrated in horrific fashion in charlottesville, virginia. >> this is a voting rights question. i have less political power because they are importing a new electorate. why should i take that? >> reporter: and then, the insurrection. this carlson lie is propertied out. >> fbi operatives were organizing the attack on the capitol on january 6th. according to government documents. >> reporter: carlson ended up getting sole access to thousands
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of hours of january 6th videotape from kevin mccarthy, which carlson selectively sanitized, angering many, including republicans. >> i think it was, yeah. it was an attack on the capital. >> reporter: recently, this carlson take on the culture wars, in a racist prison. he said this about justin pearson who was expelled from office. >> he wasn't white but he did a fantastic impression of it. what a nice, young man. >> reporter: and there was this about transgender rights. >> transgenderists do not believe in the god of mono theism. they believe themselves are god with the power to control nature. if you think about it, this should be a concern because it's a recipe for extremism. >> reporter: extreme is what
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many believe tucker carlson has become. but for now, his powerful megaphone is gone. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. another major media move a lot closer to home. cnn's announced it was parting ways with anchor don lemon. he had been with the network for 17 years, most recently as a co-anchor of "cnn this morning." lemon came under fire in february for saying that women are only considered to be in their prime in their 20s, 30s and maybe 40s. he apologized for the remark and denied misogyny aimed at female co-workers. the u.n. security council holds a meeting on peace and security and it was led by russia's top diplomat. who the u.s. called aveneconven. the ex-wife of a top russian official is defying e.u.
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there was a giant elephant in the room. its foreign minister presided over that meeting since russia holds the rotating presidency of the security council. and he came out swinging. >> translator: as during the cold war, we've reached the dangerous threshold. the situation is worsened with the lost of trust and multilateralism. nobody allowed the western minority to speak on behalf of all of humankind. >> cnn's claire sebastian joins us live from london. what's the reaction to sergey lavrov meeting a u.n. security council meeting on keeping the peace and security? >> by all accounts, this was an extremely hostile session that did very little, other than to
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reinforce the stark differences between russia and ukraine's western allies. and to show those up in sharp focus. the deteriorating relations. the fact that russia chaired this meeting for national piece, and ambassadors, including the u.n. security council himself who caused suffering to ukraine. listen to the u.s. ambassador who gave her reaction to erin burnett. >> it was the epitome of irony and hypocrisy to have the foreign minister of russia chairing the security council, a meeting on multilateralism. a multilateralism when russia
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has in their unprovoked action against ukraine, attacked everything that the u.n. charter stands for. >> reporter: sergey lavrov who is 20 years into that job and spent ten years as russia's ambassador to the united nations, his speech was a long day thai raid, accusing the u.s. of subverting the norms. he met with the u.n. secretary-general on that grain deal, an area where there was hope to see progress. it's now nine months old. but russia has threatened to let it lapse in just over three weeks from now. according to the russian readout of that call, he accused the western states of the platform to promote anti-russian initiatives, prolonging the current crisis. no progress on that grain deal.
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the u.n. secretary-general said he pleasanted lavrov with a letter, to putin to outline a way forward. >> claire sebastian, joining us live from london. while the war grinds on, a top official's ex-wife is living a good life in france. she is spending lavishly and going to resorts. clarissa ward investigates how she is getting away with it. >> reporter: she is a woman of expensive tastes. diamonds and couture. extravagant parties and european vacations. just last month, she was seen shopping and dancing in the elite french ski resort. but she is no ordinary russian soci socialite. she is the other half of russia's deputy minister of defense, one of the most senior
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architects of russia's invasion of ukraine. and according to a shocking investigation, she continues to gallivant around france, more than a year into russia's bloody war, despite the fact that ivanov was sanctioned by the e.u. in october. the explosive report put out by the anti-corruption foundation and investigative outfit founded by russia's jailed opposition leader alexei navalny, is based on 8,000 of the e-mails over the last 12 years and has wracked up more than 6 million views on youtube. it claims on march 25th, 2022, as dozen s of missiles rained down, she spent more than $100,000 in a top paris jewelry store on the place van damme.
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>> how is it possible that she can continue to do this? >> it's a simple trick they play. she has an israeli passport through her first husband. and six months into the war, they have filed for divorce. they haven't split any assets, nothing has changed in terms of the daily life, whatever they owned, they keep owning together. technically, they're not legally married anymore. >> reporter: equally shocking are the opulent lifestyle and the lavish spending that the e-mails document. according to rbc, ivanov's official income was about to be less than $175,000. yet, the navalny group's report says the couple spent $250,000 in just one summer. cnn has not been able to
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independently verify those numbers. how is he funding this lifestyle? >> corruption. corruption and dkickbacks. >> reporter: according to the russian government, ivanov oversees construction for the russian ministry of defense. including what the anti-corruption foundation describes as lucrative contracts to rebuild the ukrainian city of m mariupol. >> russia has destroyed the apartment blocks in town. they had to build new ones. and they did. that company that built the display houses, is the same company that pays for ivanov's bills. >> reporter: despiteespite clai corruption, putin toured the
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facility last month. the ministry of defense received no reply. in france, the pressure may be mounting. on sunday afternoon, the anti-corruption organization staged a protest outside of the apartment that she rents. demanding to know how she is able to spend the profits of russia's war in the heart of france. a question so far without any satisfactory answer. cnn has reached out to the french foreign minministerry, saying we do not comment on situations. france has ended visa fasation for russian businesses and has targeted sanctions against 1,499 officials and supporters. we tried to reach out to svetlana, sending her an e-mail, but we have not received a reply. clarissa ward, cnn, london.
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>> reporter: more than four years after the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history, the trial is under way for the massacre at the tree of life synagogue. in a crowded federal courtroom in downtown pittsburgh monday, defendant robert bowers sent listening, unhandcuffed and passing notes to his lawyers as jury selection began. during the day, his team took turns questioning jurors about their knowledge of the case and the beliefs on the death penalties. bowers is accused of killing 11 jewish worshipers and others in 2018. >> i saw what was going on and could not believe it. to see this ben trait that community is jarring. i'm just shaken by it. >> reporter: prosecutors alleged he brought multiple guns to the synagogue that saturday morning, while three congregations were worshiping. the criminal complaint says he started shooting outside and
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then inside, targeting people praying and expressing his desire to kill jews. he faces 63 felony counts and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in this case. his defense team offered a guilty plea with life in prison in exchange for taking capital punishments off of the table. federal prosecutors have not judge budged in the judge, for potential jurors. jurors should expect to weigh the death penalty in this case. ahead of the trial, congregants from the tree of life synagogue gathered to pray as their day in court has finally arrived. >> we cannot, we must not permit one day out of 25,993 days to define us. nor outweigh all of the good.
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this is not a final moment. >> reporter: jury selection is expected to last a couple more weeks. i have to say, it was an emotional day inside the courthouse. not just because of the overall story but also because of the va majority of questions posed to potential jurors and if they would feel comfortable sentencing a man to death. one juror teared up thinking about that question and reflecting the synagogue, a place of worship, that should be a safe space. danny freeman, cnn, pittsburgh, pennsylvania. still ahead, a copyright infringement case against ed sheeran is set to kick off today. we'll have details. it get s in bh to destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline than f floss. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. listerine. feel the whoa!
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singer lizzo sent a message to tennessee lawmakers during her concert over the weekend. she invited a group of drag queens to invite her on stage, going against legislation restricting public drag performances. here's part of the show. ♪ the singer told the crowd she was creating a safe space in tennessee to celebrate, not only drag performers but everyone's differences. a federal judge in tennessee has temporarily blocked the law from going into effect. in the coming hours, opening statements are expected to begin in a copyright infringement case
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against ed sheeran. the jury was selected on monday in new york. the singer is being sued by heirs of ed townsend. they claim sheeran's hit song "thinking out loud," copies the 1973 hit "let's get it on." and sheeran's attorney argues that it's not similar. here's sheeran's song, "thinking out loud." ♪ darling, i will be loving you until we're 70 ♪ >> all right. now, here's marvin gaye's soul hit, "let's get it on." ♪ let's get it on oh, baby ♪ ♪ let's get it on let's love, baby ♪ >> of course, we let you be the judge of that.
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take a listen to what ed sheeran has to say about copyright issues in the music industry. >> very few chords used in pop music. coincidences are bound to happen. that's 22 million songs a year and only 12 chardschords availa. >> the pop star is expected to testify in the trial. i'm rosemary church. have yourselves a wonderful day. "cnn newsroom" continues next.
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