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targeting athletes. what the league is telling players after burglaries at the homes of kansas city chiefs. stars patrick mahomes and travis kelce. you may know him as taylor swift's boyfriend. we're following these major more, all coming in right here to cnn news central president-elect trump is looking for someone new to lead his justice department after former congressman matt gaetz said today he is dropping his name from consideration as attorney general. >> in a post on social media, gaetz wrote that his confirmation process has become a distraction to the critical work of the trump-vance transition team. >> now, gaetz spent his week working the phones and meeting with key republican senators to make the case for why he deserves the job. but it was unclear whether he would have enough republican support to secure the position. our

correspondents are standing by with all these new developments, but let's begin our coverage with cnn correspondent paula reid. and, paula, the timing of the withdrawal is interesting because you had some new reporting you'd been working on that was set to come out just after noon today and just before the withdrawal came out. you were anticipating a response to that reporting from gaetz. >> that's right. we reached out to gaetz representatives around 1130 today to tell them that we had new reporting, and we believed it was significant because it was revealing that the house ethics committee had heard from a woman who was just 17 when she says that she had sex with gaetz about a second sexual encounter. she testified about having with gaetz and another adult woman and this is significant reporting because it's an example of the kind of information that could be contained in this ethics report that is not public. i've reported on these investigations for four years, and this is the first time we had learned of this so this was a significant piece of reporting we reached out to the congressman to let former congressman to allow him to respond we said we were going to go live with the report around 1230 and about two

minutes before we went live, we didn't get a statement. instead, he announced that he is withdrawing and we have no confirmation, of course, that this was the reason. but i think the timing is notable. it suggests that there is likely more that would be in this house. ethics report. i also need to point out the justice department did investigate gaetz having sex with a minor. he was not charged. the adult woman who was allegedly part of this encounter. she has also denied that it took earlier about how one lawmaker on the hill said yesterday, you don't need to see the ethics report. you know what's in it. you've reported it all. but this is an example. i've covered this more closely than anyone of the kind of information that is potentially in this report. that is not yet public. >> let's turn now to cnn's kristen holmes, who is in west palm beach florida. kristen, we're learning that the president elect doesn't actually yet hav to put in plac gaetz is out of the running. so what's next? >> yeah, brianna. and remember, part of the reason that he ended up choosing matt gaetz

was because he was unimpressed by all of the people who had been paraded through his office. he had sat down for a number of these interviews. he was told allies that he believed these people were too stiff, that he wanted somebody who could be a quote unquote, effective communicator. he wanted somebody who could go on television and throw bombs. and that's at least in part, the whole entire process of matt gaetz vetting essentially happened on the plane from west palm beach to washington and by the time he landed back in west with president biden, he had announced that he was nominating matt gaetz. now, here's what we're told about how today unfolded. one, donald trump and jd vance were both told by matt gaetz directly that he was going to be withdrawing his name. the transition team was also made aware that this was happening, so that they were alert and starting to think about potential names for a new list of potential attorneys, attorney generals we are also told that here's what happened yesterday on the hill, and how that played into all of this, that some of the meetings they came out of them feeling

cautiously optimistic that a lot of these senators said they were keeping an open mind, but they were informed and they were realized through this trip to the hill that there were more hard no's than they had originally thought. they also believe, and this goes to what paula was just saying, that there was more evidence inside that ethics report that previously had not been reported, meaning essentially that those hard nosed were going to stay hard nosed, and it was likely that there were going to be more republican senators who turned against matt gaetz instead of the other way around. so while they thought maybe this is a good step, they also saw the writing on the wall as this ethics report was being debated, whether or not it was going to be released. now, i do want to quickly note donald social. this is what he posted earlier today. i greatly appreciate the recent efforts of matt gaetz in seeking approval to be attorney general. he was doing very not want to be a distraction for the administration for which he has much respect. matt has a wonderful future and i look forward to watching all of the great things he will do. and then one thing i want to

note here we have heard conversations happening among trump allies, among the trump transition before gates dropped out about how this could potentially hurt donald trump down the road, because donald trump would have to expend so much political capital to try and get gaetz confirmed it actually could hurt some of his other maybe slightly less, but still controversial picks. clearly, that was something that his team was discussing and how to get around when this happened much for the update from west palm beach florida. >> news of gaetz decision to drop out from campaigning for the attorney general role is now resounding around capitol hill. >> certainly is. and that is where we find cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox. lauren, tell us about that reaction from lawmakers yeah, there's a real sense of relief up here in the united states senate. >> and that, in part, is because a lot of lawmakers were staring down what was going to be a very difficult two months to even get to the confirmation hearing for matt gaetz and the

there was a lot of concern that more and more might come out about what witnesses told ethics committee members behind closed doors, and i think that that fear and apprehension about what they might learn, how that might affect the nomination, what they might be asked about weighing on some lawmakers as they were trying to think through how they were going to move forward over the next several weeks. you know one thing to keep in mind is there were a number of republicans who never said what they thought about matt gaetz, other than some of them who were very surprised that he was nominated in the first place. one of those people who called him unserious, senator lisa murkowski of alaska, actually told me that she thought that this was a sound decision by matt gaetz, that this was something that was the right decision moving forward for the body. but, you know, there was a lot of reaction where folks just didn't get a heads up. you know, we talked to john thune, who is a republican leader. he's incoming republican leader who told us that he did not get any sense that this was coming. so a huge surprise on capitol hill. i'll note that

gaetz did have a series of meetings yesterday with senate judiciary committee members. and it was really interesting because after those meetings, senator john cornyn made the point to reporters that behind closed doors, he had impressed upon gaetz what was at stake here. he also made clear that there are no secrets when it comes to this vetting process, and that everything was going to come out really interesting and now with gaetz out, lauren there is a spotlight on pete hegseth, who is trump's dod pick. >> he's facing this allegation of sexual assault himself from 2017. and he was up on the hill today meeting with folks that he needs to win over. what's the reaction been like to him? >> yeah. as reporters are asking about gaetz, they are in the same breath. then turning to pete hegseth and whether or not republicans believe that he has the votes, will he be able to actually get confirmed? it was really interesting because the talking point that you kept

hearing over and over again today on hegseth was that this process is going to play out, that all nominees have to go through the vetting process. and i think that that is a telling sign, because you don't hear a ton of republican members just coming out saying that they are certainly and definitely going to support pete hegseth, because again, there's that apprehension about what do members know? what don't they know at this point? and we should just point out that committee hearings and that vetting process, it happens in a very public way. there's also questions that these nominees have to answer for senators and respond over the course of several weeks. this is not an easy process, and i think that the gravity of that is really starting to set in on capitol hill for not just these nominees, but also the republican senators who have this work ahead. >> brianna, lauren thank you so much. let's discuss with legendary journalist bob woodward. he's an associate editor at the washington post and the author of the new book war. bob thank you so much for being with us. you you've written a lot about

donald trump over the years, and i want to ask you about his transition so far specifically the idea that some of these allegations about gaetz had already been out there folks were familiar with some of the allegations, and on top of that gaetz hadn't cultivated a very popular relationship. he wasn't mr. congeniality up on capitol hill. why did the trump team move forward with nominating him as attorney general? do you think with all with all that baggage? >> well trump likes to do it his way as we know. >> i remember interviewing him 35 years ago trump, when he was a real estate operator in new york, and he talked about his own rules and his first rule really is never fold, never give in. and an opportunity to put his foot on the gas a little harder to

do the unorthodox and never fold because he's going to look at this as, oh the whole environment is uncomfortable well, no one likes uncomfortable environments to operate in more than donald trump. it's a very good point. >> and you've covered him for for so long. but you've taken such a detailed look at his past administration and i wonder how you think these pics just more broadly, compare to the folks he chose to have in his cabinet the first time? >> yes, i mean, he's overreaching he dangerously for him and for the country people were clearly unqualified people who don't have management experience justice department defense department they are

giant management problems and you can't just walk in off the street and say oh, run this place. so, uh there will be more spectacle. probably from trump. and who's he going to put in the place of this first effort? a he could go low lower high medium uh, probably not too high. i think he's not going to put somebody in there who is a democrat who has lots of legal experience but we get to. >> we'll see. >> we'll watch. yes, exactly. >> do you think there's a cohesive strategy behind these picks? i genuinely no, because some president elect's go in thinking they want to create a team of rivals. trump the last time around was seeking advice from outside people. he had unorthodox choices during his

first administration. some of them seemed to pan out. is there a strategy here? >> well, a cohesive strategy from donald trump in doing three books on him and lots of reporting. know operates. he wants to do it. his way. so if he can find a way to put his finger in the eye of the establishment again, i think he's likely to do it. >> i wonder what you think. as we've been watching the biden administration grant ukraine the ability to use some of these american made weapons in new and significant ways, because in your book war, you revealed and it made a lot of news details about how then president trump had had private conversations with putin about a secret shipment of covid 19 testing equipment that trump sent to putin, kind of doing him a big favor. and you also reported that there have been maybe as many as seven calls between trump and putin since

trump left the white house in 2021. trump has denied those reports. you have less of a credibility. i would say he has a credibility issue you don't. i'm going to take your word for it, bob um, how do you see this relationship coming in as trump has a decision to make about how the u.s. should support the war something to watch the trump putin relationship is at the top of the list of mysteries and uncertainties and trump just recently, when asked about if he's talked to putin, he's refused to comment. >> and then he said if i did, it would be smart mystery not solved. >> bob i'm curious about something that you have a unique perspective on because you quite literally changed the relationship between journalists and presidential administrations. you're being modest about it, but but i'm

being realistic, i. well, i mean, richard nixon's career as president may differ with you in that opinion. i do wonder given that you were a target of the plumbers trying to figure out who was leaking stuff to the washington post at the time, what you anticipate the relationship between trump and the press will look like now, given that he feels empowered going into a second administration and that about retribution about revoking broadcast licenses et cetera., stay tuned. >> you can never tell. but as i say, trump loves giving his middle finger to the american people and that's part of the practice. whether it's a thought out strategy, i don't know. but next pick will be interesting and that's that's part of trump's approach. and

strategy to cause everyone to guess and wonder and talk. oh, what? what is he going to do now? uh what's the flavor of the month? and we don't know. he knows. he gets to decide and so we will have more trump stories and discussion that we can be sure of. >> and we look forward to you telling them. bob woodward, thank you so much for being with us. this afternoon. appreciate it. still to come, some new details on the type of weapon that russia fired at ukraine. putin saying that it was an experimental but what this potentially means in the war on ukraine. >> plus a powerful and deadly bomb cyclone hitting the west coast. and now a new threat is moving into some of those hard hit areas. and the mlb now testing a robo umpire to call balls and strikes a robot umpire will fans and teams see

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came hours after ukraine accused the kremlin of firing an intercontinental ballistic missile. it's a weapon that's never been used in war before and is designed to deliver long distance nuclear warheads. let's talk about this now with retired u.s. army colonel peter mansoor. he's a former aide to general david petraeus. he's now a professor of military history at ohio state university. colonel, this is really interesting. so just tell us why. if vladimir putin's non nuclear missile, but experts are telling us that this is a missile that usually, you know, it's something that's designed to carry a nuclear payload and you have russia trying to deconflict through like a nuclear back channel. what's going on here what the message is that putin is sending well, this is a very calculated response to the united states approving ukrainian use of atacms missiles into russia.

>> and so putin wanted to respond in some way, but he wanted to make sure that it didn't lead to further escalation. so he chose this experimental missile, the resnick, hazel and english, to carry a non-nuclear payload into ukraine with the understanding that, well, you know, if we wanted to put a nuclear weapon on top of that we could. so it was a response to what he considered an escalation by the united states. and this he believed was a proportional response. >> so he's kind of is he kind of saying, hey i could nuke you if i wanted to precisely. >> he's been rattling the nuclear saber from day one of this conflict at least ever since it started to go against him. and he knows that that has deterred the west from fully supporting ukraine up to now it's deterred the united states

from allowing ukraine to use american weapons to attack sites and targets in russia that barrier has been breached now, and he doesn't want it to go any farther. so he's saying, you know, look, i've got nuclear weapons. i've got the capability to deliver them. and this just proves it. >> and, colonel, is that why he's also emphasizing this change in the russian doctrine of if you are a non-nuclear weapon armed country, but you're attacking russia with the help of a nuclear armed country, we're going to consider that as a joint attack against russia. he did that today >> he wants to deter the united states from fully supporting ukraine saying, you know, if if we get hit too badly by ukraine using american weapons, we can retaliate against the united states. we consider that a joint operation. it's a

dangerous path that he's walking down. he thinks that he'll win that escalation dominance because ukraine means more to him than it means to the united states. and we'll see. we have no idea how a president trump is going to approach this conflict. >> i mean, that's and that's the big question right? colonel, we spoke yesterday with a man who is raising two small children from bucha. he escaped bucha narrowly before russia invaded at the beginning of the war and that's what ordinary ukrainians are so worried about right now is is america going to cut off support for the ukrainian war? because to them, they see that as kind of a death sentence for their country. i mean what is there to say to them europeans see it as an american abandonment of international norms that you don't take other countries by force.

>> so it has a lot of ramifications. you know, i think donald trump will attempt to solve this conflict through diplomacy. the question is, what will he do when that fails? when ukraine rejects the draconian deterrent terms that putin will put on the table and they say no we're not going to take those, we're going to continue to fight. no matter the cost. and what will donald trump do then? will he completely abandon ukraine, or will he double down on american support for ukraine ich he's also hinted that he could do so, you know. stay tuned. all we know is this will play out in real time after january 20th. >> and colonel, i do just want to emphasize here we're getting in some new reporting from our oren liebermann and natasha bertrand, who covered the pentagon that that experimental russian ballistic missile that was fired at the dnipro carried multiple warheads. i tell us if that's significant to you, because we know that this weapon called a emil bove mirv,

it's shorthand. it is it's for multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle. the idea being that it's designed to cover or to carry multiple nuclear warheads. here, it appears it carried multiple non-nuclear warheads designed for nuclear warfare. >> it's very expensive to use a weapon like that for a conventional attack. and there's other means to hit those targets. so this clearly rt of the nuclear saber rattling and a message from vladimir putin that i have these weapons and they work. and you know, tread your path carefully in terms of what you want to do to us, because we can respond in kind. yeah. >> a potential first wartime use, a preview of what it could look like without nuclear warheads. colonel peter mansoor, thank you so much for being with us thanks brianna.

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joins us now live from chicago. whitney, help us understand what happened today in the context of the broader case well, this case has been going on for five years, and the illinois supreme court has basically cleared jussie smollett. >> and what was at issue had entered into with the cook county state's attorney's office. and the question was, if that agreement constituted a disposition of the case. so let me take you back to 2019, when it was alleged the had been the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime. the chicago police investigated the cook county state's attorney's office, argued that that case that that story, which was a huge story at the time it was making international headlines. the cook county prosecutors argued that story was not true. they secured a 16 count indictment against smollett, but they dropped those charges when they came to an agreement. and what they said was that they would drop the charges if smollett

forfeited his $10,000 bond and agreed to community service. he did that but a retired illinois judge petitioned the court and she said that a special prosecutor has to get to the whole truth of this. that court agreed a special prosecutor was appointed to this case. his name was dan webb. he secured a five count indictment. he actually secured a conviction against smollett. but smollett had always argued that the case was supposed to be over. once he held up his end of the deal with the cook county state's attorney's office, he has. he filed numerous motions. they took it to the illinois court of appeals, the illinois court of appeals ruled against smollett, but then obviously, this case went to the illinois supreme court, which in the end sided with smollett. and again, what was at illinois supreme court argued and determined that he had given something of value in exchange for these charges to be dropped. that should have ended the case. so the

smollett's attorneys are very very pleased with the outcome of this case. they said that this was not a prosecution based on facts rather, it was a vindictive prosecution and such a proceeding has no place in our criminal justice system ultimately, we are pleased that the rule of law was the big winner today, we are thankful to the illinois supreme court for restoring order to illinois's criminal jurisprudence. the special prosecutor in this case, dan webb not as happy. boris saying this make no mistake, today's ruling has nothing to do with mr. smollett's innocence. the illinois supreme court did not find any error with the overwhelming evidence presented at trial that mr. smollett orchestrated a fake hate crime and reported it to the chicago police department as a real hate crime or the jury's unanimous verdict that mr. smollett was guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct. boris, this is the end this is the end of a five year long case. it was a huge story

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will consider the players experience when they're making the final call, whether to use it. that's what they're saying. joining us now is baseball columnist for usa today, bob nightingale. all right bob, what do we know about how the clubs and how the players are feeling about this new system well, they've been using this in the minor leagues for years and this was always the plan to bring in the spring training in 2025. >> see how it works. and they like it in 2026. and this isn't you know, against the umpires or thinking the umpires are making bad calls but for gambling. i mean, they want the fans to be able to gamble on every single pitch and take it out of the umpires hands so they'll have electronic strike zone. and that way, you know, fans can sit in their seats if they want to or be watching tv and gamble with the next pitch to be a ball strike. what part of the strike zone and by having electronic strike zone as well, they'll be able to change that strike zone year

after year, because what they like to do is get more offense in the game. >> i don't want to name any names, but there are some umpires that have really bad reputations as as you all know bob. i do wonder how accurate these robo umps have been. have proven to be. have there been any moments of controversy calling balls and strikes guys say it works. >> some aren't crazy about it at all. so what they'll have in this boris, is a challenge system so a team will be able to challenge so many times a game. if you think the ball or strike was wrong, you can argue on that. and now you know same with what the hitters with the managers, that sort of thing. a little bit like we see in instant replay. but for challenges, particularly for the best hitters. you know, if it's a close pitch and he thinks it was you know, absolutely wrong he can go in

and challenge that thing. >> well, the ones who don't like it the players who don't like it, why accurate brianna. >> it's like they're used to a different way. and they'll say, wait a minute now these pitches are down below the knees. they shouldn't be called strikes. but i think, you know, by doing this, remember theo epstein when he worked in the commissioner's office, said the beauty of this is you can change that strike zone year after year. if you want to go, you know, higher and lower if you want to go, you know, more horizontal and change it, you know, change the game a little bit to provide more offense. they can shrink that strike zone. they can expand it and that way it'll be uniform for everybody else. >> bob how do home plate umpires feel about this move by major league baseball? they may eventually be out of a job behind the plate because someone's got to hear someone say the ball or strike so he

can lift up his hand. >> you know either way, uh, you still have plays at home plate. so as long as there's no, you know reduction in umpires they'll be all for it. you know? let's be honest, with the gambling, as big as it is now in all sports and becoming very big in baseball, they don't want that burden. they don't want a guy missing some calls in the eighth or ninth inning said, oh, you did that deliberately. is this guy in the take or something like that? so they're free of they like free of responsibility, free of power too, though i will say, bob nightingale, thank you so much. >> it's really fascinating. we appreciate you being with us my pleasure thank you. how much would you pay for a banana duct taped to a wall? well, you're not going to believe how much this fancy work of art just sold

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