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>> the u.s. believes the bashar al assad regime could fall within days, as rebel forces are quickly closing in on the capital city toppling statues. and they say they are now, quote at the gates of damascus. where is president assad? tonight we'll have a live report grand reopening president-elect trump back on the world stage in paris tonight at the reopening of the notre dame cathedral, five years after that catastrophic fire. engaging in high stakes meetings on the sidelines with ukraine, zelenskyy and francis macron. we will take you there. and the manhunt intensifies with new evidence in hand tonight, investigators are taking their search for a killer beyond new york city. why police now believe he's left town. and how has no one recognized him? and come forward. we'll take you live to the suspect's last known location. >> this is cnn breaking news good evening to you. >> i'm jessica dean. we begin with breaking news tonight out

of syria. where rebels may be on the verge of toppling president bashar al assad's regime. the rebels keep pushing deeper south. they say they're now at the gates of damascus. of course, that's syria's capital and at this moment, conflicting reports about where president assad actually is. for more on all of this, cnn's nic robertson is joining us now live from london. nic, what is the latest? >> yeah. jessica. sources. i'm talking to are saying that rebels have essentially been looking for assad in the capital. and he is not in the places that they would have expected him to be. this was not the sort of main bulk of their forces that we now see poised at the northern outskirts of damascus, and we see rebel forces who've come from the south as well, and some of the sort of southern suburbs. damascus is a really, really large city. you know, you can travel an hour to get to the really the far outside of it if the traffic is heavy. what we are seeing right now is

the army deserting their posts, the police deserting their posts right around the capital and the rebels converging on it. and these rebel elements that have already been inside, essentially on reconnaissance efforts inside the capital, are not seeing assad, where they would expect him to see him. i'm not seeing indications of him. they don't know where he is. they say that they're searching for him. they don't know if he is in damascus still if he has somewhere else in the country, or even if he has left the country, they just don't have concrete information about it. but for sure, he's not in the places they would expect him to be, which really shows the signs here that assad appears to recognize that his and potentially really here, you know, may have may have less than days in reality to have a grip on the country if he if damascus wakes up tomorrow morning and finds rebels move from the outside into the center of the city, he effectively has lost control

over the capital, and it will. we don't know. we don't know what he may keep under his control at this time it is truly incredible. >> and just to watch how quickly this has all played out, nic, as president trump is overseas tonight, he's also making his position known on what he believes the u.s. involvement in syria should be. what is he saying? >> yeah, it's pretty clear. look he's saying this is not the united states fight. the united states should stay out of it, that this is something. just stand back and let them finish up their the u.s. does have forces inside the very north west of syria they are backing and supporting and backed by a large, mostly kurdish rebel faction. there the syrian democratic forces. this is an important component of the u. s. the united states overseas efforts to contain and constrict and and defeat isis

and one of the important things if you will, about that rebel group in the northwest of syria that the united states supports is the large jails where there are hundreds, if not thousands of former isis fighters and their families that are being kept in those prisons. essentially by these kurdish groups that are supported by the united states. so president trump, making very clear he sees no role for the united states forces inside syria at the moment. he's not talking here. it appears diplomatically or politically. this is really about forces. and at the moment they are a long way from the action in the capital. but he's making it very clear they should have absolutely no part going forward in what's happening there. >> all right, nic robertson, with the very latest out of london thank you so much for that. and joining us now is the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. he

was also the national security advisor during trump's first term. thanks so much for being here with us. i just want to get your reaction first to this stunning advance by rebel forces in syria tonight well, it certainly looks like the combination of pressure from the north, but also from the south out of daraa province where over. >> 12, 13 years ago, during the arab spring, the opposition to assad really first manifested itself. look in 2011, everybody said assad was done for. and obviously he wasn't. it may well be this time his luck has run out. it certainly looks very grave. the real question, i think, is whether a combination of russian and iranian assistance can prop him up or whether we're coming face to face with some very significant questions about the future of syria and and indeed iraq, whether whether they can maintain their territorial integrity, whether they're viable as, as states going forward or just what the lay of

the land will look like. >> has this surprised you how quickly this they have advanced the rebel forces and successfully well, i think there's a lot we don't know. >> we don't know for example, how much turkey was involved in supplying logistics and intelligence and other aid to these rebels. let's not forget another complication. here are the neo-ottoman imperial ambitions of president erdogan of turkey. but but i think one thing we're seeing is the is the near collapse of of russian ability to do anything militarily drawn away from syria by the war in ukraine. what russia's interest in syria comes down to is its naval station at tardis and its air base north of north of tartus and latakia province. if the russians can make a deal with a new syrian regime and keep those bases i don't think they care that much about assad for iran, it's very different if assad and his alawite regime are

replaced by sunni islamist iran is in deep trouble and its ability to support whatever's left of hezbollah, whatever the israelis haven't destroyed, and this whole opportunity for the rebels in syria, we owe to israel and we owe to israel's destruction, ongoing destruction of hamas in the gaza strip and its ongoing dismemberment of hezbollah in lebanon, the middle east is definitely changing to iran's detriment. but let's also be clear these syrian rebels, by and large, are islamists themselves. many are al qaeda isis fighters and a terrorist regime in damascus is in lieu of the assad regime. is like potentially jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. the u.s. shouldn't get involved militarily but it is dead wrong to say we don't have real interest in the outcome of this fight. >> yeah. so i want to ask you

about that because as nick was reporting, president elect trump has been very clear he wants the u.s. to stay out of syria, writing, quote, this is not our fight. let it play out. it's very different from what senator lindsey graham for example, posted yesterday. he said that it's quote, imperative to reinforce american troops there. who do you think is right well, i think we cannot leave american troops at risk, that's for sure. >> they're largely concentrated, not not in the northwest part where the rebels have come from. but in the northeast and have been a stabilizing force. there and a real deterrent to iran actively supporting assad more widely within syria and at the absolutely critical at-tanf enclave at the confluence of the iraqi, jordanian and syrian borders. you know, we've got to worry about erdogan trying to extend turkish control over much of northern syria, that that would not be good for stability in the region. we don't know whether erdogan has

spoken to trump about this or not, but but it's possible syria will simply fragment that assad will retreat to the alawite highlands north of of lebanon and that could become a mini state. the rebels could take damascus, the syrian defense forces, the kurdish forces could could be left in charge of northwest syria. this could contribute to the fragmentation of of iraq right next door. things are really very unstable and therefore american forces at at times in northeast syria in iraq needed to be provided with whatever protection is necessary given the the breakdown of order, whatever order, minimal order, there was in syria to begin with. yeah. >> and i do want to ask you a little more about that, because i'm curious. obviously, this is still happening in real time. it's playing out before our very eyes. but how does the rebels success success begin to shift? the dynamics in that region with kurdish and turkish

backed forces in the north and islamic state fighters kind of throughout the country well, it depends on how much territory they take but certainly israel was never happy with assad, a pro-iran regime to its north along the golan heights and being used by iran for 20 years, if not more, as a transit route to supply hezbollah with weapons and ammunition and equipment to threaten israel but a a sunni extremist regime in damascus isn't any better for israel in many respects, and it could lead to a resurgence of of isis in syria and in western iraq and pose a terrorist threat not just to israel, but to to the gulf arab states as well this is something that's going to require very careful watching and i don't i don't think there are many contingency plans available because i think the success of the rebels is caught pretty

much everybody by surprise, including in washington. mhm. and i want to ask you about trump's pick for the director of national intelligence, tulsi gabbard, a former congresswoman. she met with president assad back in 2017, nearly 100 former national security officials are urging a full review of the our government the u.s. government's files on gabbard are you concerned about her ties to the syrian regime, her potential ties to russia? and if and what power she might hold if confirmed by the senate yeah, i think she's totally unqualified to be dni. >> and i think her positions put her beyond the outermost fringe of american politics when she visited assad in syria, he was effectively a russian-iranian ally. and what she said about the syria not being a direct threat to the united states, that was her justification for going. it's completely false the syrians and their

combination with iran and hezbollah have posed direct threats to americans across the region. they certainly pose a direct threat to key american allies, israel and jordan. and it's going to be very interesting to see what the files that may be uncovered in the syrian government, if the rebels succeed in capturing damascus what they show about a number of americans. >> mhm are you watching for that? that's that's kind of intriguing, i guess is a word we could use yeah look, when there are dramatic changes of governments, new regime may well want to curry favor with the united states. >> i think we're in a very dangerous situation here. not that anybody is going to mourn the passing, the passing of assad, that's for sure, because it will mean a further weakening of iran's position in the region, which is nothing but good news for the united states israel and friendly arab states i also want to ask you

about president-elect trump being in paris tonight for the reopening of the notre dame cathedral. >> he met french president macron, ukraine zelenskyy earlier zelenskyy saying that meeting was good and productive. what do you just generally make of the president elect's return to the global stage, and how we're seeing him before he's even assumed office, really taking center stage well, i think it reflects the the passivity of the biden administration i don't know what president biden is doing this weekend. >> apparently not too much. but let's be clear. also president macron, france is in deep political trouble his government collapsed. his prime minister was given a vote of no confidence a few days ago. the shortest government in contemporary french history. macron is deeply unpopular. this coincidence of the of the restoration and reopening of notre dame, which is a great event for the french people and western civilization frankly,

macron is trying to take advantage of for political purposes, and so is donald trump so, you know, the band is back together again. we'll see what happens after january 20. >> yeah, it is interesting to see him, you know, meeting shaking hands hugging in some cases some of these leaders who are clearly trying to adapt to a new world order as it is with with the american leadership yeah it's i think it is very different from other transitions in that respect. >> the rule is, in fact, we only have one government at a time. and normally the outgoing president continues to assert his authority and the incoming president is discreet so that foreign governments aren't confused about who's in charge before inauguration on january the 20th. well, that that norm is out the window, along with so many others. and i just hope that our adversaries internationally don't get the wrong picture from this. don't draw the wrong conclusion and

try and take advantage, because as weak as he's been, we still do have president biden until january, right and lastly, i just want to ask you about another person that's there with trump in france and that's elon musk, who we've seen, of course, by his side on the campaign trail. >> and now in the transition, but also increasingly in the middle of a lot of these conversations with foreign leaders and in the conversations about foreign conflicts. what do you make of that well, you know, it's it's almost like musk has become vice president. >> i don't know where jd vance is on this trip, but but elon musk, to this point, remains a private citizen and he has no governmental authority. he may have extraordinary influence over donald trump, but the rubber meets the road at noon on the 20th of january. musk is going to have to decide which way to jump and and at that point, i think people will will have to will have to make a judgment whether whether there's undue influence or anything else. but right now,

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three. >> the doors of the famous notre dame cathedral officially opening for the first time since 2019, when a fire suddenly broke out, destroying that iconic paris landmark in so many ways. today, dozens of world leaders including president-elect donald trump, gathered in the french capital to celebrate the reopening and the rebirth of the beloved 12th century cathedral. cnn senior international correspondent melissa bell is in paris with more on today's ceremony and the significance of trump's return to the world stage. >> jessica notwithstanding the terrible weather in paris this saturday night, this was a ceremony intended to speak not just to the many heads of state who had managed to get inside the cathedral for its grand opening. but to the world once again five years ago, when it had burned down in 2019. the fire here at notre dame had really caught the imagination

of so many. the ceremony to reopen it, designed to speak to the world as well. there were no fewer than 340,000 individual donors from 150 different countries to the restoration project of notre dame and in fact, tonight, what we saw were the words thank you, merci emblazoned in so many different languages on the front of the cathedral inside, meanwhile, 50 heads of state some of them european monarchies, prince william inside, but also, of course, president elect donald trump, doctor jill biden had accepted president macron's invitation, as had president zelenskyy. and before this very moving ceremony could get underway, there had been these meetings at the elysee palace, donald trump meeting with emmanuel macron and president zelenskyy for half an hour. and what we understand are according to the ukrainian president, was a positive meeting. it comes, of course, as a crucial time with emmanuel macron trying to bring these two men together as the world looks ahead to a 2025 when it is expected the

question will not be whether negotiations over peace in ukraine begin. but when jessica. >> all right. melissa bell for us in paris. thank you. and joining us now to discuss this further, cnn reporter alayna treene, who has covered president elect trump's campaign and now the transition extensively. and former foreign correspondent for the new york times and paris correspondent for cbs, david andelman. he's also the author of andelman unleashed on substack. great to have both of you here. david, let's start first with you. tell us about the significance of this event at a time when we are seeing multiple world wars going on around the world, and as the u.s. prepares for the return of president-elect trump and his views of the world well, you know, jessica, i was in paris when notre dame caught fire five years ago for me and most of those who were watching, it was the paris itself and its heart and its soul was burning. >> i mean, this this is a building that goes back two centuries before columbus discovered america. it's one of the greatest religious structures in the world. so

when macron pledged that in five years it was going to be rebuilt most of us chalked it up to just another one of his promises that would never be kept. but it was. and today, this can only go down as one of his greatest triumphs god knows he needs one of those. these days. and he tried to also sort of, you know, bootstrap that today with his meetings with zelenskyy of ukraine and and trump himself, of course. >> yeah. it is quite there's so many interesting dynamics at play here. you outlined some of them. of course you have macron and what's happening in french politics. we have what's happening globally. and elena, this was a ceremony that president elect donald trump was very keen on attending. and he goes and also meets with ukraine's president zelenskyy. he's there with macron of course. tell us how this all came together. and also this idea that he's not president yet, but he's certainly acting like one. >> he is and he even toured some of these. you know, events. i mean, when he met with world leaders, even before the election, people were saying that he was you know,

kind of wheeling and dealing in a way that a candidate normally wouldn't. he's definitely doing that now as the president elect, even though he's not going to be sworn in until january 20th. look, you're absolutely right. when i talked to donald trump's team, they said, as soon as trump received the invitation to go to this event, he told them that he wanted to attend, that he wanted to fly to paris and engage in this part of it, i'm told, is because he has long had this fascination with the notre dame particularly, you know, the fire that ravaged it. i remember when he the fire happened when he was in office. he was on board air force one, tweeting about the fire and calling it horrible. and it's kind of been something that donald trump has talked about a lot. so that was part of it but the other part of it, of course, is this is a great opportunity for him. i mean it's his first return to the world stage. his first overseas trip since the november 5th election, a great opportunity to rub shoulders with many of these leaders, some of whom he has existing relationships with from his first term, others who he has not met yet, and he also and i was given this impression as well from my conversations with

trump's team that they kind of expected there to be a lot of pageantry around this visit. and you did see that when donald trump pulled up to the elysee palace and met with macron. you saw the greeting. you kind of saw the way that they had laid it out. it was you know, a lot of pomp and circumstance that donald trump likes and appreciates now, as for these meetings specifically, this is such a crucial time. yes. he's not president yet, but donald trump has a very different view of foreign policy than president joe biden. he's much more populist. he takes the america first kind of attitude very seriously. and i think a lot of leaders have questions about what that means for the global stage, particularly as it relates, of course, to the war between russia and ukraine and whether or not donald trump is going to pull back aid or how he's going to go about kind of fulfilling his campaign promise to end the war swiftly if elected. >> yeah and, david, talk to us about trump and macron's relationship they worked closely together during his first term. sometimes it was described as a bromance as you

alluded to, macron in a different political situation in this situation today what what can you tell us about the dynamic between these two? >> well first of all, i was watching the the arrival and the departure. and, you know, they did that same, you know, sort of vise grip when they shook each other's hands that they when they first met at nato, people were were talking about what, seven years ago, eight years ago. it was pretty funny. and this has repeated itself. but, you know, i spent an hour last week with one of macron's top counselors at the aly vance who told me that the two have gotten along famously but knowing trump well macron really believes this is the time for europe to come together and assume a real independent from someone who will likely prove to be somewhat unreliable ally. he'd love to have the role again of europe's trump whisperer i called him that trump whisperer during the early part of his trump's first term, but he also knows how fickle trump can be so, you know, macron is rolling

the dice on all of this. but in a way, so is trump. it's very interesting. when they went into the meeting, um, they had a certain sort of if you will, expression on their faces when they came out, philippe ricard, who the le monde correspondent was right there and he said their faces looked a little more relaxed. i found that very interesting. i met very well be a tribute to macron. >> what do you think that means? what did you read into that well i read into it. >> macron had an interesting comment that he put online afterwards. he said great nations can achieve the impossible. let's continue joint action for peace and security i'm proud of the friendship between the u.s. and france. we have so many challenges to face together and so on. i think he is trying to use this as a moment when to see just how far, how far he can move trump off of his first, shall we say, first term and his threats between the terms, uh actions towards europe and france and macron

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enten. okay harry, let's start first with raw milk. are americans aware of the dangers of raw milk? because that's different than your typical pasteurized milk? >> yeah, it definitely is. and you know, sometimes when we run these numbers, i'm always or at least sometimes i'm at least a little bit surprised here you know, is raw or pasteurized milk safer? the answer of course is pasteurized. but look at this. it's only a plurality at 47% who say it's pasteurized 15% equally safe. that's wrong. 9% say raw. i don't really understand that at all. and then you get this huge chunk down here, 30% who are unsure. folks. it's pasteurized milk. it's pasteurized milk that is safer. let that be a lesson. my mother is a pediatrician. she passed some smarts on to me. it's pasteurized milk. that's safer. the plurality say it, but it should be the vast majority jessica. >> yeah yeah, yeah. that's something i hope everyone takes away. okay. but also, how many people actually have raw milk or drink raw milk. yeah. >> okay. so there are two different ways we can sort of look at this. all right. let's

take a look at perhaps what i thought was a surprising stat, which is 4 million adults drink raw milk weekly. that seems like a lot of people. that seems like a lot of people. how about 11 million? at least once a year? that's a ton of people. it seems like. but i want to put this in perspective and this is tim carter, your idea, put this in perspective because the bottom line is you can get americans to basically believe or have a habit to do anything. all right. so we talked about that 11 million. right. who drink raw milk yearly. well 26 million americans according to polls think that the earth is flat. and then there's 31%. there's 31 million, 31 million who think we faked the moon landing so, yeah, there are a lot of people who drink raw milk at least yearly. but there are a lot of people who believe a lot of silly things as well. jessica. >> yeah and just to remind everybody, raw milk, obviously is raw. and then pasteurization kills any sort of pathogen that might be floating around. yes okay. now that we've covered that, let's take a hard turn to taylor swift and the eras tour, which is coming to a

close and it has been monstrously profitable. >> oh, it absolutely is. and, you know, i have a studio audience here with me. i got the girlfriend as well as the girlfriend sister brooke, who's off on the side here. she is one of the biggest taylor swift fans in the entire world. so i had to do this, jessica. i just had to do it all right? i mean, look at this. how many tickets were sold? 11 million. 11 million were sold. look at the gross here. 2.6 billion off of the tickets alone. my goodness gracious. i wish i could get a little bit of this. 2.6 billion. but the bottom line is she was massively successful. so yeah no kidding. a lot of money grossed from all those tickets being sold. >> jessica, it is incredible. and what i remember were all the stories about the various local economies that also got boosts from the tour coming to town. >> oh yeah. so, you know, you just talk about the tour and the tickets, but talk about the tour just generally speaking, accounting for travel, merch et

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