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hello, everyone. i'm alisyn camerota. welcome to "cnn newsroom". >> i'm vick for blackwell. good to be with you. >> the white house press secretary is holding a briefing right now, the first one since the announcement that five more classified documents were found at president biden's home in wilmington last week. according to a cnn tally, roughly 20 classified documents have been discovered at the president's delaware house or in the private d.c. office he used
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after his time as vice president. >> sources tell cnn that it is possible that more searches elsewhere may happen. also that the white house is shifting into damage control. sources say president biden is growing frustrated by how the saga has played out. he cannot escape the questions about the timing of publicly disclosing the classified documents when some of the first pages were initially discovered in november. once again, today, the president chose not to take reports' questions. [ inaudible ]. >> cnn's mj lee is at the white house. a spokesman for the white house counsel is defending the communication and strategy so far. tell us about that. >> yeah. victor and alisyn, we just wrapped up a lengthy phone call, a press call, with reporters ta that the white house counsel's
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spokesperson held trying to offer a robust defense of how the white house has handled all of this so far including sort of the timing of the disclosure of information and sort of the decision to wait to disclose certain information and the fact that some of this information has really come out in piecemeal fashion over the last week or so. but the spokesperson really started off the call by saying, again, that he was limited in what he could say, given that there is now an ongoing investigation by the special counsel, though he did emphasize, again, that the president takes classified information matters very seriously and that white house is and the president's lawyers have cooperated and will continue to cooperate with this ongoing investigation. one thing that he said in defense of how the white house has consulted all of this, was, he said as searches were under way, looking for additional documents to be properly handed back to the government, we wanted to be respectful to try to provide as complete
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information as we could, trying to balance with the need to provide that information to you all consistent with the investigation. i have to tell you, this was a press call that lasted well over half an hour, and unfortunately, we don't have a better picture right now compared to before that press call, as to some of the details that have really been plaguing the white house about how all of this has been handled. just to name a few of the questions that came up on this call that we didn't get an answer to, why the white house waited months to disclose the discovery of the classified documents in the first place. no answer to that question. will there be or are there additional searches going on right now? that's not something that white house counsel's spokesperson would engage on. why were biden lawyers who do not have security clearances, why were they involved in the subsequent searches after the classified documents were discovered? guys, i think, again, we are seeing the white house sort of struggle with the tension of
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dealing with an ongoing investigation and basically feeling like they're very limited, but also dealing with the criticism about the lack of transparency as well. >> mj lee for us at the white house, thank you, mj. joining us republican congress man mike wall from florida. he tweeted about the classified documents at biden's office last week wondering why there has not been an fbi raid. congressman, thanks so much for being here. an fbi raid, isn't that a little premature? the fbi didn't go in to execute the search warrant with president trump until 16 months they had been waiting for him to turn over the documents. it's only been two months for biden so far. why would you want the fbi to go in. >> well, your math is interesting it there, alisyn, because by my math it's been five years that these documents have been sitting there and so if, you know, the white house's rendition of kind of events here is correct, that we've done the right thing, we've told the national archives, we've told the department of justice, why
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didn't they tell and do the right thing five years ago, four years ago, three years ago -- >> they say -- i hear you but they say they just discovered it. >> that's my other question, on top of the list that you guys have rightly asked is, why were thousand dollar an hour, high-priced attorneys, suddenly on november 3rd, starting to look through these documents and since then, the university of pennsylvania said, we didn't ask them to clear out that office? what drove that look and then disclosure in the first place? let's add that to the whole list of questions. but i think what we need and in the most immediate term, which we asked about the previous president as well in the mar-a-lago documents, what was exposed? what were the nature of them? a lot has been made this was only 20 versus 300, but it only takes one. this is abilout the quality and the sensitivity of the documents, not just the quantity. we have yet to get any answers.
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that's why we're going to have to investigate. >> the content, obviously, is key, and you do pose good questions, actually at the moment the white house press secretary is addressing all of this. congressman, i hope that you can stick around with us. let's just take a listen to what she's saying. >> the department of justice, when it comes to legal matters, when it comes to legal issues, we have been very clear that we are not going to comment. we are not going to politically interfere. and that continues with this also this legal issue. i would refer you to the department of justice, refer you to the special counsel as it relates to specifics on this issue and also my white house counsel colleagues are engaging with all of you and we'll certainly continue to have conversations on this. i will say that we are consistent with what we have said on cooperating fully with the department of justice on this issue, and we will continue to cooperate fully with the special counsel. >> on friday, you stood here,
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though, and were asked about the documents issued 18 times. at that point the president's lawyers had found these five additional pages of classified documents. did you know not on friday those documents had not been found or are you being directed by someone to not being forthcoming on this issue? >> i have been forthcoming from this podium. what i said yes to was the statement that we all had, right. you all had the statement and i was repeating what the counsel was sharing at that time. >> we had that statement, so we knew what was in it. did you not know that -- >> i'm telling you -- i just answered the question. i said i was repeating what the information that we had at that time, right, that you all had. i was confirming from what the special counsel had provided to all of you and that we knew as well from here. just to be very, very clear, and look, i've also been very clear about being prudent from here, being very clear about being consistent from here, and not
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going beyond what is currently happening, right, and again, this is an ongoing -- i also said, this was an ongoing review that was happening with the department of justice and, as we know, with the special counsel. i've been very consistent about that as well. and that's one of the reasons your question to me is one of the reasons why i'm -- we are being very, very careful and very mindful and to not interfere here and to make sure, to make sure that department of justice has their independence. your question actually proves that, and that's why we're going to continue to refer you to the department of justice and the special counsel or my colleagues. >> is the president -- >> at white house counsel. >> does president biden have confidence the way his team is handling this with the trickle out of information and the documents being found day after day. >> i can tell you this, the president has confidence. i can tell you this, the president and his team, rightfully took action when they learned that the documents existed. they reached out to the
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archives. they reached out to the department of justice. that is the steps. we have been very clear about that. the steps and the process that we took here. and look, we're going to continue, we're going to continue to, as we have said, fully cooperate with the department of justice. we're going to fully cooperate with the president's team -- the president's team is going to fully cooperate with the special counsel. that will not stop and that will continue. we're going to respect the independence of the department of justice. >> can you describe his mood to us? >> his mood has been very clear. i saw him this morning. he's very focused. i traveled with him this weekend. he wants to make sure that he's continuing and we are continuing to deliver for the american people. and we've been, you know, we've been pretty consistent on that. if you think about last week, you heard from him about how his economic plan is working, how we have seen inflation go down for six months straight, how we have seen unemployment numbers at its lowest level in 50 years.
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that matters. that is also the things that this country, the people in this country are also very, very concerned about and want to hear what this president is doing every day. that's his focus and that's what he's going to continue to talk about. >> what's the white house reaction to the news in dnipro? >> we've been listening to the white house press secretary attempt to answer questions from the press about those classified documents found at president biden's home and office. congressman mike waltz has been standing by. thank you for your patience. what karine jean-pierre is saying it's in the hands of the special counsel and the department of justice and she can't answer specific questions. is that fair? >> look, i think the special counsel is going to be a blessing and a curse for this white house. on the one hand you can see the deflection that's going on, very legitimate questions, but on the other hand, you know, if the special counsel operates as they
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should, this white house and the attorney general really has no control. but to my point on, you know, asking about the fbi raid is, i think, you know, americans continue to feel like they're seeing two tiers of justice here, and the question that i had on that raid, is why at some point, did the attorney general no longer trust president trump's attorneys in the back and forth, in the negotiation, but they're still trusting president biden's attorneys? why are we taking everything they're providing at face value? my goal is not to do the what about, but to say look, we have to restore trust and a lot of trust has been eroded for a lot of reasons over the last few years across our national security. >> let me try to answer that for the viewers. i think it's the timeline. i think that the reason that the trust was eroded with the trump team, for 16 months, the national archives said we know these are missing. here are the ones we know are
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missing and tried to negotiate with the trump team and weren't getting full answers. they got boxes. until final they couldn't get the pieces, whatever the documents were, they needed to have a search warrant, with, as i understand it, so far, it was the biden lawyers who alerted the national air. they didn't know anything was missing. that's a real difference and important distinction. >> they got boxes and boxes back. there are ongoing discussions. from what we know thus far, the things in question were things like personal correspondence between the president and the leader of north korea that has a rightful negotiation of whether that's a national security issue or whether that's a personal effect of the presidency. >> hang on, congressman. you don't think that belongs to the american public, documents like that? you think those are mementos president trump could keep? >> i think that's -- i don't think that is worthy of an fbi raid on a sitting president two days before the blackout period
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when people think -- i mean it was largely expected that he was going to run again as a future political candidate. so i think that is -- you really have to think carefully about the erosion, the 70 million people, who voted for president trump, of trust there and the seeming political nature over if that's, indeed, all there was. that's why we need to get to the bottom of it. at the same time, why didn't the national archives reach out to vice president president biden for five years? why were they so adamant that we were going to go to such extraordinary measures with president trump but not for five years until his own lawyers exposed them? >> it's possible they didn't know -- >> these are things -- >> is it possible they didn't know the documents were missing? >> sure. so that goes to the is this incompetence or a politicized bureaucracy? those are the things -- at the end of the day we cannot have whole swaths of the american public who believe that the doj has become completely politicized, and have it out for
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the candidate that they -- >> understood. absolutely. a special counsel should help solve that -- >> that should be our collective goal here. >> i think that that's why the attorney general has named a special counsel here to try to relieve any impression of politization. congressman mike waltz, thank you very much for your perspective. i really appreciate your patience during this. >> thank you. sources tell cnn that additional saechls searches at locations connected to president biden are possible, but it is unclear where those searches would happen or who would conduct them. senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us now. what do we know about these potential searches? >> reporter: well, we know, victor, that the white house says that the president's team, legal team, conducted these searches at places that they knew, documents, things that had been moved from the vice president's residence at the end of the obama-biden era, where those items were taken. so that's the reason why there
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was the discovery at the penn biden center a private office here in washington that he used during the trump administration, and why there was a subsequent search at the biden home and his beach house in -- also in delaware. there is one other residence that the biden family rented for a period that could be one of those places that could become a search location for a search and that's a home in virginia that they rented for a period. now, we don't know whether those places will end up being searched, but, you know, there is a fear, let's just say, or a concern, at the justice department that there might be documents still outstanding, that there might be other things that haven't yet been found, and one of the early things you're going to see happen between the new special counsel and the president's legal team will be, to try to figure out how they can reassure that all the searches have been done, how have they been done, who's done them, for the fbi to talk to those people and for them to get
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some kind of reassurance of additional documents out there. the question is if there are more searches to be done, who will do them? will they allow the fbi to do them? of course that would be a huge, huge step to take. to congressman waltz, i think, alisyn, you did a pretty good job of trying to, you know, explain why the difference in the search that happened in mar-a-lago, but, you know, the truth was, that, you know, the president, the former president, donald trump, his legal team had told the justice department we're going to lock away this room at mar-a-lago and make sure nobody, nothing moves out of there. according to the fbi, according to the justice department in these court filings that we have now seen publicly, they said they had witnesses or they had evidence that developed that indicated those boxes were being moved out of that room, that they were supposed to secure. that's the reason, one of the major reasons, why they took that extraordinary step.
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>> sorry. we were also just with one ear listening to the white house press secretary who is still being asked about documents, so it's, obviously, a frothy situation today. >> frothy. >> with lots of -- >> frothy is a good word. >> yes. i appreciate your point about that, that boxes were moved, but also, i think it's also true, they just weren't getting back some of the documents that they were -- >> hundreds, right, hundreds of documents. at this point in the biden case we're still talking approximately 20 documents or so. >> thank you. joining us bradley moss, partner and national security attorney at the law office of mark suede, ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic. let me start with you, and a bit of the conversation that alisyn was having with the congressman and what we heard from evan, the searches that will now happen next, and the question of who should do them, how the justice department should treat these
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searches and these documents, your thoughts on what you've listened to over the last couple minutes? >> sure. so i think it's certainly appropriate that white house counsel, for example, be the one conducting any searches going forward, that only lawyers with the proper security clearances be doing so. it should not be -- if it is private lawyers for president biden, it has to be private lawyers who are properly cleared. you can't take that risk anymore, given that they found these documents at more than one location. that's a legitimate complaint. the one thing i want to mention, i was hearing the lead up with the congressman going into this segment, the idea there was an ongoing negotiation with donald trump's team. to be clear the reason they got raided at mar-a-lago was the sworn declaration from trump's lawyers saying we gave you everything and then the development by the fbi of evidence saying, no, you haven't. you're concealing stuff and we have proof of it. that's the distinction. >> okay. that's -- that is also a very important distinction. ron, to the point of who should be looking, so far it has been
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president biden's lawyers. now, if it -- when it was just president trump's lawyers, the press was skeptical, myself included, that they would be fully forthcoming. is it time, as bradley said, to not just trust president biden's lawyers? >> you know, who ultimately -- the question of who ultimately is conducting the search is going to be i think a complex one for law enforcement. i'm not a lawyer and i'm not sure i can fully answer, you know, who the appropriate person is on that front. i just want to say how struck i was by your interview with the congressman, though, alisyn. i mean, two months ago we were all having these conversations about how much of the republican party, the donors, the strategists, other elected officials, were saying after the midterm election the party had to move beyond trump and put him in the rearview mirror. that interview was the latest i think of many indications that that memo, if it exists, has not
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gotten to house republicans. you can see how quickly he moved from criticizing president biden to defending president trump's actions, reminded me of kevin mccarthy using his first press interaction as speaker to praise president trump. there have going to be a lot of ways in which this house republican party, while trying to wound president biden, is going to reaffirm and reattach themselves to president trump after a midterm election in which all of his chosen candidates lost in the swing states that decided 2020 and will likely decided 2024. that was really quite a striking interview and quite a striking tact that he took during it. >> ron, you talked about the memo not getting from the strategists and the donors to republicans on capitol hill. how much do voters care about this? >> well, look, i actually think the implications on this, on current facts, obviously, any time dealing with a controversy with this, you have to specify
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that, i think this means more for trump than biden. i do not think, victor, based on what we have seen so far, that there are any meaningful number of voters who realistically would be open to president biden, who would choose now to flip to opposing him because of what they have seen on this. i do think that, despite all the differences that bradley and others have pointed out between the two cases in a practical sense, this probably does make it more difficult for the justice department department to indict trump if they're not going to indict president biden. that would be something after. i'm not sure in the end that is entirely good news for trump. i have been skeptical that after, you know, 200 years in which we've never indicted a former president, that the justice department would really do it twice. they would do it on classified documents and potentially on the important issue of january 6th and the attempt to subvert the election. if this clears the deck on the classified documents issue, it might make it more likely that
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justice department moves forward on the question almost all americans would agree is more important, what donald trump did after the 2020 election. >> bradley, we're basically out of time, but do you agree with ron? >> to an extent. i think the only reason they might still bring the indictment of former president trump is to make clear the distinction between if you cooperate with us like biden has done, we will let you off, but if you miss with us like trump did, we will bring an indictment and don't care who you are. >> thank you both very much. a former gop statehouse candidate is in custody for allegedly orchestrating multiple shootings at the homes of democrats. we'll hear from one of those targeted lawmakers next. a manhunt is under way in california for at least two suspects wanted for a brutal cartel style shooting that killed six people. that search ahead. tato truck... i finally caught it. oh man.
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in this video. >> pena refused to accept defeat in his 2020 election and according to the arrest warrant, quote, there is problem cause to believe soon after his campaign he conspired to commit these four shootings at elected, local and state government officials' homes. josh campbell joins us now. what have you learned? >> pena was arrested by albuquerque s.w.a.t. officers yesterday. police say he paid and conspired with four other men to shoot at the homes of four democratic officials. cnn has attempted to contact pena for comment. we've been going through this police arrest affidavit that was just released, and it describes how authorities used firearm and cell phone analysis to uncover this alleged conspiracy. police also say one member of group, a cooperating witness, said that he intended to shoot above the windows in these homes to prevent from hitting anyone, but i'll read part of this affidavit, the confidential witness stated that solomon wanted the shootings to be more aggressive and the witness stated that solomon wanted them to aim lower and shoot around 8:00 p.m. because occupants
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would be more likely not laying down. the motive remains under investigation, but in looking at his social media presence, this suspect has a documented history of election denying. one of the elected officials allegedly targeted was on cnn this morning and spoke about an encounter she had with pena right after the election. watch. >> he came to my house after the election and he's an election denier. he weaponized those dangerous thoughts to threaten me and others causing serious trauma. yeah, he was saying that the elections were fake, that really speaking dramatically. i didn't feel threatened at the time, but i did feel like he was, you know, erratic. >> reporter: now in addition to pena, police say they're still investigating whether the four alleged accomplices knew who they were shooting at or whether they were paid to open fire at these residences. this is another example of what federal law enforcement has been warning about, that is, there's a segment of society out there who is on the receiving end of so many of these election lies,
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some of them internalize it and start to leave it and those predisposed to act with violence can be very dangerous. looking at this guy's social media history and looking at his pattern of actually going to the homes of these people who were eventually targeted with gun violence, it appears as though he falls into that category. this is very serious. >> thank goodness no one was hurt here. josh campbell, thank you so much. let's bring in chief law enforcement analyst john miller. john, we've seen so many of these. a man outside of congresswoman jayapal's home, justice cavanaugh and governor whitmer. why are we seeing more of these radical, political crimes? >> you have these chat groups, message boards, they're bringing groups of what would be small numbers of people in to kind of larger crowds through the internet where they're stoking these fears that elections are being stolen, that fraud is rampant, something has to be done. but when you look at the climate
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the way it's going, 2018, 5,000 threats to members of congress. 2021, that's 10,000. it doubled over that period. 2022, rounding 18, headed to 2,000, not even through the first quarter. you see the pitch and tone of this dialog is becoming more violent. that's some stats from the federal side. if you take that down to the state side, you've got election workers in georgia who have been threatened publicly and named. you have secretaries of state who are living in fear. you have, in kansas, a door-to-door operation, not election workers, where voters were being door knocked to say do you really live here, how did you vote in the last election, we think there was fraud, which is kind of -- >> intimidating. >> from congress to door to door from voters, it goes from congress to the grassroots of
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power. there is a line of thinking, extremist end of the gop machinery that says if we lost it, it can't be because we lost. so it must be fixed and we must act. this case of gunfire takes it to a whole new level. >> yes. i mean, i was so glad you brought that up because the spectrum of election denialism, dangerous, living in your own reality, dangerous, frustrating, but does it lead to violence? i mean, is that -- are you seeing now a direct connection? >> so, i mean, if you climb the ladder, you can go from january 6th backwards to the softball game that was shot up by an individual, forwards to nancy pelosi's house, an election denier, forward to shots being fired at all of these residences, you know, it's this case on january 3rd, state senator linda he lopez, bullets come through the house into the child's bedroom, hits the
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ceiling, aiming high, which doesn't mean anything to somebody who has bullets coming into their child's bedroom at 1:00 in the morning while sleeping. they recover a shell casing there, ballistics inside. half an hour, 40 minutes later they stop a silver nissan, in the nissan, 800 fentanyl pills and a wanted felon. in the inventory search, two guns, a glok with a drum magazine and an ar pistol. that car is registered to pena. they trace the other registered car as a black audi, connected to one of the earlier shootings and you've got basically drug dealers with guns in cars related to the candidate, stealing other cars to cover their tracks. >> yes. >> it was an elaborate, and yet sloppy scheme towards intimidation. >> to your original point, all connected to election denial at some level? >> yes. >> thank you very much. the last two winters have
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covid hospitalizations are far below previous winter waves, a welcome surprise for public health officials, for everybody really, who has been embracing for spikes from infections after the holidays. >> jaclyn howard joins us now. what do hospitalization rates look like right now? >> well, i can tell you, victor
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and alisyn, we are seeing hospitalization rates slightly increase, but as you mentioned, victor, we're far below what we've seen in previous winter surges. here's a look at that. we should have a chart looking at the past two years of hospitalization rates. you see, starting january 27th of 2021, there's a spike right there, and then as we keep going, we enter 2022, there was another spike in the middle of the chart, but at the end of the chart is where we are today, and you see how we are seeing a slight increase, but we're not nearly as high as those previous surges. that's what's welcome news. we are seeing this across the country. we should have a map showing all states, here state by state differences and hospitalization differences. here's the same map of last year. january 17th of 2022. this same map last year as you see here, there were some high hospitalization rates across various states but the map looks very different today. that's what's welcome news here.
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there are still two looming concerns that public health officials are watching closely. number one, the risk of a new variant emerging, and then number two, we're still seeing slow uptake of the updated covid-19 vaccine, the booster, that was released in september. so we need to get our vaccination rates up and we need to continue to monitor for variants, but outside of that, this is welcome news. victor and alisyn? >> some concerns still a little bit of good news. we will take the good news. >> exactly. >> thank you so much. okay. did tom brady just play his last football game, this time for real? tom brady talks the possibility of retirement again, ahead.
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. we're following breaking news. the massachusetts norfolk district attorney issued a murder warrant for brian walshe, the husband of ana walshe. >> jason carroll joins us from cohassett, massachusetts. give us the details. >> as you know, victor, brian walshe was already in custody facing a charge of misleading police in this investigation. now comes the news that so many people had feared, but so many people, quite frankly, were expecting here on the ground. the norfolk district attorney sending out a statement just a few moments ago saying that, in fact, a murder warrant has been issued for brian walshe. now, clearly there's been a number of -- a great deal of circumstantial evidence in this case that has been released. remember last week, investigators found that hatchet at the trash facility. they found what appeared to be a
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bloody cloth material at that facility as well. they were running tests on that. in addition to running tests on blood stains found in the basement of the home. then there were all the discrepancies with brian walshe's statements he made following the disappearance of his wife. so many details that had come out, including about an internet search he had allegedly conducted about how to dispose of a 115 pound body, and how to dismember a body. a lot of gruesome details that led a number of people to suspect when was this man going to face further charges. now we have, in fact, the answer to that. again, he is facing murder charges. obviously, we're expecting further details about this case to come out. we are being told from the d.a.'s office additional details will be presented at his arraignment that is scheduled to be at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. that is, of course, if he can get his attorney, his defense attorney, up and running to defend him in that case. sobering news here, but news,
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again, that a lot of folks were expecting. >> so, too, jason, so we understand, this murder warrant, is it your impression, is based on the dna tests having come back from the evidence they've gathered as opposed to say a body being found? >> that's a good question, but we don't know yet. we know tests, according to forensic experts and the d.a.'s office as well, have been run on a number of items they have found including the blood stains in the basement, the hatchet found at that trash facility. we don't know what the results of those tests are at this point. perhaps we'll get more indication of that tomorrow when the prosecutor presents her case. but again, a lot of circumstantial evidence in the case. forensic experts tell us they would expect to see a lot of forensics material that would be presented in court as well. we do know from the d.a.'s office that they were going to be running tests on some materials. the results of those tests
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unknown at this point. >> jason, in addition to the potential evidence that's been discovered, you mentioned the knife with the blood there at the home and what was found at the trash facility. there's also the question of the first report of a missing person in this case, and that's new reporting it didn't come from brian walshe. >> it did not. we took a look at the police log, victor, which showed that on january 4th her employer in washington, d.c., remember, she worked there in washington, d.c. during the week at that real estate firm, it was the head of security from that firm that called cohassett police and said that she was missing and so that was the first indication that cohassett police had that ana walshe was missing. it didn't come from her husband, it came from her employer. again, another piece of circumstantial evidence that prosecutors are surely going to be adding to their case. >> okay. jason carroll, thank you for
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bri brittney griner and combat gun violence. they will be part of a presidential ceremony. this is why they're there, with the rest of the warriors to celebrate their 2022 nba championship. >> this is the first time the warriors have been back to the white house since 2016 even though they've won two championships since then. in 2017, you remember the president trump disinvited the team after players said they would not be attending. and the following year, the team skipped the visit and instead took schoolchildren to the smithsonian museum of african american history. tom brady is once again facing questions about his future after the dallas cowboys knocked the tampa bay buccaneers out of the nfl playoffs. >> i'm having a sense of deja vu. wuf we've done this before. brady will be 46 when the season starts next year. -- or the nest --xt -- later t year, actually. what he is saying about his future? >> he's not sure. i take his word for it. first thing's first.
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the first thing tom brady wants to do is make football the last thing on his mind. he told reporters after the game asking about what's next. he said he just wanted to go home and get a good night's sleep. and that's absolutely true. after the team meeting, after that final game of the season, the cars are running in the parking lot. they want to get out of dodge as fast as they can. the season is so long, so taxing mentally, emotionally, physically. most guys want to spend time with families, kissing and cuddling kids and take a trip to get away and far away. tom brady likely going to be doing the same type of thing. he did also respond when further asked about a potential retirement. let's hear what he had to say. >> this is focusing on this game. so, yeah. just one day at a time. >> john brady does not like what
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he will do next. he took time tend of the press conference to thank the media. it might be a bit telling about his future, at least there in tampa. listen. >> hopefully, you know, i love this organization. i thank everybody for welcoming me and all the regulars. just very grateful for respect and hope i gave the same thing back you to guys. so thank you very much. appreciate it. >> was this his final press conference as a buccaneer, as an nfl player? he could keep playing, yes? he finished top three in the nfl in passing yards. and completions. and this guy will be 46 as you mention for the next season. but no one takes care of their body better than tom brady. there are a slew of super bowl contending teams that would tlof h
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-- love to have him continue playing. he has a $357 million deal with fox sports to be the lead analyst. that is still getting paid like an nfl quarterback without getting hit like an nfl quarterback. so we shall see what tom brady's future holds. >> he has things he can do. >> yeah. he's not out of options. not out of options. >> i'll believe whatever the decision is, after it actually happens. >> for more than 40 days. first retirement was 40 days and he came back. >> thank you so much. >> you got it. >> so a man is in custody after this video shown on live tv with a toddler waving a loaded gun and pulling the trigger. what we learned about this case ahead. there's the philly, the monster, the boss. if i hadn't seen it in person, i wouldn't have believed it. eating is believing ststeph. the subway series. try subway's tastiest t menu upgrade yet. if your moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms are stopping you in your tracks...
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