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>> and i want the fierce battles in ukraine is taking place in a small town which appears to have significant for russian forces decadent at the upper hand right now. as it's happening, it'll countries appear to be sending any weapons to ukraine. the kremlin shuffles the top commanders of the war. cnn's ben wedeman joins us with the latest on the ground in the battle for the town of -- ben, what is going on? >> yeah, anderson, this battle instantly dark has been going on for months, but it has intensified in the last few weeks. at this point, it's not at all clear how much longer the ukrainian defenders can resist unrelenting russian onslaught.
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>> medics loot a wounded soldier onto an ambulance, another casualty from the embattled town of soledar. >> one day, 2025 -- >> it varies depending on the number of casualties on the frontlines. >> russian forces mostly troops from the wagner group, a private military company, claimed to have control of the entire soledar territory. the battle for soledar may be in its final stages, and it does not appear to be going well for the ukrainians. if indeed the russians to emerge victorious, the villages around it may be the next fall. ukraine's helicopters still flying, its forces not giving ground easily. one soldier says it's difficult, but we're hanging in there. despite the fighting, this
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woman is staying put with her pigs and cows in her home in the nearby village. >> we won't leave, she says, you can only die once, i will not abandon my house. her 81-year-old mother has lived here for more than 40 years. he had a good life, she says. this man heads the sullied our military administration. i am delivering aid, he says, and remind people they need to evacuate before it is too late. svetlana says, she will heed his call. everyone is tired, she tells me, we can't take it any longer. as sullied of burns, there is a little time to waste. >> ben, is there a strategic importance for russia?
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-- >> it's usually important are the russians. keep in mind that the loss and the russians made significant gains back in july when they took the town of izzy chunks which is in the donbas region. since then, they suffered that traumatic defeat back in the argus in september. followed by that, the fall of her son, the only regional capital they've captured. as in significant perhaps in the grand scheme of things, as soledar is, it would represent a minor but symbolic victory for the russians, after months of setback, anderson?
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>> what is a massive amount of troops that russia is using, to take soledar? >> the russians need a victory. and they have been repulsed. so this town of 10,000 before the war is about six miles from mahmoud. a few could capture it, maybe you could turn a flank in bakhmut. but it is mostly a psychological play by the russians. and this whole area is, as far as we can tell, it is a wagner group. so the wagner group has got a lot of russian cannon follow there. these are convicts they are conscripts they're not well trained. apparently they are pushed forward in an effort to draw fire from the ukrainians. that enables wagner to pinpoint positions, and that is what the battles all about. our
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artillery fire and some direct fire. and it is close combat. >> so these conscripts, the prisoners, whoever they can get, they are essentially thrown into a meat grinder in order to highlight where the ukrainian positions are then russian artillery can take out those positions? >> that's, right artillery could be knocks down direct a 3, fire. it could be 2. 3 to go, it is not over rpgs, it could be yet. machine gun he has fouled it fire from the at wagner group. it 1. 8. could be drones >> bill: they are very overhead fortunate. watching the fight. that was and it could also be close. electronic it was close warfare, trying to give it back to you are listening to the them, but right here,
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ukrainians side. this is they are trying to pinpoint ukrainian dangerous. how about positions by radio direction finding that, though? >> there may decide that the best way to use these forces, and to plan the russians to give them some ground, bring them forward, and then attack them, as they come forward. there is a lot that we do not know about this tactical situation, anderson, but what is clear is that the ukrainians have a strong desire, and intensity to, resist, and they will resist. >> poland plans to send leopard tanks to ukraine, following news that the united states will train ukrainian soldiers on patriot missile systems in oklahoma. that the u.s., france, and germany, with an infantry fighting vehicles. do you think that support will have a major impact? what sort of impact you think it will have? >> i am glad we are doing this. patriots won't be there for several months, and it is one battery. maybe poland will put a second battery in. you need several battalions to
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really do the job in ukraine, and frankly, they aren't available. as far as a bradley fighting vehicle's, yes, they're welcome, they are welcoming decisions, but at least, right now, there are not being talked about to make these for any decisive impact on the battlefield. i do think, anderson, that the white house, and others, are recognizing that this is a critical period of time, you need to get additional fire power, and maneuvering capability into the ukrainians. we just do not know what will come, with a presupposed russian offensive in february. >> russia appointed a new commander, joint group forces who, also, served as the chief of general staff. it's believed to be one of the architects of the key invasion plan. what is a say that the russians shuffle this military leadership again? >> i think the appointment down to the operational commander here, the strategic commander is, well, a two inch sword. on the one hand, it shows that
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putin is determined that this is no longer a special military operation, it is a war, and that is his top general, but, it is also a chance for putin to get rid of the current some of if it does not go well. correct some of has had a spotty record, thus far. he has recommended people to take a man who have not done that well, and to appease putin. so, now, he is in the fire. he needs to perform. i do think it's pretends, maybe, in a greater concentration of air to ground, together a, better coordination than what we've seen in the past. it's not good for ukraine, and it is a sign that putin is determined to keep pushing. >> general clark, i appreciate, thank you. joining us now, massachusetts democratic congressman, and it's talked about general cork with ukraine when is it enough
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at this point? >> i'm not sure we're doing it quickly enough, and advocating and to defend their cities, the administration, finally, made that approval a few weeks ago. they're just going to start training the troops to use those systems now. every day that goes by, more russian missiles hit ukrainian cities, more innocent ukrainians are killed. that's been the story about the swart. the administration has done a remarkable job of supporting this war effort, putting ukrainians in a position to win with our weapons, but doing so without antagonizing russia too much, so that this becomes a rush, a u.s. conflict. it is a hard thing to do. the one critique i would give his we need to move more quickly. >> -- is it likely republicans would force a cut -- for ukraine specifically? >> they have put that on the line. kevin mccarthy seems to think it is more important to get
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votes for the speakership than support of the cranes fighting for freedom. it's worth saying we don't talk about this very much but there are a lot of u.s. veterans, like myself, who see this war as so black and white. they have gone to ukraine. they're putting their american lives on the line for ukraine's freedom. the fact that the republican speaker of the house is willing to sell them out, essentially, to get votes in his caucus from extreme is like marjorie taylor greene, who are demanding these cuts to ukraine aid, is shameful, i think. it is certainly not making decisions based on our national security interests or in ukraine's. but i think at the end of the day the republicans control the house. they don't control the white house and they don't control the senate. there will be negotiations when it comes to the amount of aid ukraine gets. kevin mccarthy's position does not help. and it does not portend the end of that aid. most members of congress continue to support the ukrainian war effort.
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>> are there particular weapon systems that you think should be sent that aren't? or is it just more about the speed and the volume getting their? it's more about the speed and the volume. but one of the things we have to do -- and this is a question i asked of the -- when i was in kyiv a few weeks ago in december was what is the next phase of this war going to look like -- because many patriot missiles today. but in three months, what do you need? because it might take us three months to get you those weapons. one of the -- asking for tanks and bradley fighting vehicle is now is that those are not defensive weapons. they're not going to help so much in a place like soledar. those are offensive weapons that ukraine needs to take back territory when they start the offensives in a few months that they are training for right now. you and three other democratic representatives -- all military veterans -- a letter to speaker mccarthy arguing that the newly seated chief gop congressman, for santos, who has lied repeatedly, you have said he is a direct
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threat to national security. what is your biggest concern? it does not seem like mccarthy at this point is going to take any action based on what he has said thus far. >> george santos cannot be trusted to take out the trash. he cannot be trusted with national security information. so there are two fundamental things that have to happen. first of all, we have to make sure, and this is incumbent upon republican leadership, that he does not get access to any of this sensitive information. he can be seated on i-20 like the armed services committee where i serve, we has regular access to such sensitive information that cannot be shared. god knows, this guy might get extradited to brazil. you can easily imagine and selling national security secrets to brazil in exchange for not getting prosecuted. and the second thing that needs to happen is he just needs to get kicked out of congress. whether that happens through a vote for expulsion, which seems unlikely, because he seems to be an ally of speaker mccarthy, or whether he's thrown in prison due to prosecutions, the bottom line is, a needs to go. >> congressman moulton,
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>> so a full explanation for an fa computer outage today that grounded travelers from coast to coast. but officials now say they have traced to a corporate database file. it knocked out a system for sending vital safety bulletins the pilots need to know before taking off. cnn's omar jimenez reports one when stan flights went nowhere. >> -- so i come in. like i said, this is a nationwide issue. it is not just a local issue. >> this is how the day started at airports across the u.s. someone's day. a nationwide bounced up from the federal aviation administration, the largest societal around. the ripple effects of the
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ground stop are now affecting thousands of flights. >> we have been delayed three times. there are no more flights leaving today that would get us there on time, or tomorrow, a friday. ground stop was because of a system outage and only last about an hour and a half, lifted by 9 am. what it has left passengers throughout the day scrambling. and authorities questioning what went wrong. the biden ministration at this point says there is no direct evidence of a cyberattack. >> but we are also not going to rule that out until we have a clear better understanding of what is taking place. but again, and indication of that this time. >> the faa is working aggressively to get to the bottom of the root causes for the system out of so that it does not happen again. >> the white house citing that issues began to pop up tuesday. >> putin if a report that yesterday they were working through issues in the know tom system that she's used to communicate to key safety information got on ways and flight patterns with pilots.
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>> it's that systems known as the notice to air missions or no town and it's separate from air traffic control. it sends follows the pilot salute them know if conditions -- like if a specific law is closed. >> the flight chaos is the second in less than a month after holiday travel was severely impacted, tied to weather, and a meltdown it south west airlines due to outdated airline systems. this time, southwest canceling 400 flights. but still nowhere near as bad as just weeks ago when they had to cancel more than 16,000 over about a week. but now with an fda failure, every airline is being affected. >> we booked our flight to chicago with about a ten hour layover just in case something happened. and i'm glad we did. >> even with operations continuing to normalize, the next step for officials is making sure this doesn't become the new normal. >> this situation begs the question about the current state of the technology infrastructure of the faa. we
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are gonna need to take a look at that. >> now that we have gone through the immediate disruptions at morning, it is understanding how this was possible and exactly what steps are needed to make sure that doesn't happen again. >> and omar jimenez joins me now from newark liberty international airport. so what more do we know about this apparent database glitch? >> yeah, anderson, so the faa is saying that they have preliminarily traded the outages to that damaged database file. but they are echoing what we have heard from the biden administration to this point that they don't believe, based on the information they have right now, that this was a cyberattack. now as to how we got to this point, a source familiar with the faa operations telling cnn that it was yesterday that they noticed issues with the computer, ultimately a cropped file was found. but they made a plan to reboot the entire system early this morning before the morning rush. but when they did it took a lot longer than they anticipated to get the systems fully back to level where it was pushing out that pertinent flight system
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information that allows planes to fly and land in some cases, safely, and so because of that that began, and we ended up with the delays and cancellations that we got today. >> omar jimenez, thank you so much, appreciate it. south carolina republican nancy mace sits on the house transportation infrastructure committee as well as the aviation subcommittee. she joins us now. congresswoman, are you satisfied with the explanation that you've gotten so far for this mask? >> well, still, i think it is still the same day. i have more questions than i have answers at this point. number one, i do want to praise the faa for putting the safety of americans consumers and flyers and pirates in cruise first. but i have questions about some of the statements made by secretary buttigieg today about redundancy, and how the systems have been constantly updated. and if it was only one corrupt computer file, how did it bring down that entire system. and so this is just on the heels of southwest airlines as well. i believe we are gonna be talking a lot about airline industry technology over the next several months.
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>> it's the technology antiquated? well that is what i would like to know. we know in the case of southwest airlines that they are using and acquitted technology. i would like to know more about the systems that the faa is using, particularly before we get to finalizing any faa reauthorization. learning a little bit more information. because if there are redundancies, then why did this system fail? and what did it bring down airlines across the entire industry for an hour to half. we are now seeing that it has affected multiple days of travel as a result. if there are redundancies than it should've had a different impact. and would not have brought the entire system down. >> is this an issue that democrats and republicans can get together on. i mean, it seems like this an everyday's best interest. >> oh absolutely. i believe that aviation, that should be, i hope, a non partisan issue. i sit on the dni committee, as you mentioned before. and that generally, traditionally, has been a pretty nonpartisan place. and they do really good work there. >> i want to ask you about your fellow congressman, george
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santos, a fellow republican. the lies he told voters. do you think he should resign? >> i do, actually. i mean, this is an individual that fabricated their entire life story. their entire resume to get elected. if you want to talk election fraud and we can look no further than new york's third congressional district right now. but everyone is allowed to due process. if he were to be expelled that would be a process that would have to be initiated in the judiciary committee. with a full vote of the committee. with a resolution. i don't see that happening at this juncture. but one of the things that we know, and this is true on both sides of the aisle. the american people have a lot of distrust in washington. and in congress. they see a lot of division. and if we are gonna hold the left to a standard, then we ought to hold ourselves, the, right republicans to the same standards. whatever that standard is. both sides need to be held accountable. >> speaker mccarthy at this point says he doesn't support the calls for santos to resign. said the voters elected him to
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serve. do you want to see the ethics committee investigate? >> i believe there should be an ethics investigation. there may even need to be a criminal investigation when you start looking through his campaign finance files. there are some suspicious activity there. as well potentially paying rent to one of the places where he was living in staying. so i believe the process will work itself out. likely through an investigation, criminal or ethics or otherwise. but it will take a couple of months. it won't happen overnight, as i've said before, that every individual deserves the right to due process, as does he. but this is an issue. his own republican party called for his resignation today. there are republican members from his delegation in new york they're calling for his resignation on both sides of the aisle. it is a problem. we want to sow trust in the work that we do in congress. and this is, you know, wanted to places where we have got to start. >> you have also been vocal about criticism, your criticism of speaker mccarthy's potential
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secret deals or side deals he made to secure speaker leadership. are you happy with how he has handled his position so far? and how do you square the plate of transparency with, so far, not knowing all of the details of when deals were made? >> right, we had a great conference meeting on tuesday where he laid out, you, know one of the pieces of misinformation last week that this handful of folks of the 20th action of the faction of the faction put out. they made all of these major rule changes into the package. they did not, they made one change the rules package on the motion to vacate. and he clarified some of that on the rules package. and some of the other things that they discussed. for example, one of the members wanted to bring a term limits bill through the regular order of process, the committee process, and hopefully get a vote on the floor. and remember wanted to have an immigration bill that will be voted on. which is all fine and dandy. things we probably all support. but i don't want to see a small faction of our party with one particular view lead all of the
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legislation we are gonna be doing. i represent a swing district and i have to represent all sides. republican, independent, and democrat. i represent all of the people in my district. and it is important that we have diversity of policy and ideas that every voices heard. not just one over the other. no one is special here. and i want to make sure that all of us, centrists, right-of-center, left of center, fiscal conservatives like myself. that we have a voice in our conference. and that is why i'm being very vocal. i want to start off strong. i want to have a strong 118th congress. and we have got to hear all sides. >> congresswoman, i really appreciate having you, on thank you so much. >> thank you. suspect in the murders of four university of idaho killings is about to appear in court again as classes resume from winter break. a very different campuses, obviously, since his arrest. we are live in moscow, idaho, next.
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>> mr. began today at the university of idaho, classes for -- a murders of four. seasons mcallen's obviously gripped the campus -- affair since november and blanco are well appear in court again tomorrow. meanwhile, the lawyer for the family of one of the victims said that none of them knew the
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suspect or had any idea that they were in danger. carrie chapman joins us now from moscow, idaho, with more. what happens. >> anderson, the accused murderer will have a second appearance in court in this courthouse right here in moscow, idaho. he had his initial appearance in court when he came into the courtroom, when he sat down he showed no emotion at all. he smiled a bit to his public defender. we will see what happens during the second public appearance. during this appearance, it is expected to have scheduling for future hearings. on the same day, the police affidavit was released, we were awaiting that because it contains reasons that they arrested this man, including police believe that they thought that his dna, and a knife that was found on the bed of one of the victims, they say that one of the housemates who survived heard crying, stepped outside her room, saw a man in black clothes, a mask, and bushy eyebrows. they say her description helped lead to more evidence against him. finally, police say that his
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cell phone signal was detected at at least 12 instances over the five months prior to the murders right near the house. also it was detected about five hours after the murders, after the sun came out. this is a death penalty state. prosecutors will have to decide if they will seek it. >> the first day of the spring semester was today, for most students. have you talked any students about how it feels to be back on campus? >> yeah, i went on campus today and talk to some of the students. everyone i talked to came back to start classes today are very grateful that the suspect was caught. this is a very safe city, moscow idaho, and the campus is very safe. what happened over the past several weeks at the end of the fall break, there is a lot of people walking in pairs, walking with, bodies walking in, groups and many of the people i talked to today said that they will continue to do that even though the suspect has been found.
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>> gary tuchman, we appreciate you being there. thank you, for more on what to expect tomorrow and the suspect appears in court, we are joined by criminal defense attorney mark in america. heard garry's report. what are you anticipating will happen in the hearing? >> tomorrow is not going to be a significant as the one a week from now. tomorrow is going to be a status conference. the judge will let them know what is coming up next. the most significant hearing is, anderson, going to be within a week. because 14 days from last week, they called a preliminary conference. that is where the state presents even more evidence to try to show off that they have affirmative probable cause to keep him. and then at that point, trial dates will get set. tomorrow as we saw by the reporter, it is scheduling, keeping things on track, but i think that the most significant thing coming up in the next couple of weeks. >> before the release of the probable cause affidavit, they said that the suspect would be exonerated. investigators seem to have what appeared to be strong evidence against him, even with the dna on a knife
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she, what is the chance that you think it would go to trial as opposed to a plea deal? >> well, many of these cases, like the ones that we see with this type of horrific event, what happened with the death of four young college students, what is he going to get offered that he would accept? if it is as you personally thinks is going to be exonerated but he may very well want to stay in court. even if he just has this belief, like ted bundy, he liked the idea of the spotlight. so it's really hard to say. but i'll tell you, with the enormity of evidence, even if it is just the 20 pages that we have, and tens of thousands that are coming, it is going to be hard for any, even a very good defense team, to be able to convince within reasonable doubt in this case, and trying to minimize the damage. >> and the court documents that were released last week, there were a number of details. but there is a lot more that police
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probably have already the law enforcement already has that they do not need to put into the court documents. >> absolutely. they had to put a card on the table. they had to put enough on the table to make sure that this judge kept them under no bond. and in the next probable cause hearing, they're going to do another car door to. don't forget, they have a lot of work to do. they want to make sure that all of their t's are crossed, and their eyes are dotted. they don't want to give the defense anymore than they have to, until they have to. idaho has discovery requirements, we will see that. i think they're going to play their cards close to the chest for a while to make sure that everything they said is very well-founded. >> we learned according to law enforcement, there is a witness, a roommate who actually saw the killer leaving the room. we don't know much more about them, obviously, not their identity,
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just the initials and the court documents. but we have not heard from that person. is that something that would come out in court documents prior to a trial? >> absolutely prior to a trial. we may have more of that next week. certainly it will come out and and. discovery. there's so many unanswered questions about witnesses. why did they wait eight hours? it could be something as simple as college kids, they were drinking, or intoxicated, or whatever else. didn't the cops in the house. there is something more about that, not nefarious, not some conspiracy. but some reason why she waited eight hours to do anything, even with just the idea that some stranger's in her house, you would think something more would have been done done nothing. but again, i think we will find out with the thousands of pages that are coming. >> as we mentioned, tonight, the parents of one of the victims have said that the
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alleged assailant did not know any of the victims. i am not sure how they would have that knowledge. but you have seen a lot in your career, would that surprise you? >> it would surprise me for a number of reasons. one, the stalking, he was looking at the house, around the house for weeks prior. there is something there. and plus, even the type of murder. if you really just try to analyze it, you are using a knife, that is a very personal way to kill somebody. it is very violent. you have to wonder, was he infatuated? was he getting back at being rejected? there's probably something in that background of him, and the interaction with at least one of the people, if not more at that household that caused this type of violent reaction by him. it is more than just, he picked the house by coincidence. that's not what happened here. >> marco mayer, appreciate, and so. much coming, up a preview of
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of her own encounters with those now facing prosecution. >> dominic pezzola stands out in a crowd of thousands on january 6th, 2021, because he was the first to break into the united states capitol, smashing a window and letting the mob flow in, prosecutors allege. pezzola, and for other proud boys are on trial accused of seditious conspiracy and after ten charges, leading to them allegedly trying to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. proud boys, joseph biggs, outside the capital. prosecutors say he helped lead the group to create chaos that day, having tweeted won the presidential election was called for joe biden over donald trump, this is war. and after he and other members got into the capital, prosecutors say that he filmed himself saying, while we just stormed the capitol, took the place back. that was so much fun. when we tried to speak to biggs at his for home in florida after he was initially charged with conspiracy in the case, he was less bold. >> are you an insurrectionist?
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>> ethan nordean was president of his local proud boys chapter in washington state, shown here facing off with a police officer outside the capitol. he now claims the proud boys were disorganized and that he only came to d. c. simply to stage a concert at an airbnb that day. i also charged, zak real. another president of a proud boys chapter in philadelphia. also, the most well known of the proud boys, former national chairman, enrique tarrio. prosecutors say that he helped plan the whole thing from late december on, even creating a new proud boys group just for january six called the ministry of self-defense. but since then? >> did you help plan the capitol attack on january 6th? were you involved with the proud boys in planning what happened? >> absolutely not. >> enrique tarrio is the only -- charged in the case who was not physically in washington d. c. on january 6th. but during, and after the breach, prosecutors
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say theriot made clear what the aim was in his social media messages, which i read to him for his response in february. >> proud of my boys and my country. don't leave. >> yes. >> the day after the siege, you posted, i am with you, we are all with you, you make this country great, never stop fighting. that sure sounds like you were condoning everything that happened that day. >> i'm not going to tell you that i condone the violence that happened -- >> this was long after the breach. >> i don't think people should stop fighting. i was in support of the reason why people breached the capitol, yes. >> and we determined the other four proud boys charged in this particular case have all pleaded not guilty, except one, charles donahoe pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. now, the state says that he is cooperating, and he could be a witness against the proud boys, of which he was once a member, anderson.
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>> sara sidner, thanks. ahead, just a look at the international upgrades over iran's executions related to the months-long process. whether more executions may be ahead.
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execution of mohammed barr ghani. a 19-year-old accused of stabbing a member of iran's security forces during the country's massive months-long protest. he is one of two who the human rights office believes is imminent. the movement comes after international outrage of the executions of four other iranians, two of whom were executed last week. it began after the death of a woman in the custody of iran's so-called morality police. cnn's jomana karadsheh joins us now with the details. and i understand that they are enforcing the mandatory hijab law? >> anderson, after months of protests, recently there was a lot of speculation that the regime might be offering some concessions that it might relax, that mandatory hijab law. but what we have seen that was that they have ordered stricter enforcement of the, law harsher punishment for those who violated. women will now be facing longer prison sentences, travel bans, access to public
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services, and more. clearly, the regime is not backing down. that is why a lot of iranians would tell you that they want this regime gone. they say the surprising is not just about the hijab. >> hijab or no hijab, on words to a revolution. a chant to the dictator. those who know the regime know that it will never give up the head job, with the as lawmaker public. republic. many say that that is not what this is about. it is about the right to choose, the right to speak, to live with no fear, to be free. the past few weeks, the world got to see just a little of how far the regime will go to silence its own people, any voice, every voice could be silenced and the republic of fear. dozens of journalists or behind bars. the two were among the first to
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tell the world the story of mahsa amini. they accuse them of executing the protest and being agents of foreign states. rights activist and blogger -- regime jails. this man was violently arrested in september and reportedly tortured. this is what 64 days and the notorious evin prison, and a hunger strike did to him, only out former urgent medical treatment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ many artists and musicians like this rapper have been arrested. according to the u. n. rights groups and state media, the two are now facing the death penalty. here are the voices that have been silenced forever no one really knows how many hundreds, maybe more. for those mourning their dead, they are also being harassed and intimidated into silence. this
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grieving mother walked the streets holding up a portrait of her 16-year-old son. she wanted people to see her boys face and hear his name. they killed him, they shot him in the head, she cried. they told me to be silent. i won't be quiet. they will not be silenced, they say, this is a battle to save their future. it battle for a free iran. >> jomana karadsheh, the image of the mother holding off the photo of her dad that son just walking the streets desperate for people to see his face and hear his name. i mean, it was so sickening, and side. said. what is the latest on the fallout facing protesters, including some executions? >> well, just indications that this crackdown is entering and even more brutal, terrifying phase now with these death sentences and the executions, the regime as you know has used
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all that it has got in the past to try to suppress these protests. the killing, the torture, jailing thousands of people. that didn't work. now it appears that they are resorting to the death penalty to try to crush these protests, or weaponizing the death penalty as the u. n. and amnesty international are describing it, too instilling fear to people to try to deter protesters. as you mentioned earlier, at least four young men have been executed so far after what rights groups say are these sham group trials based on their convictions on forced confessions, extracted lot of the time under torture, up to 100 people right now are facing charges that carry the death penalty. anderson, i can tell you tonight, there's a a lot of concern about 1:22-year-old young man, activists believe that his execution is imminent. they are urging the international community to take urgent action to put pressure on the regime
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to try to stop these executions, anderson. jomana >> karadsheh, we appreciate the. laura coats is up next official break. learn more at phoenix.edu.
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