finding out what a difficult job it is to be a pollster. he went out and took a poll of his constituents and found that a lot of folks down the street of sesame are not exactly thrilled with the way things are going in this country and i don't think it's necessarily a big surprise. you know, you put up those depression numbers. we know a lot of people think the country is on the wrong track. i think that elmo is learning the way of the american public. folks aren't happy, and i guess we've learned about it in a slightly different forum than we're used to. elmo has always been there for us, and hopefully, he will continue to be there for us. >> ask your friends how they're doing. >> polls are a snapshot in time. that snapshot is clear right now. ask people how they're doing. "cnn news central" starts right now. thanks, buddy.

china will wreak havoc on the united states. a glaring warning from the fbi director being delivered to top lawmakers right now. how much does it cost to defend donald trump for the pac supporting him, millions and millions, apparently. necessary investment or throwing good money after bad? a terrifying o.j. video with the son claiming to show his father's decapitated head. new charges filed and now the political connection. sara is away. i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central." a dire warning from the fbi. china is preparing to wreak havoc on u.s. infrastructure. that message coming from the fbi director christopher wray who will testify on capitol hill

very shortly. he plans to tell lawmakers that the chinese government hackers are positioning themselves to target water treatment plants, the electrical grid and transportation systems. cnn's cyber security reporter shawn lingus is with us now with the latest on this. what do we expect today, shawn? >> reporter: john, this is the most public and direct and dire warning from the fbi director. this actually isn't a brand new hacking campaign or anything. it's been going on for several months, over a year now, where in my over a decade covering cyber security this is the most frank and public warnings from the national security agency, the fbi an others, about how chinese hackers are prepositioning in critical infrastructure, gaining a foothold, not using the access to the networks now, but lurking in the time of a crisis in the event of a chinese invasion of

taiwan. the thinking among u.s. national security officials the hackers could use the access to disrupt the u.s. military's response, and so the u.s. government sees this as an escalation, frankly, and it comes at a time in a very tense relationship between the u.s. and china. they've tried to ease those tensions. my colleagues and i reported yesterday that president xi jinping told joe biden last year that he had no intense of interfering in the u.s. election this year, which is the fact that needed to be said is startling, frankly, and u.s. official are looking to hold them to that. we will see more detail on why senior u.s. security officials are concerned about the chinese access to these critical systems in places like guam, the u.s. pacific territory that the u.s. uses to project power in the

pacific. >> sean lingas in washington, thank you. joining us for more on this, cnn senior law enforcement analyst and deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe. thanks for jumping on. r wray is going to say there's been too little public focus on this threat sean was laying out. i want to read part of what is from his prepared remarks. china's hackers are positioning on america's infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real world harm to american citizens and communities if or when china decides the time has come to strike. how do you descipher that warnig for us? >> i think the first thing we have to index on is how direct and bold and, dare i say, dramatic the fbi director's language is. it's very, very rare for christopher wray to come out and speak about the threat in these sort of terms. we have to take him at his word. he is clearly trying to grab the

attention of all americans on a threat that he thinks is of the absolute highest importance, so you have to kind of take that into consideration and secondly, he's in a great position to know, right. he has access through fbi resources and his intelligence partners at the nsa and other places, he has access to the government's absolute, most cutting edge, sensitive information about where chinese hackers are targeting, about the sorts of access they're establishing in critical infrastructure, so this is not based on theory. this is based on real-time intelligence telling the community what's happening out there. >> and what does real world harm look like? >> so, the best analog for this, kate, to think back like historically at the initiation of hostilities between two nation states, you typically would see things like targeting of infrastructure, targeting of

communication nodes, trying to take out what we refer to as command and control capability. that's your adversaries' ability to talk to their own troops, deploy people, move resources, that sort of thing. this is the modern version of that. if the chinese or any adversary can establish themselves in our critical infrastructure, they could do things like turn off our ability to communicate, turn off our access to the internet, which provides us control over numerous military and defensive resources. they can hamper societal and economic interaction with -- in terms of financial trading, in terms of the delivery of goods and services. we all remember how negatively we were impacted by supply chain disruptions after the pandemic. this would be that on 100 fold level and i think that's what he's primarily concerned about. >> a couple questions kind of looking forward is, the threats

real, sure, but what can congress and the government do about this, and how linked or separate is this from the warnings we've been hearing for years about china's goal of essentially stealing intellectual property, stealing the scientific and industrial rep reresearch from businesses in the united states? >> that's interesting and that's where i see the biggest pivot here. that's what we were worried about in terms of chinese hacking. they were interested in targeting our private sector to steal research and, you know, technology and things that information and data that could help them bolster their economy. this is fundamentally different. this is hacking for military and intelligence advantage in a conflict. in terms of what we can do, there's really two main target audiences here. first is the private sector. the private sector in this

country, unlike china, the private sector is in control of our national cyber infrastructure. these are, you know, assets of companies and things like that. and the director and government writ large is trying to get the attention of private sector, particularly critical infrastructure entities, to get on board with updating and securing their systems. that is really the on the ground way to defend from this sort of attack. the second audience, as you mentioned, is congress. congress' role is to address these issues in a real and factual way and to start providing the resources to places like the fbi and nsa, but even more importantly, the cyber security and infrastructure security agency, known as csisa on the front line of working with our critical infrastructure partners to try to strengthen the systems that are critical to u.s. society in general. >> yeah. i guess the first step is getting everyone's attention and getting everyone to agree on

what this threat is and how serious it is in the moment. thank you so much. we're going to be watching as this hearing is going to be starting during our show today and we're going to bring you the highlights from it. this morning, how expinsive is it to be donald trump? $50 million. sources say that's roughly how much his pac paid in 2023 for legal bills. we're going to find out the exact sum with a new filing to the federal election commission. cnn's elaina trin is in washington with the latest on this. that's a lot of money. >> reporter: yes, it is, john. $50 million for legal fees is a massive, staggering sum, and i think it's important to think about where this came from, right. so a lot of this money is coming from his political action committee, save america, and that means essentially that this is money coming from donors. that's how save america raises its money from donors, small dollar donors who are essentially paying for donald trump's legal fees. save america, i think it's important to remember, that they

raised a lot of money and saw a flood of donations come in after the 2020 election when donald trump was spreading false claims of election fraud. a lot of -- they had a lot of money in the bank already before donald trump even launched 2024 campaign. but, obviously, huge numbers here for what he spent in 2023 on legal expenses. of course that number is likely to grow as donald trump is facing four criminal indictments. if any of those go to trial this year, that number is going to rise exponentially. a couple things i want to point out, not all of this money was just for donald trump. some of this is being used for lawyers, for his co-defendants and other witnesses, but also i think another thing worth noting is, you know, there's the question of is donald trump personally paying for any of his legal expenses? i think you know, we'll see more later as you mentioned, john, we're going to see the filing to the fec come in later today and have a better sense of the real numbers here, but if you think

about the math and numbers we have already, it doesn't seem like all of this is going to be able to be covered by his political action committee, that donald trump is going to have to foot some of the bill on his own. we know in the first trial with e. jean carroll he did put forward $5 million of his own money. i think that's something that trump team is going to have to deal with moving forward. just to quickly add, you know, i covered donald trump for many years now, he is someone who historically hates paying his lawyers, hates paying his legal fees and stiffed some of his attorneys in the past, so again, just something that i think we'll watch closely as this year progresses and we see, you know, just how much more money is going to have to go towards footing the bill for a lot of his legal fees. on the subject of legal bills, any minute now, one of the rulings we have been waiting for could come down. now judge arthur an goran here in manhattan after closing arguments in the civil fraud trial said, quote, it's up to me now and i will do my best to

have a final decision by january 31st. with us now, elie honig, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. this just in, it's january 31st. it's the day he told us he would try to have a ruling by. what are you watching for? >> so john, a couple things. big picture this ruling could determine the future of donald trump's business in new york and elsewhere. to an extent that future has already been determined because it's important to keep in mind, judge engoron ruled on one of the causes of action before this trial started. he found the trump organization libel for repeated fraud and said i intend to suspend their business certificate, which would end their ability to do business in new york state. i'm looking for a couple things. first of all, there are six additional causes of action relating to insurance fraud, falsifying business records. will the judge find the trump

organization libel or not libel for those. second of all, what will the number be? the a.g. is asking for a mammoth amount. $370 million. the judge can give anywhere from 0 to $370 million. finally, will the judge reaffirm that, yes, i intend to suspend their business certificates. important to note whatever the judge does today, will be subject to appeal. >> elie, how will we find out? is he going to announce it from the bench? going to hit send on an e-mail that goes on to a court site? >> so it could be there's an announcement saying that the ruling will be coming out at, fill in the blank time, or could hit the docket sheet, just a publicly available thing you can get on the internet and all of a sudden you will see there's a new entry. we have reporters hitting refresh on the docket probably every 30 seconds or so. it could pop. it could just appear on the docket sheet and we'll have to dissect it. >> all of our best people right now hitting refresh, refresh, refresh. i will note i'm not one of our best people.

elie honig, there's another case we are waiting on, really surprisingly, still waiting on, this is the federal appeals court that heard arguments more than three weeks ago now on whether donald trump had immunity from all the actions he took on january 6th. this is taking a long time for them to issue a ruling that i think a lot of people thought was going to come right away. >> yeah, john. i certainly did. i'll admit to that because ordinarily three weeks is no time at all for a court of appeals to rule. ordinarily courts of appeals take months. in this case, like you said, the criminal case where donald trump has claimed he has immunity, the court of appeals there set a mega expedited briefing schedule, a schedule faster than one i've ever seen, the parties had a week or two each to get in their briefs. the oral argument happened as you said three plus weeks ago. it is taking longer than i think most of us expected and that tells me one of two things is happening. one, it could just be they're taking their time, doing more

research than expected. the other possibility is, there could be a split of opinion. this is a three-judge panel. it could be that one of the three judges, we don't know which, might be dissenting, issuing a formal dissent, and if that's the case, then they're going back and forth and exchanging drafts and having conferences and that would prolong a decision. >> all right. elie honig, i have to say, don't go far from that camera because these decisions, especially the one here in new york, could come at any minute. thank you. kate? >> a man is accused of beheading his father and showing it on line, calling his dad a traitor for working for the federal government and ranting about president biden. pennsylvania police are now deep into this disturbing investigation. we'll bring you the updates on what's happening there. iran's first response and warning since president biden confirmed that he has now decided how the united states will respond to the deadly strikes on u.s. troops and new video from the trial of the mother of a school shooter.

what she said as she broke down in the back of a police car after her son's arrest and what it could mean for her trial that is under way. iran's top mil

is speaking out saying threats from america will not go unanswered. now this is the first pushback, if you will, from iran after the middle east has been waiting to see what move president biden has decided to make in retaliation and in response to sunday's drone attack that killed three u.s. soldiers and wounded dozens more. let's get over to cnn's arlette saenz at the white house for us. are you hearing anything from the white house to this statement now coming from iran threatening against any threats as it says?

>> reporter: well, kate, we're still waiting to hear a response from the white house on this specific matter, but yesterday president biden was quite clear in that he is not looking for an additional war in the middle east. this comes even as president biden did say that he believes iran is responsible in the sense that they've provided weaponry to iranian-backed militia groups, but going forward, we are still waiting to hear what exactly the u.s. response will be to the strike that killed three american service members. president biden told me yesterday he has made up his mind, and we know he and his team have been meeting behind closed doors crafting this response. national security council spokesperson john kirby yesterday said that it could include multilayers to it, and also potentially could be carried out over a period of time, and come in multiple formats. one thing that the president has also been trying to make clear, as he is crafting this u.s. response to this attack, is that he's also keeping in mind the

families of those three american service members. the president spoke by phone with each of the families yesterday, that includes sergeant william rivers, specialist kennedy sanders, and specialist breonna moffett all of georgia. the u.s. army reserve posthumously promoted moffett and sanders to the rank of sergeant after their death, and that is something that president biden shared himself in a phone call with the family of kennedy sanders yesterday. take a listen. >> i know there's nothing anybody can say or do to ease the pain. i've been there. by the way, we're promoting her posthumously to sergeant. >> oh, wow. that is the best news i've heard today. thank you so much. you don't know how much that means to us. >> oh, well, i tell you what, it means a lot to me. sergeant sanders. gosh, the picture i'm looking at, she has such a beautiful smile. god love her. >> she did.

she absolutely did light up every room she was in. >> that's pretty clear from looking at her. >> so an emotional moment there for the family as they heard directly from president biden. the white house said that president in his phone call asked if the families would like to have him on hand for the dignified transfer of their loved ones' remains which is expected to take place in dover, delaware, on friday. the families said they would like to see him there and the white house said he will be on hand for that he emotional moment. >> it's so important to hear from the families and see them if they're willing to be seen publicly in what they're going through. it's so important. thanks for bringing that to us, arlette. >> that was a unique perspective. i'm not sure i heard a call like that before. with us now military analyst, former nato supreme alley commander general wesley clark and security analyst beth sander. i want to start with you on what we heard from this militia group, the iranian-backed mill

alisha group that may be responsible that left three u.s. soldiers dead. they say they're going to suspend attacks on the united states. how much stock do you put in that? >> not much, but if there's a way of checking it out, you know, we should check it out. somebody should go back and lay out your reference, from a full inspection, put everybody online, open up your headquarters, fly some drones over and see what's going on there. but this is a typical sort of middle east ploy, and it reminds me of many other incidents in history in this region where people will attack and say no, you can't attack now. i didn't mean it. it's an iranian ploy. >> and the same time that we are hearing from this iranian-backed proxy which operates largely inside iraq, beth, the iranian revolutionary guard head from inside iran is saying that any u.s. response to this attack

that left three americans dead in jordan will be met with force. so how do you juxtapose those two messages? >> well -- >> i think you could -- >> iran was clearly behind the kh statement saying that, you know, that they were going to suspend operations. there's good iraqi press on that, and so, you know, what i take from this is, both iran and k.h. are worried about our retaliation. you know, this is a sign that actually our threatening this retaliation is starting to establish some deterrence. you know, deterrence is really complicated. it is about, you know, being consistent with what you say, follow through, not just one thing, and so i think despite whatever is said here, the united states absolutely has to respond, regardless. >> and beth, i want to change regions, if i can, for a second right now, and come up here to

russia. there are elections that have been announced in russia. a lot of people scoff at the notion that vladimir putin is so-called running for re-election, but we did get word now that this man we just saw him right there, boris nedzennen, an opposition political figure, has gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot and what's interesting about him, he's spoken out against the war in ukraine. what do you read into this? >> it's really interesting, isn't it. hundreds of thousands of people lined up across russia because you need signatures from every region in russia to get on to the ballot. people stood in the snow and signed these petitions to get him on the ballot, and he submitted those petitions and now we're going to see whether the kremlin will let him do that or not. but i also just kind of want to caution people that while there

is this silent group of people in russia that are anti-war, it is not a silent majority. it's a silent minority. it's important, but i don't think it poses a real threat to putin. that said, you know, putin always sees threats in a much bigger way than reality shows it to be, and, you know, it could very well be that he ends up not making it on to the ballot. >> general clark, as long as we're talking about ukraine and russia, we got word a few minutes ago of a prisoner exchange, nearly 200 troops from each side going back and forth. what do you read into that? >> i think these have been handled routinely. i think the russians are trying to move past the embarrassment of the 76 shoot down, which we still don't all the facts on that. the ukrainians said that there were only five bodies actually recovered from the wreckage, but

there's a lot of mystery surrounding this. russia wants to move past it. if it was a play, a disinformation play, it didn't work for russia. >> general wesley clark, beth saner, thanks to both of you. a man has been arrested after allegedly beheading his father and posting video and a political rant online. what pennsylvania police are now saying about what happened and about his threats. top names of some of the most important and impactful social media platforms in the world, they're in the hot seat this morning. why senators are eager to question mark zuckerberg yet again. we'll be back.

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. the last time a u.s. cabinet member was impeechld, colorado was not yet a state and the first telephone had just been patented. this morning after 13 hours of acrimony, the u.s. house of representatives is a big step closer to making it happen again. the house homeland security committee voted to impeachment secretary alejandro mayorkas. democrats and several conservative lawyers are calling the move ridiculous, but now it heads to the full house floor where it can take only two republican votes to keep it from passing. cnn's lauren fox is on capitol hill this morning with where things stand now. lauren? >> reporter: good morning, john. yeah, this is the next test for this impeachment resolution that's headed to the floor. these two articles, obviously, something that republicans have been pursuing for months now,

and the question becomes, can they pull this off in the house of representatives, given that narrow vote margin? you heard from ken buck last night who made it clear he's still on the fence, still leaning against voting for this on the floor. that means that they can only afford to lose one more member. i think the key question over in the senate is, if this gets out of the house, how quickly can they move? the senate typically would have a trial and then there's a question of conviction. with democrats controlling that chamber, no one is under any illusion that mayorkas would be convicted, so in a way, this is really a political exercise for house republicans, but what's really interesting right now is the dynamic about the fact that the house is moving forward with the impeachment against mayorkas, at the same time rejecting a deal that is emerging in the united states senate between republicans and democrats to secure the border, that they say mayorkas has let go. i think one thing to keep in mind right now is that we still

have seen legislative text. that means we don't know precisely what's in the bill, and the holdup, according to democratic negotiator chris murphy, is the fact he says republicans need to decide if they really want to continue moving forward with this strategy. we know from reporting from our colleagues manu raju and ted barrett last night in mcconnell's office republican leadership had a discussion, whether or not given the opposition to this deal, whether it's worth moving forward with that strategy or whether they want to switch course and move forward with ukraine funding, taiwan funding, israel funding without the border component, let's remind our viewers, republicans were the ones to ask for in the beginning. >> we are waiting to hear from the house speaker mike johnson expected to deliver a speech on the house floor about all of this later today. lauren fox on capitol hill, thank you. let's talk about this. joining us is democratic congressman vin cen te of texas. what is your rhee action of this

moving to impeach the dhs secretary? >> it's ironic they want to impeach the secretary while we have this great proposal coming from the senate that is offering a solution to our border problems. i've been one of the most critical on our southern border and here we have a historic opportunity to put over 1300 new border patrol agents to add 1600 asylum agents on our border, almost 400 federal judges, and improve and empower our government to be harder on our border and really bring a final solution that is a win for america, but instead, we're playing political theater on our floor today or tomorrow with this impeachment. >> you are -- >> no real solutions to the problems people are concerned about. >> you are a democrat. you have criticized president biden, though, on border issues at times. you were one of 14 democrats to vote in favor of a republican resolution just this month denouncing president biden's border policies and here's what

the resolution states for everyone, it denounces the biden administration's open borders policy, condemns the national security and public safety crisis that president joe biden, vice president kamala harris, secretary of the department of security alex marjandro mayorka other officials have created along the southwest border. you blame biden and mayorkas for creating the crisis. what would impeaching the homeland security secretary do? >> for a long time -- yeah, for a long time i've been saying we could do a lot more and the proposals that are coming from the senate deal that are already being shut down by our speaker, are something -- is something that can fix the problems on our border and i always say, this is not a democratic or republican problem, this is an american problem that needs a bipartisan solutions and this is a bipartisan solution that will bring a conclusion to the crisis on our southern border. we should take this opportunity. this a win for the american people. they want us to work together. let's not play games. there's no real chance of

mayorkas ever being impeached. let's put real legislation on the floor and fix the problems that the american people are urging us to fix. >> on that bipartisan work that is happening in the senate, let me play this for you, fellow texan, republican troy nehls. >> reporter: joe biden doesn't need congress. why are we always feeling that congress needs to do something about the southern border? we don't have to do a thing. >> he says congress doesn't need to do anything here now. i also saw him say that idea that you need congress to do something to secure the southern border is just horse manure. do you agree with that? >> that's nonsense. >> that's what i was going to ask, do you think the president, you blamed him for creating a crisis -- creating a crisis at the border with that resolution. do you think he could fix it with executive action, or do you think congress must act? >> well, i can tell you we live in a democracy that requires a legislative action and requires

congress to participate in policy. we can't legislate by executive order. we don't live in a dictatorship. that's why we're here. we need to get to work and pass bills that have long-term solutions. even if it were an executive order that's not a long-term solution. we have many executive orders that get taken down by the following president. we need long-term policy solutions to assure that the crisis that's occurring today will happen in years to come. these solutions are coming out of the senate and the white house and i think we should embrace them and discuss them and improving them and vote on them. >> you're in a competitive race up for re-election this year, of course. how important is this issue to the success or failure of your re-election? >> well, i think the success of having a secure southern border is everyone's interests, not only in my district but across

the country and not only on the border but in mainland america. i think people are watching and caring about this issue. it's not the only issue they care about. i think they're grateful for the infrastructure funding that has come under this president and lowering prescription drug prices that has come under this president, expanding and securing social security and medicare for senior citizens, forgiving student loans no other president has ever done or cared about, have been policies from this administration that i think people in my district and this country care about just as much as we care about the border. being from the border and dealing with the issues head on, we do care about it, but there are many other issues we care about as well. >> congress gonzalez, thank you so much for coming on. john? >> a mother on trial tfor manslaughter after her son committed a deadly mass shooting. what happens when she takes the stand? celine dion shows the full extent of her health bat ptles.

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. this really is the definition of grotesque and disturbing. pennsylvania police have charged a man with murder and also the abuse of a corps, but the details are even worse than the charges even imply. they say that this man, we are showing you right here, he posted a video online showing what he says is his father's decapitated head while he was ranting against democrats and against joe biden. the video was up for hours before youtube eventually took it down. there's a lot more going on here. let's get to danny freeman who is following all of this. i understand you just were able to get your hands on the

criminal complaint. what more are you learning from that? >> yeah. that's right, kate. i got the criminal complaint for this case from the bucks county district attorney's office and again just learning more horrific details from this already gruesome crime. we're talking about justin mohn, 32 years old. he's now accused of murder and abuse of a corps, accused of murdering his father yesterday, and here's what we're learning from this criminal complaint. it started around 7:00 p.m., that's when the middletown township police department got a call about a dead person in a house. that house is only about three miles away from where we are here at the police station. when police officers arrived at this home, they found a dead person in the downstairs bathroom and his head had been taken off. according to this criminal complaint we're learning that police found a machete, a large knife, and they also did find, i apologize for these details the severed head in the home. now it was only after that, kate, that then police became

aware of the youtube video that you've been talking about that not only shows this suspect mohn holding his father's body part, but also he was ranting about the biden administration, the border, and even at one point declaring himself the acting president based on martial law. he also said that his father was a traitor in this particular video to his country because he was a federal employee. so like i said, kate, the details are horrible here. we're still learning more about this case. at this point we earlier expected the bucks county d.a. to have a presser but that won't happen. they're still gathering more information as are police here, but again, just horrific, frightening, though police say that at this point the suspect mohn was captured about 100 miles west of his home in fort indiantown, pennsylvania, not far from hershey, pennsylvania, and because of that, the threat is over at this time. like i said, a really troubling story to start this wednesday. >> oh, absolutely. thank you so much for the hustle

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sheriff's department and he was in charge of the fugitive apprehension team. the rest of the story is there are two sides to it. the prosecution is saying that after it all happened james and jennifer crumbley fled the jurisdiction and they did. they went to different hotels. they drained their bank accounts and were found on a mattress in detroit and the other side of this is that threats were coming in. jennifer crumbley says she and her husband saying we want you to rot in jail. we want something to happen to you now and that's why they left. so we'll see what he has to say. but you know, yesterday, was there a 49-minute video that was played for the jury, and it was shortly after the mass shooting happened, shortly after their son was arrested, officers immediately go to search the home. so she's not charged at any point at this time, but she sits in the squad car. listen to a little bit of what she says to the detective.

>> he's never done anything wrong. he's still a kid. [ inaudible ] >> this is [ bleep ] up. >> my son just ruined his life and i might never see him again. >> how old is he? [ inaudible ] >> now we don't know how much she knows at this point because it had just happened. they had come to the house after the father turning the son in, but her demeanor is one of just really not that emotional -- emotional at points and then goes to sort of being cold. she's going to take the stand and the defense case may come very soon because prosecution's wrapping up in the next few days. >> what is it that the defense needs to get from her? >> emotion. >> when she takes the stand? >> she needs to be heartfelt. her co-worker said she was a

sarcastic person. if she comes off as sarcastic before this jury, no. if she bares her soul of being a parent and having a troubled child and not knowing what to do and not knowing what he was doing in his room because they didn't know about the journal and the research and the everything and the texting of the little friend that said i'm going to shoot up the school. they didn't know about that. evidence shows at this point. >> jean casarez, you've been watching this from the very beginning. let us know when news develops. kate. some of the biggest names in tech including mark zuckerberg are about to face a grilling on capitol hill over the harms posed to young people. the ceos of tiktok, snap, discord and x will be joining zuckerberg to face questions about what they are or are not doing to better protect children and give parents more control over what their kids see and do online. the question has long been when it comes to social media and online, what congress is prepared to do to require social

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