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is crucial to texas chances may have just dealt him a major setback and maybe not. so prime. the attorney general of washington d.c., is suing amazon accusing the company of secretly stopping its fastest delivery option in two predominantly black neighborhoods while still charging for it. we'll tell you how amazon is responding. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central new developments in the search for the gunman accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. >> investigators have now released these images of a person of interest in the case. that is what they are calling him. these were taken inside of a hostel where employees say a guest wearing a jacket and mask identical to the gunman's had been staying at the same time. we're learning some more about a possible motive. sources telling cnn. words were

scrawled on the bullets used in the attack, and that they're part of a well-known phrase in the health insurance industry. cnn's brynn gingras has been following this story closely and is with us now from new york. what can you tell us about the latest here, brynn? >> yeah. brianna. so you just said it there. the person of interest that's what the nypd is calling these images that they just released a short time ago, because they want to identify who this person is and talk to them, see if they have any connection to this gunman that they are searching for. for over the last 24 hours. so that is why they are being described as a person of interest. and we know from sources telling cnn that a canvas of video collecting video from the upper west side of manhattan led them to this hostel on the upper west side, and that is how they uncovered through a search of that hostel, these images that you were showing your viewers, showing this person with a mask down, giving a facial image,

very striking facial image. because in one of those pictures, you can see that person is smiling. um of whom may be the gunman, but again, that is something that they are still trying to make a connection on. what we have learned from sources though, is that hostel also, they learned that that person stayed with two other people, and most of the time that person was there. they had a mask on. they really didn't want to be identified. so these are some of the things that investigators are trying to piece together as they continue to work the timeline. the movements of the gunman before and after the shooting occurred as they work, of course, to find this person. i want to show you another piece of video that we have into our newsroom and that is of just minutes before this shooting, actually occurred. we actually see the gunman walking down the street toward the hotel looks to be on a cell phone. and this was just minutes prior to actually carrying out that fatal attack. so again, police at this point collecting evidence, collecting images releasing some to the public, still trying to id the person

that they're looking for. and then of course, find them and tell us what we're learning about that. >> live round and a shell casing that was found at the scene that could speak to the motive here yeah. >> police are trying to make that connection as well, brianna. so what we've learned through sources telling our john miller that the live round that would be that what was found on the ground after that gun jammed, that had the inscription of delay, and then another shell casing, which would have been what was left after a bullet was fired had the word deposed. now, police are trying to see if there's any connection to a motive, because those words, as you mentioned before, have some sort of um, indication in the health care industry to the phrase delay deny, defend. so police are trying to see is this person's motivation have to do with some insurance claim health care they're really not quite sure. but certainly all of these things, including other evidence that they have collected and continue to run forensics on may point again to

a motive and also an identification of this person. all right. >> brynn gingras, thank you. so much, alex. >> thanks, brianna. now to capitol hill, where pete hegseth hopes to save his bid to lead the defense department. the former fox news host facing new tests today, meaning republican senators amid multiple reports of excessive drinking and sexual and personal misconduct. pete hegseth does deny the allegations. now, right now several key republican lawmakers say they are not yet ready to say whether they would confirm pete hegseth including key iowa senator joni ernst. she is a combat veteran and a sexual assault survivor herself. here's what she told fox news after a long meeting with hegseth just yesterday. >> we will continue with the vetting process. i think that that is incredibly important. >> it doesn't sound on your answer that you've gotten to a yes. if i'm wrong about that, correct me. and if that is the case, it sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for

his nomination. am i right about that? i think i think you are right. >> i think for a number of our senators, they want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared now, as trump heads to new york today. >> sources tell cnn that he is still backing hegseth as his defense secretary. cnn's kristen holmes joins us live from west palm beach florida. so, kristen, what are you hearing from trump's inner circle about his decision to stand behind his defense department? pick yeah, alex, right now we know donald trump is sticking by hegseth. >> we are told that they spoke this morning on the phone that he said he would support hegseth. and part of this really comes down to the math here. they talked these allies that i'm talking to they say that this is a very different situation than what happened with matt gaetz, meaning yes, we have heard a number of senators say that they are concerned. but right now, donald trump and his team have not heard any hard no's. they believe that these senators are

still open and they believe there is a pathway to getting hegseth confirmed. obviously, they are acknowledged based on what we have seen in the last several years that this could change at any point. but right now donald trump believes the math is there to get him through the door. but that hegseth has a lot of work to do. now, the other thing that i was told specifically was that this could all change in terms of donald trump's support if more allegations come out. remember that that report in 2017, when that actually surfaced, his team was blindsided by that. there are people within his orbit who felt like hegseth wasn't transparent about his past, wasn't transparent about things that were out there. so that changes that could also shift the support. now, i specifically asked the difference between the matt gaetz situation and what was going on with hegseth. they talked about the hard nosed but they also talked about the fact that donald trump was really pushing senators he wanted to know just how seriously these senators were against matt gaetz when he was the nominee

for attorney general. before telling matt gaetz he didn't have the votes. he's not doing that this time he has jd vance out there who is talking to these various senators. but he himself is kind of sitting back watching all of these meetings now, particularly, i am told the transition team and those around him are focused on those female senators, namely, one of them that you mentioned, joni ernst. >> yeah, a lot more coming out in the last few days that those senators can ask hegseth about. kristen homes near mar-a-lago in west palm beach florida. thank you so much. let's turn now to cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox on capitol hill. so, lauren, how does this hesitation around this nomination compare to what you saw with matt gaetz there's still an openness to supporting pete hegseth and i think what you hear from a lot of republicans on capitol hill who have met with him is that pete hegseth was willing to answer a lot of their very difficult questions. >> this was the case for senator kevin cramer of north dakota, who had the last meeting yesterday with hegseth on capitol hill. he said that he point blank asked him what

hegseth would do if at 3 a.m., he got a call, would he be ready to deal with that if he was leading the pentagon and, you know, cramer said he was really satisfied with the answer they got from hegseth, which was that he would be ready. then he'd be ready at three in the afternoon or any other hour in between. i also on my way over here, spoke with senator mike rounds, a republican from south dakota who had just met with hegseth today and said he could potentially see a situation where he backed him. you know, they want to see this confirmation hearing play out. they are also making the case in these private meetings that this process is going to happen in public, that hegseth has to be ready to answer tough questions, not just in these behind closed doors meetings, but also in a public confirmation hearing. >> and lauren the co-leaders of trump's so-called department of government efficiency, or doge, they're also on capitol hill today elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. they're the co-heads

it's not actually an official department. what can you tell us about their plans on the hill yeah, there's a lot of excitement and interest from republican senators. >> many of them have been trying to cut federal spending in various areas and in government agencies over the course of their own careers. >> so they come with sort of a laundry list of ideas about specifically where they want to see those cuts. i think the challenge and republican senators are acknowledging this to me today is that what is one senator's waste? fraud and abuse is another senator's constituency, right? some of these senators have things and agencies in their states that employ people. and i think that that is going to be one of the really difficult pieces of trying to knit together a constituency to back some of these ideas. obviously, we're going to see a lot more after this. 2:00 meeting today. so we'll be staying tuned on what exactly the plan is right now it's a little bit light on details, and every senator's imagination is sort of running wild with whether or not they're going to take up some of the ideas they've been

working on over the course of the last several years. >> a lot going on on capitol hill today. and we know that you, lauren fox will be all over it. thank you very much, lauren brianna. >> we have republican congresswoman stephanie bice of oklahoma with us now. she is a member of the house doge caucus which i wonder if you thought that you would be a member of a caucus by that name, but nonetheless, thanks for joining us. congresswoman musk has said that he thinks doge could cut about $2 trillion, or roughly a third of annual federal spending how do you do that look i think there's a lot of ways that we can do that. >> there's two pieces to the spending pie the mandatory and discretionary. >> and i think looking at the entire federal budget and figuring out where are those pieces and where can we find efficiencies, is important. i'm actually really excited for vivek and elon to be here on capitol hill this afternoon to talk to members of the house and senate about their ideas. give us some some

information on what you want to see but republicans are excited. we know that there is excess spending in government. we want to rein in that waste. and we want people to help us. and i think having vivek and elon on our side is going to be a great opportunity for us, ramaswamy has said he was asked about social security and he would not commit to cuts. >> instead saying that they would eliminate waste, fraud and abuse i think those are some of the things you have in mind when you're talking about efficiencies, but when you look at studies of the amount that would save, if it's actually excised, it's puny. i mean, that is not anywhere close to the number that they're talking about with doge. don't you have to cut social security to hit that number? >> you absolutely do not have to cut social security to hit that number. as a matter of fact, medicare medicaid is where we should be looking at trying to find efficiencies. health care costs have skyrocketed, particularly after

obamacare was implemented, and there are opportunities for us to try to find ways to rein in that spending on the health care side, i also think that there is discretionary spending that we should be looking at, that we can we can tackle. but i don't think social security is something that's even being discussed by house republicans. >> well, it is by one, actually your colleague. let's listen to congressman rich mccormick we're going to have to have some hard decisions. >> we've got to bring the democrats in and talk about social security medicaid, medicare there is hundreds of billions of dollars to be saved. and we know how to do it. we just have to have the stomach to actually take those challenges on i mean, this is something that is being discussed by people who are saying the quiet part out loud. >> he actually didn't say cuts, but there are reforms that can be done to social security to actually shore it up. look, the reality is, if we don't do something in the next eight years or so social security will become insolvent so we have to do something to protect

social security now and into the future. >> but i and i hear what you're saying about that, but we're talking about $2 trillion. if you had a smaller number, it might make sense what you're talking about. the inefficiencies but that there wouldn't be a cut, or, for instance, that if you're talking about, as donald trump has promised deporting illegal immigrants, they contribute a large amount to social security that is withheld from their pay in many and obviously many instances when it is on the books, which it is in a lot of cases. so you'd be losing that money. i mean, this isn't do this isn't just about inefficiency or you're trying to say that there's $2 trillion in in inefficiency or waste in the government i think there's the possibility that that exists, but it's not attacking social security. >> it's going to be looking at discretionary spending and also medicare and medicaid. there's conversations happening around block granting you know,

there's there's lots of areas i think, that we can look at inefficiencies from the discretionary side. look at the department of energy right now. they've been given trillions of dollars in ira and iija dollars that haven't been spent efficiently looking at that waste, clawing it back. if necessary, and then finding, you know responsible ways to spend it or really, what this conference is going to be focused on so and you have introduced a bill that tries to address duplicative grants, for instance. >> but again i mean, how much money do you think that is going to save? because this what you're talking about is actually pretty small fry compared to the big number that musk has outlined. >> look when you are looking at your household budget, you start making the small cuts. first, you start cutting subscriptions to online publications. you start, you know, scaling back on going out to eat those small dollars add up. so it's looking at every single agency and finding the

ways that we can actually rein that spending in that's going to get us to where we need to be. will it be $2 trillion? maybe. maybe not. but if it's $1 trillion, it's in the right direction. and that's really what we're focused on, is moving the needle to stop the growth in the deficit, stop our annual national debt, and get us on a fiscal path to sanity because, right now we're not on that. >> yeah and i think a lot of people understand that with the budget. but in light of you're talking about about $6 trillion in annual spending you're talking about 1 trillion. if you looked at a household budget and someone said to you, you need to cut this amount from your budget, right? and if you're living especially paycheck to paycheck which america is, you would have to sell your house. this isn't a matter of i want netflix, but i don't want disney+ or something, right? this is a matter of you have to find a big expenditure. >> the reason that the reason that we are in the fiscal crisis, that we are in is because the biden administration has spent trillions of dollars that the country didn't have on things

that are unnecessary, and it's put a burden on american families in oklahoma, every family is spending $834 more per month than they were in january of 21, that in itself is what we need to be looking at is how do we get this country back on track? economic growth, which will add dollars to the federal budget to be able to spend, and looking at reining in the spending as well unfortunately, that appetite for spending is a bipartisan one. >> we saw that with president trump. we saw that with other administrations as well. i do want to ask you, when you're talking about, for instance clawing back some of what biden committed on the infrastructure bill, do you want to rescind for instance, that including the money that went to oklahoma? >> i'm not suggesting that we have to rescind all of those pieces, but there are pieces of those bills that i think were not spent wisely. a perfect example is a spending billions

of dollars on electrifying or i'm sorry, on electric vehicle charging stations. you know, there was, i think $8 billion dedicated to that. and we have eight charging stations across the country that have actually been built why are we spending our resources on that $5 billion going to electric school busses? that's not necessary in oklahoma. it wouldn't make any sense these are things that we really have to evaluate and figure out what's the best use of our dollars, and i don't think that's a good use of taxpayer dollars. >> yeah, i mean, certainly i think a lot of americans say it should be looked at. i will just note oklahoma received a lot of money, billions of dollars to repair roads and bridges, which are something that i think there's bipartisan. contributed millions of dollars to the federal budget to be able to get those dollars back no doubt, states have contributed maybe not the amount that they're getting back. >> congresswoman stephanie bice, thank you so much. thanks for having me. and we we are expecting to hear from musk and

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gunman tried to assassinate president elect donald trump back in july. >> ronald row is appearing before the bipartisan task force investigating that shooting, which is set to release its final report today. row says that disciplinary measures at the secret service are still being doled out. take a listen. >> there will be accountability and that accountability is occurring it is an extensive review that requires time to ensure due process and the pace of this process. >> quite frankly, it does frustrate me but it is essential that we recognize the gravity of our failure. >> i personally carry the weight of knowing that we almost lost a protectee. >> and our failure cost a father and husband his life. >> reporter the acting director outlined several changes being implemented at the secret service including mandating a unified command center at protection sites to help

coordinate communications expanding the use of unmanned aerial systems like drones to help observe venues and prevent attacks, and adding more staffing to trump's secret service detail. >> we have with us former secret service agent and cnn law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow. >> jonathan, thank you so much for being with us and offering your perspective today. i want to ask you about today's hearing. it's the conclusion of a five month long investigation what stood out to you well, listen, i think that what stands out to me is that there are a lot of ideas that are being presented. >> the acting director is you know, literally laying out things that need to be done and implemented quickly to bring the agency back up to a position, a readiness level where it can address the threat environment that it faces. but here's the challenge. right now, we have a change of administration. challenge number one. challenge number two is that this is the acting director, right. so his

longevity in that role is questionable. and three, a lot of the senior leadership positions of the secret service are either have individuals that are net new to that role or they are vacant. so from the secret service standpoint, how do you set the right strategy long term strategy right now under those conditions? can you actually implement this change that is necessary to meet the mission readiness against the threat environment that you face on a day to day basis? >> jonathan rose has acknowledged that the advance work for that rally in butler, pennsylvania was substandard. there has been a lot of attention paid since the incident on secret services coordination with local law enforcement which, as you know, is is key at events like this. how do you think the agency's advance work could change after the butler shooting well, we have to take a deeper

look at the protective intelligence function and making sure that we are sharing information, not just internally, but working collaboratively with our law enforcement partners. >> again, you know, we talk about this paradigm shift. it's not a paradigm shift. it's getting back to what the secret service does well, and it's protection. but we have to make sure that we have the right structure that's in place to meet that. this this threat environment that we face. i mean, when i was in the secret service, drones weren't a consideration. a lot of the the digital intercepts weren't a consideration. today. they are the secret service has to modernize against the backdrop of these threats that needs funding and resources and none of that is going to happen overnight those are strategy conversations for the long term that need to be set. >> well, this is very much an ongoing process. surely more changes to come. jonathan wackrow i'm sure we'll be speaking again soon. thanks so much for joining us thanks alex. and next amazon is sued for charging subscribers for its prime service without

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through these allegations from the d.c. attorney general. >> well, alex, this lawsuit says that some people in d.c. are getting their amazon deliveries at a much slower speed than their friends. and neighbors who live in more affluent neighborhoods. and that this discrepancy is no accident. so the washington, d.c., attorney general is alleging that two years ago amazon secretly stopped its speedy deliveries to two predominantly black predominantly lower income neighborhoods and that they excluded these neighborhoods located east of the anacostia river from its fast delivery service and in the process, they deceived 48,000 residents into paying for those speedy delivery benefits that they were not actually receiving. the lawsuit says that amazon stopped making deliveries with its amazon branded vehicles that we've all come to recognize, and instead relied on, relied on ups and the postal service, and that the impact here in terms of

delivery speeds was dramatic. the lawsuit finds that prime packages delivered within two days in those impacted zip codes stand at just 24%. that is far, far lower than the rest of d.c.. and here's the kicker. the lawsuit says that when amazon was confronted by customers about slower deliveries, they were not upfront about it. the lawsuit says that when customers complained of slow delivery, amazon concealed the exclusion and misled the consumers to believe it was a coincidence. now, the attorney general wants amazon to stop what they're calling unfair and deceptive practices to refund customers and alex to pay penalties 48,000 people affected the company saying that they made this change based on concerns over driver safety. >> how is amazon responding to the lawsuit? >> well, alex the company says it's just categorically false that they were doing anything

that was either discriminatory or deceptive, but they are not denying that they did make a change in how they delivered packages to these zip codes. they're just arguing that they made that change because of concerns about crime, specifically they say that they made the deliberate choice to adjust their operations, including delivery routes and times, for the sole reason of protecting the safety of drivers. they say that there were specific and targeted acts against delivery drivers including carjacking, vehicle theft armed robbery and assault. and amazon says that they are willing to work with the ag to fight crime but again, here, alex, i think the point from the dc ag is that you can make these sorts of changes to how you operate but you need to be up front with customers about it, right? >> that doesn't really explain why they continue to to charge those customers that extra fee. matt eagan, thank you very much for that reporting brianna. thanks. >> now to this week's home front. for the first time since

the 1960s, the department of veterans affairs will study whether psychedelic drugs effectively treat post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism. the study will look at the possible therapeutic benefits of mdma, which is also known as ecstasy. over the course of five years, it's a $1.5 million study that would involve veterans at va medical centers in connecticut and rhode island. and joining us now is retired navy veteran brandon bryan. brandon, thanks for being with us. we asked you to join us today because you were a navy veteran who sought psychedelic assisted therapy for ptsd and you welcomed this research. tell us why yes, brianna, thank you for having me. >> it's a pleasure. and an honor. >> yeah, i exhausted all means. >> i tried western medicine for many years, and i was still a shell of a human and i did a friend of mine had mentioned something about microdosing and

that's when the research i came on um, and we stumbled upon vets uh, in 2021. but i was hesitant to fill out an application because i fell into the same uh, cycle of, you know there's someone better off there someone that needs it better off than me and so on and so forth. but then i had a really good, good friend of mine. um he killed himself in october, and um, our stories are so much alike that i knew i was headed down. that path. and, uh i finally hit submit and i went to mexico vets, uh, sent me to mexico in january and august of 2022. and, uh my life has been completely different ever since. um yeah. and i advocate fully for this research and um, our veterans

deserve it. >> i want to talk about that because, um, and i will say to your point of people dying by suicide, i've talked to a lot of spouses, actually, of service members or veterans who have died by suicide. and what struck me was how much the stories that they told of their loved ones tracked with stories that i knew of veterans. and it just makes you realize that this can happen to so many people, you know, um but, you know, there's controversy around this these drugs, not just mdma, but there's psilocybin. they're the focus of so much discussion. right now in the veteran community um, which has an age adjusted suicide rate that's 57% higher than non vets. i should mention. and yet in many cases, we're talking about schedule one drugs. and that's the controversy. so how do you think. and you went to mexico as you said not the us. how do you think physicians ultimately can use these drugs without opening the door to abuse of

them well, the medicine i took you wouldn't be an abuse in that that's, uh that that does not it's not one of those things that you're going to do on on your own. >> um but i think you have to speak in their language. and that that means these research projects are even that more important. we have to to be able to speak to these doctors and the people that are in charge in these the health health field to speak in their language. so why not approve these these, uh research projects and our veterans are leading the front lines in this, too. so let us take the lead and get our our war fighters, the healing and the peace that they deserve

veterans with alcohol use disorders are included in this. >> brandon, why do you think that's important when you're studying ptsd treatments oh, i mean, i was a part of that. >> i self-medicated for a decade from 2008, from my deployment in 2008, in iraq i self-medicated until with alcohol and then they added prescription pills to it so it wasn't long before i was abusing alcohol and xanax on a regular basis. just not the feel and not to deal with the trauma that i had experienced throughout my life. um, it's not a it's a, not a magic pill. and i don't recommend it for everybody. but i where i was at in my life like it was either that or i was going to kill myself. so i took a chance. i went to mexico and it changed my life completely. um, but i will say there's a lot of work involved in that. like, i spend a majority of my day working on being the best version of

myself for myself, so then i can benefit anybody. and everybody i come in contact with yeah, it's it's a completely opposite of what i the way i was living yeah. >> and there are a lot of veterans who report this. it's certainly something that needs to be discussed. and we appreciate you joining us to do that. brandon bryant, thank you so much. and thank you for your service thank you for having me. >> send my regards to your husband and appreciate you being a spokesman. a spokesperson for for us veterans. appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks, brandon. and if you or someone that you know needs help, the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline is available to help. counselors are there to talk 24 hours a day. we'll be right back homefront. >> brought to you by the holiday buffet at golden corral

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battery and causing his son's death. >> right now, we're awaiting a verdict in the criminal case against penny. as the jury deliberates for a third day. cnn's gloria pazmino is following this trial in new york. and, gloria, we understand the jury has sent two notes to the judge today. tell us about that that's right. >> brianna. we are getting a little bit of a clue of perhaps what they have been focused on this morning. they're in the middle of a lunch break right now, but they deliberate right through the lunch break and so far they have asked the judge to once again look at video evidence, including what is known as the vasquez video, that shows nealy and penny on the subway floor struggling for a while. they've also asked for two very important definitions they want to be told once again the meaning of recklessness and the meaning of criminal negligence. and that's interesting because that's the very core of the two charges that daniel penny is facing now. they cannot convict him on both charges. so perhaps the fact that they're asking for the definition means

that they're still focused on that top charge. we simply do not know. >> but it's clear that at the very least, they're trying to understand. >> was penny reckless, meaning that he was aware of the risk that was posed by putting nealy in that chokehold. >> and he simply ignored it, or was he criminally negligent? he should have been aware of the risk of putting nealy in that chokehold. now, remember the prosecution spent a lot of time talking about penny's marine training, including his knowledge of chokeholds, something that the marines trained their marines on. so it's interesting that the jury is focused on that. ultimately, they have to decide if the prosecution has proved these two factors in order to come up with a verdict. the burden is on the prosecution that is what that jury is weighing as we speak, brianna. >> all right gloria pazmino, thank you so much. and still ahead, some new details in the

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