>> you know, i can't actually see the videos that you're seeing. i believe you, because i know that those photos appeared in our post-conviction petition, as as well as the report of the conviction review unit, so i think i know what you're looking at, and that's right. >> yeah, absolutely. edgar, what do you want to do with your life now? >> just live life. that's it. you know, travel, doing what i was doing before i went to prison. same thing, that's it. work, spend it with my family. my kids. >> is there one thing that you were looking forward to most in knowing that your moment of freedom was coming back, or one thing that you've already experienced in just these days that you appreciate the most? >> yeah, spending time with my family. that's the thing -- i think

the best thing that i can ask for. you know, they were there from me from the beginning and they're always going to be there for me. so spending time with them, my mom. it's the best thing. >> what's your parting message, if you will, for when you see how the system failed you, but then you have great people like julie and the minnesota review board who then made it right? you also have the victim's family who supported you, the victim's family is still there without justice as well. man, we need more people like julie and innocence project. the system, there are flaws in

the system, let's put it that way. sometimes they don't want to admit it. >> edgar, it's wonderful to meet you. good luck and enjoy every moment from here on out and julie, thank you for coming on. i really appreciate your time. >> thank you so much and if i can make a pitch, at work -- edgar was working full-time, he was a , he does have a gofundme because when they come out of prison, these exonerates have nothing so i hope people will consider donating to his gofundme. >> thank you both so much. >> a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. this morning no fbi background checks, no problem. details from inside the mar-a-lago war room on how some of trump's cabinet is being vetted when the president elect

is doing instead and a married father of three, went on a fishing trip and then went missing, now police are investigating whether he actually tried to fake his own death. where officials believe this missing kayaker is now. and in 1997 one of the baddest boxers on the planet bit off and opponents fear while the man he fights tonight was in diapers and probably didn't even have teeth yet. mike tyson versus jake paul, whose ready to rumble? apparently they are. this is cnn news central this morning, who will donald trump pick next to be in his cabinet and how well they not be vetted ? the treasury

secretary is the major portfolio still remaining open, could that change by the end of the day and how is that decision being made? that is the question swirling after trump tapped rfk jr. to run health and human services, matt gaetz to be the attorney general and tapped tulsi gabbard to be the director of national intelligence. one congressman said that she sees gabbard as a national security risk. this comes as cnn learned that trump is bypassing the traditional vetting process on many of these pics. much more on that in a moment but first let's get to steve on the process and what will happen today, steve? >> john, trump yesterday, speaking for the first time in front of cameras about his new cabinet picks, and going through some of the names that he has chosen and also, trying

to say the warning that he's given to mike johnson, the speaker telling him to quote, just relax after he picked three members from johnson's very slim majority to be in his cabinet with several seats in the cabinet still to be filled. he also, for the first time discussed rfk jr., and his selection to lead the department of health and human services. obviously a very controversial pick, listen to what he had to say. >> i guess if you like health and people that live a long time it's the most important decision. according to the news reports, people like you, bobby, don't get too popular, bobby, we want you to come up with things and ideas and what you've been talking about for a long time. >> what he's been talking

about for a long time is you know, problems with vaccines, alleged problems, that are not supported by facts or science or the medical community, and there are many concerns that he will bring those views to a department that has not only massive oversight of the health community but also medicare and medicaid as well, john. >> new questions this morning about the person trump has picked to be the next secretary of defense. >> yeah, that individual is pete hegseth, he's a fox news anchor and we are learning about an incident that occurred about seven years ago in california, this is from a statement from the monterey california city, which said that in the early morning of october 8, in 2017, there was an incident at the hyatt regency where keith was speaking at the california federation of republican women gathering and the statement did

not identify him directly at the alleged assailants but it said that he was involved in the investigation, there were no weapons involved according to the statement but it did not provide any names or ages and they said they would also not release the full police report and the trump campaign put out a statement saying that he has vigorously denied any and all accusations and they expect him to be validated and verified. >> thank you for your reporting. we say happening now a lot but how about we talk about what is not happening right now and that's a standard fbi background check for some of donald trump's top administration pics. the objective appears to be taking a hammer to the vetting proces s . good morning, evan, tell us what you are hearing? >> kate, one of the things as

you pointed out that is not happening, is the fbi vetting, that traditionally happens during this period, as an incoming administration is sending in names and getting ready to try and that people and prepare people to take over on january 20th, that is not happening because the trump team has at least so far decided that they don't need it and they are using private sector companies to go through these names and go through the backgrounds of these people and this has been something that has been in the works for a long time, there are people around the former president, who have been circulating a memo, calling for bypassing the fbi background checks, taking issue with some of the problems that they say the fbi and intelligence committee had during trump's first term, you remember there were a number of people including jerry kushner who could not get a security clearance and trump had to order the intelligence

community to grant the clearance. what we know right now is that obviously, as you pointed out, there are people who were traditionally part of this who say the purpose is to take a hammer to the process that exists, trump has a deep skepticism about what he calls, the deep state, kate. >> thank you so much. joining me now to discuss, kate bedingfield and republican strategist joseph piñon. trump is clearly avoiding these fbi background checks and the question is why, could it be that his pics simply wouldn't pass? >> i think first and foremost the president has a right to choose who he wants to in his cabinet. it's important that we have transparency in the process particularly for some of these more marquis positions but i will say part of the skepticism has been rightfully earned. i think we have to remember that this is an fbi that have a rogue attorney that used false information to procure a fisa warrant to investigate the president when he was a nominee and continue spying on him through the

presidency, it's the same fbi that had numbers of foreign intelligence who were key card access to langley and allow those individuals to put out a letter saying the laptop was russian disinformation when the fbi had authenticated that laptop 11 months prior, so the skepticism has been earned, we as the american people should demand that we should have a thorough investigation, the mechanism, could be left up to debate. >> kate is there a problem here, is it dangerous in your mind to not that people through a very robust way, they ask you everything you can imagine and those around you as well ? >> trump is clearly trying to short-circuit a process that he fears is not going to give him the answers that he wants and we saw that in 2017, 2018 when as mentioned in the previous

reporting when jared kushner could not get a clearance and trump essentially had to strong-arm them into giving him one. it's clear what he's doing and yes there's potential danger here, the fbi investigation , these questions get at the bottom of whether there is information that you could be blackmailed over, they get at whether you've had issues, moments in your background that potentially make you vulnerable to our adversaries, so, it's not intended as a punishment, it is intended as a genuine exploration of issues that could create a problem and could allow somebody in a position where they have access to incredibly sensitive information to be abused , so

yes, it is potentially dangerous. it is, unfortunately, typical donald trump, this is not to my mind, this isn't about some righteous crusade against the deep state, this is about him try to circumvent a process that he knows is not going to give him the outcome that he wants. >> look, i just have to push back a little bit. i was just in this building last night listening to senator explain how there are people who are not going to need a robust fbi background check like senator marco rubio who certainly is well-known and has many clearances already so i think sometimes we take things that are said or circulated by president trump and we address them in a hyperbolic manner that is devoid of what the regular person with a gun and yes, i do think if you look at even what happened to general flynn who had his entire life destroyed by allegations coming from within, the department of justice, many of which turned out to be fabricated or greatly exaggerated. there was a very real concern that the agenda

that a nationwide mandate has set forth by electing president trump could be thwarted by individual simply looking to tank the people that he has decided will be the tip of the sphere to get the country back on track. >> we should be clear that flint -- go ahead. >> trump has earned that skepticism by directing people around -- >> but it goes both ways, certainly. >> all right, let's talk about this. rfk jr. is up for running hhs which oversees the cdc, fda, the nih , i want to run some of the things that he has said over time, let's listen in. >> i do believe that autism does come from vaccines. >> covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people the people who are most immune are asking ozzie and chinese. >> wi-fi radiation does all

kinds of things including causing cancer. >> some of the mass shootings may be related to the ssris and benzos. >> nana this is based on any studies that he can point to, kate, is he qualified for this job? >> absolutely, categorically, not. this is putting somebody in charge of our public health infrastructure who fundamentally does not believe that one of the tools, vaccines that has kept children in this country from dying for over 100 years isn't valid, isn't effective. so no, somebody who is not just a skeptic of science but i would argue, in this case, a warrior against medical science, should not be running our public health infrastructure. so no, that's an easy one, he is categorically not qualified for this job. >> joseph, i will give you the last word. >> certainly, you're not going

to agree with anything and everything that people have said that the president has the right to choose who he wants to have in this cabinet and again the president has a mandate, the same people that labeled half the country weird and laughed when the president called half the country garbage do not agree with the president's choices for the cabinet. i'm not surprised but the reality is we just heard dr. group to talk about the fact by 2050 we will have to hundred 60 million obese americans are overweight americans, there are people who are desperately concerned about many of the things that bobby kennedy has been talking about and that's why president trump has brought him into his cabinet. it's why many of the people that were going to vote for him in the presidential selection pulled the lever for donald j trump. >> thank you both, i'll have to ended there. president biden is set to meet tomorrow with the chinese president on the sidelines of the apex summit, their final face to face before donald

trump takes over, what is the mission and the agenda. the trial for an undocumented migrant accused of murdering a nursing student, that is getting underway.

president biden on his last big trip overseas is in peru before trump returns to the white house. there, he will meet with leaders of japan, south korea and tomorrow, china's xi during the apex summit, kayla is traveling with the president and she is in lima for us today, what can you tell us? >> sara, we know the expectations for this trip are

fairly standard, the white house national security advisor says that president biden will put forth a public message as he has for years that allies are vital to america's national security but the unspoken message here is that the alliances are set to be upended come january when trump begins his second term and u.s. officials say the acknowledgment is pervasive here in south america while these leaders might be physically here to talk about ways that they can advance the economies of 21 asian-pacific nations, that really everyone's minds are back on what is happening in palm beach and washington and the biden administration, to a certain extent is powerless to try to safeguard any of these partnerships or agreements with these allies who are now trying to figure out how to insulate their economies from the threat of another trade war or other threats that trump has levied against their countries. we do know that president biden will be holding that high-stakes closely watched lateral meeting with xi jinping, important

because they are to global economic superpowers and a relationship that biden has sought to keep from simmering over in the last four years but it's unclear what, if anything, the two leaders will be able to advance, they did meet this time last year to talk about military level communication and curbing fentanyl trafficking but as of right now, china experts expect the president xi will withhold any of his personal bargaining chips for when trump takes office and threatens the new trade war, even so, officials expect that to be a weekend discussion as a way for president biden to close out his term and recognize that relationship, the healthy competition that they tried to foster but of course the expectations are fairly low for this trip as president biden makes his final swansong on the stage quietly.

the trial of an undocumented migrant accused of killing a georgia nursing student has just gotten underway, the defendant has pleaded not guilty to the charges that he murdered laken riley back in february. ibarra has waived his right to a jury trial meaning his fate is in the hands of the judge now. rafael romo is following all of this, good morning. >> good morning, kate, the trial got underway a few minutes ago at this time the court listening to the 911 tapes, in reality this case would now be in day three of jury selection but unexpectedly on tuesday, the defense filed a motion to go from a trial by jury, to a bench trial which means as you mentioned before that ultimately, the judge is going to decide whether the defendant is guilty or not, and

in the last hour, we saw the family of laken riley, her mother, allison phillips and her stepfather, john phillips, walking through the courthouse and as you can imagine, this is going to be very difficult for them, and many people here in athens. one of the first things that the special prosecutor sheila ross, one to talk about in her opening remarks was that laken riley, there was a struggle with the defendant and that's the reason why the prosecution was able to collect plenty of evidence. let's take a listen to what the special prosecutor had to say just a few minutes ago. >> >> evidence will show that laken riley fought, she fought for her life and she fought for her dignity, and in that fight,

she caused this defendant to leave forensic evidence behind. she also marked her killer for the entire world to see . >> mk, there's a mountain of evidence in this case including phone records, dna evidence that also fingerprints, as you can imagine, the prosecution is going to use this evidence to try to convict the defendant . now back to you. >> thank you very much, john? >> new details in the case of a kayaker who vanished for more than 50 days and was presumed dead or so we thought. why investigators now think that he faked the whole thing. as many as 100 million people tuning into my to watch it almost 60-year-old mike tyson, there we go, fight you

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fact covid-19 there is an argument -- covid-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. the people

who are most immune are asking ozzie jews and chinese. >> that was robert f kennedy junior has been tapped to leave part of health and human services, a man who you heard right there has promoted person conspiracy theories and other misinformation about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. you say the robert kennedy . is an extraordinary bad pick, why? >> a couple of things, first of all, he is going to oversee the entire health agency of the united states. he will oversee medicare and medicaid and the cdc and fda. the reason why he is a bad choice is it's not

perfect but we rely on scientific evidence, rigorous analysis and as you heard from that clip, this is a man who sits and petals in conspiracy theories, says things that are partly not true, the covid virus, jewish people immune to it? he does petals in nonsense, and it's not useful and i really worried that if he brings those ideas to hhs, he is going to do an enormous amount of damage. >> dr. when, what are you hearing in general? >> i'm hearing exactly the same thing that dr. jah is hearing, there's a sense of disbelief, shock, we think that it's a joke except unfortunately of course, it is

not. it's exactly as dr. jah mentioned with the conspiracy theories, we are talking about someone who's one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists over the last 20 years, nobly renowned for being an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist. and there are real problems with promoting falsehoods that could end up in people's death, but it speaks to a broader point . we want in charge of scientific agencies, someone who at least understands science and believes in science but in this case, this would be somebody who has abuse, he questions things, which is fine but you have to be able to believe in the scientific process that but dispute some of those, but rfk jr. has shown that he is unable to accept, when his opinions, his views are debunked and that's extremely dangerous and should be disqualifying for someone who was going to be overseeing scientists. >> dr. wen, you do note that robert kennedy does support things that i think are widely

acceptable, concern about some of the additives in food, does the fact that he is on those subjects, does it outweigh his comments about vaccines and the conspiracy theories? >> no . i mean you could be right on some issues and totally wrong on others. the issue that i think there is broad agreement with a kennedy on, would include the fact that we have many chronic diseases including childhood obesity that we need to address. i also don't think it's wrong to address and challenge scientific dogma, including the florida faced -- fluoride in water, there's disagreement about the policy, but the problem goes back to, do you believe the science at the end of the day, are you able to say there have been dozens of studies published that very clearly show for example the vaccines do not cause autism.

can that then change your own long-standing view and if your answer is, no, because i'm an activist and nothing will change my view, that is the part that is disqualifying. >> so dr. jah, can you give specific examples of what could happen with kennedy in charge of hhs, what could it mean for development or use of vaccines or other areas that i might not be thinking of? >> first of all, we all agree that obesity is a problem and the question is how are you going to solve it, are you going to use evidence and analysis or hold onto your strong views. that's what i worry about. in terms of what he could do, the secretary of hhs has an ominous power and it determines whether mammograms and health cancer screenings can be covered for free or not. it determines which treatments are going to get fda improvement, he may choose the next fda director who may not

believe that -- it goes well beyond vaccines, i think we are all going to feel the impact of an hhs secretary like bobby kennedy and it worries me if his past record is any indication on how he's going to be, it is concerning for the american people. >> great to see both of you, i know you two probably want to catch up so we will get off-camera so you guys can talk. new clues this morning about the mysterious case of a missing father who was presumed dead and is now being sought by authorities for possibly faking his own death to start a new life in europe.

new zealand's parliament was temporarily suspended thursday after lawmakers performed a purchase that's my traditional dance, a bill that many claim could undermine the rights of indigenous people, listen to this -- the lawmakers said they decided to perform the haka to demonstrate the communities fear and anger over the new bill, the legislation would reinterpret new zealand's founding treaty with

its indigenous people that make up about 20% of the population. it was a nightmare scenario for passengers flying from stockholm to miami yesterday. we will show you pictures of what it looks like inside. it showed food and bags strewn about the aisles, one of the passengers telling cnn after the severe turbulence, he is lucky to be alive. five hours into the flight, they hit the severe turbulence and a spokesperson for the scandinavian airlines said it began when the flight was over greenland and it was directed back but thankfully, no reports of injuries. move over baby shower,, is here with a new tune topping the charts ♪ ♪

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his family authorities thought he had drowned. but police say the real story may be that he met -- went missing and does not want to be found. ryan borgwardt disappeared in august after going on a fishing trip. after finding his kayak capsize, authorities thought he might have drowned. they looked for weeks to search for him but now authorities think he may have tried to fake his death and fled to europe. joining us now is the sheriff. first of all, give us some sense of what the first clue was that there was something that wasn't adding up in what was a missing person's case? >> very first clue was that we

could not locate him in our lake and how we do that was through bruce's legacy, he does lake water, and we scour that lake for weeks and weeks and on october fourth, he said sheriff, i can't find him. and he is an expert, and that is when we decided to go a different direction. >> what did you later learn when you went that different direction that pointed to something that is more sinister, that he may have faked his own death? >> that same day, we found that his passport was run by the authorities in canada. and that was august 13th .

>> he is a married father of three. can you tell us anything about the conversations that you had to have with his family, after they first thought that he may have drowned in that lake on that fishing trip? >> when we went a different direction, the only one that we had communication with was his wife. i put a lot on her shoulders and told her that she had to keep it within herself and this is where we are going and my staff was excellent. we just had a few with our detective you -- bureau that went forward and we had to keep it quiet. and right until last friday, last friday until we pull the entire family and our department, but it was hard. it was very hard .

>> this was all on her shoulders and in her mind that this was a possibility, her, with her three children. is there a message that you have orion and where you think he is now? >> we know that he is in a different country, in eastern europe someplace, we just ask ryan that he communicate with us, things can be worked out. people forgive and i'm sure that he is probably thinking that you know, it's tough to try to come back and restart his life again, but there are people that love him, his family loves him and we just want to bring him back. >> it is an awful twist to a story of a family now wondering what's going to happen. sheriff, i know you guys used a lot of resources to try and find him. over to you, kate. the mike tyson and jake

paul, they are getting ready to fight tonight with between a boxing legend and a youtuber. 19 years after his last sanction fight, jake paul is 27 and just as famous in a different way. he's got tens of millions of followers. yesterday the pair did what boxers do, stare each other down at a final way in which ended with tyson slapping paul in the face. join me right now's sports broadcaster carrie champion, i mean -- >> yes . >> we are both super famous and they could not be more different. >> here's what everyone

saying, i think the legends are saying and they are going out of respect, mike tyson is going to win but at 58, i'm hard-pressed to believe that he is actually going to win this fight. the only thing he has going for him is that he's a legend, you saw what he did, that is indicative of mike tyson's hater, he felt disrespected by paul and all games are over, and why are you fighting, why are you fighting now? at 60 years old, well it's a big payday, he's going to get $20 million reportedly while jake paul will get 40. and i said before, netflix is the winter because they are trying to figure out a way to get into the sports streaming arena and boxing, for jake paul's generation, but i would think it would be someone like floyd mayweather, he is arguably going to be the most famous boxer that this generation knows, so it's a win-win for all folks. >> i'm going to ask it this way, why are so many people pumped to see this? there are so many people talking about

this, even my husband who is not a boxing fan wanted to discuss this last night. >> because of, mike tyson in my opinion and there will be people who disagree but in modern times, he was the best that ever did it, one punch, he knocked out so many people, you can see fear in people's eyes when he would go against him, and he, as you know, did not have a great reputation and he had fought so hard to get back in the good graces in terms of what people thought of him and i think quite friendly, now you think of mike tyson and you think of him as gentle, they love the podcast, they think he's wise, this is the man who bit evander holyfield ear. twice. >> i forgot it was twice. >> what world are we living in. i mean look, he was not only disliked, he was accused of horrible things and he served times for horrible things. and then, as you said, then spend all of this time coming back

and rehabbing his brand, if you will, what will this match due to that? >> i fear if he is not healthy and the fight was postponed because he was not healthy if he's not healthy and he loses in a bad way, i think that will affect his legacy, he doesn't want to be considered a joke. at least for now, history will have to tell us but i would hate to see him lose this in a horrible way. people think he might actually win, i don't think there will be a knockout the people think there might be a decision. >> i know i'm watching. >> me too. >> i'm not sure i have control over whether i will watch or not. i used to watch the wide world of sports growing up i loved it but then it went away, it's actually back now, not this, not this, real boxing is back and i wonder if this will obscure that. >> i don't know if it'll obscure it but what i think it will do, boxing really needs a transcending star and people are betting on jake paul, i know he's a content creator but if he is able to do, this

will put boxing in a different arena for this generation. it'll be back in full swing. mike tyson was the greatest of all time. >> everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. >> it's all upside for jake paul. >> until they wear those for saatchi underoos. >> thank you. >> thank you all for joining us. this has been cnn news central. >> the last one. >> cnn newsroom is up next.

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