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morning. we have major announcements, joe biden will hold a phone call with the president of china. the state department offers a deal to russia to get brittney griner and paul whelan release from jail in moscow. at what price? we have the host of way too early and the bureau chief of politico, and the author of the big lie. we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, and the former chairman of the republican national committee. good morning to you all. lets dive in after a year a...

ugh. >> woke. >> no, no. dont pay attention. its all just nonsense. dont get caught up. this too shall pass. >> wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. >> are you even woke? >> woke culture is garbage. >> oh, god. so much yelling. so much fighting. >> this is where woke goes to die. >> getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. >> arent things bad enough? do we have to fight about this word? >> woke. >> woke. >> woke. >> you are so woke. ...

midterms. punching ballots yesterday giving insight how voters are feeling ahead of november. pat ryan projected to win the states 19th district special election. his campaign pushed hard on the issue of abortion offering insight into the potential impact of overturning roe versus wade heading into the midterms. in florida ron desantis will face-off against a former member of his party, charlie crist as they look to slow desantis ahead of 2024. >> ill going to beat this guy and as long...

of grain from occupied areas of ukraine as some countries grapple with shortages. one woman has died and a man is in hospital with life—threatening injuries following a gas explosion that destroyed a house in birmingham and damaged at least three others. former prime minister sirjohn major is giving evidence at a public inquiry looking into how thousands of people were infected with hiv or hepatitis c through contaminated blood in the 70s and 80s. suffered incredibly bad luck. and in...

the lead plaintiff in a landmark same-sex marriage case joins me tonight. he with begin tonight with a theme that, by now, may be familiar to viewers of this show. repeal the 20th century. the notion that, for many on the far right, the good ole days start with 17 and 18, as in hundreds. the era where men were men and is womener property. and the 20th century, the american century, was literally the ruin of this country as a christian nation the onset of workers rights and social saf...

jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the new...

that it was all a lie and never happened. lets go to cnns drew griffin, who has been found a trough in the start. drew, first break down the verdict for us. how exactly did the jury get to the figure of four point $1 million. >> the jury was asked a series of questions. keep in mind, they came in only for the punishment phase or money face. alex jones was fined liable by the fault in this case. one of the cases was for the father of -- he claimed definition. that defamation is what the...

that believe the false claims of a hoax, spewed by jones in his absolute basis argument that the newtown parents were actors. the number also factored into the emotional and mental anguish that the parents suffered, there i say continue to suffer from the day four years of harassment from jones and his followers. a seemingly last-ditch effort to try to save himself, including finally acknowledging what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his wor...

>> jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course, the hour-long phone call that then-president trump had in january with these election officials in the state of georgia. mainly the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you heard from today. and im told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of that call with claims from trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands of dead people had voted, an...

for democrats its full steam ahead and working in a rare saturday session. the process is very lengthy. well see it kick off tomorrow afternoon and stretch over the course of the weekend because the rules would tell you once they go on the motion to proceed, the first process in order to get on to this bill, they then have to go through 20 hours of debate at least and then there are other things that republicans can do to try to slow it down before this so-called vote-a-rama period, an...