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 retribution in his words. and earlier today in california, the politician who could be trump s biggest rival for the gop nomination in 2024, florida governor ron desantis, speaking at the ronald reagan library. but we begin in selma, alabama, with arlette saenz. arlette, what can you tell us? jim, president biden used the anniversary of bloody sunday as an historic moment in civil rights history,
nature, and animals. i promise you what you see on your screen will all make sense later tonight. i m going to ask you to go on a ride with me that might be even more far out than when we featured funk legend george clinton or talked ufos. that s later tonight. open mind. please stay with me for it. as you might be able to hear, i m pretty enthused about it. now, actual ufos are also back in the news. we didn t plan that. fighter jet operations by the u.s. shooting some down. we have that story tonight as well. but the pentagon facing pressure to provide even more information. and nobel prize-winning economist paul krugman also here tonight as well. so we really do have a lot cooking for you here to start the week. i hope you stay with us for the whole hour. we ve certainly planned a full hour for you. right now, the top story is the kind of news that would keep rocking any former president, especially one trying to mount a comeback campaign, even if i d be the first
of a water crisis, as a result of an ongoing winter drought. france has had little rain in the last few weeks, and water levels have dropped alarmingly. spain has also suffered from the drought. now on bbc news, it s time for click. lara: this week, we re walking on sunshine. i spencer: yes, paul carter and the waves of catching some rays on the water. mark bangs the drums as he gets lost in the latest ps vr2 headset. and zoe s walking on broken glass. but don t worry, she s on the mend. do i get the job? er, yes. ido! . fantastic! are you sure?! they laugh here on click, we ve been lucky enough to visit some of the most beautiful parts of the world. yet what goes on beneath the surface in some of these places can serve as the starkest reminder of the effects of pollution and climate change on our world. and sometimes it s also places like here, the fjords of norway, where some of the most inspiring ideas come to life, like this island of floating solar panels. oh, thank you.
epic cleanup. several senate lawmakers are at the border right now getting a close-up look at the real crisis, looking for real answers. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. one group, a bipartisan delegation led by texas republican john cornyn, and arizona independent kyrsten sinema making stops in their home states focused on finding solutions. what is happening now is happening on our doorstep and we need to work together to try to address it in the best way we can. a repeated failure by administration after administration to manage this crisis. the way i see for us to do that is work together by putting partisanship aside and listening to local folks and working together to find solutions. harris: we may be getting a peak from the curtain why she left the democratic party. they weren t doing that. this from the front lines. face and center hour by hour, minute by minute agents catching two illegals as they crossed across the border. we have fresh