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welcome to this special 8:00 hour of the "cnn newsroom." i'm 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 country's most prominent civil rights leaders. while outside washington, a very different scene in a very different speech, as former president donald trump spoke to the conservative political action conference, vowing re...

Haley, mike pompeo, tiptoeing and tap dancing around former president. they don't want to take him on by name. and i just wonder, how does one win the republican nomination without confronting donald trump in that sort of mano y mano fashion? it seems to me you'll have to confront him at some point? >> that's one of the deep, deep ironies here, jim. one of the deep ironies, these people have their own political ambitions to become president of the united states, but because they didn't stand up and say publicly what they actually believed privately, there's not much daylight between them and d...