i wasn't emotional, i had a lot of things that i was -- that i just in because i was dealing with trauma that i never brought to the forefront that i couldn't talk to anyone about. if i didn't hear that story in the locker room, i don't know if i would have ever started going to counseling. but i became confident over the years and i got to the point where i even went to see the guy who shot and killed my mom because that's how confident that i was in myself and i wanted to come out and share that counseling is important. we need to help each other. >> wow. well, that then reminds me of the moment in your film, isaac, about the young man saying, feeling the courage in that moment where he wanted to reach out to his dad after so much years, feeling abandoned. i wish we could talk more about it. we've got breaking news. really fantastic connecting with you, and congratulations on a really inspiring, enriching and

powerful film. >> just wanted to tell everybody -- >> yes. >> -- if you want to see the film, go to truefreedomfilm.com and sign up for the screener and it will have the screener there, as well as cvs health, aetna, they gave a facilitators guide, so if you want it in your mentoring program. truefreedomfilm.com. that's where you can download the film and watch it. thank you so much, fredricka. we really appreciate this. >> perfect. making it available, that's the key. to you so much to both of you gentlemen. great to see you. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. in washington, d.c., i'm fredricka whitfield. first on cnn, we're following a major new development in what could soon be donald trump's fourth indictment. just a short time ago i spoke with former georgia republican

lieutenant governor, jeff duncan, who told me that he will testify in the next 48 hours before a grand jury in atlanta. district attorney fani willis has subpoenaed duncan to testify about efforts by former president donald trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia. we also now know that an independent journalist has tweeted today that he was also called by the fulton county district attorney, and also was asked to testify before that grand jury on tuesday. jeff duncan is now a cnn political commentator and this is his entire interview with me earlier today, as duncan talks about the subpoena and his plans to testify. >> so have you received that notice that would come from their office, a 48-hour notice to testify? >> fredricka, i did just receive notification to appear on tuesday morning at the fulton

county grand jury, and i certainly will be there to do my part in recounting the facts. >> okay. you were one of 70 people who testified last year before a grand jury. is it your expectation that on tuesday, when you're asked questions again, that they will be similar, or do you expect or are you preparing yourself for new questions and a broadening of the investigation? >> well, i have no expectations as to the questions and i'll certainly answer whatever question is put in front of me and don't want to go any deeper than that to jeopardize the investigation. for me, this is a story that's important for republicans to hear, americans to hear. let's hear the truth and nothing but the truth about donald trump's actions and the surrounding cast of characters around him. we watched a series of events happen here that were tragic and untruthful and he's got a chance to present these facts and say, hey, i didn't know what was going on, or i think what reality is going on, they knew exactly what they were doing. i think the interesting part to

this indictment that's different from the others is that there's going to be 12 plus co-conspirators, and these folks don't have the same level of loyalty they had for donald trump when he was trying to change the election outcome in 2020. it's going to be interesting to see which way they go. these are serious charges, racketeering, conspiracy, these are things garnered for the mafia or the mob. so we'll certainly see this get ratcheted up in the next few days. >> tell me more about that. people who you believe once were very loyal to trump, now as a result of the investigation and the ongoing investigation, no longer have the same kind of loyalties. how do you believe that may have changed the building of this case against trump? >> yeah, i think a number of people arrived on donald trump's conspiracy team from a number of different angles. some folks got there because the sitting president, the head of

their party told them it was true, so they just believed it word for word. others got there because they saw an opportunity to be in the cool kids club for the first time, to be in the inner circle of the president. and lots of things in between. that's going to be the part that plays out. there are currently elected folks, formerly elected folks, party leads, successful business owners. this is a wide swath of georgia, representatives of georgia, that are going to have to face the consequences of answering tough questions. but the reality is i have yet to see a single ounce of proof that the election was not fair and legal. didn't turn out the way republicans wanted it to, but it was fair and legal here in georgia, and quite honestly, the rest of the country. this is important for the republican party to face. if we're going to truly turn and look forward, turn the page for a gop 2.0, we've got to have donald trump in the rearview mirror and the uncomfortable facts of what he did in the post election 2020 part of time is going to be part of the healing

process for the republican party. it's necessary but it's going to be painful. >> how immediately did your loyalties to trump as the lieutenant governor of georgia as a republican -- when and how and under what circumstances did that change where you were no longer on board with the former president? >> so it's interesting, it actually started -- this is the first chapter of my book, a rally two days before the election in rome, georgia, i made remarks before former president trump got on stage. i made every time we lower taxes, it's not just for republicans, it's for democrats, too. i got booed by 2,000 maga hats. i said every time we improve education it's for republicans and democrats and they got louder. i said our policies are so good, they hope the people that don't vote for us, and i got booed louder. i realized that crew of 30,000 people were not conservative,

they were angry. and within hours of the 2020 election when i started hearing donald trump talk about his notion that the election was rigged and the machines were corrupt and whatever else conspiracy theories, i quickly turned the page and i tried to get to it as quickly as i could so that i could try to stop the grass fire from turning into a forest fire. unfortunately, i was unsuccessful. there wasn't enough of us. instead, we're going to have the slow, painful process of realizing what the truth is, that donald trump ran the worst campaign ever and he will get beat by joe biden again because it will be the worst campaign a republican could ever put forward. >> again, the breaking news here, the former lieutenant governor, jeff duncan, of georgia, has been called to appear before a fulton county, georgia, grand jury. he said he will be there on tuesday. with me now to discuss these developments is a former federal

prosecutor and marshal cowen. tell us about the significance of this announcement by duncan that he will testify in the coming days before the grand jury. >> fredricka, it's happening. it's finally here. there have been so much speculation and preparation and security measures and grand juries and rulings and motions and litigation. it's finally here, with these notifications going out to jeff duncan and another member of -- another person who is going to testify to the grand jury with these notifications. it is clear that fanny i willis moving forward. this is her big moment to give this presentation to the grand jury. expect it to begin on monday, could spill into tuesday, where she's expected, as cnn has been reporting for a while, to seek indictments against donald trump and many of his republican allies in georgia, possibly more than a dozen defendants. we are talking very serious

felony charges on the table like conspiracy and racketeering, rico, which fani willis has a lot of experience with. so the notifications really are the starting gun of the final stretch of this investigation. >> you said notifications going out today. so we know jeff duncan, we understand that another witness who was an independent journalist. what can you tell us about that person and does that mean there are more after that? >> there very well could be more. you broke the story on your show with jeff duncan. and in the wake of that, shortly after that, the independent journalist george cheaty, who is an atlanta-based journalist, he tweeted out that he had been asked to appear on tuesday as well. we previously reported that he was subpoenaed, and now he is announcing that the date of that appearance will be, like lieutenant governor duncan, on

tuesday. this is an interesting figure because he actually was a witness in 2020, december 2020, to the fake electors, the fake pro-trump electors meeting in the statehouse in atlanta in december 2020 as part of that trump-backed scheme to subvert the electoral college process. that might be a clue of one of the things that the grand jurors are going to hear. that is one of the many prongs of this investigation, the fake elector scheme. it will all come to a head presumably in the next few days. >> these notifications going out to witnesses to appear before the grand jury happening simultaneous to the former president making campaign stops there in iowa at the state fair today. that was the video that you were seeing just a moment ago. so what does this mean that you would have some witnesses called to testify before the grand jury

this week, and these are witnesses that have already testified in the past and now being brought back? what does it say about where the case is? >> well, it says that we are in mile 25 of the marathon, so to speak. we are basically close to the end, as marshal mentioned, fred. this now is a charging grand jury, a grand jury that can return an indictment, and fani willis and her team are putting their evidence into that grand jury so that ultimately they can ask in the very near future, whether it's this week or next, ask for the fourth indictment of donald trump, and perhaps the first of some of his co-conspirators or schemers. >> does a d.a. pick a witness to testify again reveal something new about information? is it to clarify, or is it to, perhaps, underscore something

that's already been discovered? >> so it's a couple things. first of all, the information needs to get from the special grand jury to the new one. instead of reading the testimony, you could have someone read the transcript of what happened before the special grand jury. it's obviously more powerful if it's presented in person. they can ask some additional questions, for example, new things that they've learned over the course of their investigation. but ultimately the pain purpose is to take the information they already have -- i don't think there's going to be any big surprises about what the lieutenant governor is going to say since they've already spoken to him. but they're going to put that in front of this grand jury so the grand jury has an opportunity to see these witnesses, see the evidence, and the district attorney can make sure the grand jury is going to return the indictment she puts before them. >> and renato, this case is different than the other three indictments of trump, in that

this is a state case and won't involve federal charges. last hour when i was talking to election attorney ben ginsberg, he reminded us that state cases, if trump were to be re-elected, he would be unable to pardon himself. what else is significant about the types of charges the fulton county prosecutor is considering? >> a few things. not only would he not be able to pardon himself, but the pardon process in georgia means that governor kemp would not be able to pardon him either. there's a pardon board, so it's a more complicated process. he also would not be able to shut down the investigation in the same way. in other words, trump could try to make some argument to courts in georgia that as president he can't be subject to a state indictment. but if he was president of the united states, he could order the attorney general, install an attorney general, someone like jeffrey clark, who would literally shut down jack smith's investigation. he can't do that to fani willis.

she's an elected official in the state of georgia. but separate and apart from that, unlike the other state charge, there's a manhattan d.a. indictment that's also not a federal charge. this is for conduct that occurred while he was president of the united states, not beforehand. this is not just some sort of books and records violation. this is a charge for him trying to overturn the election in georgia, and as i think marshal pointed out a moment ago, there are potentially others that can be part of this. there's an interplay between this and those other cases. if, for example, john eastman or rudy giuliani faces a charge here and ultimately decides that it's in their best interest to cooperate, that could have an impact on these other investigations as well. so definitely important. there's really a multiplier effect and interplay between these different prosecutions that we should keep in mind. >> another commonality in all of this, marshal, even though there

are distinctions of these three indictments and now a possible fourth, is that trump's style is to go after the prosecutors, go after the special counsel, jack smith, go after the d.a., alvin bragg and also his record of going after -- and i'm talking about verbally, taunting, threats, however you want to put it, of fani willis. so given that, then, marshal, how does that continue to complicate these cases, even as these prosecutors, special counsel may try to coordinate with one another? >> the atmosphere of threats and intimidation and vitreal has only been getting stronger and stronger, and with fani willis, who is an african american woman elected in atlanta, she's actually the first woman to hold that position of d.a. in fulton county, a lot of the attacks have been racial in character.

i would be remiss if i didn't point out that donald trump himself regularly accuses fani willis of being racist and marxist and a lunatic. he in the past several days spread some incredibly ugly claims that are totally false about her that i won't repeat. she has had security beefed up, not just in the courthouse, but for her personally. look, if he does end up as a criminal defendant in the state of georgia, he will have to answer to a judge, and those comments may be brought before the judge, just like they have been right here in washington, d.c., as we literally saw yesterday with a hearing in his federal election subversion case, where prosecutors were flagging to the judge trump's post on truth social, if you come after me, i'll come after you. and whether that type of rhetoric -- where that falls on the line between free speech,

defending one's self and a serious threat to the interests of justice. >> fani willis has said she's been called the n word and been subjected to threats of violence more in the last year than she has in her entire life. the connection that she's made to the investigation of the former president. marshal cowen, thank you. still to come, the political impact of this breaking news, new signs that a fourth indictment for donald trump could be coming soon in fulton county, georgia. the former president campaigning right now in iowa, as you see right there. we're live from des moines next. their team of independent tax attorneys will work with your cpa to determine if your company is eligibible. [whip sound] take the first step toto see if your smamall business qualifie. ♪ drumroll by lónis, little league ♪

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former president donald trump is at the iowa state fair where he is drawing in quite the crowd of supporters, this coming after former lieutenant governor of georgia and cnn contributor jeff duncan revealed to cnn today that he has been told to testify before a fulton county grand jury about the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. joining me right now is cnn's

jeff zeleny, who is at the state fair, and jeff duncan telling me about his appearance now on tuesday. he said that today. has that signal been sent to the former president and has he commented on it? >> reporter: this is something that former president donald trump obviously has been expecting. impact, he's been campaigning on the fact that he's been anticipating, and he would say looking forward to a fourth indictment in georgia. at least politically. legally, of course, it is a very different matter. but the news was happening as he was flying here to the state fair. he made a comment about it on his social media channel, again talking about that phone call that is really at issue here in the georgia investigation. he called it a perfect call. we heard that call for ourselves when he was asking the georgia secretary of state for more votes. there's no doubt that is hanging over the trump campaign, as are the other indictments.

but he politically speaking is using that to gain support and for his advantages here. but he was here at the state fair, and of course he is a cele celebrity, so he gains more attention than some of his rivals. he talked about his standing in iowa and how he plans to campaign aggressively and remain the front-runner. >> we are not taking any chances. we're way up in the polls in iowa and all over the country. we're up by 50 point. we don't want to take any chances. we'll be back. we love you very much. >> reporter: now, he's not quite up by 50%, but there's no doubt he is the front-runner. his rivals know that very well. the question is, will he remain that as these developments happen throughout the next several months? of course, the first debate is in less than two weeks' time and these indictments are playing out. but even though he's the front-runner, there are at least half the party polls that would

suggest that republicans are looking in a different direction, open to someone else. we will have to let this play out. this is very much a competition that is fully engaged. you can tell by seeing so many of his rivals here at the fair today campaigning as well. >> they are, indeed. jeff zeleny, thanks so much. we'll check back with you. straight ahead, as maui residents begin to assess the loss in lahaina, we're seeing more videos of harrowing escapes out of lahaina. we'll show you how one family and their pets made it out alive.

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abruptly was shut down. the line of cars waiting there stretched for nearly a mile. you can see right there. at least 80 people died and many more are missing after wildfires raged across the island this week. let's go now to cnn's mike valerio, on maui. what is the latest on people trying to get in, being turned around, being told, you know, that the situation is very tenuous? >> reporter: it's unbelievable, after all the heart-stopping images we've seen since tuesday afternoon, with people waiting to get in, sometimes 15 hours or more, it is now at times traffic here on maui that is deciding whether people get in past this police perimeter. when you walk with me down here, this is the main road. just over to my right, some of these folks have been waiting

since far before dawn. the story, essentially, fredricka, is that this roadway reopened yesterday, but because too many people were going into lah lahaina beyond the barriers that were meant to only be accessed by fema, that weren't investigated yet by first responders, the police said now we've got to stop everybody, we're going to shut this down and reassess how we're managing this. on that front, we spoke to a bunch of motorists before dawn. take a listen to what they told us about their own journeys. patrick made it in, todd did not, the second gentleman you're going to hear from. listen to what they said. >> i got out here by 11:00, made it to the other side. i was done by 3:00, picking up all the supplies i got. and then got to here and i've been here since 3:00 in the afternoon. >> you've been here since 3:00. >> none of us have moved. my coworker is up there two

trucks. i've got three other coworkers back there. they've been here the whole time. >> it's either laughter or tears. when i talk to all the people in our business that have been affected, we have about 14 people that lost their houses. so we're just trying to do the most good we can. but it's really frustrating when you can't. >> reporter: so what you should know, this is the latest in the story line that is all about communication. everything from the emergency sirens, the cell phone alerts not going through, because beyond this perimeter there's not much cell phone service since tuesday. this is the latest, when you think about all the people waiting in this line, going back for about a mile, we're trying to get the word out. people who are turned around are trying to say, look, as soon as i go down this road i'm going to tell people that because there's this traffic jam, don't go any farther. in terms of the new reporting that cnn has for the wider picture of what it is going to take to rebuild, we have new numbers from fema that estimate

it's goi to take $5.5 billion to rebuild the epicenter of this crisis area. also, 2,200 structures damaged or destroyed, 4,500 people who are projected to be in need of long-term shelter. so essentially what people should know, this is just the start of rebuilding, of finding how structures like your homes, if they made it from late tuesday night into wednesday, if people survived as well. this is just another roadblock, another chapter for people's misery here on maui. >> yeah, misery on maui. that's one way to put it. thank you so much. a couple in lahaina is sharing their terrifying escape to safety after the wildfire barrelled toward their home. cnn affiliate hawaii news now

has their story. >> oh, my god, i think we need to load up the car maybe. oh, my god, it is so close. >> reporter: jill and mike perkins say the lahaina fire started just behind their mill street home around 3:30 tuesday, with no notice to evacuate, they jumped in their car, with their dog, two cats, and just a few items. >> oh, my god. this is a nightmare. >> reporter: as the angry flames roared all around them. >> we have the kitties and sonny, and i have you. >> reporter: they desperately tried to figure out how to escape. >> i thought we were going to die. i said, my god, this can't be happening right now. >> reporter: their lahaina home devoured as they fled. >> it's coming, let's go! >> i only took a videotape because i knew that was probably the last time we'll be there,

and it is just unbelievable to watch. >> keep going. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: perkins say traffic was at a standstill because of live wires over the highway, then crews put down plywood over the lines and they drove over it one car at a time. they say each second was excruciating. >> probably 80 cars in front of us. >> i don't know. >> 60 or 80 cars. >> it seemed like every second was ten hours waiting, and i kept saying, do we get out and run? things are hitting our car, like branches and embers were hitting our car. a live wire hit our car. >> we had a live power line hit the top of our car. i was terrified. i was concerned for our family and for all of the other people

there. >> reporter: their house now in ashes, but memories of their beloved dickinson plantation home and lahaina still strong. >> there are so many stories of escape just like that. meantime, there's also growing criticism over how authorities handled the early moments of the wildfires as flames spread across the island. hawaii's attorney general will lead a review. there are questions and concerns about the warning sirens not activated, which critics say cost some people their lives. that's not the only concern about hawaii's wildfire preparedness. here is cnn's pam brown. >> reporter: cnn is learning hawaii officials underestimated the risk of wildfires in a recent report. even as other documents show officials knew they lacked

resources to prevent and fight fires. >> we had advanced notice comin winds, low humidity, and the fuels any ignition would have sparked a pretty big fire and that's exactly what we saw. >> reporter: in a state report out last year ranking natural disasters, hawaii officials classified the wildfire risk to human life as low in this color-coded chart. the assessment coming years after hurricane lane fanned the flames in hawaii, ravaging maui and oahu. that highlighted the threat and how unprepared officials in hawaii were dealing with such a disaster, with the county report in 2021 noting hurricane lane made small fires swell and stretched public safety resources, with strong winds grounding air support. that storm should have been a wake-up call, according to this planning document from hawaii's

emergency management agency. other state and local documents show hawaii lagged behind in preparedness for the devastating wildfires playing out now that have killed more than 50 people, left countless people missing, and triggered widespread evacuations. a cruel déjà vu for some residents. >> about four years ago we had another hurricane and we lost our house in the fire. rebuilt, and what happened yesterday is killing me right now. we just lost our house again. twice in four years. >> reporter: a 2021 report also makes the troubling point that, despite the increasing number of wildfires, fire prevention was given, quote, short shrift from the department of fire and safety. the plan also included, quote, nothing about what can and should be done to prevent fires, which it called a significant oversight. >> given how catastrophic this

event was, i think there will be a lot of pressure on the state and other organizations to improve their fire prevention actions that they're taking statewide. >> reporter: the increase in fires in hawaii comes as maui has faced increasing drought conditions in recent years, contributing to warnings like this, in a may webinar from the wildfire management organization. >> hawaii has a big wildfire problem, we are on par with states in the western continental u.s. the impacts are broad and long lasting. >> reporter: now residents are left to rebuild again as the threat of disasters looms with no clear plan in place. >> i know what i need to do. we've done it before. it sucks. >> reporter: pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> for more information on how you can help hawaii wildfire

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that was annexed by russia in 2014. we've seen previous attacks cause damage. it's unclear if today's scene resulted in damage to the bridge. russian officials said it did not and the two missiles, one they said was an adapted aircraft missile that was intercepted, and holiday people on the beach filmed a smokescreen designed to, you might say, obscure any strike had it occurred or make it harder for the missile to impact the bridge itself. but, again, a reminder for russians of how things they may have considered to be i'm inpregnabole at the start of the war, and we've seen drone attacks. today's attack another reminder that if ukraine is finding the southern counteroffensive moving at a slower pace than they would like, it's still able to hit key

parts of russian infrastructure, it seems at will, even if today's attack wasn't successful. we're also hearing of a ukrainian order to evacuate a city not far from kharkiv. they've been saying the 12,000 civilians who returned there since it was liberated from the russians last year that they should evacuate, and now a more direct order for the children there, possibly over 500 to be taken out immediately. this is because of a russian push there, intense artillery strikes on what remains of that town, and a sign that perhaps moscow is trying to change the narrative after feeling intense pressure in the south, to find another area where it could distract ukrainian forces and force them to readjust where their strength necessarily is. but, still, the scene at the bridge to crimea, a reminder that even though this counteroffensive is sort of moving at a slower pace than ukraine would like, it's able to project strength elsewhere. nick paton walsh, dnipro,

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the police chief in lansing, michigan, issuing an apology after an incident in which a black child was handcuffed by officers while he was taking out the trash behind his home. cnn's isabel rosales is following the developments for us. so what exactly is the chief saying? >> hey, fred, lansing police are calling this a case of mistaken identity saying that this was the wrong time and the wrong place, and in fact, they put out two pictures, a side by side compar comparison showing the public, the suspect who they were looking for and then the 12-year-old boy that they mistakenly detained. this all caught national attention due to a tiktok video put out by a neighbor who shot this con con confrontation on t cell phone showing the boy in handcuffs, and the father shouting several feet away. that boy is then placed in the back of a police car. he is then after a short time

uncuffed and released back to his father. this tiktok video got nearly 5 million views and thousands of comments. now, the boy's father michael bernard spoke with wilx, an affiliate of cnn. he says he was washing the dishes and then told his son to take out the trash, and here's what he said happened during an off camera interview with our affiliate. >> i got concerned when i didn't see him come back within that period of time, and i walk to here, look out and to my surprise the cops had him in handcuffs. i was mad about it because i was like my son never beaking the l law. >> and the family has since that video right there, that interview done a virtual news conference and has spoken publicly about what transpired there. lansing police department said they were searching for a suspect in a string of car thefts and then a witness came forward and described that suspect as having neon shorts

and a white shirt, and that is why they detained this child, 12 years old that was wearing similar clothing and was actually in the same apartment complex as the witness said that this accused car thief had run off to. the police chief has issued an apology. he's part of the statement he put out, as the chief of police i want to apologize that this incident had such an effect on this young man, and again, 12 years old here and his family, i'm asking for the community to consider all the facts of the situation before making a judgment. the relationship with our community has been and will continue to be a top priority for the lansing police department. and fred, the family hear, the ber bernard family has gotten ahold of an attorney, and they -- the attorney is claiming that his client was wearing a gray shirt, not a white one and was visibly much younger than the suspect. cnn has not independently been able to confirm the color that the child was wearing during

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