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it, it's today. >> good to see you. kaitlan is on assignment. so we're going to start with catching you up on the five big stories on "cnn this morning." we're looking more about the suspect in the new year's eve machete attack. sources say the 19-year-old wrote of his desire to join the taliban in afghanistan and diaz a martyr. he's currently in custody in a new york city hospital where he's recovering from a gunshot wond. the three officers injured in the machete attack have all been treated and released. also, this morning, the suspect charged with murdering four university of i...

Thank you. thank you very much. >> her daughter emerson not yet five months old too young to know the history her mother has made. >> emerson in just a few generations our family has gone from lynching to law school, from injustice to a capital j justice. >> from injustice to capital j justice is really -- it's amazing. it's amazing that we can make this type of progress for our family. >> what do you say to people who look at the state of racism in america today and don't see it as enough progress? >> it's not. it's not enough. it's absolutely unacceptable that in 2022 we are just now having ...

I know that was tough on you and i know he is proud of you speaking out this morning, having the courage, are you getting the help you need to find this guy? what do you need? >> i don't know, i've never been on live tv before, i don't know if it is appropriate to share the hashtag. >> griff: of course you can. >> that would be great, so we have set up a hashtag justice for grandpa gary, capital j, f, g, capital g, go fund me page is grandpa gary gone too soon. so besides those two things, i'd like to comment that the hil hillsborrough police department is doing all they can with resources the...

You can't use the absolutely contradictory images of james comey to your own purposes. he can be somewhere on the perspective, but he cannot be the pro's pro and the idiot. >> jim comey did this too. we are big capital j justice. we are fighting for the independence of the justice department in disciplined ways. you want us to believe as attorney general you never said to the president, you know, mr. president, firing the guy investigating you is not the wisest course of action. i would love to find out if that conversation occurred or if sessions said i'll leave it to him. >> jeffrey, let's t...

Messy. there's no disputing that. it's messy. even if he saw the report, and as a result of seeing that report and then going before upwards of 9,000 people who were in front of him in that hangar and the millions more who were watching it on television, i mean this speaks to responsibility or lack thereof when it comes to words coming out of a president's mouth. >> fred, he was talking about last night. this is not some general social trend that maybe we're concerned about. i mean the level of sloppiness is so much greater than anything, even frankly the worst of our profession has performed ...