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>> well, we do have a small number of researchers who have been doing research during the past 20 years. but its not nearly enough. we have over 32,000 people who are dying of gun violence every year in america. and there is so much information that we dont have. we dont know what are the best ways that we can prevent a teenager from committing suicide with a gun. where are the urban violence that is happening, where are those guns coming from. are they illegal? are they legal? what are the best...

>> thats in the low 20s. he probably has a hard ceiling, too, which is the low 30s. look, this isnt a two-candidate race. its a 13 or 14-candidate race. 26, 27 that are steady for you is plenty good. >> hillary clinton beating them all. shes doubled her lead, or increased her lead. shes got a 2:1 lead over bernie sanders. >> absolutely. >> 60% to 30% is a resounding lead. >> for democrats, the paris attacks reinforced having a candidate that served as the secretary of state. long experience in t...

Parenthood is fully cooperating with congress. we have provided tens of thousands of pages of documents. i spent five hours in front of a congressional committee. we are fully cooperative. they have found zero evidence of any wrongdoing at planned parenthood. we now have a record five committees by this u.s. house of representatives trying to investigate planned parenthood. i frankly think that what i wish congress would spend their time on is thinking about how to get more women in this country...

The sad fact of kabul today. but this one serious enough they wanted to share with american citizens. they have an obligation to share that with american citizens. it showhouse the consistent level of a terror threat on the ground there. >> absolutely, jim sciutto, thank you for reporting on both of those breaking stories. next, more than seven months after the death of freddie gray, today the first of six baltimore police officers goes on trial. we will take you live to the courthouse. also a...

The notion that theyve been concerned for years with regard to islamic radicalization at paris airports and transit systems. now it gave cnn some pretty grim numbers of how many transit workers left for syria. >> right. absolutely, brooke. according to this source, as many as 100 or more of the members of the transportation system here in france, employees, have made visits or trips to syria since 2012. now, remember, the conflict there began in 2011. so its not like this is a time many people w...

We had a plane crash over the sinai and it is lockerbie all over, and a bomb aboard more than likely by an airport worker who was a able to sneak it through. in america, could that happen? >> well, ashleigh, absolute ly. i mean, the ground staff, baggage handlers are not as vetted as well as tsa or the government employees. they are low-paid. they are not being watched as they move around the airport. security backgrounds may, you know, the fbi may approach a suspect, and say, are you radicalize...

Is that there are two threats to this. there is the threat of part of this ongoing investigation into the broader network around the paris attacks, but there is also this very real, very imminent threat of a paris-style attack that theyre trying to come to terms with and really trying to get ahead of. and we get that sense, also, because of the sparseness of the details that theyre willing to share. even when we were standing on that street corner, watching those searches, very quickly, police v...

Sort of trying to have a low profile, and why would he be acting in that way. this is not adding up and it is a puzzle for all of us looking at it how it could have happened and for the police, it is an important lead in the investigation as they are digging deeper, poppy. >> absolutely, nic robertson, and stay with me, because i want the to get paul cruickshanks take on the fact that you have salah abdeslam, the eighth attacker still on the run from paris to belgian and he is still on the run. ...

Investigation. the latest on the search for salah abdeslam? >> absolutely, don, the latest we have is the search for salah abdeslam has been expanded to france and belgium and the netherlands. the netherlands says that it is a global manhunt. and abdeslam in the past has spent time in the netherlands. and one of the things we have to keep in mind is that this is the guy in the cell who rented some of the cars. one of the cars that was rented was found in a paris neighborhood here very close to w...

Of this plot. paul tells us hes been linked to other plots, which have failed in the past. paul? >> thats all absolutely right, christiane. but i have new information from a senior belgian counterterrorism official. and he tells me that information coming in to french and belgian investigators indicated that high-priority targets were at the address being targeted in saint-denis, in this raid. and they possibly, according to our conversation, included abdel-hamid abu oud. but this was a hypothes...