hello and welcome to inside politics. i'm john king and washington. very busy day in the news. thank you for your time right now a supreme court deadline in a critical medication abortion case, a decision on whether to take a pregnancy ending drug off the shelves but now happen at any moment and this hour, an overwhelming show of solidarity for a black team shot for ringing the wrong door. bell, the man who pulled the trigger twice. it's still not under arrest. attorneys for ralph yours, family say that's an outrage and that the reason his black and white and the florida governor versus the house. the mouse build ron desantis threatens retaliation against disney with rival amusement parks. even he says, maybe a state prison crowd cinderella's castle, others eyeing the 2024 republican nomination, say governor desantis is doing harm . the gop s less government free markets brand. this has gone from kind of going after a headline to something that is devolved into an issue and it convoluted the entire republican message. i just don't think it's not good for the for governor desantis. i don't think it's good for the republican party. this does not help the team and i just want the team to be able to win. when he took on disney. there was a symbolic motion to that. but now this is kind of going at it for tat right because it's not going as as he had planned and so my messages, let's focus on if you want to be the president. let's focus on issues that affect this country. back to that a bit later, but up first, it is 12 01 here on the east coast meeting. we are one minute past and all important deadlines for the biden justice department, an abortion pill drugmaker, an anti abortion doctors to turn in their homework to the supreme court. today's deadline is in a critical case about abortion access, specifically whether the drug mifepristone can still be prescribed. if so, up to what week of pregnancy and whether it can be ordered through the mail . let's get straight to cnn's john bosco pick. she is here, john. what do we know about this one? i can tell you where the filings are. and i can tell you where your justices are okay. both sides have now submitted their filings by the administration did it last friday. the challengers have just come in biden administration is pleading with the supreme court to extend its postponement of lower court rulings in this case, saying it is causing fda chaos. the challenges are saying it's the fda approval of this abortion medication. and that was problematic. allow these judges orders from the lower courts to go into effect and block women's access to the drugs. the justices, meanwhile, are still on the bench right now, john. i just came from the court. they're still hearing oral arguments. they're gonna leave the bench in about an hour and a half or so they'll look at these filings, and they'll probably look at some other filings that will come out and from the biden ministrations in the drug manufacturer, danko that will tell them again. they're pleading with a longer postponement. then what we'll hear from is the justices either late today or tomorrow. i would think john just realistically likely tomorrow. they've had such a compressed schedule to think about this. i think they're going the they can't give it serious consideration. at this point. i think we're looking at them too. lengthen the postponement to either have the fifth circuit, which now has a case to consider the merits of these arguments, or for them to schedule at themselves to take it up, or, frankly, outright, deny the biden administration and say these lower court orders that would mean ultimately, the fda approval of the drug stays into effect, but women's access to it is seriously diminished. and we will know that probably in about 24 hours, john probably about 24 hours during the business hours tomorrow, but it's at 11 15. nine given themselves a deadline tomorrow night. let's hope that they don't just like your students doing homework that you referred to take until midnight tomorrow night. suspect you'll be right here tomorrow as we walked through this, maybe get work in the court. joan appreciate the hustle back from the court now to anger in kansas city and another huge story today. just moments ago. look at this. students at staley high school, leading a walk out their classmate ralph charles is at the center of a case that is both tragic and troubling. today two felony charges filed against an 84 year old man who shot your all and who is still not in police custody. the 16 year old who went to the wrong address was shot twice, and prosecutors say they have no doubt there is a quote racial component to this . you're all who is black was trying to pick up his siblings from northeast 115th terrorists. but he made a mistake ringing the doorbell at northeast 115th street. that's the home of 84 year old andrew lester lester, who is white, unloaded two bullets into your through a locked glass door. the man later told police he felt scared. lester now faces charges that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life this morning. your aunt says the shooting will scar her nephew forever. there's a major part of drought that died on thursday. what wrong went through. like. he lost a part of himself that day. fellas lucy cavanaugh live for us on the ground in kansas city, lucy what's the latest? well john, the family of that young boy is demanding answers. the community here is demanding justice at the high school where ralph charles 16 year old welfare eliza student. hundreds of his classmates walked out and what they have been describing as a peaceful unity. march classmates described him as a sweet kind boy loved by teachers and classmates, like he was described as very smart but humble. he never bragged about it. the focus now is when this 84 year old suspected shooter is going to turn himself. into police custody. lester is facing two charges. one is criminal action, armed criminal action, which could get him 3 to 15 years behind bars. the more serious charge which is first degree felony assault that could see him as you point out, spend the rest of his life in prison. now this incident unfolded on the front porch of that home behind me, according to court documents. lester told police that he had just laid down on his bed the night of april 14th when he heard the bell ring, he said that he grabbed a 32 caliber. volver. he went to the front door. opened one of the doors to check to see who it was. he described seeing a stranger who was approximately six ft. tall pulling on the storm door now lester told police that he saw this was thought that this was somebody trying to break into his home that he was quote scared, scared to death of euros size and so he shot twice through this door. lester told police that no words were exchanged. but jarrell told police in an interview at the hospital. that the man said quote. don't come around here you are all is recovering at home. he is miraculously alive despite being shot in the head and in the arm. his family says that this road to the cover to recovery is going to be incredibly long, not just the physical injuries, but the trauma from being shot at for ringing the door trying to pick up a siblings john on the ground force in kansas city, appreciate the live update important update those pictures from that school protest or quite moving and overwhelming. let's get some important legal insights. now the former federal prosecutor, elliot williams, is with us in the retired l a. p d police sergeant cheryl dorsey. she's also the author of black and blue creation of a social advocate. let me start with you , sergeant dorsey. you just heard lucy laying this out. i'm going to read you. this is from the probable cause statement released by the detectives yesterday, lester stated. it was the last thing he wanted to do, but he was scared to death due to the male size and lester's age and inability to defend himself. that is the statement given by the shooter. mr lester , listen to the art of this teenager saying doesn't make any sense. listen. i doubt ralph is even £170. ralph is not even six. ft. like wow. when you see ralph. in all of the pictures that you have seen on social media and everywhere else. i don't see how you see fear. i don't know how you can see fear when you look at that kick the charges. sergeant dorsey tell us what the prosecutors think. but there is a standard ground law and you would assume the defense would say that mr lester felt threatened. how do you see this as someone who's investigated such things? well, listen by the police chief's own admission. there is a racial component. we know that to be true. there was a young black child in a predominantly white neighborhood , according to reports who had probably in mr lester's mind. no business being in that community and he had the tomorrow. ready to come to his door and ring his doorbell. and so we know that this suspect looked out and saw this black child became fearful of his black skin and decided the only thing that made sense for him to do was shoot him. he was so fearful of this black child that he opened the door. to shoot him a second time all unreasonable, all nonsensical, and it stinks to high heaven. and why is this man not in custody? he's a menace to society. there could be another black child right now walking in that neighborhood who he might see fear and shoot. if he looks like me, he'd be in custody. i promise you uh, elliot williams. sergeant dorsey makes a point in the sense that why he was questioned, then released. there was a discrepancy at first about how long he was kept then. but you have the charges filed. um why? at least not a court appearance, whether you whether you arrange for bail and whether you think he's not a flight risk. that's one question. but why is why does the community not get the satisfaction to see that the process is playing out? it's perplexing john. and it's probably a quirk in missouri law that allows to pendants to be out. now i know that there's a 24 hour period while they're conducting an investigation after an initial meeting with an individual where they were they allow the person to be released. it is a little bit perplexing that they haven't brought him in. i would assume they would schedule something very quickly and get him to answer to the charges and sergeant dorsey back to you on a potential factual dispute here. and the probable cause statement, says lester, the man who owns the home and fired the gun stated no words were exchanged during the incident at the mail, had not said anything prior to pulling the door handle versus uh, the teenager advised. he did not pull on the door and this was the first time coming to the residents. i understand your perspective on this. you made that quite clear but from a police perspective. fingerprint test of the door handle. is that enough to resolve this factual dispute? what would you do? well that's certainly something that can be done, and it may very well, uh occur. but of course, now that, um this suspect has fired shots and injured great gravely a young man. he's got to come up with a story to justify this unreasonable use of deadly force. and so if he was just fearful as he says he was he certainly had options. i understand this is the stand your ground state. he's inside this door is closed. he's secure. so walk us through the law. elliot in the state of missouri states have these laws they're different, depending on the state. sergeant dorsey makes her critical point. first shot was fired through a glass door. the door was locked. mr. lester then opens the door and fires a second shot can that does not sound like standing your ground? but what does the law say? stand your ground laws are often very comprehensive and provide protections for people who have firearms and use them here. he would, he would need to establish that he reasonably believed that the use of the use or imminent use of violent force was coming his way now a couple of the facts, even if the ones that aren't in dispute that number one he's standing outside ralph euros outside the door number two. the shot comes through the door number three. it's not till the doors open and your was on the ground that lester fires the second shot. you just it's a stretch to say that he was in fear of the imminent use of force at that moment, even setting aside the fact that missouri does have this protection for gun users are gun owners. it's simply isn't the case here. the fact that the facts seem well beyond well beyond the lines. elliot williams. sergeant dorsey appreciate your insights today. we'll, of course, stay on top of this investigation and again those pictures young people across the country or the answers to these questions about gang violence. those demonstrations were something else. in a moment. we're going to go live to 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john, while the latest right now is that court is in recess for lunch, but a few things have happened since this morning since court opened up this at this time, so first is that at 11 a.m. the judge was able to swear in. finally the 12 jurors who will be deciding this case and deciding if fox news did indeed defamed dominion voting system of those 12 jurors. six men, six women, and, according to our reporter, marshal cohen has been inside the courtroom. nine of those 12 people appear to be people of color. now i want to get to those opening statements. you said earlier this morning, there was a bit of a conflict both sides they had objections to some of the slides that we're going to be presented opening statements by the opposing sides. well, i'm told that those concerns and those objections have been taken care of. they were taken care of right before the recess, which just happened. so now all signs are clear to head into opening statements this afternoon. so what's going to happen now is that the jury has gone. the court is recessed for the moment everyone is going to come back at 1 30. then we're going to start this trial in earnest and hear these arguments by each of these sides again at question $1.6 billion. that's what dominion is hoping to claim in damages from their defamation claim against vax news, fox news says that number is inflated. fox news says that they did not have any actual malice when reporting on parts of the 2020 election, but that's all going to be left up to these 12 jurors who were selected earlier this morning and john this trial basically can last up to six weeks of the judge said to the jurors. try not to research anything. try not to talk about this, but get cozy because you're gonna be here for a while. they're going to be there for a while. hearing a fascinating case, a giant test of our business, democracy, truth and more. danny freeman live outside the courtroom. appreciate it very much. moving on to a big story here in washington right now, kevin mccarthy's talk of republican unity well, it met cold reality today, members from all corners of his narrow republican majority are not happy with the speaker's plan for the coming debt ceiling showdown with president biden, not negotiations will continue key mccarthy allies believe ultimately an agreement will be reached, but the speaker wanted a quick consensus to strengthen his hand in negotiations with the white house. he did not emphasis on not get it this morning. i still have more questions than answers. at this point. i won't be supporting anything unless i have all of the information well in advance to make that to be able to make that decision number of really critical details that we've still got to work out before making a final decision on a vote. i'm open to it, but i'm still told them i'm still a no vote. with me to share their reporting and their insights. cnn's jeff zeleny, heather kegel of punch bowl news and so on, can oh young's of the new york times. um heather, the speaker was talking confidently yesterday, saying, it's important that we prove we're unified so i can negotiate with the president. um problem? nope this is what happens when you have a five vote majority, right ? and you already have more than five people saying i'm not going to vote for this until i see more. um, that home away from home. you just showed the house basement of mine. what we learned today was this this package, whatever it's going to be, it's probably going to have to go even more right. there's even talk of trying to repeal the inflation reduction act in this you kind of get into some wonkery there because that would actually raise the cost of things. um so what we hope to see in the next few days is then put out something they hope to vote next week because the house is in recess the week after that, but it's definitely very unclear right now, whether he can get 2 to 18 and what happens and this is a reminder of how hard it it was for him to become speaker and give him credit. give him his due for surviving that vote, but every big issue he's a hostage, essentially because he can only afford to lose three or four votes. this is kevin hearn, who is the chairman of the gop study committee, which is a very conservative group of lawmakers . who says if the speaker knew this was coming, everybody knew this moment was coming for him to walk in today and not have a better plan as well. a failure of leadership it's about leadership. and if we can't lead then then we have a problem. you have to remember. we've been talking about this for 89 days now. i mean, in the business world you no longer be leading your company if it took you 89 days to talk about the obvious. that last part right there. it just reminds you that at any moment, it just takes one and you just need a few friends to bring a vote to the floor to challenge mccarthy's leadership . so to heather's point, gonna have to move more right. even though you have a democratic senate democratic president who won't accept what they want to do for sure, and we should remind people that is a comment from a conservative republican there, but no one who's even on the farthest right of the spectrum here. so look, we should point out every time we talk about this. the debt ceiling is not about current spending. it is about the bills that are coming due from previous administration, so it's actually more than 89 days. it's a lot more than 89 days. this has been building but this is without a doubt, the biggest test of the mccarthy speakership era and we don't know how the movie will end. we certainly don't know how they will get to the end, but you're right. the house isn't the only player in this senate. minority leader mitch mcconnell also watching this very carefully before allowing house republicans to take care of the negotiations. if there are any here, but again , wall street what i've been most, uh, surprised by all this . we've seen many of these in every administration. really wall street really thinks washington will come to some kind of a deal. an agreement. they're not blinking yet. we'll see if that continues to stay because if it doesn't that could push some movement on both sides . mccarthy was up there yesterday trying to make that point. trust me. i'll figure this out. the question is, can he and from the white house perspective, the president mccarthy says the president should negotiate now, the president says, put your plan in writing. you have my budget. i think this should be separate issues. i'm happy to talk spending cuts with you, but only after we raised the debt ceiling, the wall street journal essentially putting on mccarthy this burden mr biden wants to run out the clock. until the debt limit is reached, then predict a cataclysm and assume the gop majority will panic and pass an increase without any reform. the trillion dollar question is whether mr mccarthy can keep his narrow majority together. if he fails, he'll bring a rubber knife to an alley fight at the moment at the moment, the deadline is next month sometime maybe early june . mccarthy has time but at the moment he does not have his party together. remember the longer you wait here? you also allow the white house to continue to basically say, look. the debt ceiling should be raised. this is their argument. the desk ceiling should be raised without any conditions or waiting for their budget proposal. and the more you wait on that it allows the white house to say, well, what are you going to cut? that's ben, really the main line a messaging from president biden for the past few months now it's if they're not going to answer the question and put the budget proposal forward, then you can look to past statements and past proposals and basically say that they would cut medicaid or social security that has been their line of messaging here. and the longer that you wait to put a budget proposal on you can expect the white house and democrats to continue to lean into that message and the unpredictability the quicksand of mccarthy's position highlighted yet again yesterday when jorge santos pathological liar who is a member of the house conference, but whose vote mccarthy needed to be speaker back in the beginning, announced even though most republicans want him to go away yesterday, actually months ago, but go away and as you would run, seek reelection in 2024, the speaker was asked about that and said this. i'm sorry. i thought we had sound there. i didn't to republicans stay strong and say no debt ceiling increase unless we get a b, c and d. is that gonna happen? that's exactly why we're meeting our conference tomorrow. it has to. otherwise we can't get there. that's my bad. that's not me. that's mccarthy talking to hannity last night about the skinny, get everybody together. but on the santos question, jorge santos is going to seek re election, mccarthy said. i didn't know he announced. we'll wait and see who else files. they want somebody to primary him. they hope to take him out of the primary. but it is just a reminder that the santos drama i could use a stronger word, but it's lunchtime or earlier on the west coast. ah he has nowhere to go. he has no slack and every vote really does count. which is why we've seen santos hang on. as long as he has, quite frankly , with all of these ethics questions surrounding him, you know? we shall watch. next democrats have problems to facing a major roadblock. republicans won't provide the votes needed to temporarily replace the ailing senator dianne feinstein on a key committee that leaves biden judicial nominees in limbo today , and there are other democratic math problems just down the road a bit. hi hello there. would you like some lemonade would love some lemonade. dollars please. five what supply chain issues. there's a lemon troy age. you seen the purse of cups. these days? inflation undo inflation with dish the same tv bill every month. no 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important senate judiciary committee that means by judicial nominees are in limbo, and feinstein's absence would complicate other big challenges coming up like the debt ceiling fight and filling a biden cabinet vacancies. and so there are more democratic calls for senator feinstein to resign. close allies, though, say she hopes to return soon and deserves more courtesy. the senator has been absent since early march are great reporters are back at the table. let's a tough one. she's an icon in the democratic party. she's a legend in california. she's a trailblazing woman in the united states senate, but but the president's agenda is on hold here. one of my questions is now that it's crystal clear. republicans will not give you the vote is that some point is the president united states going to have to call his former friend, his good friend and former senate colleague out in california and say i need you here or i need you to go. it would go expose one of the more sensitive sort of issues that the white house often faces, which is the president's own age, which polling has shown is on the minds of americans throughout the country. in previous, whether situations with tensions and among the democratic party in congress whether it be with congressional negotiations over legislation or what have you the white house stands has always been to send top white house staffers, whether it be senior adviser steve machete, whether it be louisa terrell as well to the hill, and at least publicly say that biden would take a step back. this has got to be something to watch, though, because, as you noted this involves one of the one of the issues one of the things in that being judicial appointments at the white house has celebrated for the past six months, so it will be something to watch something you can still get done in divided government. now that the republicans control the house, you just need senate confirmation of judicial picks. just look at these numbers. 119 biden federalench confirmed by e senate so far, only one approved by the judiciary committee to get it to the senate floor since fine size, but also it puts that process at hole where a week or a month away from the death. ceiling showdown. the president's labor secretary resigned to take a new job. they need to replace somebody in the cabinet, so democrats have 51. absent find some they have 50. we went through this with the biden agenda when that you know with when it was 50 50 again at what point yeah, i think there is kind of two narratives on display there. if you talk to senator chuck schumer, he'll say, well, i've talked to her, she said she's coming back soon. and then other people, though, skeptically will say, well, she's coming back soon. then why are we working so hard to replace her on the judiciary committee? so i think privately, a lot of senators on the democratic side don't think that she's coming back anytime soon. and i think they're going to. they're willing to give it a few more weeks because like you said, she is an icon up there a trailblazer, but we will probably hear more calls for her. to step aside in the next few weeks as this queue of judges continues to back up, we get closer to the debt ceiling, and like you said, we need to confirm a new cabinet secretary and so the thinking at the beginning of the week was that the democrats seem to think or at least think it was a possibility that could get 10 votes. you just heard leader mcconnell, his deputy, john cornyn says. never once have we allowed this and so we're not going to do it now, especially over the issue of judges, which are so critical, you know, mitch mark. this has been mcconnell's calling card for years and years and years. but listen to these republican senators, joanie it's uh via what? we're not going to help the democrats with that. chuck grassley, also of iowa, and on that committee, i don't think senatorial courtesy will work to move liberal judges. senator john kennedy of louisiana, she said. she's going to be coming back soon. i take diana at her word. susan collins, who's a close friend of hers, also on the committee, there clearly has been a concerted campaign to force her to leave the judiciary committee. i will have no part of that the college thing is delicious in the sense that she's not just making this. i'm a republican. i'm not going to the democrats. she's like, you know, the democrats are trying to nudge my good friend of the committee, which is very ironic, but i mean, it is true that senator feinstein was supposed to be the chair of the committee. but there was a pressure for her to back away from that because they did not believe that she was able to handle it anymore in your years, but what i am told is that this is now out of the hands, at least temporarily of the feinstein senate staff. this is in the hands of the feinstein family. which is very different in the senate staff. so she is, yeah, soon means very different things to by way of explaining this, but interestingly, if she would happen to retire are lauren fox this morning on capitol hill? it's a short time ago, talk to senator mitt romney, and he opened the door to the idea of republicans may not even agree to helping to fill the committee seat if she retires. so in the opposed american garland rule. all the decorum of the senate is you know, really out the window when it comes to judges, so that will be something fascinating here to watch what happens even if she retires. the reason it matters is on that committee. you need her vote on the committee to vote them out to the full senate. there are the votes in the front. the full senate with the vice president, but there aren't on the committee. so that's why it's so important here, so it's too early to say there are hints of ruth bader ginsburg in terms of should she have retired earlier for the longevity of the courts. but look for those conversations to come because that is what's at stake. and you have 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we going? started out as a power player that he was winning. you know, for the last year, so now it appears he's not. and interestingly, those comments yesterday once again his fellow republican potential rivals in the presidential campaign governor chris sununu, former new jersey governor chris christie have are piling on him using the disney thing as an example of how he's not conservative about you know, is the government's supposed to go after a, uh, a specific company , but never mind that it looks to me like you could almost see the ads from trump world playing. that he sort of got swat around by mickey mouse. it just, uh you wonder how far he's going to go with this and just if that passes for humor and build a new prison outside of disney world, i don't know. it just strikes me as odd. i'm not sure how this can be a winning argument for him at this point, so let's listen to some of that. the first republican debate is scheduled for august, but it's starting to play out right here because trump and desantis at the top of the pack. chris noonan, there's jeff noted republican governor new hampshire has not declared his candidacy, says he's thinking about it to jeff's point, he says. this is not what republicans do. we applaud free markets. we don't use government power to punish people. this has gone from kind of going after a headline to something that is devolved into an issue in it convoluted the entire republican message. i think we have a great product as republicans with limited government, limited government and local control and low taxes, individual responsibility, but that gets all muddled up with our messaging were horrible at selling our message. that is sununu and chris christie, the former governor of new jersey, who is also thinking about running again. he has not said he would yet, so let's get in the ring. if you're going to get in the ring, he makes the point that ron desantis presents himself as mr strong, but he just got out maneuvered and not by mickey nice try but by the disney ceo bob iger, that's not the guy i want sitting across from president g and negotiating our next agreement with china. we're sitting across from putin and trying to resolve what's happening in ukraine. if you can't see around a quarter that bob iger created good for you, sometimes in politics. you just have to admit. when you screwed up and you got taken. it happens . it's hard to admit because it happens to you on a public stage and everybody gets to see your mistake. but if you're not used to that, then don't get in this business. that's it almost of a vision strategy. but then a manhood test? absolutely i mean, you wonder if this is sort of the ah, unexpected sort of backfiring of prioritizing culture wars over the more traditional pro business values of the republican party, but you kind of are seeing a clash of those themes here. um let's be honest. i mean, the origin of this goes towards trying to appeal to ah, potentially supporters of the former president as well by leaning into some of those divisive issues and the grievances of some in the country. but now you're seeing that republicans in ah that republicans are now criticizing him for not just devaluing sort of the traditional business values of the party but also now losing a negotiation, which could factor into whether or not you're qualified for higher office. that part is interesting, right ? who won the negotiation or who won the battle? but but sununu and establishment voice, christine establishment. they were wrong about trump, too. so are they wrong about desantis and how it plays with voters. we can talk about how it plays in washington how it plays with other establishment people. donald trump proved yeah. nice try. you all said i couldn't do this. and he was president. i mean, you're you make a great point. desantis is playing to one audience right now. that's the gop primary audience. right? we see that with the six week abortion bill that we know is not going to play well with general voters, but he pursued it. he signed it. he put a press release out. he did sign it in the middle of the night, but that's who he's trying to get right now. i think this is a huge question, though, for washington and four donors and other people who want to back him. what is this guy really like? and can he make it on the big stage in the debate against trump, and he'll be up here tonight in washington, actually introducing himself to some of these republicans. interesting question here is just a few chip roy of texas is already endorsed him. thomas massey of kentucky has already endorsed him. darin lahood of illinois mike gallagher, wisconsin defensor of iowa, some conservative republicans there. the santa served in the house. he knows them coming up, essentially to say, you know if i run and he's going to run be with me that it is an interesting test. can you make more friends? you have more surrogates that matters for sure. i mean, he is trying to 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lawyer spoke about how he's holding up inside reading classic russian novels, once said, and watching cooking shows. the u. s ambassador, though, was much more critical, saying how troubled she was seeing what she called an innocent journalist in these circumstances and calling on russia to set him free. meanwhile there are new concerns being expressed about another prominent prisoner being held in a russian jail. lawyers for alexey navalny, the anti corruption campaigner, serving an 11.5 year prison sentence, now say he's been beaten up in his jail cell and separately is facing more criminal charges that comes after the kremlin critic vladimir kara murza, who was sentenced to 25 years for treason. sparking more international criticism, but underlining russia's continued a lurched towards authoritarianism . matthew chance, cnn london. still ahead for us. oklahoma's governor calls for resignations that after local leaders are caught on tape making racist and threatening comments, plus 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