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synagogue and shot and killed 11 people, including a 97-year-old great grandmother, two brothers, and a husband and wife who were married in that same synagogue decades ago. we are live from the courthouse. plus, racism, retaliation, excessive force, and zero accountability. the justice department revealing a scathing review of the minneapolis police department after a years-long investigation following the murder of george floyd. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to ""cnn news central"." ♪ the man responsible for the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history is now in the fight for his life. the jury that just convicted the killer of these 11 people of capital crimes is now going to determine if 50-year-old robert bowers should get the death

penalties. bowers went on a shooting rampage inside the tree of life synagogue in 2018. his attack left six people wounded, including four police officers who responded to the scene. this is a trial that's pretty rare. it's just the second federal death penalty case under the biden administration. cnn's danny freeman has been covering this trial in pittsburgh, which started more than two weeks ago. danny, the jurors in this case came to this conclusion pretty quickly. >> reporter: that's right. it really only took them about five hours to reach this conclusion, as you said, guilty on all 63 federal charges, including those 22 capital offenses that just illustrate exactly what some of those offenses are. the main ones are obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. that's specifically for killing 11 jewish worshippers at the tree of life synagogue back in 2018 while they were in the middle of praying, of exercising their religious freedoms. and then the other capital charges was the use of discharge

of a firearm to commit murder during and in relation to a crime of violence. robert bowers is also convicted of all of the hate crime charges that were brought against him as well. there is relief in this moment. but i want to bring you some color, because we just got our producer sarah boxer out front inside the courtroom. she described it was a very quiet and stoic moment as the verdicts were being read in that courtroom. and bowers was wearing a blue collared shirt, navy sweater, fairly emotionless as the verdicts came down. i want to remind viewers what has been going on over the past three weeks in this trial and just remind what really the horror was inside that synagogue four and a half years ago. we heard from one of the survivors, carol black, who described hiding in a closet in the basement in the tree of life synagogue, as she heard bullets upstairs and downstairs. she saw her friend die. she said, quote, he immediately

went down on the ground on his back and was dying. he didn't say anything. he made a gargling kind of sound. we also heard from another survivor. they heard the gunshots initially. they looked at each other because they are medical professionals and said, ooh, no, we have to run towards these gunshots. he recounted that he stood still on a set of stairs praying, thinking that he was going to die. but he was rescued by first responders. and i've got to say, we've also seen a lot of images from this trial. new images, graphic images of the massacre inside that synagogue. a lot of those images were not released to the public. however, there were a number of images that were released to the public, and they really tell its own story, including p one of a prayer book. prayer books like these are in synagogues all over the country

all over the world. and you can see this image of a bullet through it. and rabbi of the tree of life said that he wanted to preserve that so that there was a preservation of a witness to the horror of that day. now, the next step is the death penalty phase. the jury is called back on june 26th. brianna? >> danny, thank you. we will be looking to see. obviously, this is not over. i want to bring in dave aronberg now. he is the state attorney for palm beach county, florida. the defense here presenting no witnesses. the jury deliberating for just five hours before finding robert bowers guilty here, dave, on all charges. i know you've been following this very closely. is this what you expected? >> it was, brianna. the defense did not contest that he was the one who committed this heinous act. they were just saying that he was not motivated by prejudice. he was motivated by dislike of immigrants and thought the people inside the synagogue were helping immigrants. but that made no sense because

he didn't go to an immigration agency. the people inside were worshipping on a saturday. they were not actively helping migrants. they were just trying to express their religious beliefs and they were massacred because of their religious beliefs. they were massacred because they were jewish. there's no other way around it. this guy deserves what he gets and hopefully he'll get the ultimate penalty. >> what do, as we see this revisited later in the month -- what do federal prosecutors have to prove to the jury in order to sentence bauers to death? >> there's a list of ago have a investors and mitigators. and prosecutors have to convince the jury unanimously that the a aggravators outweigh the mitigators. it just takes one juror to say, no, i don't want him to die. so, it is very difficult. in fact, at the federal level, there are only about 45 people on death row.

it's fair at the federal level to get the death penalty. but one reason why the feds brought this case is because i think he has a better chance of getting death penalty in federal court than state court. there has not been an execution in pennsylvania since 1999. so, the feds have a better chance at it. and amongst the aggravating factors, you have to prove this crime was heinous and cruel and committed against vulnerable people, like the seniors who were massacred that day. >> yeah. it certainly was heinous and cruel. we'll see if it stands the legal test of that. dave, appreciate your expertise in this. boris? we want to turn now to minneapolis, because three years after george floyd was murdered by former police officer derek chauvin, the justice department has concluded its probe into the mpd. and the findings are damning. merrick garland citing systemic problems that led to floyd's death. he said that minneapolis police routinely violated the civil

rights of those they were supposed to protect and serve. >> we found that mpd and the city of minneapolis engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, unlawfully discriminating against black and native american people in enforcement activities, violating the rights of people engaged in protected speech, and discriminating against people with behavioral disabilities and responding to them -- when responding to them in crisis. >> let's go to minneapolis now with cnn's adrian broad is. adrian, this two-year-plus investigation unveiling some really disturbing details. >> reporter: yeah, the department of justice, boris, really slammed the minneapolis police department and the city. but for community leaders here, they were not surprised by the findings of this report. many of them saying, this is a reflection of what they've been

speaking out against for decades. the report talks about the discrimination in traffic stops when it comes to native american and black people. according to this report, native americans and blacks are pulled over six times more than their white counterparts. and u.s. attorney general merrick garland was really clear on what this report found. listen in. >> mpd officers discharged firearms at people without assessing whether the person presents any threat, let alone a threat that would justify deadly force. we also found that mpd officers routinely disregard the safety of people in their custody. our review found numerous incidents in which mpd officers responded to a person's statement that they could not breathe with a version of "you can breathe, you're talking right now." we also found that mpd officers failed to intervene to prevent

unreasonable use of force by other officers. >> and he also announced that the city, the police department, is also working toward what's called a consent decree. specifically that means the department will really be watched by an outsider. they're still negotiating that, but it's going to require specific changes to the department. and for those of you who may be wondering how they came to this conclusion, during this two-year investigation, the department of justice looked at body-worn camera from police officers. they also interviewed officers on the force as well as people in the community. they really wanted to hear from those people. and those folks shared their experiences, along with police reports and complaints, boris. >> adrian broad is reporting from minneapolis. thanks for bringing us up to date on that.

we want to expand the conversation with former nypd lieutenant darren porcher. first, what was your reaction to the details in this report? >> well, thanks for having me on, boris. i look to the contract in comparison to what happened in ferguson years ago in connection with the michael brown shooting as we look through the lens of what happened in minneapolis. it wasn't a one-shot incident. this was a combustible period that occurred over the course of time where you had these flagrant traffic stops, these excessive use of force that occurred throughout the tenure of the prior chief and the chief before that. and that being said, it went unfixed. it went unchecked. so, when we had the death, this horrific murder, that occurred that we all saw on a national level, it begged the question of what was done to allow this to get to that point?

so, now, here we lie. but a consent decree is not going to be the one-fix solution because a consent decree only introduces a series of changes. but it has no teeth in the mechanism to fulfill that obligation. >> so, what should, then, happen next to ensure accountability if the consent degree is not enough? >> well, unfortunately, it's a glashs glacial process. you need to hire the right policy makers such as the chief of police. you need to have the right elected officials to ensure the oversight over the department. and the oversight can come from a mayor's commission such as what we have in new york city that oversees what the department does. i'm not saying that the nypd is a quintessential police department, but it's a component in the mechanism of oversight. that oversight is going to be what changes things. in addition to, that you need a

civilian commission that can contribute to what the findings that the oversight committee sees. that civilian commission can often times present information that will work because it's the citizens in a democratic society that set forth the change in policing. >> so, essentially a check on what the police department is doing. and i'm wondering internally what you would say to officers that are in that department now hearing these details coming from the federal government and the attorney general. >> internally, we need to have a revolution from the ground up. the foot soldier, meaning the officers that are hired, need to understand what the dynamic of policing would be. so, when we look at the george floyd case, for example, we had newly hired officers that contributed to this misconduct. the tone was clearly not set within that department, and we need to start from the police

academy in setting forth the tone and the agenda of quintessential policing in that department. and then it may be a complete and total overhaul of the executive branch of that police department. that, i think, is a very possible conclusion, but we need to start with the foot soldiers that are coming out of the police academy in terms of training. >> we have to leave the conversation there, but we very much appreciate your perspective. >> thanks, boris. >> of course. brianna? irreconcilable differences. one of former president trump's lawyers calls it quits on another case as the legal problems pile up for the gop front runner. what the lawyer is saying about this break up. plus, delayed but a spy balloon. now the high stakes meeting is back on. tony blinken heading to china amid epic tensions between these superpowers. and it could throw a huge wrench

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judge set an early 2024 trial date for e. jean carroll's original defamation case against trump. this one is separate from the one we saw last month, where a jury awarded carroll $5 million after finding trump sexually abused and defamed carroll. with us now, kristen holmes, cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny as well. if carroll's defamation case goes to trial in january 2024, you see where this goes with the timeline. it's going to take place right in the thick of presidential primary season, and he's also facing a lot of other legal hurdles at the exact same time. >> there's four trials that we know of that have been scheduled. and keep in mind, this last arraignment, that hasn't been scheduled in terms of the trial. there's four that we know of. and all of them are coming at a time that is incredibly critical for this political race. and this is why we continue to report that there really cannot be a real separation of the

trump legal operation and the trump political operation. let's look at the trials that we know of. one being in october of 2023. that's the first one. this is the trump company civil fraud suit. this is brought by new york attorney general. then january 15th, e. jean carroll defamation trial. january 29th, a federal class action suit that accuses trump and his company of promoting a pyramid scheme. and then march 25, 2024, a trial in that alleged hush money scheme. again, all of these being critical moments. the one thing to note is that we don't know which of these trump will have to appear at. but, again, it goes to show you that these things cannot be separated. as we reported earlier this week, that is part of the trump playbook. they want to be running on his legal issues. >> this is tricky. if i'm a presidential candidate, i don't want to be dealing with filing my taxes. i'm going to outsource everything that i can during this season. jeff, this just speaks to all of this hanging over this political race. and let's take a look at where

republican voters are on this because they aren't all behind donald trump. a recent abc news ipsos poll shows that 38% of republicans do view the charges against trump as serious. >> that is interesting. when you look at that, you say that 50% say it's not serious. so, you think, okay, almost majority of republicans say it's not. but 38% saying it's serious, that essentially shows you what the lane is for voters perhaps looking for something else. perhaps tired of the drama. we hear this anecdotally as we talk to voters on the campaign trail all the time. so many republicans voted for trump, liked his policies, and they're just exhausted by it all. you have to wonder, all these trials that kristen was talking about, as they add up -- and there could be more with the georgia case, with the possibility of a case here -- is that 38% who are concerned about this, is that going to increase or not? so, that offers a window for other potential republican candidates. but the pollsters i have been

talking to this week, this is still settling into public opinion. the indictment is still -- it's a snapshot in time. and that's not likely to decrease here. so, i think we have to put a pause on our reliance on polls on this and give a sense. this dividing of the republican party is significant. >> that's a really good point. i want to be clear, i'm not saying they shouldn't file their taxes. they should. the issue is do they take care of it personally or outsource it to someone else. that's this federal indictment. he's also using it to raise money, right, jeff? so, he does use it as an advantage. >> sure. >> the point is, it's a double-edged sword. >> without question. and there's so many things you have to do as a candidate, particularly going into ohio, south carolina, there are dates on the camera. he'll have to be potentially in two places at one time or he'll delay these. i think it is a challenge mentally. how do you keep track and separate all this? i think we have to wait and see. one thing is clear. republican voters will have a say on this long before any

jurors do. >> how do people around him feel about that, having the energy and the bandwidth to manage these things? >> i think there's a lot of compartmentalization. i think that they -- the tone i saw in bedminster was very different than the tone i saw at mar-a-lago after that first arraignment in new york. in bedminster, they seemed a little bit more confident. when i asked them about that, they said it was because they felt like they were getting the hang of this playbook, of how to navigate both of them. now we're talking about two indictments. there is still looming in georgia, the january 6th investigation, the federal investigation. so, whether or not they can keep up that confidence, it's just -- this is a lot and it's never been done before. >> no. certainly has not. unprecedented. kristen, jeff, thank you so much. boris? still ahead, a tornado slams a texas town, killing at least three people and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. cnn is going to take you to the scene. and the data of millions of americans are said to have been compromised after a global cyber attack. we're going to tell you who was

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a sudden and powerful tornado. mobile homes turned into match sticks, dumpsters flying, and trucks tossed like toys in perryton, where three people were killed and officials say some 50 to 100 more were injured. one person there still remains missing this hour. watch this. this video taken in perryton shows just how quickly this tornado formed, one of seven reports across three states of tornados yesterday. let's take you now to perryton with cnn's lucy kafanov who's there for us right there by the border with oklahoma. lucy, you're hearing from neighbors who have some incredible story of survival. >> reporter: that's right, boris. you mentioned how quickly this tornado formed, and that is what really took folks off guard

here. this is part of a country where people are used to experiencing things like tornados. there are tornado shelters here. one resident i spoke to said she was driving in the evening, it was raining, it started to hail. she was not expected the tornado to hit so quickly. take a listen. >> it started raining a little bit, and it had a little bit of hail, like five or six little pelts of hail every thousand rain drops. it was just barely sprinkling. and all of a sudden the tornado formed and it just dropped on us. it came out of nowhere. there was no sirens, no time to get to shelter. there was a time where i thought that i was going to die and i was going to leave a lot of things undone. i know there's people here who died today serving our community. >> reporter: you can hear the emotion in her voice.

this is a close-knit community of over 8,000 people. people know one another. and i want to give you a sense of what's happening on the ground right now. the scale of the devastation is vast. this is downtown perryton. this area took a direct hit. this morning, it was eerily quiet. now we are seeing construction crews, cleanup crews, residents coming back. that's main street. that mangled mass of metal, the red and white structure, was a cell phone tower. i believe we have the photos comparing the image of what it used to look like before this to tornado hit, nearly twice the size. it looks like it was snapped in half by a child, but it's not. this is a facility. a lot of people are injured, dozens of people are injured. and people are left homeless trying to pick up the pieces from this devastating aftermath. >> a tough road to recovery for that community. lucy kafanov in perryton, texas.

thank you so much for that. boris, we have new details on that global cyber attack that has impacted the u.s. government. this thing is huge. cnn has now learned that the personal data of millions of americans has been exposed. officials in oregon say the breach affected 3.5 million people there with driver's licenses or id cards. and also anyone with that documentation in louisiana. the sweeping attack has compromised multiple federal agencies, including the department of energy. cnn's natasha bertrand has more on this for us today. i think the real issue is that's just maybe the tip of the iceberg here. >> reporter: exactly. we still don't know the full extent of this cyber attack, which has affected hundreds of companies across the u.s., federal agencies, major universities, including johns hopkins and georgia's state-wide university system, and companies around the world. and what we are told by federal officials is that it doesn't appear right now like these hackers have been able to take

anything from u.s. government agencies that is significant. but they're still investigating here. so, what seems to have happened, just to take a step back, is that there is a file transfer software that many, many companies and entities in the u.s. and around the world use to transfer files. and what happened was hackers actually found a vulnerability in that software. so, that allowed them to kind of burrow in and take advantage and hack all of these different entities and companies. in terms of who's responsible, we're told that it is a russian cyber criminal group which specializes in ransomware. they are apparently trying to extort their victims. they have posted on their website that they have demanded money and they have continued when they've not gotten that money to post more victims and threaten them. and, you know, it's unclear whether that is the extent of it because now that this software vulnerability is out there, other criminal hackers can also take advantage of it. that's what u.s. officials say. so, still trying to figure out really the scope of this.

the department of energy so far is the only federal agency that's come out and said, we were targeted in this. but at the same time, you know, the russian cyber criminals, they have said, interestingly on their website, we don't want federal government data. we've erased it all. don't bother contacting us. it seems like they're only focusing on the private sector, brianna. >> so, anyone, any of these entities private or public who downloaded this software also downloaded this vulnerability. >> that is essentially what they're saying. the company that owns this software, they have actually found a second vulnerability that they are now trying to patch. so, they've issued this warning to consumers saying, look, you need to update your systems now because we're trying to fix this but we still don't know whether you might have these hackers or attackers already in your system. >> that is amazing. natasha, thank you for taking us through that. secretary of state antony blinken heading for a high-stakes trip to china. can both nations move forward

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now, the state department says that blinken is going to raise some serious concerns about china's role in the fentanyl crisis, in the war in ukraine, and a major sticking point between the two nations, the issue of taiwan, an especially heated topic when you consider that there have been not one, but two, military-related incident in recent weeks around the hotly contested south china sea. the latest incident happening just earlier this month while the u.s. was conducting a joint military exercise with canada. this video shows a chinese warship cutting dangerously close to a u.s. navy destroyer. the ships coming within 150 yards of each other. the u.s. says the chinese were acting recklessly, while china is blaming the united states. you see how close the two were right there. and in the air over the south china sea last month, a chinese fighter jet cutting directly in front of a u.s. joint reconnaissance aircraft, forcing it to fly through the aircraft's

wake turbulence. in this video released by the u.s. military, you can see how the turbulence affects the flight, with the cockpit visually shaking, this disrupting the aircraft. obviously dangerous, dangerous moments that could lead to potential escalation. brianna? >> very concerning stuff. joining us now is david sanger. he is a political and national security analyst and a white house and national security correspondent for "the new york times." we're also joined by cnn military analyst and retired u.s. army general "spider" marks. last month in japan, we heard from president biden. he was predicting a thaw in these u.s./china relations. are we seeing that yet? is that the goal here? and is that possible at this point? >> well, that's certainly the goal. the effort is to rebuild communication. as spider will tell you, the military communications have been non-existent here. the diplomatic communications

have been pretty well frozen, in part because of the spy balloon, but in part because it's just a fundamental disagreement about what the future of the relationship would look like. with the u.s. saying, look, we can compete in a whole number of ranges, technology, trade, even some security issues, but there are areas where we can go cooperate. and the chinese saying, you can't really have a bifurcated kind of relationship like that. >> how concerning is it to you, general, when you look at how much those relationships between the military side of things have deteriorated? >> it's really troubling. it's really troubling. look, we have scar tissue that's been acquired over the years, where if there's an incident, if there's a challenge at the very highest levels, there will be open, there will be very honest and calm communications. david indicated those don't exist anymore. and that's the biggest concern. i mean, you can mix into this the conventional challenges that we see across the services like

we just saw these incidents that occur. then you can escalate those up to the nuclear side, and it's very, very troubling. you have to be able to have open and transparent coms and we've got to be able to get around the fact that there are two sides to the coin. you can derisk, but there is codependency. we have to learn to coexist. >> when you don't have those communications, that's where a misunderstanding can snowball. >> accidents occur. like this one right here, very, very unprofessional and very troubling. >> so, at this meeting that we're going to see, you know, it's funny, having covered the white house in the past myself and obviously you have covered it extensively, these meetings, these diplomatic meetings between -- whether it's the white house level or it's the state department, they can be kind of -- for lack of a better term -- boring. they can be very predictable between america and china. and i wonder, how do they really address these thorny issues? these videos that we see that

are almost eye popping? how do they really get at what we're seeing here? >> i think the first thing they try to do is establish what some of the rules of the road are. during the balloon incident, there were two really interesting factors that came out of this. the first was, when the u.s. tried to pick up the phone and say, hey, what's going on with this, they basically got no answers. the second is, there was some indication that the chinese leadership may have believed parts of the official explanation that this was a weather balloon. it wasn't, right? so, there's a question of what was the discussion going on inside the chinese hierarchy? and i think part of what secretary blinken's trying to do here is to make sure that the intel the u.s. has is made clear to the hierarchy. and i think the second question is, as suggested, was that if you can't talk about this stuff openly and instantly, then you have the possibility of a big problem. you may remember that the first

big foreign policy crisis that hit george w. bush was a collision with an ep-3. and then at that time they tried to establish some means of communication. they are not working 22 years later. >> how does the economic situation internally in china play into their relations right now with the u.s.? >> well, you know, brianna, this is a really fascinating question. every time we've been dealing with china through the past number of years, they've been at 6% or 7% growth. and so the security side could easily out voice the economic side because they didn't have a whole lot to lose. right now they're down at 1% or 2% growth. there is a big split inside china with some officials saying we've got to get back on track with the u.s. you can't risk decoupling because we need the growth back. >> really tough situation there right now. i do want to talk about russia with you, general, because

earlier today you had vladimir putin saying that this first tactical nuclear weapon that we knew was heading for belarus, that it has, indeed, arrived there. and he's also said that it could be used if there's an existential threat to russia. that's the line we always get from russia. but you have tony blinken responding to this. so, let's listen to that. >> we'll continue to monitor the situation very closely and very carefully. we have no reason to adjust our own nuclear posture. we don't see any indications that russia's preparing to use a nuclear weapon. the president said again this week that we remain committed to the defense of nato, every inch of its territory. >> what do you make of this situation that we are in with this nuclear weapon and with russia? >> serious. any time -- whether it's bluster or not, you never really know. we take this extremely

seriously. so, we have to pay attention to it. the challenge is the russians have different rules of engagement in terms of when and how they would release their nuclear weapons. in this particular case, it's a tactical nuclear weapon. in my mind, it's a distinction without a difference here. it's a nuke. and obviously our approach toward that is much more controlled. it comes from the commander in chief down to an engagement platform. what is happening in the russian sense is that's delegated down to the theater commander. when he decides he wants to use it to solve a tactical problem. so, there is a difference here between what putin's saying, existential threat, and a tactical commander on the ground saying, hey, we have to take out a particular target to include my position. we're worlds apart, but at least we communicate. again, we had those communications in place. we have to use them. >> do you see an end game right fou had in ukraine? >> i don't. i see the end game being some form -- sadly, some form of a negotiated settlement. we have to see how this

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