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tonight, new pictures of the aftermath of the deadly plane collision at the tokyo airport. keep in mind, the plane was carrying hundreds of passengers and would eventually burst into flames after colliding with another plane. japan airlines says, its crews received claims to land by air traffic control, and the coalition killed five people, incredibly only one person on that japan airlines plane suffered bruises. thank you for watching news night, laura coates live starts right now. hey, laura. >> abby, i cannot believe those pictures. unbelievable. 90 seconds. we will cover it on the show about just how small a window. but i was on a plane yesterday,
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wrote 20, 7 to 15 minutes to get off the plane. >> we should remind people, air travel, safe but that is a scary accident. it really is safe. >> i feel like -- >> it is safe. just that one was scary. >> you know, what it was. happy new year. >> happy new year. >> well, we have 307 days to go until election day. can you believe it? the ballot battle is warming up. tonight i'm more coates live. well fasten your feet both everyone, buckle up as they say, this is going to be an election like you have never seen an hour history. i know we say that a lot about this all being a wild wild west, and we are barreling down the road towards a collision between politics and the quartz. donald trump and what may be the least surprising development ever, today asking a main court to overturn
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secretary of state decision to remove him from the ballot there, the primary ballot that is because of his role in the insurrection at the united states capitol the seat of our democracy on january 6th. now the former president calling -- the secretary of state in maine, quote, a biased decision-maker who should have recused herself had no legal authority, made multiple errors of law, and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, unquote. look we know where this is heading, right? it is headed to the supreme court of the united states. bellows telling cnn this very point tonight. >> we would welcome the u.s. supreme court making a ruling. i will uphold whatever the courts determine, and acting quickly to resolve this. i think it is in the best interest. >> that sounds like maine or bring it on. donald trump is facing 14
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amendment challengers besides maine including colorado, remember that, with the state supreme court ordered has been to be removed from the primary ballot there, which of course much of all but certain to appeal it and of course where will he appeal it? wait for it, the supreme court. notice a theme happening here tonight. of course unclear when that will actually happen, but let's not forget about the big picture here. hello trump is facing 91, 91 felony counts. any one of them could his lead him potentially to land behind bars. there are also the civil cases, two of them, legal woes that most people couldn't even fathom having, and normally in a normal time, most political -- salivating at the thought of bringing them up over and over again, not so much happening here. there is a washington post poll that is new. it finds that fewer than half of americans think that his actions on january 6th would actually disqualify him from the presidency. so the big question now, what
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will the courts do about that? of course, on what schedule? when will they make a decision to either taken up or issue a ruling? let's begin to all with former federal prosecutor generosity and political analyst for cnn and -- white house correspondent -- so-called have both of you here in the new year. new year, same lawsuits, who this? well it is donald trump. you know the supreme court is likely to take up, or maybe it will have to address these issues. this is pretty big when it comes to maine. we saw coming in colorado, but maine in particular, he is attacking that secretary of state saying that she is totally biased, that this is going obviously the main supreme court next, but how will this all ship out in your mind? >> well i think you have three camps. one is the -- one of the most conservative jurist in the country in a federal society other that support him professor --
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on the other hand you have an argument that this is a political question that should be decided by congress under the 14th amendment. >> the question meaning should the fourth amendment exclude a president disqualified? >> absolutely and whether he's an officer. >> in the middle you will probably have the supreme court of the united states and have spoken to one of your producers, this is a hot potato -- justice knows that this opinion sign on to it will have to be decided by the supreme court could be in the category of -- this could be an opinion that -- supreme court for the rest of its existence. so here is my punchline of what is going to happen. you're going to have a bunch of states that are going to filter up to the supreme court, challenging the primary ballot but also the general election ballot. this is important. he is on a primary ballot, he
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is going to be kicked off in some states, but then you have the general election and the secretary of state in -- democracy is at stake. >> the signing by june isn't giving people a whole lot of time. what if by june they were to decide no he could be on the ballot is already been an rnc nomination may very well have secure that by them. look at this timeline, i want you to comment on this, that december 28th when you have the main a.g. reeling trumpison eligible you have january 2nd today trump appeals. the superior court in maine has got to rule by january 17th. then, the main supreme court gets, it then possibly two scotus, then you have the primary on march 5th. this is not a window for a -- >> know it is not. i mean, look at the supreme court could very well decide
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even before june. they could decide to wait here faster. i think the decision, the secretary of state decision could add some urgency to that. it is not just colorado anymore, it is maine, there could very well be other states that start jumping in here and deciding that trump should not be on the primary ballot. that has more pressure to then move much more quickly. yes i think you are going to hear a lot from angry primary voters, republican primary voters if down the line, all of a sudden the supreme court were to decide, i'm not saying they would, but what you suddenly decide that he is not a ballot anymore, he is disqualified from this. i do agree this is a difficult situation for the supreme court, they have potentially one out in that they can say this is a congressional issue we are not going to weigh in on whether or not he is disqualified, weigh in on the question of whether it was an insurrection. it is not a self executing clause, and therefore we need to hear from congress about how exactly this process would play
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out. >> that frees of executing, i want to hone in on into a bit more. we keep hearing it a lot, one issue of courses whether he founding fathers intended for this close to apply to a president when they were very explicit about impeachment in the constitution, right? the other aspect is suffocating, whether it is enough to say without a criminal conviction that you can be thrown off the ballot for these issues. when you look at this, what do you see as the main issue? >> i think a supreme court case but justice chase that said that this amendment needs self executed legislation, that is the only area where only notation in a case that says you have to have that. i would go ahead -- section three of the legislative history is so clear especially in the senate which approved the amendment that we did not need self-executed
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legislation, that's as clear assemble you did not need convictions, and the other thing is the president of the united states as an officer under the 14th amendment. i think that is crystal clear. that is the position that michael luttig takes, and the federal society takes. i think it is a good one. >> well that is one argument. of course in america we have more than one politician facing criminal charges, including not just the president, you mentioned the, senate senator bob menendez also have new charges out right now, just a different country, laura. when you look at this, of course you have the tension politically between democrats and republicans who are constantly fighting for the moral high ground, in the public eye, you look at what is happening there, what are voters going to possibly be seeing? >> with bob menendez, democrats have largely abandon the senator menendez. and other democrats have already jumped in to run for her seat. now he's not necessarily saying he's not going to run for reelection which is --
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>> he's not stopping the them either? >> he is not stepping down either, and he has not many friends amongst the senate democrats, they're not standing by him in this instance, many have called for him to resign, called on him to not run for reelection. that is the difference here. you are seeing a very clear dividing line from democrats saying they do not support him. they think that this indictment and now the superseding indictment are very clear. whereas republicans including candidates that are going to be in the cnn town hall in debates, nikki haley and ron desantis have said they would pardon trump if you are convicted. >> you also don't have everyone calling somebody who has been indicted even through a superseding indictment to step down, that is not universally held among republicans when it comes to trump. thank you both so much. >> happy new years by the way. >> menendez lawyer so disputing all of this and the prosecutors will go to poison the public before trial even begins. so we will follow the story along. thank you so much.
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you know a big question that -- i want to bring in cnn senior political writer and analyst harry enten for more on what the belichick and just could actually mean for 2024 when it comes to donald trump. harry, listen, you talk about this, issue we talk about colorado, now maine is in play, but the thing about maine, it could actually be a bigger problem for trump than being off the ballot in colorado. tell me, we are the actually need to stay on the ballot to win? >> yes, look, laura, last week, or a few weeks ago we spoke about colorado, i mentioned that i don't really care. i don't care because colorado is not a competitive state in general elections and politics. rock obama won twice, hillary clinton when italy, joe biden won easily. mean it's a different matter altogether. keep in mind even though trump lost the state both in 2020 and 2016, you only lost it by three points back in 2016. so can be a competitive state. more than that, maine along with nebraska is one of the two
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states in the nation that actually awards an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district in the state. keep in mind trump actually won an electoral voting back in maine in 2020 in 2016, because he carried in fact the second district. of course the answer to your big question, where does trump need to stay on the ballot come 2024. i want you to take a look, here pending litigation or moved on from the ballot because they want to use section three of the 14th amendment, these are states that trump either lost by less than five points, or actually won in 2020. look at these states. -- all of the states that i'm keeping an eye on our texas, because so many electoral votes. nevada which is a very close state in presidential politics, trump barely lasted back in 2020 and 2016, and north carolina as well tested that of course is also quite competitive in presidential politics, a state that trump barely won last time around. >> but wisconsin if i'm not
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mistaken is a huge swing state when it comes to elections these days. >> absolutely. that is the one other state i should have pointed out here. if you look at wisconsin, wisconsin as the state that trump barely won in 2016, and then of course barely lost in 2020. so that will be the fourth state will be looking at. you know, it is crazy, harry, because you look at these eight states, they are all over the country, there is no particular region. but the fact that these aid states have deepening litigation and things could add up, one reason you did not care according, quoting q2 care, you care as much as colorado is because of the isolated incident of having one removal from the ballot. but now if the plot thickens, and more states pick up on this, this could be a real issue for the supreme court. does it answer the question for so many people about the legitimacy? because that was part of obviously what he has said about in his platform that he was a legitimate victory when it came to 2020? what is this all mean in terms of how people view the last
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election, let alone the one to come soon? >> yes, i mean, look if you were to look here, this is a interesting question that was asked by the washington post. take a look at the overall number, take a look at the gop number, if you look at 2021, it was 29% of overall americans who believe it was illegitimate. look where that number is, now it has actually gone up to 36%. among republicans, look at this, 58% back in 2021. now it is an even larger majority, 67% which i think -- >> do we know why? do we know where that is? it is shocking that it will go up with all of the different counts and legal woes, all of the quoting pro political baggage. the fact has gone, up to have any reason to know why did? >> i will give you one reason why it would, it may come down to this question. trump's actions related to the january 6th capitol attack, this is a question i have been looking at and i think it is really interesting. although the plurality of
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americans believe it disqualifies him from the presidency, look at, this those 30% 3% who say these actions aren't relevant to him being president all, and risky block of voters i am really keeping an eye on, these swing voters who are talking about, why these numbers may be moving, 17% who say that his actions cast doubt but are not disqualifying. this is the group i'm looking at going into 2024. how does this group move on these different questions? if you know that, laura, you probably know whether or not joe biden as reelected. >> if i knew that, i would know the powerball numbers as, well harry, i did not. but i do know these numbers are fascinating, especially the other category that is not relevant to being president, we are talking about the -- new arctic inclusion to troy thing for so many people looking at this very aspect of it. fascinating my friend, as always, in great job with all the lonesome circles. very impressive harry enten. >> some stars, parts,, errors, nothing just lines in circles.
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there we go. >> my first grade our teacher would be quite impressed with -- >> iran pressed. thank you. >> goodbye. >> now i want to bring in a voting data analyst -- he is the author of disproven, my own bias search for voter fraud for the trump campaign, the data that shows why he lost and how we can improve our elections which comes out on march 12th. that is a heck of a title, and very informative. thank you so much for joining us today. i see the cover behind you as well. it is so fascinating because you heard that pulling, you hear that some americans, many effect still believe that this was somehow rigged. we know it is not. do not take my word for, it you actually have done the research. your goal was in fact to determine whether it was a fair and free election. remind people what you found. >> sure, well, we didn't find
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very much. i was hired by the trump campaign, literally the day after the 2020 election, more a group of lawyers who we're firmly attached to the campaign, not rudy giuliani, not sidney powell's. these are lawyers who are serious about the work who wanted into due diligence who wanted to see if they could found survive legal scrutiny and while i was doing that work they began to trust me more and more and asked me to begin evaluating claims of voter fraud that others brought to their attention and i have about 15 different claims every one of which we were able to determine and prove very clearly were false. >> you have this rhetoric persists the narrative persist. you have a message to people who are looking at this issue as a matter of fraud. you have actually outlined
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reasons why you think trump legitimately lost the election. what are they? >> so i'm going to leave the particulars of what the data proves to we get a bit closer to the book release. -- >> good for you. your publisher is very proud of you right now. they're publishes very happy. i on the other hand on the answer to some parts of this, as to why you think generally he lost. >> so i am a two time candidate for governor and i understand messaging and elections are about having a message that appeals to a broad enough coalition of voters so that you win the plurality of votes. and trump's messaging quite frankly is becoming more and more narrow, it is becoming more extreme, and i believe he is losing the support of key blocks the voters in those data that points to that. >> when you think about that as
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opposed to the narrative that is out there, there is a striking contrast. i wonder, i know you have already been -- your findings have been subpoenaed in the past, or you aware that you might be called to actually testify? have you been told that any of the trials that revolve around this course set of facts? >> so i have been subpoenaed by jack smith legal action in d.c., i have been subpoenaed by fani willis action in fulton county, georgia. i'm a witness in both of those legal actions. all of my communications to the trump campaign i had to turn over to the investigators at the time before charges were formally brought. i remain a fact witness. i have not heard from either side of the prosecutions since all of my materials went over there. i am not going to believe it is a small chance that i get voted
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testify if we ever get to trial -- >> i'm looking again, your book is called disproven, coming up in just a few months, i can't help but wonder how much the prosecutor, any member of the legal teams are trying to pour over and calm over what you have in that book. but also, who knew what. mark meadows for example, 70, paul others, did you ever convey this information and what you are telling us today was in your book to these key players? >> yes. i reported to a trump campaign lawyer who accepted everything i had told him as the truth. other members above him within the campaign apparatus accepted what i told him as the truth. that truth was communicated to mark meadows. in fact the lawyer i reported to that was shown on one of the january six committee broadcasts, it would --
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my findings to mark meadows who was told there was no fraud sufficient to change the course of the elections in swing states, and mark meadows response to that was that means there is no there there, referring to the claims of voter fraud. then bergman meadows came out in the last month or two back in april or may and told jack smith that he had taken those findings and the and result to the oval office. so my findings went all the way up and made it to the oval office. >> no wonder you are a fact witness and people can't read too -- by the way mark meadows has asked the court in georgia to reconsider his request to go to the federal court as opposed to remaining in fulton county. so it sounds like there is a lot of room for discussions on this issues. we look for to reading your book. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having, we appreciate it.
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>> again, it is called disproven. well president joe biden speaking about the migrant surge at at the border tonight, i will tell you what he said next.
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well tonight, president biden is saying show me the money. the president wants republicans
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in congress to give him more money to adjust the border crisis. border crossings hit a record high in december, with authorities encountering more than 225,000 migrants at the highest monthly total since the year 2000. this is jersey city, about five miles away from -- the migrants around up there after new york city mayor eric adams ordered companies to give this to the manifest of their passengers and their job of times and locations. at least 32 hours before they arrived. they are using transit points in new jersey to avoid these rules. as migrants take to the train to pawnee station, of course the busiest train station in the entire country. joining me now, the mayor of trenton new jersey. mayor, thank you for joining us. mayor adams -- that appear the bus company now
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are trying to do a walk around, jumping on people in jersey. what are you seeing in trenton? how many people have arrived? >> i got a call on saturday morning that for buses had arrived at trenton chances center. 163 asylum seekers, ages from two years old to 55, and while the majority got on trains bound for new york, 21 remain in trenton because they said they have family members that would take them in. >> so what happened when that happens, if they did not have those family members to take them in as you say in trenton, would the city be providing help? where they go to local shelters? is there a local protocol or plan in place? obviously they are likely -- to come? >> i guess i agree with president biden that congress really needs to get back to work and i just this issue.
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we do not have the resources to absorb them, it is truly a humanitarian crisis that has been left at our doorsteps. they have medical or food, needs shelter needs, we cannot absorb and we are too small of a city. so we really need congress to get back to work. >> congress is supposed to come back next week, but they are likely not to address and resolve these issues immediately. the numbers are going to continue. what resources do you have presently to handle an influx of migrants like this. >> well, after the pandemic, they have two entries, it people out of, work and the population is under the poverty, line so we have our own societal problems that we are trying to address. it just becomes expounded when a group of migrants coming to our city, they may have some humanitarian needs that we
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don't have the resources to address them. >> i hear that a lot. trenton mayer thank you so much. i know the -- we will see if they take your suggestions about the resources you need as well. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, laura. >> now i want to bring in chicago mayor brandon johnson. this issue spending across the entire country. mayor thank you for being here tonight. you heard from the trenton maher as well, a bit more than 300 migrants were also flown into rockford international airport than bus to chicago over this past weekend. tell me, what is this doing to your city right now? >> well you know, look, we have this international crisis that requires federal intervention from congress to act, and right now you have local economies like the city of chicago or trenton, new york, denver, or where have you to subsidize this international crisis. unfortunately you also have a governor who is committed to
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chaos and disorder. governor abbott has sent over 600 buses along to the city of chicago, 500 of them have arrived since i have been mayor. and we have 30,000 of the people, asylum seekers who have come through our city. we are housing 15,000 of those families. 4500 of those children are in our chicago public schools. this is not a sustainable mission, because local economies and government were never designed to respond to this type of crisis. but again, my job of course in this moment is to make sure that there is some structure and determination to deal with this humanitarian crisis, but unfortunately we have a governor, governor abbott who is -- >> of course he would say, look you are -- -- let me ask you this, we have
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heard these statistics, the u.s. immigration court backlogs got into -- it is still north of 3 million. there are only 600 immigration judges across 68 courts across the entire nation, according to doj. that means about -- so some might not even see the inside of a courtroom, mayor, for three years. given what you said about the chaos being sown by governor abbott, or the lack of resources and the inability to sustain this, you are talking about this being of the long haul. are you prepared for that in chicago? >> well look, it is going to require a coordinated resource response from congress. look,, yes we are a sanctuary state. but the sanctuary state and sanctuary city hold that -- we are not going to ask local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws.
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governor abbott wants to return local law enforcement -- that actually undermines public safety. we are already asking police officers to do too much. so in order for us to have stronger communities we have to -- as far as what is needed in totality, absolutely we need comprehensive immigration reform policy. last time, happened the last two times have been our beloved mayors are coming off a super bowl win in the 1980s that was still in high school. so we need congress to act today. again local economies are not designed to hold this type of crisis but we cannot have a governor who is committed to chaos. unfortunately whether it is governor arbiter members of republican party, they have yet to accept the results of the civil war. we cannot have a country that is divided in this particular moment especially we need everyone to work collaboratively to come up with a coordinated sophisticated
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response to this international crisis. >> mayor, i'm glad you pointed out the conflation of that term sanctuary city with the policies that our issue with the border and beyond. i do wonder just like the trenton maher colleague whether congress will act expeditiously, or they have the capacity to do so. there's a lot at stake. thank you for joining us this evening. >> you are welcome, happy new year. >> happy new year. >> here we are on the second day of 2020, for how did you celebrate the new year. i could tell you how i did it. and the state across the country it is new year new laws, let me tell you about it being -- illinois is banning book bans, prohibiting public libraries from banned books. going over to california, they have banned concealed carrying of guns and most public places, i know and louisiana have banned gender affirming care from --
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amid some serious turmoil, weeks ago and cause started, professor randall kennedy told me -- was a target of while his back to react to the news tonight and that is next.
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well the big question tonight, or too little too late? in a calculated campaign to council a black educator in a rare position of power. -- is out as president of harvard. uk's gone after -- officially announce resignation today but a person close to her tell cnn that kate made that decision last week. she was the first black president in harvard's history, but her presidency now goes down as the shortest since the
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school's a founding. she will remain on the faculty. a parting note, she -- it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments of confetti hate, and upholding scholarly rigor. bedrock values that are fundamental to who i am. they are frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. joining me now harvard law professor randall kennedy. thank you so much for joining because you and i spoke just a few weeks ago at that time we were discussing the attacks against her in different lights, wallowing the congressional hearing. by the time you believed that she was targeted, that she was the obvious target of a smear. what do you think today, professor? >> my thoughts have not been moved. she was targeted, and she was
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targeted very effectively. today is a very sad day. it is a tragic day for president, and a very sad day for great university, harvard university, my employer. harvard university has allowed itself to be placed in a false light before the american public, and that is a very alarming thing that an institution that is so esteemed, so rightly esteemed should be put on the defensive by an obvious hit, an obvious malevolent attack, a misleading attack. >> when you look at that light in which they have been portrayed and how we are talking about not just the congressional hearing, but also allegations of plagiarism against president, there were different r beds from student bodies saying that she would be
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held to a different standard than say the average student. you are a professor at harvard, you have been privy to the accusations of plagiarism against her. you also i am sure undoubtedly have had to look at students work, and raise questions about the authenticity of their own work. did the plagiarism allegations change the equation for you at all? >> no, they did not. they were very hurtful, but i think they certainly, and they helped bring her down. but no, i have not seen any evidence that claudine was guilty of true plagiarism. she may have been guilty in the distant past of some sloppiness, that is probably the case. but not anything like the
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allegations that are they are making her to be. what has happened is that some relatively minor problems in her you know attributions in her handling of things in the distant past, those things have been blown up to make it seem as though she has recently been engaged in academic missed doings. again this is part of a well orchestrated misleading smear of claudine and of harvard university. >> i want to just tell people for a second because -- go-ahead, professor, i do want to hear your, point but i will get, to it but because rebuttal can bothers plagiarism, i don't like when things are lingering in the, either i just want to point out what people have
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said. to put it on the screen here, a said bus that comparison, it was provided by an anonymous source which of course -- the cooperation on the less of different media outlets. on the left talking about what was said, one on the rate which was consolidated and can answer some words that were changed, people look at that issue as an issue of not just in the past, but when a student here as you say for example, in the past sloppy attribution, i can only imagine that some would look at this and say hold on a second, have there not been other students who have done something in their own past, as a student who had an allegation like this prior to being accepted to harvard, or even in harvard, with that change the equation for his student? >> i was a couple things. number one, if students have been -- strongly, severely for things
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which are relatively minor, that was a bad thing. that's sort of policy should be changed. the fact of the matter is, i have seen these side-by-side comparisons with respect to language, sometimes it is very difficult to describe a certain thing very differently, sometimes things look very similar. but again, i have taken a look at these things, and know i do not think that president gaye is rightly charged with true plagiarism. over and over, through the last months, president and harvard university of been the victims of misleading narratives. one, the misleading narrative regarding her supposed indifference to antisemitism. she said over and over and over
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again that she finds any instances of antisemitism personally abhorrent. she said that over and over. second of all, harvard university has been said to be -- people have said that antisemitism is rampant at harvard university. not true. people have said that her work has been saturated with problems have scholarly integrity. not true. what is true is that there has been a well orchestrated attack from a quarters to try and oust president, and they have succeeded. you have to admit, that is true, they have succeeded. that is a tragedy. >> let me ask you one second on that, professor --
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i just want to ask you, though you have mentioned a -- it is not lost, and we use that you are talking as you can see plainly a black woman, it is not lost on me there have oftentimes over the course of history, both recent and distant, orchestrated attacks to undermine the integrity and credibility of black intellectuals period. the fact that she is a black woman, and in this position, but do you think that has contributed to the motivation behind the wheel orchestrated machine, or was it something different? >> absolutely. i think that the fact that a black woman was the head of the most famous university in the united states maybe the world has actually deranged a lot of people, including some of her colleagues that harvard university. it is very alarming.
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it is a very disappointing. it is part of our reality. >> do you have a final thought? my last question, do you want to expand more on the orchestration machine? >> i was -- my only point is that this has been a very effective smear of elite institutions in american life, elite institutions of higher education, and unfortunately we are going to the whole country is going to feel the effects of this in the coming weeks, months, and years. this is a very sad day for harvard university and it's that day for america. >> professor, thank you so much for joining me. >> thank you. >> an incredible escape for hundreds of passengers after a
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horrific runway crash. look at these images at tokyo's airports. how exactly did nearly 400 people get out safely in just 90 seconds before the plane went up in flames. the e answer is next.
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>> and japanese carolina collided with another aircraft on the runway in tokyo, the footage was -- carbon calm until passengers look out the window. nearly 400 passengers and crew had only 90 seconds to get off the plane. yes, only 90 seconds. joining me now to break down the harrowing experiences cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. miles, first of all, walk us through how this crew was able to get hundreds of passengers off the plane and such a short amount of time. by the way showed just how short that, is i'm going to give you only 90 seconds to explain. i will start the clock now. >> all right, laura, i will try to explain it as quickly as that aircraft was evacuated, which was an extraordinary event, what surprised many of us in aviation, we always thought this was theoretically,
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possible but here you have a situation, and a very narrow window of survive ability here, and everybody got through it. the plane lands, it is a surprise to the cabin crew, and the flight crew upfront, there is a, collusion something is quite obvious things are going wrong, the cabin crew makes it obvious that this is an aircraft that needs to be evacuated very quickly. you have upwards of 400 people on board this aircraft, fortunately we have a lot of technology on board which makes -- >> 45 seconds left. go ahead. >> for one thing, there is reduced flammability on the materials used inside, the upholstery, the interior cabins. we have great lighting systems which make it possible to find your way in a smoky cabin. then you have a crew that understands, you don't necessarily open every door, you look out the window, you see where the fire, is you open the doors that make the most sense. then on top of that you have a
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nation, japan, where people are culturally predisposed to listen to orders and follow rules and they did. they did not pull out their karaoke bags, they complied walking in some cases up a steep hill to the tail, to slide down. and -- >> time is that. i cannot. in 90 seconds hundreds of people including children under the age of two got off that plane and into safety. miles o'brien, my heart is racing as we are, talking and we know the crew of the coast guard plane, not as fortunate. thank you so much. >> wow. unbelievable. the former world number one naomi osaka making a long-awaited comeback after spending over a year away from tennis. how did she do? i will tell l you next..
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from the sport. citing mental health concerns and welcoming her first child in july. osaka sharing this message about the new phase of her career. >> i feel like the last couple of years that i played before, i had my daughter for. i didn't return as much love as i was given so i really feel like that's what i want to do in this chapter. >> while, congratulations naomi and thank you all for watching. our coverage continues! ♪ ♪ ♪
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