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helped police detain someone possibly involved in the shooting. also tonight, more breaking news special counsel jack smith, quickly responding to the supreme court answering the former president's claimed he immune from prosecution and new classified intelligence and new concerns that russia's nuclear capabilities in space. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with what is already in just 45 days. the country please. 48th mass shooting of 2024 multiple. gunshots too fast account just as a parade and rally for the chiefs is wrapping up outside kansas city's union station. 22 people were hit at least one killed kansas city's police chief says three people are detained. one person was apprehended by good samaritans. i'm going to show you this video. we've circled that man tan jacket running quickly from right to left across your screen tackled and held by several others until police
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arrived. a few seconds later, we don't know. this is one one of the three people police say they are currently holding. we want to go back a few seconds with this video as he's running, you see a man and a yellow shirt on the other side of the barrier pointing identifying the person fleeing, pointing them out to others in the crowd. that person's name is tony, and you'll hear from him shortly. i just spoke with him. but first more on what but we're learning from cnn security correspondent, former fbi special agent josh campbell. so what are authorities saying about what happened? because the the press conference which went on for some time in the last hour or two, it didn't have a lot of specifics no, i didn't. and that was the second update and still no indication whether these three people that are now being detained in custody or actually involved in this shooting. that's the big question. we all have had. and particularly members of the community, anderson wondering, is there a continuing threat? and so many of these mass shootings, we've covered, you will often hear police come out and say, we believe we got the person responsible. there is no ongoing threat we have not
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heard that yet from authorities. there are only saying that they have three people detained. they're trying to determine what that involvement might be. finally, it's worth pointing out that at this point there's no indication that this specific event was targeted. we've also seen in other incidents, including mass shootings, where you have individuals that are settling some type of personal dispute with guns, essentially shooting at each other. is that what is at play here? we still don't yet know authorities say they're trying to piece together who was involved in what and trying to get to that motive obvious. >> it also seems like a thorough i mean, i listened the whole press conference, the police we're asking anybody with any information, anybody who was in the crowd who may have seen something to come forward, they clearly need all the information they can get it right now. >> no, absolutely. they're asking anyone who was in the vicinity of the shooting if you saw something someone's certainly using a weapon, they want to know that. but interestingly, they're asking members of the public to also send and in any type of video, any type of photography that they might have. we've seen that in numerous mass shootings where the police will appeal to the public. one case in particular, the boston marathon
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bombing, where it was tips from the public that helped identify the location. you know, who those suspects were. and so that's what they're asking right now. they're asking the public, don't decide on your own whether the imagery that and i might have is important here. send it to us, let us look at it. they're trying to piece together all the information and then the last point obviously, the, fixated cctv cameras that are and around that area going through that information, not only to fixate on the actual location of the shooting, but also the movement of the people in and around that area. and then obviously the big question, even if they have three people, was there a fourth, where they're more they're hoping a lot of these tips will have to answer that. >> 22 people shot. what do we know about their condition? >> yeah, the news is grim. we know one person has sadly died, three others are listed in critical condition that according to the last update from authorities, five others in serious condition. now, again, 22 shot, but authorities have not given a number yet about other potential juries, where you can imagine in a crowd this size when you have gunshots ringing out, people fleeing, there are likely other injuries that may have been
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sustained in that process. and we often see people doing what's called self-transported take them their selves to the hospital. and so we're still waiting on that full number, but certainly a significant event here with at least one person to see he's multiple other people had serious facing serious injuries, anderson. >> all right. josh campbell. appreciate it. i want to replay some of the video that we just showed you that chase shortly after the shooting. man there in the yellow shirt that we've talked about, tony pointing as the fleeing man goes by just seconds before other civilians and tackle him and then police arrive. his name is tony we were not going to give you his last name that we know it. i spoke to him just before airtime >> so tony, >> what did you see? when did you first realize something was wrong? >> yes. so i was about 10:15 feet from where it actually kinda happened. initially, the kind of started everyone, we kinda just kind of job to r-ca because there was a loud noise. >> and then >> a few people started to say that it was fireworks but like
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i said before, is just the way the simultaneous sound of the bangs. >> i knew it wasn't. >> how many shots were you hearing? >> hard to say at the, time it's kinda in the middle of the moment. but as i was as i look to my right where it happened, that's where i ended up saying one victim on the floor with people holes in them. and then that's when i kind of understood the reality of the situation. and then from there, people are kind of starting to pull up their phones and didn't know what to think of it. and i started to kind of just tell them, hey, get out here. this is not this isn't fireworks or anything. so as i'm kind of trying to just leave the situation i hear the crowd start to point and yell at this one guy that was running away. and psychotic just started. i was already in that direction where he was running too, so i have started run see if i could kind of see, get an eye on who was and i actually ended up running into him and two of the other victims or suspects. and one of the guys excuse me one of the guys that i like i said, i ran
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into them. one of one of the victims are the shooters have his jaw shot shot complete really off. and so he was kinda like frantic and him and his buddies were all kind of frantic can denote to do so >> sorry that you saw one person running and people in the crowd were saying that point you get that person and then that person. but and there were two other people with him >> yes. so there was two other people with him. so when i when i was running just to kind of get away from the situation, but i also heard them pointing this was the shooter or some could be in the shooter. i i literally ran into them so they turned around when i ran into them and i saw the victim or the guy with the fit in the face shot off and then he was kind of didn't know what to do. and so he handed his backpack off to his buddies. >> so sorry. the person you said with his face that i'll be like his jaw was actually missing? >> yes
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>> but he was able he was upright. he was he was moving, so i just wasn't sure he was still moving. i think he was just in shock, so i didn't know if he was a victim or if he was part of the actual shooting and just got hit as well. >> what do you think now? i mean, it would do you think? he was part of the shooting >> he could be. i think so because i mean, so to continue the story. so after he handed the back to the other individuals, i kept an eye on those individuals and we were in between semi-trucks stuffing stuffing their backpack and look like they're hiding something in their big jacket. so i kept an eye on them. i just it didn't sit right with me, so i went up to one of the sheriff's as it was going on. i said, hey, follow me. i think these guys might be suspicious. and so as we're walking up to those guys, they started to backpedal and then they are hiding up in their jacket and then they just took off from us it's still those three guys, one guy who you said, josh shot off and it was the guy the guy with his josh levs after he was laying on the ground and past
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>> pass the bag i didn't focus on him. i was just focused on what was going on with a bag and so that's one how it was two people with the bag? >> yes. yes. and so we confronted we walked up to those guys and then they took off running again after we were walked me, the sheriff or walking up to them. and both lee in the sheriff's start running after him. and the only reason i kinda ran after him was just because i knew what he looked like i literally ran into him, so i just didn't want him to hurt anybody else i didn't want them to. i didn't know if he had another weapon on him. it just looked like he was hiding something and they were stuffing something their backpacks, and he just ran so i kept it on him. i was running after him all the way down. and then that's where you can kind of see the video and then that's where i'm starting to yell. this is the guy, is the guy >> tackle him, help tackle them. and luckily, for four or five of the brain, what is wired me. >> tony, i want to show our viewers that video. we've highlighted the person running in. it looks like a tan jacket, maybe >> yeah. yeah. >> so that person that's the person who you saw, the person
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wanted people you saw something? >> yes >> and that's the person it's interesting because in the last hour or erin burnett talk to a gentleman named paul contraries and his daughter, alyssa, who paul help tackle someone who he heard people saying that's the person. and he was involved in the tackling that person. i just want to play what what what paul said in our last hour hurt somebody yelling to stop this guy tackle him, and he was common in opposite direction. so i don't think about it. it's just a reaction. he got close to me. i got the right angle on him and i hit him from behind and when i hit. him from behind either jarred the gun out of his hand or out of his sleeve >> and tony, i want to show
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another video to our viewers, which we've highlighted. you pointing let's just show that now you see the person running and from a distance, you can just see the back of you pointing urine life. i think a red hat is that is that that's what paul was talking about. paul heard sounds like paul heard you or somebody else around you pointing and yelling about that guy? >> yeah. yeah. so i had once he took off running like instinctually, i just took off running after him. he was hopping barriers. i was hoping there's just trying to stay in somewhat distance of them and that way i could i could see a cop and help him identify that was the guy and then just there wasn't any police officer at the moment at that time. so i'm just trying to yell anybody that can hear me and people are scrambling, not knowing what's going on. and i just felt like that was the best situation that was the best thing i could do in that situation. we're just let people know. this is the guy helped me out. i was just going
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to try to tackle him if i could, but i'm thankful that these guys stepped up and like i said, it was just instinctual. it's not something that i plan to do and we're all just going there for the parade but just one of those things that i just wasn't letting anybody else to get hurt. tony at any point. >> i know you said you saw these two guys stuffing things in the god of the josh out of handing something to others and then stuffing things in a backpack or in a jacket. did you see any weapons >> yes. so i on my page and everything, there was i think that's the weapon that he was talking about when he tackled him and it came loose. you can see one of the weapons that were there after we know we tackled him because when i was pistol or how was it a handgun? >> it looked like kind of like a machine gun festival. >> okay. >> i couldn't really get that go to the look on it. it kinda looks like an ar as well. i just really didn't get a look on it. >> but the person you first saw lying down on the ground with, what do you believe or bullet
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wounds? >> that >> you don't know who that person was >> no. the guy that when i first saw him laying on the gallons with holes in them? >> yes. >> no, but i just want to say he was part of it because somebody else had come in on a different radio station that was stolen me that they had seen him with a weapon and i'm not throwing anything out there, but i just saw that guy with the whole i didn't see if i saw his weapon. i just saw there was a guy laying on the ground it's all the severity of the situation that was just wanted to get out of there and then that's when they pointed out the other people and then that's when i ran 20 i got to say it's it's really remarkable what you did and what a number of other people did, paul, paul contrary as well, who aaron talked to, you know, nobody knows how you're going to respond in a situation like this. we all think we're going to be the person who chases after a bad guy and rallies other people to help but rarely do people actually
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do that you did that and it was instinctual. you said you didn't plan certainly this to happen did it surprise you what you did >> so i come from a military background, you know we come from after trudeau active shooter trainings all this type of stuff that you prep for these situations. i've been out of the military since 2016, but it's stuff that you kind of go through that you kind of turns on in those situations. and i just tell people in this society and now we're in 2024 and just started society that. and these big city in these big venues are these big is big gatherings you just have to stay vigilant and if you have kids keep an eye on your kids, watch around what's going on in anything, concerts, parades, we don't expect these things, but just staying vigilant like that can literally save your life and i'm just lucky to be here. if i was ten steps faster, i probably won't be on
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the phone with you right now. i was that close? and i just didn't want anybody else to get hurt and we've seen go on throughout the entire country. i don't want something that you want, something like this to happen on a day of celebration and bringing the city together. so i was just trying to do whatever i could help mitigate it and help the police officers that are around me i mean, tony, in our society only works when good people stand up and help each other. and you did that. i really appreciate talking to you. thank you for what you did. >> i appreciate that. thank you. >> you take care thank you. you too >> good citizens still to come tonight. we'll delve further into the investigation of today's mass shooting. the questions about three people detained with former fbi director deputy director andrew mccabe also more breaking news special counsel jack smith has asked the supreme court's and i to allow the election interference trial to proceed comes quickly after the former president asked for a stay as he seeks to delay his trial past election day. >> we'll >> dig into the new filing coming up thank you >> disenfranchise
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to point, yell at this one guy that was running away and psychotic just started. i was already in that direction where he was running too, so i have started to run see if i could kind of see, get an eye on google was and i actually ended up running into him. and two of the other victims or suspects. and one of the guys excuse me, one of the guys that i like i said, i ran into them. one of the one of the victims are the shooters had his jaw shot shot completely off journeys. now, cnn, senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe area. it's interesting hearing from tony who not only saw somebody, he says laying down, laying on the ground with bullet wounds in them early on. but also these three other people, one of whom had his jaw shot off running away and stuffing things into a bag, one of whom at least it was apprehended. what stands out to you about what he said >> wow, i mean, there's a lot that stands out from that, from
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that interview. it's kinda the first glance that we've had into this possibility that there were more people involved than the than the two people who initially reported as having been armed and detained it also raises the interesting prospect that somebody who's being treated as a victim may have actually also been involved in the shooting. so as a suspect in the investigation. so clearly the kansas city police department has got a tangled mess on their hands to try to try to get to the bottom of i would suspect that they're not really going to be able to do that until they get the sort of assistance from the public that they have now requested, which is to provide to upload copies of videos and photographs that were taken at the scene in that area when these when this shooting started? so that will help them a lot. i think not just placed the players on the set as it
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were, but also to try to track it back to who was actually firing these >> yeah. i mean, what are some of the key questions that you have right now because it's unusual. and obviously, we've all covered we're at a lot of active shooter situations and we've all read the fbi report on how they're usually operated is very rare to have two shooters involved in a matter i shooting to have the potential of multiple people. i mean, it sounds like i mean, there's many different scenarios, whether there's still questions remain of was this event targeted? was this just lots of people gathering and some sort of altercation over something between groups of people. was that what was involved in >> yeah. those are all the questions that i'm sure law enforcement is asking right now. and you're absolutely right. what what we know, what little we know so far, it doesn't really fit the typical pattern of a mass shooting here in the united states, right?
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typically we have lone offenders, almost always male, although we saw a female mass shooter last weekend. and those folks are either killed on the scene, are taken into custody city by themselves. i should say that the idea of multiple shooters involved in an event like this is not unheard of. and in fact, it's more common in terrorist attacks and certainly ones that we see overseas in europe and the middle east and other places. now, i'm not suggesting that this was a terrorist attack we haven't been given any evidence or facts that would support that but i think the most likely explanation here, anderson, is that we have some sort of a conflict between two groups of people that erupted into gun violence. and it's entirely more likely to happen in a place where many people are carrying firearms. so not so much a premeditated attack
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as it were, as like a spontaneous event between two warring clans, right? >> it could be gang-related, could be drug-related mix of both or who knows what the fbi is assisting local law enforcement. can you just kind of walk us through what evidence the fact that police in their press conference, which was very lengthy, a short time ago, are appealing so directly for any information, does that tell you? that they don't they don't have a handle on what exactly went on >> it certainly suggests that they're in need of better evidence about what happened here, right? so that's likely the folks that they have in custody are probably not cooperating. nobody's talking. there'll be is pointing the finger at each other. those are all obviously very helpful hello, things. if they're taking place in an investigation like this. so they need hard evidence of what happened the crime scene itself is so large, so chaotic, you have so many people running
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away from the events that it's possible that the sort of evidence you would use at the crime scene like collecting shell casings and things of that nature have been in that's made harder by the fact that you've got literally thousands of people probably trampling through the area where the events took place. so they're really placing a lot of emphasis on the possibility of getting some video capture or photographs that can help them out. and i think that makes a lot of sense andrew mccabe, thanks so much. just ahead, we have more breaking news. special counsel, jack smith asking the supreme court to let his election interference trial proceed in a new filing comes days after the former president's team asked for a delay that could push the trial past election day details next sometimes the lows of bipolar depression feel darkest before dawn with cap >> later, there's a chance to lead in the light capital later is proven to deliver significant relief across bipolar depression unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar, one, kept lighter
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going to meso book.com >> who are watching former president trump at a campaign rally north charleston, south carolina, ten days ahead of that state's primary no reaction thus far to our breaking news about a new filing by special counsel jack smith, which is six days ahead of deadline he's asked the supreme court to allow the election interference trial to proceed and deny the former president's request for a stay. now, the former president essentially wants the trial delayed past election day, while the courts weigh his claims of absolute immunity, pennel of three federal judges already overwhelmingly rejected those claims, and a unanimous opinion joined now by former federal prosecutor elie honig, also my colleague, kaitlan collins, anchor of the source at the top of the hour and are chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid. so paula, what else can you tell us about the special counsel's filing as you just laid it out. this is all about timing. smith wasted no time and filing this response. and he insists that the entire country has an interest in the prompt resolution. solution of this entire case now of course, smith doesn't think that trump
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has immunity. they've been litigating that for months. >> the >> trial court agreed with smith and appeals court agreed with smith and that's skating unanimous opinion. most legal experts also agree that trump doesn't have immunity. if you talk to former members of his legal team, even current members of his legal team, they can see yeah, this is not our strongest argument. so smith said, look, he's not going to win on the merits. he doesn't deserve this pause, so he can go exercise all of these frivolous appeals in the filing. he said today, quote, the charge crimes strike at the heart of our democracy a president's alleged criminal scheme to overturn an election and thwart the peaceful transfer of power to his successor should be the last place to recognize a novel form of absolute immunity from federal criminal law. >> so he's saying, look, don't give them this pause. let's get to move on with this trial, but if the supreme court wants to hear this case on the merits, he asked them to do so quickly. he says, i'm suggesting that you do oral arguments in march and move this along because again, for him, this is all about timing and trying to
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bring this case to trial. >> so what's the next step now that he's all this? >> so we're waiting for the supreme court to weigh in here that trump will get a chance to reply, but all eyes are on the supreme court and this happens amid a backdrop, right? the court has already contemplating this other trump case, ballot eligibility. trump is widely expected to win that case and look, there is a world in which they hand them a win on ballot eligibility and just reject the presidential immunity outright. and that would give a win analyst would be true to the law. again, speaking the sources in and around the trump trump world that is widely the expectation. but the bigger question is, how long does it take? because again, this all comes down to timing. >> yeah. just let's talk about the timing for us. elie what are the options? so he's filed this ahead of time. he didn't he did it before for the deadline. it now does trump file is something again or is this supreme court answer his filing? >> yes. so typically there would be a reply brief from donald trump's team. there's no set deadline for that, but if i was them, i would want to get that in real quick. and
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then the supreme court, why would you want to get that in quick? >> delay things? >> because i would want to get it in before they rule because they're not necessarily the supreme court is not necessarily going to wait if i take a week or two, so i would want to get the last word in as to the supreme court's options. they need to decide, first of all, are we going to keep the stay, the pause on the district court that actually takes five justices and related to that sort of inseparable from that is will they take the case itself, which only takes for justice, isn't every time i see one of these briefs, i changed my mind. this is such a close call. i mean, i totally can see them rejecting this for the reasons paula said they don't want to be part of a politically charged case. the rulings below have been unequivocal. on the other hand, and trump's team makes this argument this is sort of the platonic ideal of a case that the supreme court would take. this is why we have a supreme court. it's unresolved. >> it goes to the scope of executive powers. it goes to separation of powers. so neither result would surprise me here, kaitlan, i mean, or the foreign president is allies confident there'll be able to kind of slow walk this.
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>> yes. well, i mean, they've been successful so far. the one thing that threw them off though, was when they got that response from the appeals court that scathing ruling that polo is talking about. and it kinda box them in by saying you only have this many days to respond to the supreme court. obviously, we saw that happen earlier this week, and so we knew that was coming. they knew that jack smith was going to respond way before the deadline. they were joking that he'd respond immediately once he heard from from the supreme court on this, i think he'd followed the six days before he actually had to respond with his what he was going to say. there are still hoping that they can delay it. they're thinking is that this is such a monumental case and such a monumental issue that has never really been tested before that, the supreme court will want to have its opinion. they believe that ultimately they will lose on they don't think that they're going to win when you speak to them candidly, they won't say that publicly but they only want it to be delayed. that's the only thing that that is of their interests. that's why what jack smith said tonight is so critical that if you are going to hear donald trump's argument here, please do it by
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next month. >> elie, do you think the court response to that they're obviously aware of the situation. >> it's such an >> interesting question is really a larger question that you were critical. jack smith's filing. yeah. and i will remain critical of this about jack smith he is all consuming li possessed with trying this case before the election. there are legitimate reasons for that, but he won't say it instead and he does it again in the filing that just came in. it's all these bromides and generalities about, well, there's a general need. everyone knows what he's doing. everyone knows what the judges let me read you what he said. he's delaying the resolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public interests in a speedy and fair verdict, a compelling interest in every criminal case. and one that has unique national importance here, as it involves federal criminal charges against former president for alleged criminal efforts to overturn the results the presidential election, including through the use of official power. >> there it is again, he's done this over and over when all he needs to set it is it's really important that we tried this before the election and i don't know how this is going to play with the justices. >> i had this conversation with
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people in trump's world about this. there they've seen elie's writing that he avoids the e word as was referenced in the filing earlier this week. but also if jack smith did talk about the election than they would wield at the other way. and they'd say, well, he's just trying to do this before the election. so i think when you hear it from, from some people, it's certainly coming in bad faith. >> so we definitely do that. let's just talk about the next two days because there's a whole bunch of the court stuff going on with trump. >> oh, my okay. so tomorrow simultaneously, we will have a hearing here in manhattan. >> this is my calendar. >> you're going to need a calendar and these pencil not and this is it's about the manhattan district attorney's criminal case, the hush money payments made before the 2016 election. lot of folks forget about this case, but right now, that looks like it could be the first criminal case brought against former president trump. it's currently on the calendar for march 25th, and the big thing we're looking at tomorrow, again, there's a motion to dismiss. smith is not expected that will be successful, but will that case go in late march because it right now would be the first criminal case. trump will be attending that case, but at the
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same time, down in georgia, there is a hearing that is expected to go for two days about this effort to disqualify fani willis for her alleged involvement with her lead prosecutor, nathan wade and again, the sexual little less higher because the case isn't gonna go away. right. even if she's disqualified the criminal case will still exist. but nathan wade is going to be the first witness called to the stand to talk about his relationship with fani willis. so that is also on camera. that is really going to be something what i'm watching for is just trump. do anything distract from that, or does he let that just take the spotlight? >> there's the money case. yes. and then we're expecting we're expecting call it no easy way to label them. that is the case about the trump organization. very personal to former president trump in the judges. penalties are expected to come in on friday and keelan, foreign person wants to be in the new york court tomorrow, not enjoyed georgia >> i've been caught up for debate because we were talking to our sources about where he was going to be. obviously, he's chosen to be in the courtroom several times,
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especially here in new york. and we are talking to one person who thought it was going to be in georgia and they said, oh, not new york because they themselves were still debating which one he was actually going to show up at tomorrow, they're happy. they're starting in the same hour it is the other emphasis here, and i think we talk about all of trump's legal issues all the time. i understand that it's confusing to people who aren't watching it every second, like we are. this is a really high-stakes 48 hours that's coming up here on this. trump wants to be in person tomorrow. he's asking for that case to be outright dismissed. no one thinks that's going to happen, but we will wait to see what the actual dates going to be. he could still show up in georgia on friday. we don't know that he's going to do that, but certainly he has a vested interest there as well because they believe that fani willis should be disqualified and that she shouldn't be able to bring this case anymore. and so i think those are the things that they're weighing when it comes to where and when he's going to go friday though, is the biggest one-to-one watch because that is going to be the one that goes at the heart of who donald trump is himself. and he's already lost it. the question is, how much is it going to cost?
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>> so we're going to find out friday, how much it's going to cost him. we'll find out friday. >> all right. katelyn's could have more at 09:00 at the top of the hour, about 23 minutes from now, elie honig. thank you. paula reid, as well. more breaking news. what began with cryptic remarks this morning from the house intelligence chair about a quote, serious national security threat. well, tonight we know it's about russian nuclear capabilities in space. former cia director and defense secretary leon panetta joins us now why choose asleep ever smart that can i make my side softer? >> my side firmer sleep number. does that now say 50% on the steep number limited edition smartphone plus free home delivery. when you add any base ends, president staying, and two options for you. take a look at when it's time for an update or complete remodels, want yourself there here you guys, everything down to the stuff about this with you. every step of the way >> from design and products to removal an installation. okay. >> well you guys think it is
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washington and this is cnn it's a busy night. there's more breaking news, new american intelligence on russian military capabilities connected to deploying a nuclear anti-satellite system in space. intelligence was briefed to congress and key allies, three us officials familiar with it say the system in question remains under development not yet deployed in orbit. and according to one of those officials, is not yet even clear how far the technology has progressed. so for more on what to make of it, we're joined by leon panetta, who served as defense secretary and cia director in the obama administration. first of all, mr. zachary, does it make any sense to you that mike turner, the republican house intelligence share, would release a statement which drew world attention to this intelligence before the gang of eight briefing, that according national security adviser jake sullivan is scheduled for tomorrow >> well, it's it's something that does obviously raise questions about what he was trying to accomplish by doing that obviously it is a serious
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national security threat with the kind of information that's being reported as to why he would get ahead of the briefings and i know that the national security chief is going to be going up to the hill, both with intelligence and pentagon officials. those to brief members of congress on this important intelligence. it just, it strikes me that what the rman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the speaker and his republican colleagues. that russia still remain thanks very much, a threat to the united states >> let's talk about, i mean, there's obviously we don't know much about the details of this, but anti-satellite technology obviously any military force would try to knock out an opponent's satellites. what? concerns you about this? what do you make of the little that's publicly
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available out there >> well, we've been tracking this ever since i was both secretary and director of the cia we were concerned about china and their ability to use laser beams to basically in some way, destabilized so satellites or bring them down. this involves so the possibility of nuclear weapons in space. it's a military capability. and using those nuclear weapons in space to basically either paralyze the satellites or bring them down and what is the problem? the problem is that we use satellites for communications purposes. we use satellites for intelligence purposes. we use satellites for gps purposes. and other information purposes as well that relate to our national security. if russia could blind our ability to be able to gather that kind of
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information, make no mistake about it. that would be an act of war because it would threaten our national security i mean, is that technology? i assume the us would be looking into that, take any kind of technology like that themselves well, without without question, mean the united states would obviously be looking at similar ways to be >> able to disable both chinese and russian satellites. but more importantly to defend against their use of these kinds of military capabilities. so i'm sure that the pentagon is developing the ability not only to track what the russians are doing and determine whether or not they're going to try to deploy something like this. but also how how do they defend against it if it should happen? >> it is. i mean, if that is was mike turner's objective to
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kind of wake house republicans up a little bit about russia's intentions or the reality of russia i mean, that's an interesting idea given i mean, do you think it would have any impact even on support over the war for ukraine in the war against russia >> well, you look, i think one of the worst messages the united states is sending right now to the world and to russia is, are delaying the supplemental. request in terms of military aid to ukraine to israel to taiwan and what what's essentially happening is that we are playing putin's game right now by those who are refusing to take up the supplemental. so does it jeopardize our national security, your rights? it does. >> not to mention the former president saying that he would encourage russia to invade a
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nato country that doesn't pay its bills. >> well, it his liking >> that just adds to the concern because now you've got former president of the united states inviting putin to attack another pedo country if they aren't somehow fulfilling their 2% pledge, it's crazy. it's, it's something that obviously concerns our allies when a former president says something like that, i just hope that the speaker and republicans who need to look at the senate, there was a bipartisan vote, a strong bipartisan vote 70 boats that voted for this supplemental. i think the house both the speaker the republicans, the democrats have to come together to now move this supplemental. it is critical to the message we send to the world about us world leadership.
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>> them, panetta, thank you for your time. to be with you, coming up the us naval fight against iranian backed militants in the red sea, or natasha bertrand got a rare look aboard a carrier and destroy are patrolling one of the world's most vital shipping lanes. she joins us next hi mornings cough, congestion, i'm feeling better all in one and done with new mucinex kickstart hey it's, better, now used. >> the next kickstart gives only one and done relief with a morning jolted, cooling sensation. combat season. >> the congress there's a spot in >> office. >> hi. >> hello. >> so putin yes. >> the definition of a car chase >> but one thing stays the same it's an the cds beds
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sea, which is now under constant threat by iranian-backed houthi rebels. or natasha bertrand gained unique access to a us sara craft carrier strike group, its sailors and pilots were under constant threat from possible drone and missile attacks. take a look >> new track iss as anti-ship cruise missile. and bob gravely, this is >> what the crew of a us warship here is when a houthi missile he's headed their way. >> mrs. a. way eight-year-old, three zeros and cnn embedded with the us navy center understanding, of course from the southern red sea were sailors have been on the front lines of the fight against the iran backed rebels for over two months what are we down? >> here? the coast of yemen, us warships tried to shoot down the houthi missiles before they can cause any real damage. but the sailors have little time to respond and it could have seconds or good to have minutes based on i wouldn't say much more than minutes.
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>> the uss dwight d. eisenhower aircraft carrier, which the president ordered to the red sea in november in response to the houthi attacks, has been working at a frenetic pace to keep up with the threat >> they have tried to target coalition forces us forces, through swarm attacks using multiple uavs, using multiple anti ship listing missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles. >> they are we're trying everything that they can, but we are prepared for anything that they might throw away >> fighter jets are launched from the icc roughly 50 times per day staying airborne for hours at a time so they can quickly strike targets inside yemen and over the red sea. >> we were woken up >> early this morning around for 30 am to the sounds of alarms blaring on this aircraft carrier for your assigned yeart-old of a potential imminent threat by a houthi drone that was flying over the red sea that alarm indicating that these fighter aircraft hi me, they had to be ready to respond potentially at a moment's notice that drone was
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quickly deemed no longer a threat, but it demonstrates how risky the mission is. the houthis have also been trying to hit the jets flying over yemen with surface to air missiles. officials told cnn, you're flying these missions against the houthis. can you talk a little bit? about what is unique or the most challenging aspect of these missions they are doing near daily basis. >> well first off, this isn't exactly where we expected to be on this deployment whenever you're doing something for the first time in a region that's not without risk, but we have managed that risk to our strike group and our air crew through the management of combat power >> with no end in sight. >> the houthi attacks, us officials >> tell cnn, they don't know how much capability the rebels have left as they continue to be resupplied by iran. >> i will three is electronic attack the commander of the carrier strike group told cnn they will stay in the red seat for as long as necessary. >> the sustainability, we can
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go for a long time we've got our logistics train already mapped out to stay here as long as the president needs us so stay here >> now, anderson, one of the big questions that we came away from this experience with is how much of the with these capabilities has the us actually been able to destroy with their repeated strikes inside yemen? the strikes are a near daily occurrence now, in officials on board, the ships didn't have a great the answer for us, they don't have a good sense of just how much weaponry the houthis still have stockpiled. and that is going to be a really key question when it comes to just how much longer the us is going to have to actually sustain this campaign in the red sea and keep those sailors and those pilots in the red sea, keep them deployed where they've already been deployed, with really no break for the last four months there. >> anderson, the tausche. thanks so much. appreciate it. we'll be right back >> you always got your mind on
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