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good friday evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, breaking news on the ray rice scandal. a source within the ravens organization tells cnn a ravens' official knew he knocked out his now-wife and knew there was video evidence of it hours after the incident occurred. that is stunning. this is, as the nfl commissioner broke his silence this afternoon to talk about the crisis that has consumed the league over the past ten days. the crisis started with the elevator video with ray rice abusing the woman that is now his wife. it is a crime that initially cost him two games. today goodell apologized for failing the fans. >> i'm not satisfied with the way we've handled it from the get-go. as i told you, and this statement indicates, i made a mistake. i'm not satisfied with the process that we went through, i'm not satisfied with the

conclusions. >> goodell went on to promise the league it will get its house in order. miguel marquez is outfront. i want to start with the breaking news. because as roger goodell tries to put this behind him, damning news that the ravens used, blow by blow, a horrible phrase to use, about the video hours after it occurred. >> it turns everything on his head after the press conference. the ravens have said head of security hours after the february 15th incident, the famous february 15th incident where rice hit janay palmer, his then-fiancee. that rice had contacted a police officer in atlantic city who described the video to him in fine detail and this individual passed this on -- now this is according to an espn report, that this individual passed this on to the ravens' management. it is not clear whether that

went to the nfl, but everybody assumed along the way that goodell has seen the video. today goodell went in front of the world's media claiming he did not. >> reporter: roger goodell finally breaks his silence trying to re-set the button on domestic violence. >> we acknowledge the mistake. that wasn't sufficient as i said. that was a mistake. >> reporter: accepting blame only after the second video showing what happened inside of the atlantic city elevator came to light and made him initialize the two-game suspension was insufficient. goodell insisted that what ray rice told him on june 16 was different from what he saw on the video. >> it was clear there was an act of domestic violence, but it was inconsistent with the way he described what happened. when we had that new information, we had the ability to say, we're going to take

additional action and that is what we did. >> reporter: but all of the information was on the initial police report, readily available from day one. >> regardless of what mr. rice said on june 16th or regardless of what was on the second video tape, on the initial summons it clearly says that mr. rice struck janay palmer with his hand rendering her unconscious. why wasn't it enough then to put this right? >> well, it was. and we saw, obviously the orange nall video, and it was clear that domestic violence violation had occurred. that was clear to us. and it was horrifying. >> reporter: moving forward, the nfl, he said, will partner with domestic violence groups and educate the entire organization from players to team presidents about domestic and sexual violence and rewrite the rules of punishment for the league.

>> we need to change our pl siz and procedures for the league and we need some help to do that. we have different laws that vary from state to state and even locally. we need to make sure that we have looked at when the nfl should be involved in the investigative process. >> reporter: despite it all, the commissioner said he has never considered resigning and has the confidence of the owners, advertisers and sponsors. >> why do you feel like you should be able to continue in this role? >> because i acknowledge my mistake, august 28th i said we didn't get this right. we're going to make changes. how do we do this better as the nfl. and make sure that we keep everything on the table. >> reporter: now if mr. goodell was trying to quiet the number of questions, it seems they will get louder. the espn investigative team outside of the lines has a lengthy report and in that they indicate that the ravens' upper management certainly knew about this and from the moment they

knew about the horrors of what was on that inside of the elevator video tape they went about trying to get the result that they wanted, which was to save ray rice's career and keep him on the team and to only have a two-game suspension, which as espn reports was what happened. roger goodell did initially until the second video tape came out. erin. >> miguel, thank you very much. i want to bring in now the host of cnn unguarded rachel nichols and mel raulins and also the founder of go small biz.com. and great to have you with us. goodell, adamant, has no knowledge of stepping down, he is making changes. are you satisfied? >> no. he is a good man and a good leader. he doesn't run the national football league. the 32 owners the national football league. he answers to them f. we are going to get change, it has to come from them. he reminded me today, he was so

nervous, of alan paulsen when we had the financial breakdown on the country and once i saw him at a press conference, i got frightened. and i saw roger goodell today at the press conference, i was frightened. when i heard there is no sense of urgency and we're going to have a committee here and give money here and have a plan after the super bowl. that doesn't solve problems. >> the plan after the super bowl, they think it has gotten quiet now and it will break. and you were there and held the commissioner to the fire about what he knew and when he knew it and you went through the excruciating details with him. do you believe him when he said he didn't know. >> the problem here is how much does it matter? we've seen with so many steps of the investigation that they do freely admit and acknowledge they screwed up. so the fact they have shown some lazy investigating and how lazy was that investigating, that they've shown they ignored evidence and how much and to

what degree did they ignore evidence, to me the baseline is still the same. the initial police report said that ray rice struck his wife with his hand, knocking her unconscious. so does it matter just quite at what point they saw the video? does it matter just when they decided to interview janay rice with her husband and all of his bosses sitting next to her? no. they screwed this up the whole way through. the degree to which they screwed it up, you could argue over degrees but the bottom line is they screwed up. >> paul, can you defend the commissioner after seeing a police report that a player knocked somebody unconscious until you see video. >> a lot of people forget his father was a u.s. senator so he has politics in his blood but not too much politics in the way he handled this situation. but i think he can be defended because initially, of course, the wife came forward, she never pressed charges. >> but it is not up to her to press charges.

>> well please let me finish. charges were brought by the d.a. so the commissioner can look in two directions. he looks at the wife, don't come after my husband, he is the bred winner and the father of my child. and then they look at the prosecutor. what does the prosecutor say? >> he says go to a class. >> do go to a class and we'll dismiss it and you will have no record. and then roger goodell says two games. and now he can't resentence, there is a double sentence, and he is in a box now. >> but you are making the case that would defend him and how he handled. not saying what he did was wrong. [ overlapping speakers ] >> does this convince you at all, you, who has been a credit to the commissioner.

>> he didn't get it right from the beginning and he didn't get the press conference right either. nothing says zero policy on domestic violence like saying we're going to send the pamphlets to the team and some phone numbers to call and a little class that tells them not to hit women in the future. what a flipping joke. this is an issue in the nfl since february. that is seven months ago. and did you notice, erin, the date by when he said they would figure this out. 134 days from now, they need, for the super bowl. so once again they've just told you the thing that mats is the game go -- that matters is the game goes on and we continue to make money and in the meantime we'll figure out what to do. >> let me just bring up something that i noticed overnight, all right. you have to think about this for a second. the nfl with all of the money that it has announced it is providing unlimited funds for the next five years for the national domestic violence hotline. a hotline who had 70,000 calls

that they couldn't answer, and whose call number has gone you will 80% since this incident and the point roger goodell made about the cultural difference, that something could come out of this because the commissioner will forever feel morally horrible about what happened? >> that is fantastic outcome. however let's not let that be a distraction. look over here, we are giving a lot of money, but don't look over there at ray mcdonald who is still on the field. i we need to hold their feet to the fire. what happens when somebody is arrested? we don't know and that is a problem for the nfl. >> you can't instantly change the rule book and if you are going to change the rule book and force players to comply with it, you have to put them on notice that we are not tolerating this today. >> and to the point of when they knew it, which is the new espn report that brings this to

light. this is a damning report. they claim that the director of security was walked through a video by the atlantic city officer what happened in the video within hours. >> the report alleges a cover-up by the ravens. >> rachel says cover up because here is what the ravens coach and owner have been saying. >> i'm kind of speaking for the league but i'm speaking about us as the ravens, that we sat back and let others do it. it is easy to say now, if the league can't get it, the team can't get it. but i know the effort we put in. >> it wasn't made available. it wasn't there from us. >> from a legal standpoint? >> as far as i know, yeah. it was never something we ever saw or had access to. >> maybe he didn't see it, but someone else saw it and walked them through it. did they not want to get it because they didn't want to say they technically say they saw it. >> and you just saw john harbaugh, the coach of the team, he is someone who publicly came out and say we support ray rice,

this is a guy who is a generally good guy who made a mistake. there is a line in the espn report that says that john harbaugh, the day after the ravens allegedly were walked through this video in february, right at the beginning, said cut him. he doesn't belong on this team. cut him. so something happened to change his mind as well. towing the company line, that is fascinating that the coach of the team -- >> the coach said cut him. >> the coach wants him out according to the report but there was such a cover up within the organization that months from now -- >> interesting that he denied seeing the video. frank, what do you think? >> i've been involved in the nfl since 1963. they covered up drugs, amphetamines, then stoyer -- steroids, and everything else. a major cover-up. this league covered up concussions, not until 2009.

before 2009, their doctor said there is no correlation between concussions and cognitive effects of the brain, alzheimer's, lou gehrigs or whatever. and then some of my teammates who died from those diseases, their brains were sent to institutio institutions, medical institutions and they found out without a shadow of a doubt that concussions led to brain damage and now there is a -- the nfl in a defensive move came out with a statement this week, nfl says a quarter of the players that play today will end up with brain problems. they covered that up until they had to pay $800 million in fines to my generation of players. what do you think of the family of junior seau who committed suicide at 45 years old and he had cte. it is a bigger issue that the nfl has practiced covering up, protecting star players and the game. >> for a long time. >> for a long time. and that is what the press have

dodged. you people in the press have not talked about this. you watch these big athletes with big bulging arms that are twice the size of my generation of players and you think it is big and neat that they are so powerful. they are drugged and juicy and the players known it and the owners know it and everybody covers it up. >> thanks. rachel will have more, on guard tonight, and her guest is demorris smith. that is tonight here on cnn at 10:30. and in "outfront" next, the case of a missing uva student. police identifying a man searching his apartment and seizing his car. so why is he still free tonight. and a new isis video. is the executioner on this an american? the united states intelligence chief admitted america underestimated isis.

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a major break in the disappearance of university of virginia student hannah graham. police searched a car in a person of interest. nobody has been detained. but according to the police chief, one man in the apartment matched a description of a man that was seen with the young girl the nice she disappeared. >> i want to make one thing

absolutely clear, this press conference and every press conference here after is about one thing and one thing only and that is finding hannah. >> it was one week ago tonight hannah graham suddenly vanished. today forensic investigators spent all day searching an apartment complex, carrying out a number of sealed paper bags. police also searched and seized a vehicle at that same complex. >> we have every reason to believe miss graham was in that vehicle. >> reporter: they believe the man driving was seen in video surveillance early last saturday morning. >> an additional video shows the same black male with dreadlocks with his hands around hannah graham's waist. >> reporter: they said the two went into the tempo restaurant. >> he purchases alcohol there and we know hannah graham was with him. and we know that within 15 minutes they were gone from that bar and that his car was seen leaving the area on video. >> reporter: police describe the man as black, 32 years old,

6'2", 270 pounds with dreadlocks. meanwhile, as investigators continue to pour over any leads, hannah's friends focus on seeing her again. >> we can't really wrap our heads around all of this because you are such a vibrant presence and full of joyous love and life. we want to bring you home. >> reporter: so law enforcement is saying tonight that the investigation, witnesses, video surveillance led them to this vehicle that they believe hannah was the passenger in and they executed the search warrant this morning at about 4:00 a.m. and whatever they found in that car, and they are not saying, that gave them the probable cause to go back to a judge or magistrate and got another search warrant and all day they were searching that apartment that they say this person they are interested in was there. they say they don't have probable cause to arrest him or doo tain -- or detain him, but i

watched myself as bag after bag was taken out of the apartment, it was sealed and forensic investigators had gloves on, they had cameras and went in the backyard. they were all over the place. but at this point they say the investigation will simply broaden. >> thank you very much. and as you are seeing in jean's reporting, most of the evidence is from surveillance video showing where hannah graham was the night she is missing. and i want to bring in former fbi director tom fountainy. and you just saw the video surveillance and you heard jean. they had video and they don't have enough evidence to arrest him. how does is that happen? >> i don't know. it sounds like at the press conference, when they went to the apartment last night, this person, the person of interest

was at the apartment, they talked to him and met him in person. they towed away his car and took bags of material to determine if it is evidence and bags from the vehicle and the vehicle itself and now they are putting out a description of what he looks like. they know what he looks like. they met him. so if they didn't have probable cause to arrest him last night or go beyond declaring him a person of interest, they could bumper lock him, as we used to say, and just put a massive surveillance on him that he is not out of sight pending the analysis of the forensic material that they seized, pending any other eyewitness accounts or video counts and it sounds like they had him and talked to him and he vanished and is somewhere else. and it is confusing to me why it happened that way. >> and the question is could he

flee? they didn't bring him in. he could go, right, theoretically? >> i guess so. i don't know. i don't know if they are aware of his current whereabouts and just watching him to wait and see what happens if they go back and grab him or if they've lost track of him. if they do have him, if they do have eyes on him in one way or another, then the description that is put out there, it almost made it sound like they are looking for him. now i understand they would be looking for other people that -- from that description, other people to give information, but you would think at this point, one week into this, they would have every possible video that could have been taken in downtown charlottesville and have the whole town abuzz with information of this guy and her and the situation last week, a week ago tonight, to report in. so in a way, some of the requests to the public are almost the type of things you would say day one, which would have been six days ago.

>> all right. i hope it is not valuable time being lost. tom fountaines, thank you. >> thank you. and next, analyst pouring over a new isis video. showing a man carrying out a massive execution. this will be a significant development because he might be american. and plus alibaba's record setting ipo, the man behind it who was a teacher and then became a billionaire. you make a great team.

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production but comes with a twist. the speaker speaks with what sounds like an american or canadien accent. >> we are here with the soldiers of bashir assad and they are digging their own graves. >> the revelation of what could be a north american executioner comes as the nation's top intelligence makes a startling revelation, james clapper first tolding the washington post, what we didn't do is predict the will to fight. that is always a problem. we didn't do it in vietnam. and in this case we under estated isil and overestimated the will to fight. the cia issued multiple

intelligence on isis before it's movement into iraq, detailing his capability and ambitions. the key surprise the officials say, was the sudden dissolution of the iraqi security forces, even though they greatly outnumbered isis fighters. >> one of the things to do is to determine the will to fight and i guess it is the issue of justin tent. i think they were just totally overwhelmed. >> reporter: one key contributing factor, the american withdraw from iraq in 2011. >> after nearly nine years, america's war in iraq will be over. >> reporter: u.s. sought intelligence capabilities there shrink dramatically. the critics say the president did not do enough to maintain a u.s. military presence in iraq. >> the fact that they didn't leave a residual force in iraq, overruling all of his military advisors is the reason we're facing isis today.

>> reporter: syria represents an even bigger intelligence hole, made less by the movement on the ground, a situation that is only now changing significantly. u.s. intelligent officials tell me that now the intel community is confident it has a better handle on isis, including inside syria. so why is that? because simply it has become a priority and the u.s. has been able to focus its, quote, robust capabilities, in isis's direction. erin. >> thank you. and joining me our terrorist analysts. paul, let me start with you in this executioner in the new video. it sounds like a north american accent it. could be the u.s. or canada. obviously that is deliberate as we look at the video. when you see it, what do you hear? >> well this whole video is isis saying the war the americans are fighting against, it will be disastrous for the united states. and by using a fighter with a

north american accent, they are really amplifying that point and they are driving it home for a very specific american audience. >> so how are they going to be able to determine. when we saw the executioner in the beheading video, they were able to say this is from british, this is from london or south london, can they do that with this voice, this is someone american or appearing to be american. >> they are will listen to the voice and try to match it up to what they know about the hundred americans they know that have gone to travel to fight in syria with the various jihadist groups. they believe about a dozen or more have joined isis. the canadian will do the same. there are about 30 can addans out there fighting. >> and the video production that isis has been known for and the beheading of the americans, there is no question that had a

huge impact in the public in the united states. did they also have an undue influence on the obama administration, on the administration's admission to quickly move toward war. >> i think it is clear that the videos of the beheadings accelerated the move toward war on the behalf of the obama administration. they were under scrutiny already. but as it ramped up, i think congress started asking for action but i do think it accelerated our action to war. but i think we couwould have co to war any way. it just accelerated the action. >> and when i tlaed this morning, when it comes to isis, the u.s. failed to predict the will to fight and underestimated isis and that is clear because when you look at the president this year, to the new yorker, in january he called isis a j.v.

team and now that is the intelligence he was probably receiving. so what do you do about this? does somebody lose their job? >> well you wonder about that, but i'm not sure that has to be in the intelligence community. we've had massive intelligence failures with regard to the middle east for a long time now. way back when we thought they had weapons of massive destruction. but to go back to the fundamental point, i hate to go over well-trodden ground but the fact is had the president done what the military commander, sent com, the general proposed to keep 24,000 troops on the ground there, we would have had better intelligence and we would have known and paid for attention to it. but what is done is done. now the question is do we have better intelligence? i'm sure we do have massive resources there in the cia and national intelligence and i'm sure intelligence is better.

but erin. >> yes. >> do we have the type of intelligence on the ground that it takes to win. that is the new question the military is trying to sort out with the president and clearly there are differences of opinion about that. >> there clearly are. with many in the military, paul saying, you can't take boots on the ground off the table. at the least. some saying they want them on the table at this point but at the least they seem to agree don't take them off the table. but instead the u.s. is going with arming and training the soorn rebels. today john kirby set three to five months to vet them and then another eight to nine months to train them. this is realistic? this is an urgent threat to the united states and we are looking at at least a year. >> these moderate groups, for up to a year, they are in life support like in alepo right now. and many are saying we don't want to fight isis.

>> they will take the training and fight with assad. >> exactly. and so there are all sort of problems with the strategy. >> so does it seem realistic to you, the hope that ground forces, whether it is modderal rebels or iraqi armed members and we've talked about, $25 billion of money to train them for years and vast numbers of them ran when confronted with isis? >> i think it is more realistic in iraq, that the iraqi army, the kurds can make some advances against isis. that is different, very difficult for them to go into cities like mosul, to get al qaeda out of places like fallujah. that was hard back in the day and so it is difficult in iraq and even more difficult in syria. >> and david gurgen, you talk about it is a priority for intelligence. and now it is as if -- i'm thinking in the lord of rings. the eye of soren. it is now on syria and iraq, but it is not looking anywhere else.

it is not looking at libya or other places and it is not looking there. how big of a risk is that? >> this is a really good question, erin. it is exactly what some of our friends in the arab nations are asking. are you guys only going after isis or look at the bigger threat? whether it is in libya or maybe in egypt, you have to be -- or jae jordan or some of the other countries. there is a lot of concern we are only looking at one place. and i must say one more thing. the story now in both the washington post and the new york times about the widening rift, if somebody in the white house has got a good book in him, it would be entitled how not to do rollouts. the rollout for this war has began to rival the roll out of obama care. we've had confusion about what war means. are we at war, are we not at

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inside we noticed a large commotion on the north lawn of the white house. somebody, we haven't been able to confirm who that is and how they got there, was clearly not supposed to be there. the secret service seemed to have tackled him or gotten to him somewhere near the north portico. we could see the commotion and the snipers from the roof come out it. appeared that whoever this was, and like i said, we haven't been able to confirm if it was a fence jumper or how the person got there was somehow detained north to the north portico. this is the first time, i've done this for nine years, but this is the first time that right afterwards they evacuated all of us, including the press. [ sirens ] >> okay, becky britain reporting there. the intruder must have gotten closer to the white house than others but the president and his

daughters had left just prior to this incident. as we get more, we'll let you know. and now alibaba, the biggest wall street day ever. they were expected to start trading at $68 a share and ended at $94. the increase is 38%. and now the company is worth $231 billion, more than facebook. >> alibaba at the new york stom exchange. for the founder jack ma, the founding moment of an improbable dream. but what is alibaba. >> really it is like 12 companies. it is the e-bay and amazon and paypal, but it is a netflix, it is a groupon, they have a money market fund business. >> the value of the chinese e-commerce giant is bigger than amazon and e-bay combined. more than 24,000 employees and

revenue of $8.5. before this, bloomberg estimated he was worth $22 billion and now just 5 feet tall, his story of an american. >> when i came to america, to silicon valley, i saw the road was full of cars, all of the buildings with lights, that is the passion and i the hero i had was forrest gump. >> at first he taught english. his salary, $20,000. and then he saw the ability of bringing chinese goods to america. and we asked for money. and the business was born in an apartment. one of millions that sell to the world. peter they'll who cofounded paypal said beware. >> would you buy it at $66 to $68 a share?

>> i would not. although i think it will go up some. will you get a pop and do well if it continues to stay in good grace of the chinese government but it is a political investment. >> but jack ma asks for just one thing. >> trust. trust us, trust the market. >> i want to bring in brent willsie of willsie asset management. you heard the words there of jack ma. trust and trust me. what do you say? >> i'm sorry, was that erin? >> yes, that is me. do i trust him? >> no, i would not. and it is hard to say that, but when you think about what is behind the scenes, people have to realize this is a chinese company and i hope you bought the stock, congratulations and so forth. but this is a chinese company. and i would not trust him with this because i've seen so many companies over the years of doing this, they have all of the different businesses and they can't manage them and control them. and what do we know about

alibaba. do they have quality control? do they have the right to use what manufacturing plants? i think people got so caught up in the hype, they are missing what is this business really? >> obviously they priced it perfectly and it gets big a big surge but you are with i'm -- i'm sorry i had a hard time hearing you. >> you wouldn't buy it now? >> i wouldn't buy it now, and -- their net is about $7 billion, they're expected to go through the next year at 20 billion -- again, china, here we get used to the costcos and walmarts and they say yes, we'll take the product back. people are buying this based on what they think an american company is. this is a chinese company. and they do business differently than we do here.

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wendy davis is hoping to become the first democratic governor of texas in 20 years. today, hillary clinton turned the spotlight on her and others running in the mid-terms. >> we have so many reasons to be hopeful. mary burke gives me hope, maggie hassey, and wendy davis gives me hope. >> it is a portrait of a woman not afraid to go it alone,

whether it is taking on the senator or turning her back on the president of the united states. state senator wendy davis is looking to turn around the traditionally red state of texas. she burst onto the national spotlight last summer, sporting pink tennis shoes and a back brace. >> i do still have the pink sneakers, i saved that pair. >> davis stood on the senate floor for nearly 11 straight hours, no food or bathroom breaks, fighting the restrictions on abortion in texas. >> i do intend to speak for a period of time on that bill. >> she ultimately lost that battle but has not given up the fight. and in a new memoir, she revealed what fuelled her passion that night. davis had two abortions, the 21st due to an ectopic pregnancy, neither she or the baby would have survived. >> my healthy was in danger. >> two years later, she was

pregnant again, this time she was farther along, she knew it was a daughter and named her tate elise, then doctors found another problem. >> they told us that she probably wouldn't survive delivery. if she did, she would likely be in a vegetative state. and we had to deal with the situation and do what we felt was in the best interest of her and out of our love for her. >> the pain davis describes is achingly similar to another woman's situation. that night you read a

my family would have given anything for this story not to be a reality in our lives. but it was. >> others judged davis' abortion decision altogether. a texas light to life group said quote, it encourages women facing difficult diagnoses to celebrate their appreciate life, and if needed survive life-sustaining care to the child until he or she reaches the point of natural death. >> when you hear that and think about the choice that you made, what do you think? >> i respect that other people

might make a different choice in that situation. i have always believed that these are very individual, personal decisions for a woman to make. >> polls showed davis trailing republican attorney general greg abbott in the race, but davis is not asking for help. >> do you want the president to help campaign for you in the final stretch in the final days? >> i am running for governor. i am running as wendy davis on my platform and my plans for what i'll do for the state. and i will be my own spokesperson for what i will do in that role. >> pretty amazing story there. no matter what you think politically. we'll be right back.

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thank you so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend. we'll see you back here on monday night. anderson cooper "ac360" begins right now. good evening, thank you for joining us on this friday evening, we have breaking news tonight. you're looking at live pictures at the white house, parts of which have just been evacuated. joining us on the phone is the cnn producer hustled out of there. what do we know about the evacuation? >> reporter: well, we still have not been able to determine what happened with the disturbance, shortly after the president's daughters left for a weekend at camp david there was quite a disturbance on the white house lawn. all we know is that there was someone that was not supposed to be there. they apparently got fairly close to the front door at the white house. the secret service had