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China number one was lets try this again. What do you see . Ring oh, my god youre in the cnn newsroom. Im jessica dean in new york, former President Trump goes from the courtroom to the campaign trail. Hes about to start speaking to supporters at a rally on the jersey shore. Its his first rally since adult film star Stormy Daniels took the stand in his Hush Money Trial in new york city now trump remains under a gag order. The judge in his trial has threatened the former president with jail time if he violates that order. Again, which would include talking about any of the witnesses, plus trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen, the key witness for the prosecution. Fusion, set to take the stand now, on monday. So why is trump choosing new jersey for his Campaign Rally . Its not exactly trump country, but where he actually speaking, where hes actually speaking is cnns alayna trina joining us now, live with more alayna, new jersey, a blue state, pretty reliably, but he has found that at pocket thats very supportive of him he has. And as you can see behind me, jessica, this rally has already started. And you can see that he has a ton of supporters here, a ton of rally goers, and wild when new jersey, part of the jersey shore is also intake may district, which is a very red district, did actually when 4 trunk in the last two elections, despite him losing the overall state of new jersey to biden in 2020 by roughly 16. 9. I also just want to address something that he brought up in your intro there, which is that donald trump is still under a gag order. I think its gonna be very difficult for the former president to avoid being able to with tap people like Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen. At this point during the trial, we are just off the heels of a very explosive testimony from Stormy Daniels this past week and he knows that Michael Cohen, his former fixer, is testifying on monday and something i consistently hear behind the scenes from Donald Trumps advisers is that they think its unfair that the witnesses are able to tell their side of the story, and that donald trump can and its something donald trump is clearly very angry about behind the scenes. So keep that in mind for when donald trump takes the stage and just a few moments. The other thing i want to point out about new jersey is it is interesting that they are here picking a battlegrounds or excuse me, a state that is not a Battleground State, new jersey, as you mentioned, is very blue. Trumps campaign argues that they think they have been able to get some supporters here and some Media Attention from the nearby or actual Battleground State of pennsylvania. But at the end of the de, its an interesting choice particularly because donald trump really hasnt campaign that much on the sidelines of this trial. This is a third rally since the trial began really only a second day of actual campaigning since the trial began. And so when i talked to other republicans, they admit and acknowledged that it is kind of odd that he chose to campaign in new jersey and not a more critical Battleground State for his campaign ahead of november, jessica. All right. A layman train for us and wild would new jersey. Thanks so much for that reporting. And i want to bring in seen and senior political analyst and Senior Editor at the Atlantic Brown brown steen, Ron Great To Trump has said it has complained again and again. He wants to be on the campaign trail. This is keeping him off the campaign trail, but he gets this day off from court and hes choosing new jersey, which of course is close to where he has his golf club in bedminster also in new jersey, but its a blue state is this just a morale boost for him to with Friendly Faces and adoring fans. I mean, i guess you could argue hell get some mileage out of the Philadelphia Television market yeah. Who doesnt want to go to the jersey shore i will i will i will i will forgive him i will forgive him for that, but look, i mean, it is a broader issue. Right. Which is that there are a lot of republicans or an easy donald trump has never been a kind of vigorous campaign. Her, in terms of doing a lot of appearances, theres a lot of handwringing and concern and republican circles that theyre not building the Campaign Organizations that they will ultimately need if it is a photo finish kinda close race. In many of the swing states. At the moment, theyre doing fine and swingstate polling even better than they are. I think in national polling. So theres less pressure on him there might be, but if as the year goes on if in fact the situation titans in many of the swing states, i think theres gonna be a lot of anxiety among republicans about the time they lost in the spring. Forget about his campaigning, just building the Building Blocks of a campaign in these, in these states, which has not happened thank at the rate that many local republicans expected or hoped and alayna brought this up, but he is of course still subject to that gag order that he has now violated multiple times. The judge in the case has said that if he keeps doing it, hes going to put them in jail. He doesnt want to do that. How hard do you think its going to be tonight for him . To not violate weve seen him kind of shift who he goes after. Now he goes after the judge, which is allowed under the gag order yeah. The thing is now trump is running for president , and that has a certain set of expectations with it. And hes also someone who has spent his whole life really behaving as though he believes the rules that apply to others dont apply to him. So its kind of in character that he is lashing out in all of these ways against all of these prosecutors and judges that we have seen for months. But in this instance, hes a criminal defendant. Right. And he is ultimately subject to the same restrictions that other criminal defendants face. The judge, if anything has been extremely accommodating and obviously does not want to take the step of putting trump in any kind of prison like or even some people like it, it too illegal timeout kind of circumstance but he is a criminal defendant and ultimately the judge does have to defend the sanctity of the criminal Justice System it at times it seemed as though trump is daring him to give him some kind of a sanction like that. But well see again tonight how far he goes yeah. And Alayna Treene has some newer reporting that Robert Kennedy juniors campaign has gone from a perceived nuisance to a political problem in the eyes of the trump campaign, theyre not categorizing it as a threat, but theyre describing the Kennedy Campaign as a problem. What do you make of that yeah its very hard to calculate exactly how kennedy is going to affect each state. I mean, in general, i think it is hard to elections have shown us that its very difficult for donald trump to get to 50 of the votes. So anything that reduces the number you need to win in these states, in some ways, benefits him. But i think what youre were going to see is both biden and trump highlight the aspects of kennedy that are most repellant and effect to their own voters. I mean, from the Point Of View of the trump campaign, they want to highlight that hes an environmentalist and you know, kind of a tag him with the Green New Deal from the biden campaign. They really want to stress that hes an antivax kind of extremist and a way to kind of peel to those. But each side, i think in the end is going to see kennedy as something that could either be a weapon wielded against them or for them on the other side, depending on who they can kind of define him as attractive to and whose they can define him as ideologically unacceptable to so its gonna be a very complex and fluid and i egg situation. And i bet theres going to be a fair amount of third party spending, independent Spending Slash Conspiracy Theory elements of the Kennedy Campaign. In a way designed to make it more attractive and more or less attractive to either sayyed. And its gonna be really interesting to see how that plays out. I also wanted to ask you about these comments from President Trump, who this week denounced Jewish Voters whose support president joe biden, we can listen to what he said the fact is a crooked joe. Hey israel and he hates the jewish people. Theres no question about that. And if jewish people are going to vote for joe biden, they have to have their head examined. Hes a disaster for israel. The problem is that he hates the palestinians, also and even more so, and he just doesnt know what to do. Hes a confused man. Ron what what is he talking about . Is this effective at all well, its reflective, i think in many ways of where we are a joe biden obviously has been a staunch supporter of israel for his entire career. The fact that even joe biden has been driven driven to the point that he has in terms of threatening to withhold offensive, not defense of Offensive Weapons from israel if they invade rafah in my view is a testament to Bibi Netanyahu is legacy in american politics and hes essentially shatter the bipartisan consensus that made israel on a saleable in us politics for many years and left israel almost entirely dependent on one and not anti almost increasingly dependent on one party. The most conservative elements of the Republican Party the fact is, is that a broad range of us voters, including a substantial portion of jews as well hello, his young voters and other elements with a Democratic Coalition are deeply alienated from the way israel and netanyahu has pursued this war. And so trump is trying to slice off a piece of the jewish electorate which is roughly threetoone democratic. But in so doing, he is sending an important reminder to all of those problems protesters on College Campuses or elsewhere who are essentially saying they want to withhold their vote from biden because he went too far down the road of enabling netanyahu in this war. The reality is, if they do that at trump is making very clear they are going to empower someone whos going to give netanyahu and israel even loro to pursue the war in gaza, the way they want, as well as Stephen Miller openly threatening trumps top Immigration Advisor to deport propalestinian demonstrators if they are returned to power in 25. So trumps comments, i think are just very reflective of how the political debate about israel has evolved in the, and i think you can lay that almost ukulele that overwhelmingly at the doorstep of netanyahu and his strategy really going back to the Clinton Administration of allying with the right in the and resisting rejecting, renouncing pretty much anything democratic president s have asked him to do all right ron, brown seen great to have you. Thanks so much thanks for having me. 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Now, with Stanley Steamer, your air ducts are clean until theyre Stanley Steamer clean how it really happen tomorrow at nine on cnn tonight we are tracking several new developments happening now in gaza israels military is ordering immediate evacuations in parts of eastern rafah, where more than 1 million palestinians have been taking shelter. The idf saying about 300,000 people have so far fled the evacuations happening following deadly overnight airstrikes in northern there are none central gaza hospitals in the area say the strikes killed at least 47 people while another 15 were killed in separate strikes in rafah earlier today, the idf appearing to intensify its Military Operations just days after President Biden threatened to withhold weapons i made it clear that if they go into rafah, they havent gone in rafah yet if they go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities that deal with that problem. And now a new state Department Report investigating whether israel violated International Humanitarian law threatens to widen the rift between the two leaders of those countries. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez is traveling with President Biden this weekend in seattle. Priscilla, what is this new reports say . And how is the Biden Administration . Responding well, just got this was a highstakes and highly anticipated report that just marks another stark moment between the us and israel over israels war against hamas in gaza. Now this report was put together by the Biden Administration, and it felt that it found that it is reasonable to assess asked, but us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But it did stop short of saying israel violated that law. And of course this sounds from that february National Security memorandum that required a determination on this matter, and also whether for israel withheld humanitarian aid from gaza in violation of us law and while it is critical, it doesnt amount to any actions or mandate actions by the Israeli Government or mark any type of us Policy Change Toward Israel if thats Biden Administration officials have said that it marks its another tool that they can use in their ongoing discussions with israel. But of course this comes against the backdrop of that interview that you just played. There were President Biden said for the first time that he may withhold some weapons from israel if they embark in a major Ground Operation in rafah, of course that is where more than 1 Million Pounds sudans have fled after being displaced. And the administration doesnt see it as tenable for Israel To Go Into Rafah at this point and so while the president has made clear, he is willing to continue defensive weapons that could very well change with Offensive Weapons. So all of this to say, just because theres still underlying tensions here between the us us, and israel over this war. This report to smirking another moment in those tensions and priscilla, we did mention youre in seattle with the president. Hes been fundraising on the west coast all along the west coast this weekend. Whats the campaigns goal for this trip . Well, the campaign is trying to maintain their cash advantage over the republican rival former President Donald Trump. Fundraising has been a bright spot for the biden campaign. Theyre trying to keep that up now, as you mentioned, the president wasnt the bay area yesterday where he held fundraisers and he was here in seattle where he also held some fundraisers that trip is now concluded. Hes heading back to the east coast, but while he was Behind Closed Doors, he didnt needle his rival donald trump. He said today Behind Closed Doors that the former president is called unhinged and also thats something snapped in in him after the 2020 election, so clearly the president kneeling his rival while also try to draw a stark contrast with him and continuing to keep the focus on issues that his own campaign is really capitalizing on like abortion, protecting democracy and health care. So all of this, just a continuation with the president has done another west coast swing this year to continue to bring in that fundraising all right. Priscilla alvarez in seattle with President Biden. Thanks so much for that reporting. Joining us now is seen an military analysts kernel, Cedric Leighton kernel, great to have you. I first want to start with the state Department Report that doesnt go so far as to say that israel violated international law, but its certainly it had plenty to say the report saying, quote israel has the knowledge, experience, and tools to implement Best Practices for mitigating civilian harm in its Military Operations. From what weve seen with the types of weapons used. And in those areas, those have been used in. Is this report surprising to you oh, not completely. Jessica, i think its very interesting how they phrased everything and basically what theyre saying here is that israel has the targeting processes the structures in place, the organization in place, to conduct targeting in accordance with Internet National humanitarian law but it has apparently fallen short in the sense that it has not used those processes to the fullest extent possible. So what does that mean . That really means that israel has the capability to do the kinds of things we would expect over the us armed forces. But it hasnt quite reached that level of but of operational basically making these, these things work in an operational sense. And thats prevents itself with the difficulty we see that the israelis are using a lot of force and rafah, but they are not targeting in a very specific fashion. And that is the kind of thing that is not only true for rafah, but also true for all of gaza and President Biden has already paused the shipment of 2000 pound bombs and is threatened to withhold more Offensive Weapons, including artillery shells. Israel says, its going to continue with this mission to defeat hamas, despite that ultimatum. What type of an impact do you i think those types of bombs could have on a place like rafah well, 2000 pound bombs by themselves are actually not precision guided munitions. Theres something that we should clarify in order to actually be a precision guided munition. In 2000 pound bombs on the a special kid aside, associated with it, attached to it, which is called a j dem or joined direct attack munition. But putting that aside for a second, the 2000 pound bombs would cause a lot of damage, a lot of collateral damage. And what that would mean is, even if they were precisely targeting a specific area 30, i like a specific Tunnel Entrance or Something Like that what would happen is they would be a lot of damage in spite of any effort to contain that damage and thats what the Biden Administration is attempting to prevent theyre trying to contain that damage. Theyre trying to make sure that the israelis targeting only very specific areas. And this is really difficult military very problem for the Israeli Defense forces because of the way in which hamas has integrated itself into the gazan society. And basically physically integrated. Its Tunnel System into the living quarters of gazans, whether they were in rafah or any other part of gaza. This has been a problem for israel throughout the war is very different the cold to precisely target any type of hamas entity without affecting civilians in a very bad way, right . And just to give people context, my understanding is these 2000 pound bombs are some of the biggest ones that we have they are some of the biggest ones, but we also have bonds that are, theres one thats called the mother of all bombs or moab, which is ten times as big as a more than ten times as big as the 2000 pound bomb. So there are several bombs in the are still that are bigger than that. The israelis are reputed to have some bombs like that but they have not used them in gaza. The results, so the idea that the israelis have other bombs that are of a smaller variety that could be used in this. So they have plenty of bombs where they can still conduct these operations. But they wouldnt benefit from us bombs, at least. Those not in there a line of supply at the present time so im curious, just in your experience and expertise, then knowing what you just laid out that because it is difficult that hamas has the tunnels that are intertwined with a lot of civilian life there that does make it hard. But what can be done, thats not not just dropping a giant mom. Whats is there an inbetween that is effective there were several inbetweens, jessica and what the United States is trying to do is 20 to get the israelis to concentrate in a way that would use intelligence for precise attacks. So the israeli obviously do use intelligence from what theyre doing right now. But what they want to do is they want to get the us wants to get the israelis to focus on very specific targets and to use special Operations Forces and other means like that to go in after those targets. Support example, if you want to attack a leader like yahya sinwar, for example, the head of hamas in gaza then you would target that specific individual and not the area around that individual. So thats basically what theyre trying to do in essence, think of it as going for a bin laden raid as opposed to bombing in entire city block. All right, kernel, Cedric Leighton, always great to see you. Thanks so much. You bet jessica or three weeks into Donald Trumps Criminal Hush Money Trial. Were still waiting for the prosecutions most anticipated witness, though how testimony from trumps longtime fix or could impact the trial here on the scene . In israel he was trumps former lawyer and fixer. Now, Michael Cohen is expected to testify again. 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After he was Taunting Trump On Social Media with posts like you want, the one you see here cnns Kara Scannell has more prosecutor star witness, Michael Cohen is expected to testify on monday in former president Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. Cohen trumps former attorney and fixer. Is that the crux of the criminal case against him . Prosecutors say cohen paid off adultfilm star Stormy Daniels on trumps behalf to kill theyll her story of an alleged affair before the 2016 election. Trump denies the affair. Somebody pays and then paint. So it was a Legal Expense that somebody happening. I didnt do the bookkeeping. I didnt know about it. This is what the case cohen told his political beat down podcast cohost on thursday that he looks forward to testifying sooner or this thing starts, the sun to this thing finishes after a defense request, judge juan merchan told prosecutors he wants cohen to keep quiet about the case before he takes the stand, but he cant issue a gap. Go on a witness, something trump expressed frustration about there is no gag order to michael what did you actually did was amazing actually was amazing. Everybody can say whatever they want good say whatever they want. Im not allowed to say anything about anybody. Its a disgrace prosecutors called witnesses to the stand to help lay the groundwork for cohens upcoming testimony in at t analysts introduce cohens Phone Records and back on the stand, trumps former white house aide, Madeleine Westerhout testified about trumps reaction to the release of daniel story in 2018, westerhout Testified Trump was upset by it and her understanding was that it would be hurtful to his family. She later clarified trump did not specifically speak about his family in that conversation. Trumps lawyers suggested he made the 130,000 Hush Money Pay off to daniels in order to protect his family. Meanwhile, prosecutors argue he did it to influence the 2016 election, which was two weeks away, and came on the heels of the access hollywood tape, damaging his campaign when you were starting to let you do it . You can do anything but trumps lawyer, Susan Necheles as westerhout, about the process of trump signing checks, westerhout said trump would sign them while multitasking, doing things like talking on the phone or meeting with people. She described fedex thing, the sign checks back to the trump organization. Prosecutors used westerhout to show the Chain Of Command of checks like the one sent to cohen to reimburse him for the Hush Money Cohen testified before congress about the allegations in 20 donald trump wrote you a check out of his personal account while he was serving as president of the United States of america to reimburse you for Hush Money Payments . Yes, mr. Chairman. Another witness, a paralegal at the district attorneys office, read one of trumps tweets about the Monthly Payments to cohen, which trump called a retainer. Trump said mr. Cohen and attorney received the monthly retainer, not from the campaign, and having nothing to do with the campaign, the tweet came around the time his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, told fox news host sean hannity that trump reimbursed cohen for the hush money that cohen paid for it out of his own pocket, having something to do with paying some Stormy Daniels woman 130,000. I which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal that majdi was not campaign money. Theyve funneled through law firm followthrough, and the president repaid it that kept a week where the jury so the documents that were allegedly falsified, the invoices, the general ledger entries, and the checks. They also heard from the women at the center of these Hush Money Payments, Stormy Daniels next week, Michael Cohen will be facing off in court against the man he once said he would take a bullet for prosecutors, say they may rest there case by the end of the week all right. Kara scannell for us. Thanks so much for that update lets discuss now with former Trump White House lawyer now a cnn legal commentator, jim schultz. Jim, good to see you prosecutors have been building to this moment on monday when Michael Cohen, the man really at the center of this takes the stand he said hes ready the sooner he gets this over with, the sooner we get started, the sooner this will be over. And we have watched the prosecutors really trying to make sure he has a very Firm Foundation that hes not the only one that has to put all put forth all of this testimony that hes really going to be corroborating what other people perhaps without an ax to grind have been and saying, do you think theyve been effective at doing that since he is kind of an x factor, his background is a bit of an x factor as a witness what they, havent done successfully is kinda make that connection between the payment and then the Record Keeping associated with that payment. And tied it back to donald trump. If the relying on Michael Cohen for that, and Michael Cohen only in terms of direct evidence. Theyre going to have a real problem because his credibility is is in question here. Hes had issues and perjured himself in the past you know, hes hes certain theyre going to portray him as having a vendetta against trump and a vendetta against trump because he didnt end up in the white house. He wanted to go into the white house. He wanted to be part of the campaign. They didnt allow him to be part of the campaign according to hope hicks testimony one he wanted to be in that inner circle so badly and theyre going to try to portray it that he would do anything to get inside. And this was just another way to get there. I think thats what theyre going to be doing with Michael Cohen. And what do you think this facetoface encounter is going to look like . For these two men to be. I think youre going to have right next to each other yeah. I think youre going to have a lot of tension in the room. Theres no love lost between the two of them. I think Michael Cohen is itching to get on the stand. I think hes been looking forward to this day. Hes looking forward to telling his story in whatever that story may be. And i like i said, he said, i think they said he wanted to get it over with and that quote, i mean, this is really up until this moment, Michael Cohens like one of the most popular people in the world right now. People are listening to Michael Cohen after this testimony. Im not sure sure they will be do you think its going to test President Trumps selfcontrol because we saw him during story. Daniels, he would get really annoyed and the judge had to say to his attorneys, like please tell him to to kind of knock it off because he hit his desire and the way hes built is to attack back yeah. I look, i think this one definitely tests him and look, the judge recognize that too, by telling cohen no more tweets prior to your testimony, right. So i think the judges recognizing that certainly its going to take a lot of a lot of restraint on President Trumps part especially during the testimony, especially if it goes more people days, which i suspect it will. I think hes gonna have a hard time not getting out on truth, social, and bang and back and going out, walking out of the courtroom and attacking Michael Cohen because he feels like michael kahn has been attacking him the whole time. Right. And that he hasnt gotten to speak out against him how, does the defense approach this crossexamination . You said a little bit about it and when were talking a little bit earlier, that they can go after him in certain ways, but what do you how do you think theyre going to play this . Theyre going to attack him as theyre gonna, theyre gonna make the argument and theyre going to ask him questions that will allude to hes a perjure, hes a liar. He had a vendetta. He wanted to get in the white house, couldnt get in the white house. He saw this is his way in and would do anything to get there, including make this deal fill in and be part of the Business Records still that took place and that donald trump had nothing to do what it is, how theyre going to try to portray this. I think hes going to come out likely and say that the donald trump had everything to do with it. And its really going to be left than a juries hands as to who they believe. So its going to be all about attacking the credibility of Michael Cohen while the while the Prosecutor Fusion is going to try and build them up and we saw Stormy Daniels testifying for more than six hours for the prosecution. Do you think that her being on the Witness Stand was worth the risk for the prosecution . I think there was a big risk for the prosecution in terms of going that far down the road, in terms of the line of questioning, if they went to in terms of going into the detail that they went into, but again, they were trying to show that donald trump had every reason to kill this thing before the election. And they did that they were trying to do that through her testimony. Im not sure they needed to go that far. I think up a payment to a former porn star certainly is enough that in the world of politics to show that he wouldnt have wanted it there. I dont know that they needed to go that far. Mightve gone so far that the judge even acknowledge it shouldnt have come in and he did question the defense not objecting enough. I think the defenses strategy there was look, we dont want to hit over and over and over again on this because it draws more attention to the testimony and its likely not sitting well with the jury. And thats a strategic decision. They likely had to make and do you think also two, they were setting setting it up that if they if there was a conviction that part of that could be within their appeal, that some of that testimony yeah. I think thats yeah. I think thats going to be front and center on the appeal. Right. They did preserve their objections. The judge actually objected himself and was interjecting himself that creates a record. And thats certainly going to be one of many appealable issues that theyre going to take up at after this trial, should he be convicted all right. Jim schults for us. Thanks so much. We appreciate it. Thank you a Virginia School board is bringing back the names of confederate leaders just a few years after banning them and the move is sparking cheers and outrage from both parents parents, and students. Youll hear from the mall ahead and seen a newsroom lets try this again. What do you see . Our first step is ship and houston second championship. Salls not winning a championship. 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Com, im nonna in washington, and this is cnn tonight to Public Schools in virginia are getting new names. Actually theyre old names, the names of confederate officers on friday Shenandoah County school board voted to revert the names from for the racial reckoning of 2020 cnns raphael romo joins me now with more on all of this and raphael, it sounds like this community is heres lee divided over this decision. Now, fiercely divided is a gray way to put a jessica, lets remember, first of all, that its been less than four years since the Shenandoah County school board changed the names of two schools in their district named after confederate leaders. The 2020 move was part of a resolution condemning racism im in affirming its commitment to an Inclusive School environment according to school board documents. But in a Marathon Meeting that started thursday evening and ended early friday morning, the board voted five those names. The schools have been called Mountain View high school and Honey Run Elementary School since july 2000 21 now, they will be called Stonewall Jackson high school and ashby lee elementary school. Of kohrs. The schools had been named after Confederate Generals thomas Stonewall Jackson, robert de li, and turner ashby earlier today, cnn spoke with war and christian, the great, great grandson of Stonewall Jackson, my colleague victor blackwell, ask them his stake of the divisive issue, and this was part of his answer but honestly, i dont think it should matter so much. What i have to say about it the school board shouldnt particularly care what i have to say. I cant imagine they do but i, think who they should listen to is their own students. And he also said hes sad and disappointed by the reversal at the same time, he also praised a student who spoke at the Board Meeting for having the courage of taking a position that such an early age. The eighth graders said the board needs to make decisions that are in the best interest of all students even whether your attention, feelings of your black i got students just because it is your job to make our schools if a place where all students are your names, Mountain View and honey monday not devalued entire race of people, but names jackson jessica, others speaking up, the meeting set for them. This is also about preserving a part of American History that is important to some people, especially in the south i have to say that cnn reached out to the Shenandoah County school board members, gloria carlineo, one of those members told us her vote was based on how the names were changed in 2020, carlineo said that the decision was made in a matter of days and with covid19 restrictions that limited the communitys input, jessica, back to you. I fell romo. Thanks so much for that update and well be right back. 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