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at nine on cnn i'm jessica dean in atlanta, and saturday night in palm beach is the place to be if you want to lobby president elect donald trump for a place in his cabinet. just in the last couple of hours trump naming fracking ceo chris wright as the next secretary of energy however, trump is facing some big issues right now out of the gate with some of his first cabinet picks. pete hegseth, trump's choice to be secretary of defense, is confronting a past accusation of sexual misconduct that caught the transition team off guard matt gaetz, who is trump's nominee for attorney general, was the subject of multiple investigations stemming from alleged sex trafficking and other accusations gaetz resigning from congress this week, closing the door on an ongoing houthis house ethics investigation and for the

latest, let's head now to west palm beach. cnn's steve contorno is near mar-a-lago. we're awaiting more cabinet announcements, steve. but let's focus first on the controversy surrounding pete hegseth, matt gaetz, even tulsi gabbard. what more can you tell us yeah, those two first names you mentioned when caught not only capitol hill republicans with shock, but also people in trump's orbit and many of his allies who did not expect those individuals to get cabinet spots tulsi gabbard and robert f. >> kennedy jr., obviously controversial picks. however, they had spent so much time around donald trump in the last months of his campaign. they were on the road with him, and he had all but signaled that he intended to find a place for them in his government. but pete hegseth, as defense secretary and attorney general for matt gaetz, those are totally out of left field. and now his administration, his

incoming administration is dealing with some of the fallout from these picks. hegseth, for example, caught his own team off guard with an allegation from 2017 of sexual misconduct in california. there has been recent developments around that. now, he has been defending himself and his character on social media, even as his trump's team deals with the fallout from that pick although they have signaled that they are standing by him and expect him to be confirmed. and that is also the case with matt gaetz as attorney general whose elevation to the nation's top prosecutor has hill, several of which have had run ins with gates over the years and the intraparty fights he has caused in the republican party and it will be interesting to see if those two individuals can get the 51 votes necessary to get confirmed by the senate, and

steve, there's a big push from the right to for trump to select to lead the fbi. what more do you know about that of the more far right voices in trump's orbit who want to see patel take over very quickly for christopher wray, who trump has promised he would fire as fbi director in one of his first acts as president. >> we don't know if he intends to keep that promise. and there are other names he is considering for that job. mike rogers for example, the former representative from michigan who just lost a tough race for senate in that state. he is on the short list and being considered. patel, though, is someone who has got a lot of friends in trump's more fringe parts of his orbit people who are hoping that trump makes good on his promises to blow up the fbi. and we will have to see if he goes through with that and if he chooses patel

for that job trump himself is actually going to be heading out of palm beach later today. he's headed to new york. in fact, i think we might have footage of him getting in his plane or with his plane on the tarmac there. as they prepare to fly to new york later this appear at madison square garden for a ufc fight of course, that is the scene of one of trump's final rallies, where he got in a little bit of hot water for a comedian who made some remarks about puerto rico. but trump heading back to the big apple with dana white, the ufc ceo who was by trump's side on election night and actually spoke and addressed his election night crowd. so a bit of a homecoming and with a friendly crowd, and you can expect dana white and donald trump to be close there as well. jessica. all right. >> steve contorno for us there in west palm beach thanks so much for that reporting. and joining us now, democratic congressman raja

congressman, thanks so much for being here with us thank you so much, jessica we've got a lot to cover with. i want to start first with matt gaetz. and this house ethics report and you have tweeted that the house ethics committee needs to release that report on matt gaetz in order for the senate to have a complete picture of who they are voting to confirm. we know that speaker mike johnson, after saying he didn't think speaker of the house should be involved with anything that happens out of ethics, then turned around and said, actually, he's requesting that the report not be released. do you think this report gets out one way or another? >> yes. i think somehow it's going to get out. certainly senators want it. we saw what john cornyn said in the last couple of days. and as that old saying from martin luther king jr.. goes there's nothing more dangerous than sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity and to not have access to this report is ignorant. and to confirm matt

gaetz with all these implications of serious criminal wrongdoing, is the height of stupidity. >> and i just want to ask you, just in terms of because i want to i have other nominees that i want to ask you about just broadly though, um the american people did vote for donald trump, and he was pretty open about what he wanted to do, who he would want to nominate. and tulsi gabbard was with him our f kennedy jr. was with him on the trail as steve was just reminding us so what do you say to that? because the american people did did vote for him, and he was pretty open about what he wanted to do with the government sure. >> but i don't think they wanted matt gaetz to be attorney general a someone who's implicated in such serious lawbreaking. you know, being the top law enforcement official. i just don't think that's what they wanted now, did they want donald trump to be president yes. however, you know, the senate, for instance, has an advice and consent role under the constitution that it

must perform. and so that's one of those checks that's on the president. and that that must be observed in this case and so, okay, now i want to ask you about tulsi gabbard, because you're also a member of the house intelligence committee. >> there's been a lot of concern about what she who she has really sided with in terms of american adversaries. some of the russian talking points that she's promoted and put out there. what do you think about that choice and how serious do you think those concerns are i think they're pretty serious. >> i think they raised the questions with regard to you know, why she is being retained or nominated in this particular position regardless, they raised so many questions that she should not have been nominated, and certainly she shouldn't be confirmed. the only people who would be cheering this on are our adversaries and how what like what do you think in terms of this the background checks

because the trump transition team has said they want to skip these routine fbi background checks for some of the cabinet picks, including tulsi gabbard including matt gaetz that that tells you all you need to know, jessica. i mean, when, first of all, a lot of these picks aren't qualified but then they're seriously flawed and the fact that they're kind of putting their head in the sand to avoid the fbi background checks to reveal those flaws tells you all you need to know about whether these people should be confirmed for the positions for which they've been nominated. >> and trump is also considering kash patel to lead the fbi. and sources tell cnn that trump allies are urging him to fire the current director, chris wray, and replace him with patel. he has a history of spreading conspiracy theories and railing against the so-called deep state. i just want to play a clip. this is from steve bannon's podcast. let's listen to this we will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media. >> yes, we're

in the media who lied about american citizens who helped joe biden rig presidential elections. we're going to come after you, whether it's criminal or civil yeah, we're putting you all on notice joe biden didn't rig any elections. we know that. but congressman what what does that look like? and if he were to be the head of the fbi just in a sobering way, not not with your not with anyone's hair on fire, but just to really consider it like what might that look like well, it looks like a purge, a potential purge. >> we know that as part of project 2025, there was a study of how to remove uh, you know, basically not just political appointees from, uh, positions in the government, but also civil servants. and so for someone like kash patel to make those comments it leads me to believe that they're going to go in and remove people who are not loyal to donald trump. in other words, the only criterion it appears, that would merit

you staying within the government under whether you pledge complete loyalty to donald trump. of course, the american people want these people to and america. >> mhm. >> i also want to ask you, as someone who is the ranking member on the select committee, the house select committee on china, we have been following president biden, who is in peru for that apec summit. he just met we see we've been tracking that they're really trying to capstone that relationship as of course, china looks to incoming president elect trump um, what do you make of the relationship between these two countries? right now with trump now returning to the white house and promising these really hefty tariffs on china well i'm concerned about the kind of economic, technological and military aggression that's being practiced by the chinese

communist party. >> all that being said, i think the biden administration has taken some very important steps to counter that aggression. i do think that the to continue with a lot of those policies. but what i'm most concerned about is a very important element of the biden administration's policies, is bringing together our partners, friends and allies to counter that aggression together. and my concern is that donald trump is going to do things that could disrupt those partnerships and make it harder to counter the aggression. indeed it might just invite more of that aggression, and that's a big concern. >> it is. it is interesting, though, because that that committee and kind of just the the attitude toward china is one of the one few things we saw bipartisan agreement on in the house. just, just wanting to make sure that that is properly dealt with and a lot of people, republicans and democrats wanted to serve on that committee. trump putting

in a number of of china hawks or at least nominating them to some of his, you know marco rubio as secretary of state, what do you think about how all of that fits together i think that marco rubio or mike wallace, my committee colleague on the intelligence committee, or even john ratcliffe with whom i served in congress are serious and credible >> and i think they will do their level best necessary and make changes where they feel it's necessary in light of new developments. but all that being said, we have to approach this relationship in a bipartisan manner because remember the chinese believe that we are hopelessly divided with regard to the question of china, that we can't come together in competing with them. so we have to play against type

incoming administration, the trump administration has to work with congress democrats and republicans on our committee in, you know basically showing the chinese that we mean business. and we're going to counter the ccp in a in a credible fashion, going forward. >> all right, much to come on. that congressman raja krishnamoorthi, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. >> thank you, jessica. >> and when we come back, how prosecutors say sean "diddy" combs has been trying to interfere with his federal sex trafficking case from his jail cell. plus, an emotional first day in the trial of the killing a georgia nursing student. the evidence that prompted such strong reactions in court that some people had to leave. you're in the cnn newsroom the globe to see how these new weight loss medications are transforming lives and disrupting the industry. these drugs are very effective, but they're not going to be for everyone. >> is ozempic right for you?

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there's large issues in the filing of the government and that is that. remember what diddy is doing his immediate objective is to have another bail hearing. remember, he has made efforts to be released on bail. the first time it was denied the second time it was denied. this motion seeks to secure a third bail hearing where he would be released from jail. we should note that the judges previously were concerned about two major issues. one is whether he posed a danger to the community. they answered yes. the other issue is whether he would obstruct and influence witnesses while released on bail. and that was apparently a concern. and so here, as it relates to the allegations that the government says, and that is him flouting rules, mr. combs, in jail, that does not bode well either to permitting another hearing for him to potentially be released, or to actually getting released if he has that. and so to the extent that you cannot follow rules, allegedly, while you're in a facility that doesn't speak well to your ability to follow them, once you would be

released from a facility, and that's really the issues here. >> and misty, do you think in your opinion this alleged behavior shows diddy's desperation or is it more about arrogance? slash disregard for the law? >> well, you know, that's actually a great question because he's really not doing himself any favors. if this conduct that's set forth in this this submission by the prosecutors is in fact true, because trying to communicate with witnesses, even through other individuals incredibly problematic to joey's point, really, really really sabotaging his own request for bail. and for that hearing, but also potentially adding additional charges if true, about witness tampering or obstruction type charges and then these calls are recorded keep in mind that can ultimately be admissible in court. >> it can be used by prosecutors to show the indicia of guilt. why are you trying to communicate with witnesses

except for the fact of trying to tailor their testimony to be more favorable for you? so all of that's incredibly problematic. and the fact that he's doing it at this facility what's he going to do when he's out there on his own volition with the security company? he employs? so certainly a problematic behavior by diddy behind bars if true. >> yeah. i also want to ask you both about a high profile, another high profile legal proceeding. and that's the murder trial for the murder of 22 year old laken riley. that happened here in georgia. the first day of that trial wrapped up on friday, and one of the key pieces of evidence was her smartwatch, which chillingly tracked her heart rate and showed it stopping at that location where she was during the attack. joey, how does that evidence help prosecutors in their case against jose ibarra? >> yeah, jessica it helps them significantly right? the defense in this case is that this is based on circumstantial evidence. what does that mean? it means that no one directly can say that there was a

witness who saw him. we're looking at him. the defendant engaged in this allegedly well, we do know the murderous act. whether he did it. that's an allegation at this point. so you look to circumstantial evidence, and when you have a smartwatch that stops at a certain time indicating that, you know, bodily activity has ceased, which would suggest a death in this case when you have it tracking movement but it's not only the smartwatch it's other indicia right. other evidence that's there like dna that's found under the fingernails of the victim in this case, like him taking off his jacket and throwing it into a dumpster like dna and blood being on that jacket, like, so much else. and so certainly he's entitled to the presumption of innocence. jessica he'll get that. it's a bench trial before a judge, not a jury. the defense team making the determination that that was their best out. but to this point, the evidence has been and compelling. and we'll see what other evidence surfaces, which would be suggestive of his guilt. but to this point, there's been evidence

presented by the prosecution. >> and misty, i want to ask you about something that joey just brought up, which is this is a bench trial in front of a judge instead of a jury trial. why was that decision made, do you think? and how does it impact how this plays out well, some of what we've heard in the courtroom, just in the short time this trial has been going on, is so horrific. >> and it really, you know, it tears your heart out. and especially looking at the family members as some of this evidence was presented, her mother crying, her father, her sister, all of that so much of a sympathy factor that the defense, i think strategically said, let's get this before a judge, not a jury, because the judge is going to look at this more tactician more more from the perspective of these are the legal issues. and did the prosecutors fulfill their burden and take that emotional component out of it? now the judge is a human being. but of course it's different with a jury and a judge is going to look at it from the legal issue. so i do think that from the defense perspective, that was a strategic choice that they made, and they made that

right before the trial began. >> yeah and it is you're right. it is. your hearts really go out to her family and her friends that have to relive all of this in graphic detail, that your heart really aches for them joey jackson and misty marris, thank you so much i appreciate it. >> thanks jessica. thanks, misty. thank you yeah. >> coming up, some terrifying moments for passengers on a flight. just seconds from taking off after the plane was hit with a bullet. we have details on that ahead in the cnn newsroom safe space. you have a show where? right and left. talk to each other cnn presents an encore presentation of hbo's real time with bill maher tonight at eight on cnn >> wow. lumify eye drops dramatically reduce redness in one minute. >> and look at the difference my eyes look brighter and whiter for up to works. >> see for yourself we're

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plane was preparing to take off. no one was hurt. hours earlier in denver, another southwest flight was evacuated after a passenger cell phone battery caught on fire. and you can see the passengers scrambling to get off the plane some sliding down. evacuation slides there. joining us now to discuss this cnn aviation analyst miles o'brien. miles, thanks for being here. >> hey, jessica. how are you? good. good. >> normally when we're talking to you, we are talking about incidents that happen mid-flight when a plane is already in the air. but this southwest plane was struck by a bullet as it was getting ready to take off. i think people would say this is a concerning development. what do you think you could put it in that category for sure. >> clearly, as the aircraft taxis at the airport, it's a little more of a sitting duck as it were. i mean when an aircraft is at altitude six miles above us traveling approaching 600 miles an hour or so that's going to be a pretty hard thing to shoot with

a conventional weapon but at an airport, you know, nestled in a city like dallas love field the city kind of grew around that airport over the years. lots of people there. and as we know, lots of guns in this country it's a really scary thing. and, you know, frankly i've often wondered why this doesn't happen more. i'm not trying to encourage this, but it does does surprise me that this hasn't happened. there is no you know, real security idea for this. i mean, there's obviously a fence around the airport. there are cameras and patrols and so forth, but this is something that clearly, if somebody wanted to take a pot shot, they can get away with. it's good that the crew was aware of this before they took off. >> yeah. there's no doubt about that. and i'm sure we'll get more information as the days go by on that one. and then i had mentioned in our when we were introducing you this denver situation where the cell phone battery fire forced an evacuation. i know they

always ask you about lithium batteries before they put you on a plane. and if they're in your in your baggage or anything like that but how common is, is a cell phone battery fire well, it's probably a lithium battery. >> and this is really this is the reason, by the way, that they don't want these in the cargo hold. better to be in the cabin and in proximity of the passengers. so number one you have awareness certainly. number two you can take some action if it's in the cargo hold and it starts burning. you got real trouble. >> so this is the precisely the reason why you do this. if you've ever wondered why you have to keep the batteries with you, it's they're safer if you can see them and be around them. obviously this was a very scary incident and you know, these batteries, if they're damaged at thermal runaway scenario that can occur. and you know again, it was good that this happened on the

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hit another checkpoint approaching the main gate. our cell signals vanish because they want to do a full search on us before we enter see the total. once cleared, we tour the vast campus. it's been equated to seven football stadiums. it's almost multiple prisons within the prison. you can see off to the distance. there's three different rings as they describe the far end. you have one that's nine meters high of concrete. and then above that three meters of electrified fencing 15,000v, 15,000v, more than a thousand security personnel guards, police and military are stationed on site. >> inmates are assigned to one of eight sectors. the director tells me the inmates, once they're inside one of these sectors, they never leave. everything is done within including doctors. as well as legal visits or court hearings.

>> each sector holds more than two dozen large cells roughly 80 inmates per cell. >> but it can fluctuate. >> most bear the markings of the gangs that held this nation hostage for decades, committing brutal acts of violence. >> you got to kill people. you got to rob. you got to do what you got to do to survive. >> you have to do those things. >> yeah, you got to do that. >> we meet 41 year old marvin vasquez shackled and heavily guarded. what gang were you part of? >> ms 13. >> and do you have any gang affiliations? yeah is this crazy criminal say? crazy criminals? yeah. i made this click in 2011. you made the click? yeah. >> you were a gang leader. yeah what is it like to to live here? it's probably not a hotel five star, but they give you the three times the food. they >> you go to, you go to do exercise. >> nosotros los podemos repetir

siempre some church religion programs too. >> but that's limited to just 30 minutes a day. the other 23.5 hours, they're kept inside and locked up for inmates who get violent with other prisoners or guards sierra la puerta we're going to close the door. i just want to get a sense of awaits. >> the only light you get is through this hole. >> they can be in here for 15 days. potentially all right. >> i'm ready to get out the director brought up that a lot of folks will raise concerns from a human rights perspective. >> and an abuse of human rights that he's calm hearing that because he sees it day to day. the process they go through to maintain as he sees it, proper punishment while you're cut off from society, hear whispers of

life on the outside, make their way in. >> i've heard about it that it's a new el salvador. it looks different. >> pero la realidad es hemos liberado a millones that new el salvador has emerged under president nayib bukele, who took office in 2019 and declared a controversial state of emergency. more than two years ago, it sparked an aggressive crackdown on crime we see that firsthand as some 2500 police and soldiers deploy into one neighborhood. it's going to go on through the night for however long it takes for them to root out any suspected criminal elements. >> critics argue bukele strategy has given him far reaching power to suppress dissent and silence any opposition. late last week, as the u.s. state department lowered its travel advisory for el salvador, citing a significant reduction in crime it also warned that bukele's emergency measures allow authorities to arrest anyone suspected of gang activity and suspends constitutional rights

and yet, most we meet seem unfazed by the added show of force. >> they see. see, i asked him, i said, how do you feel with all these soldiers? i mean, there's a couple of dozen just right outside his door and he said, no, i feel safe. >> el salvador now has one of the world's highest incarceration rates, the most hardened criminals brought to cecot where inside a life sentence awaits. >> we did bad things. we paid the rough way doing time. >> and yet, for many on the outside, the prison now a symbol of newfound freedom, the new el salvador as they see it and jessica, it does seem that this type of prison is being exported to other latin american countries. we know that ecuador and honduras are building what some are calling bukele style prisons. now it's controversial. there's no question people think it is far too extreme and harsh. but when you speak to folks on the ground in el salvador and we've

will tell you that even those who disagree with the tactics believe it was necessary so as to eradicate the very brutal gang violence that they lived with for decades down there. jessica. >> david culver incredible reporting. thank you so much for that. just ahead, how elon musk has worked his way into donald trump's inner circle and is already influencing the president elect and world leaders episodes of how it really happened. there are six capsules missing there are three people dead. what possibly could have happened to these very young, very healthy people? it wasn't just about tampering, it was about evil. >> new york city became so enthralled with this case, mother and son murdering people. >> why did they do it this pathological how it really happened. >> tomorrow at nine on cnn

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dining with trump, hanging out at the golf course with the trump family when the trumps were posing for family photos like this one the day after the election, the president elect encouraged musk and his young son x to be included we have to get elon with his boy. absolutely. >> trump's granddaughter kai trump, posting a photo with the caption elon achieving uncle status. >> maybe one thing that attracts elon musk to donald trump and donald trump to elon musk is that they're kind of the same person. they like being the the one person in the room. they like walking into a room and sucking all the oxygen out of it. >> following this comment from cnn analyst gloria borger, i think musk is becoming like first buddy musk posted, quote, i'm happy to be the first buddy. musk has sat in on trump's post-election phone calls with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and other leaders. posted this photo from mar-a-lago after meeting with argentina's president there. and according to the new york times, musk met with iran's ambassador to the u.n. he's

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