-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good afternoon. i am kasie hunt here in washington. but we're going to begin this hour in eastern ukraine with a barrage of missile strikes on the city of kramatorsk. the cnn crew had to scramble to safety as a russian missile exploded just a few yards away from them. it's an apparent example of the ruthless so-called double-tap missile strategy. hit a civilian target, wait for the first responders to arrive, and then hit it again. cnn's fred pleitgen is there with more.

>> reporter: we were going basically to the scene of where that missile strike took place last night on that residential building that killed several people because of course there is still a big rescue operation going on there. and we had just arrived at the scene, left our vehicles when the house in front of which our vehicle was parked was hit by a missile strike. it was a really heavy explosion, very close by. i would say maybe 40 or 50 yards from our location. so we then tried to go into a sheltered building. and as we were doing that i turned around, and you could see the second missile hitting the exact same area. we already know that there were people who were severely wounded on the ground there. it's unclear if and how many people were killed. of course right now there's a big rescue operation going on there. but i think it's important for our viewers to understand this area this was in, there was an active search and rescue operation in a residential area. and today the russians targeted exactly the same area with two very heavy missiles.

and this was, as there were a lot of civilians there on the street, we didn't see any sort of military installations. it was right in the heart of the town of kramatorsk. and then of course we then decided to leave that area as fast as possible after we realized the coast was cleared. >> wow, fred pleitgen and crew, stay safe out there. and just days after an american general warned that a war with china could be possible in a couple of years, there's a new spike in tensions. the u.s. has announced its military will get access to four more bases in the philippines. and that could put american forces within 200 miles of taiwan as fears grow that china could invade that self-governing island. cnn's oren lieberman is at the pentagon. how is china responding to this? >> china appears to be furious, lashing out saying it's part of washington's, quote, selfish agenda and accusing the u.s. of being the one to endanger regional peace and stability. similar to language we've seen from china before when the u.s. makes moves like this and

expands its presence in the indo-pacific. we know that the latest u.s. defense strategy is aimed towards china. and this is a broader part of that. you can see why china was so angry looking at that map again. just a few weeks ago the u.s. announced they would put a newly organized marine unit on okinawa, japan. that would have advanced capabilities and some advanced antiship weapons. and now this from china's perspective this puts u.s. forces perhaps on the southern side of taiwan in the philippines. the agreement, which was signed when defense secretary lloyd austin was just in manila in the philippines meeting with the leadership there, allows the u.s. to rotate troops through four more bases in the philippines. now neither the u.s. nor the philippines will say what those bases are. a few months ago a philippine military official said the u.s. was looking at bases in the northern philippines and then on the western philippines which is right in the south china sea, most of which china claims as

its sovereign territory. it's easy to see why china is so angry about this. from the 10,000-foot perspective, there is also the shift in the alignment of the philippines. the previous president rodrigo duterte had moved the philippines more towards beijing, even threatening to kick u.s. forces out of the country. the new u.s. president -- i'm sorry, the new philippine president has come in and sort of realigned closer to washington a move that has not made china happy. >> oren lieberman, thanks very much for bringing us up to speed on that. meanwhile, president joe biden's son unleashing a legal fight with key figures on the right. hunter biden is requesting criminal investigations into people tied to the release of private information from his purported laptop. hunter biden's lawyers allege that trump allies including rudy giuliani and steve bannon, as well as a computer repair shop owner, broke the law to weaponize materials to smear his father. let's break this down with cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez and former federal prosecutor jen rogers. evan, so this is the first time

that hunter biden's camp is saying it is his personal data that was being trafficked, although they aren't confirming the narrative out there on the right about how it all got started. lay out this new strategy for us. >> well, the strategy is to turn the tables on some of his accusers. these are people that he knows obviously have been going after him for the last four years. some of this was first surfaced back in 2020 just before the 2020 election. and that's one of the references you see in these letters that hunter biden's team has now sent to the delaware attorney general, to the justice department, to the irs, asking for investigations of a number of these figures. you showed pictured of some of these people that he is asking investigations of. and the view here is plain. you can see it in this letter from lowell where he says that this failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation and manipulation of mr. biden's

private and personal information. he says that this is information that is now on the internet being used as a political cudgel against president biden, his father. and obviously, kasie, you know that there's a criminal investigation that's going on at the justice department. we also know that that house republicans are trying to do investigations of hunter biden trying to tie some of that stuff to his father, and they're using this now to fight back. >> pretty interesting. jen, abbe lowell is a very well-known figure here in d.c. do he and hunter biden have a case? could this stick? >> well, we don't really know enough to know that. but i think it's interesting, as evan explained, how they're going on the offensive. but, yes, there are in theory crimes that could apply, both delaware state crimes and federal crimes about unauthorized access of computer information, the stealing of personal information. it's going to come down to who

brought in the laptop, what the terms of the deal for service were, and whether the person in the laptop store stayed within those or did not. but it is possible, although i suspect that because it's not like we didn't know about this laptop long ago if the authorities in delaware and on the federal side thought that there was a case to be made here, they probably already would be doing it on their own and whether they are or not, we just don't know. >> so, to that point, jen, house oversight announced that next week they are going to hold a hearing about whether twitter suppressed the initial media news stories about hunter biden's laptop. i mean, how much of this is pr, political? do these looming gop probes explain the timing of this move? >> i think they do. i think they've decided that it's smart to take the offensive. listen, whether or not these other people are charged, whether or not the irs actually revokes the nonprofit status of marco polo, one of the entities

involved in spreading the laptop information, that doesn't really matter to hunter biden. he's looking at his own criminal charges potentially. but it paints them as bad actors. it paints it as a political hit job as opposed to a legitimate look into possible criminal violations or ethical violations by both bidens. i think it's smart to say, listen, i'm not the one who's done things wrong here, look at how this all came about and what they've done, they are the bad actors here. >> evan, talk to us about the department of justice's role in all this. they started investigating hunter biden under trump. now he is asking for another doj probe. obviously he is president biden's son. merrick garland is president biden's attorney general. this is a tough spot for him. what are the options? >> yeah, look. none of this is cleanly done partly because, as you pointed out, all of these different connections. but the issue here is that certainly for the justice department, what merrick garland did as soon as he took office is

they made sure that this investigation was being handled by a trump-appointed u.s. attorney in delaware, kept him on the job to complete this investigation for now more than two years. and we anticipate that prosecutors are weighing whether to bring charges related to his tax issues, related to a gun that he purchased. we don't know, or at least there are no indications that there is anything related to the laptop that might be in those charges. so, for now at least, it appears that these might be separate things. >> right. so, jen, if there was any evidence that was found on the laptop, if it was obtained illegally before it was handed over, is that evidence then unusable? and does that even matter? does hunter biden still face legal liability regardless? >> so the fbi doesn't get tagged with things that private parties do if it's done at the direction of the fbi. so even if there had been an

unauthorized intrusion by the laptop store owner, as soon as the fbi comes in and seizes the laptop, assuming they didn't do anything wrong in getting it, then they can use what's on it, they don't get tainted by that improper search or by that crime. but we know they've had it for a long time. so you really do have to think that to the extent that there was information on the laptop that led to the possibility of additional charges that don't have to do with the tax ones that he's already facing, that that would have been either wrapped into the delaware investigation or perhaps sent somewhere else. so if they're not actually investigating that in delaware, it's likely that it means that there aren't those sorts of crimes that show up on the laptop evidence. >> very interesting. evan, while i have you, i also want to ask you about a different topic because you've got some new reporting. we have some new information that the fbi is planning to search mike pence's home for additional classified material. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah, look.

another day, another search. it seems like almost every day there is another one. in this case we know that the fbi and the pence team have been talking about scheduling a search of his home in carmel, indiana, as well as his office here in washington. he has a think tank office here right across the street, as a matter of fact, from the fbi and the justice department. and the idea is that that search will happen in the next few days. in the case of the pence team, they want to try to get this wrapped up as soon as possible. this is, for now, being handled as a review by the fbi, working with the national security division at the justice department. there's no special counsel, in part, because pence is not a declared candidate. there's no presumed conflict of interest for the justice department to do this investigation. if you're mike pence and his team, you're trying to get this wrapped up as soon as you can so that you can move on and perhaps announce that you're running for president in the coming weeks or

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and killed anthony lowe. he's a double amputee who used a wheelchair. a bystander video that purportedly shows the moments before lowe's death is raising questions about excessive force. but police say that lowe had just stabbed someone and was threatening officers with a knife. cnn's stephanie elam is live in huntingtonpark, which is just outside of los angeles. what more are lowe's family and the police saying about this? >> reporter: kasie, obviously the family very distraught, wanting to get justice for anthony lowe, the 36-year-old man who was a brother and a son and an uncle. all these very important family members speaking about this. and we expect to hear them later today speaking more about this. but what is coming into view is this video that we have seen on social media, which does show that there is a man outside of a wheelchair, he is moving away from police officers on what would be these stumps of his

legs, moving away with something shiny in his hands. according to the huntington park police, they are saying he had a knife in his hand. and so that is something that they keep speaking about in the one document that they've put out here. you see them following along after him. it does appear that they do try to tase him and in their statement they did say that they did try to tase him twice. from the view that you can see twice on social media, it is absconded a bit. when you see the officers who are following behind him take out their weapons and then begin to shoot. you do not actually see anthony lowe getting shot. but, still, the way this looks of a double a.m.mputee moving a from police officers is really what has so many people concerned here, kasie. and that is why they're saying that they want justice for anthony lowe. i've reached out to the police department to ask if there was b

body cameras, i have yet to hear back from them. but i'm also expecting to hear more from the family when they speak about this wrongful-death lawsuit that they are expected to file. joining us is retired los angeles police sergeant cheryl dorsey. sergeant dorsey, thank you so much for being with us. what's your reaction to learning about this, a double amputee shot and killed by police. was this excessive force? what is warranted as the next step? >> well, certainly the optics are bad. but as a patrol sergeant who's responsible for managing, evaluating, supervising uses of force, there were certainly other options that these officers had. officers are trained to use deadly force as a last resort after you've exhausted every other tool that's available to you. and while they may have deployed they are taser, i heard that it didn't work. i don't know what that means.

i don't know if it was a malfunction on the taser. did they deploy the two cartridges that were contained and missed mr. lowe? or did they strike him and just have no effect? i don't know what that means. so, did they try to use pepper spray? did they have pepper spray? did they try to get cover and concealment if they felt threatened that he might throw the knife. we see him only really fleeing. we see his back to the officers. so, i don't see any imminent threat. and that's the only time an officer can use deadly force is to protect the life of themselves or someone else. >> yeah, it's very interesting. you walked through a couple possibilities just then. what would these police officers have been trained to do in a situation like this? >> well, i don't know what their training is. obviously they don't had what i had on the los angeles police department. but generally the training is to try to, if a person goes in foot pursuit, in this case that's

what you have, then you want to set up a perimeter, you want to request additional units. you want to block off this person's path. additional units could help get others who might be in harm's way in front of him out of the way. and that would be the ideal purpose. that would be the -- i would want to do that first is try to, like i say, do everything that i can before i jump to deadly force. and, so, what's the urgency? i know he stabbed somebody. he's not stabbing in progress, he's fleeing. he can only go so far and so quick on those stubs. and, so, i just think the officers acted too quickly. now, if they're out there and they're afraid of a man with no legs, then this is the wrong profession for them. >> pretty remarkable situation. we're going to keep watching that. and we really appreciate your perspective on it. i do want to ask you, though, while i have you, president biden is meeting today with

members of the congressional black caucus at the white house. they're going to talk about police reform. biden is calling on congress to pass the george floyd justice and policing act, which we talked about quite a bit a year or so ago. and of course this conversation is happening again in the wake of tyre nichols' death three weeks ago in memphis. i just want to remind our viewers about what this act would do. it would require police officers to create training in racial profiling, would increase body camera use, create a national database for officers who have misconduct allegations, and ban no-knock warrants and chokeholds in some cases. there are also questions of the most controversial piece, which is qualified immunity and whether that should be extended to police officers or not. but it's been two years since this was introduced. there's still not the support to pass this bill. what can biden -- what can and should president biden be doing right now on some of these issues? >> well, we know that the

republicans are not going to pass this with qualified immunity on the table. having a national registry with names of officers who have been involved in misconduct is a joke because we know that at least three of the officers involved in the tyre nichols murder were on a list. chief davis knew exactly who they were. she had disciplined them prior. here in california we have a senator by the name of bradford who has submitted legislation, senate bill 2. i'm trying to remember what it's called. but it would certainly decertify police officers who engage in the kind of activities that we saw the officers engage in with mr. nichols. and so if you decertify a police officer, what happens, and much like a person who doesn't have a license to drive a car, you can't do so legally, you can't be a police officer, you can't resign and get that gift of resignation and move on to another department before they have the time to fire you. and so if you're decertified, if

you don't hold a post-peace officer standard and training certification, that would be a great first start. and so i am not even sure that the president on a national level can compel every 18,000 police chiefs and sheriffs to do that. but that would be a great start. >> retired lapd police sergeant dorsey, thank you now. let's go now to south carolina and the trial of a former disgraced attorney accused of killing his wife and son. it stirred debate over evidence on whether alex murdaugh's financial crimes could be admitted. cnn's randi kaye is outside the courthouse. randi, good to see you again. walk us through what's happened so far today. >> reporter: they were talking quite a bit more about this snapchat video that was shared in court with the jury. this is a video that was taken from paul murdaugh's cell phone. now, this video was uploaded at

7:39 on june 7, 2021. that is the night of the murders. it was sent at 7:56 p.m. now, the video shows, as you will see, it's a video of a tree that's falling down on the property. alex murdaugh is standing in the video. paul murdaugh shot the video. but what's significant is what alex murdaugh is wearing in that video. he's wearing long pants and a long blue shirt. i'll tell you why that's significant in just a moment. but take a listen to a representative from snapchat who testified today about the authenticity of it first. >> what is on the contents of that cd? >> it's a video of a subject near a tree. and it's a short video with some audio. >> did you determine in reviewing the records whether that account sent out that particular video? >> yes, it was sent on the same day, june 7, 2021, at 7:56 hours eastern time. >> now, the clothing is significant, as i said, because he's wearing the long pants and

the long shirt. but at 10:07 when he called 9-1-1 and police arrived and investigators came, he was wearing shorts and a white t-shirt around the time of the murders. the prosecution will be suggesting and have sort of suggested very softly that he might have killed his family, changed his clothes, washed up. and that's why you see that video at 7:56 he's wearing that, and then the video at 8:45 later in the night and also when the police arrived, you see him in different clothing. now the defense of course cross-examined her and she was asked, well, does paul murdaugh share his location? in other words, could somebody else have seen where he is and come and killed him. and she wasn't quite clear on who could see his location in that snapchat video. >> thank you randi kaye for the update on that. a quick programming note here. it's the story of how in a few short years two brothers from florida fueled the opioid epidemic legally. here's a preview of the new cnn film "american pain."

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remove democratic congresswoman ilhan omar from the powerful foreign affairs committee over past comments she made that were criticized as anti-semitic. the vote went down along party lines, seen as a victory for speaker kat speaker kevin mccarthy. cnn's manu raju is at the capitol. walk through what went down today. >> this went down along straight party lines. kevin mccarthy getting his members in line, some of them concerned about taking this action but nevertheless getting the votes 218-211. straight party lines. one republican david joyce of ohio voted present. but this came after a very acrimonious back and forth. after last congress of democrats removing two republicans from all of their committees because of their past inflammatory rhetoric, mccarthy vowed to kick off ilhan omar for the best year and a half or so from the house foreign affairs committee. but i asked him today whether or not this was just tit for tat, republicans now going after

democrats, political retribution of sorts. and he claimed this situation is different. we're not removing her from other committees. we just do not believe when it comes to foreign affairs, especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make. she shouldn't serve there. >> reporter: so this is not how ilhan omar sees us talking to reporters after the votes. she said this vote was about revenge. and that was about making sure a particular voice and perspective was not on a committee that they disagreed with. but, nevertheless, the vote succeeded. now ilhan omar not part of that committee going forward. >> quite a precedent to set. manu raju, thank you very much for that reporting, as always. and what is the fastest-growing consumer app in history? if you said tiktok, you would be wrong. it's something called chatgpt. analysts say the artificial

intelligence app had a massive 100 million unique visitors in january. and this wasn't just its second month of operation. tom foreman joins us now to help us understand this. tom, i will admit i had to give myself a crash course in what this app was and what it does. so, if you could kind of walk our viewers through for those who haven't heard of it yet, what it is, and why they're probably going to hear about it soon if they haven't already. >> i would say first sign up. it's changing the world a lot. it is an artificial intelligence chat bot that has been jammed with all sorts of information. and with that information, it can produce some amazing responses. it's not searching the internet. it's doing it from its database. it can write essays, basic business letters, notes to your mom. it can do all that in a very human-like way. it can solve basic math problems. it can write simple computer

code. and it can give human-like unique results. it seems like a human is writing this in a matter of seconds. so, for an example, one of our producers said let's ask it, how talented is cnn's tom foreman. this is the answer it wrote in just seconds. tom foreman is a highly talented journalist and correspondent for cnn. he has extensive experience and reporting, has covered many major news events. he has a reputation for delivering clear, concise and informative reporting. >> true! >> and accolades in the journalism community. pretty much nailed it. a little understated. >> i love it! >> but people do love this because it does a remarkable job of pulling information together. look at that. you talked about the growth. 100 million active users in january after this thing launched. and it's still at an early phase. compare that to tiktok took nine

months to reach that level when it launched instagram 2 1/2 years. this is a sensation. when we've reported on this so far before it reached this level, i have said get on board, start learning about this because this will change your life. not just this but where ai is going. it's important for people to start grasping what this means and how it will affect the way they live. >> yeah, it is pretty intense. look, i love the bio it wrote of you. i'm skeptical it could trick your mother into thinking it was you. >> maybe. >> but you're going to have to run that test yourself. and i have to say, tom, it does seem like there are some serious concerns here that could very quickly and easily manifest in the real world in ways that we don't anticipate. >> of course, absolutely. for example, already the company behind this has put out a fix, in a sense, a sort of rudimentary thing to detect it so that students don't write

college essays with this. they're trying to figure out how they can stop this. and there's a threat to job. if you're a company that currently has somebody that does some kind of writing for you at a low level, you're a plumbing company and somebody has to write your business letters. if you have an ai app that will write them for you, that person may have lost a job. cybersecurity concerns and, interestingly, a lack of morals. do think about this. the question is, it is still an ai bot. it doesn't know in a grand sense what it is saying so it could embrace racist ideas. they built safeguards in against that. the question is how long does that last, and does that extend to other companies who then emulate this and move forward. artificial intelligence is a really interesting thing. the question is can we harness it in a way that frees us from the work we don't want to do and yet not turn it loose to do other work that we wish weren't done? >> yeah, it's really interesting because we, especially here in this country, have had a history

of embracing these advanced technologies without necessarily thinking through them ahead of time, often with unforeseen consequences. sexism is another one that i hear from. >> this is a huge thing. >> in politics, they talk about that a lot. tom foreman, thank you so much. so, just how smart is chatgpt? it recently passed practice questions from all three parts of the u.s. medical licensing exam, second year med students spent hundreds of hours studying for part one of the test. part three is usually taken by med school graduates. we should note that the ai barely passed, but you know what they call a med school grad who barely passes the exam? they are still a doctor. cnn's jacqueline howard joins us. jacqueline, this is very impressive. we've heard stories about computers beating people at chess. this is something totally different and beyond that. how impressive is this? >> yeah, kasie. you know, it still is impressive

because these are complicated questions that are part of the practice questions for the exam. and the chat bot got the questions right more than half of the time. researchers found that it had a greater than 50% accuracy, and they also said that it exceeded 60% in most analyses. and 60% is the threshold that they use to gauge whether it passed or not. and what i mean by complicated questions, here's an example. there is one question about a 52-year-old woman who developed an unusual cough, and it's important to note she was taking a medication for high blood pressure, and the chatgpt accurately answered this question. it was d. that was the correct answer. and the chatgpt not only correctly answered it, but it gave reasoning behind it, saying that the medicine was part of the reason why she developed

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