is currently feasting on rumors ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is close to firing his top general valery zaluzhny and possibly installing budanov as his successor. the spy chief coy. isn't that something that weakens the country if it appears as though the president and his top general are not on the same page? >> translator: i am also the head of one of the military agencies. i personally have no conflict with anyone. >> people are talking about you possibly being the new general. >> translator: if i was appointed yesterday, would we be meeting? >> reporter: as you can see, erin, there are still a lot of uncertainty surrounding that situation with general valery zaluzhny. meanwhile, i also asked budanov what exactly victory would look like for ukraine. he said nothing less than taking back all of ukraine's territories, including crimea. erin? >> all right. thank you very much, fred. and of course that is exactly what zelenskyy says repeatedly. so they are on the same page. thank you so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts now.

tonight on "360," the founder of facebook's stunning apology to parents of online abuse victims as he and other social media ceos are grilled by senators for their platforms' impact on children. facebook whistle-blower joins us. also tonight, even as tough details of a bipartisan deal on border security emerge, the lawmakers who are demanding it back further away. we are keeping them honest. plus after months and months of brutal numbers, new polling shows a bump for president biden. the question is what does it mean? answers from james carville. good evening. john berman here sitting in for anderson. we're going have that and more in the hour ahead. we begin with breaking news. new u.s. air strikes targeting iranian-backed houthi drones in yemen. let's get straight to oren liebermann at the pentagon. oren, what's the latest here? >> john, these strikes occurring in the last couple of hours in

yemen. the u.s. airstrikes targeted a number of houthi drones in yemen. this is what we've even the u.s. doing over the course of the past several weeks, trying to strike the types of targets that the houthis, the iran-backed rebel group in yemen have used to target not only international shipping, but commercial vessels operating in the red sea and the gulf of aden and warships. in this case, the strike was unmanned drones that the houthis have used to target these commercial vessels. was also in the past, the u.s. has targeted anti-ship ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles. the goal here is to target these before they can be launched that is before they pose a security threat to ships operating in the region. we have seen recently the houthis successfully strike a number of ships, including an oil tanker that burned for quite some time, issuing a distress call that the u.s. and other warships responded to. you see the threat the u.s. is trying to get at here. >> oren, to be clear, this is not directly connected to the strike in jordan that killed three u.s. soldiers. that was blamed on a separate

terror group, correct? >> correct. the connection here is of course iran. iran backs the houthis. iran backs the militias and militant groups that operate in iraq and syria that the white house holds responsible for carrying out that attack on sunday. but this is not the response the u.s., the white house, and the pentagon have been talking about. what they've said could be a multi-phased response to that deadly attack on sunday in jordan that killed three u.s. service members and dozens more. that response, the u.s. retaliation to that, which we expect to be quite powerful, that's not what we're seeing here in this case, john. >> this is response to the houthis' continued attacks on u.s. interests, including a word that a missile got close to a u.s. warship in the past 24 hours. what do you know about that? >> correct. this is the uss gravely operating in the red sea. a houthi cruise missile came to within a mile of the article lee bank of america.

this one evaded or the other defense mechanisms failed to stop this cruise missile as it came in. it was picked off or intercepted or shot down by the close-in weapons system, an automated gun that intercepted this, tracked it and was able to shoot it down. the question, of course, how did it get to within a mile? there was a successful interception there, but experts and analysts tell us the fact that it got that close is a cause for some concern here. they will have to look at how that happened. again, that's the closest the houthis have got successfully to a warship. but again, the defense systems there that last line of defense was able to shoot down that cruise missile before it caused any injuries or damage to the destroyer. >> oren liebermann, we thank you. better not go too far. we're going of course continue to follow this and bring you any new developments as we get them in. now the confrontation today between the heads of the most profitable and powerful corporations on earth, and lawmakers concerned about the power they wield, specifically the influence they have in so many young and vulnerable lives.

many of whom become victims of bullying. some of whom take their own lives. today the chief executives of meta, tiktok, x, snap, and discord appeared before members of the senate judiciary committee, and they got an earful. >> when a boeing plane lost a door in mid flight several weeks ago, nobody questioned the decision to ground a fleet of over 700 planes. so why aren't we taking the same type of decisive action on the danger of these platforms when we know these kids are dying? >> in a moment, what former facebook executive and whistle-blower frances haugen made of the hearings. first, cnn's tom foreman. >> but you have blood on your hands. >> your product is killing people. >> will you set up victims compensation fund with your money, the money you made on these families sitting behind you? yes or no? >> reporter: mark zuckerberg, founder of facebook, whose company owns instagram, pushed

into apologizing to families who say they were harmed by online content. some waving pictures of children who died or killed themselves. it was an astonishing moment, yet the billionaire head of meta dug in any way. >> and this is why we invest so much and big efforts to make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your family has to suffer. >> your platforms really suck at policing themselves. >> reporter: against the torrent of accusations from the senate committee about enabling sexual exploitation, election meddling, fake news, drug abuse, and child endangerment, the heads of five tech giants tried to push back. >> we very much believe that this content is disgusting. >> x will be active and a part of this solution. >> reporter: but the fury kept coming, in a rare show of unity between democrats -- >> one-third of fentanyl cases investigated over five months

had direct ties to social media. >> reporter: and republicans. >> 37% of teenaged girls between 13 and 15 were exposed to unwanted nudity in a week on instagram. you knew about it. who did you fire? >> senator, this is why we're building -- >> who did you fire? >> i'm not going answer that. >> reporter: there was plenty of heat to go around as the tech bosses were scorched with claims their products promote anxiety, depression, and violence, especially among young people. >> children are not your priority. children are your product. >> reporter: but no one was hit harder than zuckerberg, whose attempts at defense at times were literally laughed at. >> my understanding is we don't allow sexually explicit content on the service for people of any age. >> how is that going? >> you know, our -- >> is there any one of you willing to say now that you support this bill? >> reporter: many of the lawmakers are intent on overturning a long-standing federal law that immunizes those companies from lawsuits over user generated content and

putting tough regulations in place. >> it's time to actually pass them. and the reason they haven't passed is because of the power of your company. so let's be really, really clear about that. >> reporter: and while the tech bosses say they're happy to work on safeguards, skepticism ran rampant. >> nothing will change until the courtroom door is opened to victims of social media. >> so, tom, are there any signs congress will take legislative action to address the concerns that were raise ared at the hearing today? >> there were nothing but signs of that today, john. i have never really seen a senate hearing like this before where democrats and republicans, especially in this time, were so in lockstep saying we may not understand social media, but we do understand people being abused. we understand a company putting profits over safety. we understand how voters feel about that. whether you agree with the facts of that or not, that's what they were in lockstep over, and they are saying we have the measures in place. we're ready to move forward.

and we know how to count votes. and they believe they have the votes now to move on these measures and finally put some regulation here and do something about it. and they think they have to, as senator richard blumenthal from connecticut said earlier today, a democrat up there. he said the problem is there is just no basis to trust that social media will do anything about this anymore. they've said it. they've used their power. they used their money to spread that message again and again and again. they are not believed on capitol hill. number one reason why there may be action against them. >> tom foreman, as always, thank you for explaining it so well. >> sure. >> joining us now, nyu business school professor, podcaster and entrepreneur scott galloway. and frances haugen. a lot of what seemed to be frustration in the hearing room. what were your big takeaways? >> that we've been here before, that that moment of theater when

mark zuckerberg was asked to turn around and apologize to the parents, the most effective thing would have been if the parents had asked him to turn around and asked the lawmakers why haven't you done anything. those tech executives are culpable, but the culprits are the lawmakers who have failed to prevent a tragedy of the commons and either lacked the backbone or the will or the ability to do their job. so we've been here before. and i hope your colleague is correct that something actually happens here, that this public flogging by senators such that they can have their viral moment on these platforms and raise money and then go about doing absolutely nothing is -- it's gotten almost comical. so hope i'm wrong, but we've been here before. >> are you suggesting, scott, it was sort of faux outrage? >> well, history would say ineffective outrage. i mean, it's literally groundhog

day. frances -- i thought the straw that was going to finally break the camel's back is frances' courage and great data, showing that 1 in 18 girls in the uk who had suicidal ideation specifically called out by name and executives knew about it and covered it up. and what happened? nothing. it's become comical. >> frances, go ahead. >> i think the slight tweak that i would say is different than even this fall is arturo came forward with information that he gathered contemporaneous when i came forward. while i came forward and presented that information, you had executives at facebook making public statements saying i had misled the public, i had cherry picked, that the study had a very small sample. arturo bejar gathered information from 900,000 people and sent that information to the

executives themselves. the executives then had individual meetings with him. and part of what came out today just this morning was 90 pages of emails that were sent to mark zuckerberg where other executives after consulting with information like that said hey, what we're doing publicly does -- what we're doing internally doesn't align with what we're doing publicly. mark zuckerberg said in the internal emails said we don't have the resources. there is no way we can do that. >> both you and scott have raised it. let me play a little bit about what you said in 2021, because it's relevant here. >> the company's leadership knows how to make instagram and facebook safer, but won't make the changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. the documents i have provided to congress prove that facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems and its role in spreading divisive and extreme messages.

>> so frances, you were saying, zuckerberg now says he doesn't have the resources? >> yeah. in the emails that were released this morning that congress i believe acquired from the attorneys general, but i don't know for sure, it outlines nick clegg bringing to mark probably on the run-up period when they're asked for comment on "the wall street journal" articles. so it's not truly altruistic. but he says hey, we have to put at least nine more engineers and 25 other types of staff if we want to even have a chance to get some of these problems addressed. and he was told there's just not enough people. there is not enough resources for you to do that. so it show yos uhow negligent these companies are. and today mark zuckerberg, he got grilled on those emails himself. one of the senators said are you going to argue with court documents? and zuckerberg had the audacity to say i haven't seen the documents. well, you did when you made a decision not toe prioritize our kids. >> what do you think of his

apology, frances? >> one of the things i think has been under -- not really captured by a lot of the videos that have been circulating on this, because usually in a hearing, you don't have witnesses turn around and face the audience. there weren't good camera angles, was the look of fear that was on his face. think about what it's like to confront not one parent of bereaved parent, but hundreds. people holding signs of their dead children. i've never seen that amount of fear on his face. and i think this was one of those moments where senator butler actually raised the issue specifically. she said you told me last night you had never actually talked to a parent that lost a child due to your products. and suddenly he had to turn around and face, you know, 100 of them. so it's a historic moment. >> scott are, the companies incentivized or otherwise not to change? >> no. >> if you had a parking meter in front of your house that cost

$100 every 15 minutes, but the parking ticket was 25 cents, you would continue to break the law. and the fines here are -- the biggest fine levied against facebook was $5 billion was 11 weeks of cash flow. the bottom line is when you send an email out, when a teenaged girl, a 14-year-old girl in the uk goes into her room with her phone and is having thoughts, is depressed, and the algorithms pick up on this and decide to send her an email and this is a quote, we thought you might find these images on suicide interesting, and it includes images of pills, razors and nooses, someone needs to go to jail. and this doesn't stop until the feckless, ineffective individuals posturing today pass laws such that we can put someone in an orange jumpsuit. when we look back in ten years, we will regret the concentration

of power, the weaponization of our elections, the increasing discourse, but the thing we'll be most upset about is we'll ask ourselves how on earth did we let this happen to our children? it doesn't stop until there is a perp walk. >> 100%. >> a great discussion. chilling discuss, but i appreciate your time. thank you very much. still to come, with a new poll suggesting more women saying they will vote for president biden over trump, republicans have picked an odd time to wage a war against taylor swift. to quote one of her recent hits, "i have this thing where i get older, just never wiser." and keeping them honest, republicans are touting to defeat a bipartisan border security bill.

major new presidential poll shows president biden opening a significant lead on former president trump. now you did hear that right, and it is a bit different than a lot of polling lately. more on that in just a moment. the new poll comes the same day trump tried to peel away organized labor voters from the biden campaign. that's not an easy job. union members generally vote democratic. in one big union, the united autoworkers already endorsed biden last week. but trump made his case today with leaders of the teamsters at their headquarters in washington. >> and i think we had a very

productive meeting. stranger things have happened. usually a republican wouldn't get that endorsement for many, many years they only do democrats. but in my case, it's different because i've employed thousands of teamsters, and i thought we should come over and pay our respects. >> afterwards, president biden's team called out the former president, called out trump for his, quote, long record of attacking unions. all of that as this new poll from quinnipiac university shows president biden with 50% in a head to head general election matchup. trump is at 44%. that's a six-point lead outside the poll's margin of error. and more than a month after the same poll found the race, quote, too close to call. one big factor the poll says more women now support president biden. legendary democratic strategist james carville is with us. james, great to see you. >> thank you, man. thank you. >> you've been nervous, to say the least about this election. how hearten ready you and should democrats be by this poll?

>> pretty good. that's the first good poll i've seen in a while. of course, you'd like to see another one to kind of confirm it. but, you know, given recent events with president trump's legal issues and some of these economic numbers we see, it's not unreasonable to assume there could be a little bit turn in public opinion. i certainly wait to see some confirming polls here. but this is pretty heartening. pretty good. >> some people speculated that when trump becomes the clear republican nominee, which he is more and more every day, that that might galvanize traditional democrats. >> i hope it does. i mean, i don't know what else, more galvanize you'd be when you see the behavior of this guy. but we just -- let's just wait and see. but it makes sense that he would be losing women after this jury came in and adjudicated him to be, well, a rapist, to be honest with you. that's what the judge said in everyday parlance of the world. it's not a good thing to run for president and have a jury find that you raped a woman.

>> liable for sexual abuse is what the original jury found. the poll does show that 67% of registered voters say they believe the nation's democracy is on the verge of collapse. 67%. how do you even make sense of a number like that? >> i don't. it's frightening. i'll be honest with you. people come up to me a lot and say james, i'm scared. well, you have reason to be. but i do think that if we get closerand these other things become apparent and there is mother news to come out that there is a chance we can do better. i was really encouraged by this quinnipiac, is it? it's got a good reputation of being a decent outfit. if the next one comes in this way, i'll feel a lot better. >> so i think america has been dying to know what james carville feels about taylor swift. and i ask you about this. there is this growing right wing conspiracy. you to turn on one of the conservative network, and they're basically suggesting, there are those who suggest that somehow taylor swift is fixing

the super bowl to help joe biden. i want to play a little bit of what's been on fox here. >> so is swift a front for a covert political agenda? prime time obviously has no evidence. if we did, we'd share it. but we're curious. because the pop star who endorsed biden is urging millions of her followers to vote. >> a single post of hers led to 35,000 new registrants. that's persuadable power. and this administration is locked dead set on harnessing that. >> why alienate your fans, the swifties? you know, they come across from every political ideology. >> well, i bet on the race, she would have broken up before the game. the guy killed, 11 interceptions. the other thing i saw before i came in here that claimed she and trump's attorney alina, whatever her name is that she is also a deep state plant.

you know, i don't know, but apparently kelce is a really good football player and apparently ms. swift makes him a better one. >> you're donald trump or part of the far right and you're having trouble with women voters, is there a worse strategy than attacking taylor swift? >> you know, i don't think there is anything strategic about this. i think most of these people are sexually inadequate, and go for all this crazy stuff. and i don't think -- there is nothing strategic about something that stupid. it's just real stupidity to believe something like that. and she seems to me -- i'm not very familiar with her generation. she seems like a really nice person, kind of well raised and, you know, gives people at work $100,000 bonuses. what's there not to like about ms. swift? i have no idea. i didn't get the memo. >> do you think it will blow up in their face? >> if all this stuff hadn't blown up yet. i don't know if their face is

blown upable. but it's massively entertaining to watch people this stupid go public. honestly, john, i can't get enough of it. come on. you can't be that dumb, can you? >> well, they're there for you. it seems like these outfits are there for you, james, to entertain you. so nikki haley today with sharper words than she's used yet on donald trump. she says he is toxic. he lacks moral clarity. it's interesting. the quinnipiac poll you're talking about there, it shows haley beating biden by five points in a hypothetical head to head matchup. i mean, the polling is pretty clear. biden's up on trump by six in this poll. hailly is up by biden by five. >> that's been clear in another post. this is something that confirms what i've seen in other posts. i do think that it's fair to say that the country was not excited about a trump-biden choice. i think that number would reverse as people became more

familiar with some of governor haley's ideas. but that's not -- that's not unusual that you would see that kind of turnaround. i've seen that in a number of other polls. you know, when you run against somebody, particularly in a primary you get mad at them. he has mocked her and made fun of her. and that is not unusual. she is mad. i mean, she is real mad. and my hat's off to her donors. they're hanging in there. and the longer she stays in, the happier i am. >> because it's better for the democrats? >> well, look bernie sanders really hurt ms. clinton in 2016. no one likes these long drawn-out primaries. and she keeps hitting him and hitting him. and i hope this quinnipiac poll is right. but it's taking some kind of toll. >> james carville, great to see you. appreciate your time. >> thank you. next, they asked for it, demanded it. conditioned aid for ukraine and israel on getting it. so why even as tough new details

of a bipartisan senate border deal emerge are more republicans backing away from it? we're keeping them honest.

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all i can do say is that my life is pre-- i like watching the puddles gather rain. -hey, your mom and i procreated to that song. oh, ew! i think you've said enough. why don't we just switch to xfinity like everyone else? then you would know what year it was. i know what year it is. keeping them honest tonight, the newest installment of lawmakers who like talking about the border crisis often in apocalyptic tones, but don't want to do anything about it, at least not until after the election. today senate republicans met behind closed doors debating whether to shelve a bipartisan, bipartisan border security deal being negotiated by one of their most conservative members and said to be the toughest in generations, one that once upon a time their house colleagues were demanding or else they would not even start considering aid to ukraine and israel. that is until the former

president came out against it or any border legislation several weeks ago. at first privately, but once word got out, loudly and publicly. no bill needed, he said. which then drove house republicans to start trashing the very thing they originally said they wanted, criticizing it, as anderson pointed out last night, by mischaracterizing what is reportedly in it. despite not having seen the actual text of it, but also crucially disregarding assurances by the lead republican negotiator, the staunchly conservative james lankford that what they're objecting to is not part of the deal. namely, that it would somehow let 5,000 migrants a day into the country before the president could take serious action. this is what donald trump said today. >> that's a terrible bill. 5,000 people a day, that's a lot. that's like record-setting stuff. no. i want to see a great bill. if we get a great bill, we should do it. if we don't get a great bill, but i don't think you're going to get a great bill.

and if you're starting at 5,000 people a day, it's insane. it's insane. >> so that has been refrain. house speaker mike johnson and many house republicans have been saying it today. republican senator ron johnson said it. >> why would you be setting thresholds at 4,000 and 5,000? and the discretionary threshold is the one that really gives me concern. >> so that has been the talking point from lawmakers who have not seen the text of the proposal. and again, keeping them honest, who don't seem to be inclined to believe the extremely conservative republican senator who has. >> it would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to 5,000 people a day. this bill focuses on getting us to zero illegal crossings a day. >> that was sunday. today another negotiator, independent senator kyrsten sinema revealed some of the specifics. the bill she says requires a president to shut the border if there are 5,000 encounters a day, meaning 5,000 migrants showing up asking for asylum. they would not, she says be let

into the country. instead, they would be detained and their cases would be handled in as many as six months as few as 10 to 15 days. again, these people would all be detained, she says, not released. no more, she claims of what critics have called of catch and release, which ought to be music to the ears of senators like ron johnson, who say, as hi did today, that border security is priority one. >> all i'm concerned about is we need to secure our border. we have to regain the sovereignty of this nation. the open board they're president biden and his colleagues here, his democratic colleagues in congress, this is a clear and present danger to america. my top priority is securing that border and protecting our citizens. >> so it's a fine thing to say. as so many republican lawmakers have also said, to which another republican, alaska senator lisa murkowski said this today -- >> it was the republicans, i will remind you, that told the democrats months ago that if you want to try to get your ukraine

funding, you're going to have to take up the border issue. this is what we ask for. >> and for many of her colleagues now having gotten it, apparently they won't take yes for an answer. some perspective now from two cnn political commentators on the left and right respectively. van jones and david urban. david, james lankford is one of the most conservative senators there is. he says this 5,000 claim is bogus coming from donald trump and others. so how do you explain this reluctance has anything other than election year politics? >> well, john, look, i have not read the bill. but i do believe there is a little politics involved there, shocking i know in washington, right? gambling and casablanca. but the fact of the matter remains on the republican side of the aisle is that joe biden inherited the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years when he became president. in the past three years, right, that he has been president, they

didn't seem to be the least bit interested in securing the border. and to wit 9.6 million illegal immigrants crossed into our country. they stopped -- >> it is worth noting, david, i know you know, this it was one of the lowest rates because of covid. because of covid, no one was coming and title 42 shut down the border. >> exactly. you're making my point for me, john. title 42. the end of catch and release, we had a remain in mexico policy under the trump administration where folks would have to stay in mexico waiting for asylum. and people decided not to come. they didn't want to remain in mexico. they wanted to come to the united states. so when all those -- >> all do something, right? i'm sorry. >> van, listen, i don't disagree, right, there should be something done to secure our southern border. to john's point, though, it really smacks of politics, and it's being done now when a

bloomburg poll out this week that found that 60% of americans think the border is a major issue, major concern and they trust president trump 52% over 30% over biden to do something on the border. the biden administration is not dumb. they're getting their butts kicked. so they're trying to do something. >> van? >> i don't understand why you're upset. >> i'm not upset. >> you must be upset because the republicans aren't going to do anything about this issue they've been screaming about. if i'm saying my house is on fire, my house is on fire, somebody should bring me a bucket of water and somebody brings me a bucket of water and i say never mind, maybe i was playing politics in the first place. it looks like republicans have been playing politics the whole time because now for the first time, my party has moved for the first time it's willing to do something we would never considered doing because the numbers have gotten so big. you've got blue city mayors screaming. and now you have a chance -- now you got a chance to do something, and you won't do it.

>> the only reason big city mayors are screaming is courtesy of greg abbott of texas of letting them feel a little pain like they're feeling in eagle pass, texas. >> well, but apparently these wonderful governors from florida and texas that care so much about america and care about the open border, shipping everybody up here, you won't take yes for an answer now. the country agrees with you. democrats agree with uyou. biden agrees was you. and used rather keep the pain going. rather keep the pain going than solve the problem. that's politics. >> listen. there was hr-2 was passed last year, right? it was the house passed bill. senator ted cruz introduced the senate companion. if the biden administration were really serious about immigration, they would have gone to the house leadership and the house folks and say hey, listen we know this isn't where we're going to end up. we're going to start with your bill. >> david. >> david, with this bill, i know you haven't seen it, will this bill do you think improve things? >> i'm not sure, john. i can't opine. i've not read it. so i can't give you an opinion one way or another. >> but you know it includes a lot of the stuff that the

republicans have been asking for. >> let's put it this way. anything would improve the porous board they're we have right now. anything. right? >> so if it does, why not let it go to the floor? >> because i think the republicans feel they can get a better bill done, right? i understand you're theory. >> better than lankford? >> why not take half a loaf. that's your theory. i think republicans think they can get a better deal. >> if anybody had told us say at thanksgiving, halloween last year that lankford would have a will that democrats would be willing to support, republicans would have been dancing around saying we won, we won. here is the problem. you keep moving the goalpost on something you say is important. and honestly, it's starting to feel maybe you like the pain. maybe you like having the country. you say the country is being overrun. if you really thought the country was being overrun by terrorists and all this sort of things used to jump the base, if you thought that was happening you would be right now trying to get this deal done. you don't believe that nobody believes a bunch of terrorists

are coming here. you're using this issue and now you're being exposed for it in the republican party. that's what i say. >> van. >> democrats have done a great job of political jujitsu here. >> i'm full loaf all the time. >> all right. a gruesome crime captured on youtube. a pennsylvania man accused of beheading his father and then showing the severed head while conducting an unhinged political rant on the video sharing website. details in a live report, next.

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about the same time that tech executives were on capitol hill to face senators, a pennsylvania man was being charged with beheading his father and displaying the severed head during a political rant about woke mobs on youtube. that video was online for several hours. danny freeman is in pennsylvania tonight with the details. >> reporter: it's a horrible, tragic incident. >> reporter: around 7:00 p.m. tuesday evening, middletown township police got a call from justin mohn's mother saying she had found her husband, 68-year-old michael mohn dead. according to a criminal complaint obtained by cnn, when officers arrived, they found an elderly male in a bathroom with blood around him who had been decapitated. officers found a machete and a large kitchen knife in the bathtub. court documents say police then found michael mohn's head in a plastic bag in a cooking pot in

the next room. only then did police learn of his son's video posted to youtube which stayed up on the site for about five hours before being taken down. in the 14 1/2 minute video mohn rants about the biden administration, the border, and calls his father a traitor to his country because he was federal employee. saying, quote, america is rotting from the inside out because of far left woke mobs. justin then raised his dead father's head on camera. >> i am very sad for the family. i'm very sad for the community. you know, and also for the people that knew him. >> reporter: while police were at his home, mohn, though, was heading west. a spokesperson for the pennsylvania department of military and veterans affairs told cnn around 9:00 p.m., mohn's cell phone was traced to just outside of the fort indian town gap national guard base, pennsylvania's national guard headquarters nearly 100 miles from the crime scene. the p.a.dmva says mohn was armed

with a gun but was ultimately arrested without incident. as authorities investigate, a former roommate of justin's tells cnn he believed, quote, the government was out to get him. mohn also filed multiple lawsuits suggesting he was angry about his status as a white man. this disturbing incident renews concerns about the risk of political violence. >> the kind of overheated deeply politicized extreme rhetoric that you hear sometimes in this country actually has an impact on these marginalized people with extremist views. >> reporter: and john, as you noted, one of the most disturbing aspects of the story, that video stayed online for several hours before youtube finally took it down. youtube told cnn it has strict policies prohibiting graphic violence and extremism and noted our teams are closely tracking to remove any reuploads of this video. but, john, we spoke with the police chief of this community earlier today, and he says

basically he fears that at least in this community, everyone has already seen the video. in essence, the damage there has been done. john, one more thing i'll note is that the district attorney here in bucks county is expected to have a news conference about this incident before the week is out. so hopefully we'll get more information on a potential motive for this killing. john? >> danny freeman, keep us posted. thank you. still to come tonight, more on the migrant crisis, specifically the impact on denver, hundreds of miles from the border. but filling up with bussed in migrants in crowded shelters and freezing cold streets.

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a few moments ago talking about immigration, david urban said the only reason the big city mayors were screaming about the border is because he said texas governor greg abbott is letting them feel the pain they are feeling in texas. so now one mayor in one city, denver. more from cnn's shimon prokupecz. "if we could work, none of us would be living like this," he says. denver facing a record number of migrants, straining resource, leaving many on the streets. are you hoping -- wow, that wind. you can see the wind here. again, tents blowing. wow. >> si. >> reporter: alexander from venezuela complains of the freezing conditions. he shows us how he has been living.

he says this foam protects the tent from the wind. this is your bed? >> si. si, aqui. this is how he looks for work, he says. >> you, that's your sign? but it's just getting too cold here in denver, and they need to start moving the people out inside, into shelters. there is not a lot of space here, but the city is doing its best. >> they're just worried about what's going to happen with their stuff. >> reporter: migrant advocate urgently tries to help move families. >> my broken heart is denver is officially full. no one should come. there is no room. they're going to be outside, freezing to death. >> reporter: the city has 40,000 migrants with about 4,000 in shelters, which are now at capacity. denver's mayor mike johnston visits a shelter.

he is immediately surrounded by migrants asking for help. [ speaking in spanish ] it's good for him to see what's happening, she says, worried she'll end up in the streets with her son. she is thankful, she says, but sorry she came here illegally. republican texas governor greg abbott has sent thousands of migrants to denver on buses, which continue to arrive. you've had conversations with greg abbott. >> i've not talked to governor abbott. i reached out to him. he has not called me back. >> reporter: what do you want to talk to him about, if you could speak to him? >> yeah. i mean, what i would say to him is i understand. they feel like they have a huge influx of people that they can't handle in texas alone. i agree with him. that no one state or no one city should need to solve this entire challenge. but i think there is a way for us to work together. >> reporter: migrants could cost the city $180 million this year, the mayor says, and it's on the

verge of cutting essential services. >> we don't want to take police officers off the street. we don't want to take firefighters off the street. we don't want to not do trash pickup or not have our parks and recreation centers open. >> reporter: the strain on resources frustrating others in need. >> they're using a bend or break approach. but i think you need to help the american side first. before you help end the influx of migrants before us. >> reporter: seeking relief, mayors like johnston pleading for more federal help, allowing migrants to work. what is your name? >> wilfred. >> reporter: wilfred. so he is telling us he needs a warm place to say. it's about 20 degrees or so. there is no place to go, he says. "you can die from the cold here." you can. it's going to get much colder. you to go inside, sir. okay? at night we learn of a group

shuttlering under a bridge. there is a group of people coming now to try to take them inside. but it's just too cold to be outside. but this is how they've been living. >> if they could pack up a suitcase, that is as much as they can bring. >> reporter: with limited city resource, residents are stepping in, like pastor keith reaser, who is opening up his church. >> as far as you know, are we ready to walk, or do we need to stay for a little bit? so what's your goal here now? >> we've got some friends, grabbed a couple of my buddies and let's go get them and lift them out of this situation. we're going offer shelter for the night. seven in my vehicle. >> reporter: another resident is using her motel as a sanctuary. >> can i come? >> reporter: housing about 300 migrants for free. so how many stay here? all of these mattresses? >> yeah. around 20. >> around 20 just in this one room. >> yeah. >> reporter: she is like a mother to us, he says. seriously, she gets up at 5:00

in the morning and cooks us breakfast. she was planning to leave denver, but when migrants started showing up at her hotel, she found a reason to play. >> my parents came from north korea. i was hungry when i was a kid. we don't have any for a long time. i born '52 right into war. >> they have touched a certain part of you. >> yeah. >> and it's almost like they've become your family. >> yeah, yeah. i want to make sure they're eating. >> you want to make sure they're eating, taken care of. >> and john, on monday, the city is set to start removing some of the people who have been staying in hotels. just quite simply, they have no

room. they have to do something, moving people out. they can't keep housing them in hotels. it's getting too costly. and the goal is to force them to go somewhere, to be with family or go somewhere else. but denver can't deal with this any longer. it's really stretching them. >> that was a great piece. great report. thank you very much. we'll be right back.

that is all for us tonight. i'm john berman. thank you so much for watching. the news continues now. so let's turn it over to "the source" with kaitlan collins, which starts right now. >> and tonight, straight from the source, an extraordinary moment at a contentious hearing on capitol hill. mark zuckerberg standing up to apologize after