First Of All with Victor Blackwell
Jun 20, 2026 · 44 min · 15 segments
A community in Mississippi is demanding answers after one-year-old Kohen Wiley was shot and killed by an officer responding to a shoplifting call. Baby Kohen's mother is speaking out, and her attorney…
Victor BlackwellHost
Maj MadaraGuest
Van TurnerGuest
Robin Ruth SimmonsGuest
Pierce FreelonGuest
Mary Ann DelaneyGuest
Sarah RavianiGuest
Valicia WileyGuest
We've been following efforts in small communities in Tennessee and Mississippi that they're making to try to protect themselves from pollution and the increasing power costs that follows the construction of AI data centers.
This week, in an unprecedented move, President Trump's Justice Department stepped in and asked that the case be dismissed.
That's despite the fact that the suit alleges violation of the federal Clean Air Act, which the government should enforce.
Well, advocates are pleading with the state and local officials to enforce environmental rules and building regulations, but.
One woman in South Haven, Mississippi, who lives near a data center owned by Elon Musk's XAI, explained to a CNN affiliate what she's dealing with and what her concerns are.
It's like having an engine, airplane engines, just turn or set right there in the woods and then just turned on and just blow it.
We're hearing about different communities when different companies did certain things, how that affected them, like having children.
You can get cancer.
So the fight over those turbines was going on for months before the NAACP filed its suit.
Back in February, Earth Justice and the Southern Environmental Law Center announced intent to file suit on behalf of the NAACP.
They say the company violated the Clean Air Act by operating the turbines in Mississippi before getting air permits.
This week, the Justice Department stepped in, calling for that suit to be dismissed.
It claims the federal government is entitled to intervene in citizen lawsuits.
It also cites national security concerns and saying the AI program enabled us enabled U.S. forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions, 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury.
An Earth justice official says intervention has nothing to do with national security and called it a desperate attempt to protect wealthy tech companies from obeying the laws meant to protect people from pollution.
Coming up, the push to close that commercial in New Jersey just got a really notable backer.
We've been following efforts in small communities in Tennessee and Mississippi that they're making to try to protect themselves from pollution and the increasing power costs that follows the construction of AI data centers.
This week, in an unprecedented move, President Trump's Justice Department stepped in and asked that the case be dismissed.
That's despite the fact that the suit alleges violation of the federal Clean Air Act, which the government should enforce.
Well, advocates are pleading with the state and local officials to enforce environmental rules and building regulations, but.
One woman in South Haven, Mississippi, who lives near a data center owned by Elon Musk's XAI, explained to a CNN affiliate what she's dealing with and what her concerns are.
It's like having an engine, airplane engines, just turn or set right there in the woods and then just turned on and just blow it.
We're hearing about different communities when different companies did certain things, how that affected them, like having children.
You can get cancer.
So the fight over those turbines was going on for months before the NAACP filed its suit.
Back in February, Earth Justice and the Southern Environmental Law Center announced intent to file suit on behalf of the NAACP.
They say the company violated the Clean Air Act by operating the turbines in Mississippi before getting air permits.
This week, the Justice Department stepped in, calling for that suit to be dismissed.
It claims the federal government is entitled to intervene in citizen lawsuits.
It also cites national security concerns and saying the AI program enabled us enabled U.S. forces to deploy over 2,000 munitions, 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury.
An Earth justice official says intervention has nothing to do with national security and called it a desperate attempt to protect wealthy tech companies from obeying the laws meant to protect people from pollution.
Coming up, the push to close that commercial in New Jersey just got a really notable backer.
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