Jim Acosta has the day off.
You are in the CNN newsroom.
We begin this hour with breaking
news.
Former president Jimmy Carter is
receiving hospice care at his
home in plains, Georgia.
Sources tell CNN president Biden
is staying in close contact with
the family.
Let’s go now to CNN’s Jeff
Zeleny in Washington.
What more have you learned since
we’ve just heard this not too
long ago.
>> We are learning this this
afternoon and the Carter center
advised something we had not
known, the former president has
had a brief series of hospital
stays.
He made the decision to spend
his final days to enter hospice
care in plains, Georgia.
That is really so extraordinary
because that of course is where
the former president has sent
his entire life with the
exception, of course, of his
four years here in Washington at
the white house as well as his
military service as a young man.
He went home to plains, Georgia,
in his post-presidency, and
that’s where he’s been ever
since.
With rose Lynn, his wife at his
side for 77 years of marriage or
so.
So the family is saying that he
is going to be in hospice care,
and we are also learning just a
short time ago, we heard from
his grandson, a former Georgia
state senator, a gubernatorial
candidate, who is basically in
the family business in Georgia,
Jason Carter, and he said he
visited with his grandparents
yesterday in plains.
He tweets this.
I saw both of my grandparents
yesterday.
They’re at peace, and as always,
their home is full of love.
Thank you for all of your kind
words.
As I’m talking to you, former
advisers to the Carter family,
they’re really keeping a close
hold on his impact held
condition.
Instead, they are choosing to
talk about his life, really his
extraordinary legacy from peanut
farmer to the presidency, and it
was really the post presidency,
