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Dr. Sanjay Gupta travels to Cuba to investigate one of the most complex and controversial brain mysteries in recent years, known as Havana Syndrome. First reported by two dozen U.S. officials in Havana, Cuba starting in 2016, these unexplained health incidents have since multiplied to include hundreds of reports of concussion-like injuries around the globe. American officials have yet to make clear what is behind these injuries and whether a directed energy weapon may be to blame.

For more than a year, the January Sixth Select Committee has investigated and interviewed thousands of witnesses, piecing together their testimonies with videos, texts, emails, and other documents to help uncover an undeniable, coordinated 7-part plan by the former President of the United States to try to overturn the results of a legal and valid presidential election. In advance of the Select Committee's first report, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper looks at the evidence, examines new details, and conducts exclusive interviews with key witnesses, including those you haven't heard from other than before the committee. The fundamental question: Did a former U.S. President lead a multi-level plan designed to hold onto power and overturn American democracy? This episode continues last year's highly successful CNN Special Report Trumping Democracy: An American Coup.

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CNN national correspondent Sara Sidner explores traffic stops and the psychological, social, and financial trauma they cause Black drivers who get caught up in a system fraught with racial bias. The disturbing images of unarmed Black men killed during traffic stops and the names that go with those images: Philando Castile, Daunte Wright, Walter Scott, and more dot the canvas of a system that does not treat Black drivers the same as White drivers. According to a study from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Black drivers are twice as likely as White drivers to be pulled over and four times as likely to be searched. This extreme disparity is difficult to explain with legitimate law enforcement objectives. Indeed, the data show that contraband is found less often on Black drivers than on White drivers.

As America reaches the first anniversary of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, CNN's Fareed Zakaria examines the state of the threats to American Democracy. He looks at the evidence that the United States is turning away from Democracy, even as the entire world follows a similar trend. As always, Zakaria offers lessons from American history and abroad to meet this defining struggle of these deeply troubling times. Interviewed for The Fight to Save American Democracy are: Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State (Clinton Administration, 1997-2001); author, Fascism: A Warning (2019); Anne Applebaum, author, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (2021); Benjamin Ginsberg, Republican election lawyer; Benjamin Carter Hett, author, The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War (2021); Robert Kagan, contributing columnist, The Washington Post; Steven Levitsky, co-author, How Democracies Die (2019); Jon Meacham, author, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (2004); Lisa Pine, author, Debating Genocide (2018); and Daniel Ziblatt, co-author, How Democracies Die (2019).