the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border. the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organization
trump white house aide kassidy hutchinson. she is alleging that then president trump lunged at an agent and try to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle in order to steer it to the capitol on january 6th. the secret service spokesperson telling politico we were not asked to reappear before the committee in response to yesterday s new information and we plan on formally responding on the record. we have and will continue to make any member of the secret service available. the agents mentioned in the testimony has spoken to the committee and want to do so again in public to refute the steering wheel allegation, but hutchinson s attorney says she stands by her testimony despite criticism, saying, because of this courageous woman and others like her, the attempt to hide the truth from the american people will fail. this after she admitted most of what she told the committee was second and third hand accounts and in some cases drawn from conversations she just ov
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rioters with the story we heard on tuesday. i informs the vicinity and they said something to the fact like i don t care that they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, let me people in, they can march to the capital from here. president trump was aware that a number of the individuals in the crowd had weapons and were wearing body armor. and here is what president trump instructed the crowd to do. we re going to walk down, i ll be there with you. we re going to walk down to the capitol. former chief of staff said that was a claim changer. i have seen him try to bring violence with no violence at all. but after yesterday when he testified he knew there was guns on the property and he still encouraged people to go to the capitol that certainly changes my mind. so the question now is does that change other people s minds? or if they heard something in her testimony that might be a smoking gun. one of the key potential witnesses now is very clearly pat cipollone
there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states and it is getting shorter every day. new warnings including from former republican officials about the risks of a second donald trump presidency. in gaza the death toll is surging as israel expands its military operations against hamas. palestinian civilians and more than 130 hostages caught in the middle. an urgent push is under way to get israel and hamas back to the bargaining table. exhausted and demoralized. the new report on the stress air traffic controllers are under and the risk that it carries for air travel. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. new this morning with donald trump surging in the polls, fresh sounds of alarm about what a second trump presidency might mean. and some of the warnings are coming from one-time republicans. quote, let s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states and