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pennsylvania after taking classes remotely. david gives a lot of credit to his favorite teachers. both of david's parents have advanced degrees. but raising someone as gifted as david is challenging. he said because he knows and understands concepts that are, quote, sometimes beyond my understanding. now that he is graduated, david apparently has his futuremap to. >> i want to be an astrophysicist. and i wanted to study black holes. and supernova. >> i am not even sure what they are exactly. but i have no doubt he will do. that david's parents say they are looking at colleges right now. in the meantime, david is working on his black belt in much lower. we wish him the best. news continues, erin burnett out front starts now. and now, especially titian about race against time to find survivors in the earthquake that has killed more than 38

hours for at least search for survivors. the death toll is rising and we have a live report from just a moment. plus, desantis versus disney. by the florida governor cannot quite fighting the most magical place on earth. a place so magical that he reportedly got married there. putin's ex-wife, living a life of total luxury. now sanctioned by many countries including the united states, we are going to talk to a reporter who literally went knocking on her door. we are going to tell what she found, what they said, she is the pictures to prove it. let's go out front. good evening, welcome to all. a special edition of iran tonight, i'm erin burnett. we are going to get to all of the stories and much more. i want to begin with the devastation and desperation unfolding right now as we are all watching this. 4300 people now confirmed dead after that massive earthquake struck turkey and syria. i want to say to you, an hour ago we were talking about 3400, this number is rising and rising quickly. rescue crews are digging through the rubble there, desperately trying to find survivors. it is freezing, it is snowing, there is a 7. 8 earthquake which struck earlier this

morning. the aftershocks have been powerful and continued. crews actually are able to hear the voices of people buried alive. they've been unable to get to many of them. video capturing the moment of a building collapsing in turkey as you can see, you can imagine the human life inside. thousands of homes have been destroyed. again, we were inside, people were sleeping. children's. the weather as i mentioned was absolutely freezing. some areas are being hit with heavy snow and rain. nick paton walsh is in ankara, turkey tonight. nick, you've been traveling through that snow. i know it is incredibly hard even to drive as we see behind you. how much hope is there to find survivors tonight as these death toll numbers are tragically rising? >> that is the desperate hope for these horrifyingly cold and better conditions. they might leave some people to be able to get pulled alive from the rubble. this earthquake barely even 24 hours old. we started this morning with 600 dead, now in turkey, 2921,

the latest figures we're hearing. some cities, particularly -- where this epicenter was near. hard for rescuers to get to. a city that bloomed almost out of nowhere in the past decade because of the civil war happening in syria and the refugees that flooded to it, also so heavily hit. but down the road behind me here, this constant stream of excavators, fire engines, ambulances, all of turkey almost feels at times on the move to try to help the hard-hit south where those numbers are going sadly to edge up as this cold continues to come. that is the battle safe people in turkey. there has been preparing for earthquakes, -- across the border into war torn syria, things are so much more complex. winter will be claiming people in the poor conditions of life over there already in some of the refugee camps, the poor infrastructure. the earthquake has damaged the little shelter people had there. the question is, how does a get to them? it is politicized and awful lot

at the best of times, trying to get aid in. now in a moment of crisis, we have to try to wrap that up along with rescue efforts. the death toll is over 1000 inside of syria. but that sadly two looks destined to rise in the hours and days ahead. i've got to tell you, it is punishingly cold here for rescuers. but, for those people who will likely be trapped in the rubble as they lay in their sleep, about 4:00 yesterday, significant lee more dangerous times ahead. aaron? >> just horrifying to imagine, the suffering that they're going through. thank you very much nick paton walsh. he's on his way there. as you can see how difficult it is for him to travel. we have breaking news on another major story tonight as well. this is new and exclusive details just into cnn about a u.s. intelligence assessment. let me tell you about it. basically, this details chinese spy balloon sightings during the trump presidency. we mentioned that those blooms

were here. it comes as president biden is heading back. he is defending his decision to take down the chinese star spy balloon after spent about a week in the united states. here is his defense. >> we did the right thing and there is not a question. it is a reality. >> talking about waiting until it was not overland. -- [inaudible] >> our enemies no longer fear us, obviously. our friends don't respect us. >> it is one more failure of several of this administration. >> the only reason this administration started to carry was because the american people heard about. it >> cumulation this week was inflicted by the chinese communists on the president. again, we should've shut down this balloon as opposed to letting it float all across the middle america on its merry way. >> the message embedded this to the world's, we can fly a balloon over airspace of the united states of america and they won't be able to do anything about it to stop us.

>> all right, the outrage universal, the reason specific. but now, we are learning more about chinese balloon incidents that have been documented under the trump administration. so, phil mattingly is out front at the white house, these are breaking new details. so phil, what more do you know? >> erin, one of the questions has been the biden administration's contention that several balloons traverse at least parts of united states during the trump administration, senior trump officials saying that they have no knowledge of these actually happening. we are getting a sense of what the biden administration is talking about. this comes from our colleague who reports, according to a assessment from april of 2022, it lays out how in 2019 when donald trump was president of the united states, there was a balloon, a chinese operative balloon that crossed over hawaii and through florida at one point, as an example of one of these basically issues occurring prior to this administration. this is part of an intelligence

process that the advisor alluded to earlier today saying that when the biden administration came in and made collection of intelligence a central focal point. they were able to track back and pick up signals of what they have may have missed beforehand. this and two other occasions are two of those examples. those examples driving the biden administration approach that, as you noted, has been question by republicans. officials maintain, that was the right course of action over the course of the last week. >> i told them to shoot it down. >> for president biden, a definitive statement. >> on wednesday? >> on wednesday. they said to me, let's wait until the safest place to do it. >> coming less than 30 minutes after this moment. and if 22 fighter jet blowing a chinese spy balloon out of the sky and into the atlantic ocean on saturday. >> china should not be permitted to do this, it is unfortunate that the balloon was permitted to go all the way across the united states. >> but doing little to deflate

the growing political backlash after days of the balloon traveling across the u.s.. >> he allowed a full week for the chinese to conduct spying operations over the united states. >> the journey to the -- >> even as white house officials explicitly echoed what biden appeared to implicitly hint at on saturday. >> was that a reflection of refreshed ration in terms of the political tax that you guys gotten? >> which i did was unacceptable, we predicted civilians and regained more intel while protecting our own sensitive information. >> u.s. officials revealing that this is the first time that a chinese spy balloon has entered u.s. airspace. >> during the trump administration, as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american airspace and american territory. >> lawmakers identifying florida and texas as two locations balloons had briefly

flown through. yet, top trump officials said that was news to them. >> i don't ever recall someone coming into my office or reading anything that the chinese had a surveillance balloon above the united states. >> as biden administration officials acknowledge that they discovered the incursions after former president trump left office. now offering this. >> we are ready to leave key officials to let them know what the intelligence committee was able to figure out. >> and highlight the rationale for waiting to shoot the balloon down until it was over open water. >> the military used every asset at their disposal to collect against the blue, to determine what it was carrying, to learn more about its trade craft and its capabilities. >> for now, what else officials urging calm and biden minimizing the effect on bilateral relationship already rife with tension. >> we made it clear to china what we are going to do. we understand our position, we are going to back off. we did the right thing. is not a question of weakening the strategy, it is a reality. >> even as he brushed off the critical question from top officials, they have grappled with it for a week. >> why -- [inaudible] >> they are the chinese. >> the president laughing off

my question earlier today. but it remains a central question for administration officials as they weigh what this means for the bilateralization ship going forward. one thing officials say they don't have any questions over was their ability to mitigate the chinese surveillance balloon's ability to collect intelligence, even as it loitered over critical sites, it quoting icbm and nuclear testing sites. officials saying that they were able to ensure that there was no activities and no on crafted communications going out during that process. obviously, a lot more to learn as they collect this information from the atlantic ocean. >> thank you very much, phil mattingly from the white house. all right, my panel is here with me and congressman kissinger, let me start with you. there is a political side that we are going to talk about and then there's the practical spy craft of it. you know a lot about this.

this whole thing about, there were ones in the past flying all the way from hawaii to florida last check, that is a pretty -- that is pretty much and end. so, now they're finding out that that happened in the past, does that make sense to you? >> it can because, they probably have historical data of what kind of radar returns they've gotten. seeing a balloon on the radar is not actually that easy. keep in mind, the balloon itself, that material is not going to reflect anything on the radar. what you get is the contraption that is holding, it three buses in essence. if you look at on the radar, it may not make sense. what you're seeing may not make sense. the fact that it is a 60, 70,000 feet may not. they may have seen with the signature of this one was. take a signature and compared to past historical data and say, oh we've got that. >> the thing we thought was a ufo.

literally, it was maybe a balloon. that makes sense. so then you are politically on this point of view where, we have to deal with the fact that they didn't know. they didn't know. you have trump coming out, what did trump say today? the chinese would never have floated balloon. -- it turns out, not only did they float one, but they flew at least three from, it sounds like how the congressman is looking at it. this is a thing. >> it turns out that, to your point, we don't have a perfect ability to understand everything that is happening at 60, 000, 100,000 feet. they should bring us together to figure out, why are they doing this? what is the gain? what can we do about it? instead, it has turned into the same kind of stuff that we always deal with. everyone getting mad at each other and saying the stuff. here's what i know for sure, part of this is, we are just mammals. you see something and it seems like it is real because you can see it. there are much bigger threats, tiktok is a bigger threat to national security than this

balloon. i promise you. but we're gonna be fixated on this and it has hurt us because i would rather be talking about blinken over in china right now, talking about taiwan, talking about russia, talking about the ukraine, talking -- but instead, we are talking about a balloon. >> by the way, congressman, blinken's visit was going to be crucial, right? is the first time in decades that you have a secretary of state who's gonna be the leader of china. and now, that is not happening. >> china poses, still to this day, a larger threat to the united states than russia ever did. so, this is really unfortunate in terms of the timing of this. i too am really distraught by the politicization of national security issues. you think that there would be at least that's a good space in our politics. we have people -- >> what planet are you living on? [laughter] >> you are above 60,000 feet right now. >> i still believe in the future of this country. >> can i take the other side on this? i did feel like there is a little bit of politics from the biden white house on this. they declassified this information that they found

about the prior incursions, hours the pentagon press secretary in 2019 under mark esper. we were never briefed on that. this was not a pentagon that was weak on china. we reorient to did the entire national security strategy around countering china. so to just declassify that and sprinkle it out there, it almost feels like yeah, but it happened there. to his point, the takeaway is exactly the same though. on critical national security issues, we should be able to come together and once again, we are going there. >> to be clear on the practicality of what we are talking about. we saw in his piece, then secretary of defense, he is saying no one came in my office told me about this. you are saying, no one ever told you. i'm not presuming there's a cover-up, i'm presuming biden oh intel now. so, do you think she is a point? there is a politicization? >> certainly, i think this is where we've got to stop to mondaire's point. we've got to stop the politicization of foreign policy. this has to end at the water's edge.

when i was in congress, it was politicized that we killed soleimani, which actually was a great shot in a really smart thing to do in iran. now, i see a lot of my former colleagues of politicizing this balloon. look, they should've shot down over the islands, they should have, we may find now that they were collecting information on it as they have said. they've been been able to jam the signals. it may work out to our advantage. i think to impeach biden, we have every right to disagree with it. -- set of people that never makes a mistake, this is possibly just a mess up on their part in other. words i'm not sure that they wouldn't have rather had the blinken -- china actually expressed regret. when does china rocked express regret for anything. >> sounds like this one came down you know the stratosphere came down? over new hampshire maybe? >> it's global. morning >> the weather wants to -- not that they were actually up.

>> washington is involved. >> i just want to say, we don't know enough to be as certain as we are, as divided as we are, there seems to be a new phenomenon for us, -- i'm not convinced, to make biden look bad. somebody might be getting right now for we know. the reality, is we don't know enough. >> by the way, it's not even a. joke a lot of these republicans jump the gun before getting briefings, they haven't briefed the house. yet i think -- the facts first. >> but we do know is the u.s. military advised the shooting down when the administration did. that they follow the advice of the u.s. military. they should be faulted for. that >> all of you stay with. me please, next the battle between ford or governor ron desantis and disney is heating up again. this is significant in light of a poll i want to share with. you know what you should know, and the possible presidential candidate. the largest private employer from florida. i dare from the air, ahead of

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disney, the florida governor is probably taking on this meeting, when she also reportedly married his wife, casey back in 2009. today republican lawmakers in florida are introducing a bill, this bill would give desantis the ability to handpick the five people who would govern the area that surrounds disease orlando area theme park. but by disney controlling, it's more a -- year-long feud against the states largest employer. why? leyla santiago explains part in this report. >> woody creek's -- special district. that's essentially allowing disney to operate its own government around orlando area theme parks. it's been here for more than half a century, has its own fire department, building department, and on utilities. now that's all set to change. people who don't live in this area don't understand what this is gonna do to. >> why do i need to get untangled to some contest, some presidential campaign running. >> widely seen as a presidential candidate, florida governor ron desantis --

that will get rid of woody creek special status. critics say, it was retaliation for disney, the states largest single site -- speaking out against a lot of, don't say gay. which limits how a sexual orientation of gender identity or talking classrooms. >> we shouldn't let one company have our own set of rules. compared to everybody else. >> they call it political theater that will cost him. >> disney puts on a great show in sometimes our politician try to put out a better. joe quite honestly, i don't wanna be playing your dad, i don't want to be playing -- >> all right everyone is back with me, here's the thing desantis has taken this on as a cultural issue. he's the don't say gay, doesn't like their policies. but then he's gonna get that victory that they got. it all of a sudden there is the reality here. -- >> for all the disney parks, to

full counties typhoon lagoon. animal kingdom, all of. that they play for fire, ambulance, water, utilities, infrastructure. so you're looking at a billion or $2 or whatever it is all of a sudden disney's not paying it. what about florida's taxes that are so low? >> there's so many things that are wrong, here first you need to remember, i thought the whole point of republican party 's freedom. free enterprise. xi jinping would love this idea, that the government's gonna step then, start punishing companies that go along with the party line. the part -- being put forward by the santa. and yet somehow he's the right-wing guy, conservative, guy he's the hero on the right i don't understand why this is

good, it's big politics, but also it's very, very scary. if the sky ones up in the white house, what is gonna do with everybody that doesn't want to go along with them? >> go ahead? >> i would say this, it's good politics to play to the base, it's terrible to star general auction, and being able to reach independents, the thing with rhonda sanchez that's over high possibly that we have gop front runner. it's the fact that he has embattled us on national level of frankly in the media. he doesn't sit down and do interviews. i would love to genuinely here is an answer on why we shouldn't teach ap black history. that's something i'd be very curious to. here because i think he's conflating with critical race theory, other things. and just playing fast and loose to score the political points. this by the way to vans points definition of crony capitalism. and it's anti-ethical to conservatism. the trump takeover card. >> a point of transparency, work for abc, which is also happens to be on by does.

nico add. >> the interesting thing, which is ron desantis, is he was part of shutting down the government, the whole time i was in congress that he was there over these different spending issues and everything. congress run back in the day, would always be against any government intrusion incorporation. that's what republicans get criticized. four were two hands off on corporations. this is just literally outrage of the day politics it's great, it's great in a primary. don't let them do in the general election. but this violates everything that i've conservatives has ever stood for, i don't think you can before the government, state, or federal -- >> if you're saying he didn't used to be this. why went on pointing out as i've seen estimates a property taxes around -- 20% to pay for. this when rubber meets the,

road it's not as easy but mondaire, he also -- a cultural issue. as the list points out. other cultural issues he's taken, out there is a complaint obtained by the floridian, the liquor board of florida, suing the orlando philharmonic. overdrive queen christmas. dry clean christmas is going on for eight years, -- planed other years. but he's complaining that young children were there, and all ages were welcome, you've got a picture from the complaint just to give everyone a sense of it's pretty clear, you can't totally see, it's 9:00 so we thought at least we'll get a sense of. a mondaire, is this home winning issue to do this and say, this is a problem that six-year-olds were there? >> every day this governor does something, i'm surprised by the extent to which people described him as formidable in a juvenile election. he's gonna have to -- your point alyssa he's gonna have to explain why he's attacking young lgbtq people, who experience sorts of sewell five, and multiple times the rate of their system, -- he's included in that attack, on story hour, draghi clean story. our these are issues that i

thought we had a result as a nation. whether we teach black history, weather -- near existence of lgbtq+ people, and it's really difficult for suburban voters who i think republican party is get a need to court aggressively in the general election. >> dry clean story hour doesn't happen. it's not a big thing. but to the extent that it comes. up there are a lot of parents who may not be republican, or whatever who might be uncomfortable with. that is a smart issue to pickett? in other words, he was a democrat are put in a position defending why six-year-old should go to drag queens. >> it's a cynical thing that a bully does. it speaks poorly to his character. i don't think the biggest threat to american trouble is some dry clean thing, without american kids going to bed hungry, but american kids don't know what's gonna happen, you pick on somebody. and you take their pain, you use it for your own benefit. it's a character issue for. ham i think it's. wrong >> if ron desantis more worried about the safety of young children in the state of florida, he wouldn't be making

it easier to do permit-less carry. we have in the state -- around this. country instead he's focused on things that are gonna divide the country in the hope that she would somehow allow him to outflank -- in the primary. that remains to be seen. it's plausible. >> the one thing that you need to take into account. our parents allowed to have input in the kids education here. is this something, drying clean story, howard and all the details of, it are kids being basically put in front of that without parents having input. for parents being surprised at what that. as that i have a problem when. but of upon with people doing things that are right and freedom to do. people have a choice. >> that's the difference. therein lies the difference of actual conservatism. if i'm not comfortable the idea being in a drive. joe i love drag, on 33. let's not bonnets, not the heavy hand of the state come in and make a decision. it seems like conservatism want to line. let the parent off to what they

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details about russian president vladimir -- mysterious ex-wife. she was married to putin for 30 years. political reporting that -- and her current husband now on two luxury apartments in southern spain. a short walk from the beach, several swimming pools on site. it looks pretty nice. political reporting that -- her now has been purchased the same near her divorce with putin was announced. and then there's a property in davos, switzerland, which he purchased in 2015, the year they got married. all this leading to questions a world that money came from. and why that couple hasn't been sanctioned by the u.s. or the eu. errol -- married for 30 years, to grow dollars together. grandchildren, share grandchildren. out front now, leoni kev, ski political correspond who's done extensive reporting on putin's ex-wife properties. thank you so much for your time, you've done so much reporting its and you've got the receipts here to show us. and the pictures. but meal as one of the closest

people to putin in the world. maybe an ex-wife. but 30 years of marriage, children together, grandchildren together, life together. and you traveled across europe to visit these properties. tell me about the spanish apartment, you knocked on the door and what happened? >> yeah, i visited with a local journalist. and we had been knocking on the front doors, in the apartment complex before cause a wasn't quite clear which door it was. but, san angelo neighbors told us. we did not expect that someone would open the door. because they're so secretive. but this business car, the alleged business car, called vladimir, he opened the door and offered to show it to us. he said the couples willing to salute. that was the first time we ever heard that there were considered selling it and the next day he pulled out and claimed it was a misunderstanding he gave us an indication, that they are willing to sell their property. >> let's just go through some

of the timeline here that's very interesting putin and his wife, 30 years married they announced their divorce during a press conference in 2013. in 2014, putin was asked about his relationship status. and to give you an indication, you're married to someone for 30 years, you have two children, a live together. here's what he said. >> translator: first i need to marry off my ex-wife, mila alexandra. after that i can worry about myself. >> he says he needs to marry her off. the following year, she does get married to her now husband. do you think it's possible that putin was passing these massive amounts of money, by the way probably mouse of amounts we don't even know about. they gave everyone the panama papers. to them,? >> certainly possible. with the navalny foundation actually corruption is alleging that there is no certain proof of.

this it seems likely because she and her declared income. always has a zero income of her own. so, it's quite unlikely that she could afford these properties byroad if she had not received any money. she did get the ownership of the massive building near you the kremlin, which generates a lot of income for in rent. -- that would be one of the sources that she got from them essentially being married off after -- >> right, and as you say this couple has no no income of their own. you're also talking about your recording, the house in davos, we could literally see and pictures from peoples live shots, it was in the distance, you can see that house -- how many did you even find out about?

>> yeah, so we found out about before. there have been investigations into the property, so i check them out. as i said, before are there are two in spain, one in davos, switzerland, and one in france. but there could be many more, these are places that investigations have shown that they have properties, but in europe, a lot of european countries don't have public registers. so, they could have apartments in germany, in portugal, and speed again that we just don't know about. >> this is incredible, in a sense it's so amazing what you found. out and yet obviously in so many ways the top of the iceberg what -- the unknown massive amounts of money when it comes to putin. who knows, tens of billions. thank you so much, leonie kijewski, sharing all the photos. >> thank you for having me. >> up next, we'll tensions fall now that the spy balloon is down? up front, a key lawmaker on the intelligence committee. plus, our words leading to

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>> tonight yevgeny prigozhin, ahead of the war army recording a video from a russian fighter jet. claiming to have bombed eastern ukraine. prigozhin challenging -- zelenskyy to a dogfight in the sky. think of zelenskyy wins, he can keep the eastern city of bakhmut. this comes as intense fighting -- lots of people are dying. dying horrible deaths. ukrainian commander describing the city as an unwinnable fortress. thousands of russian soldiers have died, ukrainians have died there. jim himes of connecticut is out front. he's the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman, you're being briefed regularly. you know the very latest about prigozhin's growing influence. former u.s. general for europe, earlier tonight told me that if prigozhin went up -- he be shot down and killed? , so why is he engaging in this propaganda in a fighter that, and frankly seemingly childish really suggesting that he and president trump's have an air double? >>, well -- he's trying to do.

he's basically trying to displace the russian military hierarchy. this is the whole point by the way about his fight in bakhmut. it's not a terribly important military. prize but he, saying, look russia hasn't had a lot of winds, one win arguably it's not done yet, but the one would argue that russia has is under me. not under the administrative. defense not under these four star general, that's under me. it's very much a power play inside the kremlin. which by the, way he wouldn't anticipate a frat boy would challenge enemies to a top five. but that's the nature of the testosterone fueled conflicts inside the kremlin.

>> it's amazing, on a day where you see the video of a russian running his entire body on fire. one little senior people in charge the battle there would be making a mockery of a dogfight. it's hard to get your head around it. the other day i talked to a russian officer, the seniormost officer who spoke analogy, thought on the fight runs for several months, he said he witnessed torture there, he's talked about it, it wasn't an anti mine unit, he's defected now any seeking asylum in the united states. so congressman, i actually talked to him when he was in mexico. he's approached border guards, he's formally seeking asylum. here's some of what he told me? >> i asked the ukrainian people for forgiveness, that i came to

their land to put a gun in my hand. [speaking non-english] >> translator: i believe united states of america is the country of democracy, where human rights are upheld. >> congressman, should the u. s. entertain his asylum plea, or one from any russian soldiers who defect from the military? >> yeah, erin, i don't know a lot of details about the particular case but i will point out that this is a really difficult and challenging area, you can't have a situation where war criminals, mid level and senior officers in the russian military are war criminals where they decide that their get out of jail free card is to the fact. and come to the united states. i wish i could tell you their wes -- to this. we obviously encourage defections, it's not bad to see senior members of the russian military decide that they no longer want to be -- back at the end of the day, the war criminals will need to be held accountable so it's a challenge for us to figure out who should get asylum, who needs to be held accountable for their war crimes. >> certainly, all of that out in the public in a way that it wasn't, -- i'm just thinking of other situations far in history that we can all think about. >> -- we're learning more about the three chinese spy balloon

incidents. that went undetected during the trump administration. one of them at least was a 2019 balloon over florida and texas. one transited from hawaii all the way down to florida. we're finding out about them now, what can you tell us about that, now we know what this looks, like now we can see things that were uefa's, uaps, as the term maybe. now we're actually balloons? >>, gas, oh i can't get too deep into the details. i can tell you this. which is almost impossible to fly something the size of one of these balloons virtually massive it's not what you see -- these things are truly massive, they're eminently visible as you know from the civilians who saw them. with the naked eye in montana. we should come as a surprise to nobody that we actually know a fair amount about the history of chinese flying these balloons. -- it's not clear to me right now what the answer to that question is, but it is important that people understand that this is not a radically new technology that we're unaware of. and by the, way the opportunity to observe, will have whole

conversation inside -- the biden administration was clear enough, a transparent enough, as to what was. happening the opportunity to advise one of these things, to observe one of these things up close and personal is a huge counterintelligence win for the united states. >> congressman hines, i appreciate your time. thanks so. much >> thank, you. aaron >> next, hate in america. from flyers left by cowards, to the ugly statements of celebrities. all of which may be fueling the rise of antisemitism. a special report, next. ♪ i gotta good feeling about this, yeah ♪ ♪ i'm with it ♪ ♪ i gotta good feeling about this ♪ ♪ yeah, ♪ ♪ so let's get it ♪ ♪ i'm feeling good vibes ♪ moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch.

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shouting kanye 24. kanye west, now known -- as posted this a few weeks prior. >> when i wake up, ongoing death con three on jewish people. >> the top ten worst global antisemitic incidents last, year you put us number one, the influencers, why? >> no question. i mean when you see the reach of the kanye west. >> he's got a larger reach than there are jews in the entire world. >> hashtag kanye's right with tweeted nearly 10,000 times according to this simon resemble center, and potentially seen by more than two billion people. >> the business people that have right my people, that just so happens to be -- >> but who is actually listening to it. -- naacp president and author. of the civil and civil rights activists. >> central park, most black folks don't have --

for a black man who rushes to mar-a-lago with a white supremacist. >> he's talking about nick fuentes, a holocaust denier who joined yay for dinner, with donald trump. >> when kanye west can be helpful perhaps for nick fuentes is with young when my man. >> kanye's right about the jews, above the 405 freeway, by white antisemites. >> there are 15 minutes some mainstream fame, -- the social influencer. >> but one recent study claims that young black and hispanic respondents express at least medic attitudes about the same rate as white -- respondents. like these guys. [crowd chanting] the analysis doesn't reduction definitive conclusion about why. the teenager was reportedly arrested for dousing an old orthodox jewish man. on his way to pray last summer. on a, somehow dave chappelle explained that, ye, saying the quiet part out -- like >> he broke the show business. rules the rules of deception --

it's a game. -- and he should never speak about it. >> let's speak about. it jews were heavily involved in creating hollywood because they were barred for nearly every white color industry. by an antisemitic society. and today, -- >> the best estimate i can see a times of israel, but 20% of managers, agents, executives in hollywood are jewish? >> there's no hard facts to back up that number. say we come up with the numbers, and you find out that there are not -- disproportionate number of jews working in hollywood. just for arguments sake. for arguments sake. so what? >> if 20% of hollywood's -- arduous. 80% are not. >> we don't even cast jews as jews. so where is the control in the upcoming movie of -- about golden mayra, helen mayer and wonderful actress, not jewish. >> in the, fall another black star, kyrie irving, of the brooklyn nets posted a link to

an antisemitic movie. slow to apologize -- >> i'm proud of my heritage, what we've been. through >> irving was suspended. >> being black in america is already hard enough. and for us to go and other ethnic groups, just makes things worse. it's hard enough being black. >> the majority of hate crimes in america are race related says the fbi. and almost half of them target black people. >> i spent most of my life leading civil rights institutions were either started by blacks, joined by jews, are started by jews, and then joined by blacks. >> i'm convinced that to this day, blacks and jews have a natural alliance that needs to be re-connected. >> do you agree with? that >> yeah, certainly. there is always -- >> and one thing that everybody can agree on.

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