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next saturday at seven on cnn this is cnn breaking news are in the cnn newsroom. i'm jessica dean in new york and we begin this hour with break breaking news and growing fears of an all-out war in the middle east in israel after hezbollah announced it had launched long range missiles towards jerusalem. this after vowing to fight back following the death of its top leader hassan has brava in an israeli airstrike in beirut yesterday, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying the killing of nasrallah was quote necessary, and israel will keep fighting we sit out responsible for the murder of countless israelis and many citizens of other countries, including hundreds of americans, in dozens of
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freshmen israel is on the move. >> we win. we are determined to continue to strike our enemies return our residents to their homes and returned all of our hostages our nic robertson has the latest now from tel aviv, let's talk about hezbollah's response so far, nic and what you're seeing from where you are yeah. the response from hezbollah, not as expected. one of their rockets was either intercepted or came down in the west bank. that's the one that trip i get the alarms in jerusalem. a couple of hours ago, it came down in ms pay highgate. now, the medical services that when they're after the impacts on the ground, they found no casualties, but at three different locations, they found evidence that either practical or the interceptor missile had, had impacted buildings and there were some fires on the ground. but it's a bit it's
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odd that the missiles came. there are more fired towards jerusalem because it was expected that it will be central israel. that's densely populated cities like tel aviv, but could bet at the brunt of hezbollah rockets, not areas that have a large arab population. and again, as something not expected tonight, a missile fired from lebanon by hezbollah has landed in neighboring but not far from the capital that's what the jordanian military three are saying, which begins to create the impression that has was not fully in control of the weapons systems that they using perhaps these as longer range ballistic missiles. so far this night, at least, not, not as bad as was feared. it could have been the idf talking at the moment about the potential for increasing their ground operations along the northern border, the
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defense minister has had a consultation with his with other defense and security officials and they're looking at increasing they say the activities of the idf along the border which could imply there is a ground incursion coming, but there's nothing official about that, though the idf says they will do whatever the politicians instead struck them to do. but i think by and large tonight, although people in israel are bracing for a hezbollah response, it hasn't come, it's not like the country is on edge, but there's a certain expectancy and a real understanding and feeling that because nasrallah has been killed than that does change the dynamic make the conflict at the moment all right. >> nic robertson for us in tel aviv. thank you so much for that reporting. i know it's been a long day for you all there. we really appreciate it us officials tonight telling cnn, the u.s. >> sees the possibility of a limited ground incursion into lebanon, but it appears israel hasn't made a decision yet.
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cnn's oren liebermann is live in washington or in what else are officials saying about this? >> well, part of that us assessment officials say is based on what the us is able to see that as a mobilization of a greater number of forces in a movement of those forces north, the clearing of areas that would be required for a ground incursion. but crucially, it obviously hasn't happened yet. and the official say it doesn't appear as if israel has made a decision now for several days now, israeli officials, including their top general herzi halevi, have made clear that a ground incursion is very much a possibility in their preparing for the possibility of a ground incursion. but it is worth noting that a senior israeli official said earlier this week, said on friday, that is that a ground incursion is not what israel intends to do. that that what israel hopes to do, and it's a very important statement here as israel tries to accomplish, its goal in the north, its goal that is with hezbollah, worth noting here, the goal isn't the elimination or the destruction of hezbollah that very much would require a
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very large ground an incursion. it is the returning of the residents of israel's north to their homes more than 60,000 israeli residents along the border with lebanon displaced. what does that take? and when does israel feel comfortable doing that? that of course is the key question. the u.s. trying to figure that out, israel trying to figure out what it would take to make that happen. meanwhile, of course, the u.s. has ceased ceasefire efforts are ongoing even as israel makes clear, it's going to press the very large advantage it has over hezbollah at least for the time being and oren, both israeli and us officials say that the us was notified just moments ahead of the strike that killed nasrallah that the u.s. did not play a role in that operation? what does that tell you and what more are you learning about the relationship currently between the u.s. government and the israeli government. >> well, jessica, it's worth noting. it's not the first time that's happened, just 11 or 12 days ago, right before israel started blowing up, hezbollah's pagers in lebanon and then walkie-talkies a day later. israel gave the u.s.
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only the vagus of heads-ups, basically saying something is going to happen in lebanon without offering any details. so once again, we see this either bare bones notification or complete lack of advanced notification of what israel intended to do in lebanon in the case of the strike that killed hassan nasrallah it was yoav galant, the israeli defense minister, who told defense secretary lloyd austin basically, as the planes when the air going to carry out that strike that. israel was going to carry out a major operation in lebanon. there is clearly some tension here and i think you can get a sense of the frustration on the u.s. side including two, at least some extent with defense secretary lloyd austin. why was just a bare-bones notification given moments before or minutes before the strike happened, that in and of itself is an excellent question, but given the u.s. efforts to get to a ceasefire, i think it's very simple to conclude that if israel gave us a much larger heads-up the u.s. would have pushed back and tried to consult on it and tried to
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steer them away from that and it doesn't seem like israel wanted that to happen so they gave just, just a little bit of notification. again, israel very clearly, i think has the advantage israel for years, decades, even had prepared for the possibility of war with hezbollah. so they had the plans, they had the intel and they're pushing that advantage. >> all right. oren liebermann for us in washington, dc. thank you for that reporting joining me now, former senior us intelligence official, norman roule, and also with us former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the middle east, danish roll, great to have both of you here with us. norman, i want to start with you as nic robertson and oranges laid out, there are fears there's that this could turn into a wider regional war. and there are big questions tonight about what iran might do how do you see things? >> you're good evening to you and to my good friend dana it's already a regional war. >> the question is, how might it expand the united states has generally contained houthi missile firing.
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>> firing will continue, but it's unlikely to be a strategic impact. hamas is not a strategic factor, has blood on its back hill's, the iraqis have limited capability, which is not a strategic capability in the end, this comes down to iranian missiles and drones, which are likely contained by the massive us military presence in the region and the defensive umbrella that has put in place, that's not guarantee, but it's likely this does mean that there may be cyber attacks terrorism is likely. but we're already in a regional conflict and dana just looking at hezbollah, an organization in your view, how damaged is it not just as a result of the killing of nasrallah, but everything that you kind of cumulatively add up over the past couple of weeks? >> it's including the pagers and walkie-talkies going off and the following strikes it appears that israel has delivered excuse me, a once in a generation blow to hezbollah.
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>> it has decimated its senior leadership. it has eliminated significant amounts of its weapons caches across southern lebanon. and it is now targeting hezbollah's strategic weapons arsenal. those ballistic missiles that can reach deeper into israel and precisely target civilian areas right now. unbelievable, incredible damage, which really calls into question whether or not this organization will have effective command and control going forward in order to launch any kind of counterresponse and norma norman dana mentions those ballistic missiles that they also want to go after we've heard from the idf that their objective here is to get those 60,000 israelis back to where they live and then safely and allow them to live there on the northern border safely. >> do you do see a ground incursion being a part of that and achieving that objective i shared israel's activities, but it's
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remains too early to see how this campaign is a campaign will achieve israel's goals, which are not the destruction of his beloved, but the return of its people in northern israel. >> and the end of hezbollah attacks has blocked remains alive, it remains kicking. it's certainly not the organization it was in the past. but israel has yet to achieve the deterrence that it requires. again, we're too early in the campaign and dana, then there's the usps of all of this and there's several layers here, but i want to ask you specifically about us deterrence and the presence in the region. if this is working, the secretary of defense lloyd austin says that the presence will remain there in the region. what do you, what do you make of that and how effective do you think that deterrence is when it comes to iran well, what we've seen, first of all, is the biden administration has said as early as excuse me, after october 7, that they were
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seeking to prevent an all-out regional war. >> they've repeatedly sent aircraft carriers, additional destroyers, air defense and forces. all on alert. they've authorized as norm spoke about multilateral strikes against the houthis in yemen unilateral strikes excuse me against those militias in iraq and syria. and even though iran is undeterred in its long-term strategy of pressuring united states to leave the region the lesson the iranians have taken away at this point in time i'm is there's more us forces in the region, more us determination to stay in the region. and pretty impressive regional and international cooperation with europeans, error partners and israelis all working together in mid-april to defeat that iranian direct attacks. so i think it's very plausible that leaders and teheran we're looking around tonight at the region, at the hits they've taken that their direct attacks have been defeated, and they've
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lost their insurance policy. hezbollah and lebanon, and they're really thinking through what's a viable next step? >> norman, i would like to get your thoughts on that as well i agree if you're in tehran, you're unable to resupply or coordinate operations with the houthis, with hezbollah or hamas. >> because you're logistics and communications chains have been severely damaged and your personnel in lebanon and syria are often killed. the iranian options are few it's possible they could conduct a missile or drone attack, but you're likely to see a similar result as an april and a potential israeli counter strike, which would be embarrassing to the regime. i do worry about terrorism. i do worry that iran's primary goal will remain the survival of these groups, not necessarily their short-term victory and replenishing them in. do we have a plan to deal with it? >> but for now is the iranians are probably waiting for, waiting to see how coming days
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play out as well and dana, then there is the relationship between the united states and israel. and we know that president biden and prime minister benjamin netanyahu have butted heads that there has been some frustration within the biden administration when it comes to the israeli government even as they continue to send all this military might there and to support the american ally, israel. but what do you make of the current relationship and the status of the relationship between the u.s. government, the israeli government right now there has been no change in us policy comes to the longstanding objective of ensuring that israel has what it needs to defend itself, and ensuring that israel can survive as a jewish democratic state in the middle east despite iran arming fund monday things applying and directing all of these non-state groups to pressure israel. >> i do think that there had been disagreements about
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tactics and operational electives. specifically the level of civilian casualties and collateral damage in gaza. and now we're seeing those concerns play out and lebanon as well but the statement from president biden and the statement from vice president harris today, we're very clear there was no love loss for the elimination of hassan nasrallah, who has projected terror across lebanon at israel, and frankly worked right alongside the iranians to cultivate this whole network of terror across the region. >> all right, norman roule and dana stole our thanks to both of you. we really appreciate it battling over border policy. >> donald trump attacks kamala harris on immigration one day after she visit did the u.s.-mexico border, as she looks to blunt trump's advantage on that issue, you're in the cnn newsroom over. >> tim walz and j.d. vance in their first and only face-to-face debate and cnn has covered with the best political team in the business, a cnn
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strategists, antwan see right, and republican strategist pizzi, too good to have both of you here with us. thanks so much for being here antwan, let's start first with you and vice president harris's trip to the border. trump continues to pull better with americans. they think he has a better handle on the border how does she convince americans that she is the right person for an issue that many of them say is one of their most issues that they're voting on? >> well, i think what the republican party has done led by donald trump, is somehow another could with the american people that are immigration issues are border issue somehow just started because joe biden and kamala harris won the white house in 2020. that's simply not true. if you leave it to the trump camp and some republicans were going to build a wall mexico is going to pay for it. and that was going to in all of our border immigration issues. but her visit yesterday very consequential visit was important. one, it showed the
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depth whip and rains of her ability to deal with a catalog of complex issues in this country. but two, i think she laid out a plan in a vision for how we deal with this when she becomes president, quite frankly and from a priority perspective and then second, lease, she i think she reminded the american people, she is not new to this issue. she's truth to it being the former attorney general from a border state, and then last but not least, i think she reminded everyone that she was willing to lead along with president biden from a bipartisan manner. on a very comprehensive immigration legislation that donald trump tanked. so that meant, that means she's willing to be a consensus consensus bill, find higher ground where they may not be common ground to deal with complex issues in this country and pete antwan mentioned that bipartisan border bill that just to remind everyone they did have both republican, very conservative republicans and democrats negotiate in the senate and the former president didn't want
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it, it as an election issue and it died in the senate before it ever got out. >> trump though, does have an edge when it comes to immigration, but it is interesting to see harris, especially when you compare things she has said in the past, take this tougher stance, this more centrist stance on immigration, what do you make of those moves? >> well, more american voters trust donald trump 49% in the latest cnn poll compared to 35% for kamala harris, because democrats, despite what has been said, democrats have not taken border security seriously, they absolutely have not ask ourselves, what has kamala harris done in the last almost four years as vice president of the united states democrats like to highlight her time as the attorney general of california, but there's no mention of when she was a us senator from california. and there's no mention of her time as vice president would she
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have even gone to the border if she wasn't running for president, if it wasn't a swing state, i think the answer to that is absolutely not. she's only been there once as vice president. and that was in 2021. democrats have not been taking this issue seriously. and in fact, when they do take action, like the 94 executive actions that the biden/harris administration took in their first hundred days in office it was to dismantle trump era immigration and border policies that were working so she has a very tall hill to climb on this to convince the american people and voters that she's quote, tough on this, but i don't think they're going to believe it. >> so police go ahead if i could just respond remind remind the fact. >> remind my friend pete that migration the border crossings are down to historic levels, even if the level of lower than when donald trump well, the president, seems the vice president of the united states, the same position that might
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fix held when we had border immigration issue, then donald trump was president for four years and he did not do one thing to solve, quote, unquote, border issues in this country. so again making the immigration and border challenges in his country political football, using right wing, red meat, radical rhetoric to gin up a base response from some in this country does not mean you have a plan for the issue quite frankly, she showed up with a plan and i challenge you, pete, to articulate what former president trump's plan is to deal with the border but in a real way, and not concepts of a plan p. >> dewan to respond sure. if i gained ten pounds a month for a year, and then in the following year gain only five pounds a month. i can't just say, well, the rate of my weight gain is going down that's a failure. that is an absolute failure. you need to lose the weight, not just gain less weight. so saying, oh, border crossings have gone down, there's still happening. what are we doing
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about those that occurred years ago and those individuals who are already in this country illegally, there's no action tool answer to that. so i don't think saying, oh, it's going down is what people want to hear but you never told me what former president trump is going to do about the border challenges we face in this country because he doesn't have a plan, whereas she showed up yesterday with a full fledge plan of how she would deal with these on day one, including building off what she and president biden did by wave executive order as he talked about what she would do from a future forward forward-leaning as president of the united states, p, we got to go, but i'll give you a quick, quick last word. sure. >> yeah. again, as i said, 94 executive actions to dismantle what was working. that's the plan. the biden/harris administration scrapped it off the table all right. >> antwan, see right. and pizzi, we have to leave it there, but i do appreciate both of you being here to talk about
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here in buncombe county and asheville are already devastated. an overwhelmed based on the destruction that mother nature right here in this part of the country. >> and now we're getting very sad news from buncombe county officials who said that they are confident at this point point to say that there are multiple fatalities here. that's what we heard from a ryan coal. he's the county's assistant emergency services director. he said and here i quote i would be comfortable at this point in time to say that we have multiple fatalities officials at a press conference also said that they believe there are over 60 people who are unaccounted for. they also said that tonight they're looking at about 150 rescue operations going around asheville and also, we have heard from the university of north carolina in asheville, chancellor kimberly been norton it said that given the
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situation, they're canceling classes until october 9th. there are many fallen trees. she said there are areas around campus that are inaccessible for different reasons. and also mobile service and internet services are down. so it'd be very difficult to do what they do officials have a lot on their hands right now because as they tried to get to those people affected by the storm there are as many as 400 that roads and highways here around the county that are impassable for a number of reasons, debris, they were destroyed. there still water in them and that's making their task and very, very difficult. we also heard from officials who said that since thursday they have received as many as 5,500 emergency calls to the 911 service. we have also heard from many resonance here who are very worried about their
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water service because for large number of the population they are not getting anywhere water in their homes and businesses right now. and what officials say is that they are going around town, assessing the situation, trying to make sure that they identify as such most of the water main breaks that they have to fix first before they can get the entire system back up and running. also around don, we have seen many people who gathered at particular spots that have wireless services. there are very, few of these and people are just gathering at those spots, trying to send messages to their loved ones to let them know that they are they are. okay. but again, again, it is a very difficult situation here for officials and the population. >> jessica, back to you, rafael romo. thank you so much israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is showing no signs of letting up and he has fight
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officials say a limited incursion is still possible it all comes a day after an israeli strike killed hezbollah's top leader, former prime minister naftali bennett is joining us now to discuss. thanks so much for being here with us. we really appreciate you making time tonight. >> thank you. >> i just want to start first with this possibility of a ground incursion and what comes next? >> do you see that as necessary to achieve this objective which the idf has said is getting some 60,000 israelis back to living in the north safely will the objective exactly to remove the threat of hezbollah once and for all, hezbollah has been terrorizing israeli people for about 35 years now. >> they've shut tens of thousands of rockets on israelis throughout the year. the years murdered hundreds of israelis. they killed my own best friend and it's time to remove this whole threat from
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israel. and this is an opportunity how to achieve it. you could do it with or without an incursion. i'm not going to give the government advice, but this is what we need to do because this is a watershed event and a huge opportunity it is interesting to hear you, to hear you say it is to get rid of hezbollah once and for all, because that's a much more broader objective than just making sure that those israelis can go back to living safely there in the north yeah but because we don't want to bring them back north and then have hezbollah recover in a few years. >> look, hezbollah has been badly, badly damaged we killed the ceo, nasrallah were killed. most of the board of directors of hezbollah. we killed most of the executive management of hezbollah. the senior management whoever did the beeper attack took off the hands, faces, and bottoms of thousands of middle-management than hezbollah. hezbollah right now is temporarily badly harmed
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and injured. but if we let go of them now, they'll just recover and hit us back and two or three or five years, that's something none of us want to do. >> and i want to ask you too about some reporting from one of our colleagues who was saying that israeli officials they were talking to anticipated that this could be a huge response from hezbollah, that but that we've thus far not seen anywhere close to that kind of response. they thought they might have, but then added that they to your point, think it is possible that they could they could regroup and strike again and where do you see this going? in the next 72 hours well, this is a watershed moment in the history of the middle east. >> the history of lebanon, the history of israel. because in terms of israel, as i said, we've had this ring of fire are closing on us an iranian ring of fire for the past 20 years or so. and now it's time to remove this threat from
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israel, from hamas, from hezbollah. in terms of the people of lebanon israel has provided you a once in a lifetime opportunity. i'd like to address the people of lebanon rise up. take your country back. >> hezbollah which is backed by iran, hijacked your nation 30 years ago. >> and it's made everyone's life miserable. now is your time to kick him out. don't let them come back. and in terms of iran itself, i think this regional octopus of terror, whose head is in tehran and two of its arms have been badly hurt. i think the united states and israel and the leading western countries have to set an objective of toppling the iranian regime in the near future. >> and what does that look like it looks like what america did to the soviet union in the 80s i'm not talking only about kinetic action and bombing and stuff like that. >> not necessarily that i'm
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talking about. devastating economic and diplomatic sanctions. i'm talking about overt and covert operations. i'm talking about cyber, i'm talking about empowering the iranian people, which are an amazing nation and they despise their own leadership yet every time they apprise in protest the regime turns off the internet. we can turn it back on the regime kills them we can empower the people of iran to fight back with rifles this is a terrible regime that oppresses its own people, kills gaze, kills women for not wearing those scarves. and it's time for the whole region to kick out the iranian regime. it's not going to happen tomorrow, but it can happen over the next few years with these soft power actions that i just described. >> and it's interesting because i'm hearing a when you were talking to the people of lebanon and just now when you're talking about the iranian people you're really
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in trying to send a message to them to rise up in their country. it sounds like that's exactly right. >> because it's hezbollah is not a natural development in lebanon, it's a tentacle of the terror octopus from iran. you see a iran takes advantage of all these countries it embeds itself, it sends its tentacles in, it builds proxies and it destroys those countries. it's like the midas touch an opposite. every country they touched goes bad lebanon, syria, iraq, yemen and it's time to throw them away. and for the first time in decades, this is actually possible. it's achievable but we have to be determined about it. we have to know that iran is nearing a nuclear weapon we cannot allow that to happen. america cannot allow that to happen. and i want to remind you one last point. america has
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taken huge hits from hezbollah in 1983, hezbollah murdered 241 american servicemen and beirut in 1984, they kill 24 americans and untold numbers. today is a day of reckoning and america and israel aid should be happy about it. and b, we need to double down and decimate hezbollah, hamas and all the iranian proxies and topple the iranian regime and lesson, there was certainly no tiers being shed over. >> nasrallah being killed at the white house however, we did hear from president biden just, just a short time ago, he was asked while he was walking out of church about a possible ground incursion and he said, once again, it's timing and for a ceasefire is what he said. >> what do you believe where are you on that? do you believe there is a diplomatic option that is viable right now? he wants a ceasefire. now, he says, do you think that's possible well, if hezbollah
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this arms itself and lays down its arms and moves 2030 kilometers away from israel. that that would be, that would bring peace to the area we need hamas to release the hostages. >> we've got 100 israelis being held by hamas at this very moment. so my point is, jessica you can't be hitting israel and killing israelis for years and decades and then the moment that israel hits back, suddenly you have to stop everything i mean, for 11 months, everyone's been begging hezbollah to seize the fire and they didn't. and now when they're on the defensive, this is the time to double down and take care of them. i also want to say one last point. you know, terrorists of been killing israelis for many years. nasrallah is soaked with blood of israelis and americans. and the message tonight is loud and clear the
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state of israel never forgets the jews never forget. if you hit us. we'll hit you back all right, former prime minister naftali bennett. >> thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back years. >> i've been saying publicly, more people say and turns out i have. enough money. i could just shut off but back tears car next saturday at cnn the perfect day here to put down some scott's turf bill to into guard is perfect for giving the law the boost this fall. thank you. mean perfect for repairing all the fungi this summer, though, it's perfect for strengthening routes to head protected all winter, more like perfect for giving the grass at deeper green come spring. sounds like it's perfect for your neighbor. yeah. he's going to take his back. >> what hand borrow your spreader going back condition that the
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pleaded not guilty to five federal corruption charges friday, and he says he has no plans to resign. but the decision could be out of his hands. cnn's gloria pazmino has more gloria tell us what you're hearing well, jessica, the mayor kept a pretty low profile here in new york city on this saturday, he went to church this morning when he was entering church he was asked whether or not he would resign. >> the mayor did not answer the question. what we know from his comments in the past few days that he has no intention of stepping down and that he is going i'm going to fight these charges at least he has said that he has every intention to do so. and we got a chance to listen and learn a little bit about what the defense in this case might look like the mayor was arraigned on friday. he declared himself not guilty. and his lawyer spoke to reporter outside of the federal courthouse saying that the gifts and luxury travel and the airline upgrades that are outlined in the indictment were
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nothing more than that, just gives and free upgrades. he said that the political donations that the mayor received he we're secured by staffers who did not tell the mayor that they were taking donations from foreign nationals. so we're starting to see just how the mayor may potentially be defending himself in this case. i want you to take a listen to alex spiro, who is representing eric adams shortly after during the arraignment on friday. take a listen. >> this case isn't even a real case. this is the airline upgrade corruption case. there are no emails, text messages for any corroboration whatsoever that the mayor knew about anything having to do with these campaign donations. the entire body of evidence is one staffer one staffer that says there was a conversation what you have not learned is that that staffer has lied and the government is in possession of that lie now, is a reference
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to sing, a former eric adams staffer who we now know is cooperating with the government. >> now, the question in all of this beyond that, the indictment and beyond the charges is how the mayor is going to survive i've the political fallout that has resulted from all of this. we know that he does not plan on stepping down, but governor kathy hochul is the only person who has the legal authority to remove him. and our sources close to the mayor had told us that she was looking at the legal language just to make sure sure that she was keeping her options open this weekend. we're also hearing from the reverend al sharpton. he called on hochul not to you who's that power saying that the mayor deserves the right to due process and that there is no political precedent here in the city for removing a sitting mayor. that of course will be would be a very politically
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fraught choice. for governor hochul to make so we will see how this plays out over the next several days. of course, in the meantime, the mayor has to get back to the work of running the city. and the question is whether or not he's going to be able to do that successfully while he also defended himself from these very serious charges. >> jessica, gloria pazmino, thanks so much. tonight. catch a brand-new episode of have i got news for you? >> here's a preview here's your next headline. new footage suggests there may be two olsen twins this requires footage bigfoot, you're in the ballpark. >> bigfoot. give me give me a different oh, my goodness partial points. the answer is loch ness monsters a new video captured from a webcam at a lot missing bed and breakfast showed a large ripple moving across the lakes water. look at
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