uncle worked there for many, many years. i loved working there, loved being a part of the construction community. two other one when we spoke with said that one of their family members actually was one who survived, but they said that even though he was released from the hospital, still just not okay. because you can only imagine the emotional and mental distress from being a part of what happened early this morning. now, i should note that the secretary transportation, you've been speaking about it already noticed that the people that were up there on that bridge overnight, they were not talking, they were not fixing major infrastructure problems. they were not rebuilding this bridge. they were doing every day jobs of filling in potholes, doing repairs to make drivers lives easier. so again, just between that knowledge of what they were doing and just the family members and their distraught nature at this time. it's a tough moment for this community. >> tough >> moment, critical reporting as well, doing jobs that matters so much to the community. danny freeman, we appreciate your time as always, my friend. thank you. and cnn is continuing coverage, the bridge collapse in baltimore

continues right now >> property now, breaking news, the maryland governor says an active search and rescue mission is ongoing at the site of the baltimore for bridge collapse, at least six people unaccounted for after a huge cargo ship rammed the bridge and destroyed it. the baltimore fire chief joins us this hour with an update also tonight, the fate of a widely used abortion pill is now up to the united states supreme court after oral arguments today, for and against a nationwide ban, we're going to tell you what the justices appeared to signal about their eventual decision. and robert f. kennedy jr. names a wealthy tech lawyer as his vice presidential pick working to heightened attention on his independent presidential bid as top democrats portray him as a spoiler who got help donald trump get elected welcome to

our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn breaking news. >> let's get right to the breaking news on the baltimore bridge he's disaster. the investigation now beginning into how and why a cargo ship slammed into the bridge sending pieces of twisted metal into the water. cnn's brian todd has been on the scene for us all day long. he's life joining us now for baltimore harbor and brian authorities, i take it our focus again on the search and rescue operation that's ongoing. give us the latest >> they are indeed wolf from this unique vantage point, you can see the point of impact where this vessel, the dalai, this massive container ship, struck the francis scott key bridge. you can see the point of impact right behind me with the tangled metal, the concrete still draped over the bow of the vessel there. you can also

see rescue boats and other recovery boats swarming all around this vessel tonight, we are told that six people remain unaccounted for as the rescue mission continues and the investigation just gets ramped up. >> this is a this is this is not just not just unprecedented from what we're seeing and what we're looking at today it's heartbreaking. >> the middle of the one-and-a-half mile long francis scott key bridge plunged 185 feet into baltimore's potassium go river early this morning. >> hey, advise the entire bridge, entire he ridges in the harbor >> did for the other side, >> are the bridge is down. we're going to have to get somebody on the other side anaerobic tally msp to give parents stopped traffic coming northbound on a tee bridge, a container ship billowing dark smoke was moving at about eight knots near the bridge when the ship lost power, according think to maryland's governor before the bridge collapse that 127 in the morning, the ship's crew called in a may day when it became clear, there'll be a collision despite having

dropped its anchor >> what do you guys in the south side, why do you guys on the north side hold all traffic on the key bridge there's a shift of hershey going to just lost their steering a move, officials say saved lives, were thankful that between the may day and the collapse, that we had officials who were able to >> to begin to stop the flow of traffic. so more cars were not up on the bridge. many of the vehicles were stopped before he got onto the bridge, which which which saved lives, national transportation safety board and fbi teams are on the scene. we are >> standing back to allow the coast guard and search and rescue to continue their search and rescue operations >> authorities on the ground say they have a tough task ahead. >> the bridge itself it does present a challenge. it presents a challenge as we navigate on the surface, but more likely a greater challenges subsurface and underwater. >> in addition to a search from the air, officials had about 50

divers operating in the harbor hours after the bridge came down, the water is frigid here right now, we believe this to be about a 60 foot dive. makes these makes us an extraordinarily difficult challenge for our teams. >> officials have said they have tracked a few vehicles that they believe fell into the water from the bridge and you can see the distance that they might have dropped from the height of the bridge there into the water because it's going to take days just to get floating cranes and other heavy equipment here in order to start the salvaging operations and an order to remove some of the remnants of the bridge here. and once they get here, they have to chop these remnants of the bridge into smaller pieces just to remove them. president biden says he's directing federal resources to help with recovery and rebuilding. >> i'm direction my team move heaven and earth three, open the port and rebuild the bridge as soon as you humanly possible >> now, all major ship traffic has been halted coming into and out of baltimore harbor indefinitely. and that's going to cause significant economic

disruptions. and i can give you an example of that do you see that large green vessel right there? that's called the karman, that vessel carries cars and light trucks into the port of baltimore, right now that vessel cannot move and that's a scene repeated throughout the baltimore harbor here baltimore is a major hub for cars cars, and light trucks coming into the united states on these ships, it handled about 850,000 vehicles at this port last year that has come to a sudden stop. wolf and i can tell you another thing that's going to hamper rescue efforts tonight. there's a rain system coming in and so that's going to create some poor weather conditions in the hours ahead. well all right. brian tied for us in baltimore. brian, thank you very much joining us now, the chief of the baltimore city fire department, james wilson chief. thank you so much for joining us. first of all, our hearts go out to your community on this very, very painful date. can you first update us on the active search and rescue mission right now for the six people who are listed as unaccounted for chief. i'm

going to run for a second. we've lost audio with you. we're going to fix that in a moment. let me go back to bryan todd for a moment. brian, as you and i well, now, we've been to baltimore, both of us on many occasions. i've gone over that bridge on so many occasions. never dawned on me. me that god forbid, something like this could happen. but give us a sense of what you're feeling right now as someone who has traveled that baltimore beltway and knows that bridge well right? >> well, many of us have been up through this quarter for many years going up and down the east coast. this is a major hub for vehicular traffic. and what makes this bridge unique is that this is the bridge, the main bridge in this area that can handle traffic that carries hazardous material has mats because hashmaps are not allowed in? the, baltimore

tunnels that go underneath baltimore harbor, of course those tunnels are the venues with it where the major major, the rag, the regular auto traffic, moves through usually, but the has the trucks and other vehicles carrying hazmat, will they have to go through this bridge? they have to go over this bridge as they're going up and down the east coast. obviously, that has all come to a stop up right now and that's going to be halted indefinitely as least at least as far as this bridge is concerned. so that's going to be another major logistical headache for officials who you're trying to figure out how to get hazmat shipped to and from various points in the east coast going up and down these highways here. and again, we can just give you a broader look at how we have a second camera here, by the way, that can kind of train in on the on the vessel itself of the dot l-y, that which impacted that bridge at a little before 130 this morning. just take a look at just it's huge swath of the bridge that is just now vanished. it's missing, it's in the water. you can see some of the stanchions in the water. and some of the other things there that are some of the rescue vessels that are around

that area. it's going to take days, four again for heavy equipment to get in place here, to be able to remove some of this. and of course that can't take place until the rescue effort is complete. willfully, a baltimore >> is a huge, huge airport for so much traffic coming in and out of the united states are brian, we're going to get back to you standby right now. we've reconnected with it chief or the baltimore city fire department, james. james wallace, chief. thank you. once again for joining us. first of all, can you update us on the active search and rescue mission that's underway right now for the six people who are unaccounted for yes, sir. >> and thank you so we are still in an active marine search operation at this point what that means is we have boats on the water. we have divers that are in the water, and we also have aircraft overhead we started this mission with approximately

eight dive teams, 50 personnel mission has grown and the amount of resources that we've, we've dedicated to it but we continue to actively search the waters in and around the actual collapse site and we're going to continue to do so over the next hour or so, and we are grateful to all those who are trying to find and help locate these individuals i know chief you told cnn earlier that you believe you found five vehicles already in the water, three passengers your vehicles? a cement truck, and one on vehicle. is that the latest count or have you found any more vehicles >> we just started an incident brief on this side of the river as a 05:00. so that was the latest information i have. they did so via sonar operation russians and have marked those vehicles for future reference. but i have no update to that at

this point. it's probably going to be another another half-hour or so before we'll have that updated information over here, i will stay in close touch with you. do you have any sense chief on how many vehicles and possible passengers were actually on the bridge at the time of the collapse >> so that the passenger number that we're working off for now is eight we know that we had a patient that was transported to a local trauma center this morning um, that patient is at serious condition. we had another individual who was part of the party on the bridge who refuse service was actually on it? so with those two accounted for right now, we're still searching for six. >> that's how we find that. you, you guys find them the coast guard says it detected an oil sheen on the water near the wreckage. what can you tell us about that and how does that potentially impact the mission?

>> so an oil sheen or fuel xin, all the water is, it's indicative of a fuel leak i know that they've gone out and they've placed harbor containment boom around the vessel itself. and it does appear to be holding the last aerial videos that we had. we saw that as well. and it does appear to be holding so the containment boom that you would see around the vessel itself would be just for that to contain that chain early this morning, we did smell a strong odor of diesel fuel on the water was still dark. we couldn't see it. but as the sun came up, we had seen light sheen or evidence of a light sheen out there as well. i think we're at this point, we're grateful that so far we've not had a massive release of fuel, but as the coast guard stated, we are seeing some indications of some sheen moving away from the wreckage. >> chief james wallace of the baltimore city fire department.

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the fda just didn't go through the proper procedures when they approved this pill and 2000 and then also ease some restrictions in later years the justices seemed very skeptical that these doctors even had the legal right or the standing to even bring this lawsuit in the first place. and that's because of some of the arguments from the fda lawyers that government lawyers and also the drug manufacturers, lawyers they really said, look the doctors are bringing this case because they believe that they might at some point maybe have to treat women who appear in the emergency room because of potential complications from mifepristone, the justices seemed to indicate that maybe that sort of injury was just far too hypothetical to bring a suit and then we saw interesting comments from i'm the chief justice and also neil gorsuch talking about the fact that, you know, why did they did a handful of doctors have the power really to get a lower court opinion that would've banned this pill nationwide or at least taken back some of the restrictions on it. and here are the justices this case

seems like a prime example of turning what could be a small lawsuit into a nationwide legislative assembly on on, on an fda rule or any other federal government action >> thoughts. >> i guess, your honor hi again, i have to say that i think it's impracticable. to raise a conscious objection, but but even spotting that, i think that the district court remedy here was perfectly appropriate when it can't the court specify that this relief runs too precisely the parties before the court? as opposed to looking to the agency in general and saying agency, you can do this anywhere >> jessica want attorney raised concerns that judges aren't necessarily experts on scientific data. listen to this you have a district court that among other things, relied on one study that was an analysis

of anonymous blog posts. you have another set of studies that he relied on that we're not in the administrative record and wouldn't ever be because they post-state the fda decision. sara, they have since been retracted for lack of scientific rigor. ed for misleading presentations of data. those sorts of error first can infect judicial analyses precisely because judges are not, they are not experts. ad is why fda has many hundreds of pages of analysis in the record of what the scientific data showed and courts are just not in a position to parse through and second guessed that >> so jessica, what can you tell us about that? >> i mean, there really isn't much data to support this idea that there are all these side effects from mifepristone. in fact, if you look at the data here, what it does show is that the likelihood of death from mifepristone is actually much less than other common medications or drugs like penicillin, even viagra wolf.

so the fda is stance was you look, we followed the proper person so you gers, there's really no great harm in this and that's why this drug has been out there since 2000, you know, but the supreme court here might not even get to that broader issue. they might end up tossing this case on the standing issue. >> we'll see what happens. jessica schneider. thank you very, very much for more on today's and arguments. i want to bring in our senior supreme court analyst joan biskupic, joan reading between the lines on the questioning, but that we all heard today, how do you expect the justices eventually to handle this share wolf and it really was a compelling set of arguments at the court. there were asking really piercing questions to all three of the lecture lawyers who took the lectern, one of them was a woman by name erin hawley, who happens to be a very active anti-abortion advocate, who's married to josh hawley. so he was there in the courtroom as were other officials, including the attorney general of new york, letitia james, just shows the stakes of this for states,

for people on both sides, because wolf, as you know, this is the first big abortion case since the justices in 2022 reversed roe v wade. and in that time, just to point up the stakes, more women have relied on medication, abortion to end their pregnancies. and the other issue here is the fda's authority to use its own scientific review and expertise to decide what jugs should be approved. and when you cut right through what the justice's questions where i think with key justices who had voted to overturn roe asking very skeptical questions of the challenges here. i think they will find that these anti-abortion lawyers who say that they have been harmed by the fda approval of mifepristone and easy access to the drug that they cannot prove they've been harmed and therefore do not have legal standing. and i'll just refer to two justices in particular for wealth who voted to overturn roe two years ago. brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett and both of them

suggested by their remarks that they do not think there was sufficient harm to bring this case at one point, brett kavanaugh even said just to confirm on the standing issue under federal law, no doctors can be forced against their conscience is to perform or assist in abortion, correct >> and the lawyer had to >> say yes, correct. interesting. as you just mentioned, joe and this is the biggest abortion case that the court has considered since overturning roe v. wade. >> how does that inform things right now? >> it really does woolf because just think of how much the reproductive rights landscape has changed since 2022. you know, about 14 states have now banned abortion several others have put a lot of restrictions on abortion. so that's why access to this medication has become so crucial across the country. so that's one aspect. and then the other aspect is just you know, the whole healthcare situation that we've seen so many other state laws

have been challenged in our working their way up to the court. so this is going to be part of a whole new set of chapters at the supreme court. >> well, you're absolutely right. joan biskupic. thank you very much. up. next, we're going to get more on the ball baltimore bridge collapse and the impact on the economy that could extend far beyond that city >> spatially colombia, the final flight premieres sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn at fisher investments. we may look like other money managers, but were different. >> you can't be that different. >> we are we have a team of specialists, not only in investing, but also in financial and estate planning and more your clients rely on you for all that? yes. and as a fiduciary, we always put their interests first, but you still saw commission-based products, right? no, we have >> a simple management fee structured, so we do better when our clients do get better we're more different than i thought at fisher investments were clearly

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kristin fisher is following all the new developments for us kristin, you're there on the scene. what's the latest on the search and recovery effort? >> well we'll 16 hours in an official say that this is still very much an active search and rescue operation. and all day long, we've seen these divers having to contend with really cold, deep waters, strong currents, and just a mess of mangled metal so as they tried to find these six construction workers who were on top of the key bridge just filling potholes when this container ship struck the bridge and the bridge collapsed. and so the ntsb is now taking the lead on this investigation, but the ntsb says they've actually taken a backseat today and allowed the coast guard to really be the dominant player here and allow them to do their job and try to find these six unaccounted for workers that were on the bridge and likely went into the water wolf. but

when the ntsb is allowed to board the vessel but when they do that, they decided not to do it today. when they do board the vessel, what they're really trying to find is the voyage data recorder that's essentially the black box of these types of ships. and we know that the crew on the ship issued a mayday call and said they were having power issues, but the ntsb says they still need to firm that that was indeed what took place. so that's one big piece of the ntsb investigation figuring out exactly what happened on this ship. but the ntsb says they're also going to be looking at the structural integrity of the key bridge itself. and you have the governor of maryland, wes moore coming out earlier today and saying that the bridge is or was up to code, but the ntsb says they still need to independently investigate that. and then wolf, i'll just kinda end by saying, you know, look at what the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg said earlier today. he said, i just this, he called a really unique

circumstance saying, i just don't know if any bridge could withstand a direct hit from a container ship of that size, wolff? >> yeah, important point. kristin fisher reporting for us. thank you very much. also tonight, the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, is warning of the economic impact from the bridge collapse after visiting the scene in baltimore, listen there is no question that this will be a major and protracted impacts to supply chains. >> it's too soon >> to offer estimates on what it will take to clear the channel and reopen the port i want to bring him cnn business editor-at-large, richard quest is joining us from london right now. richard, what will happen to the ships that were scheduled to go into the port of baltimore a valuable question, they will be rerouted. in fact, mask and many other of the shipping lines have already said that they all going to shift because one of the positives in the sense is that there is spec capacity at the other major

ports along the eastern seaboard, bearing in mind that dv it's already been to norfolk and new york before going to baltimore. so if you look at the map, you can see there's the potential for norfolk. you can see philadelphia, you can see for instance, new jersey, new york, all certainly new york, new jersey, and virginia are much larger ports then baltimore, and they will be able to pick up the slack of those ships that are heading in the direction of the eastern seaboard. for those ships that are on the other side of the bridge, wolf, they're gonna be stuck there until the channel is open. and there's free passage. they'll probably have to be unloaded and their cargo shifted to one of them the other polls. >> yeah, good point. walk us through richard, specifically, what type of cargo normally goes through the port of baltimore >> the eighth or ninth largest in the united states. well, it is cause trucks light trucks in fact, it is the number one

destination for cars and light trucks. in the united states. or in terms of coming in, it's mercedes, it's vw and the japanese and the south korean manufacturers, they say there'll be able to cope, but look at the number of cars and trucks khan did last year, 2023, 850,000 again, you can move them from elsewhere. you can send them to other ports on the eastern seaboard, but that will take longer. mercedes tonight basically saying, yes, it's going to take longer to get cars in its rule, take longer. there will be further road delays. the big suffer in all of this is of course, baltimore itself unfortunately, the pool well, the ports in extremely important part of the economic vibrancy and life of the city. billions of dollars worth of trade goes through the port. the number of jobs involved as well, over 10,000 and if you take how it's going

to develop it could be years before that port is fully up and running again even with the extra money that the federal government will bring in as promised by president biden today. >> richard quest reporting for us. thank you very, very much important information just ahead israel's defense minister visits the united states for key meetings with top us officials. will the trip ease the growing tensions with the biden administration >> erin burnett outfront tonight at seven odd cnn cracked windshield. schedule would save flight and will come to you to fix it. this customer was enjoying her morning walk. we texted her when we were on our way and she could track us and see exactly when we derive a few we came to her with service that fit her schedule. you must be pascal unless to meet we got right to work with a replacement. she could trust we've come to you for free scheduled now for free mobile service at safe flight like me

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just published today. age of revolutions, there's the cover progress and backlash from 1,600 to the president for raid. we're going to get to your book shortly, but let's talk a little bit about what's going on right now. you and i i have covered us-israeli relations for many years, very important meetings today between the us and israel here in washington, the defense minister meeting with us defense secretary and the president's national security adviser. how does this increasingly tense relationship between the biden administration and then a tiny our government complicate request from netanyahu's government from where us weapons >> i think it's an inflection point really, it's a big, it's a big watershed moment in us-israeli relations because this is a fight that bibi netanyahu has almost brought upon himself you almost wonder at some level whether he was spoiling for a fight because the biden administration has and most israelis feel this way has been more supportive of israel in this conflict, than

virtually any previous administration has in israel's are the moments of crisis. so the biden administration has supported them militarily materially, morally. but they have kept asking for certain concessions. pay more attention to civilian casualties let humanitarian aid good through allow for temporary ceasefire. so you can have more of that aid go through. and now this issue of rafah, whether or not you really need to go through and i think bibi netanyahu, almost once this fight, he has a very extreme right-wing coalition. >> it he seems to be >> kind of zealously defending the hardline position and doing all this. but by doing this, what he is doing is he's wrecking the trust that has built over decades between israel and the united states. and what he's doing is creating an idea that the united states can be pro israel without being pro bb. israel can be a close ally, but bibi

netanyahu might not be a close ally. >> important points you're making. i want to turn to your brand new book, age of revolutions, in which you write this. and i'm quoting you now in the book you're right when you consider the multitude of dramatic changes in the world today, we are living through one of the most revolutionary ages in history, lay that out for us very what think about what we've gone through. >> we are living through it so w don't realize it. but in the last 30 or 40 years, we have gone through a massive expansion of globalization where something like 2.5 billion, 3 billion people have joined the world's rating system. that's all of china, all of india, most of latin america, large parts of africa suddenly all become by, they're all playing the same game now you look at the technology world. we've created a brand new digital world. i mean, think about what the world looked like before that we are now living in a world where the biggest companies in the world are all these new companies

that didn't exist 2025 years ago. think about the reality of the identity revolution that has taken place. take one piece of it. women. women have been emancipated, two, from being second-class citizens which they were for thousands and thousands of years. and all this has happened in the last 30 or 40 years. so we're going through to the acceleration that disruption there, all that causes. >> but >> we're also going through in this is what i talked a lot about in my book about the backlash. the feeling that this is all going too far too fast. and there are a lot of people who say don't worry, i'll stop the world. you can get off. i'll take you back to when you are more comfortable. >> the most important word in >> donald trump's slogan is make america great. again, i'm going to take you back when it was safe and you didn't have the urine feel so disoriented? >> it's interesting because in your new book, age of revolutions, you're also write about the rise of populism. and

you're right this and i'm quoting you now, one sign of a revolutionary age is that politics gets scrambled along along new lines. what kind of revolution have politics here in the united states undergone in recent years? and as that happening elsewhere as well. >> so the most powerful indication of this is think about what the republican party stood for under ronald reagan. you and i both remember those days, ronald reagan stood for limited government, balanced budgets, free markets, free trade, spreading democracy abroad, great pride in that >> and >> very, very open and receptive to immigration think about what donald trump's republican party stands for literally every one of those things i said. trump is basically the opposite on almost all of those. he's a protectionist. she doesn't like free trade. it doesn't like immigrants. >> he's >> four big government. he spent more money than anybody

in his, in his four years. >> so that's the >> transformation we're going through. and it shows you that the old left-right categories no longer apply. we're in a new age >> important points fareed zakaria. thank you very, very much. thanks for writing this book. be sure to, to our viewers, be sure to check out freed's new book. there you see the cover once again, age of revolutions must read, as i said coming up, robert f. kennedy jr. justice his running mate for his third party presidential bid. we're going to tell you who she is and how his choice could shake up the race potentially for the white house sanity needs a safe space >> you have a show were right and left talk to each other cnn presents an encore presentation of hbo's real time with bill maher, saturday at eight on cnn >> speaking up the court championship nice shot. marcus

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they're running against, namely president by cnn's eva mckend is joining us now live from oakland, california. so eva, what did that kennedy, first of all, say about his pick >> wolff, he believes that she can appeal to young voters. we know, of course right now, president biden facing some vulnerability with that constituency, some young voters feeling disillusion for a number of reasons, these young voters that voted for him in 2020, well, he believes that at 38 years old that she can help bring some of those voters into their camp, but also her personal story. she grew up here in oakland on, in poverty, on welfare, on food stamps and now she is a woman of significant mean. she went on to become a silicon valley attorney. i started her own business. she is formerly married to the billionaire co-founder of google and so it is going to be those

significant mean. so that perhaps will be most consequential in the weeks ahead is kennedy fights to get on the ballot in every state. take a listen to how shanahan is thinking about this. >> please. >> listen to bobby kennedy in his own words take a look at his vision for america it. is a vision that i share two, as i spent the next seven months of my life getting him on each and every ballot in this country and wolf, although many people might know, kennedy for his anti >> vaccine skepticism or is vaccines skepticism important to note that the people that we speak here showing up talking about a range of issues, many of them citing his position on war being anti-war as a reason they are attracted to his campaign will even maken in oakland, california for us, eva. thank you very much to see

how this potentially impacts the 2024 race. let's bring in cnn political commentators, bakari sellers and scott jennings. scott kennedy is polling and double-figures nationally, but shanahan is an unknown with no real political experience. so did he do himself and he favors with this pick >> well, she's got the most important currency in politics for him and actual currency. she is a very wealthy person and he needs money and she talked about helping him get on the ballot today. so while i don't think the vice presidential pick usually makes it megan, difference for the kennedy ticket. she brings a lot of money to the table and also she shares a lot of his liberal views, so they mesh well there. but really this is about cash getting some into this campaign. and when they get it, i think they can make a difference with it. >> so big curry, how concerned should the biden team b that he will oppose, support? from people who might otherwise vote for the president

>> there is a concern about a third candidacy, but the concern is not because of who he chooses vice president nobody knows her. now nationally she is a very wealthy woman from palo alto or oakland and that's silicon valley area. i'm not sure why anybody have good common sense actually takes on the role of being vice president for robert f. kennedy jr. we know that there are a lot of people who were asked and she finally said yes, which makes you question why she's doing this? ego comes to mind, but also it sets you up for future failure to be associated with somebody who's disassociated from their own family, somebody who has these anti-vax views, somebody who is out of the mainstream of most thought processes and then, you know, me and scott and you wilf will be sitting here one day and reviewing a debate that has ms shanahan, kamala harris and maybe somebody like tim scott on the same stage together and that there's one person who sticks out that is not prepared

for that limelight, who is not prepared to swimming those deep ward is it would be heard for and so it just ruins all of the years of of, of goodwill that you have achieved through your business career >> scott kennedy also has at least some appeal from some on the right. maybe because of his anti-vax views, is it possible that he actually could pull more support from trump then from biden that's not what i see in the polling. and i think when the campaign unfolds and people really focus in on who kennedy is. i mean, he has been a tried and true liberal and i've really fringed liberal. i mean, he has espouse some cookie views over the years. but look, there are people who are attracted to that and he's picked a very liberal running mate. so i think as the campaign pain unfolds, if you're a trump supporter and you want to get donald trump one more chance to beat joe biden. i doubt you're going to be fluorine with kennedy, but i do think and you can see the way democrats are reacting today that there's real concern on the left that dissatisfaction with biden on

his progressive flank may drive some people out of a third door just as a protest vote interesting. scott jennings, bakari sellers, guys, thank you very much. there's breaking news. right now. attorneys for sean diddy combs have just issued their first statement since yesterday's federal raids on his properties in miami and los angeles, let's bring in cnn's elizabeth wagmeister. she's getting the latest developments elizabeth update our view hi wa fia, so we just got a statement in from diddy's attorney and they are maintaining his innocence and they are calling >> these rays yesterday on his homes in los angeles and miami, a witch hunt. when we read this too and fall wolff, we just got this in from his attorney, erin dyer, who says yesterday, there was a gross over use of military level force as search warrants were executed at mr. combs residences there is no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated, mr. combs was never detained, but spoke to

and cooperated with a authorities despite media speculation, neither mr. combs nor any of his family members have been arrested, nor has their ability to travel been restricted in any way. the unprecedented ambush paired with an enhanced coordinated coordinated media presence leads to a premature rush to judgment of mr. combs and is nothing more than in a witch-hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits, there has been no finding of criminal or civil liability with any of these allegations. they end by saying, mr. combs is innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name interesting, very interesting. elizabeth wagmeister. thank you very much for that update coming up we'll have more on the breaking news, the baltimore bridge collapse what we're learning about the moments leading up to the catastrophic collision we, hear nothing. a space shuttle

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