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suspect. one officer returned to the business to get another one naturally, and it turned out, here you see this after a five-mile pursuit, five miles and took a long time. the officer was able to flip the suspect vehicle on its side. it turns out the 38 year-old suspect who had been fired from the business last year, was arrested? no one was hurt. interesting message that that person was sending to their former employer one of those moments where you want the instant gratification, but maybe you should take a beat >> yeah, that's something you dream of, but don't fulfill that impulse as i was saying, rather impulsive act then maybe you should do some breathing techniques for where you jump in that front-load or maybe in jail that will be part of the program depending on what happens here. but could have been much worse. it's just so flow >> okay >> so silly. all right. the lead with jake tapper sorts right?
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>> how 8 billion turns into 25 years in prison. the lead starts right now. sentencing de for sam bankman-fried, the 32 once known as a crypto king now we'll spend decades behind bars for one of the biggest financial fraud cases ever. his plea for mercy, the scolding he heard from the judge, and the customers, he swindled. can they ever get their money back? >> plus >> heavy lift cranes will soon be on the seam of the deadly bridge collapse in baltimore ready to move metal off the cargo ship that hit the bridge? just how many other us bridges are at risk of falling if they two, or hit with the same force. and universities now charging students a whopping $90,000 a year here, where exactly all that money goes and just how far off pace it is with inflation welcome, to the
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lead on jim sciutto in for jake tapper and we begin with our tech lead. sam bankman-fried is now doing time for cryptocurrency crimes a judge is centered. the former ceo of the collapsed crypto exchange, ftx today, to 25 years in prison after jurors found him guilty of stealing $8 billion in savings from his customers. us attorney for the southern district of new york summed it up this way, quote the scale of bankman-fried's crimes is measured not just by the amount of money that was stolen, but by the extraordinary horse harm caused victims who in some cases had their life savings wiped out overnight and his crimes did not just impact people who are involved in his own businesses. the ftx bankruptcy in 2022 had a ripple effect on the market. several other cryptocurrency companies quickly went belly up as a result, his lawyer painted him as a misunderstood, awkward, math nerd who loves video games, animals, and vegans but
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the judge saw very differently saying bankman-fried was politically motivated and there is a risk he would be in a position to do something very bad. again in the future before the judge delivered the senate's bankman-fried apologized in court to all those involved saying his decisions, quote, haunt him every day. let's bring in cnn's kara scannell and sara fischer as well. so, so kara, a very basic question here. will spf, victims get any or close to all of their money back? >> it looks. like they will get some of their money back. the question will be, is it 100 cents on the dollar, which is what bankman-fried was arguing to the judge in that people will be taking care of who should get a lenient sentence. prosecutors say, not so fast that there is, there is recovery. there was this big bankruptcy process where they are reorganized and so some of that money will eventually get returned to some of the customers, investors, and lenders of ftx. but it is still
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a process that has to be worked through. the judge, even reacting to bankman-fried's lawyer's arguments today, saying that it is still speculative at that point at this point, how that's going to turn out. now, in addition to the 25-year sentence, he did also order the forfeiture of $11 that will come from selling some of bankman-fried's assets, including the luxury penthouse apartment he lived in in the bahamas >> sir bankman-fried, he was sentenced to 25 years in the end. that's of course less than prosecutors sought thought far more then his defense attorneys wanted here, i wonder how much more or less and does it seem fair in comparison with precedent? >> this is exactly what we were expecting. so the defense said six-and-a-half years. prosecutor said 40 to 50. so you're splitting the difference here, but think about this in comparison to historical crime. so birdie made off that was a $20 ponzi scheme. he served over 100 years, are was sentenced to over 100 years. of course, he died 12 years into that sentence. for this, this is valued $8 billion of losses
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that consumers will likely hopefully to kairos point get back. you can see what that's going to be a lot smaller, but the thing to remember jim is this sentence can be reduced with good behavior. this is a non violent white-collar criminal that on good behavior could get him up to 50% less sentencing. so if he is good, this could turn into 12.5 years instead of those 25, you love to see what is victim stated that, but we'll be watching. i want to listen to what bankman-fried has said publicly because one amazing factor with this case was he he admitted to a lot of things things, right. in a series of interviews, this is what he told. good morning america in 2022 >> i wasn't spending any time or effort trying to manage risk on ftx. we're trying like that, obviously, that's a sudden nation that's a pretty stunning admission. >> yeah i. mean i don't know what to say, like what happened happened. and like if i had been if i had been spending an hour a day thinking about risk management on ftx. i don't think that would have happened
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i mean. he's >> talking about like he got caught staying out late. i don't know by it by his parents or something, but this is a multi-billion-dollar crime here. i wonder, you mentioned good behavior in prison, but do admissions like that lower the possibility that he shaves time off, parable pretrial behavior, right? you're doing a huge press tour, making mistakes, admitting to not doing risk assessments and by the way, he was corresponding with someone who is working against him, one of his former colleagues, that correspondence was brought up in court, and so i think that the judge looks at him as being somebody who's reckless based off of this pretrial behavior. and that's why he thinks he could pose a risk. remember the judge said this is a 25-year sentence because we don't want him to come back out and do this again. wow >> remarkable. sara fischer, kara scannell, thanks so much. both of you topping or national lead today, new video shows the final moments before baltimore's francis scott key bridge collapses. you can see flashing lights, those near the top of the bridge. just as the ship is about to hit it divers
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have been able to recover the bodies of two of those six construction workers who fell into the water during the collision, the effort to find the other four that's on pause until debris is cleared to make it safe. for divers to go back into the water. cnn's pete muntean is in baltimore for us. so pizza only been a few days since the bridge collapsed. there are a lot of moving parts in the investigation right now, have we learned anything new about exactly how this happened? >> well the ntsb has boarded the dali again today for the third time in three days, and they have recovered the ship's black box known on a ship like this as a voyage data recorder. they have used that data to create a timeline of these desperate final moments. on board the mv dali that was careening out of control and towards baltimore's key bridge, the ntsb says, after the ship set sail a little bit after midnight on tuesday morning things were fine for about 46 minutes. then at 01:25
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a.m. that is when the ship's bridge lit up with alarms at 01:26 a.m. there was a command for rudder to turn the ship and then a plea for tugboats to come back and help the ship 01:27 a.m. that's when the crew picked up the rate do and said the dali has lost all power. we are headed for the key bridge and then at 01:29 a.m. impact, what is clear right now according to the ntsb, is that there was a power outage onboard the ship is the source of that outage here is ntsb chair jennifer homendy we and. we've seen the recordings. we have data which is consistent with a power outage. however, we don't have information factual information that can confirm that powder outage so we aren't there yet
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>> there is an issue with the data recorder on-board. this it is relatively crude, basic, limited information. the data points are not like on a commercial airline or the ntsb says they've only been able to get engine rpm. the position fission of rutter and the heading of the ship's bow. so they're not able to glean all that much from it just yet the good news is there is audio recording from the ship's bridge. that is how they've been able to build this timeline. there's still going through the data right now it's remarkable such a giant ship would have what seems to be fairly outdated technology, given what your phones can track, what are the plans to clear the shipping >> channel here because you have a number of ships caught behind it. this is one of america's busiest ports. how quickly does that get underway >> a backbone of the economy here in baltimore, jim and the biden administration said today that it is sending in a heavy lift crane on a vessel to come in and clear some of the debris here and try and get things moving through the port. remember, there is still 11
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ships trapped behind this wreckage on the interior of the port. right now, the big focus is moving the envy dali but remembered the collapsed bridge has pinned the bow of the ship, meaning that it can't be moved before some of that debris gets cleared. no firm timeline on reopening the port of baltimore just yet 18,000 people directly employed here >> what a colossal cleanup job that will be pete muntean near the scene of the bridge collapse. thanks so much. >> now we are learning more about exactly how the key bridge crumbled within seconds of being hit. listen to more from the ntsb chair. jennifer homendy, just last night a fracture critical bridge. >> if >> a member fails that would likely cause a portion of or the entire bridge to collapse so let's bring in tom form and now he's been looking at the structure of these bridges, the engineering behind them. so how many of these fracture critical
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bridges are there in the united states? >> they're not all huge and are all over waterways, but federal officials say about 17,000 bridges across this country are fracture criticals in technical terms, that means if they're struck with enough force in just the right spot a big section or the entire bridge will go down. that's what we saw with the key bridge. it was struck over here when that ship hit this one support, it triggered a chain reaction that took out the whole thing, a bridge that it's sued for decades at handled 11 million cars a year. that was undeniably very strong gone in seconds, and similar accidents have happened with other bridges. the sunshine skyway bridge near tampa years ago, which opened around the time of the key bridge, was taken out hi a floundering ship, which you can see in this photograph here. and the eye 40 the eye 40 bridge in oklahoma was largely destroyed by some
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loose barges. and there are many more every accident is unique, but in each case or some version of fracture critical danger. >> yeah interesting. and particularly when you think of a soft hi, as are the enormous size of these ships today. the head of the ntsb says that the preferred method of building bridges now involves redundancy kind of makes sense to me. but what does that mean exactly? there's a lot of talk about this >> among engineers right now. many modern bridges were being constructed with protections around those danger points in some cases, they're using these so-called dolphins, which are structures that sort of stand away out here in the water. and we'll channel a ship away from that point. so if a ship were to come in here and swerve off this way, it gets met out here. some cases, feet, something times yards, many yards away from this so that they can't get to the danger point. the other possible thing that we're hearing a lot about is fenders. fenders basically or something like this, where you actually build up it can be it can be stone, it can be wood, it can
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be still, it can be whatever you want, but essentially you're building a little island around this. again the whole, point being that you make it impossible for a ship to simply veer in here and hit the base of this bridge. modern bridges are being built that way, but many engineers are asking what about all these older bridges? are we doing enough to shield those 17,000 other bridges vulnerable to this kind of singing angle impact, catastrophic failure. >> jim, fascinating to see tom form and thanks so much so i've next this our a campaign operative dropping his sexual assault lawsuit against conservative bigwig matt schlapp chopping it up to a misunderstanding, but sources say it wasn't that symbol simple. they tell cnn the accuser was in fact paid off. how much why it matters as the story rocks, republican circles. plus, i'll speak with the state department employee resigning now, in protest over president biden's handling of israel's the war in gaza, or
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why a republican operative >> dropped his lawsuit accusing influential cpac chairman and conservative activists match schlapp of sexual assault yesterday, the man behind those allegations said, quote the claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding. neither the schlapps nor the acu paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them. that statement, however, does not add up because multiple sources tell cnn he did in fact get a major financial settlement to drop the case. cnn's amy can, gail broke story so jamie, i mean, those are those statements contradict each other what what are the facts? >> fair technically correct, but not what happens. so in fact, carlton huffman who bought brought these charges of sexual assault against match lap was paid $480,000, almost half 1 million in a settlement here's the footnote. it was paid to him by an insurance
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company so in effect, there was this private settlement why is this notable when it was first announced, the charges were dismissed match lap sort of took a victory lap. he went and did interviews. he posted on social media, and he was implying that he was exonerated, that he had been cleared and in fact that i am told is not the case that there was just this private settlement made to end the case. the other notable thing is this case was about to go to trial in early june. >> are >> sources tell us that this a been going on for more than a year there had been many depositions taken and more to come that would have been very damaging to match lap and very embarrassing. this also saves him from having to take the stand no question.
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>> you mentioned a post schlapp deleted celebrating the lawsuit, right. being dropped. was that a breach of settlement? was that an issue there? >> so look we don't know all the clauses in this particular agreement, but usually there's a non disparagement clause and what you see sometimes in cases is parties walking up to that. this was a washington examiner interview. he gave. >> it seemed to exonerate him. he did a post with it those posts were deleted. i'm told that huffman's lawyer reached out and in effect, schlapp's team was told to cease and >> interesting, notable joining us now, our panel, alice stewart carefully, thanks so much. good to have both you, alice, i wonder i've been matched lab, certainly they are public voice in today's republican party, certainly in cpac how big a deal leviss is this for conservatives >> the cpac movement and match lap and cpac organization have
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been a big part of conservative politics for many years, and they have a tremendous influence with younger voters. and they're, they're yearly events they have are attended by thousands and thousands of people and it actually in the midst of of all of this, they've actually expanded overseas. but they are by no means the voice of the conservative movement that the conservative movement is much bigger than this and i think people that are representative of cpac and conservatives are looking more to the future of 2020 election donald trump, the policies that conservative stand for. we all know certainly immigration the economy, national security, public safety that's what conservatives are looking at. this, this is a extremely, extremely unfortunate situation, but conservatives are represented a representative by much more than that. >> in >> here, half 1 billion there for kate, for lawsuits. another lawsuit in june this was not
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going to be good for the conservative movement to have this case playing itself out in june around the same time. some version of the various cases against donald trump would also be playing themselves out in matlab has very much associated himself very closely with donald trump. so the specter of that this summer would have been very damaging for the republican party. i think they knew it there have been a lot of questions about match labs, leadership of cpac for quite some time, they've seemed to be able to keep those under wraps. and now this deal has been made. so in theory, i guess they've taken it off the table for now. what will slapped it? oftentimes republicans will do in the face of criticism or imaging stories like this, he attacked the media. he said, quote, our family was attacked by left-wing media that is focused on the destruction of conservatives regardless of the truth and facts, factors. this was a republican staffer who brought this allegation and initially we should note that do wanna move on to another topic, topic because this relates to the upcoming reelection, the upcoming
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election. and that is the new york times report that russian operatives are laying the groundwork for what could be a stronger push to support candidates who oppose aiding ukraine or who call for pulling the us back from the nato and other alliances. karen, this has echoes of 2016 when russia interfered in the election. us intelligence community spoke there very openly about it. in fact, they interfered with the preference for donald trump. i wonder how focused on this is the democratic party as we approach november. >> yes, we all, including myself, remember, wow having the russian interference, look, we're taking it very seriously and there are different parts of the democratic party that are monitoring have been for some time a number of these companies. the thing in the new york time for port was what they were suggesting is that russia, the russian bots, if you well, or they've gotten more advanced in their approaches. so it's harder to find but i can tell you that what i'm hearing from the
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people monitoring this is that already they say it's out of control. what they're seeing, the barrage that there already seeing, not just from russia but from other bad actors sign up for sure. >> what struck me, >> i covered russian interference in the 2016 election at that time, it was principal to play a foreign threat. the sources of disinformation coming from outside the country. the fact is some of the biggest sources of disinformation as relates to the election or domestic and stated, one of them is running for president donald trump lies about the 2020 election. and by the way, his own pressure to push republicans to oppose aid to ukraine how does the republican party him handle that? and how does the republican party respond to foreign actors? and republicans who are in effect amplifying the messages of foreign actors. >> well, you certainly don't deny it because it happens and it has happened in the past and it's clearly happening at this point and took care of zero point her being a target of this intelligence agency may, on the cruise campaign, every time our spokespeople or myself
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went out on television or a posted online. we were also a trolled and attacked and discredited by these russian trolls in an effort to hurt our campaign in order to help our opponent, donald trump. so this is nothing new. the problem now is currently what we're seeing and in this report, according it's not just to sow chaos. this is potentially to influence democracy, influenced the elections here in, in order to stop candidates that support aid for ukraine and influence and help elect those that do not want to aid ukraine. so this is not going to stop here with ukraine. i expect it will continue as we head into the general election. no >> question to another topic course, supreme court has some decisions coming up that could be influential on the election yesterday. liz cheney speaking at iowa's drake university, she had a warning for the court as they consider in particular, donald trump's expansive claims of virtually unlimited presidential immunity have a listen i think it's very
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important that the supreme court recognize that what he's doing is a delaying tactic, and that >> the american people it cannot be the case that a president of the united states can attempt to overturn an election and seize power and that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial, of holding him to account before the next election. >> i mean, it is truly remarkable that years after the events of january 6, as well as his weeks-long effort to attempt to overturn the election there has really no been no recommend. he's been certainly been charged but it's not clear that any of these trials related to election in ferrets are going to happen before the election and by the way, the justice department had a role in that too. how quickly it these things, what's your reaction to what liz cheney cheney said >> look, the january 6 committee revealed a lot but they did not have the power of a grand jury. and what you're
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going to hear from liz cheney over and over is that the voters have to hear what those people who have gone before the grand jury, have to say, these are the people closest to donald trump mark meadows, white house counsel, people who were with him in the weeks leading up to january 6, and heard what he had to say and solve it. he did on january 6th. >> the fact is what these delay tactics, they may not it's possible. i don't. thanks so much to all of you. as always coming up next, the cost of higher education hitting, if you can believe it $90,000 a year at some universities where does all that money go? is it worth it? a former university president will join me next >> hello, ghostbusters. it's duck. we help people customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual
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for a single academic year. there some other top new england schools also will cost th much tufts university in boston university, wellesley college all private schools i want to bring in now frederick lawrence is a former president of brandeis university. thanks so much for taking the time this afternoon. >> pleasure to be with you. >> all right. so let's take a look at the numbers. i want to show you how much it would cost undergraduates if they go to these colleges, universities in the fall, boston university, about 90,000 right behind them as yale and nearly 91,000 dollars wellesley college, 92,000 tufts university nearly $96,000 less than when i went to college. and it's a few years ago. i mean, it was less than $20,000 a year, a fraction of that, right? the most basic question is private college is a private college degree really worth that much
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>> private college degree is certainly worth what people are paying for it. the, the tuition numbers that you have up there those are the sticker price, which you have to remember the majority of students at those schools just are not paying. when i was president of brandeis, about two-thirds of the students were on some kind of financial aid. many of them on substantial ventilate and some hundred percent financial aid. so that is the number we put out and yes, there are some people paying that. most do not. and so the question then becomes, is it worth what people are paying for it wherever? they are in that scale? and i think the answer is clearly yes. >> well, i get that. and it has there's been enormous progress yet universities to do need-blind and blind admissions et cetera. but someone is ultimately paying the bill, whether it's donors or others, i just wonder when you look at the figures as to how these prices in effect have gone up between 1987, 2017, the cost of going to a four-year public college that went up 200% between 2003, 2023 college goes
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up 106% price of a car, 61%. i mean, there's a lot of evidence that this is outpacing the rate of inflation for everything else. so why is that? why is that sticker price rising so much? >> it's a good question. i think there are two main reasons. >> one is this >> is what economists would call a high-quality good if you think about what a theater ticket costs, that's also gone up dramatically. you can think about medical costs that's gone up dramatically. so the cost of the kind of people who recruited to be top-flight researchers and professors is not the same curve as the rest of the economy. so that's one reason the high-quality good. the other is that the biggest change i would say over the time that you were talking about, i started as a professor in 1988, it became a professor president in 2010. >> biggest >> change over that time first hire regulation, the sheer number of people in the university dealing with government regulations, federal and state. and second, issues
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of student mental health counseling services. when i was in school, probably when you were in school much smaller part of the budget now a very substantial part of what every school is dealing with >> okay. i get that. now. >> the fact is though that even with additional support, financial assistance, et cetera borrowers still graduate students graduate with enormous student debt. we see that and it's become on a national basis it's become quite a figure. the average cost for borrowers, $32,000, that of course is money that could go towards a home, a car, or start a family et cetera it's an enormous burden. and by the way, you can't read yourself of that burden by bankruptcy like you could, for instance, credit card debt it's still means is it folks graduate even with all that help with an enormous weight on their shoulders. and i wonder what the relief is for that i think part of what you're seeing is the responsive the government to try to grant relief to
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people particularly who >> have the greatest needs whose incomes at the lowest and have that debt. and i think the government, when that is best thought of as not just debt relief, but a government investment in a highly trained workforce. so i think it's a very sensible approach for the government take but in addition to this, 32,000 and debt and i never want to make light of anyone's financial needs and of a debt like that. but i would say that is a very good investment for what every study shows will be not only the living potential, but they earn in potential for someone with a college degree as opposed to someone who doesn't have a college to great >> well, >> we'll dig deeper and see how much over time that, that benefit pays off frederick lawrence thanks so much for joining us >> pleasure being with you. >> now. former state department employees is step is stepping down in protest, writing about it on cnn.com. she says she did not plan to go public with her resignation. i'm going to ask her why she felt she could just no longer stay. and that's next
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definition here. how do you feel israel's behavior? they're meets that definition >> i mean, i would leave that to the experts as you said, it is a very specific definition, but i would argue that in general, the actions there's really military is taking are, are seeking to wipe out the population of gaza. we've also heard such statements made by israeli officials, political officials, and military officials >> the >> un, unfortunately, we're also hearing plans being made now for people to take over the territory of the gaza strip, we had jared kushner come on and talk about how he's going going to build high-rises on this beautiful beach front properly property as you said, the crime of genocide does meet, need to meet a particular legal definition. but i would i would pause it that there are many experts who are who are arguing that that is what israel is doing. >> well, intent is key of course, because let's be clear, hamas is a terrorist
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organization. it deliberately kill civilians as it did on october 7, and deliberately hides behind civilians in gaza. i understand the argument that there has then insufficient attention to protect civilian lives there, but but i wonder who do you hold responsibility? who do you hold responsible for it is is it israel alone? is it israel and the us for its support? but is hamas does hamas also bear responsibility for the civilian losses? >> absolutely. and hamas is a terrorist organization. i just think that the way israel and as well as the united states have been involved in conducting this war. it could have been done in a very different manner. the levels of the casualties that we're seeing, the use of starvation as a weapon one of war, the fact that the united states isn't using its leverage to insist that aid gets in and that a ceasefire be you put in place. in particular, we're seeing from the israeli public, they are frustration with the fact that their own hostages they're not actually being prioritized. instead, we have the prime minister whose political future depends on this war going on for as long
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as possible. he's, he's talked about going after lebanon as well. i know that the us government is trying to do everything they can to prevent that, but thus far, i shouldn't say everything they can. they're they're not doing everything they can to prevent that. i would argue they need to use all the leverage to make sure is neither expands the war and agrees to a ceasefire and exchange of hostages from both sides. and to bring in the necessary aid. >> you told my colleague christiane amanpour today that you speak for quote, many people when standing against the us government's guys a policy i wonder when you, when you left, when you made your resignation public, when you wrote this opinion piece for cnn, did many people, many of your colleagues come to you and say we're backing you they >> have i was not planning initially to go public i was only at the state department a brief time but when i started to tell people that i was planning to resign quietly, they said please reconsider, please please go public. if
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you'd be willing to so i decided i would. and since then i have had people reach out to me i think my greatest concern is that by cohen public, i might somehow undermine some of these efforts in the state department is doing very important work here but i do think that public pressure is why we're starting to see the administration shifting here. and it is the administration that is making these decisions. it's the president who is deciding what our policy towards israel and regarding gaza is going to be. so even though there are many people inside state who disagree with this, it's going to take the president changing his mind before we see a new policy. >> let me ask you this because as you, as you say, there has been both private and public pressure increasing from president biden and the white house in recent days and weeks on israel, for instance, not to go into rafah in gaza that's insufficient in your view. what would be sufficient in your view from the us side? >> i i think the us needs to uphold our own laws. we have the leahy laws that would
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stipulate that us foreign military assistance cannot go two units of a foreign military, that, are engaged in gross human rights violations also, a foreign government that is preventing us humanitarian aid is no longer eligible for us military assistance. we're not upholding those laws. i think we could start there. just start up holding our own laws. i think this is particularly crucial not only for the people of gaza, but this administration has tried to distinguish itself from the previous administration as one that not only believes in the rule of law but that believes in america's role in the world and wanted to re-establish america as a leader. not only in terms of, i know you've done work on great power company in petition. but if america is not going to distinguish itself from some of our adversaries that engage in these sorts of human rights violations why should the rest of the world look to us as a leader? >> the loss or soft power. dr. annelle sheline, she learned, thanks so much for sharing your point of view. appreciate
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for the best they're all in the game >> i'm paula reid in washington, and this is cnn >> in our national lead. consider this, may ask yourself how you would feel if this happened to your family right now in an upscale part of atlanta and historic cemetery with graves dating back to slavery is now so overgrown as you can see the descendants of people buried there aren't even allowed to visit. now there's a legal fight over who is supposed to maintain the site of these nickel graves. cnn's rafael romo went to the cemetery at it. so unrecognizable now it looks like a forest >> this was cleared >> it was you could walk up the heat of had first sight. >> this looks >> like a forest, but look closer and you'll see the rocks here are engraved even see a tombstone right there. >> this one acre plot of land, this >> back in the heart of buckhead, an upscale community in atlanta can you tell us how many members of your family
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were buried here? >> my grandmother, my grandfather >> i have a baby, brother two great >> grandmother's >> uncles, and aunts. >> pine grove cemetery, a historic african american graveyard that trace since its roots to the 19th century, is now at the center of a legal battle between sisters run the jackson and audrey collins, descendants of people buried here and the bluffs atlantic's homeowners association, which now owns this land, we cleared all of this all this was clean a few years ago in the lawsuit filed in january, the sisters claimed the hoa has failed to clean and maintain the cemetery, but also has interfered with plaintiff's rights under georgia law to care for and maintain the cemetery but the hoa claims the cemetery was abandoned before it acquired the land and until recently, no one took responsibility for maintaining it. >> the plaintiffs themselves had been to the cemetery when they were children and had not
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been back in years and when they got back, it was overgrown and it was difficult to find grave markers sen. boundaries. >> the >> thick vegetation here has made it very difficult, if not impossible for the surviving relatives of the people buried here to visit their graves >> but we were >> able to get to the top of the hill and this is what we found. this is the grave of joshua tamas, buried in 1987. he happens to be the grandfather the two sisters who filed the lawsuit according to the georgia trust for historic preservation at pine grove, there are over 300 burials, some of which are believed to be burials for enslaved individuals. in other people who came from thriving african american communities that were displaced over several decades that's been going on since emancipation, where african american communities are displaced through a >> measure of different tactics for the last few years, the sisters in a small group of
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supporters have been fighting a losing battle against the vegetation that is so thick, they can no longer reach there the grandmother's grave to treacherous going up the hill and 71 years old, almost 72 with a bad hip. i guess i get emotional because on the very first cleanup i promised my grandma when we cleaned her graves, i said, i promise you, this is not going to happen again. we're going to make sure that you've are treated with respect >> jamous, you can see around me the neighborhood near the cemetery has seen tremendous development over the last a decades. a judge robert mcburney, who's presiding this case, said during the first hearing that well, it is important for development to occur. it must be done in a thoughtful way so that sites so if historical significance don't disappear, jim, back to you, need rafael romo. thanks so much. >> just in an invitation from house >> republicans for president biden to testify, plus the plan
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>> nice one. kelly ll florida. every step covered this situation with wolf blitzer next one cnn >> in our leads around the world house oversight committee chairman james comer has officially invited president joe biden to testify at a public i'm hearing. house republicans are looking to revive interest in their still stalled impeachment inquiry. don't hold your breath though the white house is calling the invitation, quote sad stunk an impeachment trial for homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is now set senate majority leader chuck schumer says senators will be sworn in this jurors on april 11th, one day after the house sends over the articles of impeachment, house republicans impeach mayorkas in february over his handling of the southern border a new plan could save one of
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italy's famous leaning towers. it's the gallery sender tower built in the 12th century, thousand years ago, an artist's rendering shows how equipment from italy's famous leaning tower of pisa will be used to stabilize the guards center tower the mayor says it could take six months to adapt the equipment cost by $20 now the cambridge, england, a statue commemorating a royal family member which a local official referred to as quote, rather ugly, will finally be taken down the 13 foot panic grim, reaper, voldemort looking monstrosity is supposed to honor the late prince philip. and his ten years chancellor of chancellor of cambridge university. today, the cambridge council told cnn, it was installed in several places on the campus over the years without proper planning and discussion you can follow the show on x at the lead cnn. and if you ever, ms an episode of the leaving i can listen to the show wherever you get your podct