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i m sara sidner in new york. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news. former president jimmy carter is receiving hospice care at his home in plains, georgia. sources tell cnn president biden is staying in close contact with the family. let s go now to cnn s jeff zeleny in washington. what more have you learned since we ve just heard this not too long ago. we are learning this this afternoon and the carter center advised something we had not known, the former president has had a brief series of hospital stays. he made the decision to spend his final days to enter hospice care in plains, georgia. that is really so extraordinary because that of course is where the former president has sent his entire life with the exception, of course, of his four years here in washington at the white house as well as his military service as a young man. he went home to plains, georgia, in his post-presidency, and that s where he s b ....
has dropped, this time focusing on how the social media company rigged the covid debate, but elon musk teasing more files to come, aisha hosni joins us tonight, good evening. speak a good evening to you, in a brief thread, they say both a trump by the white house directly press twitter to moderate covid content however they saw fit. and that the platform often times complied. today s newly released twitter files focused on the pandemic. and how the government tried to control the narrative. writer david says the trump white house came looking for help from the tech company is to combat misinformation about runs on grocery stores, but there were runs on grocery stores. also reveals that twitter monitored the trump white house sharing an email exchange where twitter s former deputy general counsel jim baker asked why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid misinformation policy. twitter s form of trust and ....
president biden addressing the nation tonight, marking one year of covid, saying the virus has exacted a terrible toll on all americans but offering messages of hope. tonight i m announcing that i will direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than may 1. the president saying he will not relent until we beat covid-19. he s ramping up a massive nationwide effort to re-open schools safely, and saying he s hopeful that in americans pull together and get vaccinated we can gatter in small groups with family and friends to celebrate the 4th of july this year. joining me now to discuss, cnn correspondent john hardwood and dr. jonathan reiner the, director of the cardiac catheterization program. president biden is making promises everyone is going to be eligible for a vaccine by may 1st. a barbecue with the family, friends on the 4th of july. he s setting high expectations. now he s going to have to ....
Issues all across the united states siand the world. what do you think? well, i tell you, when you look at the pictures from a couple of weeks ago when they were intentionally flaming off that vinyl chloride, it looked like the end of the world. it s a miracle no one died. like another norfolk southern crash 18 years ago in south carolina, killed nine people with ammonia gas. it s a miracle nobody is hofld n hospitalized now, they have property values to worry about, their inventory in their stores are contaminated all of that. this strikes me as the first big toxic spill of the age of toxic politics, and as much as governor mike dewine tries to manage this and calm fears and say we have tested the water so much, the air is okay. you can go back to your homes. even his own state senators in his party are going on the media saying i don t believe him, because i get a sore throat. after, you know, the covid debate around masks and ....