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a plane in production more than 50 years and changed the way we all view flying. millions of people have flown on the 747s, six presidents, a space shuttle across the country. i remember the first time that i flew on a 747, japan airlines. the plane was configured for coach seats on the second level. i was up there. nobody sat next to me. nothing felt so special until i flew the a3-80. of course there is still the one for the president of the united states. thank you so much for joining us. good evening and we begin keeping honest the person who is hard to keep honest, george
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santos. quoting from the congressman's statement, with the ongoing attention surrounding my personal and campaign financial investigations i have submitted a request to speaker mccarthy i be temporarily recused of committee assignments until i am cleared. he has been disowned by his own republican leadership for lying to them. he says he expects to be fully cleared. why you might ask does he think that? because, and these are his own words, "i have nothing to hide." it wasn't even true when he said it. when asked which network he had done an interview with he refused to say. it was oan. he promised the interview would be fun and comprehensive. fun, we will leave it up to you. but in the 12-minute clip the network posted late today the congressman who lied about his religion, education, ancestors and career, criminal charges,
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athletic accomplishments and more was far from comprehensive. in those 12 minutes released he wasn't asked about specific lies and admitted none of that list he lied about. maybe there is more that hasn't been released. we will see. in what was released santos suggested he already said enough. >> i have made my sincere apology multiple times and earlier i said it. i thoroughly apologized for lying about my education and embellishing the resume. i made that very clear. i don't know what more can be said other than admitted it. is there anything more humbling and humiliating than admitting that on national television? >> there is. there is something more humiliating that you lied about your education and embellishing your resume. admitting you lied publicly,
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privately and personally to nearly everyone for a very long time. that would be more humbling and humiliating if you did it and you haven't and if you were capable of being humiliated which seems unlikely because you seem utterly incapable of feeling shame. when asked what he would have done different lie, i would have just fought like hell to get the nomination. at the end he said this. >> i have learned my lesson. i can guarantee you that from now on anything and everything will always be above board. largely always been above board. i am going to go the extra step now and double-check and cross reference everything. >> so he just said everything from now on will be above board and double-checked and then he lied and said largely always has been above board. statements like these.
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>> good morning. hello to everybody. i have seen how socialism destroys peoples lives. my grandparents survived the holocaust. my mom was a 9/11 survivor. >> they sent me to prep school in the bronx. >> i went to school on a volleyball scholarship. >> i put myself through college. >> we were the number one volleyball team. >> i also founded my own non-profit organization. >> i sacrificed both of my knees and got knee replacements playing volleyball. >> it was in the summer of 2021 on fifth avenue and 55th. i was robbed by two men. >> i lived an honest life. i have never been accused of bad doing. >> just for the record, none of that is true but the congressman
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is facing a federal investigation into his finances, local investigation in new york, latest disclosure forms have raised questions and the house leadership says it is not for them to tell him to resign. >> i already commented on this numerous times and it will play itself out. ultimately voters are going to make that decision, whether it is in the primary or the general election. >> well, that would be two years from now. that is the fourth ranking republican in the house who is under fire for vouching for santos during the campaign and working hard to help him win. house speaker mccarthy did not weigh in but made it clear a week ago it is not his job to show santos the door. >> you know why i am standing by him? his constituents voted for him. if he has broken the law we will remove him. >> that is the new standard. as long as you are not a criminal, you're good. new polling in the district show
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voters by 17 to 38% margin he should resign. what are you learning about congressman santos stepping down from his committees? >> george santos has been defiant up until this point, but the pressure is growing on him to resign. he is facing multiple investigations including into his finances. i except that the move to temporarily remove himself is a way to take some of the heat off of him and his party. santos earlier said today it was his decision to step aside. take a listen. >> did mccarthy tell you to step away? >> i'm sorry. nobody tells me to do anything. i made a decision on my own. >> now the issue did come up in a meeting between santos and kevin mccarthy last night and kevin mccarthy said he thinks it is an appropriate move by george
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sa santos. this has been a huge distraction for house republicans and political liability as they try to remove a democratic congresswoman from one of her committee assignments. and there definitely was a sigh of relief inside the house gop. but not everyone is satisfied. two house republicans put out a statement saying this is like someone quitting before they get fired and that santos needs to do the right thing and that is to resign. >> thanks. with us a former illinois congressman, and abby phillip. santos is saying he wants to properly clear his name before returning to committees. as we have seen on a daily basis, including the last interview, he is not forthcoming with regard to the vast majority of his lies. does this just slug and careen
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along like this? >> i think it is going to, anderson. look, the latest move shows that republican leadership is not willing to put public pressure on george santos to step aside or to do anything. they allowed the move of him, recusing himself from the committee to be framed at least publicly as the decision. even though it is clear here that there is something that benefits kevin mccarthy as he is trying to go about the rest of the agenda he laid out for his party. this is not someone in george santos who has got a lot of remorse or shame for the lies he has told. you played so many of them today. but, you know, he hasn't explained it. reportered ask why he claimed his mother died on 9/11 when she wasn't in the country. some of the lies are reprehensible and this is not someone that has any real remorse over his willing tness
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lie to constituents and the country. >> do you believe this is santos stepping down from the committees? a guy that seems so shameless. he met privately with kevin mccarthy. do you think mccarthy suggested or told him look, take attention away from us and away from yourself and step down from the committees and let the thing work out. >> absolutely, anderson. it is probable mccarthy told him look buddy. help me out. here is the deal. kevin mccarthy needs to be speaker. he needs to stay speaker. he needs the santos stuff to go quiet. the other thing, anderson, kevin mccarthy because his caucus is demanding it is hellbent on refusing omar from her committee, which is a despicable thing to do, but it puts mccarthy in a tough spot if he has got george santos on all of the committees. anderson, i have to say it.
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santos is a huge distraction to republicans. but republicans created the distraction because from the moment this news broke as you demonstrated they have never held him accountable. here is the damnest thing, anderson. it is only going to get worse. we are talking about his lies now. we will be talking about federal crimes and federal campaign finance violations soon. >> abby, you heard congressman santos in that softball interview saying he learned his lesson and everything will be above board. is there a possible move where voters in the district try to recall him? >> i think from everything that we have seen a lot of the voters in his district are trying to put as much pressure as they can to force him into a resignation. i don't think that there is much from the mechanics of how the
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elections work for them to do that. there is no, you know, recall roar li procedure like there is in other states. they are relying on using their voices and the bully pulpit they have as voters. i think a lot of his voters right now feel powerless, and so do his colleagues in new york. other republicans in the state are trying to get the guy out as quickly as possible because they believe it reflects negatively on them. these are republicans in purple states that biden won. they believe they are the tip of the spear when it comes to a republican majority and they are worried about what it all means for them in two years when they are up for re-election and have to answer for why george santos' lies wasn't enough to be pushed to the corners of the party or out the party in the congress. >> congressman, does it hurt the people in his district? if he is completely just, you
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know, constantly scuttling about, trying to avoid things and not on any committees. does he actually do anything? does he serve his constituents? >> no. anderson, that is a great point. that is the pathetic deal here. that district for two years will in essence go without a representative. and shame on george santos for that. really, anderson. shame on the entire republican conference. abby is right. members of the new york delegation have spoken out against him. he has lied about everything. the entire conference should call him out. mccarthy should call him out. they won't. i don't think he is running again. i think they cut that deal. he will try his best to be quiet for two years. >> thanks, i appreciate it. coming up next, breaking news in
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the police killing of tyre nichols. the existence of more videos and the authorities say they will release them. the house ethics committee will include another election denier in the hours directly after the january 6th attack. hat condition and smooth fibibers so clothes look newer, longer. feel the difference with downy.
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administrative investigation is released, footage that family and the lawyer has viewed. comes as new reporting by the "new york times" and cnn raises questions about why the initial police report did not reflect what video of his beating and medical neglect clearly show. that divergence might have begun at the scene of what is now an alleged murder. >> reporter: memphis police officers in the moments after the beating of tyre nichols attempt to justify what happened. >> this is the earliest look at how the officers tried to control the narrative after some delivered brutal punches and kicks even as nichols was
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restrained. >> we say hey you good. swung. reached for our gun. slammed it into the car. >> reporter: in a cnn analysis of body camera videos released by police, we were unable to see nichols reaching for any of the officers' guns or swinging at the officers as he claimed. in fact that can be seen is officers holding his hands before he eventually frees himself and runs away. after the beating the officers repeatedly remarking how strong tyre nichols was, claiming he must have been on drugs. according to his family, tyre nichols was 6'3" and weighed just 150 pounds.
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the toxicology reports are still pending. as someone that appears to be a supervisor arrives on the scene, one officer describes the initial stop. >> he didn't stop. hit the siren. stop. stop. drove. swerved like he is going to hit my car. he pulls up to the red light. we jump out of the car. went from there. >> reporter: the memphis police chief has told cnn they have found no evidence tyre nichols was driving recklessly. >> we looked at cameras, body worn cameras. even if something occurred prior to the stop, we have been unable to substantiate that. >> reporter: as tyre nichols'
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limp body lies against a squad car they say again he must be high. stru instructing him to sit up. in a new photo tonight, the contents confirmed by the shelby county district attorney, we can see an officer describing what happened. it makes no mention of officers punching and kicking nichols and accuses nichols of actions to provoke the officers. a cnn analysis of the body and pole camera don't corroborate. that nichols grabbed for detectives guns and he was pulling duty belts and grabbing an officer's vest. one of the five officers now charged with second degree murder, emmitt martin is listed as a victim on the report. in memphis as preparations are underway for a funeral wednesday, family lawyers say there was an attempt to cover up the circumstances of tyre
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nichols' death. >> it is consistent with what they said from the beginning telling them they could not go to the hospital because tyre was pepper sprayed and tazed and arrested. she believed she thought it was a conspiracy to cover it up from the beginning. with that as a backdrop, we are joined by van jones. john, in a case like this where the initial police report appears to be contradicted by all of the body camera video of the arrest, is that a sign the memphis police were trying to cover up or downplay what happened that night? in the video they are trying to write the narrative from the moment he is still there. >> you can see it in three
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parts, right. first there is the conversation which is they are creating the story which is that he tried to grab my gun and did this and that. they know there is body camera. they also know the camera blinks in a confusioning situation. you know some of the things they think they can get away with saying. the second part is validating the story and writing it into an official report later done at headquarters, filed at 4:40 in the morning. the third piece, you know, the one camera not blinking is the one on the pole and that is the one that sees a lot of the things they leave out of the reports and doesn't see a lot they wrote into it. i think you are looking at administrative charges for officers that helped to concoct the story beyond the assault charges and maybe for the officer that wrote it. >> the police initially said george floyd died of a medical
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incident, the cell phone video from a bystander. and in the nichols' case, the city of memphis that released the body camera video that undermines the initial report. does that speak to you of anything? >> i hope people start to wake up. there is a myth that a police report is written by moses or jesus or buddha. it is a complete, accurate, perfect description of what happened. it is not. it is a city employee writing down stuff that will make sure that he does not get in trouble and the person that is arrested doesn't get in trouble. police say i lost it today. every police report reads the same because they are coached, legally, what they need to assert to justify what they did. juries need to stop believing police reports are completely
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perfect descriptions of what is going on. they are always written to protect themselves. now you are beginning to see they don't match the video time and time again. that is not new or just about tyre, that is standard behavior across the country for law enforcement. >> there is new video the authorities say they will release soon. why wouldn't it already have been released? >> i think what they did is that the district attorney and the tennessee bureau of investigations said that we are finished with our criminal probe to the point we are prepared to bring charges and now you can release the video from the criminal probe. a lot of the administrative probe. the most serious people were dealt with first. now they are getting to people that might not be criminally charged but may get charged or fired from the department. when they are done with that which will take a couple of weeks, possible several weeks. they say they will release those
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too. there is an obligation to transparency but not in realtime. we understand that they are being more transparent than many other agencies we have seen in the same position, but it will go in stages. >> van, the five officers charged black, two additional officers have been relieved of duty in the aftermath of arrest. at least one of them is white. why did we only find out about the additional officers now? was that developing or did they know they would be charged? >> it is hard to know and it seems like there are people including the sheriff's department that didn't know they had sheriffs deputies there until after it is shown on television. memphis has done a better job than usual. fired quickly, charged quickly, but there is a little keystone cops here. you know, you would think with this much video evidence you would have gotten everybody
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charged and we would be in a better place. who knows what else will come forward. >> coming up, what happens when there are ethical questions about kevin mccarthy's new pitch for the ethics committee. we are about to find out. ♪ let's go! what you gon' do? you ain't talkin' 'bout nothin'! ♪
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congressman santos recuses himself from committee assignments others are getting placed on the ethics committee. some are veterans of the last committee but three election deniers. congressman michael guest, rutherford and congresswoman
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michelle fishbock who joins the panel. also on to the brief supporting the texas lawsuit trying to block millions of voters ballots in the battleground state. supreme court threw out the course and he co-sponsored a bill for what he called potential pitfalls with mail-in voting even though there were never any widespread issues. >> this is not anything political. this is not similar to what the democrats did but integrity matters. >> integrity matters. we notice on the ethics committee website. when in doubt follow the committee. the committee can protect you from future investigations raising the question of who you are supposed to call about someone saying let's overturn an
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election when the person is chairing it tried to do exactly that. alyssa griffin and david axelrod. david, does integrity matter in this congress? >> the early signs are not good, anderson. look, if you are willing to subvert the constitution and vote to overturn election results based on lies and based on evidence that is fraudulent are you really going to sit in judgment of other members of congress? it is a joke. and the new chair of the committee is the worst of the three. he introduced a bill after the election suggesting that mail-in voting is somehow fraudulent. he joined the texas lawsuit that was so frivolous and so
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dangerous to try to overturn the election and now he is chairman of the ethics committee. it is disturbing. it comes on top the fact that as part of the deal-making around mccarthy getting chosen as speaker, measures were taken in the rules that basically gutted office of congressional ethics, an investigating arm of the congress that basically paralyzed it. so, you know the idea that ethics will have a say in the next congress seems very, very remote. >> is this part of the deal making done behind closed-doors with mccarthy to get him to be speaker? >> it is possible. the house ethics committee is technically a b committee, not one of the a committees people are desiring to be on. but it does stand out that election deniers are appointed to it. they made referrals for four
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sitting house committee members to be investigated. this insures they will not be investigated having an election denier as the chair and implications for george santos who is under investigation. >> they will be looking at santos. >> saying if it is unethical if he is dishonest. a committee that for decades have been fairly bipartisan is going a different direction. >> from the priorities of the mccarthy-led majority seem to be kick democrats off of certain committees, investigate president biden. they won the house. how does that agenda track with the priorities of the general public? >> they don't. you know, i think some of it is very predictable when we sat together watching the 15 rounds of voting for speaker. because with each round mccarthy and his agents were making deals
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with the rebelius house freedom caucus group and giving more and more away to them, and at some point you give away so much they are basically dominating the agenda. that is what we see now. i think the public rendered a verdict on this last november and one of the reasons why the republicans did so much less well than they were expected to do. too many were election deniers and impeachment and investigations instead of problems that touch peoples lives. i think it is a political mistake for mccarthy and the republicans to go down the road. he might be a short-lived speaker given the concessions he made. but the caucus itself may be a short-lived majority. >> we have seen him appoint some of the most far right members, marjorie taylor greene to the
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house oversight committee. gosar that is amazing. >> paul gosar, racist, threatening memes. listen, this comes down to the fact that kevin mccarthy needs votes. he is going to keep the right flank happy at whatever cost he is able to. the big test is coming with the debt ceiling. many of us said on the airwaves before, the right flank is never voting to raise the debt s ceiling. now is time to work with the moderates and seeing where you can get something done. >> coming up, what did alec murdoch say to investigators after the killings of his wife and son and vladimir putin's mercenary leader reaching out to cnn with answers to brutality in the war in ukraine. the response ahead.
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could the murder case of m alec murdaugh come down to one simple word accused of killing his wife maggie and 22-year-old son. alec was disbarred from practicing law. his precise statement to law enforcement in the aftermath of the murders was a big part of
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the legal battle in court. >> according to your testimony he said i did him so bad. >> that is what i understood him to say, yes, sir. >> alec murdaugh's defense lawyer cross-examining a witness for the prosecution. the goal is to clear up what he heard or thought he heard alec murdaugh say that seemed to sound like a confession. when alec was interviewed just a few days after his wife and son were murdered he said this. >> it was just so bad. i did him so bad. >> reporter: the witness had told the court he thought alec said i did him so bad. the defense suggested alec said they did him so bad. >> did you consider that as a confession on june 10th? >> it is something we were
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definitely going to follow up on. >> why didn't you ask him then and there? why didn't you ask him what you mean by that alec? >> it was early in the investigation. >> what were the things going through your mind when you heard or misheard i did him so bad. you were like i wasn't a good dad? i spoiled him or i killed him? what was going through your mental note? >> there is a mental note it is definitely something we need to follow up on. >> reporter: the defense replayed the part of the interview at regular speed and slowed it down to a third of the speed and play it again. >> we would like to to play it again. >> it is just so bad. they did him so bad. >> you hear they then? >> no, sir, i did not. >> you would agree the jury gets
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to decide what he said on the tape. that is the best evidence? >> yes, sir. >> the defense got the same witness to tell the jury that the murder weapon that killed paul murdaugh was not collected from the gunroom at the house and the ammunition was not a match either. >> neither fired the shots that killed paul, correct? >> i do not have the lab report in front of me. >> have you ever found the murder weapons? >> not that i am aware of, sir. >> you did not find any similar ammunition june 8th or any time after that? >> i did not, sir. >> alec's second cousin and a captain with the department of natural resources testified for the state. he told the injury he built ar style rifles for alec murdaugh, the same type of rifle the prosecution says was used at the
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murder scene. >> how many blackout, ar style rifles did you make for alec murdaugh? >> three. >> when was the last made? >> april 2018. >> anderson, the defense is quick to point out how cooperative they say alec murdaugh was with investigators from the start. they say he granted them several interviews and helped them to unlock his wife's phone once it was found and gave them the pincode and did not ask for a search warrant when they wanted to come into the home, seize the weapons and search his gun room. they wanted to make the point to the jury. >> i want to bring in mark o'meara and a former prosecutor, lead anchor for "court tv." >> mark, much of the focus is several days after the murders murdaugh said to investigators i did him so bad. some construed it as a confession.
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the defense says they did him so bad. how important is it to the case? >> i don't think it is important. i don't think the prosecution should focus on that as being a significant piece of evidence. if it was, if it was a confession, how dare the officer not look into it further. if he had somebody that said i did him so badly, bring him along. go to the sympathy line of questioning that interrogators know how to do. the idea that it came up as something now considered a confession and not looked into three months later. i think the state has to be careful not to overplay it. it is minor and might fit into the rest of the evidence but not too significant ones it own. >> a law enforcement officer is the one that he heard murdaugh say it. >> it is potentially huge. the 12 jurors in the box, you know, they have never been through a murder trial or done a
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murder investigation. but they will rely upon common sense. mark has something. if the guy confesses to murder and you don't ask a follow up question. you don't call him out on it. i think prosecutors, again, they have to lean heavier on the timeline and the big lies that they can prove inside the courtroom. >> mark, when the defense argues there could have been two shooters involved in the murders. is that a wise strategy for the defense to try to come up with as many different possibilities just to have some sort of beyond a reasonable doubt in there? >> criminal defense 101. you don't have to prove innocence. you have to prove if there is reasonable doubt. the idea of any alternative besides the one the state presents is not a bad way to do it. the idea that there were two separate long gun used to commit
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the murder is something that needs to be figured out. if it is someone planning a murder, the argument of the state, maybe you use two guns to throw off the scent. but generally speaking you go in there to kill two people, you bring one gun. >> vinny, the prosecution is leaning heavily on motive. are they over playing their hand in the case, or is that one of the strongest arguments. murdaugh, there are a lot of skeletons in the closet here. >> a lot of skeletons. here is the thing about motive in the case. you and i and the viewers know it is not a legal requirement for the prosecutor to prove motive. if it you ask the state or coming inside the courtroom in south carolina and you are saying this father is going to blow the brains out of his son with a shotgun, and then hunt down his wife like a wild animal with an ar style rifle, you need
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to explain to them in some regard why he did it. because otherwise i think any level of doubt that they feel in this case will grow to reasonable doubt unless they lean back and say i get it and i understand about why the prosecution says he did it. i am more comfortable in finding the man guilty. i think it is really important. but it is tough in this case because it is a non-traditional type motive. >> mark, how much will the jury know by the end of the -- i mean the allegations against mr. murdaugh about his incredibly criminal and sleazy and just morally bankrupt behavior of cheating clients and poor families for a long period of time has been? how much will they know about that? >> it is going to be a delicate balance. the state can't over play their hand on that level of motive.
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vinny said it. it is extraordinarily strange motive we are trying to bring up. look at everything he did wrong and now he is facing the fire on that he is going to deflect blame by killing his family. very difficult. plus the judge will limit it. the prior bad acts only gets in to try to help prove motive. you have to be careful. you can't just say bad guys with all of this so guilty here. it will be tough. i think the state has to be very careful and precise with how they present not only the motive but the forensics and everything else in this case. it is going to be a tough one. >> thank you both so much. appreciate it. up next, the leader of the wagner mercenary group responds to my interview about what he says that he saw in ukraine. a "let's dig in" day... mm.
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a reply tonight from the leader of russia's wagner group to my exclusive interview last night with a claimed defector from. andre medvedev is an orphan. his service in wagner was confirmed by previously. here is part of what andre medvedev told me about who he thinks is to blame for brutality and murder he witnessed in his own ranks. and when you say the people who are guilty, who do you mean? and what are they guilty of? >> translator: you know, i would like to take this opportunity of stating publicly maybe other folk have different views about this, but the first culprit is pregoejen, he is the top leader. >> he is in charge of it, he runs it? >> translator: yes, him, absolutely. >> we reached out for comment. he sent us an email, do you really think we will discuss our military issues with you while
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you are our open enemy? it's the same as discussing military matters and sharing information with the cia. it can be said with confidence that the wagner group is an exemplary military organization that complies with all the necessary laws and rules of modern wars. mr. prigozhin is welcome to come on the program to discuss. we welcome it benjamin netanyahu neen as a mediator between the two countries even as he faces escalating conflict with palestinians at home. he spoke with this exclusively with cnn's jake tapper. >> one thing i wanted to ask you about, about russia and ukraine, adviser to zelenskyy floated your name who might be a decent mediator between zelenskyy and putin and ukraine and russia. i'm wondering if anyone in any position of power has ever floated that idea to you? and what would be your willingness to take on that job? >> i was asked to do that early
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on in the breakout of the ukraine war. and i was opposition leader at the time. i said i overrule one prime minister at the time. like one president at the time. >> reporter: who asked you to do it? >> i was asked. i don't know if it was official, but it was unofficial, so i didn't pursue it. i said there's a prime minister. let him decide what to do. that he tried, didn't succeed. but if -- >> reporter: would you do it now? >> if i'm asked by both sides and frankly if i'm asked by the united states because i think, you know, you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen, you know, and i'm -- we have our own backyard to deal with. >> reporter: right. >> it's not that i -- i think this is monumental importance because i think the peace of the world is at stake. as i think the peace of the world is at stake with iran getting nuclear weapons. lit destabilize the entire
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world. and so, you know, i'm really devoting my efforts to that and the other peace ideas that i have and the economic ideas. but if asked by all relevant parties, i'll certainly consider it. but i'm not pushing myself in, if you know, which is -- you know, i've been around long enough to know that there has to be a right time. and the right circumstances. if they arise, i'll certainly consider it. >> you can see more of that exclusive interview in just a few minutes. jake tapper one on one with benjamin netanyahu airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. we'll be right back. and, no math i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan frfrom sofi. get t a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates, and borrow up to $100k. sofi. get your money right. eva's about to learn her fear of missing out leads to overating. i totally eat stuff to not miss out. ♪ that's just a bit of psychology eva learned from noom weight.
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the news starts right now with jake tapper's exclusive interview with benjamin netanyahu starts now. i'm jake tapper. live in jerusalem. welcome to a cnn e collusive report. tonight the eyes of the world once again upon the middle east. at the end of the bloodiest month for israel and the west bank in years. israeli prime minister