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good morning good morning, everyone. lets get started. it is wednesday, april 26th. a debt ceiling plan vote today. its no the clear if they have the votes, right? president biden says he is going to veto the bill. >> sounds like they dont. also today, the taliban killed a suspected isis mastermind who was behind that 2021 suicide bombing at the kabul airport. that is when they killed 13 u.s. service members. this is according to the white house. the pentagon says the u.s. was not in...

age. >> bianca nobilo is at windsor castle for us. this is obviously an emotional day for the royal family. >> reporter: emotional, historic and poignant. in half an hours time there will be the final farewell to the late queen elizabeth ii, and that will take place in a private burial ceremony. we have very few details about that, but it just involves the closest members of the royal family. this morning we had the grand funeral in westminster abbey, and then the committal service her...

make men more responsible fathers. thats one argument made to our report, youll want to hear the exchange for yourself. good evening, im erin burnett, out front on this friday, deep concern, white house officials privately expressing whats described as deep concern over classified documents found at trumps mar-a-lago home. the white house has remained silent publicly, but cnn learning tonight that behind closed doors its a very different story. concerns are mounting that the informatio...

>> reporter: according to a senior administration official this was months in the make pentagon, months of negotiations between the u.s. and taliban that led to this. over the course of that period of time it became clear that the key to getting mark release was bashi noorzai, a drug trafficker here in u.s. prison and president biden decided back in june hed grant him clemency. it took time for them to release mark frerichs and his family is very, very excited. coming out, his sister saying this...

National archives, thats something were hearing from the white house about what they are wondering here and they want to know what it was that was taken to mar-a-lago. >> after the fbi search to mar-a-lago, we got the property search of what they took with us. they released the warrant and the receipt. there was one curious entry, info re president of france, and i know you have been looking p into this. what are you learning? >> reporter: thats actually one of the concerns that the white house ...

Think about his role in the murder. after more than 18 years in prison, he asked the governor of california to grant him clemency. citing his youth when he committed the crime, and his exemplary conduct in president. governor reduced his sentence the 20 is the. life two years later, he was paroled. the councils are unhappy that billy is free, and still it remains that unanswered question, why did amy want to ricky dead. where she so in mature, is that possible? that she just -- the idea of deali...

Will be -- victims will be allowed to. >> yes. um, and i have written -- i wrote a letter to the judge, previously, asking him, um, to be hard and to be harsh because, again, i dont think this was an accident. um, in any way, shape, or form. um, i have always said that something wasnt right about this accident because it -- like i said, its not an accident, its an incident. he could have avoided it and didnt. um, there are two victims that havent been able to -- we havent heard from their famili...

Mederos was driving 85 miles an hour back in 2019 when he says his brakes failed. he caused that crash that killed not only four people but as you mentioned, injured numerous other people. he was not found to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. the prosecution argued he should have used a runaway ramp to prevent that crash. he was found guilty on 27 different charges, which include several counts of vehicular homicide as well as vehicular assault. um, but because of colorados mandatory m...

Because colorados mandatory minimum sentencing laws requires sentences for each of those counts to be served consecutively rather than concurrently, he is facing more than a century behind bars. his attorney calling for legal reforms. take a look. >> the law doesnt really distinguish between people like mr. maderos who is not a danger to society, and other people that are sentenced to life that are a danger to society. and i think the law needs to make those kind of exceptions, and understand th...

Who is not a danger to society and other people that are sentenced to life that are a danger to society and i think the law needs to make those kind of exceptions and understand that there is a difference between mr. mederos and those other kinds of people. >> reporter: now this petition to change the sentencing from the prosecution came after the case sparked nationwide outrage. nearly 5 million signatures on a petition asking the colorado governor to reduce the sentence or to grant him clemenc...