teased is so interesting. >> powerful. >> it's something we've been talking about all week. >> we've been talking about it all week and there have been protests all week and there are going to continue to be protests. kaitlan was talking about one protesters speaking to selina wang, she's in disguise. detailing the conditions in china and dealing with all the crackdowns. an incredible interview. that is straight ahead. police in idaho backtracking weeks after the murder of four college students. first they said it looked like the students were targeted. now they are clarifying their story. also this morning, elon musk lured republicans into a fight with apple? if he is it appears to be working. first this morning it's been more than two weeks since four idaho college students were murdered. police in the college town of moscow, idaho have said all along they believe this was a

targeted attack. now they're clarifying that statement, creating a little bit of confusion -- a lot of confusion, actually, as students and residents held a candle lite memorial service last night. as police were talking as this was going on about a miscommunication they had with the county prosecutor's office. veronica miracle is live near moscow. this has been the question plaguing this. which is what police are saying, what they aren't saying and what we still do not know about what happened here. >> reporter: that's right, kaitlan. a lot of this confusion in the last 12 hours seems to be around the notion that two or one of the specific roommates were specifically targeted. i'm going to read part of their statement they released last night. detectives do not currently know if the residents or occupants were specifically targeted but continue to investigate. police haven't answered our questions about this confusion, the going back and forth.

i think here in the community all that matters is that a suspect still hasn't been arrested. the unsolved fatal stabbing deaths of four university of idaho students leaves the moscow community with grave uncertainty and little information more than two weeks after the attack. >> you're just going to have to love each other, hug each other. >> the university held a vigil wednesday where the families spoke about their loss. >> she was such a happy -- just such a great kid, a perfect little baby. and so just smart and funny and beautiful. >> that's the most important message that we have for you and your families, is to make sure you spend as much time as possible with those people because time is precious and it's something you can't get back. >> victims kirsten gillibrand and madison were childhood friends. >> sixth grade they found each

other, and every day they did homework together, came to our house together, they shared everything. and in the end they died together. in the same room and the same bed. it's a shame, it and hurts with the beauty of the two always being together something that will -- it comforts us, it loet us know they were with their best friends. >> a spokesperson for the moscow police department said they were starting to receive test results related to the investigation. it comes as police are clarifying statements that said the murders were targeted and i isolated. the latest statements say they do not know if the victims were targeted as several comments have cited this incident as a targeted attack. investors retraced the victims'

whereabouts on the night of the murder but still have not named a suspect. on tuesday authorities removed cars from the crime scene. the idaho state police has provided security for the campus and the community given the mounting fears a murderer is still at large. >> i thought it would make me feel safer but it doesn't because it reminds me there's still someone out there. >> reporter: certainly here in the community everywhere you go there is an increased security presence. idaho state police everywhere trying to make the community feel safe. kaitlan. >> you can see why they don't. thank you for that report. i want to bring in chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst mr. john miller. good morning to you. >> good morning, don. >> this story is fascinating in the sense it's a small town, right, and they don't have anyone yet -- initially they said they didn't think it was a threat to the public and now they're saying it possibly is a threat to the public. what do you make of this? >> i think they're getting tied

up in semantics which is a symptom of not having a break in the case they can talk about that's newsworthy. so people are going back, trying to interpret statements word by word. i think what you have here is you're going into the third week of the case that means there's been enough time for dna results and other things to come back. what they're looking for there is who are the known contributors, the victims and people who lived in the house, where is that unknown contributor? they take the unknown dna, put it in the ksystem with the fbi. that gives them two things, one everyone arrested with a felony's dna. so that's a good start. but second it gives the dna in the system recovered at other crime scenes that isn't identified. it doesn't lead them to a person, it can lead to another crime scene. so all those wheels are turning now, and those clues are going to be coming in and run down.

>> they haven't said anything about a suspect, does that mean they don't know anything or they're not ready to say it yet. >> yesterday they said we have not named a suspect. that doesn't mean there hasn't been a suspect. they've been through a handful of suspects that have risen and fallen as alibis have checked out, and they'll go through more. >> are the kids safe? >> so -- >> all those college students. >> let's talk about yes, but no. there's an increased police presence, the state police is patrolling the campus and town, along with local authorities. but until we know the who and the what and the why, it's hard to say this targeted discussion. targeted or not targeted, has some meaning. whoever went to that house came there deliberately. it appears with the intent to kill everyone inside. armed with a particular weapon

they brought for that particular purpose. were they targeting the house, an individual inside, or was it always just going to be everybody? that's what they're struggling in the why department. so the more random this is. if it's a drifter that said i'm going in that house to kill everybody, the less they're safe. if it's something to do with one or more of those people it's contained. but until they know or tell us that answer, it's hard to tell everybody, everything is safe. >> and we're left to wonder. >> thank you very much, john miller, appreciate it. this morning, the biden administration is considering dramatically expanding the u.s. military training provided to ukrainian forces this includes training larger groups of ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated battlefield tactics. let's go to katie bow lillis.

>> this is an expansion of the number of ukrainians the united states is training and the kind of training they're providing. up until now the u.s. has trained a few thousand ukrainian troops mostly in small groups and mostly how to use specific weapons systems. under the new system the biden administration is proposing, they'll train up to 2,500 ukrainian soldiers in a month for sophisticated battlefield maneuvers, combined arms training. it means the united states would be potentially training ukraine to better integrate their infantry maneuvers with military support and command and control logistics as part of larger and more complex military operations. it is important to note this hasn't been approved yet. but we're told by our sources this is a serious consideration as the biden administration

looks to how to best set up ukraine for success in the fight against russia in the long run. >> great reporting. thank you. >> thanks, poppy. this week we have been talking about the unprecedented protests that you have seen erupting across china. some calling for the president, xi jinping, to step down. that had to do with the severe covid restrictions driving a lot of this. they angered the nation after one apartment fire but now there's been a sweeping crackdown on the demonstrators that's adding to the mystery, frustration we have seen. selina wang is live in beijing this morning. what i find so amazing about this is that you spoke to one of those protesters, obviously they wanted to be disguised because the authorities have been going to these people's homes, questioning them, talking to them about this. what did this person have to tell you? >> kaitlan, it is so hard to get anybody to speak on camera in china, let alone on a sensitive topic like this. this person was at the same protest i reported from.

and they explained to me it was such an incredible, emotional release for people after years of the zero covid policy it was a way to release that pent up anger and this was the explanation for why so many people were willing to put their lives on the line just to speak out. i felt like i lost control of my life because of this covid policy. we are limited physically and now we're limited mentally. we're forbidden to express our ideas. for me, first things first. i want zero covid policy gone. and if we have more freedom of speech and freedom of press, of course that would be great. >> what do you think you guys achieved by participating in that protest? >> if you don't demonstrate, if you don't show them your voice, your idea, they will never know. silence will not protect you. >> reporter: notice that we blurred the person's face i also

did this interview in a car in order to avoid tracking from authorities because police have been calling and visiting the homes of protesters, even randomly stopping people on the streets of shanghai to check their phones. police are looking for vpns needed to use banned apps like twitter. police have also been flooding key protest sites so protesters are finding it hard to continue to find a way to gather. >> what about not just gathering but also talking because there's so much censorship in china. how do people communicate about what's going on in real time on the ground? >> reporter: look, the goal of authorities is to make it as if none of this ever happened. we've seen censorship go into overdrive to scrub any evidence of the protests online. this protester said that's to be expected of the communist party and that's why so many people were demonholding up the white

of paper. >> that white piece of paper represents the censorship and the deleted content. that white paper is everything that we want to say. and we cannot arrest us for holding a white paper. >> reporter: a lot of the protesters in beijing, like this person, were young but stillborn before facebook, google and youtube were banned in china. so despite the propaganda and what this person called, quote, brainwashing they remember what a more open china looked like but most realize it's too dangerous to call for xi jinping to step down. but they want their old lives back, when lives weren't controlled by the lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing. >> that blank sheet of paper says so much. it appears elon musk has settled his dispute with apple and it was all built on a

conspiracy. musk sharing he spoke with apple ceo tim cook saying this, good conversation we removed the understanding about twitter being removed from the app store. that is a far different tune than musk had been singing earlier this week when in a flurry of tweets he claimed the company threatened to pull twitter from the app store and questioned apple's commitment to free speech. thing is, republicans started to fall in line around those attacks. >> he's providing free speech. so if apple responds to that by nuking them from the app store, i think that would be a huge, huge mistake. and it will be a really raw exercise of power that i think would merit a response from the united states congress. >> ohio senator elect, jd vance called it a monopoly power that no civilized country should

allow. and then tom cotton calling a move ill adviced. and mike lee said it called for legislation. ken buck took that idea a step further suggesting a time frame for legislative action tweeting this is why we need to end the app store before the end of this year. no one should have this kind of market power. again, by musk's own admission, it was never a thing. >> it is not just republican leadership taking apple to task this morning, meta ceo mark zuckerberg has been doing it for a long time. and yesterday he spoke out about the company's policies around the app store. listen to this. >> apple has singled themselves out as the only company trying to control -- like uni laterally, what apps get on a device. i don't think that's a sustainable or good place to be. it's problematic for one company

to control what kind of app experiences get on the device. >> let's bring in sarah fisher, media analyst and reporter. i have so many thoughts on this. i'm sure mark zuckerberg loves this moment because the move that apple made has really impacted them. but you -- it's not just them. i thought it was interesting spotify's ceo came out and said the same thing, it's problematic one company controls what happens on a device here. but the free speech argument seems to be missing the point. this isn't government quashing speech. this is a private company making a decision about something they think might violate their rules. >> that's exactly right. and i think part of it between elon musk and apple is that apple has so many different apps coming through to the app store it probably sends boiler plate emails out to developers reminding them, here are our policies you have to adhere to

them. it makes sense a company like apple would do that, they want to do what's best for the consumer. so if they have any app with security concerns or bad content moderation problems, they're going to want to make sure that's not part of their app store. i think this is less of a free speech issue as much as it is a misunderstanding and miscommunication between musk and apple. >> so desantis made it, a lot of republican lawmakers, keep making these free speech argument. is that because it's convenient and resonates? it seems to totally miss the point. >> i think so. i think cracking down on big tech is a politically convenient issue. for a long time we saw the lawmakers going after meta, saying meta, as well as twitter, was censoring republicans. now going after apple saying apple is doing its job to sensor -- you know, an app governed by somebody who says they're republican. i think it's politically

convenient. and also this other weird issue in that apple has ties to china with the protests in china, some of the lawmakers are also using this fight as an opportunity to speak to apple's dominance there. you saw ron desantis criticizing apple for the app policies but also using the moment when you have momentum against the apple fight to target apple for china, which i thought was very interesting. >> also because this is such an issue on capitol hill, which is why this matters. it's not just ron desantis tweeting about it. it's an issue that tim cook has to deal with on capitol hill. and mark zuckerberg weighing in on this and basically agreeing with elon musk is what stood out to me. the question is, do they have a point when they're talking about the fees that the app store and apple store takes from them? >> poppy mentioned that spotify weighed in, epic games has a lawsuit about this. if you compare apple's policies to some of the other big tech

companies, say google and the play store, or maybe microsoft and windows, they're different. google takes a smaller cut of fees that are transacted within the google play store than apple does. the other big question here is that when it comes to apple, apple argues this is good for consumers we take the fee. i think a lot of people are wondering is that true? tim cook, there are reports he was on capitol hill trying to debate this and weigh it out. i don't think the argument is going to go anywhere any time soon it's going to put pressure on apple for the foreseeable future. >> i was looking at the list of folks that left. but i know the latest celebrity to leave is jim carey. >> to leave twitter? >> yes. whoopi goldberg left. and a couple other big names. is this a fad or trend? >> this comes in waves. ariana grande left and came

back. i think you'll have a lot more people in this wave because elon musk is such a polarizing person. but i don't think this is the rule, i think this is the exception. if you take a look, third party stats have said engagement with twitter has increased. i think high profile celebrities may want to make a stand against what elon musk is doing and quit. but i don't think this is a large scale trend where we see massive amounts of users drop away from the app. >> i was looking on the my phone, whoopi goldberg, shonda ro rhimes and others. the women's u.s. national team is cashing out on the men's team success in the 2022 world cup. so farther earning more than they did in their last two tournaments. both of which they won. here with this morning's number is cnn's senior data reporter, harry inton. what is the payout looking like

and a what does it mean they're cashing in on the success? >> it can be confusing. let's dive into the numbers first to explain what's going on. as you were hinting at kaitlan, this is the u.s. women's national team world cup payout. for the men advancing to the round of 16 in 2022, the team got $6.5 million. that will climb higher, if the men advance even further. compare that to the u.s. women winning in 2019, winning $4 million. so that can seem to be somewhat confusing. what exactly is going on here? there was a 2022 agreement which essentially said that the u.s. men's and women's team, the national teams would split the world cup prize money evenly if either team won. so they split the money evenly. this means the men are getting money -- the women are getting money from the men's wins.

so why is it the women are getting more money from the men's win from their own despite the fact they advanced further. it comes down to how much each of the world cups are making. the men's tournament makes more money. the men's world cup total prize money is $440 million, compared to the women's 2019 world cup prize money is $30 million. so the women get to split a larger part of a much larger pie. that's what's going on here. >> the women's team has been more successful than the men's team. >> it's been far more successful. because something makes more montgome money doesn't necessarily mean it's better. the women have one four world cup titles since 1901. the men, zero. the men's tournament brings in more money but when it comes to the u.s., i make the argument the women's team is far more

responsible for the boost in popularity. >> i know everyone is going to hate me, but the men's team makes more money if they make money money, they should get more money. the men's team make more money because people are more interested. >> i have big issue with this, guys. wnba same thing is happening. >> there's more interest -- >> until big media companies, big tech companies, advertisers, invest and put them on their airwaves more. >> i understand what you're saying. >> and allow people to see it more, gain more fans you will push towards equality. if they're blocked -- >> i'm not sexist. >> i know. >> i grew up the only boy in a family of all women. i understand what you're saying. but not everybody has the same skill. not everybody has the same interest in the sport. i think the women should be paid more, i do. >> not everyone has the same

skills, women have the better skills. >> against other women. but if the women played the men they wouldn't win the way they win. >> i'm not going to get into that argument. >> i'm just saying if the sport makes more money, that means there's -- >> why is there more money? >> people are more interested. when i go to a sports bar, am i wrong -- you don't want to say anything. when i go to a sports bar if there's a woman's basketball game on -- >> which is on air less. >> people say can you flip it to the guys i don't want to watch this. i'm telling you, i'm not saying it's right. >> harry, what were you going to say? so you cannot make people become interested in something they are not interested in. >> you have to show it to them. go ahead harry. >> you can't make people interested in things they aren't. look at the young women participating in high school soccer. >> they should get paid more money. i'm not saying they shouldn't get paid more money. >> in terms of fan base here in the united states. the women's fan base has been climbing ever so higher if you

look at the participation numbers. >> you're making my point. >> i'm saying they should get paid more money but more interest in the men and more money is coming in, in the men's sports those men are entitled to the money. >> why are people interested in men's sports -- >> it's more interesting to watch. >> hold on . >> that was a joke. i did not mean that. >> there's nothing more boring than watching the men's u.s. games. if you watch the women it's exciting. go back to 1999, i was coming back on the jersey turnpike when the women won the 1999 world cup tournament. just because something makes more must be it doesn't make it a better product. >> thank you harry. >> it is exciting. i'm not saying it's not more interesting to watch. we're going to have to leave it there. >> that was just a joke. there's more interest in the men because it is what it is. >> wait, do you want to finish your point or move?

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welcome back to "cnn this morning." coming up, two female prime

ministers and one very sexist question from a reporter. how the leaders of finland and new zealand turned the tables on a member of the media. in a new letter a january 6th defendant asking for leaning writing i let one man's lies bring me to a place that couldn't be farther from reality. and this morning, president emmanuel macron set to arrive at the white house. a member of buckingham palace has resigned after questioning whether a black woman was really british at a charity event this week. bumming ham palace released a statement saying the individual would like to apologize and is stepping aside. the british media identified the woman as lady susan us si. served as lady in waiting to queen elizabeth for more than 60 years. and the widow of a former chairman of the bbc's board of

governors semi gove governors. it was also reported she was charged with helping meghan markle adjust to royal life. this is the latest incident involving the royals and race. during a trip to jamaica, prince william and kate were accused of reinforcing colonial values. having a parade wrapped in linen was viewed as tone deaf. archived papers in june of 2021 revealed minority immigrants were banned from holding positions at buckingham palace until the late 1960s. and meghan and harry cited racism as one of the reasons to leave their role as oprah. remember what they told oprah what a member of the royal family had to say about their

child's skin tone. >> we had the conversation of he won't be given security, not going to be given a title. and also, concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born. >> there's a -- hold up. >> there's several conversations. >> there was several conversations about it. >> there was a conversation with you -- >> with harry. >> -- about how dark your baby is going to be? >> potentially and what that would mean or look like. >> joining me now is trisha godart and emily nash. hello to both of you. she's covering the royal visit, emily, from boston. i appreciate both of you joining us. here we go again talking about this. >> yes. >> we talked about it during the wed wedding, during the queen's funeral. this is deep stuff. so i'm wondering, what does this mean? do you know the person who's

involved in this. >> yes. she's done some amazing work. and i think to me this whole event was about women and domestic violence. so if somebody asks you where you're from you tell them the organization you're from. but this was sustained questioning. and a lot of us have been through that. people in the uk may be 20, 30 years ago, would say where are you from? i'd say surry, nowhere are you really from? i thought, my god, hasn't this conversation ever stopped? >> you weren't surprised at all? >> no. i was shock but not surprised. >> and she's an incredible figure. >> yes, done amazing work for domestic violence for women. and this is what this function was all about. >> emily, talk to me about lady hussey please, she is prince william's god mother. are you surprised by this?

>> i am surprised. and, you know, it's really a shocking in terms of the high profile nature of the event for the queen consulate. this was meant to be a huge moment for her, it's overshadowed that and overshadowing what's going on in boston this week. so the timing of it is terrible. but, you know, moreover, it's just inexcusable. i think it's interesting that the palace has been quick to act this time around. it's possibly a changing of the old guard. this might not have happened, i think, in the previous reign has quickly as it has done. >> i agree. >> because charles and the queen consort has said they want to modernize the royal family, and also limit the roles that hussey had as a lady in waiting. >> absolutely. and i think with harry and meghan in the family and what they've done and also with the, you know, william and katherine, they are trying to move things forward. i think they recognized that an

earlier response was tone deaf. so this quick feedback was new. >> there was a denial when meghan and harry made their claims. >> yes. >> and they got a lot of guff in the british press and american press people not believing their stories saying suck it up. does it give credence to what harry and meghan have been saying? >> it gives credence to what people believed before. there still is push back. we don't have as diverse a press as you have here in the united states. >> what does that mean? >> well, the journalists in britain can use the phrase uppity when referring to meghan and not understand the connotations. that wouldn't happen here. our "newsroom"s are exclusively white as opposed to sports

areas. a lot of the reporting about this has been overblown. >> there were, emily, people didn't believe a lot of what meghan and harry said, especially about the threats made to them. meghan spoke about it in her interview with oprah. i want you to listen to it and then i'll get your response. >> i think there's a reason that these tabloids have holiday parties at the palace. they're hosted by the palace. the tabloids are. you know, there is a construct that's at play there. and because from the beginning of our relationship they were so attacking and insigciting so mu racism really it changed the risk level. it wasn't just catty gossip. it was bringing out a part of people that was racist and how it was charged and that changed the threat, that changed the level of death threats, that changed everything. >> a new interview with

britain's channel 4 aired on tuesday. neil bass who said threats against meghan were serious and credible enough that authorities assigned teams to investigate them. he's a former counterterrorism police chief, he's former now he's able to speak about it. >> absolutely. it's shocking to hear about this. we've known for some time that there have been threats made against them. there have been people successfully prosecuted for making threats against harry and meghan. it comes i'm afraid partly with royal territory as well. because you have people that become obsessed with the royal family and occasionally the threats arrive. but it's easy to see there has been this link with meghan's race and she's been the target of vile abuse. >> absolutely. >> i'm going to give you the last word here. what does this mean? how are people back in the uk, how are they reacting to this? >> people of color are not that shocked.

remember, one of the headlines that those first brought out about meghan when she first joined the royal family was almost straight out of compton. so we aren't surprised. sadly, i think things are going to change slowly. they are changing. but it's going to be a slow process. >> i remember, look, i have eaten a lot of crow in my years on earth. you and i talked about it during the wedding. you said don this is not going to change. i said she may make a difference. >> no, no, no. it'll take a lot longer and a lot more than just one person. >> thank you, safe travels to you emily. and thank you trisha, appreciate you joining us. up next on "cnn this morning," a january 6th defendant is now writing a letter asking for leniency because he says he believed former president trump's lies. and the understatement of the year from the fallen crypto boss, sam bankman-fried. >> look, i've had a bad month.

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