>> good evening. thanks so much for joining. us we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former presidents attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn sarah murray joins us now with the details. so sarah, let's start with the fulton county georgia investigation. who has testified? >> well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before the grand jury, and one of them is former georgia senator kelly lafleur. the other one is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney in georgia. it gives you an indication of how wide-ranging the investigation is. >> whether with testimony to the federal grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago documents? >> we are learning this evening

my colleagues are learning that cash patel, one of the top advisers to former president donald trump, has appeared before a federal grand jury who is investigating the mar-a-lago documents, the mishandling of sensitive documents there. and what we don't know is whether cash patel actually answered questions before the grand jury or whether he invoked his fifth amendment right against self incrimination. he's been deeply involved in this mar-a-lago documents dispute. >> sarah murray, appreciate it. i want to talk to elie honig, former u.s. district attorney from the district of new york. elie, the testimony from white house passable one and former senator loeffler, how significant could it be in fulton county investigation? again, we don't know what they actually said. cipollone obviously in other testimony has been reluctant to are very concerned about returning client privilege, or executive claim privilege.

>> that's exactly right, anderson. anytime you have a former u.s. senator senator and former white house counsel testifying in front of a criminal grand jury and a case focused on the former president, that is automatically a big deal. i think cipollone is really the point of interest here. we do have a sense of what cipollone likely testified about because, as you said, he testified already in front of the january six committee. however, as you also noted, there were certain key questions that cipollone refused to answer under executive privilege. he would not talk about his one-on-one conversations with donald trump. and so the big question is, did the da somehow managed to get that information out of parts of maloney? do they compel him legally? do they work out some sort of agreement with him? if not, he likely testified to the same thing we have already heard. if so, that could be a real breakthrough investigative lay. >> now that fulton county investigators can question senator lindsey graham about certain topics, can graham just plead the fifth? or can graham just not talk about some stuff the deals and want to talk about? >> he has the right to plead

the fifth. that would look horrible for lindsey graham and i think you'd be reluctant to do, it but he was dealt a legal setback today. he cannot dodge the subpoena. he has to testify. graham eigen argued he was immune after a provision called the speech and debate clause which says that sitting members of congress can be for us to answer questions outside of congress. but the court today said most of what senator graham was doing was not legislated. coordinating with the trump campaign, making public statements, dealing with georgia state régis later is to try to pressure them. all of that is fair ground and lindsey graham will have to answer questions about those topics. >> what does it tell you about the da's investigation in fulton county? what we know about it so far, do you have a sense of how quickly it is moving? >> this thing has gone from zero to 60 in a snap. let's remember, the da didn't even get a grand jury seat for about a year and a half until this past summer.

that's an awfully long time to wait to get a grand jury seated. but since then the da has been moving at an incredibly rapid case. we see her firing of subpoenas to powerful people, lindsey graham, pat cipollone, to name a few. and generally prevailing. this investigation, to me, seems to be moving the most quickly of all the pending investigations. i don't think we will see major indictments between now and midterms, but i would look for indictments to start dropping in december, january into february. obviously we don't know what trump advisor kash patel said to the grand jury, but the fact that he showed up, does that tell us anything? >> well, it tells us, first of all, the doj is putting people in the grand jury and is compelling the testimony. that's testimony under oath that is deadly serious. it's a crime to lie to a grand jury. the areas of focus with kash patel's he has loudly and publicly claim the donald trump declassified some of those

documents and okay you can say it publicly, you could see it on tv, but if you have to say in the grand jury now, will be interesting if we find out, was kash patel pressed on that? did he stand by that claim? and did he have any proof to back it up? it's worth keeping in mind, kash patel is a hard-core trump loyalist. but it's one thing to say things out in public. it's another thing to say things under hogue with a grand jury there. >> appreciated. thank you. biden appeared in pennsylvania today alongside democratic candidates for election, there john fetterman. it's a rare sight to see the president on the campaign trail with a candidate in a tight race. he was there promoting his plans to boost american infrastructure. the visit comes as a new poll from monmouth's that republicans may have an advantage in the midterms that are just now 19 days away. the question of which party should control congress, democrats just enjoyed some point lead in august, now in october republicans enjoyed the lead, 49% to democrats 45%.

you should, know poll numbers we, the poll, all adults, are not registered voters, also they are well within polls margin of error in what has been a volatile midterm season so far. just before airtime we spoke with president biden's chief of staff, ron klain about the numbers in the party strategy going to midterms. >> mr. klain, thank you for joining us tonight. according to that new monmouth poll, congress is shifting back toward the republicans as compared to a few weeks ago. why do think that is? >> look, i'm covered by the hatch act, so i have to be careful what i have to say about electoral politics here at the white house. there are a lot of polls. what they show was a whole is a very close midterm election. and that is the way you expected to be in a country where the politics are very close, the elections are very hard hard-fought. my focus is much on the polls but honest continuing to do our job, delivering for the american people, doing things that are at the top of peoples agenda like the presence in an announcement yesterday to try to bring down the price of gasoline further by releasing

more oil from strategic petroleum reserve's, setting a minimum price to rebuild the reserve. those are the things that are gonna help families with their everyday expenses. you are the president talking about infrastructure today in pennsylvania, bringing down the cost of getting goods to market. so we're doing our jobs here at the white house, and i think that's what the american people want to see is doing. but when people say -- >> poll after poll shows, this you may not like the polls, but when the economy inflation, when that's the drop issue, they prefer republicans by double digits. there are three weeks to go. is there anything you are hoping to do to try to make that up? >> first, again, i think the polls do show a very close midterm election as a whole. i think on inflation, prices are high, and the president is working to bring them down. inflation is a global problem. it's lower in america than it is in most european countries but that's not good enough. we need every crisis down. that's why the president is working so hard to bring down the price of gasoline at the

pump. it has fallen this week and in 13 states it has fallen more than ten cents. but we need to do more. that's why he made his announcement yesterday. we need to bring down the price. >> no he taught you about the announcement yesterday. over the summer the prayer the price came down a lot, as you have talked about. it has gone up more recently, and now we are seeing 15 million barrels of oil from strategic petroleum reserve. it's a relatively small amount compared to previous releases from the reserve. it's that going to any impact on gas prices? >> i think it will. first of, all you've already seen the price of gas drop this week. and again, it continues to go down. i think the release from the reserve was part of the announcement. the other announcement was a decision to rebuild the reserve next year and a guaranteed minimum price. that's going to increase confidence in production from the oil industry. also the president talked about the fact that the price of oil has actually been coming down, but the price of gas hasn't come down as fast and the

industry needs to make sure they are not taking extra profiteer as oil comes down. they need to bring down the price of gas, as well. but that's just one of our initiatives to combat inflation. the last thing i'll say on, this anderson, is this upcoming midterm election, it is not a referendum. it is a choice. and you have the democratic, the democrats in congress, democrats here at the white house, working to bring down inflation, bring down these costs. republicans have said the thing to get control of the congress, we're gonna do is repeal the presidents plan to let medicare negotiate for the price of prescription drugs. what will that do to every day costs? they're going to repeal the effort to the presidents plan that put taxes on big corporations for the first time. minimum 15% taxes. they're gonna repeal that. that's gonna blow up the deficit. that will add to inflation. so i think what people need to look at is the choice between what the president, what congressional democrats have, done are doing, it what republicans are talking about. >> it seems like people have,

whether they have looked at it or not, that message is not resonating with enough of them for the democrats. normally, president might be out holding big campaign rallies. according to the new york times i think president trump held 26 rallies in october, 2018, obama held 16 rallies in october of 2010. clearly a lot of candidates, democratic candidates in close contests don't seem to want the president campaigning for them with big rallies. >> yeah. anderson. obama was. here i was here. and president trump got walloped in the midterms. so i don't think it's surprising when we're not using the strategy that failed in 20 teen and a strategy that failed in 2018. what you're seeing is the president traveling the country with democratic elected officials, with democratic candidates, like he was in pennsylvania today, with john fetterman, our candidate for senate there.

and he's talking about the issues that really impact people, infrastructure, costs, choice, a long line of issues that he's talking about. so i don't think rallies have proved effective for candidates in the midterms. and so we are trying something different that we think will be effective. >> ron klain, i appreciate your time, and thank. you >> thank you anderson. >> still to come tonight, new reporting on one of the state troopers under investigation after school shooting in uvalde, texas, where 21 people were murdered. 19 of them children. also tonight, the effects of a still raging debate from 2020. the person who looks at a georgia county election officials posting about qanon and election conspiracies. psst! psst! with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary.

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uvalde, texas. it took place may 24th and is one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history. shimon brought us a history of texas state trooper, when the first to arrive who is under investigation for her actions or lack of actions that day. she had quit her job as a trooper and was rehired as a school police officer in uvalde. many parents were stunned to learn someone under investigation for her response on the day of shooting would be hired to protect the same school district. that officer has since been fired. tonight shimon has new reporting about the actions of another state police officer under investigation. she joins us now. what have you learned? >> anderson, new information coming from newly-obtained video and has never before been seen, which now points a picture of a texas dps captain who ordered the tactical team that was ready to breach that classroom, get inside that classroom, to stand by. this despite the fact that there was a 9-1-1 call from a

child inside that classroom saying they needed help. thankfully that tactical team went in anyway and did not hear those transmissions and now of course this is all raising questions about this dps captain a dps in general when. >> amid the chaos at robb elementary in uvalde, texas, where nearly 400 some -- cnn learns commence from high-ranking state police officer may have contributed to the broader failed response that day. while a gunman sat in a room full of dead, dying, and traumatized children, new police radio transmissions obtained by cnn show texas department of public safety captain joe betancourt giving in order to stop police from entering the classroom. and one internal memo describes the before he arrives, telling officers to stay away but to

stay way from the school but remain on the perimeter. captain betancourt was one of 9 to 1 dps officers on scene in uvalde. we are now learning he's one of the seven referred for further investigation over his actions. after lionizes the police response in the initial days, the texas governor and state officials have pushed the blame for what has since been acknowledged as a failure on a local and school police. but cnn has now reviewed memos written just two days after the shooting that detail actions by the dps that allegedly went against protocol for mass shootings. when lieutenant wrote, i heard someone shout out, captain betancourt said all dps personnel need to be on perimeter. do not enter the building. and a sergeant reported, he knew this was clearly against established training, and so he entered the school anyway. by the time betancourt's as he arrived outside robb elementary, students and teachers had

already been trapped for more than an hour. we some of the sea, like this border patrol, medic are aware of the urgency inside the classroom. >> no, we haven't heard. that note. we're on the floors. this is building. and >> anybody? hurt >> now, not here. >> he's in. here >> he's in, here yes. >> last contact? last contact we had was one of our school pd officers, his wife is a teacher. >> they just had a shooting in room 12. >> a border patrol tactical unit is preparing to end the standoff and storm the classroom. >> making the breach of. >> the move that sources tell

cnn has shocked people inside dps, betancourt picked up his radio and tried to stop the breach. >> this is betancourt, we need to stand by. stop the breach. you need standby. the >> transmission can be clearly heard on several body worn cameras inside and outside the hallway of robb elementary. the tactical unit was already making entry. >> kids, kids, kids. the >> shooter is killed and a devastating scene is revealed inside the classroom. in an interview with investigators that has been detailed to cnn, betancourt said he did not know there were any children in the building until after the breach. that's despite 9-1-1 calls from children inside the room. betancourt said he was relying on information from uvalde sheriff, reuben a lasko, that the gunman was a barricaded subject and no longer an active shooter and that a better swat team was on its way. he admits he never spoke to

former school police chief pete arredondo, who has been labeled the on scene commander until after the shooter was killed. the memo referencing betancourt's actions and another corroborating it are some of the curious evidence that questions are being raised internally that the department of public safety about the actions of its officers. his orders over the radio contradict the official narrative that the state police were never in command of the scene and never issued substantive orders. when questioned by cnn in september, dps director colonel steve mcgraw confirmed the investigation into betancourt. >> was there a body cam? apparently footage of him inside the hallway telling people not to breach that door. have you heard that? >> i've heard a lot of things. is >> there any credibility to that to? that >> that's one of the reasons we're doing the investigation. we are going to be thorough.

i'll be the first to resign. i will gladly resign. i will tender my resignation is governor if there's any culpability, period. but we're gonna hold our officers accountable. no one gets a pass. but every officer is going to be held accountable. >> but you are looking at this for information you have that he told the officers not go in the hallway? >> how is betancourt responding? >> he hasn't, anderson. this is something we've been working on for quite some time. we had heard information from sources inside dps who are really alarmed and concerned over the fact that betancourt would give this order over the radio without having a full account of what happened. >> to be clear, he was given an order to the tactical team which was finally assembled to move in, this after 77 minutes. >> 77 minute mark. >> he was telling that team

that was finally assembled, the ones that finally stopped this. >> he claims he didn't know that that was the teen, that that was this attack team. he was concerned that they weren't experienced enough and that is why he also has said that one of the things that went into his thinking, he was told this was a barricaded subject. at no time did he hear that this was an active shooter. however there are those 9-1-1 calls from a kid, a child inside the classroom, that is clearly heard on police radio. they were being broadcasting their kids inside the room. why he didn't hear this and why this information was not relate to other gps officials, it's raising a lot of concerns. >> the lack of communication and disorganization is incredible. you have this captain giving orders. he said the sheriff was in charge one public safety says arredondo was in charge. is it clear who was actually in charge? >> i think this picture has been painted that it's not

exactly clear who was in charge. one of the things striking to me is gathering some of this information talking to sources that no one actually went in to talk to pete arredondo, the former school police chief in the hallway to find out what he was dealing with, to find out other information he was. communicating with people, but no one, it seems, from the dps, which is these highly trained officials, law enforcement officers who have all kinds of weaponry, who have the skills and have the equipment to go in, and are supposed to go in, it seems this was never relate to. then >> let's also point out the stand training for police departments around the country's, whoever is, there whoever is on scene, assembling go in, and just neutralize the shooter. that is the basic 101. >> the argument is, the argument is being, made people thought, they keep saying they thought there was a barricaded subject. okay. maybe it, first but how could

they think that when there are 9-1-1 calls from these children inside the classroom? and how that information never made its way through the chain of command, and why no one took the lead on this, it's still very much unclear. >> talking with steven mcgraw, head of the texas department public safety. he told you he would resign if the department was proved to be culpable are found to be called bubble. betancourt is part of dps. as mcgraw and hitting to? say >> no, he's not, but we expect to hear from him next week, on thursday. there's a public safety commission, a hearing. and on the agenda is uvalde. what he will say and exactly what details he will give. but that would be the next step to hear from him on the latest, perhaps on this investigation. but again, of course, all of this is raising even more questions about law enforcement response there. >> i really appreciate it, shimon prokupecz. lexi rubio was a student at the school. she was ten years old when she was murder that. day her mom, kimberly, reached out to us because she wanted us

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>> with less than three weeks until the returns, the arizona secretary of state referred to what they're calling a case of voter intimidation. in the arizona attorney generals office. according to the station a voter leaving their ballot said they were approached and followed by a group of individuals. a county official warns that this is an escalation from initial reports of people taking videos of people dropping off their ballots. meanwhile in harris county, texas, with less than a week to early voting, the secretary of state's office says they will have inspectors performing, quote, randomized checks on election records and observing the, quote, handling and counting of ballots and

electronic media. it's the most populous county, home to houston and democratic-leaning electorate. they also told harris county election officials they will, quote, dispatch a tax force to respond to any legal issues identified with secretary of state, inspectors, poll watchers, or voters. now we're gonna take you to georgia as part of our continued look at potential threats to democracy and the vote. here's cnn's drew griffin. >> in meetings the chair of the spalling county georgia election board sounds like any other government official. >> we hang our perfect political had to throw we come in and do the peoples work. there is no room for politics in elections. >> but county elections chairman ben johnson's actions feline telephone for different story. johnson is beyond partisan. on social bea he posted, to fellow fellow insurrectionists and biden is an illegitimate president. >> i think the whole structure in spalding county is an insider threat. >> next month johnson road it's

not gonna do anything about the 2020 election, the flow data from the county should not pass through a foreign country. >> which is one of the key fictitious complaints about dominion voting. so he believes in this disproven theory. >> yet he is now running the elections of spalding county, which also affect the entire state. it's a scary situation. >> he has posted about qanon more than a dozen times, including this supportive treat. hate to say it but a heck of a lot of information dropped iq has turned out to be accurate. red white and q, and other nonsense-able codes little hallmark of this conspiracy group. as chair of the election board, johnson is in charge of the county certification of election results. dexter wimbish, a democrat who sits on the election board with johnson, says johnson always act professionally but -- >> the community has concerns

about his positions where they could potentially impact the outcome of the election. >> now cnn has learned that fulton county district attorney intends to subpoena ben johnson into other spalding county elections officials as part of the investigation into efforts by donald trump and his allies to overturn georgia's 2020 presidential election. >> there is a concerted effort to suppress the vote of people in this country. there is an effort to make people believe that the government does not believe in democracy. that's just not true. >> election deniers who are now in charge of elections across the country are a concern to pro democracy groups nationwide. in one nevada county the new interim clerk in charge of elections was one of six so-called fake electors in nevada. in michigan, according to police, the clerk of lake township believes the 2020 election was fraudulent and shared voting machine materials with someone allegedly involved in the breach of those

machines. in colorado, the sitting clerk of albert county spreads debunked conspiracies that voting machines contain hackable wireless devices. >> how am i supposed to know if anybody has use that wireless device to access our system? >> the danger is that these are people who may lie about election results, who are certainly likely to cast doubt about the trustworthiness of elections. >> as for ben johnson and what he has to say about all of this, in a word, nothing. he has refused to answer questions and in an email accused cnn of being on a which found. we were told on the phone that he was in a meeting when we visited his offices. >> is benjamin in. >> are you sure? >> he's not. >> early voting under the leadership of an election denier began this week. >> andrew joins us more with more news. georgia secretary of state's office believe someone is already trying to discredit this election.

in what way? >> it's breaking down here and it's happening in spalding county, anderson. yesterday they found fake ballots, somehow slipped in among the 1520 actually cast ballots at the counties only early voting site. sources tell me was such a fake that it seems to investigator the intent was for this fake ballot to be found and somehow used to discredit the electoral process. it has launched yet another investigation in the same county, whose elections are led by an election denier, who denies he has anything to do with this, and on twitter stated, every vote should count. anderson? >> drew griffin, thanks so much. up next, a surprise resignation at ten downing street. prime minister liz truss leaving office after a short time. we will look at why and what comes next. i say, “so are they.” ♪ aleve - who do you take it for? realtor.com. there's so many houses for sale.

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>> and a political people in the united kingdom. liz truss has resigned as prime minister of great britain. joining us for perspective, christian amanpour and cnn business editor at large, richard quest. >> christiane, what happened to the prime minister? >> well, basically huge disaster of her only making. everybody here says, including her own party, but this is a self inflicted wound that started with a party of two,

her and her chancellor, was he kwarteng, back on that september where they just deliver this mini budget that was so out there with no road testing, no rules of the road, none of the normal fiscal ability was in place. internet fit just created mayhem and chaos in the market and in this country and ever since you've been trying to write the ship but eventually it was clear that the uproar was too much. untenable. today she had to leave. >> richard, we saw the complete u-turn on fiscal policy from liz truss. as christiane was saying, it was a self inflicted wound. can you walk us through the effect her economic policy had on markets? >> she went on a massive spree of cutting taxes, arguably spending a fortune on things like energy relief for the

whole country. but she never told anybody how she was going to pay for it. and at the time when the countries and recession will probably stay there for some time. the markets basically said, you have a 60, 70 billion pound, 80 billion dollar hole in your box. how are you going to pay for? it and when they didn't come up with the other side of the equation, the market took it out on the pound, which fell to an extraordinary low, just about parity with u.s. dollar, and they took it out on government borrowing by raising the cost of uk government borrowing. and when all is said and done, with a new prime minister is in place, when everybody has forgotten about it, that is higher cost of borrowing will still be costing the uk taxpayer and still be costing higher mortgages in britain for. years >> christiane, her who were some of the front runners to replace trust? >> of course the name rishi sunak comes up again.

he was the chancellor previously. he's the one who essentially not lodge the downfall of boris johnson. we also hear could be anybody from the the head of the house of commons, and, guess what, some people are suggesting that boris johnson could throw his hat back in the ring, despite the fact that apparently the in-house tory party rules for leadership prevent anybody who has resigned from actually being able to run again. he is just surrounded by the whole accusations of sleaze, of party gate, of all of that. nothing there has changed at all. >> richard, the energy prices keep going up in the uk, meat, bread, milk, eggs are skyrocketing with inflation. as you said, that's going to continue, right? >> absolutely. the latest numbers on inflation came this week. 10.1% and will probably rise

higher. and as a result of what liz truss's government did by just flooding potentially money, getting rid of any form of fiscal prudence. so inflation is likely to be higher for longer and the bank of england going in the opposite direction will have to raise rates even higher. as economic, look, i've been covering economics for sometime. as economic policies go, i cannot ever imagine a more dreadful, disastrous calamitous set of events that all came to a head within two weeks and exploded so spectacularly. >> christiane, if that's the case, what were they thinking? >> clearly, they weren't thinking. they were thinking with hubris and really in a very closed quarters. it really was just her chancellor, by a large, who came with us and landed it on the people without, as i say, going through any kind of

safety net. richard has been covering business for a long time. i've been covering people for a long time. and it is a disaster for the people of this country. the idea of mortgages. in the united states you have fixed for long periods of time, 15 30 years. here you don't. it's variable, often. and it's really difficult. people have panicked now. we've got a major problem for the people here. it's terrible for the people. >> i didn't know that, that in the eu in the uk you don't have a 30-year mortgage? that's not common? >> no. >> and richard, it will be king charles who will welcome the new prime minister, whoever it is. >> yes. it's his first prime minister. his late mother had more than a dozen. we will look back on this. bear in mind, of course, liz truss was the last political actor, the last official major act that her majesty the queen did, appointing her. she died a couple of days

later. it's extraordinary. you couldn't write this. you couldn't write it. >> richard quest, christiane amanpour, thank you so. much >> thanks anderson. >> still ahead, intense fighting in eastern ukraine. we'll take you there is the pentagon reiterated that iran is aiding putin's army. the latest on that.

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>> penguin double down today on a claim that iran is helping russian war efforts. assisting russian forces with drone operations, saying that iran is complicit in terms of exporting terror. both iran and russia deny the claims. meanwhile ukraine says that russian strikes have damaged as much as 40% of the power infrastructure. ukraine state energy supplier today says they have been forced to put restrictions on electricity use in kyiv and other central region. president zelenskyy said the infrastructure attacks were aimed at creating a new wave of refugees. cnn senior international

correspondent fred pleitgen is on the ground in ukraine with the latest. fred >> the fighting continues to be bad where you are. what are you seeing? there's >> a lot of heavy fighting, especially in the area where we are, around the town of bakhmut. the ukrainian president, vladimir zelenskyy said this is the main focal point where the russians are trying to advance. we've seen over the last couple of days, we were in bakhmut ourselves, and we immediately came under fire by russian artillery. ukrainian forces there on the ground said they face that every single day, several times a day, with those russian forces trying to move, forward and these are mostly forces anderson from the wagner private military come bunny so these are some of the most brutal full forces that sign that putin can muster. right here is a difficult situation for the ukrainians, but they do say they want to hold on to every inch of territory. >> what about the forced evacuations by russia, thousands of residents in the kherson region? what could that signal about

the next stage of this conflict? >> that is one of those things where the ukrainians believe that these are essentially deportations of local population there. obviously they are seen in negative light may see this as something very dangerous in the situation down there. ukrainians have been advancing around the kherson area, but they've still far away from the city of kherson. again, ukraine's president vladimir zelenskyy came out and said the ukrainians have information that the russians have a mind a strategic band in that area and could flood the battlefield if the ukrainians continue to advance and just get a little breathing space between their forces and ukrainian forces. that could have extremely dangerous consequences, including taking cooling water away from the biggest nuclear power plant in all of europe and flooding around 80 villages and towns. so it's certainly down there right now. the ukrainians are advancing in the russians are acknowledging, and it's a difficult situation for them. but it is seen as in general

for this conflict that is where things could get ugly very soon. >> fred pleitgen, i appreciate it. be careful. >> in iran women and men continue to risk their lives, showing up for anti government demonstrations. now in their fifth week. in the oppressive iranian regime, what we are witnessing in cell phone videos and learning about first person accounts is extraordinary. cnn's jomana karadsheh spoke to one woman who has been on the street protesting. we want to warn you, some of the images are disturbing but we think they are important for you to say. >> every day for the past five weeks a little bit of video trickles out of iran. giving us a small window into the oppressive republic. a snapshot of the bravery of protesters and the ruthlessness of regime forces. the government's internet restrictions have made -- but we got a rare opportunity

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