that could pick up 4, 5, 6 inches of rain. that's why you do have the very big flood threat across much of the region for today and tomorrow as well. >> all right. we'll watch for it. allison chinchar, thanks so much. and "new day" continues right now. the u.s. food and drug administration has just granted emergency use authorization for the johnson & johnson single shot vaccine. >> we now have three highly effective vaccines. >> we are one step closer to vaccinating the nation. >> i think i was actually, like, shaking like oh my gosh, i can get it. >> i am worried people are lifting restrictions saying it's over when the reality is we are not over yet. >> let me tell you this right now. donald j. trump ain't going anywhere. >> the conservative political action conference is underway. >> the left is telling you to submit or they will cancel you. >> we want to know, we are waiting to hear the next step. we're all looking for guidance.

♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> sun coming up in orlando where conservatives and former president trump are gathering today for cpac. we will get to that in just a minute. we want to tell you today that advisors to the cdc are meeting to vote on whether the agency should approve the distribution of the johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccine. this is after the fda granted it authorization for emergency use. >> that vote is expected to happen this afternoon. once that is decided, the cdc director would give the final approval. >> nearly 4 million doses of that shot could begin rolling out to vaccine centers across the country as early as tomorrow. this will be the third coronavirus shot, remember, allowed to be administered in the u.s. so far, it's authorized for 18 years and up. >> it's a single-dose shot.

it's not requiring any special storage. just ordinary refrigeration temperatures. that makes it easier to distribute across the country. the studies show it offers 86% protection against severe symptoms. >> paolo sandoval is outside a mass vaccination center in new york. we know the u.s. has fully vaccinated a little more than 7% of the population. what is the expectation this shot is really going to help elevate that number? >> reporter: putting it simply here, as pexperts have said, ths is a big, big deal. the emergency use authorization that has been issued here for a sul-dose vaccine, one that can be stored at normal refrigeration temperatures and is 100% effective in terms of preventing death and hospitalizations where it was tested, that has a potential to change the trajectory of the pandemic. as johnson & johnson's new single-dose vaccine is officially authorized by the fda for emergency use, the nation's

vaccination numbers are showing significant progress. the cdc reporting just over 75% of all distributed vaccine doses have been administered. the weekly average of shots going some 1.6 million a day. with an estimated 4 million j&j doses ready to be sent out, the >> we will tell people get the vaccine that you can of any of the three that are out there. they are all performing incredibly well. >> reporter: there is more ground to cover now due in part to emerging virus variants as a houston pediatrician says earlier goals of vaccinating 60 to 80% of the population in order to stop the spread of the virus may not be enough. >> we are probably going to have to 880, 90% of the population vaccinated. we will need all the adults vaccinated and start vaccinating adolescents and kids as well. the bar, unfortunately, is

probably going to rise. >> reporter: states, responsible for establishing vaccine eligibility. in delaware they have a chance. pre-k through 12 teachers in connecticut will get their turn starting tomorrow. cdc data shows 23 million americans have been fully vaccinated. dr. jonathan reiner who spoke to cnn saturday evening is among them. he is hopeful the cdc will roll out guidance for those fully immunized in order to protect those who aren't. >> we are going to eat in a restaurant tonight. as more and more people become vaccinated and as we learn more about the vaccines and show that the protection is really robust and protects against transmitting virus, you are going to see the economy open up. >> reporter: as for the race to get more of the country protected, several states are easing off some of their protective measures. tennessee lifts restrictions at visitors on long-term care facilities today. tomorrow south carolina will lift restrictions on mass

gatherings. so the addition of this third vaccine is expected to increase vaccination capacity at multiple states by as much as 25%. now, in terms of the timing, victor and christi, one example, and governor spencer cox in utah saying he expects his state to receive thousands of these dose that last green light is issued, and he could potentially see some of those johnson & johnson shots going into arms as early as this thursday. >> good news. good news. paolo sandoval for us there. joining me to talk about this, emergency medicine physician, she is at the medical director, actually, at baylor college of medicine. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so let's talk about the j&j and these concerns over efficacy. before we get into it, i want to remind people where we were before we had a single vaccine. listen to dr. anthony fauci. this is last summer. what he was hoping for six

months ago. >> we don't know yet what the efficacy might be. i believe we'll get an effective vaccine, but we don't know if it's going to be 50%, 60%. hopefully, i'd like to see 75% or more. >> so we've been fortunate to get moderna and pfizer at 94, 95%. but 72% efficacy overall and 100% in preventing hospitalizations, doctor, and deaths, that's very good? >> it's great, actually. the fda set the bartch, much lower, and said at the beginning of the vaccine race that a vaccine only had to be 50% effective in order to be considered for emergency use authorization. this well surpasses that. there are so many numbers floating around with the johnson & johnson vaccine that it's sometimes hard to focus on which numbers are important. what we really need to note is that in the clinical trial no one that received the johnson &

johnson vaccine was hospitalized and no one that received the vaccine died from covid-19. that's what's really important and what we need to look at. >> also important is the temperature at which this has to be stored. tell me practically what a vaccine that could be stored at ordinary refrigeration means for distri distribution to avoid waste or spoiling. what does that mean to you? >> so while we were so excited to get the pfizer and moderna vaccines, it required a huge logistical undertaking because of the subzero temperatures that required for storage. now the johnson & johnson vaccine requires regular refrigerated temps. that's amazing for those in rural also and also considering our global efforts to vaccinate the entire world. it's definitely going to be helpful in third world countries that don't have the infrastructure to store the vaccine at these sub zero temperatures. so definitely a lot of great, great points about the johnson & johnson vaccine. we have mentioned that it's one

shot. that in and of itself is going to help, you know, make here that people are taking their entire dosage because it's only one shot. >> daily new cases, deaths, hospitalizations are down from their peaks about a month ago. and now some governors are looking at lifting some of the restrictions. you are in houston. texas governor greg abbott is looking at or considering lifting the mask mandate, other restrictions as well. is now the ptime to consider those, and if not, what do the numbers need to look like to consider lifting some of the mandates? >> now is not the time, and that's actually a pretty frightening idea that the governor in texas is considering lifting the mask mandate. when you look at texas numbers, just yesterday we had 11,000 new cases. 12 perseverance of national hospitalizations are in the state of texas. and while the national average is about 20% of patients who are hospitalized or in the icu here in texas, 30% of our patients

are in the icu. now is not the time to be rolling bachman dates. furthermore, we only have five percent vaccinated. we are well below where we need to be to achieve herd immunity as a country or a state. we need to make sure that we are still employing those same mitigation strategies so our numbers aren't going back to early january. >> a week ac when we were speaking to guests from houston it was about the storm, a lack of water, and a lack of power. how have those impacted the ability to continue testing, to continue vaccinations and where are things this weekend? are you back on track? >> i think we are back on track now. we did definitely have a bit of a lull that week because everything essentially stopped. there was no water. there was no power. people were in survival mode literally just trying to make it through the storm. after the storm, we did see a rapid influx of patients in

emergency departments, but during that time we were unable to give any vaccines and we were unable to do any testing. we haven't really doubled the pace of vaccinations or, you know, tried to make up for what we missed, but we are back with the pace that we were before the storm. >> all right. doctor, thank you so much for your time. enjoy the week. >> thank you for having me. >> sure. a second former aide to new york governor andrew cuomo has come forward accusing him of sexual harassment. what we're learning about that and the governor's response to the allegation. and more than a million people have signed a measure to force a recall election of california governor gavin newsom. why some voters are angry and why -- who, rather, might be looking at that seat next. and former president trump is giving his first speech today since leaving the white house. what his cpac appearance could mean for the future of the republican party. that's still ahead. among my patients i often see them

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"the new york times" is reporting a second former aide to governor andrew cuomo has now come forward accusing him of sexual harassment. >> former aide's name is charlotte bennett. she says the alleged incidents happened late last spring during the height of the state's fight against coronavirus. brin, always good to see you. tell us more about allegations. i understand you have a response from the governor now. >> reporter: that's right. a second former aide to come forward this week in a string of hits that the governor has taken the last few weeks about his behavior in the executive office and decision-making during the pandemic. this former aide as you mentioned, christi, it's charlotte bennett. she spoke to "the new york times" and talked about a lot of interactions with the governor saying at one point she thought he was acting as a mentor. she recalled in particular to "the times" an incident last june where the 25-year-old said

she ways loan with governor cuomo this his office and he asked her a number of perm questions like this. if she had been with an older man and that he was open to relationships with women in their 20s. now, bennett told "the times" she intercepted those questions as clear overtures to a sexual relationship. "the times" says bennett did provide text messages that she sent to friends and family about that exchange to corroborate her account. and cuomo did release a statement immediately following the publication of that story. here's what it said. miss bennett was hard working and valued member of our team during covid. she has every right to speak out. when she came to me and opened up about being a sexual assault survivor and how it shaped her and her ongoing efforts to create an organization that empowered her voice to help other survivors i tried to be supportive and helpful. miss bennett's initial impress was right. i was trying to be a mentor to her. i never made advances towards

miss bennett nor did i intend to act inappropriate. the last thing i would ever have wanted was to make her feel any of the things that are being reported. this situation should not be resolved in the press. i believe the best way to get to the truth is through a full and thorough outside review, and i am directing all state employees to comply with that effort. i ask all new yorkers to await the findings of the review so that they know the fact before making any judgments andfuher c that review is concluded. we reached out to bennett for further comment on her allegations but she did not respond. but again this is the second person this week to accuse the governor of inappropriate behavior. former aide lindsey boylan, she said in a media post earlier this week that cuomo gave her an unwanted kiss on her lips when she worked with him in 2018. the governor also denied those allegations and did months ago when boylan came forward with her claims. and boylan told cnn she was letting her post comment for itself and didn't really comment any further to cnn.

all of these bad headlines for the governor and his administration, both which are still facing the political fallout from his nursing home handling of death data during the pandemic, and we know he continues to face criticism from both sides of the aisle here in new york, calls for impeachment, particularly from state republicans, and we also know that there is an open investigation by the brooklyn u.s. attorney's office and fbi into the data issue. we are not sure the probe's infect focus, is it the governor, people in his administration, and that's preliminary. as far as a review, the investigation that cuomo called for, christi, essentially we are hearing from congress jerry nadler, other people saying, you know, the attorney general should hire someone independently to investigate this. this isn't the governor's call when it comes to this specific issue. a lot of turmoil there. >> no doubt. thank you. cnn has learned that former acting director of national intelligence may be considering a run for california governor.

efforts to recall democratic governor gavin newsom move forward. >> california's lieutenant governor says any republican hopes to take the foregovernor' office, that's a fantasy. >> i believe that he does not deserve to be recalled. but i am also very hopeful that kansa californians will recognize this is built on a fantasy that they can slip a republican governor into the bluest state in the country. >>. >> reporter: the fuel for these mailers, for the volunteers trying to recall california's governor frustration. >> i reached my final straw when i lost my job for the third time in november. >> reporter: stacey edwards works in restaurants, an industry devastated in the pandemic. the object of her ire, governor gavin newsom, who has mandated statewide restrictions on businesses to stop the spread of covid-19. >> what do you want to tell the

governor about the kind of pain that you're in? >> oh, gosh, yeah, that's an interesting question. yeah, it's been very hard. you are going to make me emotional. but we are talking about starting a family and buying a house and those are things that are having to wait because of this. >> reporter: on the other side of the table -- >> i voted for gavin newsom. >> reporter: andrea says she is a lifelong democrat who so admired newsome she named her son gavin. do you blame the governor for the condition that the state is in? >> i do at this point. newsome is the one that's running california trite now with an iron fist. >> reporter: these californians seething after a year of shutdowns have found a political outlet. >> these look like three ballot signatures. >> reporter: the recall petition. >> this is just in one day. >> this is only part of one day.

>> reporter: petitions sorted by county, then delivered to be officially counted. warren heatley launched the recall 2020 campaign. the other five failed to qualify for the ballot against the democratic governor who won by a landslide in 2018. >> this is your five star spot for a smorgasbord of information. >> reporter: this recall is dominated by conservative donors much money that pays for this radio program broadcast from liberal los angeles. that's a dig at governor newsome's blunder. maskless at this exclusive restaurant while telling his residents to stay home. he since apologized but it dinged his popularity. with california's covid case numbers dropping, newsome is pushing to reopen schools, easing restrictions on outdoor dining and opening the first joint state federal mass vaccination sites in the

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the senate will take up president biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief bill this week now that it's passed the house. >> it includes $1,400 stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment benefits, direct payments to state and local governments and more. but the senate is expected to strip out a provision. raising the minimum wage. cnn's daniella diaz with us now. good to have you here. the clock ask ticking for this senate bill, and that's going to be a prime provision of contention, i suppose. daniella, what do you say? >> reporter: that's exactly right, christine. the house voted on this massive $1.9 trillion covid relief package yesterday. they passed it. s legislation. i just want to note that. and, look, i want to talk a little bit about what's going to be in the package. $1,400 stimulus checks, direct funding for state and local governments, it's also more funding for vaccine distribution, but there is one

thing that will be noticeably missing in the house version of this -- or this, excuse me, the smith senate version of this legislation passed in the house and that is this $15 minimum wage increase. this is a win for moderate democrats, namely kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, who didn't want to support this legislation with this provision in the legislation, and chuck schumer, who needed every single democratic senator to sign on to support this legislation for it to pass in the senate. that is because they are trying to pass this using budget reconciliation, which means they need all 50 democratic senators to support this with vice president kamala harris being the tie-breaking vote. so what happens now? well, all eyes are on the senate. we are not exactly sure what the ked is going to look like the next couple of weeks as they manage this legislation, but what we do know is that there is this march 14th deadline looming over congress. they want to pass this before march 14th when millions of americans are set to lose their

unemployment benefits. white house has been clear and is putting pressure on the senate do this and that is why the clock is ticking and the senate will take this up in the next couple of weeks. >> daniella diaz, thank you. cnn's jasmine wright is with us from the white house right now. jasmine, talk to us about what the president is looking to do to push this over the line. >> well, the president really adapted a negotiator in chevy r chief role during this process and it's safe to assume he will continue as the focus now turns to the senate. we heard from mr. biden yesterday in the roosevelt room where he said that they were one step closer to passing this coronavirus relief bill, which means to him that they are one step closer to putting checks directly into the pockets of americans to vaccinating more americans as we know that there is money inside this bill for mass vaccinations, to doing the things that he believes is necessary to curtail this pandemic. what he has said is his number

one priority while in office. now, the rest of president biden's week outside of any movement on this coronavirus bill is going to be really forward thinking. we know that he and vice president harris are going to keynote that house democrats retreat this week where they will lay out their major legislative priorities, and those are going to be things that they have already teed up like infrastructure and immigration. on monday we are going to see quite a bit of action. first, any more information on this saudi issue, president biden said that announcement would be forthcoming on monday after his administration released that really damning intelligence report on journalist earp jamal khashoggi. also monday we will possibly know the fate of his office management and budget nominee neera tanden as she meets with centrist senator lisa murkowski looking for a lifeline on her rocky nomination. now, of course, we don't know

house senator murkowski is going to vote, what she is going to decide to do. that is something we will be on the lookout for. >> we appreciate it. thank you. white house correspondent from politico with us now, laura, good to see you. thanks for being here. let's talk about neera tanden first of all. she is having this meeting, as jasmine said, with senator murkowski, who maybe the swing vote. but does the white house have a plan b here? have you heard of other names that might be out there if it doesn't work with tanden? >> reporter: yeah, we have heard of schland a young, who used to work in congress on the house side, on budget issues, and so she is potentially one of the frontrunners. she has a lot of support from black lawmakers in the house, as well as some republicans in the senate. senator shelby also is behind

her, before all of the complications of tanden arose. and so -- but every time a name like young's is brought up to the white house in press briefings the last week, the press secretary jen psaki has said the white house is behind tanden, the only name for the white house is neera tanden and they are going to continue to fight for her. that's why you haven't seen them pull her nomination and they are still, despite this delay that has gone over this weekend into next week, they are hoping that they can get more support for her, particularly with lisa murkowski. >> also hoping for support for the minimum wage, which will be taken out of the senate option of the stimulus bill. of course, we know that. but representative jaipal, said this about it. she said we are going to have to figure out a way to get it through. if that means reforming the

filibuster, we should reform the filibuster. what do you know about options that progressor democrats are ruminating over to make this happen? is a stand-alone bill in their sights? >> reporter: a stand-alone bill is something that house leadership has said that they want to pass whether or not a clean 15 minimum wage hike makes it through the covid bill. but a lot of democrats are -- have no illusions about the act of that to pass the senate because there aren't 60 votes for a clean $15 wage hike. so there is actually a bit of a split among progressives because progressives in the house have gone so far to say they want the administration to overrule the parliamentarian. the administration has outright just said, no, we are not going to do that. that they respect the rules of the senate. the next thing is that progressives in the house are also calling for abolishing the filibuster. there are a lot of progressives and democrats in the senate that also want to see that.

again, the administration has not said that they want it take that route. so the option coming out right now is that senator bernie sanders along with ron wyden and a majority leader chuck schumer are working on an amendment that they are hoping they can get into the covid reconciliation bill, and what that would do is phenollize bigger corporations who don't, like walmart, like mcdonald's, who don't pay their workers $15 an hour, and then it would provide some kind of tax credit incentives to smaller businesses. so that's the workaround. and kind of contours that we know now, an amendment that they are trying to include in this current reconciliation. >> i want to talk to you about what we learned this week about the khashoggi killing, it was approved by mohammad bin salman. remember, khashoggi was a u.s. citizen. he lived in virginia. he was columnist for "the washington post." janet yellen said this. those involved in the abhorrent

killing of jamal khashoggi must be held accountable. the white house says president biden is addressing this again tomorrow. listen to fred high at for "the washington post," what he said about this and why it's important. >> and it matters not just because this was a terrible crime and there should be justice. but because dictators like mbs and like xi jinping in china, like putin increasingly are reaching across their borders to do this kind of crime. they are going outside their own countries to harass, to kidnap and to assassinate people they enter receive as enemies. >> accountability is the big question here. we know that former president trump didn't really address this at all. do you see any actionable difference between what former president trump is doing and what president biden is doing to try to put some accountability on the table here? >> you know, president trump

decided not to release the intel report that all of us just saw, and that the biden administration did decide to release, and so that is a change from one administration to the next. also, the treasury department is putting sanctions on saudi operatives, those who were alleged to have been involved in the murder. as you said, the big difference, one of the big things that a lot of democratic lawmakers, human rights activists aren't happy with in terms. biden administration is that they haven't said that they are going to penalize the crown prince directly. and so that's what they still want to see. we have heard it from senators like ron wyden, bon menendez and democrats across the house, they think that the administration needs to go that step further and provide -- and put direct sanctions on the crown prince. >> we'll see what president biden says tomorrow. lauren, thank you, ma'am. >> thank you. >>back. if you're 55 and up, t-mobile has plans built just for you.

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myanmar. the catholic cardinal tweeted the country is lake a battlefield and the images as well as the number of dead ticking up over the past few hours continues to reaffirm that crime that in fact it is chaos in several cities and towns across myanmar as protests come out in tee fyans against that coup on february 1st when the landslide victory was overturned by a military whose proxy party has a handful of votes. they declared a state of emergency and the people have been fighting back. they are fearful not just for their lives, but for being pulled out of their beds in the middle of the night being arrested. the number of killed since the start of the protest at least ten, and also one police officer, but seven deaths have happened today. the leader of the civilian gove government is do you in court tomorrow. >> will ripley in hong kong. in a few hours a peek at the future of the republican party

and former president trump's role in it. his speech at the conservative political action conference, cpac as it's called, happens this afternoon and it's going to be his first since leaving office. >> even after the g.o.p. lost the house and the senate and the white house on his watch, the politicians and party activists in attendance there have so far lined up behind the former president leading up to his headlining speech. cnn political commentator charlie dent is with us. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i understand that you and other like-minded republicans want the party to break away from former president trump, but the new poll from "usa today" and suffolk university found that the republicans are more loyal to trump than they are to the party by a 20-point margin. also, if trump were to start his own party, he would take 46% of republican voters with him. only 27% in this poll committed to staying with the party.

what do you want the leaders of the party to do with that other than stick with where the base of the party is? >> well, victor, i think the party really needs to break from trump. but there is that movement growing. there are a lot of republicans out there who are very disaffected. they want a new direction. granted, this is a minority of the current party, but it is an impactful number of people. and we saw what happened in the 2020 election after all. i mean, where many republicans and swing voting independents, they voted for joe biden and then voted straight republican down ballot. how else does one explain why down ballot republicans did so well and donald trump was defeated? it was clearly a rejection of the president. i can't understand for the life of me why these folks at cpac think that doubling down on defeat is the path forward. they are lacking backwards, not

forwards, and they are hop honoring a man responsible for a insurrection that was responsible for five deaths. >> you said the support is about fear. first of all, explain that, and, secondly, can you identify a moment perhaps where you saw that shift happen? >> well, sure. i served in the house when donald trump was president, and i saw what would happen. many members were very concerned about being tweeted at. and they were just fearful that donald trump would incite their bases against them. my argument at the time was, and still is, if more speak up, if more push back, he can't fight with everybody. he just can't. and i got into fights with the president in the white house during the health care debates where he told me to my face i was going to destroy the republican party because i told him the problems with the health care bill at the time, which i voted against, and he didn't take itcal. don't really over. look at adam kizinger and rom

rom and ben sasse, they are saying all the right things and they are not afraid. and it's liberating. so enconcerning more to speak up. >> but it is trickling down from the federal level to state and local. i mean, sasse is being censored in neshz. how do you explain those -- how expansive this seems to be, and the fact that the president doesn't have twitter anymore. former president. >> well, tell you what. christi, what you are saying about the state and local republican parties is really very true. right here in pennsylvania, on wednesday they had a meeting to censure senator pat toomey for voting to convict donald trump. by the way, we don't have an outcome. they had problems tabulating the votes. i am not saying it was voter fraud, but they can't even give us an outcome. many state and local committees have become so trumpfied that they are not representative of

what's going on. the county where i live, lehigh county, the party just yesterday brought in congressman lauren boebert to be their speaker at the lincoln day breakfast. this was a county that joe biden won. why would you bring in somebody like that, a polarizing figure? the point is many folks at the county and state committee level are really pandering to the fringe and i think the trump people have done a good job of implanting their people in these organizations. >> not just the organizations in the parties, but the legislation as it relates to voter restrictions and access to the ballot in state legislations across the country. we are seeing parts 4, 5, and 6 and 7 of the election series today at cpac. let me ask you about this. they had their annual ronald reagan dinner last night. former president reagan spoke at cpac 13 times. the party loves reagan, not as much as they used to. listen to former president reagan. this is 40 years ago.

at cpac. >> this reformation, this renaissance will not be achieved or will it be served by those who engage in political clap trap or false promises. it will not be achieved by thos class against class or institution against institution. >> now, yes, he was a partisan. he was not always as sunny here. this was right after his inauguration in '81. but listening to that, and what we are expecting we will hear from president trump, is this fundamentally a different party? >> oh, absolutely, victor. it's a different party indeed. ronald reagan was talking in an aspirational way about the future and i think trying to appeal to the better sides of all of us and what we have now, at cpac, i mean, it's become a, you know, it's become a gathering for much of the tinfoil hat brigades and black

helicopter crowd. we now call them qanon. they always had a fair number of people showing up. a guy like me who represented a swing district, i never showed up to cpac, you know he. i mean, i don't want to write ads, campaign ads for my opponents just by showing up. what's happened is that whole -- it's become a trump fest where people are there to honor a man who has been defeated twice, impeached twice, and, you know, sicced a violent mob on the capitol that resulted in insurrection and death. we have come a long way. this, sadly, that event is for people to pander to really base elements, fringe elements of the base, actually. >> all right. as we head the top of the show, supporters saying they are waiting their their guidance. they will hear it from president trump, former president trump later today. former congressman charlie dent, thanks so much. >> thanks a lot. cnn's series "lincoln: divided we stand" airs tonight

at 10:00 p.m. here is a >> in the 11860 census slaves as property were worth $3.8 billion. that's more than $100 billion today. more than all the banks, railroads and factories put together. >> and let's remember, people in the north benefit from the cotton that is grown in the south. new york city was the banking center and an awful lot of banks lent money to southern plantation owners. shippers based in new york and new england shipped goods to the south and cotton to the rest of the north. >> even though the north benefitted from slavery it was never the cornerstone of their economy. it was always the cornerstone of the southern economy. >> "lincoln: divided we stand" airs at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. germ proof your car with armor all disinfectant.

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