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thank you for wicking up with us. i am amara walker. >> im paula reid in for boris sanchez and i am thrilled to be back with you today. >> thanks for coming back. i am glad we didnt scare you away. well, we are following two top stories this morning. a solemn moment expected today in alabama. president biden will visit selma to mark an important moment in civil rights history. the 58th anniversary of bloody sunday. and a raucous welcome for former patient. the conservative political ...

down the financial sector. coming on the heels of the major collapse of silicon valley pank. well dig into the investigations now being launched into svb, including whether bank executives sold any stock before the spectacular meltdown also right now, abortion rights are firmly in the spotlight in a texas courtroom a judge is set to gavel in a high-stakes hearing over whether to pull a major abortion pill off the market were expecting crowds of support etc. to gather outside the cour...

fresh calls for voting protections. this has been a theme throughout his administration and one in which he will use this opportunity in selma to call for that. again, the white house says that president biden will be delivering remarks when he is there. he wants to make sure that we are not erasing history, we are commemorating it. thats what the white house says about his remarks. also, he will note that voting rights is integral to economic justice and civil rights for black america...

it for them. >> but what can his party accomplish without control of the house? house democratic leader hakeem jeffries joins me exclusively next. and crime and punishment. concerns about crime contribute to a democratic mayors loss and now the president sides with republicans on blocking a local d.c. criminal justice law. are democrats vulnerable on crime ahead of 2024? ill speak exclusively to new york city mayor eric adams in moments. plus, sidestepping trump. dueling republican eve...

>> and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, i am your retribution. i am your retribution. >> fiery words from donald trump in front of a very supportive crowd. well bring you the message he and other republicans brought to cpac. ohio once again facing a train derailment. details plus the latest from the toxic spill in east palestine is just ahead. and later, one ukrainian mothers journey to america, with her children to escape the horrors of war. the remarkable path she took...

>> anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, "what good is america?" well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place -- one st...

>> mount view on three. one, two, three! >> mount view! >> some people must live in great spaces, where the sky goes on forever, where everyone must bend to the land. where to hunt, to fish, to sleep under that big sky arent activities, but a way of life. >> it was right here in those mountains that the cheyenne and crow battle took place. but i like it. its very peaceful. >> what was it like a hundred years ago? two hundred years ago? >> oh, not much different. this was never forested...

have access to an abortion pill. this hour, president biden will announce he is running for a second term as early as next tuesday. the anniversary of his 2020 announcement will that set up a rematch with donald trump and as we celebrate earth day tomorrow, ill be joined by white house special presidential envoy john kerry as the u.n. secretary-general criticizes the biden administrations progress in reducing greenhouse gases enough to avoid a disastrous outcome for the world. go...

police have permanently disbanded the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit, the unit associated with officers involved in the killing of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old man beaten after a traffic stop. the videos were about to show you are graphic and disturbing, but of course they are critical to understanding what happened to this 29-year-old man. >> as you can hear in the video, nichols cries out for his mother, who was just a few blocks away. officers continued to hit and spray nichols, struggling ...

in memphis, its important to see the body cam and cctv footage. keep in mind, tyre nichols was pulled over for allegedly reckless driving. this was about 8:30 p.m. on saturday, january 7th, and initially was taken down by the police. he was not cuffed, and got up at one point and fled during an altercation. body cam footage shows a very lengthy struggle with the police, with tyre nichols, even after police deployed both a taser and pepper spray. there is a question as to whether the ta...