♪ ♪ we have new details this morning about the special counsel's target letter to donald trump. we are learning about the possible charges the former president could be facing for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. also new reporting about how he is trying to fight back both in the courtroom and in the political arena. the israeli president and

the american congress. we are keeping a close eye on capitol hill this hour as isaac herzog is about to address a joint meeting of the house and senate. i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner, this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ we are now moments away from the israeli president addressing a joint meeting of congress, one of the highest marks of respect that the congress affords to foreign leaders. he's only the second israeli president to mack ke such an address and the first was his father 35 years ago. despite strong bipartisan ties between american lawmakers and israel and longstanding ties, this visit and this address is exposing some tension within the democratic party around that support right now in this political arena. cnn's lauren fox is back with us on capitol hill.

this is about to begin. talk to me about this speech and this moment. >> yeah. obviously the chamber is looking more and more full as we await this address by the israeli president. one thing that has become very clear is there is strong bipartisan support on capitol hill for israel despite the fact that over the last several days there have been some tensions in the democratic ranks that you talked about at the top. one of those tensions, of course, came over the weekend when the leader of the progressive caucus in the house of representatives pramila jayapal called israel a racist state. she later walked back those comments and the republicans putting a resolution on the floor last night asking lawmakers whether or not they supported israel. that resolution passed overwhelmingly which is nine democrats voting against it because they had concerns about israel's human rights record. there are a handful of democratic progressives who are not in the chamber for this

speech saying that they have again, concerns about israel's human rights record. some of those members include representative alexandria ocasio-cortez as well as cory bush and we know ilhan omar will not be in the chamber and neither is jamal bowman and those are a number of democrats that will not be attending the speech, but overwhelmingly, you are seeing on the house floor both republicans and democrats in the chamber getting ready to hear from, once again, israel's president herzog in just a few moments, kate? >> absolutely. we are showing right next to where you are, lauren, we are showing this is a live look at the house chamber of what lauren is talking about. with vice president kamala harris standing at the deus at the top right there and generally speaking democrats sit on the left and republicans on the right from the view we have here and they are standing by to see the israeli president enter

to begin this address. sara? >> now to a potential major clue into special counsel's jack smith's mindset as donald trump waits to learn if he'll be indicted again. we learned this morning the letter that calls trump a target in the 2020 election probe mentions three different statutes, conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the united states, deprivation of rights and tampering with a witness and those are what investigators are weighing as they investigate trump's actions before or around january 6th attack on the capitol. katelyn, we've now got these details. what happens now? >> sara, now we watch the grand jury in the federal court, the grand jury that has been at work for many months, even before the appointment of special counsel jack smith to lead this investigation around donald trump and others related to the 2020 election. that grand jury, we expect to be

back tomorrow. they have more work to do. we know of at least one witness, a personal aide to trump who also worked in the white house is scheduled to come in. scheduled to testify as well as potentially others and there have been so many pieces of this investigation that prosecutors can work for whenever they're carving out exactly in this indictment if it is approved by the grand jury and that, in front of you, is a list of some of the people that they've spoken to investigators and not the full list at all. that doesn't even include state officials and there on that board is some of the closest advisers to donald trump and the west wing. his own vice president mike pence all having spoken to the special counsel's office or testified to that grand jury already in addition to turning over documents and having so many other pieces of this investigation come together. so when you listed those three possible statutes, the two that really stand out, that conspiracy to defraud the united

states and the possible witness tampering statute which we believe will very likely would be charged as obstruction of an official proceeding and that very much tracks with the arc of this full january 6th investigation where pros cecuto have looked at not just what donald trump was doing in the west wing and not just what happened at capitol hill on january 6th, but what happened across the country and the same thing they've been asking questions about for many months now from many, many witnesses from a lot of different parts of both federal and state govern ams. sara? >> katelyn polantz thank you for your reporting throughout these many weeks. >> in revealing the letter, donald trump lashed out against the special counsel and that continued throughout the day. speaking publicly about the target letter and the likelihood of a third indictment while on the campaign trail in iowa. cnn's alayna treene is in bridgewater, new jersey, which is near donald trump's bedminster property and joining us now once again.

alayna, what is the message then? we heard from donald trump and also from his campaign team now. >> right. well, kate, donald trump yesterday in iowa was very defiant and he is putting on the public image that we have learned with the past two indictments and he railed against the charges and the investigation and the target letter and he argued that it amounts to election interference. he also specifically attacked special counsel jack smith, but privately, this target letter is very much weighing on him. he recognizes the seriousness of these charges, and i am told after speaking to some of donald trump's advisers that after his lawyers received that letter on sunday night donald trump did not share it widely with members of his inner circle. he kept it pretty private until announcing it on social media, with sean hannity during a town hall in cedar rapids, he

admitted that this bothers him. let's listen to that exchange, kate? >> it bothers me for everybody in this incredible, sold-out audience and it bothers you. i got the letter on sunday night, think of it. i don't think they've ever sent a letter on sunday night, and they were in a rush because they want to interfere -- it's interference with the election. it's election interference and it's never been done like this in the history of our country and it's a disgrace. >> so, kate, you can hear donald trump in that exchange complaining and he reiterated in a fund-raising e-mail, donald trump said, quote, the deranged prosecutor with biden's department of justice sent a letter saying that i am a target of the january 6th grand jury investigation. the e-mail continued on to say, quote, let me be perfectly clear. i did nothing wrong. i am completely innocent.

we are hearing donald trump deny any wrongdoing here and also trying to raise money off of this target letter as we've seen him do previously when he was indicted in manhattan earlier this year and last month in the classified documents probe. kate? >> alayna, thank you so much. >> i also want to show you a live look back on capitol hill and we are listening in to the israeli president who looks like he's about to begin his remarks and let's listen in to the israeli president addressing a joint meeting of congress. >> in its 75th year at the very podium from which my late father president haim herzog spoke is the honor of a lifetime, and i thank you wholeheartedly for it. [ applause ] >> i was born and raised in israel, but my father's diplomatic post at the united

nations brought my family to new york in the 1970s. during high school i volunteered with the legal aid society for the elderly in brooklyn, new york. i volunteered with the impoverished and the underprivileged elderly including war veterans and holocaust survivors who gave their best years to the country they loved. my mentor at the organization was a subtle, reserved professional. she was strictly business. the moment she broke character has remained with me for almost 50 years. it was the day she told me the love of her life died fighting for israel. her fiance, a tall, bright, american jewish boy was inspired by the zionist dream and the jewish people's desire for independence. he voluntarily boarded a ship to haifa, fought in the israeli

military and fell in the battle for israel's independence just weeks before their wedding. although decades have gone by and she rebuilt her life, the cracks in her heart remained. that moment in which i learned of the life he gave to the state of israel spoke to the very core of the bond forged between people of the united states and the people of israel. how the nations we built overcame loss. how deeply our stories compliment each other's, how far we've all come together. speaker mccarthy, i thank you for hosting this festive joint session of congress celebrating the first 75 years of israel's independence. just a few weeks ago during your first trip abroad as speaker you honored the israeli people by

addressing the knesset in jerusalem, the capital of the state of israel and the jewish people. your sincere expression of friendship on behalf of the united states of america truly resonated with the israelis. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. there is the beginning of this address from the israeli president isaac herzog marking the 75th anniversary of israel and in seeing this, this is a statement by washington, by congress, by american lawmakers this -- this address, this opportunity to address the congress is one of the marks of high estes team to foreign dignitaries that the congress affords and we are seeing that being afforded to the israeli president today. john? >> i know you'll be keeping an eye on that speech and while you continue to watch that we will give you the very latest on the

possible pending indictment against donald trump. joining us now is former trump white house lawyer jim schulze. counselor, great to see you. get that sip of water because you're about to do a lot of talking, my friend. there's new reporting about the the statutes that the special counsel thinks that donald trump might have violated listed in the target letter. i want to go through them with you. they are coniry to commit an offense or defraud the united states, deprivation of rights d e third is witness tampering, although we think broadly speaking that would be considered in the sense of obstction of an act of congress. when you see those listed as part of the target letter, how do they strike you? what's your major takeaway? >> i was not surprised by any of it. we have been talking about the conspiracy to defraud the united states government for some time, that feeds into the fake electors issue feeds into that,

the pressure upon the vice president feeds into that. perhaps switching out the attorney general or doing some type of investigation into the voting machines feeds into that. so no surprise there. the deprivation of rights. i assume that has some touch to the con spushl rights to the fair elections and the tampering piece is either garden variety witness tampering or something to do with congress, as you state. no surprise on any of these. a lot of this came out during the january 6th hearings, right? for those who didn't take the fifth, for those who testified we heard the testimony, so a lot of this will not end up being new information. it will be interesting to see how, what detail is in that indictment when it hits relating to kind of donald trump's knowledge, what people said about that as it relates to whether he thought he had won or lost the election. i think that's going to be a key. i know there's going to be a key

of what people said, maybe folks who had partially taken the fifth amendment or had otherwise not testified during the january 6th hearings and what information is going to come out like what we saw in the previous indictment that was kind of the surprise, right? the issue of the taped conversation that they had in the previous indictment or are there things like that that will lock this thing down. >> one person who did not testify to the january 6th committee was the former vice president of the united states, mike pence. you listed the conversation what mike pence is something that could fall within the framework of conspiracy to defraud. what are the types of possible things that mike pence who did speak with prosecutors could have said that could put donald trump in some kind of legal jeopardy? >> well, the question is what type of official impression took place, what conversations took place with the vice president

and what types pressure were put on him and what did they ask him to do. a lot of that did come out by in the january 6th commit hearings and that wouldn't be admissible in court. what was said to vice president? what was told to him was first-hand knowledge is what will be relevant in this proceeding so we'll have to wait and see. >> mike pence, mark meadows, rudy giuliani, if i'm the prosecutor i say what did donald trump tell you? that's new information. up until this point the public hasn't had the exact answers to that, correct? >> that's right. a lot of that, again was hearsay as to what others had said in the january 6th committee hearing that people had said to mark meadows and it was a secondhand account. again, none of that matters as it relates to a trial where you have rules of evidence that you have to follow.

now what they testify to will be materiel, relevant and we'll just have to wait and see. i'm sure it will show up in the indictment if it matters. >> if it matters we can expect to see it, maybe, maybe soon the clock ticking from the sunday night delivery of the target letter, four days for donald trump to respond to the grand jury. does that expire tomorrow, thursday or friday or will they take longer than that. we'll have to wait and see. this investigation is taking place in washington, d.c. the mar-a-lago documents case was florida based for the federal jury and now before a federal judge. why would are will it matter and i think you'll have a less friendly jury in washington d.c. and that's the case for donald trump in my estimation. you'll have a more friendly jury

in florida than you are in washington, d.c., but again all of this comes down to at the end of the day that jury will be instructed on the law and whether the facts meet the elements of the crime, and they're going to have to make a determination based upon the facts and marrying that up to the law and say whether a crime is being committed. so a lot of that plays into, you know, how popular is he. how unpopular is he, but at the end of the day, george, typically, you'll get a jury of your peers that will sit before and that will listen to the testimony and make judgments and lawyers, good lawyers are going to be striking jurors in the jury selection process and making determinations on who would be a good jury. you will get a fair jury and they'll look at the evidence in the facts and make a determination. >> very quickly, if possible. you get a trial more quickly, a court date more quickly than they appear to be getting in florida? >> so no, i don't think so. i think in this case, i think

this is going to be more evidence intensive in terms of testimony of witnesses. i think the testimony will be more voluminous in this case and i don't think it will move as quickly as florida. the florida documents case is a much simpler case. you have a lot of counts, but the issues are pretty bake in terms of what the allegations are. i think it will be more complicated in this case. i think it will be a longer process. >> jim shields, great to see you. thank you as always for your help here. >> sara? >> coming up how will the republican 2024 candidates reacting to another possible trump indictment? cnn's jake tapper will join us with his exclusive interview with governor ron desantis who right now is trump's main challenger. why and how did a u.s. soldier cross into the anti-american authoritarian state of north korea. what we learned about the army private's actions leading up to

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seems. that's at least the take from some of his allies and supporters who have not so quietly been pushing for him to shake up his campaign in these early stages of the primary race, but will that all change now with the new possible legal troubles that donald trump could be facing who desantis is laser focused on trying to unseat as the front-runner. my colleague, jake tapper asked desantis about that target letter to donald trump in his exclusive sitdown with desantis about the state of his campaign. >> so i do have to ask about the breaking news today. >> sure. >> your chief competitor, the front-runner right now donald trump says he was informed that he is the target of special counsel's jack smith's investigation into efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. he has to report to the grand jury. if jack smith has evidence of criminality should donald trump be held accountable? >> so here's the problem. this country is going down the

road of criminalizing political differentes, and i think that's wrong. alvin bragg stretched a statute in manhattan to be able to try to target donald trump. most people, even people on the left acknowledge if that wasn't trump, that case would not have likely been brought against a normal civilian, and so you have a situation where the department of justice, fbi have been weaponized against people they don't like and the number one example of that happened to be against donald trump with the russia collusion that was not a legitimate investigation, that was being done to try to drive trump out of office, and so what i've said as president, my job is to restore a single standard of justice to end weaponization of these aejs and we'll have a new fbi director on day one and we'll have big changes at the department of justice. americans across the political spectrum need to have confidence that what is going on is based on the rule of law and not based on what political tribe you're

in, and then the second thing i would say is this country needs to have a debate about the country's future. if i'm the nominee we'll be able to focus on president biden's failures and i'll be able to articulate a positive vision for the future. i don't think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in january, and so i want to focus on looking forward. i don't want to look back. i do not want to see him. i hope he doesn't get charged and i don't think it will be good for the country, but at the same time i have to focus on looking forward and that's what we're going to do. >> there was much more to that conversation and jake joins us now. jake is also the author of the new book which is out now. "all of the demons are here." jake, hearing that bit when desantis says i want to focus the future. i don't want to focus on the past. we've heard that from him and other candidates, as well and it left me wondering in the context if desantis can sustain that position of i don't want to talk

about 2020. i want to focus on the future. just given what could possibly be coming down the pike of an indictment of donald trump the front-runner regarding the 2020 election? >> yeah. i mean, it is a difficult position to hold because what he is doing is he's trying to make a tacit argument in favor of himself over donald trump. the tacit argument is if donald trump is the nominee, then we'll spend the entire election talking about these charges, these claims, these lies about the 2020 election being stolen as opposed to focusing on joe biden and if we focus on joe biden then i, ron desantis, can win, and if we focus on donald trump's lies then donald trump will not be able to win, but that's not what he is saying clearly and precisely, right? he's making a more tacit argument because he doesn't want to alienate trump supporters and

people who believe the election lies. so it's a subtle argument, in a way, and i have to say just as a general observation, subtlety is not particularly valued in politics in today's america. >> that's a good point, and there was obvious hope among desantis' team and his supporters that should trump implode that he would be the last man standing. he would be the heir apparent as i've heard it described so many times and not clear if that will happen with regard to donald trump, but how does that fit in to how he talked to you about his campaign and about the letter that donald trump received and just the state of it? >> again, with the exception of chris christie, asa hutchinson and will herd, all of the other republican candidates are doing everything they can to not criticize donald trump explicitly for fear of alienating his supporters and they hope that some other force

whether it's a special counsel or something else will do the work of taking donald trump out of the race and then they'll be there to pick up the pieces. that's a big hope. presidential races are really not about hoping that a meteor hits your opponent. you have to take out your opponent and i don't know that as of right now the affirmative case for ron desantis and there is one to make. he won re-election with 60% of the vote in a swing state, florida. i don't know that he is doing what he needs to do in order to be the one that defeats donald trump as opposed to hoping for the meteor. >> and we can check the political history books, but i will agree with you. i think the political strategy of hoping and wishing for the meteor on strike your opponent has not been a tried and true strategy in past presidential primaries. we will double-check this. >> not in the last 2,000 years. i mean, i can't speak about the

m messosoic area. it's possible a t-rex was taken out. >> the t-rex and the brontosaurus. anyway, let us talk about the book and the strangest turn of the conversation that we've done in a while. and all of the demons, as i mentioned is out now. i like the characters a lot in this book and i liked characters in this book. one of the characters, evel knievel, are there aspects of this character that nod to trump? >> i think so. i think the dna is there and there's this quintessentially american character, the archetype whether it's p.t. barnum, or evel knievel and not in a pejorative sense, but someone who is really good at getting media attention and really good at being a salesman and a showman and really good at getting followers and really good at drawing attention to himself and shooting from the

hip and that's sort of the thing. i did a lot of research for this book because one of the main characters, ike, is a motorcycle enthusiast and obviously evel knievel is in the book, as well, but i don't know anything about motorcycle and after i wrote the draft i brought it to this enthusiast writer named mark gardner and after we'd done the business, he made it seem as though ike who tells half the story in the book as if he knows anything about motorcycles because the reader needs to believe he's an expert. mark sent me an op ed in which he had compared evel knievel and donald trump. the dna is just there. there's this showman archetype and donald trump is just the latest in that vein. >> that's interesting. why did you do the '70s? was it the politics of the time? >> it was a fascinating, weird time. i was only 8 in 1977 when this

book takes place. i don't remember most of it. i remember gas lines and disco and elvis dying and that's about it, but in this one year, 1977, so many strange things happened. stuntman superstar evel knievel literally jumps shark, and this is eight months before fonz does it on "happy days." studio 54 opens and the new york city blackout and ufo sightings all over the country and cults are rising all over the country, the son of sam serial killer is terrorizing new york and with that comes the rise of tabloid journalism. it's just this really exciting, bizarre -- >> this is so much like our time, just like now. you just listed out and changed the details slightly. it's like the '70s is happening again. >> totally. totally. 100%. there's a lot of resonance. the country was also going through this period of real disillusionment post-watergate

and post-vietnam war and you hear a lot of the same echoes today. so by writing about this period and having fun with it, it was also a way to kind of talk about today without talking about today. >> so fun. it's good to see you. thank you. >> thanks, kate. >> good to see you. all of the demons are here, it is out now. someone who i know read the book, what? three times? john berman. >> one thing i learned about motorcycles from jake is all about the leather. >> yeah. >> he knew about the leather before he did the research. >> when i think of john berman and jake tapper i just think more leather. >> new details about the woman who disappeared for two days after calling 911 saying she saw a toddler on the side of the road. ra you're in my shot! ...be sure to get my g good side! get two pairs of celebrity frames for $89.95 for a limiteted time at america's best. book an exam today.

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defend itself from enemy and foe yet whose citizens continue to greet each other with the word peace, shalom, a country which takes pride in its vibrant democracy, its protection of minorities, human rights and civil liberties as laid down by its parliament, the knesset and safeguarded by its strong supreme court and independent judiciary. [ applause ] >> today's address comes after democratic congresswoman pramila jayapal walked back comments she had made referring to israel as a racist state. she apologized for those comments. i want to bring in aaron david miller for more perspective on this. he's a former middle east negotiator with the state department and a senior fellow with the carnegie endowment. aaron, how significant is that the israeli president is here although he is in a ceremonial role, he is not in a power

brokering role. >> i thanks for having me. his father chaim addressed a joint session. even though they had symbolic roles and no legislative and no executive and no judicial authority, they can at key moments play several roles in bringing people together and bridging gaps and that's p precisely what the government has tried to do to overhaul the political system and judiciary to undermine american democracy. he hasn't had much success and the message he brought to biden is the value, those common values are critically important to the sustainability of the relationship. he's navigating a tough line, though, sara, because i think he would like to be prime minister at one point and he doesn't want

to alienate the right wing or the left, and i listened to most of the speech and he really did take the high road. no criticism of benjamin netanyahu and very upbeat of the relationship and optimistic about the future. >> he's still going and he got a standing ovation from all of the members of congress, bipartisan support, if you will. i do want to ask you about meeting netanyahu. president biden has not met with netanyahu yet since he became the prime minister once again. can you give us a sense of why that is and what that tells us about that relationship? >> it's been difficult from the beginning. i think the president and again, i worked for the democratic and republican administrations and american presidents don't like fighting with israeli prime ministers. it's messy. it's distracting and it can be politically costly, but this american president faces the

most right-wing and fundamentalist government which is actively pursuing the annexation with the palestinians on the west bank and trying to change it. joe biden's conundrum, sara, is that he can't live with ben jam benjamin netanyahu and can't live without him. he did invite as president herzog was here, he did invite the prime minister to visit the u.s., no venue, no date, and i think sent a pretty strong signal. he does not want to go to war with benjamin netanyahu, but he can reach him. >> we are looking at live pictures of the israeli president speaking to congress and all of the members of congress standing up and cheering some of the words he's been staying throughout the morn. john?

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the army as a result of an assault charge he faced in seoul, but it does seem he ducked his military escorts and never board the flight. this morning we have a look at how the mechanics work at the dmz. will ripley is there. >> i'm standing less than five miles from the korean demilitarized zone or the dmz where the u.s. army private made that illegal crossing very unusually from the south to the north just beyond that bridge there, the unification bridge. we are quite a long distance away from the dmz and this is as close as we're allowed to get. the spike strips and we can't even shoot the other side of the road where we saw military vehicles coming in, this is a heavily fortified wear and tour groups with paperwork are allowed to go in and that is believed to have happened and this army private travis king 23 years old who had served almost 50 days in detention in north korea after some sort of an assault or scuffle. lawyers described it as a

potentially drunken conversation, and it ended him not only in custody here in south korea, but he was being sent back to the united states to be separated and disciplinary action from the army and he would have basically been kicked out of the army. so instead what was believed to have happened is he joined the tour group and crossed the unification bridge and toured the area. this is an area that's familiar to you because this is where trump and the supreme leader kim jong-un met and had an impromptu discussion several years back and president trump stepped over what's known as the demarcation line and would be the first sitting u.s. president to step on north korean soil. we don't have a video that exists, to show exactly what steps mr. king took, but if, indeed, he made the same crossing in the same area it's very likely his footsteps and the sprint that he had to go pretty quickly before taken back by security officers and he

would have taken the same path as the former president donald trump. mr. king is likely in north korean detention and perhaps in isolation and he's one of the outsiders to go into north korea since the start of the pandemic and they've had the borders sealed and they're afraid of covid-19. most of the population remains unvaccinated and after a period of quarantine, he could last who knows how long? and he'll be asked about his military background. he is active duty and he has a limited time in the military according to court records, maybe less than two years. if the north koreans decide that his intelligence is not of special value to them then they might basically try to get him back as quickly as they can or he can sit around and wait for quite some time because right now the u.s. and north korea do not have official communications as tensions have been rising here and ballistic missile launches in the north and a nuclear submarine now parked off the coast of the south. will ripley, cnn, outside the dmz in south korea.

>> our thanks to will ripley on the scene there. kate? >> coming up for us, what really happened to carlee russell? we just got in dispatch audio of police responding to the 911 call from the woman who disappeared for two days after saying she saw a toddler on the side of the road. we'll be back. i never thought twice about feeding her kibble. but about two years s ago, i realized she was overweight. she e was always out of breath. that's when i decided to introduce the farmer's dog to o her diet. it's just so fresh that she literally gets bubbles in her mouth. now she's a lot more active, she's able to join us on our adventures. and we're all able to do things as a family. ♪ get started at betterforthem.com there are currently more than 750,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs in the u.s. the google cybersecurity ceificate was made to fill that gap and help grow the workforce that's keeping us all safe.

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dog are back on dry land after being lost at sea they say for three months. timothy shaddock was sailing with his dog bella from mexico to french poll niche is that in

early may when his catamaran was damaged by a storm in the pacific. they drifted for three months until monday when they were spotted more than 1,200 miles from land by the crew on a tuna boat. >> i love being on the ocean and a lot of it is about the love of it, you know, the love of being there. >> so we will find you out there again soon? >> probably not. >> so shaddock says he and bella survived on raw fish and rain water. so like sushi and water, sara? >> thank you for that, john. this morning police are sharing new details in that strange alabama missing persons case. carlee russell disappeared after calling 911 to tell police she saw a toddler she thought was walking alone ott interstate.

when police arrived there was no sign of a baby and no sign of russell herself. today investigators say they want to talk to russell hoping to get a more detailed sequence of events about the night her family says she was abducted. there is also brand-new dispatch audio that has come to us. cnn's ryan young has been following this story from the start. ryan, what can you tell us about this audio and what it reveals? >> reporter: sara, we are going to share that with everyone in just a second but to say the internet has been interested in this story would be an understatement. people have been trying to figure out what happened to this young woman. she's been found and of course she's with her family. we have to listen to this audio beuse this is what police have put out anthe will be a news confen later this afternoon. let's take a lin to the dispatch audio. >> south, mile marker 10, going to be a child walking the -- 3 or 4-year-old child walking on

the side of the internet next to her. going to be close by in a red mercedes sedan with the hazards on. child will be a white male wearing a white t-shirt and a diaper. rv advising there is no cars in the area, the child has been abandoned on the side of the road. >> do you still have them on the phone? >> negative but she said she would stand by for police. >> call rv back, she is not at her vehicle. >> red color russell out of birmingham. >> you can see that right there, sara, what we know is today at 3:30 there will be a news conference with the hoover police department, also apparently according to that police department she did go to target to buy some snacks, the snacks were not found in the car. so many more questions, also no one else called 911 about a missing child. sara? >> ryan young, i know this has heated the internet up, there are a lot of people trying to figure out what happened here.

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