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>> breaking news tops the hour. turns out the former president is not the only one of the classified documents problem. the president has one as well, stemming from his time as vice president. they were discovered last fall in a private office in washington, and used as part of his relationship with university of pennsylvania, where he was an honorary professor for 2017 to 2019. attorney general garland has asked the u.s. attorney to investigate. republicans are reacting. so far the former president and the democratic former chairman of the house intelligence committee has called this, quote, a problem, and a deep concern, and quote. cnn's evan perez shares the timing of the story. he joins us now. so, what more do you know about the documents that were found? >> well, anderson, we know that at least some of the documents or classified at a level as ts/sci, which is sensitive compartmented information. and this is sensitive information that comes from intelligence sources, and

that's designed to be kept in secure locations, one of which presumably is not a office in the vice presidents, or what was then the vice president's office at the penn biden center. that's the reason why this is now the, being looked into by the justice department, by the u.s. attorney, john lausch in chicago. he is a trump appointee who's been kept on doing various investigations. and now, he and the fbi are going to take a look at this. they're doing a review to see what damage assessment, so to speak, which is a standard way of handling these types of things. according to the white house, they are cooperating. they say that this was found back in november as the -- as would the president legal team was trying to close down this office and university of pennsylvania. and as soon as they determined these documents, which were, they, say few of them doesn't, they turned it over to the national archives, which then

asked the justice department to look into it. >> and, now a number of republicans are making comparisons to the former presidents issues with the classified documents and search at mar-a-lago. how does it compare? how is it differ? >> there are some big differences, right? according to the biden white house, they are saying that there are fewer than a dozen documents in the trunk. which is still an ongoing investigation. we have seen from court documents that we are talking about over 300 documents, including 92 that over at the highest level of classification. so, that is part of what's a big difference here. another difference is that the archives, the national archives and the fbi, the justice department, went around with various rounds, with the trump legal team, over a period of months, trying to get them to turn over the information, to turn over those documents. and the former president was refusing. in the end, they carried out an extraordinary search, and that we saw in mar-a-lago, because

the justice department said that it found indications were evidence that people were moving boxes out of the secure location that these documents were supposed to be held in. it's a vast difference from what the white house is describing happened here, which is that the president's legal team found these documents. they say they turn them over to the national archives the following day, anderson. >> evan perez, appreciated. thanks. president biden is in mexico tonight, where he is -- >> [inaudible] >> so, with that non answer, let's go to cnn's phil mattingly. philip, the president did not address this tonight. what is the white house saying about this? >> anderson, we should probably get used to non answers, in part because this is a white house and a president that have really gone wavelengths not to be seen, or not to have the perception trying to get involved in anything the justice department does. that will certainly be the case here. however, they did put out a direct statement it was very detailed in its timeline.

and that detail carries some depth behind, it implicitly in the sense just how sharply it divergence, as evan was laying, out from what the former president is dealing with right now in that timeline, noting that these documents were discovered as noted, as his office was being closed out. a call was immediately placed to the counsel's office. that was the first time sources told me that president biden became aware that these documents existed. still, he doesn't know exactly what those documents detailed up until this point. the counsel's office reached out to the archives, and by the next morning, the archives were at the penn center picking up those documents. now, as this review goes on, the white house officials say they're going to continue to cooperate. the president's lawyers are continuing to cooperate. another critical difference here, they made clear that these documents were never requested, they were never sought. they were turned down. they were found, and they were immediately turned over. that's what the white house is focusing on right now, in terms of how much more we're going to hear from them at this point, it seems like very little, despite a very politically toxic issue right here. anderson?

>> what's the reaction, or has there been a reaction from the former president? >> i mean, i am intrigued by the fact that there has been. absolutely, very quickly, the president, going on social media, to post about this, posting in part, was the fbi going to raid the many homes of joe biden, or perhaps even the white house? to some degree, you expect republicans, as evan was laying out, but also, the former president to talk about this repeatedly. and that has certainly been the case. but in the presidents statement, he kind of underscores one of the critical differences here. and the reason is why the fbi raided occurred is because their documents were not turned over, despite the requests, despite turning over some of the documents. some still remained at mar-a-lago. that has not been the case at least as white house officials have laid things up until this. point there's no question. this underscores the reality of the wise white house officials are keenly aware of. this is becoming a political issue very quickly. it already has to some degree. that is part of why that statement that was released by the counsel's office so detailed, but it's something they're going to have to grapple with in the weeks ahead. anderson? >> phil mattingly, appreciate. we're joined now by former

deputy assistant, elie williams. also, senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, elie honig. also with us, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel, who did some reporting on this. and cnn senior political commentator david axelrod, former adviser for obama. ali, let's start about, legally, is this helping the deal? >> potentially, a big deal, both for biden and trump. now, there is a lot we need to know, anderson. and the details matter here. there could be a lot of differences between the two scenarios. most importantly, joe biden no? what was the purpose? how did these documents get there? how many were there? were they co-operative, or where they obstructive? on paper, those could make the difference between something that is criminal or not criminal, but we don't live on paper, nor do prosecutors. and we have to look at this, and i look at this through a political lens, and reality lens, which is he is merrick garland, who ultimately is going to have the say here. who is known for nothing more than -- nothing if not being a verse to politics. he now wants nothing that appears to be political. is he going to give his own boss, the person who put him in

the position as attorney general, a pass? and at the same time, bring a criminal charge and try to walk off the person who is running against him? >> a trump appointed prosecutor -- >> he did, he kept on a trump appointed u.s. attorney from illinois, who was serving as special counsel here. but, ultimately, the n decision, the bottom line, do i indict or not? in both instances instances, it's gonna be garland's call. >> david, what's your reaction, someone worked for the biden obama misfortune, how do you recall how that administration handled classified documents? >> look, i don't know exactly how this went down. we all were very well informed about how to handle documents. everyone had safes where classified information was stored. even documents that were not classified, we were lectured all the time about the handling of those, and what we could and couldn't take with us when we left the white house. so, i don't know how exactly this happened. i, mean it sounds, in the

telling a lot more benign. though we know what happened with trump in that the biden folks found these documents and immediately notified authorities that they had them. but in the mishmash of today's politics, and whataboutism, i'm sure that this will become fodder for those who want to win threatened on all trump. >> elie, the national archives referred to doj for further investigation. what questions need to be answered right now, i mean, elie, you covered some of them? >> i think it all gets down to intent, under some. look, someone who accidentally commits an offense, and for the most part, for the most crimes, should not be charged with a crime. let's go back to former president trump. if he truly was inadvertent in the retention of these documents, he should not be charged with a crime either. but the problem for trump is that there is a growing body of

evidence that, number one, he or others around him sought to obstruct an investigation into the retention of documents. or number two, aided in the retention of those documents. so, what the justice department needs to look into is number one, who might have touched, or known about the documents. number two, why did they get there in the first place, and how? and number three, was some of this accidental? we have been -- speaking to david's point, as former members of government administration were given instruction as to how retain documents, what to do, and what not to do when there. but certainly, mistakes happen, and if they do, they should not be charged as crimes, but, again, once we have to find out, as to sort of what went behind all this for any charging decision, or any indictments -- >> jamie, at this stage, how big an issue do you think this could become in the violent it's ration? obviously, republicans on

capitol hill have been commenting on this? >> this is no question, a political gift to donald trump, and the political gift to the republicans on the hill. and they're going to take it. and they're going to run with it. i just want to go back to something that david axelrod said, the mishmash of politics. i think there's gonna be more mash than mitch here. but i spoke to sources -- >> which is worse? >> i'm not sure. we'll see. it's -- i spoke to a source very familiar with how the national archives has worked with situations like this in the past. and this is not a political person. this is a professional person. and they pointed out that, you know what? the reality, this happened, a former high-level official i know, a former president of the united states, a former director of the cia, who have known for years, have told me,

they have found something in their homes afterwards, and it can be an honest mistake. so, you know, to elliott's point, what was the tenth, and there does not seem to be a obstruction here. they could've been more cooperative. i am told that if there was not the mar-a-lago documents situation, that the national archives might very well not have referred this to the justice department. but they felt they had to, simply because of what was going on with trump. for? >> i think you need to move quickly here. in both instances, we're not that far away from the 2024 campaign, coming into focus here. but i think we need quick answers. merrick garland, i have been and will remain critical of him. he is move slow. we're two years at from january 6th. where more than a year out from the trump mar-a-lago documents.

sort of coming to the attention of the -- we can't let this linger. i think we need clear answers and i think that is why merrick garland's deputizing a special counsel and this trump appointed u.s. attorney. to give himself political cover and two -- >> david, there are legal reasons of sort of ethical reasons why president biden would not comment. but how long can the president not make some sort of comment about this? >> i think he will be priced on this and he will have to speak to it. i thought l. a. made a really good point about this earlier. i think merrick garland prize him self in making decisions based on the law and that is who he is. but you can't isolate yourself from the political environment and should they move on trump, even though the circumstances up here to be much different, you know the reaction that it is going to engender, that there are two standards here. whatever biden says, this changes the discussion, i think, and it probably changes be decision-making in the justice

department. >> elliott, how does it change the decision or complicate the special counsel's investigation of the former president? >> look, anderson, there's two answers to that. someone ought to be charged with a crime if the facts and the law indicate that a conviction could be sustained in front of a jury. the justice department, theoretically, operates independent of politics. the simple fact is, we live in the real world. and in the real, world there are political implications to actions. and everyone in this panel has that today, there will be political questions. you can already see jim jordan, the incoming chair of the house judiciary, salivating over the prospect of saying that donald trump was targeted and how political all the process was. even setting aside the fact that the two scenarios, the former president -- are just different based on the information that is available -- the simple fact is the justice

department needs to be prepared to answer the political question even if it doesn't or shouldn't way into the question of guilt or innocence. >> thank you all. whether it is a question of -- a lot of reporting from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. and -- later a live report from brazil, where hundreds have followed are spreading from yesterday's attack on the senior government by supporters admit the president. by analyzing data from billions of emails to offer suggestions for how to improve engagement and revenue. guess less and sell more with intuit mailchimp. ♪ ♪ ♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪

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more now on tonight's breaking news. classified documents from president biden's time as vice president was discovered -- as we mentioned before the break, has republicans have already promised to use their new oversight power to investigate the president. they started weighing in just a short time ago. so did some democrats on the house intelligence committee. cnn's -- i know you spoke to speaker mccarthy. what did he tell you? >> i asked him about these classified documents being discovered any seem to dismiss the suggestion that they were only recently discovered. he said, oh, really, it took this long to find these documents? i asked him if he had similar concerns with donald trump and all these documents that were found at mar-a-lago. he said that it was the democrats who overplayed their hands on that issue, given that now that these classified documents were found with president biden -- he was also asked whether there should be investigation into

this matter. he did not say directly. but he said that there's a difference between donald trump and joe biden. donald trump was only in political office for one term. joe biden was in for 40 years. others went further and suggested it could be some sort of investigation. james -- the chairman of the oversight committee, says that he plans to send a letter to the national archives -- that apparently were mishandled. and i also spoke to jim jordan, the chairman of the house judiciary committee. he would not say whether or not he plans to press ahead with any investigation. but he did say, we wouldn't be nice if the country would know that there were classified documents before the midterm elections since apparently these were discovered on november 2nd? >> what are democrats now saying? >> democrats are quick -- adam schiff, who was the chairman of the house intelligence committee under the democratic-controlled congress, told me that, obviously, if they're classified arguments anywhere, they should not -- that is a problem and a deep

concern. he needs to learn the facts of the situation. that is a similar thing that jim himes told me. >> look. classified information needs tuesday insecure spaces, so we will wait to see the facts. classified information needs to be insecure spaces. >> the house oversight committees ranking member, jamie raskin, did put out a statement saying that the president appears to have taken, quote, immediate and proper action to notify the national archives. he also says he has, quote, confidence that the attorney general took the appropriate steps to -- receive some defense from the president about the presidents actions. still, tonight a lot of people learning about the situation. it is not the last time congress will ask about it. -- >> appreciate. it thank you. cnn's chief stay -- , scott jennings, who served as special administration -- also, audi cornish, host of cnn's the assignment podcast.

from your sources, what are you hearing on capitol hill tonight? >> well, a lot of democrats keeping their -- dry, kind of what you heard from congressman himes of connecticut. a member of the intelligence committee. not so much about the process that the biden white house, i guess it was, or his attorney, took in returning the documents. but the question of why they were there in the first place. because it is true that you are not supposed to take classified documents. and there could be a lot of explanations for it, but right now, the question is, why? and we do not know the answer. but that is one thing. the real question right now is the political one, which i know you are talking about with the panel beforehand. there's an old adage, if you're explaining, you're losing. and i'm not so sure you can say that this applies, but it is pretty close right now when you

are talking about something as heightened and as potentially toxic as this issue is because of what happened in mar-a-lago. they are not the same. but when it comes to politics, you can bet we will hear a lot of trying to conflate the two. >> does it change the calculus for republicans, looking to -- it obviously is another thing that they can point to. >> it is another number in the calculus. one thing that happened in the negotiation for speakership, is the ideas that the hard-liners could have a subcommittee that would focus on the weaponization of the federal government. it will investigate a number of intelligence agencies, but it also has the irs on that list. it has the fbi on the list. if anything, i think it will just kind of coalesce around an idea that is kind of calcified within this part of the republican party. the federal government has been

weaponized against conservatives and republican politicians and any chance they can expose that in some way, they will take it. one thing i just want to add, it will be interesting to see if the media has learned anything from the situation with the justice department and hillary clinton's emails, in terms of trying to kind of create, if not false equivalency, trying to compare thank so much that you sort of confuse the audience about what is going on and why. it will be interesting to see what lessons we have taken away from that period and how we will apply it in the next couple of months. >> how do you see this being handled by republicans on capitol hill? >> i think every republican in the capital is feeling like the michael scott paper company -- well, well, well. how the turntables! she had it exactly right. the political usefulness of this for the republicans as people attacked donald trump about his issues, i get, it and they are not the, same and yes, there will be conflation here. but the political usefulness of

this cannot be underscored. cannot be overstated enough. i mean, to give republicans this talking point for the rest of their natural lives, almost exonerates trump and you know, in terms of debates and what comes up, i mean if this ever comes up and somebody brings it up, you are always going to have this retort. there is a lot of -- not everybody -- if this happened to joe biden -- given how strident his commentary was in attacking donald trump about this in the first place -- so, yeah, it is a big deal politically. >> scott, i have not seen you quite so chipper in quite a while. >> i am perfectly happy for the justice department to investigate this and get to the bottom of both cases. i think classified material ought to be taken care of and i think people who have been all over donald trump about this, ought to have the wherewithal to be all over joe biden to. >> i know scott is talking -- >> one thing to keep in mind is the former president is in

trouble for claiming that he turned in documents, that he did not, ignoring subpoenas, some of his lawyers are accused of saying that they signed off on certifying that they had documents that they didn't. or had documents and it turned out there were more documents. some of this is about how you react to something, do you react with obstruction? do you react by stiff arming federal agencies? that is something that i think needs to be a part of this conversation. it is not just about where our random boxes? >> to scott's point, in a debate, those details are easy to brush over and the headline is, it is the same thing. i did it too. >> they are easy to brush over and that is where i go back to the potential pitfall for joe biden if you are explaining, you are losing. however, it really doesn't. and we will see where this goes. and we will see where the mar-a-lago investigation goes. both are before the department

of justice. now, it is very, very different, and if joe biden is able to explain it in a cogent way, if he gets to that point, if they're on a debate stage, then it should be a no-brainer for people to understand the difference because of what audi said, which is what i was going to mention. it is just not the same when it comes to obstruction, which seems to be the bigger issue here. people, they are not supposed to take classified documents. sometimes, it happens by accident. but the question is, when you are told about, it or when you learn about it, how do you deal with it, and these two, president and former president, dealt with it in very, very different ways and these two situations. >> scott, we've already seen the former president responding to this on social media, asking when the fbi will raise the white house. i, mean obviously, he will make this an issue as much as he can. >> yeah, and another question

republicans are going to ask about this is, this was discovered i think the day before the election, and we are just now finding out about it after the election a couple of months later. why? if i were jamie comer, the congressman at the oversight committee, that would be one of my first questions. why is it when something happens to joe biden, it is able to hold inside these agencies for a couple of months. when something happens to donald trump, we know about it in five minutes. that is really getting to the core of what a lot of republicans are asking. why are the things that happened to trump or any other republican -- tend to be weaponized instantly? and things that the democrats do, magically, time passes. i think it's a fair question and one you'll hear trump and his allies and the republicans and congress ask. >> isn't it more noticeable when you're resort is actually rated by the fbi as opposed to when the national archives is actually called up. -- >> that is not. instant that as many, many months. >> of course. but if i were in donald trump's

position, and i'm not, you know where i stand on it. if iran his position, i would say yeah, it is more noticeable when my house was rated. why wasn't notice that these documents were sitting in a shoe box with some old readers digest -- why did no one no about that? again, every time someone has a retort on this, there is a political answer for that is pretty easy and most people are not going to be into the weeds on this thing. they will say, yeah, he has a point. >> appreciate. it up next, the latest on those supporters of brazil's ousted president. -- the supreme court and the presidential palace, all in the same day -- parallels to the january 6th riot. ahead.

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just two days after the second anniversary of -- supporters of the losing president stormed its legislature and supreme court and presidential palace. president biden today condemned the attack. the losing candidate, bolsonaro, says he is currently hospitalized in florida. newly elected legislator called for his extradition to answer to what happened --

>> a stunning attack on brazil seat of power. thousands of supporters of former far-righth security quarters in brasilia. roaming presidential building corridors, vandalizing congress, smashing windows, stealing presidential documents, and destroying invaluable works of art. simply running right through presales halls of power. and scenes eerily similar to the insurrection and the u.s. capitol two years ago. one week earlier, the scenes where of democratic triumph. bolsonaro's left wing rival luiz inacio lula da silva was inaugurated as the new president following a tight election result. bolsonaro never explicitly conceded. and neither did his most ardent followers. this, this is my hero, i am at

his home, our home, our home, a bolsonaro supporter says from inside the presidential palace. >> [speaking non-english] >> protesters dressed in the colors of the brazilian flag, now a symbol of bolsonaro's far-right movement, and fouled banners from the rooftop, demanding the results be overturned. more than 1000 arrests were made after security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to regain control of the congressional building, the supreme court, and presidential palace. but by the time they did, the damage had already been done. the presidents chief of communication showed destruction inside his office. >> >> translator: it is unbelievable what was done in the palace. look at the state of the rooms, equipments, computers. look at this. >> world leaders condemned the attack as an of salt on democracy. brazil's new president pinned

the blame on his predecessor, accusing him of encouraging riders through social media from florida. he promised no stone will be left unturned. vowing to find those responsible. >> translator: we will find out the financiers and we will pay -- for this anti-democratic gesture of vandals and fascists. >> bolsonaro denounced the actions of his supporters from the u.s. where he traveled after the election. >> the former president already facing at least for supreme court investigations. the later scenes will only add to former -- and to bolsonaro's influence on his base -- a conservative firebrand politician, who for years has been taking cues from the trump playbook, pushing election fraud conspiracies, and casting doubt on the integrity of the electoral system. >> and isa soares joins us now from brazil. what happens to bolsonaro now? >> that is a big question.

we are arriving here. behind closed doors, perhaps we will be looking at further investigations in -- we have been hearing this from several senators. speaking from -- i don't think we are there yet. he said that they -- basically, bolsonaro bears political responsibility for what unfolded here and the three branches of power in brasilia, but he has no legal grounds as of yet, to investigate him. as of yet, he is very critical right now. what he did play out very clearly, in that piece, the rhetoric that we've been hearing from bolsonaro four years, denying elections, running into doubt the electoral system in brazil, questioning the supreme court, he said that was very much part of what fueled, what stoked to the protests here. on sunday. i think there is something that he said that will resonate with those in the u.s., given everything that happened the last two years in the

insurrection. i will read it out. he said, words have power and these words turned into hate, which turned into destruction. it is a political responsibility with the aim, he said, of a coup data. we start hearing -- from a member of congress -- asking for bolsonaro to be extradited. but the u.s. department has not received any official extradition request. >> i appreciate it. thank you. a mother of three has been missing until -- her husband is under arrest for allegedly misleading police.

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ana walshe has been missing for eight days. -- now, earlier today, investigators revealed a bloody knife found in the basement -- her husband has been arrested in connection with the case.

cnn's randi kaye has the details. -- >> it is not normal that she is missing. so, we automatically feel that she is in danger by the mere fact that she is missing. >> 39 year old ana walshe has not been seen since new year's day. that is when police say a family member said she left for boston's logan airport by five a. m.. bound for d. c., where she works in real estate. >> the cell phone has been off since around the first of the year. detectives are working the forensics, debit cards, credit cards. none of these things have been active since the first of the year. >> police say both her husband and her employer reported her missing on wednesday, january 4th. they say there is no record of her on a flight to d. c. on any airline. and it is unclear if she ever took a ride share. searches of the woods and surrounding areas near their home turned up nothing. >> she would not by her own choice go a day without speaking to her husband or children. that is very out of character.

>> days after her disappearance, a bizarre twist. police now say her husband, who they thought had been cooperating, misled investigators. to law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation tell cnn's john miller that investigators discovered brian walshe did internet searches looking for how to dispose of a 115 pound woman's body and how to dismember a body. that knowledge led police to get a search warrant for the families home. that culminated in brian walshe's arrest yesterday for allegedly misleading investigators. at his arraignment in court this morning, he pleaded not guilty, but prosecutor shared disturbing details about evidence they say police found during the search of the couple 's home. >> during that -- blood in the basement. blood was found in the basement area as well as a knife, which also contained some blood. >> prosecutors also listed cleaning supplies, brian walshe

allegedly bought in the hours after his wife's disappearance. >> he is on surveillance at that time, purchasing $450 worth of cleaning supplies. that would include mops, bucket, -- drop cloths -- as well as various kinds of tape. >> according to court documents, brian walshe said he was running errands for his mother on the afternoon of january 1st. but court documents obtained by cnn show on january 7th, investigators reviewed surveillance video from the two stores he said he visited for his mom. police say they did not see him on the video and found no evidence he went to those stores. >> brian, what you want the public to know? >> his whereabouts that they are important, given that is the day his wife disappeared. court documents show investigators later discovered surveillance video of him at a home depot in rockland, massachusetts, wearing a black surgical mask, blew surgical gloves, and making a cash purchase. >> court records show investigators believe brian walshe try to mislead

investigators and purposefully gave them false information so they would travel far away in an attempt to corroborate his story. randi kaye, cnn. >> cnn's chief law enforcement and -- has been getting a lot of this reporting for us. he's a former and ypg deputy of intelligence and counter-terrorism commissioner -- he joins us now. some of the details that you first reported, i mean, he was googling how to disclose -- dispose of 150 pound woman's body. >> you would think that that is pretty poor tradecraft if you are planning to cover-up a crime. but i would also say, having been involved in actually very similar investigations, when people think they are race their search history or they delete things, there are forensic ways to find things that people think are long gone. so, it is not clear if efforts were taken to cover electronic

tracks or not. what we do know is, from the court filings, allegedly, he is not where he said he was when they went back through those places and review the video. he is where he never said he was, buying cleaning supplies to the tune of $450. and drop cloths that you would use to spread out too -- >> it does not look good. >> it is not a good look for somebody who is the person reporting somebody missing. >> when he is charged with misleading investigators, obviously, they clearly are looking into more. is the reason to charge somebody initially with that just to get them in custody so they are not trying to run away or do something else? >> that's right. that's a holding charge. it is something that actually has a potential ten year sentence. it is a serious charge in massachusetts. because i understand, it's about influencing the cover-up of a crime. but you have a layered story here. here's an individual who is currently the husband, awaiting sentence, in a fraud involving

andy warhol paintings and others, that were sold fraudulently. they turned out to be copies. he pled guilty. the complaint outlined that his wife was aware of things going on there. if he were to be released on the misleading police charge, the u.s. marshals would probably come in and violate his probation awaiting sentence. because you're not supposed to get arrested. the real bull's-eye here, anderson, is what is happening up at that peabody massachusetts transfer station, where they have mapped out the great of where his trash went, where the trash where they put the crime scene tape around the place where his mom lives and that trash went -- and isolated the dates. they have targeted those spots and they will be looking there. we could have developments over the next couple of days. >> incredible details. thank you so much. appreciate it.

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buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is back in buffalo and at a hospital with, he says, a lot of love in my heart. is amazing recovery continues exactly one week after a blow to the chest -- sent him into cardiac arrest. it is hard -- he had to be resuscitated on the field. he tweeted this photo sunday, just before game time, of himself in his parents about to watching from the hospital in cincinnati. damar hamlin making the sign of a heart. it was an emotional game in part because the bills scored a touchdown -- damar hamlin it's recovering faster than doctors expected. -- they say he is recovering faster than expected. here is how his doctors described one of his reactions. >> you watch the game yesterday. when the opening kickoff was running back, he jumped up and down, got out of his chair, said -- set every alarm off in the icu in the process. but he was fine.

it was just an appropriate reaction to a very excited play. >> what do you make of this? >> it is pretty remarkable progress. no question. it's interesting. i have been talking with many cardiologist that take care of people with sudden cardiac arrest. and you know, there is not a lot of data on the 24-year-old professional athlete who goes to something like this. if you look at the data for in hospitalization haas but -- i mean, the numbers can be very different. he had a cardiac arrest outside the hospital. but essentially, it was like being in a hospital for him because he had such quick care. within seconds, as you remember, they were assessing him. able to restore his heart rhythm on the field. so, it is pretty fast. and also, the fact that he was in critical condition, still in critical condition as of yesterday. but was able to be transferred today. that is also really fast as well. there is just not a lot to

compare him to in this regard. >> doctors have said, it is too early to know exactly what caused the cardiac arrest. how important is it to try to figure that out in all of their tests? >> yeah, i think it is pretty important, certainly because the next question that will come out of this, and i think it is way too early to try to answer that, is, is this someone that could potentially play again? i'm sure he wants to. and maybe that is sort of the trajectory they are on, but they should try to figure out what led to the. so as to have some sense of comfort that it will not happen again. or they can address the underlying cause. was it some sort of underlying electrical problem with the heart. sometimes that happens. is it a candid general thing? something he has had his whole life that he did not know about? is it something else that made him more likely to develop the sort of problem? they are probably investigating this. they do that through electrical test of the heart, echo cardiogram's. they may do things like genetic

testing. all these sorts of things. they may not ultimately have an answer. they may not say, look, this is definitively the cause of this. i think that's the case, they will need to have that discussion and figure out, what does that mean going forward? because it happened to him, wants is it more likely to happen again? for example, people have had concussions. if you have had one concussion, you are then more likely to have a second. is that a similar scenario here? we don't know because we still don't know the underlying cause. i think they will work to try to figure out what happened here, best they can. >> i appreciate it. thanks so much. the news continues. cnn tonight is next after a

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