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our top story tonight, classified documents from joe biden's time as vice president, found at one of his private officers in washington, d.c., that you used after he was vice president and before he became president of the united states. a source tells cnn that fewer than a dozen documents were found by biden's own attorneys, a couple of months ago. they turn them over to the national archives, which referred the matter to the justice department and now merrick garland is asking a trump appointed u.s. attorney to investigate. that was the broad outline of the story. i want to bring in cnn senior white house correspondent, mj lee. she is traveling with the president in mexico city. and evan perez -- evan, let's get more details on this story. what you are hearing from your sources tonight. >> john, what we know is that these documents --
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we don't know what is in the documents. but we know that they were classified at the level of sensitive compartmented information. this is among some of the closely guarded u.s. government secrets. that is the reason why this has now being reviewed by prosecutors at the justice department. by the u.s. attorney in chicago of the -- which handles these matters. they do damage assessment to see whether there in the six years that these documents were being held in a location that is not secure, whether there is any damage that has been done to national security. of course, the white house says that the white house is cooperating with this review that is being done by the national archives and the justice department. and they say this is obviously something that even the former president -- even the president was not aware of until these documents were found by his legal team as they were trying to shut down
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this think tank office that he had set up after he left office in 2017. >> the fact that the documents were there, it is news. it is notable. it is also at least, in so far as we know the details of the story so far, somewhat different contextual-y than the case of the documents at mar-a-lago, the documents that were subpoenaed twice and then there was a search warrant for them. talk to us exactly about how these cases differ in so far as we know at this point. >> major distinctions. let's start with a number of documents. according to the white house, we are talking about fewer than a dozen documents. in the case of former president trump, right now, the fbi and the justice department say that they found least 300 documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. in the case of joe biden's legal team, they say that they found these documents and immediately turned them over to the national archives.
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of course, we know that it took months of wrangling between the archives and the fbi and the justice department, to try to get trump to turn over the government documents that he had kept. and of course, even after they said that they had turned over everything, we know that the fbi says that they obtained information indicating that documents were being moved from a room that they are supposed to be kept in. and that prompted the extraordinary circumstance that you saw, that rate, that search that happened at mar-a-lago back in august. of course, that prompted and obstruction of justice investigation, which is still ongoing. it is being handled by a special counsel. there is no indication that -- in the case of the biden documents, there is no indication that there is anything beyond this review of this investigation that is being done by the fbi and the u.s. attorney there in chicago. >> our senior white house correspondent in mexico city with president biden. great to see you. what is the administration
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saying so far about all of this? >> john, here in mexico city, the news of these classified documents and it up coinciding with president biden's bilateral meeting with his mexican counterpart just right behind me at the national palace. and earlier this evening, we saw the president basically not at all engage reporters and the room, who try to ask him about these developments. take a look. >> [inaudible] >> and you know, a senior official who is traveling here with the president told me earlier this evening that he is staying focused on the summit that none of this affects his trip. as far as this official is concerned, this is not an issue that has even come up between the president and his advisors while he has been here. but of course the reality is that this is an issue that is going to be waiting for the
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president as soon as he returns home. that is tomorrow. i think it's important to note, if you look at the statement that we got from the special counsel's office, sort of laying out what they know and sort of the timeline, they were clear to point out that one, they immediately informs the national archives as soon as the documents were found. and to, that they are essentially fully cooperating both with the archives and the doj. all of this is trying to serve the purpose of the white house trying to show that there is no sort of effort to interfere with anything that the doj might be doing. >> president biden wrapped up a meeting with the mexican president. this is his first visit to the border as president. what is he hoping to accomplish? >> yeah, really significant trip, particularly if you remember, the fact that this is the first time that a u.s. president is visiting mexico since 2014. that would have been president
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obama. there was so much tension in u.s. mexico relations during the trump years, as you remember. but they're also has been plenty of moments of friction under president biden's watch as well. and we know that immigration has been probably the biggest issue looming over this visit and i think this visit clearly came at a moment when it was clear that president biden really is wanting to depend on and lean on cooperation from partners like mexico, as he tries to deal with this issue of the record number of migrants trying to come into the u.s. across the u.s. border. this announcement from the administration last week on essentially expanding title 42. that included an important agreement from the mexico side. so, we obviously know that this was a topic of discussion tonight, when the two leaders met. it is also going to continue when there are meetings happening involving the canadian prime minister as well. so, immigration is a top issue. but also just more broadly
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speaking, issues of trade and other areas of economic corporation as well. >> no doubt the president will face many questions on this and the documents tomorrow. thank you both. joining me now, cnn political commentator -- senior legal analyst, elie honig. and -- cofounder and ceo of all in together. i want to start with the documents. and again, the investigation will determine how they got there, who put them there, who knew they were there, whether joe biden knew they were there or not. that may determine whether this is nothing at all or something that is worth further investigating. but for merrick garland, how does this change his life? >> the big winner here is donald trump. let's be clear. it's a windfall for donald trump yet again. here is why. if we want to take all of the relevant factors that a prosecutor would be looking at in just list i'm in a checklist, number of documents, where they cooperative, they obstruct.
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some of those would be bad for joe biden based on what we know. some neutral. more would be worse for donald trump, i think, it is safe to say based on what we know right now. let's remember who makes that decision. we have this u.s. attorney from illinois, who is doing the investigation. on one hand, special counsel. the other investigation -- merrick garland makes both of these decisions. is merrick garland, the famously cautious, the famously allergic to politics, merrick garland, going to end up in a situation where he gives the current president, his current boss, a pass, but he indites, not just the former president, but the man running against his own boss right now? i don't know merrick garland personally, but based on what i do, no that is really difficult for me to say. >> what you just heard was the sound of a lot of people, largely democrats, throwing things at their tv at you right now. saying, elie honig, he is playing, what about -- what donald trump did, even the limited amounts we know about both cases, it is just very different. he was subpoenaed several
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times. he obstructed. he did this. he did that, allegedly. how can you say that this is now the case that merrick garland will treat them similarly? >> it is not what about -- it is real world -- merrick garland, the platonic ideal of the prosecutor, which in many ways merrick garland's -- would not make -- the heart of legal analysis. but that is not reality. we live in reality and you need to think about. merrick garland certainly things about how this will look. how this will be received, how this will impact the way people regard the justice department. i guarantee you he is thinking about it. >> it also needs to be beyond a reasonable doubt in a -- >> the political side of this. >> republicans, some are saying, okay, this is now a thing, we will look into this. but don't day than, those same republicans, have an issue, if they were silent about donald trump? or would they also have to say, if biden does it and it is bad,
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it was bad -- >> we are talking about hypocrisy. it is not something that this republican majority now has been all that interested in or bothered by. if i know this republican majority, and i think i do, i have no doubt they are going to make a lot of this, and let me be real fair here, this could be very bad. classified documents should be handled very, very carefully. i don't care if you have in our next year name or a.d. next year name. this could be bad. it can also just be a mistake. that happens. it could be someone did something stupid. we don't know yet. we need to know more. but one thing we do know is the ways in which these two gentlemen handled these classified documents in the wake of revelations that they were not where they needed to be. and if the classified documents system is basically an honor system, we trust that you will keep them where they need to be and not take them to your home or your office, one man has
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acted honorably, and one man has not acted honorably. one man has said, look, i found these things that you did not know i had, and i want you to now do what is right with them, and another man made people run around in circles, looking for them. and insisted he did not have them. i mean, those are the facts that we have right now. and we need to know more. we should take a skeptical eye, just as skeptical and i, to this as we did to the documents that trump took. >> politically, biden is about to come back to a very different washington that he left before he went to mexico. the reality is that for the first time in his presidency, he is facing the opposing party in a leadership role in the house. and part of their obligation is investigations and they are clearly going to take that very seriously. we had over the weekend members of the republican caucus say that they were already planning to impeach biden on what grounds, we don't know. but it was clearly high on their list. and this is absolutely red
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meat. they will spend the next two years scurrying about this and the same way that hillary's emails, despite various other points of his boxy and other people on the trump administration have handled emails in a similar matter, it doesn't matter. a place to the base. a place to this what about -- it is part of what has made the politics of this republican congress work. they do this again and again. >> democrats have said, we should look at this. they're not doing what the republicans did which was, there's nothing to see, trump is perfect, this is political. >> the republican tactic -- we had a republican congressman on. and he said, yes. there do appear to be differences in the facts here. but then he said, but what is good for the goose, is good for the gander. i think that is a human response. >> one of the reasons we wanted you to come in was, if you wanted to be aside from this, if you think it is connected, let me know, cnn has now reported that joe biden is perhaps moving ever closer to announcing that he is going to
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run for reelection. normally, for an incumbent president, this would be in a new story. but joe biden, it is more of an issue because of his age. and he has answered questions about running against -- do you -- what do you make of the women that he may think he has at his back after the midterms and where he is right now? >> he doesn't think he has wind at his back and have good reasons to believe that. he had a pretty extraordinary last two years, legislatively. more accomplishment that anyone would've expected in such a closely divided -- such a narrow margin in the senate -- look. and very few incumbent presidents don't see themselves as running for a second term. the last time was elated johnson. and he made the calculation that his commitments to the -- totally different time. i don't think there's any world in which joe biden does not run again. and even this, even in the context of this kind of noise, which is how he is going to see, it he has mostly been tough on
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guy for the last two years. everything that republicans have tried to throw against him have-nots top. we saw the evidence of that in the midterms. democrats came very close. by calculation, 6750 votes, from having held on to the majority. republicans won 3 million more votes in terms overall. but just 6000 more vote would have actually gotten them five more seats. some of those races where that close. i think he looks at the math, he looks in some states like michigan, et cetera, that have gone even more blue than they were when he ran in 20, and he would be crazy not to run. he does have an obligation to the next generation. i think that is one of the lessons of pelosi stepping down what you did. there is a big bench. democrats want to see a new generation. if he's doing it again, he needs to make big investments into the next generation. >> -- thank you all very much. the atlanta area special grand jury investigating whether former president trump and his allies violated the law in their effort to overturn the 2020 election has completed its
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we'll former president trump face criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 special -- will he do so in georgia? the special grand jury in georgia is done. they judge has the final report, detailing almost the 11th month investigation that began after this call became public. >> so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,000 780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> the georgia granbury heard from dozens of witnesses. that includes key places who never appeared before the house select committee.
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folks including mark meadows and sitting lawmakers including lindsey graham and former congressman -- they may have pled the fifth. we won't know until -- unless the house decides -- unless or until the house decides to release the grand jury's report. a hearing for that is not for another two weeks. with me now, cnn political commentator -- back for more. former state and federal process -- and a new york times national political reporter -- back for more. lately, what is happening in georgia? >> so, this is a two-step process and we are now down with stage one, which is the special grand jury, which has been investigating this case since may. now, there is this report. and the first question is, will we see this report? the judge will have this hearing on it. i'm sure that media organizations will say yes, you should release it to the public. it will be really interesting to see what the d a takes from a position. if jesus aerial prosecutor and i believe she is, she needs to fight against --
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it's an ongoing investigation, why tip your play book -- either way, it will then be bonnie willis's decision, do i want to now pursue an actual indictment in which case, she will go in front of a regular grand jury and if you want to get an indictment, i'm quite sure she will, because virtually any prosecutor can indict virtually anybody on virtually anything. >> you broke georgia law. georgia law is what they will say -- >> she can only and i-4 violations of georgia state law. -- i am pressing charges. describe to me the scene we will be living. >> it is hard to fathom. i was thinking about this today. in 2023, what could feel like a static political year, we don't have elections -- it is this question about the
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donald trump indictment. i don't think we can say the traditional scandal rules would apply. we have seen the base stuck with him for every twist and turn. even as this new electoral loss -- but it would feel as if the republican party is in this moment -- they are looking for any type of excuse, a lot of members, to cast trump at least a foot away. you would think that if this were to come down, it would be that kind of final straw that a lot of folks need. the problem is for the voters, they may not think the same way. -- >> you are so right. in the real world -- but you need to think, with everything -- i actually think if they did get invited, that is a big if, i actually think that that might jump-start what has been a lackluster start to a presidential campaign. -- and normal world, it would be perilous. but in the upside down, his voters see him as a victim.
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this is proof of the deep state that he promised and all of the factors that are rigged against him. and it actually might infuses campaign with some energy. >> i agree. if you think back to august 8th of last year, the day that mar-a-lago was searched, that was the best day -- >> i was with you all last year. i was with you all last year with an indictment -- certainly, he fundraised a lot of mar-a-lago. after the midterms, there has been a quantifiable and qualified kind of not move away from donald trump, but the feeling that he is just not moving the party forward. -- that talks about it in the language that democrats talk about him. -- i do think it would loosen -- >> there is a difference -- rhonda santas. we know exist in a world where republicans do -- and there is an option for some
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of these people if they want to do something other than donald trump. i've asked this question a lot tonight. what does merrick garland think of all this? >> that is interesting. if i am eric garland, i am begging, praying that the dea indites donald trump. you know, it is a pressure release valve. all the people -- where's maryland? he is sleeping. all of that political pressure gets diverted. he is at least charged. yes, i mean for all the time that i've said to you. he is about the law. show me that trump has been held accountable for one thing ever. that is what merrick garland probably hears every single day from popes like us and probably pops inside of his own orbited. >> you made a really good point at the beginning, if there is an indictment reactions are going to be through the roof, both ways. we are going to see and feathered joy from people who
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donald trump has evaded, the lawford to. long and you're going to see fury. you're going to see real anger from the other side. but it's important to keep in mind, -- but it's unfathomable to see it play until the end. and we've gotten this far from merrick garland to not go through, what i think also agreed on. it's that time -- i what point does desantis do something more than just a silent on the subject like? this at what point does he decide to put a little body english into, let's, in case by the way there's a lot of investigation of the sky. >> yes, the day he decides i'm going to run for president is the day that he should probably decide to take off the governor, no pun intended, that has been silenced.
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>> it's already taken me a second, but i got. it >> i think that he's been keeping his power drive and waiting to see if trump really goes down, remains kind of relevant, a new poll out from cbs, the 60 something percent of republicans believe that we as a party should be loyal to trump and i think that he's reading all of that and wondering, okay, if it's my time to take this man on then and only then would it make any sense for me to criticize him because i won't need his voters. >> elie honig, great to see you all tonight, thank you so much. >> so it seems like we are now aware of prince harry's feelings about the royal family due to his extensive media blitz, ahead of this book being published. i don't think it's not, yet it's still not out yet. yet we know what's in. it is their chance that he will regret being so open? >> up next, a thought from patty deep this. the daughter of former president reagan.
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so, did you know that prince harry has a new book coming out? i bet you did. he's been talking a lot about. it including with anderson cooper on 60 minutes saying that kamala and both leaked stories in a campaign to be queen. >> with her, on the way to being queen consort there was going to be people or bodies left in the street because of that. >> the prince, speaking of multiple outlets on both sides of the atlantic, he says that he still has love for the royal family. >> but, what people don't know
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is the efforts that i have gone through to resolve this privately. both with my brother and with my father. >> he says that he tried to make things right with them. >> i love my father, i love my brother, i love my family. >> now, harry and meghan may be the only people in this country who know what it's like to have their family drama come with the baggage of being royal. but my next guest has some ideas. patty davis was in her twenties when her father, ronald reagan was first elected president. in a new op-ed in the new york times, she says that she regrets the tell all she wrote about her family. the book she is happy she wrote is her new one, floating in the deep and. and patty davis joins me now. i am so happy to see. the op-ed that you wrote over the weekend, it really made me stop and think, honestly. and the gist of it is if you had a chance to speak to harry, you would tell him we are going
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to regret this book, why? >> well, to be clear, i don't know that he would listen to me or to anybody else. you know at the time that i wrote my autobiography, which we're not even gonna say the title of because we wrote many books since. but at that time, i think that anything short of jesus himself coming back and saying to me, don't do this or buddha or some other in line to master, i wouldn't have listened to somebody you know. because it like you are on this emotional river, right? that's your experience and your, as he calls, it is true. and you can't see anything else, you're not really thinking logically because i think for most people listening to what harry says about i love my parents and my family, i want a
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reconciliation, enough with this book out for what i'm calling my father's life of a villain and making accusations and everything, most people are going to call it -- there's no logic here. because when you're in that emotional rush of just your own situation and your own experience, your own victimization really, you are not thinking logically. you are not taking a step back and looking at the whole picture. that takes some distance. that takes some reflection that takes some silence, hence the title of my op-ed. so i don't think that he would, even if i had met him and tried to say something, i don't think he would listen. >> let me put it this way though, what if he's right? what if everything he says is right and true in this book? >> i would still say the same thing. because it is only a narrow part of the story. like i said in my op-ed, the
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truth is bigger than just your own truth, you know there's a bigger story there. i think he would've had a really interesting story to tell as he had talked to his father, talk to william and, i don't know if he would've talked to him but i'm sorry it's someone else joining the interview here, she just does that. sorry about that. there is a bigger story here of the history of the monarchy. and why is charles the father that he was, who couldn't embrace his after diana died? how is he parented by his father, my fellow, right? there's always a larger story. but again, you have to take a step back. it doesn't really matter if you're right for what he's saying there's more to sing just your own perspective. but that takes like i said it takes some stepping back. it takes some distance. it's kind of like going to a
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museum, or an art gallery and stand six inches from a painting to experience it. you stand back from it. well the same is true about life. >> so, he is writing about a family. it's his family. but it's not just any family in this case, it's the royal family. these people are going to be sovereignty, his father is now king. he is ahead of -- >> right! >> so does harry as a british citizen have a obligation? could he argue that he has an obligation to appeal these people to the world because they are in these positions of power? >> well, who asked him to do that? where do you take on that obligation? that is sort of like, i have this reaction whenever i hear people say, i want to set the record straight. i have this sort of major reaction of witches, who asked you to? right? there's something kind of aggressive about that. it's, like iran, i'm right, and
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i'm going to set things straight. who asked you to? how about looking at the whole picture? and there is a lot of really significant things that he can say. i think that it would've been better if he had taken some time and looked at it from a broader perspective. frankly it would've been a more interesting story, like i said, i am very interesting -- interested in how did william process all of this? how did -- process all of this? he was raised the same way. but that was a different generation. the monarchy seems to me is going to have to update itself a little bit, you know. and not, maybe be so stiff on the left and never talk about things. >> but charles would have a perspective on that, i think. >> your op-ed begins in a way
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that it's fair to say you apologized to your father for the book. >> do you think that harry owes his father and his brother an apology? >> i would suggest that would be a good idea. yeah, because it is again that we get back to the logic or lack of. i mean he is saying i tried my best privately to whatever, you know. to enrich these differences or these gaps. and it didn't work out the way that i wanted. so i decided to just tell the world everything. it doesn't really track. but, if you are in a completely emotional state, only looking at her only experience in your own story, it makes sense to you, right? it made sense to me to just
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tell everything to the world. >> patty davis -- >> then it took some distance to realize that that didn't make a lot of sense. >> it is great speaking with you, and your cat. and as i said, the up and really did make me think. it's not often like i read something like that over the weekend. i just stop and sit and thing for a minute and process. so i appreciate the work that you've done. it's great talking to you, thanks. >> thank you so much. >> so, could the parents of a six-year-old boy, who allegedly brought a gun to school and shot his teacher -- could the parents face charges themselves? the latest on this case, just ahead.
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six-year-old boy allegedly shot his teacher in school last week. he was a legally purchased but -- >> we determined that the firearm was in the residence where the list and the child had obtained that firearm, placed it in his backpack and brought it to school. >> police say they are still investigating whether the parents of the six-year-old will be charged with something. the child is under a temporary detention order, the teacher was shot in the chest through her hand. she is listed in stable condition. with me now is john miller, cnn chief law enforcement, and intelligence enforcement -- and back with us, senior analyst, elie honig. john miller, there is a six-year-old who shot someone, and appears to have shot someone here. this is a complicated
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>> so, for police, it's really not a classic criminal matter that you would have, if anybody else had shot somebody. when you have a six year old, this isn't somebody you can bring to trial. it's not somebody who can assist in their own defense or understand the process. so, in the virginia system, you've got a juvenile delinquent who commits a crime. you've got a child in need of supervision who can't be handled by their parents. you have a child in need of services. this is one of those things where police and the social services agencies are gonna have to get into the home, assist the family, figure out questions, like was there a degree of negligence that a gun was somewhere where a child had access to it? that also could be complicated. there is no law and virginia regulating the storage of firearms in the home, even with children. so, we know from prior studies that have been done that you think you have a hiding place that nobody knows about, and if there is a gate in the house
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they'll find it. >> so, legally speaking, what charges could the parents face, elie? >> it's an ultimate nightmare scenario for all involved, a child will not be charged for the reasons john said. with respect to some parents, some states, new york and new jersey, they have specific loss of where you must store a gun. sometimes, it has to be unloaded. in virginia, they don't have those laws. however, virginia, like virtually every, state does have a more general child endangerment laws. i was involved in a very tangentially, in a case in new jersey, a horrible case where a four year old found his father's loaded rifle under a bed, and accidentally shot and killed a six-year-old. that father was prosecuted under a very similar child endangered endangerment law, pled guilty, and was sentenced to three years. so, it will all depend on the specifics of how the gun was stored. definition lee, if a six-year-old can get a hold of a gun and carried out of the house, wasn't that a correct story? >> you would think.
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so i mean, yeah -- >> if it was locked up safe and secure, i think definition early, a six-year-old will not be able to -- >> i mean, what we are dividing here is a question of law and responsibility, versus legal culpability. but i think elie is right. we've had these cases in new york city where 99% of the guns that you all you will find in a residents in new york city are gonna be weapons. there are very few licenses for firearms in the city. in virginia, it's the opposite. it's almost impossible to have an illegal gun, unless it is possessed by a convicted felon, or some other prohibited class. but i think the direction they are going to go is socially, what services are needed for the family, for the child, and then, legally, where is the line between that he endangering the welfare of a minor by having a weapon that has been seen and is accessible by the child? where is that line? and that's gonna be a hard one in a place like virginia.
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>> what happens to the six-year-old? >> i mean, the police department said he is in custody, which means they've taken him away from the family, and they put him with social services for the time being. it's only gonna depend on whether, what's that assessment that both the police and the social service agency do with the home to see what are the conditions there, what is the parenting like. they will assess the kids's entire world, before they decide a direction to take. >> the reporting is that it was intentional. that is rare. >> that's the language here. it's very different than all the things i've heard before. >> yeah, the police sort of said, this wasn't an accident. and most of these cases, they are all horrible. but usually, it's accidental. this charger, they were playing with the gun, this sounds like, i mean, the reporting, what the police said, it was some sort of disagreement or something between the student and a teacher. so, that makes this one different. >> i mean, that's a whole other question about the world which is, if you are six years old,
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and you know what you're seeing, and the computer games, point of view, active shooter games, call of duty, you name it. what you're seeing on the tv, the hero comes out with a pistol and shoots everybody. that's how problems are solved in the entertainment world. that's a very dangerous to young minds. and when the object of that is young there at home, you can see where the line between what is fantasy, what is reality, and what are the real consequences. they're all gonna be blurred and the young of a six year old. >> john miller, elie atoning, thanks very much. up next, a powerful storm, bringing to torrential rain and flooding to central california. we're gonna check in with the weather center to see where this storm is headed next. ♪ ♪ ♪ the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax refund of up p to $26,000 per employee, even if it received ppp, and all it takes is eight minutes to get started. then we'll work with you to fill out your forms and submit the application; that easy. and if your business doesn't get paid, we don't get paid. getrefunds.com has helped businesses like yours
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torrential rains and flooding across central california. many roadways underwater there, a creek in santa cruz south of san jose, washed out a local bridge there. we've got more dramatic pictures. these are from where atlanta generous posted this video on twitter. . >> we are having unprecedented train. this never flooded, this area, never. probably -- [inaudible] >> yeah, probably should be standing that close. rescue workers told people to stay -- eric van damme joins us now from the cnn weather center. derek, what's ahead here? >> john, it's either feast or famine for california. on one hand, it's drought and
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fire, and then on the flip of a switch, you've got floods and landslides. unfortunately, that's the threat that we are covering tonight and into the day on tuesday, as well. threats, very active and ongoing right now from north to south, and some of the things that we've seen in ventura santa barbara counties, you've seen the swift water rescues. we've seen cars completely submerged. there is a ground stop for some of the flights coming out of l.a.x.. there has been mudslides, landslides into the mandatory evacuations from montecito into central barbara. here's a look at the radar. you can see just how extensive the storm system is. let's focus right into los angeles, which by the way has a flash flood warning until 12 pm local time for the county of los angeles, including downtown. some of the radar estimates, just outside of los angeles into ventura and the mountainous regions have been able to produce over ten inches of rain. so, an incredible amount of moisture with this initial route of atmosphere moisture that just spread in more rain. there is a backside. we're going to actually start to weigh that rainfall
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