with chinese president xi jinping, while deepening his military ties with russian president vladimir putin. king's quick release may be a sign, analysts say, the value of a u.s. detainee just isn't what it used to be, with u.s. relations at their lowest level in years. >> so, will, will that support from china and russia -- i mean, obviously it means everything to kim jong-un at this point. it's truly bolsterative. >> and he's set to make a big announcement. the north korean media report they have rewritten their constitution to make themselves a nuclear power. that means nuclear weapons are there to stay. any hope of denuclearization the u.s. had, they shouldn't be encouraged by this quick return of a soldier. if anything, north korea figures they have what they want, what they need, and they'll be testing their nuclear program

soon. >> as you point out, the symbolism of just announcing the nuclear state in their constitution, those things matter. will ripley, thank you very much. and thank you all very much for being with us as well. it's time now for "ac 360" of it's time now for "ac 360" of course with anderson. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tonight on "360," a setback on top of a body blow. a federal judge tells the former president she's not going anywhere, she's not recusing herself. and we've learned more about another judge's ruling that legal experts are calling a possible dental health penalty for trump's business. mrs. menendez, partners in crime, how they came to be a couple and how they pleaded to bribery charges today. the manhunt for a convicted predator and alleged murderer, a man one top official claimed will kill and do anything he can to cause harm. we begin with breaking news. the end of what would already be a difficult day, even for

someone whose business empire was just dealt a devastating blow by one judge. tonight another judge, federal district judge tanya chutkan denied the former president's motion she recuse herself. judge chutkan said her comments made during her sentencing of january 6th defendants were not evidence of bias, as trump attorneys claimed. the court, she writes, has never taken a position. the defense describes to it that former president should be prosecuted and imprisoned. this comes after a new york judge's -- yesterday that the built on evaluations of assets. the new york judge today gave the defense 20 more days on top of the ten days they'd already had to put forward a plan for putting the trump organization into receivership. the rest of the civil trial, which could result in a quarter billion dollar civil penalty goes on, whatever happens next,

the judge's fraud ruling is knocked down, the foundation over which donald trump's business was built over the years and how he portrayed himself. >> here's the good news. i'm very rich. i started off with a million dollar loan. i met a net worth of more than $10 billion. i would say i'm worth more than $5 million. i'm very rich. hey, i'm rich. this is taxing the rich by a rich guy. the money you're talking about, but it's peanuts for me. i have many, many companies, hundreds and hundreds of deals. great assets, low debt. i built a very big nettle worth, but it's a lot of money. fortunately i'm very rich. >> perspective from "new york times" senior political correspondent maggie haberman, and chief assistant district attorney karen ago nif low, and -- what is the -- recuse

herself, a surprise? >> not at all. she did everything the right thing. it's a well-written, well reasoned opinion in every way. the fact is, the standard is whether the impartiality of the judge might reasonably be questioned, and she goes carefully through the facts and shows that no one could question her impartiality. as you already told us, these statements that he thinks show parse y'allty were made in proceeding in the courtroom. they're called intrajudicial statements. they weren't made on a tv show. they weren't made in a rally. they were made in court in the sentencing. and she was responding to the arguments of the two people who were being sentenced. she has to state the reasons for her sentence. she has to respond to the arguments made. and it's important that people trust the judges who make decisions. so, she did absolutely the right thing in every way. and it's a good, strong opinion.

i don't think there's any risk of reversal on appeal. >> judge, how high is the bar for a judge to recuse him or herself? >> it's very high. you have to show that a reasonable person knowing all the facts would question that judge's ability to be impartial. so, the judge gives some examples of cases where the judge says outright, this person is guilty, this person should be in jail, before there was ever a trial. so, the example she gives or a judge saying in an interview, the witness there was a liar and i know it before the trial was even complete. so, those are examples where a judge has expressed partiality very, very clearly. nothing like that happened here. >> could judge chutkan's decision not to recuse herself being used as grounds for appeal? >> he certainly can try, but i agree that judge that this is appeal proof. she also cites a case from

watergate times which was very similar, where the judge there was sentencing multiple people in that case and actually said -- talked about those particular defendants and actually talked about -- gave names of people she thought should be prosecuted. and there, the entire d.c. circuit, all the judges, upheld that decision. so, i think she's completely appeal proof and will be fine. >> maggie, let's talk about the other judge. it comes just yesterday, new york state judge, the former president and his adult sons liable for fraud, cancel the trump organization business certification. how much does that cut to the heart of the former president's identity? >> there's two questions here, anderson. one is the legal question and what it means in terms of the reality of this decision. and i think that trump's lawyers had made very clear in court that they're not sure what that looks like. in terms of what the judge's words were about the former president and about the reality that he created for himself, he was very clear, which was that trump was creating something of

a fantasy world. and this is an image as a successful businessman, fabulously wealthy person that trump has honed for a very long period of time over many decades, used it to thrust himself into pop culture, used it to push himself into politics, used it to become a best-selling author and a reality television star. look, anderson, he is much wealthier than many americans. there's no question about that. but exactly what he is worth has always been something of a question. some reporters had pulled back the curtain, tim o'brien of bloomberg, my colleague, sue craig, russ -- and others have worked on it. but this is the first time he's been held to account in this kind of way. >> judge, the trial for the new york fraud case, that's set for monday. can you explain what that would entail, given the judge has already granted a partial summary judgment? how long could appeals drag out that case. >> oh, the appeals can go on for a long time. in fact, i'm sure they're going to appeal his recent summary

judgment opinion. and there could be a stay. if they go to the appellate, as they should, the remaining days this week, they may get a stay of monday's trial. there's a lot of things that are uncertain now as to what is left to be tried. surely they have to try the damages. there are other charges there that are not part of his summary judgment opinion. so far the opinion really dealt with two major properties in new york city. but there's properties all over. there's properties outside new york. and it's unclear whether the ruling can reach those properties eventually too. so, i don't know if the whole empire is going down or just the new york portion. i don't think anybody knows yet. so, things are unclear. >> yeah. >> many things are unclear. >> karen, the process of dis, sort of,ing dissolving some trump's properties would we have to liquidate his new york city holdings? could he move them to an

umbrella company, the trump organization, to another state? >> he's under monitorship with former federal judge barbara jones. and she has been overseeing the finances and making sure that all the paperwork and everything remains accurate. and she has found that during the pendency of this case, that he's continued to misrepresent his information and his assets. so, he can't really do that without her permission. and the other thing that this decision did today is it said that any licenses he has in new york, including his llcs, he can no longer have those certifications and those licenses. so, many things, in addition to real property, are going to be at risk here and dissolved. so, i think it's just a matter of when it happens because this judge gave ten days and then now another 20 days. and then let's see if an appellate court stays the execution of this. but in the meantime, he can't do

much because of former judge barbara jones, who is very much in charge of making sure that he doesn't do things like that with his assets. >> and maggie, the former president is skipping the republican debate, which happens later tonight. the more legal problems he has, does it make him less interested in facing his opponents? he didn't get harmed by not being there the last time in terms of polls. >> i don't think that appearing at the debate has much to do with his mindset at the moment. i don't think they see an advantage in his campaign because he is so far ahead in the polls. i do think you'll see some of his rivals in the republican primary use this ruling from the new york judge to try to attack trump as not what he says he is. and i think that you will hear that in the coming days. i think the question is going to be how trump is processing that himself and how he handles this going forward. because to go back to the earlier question, this company, trump tower, these are central to his identity and how he sees

himself. and i think that seeing that potentially gone is going to have real ramifications just for him personally and psychologically. >> and maggie, is it clear, does he have $250 million, that that was an actual penalty the company was to pay? >> i'm not sure how liquid he is at the moment and whether he can pay that. i don't know whether they will get that in damages. they have had a couple of cash infusions with sales, recently won the d.c. hotel, won the license on the bronx golf course, among other ways they get cash. this is a big question is what his assets are. his folks have insisted he has a lot of money. we will find that tested, if this goes ahead. they could win on appeal. his lawyers have made arguments arguing this is not legal. >> maggie haberman, karen freedman live low, and judge shyamalan, as well. >> the former president is not

in south carolina. he'll be speaking shortly. he's not at the reagan library, where seven primary opponents will be debating in an hour. dana bash and i will have post-debate coverage tonight at 11:00. with us now -- alyssa farah griffin and david axelrod. john, he's not at the debate. he's talking to auto workers. >> there's a political argument we could debate, but he's up 30 or 40 points in iowa. he's up 30 points or so in new hampshire. they're the first two states that vote. the challenge is for one of them to emerge the closest to donald trump. and no one is anywhere right now. so, he's going to run against joe biden. he's going to run michigan. you'll see him in wisconsin. you'll see him in pennsylvania.

pick your six or seven swing states. he thinks he's already the nominee. he is not. but right now he's been bullet proof in the republican primary electorate with all these legal challenges. will that change someday? right now he says i'm going to run against biden. >> the first debate was fascinating because chris christie was talking about how he was going to prosecute trump on that stage. didn't really happen. desantis didn't seem to get his footing. it was the chance for candidates to introduce themselves for the first time. do you think strategies are going to be different this time around? >> some people did distinguish themselves. ramaswamy went running away with that moment in terms of getting more media. nikki haley has done quite well, and new hampshire has repositioned herself in a way that's very good. i think the question is, to what end? are we looking at a debate among potential cabinet members? we always talk about vp. are we looking at people who are completely not relevant in so many ways to large chunks of

their own party? the one thing i want to say about trump, though, is this is the most substantive move toward looking ahead to the general election we have seen from him to date. he captured more of union households, especially white men, than previous republicans had. and obviously he's seeing a moment to zprie capture that energy again. and i think it's fascinating for this country to be in a moment where you have the president and then also a leading candidate both vying for a union vote after years of being told that union membership was on the decline and that somehow that vote wasn't significant to both parties the way it is now. >> i think that that -- just to pick up your point, i think this is entirely about him sending a signal that this race is over, that this event is irrelevant. yes, michigan is important. i think he was looking for a dramatic event that can -- he's a programmer.

he was counterprogramming against this debate. i do think there's meaning in michigan. i do think that going after -- you know, michigan was the home of the reagan democrat. they've morphed into trump republicans. he's going to talk to them. the biggest thing he's trying to do is say, don't pay much attention to what's going on over here. it is irrelevant. it is over. i'm moving on. >> vivek ramaswamy did get a lot of attention in the last debate, didn't translate to bumps in the polls. >> correct. the candidates you'll see on the stage tonight, their collective national polling adds up to 36%, still under trump's roughly 50%. in some ways this feels like a run for the vice presidency or the cabinet. something i think you can't ignore is there's a cbs poll out of iowa and new hampshire that says about as many as 70% of republicans are open to considering someone other than donald trump.

what should we watch for tonight? nikki haley and ron desantis. she has come close to overcoming him as second place. and mega gop donors who want to see someone other than trump are softening on desantis. if she can pull ahead, make the case for general election electability where she head to head is the best against biden, about six points ahead of him, that could signal a difference. i underscore, there is no historic evidence of any candidate overcoming such a significant lead donald trump has. >> to be clear, nikki haley has slipped ahead in some new hampshire polling. she's still single digits in the national polling. i do agree. i think to be the nominee, you have to beat donald trump. to beat donald trump, you have to beat all the other people and become, as john said, the singular alternative to donald trump. desantis' whole campaign was premised on that he was that guy and now he is fading. i think they're going to try and

accelerate that tonight. and i think nikki haley, by virtue of her performance last time will warrant more attention. she's earned the right not to be ignored and she's going to be tested tonight. >> john, you just got back from there. you spent a lot of time in new hampshire. >> in iowa and new hampshire, trump is ahead. what gets fascinating, one of them is trying to convince republicans, i have a chance to beat donald trump. i am the alternative to donald trump. that's the challenge for these candidates. iowa, about 60% of the electorate will be evangelicals. watch for desantis, tim cscott. yes, he gave you the dobbs decision with the supreme court justices, but he's gone soft on abortion. what does nikki haley do? he's more moderate. she says she's pro life, but let's not judge people. she wants to take back the suburbs. you have a libertarian electorate in new hampshire, where abortion is much less of an issue. to these fractured candidates to try to find a place to make a

statement. someone's going to try to win iowa. someone's going to try to win new hampshire. if no one catches donald trump, the fracturing and the state by state strategy helps donald trump. >> one of the interesting strategic questions is, should you focus on trying to differentiate yourself from trump, or should you focus on trying to differentiate yourself from the other contenders on the stage? chris christie will clearly continue to go after trump, and he's made some progress in new hampshire. but he's very unpopular among republicans. what do the others do? i expect they're going to be focusing on each other, which is another reason trump -- >> how much of that conversation -- forgive me real quickly. how much of that conversation is the fox panel allow snd. >> audi, who are you going to be watching tonight? >> i'm interesting in tim scott. he said he would fire the auto workers. that's a weird line when you have the front runner showing support for auto workers.

i'm interested in nikki haley as well. you're calling it a fracturing. there's incoherence to what is neighbors lane. what do you represent, right? if you can't beat up on trump, who are you and what do you want? and what do you offer a voter? and i don't say that as opinion but actual analysis. i have not understood, out of the past debate or even the dialogue after what a coherent alternative to trump theology, ideology, is out of the republican party. >> audie cornish, john king, daift axelrod, alyssa farah griffin. we'll see all of this team with our post-debate coverage. bob menendez in court and his wife in court. what some house republicans are doing -- that doesn't have anything to do with it. ahead.

welcome back. senator bob menendez and his wife, both are under federal indictment, were in court today. menendez is expected to speak to fellow senate democrats tomorrow. cnn's kara scannell joins us with more. can you walk us through what happened in court today? >> reporter: the senator and his wife arrived in court today holding hands in a sign of solidarity. prosecutors say they are partners in this alleged bribery

scheme. in the course of the arraignment, the menendez's entered pleas of not guilty, the senator sat fairly still with his hands clasped on his lap. he only spoke twice. two of the other three defendants in the case were there. they entered pleas of not guilty. the other one entered a plea yesterday after he was arrested at jfk airport while he returned from egypt. all the defendants are due back in court on monday. >> as the corruption case plays out, what kind of conditions of released were placed on the senator? >> reporter: the senator had to post $100,000 bond and surrender his personal passport. he is allowed to keep his official passport and continue to travel internationally on official business. but interestingly, the judge also imposed a condition saying he can't have any contact with any of his staff, any staff on the senate foreign relations subcommittee, or any political aides who have personal knowledge of this investigation

without an attorney present. so, a sign that perhaps some of the people he works most closely with could be potential witnesses in this case. >> and what about calls for him to resign? >> so, the growing number of calls from democrats, we're now up to about 30 or so at least who have called for him to resign. today, senator dick durbin, yesterday was saying he shouldn't resign, today changing his mind, saying he does think he should step down. there's one senator, chuck schumer, who has not called for him to resign. he is still in menendez's corner at this point. >> as rare as it is to see a u.s. sitting senator to be arraigned, it's rarer still to be charged with their spouse. how does she figure in to the charges? >> hi nadine, welcome to the armenian report. >> hi, anna. thank you very much. >> here's some of what nadine

menendez said in an interview with the armenian report in 2020. >> both my parents are armenian. i was born in beirut, lebanon. during the civil war, we fled lebanon to greece, to london, and came to the united states. i went to nyu undergraduate and graduate school, and i majored in international politics and french culture and civilization. >> reporter: menendez also talked about having armenian relatives, who were among the hundreds of thousands massacred by ottoman forces during world war i and how grateful she was to menendez, who helped pass a u.s. senate resolution in 2019 recognizing the mass killings as genocide. >> i know when he puts something in his mind and he believes in it, he doesn't stray. >> reporter: menendez also told "the armenian report" she has two children now grown from a previous relationship.

the couple told "the new york times" they met in 2017 in an ihop in union city, new jersey. she told "the new york times" she thought menendez was very, very hot. led to a courtship. nadine, before she became nadine menendez, befriended wael hanna. hanna, in turn introduced jose uribe to the couple. fred dab byes is a friend of the couple. prosecutors say the three men offered bribes in exchange for menendez's influence to enrich themselves and in ways that benefitted the government of egypt. the couple received gold, $500,000 in cash, and a $60,000

mercedes-benz convertible according to the indictment, which says on or about february 3, 2019, nadine menendez texted ha nah, all is great, i'm so excited to get a car next week. prosecutors say she was unemployed before she began dating menendez and received a low show or no show job from the men in exchange for allegedly arranging meetings with menendez and egyptian officials requesting military sales and financing. all five of them now codefendants, have entered not guilty pleas to the charges. nadine menendez's attorney says she will vigorously defend against these allegations. and if that 2020 interview is any indication, it would seem nadine menendez will stand by her husband. >> she's very, very caring, almost to a fault, because he

got -- but whatever he does, i just support him. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, new york. just ahead tonight, republicans not letting a likely government shutdown stop their impeachment inquiry plans. their first hearing happens tomorrow. we have new details on the documents they cite as evidence next.

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his son, hunter. the republican chairman called it, quote, new and alarming. on tuesday, republicans said that they subpoenaed a bank for hunter biden's records and received two wire transfers from chinese nationals to hunter biden in 2019. they attached a lot of -- to the fact that the records listed the president's address. the question is what does that add up to? melanie zanona joins us from capitol hill. what have you found? >> so, anderson, these documents shed some light on the interactions and disagreemts between irs agents that were investigating hunter biden and the prosecutors at the doj. how that case has been handled has become one of the central pillars to the house impeachment inquiry into joe biden. in this latest document which includes emails, handwritten notes, memoranda, these irs

agents address encountering road blocks every time joe biden's name came up. prosecutors say there are reasons they were steering clclear of the senior biden. in a initial draft of the search warrant, a justice department official instructed her colleagues the in an email to remove that reference saying there was no reason to be referencing joe biden's name. now, we did see a copy of that email as part of that trove, but the search warrant itself was very heavily redacted. but republicans have said, this is example of the way the doj was trying to protect joe biden. now, important to point out here that this is in the summer of 2020 when donald trump was in office and joe biden was not. but nonetheless republicans still pushing ahead with their claims and the white house saying it's important to remind everyone here that republicans have not provided any evidence of wrong doing by the president himself. i want to read you the statement from sharon yang.

she is the spokesperson for the white house. she said house republicans have again cried wolf and provided no evidence tying president biden to wrong doing. instead of wasting time with media stunts, trumpeting half baked conspiracy theories, house republicans should realize the clock the ticking. it's time to start focusing on priorities that matter to the american people. republicans pushing ahead with those investigations, even with a looming government shutdown this weekend. >> and what do we expect to see tomorrow? >> so, tomorrow's hearing is the first official impeachment hearing since republicans launched their inquiry into biden two weeks ago. it's being held by the house oversight committee. the reasons are going to be a conservative lawyer and financial experts. it also comes one day after the committee said it obtained some wire transfers between hunter biden and foreign nationals. and it is the first known example of hunter biden receiving that money directly instead of through a shell company. but as far as tomorrow, republicans are not even saying they're going to tread new

ground. they say they want to rehash what they've already uncovered. and the point of tomorrow for republican ss to try to justify why their impeachment inquiry is warranted. and that, anderson, is a message that is not only aimed at the public but perhaps at some of their own members as well. >> appreciate it. democratic congressman jamie raskin joins me now. congressman raskin, what do you make of this newly released material from republicans? >> it's pretty much the same old stuff we've been seeing. it's about hunter biden. it's not about president joe biden or anything that he's done in office. they have not been able to connect him to a single dime of all of these allegations. and we've looked at more than 12,000 bank record pages. we've looked at more than 2,000 sars reports. all of these witnesses, hunter biden's former business associates, former fbi special

assistants, you name it, and they have not laid a glove on joe biden. and this should have been called off a long time ago. lev parnas, who, you know, was at the center of the burisma conspiracy theory, which is still the basic foundation of the conspiracy theory that they're promoting today, wrote us a long letter explaining how he and rudy giuliani were gallivanting all over the world to cook up evidence against joe biden and that nothing is there. and that chairman comer should call off what he described as the wild goose chase. the problem is that donald trump won't let them call off the wild goose chase because, you know, he say thas impeached me, so we should impeach him. and of course that's not the constitutional standard, whether you're mad at the president. the constitutional standard is treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors. and we will hold them to the constitutional test.

>> this wire transfer that hunter biden received, why do you think republicans are touting it as relevant evidence when apparently it doesn't show that president biden received any money or did anything illegal? >> well, look, we've been dealing with this for the last eight months, anderson. and you know, there are dozens of republicans, led really by ken buck, who is the chief of the criminal division of the u.s. attorney's office in colorado, and he's a member of the house freedom caucus. he keeps saying, there's nothing there. there's no evidence. there's no smoking gun. the burden is on them to show something, so they have to show these memos, which keep showing the same thing over and over again, which is that hunter biden was involved in these various business deals and tried to portend that has something to do with what they call the biden crime family, which attempts to link joe biden to hunter's businesses.

but of course there's a special counsel who's working just on hunter biden. he's already indicted hunter biden on gun charges. and that was the guy who was the u.s. attorney for delaware appointed by donald trump. so, the rule of law and the department of justice are working in that case. they've not going on joe biden. but every day there's another counterfeit bombshell, which the media is supposed to get interested in. >> and we mentioned these three witnesses are scheduled to testify tomorrow. none of the witnesses appear to have direct evidence or knowledge of what's been alleged about president biden. are you expecting anything -- revelations from their testimony? >> well, i mean, that's the thing. we thought, okay, they want to launch an impeachment inquiry after eight months of this aimless deep sea fishing expedition, they've got to have something. there's some reason they want to proclaim it's time for impeachment. but they don't have anything. we thought there would be fact

witnesses. they've got three witnesses. none of them are fact witnesses. and one of them is jonathan turley, who's a constitutional law professor or law professor whose expertise in this field is performing mental acrobatics to change his position according to whatever the republicans are asking him to say. >> tomorrow's hearing, it obviously comes amid the looming shutdown. cnn's reported, according to multiple republican lawmakers and aides, in the event congress can't reach a deal to fund the government, the committees leading the impeachment inquiry will be deemed essential, and their work will continue, despite the shutdown. do you support that? >> it's a completely scandalous situation. here we are, they're about to shut down the government of the united states of america, something that no foreign enemy of the united states has ever been able to do, all at the beck and call of donald trump. and why does he want to shut the

government down? because he thinks that will interrupt and stop his criminal prosecutions long enough for him to delay it to get into the intensive election period so that he can delay it past the election. and he believes if he can win the election then he can render himself a self-partisan. he's been very straightforward about that in his postings on social media. and matt gaetz has said, donald trump has said no continuing resolution, hold the line. so, they're doing everything in their power to shut down the government. that means, nih, which is in my district, they can't take any new patients for clinical trials. that's a life or death situation. that means cutting off wic payments to millions of women and infants and children. it's scandalous, and all of it for one guy who thinks it's going to help improve his legal posture. >> congressman raskin, i appreciate it your time tonight.

>> thank you. a 26-year-old tech ceo found murdered in her apartment. baltimore police are searching for the suspected killer, convicted felon who say is extremely dangerous.

a massive manhunt is underway in baltimore for a convicted felon who authorities warn is armed and dangerous. the vigil was held tonight to

celebrate her extraordinary life and the profound impact she had on the community. more on the case from brian todd. >> this person is extremely dangerous. >> reporter: tonight a growing manhunt for jason billingsley, suspected of murdering a prominent tech ceo inside a baltimore apartment building. >> this individual will kill and he will rape. he will do anything he can to cause harm. >> reporter: police say they found the 26-year-old inside a secure apartment building monday, dead with blunt force trauma to the head. her sudden, violent death has stunned loved ones and members of the baltimore tech community. >> it's devastating. as young as she was, she was so intelligent, so charismatic. >> reporter: police did not give details on how they connected billingsley to her death. and a woman who identified herself as billingsley mother

told nbc she did not know if her son knew la pare. she texted him urging him to turn himself in, fearing the police are going to kill him. >> there is no way in hell he should have been on the streets. >> reporter: records show he pleaded guilty to first degree assault in 2009, second degree assault in 2011, and pleaded guilty to a first degree sex offense in 2015 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison with 16 months already served. she was released from prison in october 2022. billingsley had not been patrolled but was released on mandatory supervision as required by statute. a spokesperson for maryland's department of safety and correctional services told "the new york times." she was cofounder and ceo of the company eco map technologies. >> she was ambitious.

she was hard driving. it wasn't for the siesk she needs to see her name in lights. it was about, how do i lift up other people. she saw the best in absolutely everybody. >> brian todd joins us now from baltimore. is the suspect connected to any other crimes? >> reporter: anderson, the baltimore police say this suspect, jason billingsley, is wanted in connection with attempted murder, rape, and arson related to a separate incident that occurred in baltimore last week. in the arson incident, two adults were left in critical condition. that's according to baltimore police. we should note the reward for information leading to billingsley's capture is now at $6,000. just ahead the u.s. army private that crossed into north korea two months ago is heading home, expelled from north korea after what a u.s. official describes as intense diplomacy involving a number of countries. details ahead.

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diplomacy. travis king, a u.s. army private will arrive back in the united states. north korea says they expelled him two months after he crossed into north korea. alex marquardt has more on how the exchange came about and what we know about why travis king entered north korea. >> the united states has secured the return of private travis king. >> reporter: now the u.s. expects to learn what drove private travis king's dramatic escapade into north korea, as well as details on his two months in north korean custody. multiple countries have undertaken intense diplomacy to free travis. >> we thank sweden in facilitating the transfer. >> reporter: king was taken from north korea to friendship bridge in china, where he was met by the american ambassador. from there she flew to china and

on to the u.s. air base in south korea before flying back to the united states. >> we expect him to arrive in the coming hours. >> the u.s. providing no clues as to why the north koreans decided to expel king now. >> was there anything the north koreans asked for or received in exchange? was there a trade at all? >> we made no concessions as part of securing his return. >> do you have any idea why they decided to suddenly expel him? >> i'm going to follow my general here and not try to get into the heads of foreign governments and certainly not that one. >> reporter: king is said to be in good health, happy to be free, and eager to see his family. a spokesman for his mother saying she, quote, will be forever grateful to the united states army and all its interagency partners for a job well done. king's family had previously said they didn't understand why king did what he did. >> this is really, really hard on my mom.

that's her baby boy. his room is still in her house. >> when king fled from the airport in seoul, south korea, to the dmz, he had been ordered back to texas to face discipline after pleading guilty in south korea to assault, to which he was sentenced to 50 days of labor in south korea. >> alex marquardt joins us now. what happens when he returns to the u.s.? does he face discipline for the illegal crossing into north korea or for the actions in south korea? >> reporter: at first they're going to attend to medical needs he may have. he's going to go to the brook army medical center. there he can get evaluated. there's also a specialized program that helps patients get reacclimated to normal life in the u.s. it's the same medical facility brittney griner and trevor reed went to after they were released. this case is very different. travis king was not considered to be a hostage, was not considered to be wrongfully

detained. he simply fled. now there are major questions about why he went awol, what kind of punishments he may face, whether there will be discipline, whether he could face a court marshal. these questions were put to the administration today. they say for now they are not necessarily thinking about that. they want travis king to get back on his feet, on solid footing, senior administration officials said, and they will address those questions after what this official called the reintegration process. >> thanks so much. coming up next, something to make you smile at the end of the day, how a nasa astronaut made history today.

a nasa astronaut now holds the record for the longest u.s. space flight, more than a year, 371 days to be exact. frank rubio is his name. he returned from the international space station today aboard a russian spacecraft that landed in kazakhstan. there was a big smile and handshakes. he was only expected to spend six months in space, but that changed after a discovery of a coolant leak aboard his original ride. according to nasa, rubio made nearly 6,000 orbits around ea c