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tonight cnn will join the global celebration live from times square with our hosts anderson cooper and andy cohen. the action gets started at 8:00. and today we are honoring the life and legacy of trailblazing journalist barbara walters. she passed away in her home at the age of 9 3. she is of course known for her decades-long broadcasting career and interviews with world leaders and celebrities. walters interviewed every u.s. president and first lady since the nixon administration, and the first female news anchor when she joined nbc. here s a look back at some of her memorable interviews. are you sorry you didn t burn the tapes? you have been described a she duck tres, stal knowledger, bimbo. why did you kill john lennon? i never put on a seductive face. does he hit you? he shakes. he pushes. he swings. some people smiled when he said that. what do you think he saw in our soul? tributes pouring in including connie chung. chung tells cnn she not o ....
it is the top of hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. and i m victor blackwell. today two border state republicans are taking their immigration battle up north. but families are stuck in the middle. greg abbott ordered more than 1 100 migrants but bused and dropped off at kamala harris s home at the conservatory. they have already bused thousands of migrants to other states in recent weeks and they are said to be used as political pawns. the fact that fox news and not the department of homeland security, the city or local ngo s were alerted about a plan to leave migrants, including children on the side of a busy d.c. street makes clear this is just a cruel premeditated political stunt. and then there is florida governor ron desantis and he s gloating that he chartered two flights to carry migrants to martha s vineyard. including young children who were arriving without any warning to local officials who scrambled to set them up in a nearby church. but here ....
saying just within the last hour, a vote won t happen until after the midterms. so what is the holdup. new reaction coming in. and developing news for the white house, with officials tally confirming president biden will meet with the families of britty griner and paul whelan, the two dedaned in russia. a lot to get to on this thursday afternoon. i m hallie jackson. glad to be with you in washington. we start with the new developments in the january 6th investigations, plural. the capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, ryan riley and former u.s. attorney and nbc legal analyst before bra mcquade. let me start with you, and chair benny compton was kind of chatty today. he was chatty toops today and what i was asking about is the reporting in the last few hours that the january 6th committee at least for now will not be cooperating, sends can its transcripts and its findings to the department of justice, at least until they re done with the public phase of their hearings ....
them, he looks at them in their crumpled piles and says we are not sick men. as a kid in the 80s, when i saw that, hoo, i felt it. i wasn t chinese. i had no idea of the history of japan and china, but as a black kid in america i understood the need to stand up to your oppressors. and just since the beginning i understand that all people s struggles are connected. it felt like me and bruce were the same. of course, he meant way more to asian americans than he meant to me. but bruce s fights onscreen were nothing compared to his fights offscreen, a fight for representation in media, a fight to end racism by teaching martial arts to everybody, a fight to stand up for his people. anti-asian attacks and hate crimes as we know have been rising sharply thinking episode is about how asian americans are still fighting those fights. no more hate! is it happening? it s happening. oh my god. that s mine. don t touch it. i think we re eating family-style. that ....