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house officials that resigned after the deadly capitol attack on january six. tomorrow? testifying publicly. >> the president started talking about the rally. >> after talking to the committee behind closed doors. >> one of my staff brought me a print out of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn't have the courage to do what should have been done. i -- i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that's where i knew that i was leaving that day once are i read that tweet. >> reporter: pottiger served
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under trump for four years. the former marine was brought into the white house by top asea advisor michael flynn. he alerted mark meadows the national guard had still not arrived at the capitol on january 6th. a source tells cnn his inaction led to her resignation that night. >> he said that we could make the rinos do the right thing, is the way he phrased it. and no one spoke up initially, because i think everyone was trying to process what he meant by that. >> reporter: now she will testify about what he experienced in the white house that day. >> it was clear that it was escalating and escalating quickly, so when that tweet -- the mike pence tweet was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that
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needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad, and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. >> reporter: the kent state graduate had spent her adult life working in politics spending her summers interning for portman, then speaker of the house john boehner and helping with the 2016 republican convention. joining trump's re-election campaign before being brought over to the white house by press secretary kayleigh mcenany. their testimony comes after that of another white house aide, cassidy hutchinson. and on these two witnesses along with former white house counsel pat cipollone whose video testimony we anticipate seeing large chunks of tomorrow will really help shape the focus of that hearing, which we expect to be 187 minutes. lawmakers examining the amount of time that former president donald trump did not act as that violence was unfolding at the
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capitol. don? >> all right, thank you very much for that. i appreciate it. now i want to bring in cnn contributor and nixon white house counsel mr. john dean, and cnn chief legal analyst mr. jeffrey toobin. good evening, gentlemen. jeffrey, the january 6th committee has snippets of outtakes the day after the riot. listen, this is what congressman adam schiff told me about it. watch. >> there are people urging him to say things to try to get the rioters, the attackers to go home. there are things that he can't be prevailed upon to do or say not for hours and hours. and then ultimately when he does give a statement still things he wouldn't say. so you'll have to wait until tomorrow evening to see precisely what that is. >> this could shed a whole lot of light on his state of mind in the wake of the riot. that could be revealed, right? >> yeah, don. so much of this investigation
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has been about former president trump's state of mind. you know, was he someone who was trying to just get the right answer about how the votes were counted? or was he doing whatever it took to get his vote total ahead of joe biden's regardless of what the actual vote totals were? you know, outtakes are an extremely useful piece of evidence in that regard because you get to see the real unvarnished charm. you get to see him -- see what his staff wanted him to say, and you see him saying what he really wanted to say. so i think that should be an extremely revealing part of the hearing tomorrow is hearing these outtakes. >> the tug-of-war, right, between i want to say this, you can't say that, this is what you should say and so on. the committee has already laid out how many people were begging
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trump to act, jeffrey, and he just didn't. doing nothing it might not be a crime, but does it say something about his motives and his intentions for the 6th? is that -- is that prosecutable? you know where i'm going with this. >> yeah, it's all -- it's all part of the issue of the state of mind. just to go back to our state of mind on january 6th, you know, we were all either covering or watching what was going on. this was a life or death struggle. everybody knew it at the time. i mean, it was a tremendously violent confrontation in the capitol, and there was one person in the united states who could have shut it down, and it was donald trump. and 187 minutes, that's a long time. that's, you know, more than three hours that he let it go on. and included in that three hours
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is the tweet about mike pence, which stirred up the crowd even more. so rather than pouring water on the fire, he was pouring fuel on the fire at least at 2:24 during the -- with that tweet. so it's going to be so interesting to see what more detail we get about what trump was doing and saying and to whom during those three hours. >> i wonder how much this matters because, john, both of these staffers testifying tomorrow quit because of trump's actions on january 6th. what difference does it make to have white house insiders giving us this information, and white house insiders so upset by what happened that they quit? >> well, i think we have something of an adversarial posture between the white house and these witnesses. they'd been attacked by the former staffers that were still trump supporters, and trump has
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apparently thrown some grenades as well. they don't want to have their reputation smeared as trump would want to do, so they are going to come forward with a lot of facts, some we know of, some we don't know of. and i think it's going to be really gripping television. it's prime time, so you know the committee has thought about how to present a powerful case for the audience. they've got america's attention, and they'll try to, i think, use these witnesses and other information they have gathered to make the points that they feel will kind of wrap this up. it is not the end of their investigation. it's not a summary report, but rather it's going to delve into his dereliction of duty, which is pretty horrible. >> you know, jeffrey, we saw pat cipollone, right. we only saw a small portion of him, the former white house counsel pat cipollone.
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what would it mean if the committee could back up the hutchinson testimony, that trump thought pence deserved to be targeted by that mob? >> well, it could be legally very significant because again this goes to the issue of state of mind. if you have the white house counsel saying to the president you can't do this, this is illegal -- and according to cassidy hutchinson there were -- cipollone kept saying everybody's going to go to jail if this continues. this is in many respects the most important part of the -- of the evidence because, you know, the ultimately -- i think the most important legal issue is did donald trump know or support or endorse violence at the capitol? and seeing what he did while watching that violence unfold
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and perhaps hearing advice from his aides who were saying stop this, this is, you know, criminality, that could be extremely significant to the justice department if and when they do an investigation of him. >> i feel like sometimes i'm -- you know, the two stories are so similar, it's unbelievable to have you here, john dean, talking about it because these same questions would be pertinent questions for what happened with richard nixon and watergate. the january 6th committee saying, quote, they have concerns about the secret service's handling of text messages. our jaymee gangel saying earlier that's code for poor service. >> how poorly the secret service did in that where they had an 18
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1/2 minute gap they couldn't really -- >> that's why i said it. >> they had a whole missing reel that is the one i revealed, my conversation where i thought i was taped, and that whole thing disappeared. so this is an agency with a history. i've always been surprised how political donald trump -- i shouldn't say surprised. he made everything political, but he certainly politicized the secret service. he brought his own man in to run it. he took the head of his own detail and made him a deputy chief of staff for operations, which is just an unheard of position where an agent literary steps over the detail to take over everything from advances to really protecting the president personally as well as politically. and i think that's what's happened with this agency, and we don't know what all has gone on, but the missing -- the
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missing conversation like i've alluded to earlier, the fact they're very responsible for making the president's daily diary. a lot of the information that the diarists from the national archives collects, he or she get that from the secret service. there's seven hours missing for this -- for january 6th. that's still never been explained. we've kind of moved onto other missing problems, but that's all going to be addressed now. >> obviously that's a huge problem. we don't know, all right, and the investigation has to play out. considering everything you've heard about the secret service and your history of it, sounds to me like you're saying you wouldn't put it past him? >> i wouldn't put it past this presently constructed secret service. >> tell me why. i know you talked about it a little bit he put his own man in charge and he politicized it. >> that's it. he politicized it, and they were answering not to the government in general in trying to protect the incumbent president, they were trying to help him get
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re-elected and may have wbeen trying to overturn an election. we'll find out. >> wow, jeffrey. i don't know if you even want to respond to that. can we move on? >> you know, it's a really chilling thing because the secret service is supposed to be entirely a political, they protect a handful of people starting at the top with the president. if they see it as their job to protect the president politically in addition to physically, that's really going to change people's perceptions of the secret service and not in a good way. and the secret service has done nothing to enhance its reputation by this incredibly bumbling way that they have dealt with this issue of text
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messages. and bumbling is the charitable explanation. the sinister way that they were engaged in a cover-up. we'll see what's the correct answer. >> let me ask you this, john, do you think that's a misperception people have about the secret service, that it's apolitical and people aren't ideological. a lot of law enforcement conservative, nothing wrong with that but that's just the truth. wouldn't that be similar when it comes to the secret service and especially considering your history and your knowledge of the secret service? >> yes and no. i think the protective detail gets very attached personally to the president, and that's not surprising. these are people willing to give up their life to protect him. so the fact that they are more than lamps in the room when they're there -- and most presidents recognize that -- >> got it. >> so this is troubling this has happened to this agency, that
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trump's politicizing things causes these kind of problems. >> jeffrey, let's talk about giuliani, state investigation because a new york judge is ordering rudy giuliani to testify next month in fulton county, georgia, probe of efforts to undermine the 2020 election. how big a development is this? >> well, we'll see if he actually testifies. you know, any lawyer in his right mind would tell rudy to take the fifth because rudy is really exposed especially in the georgia investigation, which is moving quickly and in a very aggressive way by the fulton county district attorney. but, you know, she is -- she is pushing forward. she's named a whole bunch of new targets of her investigation. she's got rudy, you know, coming into the grand jury. it'll be important if he testifies, but i wouldn't put a lot of money on him actually testifying in the grand jury. i think he'll take the fifth. >> i just want to say that
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giuliani was one of several close trump allies subpoenaed along with lindsey graham and john eastman. so there you go. there it is on your screen. thank you, gentlemen. good to see you. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. >> all right, don. >> one text message, that's all the secret service has managed to turn over out of a months worth of records for 24 secret service personnel. no wonder the committee is expressing concerns. are they hiding something? >> the secret service remains committed to cooperating fully with the committee. for people who are a little intense about hydration. neutrogena® hydro boost lightweight. fragrance-free. 48 hour hydration. for that healthy skin glow. neutrogena®. for people with skin. 30 million u.s. adults have a sleep disorder or sleep apnea, which causes fatigue, snoring and a lack of motivation. i've talked to health care providers, i've searched online, but it wasn't until cpap.com
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the january 6th select
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committee expressing concerns about the secret service's handling of cellphone data after the agency turned over just one text exchange requested by investigators. i want to bring in now michael fanone who defended the capitol january 6th and juliette kayyem, the author of "the devil thev sleeps, learning to live in the age of disasters." michael, thank you. you have a book coming out, which we mentioned. what's it called again? >> "hold the line." >> when does it come out again? >> october 11th. >> as a former mpd officer and someone who defended the capitol on january 6th you don't buy what you're hearing from the secret service. why not, mike? >> well, first of all, for a great deal of my career i worked closely with federal agencies,
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atf, fbi, dea, and i know how seriously they take the storage of data, specifically that of text communications, e-mails, things like that. and so i just don't buy the excuse that secret service is giving. you know, normally i look at situations like this as the litmus test i go by is were they dumb or were they dirty? and i think normally it lends itself more to the former, but in this instance there's just too many things that don't add up. and i think there's something more sinister at play here. >> listen, juliette, you're shaking your head in agreement with what mike said, but can investigators try to recover these secret service text messages and try to figure out if they were deleted deliberately as mike is
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insinuating here possibly? >> yes, they definitely could. the irony here is the secret service is one of the major federal agencies that investigates data and forensics cases. so the irony is, of course, they would never buy this argument from someone they were investigating. it's just too incredulous at this time. what they can do is they can look and see whose other texts were deleted. if it just happens to be those 40 guys, what do they have in common? so you're going to look at were they friends, were they all on the same detail? were they all coordinated by a particular individual? you can also see who's texting whom. so you can go back to the telephone or the phone logs and the phone companies and determine what if 202-555-1111 was calling these numbers over
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the course of the days. the content of what's in those texts is important, there's no question about it. but what's already happened seems to prove the case that the secret service doesn't want us to see those texts. i find it like michael incredulous at this stage that they want us to buy this argument that they happened to have a data transfer in the very month that there's a presidential transition and a new president coming onboard with just what the secret service was in charge of. and they're told twice not to delete anything, and this just happened to happen. you know, cry me a river at this stage. >> does it make any sense to you that the secret service would trust employees to voluntarily back up their information considering the level of work that they are responsible for? i mean the president of the united states, the vice president and so on? >> i don't know any agency that trusts, you know, the holder of
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whatever the device is to back up their own data. i mean, metropolitan police department and my former agency, we were a little late in the game when it came to issuing perm devices. but i know from spending the last month or so with the department working in the technological and analytical services bureau that even a broke department like ours still had the sophistication to back up data. and when devices were upgraded that data was stored and preserved. >> yeah. mike, in carol leonnig and philip rutgers book they report trump refused to get in the car january 6th because he was worried his detail would take him away from the capitol against his wishes. what do you know -- what does
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that say to you? >> me? >> i asked for mike, but go ahead. >> to me there's a level of distrust between mike pence and the individuals that were going to be evacuating him from the capitol complex. i can't speak to what was in his mind at that moment, whether he was concerned about whether they bring him back to the capitol so he could finish his work or whether there were something more worrisome that he was concerned about. but certainly a level of distrust. >> juliette, go ahead. >> oh, i would agree with that. pence knows that if he leaves the capitol the constitutional duty will be harder because what trump has on his side is delay. the longer trump can delay this, the more mayhem there's going to be, the more violence, more questions. and then his media outlets say
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what's going on, we have to do a do over and people lose boxes and electoral votes. this was trump's school, the longer you can delay it -- as he said you create the noise, let me take care of it, the more lawsuits that would be brought. and so i do think that pence understood that his physical presence at the capitol was essential because if he leaves it is not at all clear when he's going to be able to get back. and he constitutionally is the one who has to certify it the votes that day. so whatever you think of mike pence, he made the right judgment call never leaving the facility. you do not leave that facility because you don't know when you're getting back. >> mike, we know there were firearms at the ellipse on the morning of january 6th, so why didn't officials clear out the mall? why was trump allowed to be in the vicinity of someone with an ar-15? >> that's a great damn question, don. i still don't have -- i still don't think we've gotten a real
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answer to that from the secret service. you know, one of the things that led me to the conclusion that these text messages being deleted were -- was nefarious was the totality of the circumstances when it comes to the secret service's behavior on january 6th. think about it. you have individuals who are being reported by law enforcement in possession of firearms, one specifically that i remember played by the select committee, a radio transmission where an individual was in a tree with an ar-15. how that would not garner a reaction from the secret service that would remove the president from that area, shutdown, you know, any activities that were taking place is just mind-boggling to me. it makes absolutely no sense. >> i have to just add one thing,
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and then five minutes later or couple hours later, mike is exactly right. number two, pence is under threat. number three, nancy pelosi is under threat. there is no way you leave trump in the oval office. he's going downstairs. he's going into hiding if you're doing this right because you have number 2 and 3 under threat and that never happens. so i'm exactly with mike, which is this is not right. >> and, you know, don, if that wasn't crazy enough, after all of this takes place the secret service then requests my former department, the metropolitan police department, to assist them in securing a route to transport donald trump to the capitol complex. i -- that's just -- that in and of itself is insane. >> yeah. it's got to be frustrating, too. the previous question i had when people say when you hear trump supporters and conservative media saying there were no
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firearms on january 6th, that nobody was armed, that's got to be frustrating especially for people like you who helped to defend the capitol. >> yep. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. trump aides testifying to the january 6th committee, but when republicans speak out against trump the backlash from within their own party begins. that's next. plus a great white shark washing up on a long island beach today. look at that. whew. it again the next day. so betty can be the... barcode beat conductor. ♪ go betty! ♪ let's be more than our allergies! zeize the day. with zyrtec.
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so tomorrow we're set to hear from the people who were right next to then-president as
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he watched on tv when trump supporting rioters stormed capitol hill, but how are republicans reacting to what they're seeing and hearing? let's talk about it. the author of "thank you for your servitude." mark, such a pleasure to have you on. thanks for joining us this evening. let's get right to it. we've heard from so many full on trump supporters from attorney general bill barr to ivanga trump, disputing trump's election lies. this is the innermost circle, but they don't call him teflon don for nothing. give me your take. >> it's pretty striking just the silence. there's just not been a big line of republicans running to his defense. what's been triking about this the witnesses by and large have been all republicans. these are not peripheral figures, obviously. and i think one of the central questions i ask in the book is
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how could donald trump remain so teflon in over six, seven years to a point where he probably if he wants it could run for president again and be the nominee of the party? and i think the question is no one really stood up to him and continues not to stand up to him. and, yes, i think these hearings have been an object lesson what quiet courage and patriotism in telling the truth can look like. but ultimately it stands in contrast to the cowardice and silence we've heard pretty much every step of the way. i think without the republican party donald trump wouldn't be possible. >> for your book you spoke with former wyoming senator alan simpson and he said this is not a party anymore, it's a cult. wow. does the january 6th hearing have some people looking to maybe deprogram? >> well, maybe. i don't think particularly buy the notion that donald trump is
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really as weak or weaker in the republican party as he might have been. look, i think he ultimately -- i think there are a lot of people who would like to move on. again, if he wants the nomination he can have it. when i did the reporting for this book, when you talk to people, republicans, i mean there's never been such a bigger gap between what republicans will say privately about donald trump, which is really quite contemptuous often, and what they'll say publicly, which is just the siycophantancy we've seen over and over again. >> i'm glad you said that because the perfect question for you is what adam kensinger said to you about the difference about talking to trump in personen versus your fellow
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republicans. he said if you put them on truth serum they knew the elukz was fully legitimate and donald trump was a joke. the vast majority of the people get the joke. the thing is we all know what has happened to republicans who have spoken out against trump, and that is nothing good, mark. >> well, you know, it depends on how you measure it. there are certain people like liz cheney and jeff blake and adam kinzinger and a few others who take a longer view and say they're playing for keeps. they want their children to sort of look proudly how they contributed during a very precarious moment in american history. they actually care about their legacy. but there's also a number of instances in reporting this book where i would talk to lindsey graham or talk to kevin mccarthy or a number of people and say do you worry about your legacy? do you worry about being remembered as a person who lied for donald trump? they would look at me like i had
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three heads and say why would i care about that? where is the statue of jeff flake or liz cheney? as if to say there's no reason to look beyond the day to day expedancies in keeping donald trump happy or not triggering in him in some way. i would be talking to kevin mccarthy and it would be like there's a big orange light fixture about to fall on his head whenever i'd mention trump's name. his body language would tense up and you would see it over and over again. >> viscerally you could see -- physically you see -- is that fear you're seeing? >> absolutely. absolutely. in some ways it's a joke. to use the old washington phrase, you've got to get the joke. that's like an unspoken truth that wouldn't be prudent to say on the record but we all know what we're dealing with here. i think by and large many
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republicans would say they understand donald trump is not fit to be president and at worse is a criminally dangerous character, but, again, it's a bad career move to say it in public, and self-per pechuation is the drug that keeps them here. >> the quote for lindsey graham said he's good for business, which is all about personal gain and that's not going to change. you spoke with the former republican congressmen who told you the party's real problem for dealing with trump in 2024 is to, quote, wait for him to die. he said the only other strategy is to hope he goes away. that's it? that's all they got? >> yeah, i mean, to emphasize this was a member -- he's a republican member of congress saying this to me. and essentially i think it goes very -- i mean it's obviously a dark view, but it goes to the pesivity of so many people in the republican party just hoping the problem goes away by itself
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and we won't have to do anything. to me that's the ultimate path of least resistance. i think if you want to change something in politics you should speak up. and i think history will probably remember those who have more favorably than those who haven't. >> let's be on the book on your personal view. are these hearings penetrating at all? >> much more than i thought they would. i had fairly modest expectations, but i think they've been tremendous. i think they've been handled really well. i love the fact the members of the panel aren't giving these long speeches, and i think ultimately the republicans have been the witnesses, the republicans in the room have been effective, and it's been simple and sparse. ultimately there's going to be a blockade of information among a big part of the country, but i think it's going to be pretty good so far and i hope it continues. >> thank you, sir. the book again is called "thank you for your servitude." and we appreciate you joining us. thank you so much.
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okay? >> thanks, don. appreciate it. an unarmed chicago 13-year-old now paralyzed after a police shooting. cnn exclusively obtaining the body cam footage. we're going to show it to you right after this.
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police shooting an unarmed black 13-year-old. attorneys for the teen saying he had his hands up and was turning around to surrender after being pursued when an officer shot him. now he's paralyzed. here's cnn's omar himenez. but i have a warning for you, some of the content in his report is graphic. >> reporter: they were the final moments of a foot chase. body camera videos obtained exclusively by cnn show how it ended with a chicago police officer shooting an unarmed 13-year-old who was running from a stolen vehicle and who lawyers and some witnesses say had his hands up. the 13-year-old's attorneys say the teen was trying to surrender. the officer's attorney says in a split second decision he thought the teen's cellphone was a gun. >> jesus christ. >> you all right? >> yeah, dam it.
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>> reporter: that was the reaction of the officer next to the shooting officer after he fired. shortly after two officers grabbed the 13-year-old who had just been shot by his sweatshirt and legs and carried him away from the gas pump where he was laying. >> they drag him with no regard for this young man, pull him like a rag doll away from the pump to another area after he had already sustained a major injury to his back. >> they're supposed to value the sanctity of human life. there was no value here. >> officers believe they likely struck those gas pumps. >> reporter: chicago police later said they were concerned a gas tank might have been hit by gunfire and could exclude. the shooting officer didn't have his body camera activated until roughly 40 seconds after the shooting, as he asked another officer if his is on. >> is the camera on?
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>> reporter: ball's camera being off was inadvertent, his attorney told cnn, but inexcusable the teen's attorneys say. >> maybe it was a temporary absentmindedness they were involved in a pursuit. they know they're supposed to engage their body cameras. >> reporter: the 13-year-old was a suspect in a stolen car when officers tried to stop it. police say he jumped out and started running, and right as he turns and appears to raise his hands, he's shot at least once leaving him now paralyzed from the waist down, his attorneys say. and for you all, at least, it's clear that his hands are up. >> his hands are up, there was no justification for the officer to shoot. >> reporter: and he was unarmed. >> clearly unarmed. >> reporter: and at least some bystanders on the scene appear to agree. one witness who didn't want to be identified said -- >> his hands was up, and i seen the cop run right up to that boy
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and just start shooting. >> reporter: but the attorney for the shooting officer is looking less at where the hands were and more what he says his client thought was in them. attorney timothy grace wrote to cnn in part, officer ball reasonably believed the object being pointed at him was a firearm and ended up being a cellphone, but officer ball had to make a split second decision as he had no cover and no concealment. he discharged his service weapon to stop the threat. the teen's attorneys argue he was trying to surrender and that the pursuit shouldn't have happened in the first place. >> there's been no charges against him. he was in a stolen vehicle and he ran away. he ran away, and does that warrant being shot in the back and paralyzed from the waist down? >> if all you need is to have someone flee from the police to justify a shooting, we've got real problems in this city and in this country. >> reporter: now, don, the teen's attorneys dispute there was ever anything in his hands
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at all and argue there's no definitive video to prove it. they along with the family have now filed a federal lawsuit against the chicago police department in part to account for the teen's life that has now been altered forever because of these injuries. the chicago police department couldn't comment on the shooting because it's still under investigation by a civilian office of police accountability, but they did confirm this officer was stripped of his police powers at least two days after this shooting pending the outcome of that investigation. don? >> omar, thank you. we'll be right back.
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for the past two weeks i have been talking about shark sightings near beaches near long island and cape cod. i want you to take a look at this. it's a great white a juvenile approximately 7 to 8 feet long washing up this morning on long island beach. police rushing out to take photos after being alerted by a resident. the town's mayor said the atlantic ocean was so rough today the shark washed back out to sea before anyone could come and secure it, and he warned swimmers and boaters to be extra careful with the carcass somewhere out in the water. a shark being spotted so close to shore, some long island beaches have been forced to close temporarily, so state officials are using enhanced beach patrols, drones and helicopters to monitor the situation. be careful. thanks for watching. our coverage continues.
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