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patrons sitting next to a memorial to some of the lost soldiers. uchain is ready for a long bar. it is not bending. that is the fortitude we are seeing and hear even as battle rages on. and thanks so much for join us tonight from kyiv. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening w we begin tonight with a dramatic finish to a for than week-long manhunt for a fugitive inmate and alabama corrections office. ended in a car crash. this is a picture of the car law enforcement officials say was carrying vicki white and casey white this wh they were finally captured it occurred in indiana. they delayed collided with the two fugitives' car to end the pursuit. the a description matching the
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suspect's vehicle. vicki and casey white fled, the pursuit ended with the crash you see there. the sheriff's office says vicki white sustained self-inflicted gun gunshot wounds. marshal, law enforcement saying the u.s. marshals task force intercepts the couple, actually collided with them to end the pursuit. can you talk about just how this search ended? >> yes, we developed information these suspects were in the area, and they were possibly staying at a local hotel. surveillance was establish on that facility. a short time later, vicki white came out of the hotel. she was wearing a wig. the two suspects got into a vehicle. the rolling surveillance continued. we asked for cystness and a short time lied later, there was a -- a chase, a vehicle chase
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and the suspect wrecked the car, rolled over. and we approached the vehicle to get the two suspect the out. we got casey white out. he immediately announced that his wife shot herself in the head and that he didn't do it. >> marshal, we when we last spoke on friday evening you said based on your experience many times manhunts, these vields usually don't get a away with their cape plan. do you ever any information that led to today's apprehension? >> what this was was a lot good investigative work by the united states' marshal service, gulf coast regional task force, and the great lakes regional fugitive task force. our investigators we were able to locate a vehicle they purchase down in tennessee after the orange ford emg was located. we were able to subsequently locate that vehicle up in
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evansville, indiana, and were able to put additional information that led us to the hotel. >> and marshal, you were saying vicki white, it was a self-inflicted gunshot wund to mr. white. the county sheriff in indiana said the wounds are very serious. to you know when this occurred? i mean, was this while the chase was going on? after the car had kwrecked it i it clear to you when she may have shot herself in the head or got shot in the head? >> it is not clear to us. to our knowledge, they are not married but then casey announced to immediately that his wife shot herself in the head and that he doidn't do it. >> marshal hunt, was it that they -- they both purchased a car? or did somebody else purchase it and they stole it? >> the information that we have right now, anderson, is they both collectively purchased, you
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know, the ford edge, the blue f-150, and ultimately this vehicle they were located in today. >> and marshal hunt, the surveillance casey white from a car wash in indiana was take upon almost a week ago, on tuesday, may 3rd, it is hard to believe they stayed in the same area for long. why do you think they chose to stay in evansville? i mean, there is just -- do respects just try to lie low somewhere? >> you know, unfortunately, we don't have that information right now. hopefully, when we have a chance to speak with casey, maybe we can ask, you know, obtain some of that information. unfortunately, we have no information that they had any relatives or associates in the area. but we do know that they intended to stay in the evansville area for a period of time. >> and marshal keely, local sheriff in alabama said casey white is going to eventually be brought back there, will stay in a cell by himself with handcuffs ask shackles on. what measures are authorities likely to take now to make sure he stays in custody and can be
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transported safely. >> it's my understanding that the sheriff, when he is returned, casey white's returned to alabama, they will process him. there will be an arraignment in lauderdale county and then he will be housed in another facility. i'm sure it will be maximum in terms of the security level. >> and did -- marshal keely, did you know they had that -- did they have cash on them to purchase those vehicle -- all those vehicles? >> we know they had somewhere between 65,000 and $90,000 cash. we know that the first vehicle that was purchased, the pickup truck that -- that they paid $6,000 for that vehicle. it was purchased from an individual who had the truck for sale on his property close to hoiz home so we don't know how much they used over the period of time on the run. >> and was the that money she
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got from selling her own? kbauz i understand, her hom home sold for the $90,000, which is well below the market value. >> that is correct. we know she received the 95,000 from the home. gene, below the market value. she also withdrew funds from various bank accounts. >> and mar shl hunt, just looking tack bach on this, how does this kpaer to, you know, to other kind of manhunts? >> so like i said pleefl i think on your show, anderson, no two manhunts are alike. but thankfully nor the united states' marshal service, they have this rapidly advancing manhunt program and we evaluate some of these pact cases that we have had that present challenges to us, and so from that, we just lean on our past experiences, support from our headquarters and every personal and tipster out there that was able to give information really kind of put all this together. >> chad hunt, martin keely, i so
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appreciate your time tonight and appreciate the work you do not just on this case but always. so thank you so much. chris swecker and former fbi director and cnn law enforcement analys ana analyst andrew mccabe. but that they were able to -- to purchase three separate vehicles? >> yeah, it's really interesting, anderson. it's maybe reflective of the fact that at the end of the day, cash talks, right? so they were maybe unique from other manhunts we have seen lately, in that they were walking around with anywhere from 60 to $95,000 in their pocket and to roll up to somebody's house who is trying to sell a pick-up truck on their front lawn and to be able to offer that person cash to walk away with a car is a pretty strong incentive do that deal.
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but it is -- it's getting harder every year to pull these things off successfully with the ubiquitous nature of the media and the ability to get the intelligence in the public in a lael real-time manner. >> yeah. i mean, chris, to andrew's point, the fact according to law enforcement a tip is what helped to lead to this arrest. and there were a number of tips over time. how often is that the way the fugitives are captured in the end? ? well, in a low profile case like this, it is a pretty high percentage probably up in the 90s. the marshal service did get a lot of help from the soubl, it sounds like her. and there is a loft a ironies here. they obviously planned this thing out pretty well but they didn't seem to have a test nation. they were at a hotel. therapy being surveilled at the hotel is my understanding. and you know, you would have thought they would have ground
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aground. they were probably getting on the internet, getting access to the information in real-time so baup one of the most shocking things is they were moving about instead of just holding up somewhere, that wouldn't have been a big problem renting a place. >> andrew did it surprise you they took the risk of staying in a hotel? >> agree absolutely. i agree with chris. it is almost confounding they didn't take that money and the vehicles they were able to procure and head straight for the border, just to keep moving, stay ahead of , that is the bes advantage you have, as the escaped convict and they flittered that away by holding up in a hotel someplace they could easily be spot and recognized. >> chris, what do you make of
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vicki white's role in all this? >> there is another irony there. this is not terribly unusual that you have this guard falling in love with a prisoner who groebl probably groomed her over a period of time, got himself transferred to that facility just to work or collude with her on this escape. but, you know, she's -- you would have thought that he would have been the one to kill himself. he is the one that said he was not going to be taken alive. he -- you know, his attorney mentioned that he couldn't function out in the public. that he couldn't, you know, without his meds, he is dysfunctional. so, he obviously needed her. you know, you would think someone with law enforcement experience, assistant director of corrections in that county, would have thought a little bit further dunn the line and realized she was dealing with somebody she would eventually be sort of excess baggage. she obviously lost all judgment over the last few months or so. and maybe that is not the kasht
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first time that lost and lonely and found somebody but looking for love in the wrong places here. >> andrew, i mean, you look at the local sheriff and alabama when he said tonight about vicki white. that you don't know who you can trust. what do you think might need to change, if any -- i mean, does this kind of thing just happen? i -- is this really something you can, you know, i don't know, have seminars about? it just seems like such a -- i mean, i guess it's, you know, chris was saying it's happened before. but how unusual is this? >> anderson, it's no different than the sort of insider-threat issues that any large organization deals with, burglarly law enforcement or intelligence organizations deal with. you have to constantly create a culture of compliance, among your employees to not fall into these gaps. but you also have to constantly monitor what's -- what's happening. um, there is -- there is a few obvious-red flags in this story. the ability for this officer to take a prisoner out by herself.
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that should never have happened, under any circumstances. the ability to take a prisoner out for medical appointment that doesn't exist, there is another one that they should have been able to find. but more broadly, to -- to understand how your -- how in this case, your guards or corrections officers are interacting with prisoners and whether or not they are establishing relationships that could lead to some sort of compromise, that is a bank basic insider threat premise. >> andrew mccabe, chris swecker, appreciate your time tonight, thank you. latest on the war in ukraine. brutal new knowledges on the civilian cost in this war, and missing from this victory day speech putin gave on this high hadly national symbolic speech gave for russia. former defense secretary mark esper joins us to discuss his new memoir. allergrgies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase dailyly stos your body from overreacting to allergrgens al season long.
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victory day, annual remembrance of the soviet defeat of nazi germany world war ii but for all the examination vladimir putin might declare war, he he did not. there was, as you see, no shortage of pomp and pageantry and military might on tis play, but nothing to indicate the sick brutality of the war still raging and that brutality continues. this new video was taken in odesa, in southern ukraine, the aftermath a missile strikes that happened just overnight. at least two injured. no reports of fatalities. officials say a wide area of instr destruction, include possible residential areas. this shows what remains of a civilian convoy trying to escape fighting near kharkiv in the northeast last week. ukrainian officials say there have been 15 have being in the convoy. contact was lost. the wreckage was dits covered friday. it is up clear when the video was taken but clearly shows cars
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that have been shot up. the man this the video says it is unclear. during the video, he points out baby strollers, infant car seat, also toys. that means there were children here, he says. attorn attorneys say four corpses were removed, also the remains of a 13-year-old girl were pobl positively identified. in you of the lie hansk region of ukraine, this is satellite image according to ucane crane officials, the highlighted area shows a russian pontoon bridge, the ukrainians say the russians built three of these bridges to try and cross and krut off ukrai ukrainian troops. images reviewed by cnn independent date one had already been destroyed, half submerged in the river. and poland today, a sign of how many there feel about russia's invasion, this is the russian ambassador to poland. protestors dow do used him with
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red paint, he was there lay flowers for buried soefb kret soldiers. vladimir putin may not have use the word victory today but president zelenskyy did. >> translator: we are fighting for our children's freedom, and therefore, we will win. we will never forget what our ancestors did in world war ii, which killed more than 8 million ukrainians. very soon, there will be two victory days in ukraine and someone won't have naechlt we will then and we will now. >> joining us now, nick paton walsh in ukraine. nick, there were concerns from ukrainian officials russia could escalate attacks today or nup announce some big escalation of the war. from what you are hearing on the ground, was wthere anything different? >> i have to be honest, we have not had that feeling of an etore mouse escalation today. people in odesa, who have seen shopping center on fire. huge blasts there at two points
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during the day, in fact, in the evening and earlier in the day as well and in previous -- on sunday, ten cruise missiles appear to have hit the odesa reej anz well. so we are talking ab a pattern sustained though, although possibly a slight peak. aw alice here, we have heard sirens during the day. you also mentioned escalation in russian moves to the east. now, certainly, there appears to be a ukrainian' counter offensive there as well. so. >> not entirely fast progress there as well and also, azovstal steel plant has been unbombardment but that's been the case as well. for at least 48 hours, if not longer, that may the 9th mate mite bring something awful and new, but frankly, at this stage and it is coming up to 4:00 in the morning, the following day here, they haven't seen it yert, anderson. >> what have you been seeing? >> certainly in the south round
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here, we were some ukrainian troops who themselves have been bracing since 4:00 in the morning for the potential of escalation. and that didn't occur. but certainly, in the south and that's very much reflected in the bombardment of odesa's scene. there is a bid i think for russians to try and move forward. they haven't taken any real snifg sig naf can't ground. >> both nothing and everything has changed here. the frot lines have barely moved on the road to the southern city of kherson. the first russia captured in the six weeks since we were laster here. >> incity, since then, almost everything has opinion torn up by shelling that little rally
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does not stop. trapping people who fz physically did k not flee. here in the village are two neighbors. we move to the yard, as the shells get closer. he still manages to get down to his wife's basement shelter. she has installed a plank on the way here to help him rest. they used to get dressed up to go to bed. it was so cold down here but mention leaving and she chuckles .
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it is not so much that life goes on here, but that it has nowhere else to go. these men, selling cow's milk, although that's not what lana has been drinking. hello to everyone, he says. 40 times a day and night, they shell. barely a window was intact. shrapnel flying through the glass daily. yesterday, was svetlana's turn but she can't leave as she is waiting for her son to return from the war in mariupol. our children are all at war, he says. my son is a prisoner, if he comes back and i have gone, it is like i have abandoned him. we bait, hope, worry, he is alive and we will live. onto road out of here, the shrapnel rises fiercely above the warm fields. >> the line you said it is not
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life goes on, it is that it has it shall has nowhere else to go. i mean, that woman waiting for her son who is a prisoner from fighting in mare yoep. . i mean, the choices people are forced to make in a situation like this. it's -- they are not oeven choses. they j-- they don't have choice. >> no actually, they are obligations and certainly i i think for svetlana was a difficult moment for her because she minimal information. and says she's made multiple phone calls to agencies tries to work out what has happened to her son. and from what we were able to establish, there does appear to be some suggestion on pro-russian teledpgram channels that there is a picture of him p potentially as a prisoner waf and she hasn't received notification of death from ucanian authorities. and you are left with this obviously chilling feeling for her she can't go from the house, because in the event her son does come back and she is smot
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knot there, then his first feeling will be that she's been abandoned. you see, repeatedly, anderson, in these village, utter destruction and people stuck often because they simply have n got the means. they laugh. where am i going to go? where am i going to find the money to move myself somewhere else and start afresh? or simply could not make squlour think because they are dependent entirely on themselves. and it is remarkable when you see someone like valentina and still finds the strength to carry on each day. although, you hear her talking there mfthey may be dwindling intsds of her it just shows the impact that catches the wars sides here. obviously, russia the one that began conflict in unprovoked fashion. and will take decades to build.
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esper. he wrote a sacred oath, memoirs of secretary defense during extraordinary times. including his rakz actions regarding ukraine, just about a number of truly stunning anecdotes including top aides. i want to ask you one question about ukraine and then some of the stuff in the n your book, which is just extraordinary. the former president has claimed that russia would not have invaded ukraine, if, in his words, quote, if the election was not rigged and if i was the president. obviously, the election was not rigged. do i believe that had he been in officers that russia would not have invaded ukraine? in who knows? i think the only person who knows why he invaded ukraine is vladimir putin. that there may have been signals aj along the way that he misinterpreted clearly to strategic failure but i don't think that question is answerable.
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>> had the u.s. not start to supply weapons to ukraine, and training as they did, do you think ukraine would be doing as well as they are? >> look. i do think it is an accomplishment to have begun send lethal aid to ukraine. i visited in 2018 to see training of ukrainian forces and i am glad to see the biden administration is continuing with that. >> right. president trump did hold up the -- the aid. >> that's right as i talk about i my book. >> one of the things you said to maggie haberman in "the new york times," you said about the former president, he said in an unprinciple person, who given his self-interest, should not in public service. that is a really extraordinary statement. what you when you say he is an unprincipled person, what do you mean? >> one of the fundamental principles that guide you, for me it's country. what i learned at west point and
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i never got a clear sense of what those principles were orrer are. >> do you think he has any? >> i don't know. so i can't -- i can't discuss or opine on it, right? to me, to be president of the united states or any elected atto official, you have to have a core base there, it begins with country over self. it begins with integrity and principles and begins to beginning with to the reach across the aisle to advance the national agenda and donald trump just don't does not meet the work on these things. >> the president has gone after you. he goes after somebody who is spoken up in any capacity. he said you were weak, totally ineffective and because of you he had to run the military. was he running the military? >> no, he wasn't running the military. i was running the military as secretary of defense. and look, i think i with he accomplished a lot of great things for the trump administration during the military. we began modernizing the services. we began advancing national defense strategy and that pivoting toward china i see as her strategic adversary, warp speed produced the vaccines. and by the way, i think the
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administration, in general, had some good accomplishments. we had talk about the abraham accords or vaccines, lower taxes. >> yeah, in the book, you were very fair in -- you give praise to the administration where you think -- >> i try to be fair. >> you think there is reason for that. um, one of the thing, though, that really stun me in the book, just overall, is that the president did not seem engaged -- i mean, when he was running for president, i remember interviewing him and talking about in iraq, we should steal their oil. surround -- the u.s. military should surround the oil field, steal the oil, and then get out. obviously, that just doesn't make any sense. that is just not a military plan. it doesn't seem like, while he was in office, ordid you get th sense that he -- there was a big evolution of his understanding of military -- of the military and what is possible? i mean, he was talking about sending missiles, patriot missiles to take out drug cartels in mex mico.
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>> i can't speak about that because i was only for the last 18 months or so but i did see a shift in him and behavior in those around him, i talk about this, right? i say how fresh troops come in. more loyalists coming in. it is johnny mcentee, rick grenell comes in, mark meadows, others that seems to take some of these out lanish ideas to a new level. >> it was more -- it became more reckless, that was the change. >> and -- and maybe it was due to koe as well, right? the president was sitting on this great economy, doing well, all the sudden covid crashes in. it dashes that. has a big impact on his electoral prospects, if you will, and i think all that fact rds into this. and look. this is just me speculating as someone on the scene watching it unfold. but clearly something changed and i try to describe that in the book. >> but saw that after the first impeachment? >> i did. >> once he got through that -- >> we went to a new level.
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>> when you were sitting across the from the president and he is suggesting something like shoot the black lives matter protestors in the legs, what do -- what does your face look like? >> i was just dumbstruck by it and he was speaking to general mark milley when he asked that, can't you just shoot 'em in the legs or something? i was shocked by it. to hear this from the president of the united states, saying isby shoot our fellow americans in the streets of the nation's capital. >> and not only talking police, he is talking u.s. military. deploying the u.s. military. ten -- he wanted 10,000 u.s. military forces outside the white house because of protestors. >> right. that's right. look. there was violence. i believe in law and order. there was violence. people were getting hurt. people who were protesting peacefully were not being allowed to do so but the answer is not a heavy hand, and certainly not lethal force. and so, i think we were all dumbstruck. i think between bill barr and myself and with general milley's support, he we started putting
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ideas out there that law enforcement should lead this and the military should back up only as necessary and even then, it should only be the national guard and upon kind of walking him back off of this notion of sending in active-duty military. >> the people around the president, you know, when he was campaigning, he was talking about how he only hired the best. from the portrayal you have in the book of someone like stephen miller, who at one point is suggesting, after baghdadi i think it was killed, that you find his head, dip it in pig's blood, and parade it -- parade it around -- yeah, let's put the quote up on the screen just so -- stephen miller suggests later in the evening that u.s. forces try to locate the isis leader's head so we could dip it in pig's blood, which muslims continue to be unholy or parade it under to deter other tare rickets. >> again, that is extraordinary. >> he made this clip. the situation room. we were observing the attack on
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the big screens look. i don't think the president was well served by some people he brought around him and unfortunately, he kept attracting people like that and i think my job and job of other cabinet members was to kind of give him best advice we could offer in terms of a way forward. all the tour moil of the trump administration, there were a lot of good accomplishments. if you are republican, you look redeg lagz, you like border security. but too often, there were marred or you understand mined pri the president himself by that tough talk, coarse language and i think the biggest problem is the extreme partisanship on both sides the aisle. >> yeah. do you worry what the president has been? i mean, this is still the standard bearer still of the republican party as if you are a republican, do you worry about what that means for the republican party? >> i do. look. i am a reagan republican.
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i have worked for republicans my entire life. for conservatives and in my view, we need to move donald trump at this point in time. we need to look for the jekts generation of leaders who can advance the same core republican principles, right? and at the same time, grow the base, win elections, and -- and bring the american people together. which he we just don't that right now. >> i mean, does the ronald reagan rbl republican party still exist? >> i think it is out there. think too many have cowed by fear of donald trump humiliating them, calling names, whatever the chase may be. i want to believe it is out there becauseby need two competitive parties speaking to the american people, and bouncing ideas off one another and sharpening policy proposals. >> we are made better by having people, good people, of different opinion, and good people can hold different opinions and having a middle course worked outside outbetween them. >> look, i spent 25 years in d.c. work inning congress,
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executive brachlg, all around. my observation has been the best form of government is split government. when you have both parties occupying either one of the two houses and the white house, and then they have to work together to come up with enduring solutions to the problems our country faces. >> you -- you write about this in the book. you thought about resigning plenty of times. general milley thought about it, as well. you guys discussed it. um, you didn't did do it. people criticize it, saying now you are profiting it. >> i hit it in the first foo pages of my book and i wrestled with this all the time, anderson. it really tore me apart and i tried to figure out what is the best thing to to and it came back to my training at west point duchlt, honor, country. and thought the best thing to do was to serve. the best thing for me would have been to quit. >> my wife, she says as your wife, i want you to quit. please quit. but as an american, i want you to stay.
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and i wrestled with that. and i ended up calling p predecessors of mine from both parties. i spoke to secretary colin powell and to a person, they got to stay. look, i wrestled with this and it is a tough issue and for people to criticize me, that's fair. but i think they should also res respect how i was approaching the country. the other factor i didn't know who was going oh come behind me. replacing dni, director of national intelligence, with rick grenell. i was concerned about who moit come behind me, and look what happened, right, in the last two months of the administration. >> mark esper, appreciate it. the book is really startling. "sacred oath, mem corys of a secretary of defense during extraordinary times." it is out tomorrow. thank you so much. >> coming up next, a projection from the biden' white house on the covid wave this fall, winter possible 100 million cases what thaz ha to do with the push for more congressional funding to fight the virus next. of magic in all.
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more breaking news in the capture of the two fugitives from bam. they had been found in indiana after a dramatic car crash with u.s. marshals. authorities say the officer sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound. now, the sheriff of the county where the two were captured. sheriff david wedding joins us now.
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sheriff, twha more can you tell us about the condition of vicki white? >> i would say she is in grave condition right now. i probably wouldn't expect her to live overnight due to her serious injury she sustained. >> can you walk us through how all this unfolded today? >> yes, i can. the county sheriff's office is part of a united states marshals' task force, along with the police department and indiana state police. and we were met with the u.s. marshals' task force from alabama and mississippi. they advised us that a vehicle had been here in evansville dated back to may 3rd. and that, that vehicle was with the escapees from alabama. along with that, they had obtained some surveillance
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footage that showed them exchanging vehicles and driving off in another vehicle, and leaving the pickup truck at the car wash in evansville, indiana. throughout the day, they were investigating different leads, and trying to determine if the suspects may or may not been in our area. most of us had the belief because it had been six days, they had probably left evansville, indiana. but sometime in the afternoon, we were notified by the evansville police department, that where their officers -- they had seen the vehicle that was known as the suspect vehicle to a parking lo. so, members of our task force teams drove down to where the suspects were supposed to be located possibly. they knew we were coming, n somehow or another. and they got into their vehicle,
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fled on a local highway through evansville. it was a short pursuit. they went off into a grassy area, where our task force officers basically rammed them into a ditch. when we went to the vehicle, we noticed that the suspect driver -- she had inflicted herself with a gunshot wound. and was seriously injured. and the passenger, the large-male subject, had minor injuries. >> is it clear to you when she -- uh -- what -- did -- did the suspect -- the male passenger -- did he say anything? i understood that he said something to deputies when he was apprehended? >> yes, he has spoken to some of our deputies. however, we will have him taken to the sheriff's office and operation center for formal
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interview. so yet more concrete information on what has occurred because he could have uttered multiple things and i would rather not talk about that until such time that we have a formal interview with the suspect. >> okay. i -- we -- we had a marshal on earlier, who said that -- that -- that mr. white had said my wife shot herself in the head. i didn't shoot her. is that roughly -- >> that -- that was our understanding. that it was supposed to have been a self-inflicted wound. and appears that bay but we will investigate to ensure that is, in fact, what happened. >> and is it clear to you when, if it was a self-inflicted wound or inflicted by somebody else, is it clear to you when that occurred if she was driving the vehicle? was that in the moment after the vehicle was rammed, i assume? >> i think based on her driving skills, it had probably happened at the time of her being pushed into the ditch.
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>> sheriff wedding, i appreciate all your efforts and your officers' efforts. i appreciate you talking to us tonight. thank you. >> thank youer have much. >> we will continue obviously to follow this. him saying that vicki white, former deputy, is in very grave condition. he said that he does not expect her perhaps to live through the night. we will obviously coming up, the big lie going strong. someone helping the former president said it running for governor in the 2020 election and has a good chance of winning next week's gop primary. i'll take you inside one of his rallies ahead. momore you. so thank y you. we hope you like your work. ♪
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now home and car break-ins are on the rise because repeat offenders know they can get away with it. chesa boudin is failing to do his job. there's a better way to keep san francisco safe. recall chesa boudin now. thousands outside the capitol january 6th was a little known state senator helping the president steal the election. he has been subpoenaed by the january 6th committee and now doug mast i can't know is front runner for gop nomination for governor in his state and still pushing the big lie. ken law has more.
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>> reporter: just days left in the gubernatorial primary in the battleground of pennsylvania. we arrive at doug mastriano's campaign rount. the campaign had said cnn could come to this event at an indoor hotel courtyard next to the pool. but at check-in, a volunteer said journalists aren't welcome. do you know why media isn't being allowed in? mastriano is one of the leading contenders for republican nomination for governor. voters rely on reporters to understand their candidates. after the campaign said that media wasn't allowed at their political rally, we rented a room in the hotel who gave us permission to record the event from here.
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with us in the balcony, mastriano took the stage, railing against abortion rights, covid restrictions, and what he claims is marxist ideology in public schools. >> any god fearing, flag waving americans in the house here? >> he shot to national prominence in 2020, baselessly raising doubts about pennsylvania's election results. donald trump lost here by more than 80,000 votes. but mastriano has ignored the truth, instead banging the bogus drum beat of election lies as a state senator. >> we are here today to try to find out what the heck happened in the election. >> reporter: as a gubernatorial candidate, his rally opened with a prayer mentioning fraud without offering any evidence. >> we ask god to -- as the ballots go forth, lord god, that you remove every fraudulent ballot, lord god. >> reporter: the campaign fuses politics with christianity. >> i use you to call us.
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>> reporter: mastriano is one of nine candidates vying for the nomination, a hotly contested race that could impact the next election. the next governor has the power to appoint the top elections official in the commonwealth. >> i am republican candidate for governor. >> the field includes former u.s. attorney bill mcswain to state senate president, but it's mastriano who democrats believe and hope they face in november. >> if mastriano wins, it's a win for what donald trump stands for. >> reporter: this state-wide is paid for my shapiro for pennsylvania. >> our next governor in pennsylvania, john shapiro. >> reporter: josh shapiro is the likely democratic nominee for governor and current state attorney general. gambling that by boosting a more right wing candidate in a swing state, democrats come out on top this november. >> they are extremists. they are out of touch with where
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i know pennsylvanians to be. >> reporter: at an abortion ri rights rally, shapiro hammered away at republicans and mastriano. >> i think it's clear he's going to be their nominee. we think it's important the people of pennsylvania know there's a clear contrast between he and i. our democracy was birthed in philadelphia. we have a unique responsibility as pennsylvanians to defend it. >> reporter: in these final days, both democrat and republican have been talking about abortion rights. josh shapiro has been leaning into protecting access, really trying to gin up that support from suburban female voters before the primary. doug mastriano has also been talking about it but in this way, that he wants and pledges society's so-called heart beat bill. if he is elected governor, this primary is going to be taking
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