minute choke hold and their star witness was the city's medical examiner, who found that jordan neeley had died from compression to the neck. the defense tried to counter that testimony by bringing in their own medical expert, who said that jordan neeley died from a complication of different factors. the fact that he was high on k2, that he suffered from psychotic schizophrenia and the excitement of the struggle between jordan neeley and daniel penny. now, this is a case that has really focused on the city's crisis with people who are experiencing mental health issues as well as public safety. on the subways. there were several witnesses who talked about feeling scared when they saw jordan neeley and relieved that penny had stepped in. this will all be determined by the jury, who will expect

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new this morning we are waiting to hear from president biden directly on his decision to pardon pardon his son hunter. >> something he said he would never do something the white house said he would never do. well, he did it. and we're getting new reaction from democrats and republicans this morning. the outrage machine is in overdrive. this could easily have an impact on donald trump's nominations and pardons. he might soon issue. think january sixth. in a written statement, president biden said, quote, here is the truth. i believe in the justice system. but as i've wrestled with this, i also believe raw politics has infected this process and led to a miscarriage of justice. i hope americans will understand why a father and a president would come to this decision now. this not only means hunter biden will not be sentenced, this month, he was scheduled to be,

but he was also granted clemency for any other federal crime he might have committed during a ten year period that seems to be a relatively unprecedented move cnn's arlette saenz is in angola, where the president arrived shortly. so, arlette, walk us through what you're hearing from white house insiders about why this decision was made. now well, john president biden issued this full and unconditional pardon of his son hunter biden. >> a stunning reversal after for months both biden and senior officials had said that he would not make this move. now, president biden made this decision over the thanksgiving holiday as he was spending time with the first lady and his son, hunter, in nantucket, massachusetts. and i'm told that the president began informing his senior staff of his decision on saturday evening. the president the president actually called a meeting with senior aides some in person, but most by the phone, where he told them that he had made this decision and also asked them to begin preparing a statement for

release on sunday. the senior team then huddled together again on sunday morning to iron out the details of this stunning announcement. for president biden. he is really approaching this from the view of a father saying that he believes that his son has been unfairly treated in this process, but he's also expressed some concerns about the way that these charges were brought. he believes that a lot of it was politically motivated, and in a statement that was released last night, the president said, quote, there has been an effort to break hunter, who has been five and a half years sober even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution in trying to break hunter. they've tried to break me and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. enough is enough. now, this comes just a few months after president biden, before and after hunter's felony gun convictions, had said that he would not pardon his son. take a listen to some of those moments from earlier this year let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome,

their verdict, no matter what it is? >> yes. >> and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. >> you have. >> i am satisfied that i'm not going to do anything i said i abide by the jury decision, and i will do that, and i will not pardon him now the president made no mention of his reversal in his statement, but it does come as the biden family had been bracing for sentencing in hunter biden's criminal trials. >> he was set to face sentencing for those gun charges the felony gun conviction in the state of delaware and also a tax charges over in california. but for biden this is something that is deeply personal personal. the family has long wrestled with hunter's issues. his addiction issues, but also the way that republicans have attacked hunter and the president over the years over some of these lapses that hunter had. but certainly this will raise a lot of questions about the president's decision going

forward, as he has long campaigned long worked in the white house under this premise that he respects the independence of the justice system. but now he is issuing this pardon for his son arlette saenz, in angola. >> again, the president arrives there today. we will wait and see if he speaks on arrival. kate and on that pardon, one u.s. >> pardon attorney told politico this about it. i have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have not apparently even been charged with the exception of the nixon pardon, that one pardon attorney speaking to politico there. joining us right now for more on this is cnn's senior legal analyst, former state and federal prosecutor elie honig ali, another former pardon attorney called this an extraordinarily broad grant. why is this so broad, more so than a typical presidential pardon? what do you think of it well, okay this is as broad as a pardon. >> can possibly be. ordinarily

a pardon will specify a certain case. and that happened here. it says i hereby pardon hunter biden on the gun case in delaware and on the tax case in california. but what's different about this one is it also says this is a full and unconditional pardon for all conduct going back to january 1st of 2014, which means hunter biden cannot be federally prosecuted for anything going back to 2014. and really, before then because before then is going to be precluded by the statute of limitations. and as you said before, the only historical precedent, the best historical precedent for this is the pardon of richard nixon by gerald ford, which has similar language that says full and unconditional pardon so joe biden has pushed to the absolute outer limits of the breadth of the pardon power here. >> and as you heard and the political sense, there's been a lot of reaction to this quickly. and there will be more today but looking at it kind of in the let's look keeping it in the legal sense past presidents generally have cited how pardon recipients have

accepted responsibility for their actions as a reason to grant them a pardon biden is not here. he called it a miscarriage of justice that hunter biden was unfairly singled out, which is something that we have heard donald trump lean into before in targeting the justice department and the so-called deep state does biden and this move here give donald trump new cover for whatever pardon action he decides to take in the future to be sure, kate. >> we're already seeing that the first reaction from donald trump and his team essentially is what an injustice. now we get to do the same thing which is sort of an interesting twist of logic there. but without question. i mean, look, there has long been a fair debate. fair on both sides about whether hunter biden is being treated overly leniently or overly zealously because of his status as joe biden's son. i think there are points to both sides of that, but what i think is not disputable is that this is a historic act of political

nepotism. this is the granting of a pardon by the president to his son. joe biden even says, if you really parse his statement, he acknowledges that a substantial part of this is because hunter biden is his son and that will land joe biden on a historic list that he probably doesn't want to be a part of. along with bill clinton, who pardoned his half brother roger clinton, along with donald trump, who pardoned charles kushner who is the father of his own son. in law, jared kushner. so i'm sure joe biden understands the historic implications of what he's done, and now he's earned his way onto that list. >> i want to read you something that the democratic governor of colorado, jared polis um, posted about this. he's not okay with the move, he wrote in part. i'm disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country. this is a bad precedent that could be abused by later presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. does this pardon does this damage the justice system well i totally agree with the governor that this pardon will

tarnish joe biden's legacy i mean, joe biden, let's be clear here he lied to us for a long time. >> he said categorically, i will not pardon my son. he said, i will take it off the table. and he couched it in very high minded terminology. i respect the justice department. i respect the jury's verdict well, now he's gone back on that. i don't know how many people actually believed him, i certainly didn't. there's tape of me saying there's no way he's going to make good on this. he's absolutely going to pardon hunter biden. but as to whether this tarnishes the justice system, i don't think i would go that far. i think this like i said will go down on the list of ignominious presidential pardons. but i don't think law students 50 or 100 years from now are going to look back at this as a horrific miscarriage of justice that undermines the foundation of our justice system. there is a reasonable argument that in some respects hunter biden was treated unfairly and i think that will give joe biden some degree of cover here ellie, thanks for jumping on. >> i really appreciate it, john. >> all right this morning, millions of americans facing bitter cold and feet feet of snow officials urging people to

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travel, no matter how you slice it. triple a actually extended its holiday travel forecast, its thanksgiving holiday travel forecast, which used to be five days. now it is seven days and it includes monday for the first time ever, triple a said about 80 million people will travel 50 miles or more. 70 million of them driving so the bottom line here is if you can get an early start, do it. the worst time to drive between about 8 a.m. on the east coast now until about 6 p.m. you can maybe wait till 7 p.m. or after triple a says that's the best time to go. the big problem here is that not only is this a travel day for the thanksgiving rush or the end of the thanksgiving rush typically it's huge. when people come home but also they're it's mixing with normal commuting traffic, people going back to work today, making it especially hard for people out there on the roads. >> absolutely. pete thank you so much for that update. we broke another record in terms of air travel. derek something to celebrate. and also derek is

saying a lot of people are hitting the roads and they're facing some crazy conditions. >> yeah, we're breaking daily snowfall records across much of new york. and just downwind of the great lakes as well. this is a new number coming in to the cnn weather center, 65.5in of snow from this lake effect snow event. this is northwestern new york, just downwind of lake erie. put that into perspective. i'm 510, so five feet, 5.5in or so. yeah, that's over my eyes. that's incredible. can you imagine waking up to that amount of snow? that is what people have had to deal with here just an example of what conditions are like in harrisburg, new york, by the way snowfall averages about 15 pounds per square foot. so it's getting heavy on some of those roofs as well. that could be a bit of a concern going forward. lake effect, snow event. the nature of the way it works. it is a very localized, hyper local event and this is a sped up radar over the past weekend. and i want to show you the bands that formed just south of buffalo. we know the buffalo

bills played in their stadium in a snow whiteout conditions this weekend, but notice what happened just to the south of buffalo, the international airport. there 1.2in of snow. you travel ten miles further south. you got over two feet of snow on the ground and over three feet of snow just a little bit to the south. and west of that, it is all about the direction of the wind and miles matter here, depending on who gets the most snow and who gets very little snow. but man, let me tell you how impactful it is. interstate 9081. those areas had standstill. some of them were closed down this weekend people stalled out in their vehicles and guess what? there's more snow to come. we have winter weather advisories winter storm warnings, lake effect snow watches in advance. and kate, can you imagine having to dig out your car after this type of snowstorm? i mean, my goodness that's a good reason to stay home it's good to see you. >> thank you so much, derek. really appreciate it. john all right. >> the city of erie, pennsylvania, you just saw it on the map there nearly three feet of snow since thursday the

erie county executive, brenton davis, called it a snowmageddon event. and he is with us this morning. thank you so much be our man on the ground there. what are you seeing? what's the weather this morning yeah. >> good morning john. i mean, there's uh, still obviously a lot of snow coming down. luckily, we we saw a little reprieve, uh, last night that was able to kind of get these snow crews out, get them operating, bring in additional resources from across the region to, you know, work towards getting life back to back to normal. i mean, here in erie, snow is snow is a big part of what we do. and, uh, you know, it's just another part of living where we do. >> yeah. i mean, this is unusual, even by erie standards the state police said they responded to more than 200 calls in 24 hours. any reports of injuries or fatalities so, i mean, luckily we due to some proactive leadership and some early moves in terms of working with the state police,

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announcement came out. he said, quote does the pardon given by joe to hunter include the six hostages who have now been imprisoned for years? such an abuse and miscarriage of justice now, donald trump used the term hostages this is something he also used in the last several months and throughout the campaign trail, describing those who were convicted for their crimes for the capitol attack as hostages. but look what's been really interesting is that a lot of people, a lot of donald trump supporters are really they have high expectations for donald trump in some cases, to really give maximum clemency to those january 6th convicts, particularly even some of those who committed violent crimes that day which have raised eyebrows, i will say with others. but all to say, ever since donald trump was elected, we have not heard him bring that up really in the weeks since. and he hasn't made any mention of what he would do regarding pardons for these jan six convicts. and so this was the first time we heard this, when i talked to donald trump's team about this, i've asked them in the past several weeks whether he was going to carry through on that vow. they

said that they were focused on the transition, getting his cabinet together, and that would come later down the line. so perhaps this is a reopening to have that conversation now. i will also say we've seen many of donald trump's allies including those who are working on the transition, try to argue that this is an example of joe biden weaponizing the government. we actually had this from steven cheung, one of donald trump's spokesmen. they said quote, the failed witch hunts against president trump have proven that the democrat controlled doj and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system that system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all americans. he went on to say that that is something that donald trump will do. but again i think this does also provide an opening for some of the sweeping changes. we know donald trump has been talking about both publicly, but also really, i'm told it's been ramped up behind closed doors as well and his conversations with those around him that he wants big changes, he wants to root out what he keeps calling bias at some of the biggest departments, including the

department of justice and in the fbi. and perhaps this is the opening they need to try and gain more support from the public for some of the things that he really wants to do. >> well, on the subject of sweeping changes on the subject also of election denial in january 6th, on the subject of maybe prosecuting journalists and enemies, political enemies, donald trump has said he wants to nominate kash patel to lead the fbi. granted, the job is not open, but that's a whole other thing that's right. >> i mean, donald trump would first have to fire christopher wray, who's still serving out his ten year term in order to install kash patel at the helm of the fbi. but look, that is playing exactly into what i was just mentioning. i mean, patel is someone who has called for shutting down the bureau's washington headquarters for firing fbi leadership and also for rooting out bias that they believe agents have have really permeated the bureau, i should say, over the last several years. this is something that is very important to donald trump. i was told when he was making this decision, he was between two candidates. patel

and missouri attorney general andrew bailey and the reason he didn't like bailey, i was told he was not impressed with his in-person interview with him, but also because he didn't believe that he had the personality traits or fit the mold that donald trump is looking for, which is really a legal pit bull and someone who will carry out his agenda and really reform and disrupt the agency that donald trump has really been gunning to do for several years now. >> john. all right alayna treene for us in florida, where no doubt it will be busy over the next few days kate, joining us right now on this is cnn's senior law enforcement analyst, former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. >> andy, what's your take on kash patel being picked to head up the fbi so, kate, it's it's a somewhat confounding pick. >> i you know, there's a there's a whole there's a whole conversation to be had about whether or not he's qualified for the job. i would argue he's clearly not. he doesn't have the experience and knowledge of the law enforcement community is a fairly undistinguished legal career. he doesn't really have a fraction of the

qualifications that any former fbi director chosen by any president has. but that's really not my main concern. >> my main concern is what it says about donald trump's intention for the fbi and where kash patel might take the fbi if he's confirmed as director and that all points in one direction, and that is back to the fbi's regretful history of acting as essentially the enforcement arm for the president's political activities that's where we come from as an institution. that's who we were under our first director, j. edgar hoover, but it is something we've gotten away from in the last 50 years. the post-watergate post-church committee, pike committee investigations and we, the fbi today is an independent entity that the nation relies on to enforce its criminal laws and protect it from national security threats. so i think

it's a really, um, really concerning pick. >> and some of the things that we know kash patel has said he would like to do with with the fbi and the justice department. he's called for a comprehensive housecleaning of the justice department. he said he wants to the he wants to dismantle or shut down fbi headquarters in washington and have it be turned into a museum of the deep state. um, if he would do that, it would be clearly, hugely disruptive. if it's something short of that, then what well, it would almost certainly be something short of that. >> that's kind of absurd. you know podcast talking point. um, if he's actually if he's actually serious about that, i guess it means he doesn't understand that the 7000 people who work at headquarters, 6000 of them are not even agents. they are scientists. and computer specialists. and analysts and secretaries and professional support staff who aren't

clearly wouldn't be sent out around the country to work as cops, as he's threatened um, but it would be a significant disruption to pursue any you know, any portion of that. and that, again, is, you know, gets back to my concerns about him. we haven't heard anything from kash patel about what his what his what his plans would be. what's his vision for the fbi? what does he think in what ways does he think he could make the fbi more effective or efficient? >> and i think that's important, disruptive to your your decades of working in the fbi he's facing he will will would face confirmation. what question would you have for him given the breadth of your knowledge and experience in serving in the department well many. >> kate. right there there you shouldn't even think about accepting a nomination like this unless you're someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about understanding the fbi, knowing its people and how it works, and having a clear articulable vision about

where you intend to take the organization. every new fbi director takes it in a different direction, makes it something it wasn't before. that's a good and healthy process, but we've heard nothing about that from kash patel except these insane rants about the footprint is too big i don't even know what that means. sending people out to work as police officers and turning the headquarters into a museum. none of that will actually happen, but what sort of burn it all down damage is he going to do because he really has no other credible direction to take the agency yeah, lots of questions now to be posed going forward in the coming days and weeks. >> it's good to see you, andy. thank you for jumping on. i really appreciate it. coming up still for us syrian rebels gaining ground in aleppo and beyond. the coordinated push posing the greatest challenge to president bashar al assad in nearly a decade but now assad's allies in moscow say they'll keep supporting him so

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rebellion with the help of three key backers. the iranians, hezbollah and of course, russia. now perhaps because russia is distracted with ukraine iran is facing strikes of its own. and the losses on the battlefield of its various proxies hezbollah, of course, has been battered by israeli strikes. the rebels appear to have thought this was the moment to launch a renewed offensive. they were able to take complete control of the city of aleppo. they are in complete control of idlib. they are now knocking on the door of the central city of hama. but as you mentioned, we are now seeing the regime punching back with the help of russia. those airstrikes you just showed that harrowing clip. according to the white helmets the civil defense group, at least 25 people were killed in those strikes in idlib and also aleppo. among the dead women and children these are the kinds of scenes,

kate, that you may well remember. we all grew very accustomed to seeing during the height of the syrian civil war, but had not seen for at least 4 or 5 years. so the question now remains, what happens with this rapid rebel advance? do we continue to see a doubling down on airstrikes from russia and the regime? and what will be the future fate of syrian president bashar al assad? kate. >> yeah. for the first time in many years that now more question than ever which is remarkable, as you said, to even be that being a consideration at this point clarissa, it's great to see you. thank you, as always, for your reporting, john. >> all right. this morning on cyber monday, no less retailers are encouraging shoppers to stock up on items. now ahead of donald trump's proposed tariffs new tariffs could significantly increase consumer prices on nearly everything that is not entirely u.s. made. one example of that, the national retail federation, estimates that the price of shoes could go up nearly 20%. that means your average running shoe that costs

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>> absolutely absolutely. >> why couldn't you eat that? why couldn't you eat the costs we would start losing money. why couldn't you? >> we would lose money on every year why couldn't you get your shoes from somewhere made in the united states so 99% of the shoes sold in america are imported from somewhere in the world. and about 60% of those come from china. china has a unique, uniquely developed supply chain over many years. all of the component parts that go into making a shoe the bottoms, the soles, the insoles, the upper patterns, the raw materials in the upper. all are made in china. um so there's no way to bring it back to the united states but some companies are trying to do is move to other factories and other south asian countries like vietnam, bangladesh et cetera. but most of those

factories have been set up in those countries by the chinese manufacturers who just set up set up production in these other countries so they move their equipment, let's say, to vietnam. they send the raw materials from china to vietnam and then they use the vietnamese labor. so it just and for the price point, the kind of shoes that we make, again, moderate price shoes, um these other countries prefer to make higher priced shoes, like you mentioned in your opening about athletic shoes, sneakers retailing for $90. our shoes retail for $50. we're concerned about the impact on how quickly would consumers. >> i'm sorry. >> we're concerned about the impact on the excuse me how quickly after trump takes office if he imposes these tariffs, would consumers see the change well, we don't know when he'll impose the tariffs. exactly. he's talked about 60%. he hasn't said when um and if it

will be 60% or something different. so we have a hard time planning for that. what we'll have to do is if he imposes the tariff, the tariff is paid when the goods are imported across into the united states. as we start to receive that inventory. we're going to have to increase the price of those shoes and then when they hit the stores the retailers will increase the price of those shoes. >> anything you can do now to prepare for this not really. >> there's a lot of talk about trying to front load inventory, buy the shoes in advance, try to get them into the country before the tariffs are imposed. but again, we don't know when that's going to be. so it's very hard to plan. i think we in our company we're going to will respond or will react at the time. we know exactly what's happening when it's going to happen. um and if we have to pay more to get our shoes into the country unfortunately we have to sell the shoes for more. >> all right. rick muscat,

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trap it. kate, as i always like to tell my sons, i don't have to be faster than the bear. i just have to be faster than you that's what you're telling them. that's how you. that's how you learn the lesson. that's how you grow up from john berman as always. >> all right, so let's focus here now. the fbi has a new warning today for any and all holiday shoppers. essentially, be vigilant and be extra careful right now because the fbi is saying this every year, thousands of people become victims of holiday scams. and they're now warning that criminals are targeting shoppers. honestly, it's all over the place especially on this cyber monday and the agency is highlighting the most likely scams where you need to be most concerned. non-delivery scams where you pay for something online you never receive it. nonpayment scams where scams where you where you ship goods to someone who purchased it. but you never receive payment for it. auction fraud product you purchase was

misrepresented in an auction site and of course gift card fraud. joining us right now is someone whose entire job is to help james murfin, senior vice president and global head of risk and identity solutions at visa thank you so much for being here. there are a couple of stats from the fbi looking, you know, they were looking at these internet kind of crimes and complaints from last year that really stuck out to me that non payment non-delivery scams cost people more than $309 million last year, and credit card fraud accounted for another $173 million in losses. these are just huge numbers and cyber monday seems to be just the perfect target for this it is this time of year. >> obviously, everyone is excited about all the offers that they can take advantage of, but the criminals are really out there taking advantage too. just in the last four months, we've seen nearly a 300% increase in the number of fake and spoofed merchant

websites that these criminals are creating just to try and take advantage of consumers that are out there trying to get good deals on cyber monday, running into giving tuesday tomorrow as well. so they're trying to get people to click on links in emails and in text messages. they're trying to phish your information and that results in those losses that you talked about. it's a huge challenge for consumers to try and stay safe online at this time of year and all year round. >> absolutely. and just how to do it right and how to do it and get some confidence. i mean what's the most what do you think is the most frequent scam that you're tracking through the holiday season, be it buyer or seller, you know yeah i think at the end of the day, the criminals are trying to get you to click on links to take you off to fake websites and to to get your information and fisher information so if you're getting emails about cyber monday deals and trying to get you to spend your fsa account, holiday promotions they're just trying to get you to click on those links go and put your information, steal your information, steal your payment credentials so the best thing you can do is don't click on the links.

>> even if the offer looks great go to the website to your web browser type in the web address. always look for the https, which shows that it's a secure website. >> if you do get that cyber monday 75% discount offer and you really want to go and buy it. if you've not shopped at the merchant before check and look at the reviews of the merchant to make sure it's a genuine merchant visa's investing a lot of money. we invested over $11 billion in technology and security to try and protect the network and consumers that are shopping, but at this time of year you also just have to be super cautious as a consumer and think before you click. >> yeah, and i think some of those tips that that you're pointing out are really key. i mean i have been i will admit i have been a victim of i google googling a quick search for a website for a deal in the past, clicking it buying it, and it absolutely was a fraudulent website product never came and it was a whole it was a whole thing after that. i mean if it's that hgtv h it's the

website, you have to check putting it in, typing it into the browser is something that if i had taken a hot second, that would have saved me a whole lot of trouble. james yeah, i mean at this time last year, 1 in 3 consumers clicked on phishing links. >> so it's you're not alone in doing that. many of us have done it. it's really important to stay on top of your account though. so not just as you said keying into the browser, but your debit and credit cards can have purchase alerts set up on them. so set up those real time notifications. you get all of those coming through to keep on top of your genuine activity. but if you have clicked on a link and if your credentials have been compromised, you'll also see that quicker you can call your bank, you can call your credit card company. they can help to investigate that you've got purchase protection on your debit and credit card, but they can also get your account secure so you can carry on shopping online. >> that also is a, you know, a vote showing one of the advantages for using a credit card, because then you can really save your credit and debit card, because then you can really save your account a lot quicker yeah it's not just

shopping as well. >> i mean, my kids when they were younger, they used to love the santa's tracking app where you could track santa as he traveled around the globe. we're also seeing activity around trying to get people to click and download what looks like an app onto their device, and it's actually malware. so again, like you need to go to your browser and type in the web address, make sure you're only downloading genuine apps from the app store. again, you're looking at the reviews. the criminal is trying lots of different techniques to try and get access to your information, or to get things onto your device and make sure your devices are up to date. it's very easy not to click update and put the patches on there, but it's really important to make sure that all of your devices are up to date, particularly at this time of year when the scammers and the criminals are so active. >> all of this is essential and so helpful as we're kicking off this cyber monday and and hearing that this could be a record breaking one, no less. james murfin with visa thank you so much for your help. a new hour of cnn news central starts now