and then we are expecting the state to rest its case then it will be up to the witnesses. and we are expecting the defense team for daniel penny to begin calling character witnesses. these are going to be witnesses who are going to speak about daniel penny that what daniel penny was trying to do was protect people that were riding on the subway who were afraid of jordan nealy and who felt that their lives were in danger. some witnesses have testified to that effect. we're also expecting to hear from a psychiatric expert who will talk about whether or not jordan nealy's use of k2, which was found in his body following the autopsy, had anything to do with the way this incident unfolded. over the next few days, we expect to hear more expert testimony from

the defense and the big question, john, is whether or not daniel penny will take the stand. as of last night, his defense team told me that that will be a game time decision. they are still waiting to see whether or not it will be a good idea to put their client on the stand. >> john all right. keep us posted as unfull events unfold throughout the day. gloria pazmino. thank you very much. brand new hour of cnn news central starts now >> president biden at his final g20 summit in brazil. the policy and posturing among world leaders now, after donald trump's decisive victory and biden's major announcement on ukraine as he's headed for the exits. and there's new pressure today to publicize details from investigations into one of donald trump's top cabinet picks, that man, matt gaetz. what really is in that house ethics report into allegations of underage sex and drug use by

the florida republican and how hard are republicans and democrats ready to fight over it? sean "diddy" combs being accused now by prosecutors of trying to obstruct their investigation and taint the jury pool, all from behind bars. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central >> developing this morning reports that new first best friend elon musk is starting to irritate president-elect trump's advisers during a dinner at mar a lago, axios reports of a heated confrontation between musk and trump adviser and attorney boris epstein they write, quote at one point during what the sources described as a massive blowup, musk accused epstein of leaking details of trump's transition, including a personnel picks to the media. epstein responded by telling musk that he didn't know what he was talking about. this comes amid new reports that musk is also becoming a source of infighting in the trump

transition team, surrounding the choice for treasury secretary. musk is backing trump transition co-chair and fellow billionaire howard lutnick for the job while trump's advisers are pushing for hedge fund ceo scott bessent, the billionaire not only putting his 2 or $0.10 in, but also asking his more than 200 million followers to weigh in he posted to twitter quote would be interesting to hear more people weigh in on this for real. donald trump to consider feedback. my view for what it's worth, is bessent is a business as usual choice, whereas howard lutnick will actually enact change business as usual is driving america bankrupt. we need change one way or another. with us now is national political correspondent for politico, meridith mcgraw. you know, it's pretty interesting. so musk is in the room where it happens a lot of time, but he's also tweeting from outside the room, trying to influence things

inserted himself into the transition it's really trump's whole um, you know, early kitchen cabinet here. >> advisors, people mar-a-lago members friends that are weighing in but musk is spending a lot of time with donald trump since he got elected. he's been an ever present person at trump's side at his club. he's sitting in on meetings. he's traveling with him like he did this weekend to the professional, the ufc fight in new york city and he is spending a lot of time with trump. he's giving his insight and input on some of these picks including most recently, treasury secretary, which is one of the last really big remaining cabinet picks that trump has yet to announce. and there's already been some infighting behind the scenes and jockeying between different potential candidates, including howard lutnick, who is currently co-chair of trump's transition hedge fund ceo scott

bessent and some other dark horse candidates who have now um, their names have come up because of this back and forth and different people getting involved in the process. >> any sign that trump would go against musk at this point? have we seen an area yet where the two have disagreed? where where trump won another way that. >> but you know certainly trump is really, you know, taking his input seriously he is keeping him around. he is involved in in a lot of these different meetings. um, you know musk came with um, trump to washington d.c. last week when trump on the plane made the decision that he was going to appoint matt gaetz to his attorney general. um, but you know, other people who have been around trump include of course, susie wiles. um linda

mcmahon. um who's also co-chairing the transition howard lutnick. and then a lot of aides and advisers who are around him as well, too. >> all right. meridith mcgraw from politico thanks so much for being with us this morning, sarah. >> all right. thank you so much, john. with us now is democratic congressman josh gottheimer of new jersey, who just days ago announced he's running for governor of new jersey. i want to talk to you about this. thank you so much for being here this morning. trump just weeks ago lost. thanks for having me by it's great to see you by a historically narrow margin. we haven't seen this in decades of only 5% four years ago against biden, trump lost by 16 point margin in the garden state congressman, when you look at those numbers in a reliably blue new jersey for the first time in decades basically putting up swing state like numbers, how do you explain that well listen, my my lawn signs on all my campaigns going back to 2016 have always said lower taxes, jersey values

on them. >> and i think and one reason why we had a good night last week, even though it was a very tough night for the country. uh is is one thing i think people want to want leaders who are going to make their lives more affordable, that are fighting every single day to get their health care costs down, that their child care costs down, the cost of food and and their taxes down. and you know, that's what i've always focused on. i think we need to get back to basics a bit here. obviously, always fighting for jersey values and making sure we protect things like reproductive freedom and stand up for clean air and clean water and common sense gun safety. but we also have to make sure we communicate to people that we're about getting their backs and getting their costs down. that's why i'm i'm running as the lower taxes, lower cost governor, because for me, it's all about making people's lives more affordable. >> i do want to ask you if you do win the governorship, would you join that group? i know you're saying when you win, but i have to say, if we don't know until the election happens but there is a group of

governors, democratic governors, who are coordinating with one another to oppose trump's right wing policies in their respective states in any way that they can. and so far, that group involves, like the governor of illinois, of colorado california, um so the question to you is, do you think that you would join that group well, i think that, uh, as governor murphy, my governor has said, is, you know, you want to stand up and fight for jersey and whether that's fighting uh, president, uh president-elect trump or fighting anyone who messes with jersey when the time is right and making sure we protect things like reproductive freedom and and stand strong for for the environment and making sure our climate is safe. >> but also you want to work together when it makes sense. you know i co-chair this group called the problem solvers caucus with democrats and republicans. and my feeling is always if it's good for jersey and the people i represent the families here and leads up to our values, we should work with folks. but obviously stand up to him when we need to protect the families of jersey. and i

think that's the approach any governor should take or are, frankly, any elected official. >> all right. donald trump is is promising to use the military to help with his plan for mass deportations. what do you make of this? what are the pitfalls? or do you support it well, i think the idea of rounding people up is, is, you know is not something our country is about um, you know, making sure that we have obviously strong, safe borders make sense and have people here who live up to our values. >> um, but what i want to, you know, get back to. and i think is really important. and i think as we look at all these, you were mentioning all these nominees is you want to make sure they're going to do everything, every single day to protect our country and to stand up for the values we believe in. and i and i think that's ultimately what we should be making all these decisions about. you know, we're a great country the greatest in the world. and we want to make sure we do everything we can to come together and work together to to advance and protect our country. and i think whether you're talking about nominees or policies, that's how we should look at things. >> i do want to ask you about some reporting that has come

out in axios this morning. um where their headline is that democrats are sick of nancy pelosi. when you see a headline like that obviously people talking about their frustrations. do democrats need new leadership we have an unbelievable leader in hakeem jeffries who is our democratic leader and a very dear friend of mine. >> um, so, you know, i'm very proud. and by the way, kim's done an incredible job and and will continue to be i know he's going to continue to be our leader and we're going to we're all getting behind him unanimously and i think that's the way it should be. listen, i think as a party, what's most important and where you started this conversation is making sure we remind people that if you look at our record, what's been very clear is we fight to make sure people's lives are more affordable. whether you're talking about the child tax credit, um, infrastructure to fix the roads and bridges and, and make sure we take care of them there and getting the price of health care and drugs down. those are all things we've fought for and gotten done. i think the bottom line is we have to make sure we

remind people this is getting back to basics that that's what we've done. that's what we stand for, is helping folks out. you know, obviously we've got big fights ahead. i'm going to do everything to restore the state and local tax deduction or salt to get taxes down here in jersey again to make life more affordable. i think we've got to do everything to expand the child tax credit and get the cost of child care down and health care and do more to get the cost of housing down. these are things that clearly last week were, were were top of mind for folks and their concerns. and it's something that i've always been fighting for. i think we've got to do a better job making sure that everyone knows that's what the democratic party is about. first and foremost. >> congressman josh gottheimer thank you so much for getting up early and coming on the show. appreciate you thanks for having me. okay, so the house ethics report on matt gaetz. it may never see the light of day, but a civil lawsuit in florida could provide some insight into the underage sex and drug allegations at the center of that allegation investigation. we have new reporting on that. and at least one death and dozens of people are sick

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of the united states. house members pored over testimony that was part of a florida civil case, including some reportedly explicit witness accounts. gate was investigated over sexual misconduct and illegal drug use allegations. gaetz has denied those allegations. let's get right to cnn's senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz. >> so what's going on here? caitlin, what has been learned and by whom exactly? >> yeah so some of what the house ethics committee has learned, john, comes from a lawsuit in florida where witnesses, young women were making statements under oath the same women who also participated in the criminal inquiry against matt gaetz. these women were at a party in 2017 where an alleged sexual encounter with an underage girl took place and they've never spoken publicly about what was happening, including potentially with gaetz. but in a deposition of a man who brought the lawsuit. this is a friend of matt gaetz attorneys asked him about what the woman women were saying in their depositions about a then

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was not yet ready to be released, and since matt gaetz left the congress, i don't think it's appropriate to do so. there have been i understand, i think, two exceptions to the rule over the whole history of congress and the history of the ethics committee, but i don't i wasn't the speaker at that time. i'm the speaker now he's the speaker now. >> john, back to you. >> and just to be clear, it is republicans, some in the senate actually calling to see the results of this investigation. so it is sort of bipartisan call so far. katelyn polantz thank you very much for that, kate. >> so disgraced and charged music mogul sean "diddy" combs could be in more trouble now. prosecutors now say that he is trying to taint the jury pool and obstruct their investigation from behind bars. and russia accuses the u.s. of throwing oil on the fire. the white house, now responding saying russia. well, russia lit the fire as president biden finally greenlights ukraine to use u.s. long range weapons to

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was under huge pressure including from president zelenskyy of ukraine, to allow deep strike. and it's only now happening, as you say, in the last few weeks of the administration because of the north korean troops that are being sent by the russians into this region. and the u.s. felt it had to respond. it's not clear that there are enough of these weapons or that this has happened at the timing of this is such that it's going to make a big strategic difference. but the ukrainians know everything has shifted now because with president trump coming in they're likely to be forced into a negotiation over what land? >> evelyn, how important is this battle in kursk? and i don't know if we have a map. we can show people this is russian territory. we're talking about here. this is where the ukrainians. the ukrainians have staged an incursion into russia. they're holding russian territory. how important is it for ukraine to hang on to this russian territory? as long as they can

>> john. so, first of all, it's really a bargaining chip. this piece of territory. president zelenskyy himself said when they occupied it or when they took it, that we are not an occupying force. we're not trying to take this territory the way russia is trying to take our territory and our sovereignty. he was pretty clear, he said at the time we want to get some prisoners so we can do a prisoner exchange. and they did that. so now he needs it as a bargaining chip because frankly, he doesn't have much leverage if he's forced to go to the negotiating table by, say president-elect trump and others, he doesn't have much to bargain with. this would be something he could bargain with. but as you've pointed out, and as david said, there are 10,000 north koreans in there. it looks like russia's going to try to make an effort, which they haven't done yet, to take that territory back. >> you say if he is forced to the negotiating table it feels like that may be inevitable and zelenskyy may think it's inevitable at this point. olaf scholz, the german chancellor called vladimir putin on friday zelenskyy didn't like that one bit. evelyn

that it showed weakness on the part of his partners, the united states, nato countries, you know, reaching out to putin, who has been diplomatically isolated by us, at least maybe not by the entire world. >> and so, as president zelenskyy did not like that he does know, however, that he's likely to have to engage in some kind of effort at achieving a peace because president trump's been pretty clear on that. he wants peace and he's going to find a way to make it the open question is whether it will be a just peace, whether president trump can pull this off. >> and we know that he wants to do it. he probably wants a nobel peace prize. and if he can get a just peace for ukraine with real security guarantees, that would be worthy of a nobel prize. >> so, david, these next, what are we, two months away now from donald trump's inauguration? what can ukraine do in these two months? how important are these next two months for them? >> the best they can hope, as

evelyn suggested is gain something that would give them leverage at the bargaining table. the key to this bargaining, john, is this if president trump comes in and calls putin and says okay, what do you need, vlad? and he's going to say, i need the 20% of the country that i'm already occupying. as a start and no entry ever for nato to nato, for ukraine. and then trump calls zelenskyy and says, do i have a bargain for you? right. you can end the war and just give up your territory. now, that might be the end of zelenskyy politically the big issue here is if that's where we're headed anyway, does it make a difference whether the u.s. forces it on the ukrainians or whether zelenskyy gets there in his own negotiation? remember what president biden has said is nothing about ukraine without ukraine. no imposed solutions. and frankly that doesn't look

like where it's headed. >> so where's europe right now? as we said, olaf scholz, the german chancellor called vladimir putin for the first time in a long time. >> yeah, on friday, where do they see things headed and what are they willing to do to influence it? so the european concern here has been that if there is territorial gain for the russians out of this, putin will stop reset. wait a little while and then try to take the rest of ukraine. they also worry that under president trump, who has said, you know, if you haven't paid into nato the way i want, the russians can do whatever the hell they wish. i think that was his just about his exact words that the russians are going to test that with a smaller member of nato and just see whether president trump, having established the precedent that he's willing to give away territory, would say, i'm not going to go fight for lithuania estonia, something like that dicey times for the

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victory in 2020. for something i'm sure trump world is thrilled. we just said out loud with me now, cnn senior very senior, very senior data reporter harry enten look, it is not common lately for republicans to win the popular vote and the electoral college vote. correct. so trump has something to celebrate there. but look, his popular vote margin is shrinking. >> yeah the case that trump's mandate isn't all that. look, if you look historically speaking, donald trump is now under 50% in the national popular vote, barely under 50%, but he is under 50%. i want to take a look and compare, compare his popular vote victory to those historically speaking over the last 200 years, his popular vote victory ranks 44th out of 51. that ain't exactly strong. some might argue that is weak, weak, weak in the words of tony blair. in fact, his popular vote win at this point is the weakest going all the way back to all the way back to 2000 to find a weaker one, a smaller popular vote victory than

donald trump currently has. so yeah, trump has won the popular vote, but it ain't all that, my dear friend. john berman. george w. bush had a bigger popular vote in 2004, and if you're looking at a combination of popular vote and electoral college vote, look, obama twice had had bigger popular vote and electoral college vote victory and joe biden did as well. joe biden's popular vote correct twice as big electoral college victory a little smaller. talk about coattails for donald trump. >> yeah, let's talk about coattails here. so, you know, you talk about the senate. you know, short coattails states trump won but democrats won or lead in the senate race. look at this in 2016 it was zero. in 2020. it four states, four states where a senate democratic candidate won even though donald trump won. we're talking about nevada, arizona pennsylvania. i'm sorry, not pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin. that is four states and pennsylvania. we still haven't called yet. that could be five if bob casey is able to mount a comeback. but even if casey loses and dave mccormick wins, we're talking about four states. in fact, i went all the way back

to the history books, and this is the most senate races that the winner's party lost in states the president won since 2004. again, you have to go all the way back since the early 2000 to find a historical note that matches what's going on right now. so yeah, donald trump won. but there weren't exactly all that many republicans, or at least fewer than you'd expect historically, who rode around in that victory car with him. >> what about the house? >> what about the house well, we're talking about a historically small majority, potentially for the republicans the gop would have a record small majority if the current house results hold the gop would be at 221. the democrats would be at 214. you have to go all the way back before there were 50 states in the union to find a smaller majority for for the incoming house majority that republicans currently hold right now at 221. and of course, that could drop lower if stefanik, waltz or others leave the house. republican majority which at this point seems quite likely. mr. brennan and again, it is worth noting there are parts of donald trump's victory which are notable a realignment historic

in their own way but the size of the victory just isn't correct what we're talking about is we're talking a very wide win for donald trump. >> but the depth, it's not particularly deep it's actually quite shallow. historically speaking. mr. berman, thank you very much. thank you for that, kate. thanks, guys. let's talk about this joining us right now is a former republican congressman, fred upton of michigan. he was among one of many republicans to come out in support of vice president kamala harris in this election. it's good to see you fred. thank you. as you had told me a few weeks ago, it was the first time that you ever voted for a democrat for president trump's lead in the popular vote. what john and harry were just talking about, it's smaller than what people thought it was going to be starting on election night. and trump has said and pointed to his popular vote. victory is giving him a mandate. so this new reality of a smaller popular vote, do you think it means what for that mandate you know, when i was listening to harry give his little outline, i thought, trump is probably going to use

the word huge when he when he talks about the popular vote here. >> but, you know, he won and he got over 300 electoral votes he views it as a mandate and he's he's particularly when you look at some of the controversial picks that he's chosen for his cabinet, he's going to move forward thinking that it was like everybody. what do you think so i want to ask you about some of those controversial picks but first, sticking with michigan, trump won michigan. where do you think kamala harris went wrong? there well michigan was a very complex state. >> we knew that from the get go. you had the uaw with the leadership that was behind harris, but many in the rank and file were behind trump. we had the palestinian issue as well the largest population in the united states in southeast michigan. many and we and as a direct cause of that, when they had the primary election

earlier this year, there were more than 100,000 democrats that voted, in essence present for her no choice instead of for biden. so they knew that that was going to be an issue. so it was close in michigan. that's for sure. >> but at the end of the day, trump won narrowly and he obviously got all 15 electoral votes. >> that's right. and another thing that that harry and john were just talking about how they harry describing it as trump's short coattails, where he won the state. but there was a senate, but a democrat won in a senate seat that happened in michigan. trump won, but elissa slotkin won. democrat won. the senate seat there. that says in your mind that says more about donald trump kamala harris or the senator elect, elissa slotkin well, a couple of things. >> so about 11,000 votes. in 2020, biden won by about 150,000

votes. >> uh when you look at michigan the state house flipped. >> so it went from, uh, in essence, a one seat majority for the democrats to now i think republicans picked up four seats. so a slight change there. uh, you also saw that in the congressional delegation, the slotkin the congressional seat, her house seat actually flipped to a republican so republicans gained one seat in michigan and a couple of other seats that were up were razor thin. uh the democrats prevailed, but it was razor thin for them to win. so michigan is going to stay one of those purple states and the coattails really weren't there for slotkin, who beat a really able candidate, mike rogers, former house colleague, uh, fbi agent, uh, terrific uh, biography. in terms of of him, uh, it was close, but he, uh, trump would have had to win by a few more by another point or

two. actually, i think it was about 75,000 votes difference. but between the two. so maybe it was very close. but trump had to do a little bit better to carry mike rogers into that seat. >> yeah. let's talk about the coming trump cabinet. um you've got a couple of former house colleagues that are nominated. you've got matt gaetz nominated as attorney general. you have tulsi gabbard nominated as the director of national intelligence. what do you think of matt gaetz as attorney general specifically? and this issue of the house house ethics committee, the investigation into him, and now the house speaker saying he doesn't want that report to be released well, i would guess that the speaker johnson's view is going to prevail, that the report is not going to be made public i heard over the weekend that he was saying it was not complete. >> there was expected to finish their work on friday but house rules traditionally say that if that particular member is gone, he leaves. he dies whatever that. in fact, the ethics

investigation is over so i don't think that's going to change despite whatever effort is used in the senate to try and spring that loose. >> i'm not a matt gaetz friend. i don't think we barely had a conversation in the years that we served together. but i'll tell you this trump knew what he was getting into. he's going to make sure that that nomination goes forward. and when you look at the senate judiciary committee, uh, their most of those republicans that are on the committee and it's going to change a little bit because of course, the senate flipped. but it's probably going to be something like a 1210 majority for republicans i'm sure that for any new member getting on that committee they're going to have to approve of the litmus test that they're going to support gaetz to get it out of committee. and when you look at the members that are on that committee mike lee, josh hawley, lindsey graham, marsha

blackburn, uh, they're pretty hardcore. >> trump supporters. and i don't i see that committee, actually voting to affirm matt gaetz. then the question will be, is there going to be a pathway that soon will allow that would probably provide for a recess appointment? uh, sometime after january 20th, after president trump is sworn in again. >> so stand by to stand by is what i'm hearing from you congressman. it's good to see you. thanks so much fred. >> sara all right thank you kate. all right. an e coli outbreak linked to organic carrots has led to person died. the cdc is investigating the outbreak in at least 18 states so far, though, 39 cases have been linked to some kind, some brands of organic carrots going back to early september cnn's meg tirrell is with us now. it sounds like the carrots may not be in stores. they may be in people's refrigerators.

correct what can you tell us about this particular outbreak? >> yeah. so i checked my fridge yesterday and i was relieved to see i didn't have these carrots. but folks should check their fridges because the sell by dates. so it's whole organic carrots and it's organic baby carrots sold by a farm called grimmway farms. but these are a lot of different brands that a lot of folks buy. trader joe's, wegmans whole foods, 365 brands. so there are a lot of brands that folks might find these carrots and they should check. so there are sell by dates on the baby carrots. this is between september 11th, 2024 and november 12th, 2024. on the whole, organic carrots bags there aren't actually sell by dates but these weren't available for purchase after october 23rd, so that's why we're not expecting they're on shelves right now, but they might be in people's fridges or freezers, so check those if you find them, make sure you throw them out if they've touched other things, wash those with hot soapy water. we really need to be careful here because e coli obviously is very dangerous. this has reached 39 recorded cases and the cdc notes they may find more as

it can take 3 to 4 weeks for them to really trace back that this is all related to the same outbreak. 15 hospitalizations, one death. this is across 18 states. and if you look at the it's really across the entire united states. so it's really not localized to any one area. so check your fridges. yeah. it's good to know that you know the farm. but really it's a whole bunch of different brands. so you need to look at the brands as well meg tirrell thank you so much. appreciate it. thank you kate. >> spirit airlines filed for bankruptcy today. just one week before what could be the busiest thanksgiving travel week ever. so what does that mean? we're looking into it and sean "diddy" combs, now accused of obstruction of justice from behind bars. prosecutors say he's been reaching out to witnesses and even tried tainting the jury pool you by unitedhealthcare medicare plans reliable

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witnesses. how will this be handled by the court? and is it something that gets addressed swiftly since, you know, the witnesses if they are sort of being threatened, would need some assistance here? >> yeah, absolutely. >> so the immediate consequence is what will this impact be on his upcoming petition for bail? so, sarah, to your point, all jailhouse report calls are recorded. and so presumably prosecutors have some electronic audio evidence that this actually occurred so what could happen to diddy while he's behind bars right now in order to avoid this type of conduct going forward he may have limitations on who he can actually communicate with while he's there. he may have additional monitoring to ensure that he cannot engage in this conduct, specifically taking the numbers of other individuals or improperly contacting witnesses. now, that's all about what could happen to him while he remains behind bars. it is of

incredible detriment to his bail proceeding to say that he's engaging in this conduct while he's already under the thumb of the corrections. now he wants to be out even with 24 hour monitoring it really, really is something that's going to impact his arguments moving forward and make it very unlikely for him to be successful. >> if the judge agrees to what prosecutors are saying and sees evidence of that can sean "diddy" combs face new new charges, or what would happen because of these new allegations so absolutely. >> so first, you know, we're talking about the bail hearing. it obviously is going to have an impact on that because this was one of the issues that came up in the prior bail hearings. the concern that he would try and reach out to witnesses and try and intimidate witnesses or otherwise improperly communicate with them. but there's other issues that could come up directly relating to this as well. first, we know a grand jury has already reconvened. that could result in what's called a superseding indictment adding new charges.

well, if this conduct if there's enough evidence of this conduct, prosecutors could add witness tampering, they could add obstruction of justice. and it doesn't stop there. not only could it add new charges, these are the types of things these reported jailhouse calls. it could actually come into the courtroom during trial as indicia of guilt. it could be well, why is he trying to tell witnesses what to say? unless he believes they're going to say something to his detriment. so there's a lot of different ways this conduct, if true, could impact his case. moving forward. >> i do want to ask you about the the witnesses who prosecutors say are being threatened or he's trying to to blackmail, according to them. what for them is there are there protections when this happens? you know, the trial is not happening right now they are potential witnesses what happens with them well, so they they could obviously report the conduct to prosecutors who who can take certain action to

protect them or to the extent that some of these communications are coming third hand, because that the prosecutors have raised is that diddy would actually communicate with someone who's authorized to commute with, communicate with a friend a family member, and they would third party in and another individual on the call. >> that's not permitted behind bars. and so that means he's interacting with individuals who he's not supposed to be. and evading the the ways that the jail has in order to document and ensure that all of that information is being monitored. right. so what they could do is it could be no contact orders, there could be all sorts of different repercussions. a judge could step in and intervene to the extent that it's not just diddy who's engaged in those communications, it goes a bit beyond that. >> it's interesting. it could bring in other people who are involved in trying to sort of go around the rules and the laws of the system misty marris it is always a pleasure. thank you so much for coming up and

talking to us through this >> all right this morning, officials in arizona are searching for a suspected arsonist caught on surveillance camera. police believe the suspect set a catholic church on fire causing significant damage last month. new this morning, spirit airlines has filed for bankruptcy. the airline said it will continue to operate as normal as it restructures its debt, and that consumers can continue to book and fly quote, without interruption. mounting losses on affordable debt increased competition and an inability to merge with other airlines all contributed to this bankruptcy. so this morning, new hampshire. no sales tax and lots of mice. and you can have them. a man donated 150 containers of mice about 1000 total mice to an animal shelter. apparently, the number keeps growing because of what they call rapid breeding. the mice have been busy. if you know what i mean. so far 18 mice have been adopted, 18 of 1000, and many others have been

sent to regional welfare organizations. >> kate. no thanks. but thank you, john, from a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in april to multiple tornadoes touching down over the summer to now wildfires where wildfires shouldn't be. new york has been facing some weird weather recently, and a perfect example of how the climate crisis is really upending our notion of what normal weather was is, and will be from now on. cnn's bill weir is here with much more on this. and these fires are still burning. >> they are still burning. i should mention you mentioned the earthquake at the top. no relation to climate change. there but we do know the direct correlation between water cycles. we now live in the age of either too much or not enough. >> october. we got 1/100 of an inch of rain. virtually none when we're used to getting about nine inches around here. as a result, there have been 230 plus brush fires just since around halloween, a few days before halloween and now there are 5000 acres worth of wildfires burning across the state 13 fires. that's not the size we're normally used to

reporting out west. we have these huge tracts of national forest land, but this is much denser population. right. and a lot more homes and lives in the way of these fires these days. >> what about the tornadoes? >> that is another one that climate scientists are trying to figure out the correlation, because the data set, you think about a tornado. it's on the ground for minutes, maybe as opposed to hurricanes, you study for days. it seems like they're moving to new regions around the country but look at this. there have been 32 tornadoes in new york so far this year. ten last year, seven the year before. so that's a huge increase a huge jump. right. and so you know, a warmer atmosphere heated up by fossil fuel pollution means more moisture means more violence, more unpredictability. right now. and so again, as you said at the top, this is not our dad's weather and we have to think about how we build and grow and transport for this new world. >> and this is one thing you've always said, like the moniker of like a thousand year, 500 year flood, 1000 years. i mean they're getting hit they're

reaching those marks and surpassing it with almost every weather crisis that we that we come by because of everything is changing. >> exactly. remember, we used to have prime time specials for katrina victims. the whole country could come around one event. now they happen so fast, we can't process the last one. they're still picking up the pieces from helene milton. all those sorts of things. and here we are with wildfires in the east. >> i know it is so wild. >> it's it is good to see you. thank you always for helping us understand it a little bit better. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now morning, donald trump promises he will declare a national emergency as soon as he takes office. >> as reports emerge, that first best friend, billionaire elon musk, is fighting behind the scenes with trump advisers make way for the winklevii. what does crypto want? and when will they get it and why is rudy giuliani fighting to keep

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