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this morning, president biden is hosting a virtual leaders summit for democracy. this features meetings with 100 governments. the goal of the white house is to defend against authoritarianism to promote respect for human rights. two countries not invited, china and russia. both are actively trying to undercut the message of the summit. >> moments ago, china issued something of a threat to the united states, australia, canada and the uk for all their diplomatic boycotts of the beijing winter olympics. they said the countries are using the games for political manipulation and, quote, must pay the price. i will tell you, what that tells me is that the message being sent is working. . >> that's right. >> it is being received. >> it's received. and maybe not well, which was the whole point. . >> exactly. >> joining us to discuss the developments on the january 6th investigation, we have cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot williams. it says persecutor. >> a little of column a, a little column b. >> former republican presidential candidate joe walsh. thank you for being with us. bright and early here. let's talk about mark meadows. his legal argument is quite frankly perplexing, right, elliott? he has already turned over documents. and here he is now reversing. what is going on with this lawsuit that he has against the committee? >> one, he's trying not to testify. i think that's pretty clear. number two, trying to avoid getting charged with a crime. because if they end up slapping him with contempt proceeding he can go back and say, look, i have been suing to protect my fourth amendment rights. i have valid privilege claims. your honor, i can't be be guilty of a crime here. that's part of what it is, at the risk of saying he's being insincere. it makes little sense because he has turned the documents over. what he has taken away is his ability to provide context around the documents. he can't say, well, there's some nuance in what the phone records say or the male that you have seems to suggest. it is a weird strategy. . >> can i give option number three here, joe. mark meadows provided this already. some of this stuff is very interesting. the committee is really digging in to this. joe, what he is trying to do now is send a message to daddy. >> trump. >> look, i'm fighting this. i didn't give them a whole bunch of stuff that might be a little bit hairy. >> meadows got way over his skis. i think elliott is right on the legal aspect of this. politically, he's trying to get back in good graces with trump. he wrote a book that i thought he thought would be -- would make him look good in front of donald trump. clearly, trump was upset with that. there are people in the inner circle who believe trump is really upset with meadows. so he's trying to apiece trump again. >> let's talk about something former president obama discussed, jerry manne-- gerrymandering. here's what the former president said. >> the plan is to control state legislativers and congressional delegations before a vote is cast. that's not how democracy is supposed to work. our democracy is essential to who we are. it is what makes america exceptional, and it shouldn't be a partisan issue. >> what do you think about his comments? >> i get it. and i appreciate what he's saying. but if i'm a democrat, look, this is a tool that both parties use. both parties kind of need to use this tool unless both parties agree they're not going to use it. i don't see how one party can stand down and say i'm not going to gerrymander. the whole thing needs to reform, but certainly not what the republicans will do. >> i think coming out against jegerrymandering is like saying water is wet. california, which has this nonpartisan redistricting, if democrats wanted to fight fire with fire, they jerry manned erred the heck out of new york and california. the two biggest where they haven't gone all in. >> i will push back a little bit. they have done it better for a very long time. look in real terms. the swaoepl court made this a lot easier. one, by gutting a portion of the voting rights act which would govern how states change their laws. and two by saying partisan jerry manned erg is something you can get away with. look at north carolina. california is theoretical. this happened in north carolina. they voted for joe biden 48.7% voted for a democratic governor. but now the map of congressional districts is 10 republicans to 4 democrats. you look at that map, and it defies mathematics or logic that 70% to 75% of the seats go to republicans. president obama is right, that is not now the is supposed to work. >> can i just say -- i don't want to give people the impression that i support jerry manne mannedering. they have weapons they can use if they want to. in terms of north carolina being unfair, obviously. people need to understand this isn't going to change. the courts aren't going to radically -- it's not going to become a 7-7 state . it doesn't reflect the percentage of voters. >> it goes to the point, my former political party declared war on democracy. and they're using this jerry manned erg tool. that's one tool. again, i think the democrats need to step up and recognize this unique dangerous moment we're in. >> speaking of your reformer party, you have senator, former senator david perdue in georgia who is trying to unseat governor brian kemp as governor. >> yes. . . >> and he has now bought into the big lie publicly. he has said that he would have not certified the votes in georgia that obviously gave georgia to joe biden. i wonder -- he's had time, joe, to think about this. this is where he's come down. >> he wants to win. he wants to win. and it's about daddy. it's about trump. guys, it's about the base. the base of the republican party has embraced this big lie. perdue knows if he's going to win in georgia, he has to wrap his arms around it every single day. it's sad, pathetic, wrong. that's where they are. >> and kemp's eventualvulnerabl. >> the big lie may have depressed the vote in 2020 but actually doesn't look like it's doing that this time, particularly among republicans. make the case to the american people that there is a toxin taking hold in american politics. actually not that is destroying the system but seeming to win. it has become an increasing litmus test for the party to enter the post-truth world. be honest with the american people and tell them the other side is lying and demagoguing the issue. we're past reality. >> democrats have to outvote them. plain and simple outvote them. >> it's a big problematic circle, which is that, yes, democrats ought to flex more political muscle. but they can't at least with respect to congress if they are losing their seat at a greater rate than republicans are. . >> a vote in the senate last night we saw against the policy of the biden administration, which is that employers have to -- their employees have to be vaccinated or have weekly testing, employers who have more than 100 employees. two democrats joined republicans here. what do you make of this? >> i think it's indicative of the fact that the country is moving ahead of where the biden administration is. if this government mandate was such a big deal, then it should have been -- it never seemed like an emergency. and now here we are a few months beyond it. i think the american people have moved beyond the motion of mandates. vaccines are a very separate animal. but tester and manchin reflecting a big part of the democratic party, democratic voters as well, against mandates >> elliott, joe, great to see you. we were in the greenroom. i'm a little bit of a mess this morning. they were nice enough not to judge me that i had four bags laid out everywhere and couldn't find my makeup kit. >> in it wasn't a little bit. a lot of bags. there were a lot of bags. >> i take pleasure -- i'm more the discombobulated one. here i am today showing up. guys, thank you so much. the uk is essentially going back into lockdown in response to the omicron variant, but is this the right move? newly uncovered documents revealing how the first test failed. we're on verdict watch in the case of jussie smollett. when will the jury come back? 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some places are. you see mask requirements in parts of the united states. you also do see vaccine requirements, be vaccine passport requirements in some places. for example, in new york city and los angeles county and in new orleans you see requirements that you have to have a vaccine to get into restaurants or other kind of similar venues. it's interesting that the uk has taken this big step. we will see if any locations follow suit. brianna, john. . >> hard to imagine a broad approach this way, though. elizabeth, thank you. >> so secret federal documents uncovered by buzzfeed news reveal crucial information about why the first cdc covid test failed in the early days of the pandemic and what it meant for the deadly spread in the united states. science reporter is dan bergano. heck of a story. thank you so much for joining us. in summation, it was a mess. i mean, it was a mess. and you had one lab and other labs that were just overburdened by the scope of the coronavirus challenge. >> that's right. what we got with these documents, which we were quite surprised the government gave to us unredacted and complete, peered into the burden of the labs that suddenly had the whole weight of the world on them. >> specifically, dan, you found there was a lot of blame to go around. it wasn't just this one smaller lab which had a lot of fingers pointed at it for a long time that went set up to handle it and whose standards weren't as strict as they should have been. >> right. so there was government dysfunction there. these labs have been neglected for decades. so they were sort of set up to fail. there was misaimed blame where the lab was given the shaft here. it was you did the wrong thing. and it looks like a bunch of other labs were making mistakes. but the thing was this calamity of this test not working out was magnified by the fact we didn't have a strategy at all. about the one test went bad, we were out of luck. where are all the tests? we were counting on this one. the more thinking about where else do you get a test? is. >> the other interesting thing you find, it's not like other tests that weren't working in other places in the world. >> right. >> so why didn't the u.s. say, hey, look at this. it's working. >> there that's a great question. there was just a lot of overconfidence there. oh, yeah, we had tests before. this one is going to work. and why didn't the leadership at cdc and hhs, and the trump administration say, you know, maybe we should look at these other tests and have them in our back pocket in case this doesn't work out. that's a question that hasn't really been answered. >> dan, what's interesting, you did some great investigative reporting. once you got the documents, hhs tried to claw them back. you're like, oh, that must mean we do have something good here. why should we care now? why does this matter now going forward? >> because we're still living with the mistakes that were made then. we are still arguing about tests even today. the questions have never been examined. we're not going to do what to do in the next pandemic, which is going to happen unless we have a look-back at what went wrong here at this particular moment, this canary in the coal mine, where we're like, oh, our government isn't going to handle it very well. >> dan vergano, thank you for your reporting. appreciate it. >> you bet. so a navy s.e.a.l. team commander dies after a training accident. what went wrong here? 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spent his entire adult life, since graduating from the naval academy, in this community. he was a member of the elite s.e.a.l. team 8. he was on fast rope training when they descend from the helicopter to the ground as quickly as possible. it is unclear exactly what went wrong here. the navy says there is an investigation. initial indications say that during this training there was some kind of accident or incident, and he sustained injuries. he was rushed to the hospital over the weekend where he died yesterday. in a statement, his commander, captain weatherby, said brian was as tough as they come, how long leader and committed husband, father, and friend. this is a i great loss to everyone who knew him. he will be greatly missed. he is survived by a wife and five children. may his memory be a blessing. brianna. >> yes. we will keep his family and the entire s.e.a.l. community in our thoughts. thank you, oren. new zealand is putting cigarettes on the endangered list. they plan to outlaw smoking for the next generation so those 14 and under will never be able to buy cigarettes legally in the country. it calls for the legal smoking age of 18 to increase every year thereby creating a generation of smoke-free new zealanders. cnn covering this and other developments all around the world. >> reporter: i'm scott mclean outside prime minister boris johnson's residence in london. at a time when social gatherings indoors were banned in london. boris johnson's then press secretary resigned yesterday after a video showing her joking about the alleged party was leaked to the press. johnson said he was infuriated by the video. he did announce an investigation into whether or not a party was held at his own home address. but the main opposition leader says he's been caught red-handed and could save everyone the headache by simply admitting rules were broken. >> reporter: i'm in athens greece. the prime minister has apologized for being maskless in a nightclub over the weekend 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be ready for tornados are possible, john. >> watching it closely. thanks so much, chad. a teacher who survived the 2018 marjory stoneman douglas shooting in parkland, florida, is speaking out at michigan's oxford high school. sarah learner writes in the "new york times", it's hard to believe after what happened at my school others haven't learned or taken actions to keep their campuses safer from gun violence. how do warning signs still follow through the cracks? how do these pleas for help go unanswered? how can school officials put the owe us on the parents? and how can parents not take responsibility for what led to their son's actions? there is only so much that teachers can do in acting as a line of defense for their students. sarah, thank you so much for being with us. and i think judging by what you wrote and talking to so many parents and survivors of the shootings, the hope is always that you can improve the future. because you can't change the past. and so tell us what it was 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reporter: they added a deck, a gas fireplace, and additional living space. in january of 2020, with the buildout almost finished, they decided to refinance and take some cash out of the property. they got an appraisal. >> it was right before covid hit. so the rates were extremely low. so we were trying to refinance to take advantage of the low rates. >> reporter: to their surprise, the appraiser wrote that the house was only worth 995,000 dollars. >> we were sick, sick to our stomachs. we were upset, angered. >> i was disappointed because, one, i knew the house was worth more than that. secondly, we needed the house to appraise for a certain amount in order for us to be able to pull out the capital in it. and when it didn't come in at that, it was devastating. >> reporter: they suspected that the seeming low-ball evaluation from an appraiser who happened to be a white woman, may have had something to do with their race or their location, or both. marin city has a sizable african american population, unlike marin county, which is mostly white. >> she considered us more in the city and devalued our home. . >> and saw a blackface. >> reporter: so they decided to put their suspicions to a test. they requested yet another appraisal and got a female friend, who was white, to come to the house to meet the appraiser to make it look like this was her house. >> i contacted her and i said we have another -- our appraisal came in low. we have a new appraiser coming. can you come and be me. >> reporter: but that's not all they did. they removed any evidence that black people even lived there, a process called whitewashing. >> we took down everything that this home belonged to us. >> or to an african american family. >> art, pictures. >> even my hair products, i put them away so that someone wouldn't be tipped off by them. >> reporter: a different appraiser, also a white woman who visited the house in february of 2020, came back with a valuation of more than $1.4 million, an appraisal 49% higher than the previous one. in dollars, that's a $487,500 difference between two appraisals that came about three weeks apart. in federal court, the austins have sued the a fraser, gennett miller, who gave them the lower estimate, alleging housing discrimination. miller did not respond to several requests to grant us an interview or put us in contact with her lawyer. devaluing home price is starting to attract more attention in washington. it's not always about million dollar homes. andre perry writes about it. >> we found homes in black neighborhoods are underpriced by 23%, about 48,000 cumulatively. there's $156 billion in loss equity in black neighborhoods. $156 billion. >> reporter: at the end of the day, the issue raised by stories like this is about loss of wealth in black and brown communities. if you own property and you want to take cash out to remodel, send a kid to college, pay bills or invest in the stock market, a low appraisal of your property can be a life-changing event. but this may be an issue whose time has almost come. the past june, biden administration announced a task force to start looking into the problem. john and brianna. . >> joe johns, thank you so much. this is happening across the country. >> that is such a vivid example. half a million dollars. and joe's right. it's a life-changing experience. first of all, you're talking about morally life changing because you think the system is stacked against you. financially. it's your life savings. it makes a difference that lasts forever. >> there is more of a focus on generational wealth and how that is lost for so many african american families. you see it in practice. it is awful. he is back. tiger woods teeing it up in a tournament 10 months after a near-fatal car crash. he will have his closest pal with him. and school districts return to remote learning for reasons other than covid. to run a growing business, is to be on a journey. and along the ride, you'll have many 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