another house republican brand and williams join the call from the quid. as for santos, he said he's not going anywhere. >> will you resign? >> i will not. >> newer republicans are calling about disgrace. >> of course, as you know, it is going to have to go there to be far. he said he were to goldman sachs, which is a lie, citigroup, which he didn't. this is the same george santos who lied about the high school he went to new york to the, college you graduated from. he said it was college she got a degree in economic, and finance, and it was a star athlete in peru. >> i'm into sports a little bit, and he is a star on the team and, that he won the league championship. what can i tell you. >> santos can tell you a lot, the face-off congressman santos to resign.

>> he deceive the voters of the third congressional district, is not lies were not fibs. he disgraced the house of representatives, and is not welcome here at the republican headquarters. >> what george santos has done is, when she doesn't feel, is what he would understand if he was jewish, as if he was. he lied about that too. >> chabot shalom to everybody. thank you for being here. >> leah served as an inspiration, a friend, and a leader, for the jewish folks in congress, and for all of us in this room, at one point, just being two members. so, now it is going to be three. >> and, he is not jewish. when caught lying about being jewish, he lied about ever having lied about it. >> i always joke to, i am catholic, but i am jew-ish. as in, -ish. i made that joke

because when i was growing up, i made it fully aware that my -- he also lied about them too, claiming they had fled the holocaust. he lied about lying for employees in the pulse nightclub mass shooting. he's also facing check fraud charges from his time in brazil, and here at home, a federal investigation in the eastern district of new york, we are source familiar with the matter said they are focused on his finances. nassau county, conducting his own investigation. yesterday, two democrats filed a former complete with the bipartisan house ethics committee. today, republican congressman, brian fitzpatrick, called for the committee to conduct an expedited review of the case, while saying, his gop colleagues did not belong in the house. >> his conduct was agree just, that i personally don't think he should be here. i think the ethics committee has to do their work, and should do some quickly. they should return to the house with their findings. >> just one finding with that so far, as congressman fitzpatrick sponsor speaker, kevin mccarthy, is disinclined, or seems disinclined, to do just that.

>> there is a concern that he has to go through the ethics committee, and, right now, the voters have a voice, and a decision. it's not what people pick and choose based upon this. so, they're going to continue to serve. >> he, himself, admitted to fabricating parts of his resume. >> so, a lot of people here on the senate, and others. the one thing is it's the voters who made that decision, he has to answer the voters. the voters will make another decision as well. >> they say if there is a concern, which is like saying a tidal wave which is moisture it's, not one party officials from their own district are already seeing enough, and they say the party chairman lied to, enough. >> i am calling for his immediate resignation. >> mccarthy, also, seeming to make a false equivalency when he said, other lawmakers have embellished, or fabricated parts of the resume. 36 years ago, then presidential candidate, joe biden, yes, running for president in 1987,

borrowed heavily for british politicians highly acclaimed speech, and failed to attributed to him. former georgia senate candidate, herschel walker, his victory have the claim that he was a member of law enforcement, despite only having an honorary batch. the former president, missing his accomplishments, but it's the same league as george santos, just about any, and every, facet of his life. this is alter all-star team stuff. listen to speaker mccarthy. >> voters made this decision, he has a right to go with it. it was going with. it >> was a speaker mccarthy intent on doing nothing for now? one reason maybe simple arithmetic. if santos resigns, the seat is vacant, until the special election is held, which will cut speaker mccarthy's narrow majority by one. the price of course, who some fellow republicans in washington, back home, said they don't trust, it should not

be serving. use the old joke. a guy says, my brother thinks he's a chicken, he said, when you take into a secretary and said, i can't, we need the eggs. congressman santos appears to be a pathological liar, and it's no joke, but mccarthy may need the votes. going with blakeman, and with nassau county executives have said that he should resign. what do you think would happen? >> i'm the cheese executive of the county, and the chieief executive of the county's 1. 5 million people in nassau county. his congressional district a 700,000 people, living in nassau county. i just found myself in an untenable situation, but as a chief executive officer, i have to deal with federal officials all the time. i felt like i could not deal with him, i could not go with them, and he's an outright liar. i can't have a

relationship with somebody who is the truth, but we are now finding ways in which george santos is the, people in his district are served, without dealing with him. i'm not dealing with him, i think he should resign. i think that lying about where you attended college is audacious, lying about where you work, and is outrageous. lying about your religion is ridiculous, it is almost funny. but, lying about the fact that two survivors of the holocaust, to me, i think, is tragic. it trivializes the death of 6 million people, 2 million of which was children, and i think it shows, we have no concept of the sole -- scope of his untruths. i had to make that clear to him and his staff, and to the people in my county that wasn't acceptable, and i

wasn't going to have anything to do with him. >> i think santos indicated well, it is unfortunate when you know the officials are doing because it will cut his constituents off from services. >> that's not the case. firstly covid women in the esposito called for his interview today, and as the other half of nassau county, will help me with federal issues. i have a good relationship with the majority leader, chuck schumer in the senate, and he's always been re-spends of to the nassau county residents, i'm sure he will help us with federal issues, congressman andrew will also help us, so, we don't need george santos, but i think he should resign, and get professional help >> i mean, obviously, you don't know anything about this, but were you surprised? how do you interacted with him? did he seem credible in person? >> he didn't come from the nasa republican county committee, he

came from the queens county committee. >> had they vouched for him, or? >> they recommended him, but i am finding out now, it wasn't the strongest of recommendations. i think it, is basically, our own chairman, joe cairo. it is when someone comes to the interview, they hand him a resume, and fills out a questionnaire. we have never had this before. who would have thought, an individual would just lie on top of lie, and it is pathological. basically, i didn't know him at all, i had some interaction with him, but not a lot. i think we are all shocked, not caught by, surprise shocked, and that they are spinning, and obviously, he has lost the public trust. >> jim blakeman, appreciate time tonight. >> thank you. >> let's go to melanie, at the capitol. melanie, speaker

mccarthy today, saying he won't ask santos to resign at this point. it was ethics and scrutiny with the party in the house? >>, the house ethics committee, usually, quite tightlipped about investigations, or even the envy existence of an investigation. but, two democrats did formally file an ethics complaint, walking it over to santos's office. they want the house ethics committee to look into his financial disclosure forms, which was raised a lot of questions. several other republicans, have also, called for an ethics investigation. we should point out, the house ethics committee does not like to interfere with ongoing probes at the federal, or state level. also, they can only make disciplinary recommendations. they could send it to the full house, but it would be up to the full house to act on something like censure, or expulsion. so, it remains to be seen what they come up with, if they decide to

investigate, but again, it would be up to the full house to do that. >> can you talk about the political calculus that may be involved to not want santos to resign immediately? >> speaker mccarthy said, the reason why he doesn't want santos to resign, and they're going with it. there is a political reality here, and gop leadership is aware of the fact, and if they step down, there will be a special election. this is a blue district, it was a biden one district, and they are a ton of attention and this race. there are people who come out to vote against george santos, and there is a very likelihood the democrats can win that seat back. it would make the house chair gop razor-thin majority is something that would, certainly, when the might of republican leaders. >> so for however long he's a congress, will he get committee assignments? do we know? >> he will. kevin mccarthy told us today, he does plan to put santos on some committees. they

want to give santos an opportunity to build some trust, and to come with the days and they talk with him, and get a handle with it. kevin mccarthy did say, he is not going to be giving him a list committee assignments. those are top two year to committees, and it was manu raju to, actually, serve on the house financial committee. there is a top tier committee that gop leaders connected it. >> thank you. getting perspective now is a political correspondent, with the coworker, danya bash, and it is with charlie dent. mccarthy and santos, it was what do you make with mccarthy's position? who is saying that they make this based on fraudulent information? >> really, that is the bottom line. speaker mccarthy is saying what he is saying, for two reasons. number one, is because of the arithmetic that you talked about at the

beginning of the show. he only has a four vote majority, which we saw on display, in a painful way, all last week. it is very possible, if this district, their district, is part of a special election, then it could go blue. especially given what we are seeing with santos. there is a process, there is a process that is happening in the courts, and a process that will happen in the ethics committee. he was going to take parties take a beat, and it will continue. we talked into it to talk to republicans as sitting republican members, earlier tonight. there is no indication is going to resign, because he, clearly, has no shame. >> congressman dent with mccarthy's in the house, what do you make of the position?

he's in the handling of it this far? >> considering mccarthy a friend, and with speaker mccarthy, let's put the institutional interest ahead of the party interests. he said, he should summon george santos to his office, appears these accusations are true, the letter sitting on my conference table is your resignation letter. you should sign it. if he says he won't, then he should tell mr. santos, one, you will not be seated on committees, you will not be welcomed into the house republican conference, and you can enjoy your time in congress. this is how he should be dealt with. speaker boehner is serving with him, and sharing the ethics committee, and with that committee, they dealt with resignations, and members, and what the ethics committee is going to do with this is to send them a letter. they're not going to want to answer, and they say they want all these answers within, 30 or 45 days. it is going to a tough

time, and with this investigation, it will be brutal on him, but if he steps down, that investigation should go away, and you will still have several other investigations he has to deal with. federal, state, local, and elsewhere. >> and can he uses campaign funds to pay for lawyers to battle those investigations. >> typically, members will. i think it is unclear on whether or not they will use those funds, but they typically will not use campaign funds. george santos is told us he's worth millions of dollars tonight, thank you elaine uses campaign funds. but that is -- >> that is the money he made it goldman sachs. >> yes, exactly, and everywhere else. what a businessman. he's got so many problems and, i can't imagine he wants to stick around. the reason why he won't resign is he needs the money. he's not very wealthy and

that's okay, but i wouldn't want to be him, because legal bills are about to mount. again, he's in a lonely position, to. which colleague wants to be photographed with him? nobody wants to be tied to him. nobody will work with him. this has to be an awful experience for this man. it would be smart of him to get out of the house. >> also, dana, who wants to be a staff member in his office with the conversation. so they, he can to be a overall party, pit who seem anything like this? >> really, i thought i've seen it all, especially what we've seen over the past nine, to six years. he's the annadel v of politics. that is clearly what he appears to be. he just kind of made things up, and not just padded his resume, but created things that did not exist in his resume. again, it is not just about, okay, i didn't

graduate from here, he didn't even go to the colleges that they put on his arrest of may. the press conference that the party did today, is a conversation with the executive. that says it all. they want this guy out, and obviously they, feel very burned by him. but on a local level they are saying, they will not deal with him, their federal representatives, they are trying, in every way possible, to i. c. e. him out. i have never seen anything like that. this is his own party. >> anna bash, appreciate it. the biden classified document, there's more of them found, but later, new exclusive reporting out sexual sought claims against one of the most powerful figures in conservative politics. conservative politics.

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>> >> breaking news tonight, and a headache for the white house, briefed on the matter, they say that biden's legal team discovered another batch of government records on the situation, after ten such items, and it was a former private office. they were touched off by the initial discovery and, now, it is unclear to them, and it is exactly where they were found. white house press secretary told them, they cannot provide assurances that there is any additional classified materials, than any

other officers. senate lindsey graham said that they called for a special counsel to look into the matter. joining us now, senior political correspondent, maggie haberman, and senior legal, and national security for carrie cordero. so, maggie, a big deal is this discovery. >> it's not significant, i don't think we see the deal with it. warren it was found, where the documents were, and i know i am jumping to this. i think we have to say, at the outset, this is not the same as a situation we saw what donald trump. it doesn't appear to be either in terms of volume, or efforts to try to retreat things, including those with us. there is an effort to return the material, and as they are with trump. i do think with the white house would benefit from being more explicit about, exactly, what they found and with this transparency, especially with the given situation with trump.

>> the justice department, already, investing in the first round of documents, now that there is some documents in the second round. how do you think that is investigating, and with illegal exposure, how does it increase? >> first of all, it is not entirely clear to me that the justice department, how that timeline worked, in terms of the justice department knowing about this second tranche of documents, and where that fits into the timeline of their investigation, from the documents, found in november. i think the timing matters, the location matters, the number of documents, and the classification level of the documents, all, we would factor into the justice department's whether president biden had any involvement, knowledge, awareness, possession, of any of these documents, at any time. so, based on the reporting that i've seen so far,

that remains a major question. so, there are many of these men, there are many of these differences between former president trump situation, and the situation president biden which is going with this time for the president. i do think that this is similar among both of them, is that there are people, besides those two individuals, who were, potentially, relevant to this investigation. for both investigations and visit justice department because you are the people who moved actual information from one place, to another? who had access to those documents, if anyone, and those types of questions are relevant to the fbi, and the justice department's investigation, so that they understand whether there were any national security consequences for the location of these documents, in places that they weren't supposed to be.

>> cnn was reporting that the former legal team thinks that they will benefit from this. that was obviously before the second batch was found. this is certainly something which i would assume the former president is pleased about. >> he and his team are very happy about this. we have seen the former president ticked in social media website and spike the football about it. it is not surprising because one of his play books this muddying the waters and taking anything that could take similar. so they do have reason to be happy about anything that might make republicans likelier to defend trump on this topic. republicans have not been so eager to weigh in on this. we've really seen them spend backup, not since the search, what's was pretty condemned, but once it was clear the volume and severity was of the documents that were in -- said to be in president trump's possession. this is something that just allows republicans to say, hey, look, this happened with biden, as well. as we have

stressed, here from what we know so, far these are not analogous situations. but in this trouble environment, republicans are going to cling to it. >> the fact that the former president is also investigated for obstruction. do you think that investigation could impact any decision-making from the doj as it relates to the former president? >> as to whether or not the existence of the investigation for president biden documents impacts the investigation of former president trump, the answer to that question should be no. as a theoretical matter, and from a purist justice department perspective, the facts should be analyzed for each case separately. the facts are very, very different in terms of the nature of the

documents and the biden situation. certainly the cooperation piece is different from what we know. president trump did not cooperate, and as you said, he could be alleged to have obstructed that investigation in this case according to what we learned so far, the biden folks have cooperated immediately as far as when they discovered the documents. >> i appreciate it, thank you. just ahead, a cnn exclusive, new text and evidence related to the accusation of sexual assault against a powerful leader in republican politics. details, and the denial, next. couldn't use cpap. now i have this. inspire is a sleep apnea treatment that works inside my body with the click of this remote. no mask, no hose, just sleep. learn more and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com.

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>> cnn has obtained new information and text messages that appear to backup the sexual assault claims made last week by a republican strategist against a powerful and influential conservative. he has denied the accusations. travelers say in the weeks before the investigation, he groped and fondled has grown dirt nicorette by from atlanta. he runs the organization that they just a conservative political action for most afghans. he worked for president george w. bush, his wife works as a communications director for the

previous president. jamie gangel joins us tonight with more. so, what is this staffer alleging happened? >> so, the republican strategist is alleging, as you described, that matt schlapp made unwanted sexual advances as he drove him back to his hotel. and once they got to the hotel, the strategist says that matt schlapp invited him up to his hotel room. he declined. just for context, anderson, the strategist is a male in his late 30s who was at the time working for the georgia gop and herschel walker's senate campaign. he told cnn that he had been assigned that day to drive schlapp to campaign events, and the incident happened on the right back to the hotel on october 19th. >> the staffer has made these allegations. how is slapper's ponding? >> we have a statement from his lawyer. he denies the

allegations, and his lawyer gave us the statement, quote, the attack is false and mr. schlapp denies any improper behavior. we are evaluating legal options for response. we should say, anderson also that the board of directors of the ecu that he is the chair of also released a statement saying that they stand behind schlapp and his leadership. i also want to adhere that senior campaign officials who is cnn interviewed and who spoke to the staffer in realtime describe him as being angry, and mortified, and they immediately instructed him not to drive schlapp again. >> yeah. he was supposed to pick him up the next and take him to the airport, is my understanding. you obtained text messages, what do they show? >> according to the text messages, and also phone records, we reviewed after the campaign, tells the staff are

not to drive schlapp, the staffer texts slap and says, quote, i did want to say i was uncomfortable with what happened last night. the campaign does have a driver who is available to get you and make it back to the airport. according to phone records, schlapp tried to reach the staffer, and then after a couple of hours, schlapp actually texted the staffer. he used his name, and he said quote, if you could see it in your heart to call me at the end of the day i would appreciate it. if not, i wish you luck on the campaign, and hope you keep up the good work. anderson, we also reviewed other text messages from that night in realtime. these are being made public for the first time. it includes, the staffer texted a friend who was in politics, and he wanted to tell him what happened. he is clearly very upset. he is looking for guidance about how to tell the campaign what happened. so, stafford texts

the friend, quote, he is mad i didn't follow him to his hotel room. then later the friend responds, i am so sorry, man, what a creep. and the staffer leader texts again, i just don't know how to say it to my superiors that their surrogate fondled might junk without my consent. >> why is he going public with this information now? >> he didn't want to come forward initially, because he said that he didn't want it to be a distraction during the campaign as election day was approaching. this was just a couple of weeks before. he says he is coming forward now because he wants to prevent someone else from being victimized, and i am told that he is leaving his legal options open, anderson. >> how did the walker campaign respond to the allegations? >> it's very interesting. one of the first things the staffer told me was that the walker

campaign was completely supportive, and offered to back whatever actions he wanted to take. they got him a lawyer, they -- did he want to go to the press? they packed him just 100% of this. >> the thing about that, this is somebody, i don't know who this person is, but they were a staffer on this campaign, they clearly have an interest in politics on the republican side. for this person to come forward and make allegations against someone who is as powerful as this in the republican party, that is a huge risk to this person's future. >> and that is the reason, at least for now, that he is remaining anonymous. because he does understand that there is going to be a backlash. but this is a young man who has worked in lots of statewide races, congressional races, he worked for the trump victory campaign in the state. he feels like he has to come forward.

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>> after his wife vanished ten days ago, brian walshe was charged with misleading police. he remains in custody. he's been in trouble with a lot before pleading guilty to fraud and a fake ard case. now we are learning more about his past. court documents show that he was cut out of his father's will, also allegations he swindled money from his father. he's also described as a sociopath among other things in a dispute over the estate. jason carroll has more details. >> as investigators are now in the process of testing items that could be connected to the disappearance of ana walshe, a clear picture is emerging of her husband brian, and his troubled financial past. court documents show that he was involved in a bitter legal battle over his father, and his a state. friends, as well as his nephew alleging signed an affidavit, the older walshe and his son, the strange for years,

after brian walsh absconded with almost $1 million, from dr. thomas wells. court records also say because of the alleged theft, it required dr. thomas walshe to continue working past the age at which he wish to retire. it's significant amount of his savings were stolen and never returned. that is part of the reason why these court documents say walshe's father cut his only son out of his will and the years before his death in 2018. despite that, walshe took steps to take control of his father's estate will sing in a sworn affidavit that he and his father had been estranged several times over the years. but says that they amended the relationship. ultimately, walshe's legal efforts were unsuccessful, the judge ruled against him. but those same documents revealed more information about walshe's past, including that at some point he had checked himself into a mental health facility.

his father's friends calling him a sociopath, and court documents dated in 2019 saying that bryan is not only a sociopath, but also a very angry and physically violent person. i want nothing to do with him. these allegations surfaced years before walshe pleaded guilty to federal charges of selling fake andy warhol painting's. the victim of the fake sales saying that walshe was very convincing. >> he was very calculated, almost genius about how he went about things. >> that troubled past, only increasing the scrutiny around the disappearance of his wife. it bloody knife found inside the family home, a lot enforcement sources telling cnn, a hacksaw, and materials with apparent bloodstains found at a nearby trash facility. the couple's friends say nothing

seemed out of the ordinary during a new years eve celebration, but now, coming to terms with what could be the outcome they had feared. >> i keep praying that in all of these trash facilities that she's not found there, so that we do have somewhere to go to honor her and for her children to have somewhere to go to honor her. >> if someone did do something too ana walshe, in massachusetts, the law does not necessarily require prosecutors to show a motive for a crime. >> prosecutors like to be able to show a motive, again, i think it makes more sense to people if there is a motive but as a matter of law, it is not required to prove a motive, in most cases. and they last checked with the state, there has been no update in terms of their status and how we are joined by former fbi profiler. his father's friend calling him a sociopath, and violent, what. they know they lost, they know the rules, they just used to break them. -- >> i spoke to one of them on the phone, who said that the children are basically one of their top priorities at this point, as you can imagine. the children are under custody the state, and that's what they

have been throughout all of this, and with last check with the state, there has been no update in terms of their status, and how they're dealing with all this. anderson? >> jason carroll, appreciate it. for more beautiful bells emerging about his past, we're joined by former fbi profiler -- mary ellen, things are being with us. you heard jason's report, the chapel pass, which is the check himself into a health facility, his father called him a sociopath and violent. what does that tell you? >> if the term sociopath was supplied by trained mental health professional, that would have a lot of significance to me. a sociopath isn't all term. it was turned out in 1968 by the meta health professionals. that new term is psychopath, and it is a personality disorder. it is not a mental illness. cycle passed no right from wrong, they know the loss, they know the rules, they just choose the break them, and

there is a set of 20 brace pacific personality traits, but one of them is that these are very grandiose people, the very slim and charming but when they do commit crimes, they absolutely have no remorse whatsoever for the victims, and that becomes, most of the time, a very prominent treat, when a psychopath this act violently. >> we should point out that was a friend of the father who said, not sure what the qualifications of the person we're, but we're in court documents in 2019. the company is probably more common than people think, isn't it? >> it's estimated maybe 1% of the population could have the psychopathic traits, and most people that do have psychopathic traits are not violent, but they live on the edge, any don't want to be in a relationship with them because their rule of life is to take

whatever they want, whenever they want, and they don't form good relationships with elephants, not even the family, not even the children. >> i also want to ask about washers prior fraud conviction. it was apparently sort of are the or forgery situation, is that common? as somebody who is accused of a violent crime, but they usually have a history of other kinds of crimes? >> they could certainly in their background, but the thing with people that are genuinely classified as psychopathic, their repertoire being able to handle a situation in their life that they are dissatisfied with is far broader than you and me. if they're upset with a spouse, divorce may not be the option because they want a permit break, so that means murder. while you may have someone that is primarily a white collar offender, again, if they're confronted with a live

situation that they don't like, they can easily become violent, and act out in a way that is very concerning. >> the idea that somebody would do internet searches on how do you dispose of 115 pound body of a woman, it seems ludicrous that someone would do this if they have in fact committed a crime. but people do ludicrous things all the time. >> they do. and in my experience with people that are psychopathic, they are so grandiose and impressed with themselves, they don't think that anything that they did while committing the crime is stupid. in fact, i have done interviews with many of these people. they are very proud. and even when you point out their mistakes they don't see their mistakes. again, they think they are just smarter than you are. you also think that they're not gonna get caught. what's really interesting when you do interact with someone who has those traits. there are factors really off. affect means

emotion. they may smirk when they tell you about it. they may laugh when they tell you about it. and yet, they are talking about are very cold heartless crime. >> mary ellen o'toole, appreciate you being with us, thank you. coming up, a cnn exclusive, new video satellite images of crowded hospitals and crematoriums in china, they underscore the severity of the covid outbreak there. a live report from beijing next.

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your search history is never tracked, so it can't be shared. and when you leave search, duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. it is where anyone in the west gets to see inside the crowded hospitals and funeral homes that marked the surge of covid in that country since it ended its lockdown. but cnn has obtained exclusive images in the surge of death and mourners, which is important as chinese data is believed to be unreliable. as the world health organization said today, china is providing more information about the outbreak, but deaths are being, quote, heavily under reported. cnn's selina wang has the story and the exclusive injuries. >> covid lockdowns may be over in china. but for many, there is misery at the end of zero

covid. the virus is overwhelming hospitals across the country, the sick struggle to get help. patients crammed into every available space. every hallway and corner of this northern chinese hospital. not everyone survives the struggle. rows of bodies filled this funeral home storage room, but we don't know how many died of covid in jiangsu, families in mourning clothes flood the gate. and then families lined up outside coffins. waiting to cremate their loved ones. china has only officially reported a few dozen covid-19 deaths since reopening. satellite images confirmed the different reality that we see on the ground. these images taken in late december and early january show crowds in long lines of cars waiting outside a funeral home in six chinese cities. the images from the outskirts of beijing show that a brand-new parking lot was even constructed. we visited that funeral home, rows of cars were

already there. i am now standing in that new parking lot of this beijing funeral home. this entire parking lot area did not exist a month ago. and as you can see, the roads are not paved. >> one band pulls in, unloads a body, another follows. the man told me he waited hours for his brother's body to be cremated. but the way is nothing, he says, compared to the crowds from a few weeks ago. experts say beijing's covid outbreak has already peaked. in december, we filmed these body bags piling up in metal crates at another beijing crematorium. during the height of omicron spread in the city. this video cnn has obtained was filmed by a man who said his father's body was lying in this overflowing beijing hospital for days. he says his father waited hours for hospital bed space. by the time a bed opened up, it was too late. cities are now

scrambling to set up a fever clinics and increase icu capacity. for weeks, it was nearly impossible to buy cold or fever medication. they were all sold out because of the huge demand. >> drug companies like this major pharmaceutical manufacturer in beijing, they are going into overdrive to increase supply after there was a shortage of medicine to treat covid-19 symptoms. i asked the vice president if he had received any advanced warning from the government? but they were going to abandoned zero-covid so they could prepare to ramp up production. well he did correctly answer my question, but it is clear that now they are doubling down. >> the company told us that they simply follow government policy. the drug shortage overflowing hospitals and crematoriums, their images of a country unprepared for the siding and of zero covid. so many families in mourning are questioning what they are three years of sacrifice during zero-covid was really all for? >> cnn's selina wang joins us. we spoke to some of the people

at the funeral home in beijing, what did they say? >> so anderson, there was a really heavy security presence. all these conversations were off camera. i did have one lengthy conversation with a man who told me his brother tested positive for covid. and he believes his brother passed away because of covid. but the hospital cast categorized his death as a different disease. this man also said that he thinks many people in china know that many more people are dying and the extremely low numbers the government especially reporting. the country did recently narrow its definition of what they consider to be a covid death. and the world health organization has accused china for under-reporting this outbreak. >> i mean, is the outbreak still expected to get worse before it gets better? >> so in major cities like here in beijing, experts are saying it is likely covid infections have already peaked. but we are currently in this travel rush period ahead of the lunar new year holiday. this is when millions will be headed home to the countryside. so as you see in that footage, we were just

airing. even in major cities at the medical system has been pushed to the brink. so in rural areas this is where there is village glen excess, tiny village clinics that are far less resources. and experts are warning there could be devastating consequences. anderson. >> selina wang, appreciate, i thank you. coming up next, the battle raging over small town on eastern ukrainian as major implications -- russia's war effort there. we are live on the ground there next.

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