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are having a very difficult time reaching the site nic robertson is tracking this story closely and joins us now with the latest. >> nick. now some 12 hours later, what do we know? >> confusing and conflicting information. jessica, from the iran's elite revolutionary guard corps in eastern azerbaijan province right up there are northwestern iran. they said just a couple of hours ago that they had a signal from the helicopter they go out and got a cell phone signal picked up from the helicopter as well that they knew where it was. but now we understand from their head of iran's red crescent their equivalent of the red cross they don't know rescue workers do not know at this time whereabouts that the helicopter is the government and the president of the country the calling on people to pray the supreme leader rather calling on people to

pray for the president at this time iran's government, asked people to pray for their president so they did for hours, faith and the hope he survived or mountainous helicopter crash. all the country had to cling on to hours earlier. he was a border government helicopter on the way to open a dam in iran's far north west. it was a big deal on the border with azerbaijan. >> he met that country's president, but within hours, racist helicopter carrying him iran's foreign minister and other top officials back from the dam had crashed in dense fog, according to iranian state news a frantic search and rescue was launched ambulances rush to the area medics and mountain climbers searching for direction in the dense fog of

the east azerbaijan province, mountains the weather conditions in the rugged, remote region, too dangerous to use helicopters the head of iran's armed forces ordered the mobilization of all facilities and equipment to assist in the search army, police, even the elite islamic revolutionary guard. >> as the search continued, iran's supreme leader, telling the country, the government has the situation under control. >> what's ran was be assured that there will be no disruption in the country's affairs. the government authorities, since they have learned about the incident this afternoon, i've been working hard and hopefully everything will be fine the 63-year-old racy was elected president then 102021 are hardliner. he has overseen a tightening of the country's already strict morality laws. >> before that, as former chief

justice, prosecutor general, and deputy chief justice, he oversaw many executions of activists regime ponens he also oversaw the bloody crackdown of anti-government protesters following the death of mahsa amini in 2022 hardline enough to be seen as a possible successor to supreme leader ali khamenei. both he and the foreign minister had taken a tough line negotiating iran's nuclear program, as well as strong support for hamas in israel's war on gaza now it does seem as if the government is wanting to keep a narrative at the moment that hope is possible. even though 12 hours on these cold mountain sides and even if the rescuers can't get there, if there were a survivor or two, it might've been possible you would think that they could they could walk out of the mountains down to remote village somehow raise an

alarm. nevertheless, we just do not have clarity, but we do know now the iranian authorities of asda, turkish authorities to lend them one of their helicopters has got nine right vision equipment. the turk turkish authorities have agreed to do that and in the last hour or so, we've heard from the russian saying that they're going to send a couple of specialists plane specialists helicopters that should be arriving in iran over the next hour or so. they're going to send as well 50 professional mountain rescue people as well. so all of this help coming in from neighboring countries, but it really does feel like a race against time right now certainly. >> and still so many questions as you eliminated their neck. thank you so much for that reporting. let's turn now to our cnn pentagon correspondent, oren lieberman, who's here in the studio, studio with us and we know that the us is closely monitoring this oren, but they aren't keeping their distance as well absolutely. >> president joe biden was briefed in the hour or hours right after this happened, according to the white house

press secretary. but at this point that's all the white house will say simply that he was briefed. we haven't seen a public statement from biden. we also haven't seen a public payment from jake sullivan, who is in the region having just met with the saudis and then the israelis. but that's not a surprise and there are a number of reasons for that. first, the us is trying to figure out exactly what happened here. as nick pointed out, this is in a very remote region, so it's difficult to get information and much of that information will come directly from iran or iranian state media. second, of course there's the us trying to keep its distance, no reason to wait. at this point, especially when you have so little information. so the us is closely monitoring. but again, at arm's length here, it is worth noting simply the situation in the middle east, iranian proxies have since the beginning of the gaza war, carried out scores of attacks on us forces in iraq and syria. those have stopped with the past couple of months, but the us knows that's a lever that iran can turn on and off. and that of course is under iranian president ebrahim raisi's hardline government, you were

placed hassan rouhani, who was viewed as much more of a moderate to the us, has seen not only the crack on protesters, the carrying out of exit houston's that nick talked about when racy was head of the judiciary, but also the continuation of the hard-line policies. it was also viewed as one of the potential successors for the current supreme leader now the only person who's viewed as a likely successor is the supreme leader's sun. so that's another dynamic that the us is watching very closely here the middle, we have seen it's already d stable enough, so they'll also be looking for the possible spiderweb effects of this and whether that leads to more destabilization in the middle east. a lot to watch here, but for now, the is much more in an information gathering mode than trying to get out front of this oren liebermann. thanks so much for that reporting. we appreciate it. and i want to bring in now leon panetta, who served as both cia director and secretary of defense during the obama administration. thank you so much for being here with us. we were we're so glad to have you

just to be clear to everyone out there, we still don't know whether the iranian president was killed in this crash. so we just can go off the information mission that we have right now and i'm curious what you knowing what we know right now, what do you think the fallout is in the state of play well i think it's probably not a wise thing to speculate without really knowing exactly what happened. >> but right now we don't know what is happened and we probably won't know until rescuers are able to reach the sayyed of the helicopter and determine what happened in that may not be till the morning in iran time. i think the one thing that that we do know. is that whatever whatever happened here is probably not going to change this with the government of iran or they'll continue to

be hard liners the supreme leader will continue to be in charge along with the irgc. and i suspect that will continue united states will continue to have a difficult relationship with iran in the future we do know that it's some 12 hours now since that helicopter went down and we have no status update on the president of iran. >> are you surprised by this at all that we just don't know what's happened here. and it's 12 hours later. >> well you have to you have to understand this is very difficult terrain in that part of iran. it's very mountainous, very difficult to get to and in addition to that, they're having terrible weather and a terrible fog situation. in terms of visibility. so when you combine all that together and a helicopter goes down or you're not quite sure where it went down, you're not quite sure

just exactly what happened. were there any survivors they now have the opportunity, i guess to get not night vision helicopters from turkey. and probably the same from russia whether that will help or not, who knows. so i just think right now, we really have very little information about just exactly what has happened here. >> and are you surprised at all that so many high-ranking officials were onboard that same helicopter and that they were flying in these conditions. i mean, obviously you're describing the terrain, those conditions can change changes. they're flying through them. but does any of that surprise you? >> well, you usually usually don't want to put your top officials in one helicopter. that's not a good policy to follow. and when i was chief of staff, we never did that with the president or the vice president and others we you

normally would want to have them goh in separate helicopters. this was a big event evidently in azerbaijan they were dedicating a dam and so the president and the foreign minister went up there together they probably decided to ride together in the helicopter, which was a mistake and now as a result of that very frankly, iran and the world really don't know whether or not the president in the foreign minister are still alive and it's been interesting to see how state media has handled this they've been trying to give information, but it is state media and it's a question of how transparent they can actually be. >> are they actually want to be what do you make of the information that they so far have put out there? and the message they're trying to get across, which seems to be were competent. we're in control,

we've got this no. i don't think it's a good idea to trust the information that's coming out of iran now, or in the future, very frankly because they're not going to they're not going to admit anything and they probably really don't know what has occurred here. because as i said, his helicopter went down in some pretty difficult terrain but it's clear that the supreme leader is sending a very clear message that he's still in charge. the hardliners will remain in charge. there's no question in my mind and whatever ultimately is determined to have happened here the relationship with iran between iran and the united states and other countries for that matter. >> it's still going to be very strained because they remain an adversary i want to talk to you

to about national security adviser jake sullivan, who just left saudi arabia, is an israel trying to get this grand deal done before hamas attacked israel on october 7, the us was trying to move toward a deal that in part what have normalized relations between israel and saudi arabia something that the administration still wants to get done. and it sounds like based on their readout, they had a pretty productive conversation in saudi arabia. do you think that they can get israel on board? >> well as we've all recognized, there are a lot of crosscurrents that are occurring right now with regards to the israel-hamas war and a lot of mixed messages as to exactly what, what's going to happen in the future. netanyahu still wants to go into rafah and he says it'll be

a limited operation, but we don't know there are lives at stake there. there's no plan to deal with those lives. there's no plan as far as i noted, deal with how to govern gaza, which is a real problem because hamas continues to return, particularly to the north of gaza and there's no agreement with israel. >> and netanyahu as to developing ultimately a palestinian state. >> having said all of that i'm really glad that the united states, so jake sullivan and others are continuing to try to pursue some kind of solution. here. i think working with saudi arabia is important. i think that's one aspect that can help to try to move us towards some kind of agreement here. what is needed, frankly is some kind of ceasefire probably on a short-term basis, develop a ceasefire develop a

plan for what happens with the hostages everybody wants to see where these hostages are, whether there still alive develop an approach as to the future of gaza. who is going to govern gaza? otherwise. very frankly, no matter what happens in rafah, a will continue to be a threat in that area and will continue to have war until there is a plan for how gaza is going to be governed and also deal obviously with the humanitarian needs, which are very serious. there so all of those things hopefully need to be addressed, but it's going to take a lot of work on the part of all parties and the republican congresswoman elise stefanik was at the knesset today and gave a speech, i just want to play some of her remarks for everyone but total victory is something to many others throughout the free world fail to understand total

victory starts, but only starts with wiping those responsible for october 7 off the face of the earth there can be no retrievable dignity for hamas, and its backers you were just talking about how hamas, we've seen them returning in northern gaza specifically among in this power vacuum that's been created after the idf leaves. >> i'm just curious in your opinion that their object that israeli objective from the prime minister is to eradicate hamas to it, to wipe them off the planet. is that possible to totally eradicate hamas all right. >> i think one of the problems involved in this war has been not really having a clear definition of what constitutes victory. i know that netanyahu talked about totally destroying hamas. that's not going to happen everybody knows that's not going to happen. what you can do is go after the

leadership of hamas that was involved in the october 7 campaign. and make sure that that kind of attack will never happen again the ability to do that represents in my mind the kind of victory that is needed in this war. but to do that, you do need a plan for the future. you do need a plan for gaza as two so who's going to govern gaza in order to make sure that hamas does not return. and continue this kind of war in the future that all circles back to those conversations that are ongoing amongst all those different parties. >> we've been talking about secretary leon panetta. thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you thanks. still ahead, president joe biden is in detroit where he's addressing and nwa cp dinner tonight is appearance just hours after he gave a commencement speech at one of the nation's most prestigious historically black colleges.

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president and kevin aid has been a busy weekend for president biden. he started the de in atlanta, ended it and of course in detroit what can you tell us about what he's been doing this weekend yeah. >> it's actually been quite a busy stretch, four-day stretch that the president has been really trying to reinforce his civil among black voters, specifically starting last week in washington when he commemorated the anniversary of that landmark brown versus the board of education supreme court ruling. moving on to that address that he delivered at morehouse. and now to this speech that he will deliver in about an hour from now here in detroit. all with the hope of trying to win back some of these voters who support does seem to be eroding black voters course turned out and strong numbers for president biden in 2020. but polls indicate that many of them are flocking away from the president. and that is an imperative for him. if he is to look to reel that coalition that helped propel him to the white house four years ago. and

certainly at morehouse, one of the key backdrops to his speech, there was the conflict in the middle east. there was some contention on campus before his arrival amongst students and among faculty who are displeased at how his handling that conflict and there was some question of whether his speech would be interrupted in protest he switched was not interrupted, but there were some students her who turned to his me. back on him while he was speaking. now. but the president did address the conflict head-on in his remarks listened to a little bit of how he framed what's happening in gaza and israel is heartbreaking hamas is vicious attack on israel, killing innocent lives and holding people hostage innocent palestinians caught in the middle of all this men, women, and children killed or displaced in in desperate need of water, food, and medicine it's a humanitarian crisis in gaza. that's why i've called

for an immediate ceasefire. an immediate ceasefire to stop the friday bring the hostages home i don't i don't know. i'm not sure if you can still hear me or what's going on i don't i've lost all all right. we've left we've lost kevin lipstick will try to get back to him a little bit later in the show, but thanks so much for that reporting. kevin still ahead. sean diddy combs is now apologizing after a video exclusively obtained by cnn appear to show him hit, kick and drag his then-girlfriend, cassie insurer inside of a hotel back in 20 hey 16, have insurer is responding to the post. >> you're in the cnn newsroom assignments are going off. >> the tornado here you cannot out swim you can not outrun it it really is a terrifying

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exclusively obtained by cnn showing different angles from the intercontinental hotel where it appears to show sean combs throwing cassie ventura to the ground, kicking her several times. he drags her later in the video. and at one point, he appears to throw what looks like vases at her. now, this apology video that he posted today is the first time that he has acknowledged this event. in fact, he has repeatedly denied allegations of assault from cassie ventura, which is now the basis of a settled federal lawsuit that was settled back in november. >> let's take a listen to his full apology posted on instagram this morning so difficult to reflect the dog is times in your life? sometimes you got to do that i mean, i hit rock bottom i made no excuses. >> my behavior on that video is

inexcusable i take full responsibility for my ashes in that video disgust i was discussing then when i did it, i'm disgusted now i went and i saw it out question will help to go into derek going to rehab had asked god for his mercy in grace so sorry but i'm committed to be a better manager and every day i'm not asking for forgiveness i'm truly sorry veronica, what are we hearing from cassie ventura well, jessica cnn was the first to hear from cassie ventura is

team and they said in a statement, quote combs, most recent statement is more about himself than the many people he has hurt when cassian, multiple other women came forward, he denied everything and suggested that his victims were looking for a payday. they go on to say that he was only compelled to apologize once repeated denials were proven false, jessica all right. veronica miracle with the latest reporting there. thanks so much. and just a note if you or someone you know, is a victim of domestic violence and you need help. you can call the domestic violence hotline. that number is 80799. safe. it's 80799 7233. there is help for you we'll be right back this is a secret secrets and spies premier sunday, june 2, that tan bomb cnn water would help us. it's dry spots. that's the only disease but scott's healthy plus, we'll lung disease going around so like other people have it and

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factor in all of this absolutely. >> jessica and one of the things when you look at the crash site right here, you notice, first of all that it's extremely mountainous, but when there's a weather fronted comes through a place like this. it actually has a major impact because what it's doing is it's creating all kinds of conditions. the elevation is high. that means the temperature is low and it could mean everything from fog to sleet, to even possibly a snowfall in certain areas with the highest elevations. so it's a very difficult terrain to deal with for rescue efforts. and the fact that it's in an area that is not only mountainous, but also really rough terrain makes the search operations really hard to deal with. it. >> it helps explain potentially why it could be 12 hours. now we still don't know where the president of iran is absolutely. >> because in a situation like this, when you're dealing with, you can see right here the terrain is kind of a rough and that's actually his helicopter, right there. and what it shows jessica is i that

when a aircraft like this goes missing, i it's in an excel in an inaccessible by things like fog and rain and some really falling temperatures and you have an air force background. >> what's it like? flying in conditions like this? flying was vips like this on a helicopter. >> well, for one thing, one of the things that they should have probably done is not flown under these conditions, but leon panetta said two, yes exactly. and because you know, anybody who is responsible for transporting vips has to have their safety as the top priority. i now that vip may have said take me regardless of what the weather is, you can make it. that's possible that has happened before and then unfortunately, they paid the price for that kind of thing. but the key factor is this. the pilot is ultimately responsible for the safety of those vips.

and if they really have to, they should overrule that passenger. in this case, the vip. now in the iranian system, that's a little bit more difficult to do that in the us. but that generally is the rule in a case like this, he had actually said that they shouldn't be flying together, putting them all on board. one chopper was not the smartest move. >> no, it's not. and that's one of the things that you do is you divide them up. there were supposedly three choppers in this formation the one that went down contained the president and the foreign minister and several other high officials and that can in essence decapitate the iranian government, just like that. >> and so we were talking in the break when a helicopter like this goes down again, we don't know a lot right now. we have very limited information only that there was a crash. but in this sort of terrain, the crash site, in some instances can be really big. >> oh, absolutely if a crash occurs in an area like this, and this is the bell helicopter that the president iran was

using. >> you can see that when you look here at, here at the terrain in the background, i if it were to impact, let's say a mountain like this one the debris field would be really, really large potentially, and that would cause a lot of difficulties for this search people and especially when it comes to trying to find things like black boxes and other emanations, radio signals from the crash site that is going to be really difficult to do. especially if the equipment is damaged in a case like that do you think again, now it's the middle of the night there, but sun, the sun will be coming up soon, ish. do you think that will help? yes absolutely. so when your case like this, iran is seven hours and 30 minutes to from the eastern time zone here in the so when the sun comes up in iran, i, there'll be able to see some things now. it all depends on the weather. in the latest weather forecasts for that area indicates some

clearing during the morning hours, but then rain coming in again in the evening and afternoon hours. so with all of that said, in the search parties have a very small window of time to do there their job. and of course they want to recover hopefully living people from this accident. but the likelihood of that diminishes by the hour now with 12 hours having passed since the crash that is getting more and more unlikely it's a long time. >> a long time. all right, kernel centered late and always great to see you. thanks so much and still ahead. the cargo ship that slammed into the francis scott key bridge in baltimore consuming moved after being stuck for months how crews are going to refloat the dali urine. cnn newsroom, and a violent smash and grab worth half $1 billion. >> if the unsolved mystery of the gardener art heist and episode of how it really happened with jesse l. >> martin tonight at nine, right here on cnn we'll be right back $500 million in art

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legislation and schumer acknowledges he doesn't expect all democrats will support the standalone i'm bill. it is not expected to get the 60 votes needed for it to advance it has been a traffic nightmare for drivers in baltimore for two months. now, after the deadly collapse of the francis scott key bridge. >> but we do have some progress to tell you about as early as tomorrow, the dali cargo ship that crashed into the bridge? >> maybe floated back to the city's marine terminal and that would help both the investigation into what happened and the plan to clear the channel and eventually build a new bridge, seen a national correspondent, gloria pazmino, brings us up to date on the progress yeah. jessica, everything about this has been massive in scale from the accident to the cleanup effort to now this plant of finally refloat the dali out of the channel and back into the port of baltimore. we understand that the crew of the dally, which has it's been on board this entire time, has been

working throughout the entire day today preparing the dali for the refloating operation monday morning, they have been dropping anchors, dropping the mooring lines, and emptying the dali of millions of gallons of water that have two it'd be pumped into the ship in order to help balance it. as these other cleanup operations were happening around it. so monday morning, if it all goes as planned at the height of high tide, around 5:00 a.m. there will be five tugboats that will come i'm in and they're going to pull the dali back into the port of baltimore. it's going to be removed to a marine terminal there. this is going to be a slow moving operation. it has to travel about two-and-a-half miles, but they are expecting that to take more than 20 hours. they're going

slowly to make sure that this is done safely and that there are no other issues that are created as a result of finally moving this massive ship out of the channel. >> now, one thing that's important to remember jessica, is that as i said, the crew of their dally remains onboard we have been in touch with the international transport workers of federation, which is the union that represents these workers. and they've told us that they are becoming increasingly concerned about the amount of time that the workers have had to stay aboard the ship. >> they said that their cell phones have being confiscated as a result of the investigation that they have been a disconnected from their families and their loved ones unable to access contacts and important information on their phones. and that this is creating a lot of anxiety among the crew, which doesn't really know what's going to happen to them next. there visas have expired. so the union is now

working with the company which manages the dali, as well as a border patrol in order to come up with a plan for these crew members who are gonna have to need a plan once the ship is back at the port of baltimore. we are still waiting to hear more details about when the crew will be will be allowed to leave the ship. >> but for now, we do expect the daily to be removed from the federal channel finally, allowing for that critical ardor artery to reopen once again. >> and the port of baltimore to get back to normal operating business. jessica, gloria pazmino. thanks so much. the corruption and bribery trial of senator bob menendez, a democrat from new jersey, is underway in new york. jurors have been shown the 13 gold bars at the heart of the

bribery case. in addition to hearing testimony from an the agent who found nearly half million dollars stash in a burberry bag, a timberland boots, and the senator's jacket. and menendezes home. menendez and his wife, nadine, are accused of taking bribes in exchange for political favors. and it has an his wife denied any wrongdoing cnn's jason carroll has been inside the courtroom and has this update embattled senator robert menendez arrived at federal court facing cameras and not answering questions about corruption charges. he is facing prosecutors portraying the senator as a man who put greet first and has power up for sale so agents confiscated more than $480,000 in cash and gold bars in june 2022 from the senator's home. that first witness in the case and fbi special agent, who detailed two jurors how they discovered cash in closets in the basement, and a home office, including being

$100,000 in a burberry bag, 7,500 inside a timberland boot, 4,300 in the pocket of a congressional jacket with the senator's name on it. so much cash in so many places, the agent said his team needed to machines to count at all the prosecution telling jurors the senator used his wife as a go-between to accept bribes, versus influence, including gold bars, cash for his wife and a job for his wife. >> if you're convicted, we was really looking forward to proving my innocence senator menendez faces 16 federal accounts, including bribery, extortion, in an acting as a foreign agent for egypt and assistant that government of qatar, the defense arguing the senator is not guilty of accepting bribes, saying he was working for his constituents. >> the gold bars and cash. they say, were gifts. his wife, nadine, and to business associates are also charged and pleaded not guilty. the senators attorney placing any possible wrongdoing at the feet of his wife, telling jurors the

couple had separate accounts and in some ways, libs separate lives saying she kept bob sideline, nadine made sure bob was kept out of conversations involving money. it's their only out. right. what they have to establishment and as his attorneys is that he was just not in the loop. he was unaware. and the items that were recovered in that home in large measure, he knew very little, if anything, about the senator's critics not buying the store. >> it defense seems to be saying that his wife was doing these things without his knowledge. your reaction? yeah. yeah. no. he was one during how could i be more sleazy? it's like, oh, i can blame the wife, nadine menendez, will be tried separately due to a medical issue. this week, it was revealed she has breast cancer and we'll need a double mastectomy. her trial is set for july jason carroll, cnn new york still ahead and helicopter carrying iranian president crashes in a remote part of the country. >> the latest on the rescue

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