pathetic attempt at guilt by association here. >> but i guess they say pathetic with an irish accent. >> it's a tough one. >> it's a t h is killing me. >> but what what what we are seeing. you've thrown me now, anderson. this is this is this is what we. what is kind of taking a step back from this, i guess, is shocking is that, you know, somebody who is potentially going to run the fbi is engaging with this world of people who really believe that there is this kind of satanic pedophile cabal at the heart of the so-called deep state. so that's really the kind of world we're living in right now. i should say that a lot of the time that patel went on these shows, it was to promote something. it was to sell something. >> right. >> joe kenny sullivan, as always. thank you. the news continues right here on cnn out front next, the breaking news new major clues tonight in the search for the seo assassin. >> exclusive new images of the

new york city hostel where the gunman was seen, where he stayed. we'll speak to one man who was staying on the same floor as the suspect tonight. plus more about brian thompson. he was estranged from his wife. they were living in separate homes. we are live in his hometown. and elon musk's so-called naughty list. the billionaire making the rounds on capitol hill vowing to slash spending so what is on that list? right now, let's go out front and good evening. i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, a cold blooded killer still on the loose. we've got new important clues, though, emerging at this hour. so let me just share with you what we've got. officials are telling cnn right now that they believe the assassin who killed brian thompson, the ceo of the largest health insurer in america, used a fake id when he checked into the building that you're seeing there and that is a new york city hospital on the upper west side, off of central park. it is 49 blocks north of the hilton hotel, which is where

yesterday's brazen shooting took place in midtown manhattan. now according to the new york times, the killer had been in new york city for ten days prior to the shooting. we still don't yet know where he came from, maybe where he was originally from. but ten days. and according to police, we know checked into the hospital four days before thompson was killed. two crucial pieces of information that would leave six days of where was he in new york, which is obviously going to be crucial here. but investigators are now releasing new images of a man that they are calling a quote, unquote person of interest in these images. this person's face is not covered so these appear to have been taken obviously, prior to the shooting. one of them, he's smiling now these were actually taken from the hostel. the hostel that i just mentioned on the upper west side of new york city, where he had been staying. officials say for the past four days and just into out front, we have some new exclusive images from inside that hostel. a source telling cnn that the suspected shooter was sharing a room with multiple people. now it's a

hostel so you'll hear in a moment from someone who was staying in that hostel. you could have 4 to 12 people in one room. he had multiple people in his room. they did not know each other. from what we are told but the man who was staying on the same floor as the suspected shooter shared these images of inside the nearly 200 room building exclusively with out front 200 rooms, says it was very crowded and investigators are now retracing the suspect's steps following the murder itself. we know after he assassinated thompson shooting him in the back at 6:44 a.m., he headed north. he rode a bike towards central park and he goes into central park. and then we've got new images of what authorities believe is the suspect again on that upper west side. about 15 minutes later, he comes out of the park and rides along west 85th street, which you see marked on the map there. that is just off central park. and what it would do would be put him right back in that area near the hostel where officials believe he had been staying and this is

important because we are now learning of a massive search inside central park for the missing gray backpack worn by the assassin police, we are told, have been scouring garbage cans there any dumpsters and bushes so far though we are told no sign of either the backpack or the weapon. and omar jimenez is outfront live in new york city. he is in front of the hotel where brian thompson was shot, and killed. the hilton there in midtown manhattan. and omar, what is the latest that you are learning tonight well for starters, this is the second day where we don't know where the suspect is. >> we don't know who the suspect is at this point. >> and some of the latest video that we're seeing, some of it you just alluded to there, shows the shooter the latest in the day that we see the shooter after the shooting only about 15 minutes or so after the shooting scene on the upper west side here. >> but for perspective, that's about 30 blocks from where i'm standing and with the route that could take you through

central park, which of course as we know, is where law enforcement searched and of course, where he is seen on camera exiting all of this as the new york police department is putting out new images tied to this investigation that they believe the public can help with new images tonight of what the nypd is calling a person of interest wanted for questioning sources say these photos showing this person unmasked and smiling come from an upper manhattan hostel where investigators believe the shooter may have stayed before the wednesday morning murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. >> another clue as investigators try to piece together the shooter's identity. >> pieces of the puzzle there are still coming together, so we are on the right path, and we believe we're going to apprehend this person. >> police conducted a search at the hostel, and one law enforcement official tells cnn the shooter stayed in a room with two other men. investigators continuing to ask the public for help and

offering a reward for information of up to $10,000. and they continue tracing the movements of the gunman before and after the targeted killing. >> what we do know is extremely well organized, highly planned, sophisticated attack from everything we've seen so far on the day of the shooting, surveillance video appears to show the suspected gunman exiting the 57th street subway around six fifteen a m minutes later, pictures show him at a starbucks, where sources tell cnn he bought a water and two powerbars just two blocks from the shooting site. >> then, at 6:29 a.m., surveillance video from a nearby garage shows the suspected shooter walking down the street while on the phone. just minutes before he carries out the killing of thompson at 647. the gunman then makes a quick getaway, and this new video appears to show a person dressed in a similar way. just ten minutes later, on an e-bike

25 blocks north of where the murder happened. investigators also found a phone and a water bottle near the scene of the shooting. a law enforcement official tells cnn. a fingerprint was also lifted from the bottle, but it was smudged also still unknown. the motive but there are potential clues sources say a shell casing and live round found at the crime scene were etched with the words delay and depose a possible reference to the phrase delay, deny, defend, which is the way some lawyers have described the tactics insurers use to avoid paying claims. >> that would, of course, point in the direction that this person was somehow, well, was certainly personally invested in this murder now, we mentioned that route fleeing north of here toward central park as we spoke about law enforcement, searched central park for the backpack that was seen worn by the shooter in the shooting. >> did not find the backpack, and no indication of what may have been inside. and then on the hostel as well. law enforcement sources telling cnn

that this person used a fake new jersey id to check in, which at this point was days before the shooting. and here outside the hilton hotel, life goes on. people walking by as if nothing happened. but of course, for law enforcement, the priority is not just where this person went who this person is. eric. >> yeah, absolutely omar, thank you very much right out front now. mateos toronto. he was staying in the same hostel on the same floor where police believe the shooter, the suspected shooter stayed. and mateos, i really appreciate your time. i mean, what a bizarre situation you find yourself in i know you're visiting from brazil you've been staying in the hostel, you've met some people there. um can we just start with some of the photos you took on the fourth floor of the hostel, where where you were staying? where um, that where police say he was staying. can you tell us anything about that? what it's like in there? what? those halls look like. >> all right, so the hotel, uh,

the hostel is actually really crowded. there are a lot of people there, so they divide like rooms to, i think, 4 to 10 people. >> but in the hall, ten people in one room. yeah, four to 10 or 12. 4 to 12. 4 to 12. yeah um, so the hallway is just simple. it's just the doors that goes to the to the rooms the shared rooms. um, and that's it. that's pretty simple. how the how the hallways look. >> so it would, it would seem from what you're saying, that if if he was staying on that floor as they believe he was, that he would have had other people in the room yeah. >> yeah. for sure. yeah. >> okay so so now you've been staying there for about a week. yeah. um, and you're talking about these rooms that you got 4 to 12 people in a room. so from what you're saying, he would have had other people in the room how hard would it have been to as you see it to even do something like to have a gun in there or something like that? >> i mean, it would be that hard. like if he put on like his luggage or something um, because there's no metal

detector. there's nothing like that so i think just go inside and it would be all good. >> like so. so he could have had something like that in terms of seeing him. do you recall seeing now you've seen his picture out there and you talk about the hostel being so crowded. do you recall seeing anybody that looked like him? >> yeah, i didn't recall anyone looking like that. and people are saying that he always using the mask so even if i saw him i wouldn't recognize him because he was always wearing the mask. >> right. and obviously as you were there those few days um, you know and you talk about the situation there's no security, there's no, um i mean, lots of people coming and going there's like basic security there. >> yeah, there's a security like you can't go inside without a card, so you have to check in to go inside. but like, gun control doesn't have any so yeah that kind of security is none. >> right? right. and in terms just out of curiosity, but when

you pay, you can pay credit cash. yeah. >> yeah, whatever yeah. >> any way you want to pay. yeah all right. well i mean it is, it is really fascinating but also important as you say, that he would have probably had a lot of other people in the room. yeah. where he was sleeping. >> i think his room probably like had 4 to 6 people, but i'm not sure because i didn't get to come in there. it was locked. but the day that i arrived, uh, there are a lot of cops there. people saw him, you know, people saw uh, the cops there outside the room uh, but, yeah everyone that was inside the room just went to another room, and i don't know who these people were like, i asked around and they didn't know anyone. >> right. all right. well, mateos, thank you very much. i appreciate it all right. and now, tim clemente joins us, former fbi counter-terror agent kurt blair, former nypd detective.

and candice delong, former fbi profiler. all right. glad to have all of you. tim, can i just start with you mateos just shared those photos inside the hostel on the actual floor. right. long, dark hallway rooms off the side he said 4 to 12 in a room. he thinks 4 to 6 in the room. the shooter was in the new york times is reporting that the suspected shooter was in new york city for ten days, and we understand that for the four days before the shooting, he stayed in the hostel. that leaves six days currently unaccounted for. if all this pans out but what do you make of that? the ten day period. and then the four days in this hostel. what do you make of him having chosen to stay there, especially when you hear someone who was ostensibly staying right on the same floor near him, just the sheer number of people, how hard it was to even notice him well, i think aaron, he gets great anonymity in a place like that. >> you stay like, look at the hilton hotel where thompson was headed um, you have security obviously. you have a front desk receptionist, probably a doorman. >> so a lot of people would

have paid attention to him. there whereas in the hostel, he's totally anonymous. those are people generally that don't want to spend a lot for lodging and go there and share a room, share a bathroom with a bunch of other people. so it's inconvenient for the average person, but very convenient when you want to hide and try and hide in plain sight. the fact that he was there for ten days, you know aaron, i've said it every time we've talked about any kind of attack that most attacks are preceded by pre-attack surveillance. so clearly he was scoping out escape routes from the hilton hotel. uh egress routes, uh, every day when he was doing surveillance on the hotel probably, and tracking thompson's whereabouts so that he would know when he would be there and what time to strike. right. >> and just to be clear, in case i misspoke, we know he stayed at the hostel for four days, but he was in the city for ten, so we don't yet know where he was those six days in between. so not yet. not sure about that yet on the reporting, but candice, we've now seen the face of the person of interest. and actually that was that is at the hostel right. and to tim's point, you know, you enter hilton, you

have had your picture taken. so many times here. we just have a couple of images, but nonetheless, maybe that's all you need right you know, we see the shooting itself and you see the planning that the the killer went through. and that's your specialty getting in the mind of the killer, trying to understand what this person was thinking. what picture of the suspect do you have at this point without question, he wanted his target dead planned to shoot him in the back first, and then approach him and finish him off and the bullets that he ejected that apparently had the words on it. >> that was sending a message. my sense of what is happening here is that this appears to be a revenge motivated murder. and that the killer especially with the message of the deny defend, depose which is almost

identical to a book about how health insurance companies deny coverage and make a lot of money. it's almost like the killer, um of course, the the victim wasn't going to know that, but the police, the public and in a way, it's like this is why i did it. i want you to know it. also, this guy is what i call c3. cool, calm and collected. he was fearless and that we certainly see that on the i mean, the way he acted and can i just ask that point of the moment of it kirk. >> we see the suspect on on video on surveillance video about just a few minutes before the shooting. omar just mentioned this talking on his cell phone. so this means talking on his cell phone at 6:30 a.m., right before he's about to assassinate somebody. um, you look at that and you think, did that have something to do with somebody else being

involved, letting him know when thompson was leaving or some sort of detail? it opens up that possibility. do you think that that could be what have happened or or are you not sure that there was anyone else involved well, i think it's a high likelihood that kirk i think it's a high likelihood that either someone was involved or at the very least, someone else knew. >> i took that phone call to mean i am kind of getting ready to do it, or whatever the case and perhaps this is someone just him just notifying someone of his actions, something that he had discussed previously, or it could go as far as that. this was some form of coconspirator, perhaps someone that was going to meet him to tell to assist him as he egressed from the city i don't know if it was a coconspirator. i think if there was that person would have been a little bit closer and perhaps he wouldn't have had to use a bicycle and stay at a hostel by himself. but at the very least,

i think that someone knew of his actions in some way, shape or form. >> so as you were speaking, kirk, we did just get some breaking news. so let me just tell you what this is, because this does add to what we know and what could be a very meaningful way. tim, we are learning that the suspect came to new york city from atlanta by bus. now, i know the new york times had reported he'd been here for ten days. um i can't put an exact time frame on this but we do have this very specific reporting from a law enforcement official. tim. by bus to new york from atlanta you know, what more does that and we don't know whether he was with anybody that sort of information is still unknown, but it does add to the very low cost profile that we're seeing yeah we're definitely seeing a frugal traveler but that's great because it covers his tracks. >> again, if you drive into manhattan, you're going through tollbooths, you're going to be photographed going through every tollbooth anywhere along the jersey turnpike or any other route you take that goes into new york. so riding in the

back of a bus, you have anonymity. now, he had to buy a ticket apparently he stayed at the hostel under a false name with a false new jersey identification. so this guy's got tracks all over the place that need to be run down. and nypd is very likely working with every other agency around the country to find all these leads and dig them out. the fact that he was in atlanta at possibly a bus depot means there may be other intelligence gathering there in the form of photographs fingerprints dna, other things that he left behind that will be helpful in pinpointing where he was when kirk do you think they know who he is already i don't believe so but who knows? >> i couldn't agree more that certainly the mode of travel where he stayed when he was here is less about costs and more about hiding in plain sight and attempting to be anonymous um, you never know. i don't think the police are going to let the public know

all the information they have. yeah i certainly believe, given the release of the photo, someone is going to contact the authorities. someone already recognized who this person is. >> i mean, and that's that's a crucial question. um candace, do you. i know you were talking about the possible motive, but at this point, it does seem there are still so many possibilities. i mean, people are talking about whether those words on the bullets could have been a decoy or whether that indicates the shooter himself wanted to send a message or what do you feel confident at this point from the information you're getting and profiling him of what the motive could have been yes i do, um i and the thing that tips the scale for me is the words on the bullet casings, not a decoy. >> why would he pick those three words? those are right off with the exception of one, the title of a book about um, health insurance agencies doing

things that are harmful to clients and people that they serve or choose not to serve. yes. i think um, the killer was following this guy's career. he knew where he was going to be when he was going to be there. it was not front page news that this man, the ceo of unitedhealth, was going to be speaking at 8 a.m. at the hilton hotel in manhattan. he knew it. and he was there. and he waited and the thing about the starbucks stopping at starbucks maybe ten minutes before and getting a coffee, and that tells me he wasn't nervous at all. he felt really good about what he was going to do, and he had nerves of steel, and he did it all right. >> all stay with me as we continue getting more information in here. as i said, we've just learned that the suspected shooter traveled to new york by bus from atlanta.

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lower costs and a better health care experience for the people we serve. >> he is survived by his wife, paulette, and two children. sources tell cnn that thompson and paulette were estranged and property records show they lived in separate but nearby houses. paulette has spoken twice since the murder, but declined our request for an interview, instead issuing this statement. we are shattered to hear about the senseless killing of our beloved brian. the statement said brian was an incredibly loving, generous talented man who truly lived life to the fullest and touched so many lives. >> if you look at his class of 93 classmates, um they would all tell you that they knew he was going to going to strive to be something big. >> thompson's roots run through jewell, iowa, where he graduated as the valedictorian of his class at south hamilton high school in 1993. his former teacher, todd coy, still remembers his character and charm he was humble, uh, an outstanding student. >> he was liked by all, um, which was a testament to why he was probably our class

president. he was homecoming king his senior year. >> thompson graduated from the university of iowa in 1997, again as the valedictorian. after nearly seven years as a cpa at a consulting firm, thompson climbed the ladder at unitedhealthcare, earning the title of ceo in 2021. >> he was a champion. >> adam yearby is the board director of the special olympics and thompson's former colleague at unitedhealthcare. >> we're certainly excited. all of my colleagues across unitedhealth group to help these athletes prepare for what is the highest level of competition. >> thompson worked with the special olympics several times and was named honorary co-chair for the 2026 games. >> you have somebody who was incredibly smart. he was very good at the work he did he was had this attention. he would get into the details. he also had this great energy. >> we know that millions of our members experience complex health issues each year throughout the year. >> as the head of a health insurance giant frequently at odds with customers, thompson's career recently met controversy. earlier this year, he was the subject of a class action lawsuit alleging insider

trading. the lawsuit accused thompson of dumping 31% of his personal unitedhealth shares amounting to a $15 million profit, before the public knew about a department of justice antitrust probe into the company. the filing claimed thompson and others exploited their positions, breached their fiduciary duties and violated the company's code of conduct. unitedhealthcare didn't comment on the lawsuit erin, as if this family hasn't been through enough last night they were the subject of fake bomb threats at both brian thompson's house and paulette thompson's house. the maple grove police department saying plainly that was a swatting incident and that it was a hoax. >> erin. all right whitney, thank you very much. harry sandick is out front extensive experience with white collar and securities fraud cases. also, former assistant us attorney with the southern district of new york and was the acting chief of the violent crimes unit there. so, harry, i'm looking at this from every perspective, just starting where whitney finished though, as they are trying to figure out motive here. sure, there are all right. there's people

who may have been denied coverage that there's that motive which which obviously is front and center here, accused of selling a third of his shares and pocketing $15 million ahead of shareholders taking a loss on on inside information. um a lawsuit like that. i know you think that may not be related to this at all but it does seem like a lot of money. >> it is a lot of money and and what would happen in the case is they would have to figure out if the case were to go forward, sort of what portion of the sale price was attributable essentially to the artificially inflated nature of the stock price that the idea is that it was higher because there was an undisclosed investigation. >> so the lawyers would have to figure out and the judge would have to figure out, well, how much higher. um, so these kinds of cases they're serious, but they're brought every day anytime a stock drops, the company is sued, the executives are sued so it's hard to know if it's more than that and there are other potential motives there. >> all right. so now let's talk

about that because you were also acting chief of the violent crimes unit in the southern district of new york. so a murder like this, i mean, you are talking about the the largest city in the united states. you're talking about new york. anybody walking around, um darren porcher, former nypd, was saying last night 100 to 200 times a day, your videotaped. and this young person, we are now 24, you know, 36 hours later is still on the lam i mean, have you ever seen a murder like this in new york? >> so i've never seen a murder like this. most murders in new york are either related to other criminal activity, like drug dealing or armed robbery. that's primarily what i prosecuted. or the district attorney prosecutes murders that are often people who know each other. intimate partner violence, terrible cases but something like this is unusual. now there are cold cases. people commit murder and get away with it. there are unsolved murders. new york is not by far is not the most violent place. it's one of the safest places in the united states. but there are unsolved

murders in every city, and those often involve people who covered their tracks as he, at least for the first day, seems to have done for the first day. >> all right. so you know, when he walks by that moment, that giant hilton and you walked across the street from there. and we all know there's just so many entrances. so to know that someone is going in the side door, that side door on that place not on not on that block on this block at this time um, and then you see the suspected shooter a few minutes before the shooting on the phone um, when you look at this, do you think how likely is it that somebody else may have helped him? >> it's certainly possible. and it could have been inadvertent. it could have been that he learned from someone who let it slip the hotel that the victim was staying at. and so he figured well, if he's coming from that direction, the most likely door he'll use is this side door here on 54th street. so it seems at least number one possibility. he did a ton of research to know exactly where he would be or some some piece of information

slipped to him. >> all right. harry thank you very much. and next, we've got breaking news from john miller learning several significant new developments and more details on this bus ride that we have just learned that the suspected shooter took from atlanta to new york city. and why at this particular moment, you're looking at your screen right now those pictures, why the person of interest may have pulled down his mask. plus, we're also following new details out of washington, where today elon musk and vivek ramaswamy went to capitol hill to talk about their specifics on cutting government spending elon and vivek talked about having a a naughty list cnn heroes on all star tribute meet and celebrate the honorees then find out who will be hero of the year. >> plus, a special tribute to michael j. fox, cnn heroes, an all star tribute sunday at eight on cnn. >> want a next level clean swish with the whoa of

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( 800) 710-0020. >> breaking news. several significant new developments in the hunt for the killer. the manhunt now closing in on 37 hours. the suspect traveling by bus from atlanta to new york ten days before the shooting. our john miller reporting this and reporting new details about what happened next. tim clemente is also with us. let's start, john, with what you've learned. you've got a lot of new details. so you're reporting that he gets on this bus ten days before the shooting in atlanta comes to new york. then what? >> so we don't know that exactly. we know he's on a bus that originates in atlanta, but they haven't established where between atlanta and washington, d.c. you know, he got on that bus um, they have established at different points where he got off the bus. >> wait, hold on one second. hold on one second. you're saying the bus was going from atlanta to new york? but we don't know where he got on. >> exactly. >> and that is that is very important. i want to make sure everyone hears that because that's a bit different than what i said a moment ago. okay

so that's a that's a factor that they're going to have to work backwards on. >> they're going to have to figure out at what point he appears, you know, getting on the bus for the first time. and that means working with other jurisdictions along that bus route to say, go dump this video, go through it. this is what we're looking for. it will come together it has little to do with, you know capturing him, but it may have a lot to do with where his trail starts, which could be home. but let's let's advance to new york. yeah. so he gets here somewhere around the 24th and of november. right so now let's establish that that puts him here a lot longer than we believed he was here just 24 hours ago before they developed this information he checks into this hostel which we've been up to on the upper west side. and he's assigned to a room where he has these two roommates. so it's a room for four. but he's the third person there um, he talks to the clerk at the desk and, you know, they are chatting back and forth

and, you know, she's kind of having a flirty moment with him. >> and that's when the smile happens. >> let me see your face. take down your mask. and he lowers the mask and gives that big smile, that little flirtation between the two of them in some good humored way actually yielded what is so far the most significant clue to identifying him he checks out of the hostel after a couple of days and then checks back in they have not established investigators according to people briefed on this investigation, where he was during that kind of odd day did he try to find another place they have established by kind of starting out at the hostel every day and doing a video canvass that attempts to recreate his trail? each of those days, that the first place he goes is the hilton hotel way before the night of the murder. so that that suggests from the moment he gets off the bus, he knows about this conference. he wants to do that reconnaissance. so this is this is how they're kind of learning more about the length of time he was here.

yeah, he takes taxis. he goes to a mcdonald's. he's using this fake new jersey driver's license mask i put up. and i mean aaron, when you say wearing his mask all the time the whole object of the game is where is that weak moment where he thinks nobody knows i'm here. nobody's looking at me. where he takes down the hood and the mask at the same time and they haven't found that yet. >> they haven't found it yet but. but looking at this picture of him smiling in what we now know, tim, we can can describe from what john is saying was sort of a flirtatious moment with the with the woman at the check in um, that in and of itself is pretty incredible that he, because of the discipline that he had, keeping it up at all times that in that moment, knowing that he assuming that he was under surveillance, as he clearly did because he kept it up the rest of the times that he took it down. tim yeah well, it is certainly a beneficial thing that that he was flirting with this woman or she was flirting with him. >> and we got that footage and

and aaron, as i said to your producer earlier, it would amaze me that they didn't have enough from that one photograph right there that you're showing right now to identify him with, like, clearview ai or some other similar type of software, because the the artificial intelligence now gives the capability to scan the internet in milliseconds and find any photograph anywhere, including you know, with law enforcement, you can go through databases, you can go through all 50 states driver's license databases, visa and passport databases. so it would surprise me that they don't have some matches to that face right now john, what do you think about that? >> so they worked it through nypd's facial recognition system. but nypd's facial recognition is fairly regulated and disciplined. it runs against the mug shots of people who are arrested in. >> if you already have a record in new jersey, if he's not in that file, it's not going to pop on that image. >> running it through other

databases. as tim points out, um, they got a lot of vague matches, but not the kind an examiner would say. this is a high quality match. so they weren't of real value because you know, you have the hood up, you have a side view, you have a view that's coming on, on down and it's it's not ideal right. >> but it is interesting, as you say, that they did. tim do that, that they have a lot but not too many. they have too many um, tim, what do you make also of the fact that he came the time here that john is now laying out and did continue to go back to the hilton? i mean, that there was i don't know, when you look at ten days, is that extensive surveillance, as you see it uh, not necessarily because this guy thompson might have come days or weeks earlier than the conference. >> he may have had other meetings there beforehand, meeting with investors or something else. and so it's possible that this guy was targeting him and that pre-attack surveillance was trying to figure out what's the

best time and place to do this, that he can get away with it and so if his expectation is that he's only going to be there during the conference, then it sounds like a long stretch to be there in advance. but it's not unusual. i mean, look at the nine over 11 hijackers. how many dozens of times they flew the routes they took before nine over 11. yeah. >> and of course, now we're going an hour, 37 minutes, you know. 743 here. so about to about to enter hour 37 where he has been on apprehended. all right. thank you both very much. and next, elon musk's list apparently he's got a new blueprint for slashing government spending and a list. so what's on it. and a record breaking surge for bitcoin. we have been following its historic rise. now at $100,000. and it's there. it has finally gotten there and harry enten joins us with well, a view on where it's headed hello hunter. >> oh, no, it's a good boy oh

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ramaswamy on capitol hill. >> musk apparently sorting lawmakers into categories that they're summarizing as naughty or nice. as he made his way through capitol hill with his toddler on his shoulders for the photo op, vowing to slash $2 trillion from government spending that is, according to marjorie taylor greene elon and vivek talked about having a a naughty list and a and a nice list for members of congress and senators and how we vote and how we're spending the american people's money. >> i think that would be fantastic rene marsh is out front your money is being wasted and the department of government efficiency is going to fix that elon musk arrived on capitol hill thursday touting his young son on his shoulders to say doge doesn't matter. >> his co-chair for president elect trump's department of

government efficiency, or doge vivek ramaswamy arriving separately for the billionaire duo's meetings with republican lawmakers. >> now we're just talking about the art of the possible. kind of the metes and bounds of things that we can do quickly, things that will take a longer time require enabling legislation. >> house speaker johnson setting expectations for the meeting. this is a brainstorming session. musk and biotech entrepreneur and former republican presidential candidate ramaswamy have been vocal on social media about where the government waste is. >> there's a lot lower hanging fruit in terms of waste, fraud and abuse error, program integrity failures that you got to go after first. >> but thursday was their first real strategy session with republican lawmakers about where to start and how to cut musk's goal of $2 trillion in spending something budget experts across the political spectrum say is virtually impossible. 70% of federal government spending not including interest, consists of

payments to americans for programs such as social security, medicare medicaid and more. if those programs are spared, experts expect dramatic cuts to programs like food stamps, home heating assistance, housing aid, food safety inspections, and infrastructure. >> everything is on the table. >> on x ramaswamy has mused about clawing back billions in federal loans and grants that the biden administration is disbursing at a rapid clip to cement his legislative legacy, including a key loan to ev startup rivian, a rival company of musk's tesla. do you support clawing back federal funds that the biden administration is pushing out in these final days? >> they're spending money in our view, recklessly and so, yes, we've had a lot of discussions over the last couple of days about what our authority would be to claw some of that back and to stop it. >> it's the first time the two men were seen publicly for their joint mission of streamlining the federal government. since cnn's k file

uncovered past comments of ramaswamy calling musk a puppet for the chinese communist party. >> you have no reason to think that elon won't jump like a circus monkey when xi jinping calls in the hour of need. >> the pair will become regulars here on the hill. thursday's meeting is the first of many to game out how to dramatically shrink the us government. >> the future is going to be amazing well, on those circus monkey comments, ramaswamy telling cnn he made them before he met musk, and now that he's met him, he loves him. >> but there are real questions, aaron, on whether these two men can pull off what they are promising. we should note that doge is not a government entity. they cannot make the cuts themselves. so the partnerships that you saw them start to forge here on capitol hill are going to be critical to try to get some of those cuts. they recommend over the finish line. >> erin. yeah, absolutely. because obviously the power of the purse where you're standing on capitol hill. all right.

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first time. trump unveiled a crypto friendly choice to run the securities and exchange commission, seeming to be that final reason the cryptocurrency on a steady rise since trump won the election. and you can see just how dramatically it's grown. look at that. 749 bucks, eight years ago. that's a great investment, even if the whole thing is a whole lot of nothing. that's real money. if you sell it and get out and pocket the real money trump wasting no time in taking credit, saying you're welcome on truth social harry enten joins me now. okay, harry, you talked earlier this week about whether bitcoin would get to 100,000. it was at 96. and here we are. >> yeah here we are. >> here we are up up and away. >> as fifth dimension once said, i mean the rise of it since election day. my goodness gracious. what? >> we're talking north of 40% growth in bitcoin since election day. you compare that to the s&p 500 only up 5%. this, i think, is the whole big thing here. >> the stock market's up. but bitcoin is way out of control uh yeah one can use a lot of words for it. >> there you go. okay. can i just ask you though a really

basic question. what the heck do people use bitcoin for? >> yeah, they're not actually spending it on anything. >> they're just holding it. >> it's an investment. they believe it's going to go up and therefore they're buying it. >> i mean, look at the percentage of folks who say why are they buying cryptocurrency? the vast majority, over 90%, they're buying it because it's an investment only 4% of folks are actually making online payments with cryptocurrency. they're not actually buying a gosh darn thing. >> i will just say that, you know the making online payments is the only thing ultimately that will make the thing have any value. so there is just sort of that underlying reality. but, you know, look, i mean you know, we'll see. i mean we hear a lot about you know, when trump was obviously talking about cryptocurrency, young white men buying cryptocurrency. yeah. tell me something i don't know. is that really the the main group? >> i mean yeah, it is young white men. >> but i think it's this idea. >> oh it's these young white men in their basements. >> they're a bunch of losers they ain't a bunch of losers. i mean, look at the folks who are actually buying cryptocurrency. it's not losers in their basement, just poor folks.

>> you got to have $100,000. >> yeah, yeah well, now that's exactly true. but this but this survey was taken before the $100,000. i mean, it's upper income folks who are buying cryptocurrency. yes, it is younger folks, but it's younger folks who are worth a lot of money. and what we're seeing is a lot of those folks might be worth a lot of money, because maybe they got in when bitcoin was at $749, and now it's trading at about $100,000. so the thing that i tell you that you don't know is that the bottom line is this yes, it's younger folks, but it's younger folks who are worth a lot of money. and now, based upon what we're seeing with cryptocurrency erin burnett, they're worth a lot more money, worth a lot more. >> and they will continue to be unless it crashes, in which case, maybe is it tulip mania? >> who knows? >> tulip mania or nfts? i'm thinking about i remember i think there was an nft made of me no, there wasn't and if you don't know what they are, that's the warning sign of what the potential could be here. we don't know. thanks for joining us. the sauce starts now straighten the sauce tonight. >> brand new images and breaking new details. and the