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top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." good to have you along. i'm victor blackwell. >> the fbi is searching for four americans assaulted and kidnapped in mexico. we are getting new video of the attack into cnn but we want to warn you, it is disturbing. you can see people being loaded into the back of a pickup truck

by armed men. it is unclear if they are americans. >> according to the fbi shortly after the group of u.s. citizens drove across the border friday, the car crashed with another vehicle and they were taken at gunpoint. authorities believe that they were not the intended targets. the u.s. ambassador to mexico said an innocent mexican citizen was also killed. >> cnn rosa flores is following this for us. rosa, what are you learning and make of the mexican president and authorities saying these were not the intended targets? >> reporter: you know, the president of mexico saying these four americans were actually in mat morore mexico to purchase medicine, which is something people from this area in south texas normally do. they cross to mexico for just that, for medical procedures. according to the president of mexico, he says that these individuals once they crossed into mexico, they were caught between two groups that were

having some sort of confrontation that that's when the kidnapping happened. now, according to a u.s. official with knowledge of the investigation telling cnn and confirming that these americans actually were in mexico for a medical procedure and this was based on receipts that were found inside the car, now, according to the fbi, the four americans crossed over to mexico on friday and they were driving a mini van, a white mini van with north carolina license plates. now that video that we just showed you is very raw, it's very dramatic. be very careful in watching this video because it is graphic. it is not clear whether these are the individuals who are the americans that are being held at gunpoint and loaded on to a car -- onto the bed of a pickup truck. what we can tell you is that the fbi will not confirm that these images are indeed authentic but

cnn has confirmed by -- with a u.s. official who knows -- who is familiar with the investigation, excuse me, that this sinis indeed the scene and go g g g gio -- geo located the images. you see it's a very intense scene. the video is very raw. the fbi announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the americans and also, for the arrest of the individuals who are responsible. right now, there is a press conference that is on going in mexico. we're supposed to learn more from authorities there from a snippet that i was able to hear before going on air beeianna an victor. they were talking about authorities going through video, perhaps surveillance cameras and of course, committed to finding the individuals who did this and of course, to locating the

missing americans. >> bianna -- >> rosa flores for us there. thank you so much. now to ukraine where after months of fierce and bloody fighting russian forces may be on the verge of capturing the eastern city of bakhmut. even as russian fighters surround the city, ukrainian commanders are not withdrawing and calling on president zelenskyy to send in reinforcement. >> alex marquardt is in useaste ukraine. mercenary fighters were seen planting the flag. tell us about that. >> hi, there, victor and bianna. in the past few days russian forces made progress in encircling bakhmut, not major but pressing north and south around the city and then pressing into the city from the east. we did see that new video from the vogner group. they have been leading the charge with russian forces

around bakhmut. they planted their own flag, not the russian flag but the vogner flag and raised their guns in the air. we heard from president zelenskyy's office tonight saying they continued to defend their positions, defend the city and talked about reinforcing their positions. they didn't talk about surrenderer but we have spent a lot of time in that area over the past few days. there's been a lot of time on the main supply route between the neighboring town and bakhmut and i can tell you it is getting very difficult in and out of bakhmut. it is getting attacked by russian forces. we were told military engineers erected a temporary bridge. troops are able to move forward and back and troops can come out and go in but it's much more difficult. you hear this line despite the

fact no withdraw has been announced if ukraine were to withdraw this would not actually be a strategic victory for russia, they will have lost so many men that would have taken over this city that doesn't have strategic value, that ukraine is actually was able to degrade russian forces and buy time for a planned counter offensive that at the end of the day, according to u.s. and ukrainian officials, it would not be that strategic of victory for russia. but it really would be a loss for ukraine. they also have lost a lot of men in this fight. they have lost professional soldiers while on the russian side so many of the people who have been killed have been convicts in the mercenary group. so at the end of the day, you know, this would be a symbolic victory for russia but it really is up for debate how strategic it would be. one last thing, i did speak with the deputy mayor of bakhmut today who said there are still

some 4 to 5,000 people still in the city. they're trying to get as many out as possible around five to ten per day if they're lucky. the people in there, he says, they simply don't want to leave because they say they don't know where they would go, that they don't have any money, they're scared, they're scared to go out on that road and he said that his overwhelming feeling when thinking about his city right now is fear and sadness. victor, bianna. >> once home touk ukrainians al march kwert -- thank you. >> what is he saying. >> this echoes the point alex was making about the strategic value or lack thereof when it comes to the city of bakhmut. lloyd austin traveling in the middle east said this wouldn't be a strategic victory for russia simply because there isn't that much strategic value to bakhmut given the location, it doesn't control the surrounding area or have a lookout that gives you a

strategic advantage and still, russia is determined to keep throwing as many lines as it needs to to take bakhmut but again, austin saying this wouldn't be a victory. listen to what he had to say here. >> i would not view that as an operational orche strategic set back. i think it's more of a symbolic value than strategic and operational value. what i do see on a daily basis is the russians continuing to pour in a lot of ill trained and ill equipped troops and those troops are very quickly meeting their demise. >> it is worth pointing out if the city itself doesn't have strategic value, it is an important decision where you decide, where ukraine that is decides to fight russian forces. right now ukraine is making that decision to fight in the city of bakhmut and that is an important strategic decision. ukraine realizing if they don't fight them in the line of bakhmut and decide to withdraw and move back towards the west,

that will be the new line at which they fight the russians and that perhaps another reason that they've decided to hold or at least fight for the city of bakhmut as long as possible as both sides suffer very high losses here. >> as we're anticipating an offensive sometime this spring, as well. thank you. general wesley clark is a cnn military analyst and former nato supreme commander. general, good to see you. i'm interested to get your take. we heard from the defense secretary today hearing in his view a retreat from bakhmut would not be an operational or strategic set back and the same day we're hearing u krin y -- ukrainian military officials are continuing to send in reinforcements to fight for this city. is that a mistake on their part at this point? >> well, it's really hard to second guess this bianna because we're not there and don't see the terrain and ground. now, if you look at bakhmut and you look west, it's several

miles to the next really good defensible terrain location. and if they get there, if they fall back, they're going to have to hold there. falling back a withdraw under pressure is one of the most difficult military operations. you suffer the risk of a catastrophic collapse and big losses when you do this. so it does make some sense and i can understand the logic of the ukrainians to hold where they are as long as they can. there are inflicting heavy casualties on the russians. we don't see bianna is we don't see what's behind the initial russian assault. we don't see the forces of raid back there. we also don't know how the ukrainian command is building up its own forces for the counter offensive and how much it can dwindle away that force if necessary to reinforce in bakhmut. so there is a lot of intangibles

here and things we don't have information on. i do agree with secretary austin. it's probably not a great from our perspective operational or tactical loss but it is a psychological blow and a psychological lift for moscow and at some point these russian troops have to be defeated. they have to be held. they have to be pushed back and so from the ukrainian military perspective, it's a very understandable position to hold that line as long as you possibly can. >> i'm glad you brought up that planned spring counter offensive that everyone is anticipating from the ukrainians because i'm wonder fring from a cost benefi the past few months really did benefit ukraine to continue fighting in bakhmut because you lose a lot of russian men, a lot of russian troops and ammunition as well that they invested in their battle for that city but at some point, it does turn and you see the reflection upon ukrainians who are also losing their troops there at an

enormous rate and their ammunition. do you think the longer they maintain this fight for back m -- bakhmut do you think it could interfere the counter offense they're planning? >> certainly could. their they have to hold in the east. they do not want to surrenderer danbas. if they do they have to fight for the west. they have stockpiles in other routes this is anne ed a ventageous way to hold. they have superior or artillery. secretary austin acknowledged that. the thing is they have more tubes and firing more ammunition on a daily basis than the ukrainians. we got to get them more help and until that time, they're going to have a hard time holding and the ukrainians are taking casualties but this is war and it's their country and they want to hold it. >> it is proven to be very

difficult to procure the amount of ammunition that ukraine is requiring at this point. here is how one military expert described russia at all cost battle for bakhmut assuming that ukraine yips at some point do retreat. here is what he wrote. the reality is that if the russians capture bakhmut they are seizing rubble. it's a town with minimal strategic importance with almost no remaining infrastructure to support an occupying force that the russians have invested so much in the capture speaks volumes about their poor strategy in this war. would you agree with that assessment? >> i'm a little cautious about that assessment, bianna, because it's written from the western spro spro p perspective. if you lost 40,000 people you would say that's insignificant if you're a russian commander. if you're an american commander or ukrainian and losing 30,000 troops over that piece of ground, that's really significant. if you're a russian commander

and pushing those troops forward and use them up, use them up, use them up and you get a breakthrough in bakhmut or significantly degrade the ukrainians on balance, on the russian perspective, it might be worth it. so i think we have to be a little cautious about critiquing russian tactics from our perspective. >> from russia's perspective, these troops are ex pendble. gene generally wesley clark, thank you. former secretary larry summers says the u.s. economy is at risk of wiley coyote moment. you reremember the cartoon? he chases rootad runnener. >> you remember that. >> donald d trump wants to blol mike pence's testimony over the 2020 election probe. we'll have details on that next, as well.

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former president jutrump asd a judge to block pennsylvania's testimony. >> jack smith investigating the january 6th insurrection and trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election has subpoenaed pence for testimony and documents. harry litman is a former u.s. attorney. we talked about this and the potential the former president would try to file based on these executive privileges. remind us how strong of a case if any you think he has. >> very weak. so it's no surprise as you suggested victor that they filed it but this is deja vu all over again. this is not mike pence doing this speech or debate clause based on his role in the senate. this is the old executive privilege claim. we need candida communication. it's been rejected by the courts for three different reasons. first, biden waived it and he will again. second, this is really not trump

when he's berating pence and acting like a president and third and finally, if there was a valid claim, it would give way to the need for criminal evidence in this kind of investigation. that comes all the way back from u.s. service richard nixon. so this is doa, the only question is will he eat up a lot of time? i don't think he will eat up a lot of time. last time anyway than pence will. >> could we expect an appeal if this judge doesn't honor this request? >> it will be certain that he'll appeal and then that he'll petition for cert. the supreme court basically rejected the claim so yeah, the question is will it be a few weeks to go up and down the federal courts or a few months? i think it's closer to the weeks. as i say, pence won't testify until his claim is resolved and that's more novel, will take a little longer. yes, trump will appeal all the

way and yes, he'll lose all the way. >> let me ask you. admittedly have a pedestrian question here about the log logistics. this was sealed on friday. will it remain sealed when it gets to the supreme court and learn one day this consideration has been tossed out? >> we'll know the ruling but will remain sealed because it has to do with the grand jury and to put it in front of the courts means giving grand jury information. there's al law against that. we'll find out if and when anyone is indicted the grand jury testimony will come out from under seal. for now it's secret except for the bottom line we'll know about the bottom line. >> was this filed just for the sake of filing because as we have covered in detail, the vice president has already -- the former vice president has already said he will not testify so why would the former

president care to even spend the time to file this motion? >> i don't thing k it's much ti for him. he reruns the old -- puts it on think will take longer time but let's say pence for whatever reason folds up shop quickly. it is sort of cost free and in part maybe it's just politics and atmosphere to make it seem like he's fighting all the way. he couldn't raise pence's claim. he's not a member of the senate but he can raise executive privilege so he can so he will. that's the trump motto, right? >> you're right. filing a lawsuit is something the former president is very, very familiar and comfortable with throughout his years. thank you. investors are bracing for a volatile week on wall street with a new jobs report set for friday. and capitol hill testimony from the federal reserve chairman set for tomorrow. >> yeah, jerome powell will

testify in the country's economic outlook before a senate committee where interest rate hikes and whether or not they're actually working to bring down inflation will be a primary focus. cnn matt joins us now, what can we expect to see this week? >> bianna, victor, we'll hear from one of the most powerful people in the world, jerome powell and trying to make sense of this incredibly confusing economy. remember, despite the fact that the federal reserve is really trying its hardest to slow the economy down, it is still chugging along at a surprising speed. i mean, americans are still shopping aggressively. companies are still hiring and the problem for the fed is that inflation, inflation remains way toometrics, it's getting worse. powell will face pressure on both sides here, one from some lawmakers that fear the fed is doing too much and will cause a recession but also from other people who are worried that the fed isn't doing enough because inflation remains high despite as you can see on your screen

all of those interest rate hikes. this testimony tomorrow and also on wednesday from powell is just one important event that's happening what is shaping up to be a consequential week for the economy moand we're getting a l of jobs numbers and openings on wednesday and claims thursday and the big jobs report on friday. >> so we heard from the former treasury secretary larry summers talking about inflation and the economy. what did he say? >> he's been pessimistic on the economy for awhile, two years ago he started sounding the alarm correctly, i think, on inflation. i was wondering if he changed his tune on the economy a bit given strength in the numbers but not so much. he told our colleague poppy harlow he thinks we'll have a recession. listen to what he said and also, the best part is he made a looney toons reference to make his point why there will be a recession. >> i used the term risk of a wiley coyote moment to refer to

the fact that the coweconomy co hit an air pocket in a few months. my guess is that the over hang, the consumers have accumulated as a few more months to run but doesn't have another year to run. >> he went on to say he thinks the fed will have to keep raising interest rates higher than the market currently anticipates from 6% to 5%. the higher rates go the more expensive for all of us to borrow. mortgage rates approaching 7%. credit card rates have never been higher. here is a real world kpexample. if you have a $2,000 credit card balance and only paying the minimum. at current rates it would take a dozen years to pay the debt off and during that time, you would accrue $3200 of interest. these are the kinds of numbers that i think are making larry summers and others concerned about the trajectory of the

economy. >> what does that have to do with wiley coyote? >> falling off a cliff? i don't know. >> exactly, at some point consumers are going to run out of momentum here and because of high borrowing costs and because they're going to run out of savings, the economy is going to go off a cliff. that's what he's concerned about. >> okay. >> the unemployment rate where it is now seems like that may be awhile. >> lowest since 1969. >> thank you. >> thank you, matt. >> i love wiley coyote. go watch it. >> i guess if y'all watch it. the faa is investigating get this another airline incident. this time in boston where a ununited airlines flight backed into the wing g of another unit aircraft. we'll hahave details aheadad. and parts of southern california a are still covered snow. we'll take you there, stay with us.

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this just in, a massachusetts man has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to open an emergency exit door while aboard a united airlines flight from los angeles to boston. after trying to open the door, he allegedly attempted to stab a flight attendant in the neck. >> tom foreman is following this for us. very frightening, tom. what happened and how is the flight attendant. >> a lot of frightening stuff happening with the airlines right now.

this happened los angeles to boston. they got a warning in the cockpit one of the doors from outside had been unlocked essentially and when flight attendants went to look at it, the handle had been pulled about a quarter of the way and the warning mechanism had been somehow turned off there basically and they started asking around and saying we only saw this one guy up by the door for awhile. according to this report from the feds, they went and talked to the guy. he started saying do you have cameras? can you prove it? something like that. then in a little bit, he got up from his seat according to this federal paper here this is the arrest information here and as he approached them. he made some sort of stabbing motion at one of them with a spoon that he was carrying in some fashion and then other people tackled him. all of this happening 45 minutes before the plane was supposed to land. so startling thing if you're a passenger on that plane for sure. >> yeah, you mentioned a lot of

disturbing flight situations out there that we're covering also in boston there was an incident where two planes clipped each other. what happened there? >> yeah, this was two united planes were both leaving 737s, one was being pushed back from the gate the way they do at those little tugs there and it's right wing hit the tail of the plane next to it. it doesn't look like a huge amount of damage but of course, the planes like this evening a little amount of damage can be costly. remember this comes a week after they were investigating another near miss also at logan airport and coming a year when aifruation experts say there are a lot of problems like this happening. a lot of airports have taken measures to try to mitigate the risk midair collision but as the airlines try to ramp up and recover entirely from covid and get a lot of planes in the air, this are aviation analysts looking at it saying look, we're trying to move too many planes too fast too close to each other and it's going to lead to trouble unless special measures

are taken. >> you're also getting some information about some delays across florida. tell us about those. >> yeah, yeah. on and on it goes here. yeah, the federal aviation administration has said that there are some issues causing flight delays throughout florida. the details we don't really know. it's the technical issue that involves weather systems that help track the planes in that area. all they will say is particularly the air traffic around miami and jacksonville being heavily impacted by a radar issue but no more details about that at this time. you combine that with turbulence stories we had of late and we had a plane that over the weekend or tried to fly from cuba to florida. had bird strikes. had to turn around and make an emergency landing. smoke all through the cabin.

it's been a wild, wild couple of weeks for the airline industry. >> aviation is booked and busy. >> job security. keeping you busy. >> i guess so. >> thank you, tom. well, now to two things rarely used in the same sentence, southern california and feet of snow. look at this video. we've been talking about this for a few weeks now. some people are still trapped in their homes. >> back to back winter storms left people there unable to dig their way out. more than 170 people were rescued over the weekend. cnn camilla joins us now from crest line, california. i mean, the piles of snow behind you are taller than you are. how are people dealing with it? >> reporter: well, not very well. they are so bianna. so many residents i've been talking todays that are frustrated because this is the snow they're dealing with, snow that does not allow them to leave their homes and that is what is causing the biggest

frustration. it is more than ten days and people are still stuck. so what authorities say they're doing is they're cleaning the main roads first. that is the priority. i want to show you the camera from above that shows you just how much they cleared the main road. what authorities are saying it's about 80% done. they still need to clear the side streets and that's where a lot of people live. that's what blocks off the access and you mentioned 170 plus rescues over the weekend. well, what we're learning is they're using these types of heavy equipment. this is a snow cat as we were told and these are only used for those rescues. people that need to be taken from their homes to a shelter or off the mountain and there are many of these. there are a lot of emergencies, people who are desperately in need of feed and in need of medicine. i've talked to a lot of angry residents and one of them johnny spoke about feeling like he's a prison.

here he is. >> i'm freiustrated. i have to make a living. i have a business on the bottom of the mountain. i'm stranded. it's scary, frustrating and frightening and mostly just gets my anxiety going up more so than i cannot control obviously. >> reporter: behind me is that supermarket where the roof collapsed because of so much snow. there is no other place to go get food. that's why they are giving out donations over in this area but the problem is a lot of people can't make it to the donation site so if they want to come and get food, they're unable to do so. that's where the frustration and anger is coming from. residents speaking to me in tears, victor, bianna. >> i sense their frustration. this has been n going on for d . thank you. nearlyly a year after that

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♪ chris rock's historic live netflix comedy special touched on everything from abortion to politics to everyone the royal family rift. >> unsurprisingly. the topic so many of him have been waiting to tackle is the oscar slap and he did it. >> y'all know what happened to me, getting smacked by shug

smith. it still hurts. words hurt. that's what they say. got to watch what you say because words hurt. you know, anybody that says words hurt has never been punched in the face. will smith practices selective outrage. [ cheers ] practices selective outrage. because everybody knows what the [ bleep ] happened. everybody that really knows knows i had nothing to do with pleep [ bleep ]. i didn't have any eng tangl tangltang intanglements. she hurt him way more than he hurt me and who does he hit? me. he know he can beat -- >> adrian gibbs is a culture and entertainment contributor for "forbes magazine." good to have you on. is it a coincidence he went to

jada's hometown, mine too by the way, of baltimore to do this special? >> you know what? this is a topic of conversation amongst many communities. lots of people said oh, oh, what is he doing there and why? you know, i would love to ask chris why. you know, one could say he wants to get as connected as possible to the community that built him up. that is very possible. but it's certainly super interesting to note. chris rock doesn't do anything accidentally and he's, you know, very intelligent, super clever. i would not be surprised if we hear more about that later. >> well, he said that you would never see him play the victim role here. he wasn't going to go give oprah or gayle king an interview crying about what took place and said he waited a year to address it and he waited until the end of his show. how do you think he did in terms of handling it and finally, talking about it? >> you know, i think that he got

his licks back. you know, the black community specializes in playing the dozens. okay? and if you play the dozens with chris rock, he's probably going to win. he is the king of doing this. he's the king of making you think about things you always do and then making you think twice about it. i think that he did a good job because he got the conversation going. this was almost a year to the week, last year when the slap was heard across the world and -- and seen across the world and we talked about it for quite sometime. but then we stopped talking about it and then chris went on tour. and we wondered what will he say about it? will he talk about it? we wobndered. i likened watching the show and his little -- he dropped every now and then he made little drops at the beginning of the show every couple minutes, i don't want another mad rapper, i don't want to make another rapper mad. he kept saying that.

i said oh, here we go. this is like a church sermon. he keeps bringing it back. to me, it felt like being on the rolls coaster and being at the very, very, very top and looking over and thinking okay, how bad is it really going to be? he gave us a taste, a taste, a taste, as we assented, assented, assented and boom. he got his licks back. some people will say i'm offended. it was inappropriate. he called jada out of her name. he said some things that were unnecessary and comedy certainly does do that. it will offend you. what i wrote about was i basically said prepare to be offended because he hits rarena. i was offended watching some of it. i think ultimately he did what he set out to do. he got his licks back and told people his side of the story and

at the same time, it's a huge hit for net flicks. >> yeah, yeah. >> how many people tune in to watch? >> it was a technical feed -- it was first for netflix doing this live global event. is it too soon to say this is a cultural moment, though, after watching it? >> i don't think it's too soon to say. i think it is a cultural moment. i think we are still all grappling with what it meant and i think it is still a cultural moment because listen, we love these brothers. we love chris rock. we love will smith. and if we don't love them in total, there were parts of their history that you completely loved. fantastic movie moments. fantastic hmusic moments. fantastic moments. >> yeah. >> we're still talking about this and we're still grappling with it because it hurt. and it is pretty incredible when you think about the gravity of what happened in the oscar's stage and i think it's going to

come back. i'm very curious to see what happens at this year's oscars. do we discuss it more or is it all done? >> it's interesting. we need to wrap it r to your pe. you said your moment nothing. absolutely, nothg. it really is something. as an expedia member, you can save uto 30% when you add a hotel to your ight. so you can have a bit more money, to do even less. because you've got a whole lot of nothing to do and absolutely nowhere to be.

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wire. >> hi, victor and bianna. he's the most exciting young star in the league, leading the second best team in the west. he plays above the rim and he has a huge sponsorship deal but now the nba is investigating what happened after the grizzlies loss in denver friday night and the coach said morants is in ongoing healing process. 'peered to wave a gun during an instagram video at 5:19 after their loss and he's now deacting both his instagram and twitter accounts and apologized on saturday. he said he's taking responsibility for his actions an taking time away to get hope and work on learning better methods of dealing with stress, unquote. now before sunday's loss to the clippers, coach taylor jenkins made it clear that is the priority. >> he's made some difficult decisions and poor choices in the past that he has to account for and that is why you see in a statement it speaks for itself,

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