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operatives into the county elections office. these operatives were working for one of the former presidents attorneys, sydney powell. this video was taken the same day that a voting system there was, in some way, breach. cnn's drew griffin joins us now with more on that, including some revealing audio. but for now, it's enough to say that the facts of drew's story suggest this was part of a larger coordinated plan to support the election. this isn't just about some threat that is coming on. when it comes to election subversion, the past is never dead. it's not even passed. in fact, the signs right now point to it being prolonged. - - election denier for secretary of state. also in arizona and michigan, people who actually oversee the 2024 election in those states. the republican nominee and at least 21 of this

year's governor races as someone who is projected -- raised doubts about or try to overturn the 2020 election. the former top of the ticket can't seem to quit it either. here's him on saturday. >> it was corruption and election interference on a scale that we have never seen before in our country. the 2020 election was rigged and sold, and now our country is being destroyed by people who got into office to cheating and through fraud. >> for another chance in two years, suggesting repeatedly now that the 2020 election should be re-run are demanding to be declared the winner, as if that is a thing, which is taught. the former president may not be held responsible in any way for january 6th, but the day, a federal judge in mexico -- [inaudible] new mexico, decided to hold one elected official there accountable, removing this guy, the january six rioter and the founder of the group cowboys for trump, from his elected position's county commissioner. he did so on to the 14th amendment's provision, barring

insurrectionists from republican office. it's believed to be the first time it's happened since 1869, which is remarkable enough. but in order to do it, i noted to do a dead, the judge had to rule that the january 6th attack was in fact an insurrection. that too is a first. in a moment, we'll be joined by michigan secretary of state, but first, one the surveillance video from the attempt to overturn the 2020 election in georgia and what it hurt. cnn's juju efren uncovered -- the story behind it, he joins us now. what can you tell us? >> anderson, you covered some of it, the surveillance video shows this election's office in georgia, just one of the states where the speech is about when machines are under investigation, kathy latham. she's the woman there in blue. she used to be chairwoman of the coffee county gop. already under investigation, this woman is, for posing as a fake elector, signing a fake document that declared donald trump the winner of the 2020 election. she's seen escorted

in these pro-trump operatives into a building where we know the machines were breached. there are opened up, the software basically scammed or robbed, you might say. this is the election software system. that's what they were after. one of those people's paul maggiano. he's the i. t. specialist whose company was hired by trump attorney sydney powell. and we know they were breached? well, this guy, scott hall, actually admits to it in audio obtained by cnn. that's got all their. listening -- listen to this audio. >> i'm the guy who charted the jet to go down to coffee county to have them inspect all of those computers. i heard zero. okay? i went down there, we scanned every freaking ballot,

and they scammed all the equipment, and scanned every single ballot. >> that's basically what they did, anderson. scott holism and the -- atlanta bills balms man, and described as a republican operative. we got a response from him today. kathy latham, the girl who opened the door in the video, it's connected to the plan to access these election offices through texts and emails. this is what her tierney told us. miss like them has not acted improperly or illegally. this late him to not authorize or participate in any ballot scanning efforts, computer imaging, or any similar activity. the it specialist firm says it has no reason to believe the lawyers that hired them would direct them to do anything wrong, but there seems no doubt, anderson, this counties machines were compromised and ballots were scanned at the behest of the operatives working for trump. >> we know their investigations into improper acts as a voting machines and multiple of the states. i think connected?

>> the players definitely overlap. this similar breach happened in michigan. it's connected to what happened in georgia. take a look at this video to i'm gonna show you. the ceo of cyber ninjas shows up at this coffee county elections office. this is two weeks later. doug logan, he was there for two days. his company ran that so-called audit in arizona. he's named as a coconspirator and voting machine scheme in michigan. now, here he is in coffee county, georgia, where these election missions were breached. it all seems to be part of a coordinated plan to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. >> appreciate it. as you heard there, -- >> he also had a group of fake electors trying to make their way into the capital to open the work of real electors who are already and stay -- inside the state senate campus. the officers tongue them, quote, the electors are already here. they've been checked in, unquote. this group of fake

electors outside were saying, well, we should be latin. they weren't. we're joined now by democratic michigan -- state asked the federal government to investigate the fake elector scheme there. so, secretary benson, what you make of this video showing two operatives who are working with an attorney for the former president going into the stretch of counties election office the very same day the voting system there was breached? >> i think it underscores both the severity of the attempts to intervene with our elections, also the coordination of it, the fact that this wasn't an isolated incident. and it occurred in many other states. we know that there were attempts in michigan that have been investigated. i know that was connected to an attempt to submit fake electors all designed to try to undermine the will of the people, not just in a few states but really nationally. it also shows it's not isolated. we shouldn't assume, the 2020. that's a focus now. to what extent we need to be prepared for similar times this year and beyond? >> as we mentioned, there's an ongoing investigation in michigan into voting machine tampering. -- look into it. providence is a marriage link being several people who gained

access to the voting systems to the speech in georgia county. to believe the evidence will show this was a coordinated plot ? >> yes. absolutely. what we've seen really over the last couple of years is a complete evidence, ongoing evidence, of coordination among really several states, not just michigan and georgia but also areas are now, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and it's what we lived, frankly, in 2020. we saw many things being attempted in michigan, being attempted in other states as well at the same time. >> when people say there is a breach of a voting system, what

does that mean? doesn't mean someone breaking into it? >> that means potentially that. it means someone is gained access to -- those various things -- and you are not authorized to have access to the machines cannot have access to machines regardless of what they do when they've had that access. what it also causes is, regardless of what happens once that access is obtained, we have to decommission that machine. we've done that in michigan, it's helped in other states, and replace that machine. ultimately, we don't know the extent of the damage. we have to ensure for every election that we have full confidence that our machines are secure. >> we're now nine weeks from the midterms. as you're the person responsible for michigan's election, what are most concerned about and the lead up to election day in your state? >> i'm concerned, anderson, about violence, both on election day and threats against our -- >> response to, that were making plans. working with local law enforcement and clerks to ensure that if there's any disruptions, even potentially violence or violent threats, that we eliminate it immediately. where they had to

quickly respond to it, and minimize its impact on the election itself. we are preparing for essentially the misinformation that is blended to many aspects of our society over the last few years, or that transform into causing people to act in a way to disrupt our elections. if that does happen, we'll be ready. we'll hold people accountable and work with law enforcement to ensure quick action, and above all, and sure voters have unprotected, unfettered access to our elections, and that our election officials are protected if they do their work as well. >> what do you say to voters who might have concerns? even based on this information, about election integrity in your state? >> one, we invite individuals who are interested in learning more about the process to come to one of the public accuracy

tests prior to the election where they can see the missions for themselves accurately tabulate ballots. that's what we do before every election to test the machines. that's publican open to everyone. we also encourage people to seek out information from trusted sources. we have a website, which can. gov slash vote. -- it's one of the reasons election officials continue to be that trusted source of information providers. the last thing i'll just really emphasize, however, is all these challenges over the last several years of really just made us as a community stronger, more adaptable, more prepared for whatever started us. that's why i'm increasingly confident that we're ready for november. but we're working diligently with law enforcement and everyone else to make sure that's truly the case. >> obviously, there are security concerns that you have about election day itself and the protection of workers. traditionally, election day is not a day where you see a heavy security at polling places, that's really intentional. you don't want the feeling of the state being there overseeing this. how do you walk that line? >> and it. we essentially have a web of individuals across the

state. we don't want that presence. we don't want any efforts to potentially, even unintentionally, intimidate voters from participating on election day. we also need to be able to rapidly respond to any incidents that occur. so in michigan, on election day, we ensure that we have, at all times, someone from my office working with the general, law enforcement, within 5 to 10 minutes of all precincts. as soon as we hear of anything, or able to get there and respond to it mitigate any damage, while also making sure we maintain distance if there's nothing happening so we can ensure the election goes smoothly. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >> next to mar-a-lago, the search. new reporting just now on how sensitive some documents where. also, what are legal and political experts -- former toonie general is saying about the ruling, whether the justice department should appeal or whether the -- no one else is entitled to. later, and the search for a

-- some sees documents were so closely held that only the president, a cabinet level officials could authorize others to know. trying to connect with reporters on the story right now. there's also this just in -- senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner says he and his members are expecting a briefing soon from the intelligence community on sensitive documents recovered from mar-a-lago. chairman warner indicating that he is trying to get a update without waiting for a final report. meantime, on judge aileen cannon's -- special master be appointed to be -- one of the former presidents attorney general said about it last night, on fox. >> the opinion, i, think, was wrong, and, i think the

government should appeal it. it's deeply flawed in a number of ways. i don't think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. >> when or whether an appeal comes, is one question. whether it showed is another. so is the question of whether judge cannons ruling gives the president better treatment than others might get under similar circumstances. let's talk about with former federal judge nancy gardner, she is now a senior electorate harvard law school, also cnn political commentator rick urban, who served as a political strategist to the president, and -- robinson, jennifer, first of all on the washington post reporting. again, we don't have more details other than what the washington -- or we can't confirm what the washington post is confirming, on just the high-level nature of some of the information that was found at mar-a-lago. >> well, it's consistent with some of the reporting from

before, that they are very, very high-level, highly classified documents found in mar-a-lago, nuclear secrets are among the most closely held in government, of course. this is consistent with what's been held out there, but with more detail i wonder how it's getting, out and who is leaking it. i think it's problematic that those are coming from inside the government. but in terms of the government's case, listen, this is the kind of document that you would charge a case about, and it's not a document that will be subject to any sort of executive privilege or attorney client privilege. you think about documents that are going to be available to -- this is the sort of document you're talking about. >> i want to bring in dublin barrett, who's one of the reporters on the byline on the washington post reporting. can you just talk about what you have learned? >> right so we have learned that when the fbi conducted a search in august, there's been court documents describing a lot of classified material that

was taken. we are told that one of the things found in the course of that search, was a document the described the foreign governments military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities. obviously that was a cause for some concern, although there's a lot of material in this tranche of stuff that they searched for, that is a cause for concern. >> in the article, you detail the kind of procedures that would normally be put in place to protect such a document. >> right, so we are talking -- the most serious category of this type of -- >> this is about top secret clearance? >> it's sort of a very tight circle within the larger circle of top secret, if that makes sense. it's a type of top secret information, in what's been described to us with some of the sap material that was seized was so close hold, that only the president, some cabinet secretaries, and near

cabinet like officials were authorized to share or allow other people in the government to see that kind of information. so, extremely close holds. extremely tightly held. and there is an illusion to this and one of the court filings, if you remember, one of the filing said that even the investigators who recover the material, some of them weren't, even though they were counterintelligence agents, some of them weren't authorized to review some of the documents when they first found them. >> so, some of the fbi agents who were on the scene in mar-a-lago, they didn't even have the kind of clearance that would allow them to look at these documents? >> >> correct, and not just the agents, some of the federal prosecutors involved in this matter, also didn't automatically have a clearance to look at some of this material. that's how close hold it was. >> you talk about close hold, who would be able to see, it and who would grant that authorization, whether it's the president or cabinet, level on your cabinet level official.

these are also documents that, how they are stored, obviously, a lot of that is put into that. >> right, you're talking about documents that should be stored in a scif it's a government acronym for their secure room. and should have someone who is designated as a government official designated -- that's another cause for concern. because when they conducted the search they looked in the storage room, they looked in the former presidents office. those are nearly the kinds of places with the kinds of security for documents like that. >> has a former presidents legal team responded to your request for comment? >> we haven't heard back from them yet, obviously when we've done prior reporting on this question of nuclear weapons material. nuclear weapons information, the president called it a hoax. and in that same statement suggested that evidence was planted on him by the fbi agents. >> the, obviously, it's not clear why the former president would have had this information at mar-a-lago. there is a whole myriad of reasons. but

obviously, any information about the nuclear secrets of any country, there are a lot of people who would be interested to know those nuclear secrets. >> sure, i think it's such a sensitive area that there is categories in sub categories of that kind of information. some of it is essentially department of defense information, that falls under the classified system and perrella. when you talk about special access programs, nuclear capabilities of foreign military agencies, those are things that the government , the u. s. government in no way wants a spread around. >> and just to be clear, you know, in the article you don't name the country that the information is about. -- you've

reported in the past about nuclear related material, is this the same material now that you're talking about with just further or greater clarity on it? >> i think what we are describing in the past story, and you could see it now and a subpoena that was unsealed since that story, is that when trump's people were served with a subpoena for all classified information in his possession back in may. we that subpoena listed a whole slew of categories from different types of classified information. one of the important categories of that was information about nuclear weapons. they were trying to, in that subpoena, trying to cover the waterfront, but they're also saying if you have any information that fits into these categories, this is the type of thing that we are seeking and subpoenaed it must be turned over to the government. and so, the story will takes them further, and say okay, with a server

subpoenaed productive search, and his documentary described as one of the things they found in the search. >> it is fascinating, devlin barrett, appreciate the reporting that you and your colleague carol leonnig did at the washington post on this. jennifer, just in terms of what we have just heard, what stands out to you? >> well i mean again, these are very, very serious documents, they're not the sort of thing that should be anywhere outside of the proper places inside the scif. so it seems to me that this is the sort of thing that makes it more likely that ultimately we will see a criminal charge here, whether it's classified documents charge, where the statute that they listed in the search warrant about national defence information. >> david urban, this makes sense to you the former president would have these documents in mar-a-lago? >> no, anderson, i don't know any reasoning why you'd have this level of classified information anywhere outside of scif, as has been referred to earlier as devlin was saying, this is not just top secret but sap programs, special access

programs that you were read into individually. it is because you hold the top secret clearance, all these programs on a need to know basis, so you are read into these individual programs, and only certain people are qualified to be right into the programs, based on their need to know. so, it is a very small subset of people who are even authorized to handle, deal with this type of information, it should not be, obviously, stored anywhere outside its proper safeguarding facilities. thanks good for other facilities. to be there for at least 18 months, is kind of inexcusable. >> judge gardner, what are the implications of this? >> well, first of all the judge who appointed the special master dignified the claim that some of what trump had was shielded by executive privilege. classified

information being surprised is not shielded by executive privilege. in other words, he didn't have a right to have anything, he didn't have a right to have it is beach house. with the end of discussion, that needs to be returned. with respect to non classified materials, the non-classified materials, we sort of glance over it when we talk about this. but one of the things about other evidentiary materials that could bear on why in the world he had the stuff. what did he have in mind, what was the issue, what if you plan to do with it. it's a classified box, but the rest might show what else he had in mind, which is very troubling. >> and, judge to the argument made by some in the former presidents orbit. this is a

housekeeping error, this is something that maybe he wanted for his library or research down the road, or he didn't know what there was in these boxes. >> well, you know, that might work, it might have worked in january 2021. it does not work after the national archives pummeled him for nearly a year, to turn over documents which they believe to be classified. it doesn't work when he had a grand jury subpoena. it doesn't work when the fbi visited him. and it certainly doesn't work as a result of the search. in other words, he had more time than any potential criminal defendant, any defendant had to go through the materials and come up with an explanation. and he has not. we -- >> go ahead david, sorry. >> anderson, i was gonna point to what jennifer report referred to earlier. but i don't like about this either is that devlin is getting this over the transom. the basic information is classified in and of itself. these type of

documents on the contents of the documents. these are classified in and of themselves, -- some of the department of justice has improperly thrown this over the transom to devlin. that's just as improper as, well and should be condemned. it's probably illegal. >> sorry, judge? >> well, just as improper? i think improper, sure, but the notion that you want to put the leak in the same category as boxes and boxes of -- >> it's illegal, you wouldn't be condoning illegal behavior? >> this is the reason we don't have secret documents in a beach resort, because they get out, and people can do things with them leaking whatever it may be. i want to bring in gloria borger, you've done a lot of reporting on the mar-a-lago search. i just wanna repeat, cnn has not confirmed this washington post reporting independently. >> well one thing that strikes me from devlin is reporting, is that i think it's very clear that this is not just a storage issue, as marco rubio has called it and it really begs an explanation. because what we have not received from the

former president is an explanation of what he was doing with these documents. we've had a lot of sort of, smoke and mirrors here, or maybe years for the library, maybe was for the love letter from kim jong-un, or whatever. but if, indeed, again as you say we have not confirmed this reporting, but if indeed this includes information about a foreign governments nuclear readiness then you have to answer the question about why donald trump had that in his possession at all we after leaving the presidency. not only what why was it in mar-a-lago? but what was he doing with it? and you know, we do not have an answer to that. >> i want to bring in james clapper, who the is the former director of national intelligence. director clapper, does this make any sense to you? what stands out to you about this reporting for the washington post? >> anderson, it does not make any sense to me at all, i can't imagine why on earth with the

foreign president we purloined a document like that from annexed intrinsic standpoint, this is potentially profoundly damaging, and that it could reveal not only one of our collective capabilities, but what they are not, which could also be very damaging for us. and of course as others have spoken to win i can't imagine what was the motivation for taking a document like this, that this is sort of worst fears realized from what has been described so far.

>> james copper, in a world of espionage where information has tremendous value. what sort of value because information like this have? i'm not talking about this, we have no reason to know why the president would want this information, but what is the value of this information to a foreign country, to know and other countries, or a foreign leader to know another countries nuclear capabilities. and the u. s. capabilities on reporting about the nuclear capability. >> so the nine or ten countries, depending on how you count, them and who include, this is among the holiest of police, if you will, in terms of sensitivity of information because for countries to possess nuclear weapons, this gets to their very existence, countries viewed as they're taking a survival, so this is a

very sensitive thing for a very sensitive matter for this country. and accordingly, we everybody, including the united states, goes to extraordinary lengths to protect information on we on such sensitive matters. we and then it gets to the question of, because this information is so sensitive, what extraordinary lengths might any country go to to obtain such information on another country? and that gets to whether we senses sources and methods may have been compromised. it's not like they might have been. so on many levels, with this is really disturbing. >> director clapper, in your experience in the world of intelligence, which you've spent much of your entire life in, if you learn that a foreign leader, who had left power we had highly sensitive nuclear

information about a country you are interested in, or any nuclear information about countries might be interested in, or any nuclear power in his beach resort, in a non secure skiff distillery, how interested would any intelligence service be in that information? >> extremely, extremely interested, i think mar-a-lago before all of these revelations about documents that have been found there, mar-a-lago has to be a high priority intelligence target for foreign intelligence services we. and so, data like

this would be, from an intelligence perspective, would be gold. and so if people knew it was there, or suspected it was there, i think they'd go to extraordinary lengths to make a list, if they could, to obtain it. the other dimension of this, of course, calls into question the u. s.'s ability to protect sensitive information. and that, in turn, could have a chilling effect on allies of ours. who, in the past, have willingly shared sensitive information that they collect, they share that with us, well they say that how cavalier we are about it we, i think that could have with a inhibiting factor in the future for sharing sensitive intelligence with us. >> just to be clear, we're talking about a facility this document is being kept in,

where the price of entry is, i don't know, i think it's like 100 $200,000 or something but anybody can join basically, if you have the money, you go through the application process. >> right, so from the standpoint of intelligence collection, that's kind of a bargain, to obtain access with two sensitive information, that apparently was stored down there, we under very questionable physical security conditions. >> james clapper, dave, urban jennifer rogers, thank you, up next. more on the politics in the u. s.. they spent on from midterms, the two men not on the ballot this fall, locked in the bitter battles, campaign for the candidates, i fight ultimately decide who will control the house in the senate, we'll have the latest on the campaign trail, next. it's all right there in the census. see where a few details can lead with the 1950 census on ancestry.

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as we know, at the top of the, hour this day -- welcome to the unofficial kickoff of midterms. it's setting up to be a flight like few others before it, this is the bitter battle between two big names not on the ballot. president biden, the former president, there's also a handful of races that could decide which party will control the house and senate, which a lot of potential put on that pennsylvania senate race, the latest on that from cnn's jeff selanee. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> the fall campaign sprinters on, with two months until voters settled the midterm election fight. >> democracy is at stake. >> president biden is leading the charge to make the campaign a stark contrast with republicans, rather than a referendum on his own presidency, and democratic control of washington. >> we will have to ask whether we want to be a country that moves forward, or backwards. >> a remarkable air of uncertainty hangs over the races, as does the long shadow of former president donald trump, who is still relitigating his battle with biden. >> he's an enemy of the state. >> in november, of course, neither biden or trump are on the ballot, but that is often hard to tell, as the 2022 campaign it's unfolding like a sequel to their 2020 contest. >> it's a brighter political environment democrats had imagined. fueled, in part, by the supreme court's decision to overturn roe v. wade, which energizes voters like shirley mayton. >> i think it's huge, it absolutely is, i think it's gonna really hurt the republican chances, and hopefully they are getting the

message that this is not something that they should stand on. >> the issue of abortion rights is now at the forefront of house senate and governor races. >> mehmet oz is so extreme, he wants to make abortion a crime in pennsylvania. >> even as republicans are countering with concerns about crime, inflation, in an immigration. >> the radical left has gone crazy. >> control of the senate is up for grabs. with competitive races unfolding across the country, from arizona to new hampshire, as republicans try to erase a edge held by democrats. in the house, republicans are only five seats away from winning the majority, and in governors races, some of the most closely watched

contests are played out in the same states that delivered biden the white house. >> pennsylvania is at the center of it all, starting with the senate race between john fetterman. >> i'm gonna make it really simple for all of you. it's a choice. it's a choice. >> and mehmet oz. >> this is not about health, it's not about honesty. >> they're locked in a contentious dual about debates, as fetterman looks to to recover from a stroke and heart condition. with biden fetterman side, and trump standing with oz, voters like linda frank have a lot to sort out over the next nine weeks. >> i am perplexed, because i was a trump supporter, and i don't know where i stand now. >> she does believe the biden administration, could use a check on its power. >> i think that the check system is leaning to far to one side. we have to get it back in the middle. >> so you will vote republican

november in state races? >> yes, i will. >> and to say that trump's shadow looms large over this race certainly is an understatement, anderson. doctor oz saw that earlier today, firsthand, he was asked if he was in the senate at the time, if he would've certify the 2020 election results, he said yes he would have. of course, that puts him at direct odds with the former president, who's supportive see he is still trying to win over, yes or nine weeks left in this midterm election campaign, but there are a lot of elements in play here, it's very dynamic. republicans are feeling that they don't have the qualified senate a candidates, necessarily, democrats have some winds at their back, but clearly anderson, the senate is absolutely up for grabs. >> josh allen, a thank. you up next, a tragic update, on the search for a teacher in memphis tennessee, with or do you say was a victim of violent abduction.

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suspect in the kidnapping is set to be arraigned tomorrow, and new charges he already faced. our gary tuchman has details. >> today is a very sad day in the city of memphis. >> memphis police chief, sorry lynn davis confirming the worst, that e. l. i. s. a. fletcher was dead. her body found behind an abandoned duplex. this man, cleotha abston, has been charged with murdering her. he was arraigned on the initial kidnapping charges today. he'd been arrested over the weekend and charged with the kidnapping. surround images showing e.l.i.s.a. fighter biontech by a man while she was jogging near the university of memphis campus. she forced her into his suv and drove her away that massive police is an apt. an acquaintance ortiz he wasn't talking to them about what happened to the 34 year old wife and mother. you are charged with especially gravelling keep napping. >> with today's identification of her body the prosecutor inform the judge. >> initial charge was filed

this morning for murder, great dedicated murder, and murder in perpetuation of kidnapping. >> the judge set another abatement for the murder charges on wednesday. absent was wearing a mask, but appeared to show no emotion. less than a day earlier, the south memphis neighborhood is virtually shut down with crime tape as scores of police conducted intense hour-long search. the location where her body was found, about one and a half mile away from where a witness told authorities she saw the accused murderer cleaning his car after eliza fletcher was kidnapped, and acting oddly. >> we worked together to identify various locations, and that was our search concentration, and we are just blessed we were able to identify this location, and our officers were successful in finding her. >> the surveillance camera on a building at the university provided key evidence, because it clearly showed a vehicle that had damage to it, and a partial license plate, and with those images, u.s. marshals

found what they say is the same vehicle at the suspect's residence. an affidavit also declares abston left a pair of his sandals at the crime scene. authorities were able to obtain dna from those sandals that matched abston. >> do you swear -- >> at least one reason he was in the dna database, he had been found guilty in 2000 of another kidnapping in memphis, with a victim who escaped. abston served about 20 years behind bars. he was released a little less than two years ago. >> any kind of violence, of course, is unacceptable. repeat violent offenders, particularly, deserve a strong response, and that's what they will get from this district attorney's office. >> i'm going to let it shine. >> eliza fletcher was a mother of two small boys, a junior kindergarten teacher at a private school in memphis, a member of a prominent philanthropic memphis family. some of her family members were at court, quietly watched and listened. witnessing the man charged with murdering their loved one. the da who says there is no reason to believe

it was anything but a random attack says he's been in touch with the family throughout this horrible ordeal. >> to lose someone so young and so vital is a tragedy in and of itself. to have it happen in this way with a senseless act of violence, it was unimaginable. >> anderson, we've received an additional affidavit today that gave us more of an idea of how the area was pinpointed where eliza's body was found. what we learned from that is they used an fbi cellular analysis team and what that team did was literally analyze cellular data from this past friday. based on that analysis, the police officers on the scene went to different homes, for particular police officers went to one abandoned home. they saw tire tracks in the tall grass, one of those four officers then went to the back of the house, the back of the house they saw stairs, leading to a back door, and next to those stairs, he saw her body lying on the ground. anderson?

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>> moments ago, texas department of public safety suspended two officers with pay as they investigate their response to the uvalde school shooting at robb elementary school. this comes on the first day back for students at the start of a new school year. no students or staff were able to return to the actual site of the shooting. instead, they were attending other schools in the district. our shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with the latest. shimon? >> anderson, seeing the students return to schools, some of them, ive been around

for sometime, of course. it was a lot of there were a lot of smiles. certainly, a lot of anxiety from family, from friends as they were dropping their kids off. >> how, it's high fives, and there will be dogs greeted students in uvalde today. the kids greeted today was anxious smiles. >> you doing all right? how are you holding up? >> good. >> smiling. are you happy? happy to go back to school? >> yes. >> nervous? >> yes, i'm nervous, because i'm not used to this school. >> this is a new school, right? aj martinez was in room 112 at robb, watching a movie to celebrate the end of the school year when a gunman entered his classroom, killing 19 of his classmates and two of his teachers. he dove under backpacks trying to hide, but was shot through his upper leg. today, as he enters fifth grade, his limb has all but disappeared. just trying to get back to normal life, right?

>> yeah. >> this is a good first step. deciding what to wear for the first day it his new school, aj chose a shirt with a photo of the friends and the teachers he had lost. his wounds may slowly heal, but the emotional toll will be harder to overcome. >> i'm scared more for my kids, and all the teachers, and students that are coming back. that's all i'm married about. >> it's a difficult day for a.j.'s mom, cassandra chavez. when we sat down this summer, she shared her advice to her son. >> he told me, mom, i hate the shooter. i hate that he killed my friends and my two teachers, mom. he is like, i will never see them again. and i said, i know, babe. but you have to be strong, because that is what they would want you to do. >> as they filed into their their classrooms, uvalde students were met by a heavy law enforcement presence led by the texas department of public safety. some schools in the

distance have new, visible security measures, like eight foot fencing and cameras. at aj's school, the fencing has not been completed in time for the first day. back in the drop off line at flores elementary, zeke windham sits in the back of his dad's pick-up truck ready to bravely face his fears. how do you feel about coming back to school? >> i'm really nervous. i'm so scared and shocked after what happened at my old school. i am still scared and nervous. >> you were at rob? >> what grade are you now? >> fifth. >> fifth grade. were you in the fourth grade class where the shooting happened or a different one? >> i was down the hall. >> you could hear stuff? >> i could still hear the gunshots. it was very terrifying and traumatizing for me. >> and still is. >> yes.

>> coming back to school? >> it's scary. >> what more can you tell us about the two officers who've been suspended? >> the texas department of public safety, which released this information, they aren't releasing much more, you know? it's three months into this, and they are now getting through parts of their investigation, and they are announcing these two officers have been suspended with pay. they referred three other officers, five officers altogether, for a formal investigation with the inspector general. that's about all that we know about this, anderson. there were 91 department public safety officials on scene that day, that was the second largest police presence outside of border patrol. also, keep in mind, so much of the blame has been put on local police department officials. the school police department, and local police department. so many people didn't think that any blame would come to the department of public safety. now we are seeing something

different, here more accountability. we yet don't have that transparency, anderson, as to exactly why this has happened, and hopefully, at some, point we will learn that, anderson. >> so great to see those kids going back to their schools, and doing okay. shimon prokupecz, i appreciate it, thank you, we'll be right back. step up. prep up. to help keep you free from the risk of hiv. descovy for prep, the smallest prep pill available, is a once-daily prescription medicine that helps lower the chances of getting hiv through sex. it's not for everyone. descovy for prep has not been studied in people assigned female at birth.

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