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tonight, storm watch, as recovery efforts continue in the aftermath of idalia, another hurricane is forming, and it could reach category 5. hurricane lee rapidly intensifying, as it moves over record warm ocean waters in the eastern caribbean. reporting sustained wind gusts of 75 miles per hour. they expect that to possibly double. it's too soon to tell whether lee will impact the mainland. a direct hit would be devastating. even if it isn't a direct hit, its effects could reverberate up and down the entire east coast. thank you very much for joining us. us. "ac 360" begins now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tonight on "360," they are in this together, with cameras recording two of the georgia defendants told they cannot be tried one at a time. breaking news tonight, hunter biden is facing criminal indictment. and later, how a vicious
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killer escaped, new video showing him scaling a wall before running across a roof, climbing a fence, and pushing through layers of barbed wire without a single guard seeing a thing. good evening. thanks for joining us. what comes next after the judge in the georgia election subversion case decided that two of the defendants asking to be tried separately cannot be tried separately. they are attorneys kenneth chesebro and sidney powell. with cameras giving us a first look inside the courtroom, judge mcafee said they would not get separate trials. >> i'm not finding the severance from mr. chesebro or powell as necessary to achieve a fair determination of the guilt or innocence for either defendant in this case. >> reporter: fulton county superior court judge scott mcafee in court wednesday giving the first glimpse into how he plans to handle the sweeping election subversion case in
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georgia, all in front of cameras allowed in the courtroom. >> right. >> reporter: mcafee ruling wednesday that defendants kenneth chesebro and sidney powell, who both filed for a speedy trial, cannot be separated and will stand trial together in a matter of weeks. >> obviously we're a little disappointed. we filed a motion, and it was denied. however, we respect the court's ruling. >> reporter: now the issue before the court will be whether it's realistic that all 19 defendants, including former president donald trump, be tried together. >> to say that all 19 defendants should be tried together, including ones that don't want to avail themselves of the speedy trial demand, is really just nonsensical. >> reporter: fulton county district attorney fani willis has said from the beginning she wants to do just that. >> do i intend to try the 19 defendants in this indictment together? yes. >> reporter: but the judge expressing skepticism in court wednesday about that plan and
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whether they can put on a massive trial for all the defendants as soon as october 23rd, the date now on the calendar for chesebro and powell. >> it just seems a bit unrealistic to think that we can handle all 19 in 40-something days. are we delaying the inevitable. if we're saying there's no severance, aren't we going to have 17 defense attorneys filing for motions saying they're not ready? >> reporter: this, as some defendants, mike mark meadows, are trying to get their cases moved to federal court. >> i think we've already had some counsel they're on trial in other cases in federal court. >> and paula reid joins us now. mcafee may be a young judge, but he is a former prosecutor. and he was very skeptical about the prosecution's timeline for the rest of the case. >> reporter: that's exactly right. for the first time, the district attorney said that she wanted to try all 19 defendants together. there have been so many questions about whether that is logistically possible. and the judge really brought
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that to the forefront today saying, look, i don't know if it's possible to do all at one time. and the timeline right now is october 23rd. sidney powell, kenneth chesebro will go to trial. and the judge needs to decide officially whether the other 19 defendants, including trump, will be there alongside him. he's asked for additional briefings, but we know other defendants have asked to sever their cases. anderson, it appears highly unlikely that we're going to see all 19 defendants do to trial on october 23rd. but one significant development we saw late today, the district attorney, fani willis, asked the court to issue protections for any prospective jurors. this is incredibly significant because of course members of the grand juror, their names were published in that indictment that went out to the entire world. they were all doxxed, and many of them faced threats. the fact she's taking this step is incredibly important. >> joining us now, legal analyst
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george michael moore, jessica roth, and keisha lance bottoms, former mayor of atlanta. jessica, a big day, the first time we've seen any of these cases televised. oo i'm wondering what you made of it all in substance and in style? >> in terms of substance, we saw the judge asking all the right questions that bear on whether he should grant severance for these defendants, one from each other initially. that was the motion that was pending before him today. he was the lawyers to articulate how their clients would be harmed if they were tried together, powell and chesebro. and they really weren't able to satisfy him. in fact, the arguments they made seemed to kind of backfire. they were claiming that the allegations suggested that these two defendants were part of very different schemes. and they were essentially -- these would be unrelated trials but joined together. and the judge said, well, but wait a minute. one of the reasons you are arguing for a severance is because, say, your clients would
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be harmed by the jury using evidence admissible against the other defendant but inadmissible against your client, against them despite instructions to the con administrator. if schemes are as different as you allege, the jury should be able to follow your instructions and decide the guilt of each defendant or innocence on its own merits. so, he just wasn't persuaded, and the defendants didn't satisfy their burden of establishing the need for severance. and the law expresses preference for joint files. >> michael, were you surprised chesebro wasn't able to get his case severed from powell's? >> i'm glad to be with all of you. i wasn't surprised. what's interesting here is these individuals both filed for a speedy trial under the georgia statute. they could have secured without question the chance to have the cases tried separately had ms. powell waited a few weeks to file her motion for a speedy trial. she had through the end of
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october to even file. she could have let the chesebro trial start and then file her motion, and that would have pushed her trial into the november/december time frame. i don't think it came as a great surprise. i think these are two lawyer defendants. there is some argument to be made about efficiency and moving forward together. and i think at the end of the day, you'll likely see the defense team in fact team up, as they question each of these 150 witnesses that the state thinks they're going to put forward. >> mayor bottoms, the judge was obviously skeptical of the d.a.'s position that all these defendants should be tried together in october. does that seem realistic at all for so many defendants? >> i think it's going to be very difficult. you have to remember we have the big rico trial that's going on right now. it's i think i believe month eight. there's still not a juror that's been set in that trial. so, even if the judge says, you all go to trial on october 23rd,
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it's highly unlikely that you will have a jury seated any time soon. with this trial, they've had hundreds of people come in. and at the point that you project to the public that you are going to have a trial that will last months, people will have all sorts of conflicts that will make it difficult for them to sit that long as a juror. so, i don't think that all 19 will be tried october 23rd. you've got to remember you've got multiple attorneys who will have leaves of absences in place, conflicts, federal courts take precedence over state court. so, that's highly unlikely. >> and jessica, prosecutors, they claimed in court this would take, in their protection, four months with 150 witnesses. i'm not an attorney, but is that realistic at all. >> that's a very ambitious view of how quickly they could try a
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case of that magnitude. >> the judge said it could be eight months. >> he said it could be double the rest of it. that was based on his own experience as a prosecutor. so, if the more defense attorneys who are present at the trial on behalf of defendants who are joined in the trial, the more cross-examinations of each and every government witness we could see, the more witnesses called by the defense we will see, the more closing and opening arguments we'll see, and the more motions we'll see by each of the attorneys on behalf of their clients that the judge will have to hear and rule upon. so, i think that four months does seem unrealistic. >> michael, do other defendants, do they have the opportunity to push for a speedy trial? i mean, if they suddenly decide a month from now, to your earlier point about sidney powell, can they apply for that? >> they can. you have to file your motion under the statute either at the term you're indicted or the next term of court. so, that essentially will be the
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september/october term of court. so, they, in fact, could file for a speedy trial. but, you know, i guess why would they at this point because they're going to get a free preview of whatever evidence the state's going to put on. i think it's been disingenuous by the state to suggest they're going to try these 19 defendants by october 23rd. and that really was the win, i think, for mr. chesebro and ms. powell today because they effectively made a good argument -- the judge hadn't rule on it yet, but the case is going to be moved, likely severed from the other 17 defendants. and that separates them from trump. it was a little ridiculous i thought, at one point, there was going to be some briefing. and the judge asked the state, how long do you need to write a 10-page brief, and they suggested two weeks. think about how ridiculous it is to bring 19 defendants to trial with 150 witnesses to get ready for in six weeks if it's going to take you two weeks to write a 10-page paper. so, it's just been a little bit wishy washy and sort of -- i
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think it's been good theater for the state to suggest that they are going to try this case together. but i think it's been unrealistic from the outset. >> mayor bottoms, do you think it's a good idea that cameras are in the court? >> absolutely. that's customary in state courts in georgia. cameras are in the court. so, i think for the judge to do anything differently would be out of the ordinary. >> and jessica, what is the next step in this now? >> so, the judge said he's reserving decision on whether to sever the other defendants, the other 17. but he noted that, of course, we have the pending motion in federal court to remove the case of some of the defendants led by mark meadows. and of course that hangs over all of this because if mark meadows and the other defendants succeed in their motion to remove their cases to federal court, that really throws a monkey wrench into whatever schedule this judge sets. so, he's cognizant of the fact that we need to wait on that ruling from the federal district court judge and then any appeals
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that may ensue from that before we have a said yul as to the other 17 defendants that really starts to look anything close to firm. >> mayor bottoms, do you think the judge will grant fani willis' desire to have the identity of jurors kept secret? >> i do think so. in a case like this when you can see what happened with the grand jurors, then absolutely. what will happen is that the jurors will be assigned a number. as the attorneys are going through their questions, they'll refer to them by their number. and one of the most high-profile cases that most of us remember that this was done in, i believe it was done in the o.j. simpson trial. and then after, of course, the trial is over, it's up to the jurors to decide whether or not they want their identity known publicly. >> mayor bottoms, thank you. now a closer look, the political climate the trial is in, and other trump trials are taking place. we're joined for data reporter harry enten.
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you talk about the former president's approval ratings the last time. how do republican viewers view what happened on january 6th? >> sometimes i look at polling data and i go, what the heck is going on? and this is one of those instances. you know, republican voters don't seem to blame donald trump for anything, and that includes january 6. and there is a fantastic poll question that reuters ipsos asked last month that essentially was, do you believe it was left wing agitators to enforced this riot on january 6th at the united states capitol. and look at this. 51% of republicans agreed it was left wing agitators. that is a conspiracy theory. i'm not even sure where they got that. >> that was the early days conspiracy theory that this was antifa. that's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. this is where the republican base is right now and this gives you a good understanding of why poll after poll after poll finds donald trump. >> what does the data say -- is
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it data or data? i think it's data. >> i think you can go either way on that. >> i'll go data. translator: sure. >> how much of a factor is 2020 in 2024? >> sometimes polling, to me, presents interesting questions that i can't quite figure out, right? so, we know, for example, that in a horse race between joe biden and donald trump, we're basically deal being a tied race right now. some polls have biden up by a little, some have trump up by a little. and yet the same polling shows that most americans believe that the 2020 election was legitimate. thank god because that's, in fact, the case. so, i'm trying to square those two, you know, pegs. and what this poll question, i think, is so interesting that does that, it says, okay, how important is a candidate's views on the 2020 election for your 2024 vote? and what we see is only a third say that the candidates's views must align with your own. the vast majority say it's one of many factors to consider or isn't a major issue at all. so, yeah, donald trump goes out there and says something that
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the majority of the american public doesn't believe. and the fact is that a lot of voters are just willing to let it go. and that, to me, is so surprising, given, of course, we're talking about a democracy at stake, but yet a lot of voters are willing to give donald trump the benefit of the doubt. and that's why he's ahead in the republican primary. and that is why he's so close with joe biden in the general election. >> harry enten, thank you very much. breaking news in the hunter biden investigation, how and why it's about to become a felony criminal case. that's next.
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there is breaking news tonight in the investigation of hunter biden. by the end of this month, it's highly like i will the president's son will be a criminal defendant in a federal case. david weiss says he intends to indict bide on a gun charge for allegedly lying on a federal form when buying a pistol in 2018. this comes, you'll remember, after a plea deal on alleged tax violations collapsed back in july. so, i mean, this is a fascinating development. what more are you learning? >> this new development, the special counsel's office saying we're going to move forward with an indictment related to this gun possession by the end of this month. so, that's a pretty significant development. one reason may be statute of limitations expires in october. >> but they haven't been doing a whole new investigation. they just -- the plea deal fell apart and they decided we're
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going to go and charge it. >> yeah, i mean, this is a straightforward issue. he possessed a gun and filled out paperwork while he was addicted to cocaine. that's against the law. and he falsified the law by saying he wasn't. >> and it's illegal to falsify the document. >> right. both of those are illegal. he's acknowledged this in court. he's prepared to plea. it's a fairly open and shut case. it's just a question of what are they going to charge him with. he had this deal that was a pretrial diversion, means if he abided by certain conditions, it would go away. if he is charged with a felony, it's a serious charge. it has a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. it's a much more serious issue here in this case. and his lawyers are signaling that they are going to fight this because, as you'll remember, they thought they had this deal. they went to the judge after it fell apart saying, no, no, we believe it is still binding because we signed it and the prosecution signed it. prosecutors said, well, it's missing another signature. >> the probation officer hadn't
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signed it. >> exactly. it's never executed, it's not binding. and biden's team signaling they're going to fight this. >> what's the latest on the possible tax charges? >> the judge had dismissed the tax misdemeanor charges because both side as agreed, it fell apart, he pleaded not guilty. prosecutors, will they move forward with the same tax charges? will they charge tax evasion as a felony? hunter biden admitted all of this under oath at that plea deal that fell apart. the other question is, are they investigating anything else, right? that's what collapsed this plea deal because they were not on the same page about what was covered and what his immunity was. and that's not addressed in this filing. and it's really unclear yet. we haven't seen any indications that they're investigating foreign bribery or acting as an unrestricted foreign agent. >> they had looked at that over the years. >> this has been a five-year investigation, and that was a key part of it for a while. then it narrowed to the tax and
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gun issue. now it's negotiated to this plea. now the question remains, are they going to continue to investigate? there's all this republican pressure. david weiss asked for special counsel status, which enables him to take a broader look at it. for these tax cases, they've indicated they are intending to move forward with them. it's just a matter of bringing a different jurisdiction where the crimes took place. >> thank you very much. coming up now, perspective from a former colleague of then vice president biden and senior adviser of president obama, david axelrod. david, plenty of presidents have had embarrassing family members. criminal charges obviously is different. how big of a problem could this be for president biden personally and politically? >> well, i divide it into two questions, anderson. the first is the political. they're related. the first is the political. look, the president wasn't involved with this. very clearly this was something that involved something that hunter biden did on his own, involved his own drug addiction
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and his own misrepresentation. but it fuels what the republicans in congress are trying to fan, which is the idea that hunter biden is involved in a bunch of elicit activities. and they want to try and link the president to these. and this will be a log in that fire even though he has nothing to do with this. and certainly if they go forward with some of the other issues they've explored, that would be more fodder for them. even as we speak, they're talking about an impeachment inquiry in search of proof that the president had some sort of involvement. so, this just adds that. remember the leading republican candidate you just discussed has 91 felony counts against him right now. and they would love to muddy the waters. so, for the biden campaign, this is unwelcome news. the second issue is for biden as a father. and i think that's under-reported or
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under-discussed. there is a -- if this goes to trial, there is potential prison time associated with it. it's a felony. joe biden obviously cares deeply about his son. he's experienced a lot of loss involving his children in the past. that's a heavy burden to carry into a presidential campaign. and i think that's under-discussed, you know, when we're talking about the hunter biden case. >> is there -- i mean, is there a consensus in terms of how prominent democrats view all of this or even democratic voters? >> you know, i do think that people are not dismissive of the hunter biden charges. i don't think democrats are, you know, believe that these sully biden himself. but they're a burden -- they recognize it's another burden into a very difficult campaign.
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so, i think there's concern about it, absolutely. >> and as you said, it can be used by the former president, already has been, as sort of muddying the waters, you know, saying -- >> absolutely. and it will -- however hunter biden is treated, the president, president trump, is going to claim that he was treated differently than he was treated, even though the charges are different, the circumstances are different. anything to muddy those waters is helpful to trump. i think democrats recognize that. >> what do you think the best-case scenario for president biden and his campaign is? obviously that plea deal seemed like it would have been pretty good, regardless what it was for hunter biden, for the biden campaign. >> look, anything that would end this quickly would be better for them. if they could reconstruct a plea deal or make a new one, that would be best. the second thing is if it becomes clear that this is the end and that other charges are not coming related to his taxes
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or foreign lobbying. you know, what you don't want is this to drag on from now until november, and it may well because now we have a special counsel who has broad portfolio. and he's under tremendous political pressure from congress and is clearly feeling that as well. so, this is all unwelcomed news, i'm sure, over at the white house. >> david axelrod, appreciate it tonight. thank you. coming up next, the growing feud between the republican senator tommy tuberville and democrats over tuberville's personal obstruction of hundreds of military nominations. how it could impact the nomination of the top military officer. how a convicted murderer escaped a pennsylvania prison ahead. ♪ ♪ wake up, gotta go! c'mon, c'mon. -gracie, c'mon.
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a feud between democrats and republican senator tommy tuberville is escalated. for months tuberville has blocked military nominees over abortion policies he claims is illegal. the senator could hold up the confirmation of the nation's highest ranking military officer on the left there in the photo. he was nominated to replace general mark milley as the next joint chiefs chairman. general milley is expected to leave the post in three and a half weeks. manu raju joins us now. you talked to senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> he's trying to ratchet up the pressure campaign on tommy tuberville saying that he, the democrats, aren't going to change their approach.
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they want tuberville to relent, allow these nominations to move forward and be approved quickly by a voice vote in the u.s. senate. that's typically done. but schumer does have the ability as a senate majority leader to schedule votes. he could take time consuming procedural steps to overcome those objections. that's something he could certainly do with the joint chiefs nominee. when i asked him whether he would commit to scheduling a vote on the joint chiefs of staff nominee, he made clear he was not going to do that, and he wanted tuberville to back down. >> the bottom line is this is a problem created by republicans and it's up to them to solve it. senator mcconnell, senator thune have said they disagree with tuberville. it's up to the republican party to get him in line. we're not going to shift the blame to democrats when this is a republican-caused problem. >> reporter: in talking to republicans, a number of them may disagree with tuberville's tactics, but they are not leaning on him to back off,
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including senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, who has not pressured him behind the scenes. simply as they're trying to -- they're hoping there's some sort of resolution without their fingerprints on it here. but some of them are calling on schumer to change his approach, to schedule those nominees. >> has senator tuberville expressed any certain that mark milley, the nation's highest ranking military officer, is set to retire at the end of the month. >> he also is calling on schumer to schedule a nomination on general brown's -- to sit in that very important position here. but he said that if schumer does not do that, does not individually schedule this vote, he's not going to change his approach. in his words, he's not budging. >> they're going to have to work overtime then. that's the way we're going to do this. in the past, they've done it one on one, and they're not going to do it now. it just shows you they're
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putting politics in front of readiness. >> but that won't change your position? >> no, no, no. i'm not changing my mind. i think you know me well enough now that i feel like i'm doing it for the right reasons. >> brown is going to have to wait to get that position filled. >> unless he brings him one on one, but yeah, he'll have to wait. >> and again, tuberville is demanding that the pentagon drop its policy providing reimbursements for service members who go out of state for abortion services, saying that he will not change his approach unless that happens. he claims he has been talking to other military officials, people on the ground, he says, who don't believe what he's doing is harming the military. in fact, he told me, if i thought i was really harming the military, i wouldn't be doing this. but i'm not. he also down played the claims by the pentagon that a lot of these officials are doing two jobs at once saying that's the case, that's the case. but he's not hurting the military, he says. and he says, i'm not budging.
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>> perspective from former defense secretary william cohen. senator cohen, do you think he's harming the military? >> i do think he's harming the military. i don't know who he's talking to, but perhaps he ought to have a public hearing and call witnesses and let him call in his witnesses as well to say it's not harming the military. let me give you two views on this. as a former secretary of defense, my job was to thrive for the best fighting force in the world. what did that mean? it meant we had the best equipment, the best training, the best education, and the best leadership. what this senator is doing is he is imposing his will to prevent the leaders from progressing, meaning he's weakening our readiness. and when you weaken the readiness, you enhance the opponent's ability to prevail in the future. readiness is going to come down as a result of this. i don't know who he's talking to. i've talked to many. i have many in my own forum of four star officers. i know what they feel. i know what i feel.
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i know what i felt as a secretary of defense. and as a senator, my job was to support the military. and by supporting the military was with to use the rules of the senate but not abuse them. this is a clear abuse of process and of power on the part of one senator. and it's never been done in the history of the senate to date. >> what kind of message do you think it sends to the rest of the world about our readiness, about our system? >> the rest of the world is watching us very closely. when we say that china is watching what's happening in ukraine to decide whether they're going to move against taiwan, everybody is watching us. i met with two high-ranking officials this past week. both of them were concerned about what they see as the dysfunction, the paralysis of the congress, not to mention what's going on as far as the indictments and concerns. so, we are harming our image in the world, and we are actually degrading the image of the senate when senators don't speak
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up. barry gold water never would have allowed this. bob dole never would have allowed this. i go down the list of all the senator who is served in the military. they never would have allowed one of their colleagues to hold up the promotion of these individuals, 300 or more, and the harm that's going to their families not being able to plan on moving. >> what do you make of tuberville's argument, well, if it's so serious, why not have schumer put up individual nominations? >> well, okay. i can say, fine, let's just do it this way. let's have a running schedule. day time, they can deal with appropriations. then starting at 7:00 at night until midnight, start dealing with the nominations. call no more recesses, no more time off, no summer, no time off for thanksgiving and no christmas recess. we're going to stay in session every day all the way through from monday through friday and saturday. we'll have sunday off. but you're going to finish every one of these nominations. then you won't be allowing one senator to set a precedent that
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others may use in the future. this is an abuse of his power, an abuse of process, it and ought to be discouraged. it's shameful what we're doing to ourselves by sending this kind of signal of weakening our military and weakening the leaders of our military. >> as a former senator, did you ever see anything like this happen in your time on capitol hill? or is it kind of specific to this current era of scorched earth politics? >> it's never happened to my knowledge in the history of the senate. this putting a hold on a nomination was really kind of a senate courtesy to a senator saying, you have a problem with this nominee, his character, his qualifications, okay, we'll hold it up for a little while so you can get the information you need. it's never been used here, courtesy use as a sledge hammer to drive this kind of a policy change in any administration. it's unprecedented. >> secretary cohen, thank you very much. coming up now, an inmate who broke out of a pennsylvania
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yet another siting. cnn's brian todd has the latest. >> reporter: this is the moment danelo cavalcante escaped prison in pennsylvania, prompting an intense manhunt. he crab walked up the wall and apparently dropped down the other side. >> cavalcante escaped from the prison, having crab walked up a wall, run across a roof, scaled another fence, and pushed his way through razor wire. >> reporter: a tower guard did not see the escape and has be been put on administrative leave. it took an hour before an alarm was sounded. authorities admit in may, another inmate escaped by the exact same route. the only step taken to address the weak point, additional razor wire was installed. >> while we believed measures were sufficient, they proved otherwise. >> reporter: another sighting reported last night. unlike monday's sighting, this
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one in a creek bed by a resident was not caught on camera. >> any traces of him left anywhere? >> yes, there have been footprints and there have been other indicators to us that he's passed through a certain area. we've had a number of dog scent trails that we have followed for quite some time. >> reporter: hundreds of officers plus dogs and drones and helicopters continue to search. at road blocks and check points, cnn observed police searching vehicles. >> there will be some piece of other type of evidence that points us to him. >> reporter: two school districts again closed today. reverse 911 calls warning residents in the area. >> if you see this individual, do not approach him. >> locking everything, locking the cars at night. >> he is a violent individual. if given the opportunity, i believe he would use as much violence as he needed to or could to avoid capture.
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>> reporter: cavalcante escaped prison last thursday, just over a week after he was sentenced to life without parole for the 2021 murder of his former girlfriend, debra bran dough. authorities say she discovered he was wanted on murder charges in brazil. >> translator: there were threats like, if you ever cheat on me, i'll do the worst to you. these types of things. >> reporter: now that he escaped, she is scared. >> translator: i haven't slept for many days since then. i nap and i wake up afraid. >> reporter: now, while law enforcement officials are concerned that this manhunt could end in a violent way, given danelo cavalcante's violent history, lieutenant george pichbs did tell me they have no indication he has any kind of a weapon on him. but they are concerned he could procure one somehow because he's been seen near a few homes.
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in his visit to kyiv today, secretary of state antony blinken announced more than $1 billion in additional aid to ukraine, and he reit investigated the commitment to the counteroffensive against russia. his meeting came amid one of the most lethal attacks in recent months. melissa bell has details. some of the video you'll see is graphic. >> reporter: the moment a peaceful market was flattened. the cctv footage posted by the ukrainian president, even as he prepared to meet with washington's top diplomat. the russian missile killed at least 17 people, including a child in an industrial town just 19 miles from bakhmut. >> translator: we know that area
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very well. we understand they delivered a deliberate strike. >> reporter: one of the deadliest attacks in months came just hours after the kremlin warned the united states was intent on keeping the war going until the last ukrainian. >> translator: they are essentially going to continue to keep ukraine in a state of war and wage and continue this war until the last ukrainian, without sparing any money for it. >> reporter: moscow's reaction, as secretary of state blinken arrived in kyiv, his third visit to the city since the war began. >> we are determined, the united states, to continue to walk side by side of kyiv. align washington and kyiv's message ahead of the united nations general assembly in new york next week but also to announce fresh support that will now include depleted uranium
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munitions. >> in the ongoing counteroffensive, progress has accelerated in the past few weeks. this new assistance will help sustain it and build further momentum. >> reporter: the boots on the ground, meanwhile, turning their folks to expanding their recent gains in the south after breaching russian defenses in the zaporizhzhia village. a tactical retreat claims moscow to do withdrawing to a nearby him. in the east, the situation is more difficult for ukrainian forces. a ukrainian commander saying the enemy is not abandoning its plans and is stubbornly preparing to take revenge. a warning president zelenskyy is likely to take to the general assembly in new york as he call on western allies to stand not only firm but ever firmer. >> now from kyiv, has there been
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any response to russia with this new round of support from ukraine from the u.s.? >> reporter: just what you heard there at the report at the start of the day which was from the kremlin spokesperson. there has been nothing even though everything about this visit will have substantially irked moscow. they stopped at a mcdonnell's for a snack at one point. at the substance of what he announced, an aid package that includes military aid including pentagon stockpiles specifically designed to help ukrainians breach those russian defenses that they're struggling to get beyond ammunitions and also, of course, the depleted uranium munitions. these are particularly controversial. when the united kingdom said they would send them last march, we heard personally from vladimir putin that we could expect an answer in kind. a reaction directly to the sending of those munitions.
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nothing at all in response to the substance of what was announced today. >> is it possible this deadly attack was a response to secretary of state antony blinken's trim to kyiv? >> reporter: when you consider the words to be from the kremlin spokesman, they are interesting. what he had to say, as the visit was kicking off and the first images of secretary blinken, it was to the effects the united states was clearly willing to spend as much money as it took rate down to the last ukrainian. hours later, the deadly attack that took the lives of so many ukrainians. it is impossible to know. >> thank you so much. so this week marks 20 years that this program has been on the air, which is kind of crazy. while i've never been very comfortable celebrating may own birthday, we thought we would show you the moments that i and the "360" team have been fortunate enough to bring you from around the world.
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this is from two broadcasts we did in egypt in 2011 during the toppling of egypt's president hosni mubarak. they were attacking reporters. >> reporter: the security situation where we are has changed somewhat in the last 30 minutes or so. we've been advised to actually turn off our lights, get down on the floor and try to barricade ourselves in the area that we're in. so that's why we're doing this program like this tonight. it won't look very good over the next hour. i hope you bear with us. what has happened today in egypt on these streets has been nothing short of extraordinary. my cameraman and my producer and i were heading for liberation square to report on both sides of the protest. suddenly a man jumped out of the crowd and tried on grab neil's camera. that's when all hell broke loose. people started throwing punches,
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pushing us around, screaming at us. we immediately decided to turn around and try to get to a safe location. several egyptian men helped us but still the crowd followed, throwing punches. that man there had a knife in his hand. the people were joining in, trying to protest. we had a block to go when another man came up and punched me in the head. i've been hit now like ten times. yep! the egyptian soldiers -- finally we reached a safe location.
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major new development over greg abbott's border policy which is supposed to be a federal, not state responsibility. late today, a judge ordered to remove the floating barriers put in the rio grande by the 15th of the month. he also inbarred the state from installing new one. texas quickly appealed the order. governor abbott's office said he's prepared to take it to the supreme court. supreme court. the news continues. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the first televised hearing in the georgia case and the very first ruling. two of donald trump's co-defendants are stuck together after the judge denied their request to try them separately. what it all means for the former president. plus, a murderer's daring escape all caught on tape. we are seeing for the first time exactly how a pennsylvania fugitive broke out o
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