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donald trump has bragged he knows more about isis than america's generals and it seems he's an expert on osama bin lauden as well. u.s. president went after the retired admiral william mcraven who led the mission which killed bin lauden, tweeting, of course we should have captured osama bin lauden long before we did. his attacks on the media were the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime. it is a comment mcraven continues to stand by and that brought this rebuke from president trump. >> he's a hillary clinton backer and an obama backer. and, frankly -- >> he was a navy seal. >> wouldn't it be nice if we got osama bin lauden a lot sooner than that, wouldn't it have been nice -- >> in response to that side remark from the president, former cia deputy director michael morales issued this
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statement. mcraven should have found osama bin lauden sooner, he said, the mcraven's special operation did the getting. they moved within days of president obama giving the order. from orlando florida, the former af former army commander general for the 7th army. general, good to see you. >> good to see you, john. >> here's the response from admiral mcraven. i didn't back hillary clinton or anyone else. i am a fan of president obama and george w. bush both of whom i worked for. i admire all candidates who uphold the dignity of the office and use the office to bring the nation together in challenging times. but at the same time the republican nation at committee put this statement out on twitter. retired admiral william mcraven was reportedly on hillary clinton's short list for vice-president in 2016. he's been critical of president donald trump, even dating back to the 2016 campaign. he's hardly a nonpolitical
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figure. i mean, you can debate that back and forth, but what's the end result here when a military leader of admiral mcraven's standing becomes politicized, becomes another prop in this president's reality tv show? >> that's the thing that concerns me most, john. it is the politicization of the military and the president has done this already with other institutions or he's tried to do it with the intelligence community, with law enforcement, with the judicial branch, and all of that is really contributing to the divisiveness that we are seeing across our society. and it's unfortunate because the military -- interestingly enough, i counted today how many presidents i have served for during my years and admiral mcraven and i were in the military the same amount of time. we entered about the same time and left the same time. and both of us served under eight different presidents. five republic kang and three democrats. i would not have known that unless i stopped to think about
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it. the military serves the ideas embedded in the constitution. they don't serve an individual. and yet it seems mr. trump wants that fealty of the military serving a person. that's not what we do. and when it doesn't go the way he likes it to go, the same way he treats his political adversaries, he starts mocking them as he did with mcraven and as he's done with several others. >> this is just the latist example of donald trump insulting a war hero. he skipped the world war i ceremony in france just over a week ago because it was raining. followed by a no show at arlington cemetery on vaeteran' day. here's the reason he didn't lay a wreath on veteran's day. >> i should have done that. i was extremely busy on calls for the country. we did a lot of calling, as you know. >> many like democrat congressman tweeted he, the president, has spent every one
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of four days of his first term golfing and two to three months at mar-a-lago. how credible do you find that excuse coming from this president? >> not credible at all. in fact, it speaks to me of what he sets as his priorities. on a national holiday dedicated to honoring veterans, i can understand the president is busy, but as we have seen, he certainly takes a lot of time off to do the things he wants to do, vacationing and golfing. now, i'm not knocking him for that, but on a day that's dedicated to veterans, you would think that he would at least dedicate a certain amount of time to honoring those veterans when arlington cemetery is literally a ten-minute drive away from the white house. >> especially when you consider how much this president has publicly declared his overwhelming support for the troops like this. >> there's nobody, nobody that love the military like i do. i love the military. >> i don't think anybody has been more with the military than i have. >> what is interesting, the
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military time called 900 readers, while it remains relatively high, that approval has been slowly eroding since 2016. that seems almost a negligible decline in the context of the past year or so, everything that's happened. why is the military so supportive of the commander in chief? why do they remain loyal to a commander in chief who won't go to places like iraq and afghanistan because he doesn't support the wars the soldiers have been sent to fight? >> when you look at the military.com survey, there are some challenges within there. there are differences between the lower ranks and the higher ranks. there has certainly been a shift in terms of women in the military support for the president. and i think we're seeing some huge shifts across the board. now, the military.com, i've said this from the beginning, that survey instrument is not very reliable. and they admit that themselves. it showed much greater support for the president during the campaign than it is showing now,
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and i think we're seeing the shifts because, truthfully, i hate to say it this way, but the military is getting wise to him. he likes the military when he can use it in his speeches and when he can use it for his props. but i think many people who wear the uniform or who have worn the uniform are beginning to become a little bit more wise to his ways and what he's doing with the military. as part of the defender of our country versus his political props. >> it's been an interesting year for the military as well as everybody else when it comes to this president. general, thank you. good to see you. >> good to see you, john. thank you. >> the mystery will be solved in the coming hours with the release of a full report on the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. while president trump seems to be the only person who has any doubt about what happened, sources tell cnn the cia has already reached its own conclusion. the saudi crown prince is responsible. here's cnn's alex marquart. >> reporter: yet again, the
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president raising doubts about his own intelligence agency's conclusions. sources tell cnn the cia now believes saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, known as mbs, personally ordered the killing of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. but president trump says he doults that because of mbs's repeated denials that he played any role. >> he told me that he had nothing to do with it. he told me that, i would say, maybe five times at different points. >> what if he's lying -- >> as recently as a few days ago. will anybody really know? all right. will anybody really know? >> reporter: part of what the cia examined was the infamous audio recording from ennis side the consulate when khashoggi was murdered and dismembered. a recording the president says he doesn't want to listen to. >> it's a suvg tapffering tape. it's a terrible tape. i've been fully briefed on it. i said to the people, should i? they said you shouldn't. i know exactly -- i know everything that went on on the tape. >> reporter: on his way to visit
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the aftermath of the california wildfires over the weekend, the president offered up a likely explanation for his defense of the crown prince. >> we also have a great ally in saudi arabia. they give us a lot of jobs. they give us a lot of business, a lot of economic development. >> reporter: republicans in congress are splitting from the president. many believe there is no doubt that mbs was behind it and want to hold him to account. >> i think the evidence is overwhelming that the crown prince was involved. >> i believe from day one that 15 people, 18, whatever the number was, they don't get on two airplanes, go to turkey, and chop a guy up in the consulate who is a critic of the crown prince without the crown prince having known about it and sanctioned it. >> reporter: and this morning mbs's father king salman spoke publicly for the first time since khashoggi's death. as the crown prince listened in the audience, the king heaped praise on him and never directly addressed the murder or mentioned khashoggi by name. now, the u.s. has taken some action in response to the killing of khashoggi.
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they have imposed sanctions on 17 saudis accused of being behind that horrific murder. as well as the stopping of the refueling of saudi planes in the war in yemen while also calling for a cease-fire. but for many lawmakers, democrats and republicans alike, that's not enough, and they fear that with trump again seeming to not believe the intelligence community, that he's not ready to go any farther. alex marquart, cnn, washington. >> so, lucas is a professor of international politics at the ufr university of birmingham and founder of ea world view. he is with us from birmingham, england. scott, thanks for taking the time. >> good morning, john. >> the only person who isn't convinced the saudi crown prince was involved in the murder of jamal khashoggi is donald trump. it will reflect the intelligence community. should we expect thisment to suddenly start talking about the crown prince in terms of some man in the middle east he hardly knows? he's been quick to dump friends
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and allies in the past. >> no, he's not going to dump mohammed bin salman and he's not the only person who will be trying to protect the crown prince. so will donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner who is of course this administration's point man as contact for the monarchy. donald trump and the white house went against the cia report when it was put out in the media this past weekend. the conclusions which the cia has drawn not only be from hits own indell jensen, intelligence from other states like turkey, this operation could not have gone ahead without bin salman. he said, quote, jobs and business, meaning arms sales. he has the $110 billion in arms sales to riyadh last year. he was celebrated in may of last year when he visited the kingdom. he doesn't want to give up that personal affection and he doesn't want to give up what he sees as a business priority. but watch for two things, john. first, watch for the state department and the cia and other
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agencies to try to get saudi arabia to move towards a cease-fire in yemen, to try to ease their blockade on fellow gulf state qatar where the u.s. has a big military base. and secondly, the king salman inside saudi arabia is moving to limit the crown prince's power over external matters just a bit and that's external matters over, say, that yemeni civil war over other areas of foreign policy. i think that's the play right now amongst u.s. agencies. encourage the king to contain his son rather than trying to dismiss him. >> okay. we'll move on to the russia investigation now because the president is expected to hand over his homework, his written answers to the questions from the special prosecutor. it seems that's about as far as he's willing to go. his white house advisor, kellyanne conway, listen to this. >> his attorneys have, i guess, counseled him that he should submit those answers in writing. he's not afraid to sit down. it doesn't seem necessary. it doesn't rise to that level. >> why is it this white house
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gets to decide what's necessary? how can they be calling the shots here on this? >> well, we don't know if they will get to decide because the showdown will come -- if robert mueller's team subpoena the president for a face-to-face questioning rather than written answers. now, donald trump has moved to block that by appointing matthew whitaker as acting attorney general because whitaker can veto any subpoena. but, of course, there are questions raised as to whether whitaker needs congressional approve. so we come down to the question that we've had for 18 months, and that is if there is a showdown, will republicans in congress allow donald trump and the white house to limit the investigation, or will me stand -- they stand up and say, no, this investigation is not limited and not curbed? we probably aren't close to that final decision yet because the new congress hasn't sat. i would suspect that when we have a democratic house of representatives, by the way, and we start to have pressure from
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the house as well as mueller in early january, that's when we get the answer to your question. >> okay. i don't know if you remember back in 2016 -- it seems like such a long time ago -- hillary clinton and her e-mails. i mean, this woman was vilified during the campaign because she used a private e-mail server to send out these e-mails for government business. let's go through the time machine and take a look back. look at this. >> 33,000 missing e-mails. think of it, 33,000. >> she should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with e-mails. >> she deleted the e-mails. she has to go to jail. >> well, now there is this reporting from the washington post. ivanka trump sent hundreds of e-mails last year to white house aides. cabinet officials and assistants using her personal account, many of them in violation of federal
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records rules according to people with a white house examination of her correspondence. the discovery alarmed some advisors to president trump who feared that his daughter's practices bore similarities to the personal e-mail use of hillary clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. so, lock her up, lock her up. where do we go with this? >> what's good to cook hillary clinton's goose does not apply to ivanka trump. that's going to be the line from the white house. they will say that ivanka did not delete any of the e-mails, that none of them contained classified information. and i have to say in a partial defense here that if there is no classified information in those e-mails, if they are relatively benign, then i do think there is not a serious story from a security point of view as opposed to let's say at least a lapse in judgment. but here's my read on this. given the other issues around donald trump and his family, given the possible violation of
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the constitutions emolument clause to benefit the trump organization, given the alleged tax manipulation -- i emphasize alleged by this president -- given this president and his family's approach to other countries, allegedly for loans for their businesses even as they were preparing to take office, and given, of course, donald trump's numerous questions over his abuse of power in the white house, i think the question of ivanka's e-mails, well, they're relatively small, a molehill compared to that mountain we're facing. >> what was a mountain in 2016 is now a molehill, i guess, compared to everything else that's going on in 2018. of course, the classified information is the key to all that. thank you so much. great to have you with us. >> thank you, john. >> on cnn newsroom, a deadly gunman at a hospital in chicago. also ahead, the rain so many had been hoping for may present a new danger to fire-ravaged california.
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firing. officers chased him into the hospital. the shooter was killed during an exchange of fire with police. the police officer, doctor and pharmaceutical assistant were also killed. the gunman is believed to have had a relationship with one of the victims. san francisco, stockton and sacramento were all classified as the world's most polluted cities because of the smoke and haze coming from the so-called camp fire in california. in less than two weeks the wildfires at both ends of the state have claimed at least 82 lives and hundreds are still missing. rain is finally in the forecast, but that could be both a blessing and a curse. cnn's paul reports now from the fire zone. >> reporter: tonight, the death toll rising in the incinerated wreckage of paradise, and there are more than 15,000 structures obliterated. the search for remains is unlike any in california history. >> this is the largest, the largest search and rescue operation in california ever. we have over 500 search and rescue volunteers from all over california, and that's just
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unprecedented. >> reporter: the number of people unaccounted for is down from more than 1200 to under a thousand. authorities are trying to whittle down that list as survivors are found. >> this is still raw data. my objective of finding progress or moving forward over perfection i think is still the better course of action, even though the numbers in many cases seem quite daunting. >> reporter: those displaced in camping and area parking lots are now spreading out to shelters ahead of predicted rain. >> unfortunately, believe it or not, yes, unfortunately we are having some rain come in. >> reporter: 4 to 6 inches of rain desperately needed before the fires nao fishlz fethat offe will cause mudslides and mudflow. >> it is not going to pose a hazard to the firefighters. they're on dirt roads, dirt trails trying to fight this
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fire. now it is going to turn into mud which will be another hazard for them to contend with. >> reporter: still, out of the devastation, more dramatic rescue stories. a bus driver a few months on the job, shuttled two teachers and 22 elementary school children to safety and rescued a third teacher along the way. a five-hour odyssey through walls of flame. >> there were like fires left and right everywhere you look. there was like smoke everywhere and people trying to get out. >> it was time to go. it's much worse than we've ever seen, so let's get the kids that are here left and let's get them out of here. >> reporter: cal fire estimates 80 to 90% of the homes destroyed in paradise, california, the bus driver, the 4th grader, one of the teachers all lost their homes. paul vercammen, cnn, paradise, california. >> meteorologist ivan cabrera is with us now to look at the forecast. this is a cruel twist when you think about how bad the fires have been, how many people have
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been praying for the rains. >> people still in tents. unfortunately not enough areas to get folks out. talk about rainfall, obviously on a fire you would think that would be a good thing. the problem is it's going to come in too heavy and it is going to continue for days at a time. we had this last year, john, as far as a big problem -- we have it every year. the problem is this time we had california's most destructive fire burning upwards of, look at this, hectares, 07% containment. we're up to 61,000 hectares burned. that is the area water is going to fall on. that is a huge issue. we're up to 70%, 65 yesterday. they're making progress even with the rainfall. we talked about the air quality index. this will be a mess until we get the fires extinguished so we have very unhealthy conditions. in fact, we're at a level 4 out of 6 and that will be the case the next several days. so humidity increasing. this is an improvement. the winds beginning to subside and, of course, the rain is on the way which is going to be good in general for california. we have a drought and we have that dry brush so that's going
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to be good. the problem is this rain, watch this, it's going to fall right over where we had the fire or where it continues to burn, i should say, across northern california. that's one. here comes another one, another shot of rain heading into friday. and the model indicating more rain heading into early next week. is this unusual? no, california this time of year usually gets a lot of rainfall. the problem is it's coming on top of what we've had, which is all these scarred landscape across california. look at that, 126 millimeters right in paradise, that is going to be a disaster if that takes hold because that is going to be a problem with mud flows. look at all the flood watches in effect obviously as you would expect. we have 100 plus millimeters of rainfall. this is what a good chunk of northern california looks like here. so when you have water falling on this kind of terrain, what happens is the vegetation is no longer able to do its job. it can't absorb the moisture so it kind of falls on concrete. you get enough rainfall, you're going to start getting those mud
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flows, which californians are very used to. as you know, john, this is a secondary problem when you get these big fires. and i think that will be the threat beginning wednesday, thursday and into friday. best case scenario would be some light rain. that's not going to happen. it's going to come in with some good downpours here with several millimeters accumulation. >> so it's not over yet. >> not by any stretch. >> thank you. well, this just in to cnn. a judge has temporarily blocked president trump's asylum ban for immigrants who enter the u.s. illegally. the presidential order was made earlier this month to stop large numbers of immigrants in the caravan from crossing the border. thousands in the caravan are now waiting at the border in tijuana, mexico. u.s. border patrol temporarily closed the port of entry in san diego, california. the judge's restraining order will remain in effect until december 19th. next up here on cnn newsroom, they had a huge hit in the '90s, but now this reggae
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footage of people climbing over our ocean-area fence. this is what it really looks like. no climbers any more under our administration. all of these measures are intended to harden the border because customs and border protection believes some of the thousands of immigrants who have recently arrived in mexico may try to force their way into the u.s. here's part of a statement they issued on monday. in the early morning hours, cbp officials received reports of groups of persons from the caravan gathering in the city of tijuana for a possible attempt or attempts to rush illegally through the port of entry instead of presenting themselves as required to a cbp officer. at least one activist group says that claim is a deliberate attempt to mislead and -- mislead the public and demonize refugees. many question this administration's claims just how big the threat really is from poor people in the caravan. there is widespread outrage
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following separation of children from their parents. and a signature campaign promise to build a wall on the border, what critics have called a solution in search of a problem. now, all of those concerns, all those criticisms have been put to music. a reggae rap from the band big mountain. ♪ ♪ so they can round up the population ♪ ♪ with no explanation ♪ >> it's a long way from their 1994 hit which may be a little more familiar. ♪ ooh, baby, i love your ways every day ♪ ♪ i want to tell you i love your way every day ♪ ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ >> joining us now from los angeles is lead singer keenan mcwinnie and marques who sings,
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at northwestern university. guys, thank you for coming in. good to see you both. >> so nice to be here. >> thanks for having us. >> it is a big leap from "baby, i love your way" to deportation nation. when you look at your backgrounds and the history of the band, it becomes pretty clear, the issues on the border are pretty personal. >> yeah, we've always been artists, activists, you know, from the very beginning. big mountain was inspired to take on the name big mountain because of a group of native americans, navajo, denae people being forced to relocate from their native lands. that was our first few shows doing benefits for those folks. so we have always been conscious. that's what we believe reggae music is all about, staying provocative and just giving the people the truth the best way we can with music. >> there's been a lot of controversy surrounding president trump and immigration. it started from the moment he started his campaign and it just
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kept coming. but was there one incident in particular which you felt was the moment when you needed to make your song? >> well, our second album, actually the album that had "baby 0 i love your way" on it also had a song called "border town." it centered around the activities that were going on back then, 1994. if you remember, that was the year that nafta was inducted, a big militarization of the border called operation gate keeper was taking place. so we've just been very tied into the activist border community. i'm appalled every day at some of the things that president trump is using, some of the political ploys that he uses to get his base rallied up at the expense of human beings, people that are really suffering, people that really need help. and, you know, the reason we did this song is to show solidarity
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with them. >> okay. so, here's part of the song which specifically deals with the u.s. president donald trump. ♪ i live in a deportation nation ♪ ♪ i had my spot but my spot was taken, my reality shaken ♪ ♪ everyone's talking and history is watching ♪ ♪ every man, every man, when is he coming for you ♪ ♪ >> you mention this, the mass deportation did not start under this administration. at one point president obama was deporting 400,000 undocumented immigrants a year. that was the result of a policy that began under president bill clinton. >> all americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. the jobs they hold might
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otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. the public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. that's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards. >> john, to you. why was it not the same anger, the same protests when past presidents have implemented a crackdown on immigration? >> um, i don't think that's entirely accurate. i think we've been raising awareness around border militarization and the plight of immigrants now, at least kino and i have for over 20 years. i think the most powerful element of the more recent art that we've produced with "deportation nation" is more ay teak of american history than it is of an american president. we found it a unique opportunity to raise that awareness again. unfortunately, we're having to do it time and time again. but there's a strong anti-brown
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undercurrent to american nationalism that contradicts the heroic contributions that mexicans and mexican people have made towards the building and maintaining of this nation state. as artists, we feel that our work is to pull back the curtain on the illusion that kino mentioned earlier, through which immigrants, specifically mexicans and central mexicans, those along the border lands are persecuted as an invasive species or as a parasite to the nation state, despite how much we contribute, despite the sacrifices that our families have made over time. my grandfather and name sake crossed the border without proper documentation. when he received the draft call to join the u.s. army. he joined a caravan of soldiers that stormed beaches in france to free western europe from fascist impulse or growing fascist threat. that's the type of american story that we're trying to tell
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alongside our critique of the persecution of immigrants that's ongoing now. >> here's another part of the song. it focuses on child separation at the border and it is an done to rap by john. so, listen to this. ♪ children in cages they will reinvent our world, redefine what it means to be a nation ♪ ♪ you know not what you do, the steel is making us stronger, our radical traditions are lived in love otherwise -- >> lock our children in cages and they will reinvent what our world, redefine what it means to be a nation. that specifically policy implemented by donald trump and jeff sessions, the attorney general, somehow it changed what it meant to be american? >> no, that's not necessarily what i meant by that. what i meant, i was referring to what i describe as a brown radical tradition. there's always been caravans of people migrating to improve their lives. there's always been caravans of people displaced and dispossessed of opportunities.
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what i'm referring to is the way that our communities stick together, mostly through the work of women. mostly through the work of mexicans or latinas who hold our families and hold our communities together despite the persecution that we suffer. despite the threat of deportation. despite mass incarceration. what i'm trying to convey in that piece of art is a message, both to our people, to our communities to our barrios, that with will persevere through this. and out of this discrimination, out of these forms of criminalization, we grow stronger. it is through the struggle that we grow stronger. it is through the struggle that we'll build a better community and continue to serve and set an example for what a true democracy is, which is built upon the sacrifices of hard working people such as our ancestors and such as those who have held down the communities that we come from. >> john and kino, thank you so much. it was great to speak with you guys. appreciate it. >> thank you.
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the colorado man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters. the prosecutor said chris watts had found a new love interest, but it wasn't clear why divorce was not an option. he pleaded guilty to murdering his wife shanann, 4-year-old bella and 3-year-old celeste, then disposing of their bodies at a secluded site where he worked. the judge called the murders inhumane and vicious. the prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty with the approval of shanann watts' family. her father spoke for the family which has been left devastated. >> life will never be the same without shanann. and celeste and bella.
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they had all their lives to live. they were taken by a heartless one. this is the heartless one, the evil monster who dare you take the lives of my daughter shanann, bella, celeste and niko. he trusted you to care for them, not kill them. they also trusted you. the heartless monster, and then you take them out like trash. you disgust me. >> niko is the name for their unborn son. once his parents are previously defended their son, but have since questioned the plea deal telling the court they would not ask for leniency. facebook dealing with yet another scandal. human rights groups asking for investigation when a group in sudan auctioned their daughter for marriage. he reportedly received 500 cows, three cars, and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter who
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was married off to the winning bidder. facebook says the bidding started october 25th, but it was two weeks before the company found out about the auction and removed the post. now facebook says any form of human trafficking, whether post pages ads or groups is not allowed on facebook. we removed the post and permanently deleted the account of the person who posted this. the driving force behind one of the most powerful groups in the industry, nissan. nissan accused him of under reporting income. the company said ghosn will be fired. he has been arrested by authorities in japan. john definiterius joins us. as someone who followed his rise the last 15 years, were you surprised when the news broke? >> reporter: absolutely surprised, i don't know. it only took the change in the
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whistleblower law in japan to bring down one of the most powerful men in the auto business. i am shocked because he is the one that championed the idea of a global alliance around the world, to have manufacturing in emerging markets that would feed the major economies in asia, europe, and even north america. he took over as ceo back in 2001, and quickly became kind of a main stay at the world economic forum in davos. to give you will a sense of what he did at japan, at nissan when he took over, a loss of $3 billion, in a span of just two years, john, he turned it into a profit of $2 billion. he was highly respected in japan. in fact, i spent time with him for an entire week in tokyo doing a half hour documentary. back then i asked him, you're running an automaker in japan in nissan, renault in france. he had just signed a joint venture in china with don fang. is it realistic for a man to run three auto makers? i can run 60% capacity so i can handle it.
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he thought he was bigger than anything he had under his umbrella, if you will. he was revered actually in tokyo. he was picked as the most admired man to marry by japanese women. they actually had action comic hero books as well depicting his revival of nissan going forward. but the only thing i would say, john, if somebody sits in the seat for so long, has that much power, it's not the first time we've seen a downfall. you can go back the last 20 years, world economy in the united states, bear stearns on wall street, wpp over the last year with martin soro. biddle hoff. corporate governance was pushed aside. we have to see how this plays out. i think at the end of the day looking at the stocks of renault and nissan today and mitsubishi, his latest alliance partner, it may mean that his alliance that he spent the last 20 years building could unravel. i know that we have statements out of japan suggesting they'd like to maintain close ties with france, but do renault and
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nissan stay together therefore afterwards is a big question mark today. >> the shares are taking a pounding. i guess the bigger they are the harder they fall. no more true than this case. john, thank you. well, it might not be a small, small world for much longer. disney is betting big on a massive expansion in which theme parks and resorts, all the details next here on cnn newsroom. ninety-sixe are over hundred roads named "park" in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth, are you in good hands?
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♪ all part of the hype. the newest attraction star wars galaxy edge. which will open end of next year. at disney land and disney world. part of the massive worldwide expansion by disney. into a galaxy far far away. when it comes to price and ambition. reports the house of mouse will spend billions upgrading and growing all six theme parks around the worltd and three mu
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cruise ships for the fleet. the reason is simple. the happiest place on earth is a money making machine. profits are soaring. but slowing on social media like tv and cinema. >> film, entertainment is with us. from los angeles. >> good to see you. if you're the kind of person who is tired of waiting three hours to get into splash mountain. don't worry. under this scheme you'll wait two hours to get into the iron man roller coasters. >> improvement. >> it is. and now these disney parks are pretty much full to capacity. what's the solution. expand the park. more attractions, more rides and more room. the biggest operating profit that the biggest return ot investment the disney empire has is from the theme park division. in the fiscal year 2018 it had an operating profit of $4.5 billion.
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that's 100% up from the number of five years ago. we're talking more ticket sales and food purchases. more hotel occupancy. never mind movies and tv. double down on the theme parks. >> no shortage of people willing to pay $135 a day. to stand for in line for hours and hours. here's a key line. from a report in the "new york times." estimate disney will spend $24 billion on new attractions thoels and ships over five years. more than pix sar, marvel and lucas film combined. that can't get out of the movie business because it's the inspiration for the rides and attractions at the park. >> all the great franchises. the avengers and incredibles. you can rattle them off. disney is the biggest thing in the entertainment game. so many successful movie franchises.
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it goes hand in hand. and so yes, $135 is an extraordinary amount to pay. but people will pay it. so let's double the attendance and double the size of the park. >> that's per person. and food and pack the car. it's $1,000 a day. >> no wonder they're so rich. >> not everything glitters so brightly. hong kong disney has been losing money. and struggled since it opened. >> three years of falling admission falling profit. so that is where they're going tr it. building frozen land and putting in avengers attractions in there. rather than writing it off. they're making it better. and making it the ultimate disney theme park. again a great move. >> kids around the world are rejoicing and celebrating. and annoying parents to go. >> see you.
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