that verdict was read, are affiliate reports, he sat there emotionless. in terms of evidence, there was a lot of testimony about those 60 confessions that he gave while he was in prison, awaiting trial. the jury actually got to hear some of those confessions. that was pretty powerful. there was also this one eyewitness who testified, she had seen a man on the trail, on the bridge, and she said that he was muddy and bloody , that was something that seemed to play well with the jury as well, anderson . >> it is incredible that they had this account , and it was a receptionist who was going over this case, who discovered it. >> yeah, and it sat cold for 5 years . and he had put himself in the middle of this case, as we said. he went to the police and he told them that he was on the trail. they would look at anyone in any investigation, anyone who comes forward, they will look at.

appreciate it, that is it for us as the nose continues right here on cnn. it is today, november 12th. right now on "cnn this morning." china today is the single, most formidable adversary the united states has ever faced. >> china hawk expected to be picked as china's top diplomat. mother reveals about his foreign policy plans. donald trump may put climate action on the back burner. >> reporter: climate crisis on the world stage. watching with bated breath as trump kept his head for the epa, a man that vows to rollback environmental regulation. nobody has done what i have done for israel. >> seizing an opportunity. how an israeli minister hoping to use trump's as a sovereignty hoping to occupy west make.

live look at capitol hill . good morning, everyone, kasie hunt, good to have you with us. just a week after winning the reelection, donald trump working . two people familiar with this election tell the in and, this is the latest trompe l'oeil if he has chosen for his administration to help carry out ambitious policy goals. she will work alongside two immigration hardliners trump is slated to serve in senior roles. stephen miller and tom homan both served in trump's first white house. two people familiar with trump's thinking tell cnn, he is likely to pick marco rubio for secretary of state. as of last night, it was not clear if trump had offered rubio the role me but rubio was a staunch supporter of drum throughout his 2024 campaign.

>> he won it by fundamentally remaking the republican party . this is not a partisan realignment, it is an american realignment and donald trump happened to be the candidate over the last 10 years. that is truly captured it and communicated it in a very unique way. it is incumbent upon those in office now to turn that into policy and ultimately to continue it as a movement. >> this, of course, a major shift from went rubio and trump faced off on the campaign trail in 2016. >> there is no way we are going to allow a con artist to take over the conservative movement and donald trump is a con artist. he is wholly unprepared to be president of the united states. >> donald trump is a con artist. >> he would be a disaster for america. he was split this party in half. >> someone who refuses to condemn the ku klux klan. >> reese gorman, good morning to you. take you for being here. i know you have been doing quite a bit of reporting on who wants income who

doesn't want in, et cetera . kind of taken together, it is clear that donald trump is looking for loyalists here. let's kind of dig in, we will start with rubio, since that is the highest profile name. trump could still change his mind that could happen sometime . this is quite the evolution about relationship . >> you have seen that a lot with some of these now trump figures. senator mike lee was yelling no to trump, now one of trump's biggest supporters. marco rubio has had one of the same positions to being a trump critic , realizing, he could not get anywhere in the party without supporting trump. he became an informal advisor to trump and varied the first term when he was senator, also then became short list for running mate. he was one of the last three names to put donald trump on top of the ticket there. now, you see he is being rewarded with the terry of state job. he is more very

caucus , also kind of more mainstream republican when it comes to national security ideas. he is not as isolationist as trump is . he is a supporter of nato . i think looking there is kind of a balance in that office. >> it has been interesting to watch rubio's moves . he voted against the most recent round of ukraine funding me but he said, he did not have anything to do with ukraine it had to do with other issues. for rubio, in particular , i guess my question is, when you talk to some of these people who have gotten back on trump's good side, what do we understand as wide that would happen? nick pompeo, for example, got thrown out of the administration right off the bat. he was someone who served with trump , who clearly he committed some sort of sin . how do these people understand what actually works with trump? >> i think a lot of it is stuff, i reported recently,

someone that was thrown out by this trump tactic for the speaker did. ever did it in a way where he did not suck up to trump. he was not at mar-a-lago, making it trump's feet . being in the background, trump staff did see this was happening, he was being helpful. once trump started seeing that he was helpful, doing these things, whether hosting a fundraiser at mar-a-lago, whether it be hosting trump at a fundraiser in minnesota, whether he campaigned for trump, or with tim walz. i think thing trump be helpful, honestly trump likes being smoothed off his feet, as everyone knows. i think there's also something to be said about being helpful as well have reported seeing there. >> one other thing obviously that trump is working with here is what our white house team reported on the call. these are people , and the reason they exist is because they don't

need to be confirmed by the senate, a process that can really trip up people that are perhaps more controversial . my colleague writes, the president-elect has elevated a new class of candidates , a role that operates between the agency and president of it skirts bureaucratic processes , exert more power over the portfolio, and also means these candidates are bore burdened by the lazy confirmation process can launch their work when they want. people not kidding around, they will go straight in and execute the president's agenda . some of these nominees could be tied up for months in a process. what does this mean for how the government functions? >> to your point, nominations take a long time. czars obviously don't have the overwhelming power of the cabinet secretary, but they do have the power, they are still appointed by trump . they still have the authority to and they can't force cabinet secretaries or government employees to do what they say, but they have the power to advise and talk to, kind of

gift ideas and will be very powerful, especially trump . we look at the people he is appointing as people he trusts, people he wants in the office. cabinet secretaries, we will see how long they take . they could not take very long, but that seems pretty difficult to do. i think they will be tied up for quite a welcome. >> reese gorman for us this morning, appreciate it. coming up on cnn this morning, the economy and environment. donald trump taps lee zeldin as head of the epa. here to take a closer look at how exactly trump won over the electorate and the massive gains made. in our morning roundup, winds intensify as crews battle the growing creeks fire in new jersey. in my over 50 years of living here, this has been the most significant, probably the most potentially dangerous situation i have seen or been involved in.

welcome back. diplomats from around the world gathered for the united nations climate conference . some are nervous about what donald trump's return to the white house will mean for global climate initiatives . after months of rhetoric like this on the campaign trail . >> i will and kamala 's work one pennsylvania energy and we will frack, frack , frack and drill, baby drill . we will drill, baby , drill. i will cut your energy prices. all of your

energy. gasoline for the house, energy, everything. >> trump's decision to tap former congressman lee zeldin to head of the epa, adding to the anxiety at the event. zeldin telling fox news, the president-elect's operating when it comes to economic energy is top prosperity. >> there are that the left wing of this country have been advocating through regulatory polymer that ends up causing businesses to go in the wrong direction. president trump, when he called me up, gosh, he was rattling off 15, 20 different priorities. >> cnn's max foster joins us live from london with more. good morning. it is wonderful to see you. the political realities here in the u.s. are not always going to align, or haven't aligned historically with where a lot of the conversations are going to be on the sidelines in the event like the climate conference that is ongoing right now, that is obviously a challenge . what

are you hearing from world leaders about this? >> certainly, i spoke with a few people where this event is taking place, and suddenly , the election of donald trump as president is looming large. you have the u.s. climate envoy saying, this will be a problem for the conference , but america is still committed. we don't even know if donald trump has given a point at another envoy and the campaign was talking about pulling out of the paris agreement , the court agreement in which aims to organize countries to reduce global warming effectively . america, the biggest polluter in the world alongside china, if it is not involved in that, then it does not hold much weight anymore. you asked the question, at least some of the leaders who did turn up to ask, can they really afford to compensate for what america would put into the system, probably not . there is a lot

of disillusionment over the conference . we wait to see exactly what zeldin does, what donald trump does, and whether or not they appoint a climate envoy to deal with these issues in the u.s. >> max, obviously one of the other big picture things here, the paris climate accords, and politco recently wrote this, they say, quote, the world is racing for the u.s. to withdraw from the climate agreement for the second time, only this time he could move faster with less restraint. the united states's absence would put other people on the hook to make bigger reductions to plant climate addiction production. the world's second-largest greenhouse gas polluter is walking away. obviously, the effects of the change in climate are starting to show up in people's everyday lives in bigger and bigger ways, whether

it is right now there is a wildfire burning in the u.s. in new jersey, a place that rarely sees things like that, hurricanes have gotten more intense and difficult to deal with . insurance in florida is getting to be impossible to get. yet, these sorts of big picture things that are required to actually do something about it remain politically as outlined here , politically very difficult. >> the big industrialized countries to work together to reduce global emissions . it does not work if everyone does not work together. the conference is set up in that way . there has to be a unanimous decision about what they actually decide in these meetings. that also undermines the meetings in the past because countries like saudi arabia would veto any big decisions. donald trump could legitimately look at the conference and say, it has not been working anyway. suddenly, the u.s. pulling out of the paris climate agreement does lead everyone questioning, they

certainly could make up for all of the aleutian america puts up in the world, but they can't afford it either at the moment with the economy slumping . it is not thing with the same priority. i think you really see that with the world leaders that have turned up to this conference. the smaller countries who are desperate to get some aid from the developing countries, but germany is not there, france is not there, russia, china, and the u.s.. the leaders of the country are not there. it is losing a little of its infosys. >> max, always grateful to see you. thank you so much. coming up on cnn this morning, the balance of how the power in the senate nearly sealed. >> when it is time to fight, we will fight the administration, places we can find common ground, we will find common ground. >> democrats officially claiming the senate seat in arizona. plus, how donald trump became the first republican to

win the popular vote in two decades.

20 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. democrat ruben gallego winning one of the last senate seats up for grabs, defending republican carrie lee to come the first democratic senator. >> sent certainly, first for republicans, thank you so much. they took a chance on me. we will not agree all the time, and i am going to always seek the input and we are going to find middle ground where we can.

with gallego's win, the balance of power nearly cemented, there will be a republican majority. cnn still has not called the race in pennsylvania. three us-based airlines now suspending flights to haiti after planes were hit by gunfire while flying over the country. spirits and jetblue airlines reporting bullet damage to two passenger jets. one crew member was injured. united airlines also temporarily suspending flights to haiti. crews on the east coast taking progress getting the jennings creek fire under control . the wildfires running across parts of new jersey and new york. it is now 20% contained . it has burned about 3500 acres . that gets us to weather this morning. more than 25 million people in the northeast making up to red flag warnings. on the west coast, wildfires continue in southern california. let's get straight to our meteorologist, the weatherman. good morning.

>> the jennings creek fire not quite extinguished yet . the conditions will get worse before they get better. i will explain in a moment . you can see the embers still burning through this thick vegetation across northeast new jersey. firefighters during doing everything they can to distinguish the flames . look at this monumental effort to try and douse the flames there. unfortunately, today, we have red flag warnings were issued across much of the new england area, including long island, northeast new jersey, stretching into massachusetts, rhode island, and connecticut, and parts of new york. this is the jennings creek fire, 25% containment. there was some relief yesterday with light rain that fell sunday night into early monday morning . that has since moved on. there is a secondary cold front that will not only whip up the winds today, also change the wind direction. it will also create

more difficult conditions for firefighters on the ground. yes, you see rainfall on this radar, unfortunately, a lot of that evaporating before it reaches the ground. very minimal help from the skies today. tomorrow, the winds will relax and we will start to gain ground. the winds today, gusting out of the northwest at 30 miles per hour. a breezy day. you can see, it starts to relax into the afternoon tomorrow. dry conditions on the east coast, also still dry in southern california as well. we have wind alerts and an elevated fire risk there too. >> derek for us this morning, very grateful for that. see you next hour. still ahead on cnn this morning, as republicans sleep back into the power, who will be the majority? we look at the race that will decide the most powerful man, and it will be a man it seems like, in d.c.

how donald trump pulled up his big political comeback with gains in areas historically by democrats. >> there is not a significant amount of down ballot democrats like myself for which there were trump, aoc precinct.

all right, 5:30 a.m. on the east coast . i live in new york city on this tuesday morning.

good morning, everyone. kasie hunt, good to have you with us. donald trump is ready to return to the white house, he is doing so with something he has never won before, the popular vote. donald trump is now on track to winning the popular vote. folks are still uncounted, but this does make him the first presidential candidate to win by this metric in 20 years. according to a cnn analysis, he proved pulled it off by improving his margins in nine out of every 10 counties nationwide. trump found some of his largest gains in hispanic communities in florida and southern texas, and some blue state counties across new york and new jersey. democrats are scrambling to figure out what caused the dramatic shift. former presidential hopeful biden challenger, congressman dean phillips says, voters want disruption in the political system. >> there is a palpable, massive disaffection in the country. here, you have donald trump and aoc, that may have very

different political perspectives and backgrounds, but they are both disruptors and there is a massive appetite right now in our country to disrupt a political system that increasing numbers of americans are really disgusted by . i think it is not that surprising . people are more focused on disruption that even policy . >> our next guest, ron brownstein also argues, the shift may also offer democrats ways to recover in the next election. quote, while disappointment with biden provided a huge lift for republicans last week , moving forward, trump will need to sustain support on his own agenda, leadership style, and results. he adds that trump will soon be the incumbent in charge of fixing problems he promised to solve . quote, if they feel he has not, or conclude he has created new policies problems with his policies, they could turn away from trump in the gop in the 2026 and 2028 elections, just as uniform as the movement toward him last week. ron joins us now. good morning. it is

wonderful to see you . the last time i think we spoke with the morning after this election, where we were still digesting the breath of this electoral change. on the black before you, we saw the video that aoc put out of herself walking, basically saying, there are trump aoc voters, there are precincts in her district in new york city . walk us through what you sort of have digested and learned in the last week , as you have looked at these results and really kind of dug in to where these changes were made. >> there are always a lot of things going on in any election. to me, kind of the through line here is -- it was shocking how a normal this election was . donald trump is anything but a normal candidate , but he benefited from the traditional hydraulics of american politics, which is when voters are dissatisfied

with one party, they moved toward the other . 60% of voters said, they disapproved of biden's performance, which was much worse than the 2020 election, and 82% of them voted for trump . 70% of voters said, they were dissatisfied with the economy , and 70% of them voted for trump. that added to 49, 49 1/2% . and that translated geographically to where you noted, he improved in 90% of the counties. the city for study, a nonpartisan think tank has a category kind of ranking that sorts states from the most urban mac to most rural . trump improved about the same amount in all six categories . you don't get that kind of uniform movement , as we talked about last week, through tactics or messaging . what that is about is a shared national experience of discontent and disappointment in the results people have gotten from the biden administration, by merely

on inflation, also importantly on immigration and crime . when you get that kind of performance based shift , obviously, it is subject to reconsideration based on performance. that is the democrats i think the silver lining in this is that , this was a rejection of the results of the biden administration , now the pressure is on trump to deliver the results people think are better. >> ron , one of the things i have been sort of turning over in my mind over the last week is the question of the role that culture has played , because we have seen some evidence for some of the most progressive cultural positions , it is actually quite people , white professionals in many cases, white progressives who hold those views in bigger numbers and wider swaps then some of the communities that perhaps are more affected by things like racism, where black voters were telling people, i don't agree with these very

progressive statements as much as white progressives do. you see it , washington, d.c. did not move terribly in trump's direction. voted very heavily for kamala harris, but the places in the city that moved toward trump, it is ward 8, more african american areas , it is the white upper northwest of d.c. that moved more for harris. i am interested to know your analysis of what explains all of this. >> first of all, in many ways what happened to harris was that everything moves on a national basis. as we talked about before the election, i thought it was virtually certain trump would run better in trump country, small town rural america, and that there were clear signs he would make and roads in kind of central cities , but the way for harris to hold on at least in enough of the swing states , was to

improve her margin on the big, populist, well-educated suburbs in between . she lost ground as well in open county michigan in montgomery county, pennsylvania , and so on. i think you saw something that happened everywhere . there is going to be a cultural reckoning in the democratic party i think similar to some extent to what happened after 1988 with bill clinton , where you can bet i think the party will look for more essentialist notes on cultural issues. there is no way to look at the uniformity of this and , i think, and say that was the essential driver. you compare the exit polls of 2024 to 2022, a lot more of people were dissatisfied with the economy voted republican in '24 than they did in '22. i think 2022 in many ways sent them across a false signal about how possible it was to insulate or quarantine the swing states from a general

national tide of discontent . that is what happened in '2022. republicans approved in red states and states alike in '22 as in '24, where the parties were spending money. in '22, democrats were able to move the attention of voters in places like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, and arizona, toward other issues in their unhappiness like the economy, things about abortion, the economy, and extremism. they did that to some extent in '24, the swing states did not move as much of the country overall. once you got to a race about the presidency, where people think responsibility does lie for setting national policy on things like the economy and immigration, you could not separate the swing states nearly as much . as i said, if you look at the exit polls, the share of people that said, the economy was in bad shape, that voted republican, voted to trump in '24, was much higher than the share of gubernatorial senate candidates in '22. while there was a cultural

dimension, that to me looked like the dynamics here. >> ron brownstein for us, grateful to have you. thank you very much for being here. see you soon, i hope. straightahead on cnn this morning, a far right minister pushing for the annexation of the west bank . by his death, donald trump's victory presented the opportunity. floored man, 12 football teams from the sunshine state played this weekend. ali won only one of them won. your report is next.

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done for israel . jerusalem is the capital of israel . we even built the embassy that became somewhat automatic. gallant heights gave them jurisdiction and we did the abraham accords, which was a very big thing. >> with donald trump's reelection comes a quote, an important opportunity for israel, says the nation's far right finance minister . he's calling for annexation in the israeli-occupied west bank. he has instructed his apartment to start preparing. >> translator: i have instructed the settlement in the and ministry of defense and the civil administration to begin comprehensive work to prepare the necessary infrastructure for sovereignty. i also intend, god willing, to lead a government decision that will establish the government of israel to work with the u.n. administration with president trump and the international community to apply sovereignty to achieve american and international recognition.

>> the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu's office, has not commented on the fire foreign minister's order. israel's new foreign minister did say yesterday, no decision has been made yet. the issue was discussed during trump's first term. the ministry that controls parts of the west bank criticize these remarks think, they believed this conference israel plans of quote, taken control of the west bank by 2025. joining us now, for me obama deputy secretary of state for legislative affairs, joel rubin. wonderful to see you. this issue before war broke out between israel and hamas and gaza, this was obviously a very emotionally charged and difficult issue . the settlers in the west bank, it seems now that some of these leaders in israel on the right are seeing trump's election as an opportunity to push forward here. do you think that that is a realistic possibility with donald trump in the white

house? do you think it is in israel's interest? >> in the first question, i do think it is a real possibility with donald trump in the white house. we have seen already when president trump was in his first term he enabled a variety of far right measures to go forward in israel, such as endorsing the golan heights annexation which is under israeli law, but not internationally recognized and a variety of other items on the wish list to bb netanyahu. absolutely, there's no reason to think otherwise. is there a long-term interest too much of it depends on how the regent reacts. saudi arabia is hostile to the idea, but how hostile ? are they willing to hold up an agreement with israel and not have normal annexation, or are they willing to allow for some moderation on the west? israeli politics, i've got to say, right now calling for a two state solution is not on the table across the board. that gives a lot of political space

for netanyahu to have his foreign minister go out and publicly say something that they have not really pushed hard in the politics of israel. >> joel, we did see relatively early in the conflict between israel and hamas, donald trump made some comments i think may have raised some eyebrows. he and netanyahu-- he kind of wit at netanyahu , and has also suggested that netanyahu has gone too far, that israel has an image problem, which is often how donald trump is known to think about things , and the reality television star he once was . what do you think that means, if anything, because perhaps you think it is irrelevant, what does that mean for what netanyahu will need to do with trump in office in terms of gaza? >> i don't think it means much. i think trump was using this for eight eight and switch electoral to convince voters , particularly in michigan, and amongst the progressive base, somehow he would lean on israel and push toward a stop of the

war in gaza . if anything, he will give more greenlight to the prime minister then-president biden . he will not advocate for a two step solution, where vice president harris was on the campaign trail and i think for the prime minister, he already has had multiple calls with donald trump since the election and they will walk hand and glove on these issues. you will not see much difference between the two. >> how do you think jared kushner plays into all of this mark there is no indication that he and banco will come back to washington at this point, but fascinating, right? >> he was the orchestrator of the abraham accords, and is clearly still very much a part of the inner circle, if not an official . this question of saudi arabia is the key question, what will they demand of israel if they are going to get normalization agreement with israel? clearly, the israelis want, and the saudis do too . are they going to demand what the uae demanded several years ago, which was no

annexation? that was a sort of the thought they had on a question of annexation. don't go too far and we will give you normalization. clearly, kushner will have a role in that. >> is it possible to do this normalization pact while this war still rages in gaza? >> or the saudis, it is not in favor of that, but we may see very well some type of gift after inauguration of minister netanyahu to show that yes, donald trump is delivering on the sensation of violence now that he is in office, we may see israel move in direction toward saudi arabia. >> finally, we are reporting that marco rubio likely to be offered the secretary of state job. you served in the state department. obviously, they were rivals in 2016, but rubio has earned the respect of many in the foreign policy establishment. >> he is a highly trained, highly qualified editor, knows issues very well . he is a hawk and comes in with a very strong

view of china, with iran, he will be very aggressive . he is a highly qualified nominee and i think we will see a strong runner coming out of him as decker terry of state if he is confirmed, which he likely will be on the issues of iran and china in particular. >> the senate does like to confirm their own without much trouble. i really appreciate it. time for sports. the miami dolphins with a win for the entire state of florida with a victory over the l.a. rams on monday night football. more in this morning's bleacher report. >> top of the morning tea. it was a rough morning for the sunshine state. all collagen proteins lost, a combined-11 with the dolphins looking to break the curse and they stepped up to the challenge here in miami needed less than three minutes to cover 70 yards on the opening drive , ending with an 18 yard touchdown run by ricky malik washington, the first of his nfl career. something that blew up on social media, dolphins'

quarterback to an questioning roseville after an interception. you can see him dive in tua headfirst there, that this was not his intention. >> i went up to that dude that intercepted me and asked him , like, bro, you could not just have ran out of bounds? i was not planning on using my head. that was pretty terrible. >> now, tua through one touchdown pass, it went to tyreek hill in the third quarter and there was a pretty epic celebration afterwards. tua went 20-28 at dolphins approved 3-6 with a 315 win, keeping playoff chances alive. there is no stopping the cleveland cavaliers and their highflying superstar donovan mitchell. they are off to a 12 start, just the eighth nba team to ever do that. the last team was golden state, who won their first 24 games in 2015. doing

it with tile! check out these 360 degree layup midway against the doubles. season-high 6 for mitchell. 119-113 win. 5 of the last 17 to start at least 12-0, went on to win the nba title. >> will not take those things for granted along the road. we are doing it in various ways doing it where we are blowing out teams, winning from behind. it is something different every night, leading the charge, always a group effort. >> gil alexander putting on a show last night as well against the clippers. last year's mvp runner-up dropping a career-high 35 points in a 135-126 win. okay see off to a 9-2 start since the 2009 , 2011 season when they went all the way to the finals .

jerry roenick is now officially a hockey hall of famer. 16 years after playing his last game, the nighttime all-star headlined the class of 2024. he never won an individual award or lifted a stanley cup during his 20 season career, but still ranks fourth of all time with 500 13 goals. >> i love this game. it has been a huge part of my life for most of my life and this is the best way i can finally find to end this chapter of my life. one more thing, get your tissues ready . veterans day with a sweet tribute. u.s. marine corps captain justin vega surprised his family at halftime of a rams, dolphins game. look at his son, rio , there, falling in his dad's arms . he was reunited with his family. cornerback matthew stafford posting 20 navy s.e.a.l.s and guest last night, all service members and their families being wished a happy and wonderful veterans day. >> of course, not fair. going to make me cry. these moments really get me . i have to tell

you. my gosh. anyway, thank you. i really appreciate it. very touching. in the next hour on cnn this morning, rewarding loyalty, donald trump telling the west wing with staunch supporters ready to execute on his agenda. justice department employees bracing for a second term and his promises for retribution. we are going to purge doj. we are going to take apart the fbi.

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