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viciously and very publicly accusing shoigu and the chief of the general staff, valery gerasimov, of not supporting wagner militants on the battlefield. once doing that while strolling among the dead bodies of his mercenaries prigozhin later died in mysterious plane crash. analysts say putin could now be sorting out who's really loyal to him and sending a message to the russian people allows putin to say to his domestic audience, yeah, i'm cleaning shop here and we're going to be in this for awhile experts say it's possible that more purges could be coming from vladimir putin, and that the powerful chief of the general staff, valery gerasimov, might need to look over his shoulder, the one analyst points out, gerasimov, is at the top of the million terry pyramid and putin might need to tread carefully with him. well ryan todd reporting, brian, thank you very much into our viewers. >> thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. have a very safe memorial day weekend erin

burnett outfront starts, right >> right now out front next, breaking news, attorneys in the trump hush money case now have the all important jury instructions this as trump goes out of his way today to insult the judge and biden gears up to unleash a new fresh round of attacks plus seizing power. that's what china's says. it's now training for as its ships and aircraft surround taiwan is the us about to be drawn into a war with china? and in outfront investigations, cnn tracking down a wealthy trump's suborder who's now leading a high-profile campaign to block a law designed to protect election workers. >> why let's go out friday? >> good evening. i'm boris sanchez in for erin burnett outfront tonight, breaking news. the lawyers and the trump

hush money case have now received those all important jury instructions instructions which are key to the verdict they explained to the jury what it must find a convict, donald trump, on 34 criminal charges. now this new development comes as trump is hurling new insults at judge juan more, sean calling him corrupt and deeply conflicted. and while trump is on a rare break from the courtroom, he's still fixated on the trial that could alter similarly make him a convicted felon. the first former president and major party presidential contender to hold that dubious title. just a short time ago, trump writing online quote, i am being incorrectly an unconstitutional ly prosecuted because i called a legal expense a legal l expene and the attacks continuing just a witch hunt. >> this a political witch. we have, uh, judges totally conflicted at his very unfair to the american system. >> in the days ahead the world

we'll find out if the jury of seven men and five women would convict or quit the former president. and a big question will judge me, sean, who's been the constant target of trump's attacks, even tonight on truth, social put the former president in prison. either way, the biden campaign is ready to pounce. cnn is learning that biden is gearing up to go after trump in a major way. once the verdict is red and a new ad voiced by robert de niro is giving voters a taste of what's to come now he's running again this time, threatening to be a dictator to terminate the constitution. >> if i don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath. trump wants revenge. >> and just stop at nothing to get it brynn grass is out front live in new york covering the trump trial and mj lee is live force at the white house. let's start with a brynn. i mentioned those jury instructions. it's now in the

hands of the attorneys what more you learning? >> yeah. baur is remember these jury instructions serve as really a roadmap for jurors to follow how to interpret the law and apply that to all the evidence, all the testimony that they have been hearing over the last couple of weeks now we know when we last had cord on tuesday, both sides of the fence of the prosecution were still negotiating some major issues that they wanted in those jury instructions and some of them are complex issues. >> the judge said, you know what, give me a minute. i'm going to decide about that. so clearly he has decided since both sides have that final copy, though, we're not going to know what those jury instructions look like. they're not going to be made public. we will only find out when the judge actually reads them too. the jury now, let's talk about what's ahead right. on tuesday when jurors were turned from the long holiday weekend, essentially, we are going to hear closing arguments. what i'm sure the lawyers are working on over the long holiday weekend. now, we expect those closing og your arguments to actually possibly bleed into wednesday after those are

complete by both sides and the judge is going to give those jury instructions. we expect those to last about an hour then of course, deliberations the jurors are going to go into a room and they are going to discuss this case until they render a verdict during that time. we understand the former president, he'll be in the courthouse. he's gonna be an aside what they determined as a war room waiting for their verdict to be rendered. now when it actually does, we know that it's going to be red 34 counts, right? each one one at a time, guilty or not guilty for each of those counts. if there are any guilty verdicts and if there is a punishment to be made that is going to be the judge's discretion. now, what our understanding is that the judges also going to be picking the sentencing date if there is any guilty verdict and it's possible this judge could decide to pick that date after the november election boards. so that means voters could be going to the polls with the former president on the ballot as a convicted felon. so we'll have to seek or it'll be historic, no matter the

outcome, brynn gingras life from the york. thank you so much the biden campaign, of course, is watching all of this very closely tonight. mj lee is out front at the white house and jake, what are you learning from your sources about how the biden team plans to address it's the trial. >> well, boris just like everybody else, the biden campaign is waiting to see how next week goes. is the former president going to be found guilty or not? could there be a miss trial? will we even get a decision next week? but eventually the trial is going to end and the campaign knows that the coverage of the trial is also going to slow it down. down and that they think will give them an opportunity and more of an opening than they have had in recent weeks to really try to make their case. and i'm told that they do believe that the end of the trump trial is going to basically coincide with what they see as a more aggressive phase of their campaigns. so we are talking about the kinds of ads that they ran we of course saw two new ads earlier today. one of them which you played earlier in the show, and also just the messaging and the

rhetoric that we are going to hear from the campaign is going to be more ramped up, including what we will hear from directly from the president himself. and of course, you know, no matter what happens next week, the campaign is going to have to calibrate and decide what is our messaging going to be, what exactly is our strategy going to be depending on, again, exactly what happens next week. but i am told whether he is a convicted felon or not, whether he is guilty or not, the campaign's basic thrust of the message and making the case against donald trump. that is not going to change. and just the final i don't think that i would note to a reality that the campaign is grappling with that i think is just so core to how the biden campaign is thinking about everything. is that the vast majority of voters they believe still do not believe that it is going to come down to donald trump and joe biden, and they want to convince more voters as many voters as possible before november that it is going to be done donald trump on the ballot. >> yeah, it's crazy that the politics are just one of the many fascinating aspects to all of this mj lee live from the

white house. thank you so much. >> in front. now, lenny davis, he's a former attorney for michael cohen, also with us elon university law professor steve friedland gentlemen, thank you both for sharing part of your weekend with us. lenny biden's team has mj mentioned is watching closely to see how this trial is going to end. your former client, michael cohen, was of course, the star witness his credibility was certainly called into question on the stand. >> do you think that the prosecution still was able to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt even without cohen yes i wrote an article and we'll clear a politics in which i headlined that the jury can convict of both times, two times, beyond a reasonable doubt without relying on michael cohen's credibility, even though in new york supreme court judge found michel to be credible and truthful subject, even after the trump class examiners and led to a finding of fraud by donald trump. but

let me at least just describe the two crimes that can be resulting in a guilty verdict by not even looking at what michael cohen testified to. number one, was donald trump primarily motive baited, or seriously motivated by the political pressures of the campaign to pay off stormy daniels and keep her quiet. the answer to that question was yes from his own friends, not from michael cohen, david pecker, hope hicks, and others. that's checked that box. they can convict without even hearing michael cohen. the second one is did donald trump lie? you just saw him when he described the $35,000 a month checks that he signed and sent to michael cohen while sitting president. did he lie when he called them legal fees rather than reimbursem*nts for the advances that michael paid for the hush money and for other things? the answer is, don't believe michael cohen believed allen

weisselberg's handwritten notes in which he took $110,000 doubled it, and then described in his own handwriting that that doubling is a reimbursem*nt to michael cohen. if you just look at that document, it's about math and not about legal fees. >> it's interesting though, because weisselberg himself didn't testify and there were reports of cohen's testimony that he didn't corroborate, for example or he didn't testify that the payments that were made to daniels that he told trump that they might be legal. he also didn't testify that he counseled trump to falsify those business records you don't think lanny that there are potentially gaps in his testimony? >> the document speaks for itself. believe you're lying eyes. the jury's going to look at a document and let me just correct one thing that i said, the total amount in that document by math was $420,000

which was to be repaid to michael cohen. he divided by 20 well, boras and got $35,000. lala, the very same amount that he paid. nothing about legal fees. if that's true, and the jury sees that document as the closest person to michael cohen to my to donald trump named allen weisselberg. that document alone, they can vote to convict without relying on michael cohen, professor friedlander, i'm eager to get your perspective because you were in court nearly every day for the john edwards hush money trial back in 2011, a lot of people look to that case when talking about this one because edwards was accused of campaign finance violations to cover up an affair during a presidential campaign, he was ultimately acquitted did you see a lot of similarities in the case what do you make of lebanese argument i think there are many similarities between the two cases and john edwards had a stronger argument that he was

making the pavement to protect his wife, who was stricken with cancer at the time i do believe however, that there can be narrative that donald trump was not directing this, and i think that's what the defense is saying that michael cohen went rogue and they still have that opportunity to say that this was not about the election, it was about the family. so the it will depend on which narrative that very takes when it seems like you wanted to jump in on the question of intent just really quick. >> i agree and respect that comment and i'm only saying that these independent evidence not in the edwards case corroborated the fact that there was primary political motivation. pecker for said it was about the campaign. hope hicks said it was about the campaign. keith davidson, the lawyer for stormy daniels, said it was about the campaign. edwards didn't have independent testimony that that was the only reason and his wife having cancer could have

been a reason, but the law in an instruction will say any serious reason that was he motivated is a crime and that is what we leave up to the jury and i do agree with you. it's up to the jury to decide, but they don't need to rely on michael cohen's testimony i do want to play some sound of a conversation that aaron recently had with marco mirror. >> he's the defense attorney who handled the george zimmerman case, among many others. here here's what he predicted this case as a greater chance of mistrial in any of the ones we have seen, you have covered with past couple of years. >> this is going to be tough for getting a unanimous professor friedland you see this ending in a mistrial i get three well, i could there are lots of witnesses? >> it was over six weeks. the jury has now taken this break and all it takes is one person to hold out. i think here there's two different layers of the case and the

falsification of the records. but then you have what was the motivation? what was the intent? i think this could end in a mistrial very easily lanny davis, steve freeland, we have to leave the conversation there. >> thank you both thank you, boys. of course. >> and while trump's trial is about to come to a close, a criminal trial for hunter biden is now just days away from beginning. a trial that could end with jail time for the president's son, hunter biden, now set to stand trial on june 3 on charges that he lied about his drug use to be able to buy a gun. the final pretrial hearing ending just a short time ago. evan perez is out front, so evan, what could today's rulings mean for hunter biden's fate? >> well that's another piece of history that potentially is being made here. boris, because obviously as you pointed out, if he is convicted, he could end up getting some jail time. this is the son of the sitting president of the united states, and he's being tried by the

justice department by a special counsel, david weiss. and what we heard today in court is a little bit of the contours of how the judge is limiting some of the evidence that jurors are going to be able to hear in this case, which is now it looks like it's going to last as my as much as two weeks there in wilmington, delaware. the judge ruled that a number of things that prosecutors are allowed to tell the jury including some of hunter biden's spending on drugs, for instance, items. so some of the text messages and other information from his now infamous laptop, as well as testimony from three women that he was involved in during the time that he was allegedly using drugs. and the time that he owned this firearm, as well as some of the statements that he made in his own memoir where he talked about his drug use. now, what the judge said though, was there she limited on some of the things that

prosecutors did want to ask and hunter biden's own lawyers were pushing back on for instance they're not allowed to bring up the fact that he's facing tax charges in los angeles. that trial is set. now for september as well as bring up the fact that he had a paternity case in arkansas or his dismissal from the us navy in 2014, also for drug issues. again all of this could change if hunter biden decides to take the stand in his own defense, overhanging all of this, though boris is the fact that the supreme court is hearing a case related to this this law that a hunter biden is charged with violating. and so everything could depend on that a conservative leaning core that has ruled in favor of second amendment advocates in the past, we'll see how it plays out. evan perez. thank you so much. >> thanks for next rfk jr. and donald trump, both speaking at the libertarian party

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tonight, robert f. kennedy jr. trying to take down donald trump president trump said that he was going to run america luck of business. and he came in and gave the keys to all of our businesses. do 50 year bureaucrat wouldn't ever been elected to anything and add no accountability with a lockdowns, the mask mandates the trial the greatest restriction on the country has ever known the independent presidential candidate delivering that message at the libertarian party convention amid growing fears on the right that kennedy could hurt trump more than he could hurt joe biden. >> trump is also looming large at the convention. he said to speak their himself tomorrow even mcat is out front at the convention. eva, a big speech from kennedy, trump, of course, threatening to overshadow him tomorrow. >> i'm wondering from the people that you've been talking

to their, who has more appeal? presidential candidate, you talk to the american people are boris, what i can tell you is that robert f. >> kennedy jr. gave an address that was really tailor-made for this crowd. he touted himself as a fierce defender of individual freedom, a cornerstone of his campaign has been protecting civil liberties he aired this routine grievance about being silenced during the pandemic what's something that stuck out to me was how he talked about guns. he told this audience, which they wanted to hear, that he will protect their gun-rights. but historically, he has supported an assault weapons ban was very critical of the nra still though kennedy attracting a really wide ideological diversity among supporters, let's take a listen i think that if you really listen to what he has to say and all the different points that he has to say. i think he sells himself he is a great orange. were very

smart, is an attorney. he is litigated for years against united states government. so he knows the problems that we have to address for the next four years and into the future. >> i think he'll fix science. that's the big thing is that they tried to make him out as if he's anti-science, but the truth is, it really makes a difference who pays for the research, the outcomes of the research are different depending on who pays for it. >> yes, it was called medical tourism. >> and boris, there are some trump supporters here in the crowd. some people that will ultimately vote for the libertarian nominee but the two people that you heard from there, the man from virginia, the woman from new jersey, they both voted for clinton in 26 16, and biden in 2020 that is why both parties so nervous tonight about the threat of rfk jr. boris mechan live from the

libertarian national convention, eva, thank you so much. let's bring it in. scott jennings and kate betting field. scott trump, obviously rushing to the libertarian party convention one day after kennedy, a recent nbc poll found that twice as many initial trump supporters as biden supporters choose kennedy when the options are more than just biden and trump 15% of trump's supporters go to kennedy versus 7% of biden supporters. >> how worried do you think trump's should be about a part of his supporters ultimately leaving him for rfk jr. i think they should both be worried about it. >> there was a cook political report survey of the swing states this week and it showed rfk pulling a little more from biden. it was like four to three, so obviously, both campaigns have something the worry about, i actually think only trump has a fighting chance of recovering them if you're a rfk person who's being pulled out of the previous biden camp. i find it hard to believe you'd be going back to bite, but i think trump has a fighting chance of getting them back and that's

obviously why trump is going to speak at this convention because he thinks he can have a conversation with them. so i do expect if rfk makes some ballots, i expect him to get some boats and i expect both campaigns to be scrambling to try to recover those people for the rest of the year okay. just a few minutes ago, the dnc put out a statement bashing kennedy, saying, in part, quote much like his campaign for president rfk juniors speeds today was a bizarre and poorly received exercise. in narcissism. there is no support for rfk junior and he has no path to victory but poll after poll shows that there is significant enough support for kennedy to potentially tilt the election. how worried should the biden can't be right now? >> well, both of those things are true. there is no path to victory for rfa junior. there's not a path for him to get 270 electoral votes, but there absolutely is reason for both the biden campaign in the trump campaign to be concerned about rfk junior. i mean, look,

joe biden won the election by in 2020 by essentially 45,000 thousand votes in arizona, georgia, and wisconsin, we have every expectation i think anybody watching, we should have every expectation that this is going to be an equally close election. so any third party candidate who is able to pull relevant numbers in some of these swing states could potentially impact the outcome. i think what you've seen the democrats du from the outset is to continue to try to define rfk jr. to continue to try to bring forward some of the most outrageous things that he said about vaccines. and really not allow him to skate along as this undefined avatar for a third choice who isn't either trump provided so i would imagine the democrats will continue to do that and they're wise to do so. >> is positions are certainly ambiguous. let's say, scott, i want to ask you about this reporting in the new york times. michael bender reporting that republican senator tom

cotton is now a top contender to be donald trump's vice president how closely do you think trump is looking at cotton to be his running mate matches what i've been hearing that he's a late entrant into the thing here. >> look, i think this is an area that campaign where trump has an embarrassment of riches. i think vance rubio, a governor burgum, tim scott tom cotton, any of them are great choices. all politically defensible and all bring something to the table. so i think it's real. i don't know who it's going to be, but i think any of those choices would make a great running mate for donald trump. >> kate, senator cotton. he's 47 years old. he's much younger than trump biden, or even vice president harris he's married with two young kids, harvard educated. he joined the army after september 11th. he served in both iraq and afghanistan and was at odds with trump on january 6th, by voting to certify joe biden's victory. >> this is an impressive resume

aside from the politics, right? >> do you think this is enough to appeal to independence and swing-state voters? and perhaps those republicans that have supported nikki haley in these zombie primary after she got out well, i think the fact that he opposed donald trump's position on january 6 probably is enough to be in that he won't be chosen. >> i'm certainly not a republican. i'm not in donald trump's head or inside his campaign, but everything we know about him, we know that he prizes loyalty. we know how he feels about those who certified the election and those who continue to say rightly that joe biden won in 2020. so i have to imagine that will be a significant hurdle for tom cotton. but i also think certainly yes, he has a very impressive professional resume, but he also has positioned don't forget on choice, that really understood tours how far outside of the mainstream the republican party has moved on this issue. and for donald trump, who's trying to

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dangerous situation of war will ripley is out front on the ground in taiwan taiwan's nightmare scenario in this chinese military simulation warships in circle the island two days of intense since you've drills, practicing beijing's power seizure capabilities test run for communist china's army to potentially attack and occupied democratic taiwan. >> china's military drills just miles off the time when east coast are reminder for a lot of people here, just how fragile taiwan's democracy is in some fear, it may be running out of time that's why thousands are here at a pro-democracy protest in the capital taipei. >> they know this would be impossible in beijing, you will be put into jail you will put into jail. >> john chiang is a financial analysts and father of two. do you worry when you when you see these pictures of china pulling me, i've been told turn now

you china invasion since i was ten, i still waiting berlin. >> okay. i hope they come right now because we still have the power to fight against land. i want to finish at majlis generation. i don't want my kids to continue my fights. >> chain pay when took the day off from high school to be here. she came with her uncle, who worries at chinese attack, maybe coming soon you don't identify as chinese or taiwanese. >> yeah. >> why they do not have democracy, but our democracy is constantly improving. there are no human rights thanks, or even basic rights in china. may i share drone? >> she says, she and her friends here, what the future could bring a fear shared by many here outside taiwan's parliament inside chaos and turmoil this brawl broke out last week. opposition lawmakers demanding reforms. they say are badly needed to increase the ruling parties accountability

some of those opposition lawmakers, seen as friendly to china. they want to scale back the power of taiwan's new tough on china president lai ching-te he's barely and in office for a week these protesters say the president's opponents are trying to trade taiwan's democracy for economic benefits from beijing. >> i live in san jose, california. why did you come all the way here because i support democracy li hong cheng is retired, born in taiwan in the us for 40 years. war is not good for anybody. taiwan is not such a big island and half-lit taiwan, who bobby be decimated. annihilated by all those bombs. >> he says the taiwanese people must do everything possible to prevent war, to protect taiwan's hard fought freedom will there are a lot of questions about why this massive show of force is

happening now, how much of it has to do with the newly elected president taking office? yeah, it's significant that it happened on the week of the president's inauguration. but a lot of people might wonder, well, why didn't they do it when the president was elected back in january 1? answer frankly, is the weather the weather on the taiwan strait just is not conducive in january to holding these kind of drills, but things are now clearing up, which is why we're able to see this happening here in may hey, and this is what senior security officials here in taipei told us we should expect, and they're expecting more drills like this because frankly, boris beijing is not happy with this new taiwan government and they're trying to do everything they can to try to make it look week, to try to stabilize it, to try to inject doubt into the taiwanese public as to whether they're safe under this new president will ripley lie for us in taipei? thank you so much. well and i'll front now retired army lieutenant general mark hertling, general hurtling. thanks so much for being with us. china, launching its largest military drills in more than a year. and they specifically said it, it was designed to test their ability

to quote seize power over taiwan that language stood out. it was alarming to you. why it did stand out, boris and good evening. >> first of all, it's because china has conducted these operations over the last two decades they had been increasingly robust and they've grown over the last few decades as the chinese military has improved since the early 2000s china is using something they call green zone at greyzone activities or hybrid strategies in the south china sea, the taiwan straits in the philippine sea. they all fall below the conflict of or i'm sorry, the threshold of armed conflict. but they aren't considered act of war, but they are attempts at interior limitations only over certain areas. you see any similarities with what the russians have done in ukraine we have taken on the strategy of something called strategic ambiguity but

we have tried to protect international waters, but china is becoming increasingly emboldened in this area and it's becoming increasingly dangerous yeah, that's strategic ambiguity is an open question. >> if china were to invade taiwan, it could draw the united states into a conflict. do you think that the us is prepared for that well, when you think about a potential chinese us operation or conflict it isn't the on the ground invasion of a mainland certainly you don't want to get involved with an asian mainland and war. >> but it is defending the sovereignty of taiwan, much like the sovereignty of ukraine against the russia. >> but it will be the piece time use of military force and as i said before, i was in china in 2000 boars and what i saw them attempting to do and

they're 20 year plan was improving not only their equipment but their training and their doctrine at the time, it seemed a little bit ambitious but truthfully over the last 20 years, they have mastered some of the yards of what they're doing. >> so when they say they are now basically conducting an exercise to invade taiwan, we have to believe them and i know the us navy has been involved in protecting the freedom of navigation in the area. but this is much more dangerous and much more intense than we've seen before. >> there were a lot of films today of chinese aircraft going over the taiwan zone, something think that has happened before, but taiwan for the first time is filmed those aircraft and they have seen more and more dangerous since, as will ripley just reported, there has been a new election of a new taiwanese president who is trying to ensure the sovereignty and freedom of the taiwan people

general i want to pivot for a moment and ask you about someone i believe as a friend, defense secretary lloyd austin says that he's temporarily transferring authority this evening to undergo a quote, minimally invasive and non-surgical medical procedure related to a surgery that he had to treat prostate cancer last year this transparency is coming after austin sport controversy. >> you and i discussed it over the air when he had two surgeries without telling the president has deputy and the public. what do you make of this new approach? >> well first of all, it's a good approach, boris, it's something that military leaders and defense officials should do whenever they're about to undergo procedures. and i think we're seeing this as a news story because of what happened last time. this would not make a break. the level of interests if it hadn't happened in such dire consequences back a few months ago. so yeah, the secretary is turning over as powers to the deputy secretary

for a few days while he undergoes minimum procedures. but truthfully february austin and i are classmates were the same age, 70 year-old people have these kinds of surgeries and they should announce them when their partner so the government, so it's a good move by secretary austin we certainly wish him the best health general hurtling. >> thanks so much for being with us tonight pleasure bores. >> thank you next, we're going to take you to one county where 100% of its election workers weight because of constant threats. >> but those attacks could not stop one woman from returning love this country. >> i love elections it's who i am. >> i had to come back and morgan spurlock, who was filmed super size me, detailed the 4s eating fast food every day has passed away in one of the most active tornado seasons you can't control a tornado what

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years old morgan spurlock mission to eat nothing but mcdonald's for a month, appended the fast food industry. >> stephanie elan is outfront with his reddish hair and horseshoe mustache documentary filmmaker morgan spurlock was known to turn the lens on himself. >> i'm ready super size me as he explored aspects of life, often with an irreverent tone, america has now become the fattest nation in the world congratulations, spurlock grabbed the nation's attention with his 2004 documentary, super size me. >> yeah. >> could i get to the double quarter pounder with cheese meal i think i'm going to have to go supersized for 30 days. >> the filmmaker eight only fast food from mcdonald's always supersizing his meal. he gained 25 pounds and let viewers see what his diet was doing to his health and functioning. >> you cause some major harm to

your heart, your liver, your blood. >> you're going to die you'll die. i want more, more and more and more. >> the documentary took a toll on his physical and mental health while helping bring awareness to the nutrition can content of fast food and exposing a nationwide obesity epidemic born and raised in west virginia, spurlock graduated from new york university in 1993. he then began his production company, warrior poets, and took supersize me his first film to the sundance film festival in 2004. it won him a best director of honore before being nominated for an academy award in 2005 for best feature documentary, like many of his projects took on social and political issues from a set about searching for osama bin laden's you owe some and even a mock you mettrie about homer symptoms baseball attorney for a cnn original series, morgan spurlock inside man, we met a guy who named his kid possible. he told stories from an insider's perspective on cnn's erin burnett out front and 2014, he talked about the

future of human interaction. >> one day, we'll be able to upload our consciousness so that long after you and i are gone, our brains and our thoughts or memories will live on in a machine and they'll be able to tie that to a 3d hologram of you so that you'll be able to have a conversation with your grandkids, your great grandkids you're really you and it's really me in 2017 in the midst of the metoo movement spurlock out at his own when behavior admitting to his personal sexual misconduct and a social media post writing, quote i've come to understand that after months of these revelations that i am not some innocent bystander, i am also part of the problem. he stepped down as chief executive of his production company, but remained a prolific writer and director morgan spurlock was 53 years old and morgan spurlock passed away in new york, surrounded by his friends and family according

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