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welcome to this special 8:00 hour of the "cnn newsroom." im jim acosta in washington and we begin this hour with an emotional anniversary of a pivotal moment in american history. on a busy weekend when the race for the white house was taking shape. president joe biden was in selma, alabama, today for the anniversary of bloody sunday, and a speech before some of the countrys most prominent civil rights leaders. while outside washington, a very different scene in a very different speech,...

Path back to the presidency. and if theres anything youve learned about trump, its that you have to take him at his word. and those watch words for this campaign will be retribution or revenge, both electorally and actually. electorally, theyve largely purged the republican party of centrist and moderate republicans in elections, but i say "actually," because a lot of people, myself included and other ex-republicans, have literally been chased out of the party with intimidation and violence. its...