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police released the first clear images of a man they want to question in connection to the murder. >> he has no protection around him. that is just baffling. your money is being wasted and the department of government efficiency is going to fix that. >> they are spending money in our view, recklessly. >> in a moment of crisis, rival politicians united to stop the president's threat to democracy. >> the troops had entered and disrupted the vote of the national assembly. we wouldn't have been able to lift martial law live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane hello. >> a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. >> i'm max foster. it's friday december 6th, 8 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. in new york. a flirtatious moment captured on

security camera may have given police a huge clue in their search for the killer of a healthcare ceo in new york. this image shows a man police are calling a person of interest smiling at a female employee at a hostel that he stayed at before wednesday's attack. a law enforcement source tells us that whilst he chatted with the clerk she asked him to lower his face mask. the man reportedly paid in cash and used a fake id, so it's still unclear exactly who he is. this new video shows him just blocks away from the scene. apparently walking to the site where he would carry out his attack. the ceo of unitedhealthcare, brian thompson, was gunned down on a sidewalk as he was headed to an investor conference. we have a video of the incident, but we warn you it is graphic. police say the gunman waited for thompson before shooting him point blank in what they describe as a well-planned attack, a law enforcement

source also told us the suspect arrived in new york on a bus that came from atlanta after the shooting. he fled the scene on an electric bike shimon prokupecz tracked his next steps. >> the suspect entered central park here after the brazen early morning killing. we now know that police have reviewed footage of what appears to be the gunman exiting the park nearby on west 77th street, and this new video, obtained by cnn shows a person police believed to be the gunman riding westbound on west 85th street. 7 a.m. video captures what appears to be him on his bike coming around this corner heading this way. and as you can see in the video, he's not wearing his backpack 18 blocks north, police began to search this hostel wednesday afternoon. the nypd released these images of what they're calling a person of interest, checking into the hostel, police released the first clear images of a man they want to

question in connection to the murder. they say the man stayed here at this hostel in a room with others on the fourth floor. police were back here today speaking to people who have been staying here. we're told by the folks who are staying here that they saw the police on the fourth floor. we're also told by hotel management that when you check in to this hostel they do ask you for id police say employees at the hostel say the man almost never lowered his mask or hood and a law enforcement official tells cnn the shooter used a fake new jersey id to check in a full five days before the murder another new piece of evidence this video, timestamped at 6:15 a.m., shows the suspected gunman leaving the 57th street subway station just three blocks from the scene of the crime, leaving 30 minutes later, thompson would be fatally shot. then there's the words delay and depose, found on a live round and a shell casing at the scene. are they signs of a motive? police

now exploring whether they are a reference to a derogatory phrase leveled at the insurance industry for denying claims. investigators also have a water bottle from the shooter left behind at the scene. cnn learned earlier today that it yielded a single smudged fingerprint shimon prokupecz cnn new york thompson apparently had no security with him at the time of the shooting. >> earlier, one of his former bodyguards spoke to on cnn about that, and he said the timing of the attack was not a coincidence two things. >> number one, the when the event happened, the event happened at 630 in the morning. a lot of people say well, you know, between 630 and 7, a lot of people say, well why is that important? well, that's shift change for the new york police department. so there's not a lot of street officers on the street at that point in time. second, um, i believe just from what i've listened to from news reader reports and

internet reports, i believe that that this man had his schedule. i think this man knew his movements uh, and i think he posted up, what, five, ten minutes before he walked out of that other hotel and walked around the corner and was in front of the hilton. um, you know, i think that that's important. you get somebody in the number one health care organization in the united states of america who is a corporate executive uh, a high ranking one. as a matter of fact, just sitting on the board of directors, and he has no protection around him. that is just baffling us president-elect donald trump's picks to lead his newly conceived department of government efficiency were on capitol hill on thursday. >> tech billionaire elon musk, bringing his son to work and vivek ramaswamy held discussions with house speaker mike johnson and other republicans. the speaker says they talked about which federal funds funds they can reclaim

from what the biden administration is spending in its final weeks. cnn's rene marsh has the story 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 have 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 kfile 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 on the circus monkey, comments ramaswamy telling cnn that he made them before he met and got to know musk.

>> but there are still lots of questions as far as you know, what these men are proposing and whether they can truly pull it off. and that's why the partnerships that they began forging here on capitol hill are going to be certainly very critical for them to get many of their recommendations over the finish line because it is congress that decides what gets funded and by how much. rene marsh, cnn, capitol hill house republicans have blocked the release of an ethics committee report on former congressman matt gaetz. >> trump's original pick for attorney general withdrew from consideration after persistent reports of sexual misconduct, which gaetz denied. with gaetz out of the picture. all eyes are on trump's pick for defense secretary pete hegseth. the former fox news host and army veteran has repeatedly denied allegations of sexual misconduct despite some calls for him to drop out hicks attorney says his client is filling out the paperwork for an fbi background check.

>> i'm not going to back down from them one bit. i will answer all of these senators questions, but this will not be a process tried in the media. i don't answer to anyone in this group. none of you not to. that camera at all. i answer to president trump. i answer to the 50, the 100 senators who are part of this process and those in the committee. and i answer to my lord and savior and my wife and my family. >> well, an article in the new yorker lays out claims of excessive drinking and misconduct by hegseth whilst he was ceo of a veterans charity. his attorney calls the allegations outlandish. a senior white house aides and biden administration officials are reportedly discussing preemptive pardons for people who may be targeted by trump after he takes office, according to multiple sources. there's been debate for weeks now over the use of pardons, even for people who haven't been formally accused of any crimes yet. one source says trump's legal advisers believe biden would be setting a new

precedent with preemptive pardons which the trump team could take advantage of later on to help their own allies. trump has publicly called for jailing people such as former republican congresswoman liz cheney and special counsel jack smith, who brought federal criminal cases against him. the president elect accepted fox nation's patron of the year award in new york on thursday night. during his speech, trump detailed recent conversations with mexican president claudia sheinbaum and canadian prime minister justin trudeau, suggesting that his proposed 25% tariff on both countries is just the beginning. >> i spoke with canada and justin came flying right in because we talked about 25% tariffs. >> that's just the beginning. i spoke the other day to the president, the new president of mexico very nice woman. and we had a very nice conversation. but she said, why are you doing this to me? i said, i'm not. i'm just putting a lot of tariffs on because you're allowing criminals to pour into

our country, and we can't allow that anymore. and it stopped it stopped. it was so fast it stopped well now to seoul, south korea where president yoon suk yeol may be at the end of his political rope. >> the leader of his own ruling party is now calling for yoon to be suspended from his duties. the party leader says he has credible evidence that president tried to use troops to arrest key political figures during his short lived martial law declaration on tuesday. lawmakers in the national assembly are fearful he may try the move again. some are taking turns sleeping in parliament in case they need to take emergency action. opposition leaders have scheduled a vote on yoon's impeachment for saturday. cnn's anna coren following the latest developments live from hong kong. i mean this idea of lawmakers sleeping in their parliament in case the president brings in emergency measures is extraordinary. >> it is but they are there to

protect democracy that's that's why they've been doing it. >> and that's what they say. >> we are yet to hear from president yun mark, since that shock declaration of martial law late tuesday night. there was talk that he might appear at the national assembly today that clearly didn't transpire it's now just gone 6 p.m. in seoul. but we know that the main parties have been holding emergency meetings throughout the day regarding that vote to impeach president yun as you say, it's scheduled for tomorrow, 7 p.m. local time. but if the opposition democratic party, which holds the majority in parliament, can actually get the numbers to pass the motion, it could happen earlier and they need to win over eight votes from yoon's ruling people party. this is no longer out of the question. max following a u-turn by yoon's own party. we heard this morning from the leader of the dpp and he said that yun must be suspended. take a listen

yesterday i said i would work to prevent this impeachment from passing in order to protect citizens and supporters from damage caused by unprepared chaos however, considering the new facts that are coming to light i judge that an immediate suspension of president yoon suk yeol official duties is necessary to protect the republic of korea and its people. now, those new facts, this credible evidence that yoon had ordered the arrest of key politicians on anti-state charges, including han, who was just speaking as well as other members of his own party. and han believes that if yoon stays in office, he could declare martial law again. and that is why you have seen these lawmakers camping out in the national assembly. but look any notion that this could happen again, it was ruled out by the special warfare commander

earlier today who said he would defy such orders. but look, this is a clear indication that yoon's own party is now prepared to impeach him. if you remember yesterday they were against the vote and quite unified in that decision. but look, yoon's approval ratings they are just through the floor. they're at their lowest point, 13%. polls found that 70% of south koreans think that he should be impeached. and we're also learning that national police have launched an investigation into yoon and the former defense minister, who allegedly encouraged yoon to declare martial law. look, there are labor unions on strike many people are expected to to take to the streets tonight and over the course of the weekend to put pressure on yoon to resign for at least the national assembly to impeach him. max we'll see what happens. >> we'll be reporting on that. of course tomorrow. anna. thank you. in hong kong now, french president emmanuel macron is

vowing to appoint a new prime minister in the coming days as france's political crisis deepens. macron went on television on thursday to address the shakeup in the government, and he's resisting calls for his resignation. macron blamed both far left and far right parties, but singled out national rally party leader marine le pen, who orchestrated the opposition. here's part of what he said about le pen's party in lou carnesecca une seule chose. >> they only think about one thing about the presidential election to prepare it, to provoke it to bring it on. they do that with cynicism if necessary, and a certain sense of chaos. >> well, macron's speech came a day after prime minister michel barnier was ousted in a no confidence vote. barnier officially resigned on thursday, but he'll play a caretaker role until a new government is appointed. still to come, rebel forces are sweeping through syria, vowing to go all the way to the capital as they infiltrate

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this feelings that can't be described. >> it's been 50 years. we've been suffering injustice and crime and oppression this is a historic moment. a priceless moment this comes after rebels seized aleppo days ago. >> they are now vowing to push further south to homs the next major city on the road to the capital, damascus. cnn's jomana karadsheh is the first western journalist to report from aleppo since the rebels took over. she spoke to some displaced syrians who are now returning to their hometown for the first time in years, despite fears that the battle isn't over we are in aleppo's old city here by its historic, iconic citadel, and it's really surreal being in syria's second city just days after that lightning offensive by rebel forces, where they managed to capture this city in a matter of days. >> and you look around here and

it seems like business as usual ahmed never left aleppo, and she says their homes were destroyed. her children are in turkey and she hasn't seen them in years. >> and she's hoping now that the city has changed hands, that this means that she could see her children again when idlib abdul was in idlib. >> he's been there since the start of the war, and this is his first time back to a city he says. >> they trust the rebels who are now returning them to their cities. >> and he says he's not afraid. syrians have gone through so much and they're resilient. just in the last few days, people have painted over this with the colors of the free syria flag and this is something you see around the

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ten years. >> ten years? yes. >> did you ever imagine this moment possible? >> no actually, no. >> no. >> it we we have in our imagination, imagination that we were going to come back actually we had a lot of dreams about getting back to aleppo, but we didn't actually believe that this moment is going to be true. >> but are you worried about what might be coming of course we are all here. >> all the people here are worried about what's going to happen because the the the airstrikes always attacked us. >> but you can imagine living of course, here again of course i love i love my country. >> i love my, my actually all of the syrian place, the syrian country our country, we have we we hope it's going to be a a clear from the assad regime. all the syrian not just aleppo, speaking to people here, you get this sense of joy and

relief to see the regime of bashar al-assad gone but also there's this apprehension anxiety, fear of what might be coming. >> people don't really know what to expect from these rebel forces who've taken over aleppo. but most people that we've spoken to say that their biggest fear is what the regime and its allies are going to do a real fear of going back to the bloody days of the civil war in syria. jomana karadsheh, cnn aleppo syria. >> investigators have a potential major lead as they look for the killer of a health care ceo in new york for the first time, they see the face of the person of interest in this case, that story just ahead

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>> go to deal dash dot com right now and see how much you can save welcome back to cnn newsroom. >> i'm max foster. if you're just joining us, here are some of today's top stories. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy visited congressional leaders on capitol hill along with elon musk's son, to discuss their plans for improving government efficiency. house speaker mike johnson says the meeting focused mostly on what federal funds they can claw back to

make the government run more smoothly. in syria, rebel forces have swept through another strategic stronghold in the unexpected military advance hammer, a symbolic and strategically important city, marks the second major gain for rebel forces following their grab of aleppo last week syrian government forces have reportedly withdrawn from the city although airstrikes continue and there are new clues in the search for the man accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson investigators in new york say the suspect is still on the run was seen on surveillance footage getting off a bus from atlanta ten days before the shooting meanwhile, investigators have got their first look into the or onto the face of the person of interest. in that case, brian todd has more now from new york there's surveillance video of the shooting itself with the alleged gunman wearing a mask newly released video of what appears to be the man fitting the description of the suspect walking in the area of the killing on wednesday morning.

>> video of what could be the suspect on an e-bike on the west side of manhattan. new photos of a so-called person of interest wearing a hooded jacket but no mask, which cnn has geolocated to a manhattan hospital where police believe the suspect may have stayed. crucial images, which are among the many resources being used by the nypd to catch the suspect in the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. >> nypd and the fbi have a great ability to pull together video surveillance and piece it together moment by moment by moment, and follow somebody through any camera available. >> and that's what that's what the goal is. first is from the incident. every moment after that, every moment before that. can we see this individual? >> cnn is told there's facial recognition technology being used by the nypd joint operations center is being utilized to deploy field teams and analyze the video coming in. law enforcement experts tell us another resource police have will help them trace and possibly match the bullet shell casings left at the scene. a

shell and a live round with the words delay and depose written on them, reflecting popular phrases in the insurance industry to analyze the shells. experts say they'll use the atf's nibin system nibin stands for national integrated ballistic information network, which helps them match shell casings with other crime scenes. there are other physical resources to analyze dna from a phone and a bottle of water, which may have been dropped by the suspect. >> that can possibly hold physical evidence including fingerprints, but also pieces of hair or something else that would disclose who this person might be. >> there's video of the suspect just minutes before the shooting, buying water and energy bars at a starbucks, providing the police with human assets and other resources how did you make that purchase? >> who saw him? who interacted with him, and what did he do electronically that might have paid for those if he paid cash? >> witnesses at the hostel where the gunman may have stayed could be a critical resource. >> also at the hostel who interacted with him what did he

sound like? >> did he have an accent? did he have? >> did he have did he sound like he was from the midwest or from the east coast? >> another important resource police going back in time to thompson's recent background, what was happening in brian thompson's world in terms of the threats that we're hearing about things that the company was worried about, statements made by his widow now about the threats that he was facing former fbi official catherine white says one key resource for law enforcement is the gunman's circle of family and friends. even though we don't know his identity yet, she says someone in that circle likely knows about his grievances with unitedhealthcare and could well step up to help law enforcement. brian todd, cnn washington now, the u.s. >> intelligence community estimates that iran has the ability to produce, quote, more than a dozen nuclear weapons. that could happen if iran decides to enrich its stockpile of uranium, according to a report from the office of the

director of national intelligence. it says tehran hasn't made the decision to create such a weapon, but adds that the country's uranium stores far exceed its stated civilian needs, and it could quickly produce weapons grade plutonium. the report also says iran has the largest ballistic missile inventory in the region the israel military says it has launched airstrikes on positions inside syria, marking a rare instance of israel acknowledging attacks on its neighbor israel says the targets were routes used by hezbollah to smuggle weapons. the idf also says it's killed one of the leaders of the siege on a kibbutz, kibbutz and a military base during the october seventh terror attacks. they say margie killen, the deputy commander of the hamas shati battalion, has been eliminated. meanwhile, the u.s. state department says it continues to find, quote, that the allegations of genocide in

gaza are unfounded. earlier this week, amnesty international said it had gathered significant or sufficient evidence to believe that israel's conduct during the war in gaza amounts to genocide against palestinians. the state department spokesperson said it disagreed with the conclusions of amnesty's report. paula hancocks, following this for us and an achievement really for the israeli military who've been after anyone involved in those attacks yeah yeah that's right, max. >> and also a reminder of the fact that there are still hamas targets that israel wants to go after in gaza so this is the argument that the prime minister has been making saying he wants is happy for a ceasefire, but not the end of the war because hamas has not been eliminated so this is what we're hearing from the israeli military, saying that the air force took out a hamas militant who was basically the leader of

one of the attacks on october 7th, specifically in nahal oz. this was a military base. it was also a kibbutz just along the border with gaza. a number of residents were killed during that attack, and a number of others were taken hostage back into gaza they say that it wasn't just this individual that they killed but also a number of senior hamas operatives including, they say, a senior member of a tunneling unit in hamas. now, hamas hasn't commented at this point, and we have no further information from the israeli military as to where exactly this took place. now meanwhile, max, you also mentioned that the united states, through its state department, is rejecting the accusations that we heard from amnesty international just a day ago of saying that they had sufficient evidence that israel's conduct in gaza did amount to genocide. we heard from the deputy spokesperson of

the state department saying they continue to find the allegations of genocide are unfounded and that they disagree with the conclusions of such a report. the state department did say though, that they still believe that amnesty human rights groups ngos play a vital role when it comes to documenting what is happening in gaza and also analyzing what they're doing now. we did hear from amnesty this near 300 page report. they said was gathered from evidence of a period of about nine months and they say that there were numerous incidents. they believe, which fell foul of three out of five of the acts that are bound, banned by the un genocide convention including that the mass killing of palestinian civilians and serious bodily or mental harm. now, what we've heard from the israeli side is strong rejection of these allegations. the idf called it entirely baseless. the ministry

of foreign affairs going further calling, uh, amnesty deplorable and fanatical, saying that the report was entirely false but it is just the latest report using the term genocide that we have heard just last month, there was a un special committee which issued a report saying that what was happening in northern gaza potentially could be genocide. again, something that israel strongly rejects max. >> um, in terms of how the u.s. is handling these situations, a lot of people just saying you know, is america always just automatically takes israel's point of view. but there was a lot of evidence in this amnesty report they're just contesting that. are they so at this point, the state department is saying that what they saw in the report wasn't enough to make them believe that that this was the case, saying that they disagreed effectively with the

conclusions of this report. >> now, the united states is is israel's strongest ally. it is the the main provider of arms as well. and aid to israel at this point. and they have been throughout this war very supportive of israel's right to self-defense. there have been criticisms from from the united states and most recently from from the u.s. president, joe biden. but on this particular report, they say they disagree with those conclusions. >> max, paula hancocks, thank you. violence escalating in the republic of georgia. the country's former president says the current government is doomed to fail. that story, when we come back cnn heroes, an 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 like a relentless weed. >> moderate to severe

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out wood everything is still covered in soot, broken glass everywhere. it really feels like you're walking through a fire you sort of forget how big trees are when they're 100 years old we then went back to a workshop where people were carving and forming the shapes of those beams with the trees that we'd seen felled. they've brought these techniques from hundreds of years ago into the present and have managed to pull it off i think i was struck most by just how painstaking and elaborate their work was there were woodworkers, there were stonemasons. >> there were individual crafts it's just this endless pylon of of scaffolding. >> i remember going in and just thinking, how are they going to get this done in time

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