>> in an interview that you did two years ago, he acknowledged they shouldn't have gone into the capitol. do you think that affects how this shakes out? >> it's interesting. he was always very careful with his words when doing an interview with me or others, but then would go online and there would be something very different. they have used some of the things he said online. here is the conversation we had not long after some of his members had been already charged. he had not been charged and here is what he said when i asked him what he thought about what happened at the capitol and the role that the proud boys may have played. >> i am not gonna cry about a group of people that don't give a crap about their constituents. i am not going to sympathize with them. >> they are doing the job that the people put them there to do and if they don't like it they can vote them out. they are still americans. they are still human beings who felt that their lives were in danger.

how can you not feel any sympathy or any empathy towards them like that? >> i am not going to worry about people that their only worry in life is to be re-elected. >> so, no sympathy, but he said he does not believe that people should have gone in. by the way, he was not there, so that will be one of the things the defense -- he was not there on january 6th. he had been told not to come in because he had been arrested for something else, a judge told him to stay out of washington, d.c.. >> thank you very much. see you in an hour. appreciate the double duty today. "cnn this morning" continues right now. let's finish this job. i know we can because this is the united states of america. there is nothing, simply nothing we cannot do if we work together. >> there you go. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. glad you are with us on "cnn this morning." he is running again, president biden making it official this

morning. plus, the united states considering sending troops into sudan to help evacuate americans who are still stranded in the war-torn country. >> and we are also now set to find out this summer if former president trump is going to face criminal charges for trying to overturn the election results in georgia. new reporting just into cnn on why it's taken this long. we start this morning with president biden. officially announcing he is running for re-election setting up a potential rematch with former president trump. biden launched his campaign a short time ago with this video swiping at republicans over abortion rights, book bans and attacks on democracy. >> around the country maga extremists are lining up to take out bedrock freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire life, dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books and telling people who they can love. all while making it more

difficult for you to be able to vote. ♪ ♪ >> when i ran for president four years ago i said we are in a battle for the soul of america and we still are. the question we are facing is wea whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want. i think you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent. that's why i'm running for re-election. >> and this all comes at a symbolic day for his announcement, exactly four years ago today booird announced he was entering the 2020 presidential race. let's talk about this with cnn political correspondent abby philip. >> good morning. >> good morning. look at that -- >> side by side? >> yeah, just really shows you how the presidency ages you.

>> a lot. >> i was thinking that. remember when we saw the side by sides of obama after his first term? >> yeah, lots more gray hair. >> that's like -- >> i mean, regardless how old you are, that is a fact of the job. so, yeah. but, i mean, it is an issue for this president. i don't think, though, that -- i think it's something the media loses a lot of sleep over and, obviously, the poll numbers suggest that voters care about it to some extent. honestly, when you talk to people around biden, they are not fixated on that. it's probably not viewed, you know, in the top five of the biggest challenges that they face. i mean, there are bigger kind of almost existential ones like, for example, what's going to happen to the economy between now and next november? so they feel like they have bigger problems to face and this is an ongoing issue for them, that they think will not be as important to voters at the end of the day once they are faced with a clear choice.

>> i was thinking of that because he is likely running against another old guy, or does the calculation change in the white house if it's desantis, for example. >> i think the calculation absolutely changes if it's a younger opponent. if it is trump, they feel like they have a playbook and they do to some extent because in some ways trump himself hasn't changed. it's not like trump is kind of trump 2.0. it's really more of the same there. whereas, if it's another candidate, reron desantis, nikki haley, it poses a new set of challenges. although i think you can see in the video they put out this morning there is that little sneak photo of trump and desantis kind of embracing. they plan to kind of lump all of these folks together. >> yeah, they will. when you talk to biden people, i heard from them, they want trump to be the nominee because they know what that rematch looks

like. they don't know what a desantis/biden head-to-head would look like. a nlot of this is about fundraising because that's something he has to get started on and part of why, like, is he doing it now, later this summer? now they are decided it today. >> this is going to be, you know, $1 billion campaign basically and they have to start raising money now. that money doesn't grow on trees. so one of the interesting things about joe biden, president biden, is he has been a pretty prolific fundraiser and so they are getting that money spigot going right now. they are also using this as an opportunity, i think, to really put down a marker that there isn't going to be a democratic primary. i think that kind of became less likely after the midterms. but you're going to start to see, i think, a rolling out of more endorsements. there already been plenty, but more endorsements to say that this is a president who has his

pa united in this moment. >> stay with us. let's talk about this because we are set to find out -- we know this summer whether an atlanta area prosecutor will criminally charge former president trump in an election interference case there. fani willis announced she is making a decision and will know what it is sometime on indictments between july 11 and september 1, but this morning we are learning about a few different matters that are delaying that announcement. the district attorney's office picked up more cooperators and investigators and they are pouring over the evidence that those people have been providing. there is also an ongoing court battle over legal representation for some of the fake electors who are also interested in cooperating in this probe. the d.a.'s office also wants to give security partners enough time to plan. in a letter to local law enforcement agencies, fani willis writes, we want to ensure that our law enforcement community is ready to protect the public. we know her office has been investigating efforts by trump and allies to overturn the results of georgia's 2020

presidential election. trump criticized this case, called it politically motivated. he was not named in her letter. let's talk about what it means, what it could indicate. chief law enforcement analyst jim miller is with us as well as cnn political commentator and former lieutenant governor, of korgz, jeff duncan. i know you like to go by jeff instead oflet governor. you were one of 75 witnesses who spoke to the grand jury. you were in the room. we weren't. what do you make of this let center. >> well, it was a very serious process. i never sat in front of a grand jury before. it was a sobering process to go through. i read the letter as the investigation is continuing to intensify. they are continuing to, obviously, get more and more witnesses to talk to and to cooperate. i think one the things that was eye-opening to me at real time when this was playing out during the post-election period how brazen donald trump was, right, just to be talking to a state senator, just a simple state

senator and to hear they had a conversation with the president the night before or had received a text message. it's going to take a lot of time to continue to connect those dots and i think that's what's going on here. >> and what do you make of this idea, what we are seeing here with this letter, this announcement and such advance of what could actually happen? we don't know it will be trump, but the assumption that everyone makes, including people like me, is that it could be trump and that's why she is giving such a heads-up to law enforcement. is that helpful to law enforcement? what about broadcasting it to potentially nefarious actors? does it potentially hurt? >> an interesting question, i mean in this bizarre world we live in, we have seen a trump title in a criminal court in new york city -- >> he talked about that and teased it in advance. >> exactly. and we saw a crowd. we didn't see an overwhelming crowd. the difference between doing that in new york where there is a 34,000 person police

department where they call in almost bottomless resources as needed and doing this in a county in georgia, even though it's a large one, is something that she is putting her finger on, which is i want you, the sheriff, to be thinking, not a week before, but, you know, this is when it's coming, somewhere between july and september. i want you to be planning because this may be bigger than your department. so where is the georgia state patrol? are they in your plan? what about the next county over? what about the local police departments? what's the mutual aid? because in the post-january 6th world, frankly, law enforcement agencies think of an event like this differently. >> it seems also to me like the preparedness is a deterrent in some ways. we were expecting or preparing law enforcement was preparing during the indictment in new york for potential count protests that never materialized and trump almost explicitly called for it. but i think that in some ways

it's -- they probably view it -- it's better to be prepared and to let these folks know we'll be ready for you rather than to not be prepared and, you know, wishful thinking that they just won't show up. that's important in the context of trump because i don't think you can rule out the incitement of. he has shown multiple times he is willing to do that, go right up to the edge, rhetorically, in moments like this to push back on these investigations. >> and the emotions are higher, too. it's not did you pay off a porn star. it's about the election. it's about the process. it's about things that trump followers and -- i mean, we just watched on this broadcast a few minutes ago a story about the proud boys and, you know, their commitment and their lean towards disorder. it's got to be front of mind. >> right. and potential rk tearing charges, as well, a sort of whole different ball game. >> not just one defendant, right? this could be a number of people. so emotionally, it's going to

press more buttons. >> let's say august, okay, for argument's sake. that falls in the middle of her window. by the way, that's also the first republican presidential debate. it's in a much more heated time li politically. what do you make of that and how it may alter, by the way, how the president, former president, responds to this, if he tries to get in front of it like he did here in new york? >> yeah, i think what we are facing is potentially another republican perfect storm forming off the beach of republican pe beach, right? all the components are coming together. the swing and a miss by alvin bragg in my opinion emboldened donald trump, helped the fundraising, helped his popularity for maga folks and we watch this steamroll with him gaining momentum in the republican primary. the perfect storm four us conservatives that want to make policy decisions forward looking per than joe biden using

conservative strategies is tutt is the only republican that joe biden can beat. joe biden's record, joe biden's approval ratings, joe biden's everything should get beaten by a republican with one exception. if that republican ends up being donald trump. i see that as the perfect storm. >> is your sense from the letter that it isl likely a trump indictment? >> definitely reading between the lines, it sounds like there is going to be serious reaction. that's what fani willis -- so, yes, i think there is probably going to end up being a trump indictment. also i think -- look, there are a lot of important people in the crosshairs here. there is a currentlet governor that replaced me, sitting state senators, the med of the republican party. there is additional key individuals part of this fake electorate slate a part of this sear spears and fanning the flames. a lot of folks i think called into question in this process. >> thank you. thank you both very much.

new images we are getting first on cnn of american diplomats after u.s. special forces evacuated them from war-torn sudan. you can see just how grateful these embraces are. this is a photo of the ambassador shaking hands with the commander at the u.s. military base following the rescue operation. the united states announced a three-day ceasefire that it helped broker between the two warring militaries. journalists have heard the sound of gunfire and fighter jets despite that truce. the u.s. has deployed warships, possibly troops to sudan to help evacuate americans stranded there. tucker carlson out at fox news. a surprising announcement yesterday. we will be joined by former fox contributor who left the network because of how tucker covered january 6th. we will get his take on what could have gone down behind the scenes. also on top of that, jury selection begins in the lawsuit against former president trump. how the trial could play out. we'll tell you next.

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significant. >> that's right. they did not take up the case. they get, you know, they get literally hundreds of cases each year, appeals, asking the high court to hear cases and they did not take up this one. so on the surface it doesn't look as serious was potentially other conflicts of interest. but the point is we don't know. this is yet another example of the media finding out about a financial connection between, you know, a big republican mega donor, someone who clarence thomas had taken these lavish trips with. he said that harlan crow didn't have any business before the supreme court. bloomberg discovers he does and he double-checked indeed this case came to the court. the court rejected it out of hand. clarence thomas didn't disclose any relationship, didn't recuse himself from it. the other party, the opposing party, didn't know about it. the media didn't know about it. again, it might not be a super significant deal, but in the

whole -- what it does is reinforce the fact that the supreme court itself is not fully disclosing financial relationships and potential conflicts of interest at a time when it's getting more media scrutiny. members of congress are saying why don't you have any kind of formal ethics code? you can't police yourself. that's what it is, poppy, yet again the appearance of potential conflicts at the court that is the last word on all the law in america. it really matters what the supreme court says. >> right. that's why, you know, congress, dick durbin being to chief justice john roberts and asking for transparency -- >> right. >> was ignored. joan, thanks very, very much for that reporting. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see what capitol hill says about that. something that is reverberating in capitol hill, tucker carlson is out at fox news. the network saying we thank him for his service as a host and prior to that as a contributor. that was it. the surprise announcement a week

after fox news settled a defamation lawsuit with dominion voting systems for three-quarters of $1 billion. that late reveals texts between carlson and staffers where he said he hated former president trump despite saying other things on air. texts also showing him making disparaging comments about fox executives. joining us is cnn senior media reporter oliver darcy and cnn political commentate a jenna goldberg who left fox news after being there for 12 years when carlson said that january 6th was a false flag operation. thank you for being here. i think the question this morning that even vuker may be asking himself, is why? why now? >> why is the big question. that's unclear, to be honest, at this point in time. i think it's impossible to disconnect the decision for fox news from the big dominion settlement last week. that was a massive settlement. $787.5 million they had to pay out to dominion. it's unclear exactly though what part of that lawsuit i think

factored into carlson's ultimate firing at fox news. there are a number of factors that could have factored in. it's unclear what was the unduring. the murdochs stood by carlson through everything. he made white nationalist remarks on fox news, they stood by him. anti-immigrant remarks. they stood women him. conspiracy theories about the covid-19 vaccines, they stood by him. things about the january 6th attack, they stood by him. the 2020 election, they stood by them. something changed and perhaps it was the risk versus the reward calculation altered and he was just costing them too much problems and not offering enough reward and they decided ma mayb wipe their hands clean. >> as someone who didn't stand by him, right, you know -- have known him for 12 years. you worked at -- you were a contributor at fox news. i wonder what you think the final straw could have been?

>> yeah, just to be clear, i knew tucker. i have known tucker for 25 years. long before he went to fox news. >> yeah, yeah. >> regardless, i think oliver is right. i think it's still kind of po make and murky about what, you know, there is a reason we call the last straw the last straw, because normally straws don't break camel's backs, right. it's the stuff prior to the straw that makes it the decisive factor. i think that there is, you know, "the l.a. times" where i read a column, there is a -- apparently it's the abbey grossberg tapes or lawsuit, something about that is a big part of the decision. and also something about the ray epps episode on "60 minutes" which debunked tucker's false flag operation stuff. tucker's shtick where he called january 6th this false flag thing where he leans into all these conspiracy theories, that's actually related to the dominion suit in a sort of weird

way. in so far as that whole idea of respecting the audience, if you follow that logic, where you say, well, we should tell the audien audience what it wants to hear, why go hurricane fiona-ass? that's what he did. he said, no, no, no, no, these deplorable people who stormed the capitol are heroes and victims and martyrs and he gave -- he really force-fed and pandered to the audience what he thought it wanted to hear, not a half-measure, you know, let's say trump has something going -- maybe on to something with this dominion stuff. he said, no, no, no, take the worst things about trump and january 6th and turn into into positives because that's what the audience really wants to hear. >> the thing about that is it's a really big audience. he was one the highest rated anchors that they had. and i think that's why, you know, the front page of the "new york times" and "the washington post." your a-1 in your newsletter. what does that look like going

forward because, obviously, i have heard from people in trump world, they are stunned by this. he was a big, you know, any -- if you wanted to be a successful republican, you had to go on his show, essentially. >> two questions. that's next for fox news and what's next for the republican party moving forward? >> what it means to the republican party. >> i think for the republican party tucker carlson really shaped the modern day gop and he pushed to the extremes. tucker carlson was not your average conservative. he made sean hannity look fairly moderate on a lot of positions. he was an extremists and whipped the republican party that direction. without him doing that, without gop lawmakers fearing that if they didn't say the right thing that tucker carlson would go on his 8:00 p.m. primetime perch and lash out at them, i think that, you know, really it's -- we don't know know what's going to happen. i think this will change the gop in some way and i think for fox news they have some problems as well potentially if tucker carlson decides to go somewhere

else. they were worried after the 2020 election about losing an audience to the smouler competitors like news max if tucker carlson turns up on one of those channels or does his own thing. it would not be unheard of, a significant chunk of his audience could follow him. i think those are the two things i am watching right now. >> someone who is on tucker -- known tucker for 25 years and worked at fox for 12, do you -- i mean, no world this is the end of tucker carlson in the, you know, in the public eye on some media platform, maybe his own? >> yeah, i think it's a very real possibility he goes full joe rogan, creates his own thing. that he gets to do things on his terms. he will definitely want to get the last word or get his version of events. he may be in need of lawyering up right now because of the grossberg stuff. who knows? but i think it's absolutely true we haven't seen the last of tucker carlson. i think it's important on this republican party question, you

know, we call it -- ron desantis, one of the first missteps he had was he felt compelled to fill out tucker carlson's campaign questionnaire and that's where he called, you know, the ukraine stuff a border dispute. no gop people are going to feel compelled to fill out whoever replaces tucker his questionnaire. >> yeah. that's such a good point because it shows the impact that he had, that what they did was reached out to the candidates to ask for their position on ukraine and read them live on air. >> a lot didn't do it. >> yeah, and retroactively did. a major moment for desantis there. we will see what the impact of this looks like going forward. thank you both. today jury selection begins in e. jean carroll's defamation case against former president trump. the columnist is accusing him of raping her in the mid' '90s. the president denies that. it is a civil rile. jail time not on the table.

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four years ago i said we are a battle for the soul of america, and we still are. the question is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be and i think you do to, too. >> there it is. new video announcement from president biden this morning that he is officially running for a second term. his advisors moving quickly to finalize staffing and operational details for his re-election campaign. today begins a 19-month effort to convince the public of his accomplishments and ability to serve well into his 80s.

let's bring in not only senator chris coons of delaware but very close friend and ally of president biden, also a member of the foreign relations and judiciary committee. we will talk about sudan in a moment. you are smiling. you are happy. what about the skeptics and the polling over the weekend that 51% of democrats don't think he should run and half are worried how old he is. what do you say to him? >> poppy, great to be on with you. this is a great morning. i am optimistic about the 2024 election. president biden himself often says don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. and i'll just briefly compare him to the alternative. patient talked about rebuilding our infrastructure. president biden has actually gotten it done. passed a record bill to invest in rebuilding our infrastructure, a bipartisan bill. patient talked about cutting prescription drug prices. president biden has actually gotten it done. signing into law a bill that

will reduce prescription drug prices for millions of americans. across a dozen different topics, strengthening manufacturing, dealing with gun background checks, strengthening our position in the world, investing in community mental health, things that his predecessor merely talked about, president biden working with bipartisan groups in the congress has gotten done. we have the lowest unemployment in 50 years. the private sector's created a record 12 million jobs in his first two years as president. i think when folks look at president biden and his strong record, compared to the alternative, they will vote for him and the polls show that and show that strongly. >> how are you so sure the alternative is former president trump? we don't even know what governor ron desantis is going to do. >> that's right. we don't yet know how the republican primaries will play out. but virtually every poll of the republican primary electorate shows that former president trump still has a commanding lead in their primaries and,

frankly, president trump in the campaign in 2016 showed himself to be a very capable, aggressive, agile, combative primary competitor. so i'll be very interested to see how governor desantis does in the face of the withering personal attacks that we can expect. look, i share the lack of enthusiasm of many americans for a slugfest. i would rather -- i would only get to talk about the accomplishments of the last two years. but i think we are stronger abroad and safer and stronger at home and i thought the introductory video featured not just james webb's beautiful catholic school penmanship, but the visuals that remind us how much better off we are two years later. >> i noticed the writing as well. after the midterms you talked about and biden said in march of 2020 talking about carrying the torch forward for the next generation f it is a governor desantis, who by the way wasn't that far behind trump in the

polling over the weekend, right, a lot further ahead than other republicans who are already in this race, does that make it more difficult for this white house and biden to be up against someone so much younger? >> well, governor desantis has spent a lot of his time fighting culture wars. focusing on issues that fire up the far-right base of the maga republican party. but that i'm not sure will succeed in helping him win over skeptical independent suburban voters. i'll remind you, cases in front. supreme court about access to reproductive services just in the last few weeks will re-engage millions of americans in the debate about how much individual liberty, how much freedom do they believe they deserve? there is a reason president biden chose freedom as the theme of his introductory video for the 2024 re-election. he has been focused on creating real opportunity for america's middle class and reminding us of the freedoms that are at risk

and the importance of fighting to retain our freedoms both home and abroad. >> kaitlin did an interesting interview with governor asa hutchinson who is running for the republican ticket about abortion and if these positions are strong ones for republicans to run on. he said yes. you are on foreign relations. you have been warning about sudan, writing about this for a long, long time. you are very concerned what we see now could become a full-blown civil war in sudan. i re-read this op-ed you rote last year on foreign policy policy and you said sanctions on the cool leaders and their networks will disrupt the military's revenue streams and grip on power creating an opening for the nation's nascent democracy to grow. just yesterday on the show we asked john kirby at the white house about sanctions and he said we have a lot of tools at our disposal we are working through right now. should the biden administration act now, put sanctions in place now? >> well, poppy, this is one of the different tools that we

should be presenting to the competing military leaders of sudan, bwho are kwurntly tearin their country apart in a brutal and unjustified civil war. we have offered in the past sustained both development assistance and humanitarian assistance. obviously, the other side of our toolkit is these targeted sanctions. i hope that the current ceasefire will hold and that along with our development partners, our security partners, other countries from europe and the region we will be able to finish evacuating those who want to leave the country. but, frankly, more importantly, it's my hope that the determined work of our diplomats and some regional leaders will produce an enduring ceasefire and then allow a negotiated renewal of the movement towards a civilian government. if that doesn't happen, yes, i think sanctions are appropriate. >> in the near term? >> in the near term because,

frankly, they are squandering their chance at peace. this is a country that deserves, because of so of much development towards democracy, they deserve peace. >> 30 years of brutal dictatorship. just before you go, to your point about evacuations, because we do have this new reporting from our colleague sam kiley in djibouti, the u.s. is considering a plan to sent troops to help evacuate u.s. citizens. this has been a complaint of many u.s. citizens, some dual nationals, some who are not. this woman is a teacher in sudan, is stuck with her 18-month-old baby. my question is do you think the u.s. should do that, should send troops in the port of sudan and help those people get out? >> well, let's be clear. what you were describing as port sudan on the red sea which is a long way from the active fighting in khartoum. if we can safely facilitate the

evacuation of civilian u.s. dual nationals we should. but a large-scale military operation out of the center of khartoum in the airport there, my assessment is that's not safe at this moment. >> okay. we'll keep following because we also know two u.s. warships are being deployed towards the port of sudan right now. senator coons, really appreciate you coming on "cnn this morning." >> thank you. >> thank you. yeah, notable comments there, especially as the u.s. embassy is saying the evacuation of private sit sflents not safe at this moment. also, here in the united states, north dakota passed a near total ban on abortion. it has no exception for rape, no exception for incest. the ponce response that we are seeing nationally ahead. plus a horrific car crash in chicago after two teenagers allegedly stole a that are that led to the death of a baby. there is growing outrage this morning over the charges they are facing and whether or not it's enough.

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start your day this morning. president biden number one, officially announcing he is running for re-election. that means we could see a biden/trump rematch in 2024. >> also, in georgia, the fulton county district attorney will announce charging decisions involving former president trump this summer for the last two years fani willis has led a criminal investigation into alleged meddling in georgia's 2021 election results. we will see if there is an indictment of the former president. >> in north dakota, the governor signing a law banning most abortions in the state exceptions include saving a life or the health of the mother, but rape, incest victims only get the procedure if the pregnancy

is detected in the first six weeks. >> and as we talked about, cnn is learning the united states is considering sending troops to sudan to help evacuate americans who are still stranded in that war-torn country. all right. and from title town to big apple, the new york jets have now acquired quarterback aaron rodgers from the packers in a blockbuster deal. he won't be wearing number 12 despite joe namath's blessing but likely number 8, which is what he wore in college. welcome to new york's newest resident. for more on these stories, cnn, cnn.com and the five things podcast every single morning. a chicago family wants to see charges upgraded against two teenagers following a car crash that killed their baby, 6-month-old cristian uvidia who died when a stolen car crashed into the truck his mother was driving with him inside. police say 14-year-old boy and 17-year-old stole the car involved in the crash. they each face one misdemeanor count of criminal trespassing.

>> reporter: a 6-month-old babe killed in a car crash in chicago after a stolen vehicle crashed into his family's pickup truck. the cook county medical examiner's office identified the 6-month-old as cristian uvidia. according to cnn affiliate wls, sean walker witnessed the crash and ran to help performing cpr on the baby. >> i wanted to try to do what i can to help the situation out and to help the mom. >> reporter: last week, police say two teens, ages 17 and 14, stole a car and took it reportedly for a joyride, according to affiliate wbbm. this surveillance video shows the speed the stolen car was driving at right before it hit the uvidia family's pickup truck. the family's truck then crashed into a tree. one adult and two other children were injured in the crash. the baby's family says they are

heartbroken and now planning his funeral. >> the funeral director suggested that we put balloons. >> >> reporter: police say the investigation is ongoing but the two offender have been charged with one misdemeanor count of criminal trespass to a vehicle. >> the charges does not fit the crime. my message is to the state's attorney, to anybody else that has hands on this case. what are you looking at? what are you feeling? how about first-degree murder? how about reckless homicide? >> reporter: the family and community activists are calling on the state's attorney general's office to upgrade them to a more severe charge. >> it's like reliving the day all over again and it sends a message of, to us at least, truthfully, his life meant nothing. >> and we have reached out to the state's attorney. still waiting to hear back at this hour. meanwhile, as you heard in that story, this family is

devastated. they have received an overflow of support from people in the community on a gofundme page that was created. a spokesperson with the family says money from that gofundme will help with medical expenses because not only did the baby die, the child's mother and sisters were injured, too. poppy and kaitlin. >> heartbreaking. heart-wrenching story. please keep us posted, okay? also this morning, what began as a way to cope with her father's illness actually led a teenager to helping thousands of children nationwide in the end. th through reading. it's a remarkable story, ahead. the older the star, the brighter it shines. well, take a look at the last star power hollywood legend and why audiences still can't get enough. >> i am looking for this all of my life.

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know, what we see in the labor force at large or are they all connected? >> i do think it is. if we look at the median age of the labor force, look at this, in 1980 it was 35, in 2000 it was 39, in 2021 it was 42. on inauguration day 2025 joe biden will be 82 donald trump would be 78, both the oldest at inauguration. we're seeing it all over the place, even aaron rodgers, right? >> we've talking about everyone's age. >> guys, aaron rodgers is 40. >> for football that's like 120. >> in football years. >> i have a few more days of 40, that's all i have left. thank you. >> thank you. >> you're going to get acquired by the jets as well. >> that would be nice, but then i would have to leave you. >> we will be right back. everyone else did at the time. i i hired local talent. if i knew about upwork, i wowould have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my housese.

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for this morning moment, turning a page on cancer. after 19-year-old emily batnigar's father was diagnosed with stage 4 thyroid cancer she began a nonprofit book drive called for love and butter cup to put books hoonds into the hands of pediatric cancer patients. she has donated about 15,000 books to local pediatric hospitals. her father, good news, cancer-free now, but that has not slowed down emily's mission. find a link to the amazon wish list on her instagram account for love and butter cup. good for. >> you 15,000 books, that's amaze sthoog great inspiration. >> lovely news to end your morning on. cnn "news central" starts right now. ♪