that make sense? >> yeah, and there won't be cameras in the courtroom, but there'll be cameras all around the courtroom and we'll watch trump's plane go to new york and we'll watch trump's motorcade go to the courthouse and there's something very white ford bronco about that. >> yeah. >> sarah, do you think that the trump trials should be televised? you wish it was? >> i hadn't thought about it until it's preconscious was just saying i certainly would love to see it. and i do think i think it would be bad for trump if it was televised. i think him sitting there and the way that he fights with the judge's like the reason he's been getting these big verdicts against him and these civil trials like the e jean carroll israel is because he's such a jerk in the courtroom he fights with the there's a reason there's a gag order on this one. he has been attacking the judge and the judge has family. and so i think if there were cameras, it would be bad for him instead, he gets to come out and control the environment with the cameras, which he likes. so yeah, i like to see this trial. yeah. and there's no unpredictably

unpredictability either around the moments that matter hey, happen in the courtroom. all right >> well how's that for the end of a friday. thanks. see you guys for being here. thanks to all of you for joining us as well. i'm kasie hunt cnn news central, strike right now. >> breaking overnight intrigue in trump legal world to trump lawyer turned political witnesses in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. is no long you're representing him. why this information is, quote disquieting to donald trump. >> next hour lawmakers will view classified information ahead of a key vote re authorizing the fisa bill we'll speaker mike johnson, be able to control his own party this morning still no change in the 1800s, near total ban on abortion error for zona. and today, the vice president heads to the scene what she plans to say. kate is out. i'm john

berman with sara sidner. this is cnn news central and breaking overnight. cnn got word that a key attorney to donald trump turned critical witness has left his legal team evan corporate was hired to help trump in the classified documents case but he became a central part of the very indictment because of the meticulous notes and memos he took about his interactions with trump. >> the >> indictment revert to corcoran as trump attorney one, at least 20 times. and it was from corporates note it's in memos that we learned that trump allegedly misled him about the whereabouts of the classified documents, encouraged him to lie to the justice department and withhold these documents allegedly if the case ever goes to trial, prosecutors could potentially call corporate as a key witness in this morning. we know he is out of the fold, and as maggie haberman told us overnight,

that is disquieting to donald trump. his departure comes just ahead of a hearing today for two of trump's co-defendants in that a case, trump aide, walt nauta and mar-a-lago employee carlos de oliviera, both hope a judge will toss the obstruction cases against them. first, let's talk about evan corcoran, cnn's kaitlan, poland's with us this morning. corcoran out of the fold he is indeed evan corcoran in this indictment against donald trump in the florida classified documents case. he's all over it. he's called trump attorney one multiple times because he was a witness to multiple things in this indictment. crucially, all of those allegations that donald trump was trying to obstruct the job justice department and the federal government from getting back classified records in his possession. >> trump attorney one's a pretty apt title for him >> to because he was not just part of the original team. he was the lead attorney for donald trump at a really important moment in the january

6 investigation, where the justice department was pursuing testimony from people as important as mike pence, that was evan corcoran, the man fighting those battles on the front line as the investigation board down before donald trump was charged after that, he became the person that the justice department compelled to testify. they forced him to come into the grand jury and reveal information, making him a cornerstone witness of this indictment in florida against donald trump. so he had continued on representing trump in the january 6 probe, but really was the person who witnessed something as significant as when done trump was talking to him about the classified records, found an apparently making reference to not wanting those classified records to be turned over. so specifically in the indictment, one things that happened is that corcoran goes to a storage room in mar-a-lago collects under us subpoenas orders 38

classified records that are in those storage room boxes. what some in an envelope talks to trump about it. and there about to turn them over to the fbi in june of 2022, trump says, did you find anything? is it good or bad? >> and then according to evan cork, corcoran memorialization of this conversation, trump then makes a plucking motion and says, okay, why don't you take them with you to your hotel room? and if there's anything really bad in there, you know, pluck it out >> of course. evan corcoran didn't find all of the documents at mar-a-lago at that time, there was more than 100 more found in the search by the fbi later on, there's gonna be a major fight whether he testifies against donald trump at the criminal trial in florida. but it is pretty significant that he has totally cleaved himself from the legal team. >> do we have any sense of when exactly that happened in if it has any actual legal significance, deliberate legal significance for the mar-a-lago case going forward?

>> well i don't know if it changes anything about what we know in the mar-a-lago case, he was able to continue representing trump on this other matter january 6, as long as he wanted to, but he had taken a backseat. he wasn't the person who's primarily writing a lot of the motions and taking the case to the supreme court on presidential joel immunity in that case. but he was with trump when trump was arraigned in washington, dc related to the 2020 election, january 6, charges in the mar-a-lago case, there's going to be a really big fight coming over, whether he can be testified, whether the information he gave prosecutors is going to be part of that case. so john at very least, he's a guy to watch >> and now to an extent in the wilderness, katelyn polantz, great to have you this morning. thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. also this morning, john, the buildup before the kissing of the rings, so to speak, speaker mike johnson heads to mar-a-lago to speak with former president trump when it happens just a few hours job security may be top of mind for the

house speaker as marjorie taylor greene threatens to oust him from the speakership before mar-a-lago, though, johnson will try to evade another blow to his leadership next hour and national security bill that trump convinced republicans to tank just 48 hours ago. we'll head back to the floor for a vote. >> cnn's lena treene has more on this. alayna we will all be talking about this sort of the pfizer bill a little bit later as congress looks at that. but you have some brand new reporting, for us that just dropped. on the event that involves mike johnson and donald trump, they're gonna be standing side-by-side, correct. what? because the issue there'll be talking about >> well, that's exactly right, sarah house speaker mike johnson is trekking to mar-a-lago really, as he faces a threat from many of his house republican colleagues to strip him of the speaker's gavel. and i'm told from some of the sources familiar with this meeting and how it was set up. but that this meeting today

between donald trump and mike johnson are really joint press conference. i should call it was part of johnson's idea as he faces this thread showing his ties to donald trump. but luck the two are going to appear side-by-side today at mar-a-lago at 4:30 p.m. and they're going to be discussing what they argue are state proposals and lawsuits to have noncitizens be allowed to vote. now of course, it's important to point out that non-citizens and migrants here, undocumented in the country are not able to vote in federal elections and those who do cast their ballots illegally face steep fines, deportation and even prison. but of course, this has been a main topic of donald trump's as we look forward to november, he has really been stoking fears around immigration undocumented immigrants in this country, whether it's about election security or about crimes that they've allegedly committed in the country. it's something that has been a focal point for donald trump republicans ahead

of the elections. and so i think that's very important to keep in mind here. and of course, mike johnson also has been a chief person who has really helped pedal donald trump's false claims of the 2020 election being rife with fraud. and so that's another element to this as well. and it comes of course, as mike johnson is worrying about that as a vote on the house floor today, and he has heard threats from his colleagues. here's what marjorie taylor greene, someone who is being achieved, leader of this threat to strip them of the speaker's gavel. take a listen to what she said. >> i think that motion to vacate is also being supported by quite a few members in our conference >> that's it. that's an internal house issue with our elected speaker get out of the house totally two separate issues hopefully i have that. they have a great meeting tomorrow >> now, sarah, that was a merger taylor greene telling our colleague manu raju essentially that this meeting with donald trump and mike johnson is separate from the

issues that they are facing currently in congress. so we'll see how that plays out today. but just other, one other quick thing i want to give you a preview on and our colleagues, kristen holmes and melanie zanona lay this out in their story today, is that mike johnson is also going to mar-a-lago with another idea in mind, which is to feel out the former president on a potential package for ukraine and aid package, i should say that's all so perilous issue, but something that i think is top of mind for the house speaker as he heads to florida, sarah will certainly sends a message that he is meeting with the former president. thank you so much. alayna treene there from dc. >> don look, he's got a vote today on the house floor. we don't know which way it's going to go next hour, we will learn if mike johnson has any control over house republicans $7 billion in student debt wiped out the breaking details from the biden administration this morning designed to bring relief to more than 270,000 borrowers the former interpreter for dodgers star shohei ohtani, expected to surrender today after being charged with stealing more than 16 million. he allegedly even a

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>> new for you this morning that top us general for the middle east is in israel as concerns over possible retaliatory attack from iran is growing after last week's strike on the iranian consulate in damascus believed be carried out by hi israel, the pentagon press secretary said the trip was moved up so he could meet with key idf officials about the recent security threats. cnn's international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us now from rousseau them. nick, what do you hearing about this trip? i know that the heightened security it's been ratcheted up yeah. >> and it's something that the idf spokesperson, daniel hagari, made a point of mentioning in his briefing late last night the importance of this visit that they discussed the threat coming from iran. but he pointed to the fact that for israelis, this shows that the united states does support and have israel's back that in

clade support that president biden has talked about. and why is that? potent here right now? why is that important for the idf to speak about? because people here are rattled, not over nervous, but they aren't concerned about the retaliatory strike that. iran says that it's going to strike back at israel's interests. it's not saying specifically where or when or how and as much speculation about that. and that's what's causing concern here, coupled to the fact that there's a sense among many people that prime minister benjamin netanyahu is sort of getting a drift of president biden. and this raises concerns in people's minds about how much support they'll get from the united states. that's why these statements are important. that's why this visit is being played up by the idf. and people are being told about it in the briefing. and the other thing of course, the spokesman was telling people here, which again intended to settle people's nerves, saying that

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what's happening in the waters off the keys this morning? it's an extraordinary measure being taken to protect and defend like america has never seen before. i, former president and the presumptive republican presidential nominee, donald trump, donald trump's criminal hush money trial begins monday here in new york, and it will require an incredible level of security and unprecedented and strategic choreography between law enforcement and the secret service, seen as brynn jen grass is here with us. bring you got to look inside with the nypd as they are preparing. what did you learn about their plans? >> yes, sir. i mean, this is going to be a robust security package that's how they describe it to me. one thing to keep in mind, this is the first time that we've seen an ex-president on a criminal trial however, it's not the first time donald trump has been in court, right? he's been in and out of the courtroom for the last year or so. so police have been able to look back get those times to the civil fraud trial, to the defamation trial, and sort of take notes on how

to handle security, then and then make changes basically ahead of this major trial, which is expected to last six to eight weeks. so they've been having roundtables about this in discussions about this for the last couple of months. but as police told me, all the toys they're gonna be out for this major events. again, that's going to last for several weeks in downtown manhattan. we're talking about drones, bomb sniffing dogs, barricades, which are going to create frozen drones around that courthouse and mobile units, of course, as donald trump is brought in and out of the courthouse where he is expected to stay up at trump power. so the units are going to have to obviously help him be transported every single day down to the courthouse and they're going to have a lot to handle. they have to deal with the media presence. they have to handle with any protesters, social supporters any threats that might come in. of course, we know from law enforcement, there have been more threats when donald trump has ben and core, whether it be against judges or district attorneys or anyone else. so here's how

police say they're going to handle that >> we're gonna be looking at the threat picture on a constant basis, social media scrubbing just listening to people making calls are making threats online. how do you handle that? >> we want to find the basis of the threat. is it real? is it an online warrior? is it >> what >> kind of extra security preparations do we have to take? >> yeah, being nimble is going to be a major thing here for officers both inside the courtroom, outside the courtroom certainly having to deal with a lot that all kicks off. of course, on monday, sarah. >> yeah. only go down to downtown if you have two and if you enjoy gridlock bridging thank you so much, john. >> and if you do july gridlock, that's all other issue. all right. breaking overnight, a key attorney is leaving donald trump's legal team that a portrait evan corcoran, raises eyebrows because prosecutors could call him as a critical witness in the classified documents case if it ever gets to trial, cochran's memos and

notes about trumpet laid the groundwork for prosecutors in that case. with me now, is national security attorney bradley mosque, councilor. very good to see you this morning. now, when kaitlan collins broke this news last night about evan corcoran leaving trump's legal team, no longeworking for trump you post on social media and i want to put it up so people can see you posted on social media oh, and i think i count seven o's in that. now, is that a legal term there? what did you mean by >> yes, there's there's long established case law on that. bu let me tell you, but i think everybody expected at some point this was going to happen. the only question is, why did it take so long? look the moment evan corcoran was compelled to testify before the grand jury, the moment he was ordered by the judge judge in dc to turn over those notes, it was almost guaranteed at some point he was going to have to leave this legal team, who was conflicted out on that case,

obviously, he had stayed on in the dc cases, but it was gonna be a very uncomfortable situation to have your lawyer going up there who's allegedly still representing you. another matter there's testifying against you and being one of the critical star witnesses in the obstruction angle. so i think we all expected this would transpire at some point. i don't know why quite took so long. maybe it was the optics didn't want to immediately show him being shoved out the door. but this is just one more piece. they don't have on that legal team. it's already in overmatched legal team because donald trump can hold on to lawyers and now they've lost evan corcoran, you know, it's interesting because maggie hadrian was on with kaitlan last night as caitlin was breaking this news and maggie reported that this information is disquieting the fact that corcoran is out is disquieting to donald trump. i'm curious while you think that might be the problem for damages, donald trump hates lawyers who take notes. we've learned about

this. is idle of lawyers is roy cohn the disgraced late, you know, lawyer from the 70s and 80s, he thought lawyers don't take notes because those notes can be used against your client. we heard about this during the month hello, pro who was saying, oh, real lawyers don't take notes. actually, real lawyers do take notes and its those notes, the contemporaneous voice recordings that i've corcoran did that are being used against donald trump and the mar-a-lago case, particularly on the obstruction angle to show intent. so if donald trump is finally pushing him aside, that show what are they expect that their efforts to get his testimony suppressed are likely going to fail. that if this eventually does make it to trial, that corporis testimony is going to be very critical, very damaging, and they're going to try to make this sort of a bit of a separation between themselves in corcoran going forward, they're going to try to downplay what corcoran wrote down now what he recalled and sort of say, oh, you misunderstood the boss. >> so it was a busy overnight in the mar-a-lago documents

case because also we got the filings, the transcripts of the fbi interviews with walt nauta and carlos de oliveira and nauta and his team are basically arguing to have the case against him dismissed because they said he didn't know he was moving classified documents. he had no knowledge of x, y, and z, anything you see in those transcripts that raises your eyebrows and do you think he's got a case here today? >> yeah. you can see from these transcripts, even just the cursory review, the fbi agents clearly weren't buying what nauta was initially selling. they were very skeptical of his claims. they had an they were very much looking at it as you sound lutcher coach, that's usually necessary using those words, but sort of expressing that kind of skepticism. it sounded like he was coached and it certainly they came back to it later on and where he admitted to moving certain things and that he had more knowledge than he had originally admitted to that played a key role in him getting hit in this indictment on the obstruction angle. now, what he indel a very are trying

to do certainly within it a right to do. they're trying to argue. they didn't have the requisite the requisite knowledge. the indictment is too vague, et cetera, et cetera. these very standard pretrial motions from a defense attorney that you would expect to see. i don't anticipate it will be enough even with judge cannon to get it thrown out. but we're getting sort of a preview here of what they're anticipated defense it will be at trial if both nauta and de oliveira don't cut deals beforehand, and that's a great point. even if judge cannon doesn't throw it out, what you do see here and what we will see today is a preview which makes it so interesting. bradley mosque, great to see you this morning. and thank you for explaining. >> good morning >> sarah, johnnie all know what that means new cnn reporting this morning, a deadly mystery in the waters off the florida keys dozens of species of fish have been spinning themselves to death. it's putting some endangered species like the salt fish at risk of extinction so experts are trying to figure out what the heck's happening

here and how can it be stopped? cnn's chief climate correspondent bill, we're is joining us now. you were just in the florida keys looking at the situation. is there any explanation as scientists getting any closer to figuring out what the heck's going on? >> well, they're trying to figure out in an unprecedented efforts. no other national oceanic atmospheric administration is sort of all hands on deck. let's figure out what's going on under the waters. >> this is the >> small tooth saw fish. it was one of the first marine animals placed on the endangered species list. it used to range all around the gulf of mexico and from florida up to the carolinas. there's only a few left now, and what has been seen is normal hello, you lose four or five a year to bycatch. they accidentally get caught. >> but now they've seen >> dozens of these fish, six in the last week washed ashore. these are big 11, 12 foot creatures and they just seem in distress. they seem to be beaching themselves and acting in these erratic ways before dying. they've only managed to rescue one, they're tough to rescue. anecdotally if they move them to clean water, the

spinning stops. so they think they're something in the water, sarah, but nobody knows for sure. normally we'd suspect red tide or low oxygen levels. there's no signs of that. there is an algae called gambia discuss, which really takes off from the water is warm and that creates a various amounts of neurotoxins which can be really harmful to fish. also, humans. maybe these off the charts, ocean temperatures we saw last year and may see again this summer are super charging this gambia discuss in a way. but honestly nobody knows and it seems like one of those opening scenes from a horror movie where the animals are trying to warn us yeah when you look at it, it's not just the soft edge right there are other species that are doing, yeah, 200 different reports to the bonefish and tarp and trust of 30 different species. as you can see, some little tropical guys as well. and so there is something in the water hunter down there. and of course there's pollution, there's all these things. a recent test, a couple of years ago, tested bonefish found dozens of pharmaceuticals in the fish.

they get flushed through floridians from antidepressants , eno to heart medicine that is in the wildlife now as a result of the human pressure there. so a lot of stress on that that ecosystem, it's really disturbing. one thing >> that isn't though your new book, it's, it's hopeful. >> oh, thank >> you for about the environment and what's happening. yeah, >> life as we know, it can be, it comes out next week and tackles a lot of these big problems of flee in a new way. but thank you. started reading it's quite good. thank you. appreciate it, john. >> and i just learned the fact about pharmaceuticals in bill's new book when i was reading it. was the first time ever heard that all right. this morning of the subject of books, the library book, more than 100 years overdue back home home a copy of ivanhoe was supposed to be returned to the fort collins, colorado library on february 13, 1919. >> so it was a little late just a little a man found while looking through his mother's thinks a sticker inside the book said, quote, a fine of $0.02 per day shall be collected on all books. if

messenger be said for detained book in additional charge of $0.25 shelby collected so after adjusting for inflation, the total would have been a 14,000 dollar fine in late fees. luckily, for all the library stopped charging late fees a few years ago, they say the book will be displayed in a local museum did you do that math this morning or adding up, i had to write down $0.02 for every day for the last hundred and five years. >> so that's what you spent your morning this is not journalism xo, i'm all right. just a few minutes from now, >> speaker mike johnson will take another shot at getting his house in order. we will be shown going back to you live >> the good stuff brought to you by viking reading number one for rivers oceans, and expeditions by condi nast traveler, learn more at viking.com >> explore the world the viking way from the quiet comfort of

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his conference, and maybe ultimately if we will keep his job, cnn's lauren fox is in washington. this is about the fisa bill. the surveillance bill, but there's really much more at stake here. all right >> yeah, john. and if you remember, it was just a couple of days ago that the house republicans were unable to pass that procedural step in order to actually debate this bill while they are going to try again this morning, the vote will kick off at 8:45 a.m. that is when we will see if those 90 kena hardliners are going to actually cooperate with leadership and move forward with this debate. this is something that is essential in terms of national security according to intelligence officials, that is because there is an expiration date coming on april 19th, but that's just the first step. if they can pass this rule and i should note that many of those 19 who voted against it are signaling that they think good progress has been made. there was one major change to this

bill that would change the reauthorization timeframe from five years to two years. that is something that conservatives say is a big win for donald trump. he of course at that tweet just a couple of days ago saying that he wanted to get rid of fisa, ordering members to quote, kill fisa. that is the question this morning. is this change enough because the argument from people like representative matt gaetz is a two-year reauthorization means that if trump were to win the white house he would be the president who would be able to go ahead and make additional changes to this law that is why the two-year timeframe, some are arguing is a big win for them. that's why we're watching this rule vote very closely this morning. >> again, and they feel better about it the last time. but one thing this house leadership team has shown is that counting may not be their strong point. lauren fox and i don't mean that to be cruel. they just haven't been able to count on many of these belts going at lauren fox. thank you very much. sarah. >> all right. with us now is

cnn political commentator and host of pbs firing line margaret hoover and cnn political commentator extraordinaire cupp, sorry, i'm to start with you, margaret this is really remarkable. what does it tell you that speaker johnson is having to show members of congress classified material as they argue over whether push through this fisa bill i'm showing them how important it says after you've already heard the fbi thing, this tool is so significant that not having it could put america endanger. >> there's an entirely new crop of republicans who are in the house of representatives who haven't had to look at a stone called reality of the aftermath of nine, 11 and how many me terrorist attacks on this country were prevented because of this tool there's, it's shocking, also worth noting that mike johnson probably go to been one of the people being shown that classified information had he not? sort of spontaneously ascended to this position and

found religion on his responsibility as a leader of the country to keep this country safe it's a far fall from grace of republicans in the circuit 2002 thousand 420008, who were the party who was constantly agitating for these kind of security measures in order and if they don't pass this, republicans will have on their hands a fact that they made a matter how less secure, not safe it is a fascinating twist from where they were with the patriot act and other things. back in the early 2000s. as he kept donald trump is meeting with house speaker johnson it's an at mar-a-lago doing a press conference on their plans for voting integrity what do you make about what's happening there and you think this is a real effort on johnson's part because trump's says that it was johnson's idea to try and keep his job by getting close showing himself close with donald trump >> yeah, there's a couple of things happening here today. i want you to remember when mike

johnson gets up and implores his house conference to get to work and become functional again does he just wants to solve problems and do what's right for the american people, do not believe him because this has nothing to do with helping constituents. this has nothing to do with keeping the republican party functional. and in order and doing their jobs, this is a campaign stop he's participating in a stunt for donald trump to help trump spread his conspiracy theories about elections to kiss his ring. and as you noted, most importantly, to keep his job, there's nothing serious about this effort. this is yet another attempt by trump to use republican leadership and republican loyalty to him to help him spread his conspiracy theories. but listen mike johnson would be would be well advised to remember the lessons of kevin mccarthyism which is that loyalty to trump flows one

way in one way only donald trump did not help kevin mccarthy. keep his job in the end, despite kevin mccarthy's unwavering loyalty. >> dolan, i'm definitely demands loyalty does not give it out. very often. i want to move to arizona vice president kamala harris, headed to arizona on a reproductive rights tour as they're calling it after arizona revived laws from 18, 64 criminalizing abortion with one single exception, and that is the life of the mother. it's been the most recent strict abortion laws in the country i'm curious if you think that this what happened here is going to really give democrats the edge now, in this battleground, state i'm from, i have looked at polling on this issue across the country and in arizona is 65% of arizonans. this is republicans and democrats, okay, not just democrats absolutely are in favor of abortion rights. and a woman's

right to choose fundamentally i guess i guess i can't overstate what an earthquake this is in arizona. i mean, prior to monday's ruling biden was actually looking pretty weak in arizona and trump's numbers, were going out this completely flips the script. this issue is so important, i think the reason it's also important to remember is that we have the saying in the conservative universe there are factions of conservatism and western conservatives, goldwater conservatives, these are socially libertarian ron on issues related to individual freedom goldwater is family helped set up the first planned parenthood in arizona more than 50 years ago the libertarian strain is so strong and arizona, this is the idea that a territorial law that is literally when 19th century medicine was the standard, should govern women's bodies in 2024 is so outrageous and a poor and i actually believe it could replace the border as the most important issue when it

comes to arizona's elections. and i think with biden who won that state by 10,000 votes next time, i'm not saying the border is not important, but i've spoken to arizona republicans. they're all on their heels because of this issue. >> it >> does supplant the border as the most important issue. it is right up there with it. >> well, you call it an earthquake, which is a police politically speaking don't trump announced his abortion policy. we all heard it he said, look, i'm leaving it up to the states and then arizona did just that. they made a decision. but he he has bristled since then here his his most recent common i want you to take a listen >> everybody else bring it back i'm sure that the governor world bring it back, governor being a democrat. so arizona republicans though, said no, they're not going to change this. so how do you see this paddle playing out? >> yeah. i mean, listen commonly harris is in arizona for a very specific reason.

it's not ju to prote women'reprodtiveight it's becae doldrump has been tryinto neualize is ise by kki it ov to the states, refusing to endorse th ban or even a name, a mber of weeks after ich abortion would be banned if he became president sen. and people like me havbeen pointg out th inside t pro-life community, iss se as beayal. he is tryinto ntralizthis biden te does not want them at it's thr best issue. hey it's thggt issue. so say blame donald trump. you n still blame donald trump for this. and donald trump will still be bad for women's reproductive rights, despite what he is saying today >> very good points, ladies. margaret hoover, s. e. cupp, i think it's very significant that you sayok, immigration was the bideal there in arizona and now you see topsy turvy, that abortion could be the thing that moves that state thank you. appreciate you both. john