splenda is the easiest way to reduce sugar >> united states of scandal with jake tapper. sunday, a nine on cnn >> this is cnn breaking news >> welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper this hour we're going to start with major breaking news when it comes so donald trump's legal challenges, mr. tropez, just ask the us supreme court to weigh in on the issue of presidential immunity, whether he is immune from facing charges for any alleged crimes

he committed while he was president mr. trump wants to the justices to temporary block a scathing decision handed down by the dc circuit court lasts week one that flatly rejected his claims of immunity in the federal election subversion case, one that differentiated between president trump and citizen trump let's get straight to cnn, chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula tell us what's going on. >> well, as you just laid it out, jake, he is asking the supreme court to pause that appeals court ruling that found that he did not have immunity that would block him from being prosecuted. at the federal level by special counsel jack smith on charges related to election subversion. now if you talk to sources in and around the trump legal team or legal experts, they all agree this is not one of his stronger arguments. they don't expect it. ultimately, he will prevail, be granted immunity, and be shielded from this prosecution. so the trump's strategy xi as much as it is about defending their clients rights. they're also just trying to delay this trial. the

federal election subversion trial until after the november 2024 election. and they're using every possible option available to them and tried to exercise each one mostly to just delay, push this back as long as they can so, today they're asking the supreme court to pause that lower court ruling. they also intend to file a full the full court, to hear this decision last week, that skating unanimous opinion you referenced that was by three judges monday typically has the option to ask a full panel of the dc circuit court to hear this as well. again, there isn't an expectation that he would prevail, but it could be an option to delay this little bit longer. now, all eyes are on the supreme court. not even so much for what they're going to do, but how long it takes them to do it. because every day, every week that passes, that gets closer and closer to the election and makes it harder for the special counsel, jack smith to bring this case now

the supreme court also in a unique position right now, they are having to contemplate two big cases related to former president trump. either one of which could have an enormous impact on the election. of course, last week they heard oral arguments from trump's lawyers and lawyers for voters in colorado about whether trump should appear on the ballot and now they're also looking at this question. jen of presidential immunity. and it's not so much about immunity as it is about timing. how long it takes them to give them a final answer on exactly what they're going to do here, because that would then give jack smith and former president trump clarity on whether or not this case can even go before november. >> all right. paula reid, stick around let's turn now to the other federal case against it's the former president that is rearing its head today related to his handling or mishandling of classified documents. cnn's evan perez is in fort pierce, florida right now and evan, mr. trump and his lawyers were in federal court today arguing in florida that they deserve more access to evidence. tell us about that

>> that's right, jake. this was a hearing that was behind closed doors. it wasn't secret because it has to do with class hi documents. this is a force at the center of this case that has been brought against the former president from allegedly mishandling classified documents at mar-a-lago now, what he was here, he was here with his lawyers, meeting with a judge for about five hours earlier today right now we believe the special counsel and his this team that the government's lawyers, are in there now having their turn talking to the judge at issue as you pointed out, is access to classified documents in some cases documents that, the government says are so sensitive to national security that they're only producing a summaries of some of those documents. and of course, trump's team is during the he should be able to see all of it, including things, anything that has to do that could help his, of course, as defense as you noted, jake but this is also about the timing because when we don't know when we're

going to hear from this, judge, but certainly in the next few weeks, they're going to be a number of key motions by both sides. that'll determine whether this may schedule that the judge has set for a possible trial in the mar-a-lago case, whether that really stays on the calendar former president did speak to anybody when he came into did wave to a crowd of supporters. we saw the campaign handing out signs to some of those supporters outside the court all right. >> evan, stick around, paula, stick around. let me bring in cnn senior legal analyst elie honig into this conversation. elie, let me start with you and let's begin with trump's immunity claim. what are the different ways this could play out with the us supreme court? what happens next? >> so jake, there's a lot of procedure happening here, but the real-world impact is this is almost certainly going to dictate whether donald trump faces trial on jack smith's election case before or after the 2024 election. now, what donald trump's team has just asked the supreme court to do is issue a stay, which is essentially a pause saying

everything should be put on pause so we can pursue our full appellate rights in the court of appeals. and then the supreme court that would ordinarily take many, many months and so the question is really, first of all, will the supreme court issue that stay that pause. i think they will at least for a limited time so they can decide this question. but the bigger question is, will the supreme court ultimately we take this case if they do not take the case, it's going to go back down to the district court and i think we're very likely looking at a trial this summer. but if they do take this case and they said it on something close to a normal schedule. i think in all likelihood, that would push the timeline here out until after the 2024 election. so that's how big the stakes are with this motion. >> and paula, how quickly are we going to hear from the us supreme court? >> it's unclear, jake, i mean, it could take them a couple of days, could take them a couple of weeks. and we know there is likely some choreography here. they are currently considering this question of ballot eligibility, oral arguments went very well for trump's lawyers last week, it is widely expected that he will win and

on that case. but again, like i said, even sources close to the former president acknowledged that they immunity case is not as strong. many of them don't expect a supreme court to take it up. and even if they did, they don't expect him to win. so watching closely to see if especially mindful of the optics, this supreme court under a lot of scrutiny for questions about partisanship if they tried to release these decisions close to one another, maybe a win and a loss for trump. >> an ally. let's turn now to the other case, special counsel, jack smith's case against trump and florida having to do with classified documents the evidence that contains this classified material is further complicating this case. elie explain why and could that impact the trial timing? >> yeah. i think it will, jake so in an ordinary criminal prosecution, prosecutors have an obligation to turn over their evidence, their documents, their witness statements, as early as possible. certainly they would be doing that by now in the mar-a-lago case, but the complication is that case involves oval all sorts of classified documents and

there's a special set of laws that apply in a scenario like this, because typically the government, the prosecutors here, want to limit the types of classified information that they're turning over to the defendant in this case, donald trump. and so that's what today is sort of all day. long negotiating session was about how exactly are prosecutors going to turn this information over to trump? how much of the classified information does he get to receive in the course of what we call discovery and that inherently slows things down. so this case is currently set for trial in late may, but i think it's very likely that this complication will push that date out quite a bit. >> and i want to invite you to do a little fact check for our viewers here, because donald trump spoke about the classified documents case over the weekend at his rally in south carolina. take a listen they didn't see the ones we had. we had blocked up and we had secret service all the time because i was president all the time >> so we're the classified documents donald trump had locked up. and was he president? so there were secret

service all over the place? >> well, look, the compound is protected vice by secret service but the issue that is at center of this case is the fact that there are members of this private club who had full access to all parts of it one of the things that you saw in the court documents when the former president at which charge jake, you saw documents being being held in a in a bath in ballrooms places where the public could go. and so that's one of the issues that certainly lead to the charges that you saw mishandling charges that the former president faces. and of course, you have to remember that this case goes beyond the documents. it goes into the obstruction. the former president is accused of not only refused losing to turn over documents after receiving a subpoena, but also basically telling people some of his co-defendants to lie to the fbi, so that's what the

charge of the former president faces. and that's why the case is so much worse frankly, than what you saw desiccation of joe biden and the documents he had. >> all right. thanks, everyone. appreciate it. coming up next inside that dramatic rescue of two israeli hostages in rafah gaza. israel is now sharing how its forces pulled off the overnight operation to get the man out of the hands of hamas. plus sheryl sandberg is going to stop by. she's making a new dr. i came entry. she interviewed women once held hostage by hamas. you heard accounts that they shared with her of sexual violence by the terrorist group including rape, stay with us the situation room with wolf blitzer didn't night it six point cnn

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million mostly displaced palestinian civilians are sheltering and a warning this story contains some disturbing images >> louis har and fernando marman are all smiles aboard an israeli military helicopter after 128 days in hamas captivity, they are going home, rescued by israeli special forces hours later, the two men embracing their families for the first time in months overwhelmed with emotion from a lot of tears, hugs, not many words. just being together, surrounded by the family and surrounded by our beloved people that were without us for so long, mentally, they look okay, physically they look okay. but i'm sure that, you know, we're going to have ups and downs in the coming days or weeks. >> these really military released this video of the dramatic moment they were taken to safety the result of a

daring overnight raid and rafat gaza southernmost city at 01:49 a.m. israeli special forces breaching a residential building where intelligence indicated they were being held on the second floor, mutiga up with a bachelor. >> from the moment they broke into the apartment the imam and protected lewis and fernando with their bodies. and a daring battle and heavy exchange of fire began in several locations become the same time with many terrorists as they escaped. >> the israeli air force >> launching heavy strikes on rafah. they say it was to divert hamas fighters and the area but among the dead and the injured, there are also civilians, including children inside kuwait specialty hospital. a girl trembles in shock, streaks of blood run down the face of the boy in front of her. at least 94 people killed in the overnight strikes, according to the palestinian ministry of health

in hamas-controlled gaza, scores more injured or still under the rubble. survivors were counting the horrors of the previous night >> sick to another hot from what i took all my kids and put them in one room, a small room and told them to stay there because we left, we would die once i went back to close the outside door i locked it. i found the stones on top of my head. i didn't know what happened until i was taken out. >> the overnight strikes offering just a glimpse of the devastation that could come as israel vows, its next offensive. here. >> he had 100 martyrs in five minutes is a very large number. what if the actual invasion took place? 100 people were killed in different places? what if there was an attack where they were old gather? i think the martyrs will be in the thousands >> and jake, those concerns, those fears about what an

israeli military offensive and rafat good bring have yet to be allayed. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, doubling down on the military necessity of carrying out that offensive despite ramp in international concern, including from the united states. but still jake no details yet from the israeli military about how or what they will do with the 1.4 million palate justinian's living in that city, how to evacuate them, where to go? questions that still remain. jake. >> questions that i began asking the israeli government on october 7, where are the innocent people supposed to go? they've never really had a good answer to that. jeremy diamond and tel aviv, thanks so much. some women held hostage by hamas. are out of custody and recounting gruesome acts by the terrorist group, sexual violence and rape. former tech executive sheryl sandberg spoke with some of these women for a new documentary. she's filming coming up. i'm going to talk to sandberg and talk about what she is sharing exclusively with the lead. that's next

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>> the special election to replace george santos, my tomorrow starting at 08:00 p.m. eastern back with our world lead israeli authorities and the united nations are investigating widespread reports of rape and sexual >> violence used by hamas on october 7 against israeli girls and women and some men and after the attacks, while hostages were and in many cases still are being held captive in gaza despite mounting evidence, hamas, which the united states government classifies as a terrorist organization. hamas has repeatedly denied the allegations sheryl sandberg, the former coo of meta, who stepped down from its board last month. has been speaking out against the sexual violence, including at the

united nations back in december, where she called the u.n.'s relative silence, unacceptable and now sandberg is bringing more attention to the issue in a new documentary film she has been filming in israel. she's sharing a clip from her interview with one of the freed hostages 18-year-old agon goldstein almog, exclusively with the lead right now. we want to show it to you that we want to warn our viewers. this contains disturbing accounts of sexual violence >> coy every time we talked about it, at least one of the people said that they had suffered sexual and physical abuse about half of them >> and i haven't talked to all of the girls who are there they all talked about. there

kidnapping, where she was kidnapped from, what they did to her, what she saw. each was kidnapped from a different place. that's when we learned that some of them were held alone. they said that no one was being held alive only in pairs. girls are not alone, but some of them were alone for the entire time. >> can you talk about what they told you? >> i talked to one of them when evening and i asked her how they treated her, what she had been through bleeding she started crying and i cried with her we were crying together and then she started telling me he told her on the last day she was being moved to a different place. she stayed in an apartment with one guard. that even though joe he told her

that they have to move, let go get ready. let's go wash yourself at the sink she went into the bathroom and wash her armpit then he caves been to the bathroom and lack cartilage show within and held a gun to her head who the hell out? what shall i shall he >> started kissing her and she started crying she told me, you know, how when you cry your mouth is like this. this is what it was like. but he wouldn't stop kissing me. he took off all her clothes and touched her all over her body. he asked her to touch his genitals. >> vyvanse shaye long >> been different ways and he also touched hers. >> shayla >> she told me that she couldn't stop crying and that he wouldn't stop doing what he was doing he enjoyed it for 30

minutes. the gun was pointed at her head she had no choice. quito vastly. >> i asked her, did you do it did you do what he asked you to do? she said, well, what do you mean? of course, i had no other option he never put his gun away from her head. >> shape no sheila. >> and then he told her, go get dressed and left the bathroom they. >> went back to the living room. she told me that her ears were ringing and couldn't stop crying. she was in shock then they moved her to a different place and she never saw him again. he told her not to tell anyone >> and sheryl sandberg joint venture. >> you >> have been speaking out about these atrocities. what motivated you to make this

documentary? >> you know, when this happened on october 7 and the evidence started coming out about the sexual violence, rape, genital mutilation. >> you know, you spoke out early. this really starts with you, jake, but the silence was really deafening and i think it's really important that we never tolerate this form of sexual violence ever it happened clearly in israel on october 7, it's happening in other places in the world right now, but people are denying it, particularly because of the polarization around the october 7 attack. this documentary is giving people a chance to bear witness to hear directly from people who were there, saw things, hurt, things. first responders who saw the bodies and the story that this tells about how these women and some men spent the very last moments of their lives. it's a story that we can't not look at,

look at directly, see what's happening and make sure we hold the perpetrators accountable. >> yeah. >> and obviously, >> as we heard from that clip, these these crimes are likely going on right now with the hostages still in gaza. why do you think the international community, generally speaking, has remained so silent and not even taking a position or acknowledging that these attacks occurred i mean, that's been the thing that i think has upset me. and so many people. i think what happened is that this moment with some colorized, that while people were upset about the sexual violence, they were afraid to speak out. and we need to separate these things no matter what you think should happen in israel, no matter what you think should happening anywhere on any political decisions stage. >> what >> matters is that sexual violence has never tolerated and that means speaking out against it. that interview i did with a gun. i mean, she's this beautiful 18 year-old girl

living on a kibbutz dedicated to peace, like what's is very peace, loving community. the people who believe in two states who believe in peace with their neighbors it was a normal day and she watched her father killed in front of her then she watched her sister killed in front of her and she and her mother. and two younger brothers were driven to gaza, where they remained for over 50 days as hostages. and the stuff she shared was the stories she heard from other female hostages of things that were happening in captivity and therefore, we should all be very afraid. they're still happening today and that's unacceptable no matter what else you think should happen. there's no 18 year-old girl in the world who should have her world stored that way, who should be held as a hostage? who should be subject to or other people held with her subject to that kind of sexual assault. it's unacceptable.

>> what has surprised me the most when you talk to these survivors like a gum their strength >> you look at that young woman and she so resilient. i also for the documentary interview, her mom her mom has lost her husband, had to protect three children in captivity they don't want to be spokespeople for this. they are speaking out because they want those hostages back and they want hamas, held accountable for terror and violence and sexual violence. >> but the >> strain they have inside them someone was when i was in israel said it really well she said the people of israel, heart is broken as people can be, as strong as people can be because they are facing not just what happened, but a certain amount of denial about what happened and the reason i went there to bear witness

myself, make this documentary myself, was so that people can hear directly from the people who had these experiences. and i think when you hear these stories, you hear the firsthand views. you can't deny what >> happened after speaking to some of these freed hostages. how concerned are you about the other young women still being held captive in gaza? >> deeply, deeply concerned. how can you not be the story we just watched that you just played is an experience. another young girl, young woman is having or hat in captivity and i think we've lots of evidence knowing that this has happened in captivity. if it's happened before it's highly likely to be happening i think the other thing that this documentary really aims to help fix is people denying that sexual violence happen. i mean, a hamas spokesperson has come out and said breakfast against

our religion, it didn't happen. but now only did it happen, it happened to systematically the definition of a war crime, crimes against humanity, or things that are premeditated that happened at multiple, multiple locations almost every location where the terrorists were the bodies that were discovered. and we have all of this from first responders, people who saw it in this documentary. i walked through the fields where these bodies were found. >> you're >> naked and they're bloody. >> and >> there's no other explanation for that that, you know, this is this is a lot of people, this is women and men. and this was systematic. it was not just in one place. and if you're trying to terrorize people, if you're trying to inflict trauma on individuals, but also on a country sexual violence unfortunately, is a tactic that is very effective. it has been used throughout the generations and it cannot be used in any situation. and that is what we are trying to help

this documentary bring to light and have people remember in their hearts that this is never okay for >> important work that documentary, as i understand it, is due to come out in april. we'll cover it more than sheryl sandberg. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me >> just into cnn new details about robert hur, the special counsel who wrote that blistering report about president biden. then biden's mishandling of classified documents. the new push to bring, if not haul the special counsel before congress to testify that's next >> it's been put on a rising star, steve form all-star saturday night in basketball signature showcased presented by tea into all-star 2024 coverage begins friday night on tnt upon his first day of retirement, marquez rogers made a contract with themselves. i will never again work for another man or or todd.

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party, reminds me of bill murray speech in meatballs. it just doesn't matter. they're either not listening to it or if they hear it, they turn they turn against it anyways, one, because they are trump loyalists through and through to they're not looking at this south carolina voters is what nikki haley did as governor. all politics are national four republican primary voters that benefits trump. >> i appreciate the hip pop culture reference >> models came out in 1980 i think a little bit, 1979, 79, all right taken look it up later a cnn has new reporting that house republicans are in talks with special counsel, her to testify in front of the house judiciary committee about his report scathing in parts about biden's handling or mishandling of classified documents. report is obviously fuel lot of talk, conversation even on this show about mr. biden's age and his acuity. yesterday, abc news ipsos released a poll conducted after the release of that report and found a majority of americans, 59%. i think that both joe biden and donald trump are too old to serve as another term as

president. 27% say only biden compared to 3% that say only trump is too old to serve 11%. say neither is too old for another term. so the majority of americans say both of them are too old. but doesn't know there's another 27% that say biden's too old. we should note that this poll is taken every two days as a smaller sample size and it's typical. today, president biden decided to take, take a note and not being angry old man about this, but to try to treat it with humor. take a listen and i've been around. i know i don't look like and i've been around awhile i do remember that better way to deal with it, then the >> angry old man yells at cloud. >> well, look, i do think that's a effective way to deal with it because he's also showing his in on at showing he gets it right. he showing you

understands that people have this concern so i think for him to acknowledge it and then do what he did in the rest of that clip, which is pivot to hear the things that i'm getting done. here's what my second term will look like. i mean, ultimately, what we see in the polling that you just cited, right, is age going to be a factor in this race yet is joe biden's 81, donald trump is 77. that's going to be something that voters let's take into account. it is not going to be the defining issue in this race. i don't believe that i think they're going to be many other issues including who's going to protect your right to abortion, who's going to protect your right to vote and ensure that our democracy goes forward. who's going to not allow russia to roll into europe as they so desire, which is what trump essentially we invited them to do over the weekend so they're going to be other issues aside from just age that are going to be decisive in this race. >> robert f. kennedy jr., who's running as an independent for president is apologizing to any family members who were hurt by this ad that a rfk junior super pac ran last night during the super

bowl. let's run a little clip of it >> do you want a for president who's seasoned through and through, man who's obviously this is a reference to his uncles presidential campaign ad in 1960. let's play a part of that from former president john f kennedy than senator kennedy side-by-side >> do you want for president? he is going through and through >> do you want a >> for president who's season through and through. >> so the super pac, american values 2024 spent $7 million to air the ad many members of the kennedy family were not happy

about it. they had images of their parents or grandparents used without them being consulted. and also, they don't like their cousin, his presidential campaign, or his a scientific views on vaccines and the like. what do you make of it? >> well, they've been unhappy for a long time and they've been public about it. obviously, rfk's messaging as he's invoking his uncle, is a long way away from frank sinatra redoing the lyrics to high hopes in 1960, which he did for jfk. but he's resonating because some of these bizarre conspiracy theories have sounding boards throughout the country. people want that kind of messaging. and the other is his last name that everybody knows. he starts with a name id that most other candidates don't have, other than say, trump. and obviously the incumbent president but also, as i was following, i know that twitter isn't real life. but as i was looking at responses to the ad during the super bowl, you'll people were critiquing the ad. i took a different view. we had millions and millions so people tuned in the biggest event of the year on television. and he was able

to send a message to voters who like the poll you referenced, aren't excited about a biden trump rematch. i think it was money well spent. >> yeah. we should note that this super pac american values 2024 is receive $15 million in donations from a republican megadonor and trump named timothy, a melon. we should also note that even though he apologized to his family and said that he really doesn't have anything to do with the super pac, which legally he is not allowed to have anything to do with the super pac. it is his pinned tweet meaning like, if you go to his twitter page, yes, that's what he wants everybody to see. i'm not that's your house. sincere. the well, absolutely. and >> apologizing to his family is just ensuring the stays in the news cycle for another day too. right? i mean, he just wants to draw attention to the it wants to draw attention to his candidates are worried, are you as that wants biden to be elected, that he's going to take democratic votes. >> i worry about that. absolutely. i think we, i mean, look in 2020, joe biden won by essentially 45,000 some votes in three states. i mean, this and i expect that this race will be just as close. so i think anybody who is trying to run a third-party campaign

where they are ultimately not going to win an electoral vote. i cannot imagine a world where rfk junior actually went and electoral vote, but he will potentially take some of the popular vote that's going to be, i do think that is going to be a problem, so i think what you pointed out about and i think what you pointed out about the fact that trump donors are funding his campaign tells you a lot about what you need to know about how they view what rfk junior is going to do in this race >> doug, thank you so much coming up next another cnn exclusive lured by a chance to escape poverty, thousands of man and were recruited to fight. and in many case, die. >> for russia stay with us our mission here >> at cnn is that the news comes first that's the promise of the situation room. we work as hard as we can to get the facts. >> the situation room with wolf blitzer. next on cnn >> this is what it feels like the file with tax layer live refund boss, all your people

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have already been recruited by the kremlin lord with promises of money. >> cnn's >> matthew chance went in a and heard from those who have managed to make it back alive >> it should be a welder from the battlefields of ukraine but this himalayan state has become an unlikely casualty of russia's brutal nepalis like ram chandra, who escaped the russian army width his life i'm praying these comrade still fighting on the frontlines he took bullets and shrapnel in ukraini told me and so many nepalis killed. >> just today, i would demand that some complained. they were sent forward while russian troops held back. he tells me but the main problem was the language barrier value or sometimes you couldn't even understand where you're

supposed to be going. he says which way to point your gun? >> but >> that chaos hasn't stopped. nepalis signing up. many posting upbeat videos on social media of their military training in russia, where they meant to be prepared for the hardships of the ukraine he is in reality, several former nepali recruits tell cnn, they were sent into battle after barely two weeks to fight for the kremlin, armed with a rifle and a contract for a few thousand dollars a month, or fortune in the pal where unemployment is high. well, the vast majority of nepalis fighting for russia and ukraine are doing it for the money and they come from these down at hill impoverished areas across the country. we've actually come to one of them now on the outskirts of kathmandu to meet a woman who in the past few

days has learned. her husband has been killed fighting in that distant war. >> hello. >> hi namaste. namaste, i'm cvs with a unit of nepalis battling ukrainians. she tells me when he was gunned down while it was my husband's friend, his nepali commander in ukraine, who called me in the middle of the night and told me he'd been killed. she tells me still shocked at the news there's been no notification from the russians. she adds nothing to growing frustration with russia's treatment of nepalis as cannon fodder in the ukraine war shared with these protesters near the russian embassy in kathmandu melissa, hi, and the nepali foreign minister who told me he's pressed moscow to curb recruitment to no avail >> they have told me that they will sorted out the concern of

nepal. >> so they've told you they will sort it acts, but they haven't done anything yet >> yet to did didn't have we don't have any information doing anything. >> there's not much information either on how many nepalis or even fighting for russia back to hundred according to nepali officials but multiple sources, including campaigners lawmakers, and returning fighters, tells cnn as many as 15,000 the parleys could be fighting in ukraine what we've asked the russians, how many nepalis they've recruited and how many have been killed, and what the kremlin calls its special military operation so far there's been no response, but there are concerns here in the pile, the casualty figures, maybe high. cnn learned that hundreds of apartments joined the russian military out of contact and it's uncertain if they're dead or alive

gianluca, a young nepali mother, is assuming the worst husband hasn't called for more than two months now that, was already someone didn't i'm babbling. children asked >> me when their dad is coming home, she sobs even if he doesn't love us anymore. we just want to see his face with gusto >> but >> another nepali recruited to russia's war may never be seen again matthew chance, cnn, katmandu in the park now, good chance. >> thank you so much for that report. will be right back >> united states of scandal with jake tapper. sunday a nine on cnn every day, more people are deciding it's time for a fresh approach to pet food developed with made from real meat and veggies portioned for your dog and delivered right to your door murder, healthier pet

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