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super adult of you to suggest. i can't wait to squad up. i love it when you talk nerdy to me. guy, guys, guys, we're still in session. and i don't know what the heck you're talking about. - [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don't know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. well, good evening, everyone. i'm laura coates, and this is "cnn tonight." and well, here we go again. they're going to come back and do it all over again in a cup of hours. you know exactly what i'm talking about because the house voted to adjourn until noon tomorrow, a vote that kevin mccarthy won by really the skin
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of his teeth. and coming back to vote again because there has not yet been a speaker of the house elected. and it's all right now seemingly about buying time for more negotiations behind closed doors. so the fact the motion to adjourn even passed, well, that's a little bit of good news for kevin mccarthy. he did speak to manu raju just a little while ago saying he still believes that he will become the next speaker of the house, but he wouldn't commit to when that would actually take place or even getting it wrapped up by tomorrow. >> wrap it up tomorrow? >> no, no, i'm not putting any time line on it. i think we've got members talking. i think we've got a little movement so we'll see. >> we'll have more from manu raju in just a moment. kevin mccarthy has suffered what many are calling five humiliating defeats. well, that was just today, and you can add that to what's happened in the past over the past several days. his own party has told him,
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nope. that comes of course from congressman lauren boebert that we don't want you a total of 11 times this week. this, frankly, is nothing like any of us have seen at least in our lifetimes. we may have heard about it, we may have read about to knowing it could happen, but this is the longest speaker contest in 164 years. now, i don't want to scare you all the way, but back in 1855 the contest for speaker at that time it went for 133 ballots. so right now we are in the small potatoes category of all of this. but here we are tonight, 11 votes, and there is still not a speaker of the house. and this -- frankly, all of this dysfunction, this what's known as an embarrassing display by so many who who are talking about what's happening on capitol hill right now, this seemingly complete inability to get the job done or even be able to move past this particular hurdle and
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begin doing the jobs that many have come to actually do and were elected to do, well, maybe is this a preview of what's going to come down the road? you have to wonder if congress will be able to get a lot done if anything in the near future if there can't be the cohesion to elect a speaker of the house. i want to get right to manu raju who is on capitol hill. manu, good to see you. i mean, look, all the chaos is happening right now. we're actually hearing from the man of, well, the past 36 hours and beyond. kevin mccarthy, what is he saying? >> he still thinks he can get there. he doesn't know when he'll get to 218 votes, but eventually he believes he will. and the reason why he does is because there have been furious negotiations that have been really taking place since yesterday. there have been actually talks that have happened pretty much since the aftermath of the election. really in the last 48 hours, 24
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hours and this past day they have really, really intensified. in fact, right now behind closed doors one of his top lieutenants office there's a meeting still going on with some of these holdouts. they've been meeting in that room all day long. kevin mccarthy has been part of those discussions, so he believes eventually when the deal is reached that will help them get some support and then even more support as he tries to get some of the other holdouts. now, he also defended the concessions that he's made even though some are concerned that would make him a weaker speaker. >> no, no, i'm not pulling any time line on it. i just think we've got some progress going on. we've got members talking. i think we've got a little movement so we'll see. >> have you had to walk back the committee assignments on -- >> i didn't make those -- >> was that a mistake to make that threat? >> i didn't make that threat. i did not make the threat, and no, members are not going to
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lose their -- >> how long do you think it's going to drag out for at this point? >> i'd love to know. we're working through it and make good progress. >> did you think it would take this long for a negotiation. >> none of this is long as the 1850s. >> apparently i like to make history. >> are you concerned, you're giving one member the power to oust you as a speaker. >> has it undercut the power of the speakers? >> there's views over john boehner. >> doesn't that inherently mean you would be a weaker speaker? >> i can only be a weaker speaker if i was -- >> are you concerned there might be more than four who will never vote for you among the republicans? >> no, i think we're good. >> are you worried about losing votes from moderates if you give too much away? >> everybody's involved in it.
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we've got to get there completely. >> mr. mccarthy -- >> can i answer his question first? thank you. this is a new thought we have to have. we have a five seat majority, so it's not one side is going to get more than another. it's the entire conference is going to have to learn how to work together. so it's better we go through this process right now so we can achieve the things we want to achieve for the american public, what our commitment was. so if this takes a little longer and doesn't meet your deadline, that's okay because it's not -- it's not how you start, it's how you finish. and if we finish well, we'll be very successful. >> you've been doing this for two months, though. why didn't you sort it out before january 3rd? >> reporter: for the last part we tried to sort it out before january 3rd i asked him about why didn't you resolve this before. because they'd had a difficult time doing it, a difficult time closing out the deal now.
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because even, laura, if they do get some republican tuesday back this deal they're trying to cut to give essentially the rank and file members, the far-right members more leverage over the speakership, giving them more sway over the legislative process, that doesn't mean they're going to get all those holdouts to get kevin mccarthy the votes he needs. which is why the expectation is it's going to be difficult to get to that point tomorrow. we'll see if he gets there next week if at all. >> difficult is generous. it feels like in many respects every parent knows you give a mouse a cookie. right, the negotiations began long ago before the mid-term elections. it's still ongoing, and the needle hasn't seemed to move. you do wonder about that, what is it, the weaker speaker phenomenon. what is the plan at least initially tomorrow when some lawmakers can't actually be there? what is that going to mean for the progress of all of this, and for mccarthy in particular? >> reporter: yeah, i think it
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almost certainly means they're not going to be able to get this done tomorrow because some of the people leaving are supporters of kevin mccarthy. if they're not there they'll have to change the threshold for how much majority -- will it be a majority to elect the speaker it would go below 218 votes because it's the majority of those who are present and voting. that's how they count the votes, but that doesn't necessarily mean it'll help him if his supporters aren't there. it may be more difficult for him to reach that threshold. that underscores the fact they're likely going to wait. one other thing to note my colleagues are reporting tonight there will be a conference call tomorrow with the full republican conference, and they decided to do a conference call instead of a closed door meeting like they did on tuesday. and that tuesday mid-morning meeting was very harsh, lots of curse words, yelling at each other. and it led to actually a very difficult situation. but a lot of people say that's almost heardened the opposition
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of kevin mccarthy. instead of doing an in-person meeting they're doing a phone call tomorrow instead. they're hoping it goes off better. >> well, manu, one can swear on the phone as well as you can do in person. >> they can also mute when people respond. >> we're in the covid zoom call generation at this point. the ability to have the anonymity and distance to really speak one's mind it might even be a worse scenario. to be a fly on that wall or have that zoom meeting i.d., who knows. thank you so much, manu. i want to bring in congressman-elect because without a speaker no one can be technically sworn in. congressman-elect ryan zincy a montana republican. i'm glad you're here, congressman. but what do you make of what's happening right now? i mean i'm calling you congressman-elect. we're days after the time you should be called congressman, days after perhaps committee assignments ought to be handed out, security clearances
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reinstated or given for the first time, a speaker being established. did you expect that at this late hour on a thursday that we would still not know the speaker of the house? >> i think it's unexpected. but really at this point in time it's not really about the speaker or mccarthy or personnel. it's about whether or not the republican party, the caucus itself can be functional and lead. because all of us were elected to do a job, and we can't even begin to do the job unless we have the first step as a speaker. and there's a lot going on. we have high inflation. we have energy. we have housing. there's a lot of problems. both sides of the aisle recognize we have problems, and we have to address them. so having a speaker fight up front -- and, again, you look at the caucus. we have about 200 and sometimes a little over 200, which is more than 90% of the caucus firmly behind kevin mccarthy. you have a small majority not.
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and where does the majority get their base? well, it's not conservative because jim jordan certainly is not a moderate. so jim jordan is behind mccarthy, so is president trump, so is a majority of the freedom caucus. so you have a small majority of holdouts that's holding to a degree hostage over the body. now, the problem is the longer it goes, the less likely we're going to get done the things that we said we would get done -- investigation, you know, oversight over the administration. we said we would curb the budget. that means you've got to go to a regular order. those thingvise to be done with effort. >> i know it's the tip of the tongue in term of this is a minority compare today the overall body of americans, but they have the power as a majority being able to say i'm shutting down what the greater maybe caucus and cause wants.
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but it's interesting because all of these notions you've got a lot to get done, and frankly even though republicans are suffering in the intraparty disputes right now, it impacts democrats right now. there are also congressmans elect at this point in time. many are not in the same boat, of course. but you see this doesn't bode well for the american public i assume, that if you have all these things to get done that if this initial hurdle can't be cleared, how is there confidence that you'd like the electorate to believe there is possible to get those things done with this holdout minority? >> you're right. and it erodes the credibility of the institution. the institution is a body. it doesn't mean that a single individual gets their way. a single individual gets their influence. it's the body that decides. we're a democracy so we need 51%. and the kind of caucus if you run a primary and you've got 90% of the republican party, now,
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you mind think you're in good shape. but a minority now is ruling the rules. and there is progress being made. and i agree with mccarthy. there is progress being made in inches. we need yards. we need first downs and we need to score, but there is progress being made. and i still remain an optimist, but we have to realize what's the higher purpose? as you point out the higher purpose is to serve the people. and i'm from montana, and in montana water is really important as an example. the administration reenacted the waters of the u.s. rules. now, congress can act and defund that and mitigate some of the damage. you know, second amendment, things that are important to montana. now, those are important to montana. there are other issues that are important to the states. we can't address any of those unless we're a functional body. now i was a s.e.al. i can tell you you've been in many battles in my life. and not every battle is won by a
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general like paton. in the house the speaker is the head but it's the body, it's the members that pass the bills. it's the committee chairs. >> you were a s.e.a.l. as you say. let's talk about a former commander in chief because donald trump who is running for re-election again, he was nominated today as an alternative to say kevin mccarthy. he only got one vote in favor of him. i wonder how you judge that and how you view that given his role within your own party. >> well, and certainly he has influence. >> waning. >> yeah, absolutely. he's behind mccarthy, and they ignored him. and in some cases they called him out. now, i think that's absolutely inappropriate. >> why? >> i don't know whether the -- well, to have a vote for president trump being speaker it's a castaway vote.
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and i think it -- it's not a serious vote. let's get serious because the job is serious. being a congressman is a responsibility. it's an honor, but it's a responsibility, and you should take that responsibility seriously. >> does mccarthy have a responsibility if this goes on longer? and i don't know what the ultimate threshold is for when it tips the scale and the patience is gone, but is there responsibility you think at some point you think congressman mccarthy has to bow out if they cannot get to this 218 or the absolute majority bench mark? >> every day it gets longer who suffers? let's take fentanyl, for instance. we probably lost 600 americans through fentanyl in a very short period of time. that problem is not going away unless congress gets in and forces the administration to address it. the border, i mean what we serve is our constituents and the american people. the longer this is carried out, the less effective the house is. now, if you're on the republican side of the aisle, we have a
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majority in the house, we don't have the majority in the senate. we don't have the majority -- obviously we don't have the administration. so if you're a republican and you believe in conservative values, we have to be united to defend those values. when we're not united, we're not effective. and so being not effective means we can't address energy, inflation, nor we can have an adequate checks and balance of what the constitution demands in setup and structure. >> there are a point, though, when that unity could happen if it weren't kevin mccarthy and you would support another candidate and nominee if that would lead to that level of unity? >> with me a minority can't, you know, be dictatorial over terms. and a lot of the terms late were we want this on personal issues. it wasn't we want energy policy,
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we want a balance budget. i want to balance budget, i want to check spending. i want america to be prosperous, every american, right? when you say we want this for a member, we want this personal gain, that's where a line was drawn. you have two sides, but they are working together. they are talking. they're making progress, again, in inches. i'm hoping we make some first downs and get through this because we owe it to our constituents to get to work. i was sent here to work and fix problems and not to be a sound bite for chaos. and chaos weakens the institution. it weakens the credibility of the members, and i think it frustrates america that we're dysfunctional. so, you know, if i have one advice to everybody is take a deep breath. you know, be red, white, and blue, do our duty. let's get a speaker and hold him accountable. again, generals don't win wars. it's the front line, so everyone
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glad to have you all here. let me begin with you, david, because this is historic for a number of reasons. the other "h" word being used is humiliation. and i'm wondering the congressman-elect zinke speaking about the stamina, to keep going and try and try. is there an appetite for people who are even supporters of mccarthy right now to keep going? >> well, so far there has been. so far we haven't seen real deflections from kevin mccarthy. and the stamina thing is clearly the mccarthy strategy here. there's no doubt about that. listen, i think today was just a study in public versus private, right? so we hear all these reports that in private progress is being made, these negotiations are productive, they're still talking at this hour right now, laura, and that that is a positive sign for mccarthy, he thinks.
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he's going to be able to show some progress. on the floor in public there's been no progress. >> right. >> i mean there's been no progress at all other than he was able to adjourn for a second night. i mean if that's your big victory -- >> and that was a close call. >> last night it was a little closer. tonight he only had one republican i think vote with the democrats against adjournment and last night it was four. if that's what he wants to claim victory, that's a pretty lonely victory there. he clearly i thought when you saw him walking through statuary hall and talking to reporters, he still does not know if he can get there. he sort of was like i think we can and we're going to stay at this, but i didn't get the sense from kevin mccarthy in that conversation with reporters he knows he's going to get to 218. >> you agree? >> you can hear it in the video we were playing where he was taking long pauses every time he was asked, well, are you going to get there tomorrow? uh, maybe, i think so, we're making progress. and so that's clearly he didn't know entering this week that he was going to have the votes. and right now as we're nearing
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the end of week he's not sure if he has the votes either. i mean one of the things that i think really stands out to me about all of this and we were talking about this is the issue of governing, period, when it comes to what actually has to happen down the road -- funding the government and also increasing the debt limit. and increasing the debt limit is where things get dangerous because if you don't even have the votes for spea support an i debt limit, then the country defaults on its debt americans in terms of medicare benefits could potentially be cut, social security could potentially be cut. all those things happen, interest rates go up. so i think that those are the real world implications and what ultimately can happen this very year. >> i was talking to a republican trying to weigh on this earlier today, and his comment was this is interesting to watch, of course, and everyone should be. but he thought it was hyperbolic
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in a way to suggest that really nothing was ever going to get done in the house because they don't have a speaker quite yet. he seemed to suggest there was some time they had to massage this issue, there was time to negotiate because the really hard-hitting issue was the debt deadline and others coming up weren't quite yet. that's not much -- doesn't have a lot of confidence in how things work. but to laura's point, look, this is not about whether the deadline is right now but about when you have to ultimately meet that challenge if this is how you're going to do it, what's going to happen? >> this portends two years of utter chaos. this isn't a crisis yet, laura. this is one political party's incompetence and dysfunction. this is what's going to play out for two years. we forget we're talking about lauren boebert and matt gaetz and 20 hard liners, but the minute we have a speaker margery taylor greene, jim jordan, the
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extremists in that caucus are way more than 20. so when it comes to things like the debt limit and funding the government it's going to be a lot more than 20. this is megarepublican conference. >> here's what i think is so interesting and very rosy talk from kevin mccarthy and his allies. one of the things we've heard from them over the last few days even tonight mccarthy was saying is this is going to be the hard -- we're going to work this out now in this speaker vote and getting these rules adopted and then everyone will have learned how to work together in the conference with what it means to be together with a five-vote majority. and it'll make all the stuff that joe and laura are talking about, it'll be do-able because we would have -- that seems to me to be unbelievably like rose-colored glasses. >> yesterday from the congressman this is just messy to now it's a good thing. but i wonder from the democratic side is there any incentive for the democrats to want to help in any -- you all are like no.
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you all can't shake your head fast enough for me. why are you shaking your head? >> well, i think no because right now they're able to say we are totally united and we know how to elect our leaders and let the republicans disarray continue to show they potentially are not prepared to govern. and again on all the points we're talking about, when -- by mccarthy potentially giving this small faction whether the ability to vacate him from the speakership either with one vote or with five votes, that could ultimately mean that democrats have to come to that speaker's rescue whoever it is. so that way they stay in power because of the fact that, again, on the debt limit if that -- those five or more than them decide we don't want to vote to increase the debt limit, all they have to do is go and say we're going to raise a motion to vacate the chair and try to kick mccarthy out to avoid a debt limit increase. >> or if you believe this
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republican party is a threat to our democracy, i do as a former republican. the democrats do. well, then you've got to leave them alone. let them do their thing because your job, then, is to defeat them in '24. and the easiest way that's going to happen is to show how dysfunctional and chaotic they are these next two years. >> it strikes me as interesting because a few years ago democrats were often, you know, criticized because they seemed to be playing a different game than republicans, right? they were talking about democrats are always looking for the moral high ground to say, well, we're not a party that would do this so they would almost contort themselves they were criticized having done to try to do what was perceived as the right thing. case in point about issues about members of their own caucus who they wanted to ask to resign and beyond. is this an example right now where democrats are saying, no, we've learned a lesson and that moral high ground issue, you guys go ahead and figure out -- that's not going to reward us in the end.
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>> lesson number one in politics, rule number one is do not get in your opponent's way when they're doing the damage themselves. i think laura was saying was if indeed we get to where the chair is vacated and we're up against the debt limit the incentives may be different, and the country's reaction may be different. i'll give you one little fun fact on the democratic side, though. >> i love a fun fact. >> so nancy pelosi just stepped down after 20 years of leader. that means she was put in nomination ten times by house democrats to be the speaker candidate, whether or not they have the majority depended on if she got speaker. it only two three days for ha hakeem jeffreys to beat that record. >> that's what we call progress. we're going to have much more on this historic and chaotic vote for the speaker of the house ahead. but next, everyone, there is shocking new details about what happened the night that four students were stabbed to death
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bryan kohberger the suspect accused of stabbing four university of idaho students to death late last year making his initial court appearance in idaho today. and court documents released today are offering for the first time a clearer picture of just what happened in the early hours of november 13th including a surviving roommate's encounter with the alleged killer. cnn correspondent veronica miracle has more. >> reporter: dna evidence, a suspicious vehicle, and a new witness account critical information released publicly for the first time details that led to the arrest of bryan kohberger who was charge would the brutal stabbings of four university of idaho students more than seven weeks ago. >> mr. kohberger i'm going to advise you of the rights you
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have in this case. >> reporter: he appeared in a idaho courtroom today looking straight ahead and not at the victims' family members. the new court document places the murders between 4:00 a.m., and 4:25 a.m. on november 13th. according to an affidavit released today kohberger's dna profile obtained from the trash at his family's home matched dna on a tan leather knife sheath left behind at the crime scene and was found laying on one of the bed of the victims. the same document said one of the surviving roommates said she was awoken around 4:00 a.m., heard crying and heard a voice say it's okay, i'm going to help you and that she heard the crying and saw a figure clad in black clothing and a mask. she describes him as 5'10" or taller, male, not very musculyr but athletically built with bushy eyebrows saying he walked past her as she stood in a frozen shocked phase.
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but questions still remain about why no one called 911 until almost 8 hours later. the affidavit says security video around the time of the murders picked up distorted audio of what sounded like voices or a whimper followed by a loud thud. a dog can also be heard barking. the document also details multiple sightings of a suspect vehicle from surveillance footage that helped lead to kohberger's arrest. about two weeks after the murders police from washington state university where kohberger attended school flagged his vehicle later seen at a traffic stop in indiana while driving with his father to pennsylvania. >> is this your car? >> reporter: before the cross-country drive and just five days after the brutal murders, kohberger received a new license plate for his car according to washington state licensing documents. and according to investigators cellphone records suggest kohberger's phone was near the victims' residence at least a dozen times in the last six months including about five
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hours after police believe he committed the murders, suggesting he may have returned to the crime scene. still no evidence was released that connects kohberger to the victims or any indication of a motive. in court today kohberger seated with a new court appointed attorney responded to each charge of murder. >> do you understand? >> yes. >> reporter: the attorney for the victim ofcally ae gonzalez today react today the proceedings. >> it's obviously an emotional time for the family seeing the defendant for the first time. this is the beginning of the criminal justice system, and the family will be here for the long haul. >> reporter: the family hardly ever took their eyes off kohberger during the proceedings. he's next due in court january 12th. laura? >> veronica, thank you so much. and we've got even more reporting tonight on what bryan kohberger was doing at his parent's house in pennsylvania. stay with us.
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tonight we've got more new details about what allegedly happened in the fatal stabbing deaths of four university of idaho students late last year. i want to bring in cnn's senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. he's also the author of "the threat how the fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump." also here with us cnn's chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, joining me now. you've got some new reporting tonight on the suspect. john, what are you learning? >> so, what we've learned from sources who are briefed on what the surveillance teams made up of the pennsylvania state police and fbi saw when they setup on kohberger's house in pennsylvania is, number one, he left washington state university about four days before the semester break started. so it seemed that he was in a hurry to get out of there and get home. that, of course, is about seven
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days after police announce that they're looking for a white elantra or any information about someone driving one in the area. when he gets there what we're told is the surveillance team sees him cleaning that elantra from top to bottom inside and out, not skipping a single spot to get it spic-and-span, wearing surgical gloves as he moves things in and out of the car, that at one point he comes out at 4:00 in the morning to take the garbage out. but he takes the garbage from his house and puts it in the neighbor's bins. now, laura, as veronica just reported in the last section this is the trash the fbi recovered and found items that gave them the familial dna match that linked him to that crime. >> it's pretty unbelievable to think about all this happening, andrew, because, you know, first of all just the idea they have a suspect, the idea somebody's been arrested, but the reporting
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in part that he returned to this house or he was at this house and his cellphone has been pinging at this location for a number of times, at least 12 different times. i mean, what stood out to you reading the fact all of this -- this is a probable cause, by the way. what stood out to you? >> it's an extraordinary affidavit. it goes far beyond probable cause in my estimation. but some of the really incredible the local police and their partners, the state police, and of course the fbi were doing behind the scenes without any of us knowing is they were very careful about not sharing any details of their investigation. one of those elements was this very detailed telephone analysis where they once they know a person's cellphone they can look at which towers that phone is pinging off of to triangulate and essentially put you in a general area. so they know that in the months leading up to the murder his cellphone was seen in the area
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of the house 12 times before the murder. before the murder the cellphone leaves residence and mysteriously not connected anywhere and then it comes on again not far from the residence -- not far from the murder site and is seen on the way back to his residence. finally the next morning the phone pings again in the immediate area near the scene of the murder at around 9:00 a.m. hours before the murder is even reported to the police. very damning. >> you and i reported in the past sometimes people who have committed crimes -- and again, this person, you know, the burden of proof, the presumption of innocence is still there. but just more broadly sometimes those who have committed the crimes become so invested and want to be around in the aftermath to see what's happening, sometimes even attending vigils and beyond. we've seen this in different cases. what strikes me in particular here, john, many are saying how could there have been surviving
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roommates. and thank god there were, but surviving roommates. what role did they have in alerting the authorities? did they hear anything? we learned some of that today. >> so that is particularly a vexing question at this point which is you have a roommate who hears crying, who hears a thud, hears a dog barking, who hears a strange voice saying it's okay, i'm going to help you and then sees a figure dressed in black wearing a mask covering half his face walk straight by her and out the glass sliding doors in the rear. now, at that point the question is, okay, so why didn't that person go upstairs check on the others, call the police? there's a prowler, there's a burglar. but, i mean, we have to kind of take ourselves back to when we were in college or lived in a group house or a dorm, somebody has a fight with a boyfriend, they're screaming and yelling, you know, somebody leaves. we can only speculate as to what
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that person's train of thought was except we get a clue. what she said to investigators was after that figure left and looked directly at her and didn't take any action against her that she locked the door and stayed inside. so that's -- that's going to be a story we're probably not going to hear until trial. >> i mean thinking about that, andrew, i mean there are questions about the random nature of a crime like this, the idea that there would be survivors in an instance like this. but also i'm curious of what you make of the cardination or the fact that the fbi obviously was involved. you have the idea of dna, there's surveillance. what do you make of just how this all unfolded? because initially people were looking at this particular police department and going why don't we know more including the families who were completely, you know, frustrated and obviously disheartped they didn't have more. >> really kind of hand fisted
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handling by the pr folks early on. it's a targeted attack but there's no danger to the community, but oh, yes maybe there's danger to the community, look out. >> does that seem intentional looking back? >> it's hard for me to imagine it was intentional. what we do know they actually had a high degree of collaboration with their state and federal partners, and that's good thing because good work was done here. they built a strong case. so far they've got a very good suspect in this case. and let's remember, laura, we have no idea what sort of evidence the law enforcement has recovered from the numerous search warrants that have taken place after the arrests. so you have the footprint they found near the residence on the morning after the murders. so did they find a shoe that actually matches that footprint, that sort of stuff as john said we'll have to wait and see what comes out at trial. >> we certainly will. there's still a lot more information to try to unpack. gentlemen, thank you so much.
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well the house voting tonight
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to adjourn in till noon tomorrow. that sounds a little familiar, right? it also buys time for more negotiations to take place behind closed doors, as kevin mccarthy suffered five more defeat today for a total now of 11. so what is going to happen in just a few hours? how is that going to change things? we've not seen the progress yet. plus we have new news on the buffalo bills damara hamlin, he is awake and making remarkable progress just three days after he collapsed on the field in cardiac arrest during monday night football. the nfl has officially canceled that game, and cnn has newly-obtained audio from the moment hamlin clapped. >> he went down. >>

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