madeleine was just days before her fourth birthday. today she would be a teenager. while most experts agree it's unlikely they'll ever find her, the mccanns say they still believe in miracles and will never stop searching. and good evening, it has happened again, another one time adviser to the former president has learned that a subpoena is not something to defy. peter navarro joined steve bannon and the dubious distinction of being indicted on criminal contempt of congress charges. he was arrested at a washington area airport on his way to nashville, made a court appearance today. this comes as the house january 6th committee prepares to hold tell analyzed appearances next week thursday night at prime

time 8:00 eastern. ryan nobles is at the capital for us with the very latest. what r are the two contempt charges? >> reporter: these are two felony charges both related to peter navarro's defiance of the subpoena sent to him by the january 6th select committee. one has to do with his refusal to hand over documents that the committee is interested as part of their investigation. the other has to do with his refusal to sit for a deposition and interview with the committee. both are serious charges that could result in significant jail time and a hefty fine. so far navarro has been very defiant, just as he was prior to the subpoena being issued. what's interesting about his situation, he did not engage with the committee at all. he claimed that he had an executive privilege protection that was extended to him by the former president donald trump. obviously the committee felt differently as did the department of justice. hence the reason that he's under indictment tonight. >> what happened in court skand what's next? >> there was some theatrics. peter navarro is the former

trade adviser to the donald trump. he complained about the way the fbi handled his situation, the way they knocked on his door for a subpoena, and his apartment in washington, d.c. he complained that they arrested him at the airport in washington as opposed to asking him to come in and surrender on his own recognizance. they did not take his passport. they told him he was not able to travel anywhere outside the intercontinental united states without a specific approval from the judge. he's now going to wait a court date. this could take some time. steve bannon who was indicted several months ago by the committee, his hearing, his trial will not happen until late this summer. what this means, anderson, is that the information the committee is looking for from peter navarro, likely won't happen before their investigation wraps up, which should happen sometime this fall. it does send a message to these other individuals who have been subpoenaed by the committee that there is some power behind those subpoenas. there is an enforcement mechanism. there are of course some other

outstanding criminal contempt referrals, one for the former chief of staff mark meadows, the other for his vino. the department of justice showing if you defy congress there will be repercussions. >> joining us with new insight into january 6th, maggie haberman. the headline of her report in "the times" reads before january 6th aide warned secret service of security risk to pence. she uncovered the story for her upcoming book, "confidence man": the day before a mob of donald trump's supporters stormed the capital on january 6th, 2021, vice president pence, mike pence's chief of staff called mr. pence's lead secret service agent is to his west wing office. the chief of standard had a message for the agent. tim gables, the president was going to turn publicly against the vice president and there could be a security risk to mr. pence because of it.

maggie's with us now. what more can you tell us about that warning and what you learned about the events surrounding it? >> this is an extraordinary moment to think there's a chief of staff to a sitting vice president so concerned about the potential threat being created by a pressure campaign led and encouraged by the president who picked this vice president, it is jarring, and it just takes a minute to absorb. mark short had a conversation, according to sources with tim gibuls, the lead secret service agent saying what you said, that the president would turn on pence and they might have a security risks, short, as i understand it, did not have a sense of what that threat could look like. i don't believe based on my reporting that he envisioned what we saw on january 6th the way we saw it. what he did realize is that the former president had supporters who were very reactive to him, who basically acted, you know, responded to things he would say and he could see, you know, one person, two people, three

people, you know, several people doing something that could be problematic, safety-wise for the vice president just based on this pressure that the former president was exerting. >> it is extraordinary, a secret service official has dispute ed exchange saying to cnn those with first hand knowledge of the encounter, suggest violence to pence was never communicated, what do you say to that? >> i stand by the reporting. and they're welcome to say that on the record. >> you also found distinct examples in the breakdown of relationship between trump and pence. >> i did. this was going on for some time, anderson. there were several moments where you know, pence was coming. this pressure campaign was increasing for people around trump, people connected to president trump, people who supported trump. when the former vice president went to vail, colorado, on his vacation, mark short, the chief of staff to pence not a call from kelli ward, the chairwoman

of the arizona gop, she had joined a suit that congressman louie gohmert had filed to try to pressure pence to exceed what pence's authority was on january 6th. when this call came in, she was allegedly relaying some kind of question of pence possibly meeting with sydney powell, that lawyer that had been in trump's favor at that point who was advocating all kinds of wild conspiracy theories about the voting machines and some question of whether powell, pence would be willing to meet with powell while he was in vail. when short pointed out kelly ward had joined this suit and was suing the vice president, she allegedly said, you know, they wouldn't be doing this if trump was not okay with it. there were several other moments where, you know, the pence team felt as if they were getting squeezed. one was that transition funding for the post-white house period for pence's staff was not coming through, it was being delayed. and they were under the impression that it was

definitely coming from mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, under the impression it might be coming from trump. that pot of money got free after january 6th. >> and how does all of this fold into the select committee's investigation? >> so the select committee, as understand it, asked mark short questions about that conversation in his interview with them. several, some months ago, anyway. you know, i think they are trying to portray that not just that there was this, you know, pressure campaign on pence which we saw in realtime, but that there was real concern among white house officials about what the fallout from that could look like, so in that respect, the fact that the chief of staff to the vice president was so concerned remains very important. >> maggie, when does your book come out? i definitely want to read this? >> it comes out in october. but i uncovered this during research for it and wanted to get it out now. >> fascinating, maggie haberman,

appreciate it, with the house hearings set for next week, three of the best today, nearly 50 years ago when bob woodward and carl bernstein brugt so much of the watergate scandal to light. bob is i'm himself, associate editor of the post, remarkable account of the days surrounding january 6th, carl is out with a great memoire, his coauthor of course with bob, of "all the president's men" out next week in a 50th anniversary edition with the new forward and the relevance of watergate today, and john dean joining us, a central figure in it. he's also the central voice in the new cnn original series "watergate: blueprint for a scandal." great to have you all on the program. who would have thought during watergate you would all be here talking about this. bob, you hear the reporting from maggie haberman, is there anything that compares, you have the chief of staff and president of the united states warning

that the secret, the lead secret service agent on the vice president's detail? >> what's very clear, the whole situation is potentially violent. remember, there were hang mike pence signs around there. where there were 1,000 people storming the capitol, and as we now know, pence was literally one step or 100 feet away from being captured or something by these insurrectionists. so i think the point to make is donald trump as president knows this is going on in many, many forms and he never should have allowed this to happen, even if he's in combat with pence as he was on this. i remember in one of the interviews with trump i did, i asked what's the job of the

president? and he said to protect the people. this is another case where trump failed to protect the people and including his vice president. >> and as you, you know, talk about in your book, bob, the president did nothing while people around him were asking him to do something and now we know a locate of people were texting mark meadows to try to get -- allies of the president to try to get the president to do something. >> and the president, according to our reporting in peril, was awful to pence. he said look, your career's over. i'm -- i picked the wrong man. you are a weak person as vice president. he was in his face in a way that i think the trump/pence

relationship really took a nose dive in those days before january 6th and on january 6th. but again, where was trump? where does the responsibility lie? he's sitting, watching this on television. he knows what's taking place. it is an abrogation of that responsibility as president as he defines it. >> john, based on what we just heard from maggie, what more do you think the january 6th committee would want to hear from mark short? >> i think they would want to understand the atmosphere, the state of mind of people. we know he, apparently short was well aware of the scheme to get the vice president to not authorize some of the votes from some of the states. he had the big picture, and rightly, he warned the secret service that there could be danger if this president goes out and provokes somebody, trump, excuse me, pence would be

the target. so i think it was a good move by short. >> and carl, how big a deal do you think it is, this navarro indictment? >> well, i think it's a big deal in that it indicates the defiance of all of the people around donald trump to tell the story of what happened and especially the story of attempting to keep joe biden from succeeding to the presidency. everything that bob and don have just been talking about goes to january 6th, goes to 1:00 p.m., january 6th, which is the only time specified in the law in which the president of the united states can be formally elected. and everything that trump did, everything that steve bannon advocated, everything that the lawyers around trump tried to set up was to prevent that election from occurring on january 6th at 1:00 p.m. and that includes trying to get pence out of the picture so

pence could not preside over the duly-elected president of the united states to take office. so what we have is really a seditious president of the united states trying to foment insurrection to keep his successor from taking office, staging a coup, the president of the united states. and what the january 6th committee is doing, i think from bob's reporting, my reporting, is establishing a timeline that will show definitively how donald trump, his lawyers, and those closest to him attempted to stage this coup so there would be no real election of the president of the united states, and trump would continue to be in office. >> bob, is -- >> it's extraordinary. >> is it clear to you how, what peter navarro's role was, if any, behind the scenes in the attempt to overturn the election? >> he's one of these trump

acolytes and whatever trump wanted, as best i can tell, navarro was willing to do. but you got to step back and realize, and john dean is the lawyer, knows this. it is a crime to subvert the lawful function of government. it is not ambiguous. it goes back 100 years. chief justice taft of all people, saying that this is exactly the sort of trickery and deceit that is a crime and, you know, the section is 371 of the criminal code. we have, in hand, all the evidence. and the justice department realizes this, as does the january 6th committee to show that this was an organized conspiracy to subvert democracy.

can't say it anymore directly. >> john, somebody like peter navarro, do you think there's a chance he would end up cooperating? or is it, i mean, i don't know what his income stream is. i don't know if he makes money doing speaking engagements in trump orbit and this helps him in some way, like he does with bannon? >> he has acted since the day he went in the white house, contrary to the norms, standard procedures. he's always played at the edge. he's leepdaped into the white he that were not really his mandate. and now, with the court looking at him and asking him to obey the rules of congress, again, defiant, he files an action. doesn't even comply with the rules of procedure, won't hire a lawyer. he doesn't seem to want to have a normal relationship with his government. so it's a little bit, you know, i think that they're going to throw the book at him, starting with the contempt citation. >> the fact the justice

department hasn't indicted mark meadows, despite a contempt referral from congress, what does that say? >> i'm not sure what it says, whether or not the justice department is going to wait to issue a whole raft of indictments. i think the first thing we have to do is see what the january 6th committee does in its report and in its hearings. we still have hearings that are upcoming that are going to show the width and breadth of this conspiracy, led by the president of the united states, to undermine the most basic democratic function of our republic, the free election of the president of the united states and his successor taking office as a result of that free election. we are in a situation that we have never been in as residents in the united states, even under richard nixon. richard nixon got on a helicopter and agreed, because he knew he had to resign, got on

the helicopter and left town. donald trump did something no president has ever done. he said i'm going to stay here behind this desk. i am not going to admit that i lost the election. i am going to stay here and remain the president of the united states past the point where joe biden, the elected president of the united states, was supposed to take office. this is a conspiracy led by a president of the united states such as we have never seen. that is why it is a seditious act. that is why trump is a seditious president in addition to what bob is saying, being a criminal president. so we're in territory here that we have never seen. and even more remarkable is that the republican party, unlike with richard nixon, which helped push richard nixon out of office and forced him to resign, this republican party today is supporting donald trump, supporting his insurrection,

trying to undermine the january 6th committee. so we now have, instead of a real democratic, lower case system, in which the institutions of government try to come up with the truth about what happened, as in watergate. we now have one of the political parties dedicated to suppressing the truth. >> we're going to pick up this conversation after a short break. a lot more to talk about and later on the program, new reporting of what students of rob elementary school went through as hay they waited for police to storm that classroom. officials now trying to avoid answers any questions altogether. more ahead.

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reads navarro indicted as justice department opts not to charge scavino. the house recommended contempt charges against all three white house aides over stonewalling of january 6th inquiry. what do you make of the doj refusing to charge maddows and scavino? >> my initial reaction is these people might be working on a deal. that's the reason they may not have been indicted. it sounds like they have rev reviewed the evidence, reviewed the limited cooperation and feel it's sufficient to not bring charges. >> because he did turn over text messages. >> he turned over a lot actually and i don't know about scavino, what he did or did not do. but i think justice realizes they don't have a really strong case and isn't flagrant like it is with bannon and navarro. >> yeah. bob, we're just learning this for the first time from the times. what's your reaction. >> well, first of all, you can't

tell, but what we do know is that the january 6th committee and the justice department in their own way which is much more cautious, they are relentlessly and aggressively, and i, quite believe, thoughtfully, going about trying to get to the bottom of this and if you go back to watergate, and you look, carl and i were able to do some of the stories and piece together the outlines. quite frankly, thanks to carl who found the bookkeeper, so we got on the trail of the money which was the path, ultimately, to nixon, that, so, they're proceeding in their way and i've been impressed with the people involved in the seriousness.

but you learn things two, sometimes months, sometimes year later. in watergate, if you'll indulge me for a moment, it was two years after watergate or at, after nixon resigned that the senate watergate established that part of the espionage and sabotage campaign nixon was running, they had hired senator muskey's chauffeur as a spy $1,000 a month. this is the guy who's carrying documents from muskey's senate office to his presidential headquarters, and there was so much to give john mitchell and the nixon people, he rented an apartment and a xerox machine and gave the nixon campaign the

kind of visibility that -- almost unheard of. it's the kind of situation that the cia, if they had a close aide or somebody on the household staff of putin, they would die for, to get this kind of incredible visibility. so we learn that many years later, there are things about january 6th and trump that we are -- this is peeling the onion, and it's just going to take time. and people think, oh, there's going to be a flash of insight. there may be many flashes, but i think this is going to go on for a long time. >> carl, what's your expectations for the first hearings starting next week from the january 6th committee? >> already, from what i've been told, that the committee has shown and acquired enough

information from both documents and witnesses, to show a real conspiracy, going into the oval office, to subvert the constitution and electoral process in which joe biden would take office. and it goes from the white house to the insurrection at the capitol itself. there are many, many elements of this, but what this committee has done, from what i can see so far, is to establish a time line of both the president's conduct, a time line of what happened involving the demonstrators getting to pence, all these pieces are starting to fit together and the committee has an awful lot of the evidence. and instead of cooperating with that committee, the other political party, unlike what happened in watergate -- the watergate committee was, came about because there was a 77 to zero vote to create the

watergate investigation. what do we have today? no republicans to speak of besides liz cheney supporting the most important investigation of the presidency, perhaps in our lifetimes and the republican party is trying to suppress it. and it's suppressing it in part because they know many of the republicans in the senate and the house know that this committee has the goods, and is on their way to establishing a record of something we have never seen in the history of the united states in terms of the seditious conduct of the president. >> also want to mention adam kinsinger who has been very brave on this. john, you were obviously the star witness in watergate hearings. i want to display your testimony and conversation you had with president nixon. >> i began with telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it.

>> how much is at stake for the select committee in these upcoming hearings? >> i think it's true. i think that observation, that metaphor still applies to the presidency, but actually, with multiples. i think we're in much more serious condition, and much more threatened, our democracy is more threatened. >> saying there would be multiple cancers on the presidency. >> i'm not sure i would use the same metaphor, but i -- there's certainly a cancerous atmosphere that's surrounding the presidency and our democracy. it's -- it's reached out. my hope is this committee does a good job in educating and alerting people to the seriousness of the situation. i think that's why the fact they're using pretty high level people, unlike watergate as bob and carl remember, they started with very, very minor players at the outset. the networks almost pulled their

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we're learning some new details tonight about what was going on inside robb elementary school as police officers in uvalde texas were gathering outside, some standing in the hallway. according to a transcript reviewed by "the new york times," a 10-year-old student called 911 pleading for help saying, and i quote, there's a lot of bodies. i don't want to die. my teacher is dead. my teacher is dead. please send help. send help for my teacher, she is shot but still alive. "the new york times" reports that call was made 37 minutes after the shooting began in the classrooms. 37 minutes after with police waiting outside, 15 of them, as many as 15 at times in the hallway listening to gunshots going off. 23 minutes about 11 minutes into that call, because the call lasted for a long time, the

sound of gunfire could be heard. 23 minutes after the call ended, the gunman was shot and killed by a border patrol tactical unit. the report comes after much criticism, obviously, the police response by families who waited outside as well as by texas law enforcement officials and others. here with me now is cnn cry is and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz who has been digging into this story extensively trying to get answers. texas officials say 19 police officers waiting outside the hallways. did they have access to the information coming from the 911 calls? >> so yeah, it's believed that some of them did. if they were the local police, at least what we've been told is that the local police officers had access to the 911 calls. you can hear the dispatchers. there is video out there where you can hear a dispatcher relaying about students being in the classroom. officers, they had to know that people were inside that classroom alive. >> did the incident commander, the person who now some texas law enforcement officials have

said made the wrong decision, that that was the person who decided not to go into the classroom, did that person have the radio? >> so "the new york times" is reporting that they did not have their radio, and we've heard that out there. the significance of that is i don't know. it's really hard to tell because there were other officers there with radios. he was on his cell phone calling and requesting more units to come and more tactical gear. so really you can't blame this on a radio. you can't blame this on not hearing 911 calls. this was just a really terrible, terrible decision, catastrophic decision that he made. right now everyone is saying he was the person that was in charge. it's chief arredondo, and it was his decision not to go into that room. >> there's been such, you know, obs obs occasion, lies, mission direction, all the talk that this guy was barricaded in the

system as though he had some kind of barricading system. the door was locked. all that talk of, well, it was barr barricaded, he contained himself in the classroom. they were standing in the halls while he was shooting children and teachers over the course of an hour. i cannot believe that texas officials from the governor on down are just now silent. there's no new information coming out? >> right, when it was convenient for them and when they wanted to put out their own stories, you couldn't get them to stop talking. i mean, we had dps spokespeople coming to us every day talking to us. their story wasn't making any sense. >> they wanted to tell stories about the other police officers who broke windows to help other students get out. >> or even the story about the resource officer, the school officer having some kind of encounter with the gunman which totally turned out not to be true at all. when it was convenient for them, they were talking. now when there are all these holes in their story and it's come to light that they were

basically giving us bad information, everyone now is hiding behind the idea that there's now an investigation and so we can't talk anymore, and that's a problem because there's been so much bad information, and now they've just completely shut down right. and arredondo, the incident commander tells you, you finally, you know, corner him as he's, you know, or get him as he's going into work one day, he's suddenly now -- he's remained silent. he says, well, we're not talking because of -- out of, you know, it's disrespectful to families. once they stop grieving, as if that's ever going to happen, we'll give out information. that makes no sense. >> it makes no sense at all, and it's just not the way you do these investigations or how you give information. they should have given us a full briefing from the beginning. that's how they do things in these shootings. you gate briefing. >> and it's the grieving families who want to know why their children are dead.

>> i'm not sure they have ever told the families what has happened here. the funerals are over and it will be interesting to see if they do, if they tell them because the families certainly are owed some explanation for what went wrong here. >> you can talk about school safety. unless you know what happened and what went wrong, we have to learn from this. that's -- i mean, shimon, i appreciate your reporting. it's been outstanding. as tensions remain high in china due to the country's strict covid policy, viral videos of some of china's so-called big whites, that's what they're calling armies of these covid workers showing them beating people in some cases, dragging them from their homes, kicking down doors. cnn can't independently verify the authenticity of all these videos. cnn's selina wang has details ahead. seven days to love it or my money back... i love it! i thought online meant no one to help me, but susan from carvana had all the answers.

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armies of covid workers in full body white protective gear, shanghai may be exiting the harsh lockdown, but china's covid war is not over. since lockdowns began in cities across china, hazmat workers have become symbols to many of authoritarian excess. in this community, a covid worker repeatedly beats a man with a stick, this covid worker forcefully shoves a woman to the ground. she hits the pavement, then clutches her head in pain. in another video, a covid worker kicks and slaps a man to the ground. and a brigade of covid enforcers drag this woman out of her apartment in shanghai. she screams that she'll go with them if she can just get her shoes. she tries to resist with all her strength but in vain. cnn was not able to verify the identities of the people involved or the circumstances in these videos, or even if they all related to covid control and authorities did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

most of the big whites are healthcare workers, volunteers and police officers, genuinely trying to help their communities. while extreme violence from the covid enforcers is rare, these viral videos sparked outrage, underscoring people's growing frustrations are china's zero covid policy. this video in particular, horrified shanghai residents earlier when they were locked down. it shows nine police officers in hazmat suits surrounding a man in a shanghai community with some relentlessly beating and kicking him. he tries to run away but they catch him and continue to throw their punches. cnn geolocated where this beating happened. i called the local police station. so she seems to have seen the video. she knows the video exists, says she's going to call over her colleague who is going to give me a call back. but i never got the call back so i tried again.

he told me that this never happened, and then he just hung up. >> reporter: this isn't the image of covid control china wants. this is more desirable. government propaganda called covid enforcers big whites, a nod to the cute and inflatable robot from big hero 6. hello, i am baymax. like baymax, the state media videos aren't lifting peoples spirits, helping the elderly, even climbing ladders to deliver covid tests, but the image of the big whites sullied by the horrific behavior of some, possibly empowered by the anonymity of their white suits, numerous videos showed them beating residents, barricading them in their homes, breaking doors to take people to quarantine, climbing into houses through windows to disinfect, even beating pets to death.

chinese social media even started calling the covid enforcers white guards referring to the red guards of the cultural revolution, who salve s savagely beat, tortured and killed. but most of the videos of the big whites are gone, censored from social media. but the big white's cruelty, already seared into so many people's minds, shaking people's faith in the chinese government. >> i mean, selina, the videos are so sickening, this behavior of some of these officers. you say these examples are rare, but do we know if any of these workers have been punished? >> reporter: no, anderson, we do not and you heard part of my call there with a local shanghai police where the beating actually happened. he denied it ever happened and hung up on me. the other cases, authorities did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

in fact, our conversation right now, anderson, is being censored in live time in china, the tv screen of cnn channel next to me just shows color bars that there's no signal, but the scars of this lockdown in shanghai are going to be permanent. many see this brutality as examples of how some covid enforcers in china lost all sense of humanity pursuing zero covid at all costs because this policy in china has become militarized, ideological. to criticize the policy is to criticize the man all the way at the top. >> and you can't even see their faces so there's no way to identify who they are from the videos even to discipline them if anybody was so inclined which the government doesn't seem to be. selina wang, important reporting, thank you, just horrific to watch. coming up next, something completely different, and hopefully make you feel better. what may be the biggest celebration in the world right now.

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right now the united kingdom is in the middle of a massive celebration of queen elizabeth's 70-year reign. already there has been no shortage of pomp to match the circumstance. it is tempered some by concerns over her health, and the occasional political protest. max foster has more. >> reporter: the bells toll for

the queen as guests arrive at st. paul's cathedral in london for the thanksgiving service, including former pms, the mayor of london, and ministers. prime minister boris johnson also in attendance, receiving boos from the crowd. but perhaps the most notorious guests were prince harry and meghan. welcomed with cheers in what was their first public appearance as a couple at a royal event in two years since a very public break from royal life. the duke and duchess of cambridge made their way to the cathedral next, closely followed by the duchess of cornwall and prince charles. he was there to represent the queen in the celebration after the monarch felt discomfort as the queen walks from windsor castle, charles took her seat, one that he's ordained to one

day take himself as king. even in her absence, the queen's public service, her life, and even her love for horse racing were at the heart of this event. >> your majesty, we are sorry that you're not here with us this morning. but we are so glad that you are still in the saddle. >> reporter: a touching service, enchanted by the cathedral and royal and military choirs and prayers. >> keep on doing -- >> reporter: and even a reading from the prime minister himself. the ceremony wasn't without its hiccups, including a last minute change of archbishop after the archbishop of canterbury contracted covid-19. it was a beautiful and cheerful ceremony, honoring the longest-serving monarch of great britain and at the first royal event at st. paul's cathedral without the queen in 70 years. max foster, cnn, st. paul's

cathedral in london. still to come tonight, new reporting, the 15-year disappearance of madeleine mccann. we'll be right back.

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cnn has a new special report. missing madeline mccain. randi kaye has a new special report about madeleine mccann's disappearance in 2007. it details major developments that have led to a suspect. >> in june 2020, a major break through in the case, but this time in germany, more than 1,500 miles away from the crime scene. prosecutors named the first formal suspect in the case since the mccanns were cleared. >> madeline beth mccann. a german national named christian bruekner. due to german privacy laws, officials here refer to him as christian b. a convicted rapist and known child abuser who lived and worked around the ocean club. >> prosecutors say the suspect lived in this house in portugal. they also say a cell phone listed under his name has been

located to have been in the area at the time of maddie's disappearance. authorities released pictures of these two vehicles he used at the time. another clue, british police say he tried to reregister one of them after maddie vanished. most intriguing is he reregistered the car on may the 4th. this is the day after madeleine went missing. >> two years after german authorities went public, breukner still has not been formally charged, and he denies any involvement in the mccann case. >> the news continues. let's hand it over to the laura coates and "cnn tonight". this is cnn tonight. frankly it's another frustrating night for the families of and teachers and children who were massacred in uvalde, along with survivors of the attack. they're all about to head into yet another week