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official tells cnn that karelina, a dual-citizen, traveled to russia on january 2, that the us found out about her arrest just a few days ago on february 8th, her boyfriend spoke to cnn earlier tonight knowing casenia is that's the difficult bodies. i know who she's she's she's so full of life, she needs to be out this year. the sensory needs to be with a french she needs to live life, i believe in america, i do believe that america will bring it back to me and that's the hope i'm holding onto. >> right now. we are told us officials have not been given consular access to karolina. russia is claiming that she will be detained until april that we've seen them extend those before. we'll continue to keep an eye on that. thank you so much for joining us. >> tonight on 360. what house republicans are saying now that they've learned their star witness and the biden impeachment gray, who's already been charged with making up allegations, says he got the dirt. he was peddling from russian intelligence. we're keeping them honest. also tie
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what we're learning about the russian american dual national now being held in russia. and how $150 charitable donation may have factored in charges that could send her to prison there for 20 years. and breaking news the lawsuit brought by the parents of gabby petito against the parents of brian laundrie, the fiance, who admitted he killed her. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking the news just a short time ago, the president's brother, james biden, finished up more than eight hours of testimony before the house oversight committee investigating what some republicans on the committee of alleged is criminal misconduct by the biden family though that meant committee chairman james comer was tied up for much of that time. the chairman has spent the remainder of the day dodging reporter's questions about the news which broke last night, about their star witness in their case. his name is alexander smirnov. he was charged last week with lying to the fbi when he claimed to have knowledge of corruption by president biden and his son, hunter involving ukraine then last night, core documents
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reveal that he said he got the bogus smear material from russian intelligence. now we should say at the outset that he is only an alleged liar, not a proven liar, and his claims about ties to russian intelligence are just that claims what is clear though, is that nothing about all of this bolsters this guy's credibility it house republican to made what he told the fbi documented in what's called an fd 1023 form, the centerpiece of their impeachment inquiry and in the day or so since the russian aspect of the story came to light, we've taken the time to uncover yet more examples of just how much credence lawmakers have put in a man and an allegation so much in doubt. now, tonight this is direct evidence of naked corruption and bribery >> this is the biggest political corruption scandal, not only in my lifetime, but i would say the past 100 hundred years, ultimately, accountability for what i believe will uncover the biggest political corruption scandal in our nation's
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history. >> this is the most corrupt president you just have to read the fbi's fd 1020 maybe three form of the interview with the president of burisma to see that joe biden and his son, hunter biden, were bribing. we're requiring from really extorting burisma to the tune of $10 million, $5 million for each one of them. i mean, come on that there's just too much evidence and it's all documented. >> all documented if by documented, he means on a form used for recording raw and often unverified reporting from confidential sources. that is what an fd 1023 is. though republicans also say it was corroborated by then us attorney hey, scott brady. brady himself told them that he only corroborated some of it. and most significantly in that same house interview, he said he did not determine whether the underlying underlying biden bribery claims were true. he also acknowledged that his team never reviewed some key evidence that undercut the
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bribery allegations it house republicans, most notably oversight chair james comer and judiciary chair jim jordan. they continue to tout this 1023 and alexander smirnoff allegations such as they were even after he was arrested on the 14th. here's jim jordan, just two days later the most corroborating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible, confidential human source. >> highly credible. >> cnn's manu raja cut off with chairman jordan today, asked him what he thinks now that his star witness is both an alleged liar and possibly a russian asset, nano join just now. >> so >> how did that go with comer? >> well, with calmer, he sidestepped questions all day long. anderson i tried to as james comer james comer about all of these allegations and tried to yell questions to him during the interview with james biden, he would not answer questions that is unused usual for the chairman of the house oversight committee typically,
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does talk to reporters about all the issues under the sun especially this investigation. but chairman jim jordan, who's also running this investigation. i did catch up with them this morning and tried to ask him, as well as other republicans about the other thing they is that running with this unverified allegation that was memorialized in that fd 1023 form, and they tried to make the case that there were other pieces because of information that were central to their investigation and that it was not reliant on these unverified allegations by this indicted fbi informant. and when i asked you, jim jordan specifically about his claim that this was the most corroborating piece of information that this fbi informant gave. he indicated that there are other piece of information there were critical as well. >> let's >> you said that 1023 is the most corroborating piece of information you outbreaks, but it doesn't, it doesn't change those fundamental facts. so now it's not true. well, so okay. so the fbi told us that this
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source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi. well, we were trying to get the 1023. they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security promotion of a bribery scheme was false. >> not at all. we're we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true. absolutely true >> focus and falls like it begs the question why it wasn't given that's what's earlier. i probably reject the premise that like attempt points was exclusively relied upon for that doesn't mean demonstrated and that last comment came from congressman andy biggs saying that the fbi informant alexander >> smirnov, has now been indicted. so that is something to consider that these are just allegations here. anderson. but the question is, can they convince enough house republicans to move forward with articles of impeachment? at the moment, they have simply not done that yet. and this latest indictment only will undercut their efforts to impeach the president in the
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weeks ahead, anderson and as we mentioned, president biden brother testified behind closed doors on capitol hill today as part of the oversight committees impeachment investigation, what did he say? >> well, he made very clear he was unequivocal according to his attorney, you just release a statement that joe biden had absolutely no oh, involvement indirectly or directly with his brother's business dealings at all. and it's contended that there are some questions that republicans had about loans that were getting i'm going to joe biden. they're paid off by his brother, james biden. james biden testified behind closed doors today that those are simply loans that were given because he was underwater the time needed that and kind of financial support from his brother, but he said there was no involvement with his business dealings and they attorney of james biden said that this is essentially a witch hunt, and then they got nothing out of james biden to connect this with joe biden, i did catch up with some republicans afterwards who told me that they had credibility questions about james biden's testimony. they did that give specifics though anderson, when i ask them, are there any links to president biden from james
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biden that he revealed in this closed-door testimony they did not answer that question. >> next slide, raja, appreciate it. i want to bring in cnn's jessica schneider and two people have experienced with confidential informants, 1023 reports in russian disinformation, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe and john miller, former fbi assistant director. so just to understand cnn, some new reporting about this x fbi informant yeah, that's right. >> so anderson, multiple sources, they're telling our evan perez and hannah rabinowitz that it was as far back as 2020 where the fbi had reason to believe that some of these allegations since we're false now, before that, alexander smirnov really had been prized by the fbi. he worked with this particular handler for more than a decade. they talked daily and you know, most important anderson and smirnoff had very important relationships that could be used to the fbi. he had relationships with corrupt foreign business officials, corrupt government officials and crucially in the eyes of the fbi now actions with foreign intelligence services. so part of his value was that he did offer this potential window into those intelligence
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services. but even with those credentials the fbi was suspicious four years ago. despite that though anderson, there's no indication that he was actually ever polygraphed, which is typically a standard way the fbi does assess sources. so tonight the questions do remain that if the fbi i had concerns as far back as 2020 if they were unable in that time to corroborate smear runoffs, false claims that joe and hunter biden were paid $5 million each in broad hi obs. if they took action to benefit ukrainian energy company burisma, if they knew that four years ago, then why did it take until this past summer for the fbi to begin? raveling those alleged lies and eventually charged smirnoff last week. that's gonna be a big question for members of congress in particular, does make sense you that this guy wasn't polygraphed in all the years he was working with the fbi, not just i mean, before, not just from 2020 on when they start to have suspicions, but even before that it actually does anderson, it's not something that the fbi does to every source. it's not a normal part
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of the periodic re-evaluation of a source. it is done in some special cases when you have reason to believe that a source might be fabricating and you just cannot corroborate, you can't get pass that concern. you can sometimes use the polygraph is when one of many tools to get to the bottom of it, but it's not something that's done in every case. i think another thing that's being lost here is the fact that this source clearly had there was a shift in the sort of material that he was providing over some time, right. we're told that early on in his long relationship with the fbi provided i guess, substantial assistance and criminal matters and had some credits to his to his record and it's in 2020 that he starts reporting on these contacts with russian intelligence officers and high level russian government folks. >> if if the bureau did not believe wasn't 100% sure of his reporting, particularly on
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the burisma matter in 2020. >> they >> wouldn't necessarily mountain entire investigation to get to the bottom of that reporting if they weren't taking any action on it to begin with. so the peeling back the onion on that reporting really only becomes essential when congress starts to demand a copy of the 1023, which the fbi resisted by saying the 1023 is raw reporting. it's been unverified. we don't know if this is true. but at that point, it's really the pressure by congress that breathes life into this reporting. and then you have to get to the bottom >> john, can you sort of break down how the fbi works with a confidential informants and what, if anything, stands out to you about this this one? >> well, sure. the fbi recruits a confidential informant and that that informant gets an agent that's his handler. but agent may meet with them every day if they're in the middle of a case, but more often when it's a long-term informant, they'll meet with them once a
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month. that's when they'll get paid. there'll be de-briefed for whatever new information they have. but as as andrew was saying, there's also a source validation process once or twice a year. they have to go through the here's what happens if we catch you lying. this is your deal. this is how it works. but they can also be tested. polygraph is one way. in this particular case because the informants story, not only the story he told, but the idea that they would pay a $5 million bribe in 2017 when joe biden was on his way out and would have no power that they didn't mention that in the meetings until 2020. i mean, they're looking at this reporting and they're saying there's something wrong with it. you don't really they need to polygraph it and you know, while you would be investigating the background of it, this really came down to and congress demanded that 1023 forum setting the precedent that you're going to start turning over informant
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information to people in the middle of a political squabble. and the message that sends to every high level in forming the fbi was resistant to turn this thing over. >> i >> mean, they were on the precipice of the director, chris wray being held in contempt of congress and it put the director and the bureau in a terribly awkward position. and at the end of the day, they handed it over, but congress played this as read this form. these are the facts attend 23 years. it's what we do, anderson, we go out, we've taken notebook, we asked people what happened. but you have to check it out. it's raw data. and in this case, not only didn't it make sense, it didn't check out >> according to jim jordan though it was the biggest thing and gun. but >> i mean, the real core of this story. and we shouldn't ms this is the turn it made from smoking gun of a $5 million bribe by an unsupported allegation to an informant who may have lied to this newest
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chapter, which is the important part was he flipped by the russian intelligence services and sent with this information at the behest of vladimir putin to cast more dirt on joe biden, even with the story that didn't make sense. or is that just part of a story he made up for some other reason. but the timing of it certainly suggests that's when russia was very busy trying to influence us politics and just go with more you learning about the timeline of the information that came from this guy? >> yes. so before the indictment was even released last week, it wasn't even publicly known that it was in fact, alexander smirnov behind these allegations. and as john miller and andrew mccabe if i have talked about members of congress had been pressing the fbi to hand over this information from smear law last summer, and that did put the fbi in a bit of a bind here. for because the bureau did tell congress that the previous information that smirnoff had relayed it was credible. but that the information concerning the allegations against the bidens was really this raw and uncorroborated intelligence. so
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again, because of that, those questions remain why the fbi let it go for years in the endrew prosecutors also said that smirnoff has been act in their words quote, actively pedaling new lives that could impact us elections after meeting with russian spies late last year, i mean, that's stunning that this is still active it really is, and i think it helps to remind ourselves what the context is in which the government has made those assertions. this is not in an affidavit supporting a complaint or as part of an indictment. this was part of a motion to to try to make sure sure that he was denied bail, which of course was unsuccessful. and what the government is saying in that motion is, this is a person who cannot be trusted. you cannot believe what he is saying. so they are presenting the statements that he gave them in his post interview where for the first time he raised this issue you have having received this story about the bidens
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from russian intelligence officers, they're not warranting that information. there's simply saying now he's saying this, you can't believe anything. he says he therefore should not be given bail >> andrew mccabe, john miller. thanks so much coming up next, what we're learning about new action frozen biden is considering two tighten restrictions on migrants at the southern border, also tied to live report from moscow details of the arrest of a dual american citizen. what she is now accused of and how difficult it may be to actually get her out gi scan and sensitive skin to end its natural >> treated that way, vino daily moisture with prebiotic is proven to moisturized dry skin all day. feel love our formula for face to aveeno >> he was only 47. aneurism. >> did he have life insurance? do you know you gotta get on it >> checkout, select quote, >> trust me, the peace of mind.
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at the white house telling me in a statement, quote, no executive action, no matter how aggressive can deliver the significant policy reforms and additional resources, congress can provide. and that republicans rejected. we continue to call and speaker johnson and house republicans to pass the bipartisan deal to secure the border. now what the white house is referring to there of course, is that senate compromise that would have included some of the most are the toughest measures on border security in recent memory. and it was during those negotiations that president biden himself said that he was open to because shutting down the border, if given the authority, this appears to be an extension of that though the details remain unclear, and i will note anderson that in 2018, former president donald trump tried to do the same thing using the same authority, but he was challenged in the courts. now, i'm told lawyers are reviewing this new executive action to see if they move forward with it, anticipating that it could very well also face challenges in court. >> is why is the white house decided just float this idea.
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why did they want this idea out there? >> well, of course this comes as that senate border deal was tanked by republicans, white house officials have been working on that with senate negotiators for months, and it included these extraordinary powers to the homeland security the secretary to shut down the border if certain triggers were met. so now they're going back to the drawing board to see what, if anything can be done in the executive. of course, all of that will fall short of what it would mean if it was done legislatively. but also anderson, this comes during an election year. this has been a political liability for president biden for years since he took office. and they know that it's going to continue to be going into november with former president donald trump making this a key campaign theme. going into the year. and so they're trying to set themselves up for success here and flip the script on republicans all right, priscilla, stay with us, want to bring in cnn's political commentator, former special adviser president obama van jones. so then the executive action, if it's actually implemented, it might certainly anger progressive democrats. what other options does biden have at a time when 79% of
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americans, according to recent cnn poll, said the situation the border is a crisis and a bipartisan deal still can't get a floor vote in congress. you didn't have a lot of options, didn't look, here's reality. everybody has a number that is too big before they say something's got to be done. some republicans, if one person came across her undocumented, they'd say shut the whole border down, built a wall and never let let the door be back open some people might be ten subfield might be 100,000, 5 million, 50 million at some point the numbers too big, even for democrats. and now we're at a place where because congress won't act, republicans won't let congress act. number is too big of people coming across the border, even for democrats. and so the president is going to take some action reality as the courts might strike it down also to your point, he's floating these trial balloons that kind of see what the reaction is. but if republicans are going to politicize the issue and then refuse to act on it. biden has to do something. >> it's inching priscilla
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because the republicans who have refused to act on it have said, well, there are executive actions the president could take. obviously this is one of them. how does it compare to what the trump white house tried to do before it was blocked by a federal court. i mean, is it exactly the same >> and that is certainly some of the pushback that the white house can anticipate if they move forward with this. but in 2018, former president donald trump issued a presidential problem auckland nation in which he tried to invoke the same authority known as to 12 to shut down asylum entirely on the us mexico border when it made its way through the courts, what the court said was essentially this conflicts with asylum law. you can't do this because the people are entitled to seek asylum at the us mexico border. we don't know the details of exactly how this new executive action, if the white house does, it would look like. but the key here and the white house pushed back because is that if there had been legislation that would have put this into a bill into law, then there wouldn't be any way for it to be legally challenged in court. so former problem
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president donald trump tried to do it. he was stopped in court because of the law, the white house worked with senate negotiators to change the law and republicans walked that back if it had been part of the law, then there wouldn't have been any sort of legal arguments. so that is the back-and-forth that's happening between the white house and house republicans who refuse to take anything up if it comes anything short of what they themselves want to see that on the border, then the one of the infuriating things about this is that many of the people who will be claiming asylum are just on the face of it, not really eligible. i mean there it's understandable why they're leaving their countries they want a better life for their children. they want a better better income they're fleeing a lack of security in their neighborhoods. but it's not political or religious persecution, which is, or the all the things. asylum is a very particular thing. that you are claiming >> yes. >> and that is the challenge that i think americans been facing. it's like somebody figured out some clever way to
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jump the turnstile at the subway and kind of get away with it. one person does the two people then pretty soon the whole slept subways just full of people who are just basically exploiting a loophole that's what's happened with our asylum laws. we put those asylum laws in place proudly. after world war ii, when people were trying to flee hitler's butchery and couldn't get out of the country and couldn't get here. and so we put those in place for a good reason. but now there are people who are just using it and abusing its gotta be fixed biden was willing to cut a deal. the republicans would rather leave the border open for a political purpose than keep the country safe. biden's trying to do something and i hope you fix it up. >> yeah. event >> jones, priscilla alvarez. thanks. next wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich has been in custody in russia now for nearly 11 months. now, authorities there have arrested another american and what we know about her and the allegations against her in a live report from moscow next we're here to get your side of the store.
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in the city of you, katerina berg. and she was arrested then. and has subsequently been charged basically with treason, which is an incredibly serious center charge here, crime here. and could carry a sentence of up to 20 years now, the fsb, which is the old kgb, which is sort of holding her at the moment saying that since february 2022 she has proactively collected money in the interests of ukrainian organizations, which was subsequently used to buy arms and medicine and other equipment for the ukrainian army. in addition, while in the united states, sheet repeatedly took part in public rallies in support of the kyiv regime. those the words of the russian fsb, there's that figure of $51 and cents and some change that she apparently donated to a us charity that helped ukrainians during, during this conflict. anderson part the problem is that she is this
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joint u.s. russian citizens. so when she comes into russia on a russian passport, it means that her us passport doesn't count as far as the russian authorities are concerned. and so it's much harder, if not impossible, for us diplomats to get consular access to her. and that's why we don't know exactly what her state is, what our condition is, and how she's doing right now, alexey navalny's mom has filed a lawsuit over the quote, inaction of the investigative committee to release let's his body. what more do we know about that >> well, i mean, this is a court hearing that's being held behind closed doors, but it comes out of a frustration on the part of the navalny family in particular ludmilla navalnaya, his mom, who's traveled nearly 2000 miles to the far north of russia to try and get our hands on his body, recover. it says you can have a funeral even made that emotional appeal a couple of days ago to president putin himself to intervene. and
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demanded that the body be returned to her. so as you can have that funeral and barium in a humane way in her words, but those appeals have so far fallen on deaf ears. we still don't really know when navalny's body is. and the authorities say it could be a couple of weeks now. from now until they're ready to even look at the possibility of giving the body over for burial not the janitor. >> appreciate him shortly before word came of this latest arrest, we also learned that a russian helicopter pilot who defected to ukraine had been murdered, shot dead multiple times in the spanish cseh village night. we know much more. and as cnn's melissa bell reports, his killing came as no surprise to russian state media let's we'd big with me, loic guardia because we see pollution. i will bone in yet an eerie warning just months before police cordoned off this crime scene a russian state
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media during this claiming last october that russian special forces were seeking to retaliate against helicopter pilot maxine kuzminov, who defected ukraine last year it's a, lot the principle in just >> because men off >> now discovered fatally shot in spain, ukrainian defense intelligence sources confirmed to cnn his body found in a parking garage. according to spanish authorities all asked whether russia had any knowledge of the deaths. kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov said moscow had no information on the matter at all. despite russia's foreign intelligence chief speaking indirectly saying that caused me enough became a moral corpse. the moment he'd planned his quote terrible crime. the crime in question, a daring operation loss september that saw him fly his helicopter across the
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russian border and into ukraine i decision caused me off. explain to journalists just after arriving in kyiv if i had one question, why would my beloved homeland needs such a war? i went to church, i lit candles with one wish that it would end as soon as possible. i realized that this is evil, horror, and crime. any war is a crime >> maxim kuzminov said the trip took six months to plan. then once out of russia, he used his voice to more of his countrymen to do the same of course, if you commit what i've committed, he will not regret a tall, you will be provided for with everything for the rest of your life. you will be offered jobs everywhere everywhere you would want, whatever you would want to do you will discover a world of colors for yourself. >> that world of colors, however, cast in the kremlin's shadow can hear snl. i down
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with a schiff. they can. i'm not sure we can the warnings on state television reminding dissidence that moscow's grip extends far beyond russia's borders. >> anderson, there have been so many russian citizens that have died in mysterious circumstances. these last few years, maxim kuzminov, nowhere near the first, there have been businessman. the directors of russian energy giants like gazprom, lukoil there have been politicians, journalists as well, who've died in certain concerns is ranging from their falling down a flight of stairs to being defenestrated poison as well. and this inside russia, but also of course, outside from india to spain and france in the past one of the questions is why maximum could has been off was not better protected. now we spoken, interviewed a high profile dissident here in france last year, who was one given police protection, 24 hour police
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protection because french authorities had foiled an attempt on his life. it is simply too costly. the resources, too great for european intelligence services to monitor russian citizens thank you for seven, i think it's important to note as well, anderson, that the kremlin has denied any knowledge of what might have happened to maximum cosmic off, denying any knowledge and involvement in this killing anderson, melissa bell. thanks very much. still had rfk junior targeting some of the democratic party's most loyal voters supporters of president biden do not appear to be taking the kennedy factor lightly details on that next >> we're here to get your side of the store >> why do we keep ending up here you can't write this stuff united states of scandal with jake tapper starts on day nine on cnn. >> dry skin is sensitive, skin too. and it's natural treated that way with a vino daily moisture formulated with nerves being prebiotic owed. it's clinically proven to moisturized dry skin for 24
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added president biden and says, let the best man, when tim, their response to billboards like this one from the dnc labeling rfk junior is quote, powered by maga and trump. new fec filings show mellon gave $5 million a piece last month to the super pac backing both kennedy the end trump. but as democrats are focusing more on rfk junior, he has his eyes set on one of their most reliable voting blocks. cnn's eva mckend has more >> robert f. kennedy juniors, independent run for the white house is drawing new attention from national democrats i think both republicans and democrats. he infrastructure and the leadership are of course going to be worried from queens food pantry to a co-working space in brooklyn. kennedy is on the campaign trail making a pitch to one of the most loyal constituencies of the democratic party, black voters it comes as president joe biden's allies at the democratic national police have
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ramped up an aggressive campaign to undercut kennedy's candidacy, signaling the threat he could pose to the president's reelection hopes just outside of kennedy campaign black history month event the dnc billboard aims to link kennedy to maga republicans. >> there's a lot of black voters in this country who've been voting, who are taken for granted by the democratic party. >> what do you think that you can offer black voters that joe biden cannot >> i've spent 40 years working for economic development and for cleaning up the environment for health care. for black americans, asthmatic americans. i have a long on track record of making a bright mode. i i already erin freeman, who's family has loaned brooklyn staple sugarhill supper club, has consistently supported democrats. >> i'm leaning towards supporting mr. kennedy because his family has always been until the rights for the underprivileged
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>> the economy is a key motivator for freeman. he says his family almost lost their business during the pandemic. >> the economy and the people in these neighborhoods, they need proof, they need substance, they need to be able to see it and feeling not just here it while early polling shows signals i forget levels of interest in kennedy as an alternative to a 2020 rematch. it's difficult to know exactly how much of a threat kennedy poses to buy. still demo crowds do not appear to be taking the kennedy factor lightly earlier this month, the dmc filed the complaint with the fec accusing kennedy's campaign and a super pac supporting his presidential bid of a legal courtroom an ancient complaint alleges that is federal law that they've chosen to ignore after a super pac back in kennedy's campaign spent $7 million on a super bowl >> ad that repurpose the spot from his uncle, john f. kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign, the dnc accused the independent candidate of being
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a trump stalking horse, pointing to donations to the group received from republican megadonors like tim melon the ad also drew criticism from members of kennedy's family on memory of my family and whose feelings are hurt by that add and i apologized i said, i'm sorry that he felt that way. but i have no apologies about the ad. i think the ad was a good. >> meanwhile, some black voters continue to weigh their options and are entertaining. kennedy as a real alternative, black america truly does not have a friend in politics the democrats say, yeah, we'll help you. what you hurry up and wait. >> i can't say who i'm voting for. we just need to focus more of working at home. take care home. that's my whole big thing. we're not taking care at home with taking care of the war and it shouldn't be >> right now as an independent
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parents, as well as the laundrie attorney over emotional distress and for withholding information, there was a mandatory mediation today and tonight where the families have reached a settlement. randi kaye joins us with the latest. so what do we know randi? >> anderson, i was in touch earlier today. we steve bertolino, he's the lawyer for the laundrie family and he told me that they settled with gabby petito's parents he, also told me that the terms of that settlement will remain confidential. now, of course, this case was settled as both sides were preparing to go to trial, which was coming up in may. and as part part of that trial, they recently released these courtroom depositions, which were quite disturbing. they had disturbing details about what was done. and more importantly, anderson, what wasn't done to find gabby petito >> good morning really nice and sunny. >> in the summer of 2021 when gabby petito and her fiance, brian laundrie, were on a cross-country road trip and her van, bryan's father called his
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phone and said he sounded frantic that's according to his father's court deposition, which was released last week along with depositions from laundrie's mother and gabby petito's parents? it's all part of an emotional distress lawsuit brought by petito's parents against the laundries and their attorney >> never go >> christopher laundrie, bryan's father recalled a phone conversation with his son on august 29. the day his father says stuff hit the fan he said his son was frantic and got very excited repeatedly telling his father gabby's gone. he said his son asked, can you help me and told him that he might need a lawyer? roberta laundrie, brian's mother said in her deposition, she spoke with her son that same day and his voice was very upset, adding, i didn't want to push him, so we just said goodbye. hi when brian asked for a lawyer, his father said, i asked him why he wouldn't tell me after that, christopher laundrie said he contacted the families lawyer. what exactly
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did the laundries think their son meant by the word gun? roberta laundrie said several possibilities ran through her mind, including that the couple had a fight or perhaps her son and had hit petito and she was going to press charges. when asked if she thought maybe her son had murdered petito roberta laundrie responded it might have gone through my mind. i can't recall what i was thinking at the time laundrie's father said he never thought his son killed petito. i had no idea what to think. he said the laundries were also asked repeatedly why they didn't press their son about what had happened to gabby, not over the phone, and not even in person after their son showed up back in florida on september 1, 2021, in petito's van without her they both explain that their lawyer had told them not to question their son about petito. i was told not to ask, and so i just kept brian close, kept him home and safe, and didn't talk to him about anything, and hoped for the best, roberta laundrie said the distressing phone
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calls with their son took place three weeks before petito's remains things were found in wyoming's bridger teton national forest. the teton county coroner determined she died from strangulation and ruled it a homicide. in all those weeks that passed since the phone call with their son, the laundrie said they never contacted the petitos and ignored all the potatoes calls and text messages at the advice of their lawyer all of this despite knowing petito's parents were desperate to find her. >> i'm asking for help from the parents of brian and i'm asking for help of the family members and friends of the laundrie family as well in her deposition, brian's mother said, i was just concerned about my son at the time and that she figured maybe her parents would pick her up or could come get her more than a month after brian laundrie disappeared from his home, his body was found in a nearby swamp police say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound alongside him, a note book in which he admitted taking gabby petito's life, saying she'd
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fallen and was in extreme pain. he said he thought it was quote, merciful even from this case for for years for any i mean, how big a surprise is this settlement >> i think it's a pretty big surprise, anderson, certainly the petito's have seen pretty resistant to settling with the laundrie family. in fact, as part of those depositions, they included a deposition from joseph petito, gabby petito's father, and he said in his deposition, i want to make them hurt, meaning the laundries as much as they heard us. he also said, quote, there's no amount of money that i would settle for, not dime. so clearly that sounds like he was very resistant to settling with the laundrie family, but certainly as we look ahead to trial, anderson, this was promising to be a very emotional trial. likely a very expensive trial for both sides. so clearly they both seem to think that this was best in this case, anderson, randi kaye. thank >> you so much coming up for his family and friends gathering texas. remember, the life 11 year-old audrii
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