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now on cnn this morning the long last, the assad regime has fallen. >> the fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice regime toppled ousted syrian leader bashar al assad. >> now in russia as syrians celebrate the fall of his brutal rule the search continues. the suspected killer who shot a health care executive in new york city, still nowhere to be found and for what they did yeah, honestly, they should go to jail. jail? the january 6th committee investigators, donald trump suggesting just that as he also maintains his promise to pardon. january 6th rioters. and new allegations. how jay-z is responding to a new lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault in a case connected to sean diddy combs

all right, 5 a.m. here on the east coast, a live look at the capitol dome on this monday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. the long brutal rule of syrian president bashar al-assad is over. the question now is what happens next? the people of syria flooding the streets, celebrating the end of more than five decades of the assad family's dictatorship. but we are already seeing how this momentous shift for the country will further complicate the situation in the middle east. early this morning a cnn team on the ground reports hearing strikes in damascus israel's foreign minister confirming the israeli military struck weapons systems and chemical weapons capacity since 2011. syria has been fighting this civil war and this turning point catapulted by rebel forces who launched a sweeping offensive capturing

key cities in just a matter of days. and with that came the end of assad's rule assad, fleeing with his family to russia, where he has been granted asylum on humanitarian grounds. he has held power since 2000. president biden, calling assad's downfall a fundamental act of justice at long last, the assad regime has fallen. >> this regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent syrians. for the first time ever, neither russia nor iran or hezbollah could defend this abhorrent regime in syria. >> syrian rebel leader abu mohammad al-julani declaring complete victory over the assad regime, the culmination of a bloody 13 year civil war this victory, my brothers, is a victory for the entire islamic nation. >> this new triumph, my brothers, marks a new chapter in the history of the region

syrians sweeping into damascus, ransacking assad's palace uncovering a luxury car collection worth millions, including a ferrari f50, a lamborghini, a rolls and a bentley we're joined now by avi mayer. >> he's the former editor in chief of the jerusalem post. avi, good morning always wonderful to have you on the program. let's talk about what happens next here. and of course, this breaking news that has been just in to cnn with the israelis saying that they struck a chemical weapons capacity in the country. what else do we know at this point? and how are you looking at how this is going to play out well, casey good morning. >> i think what we're likely to see is some period of instability and chaos as the country hopefully coalesces into some kind of a coherent, unified future. >> we hope, of course, that syria will end up being a liberal democracy that will seek to live at peace alongside all its neighbors including, of course, the state of israel.

>> but israel, of course, can't wait for that to happen, which is why you saw those airstrikes taking place earlier today. israel hitting chemical weapons facilities and others in order to ensure that they don't fall into the wrong hands and aren't then directed at israel. it's undeniable that the fall of the assad regime is good news, not least of course, for the people of syria, but also for the region and the world and syria, the assad regime have been a key pillar of iran's axis in the region. and the fall of that pillar, i think, significantly constricts iran's ability to spread its malign influence across the middle east. but of course, we'll have to see what the next day will bring. >> yeah, avi how do you understand what is the driving the rebel forces in terms of i shouldn't say what is driving them, but rather how they are going to interact with the people of syria and what that may mean for the region. we've seen this one rebel commander who said that this will still

mean that this is a syria for everyone, for all religious sects, suggesting there may be some religious tolerance. but obviously, you heard there al-julani say it was an islamic place. how much does that matter as well in terms of what we're going to see next? here well, it matters a great deal. >> it's important to realize that the rebel groups are made up of all sorts of factions, representing all kinds of interests in the north of the country. you have the kurds, who, of course, have been a thorn in turkey's side for a very long time, but are allied with the united states south in the country. you have other groups that are also allied with the united states that have been acting to some degree in concert with u.s. forces, but the primary groups in the center of the country really are these islamist jihadist organizations that in the past, in fact, have been allied with al qaeda or isis. that, of course, is who al-julani represents. and there are, of course, many who have expressed concerns about what that means for the future of syria. they

have expressed in recent days more moderate tones and have expressed a desire to rule in a way that is inclusive and democratic. we have to hope that that is indeed what transpires, and that is a democratic future for the people of syria. >> avi, we also of course, know that the americans have been striking in central syria where we we you noted isis, right? and that is, of course why american troops continue to be on the ground in syria. we also saw the incoming president elect donald trump, post about this earlier this weekend. he said this syria is a mess, but it's not our friend. the united states should have nothing to do with it. this is not our fight. let it play out. do not get involved. and then in another post, he talked about assad, russia and the ties between russia syria and ukraine and he says of the russians, quote, they lost all interest in syria because of ukraine. we're close to

600,000 russian soldiers lay wounded or dead in a war that never should have started. and could go on forever. first of all, do you think that the united states should have nothing to do with syria? do you see the strategic presence of the united states as relevant to israel's security in syria? and what do you make of the president elect's comments look i don't think the united states can afford to withdraw from this region any vacuum that's formed by the fall of the assad regime will be filled. >> the question is by whom? it could be filled by china russia, or perhaps even iran again. or it could be filled with more moderate arab states. and by the united states and its allies. so we certainly hope that the future of this region is one that, of course, tilts towards a more moderate future and i don't think that the united states can withdraw entirely. i'm not really sure that the president elect intends to do that either. i think he sees this as something of an opportunity perhaps also to constrain russia's rather malign influence in this part of the world. and, of course,

he was very welcoming of the assad regime's fall, which he attributed as, by the way, did the biden administration of course. prime minister netanyahu himself to the successes that israel has had against iran and its proxies in recent months, basically saying that had israel not weakened the iranian axis of what they call resistance across this region, that the rebel forces would not have been emboldened to push forward and bring about the assad regime's collapse. so i think what we see happening is a new future for this region, hopefully a realignment of forces and one that brings key forces in this region in a more moderate and pro-western direction. >> and we'll see. all right. avi mayer for us this morning, sir. always grateful to have you on the show. thanks very much for being here thank you. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning a day one promise. the president elect sticking to his vow to pardon january 6th rioters when he takes office. plus, searching for a killer. the gunman who murdered the ceo of america's largest health care company. he's still evading police. and

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justice. and in his first sit down interview since his reelection, trump suggested many of those convictions could be swept away. >> but i'm going to be acting very quickly within your first 100 days, first day, first day, first day. yeah, i'm looking first day. these pardons these people have been here. how long is it? 3 or 4 years. okay. you know by the way, they've been in there for years and they're in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn't even be allowed to be open trump went on to say that there should be people in jail for the january 6th investigation. >> certain members of congress who led the investigation into him for what they did. >> honestly, they should go to jail. >> so you think liz cheney should go to jail for what? everyone on the committee. >> i think everybody anybody that voted in favor of going to director, fbi director and your attorney general to send them

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conduct. basically, she's saying, if you investigate a congressional committee, you are going against the rules of of that the bar sets for you what do you see here? and you could see the anger in president elect trump's face there around january 6th. that perhaps suggests he is actually going to send his justice department to do this, right? >> i mean one will point out that this would not be the first time that to build off of liz cheney said that a lawyer for trump would do something that could be sanctionable and get them disbarred in a certain region but on top of that, i mean, this is kind of like this weird dynamic and trump always has operated in this way where he can have a lot of softer tones in different parts of the interview, or try to distance himself with some wordplay about well, that'll be up to them to look into whether or not they'll be doing it. >> they'll they'll have to decide i'm not going to be dictating it to them. but at the same time, very this was the one mark where he was very

explicit in basically saying they need to be in jail, s as opposed to kind of sidestepping some of the issue. um, clearly this is something that is frustrating to him clearly he sees this as something that he feels vindicated in doing. now that he's won reelection. >> so kevin, the obviously the question to that has been at hand and there were just there was discussion reporting about it last week ahead of these trump comments was whether president biden is or should issue preemptive blanket pardons to people like those on the january six committee. congresswoman debbie dingell was on state of the union with my colleague jake tapper yesterday, and they talked about whether this was a good idea. let's watch that i obviously think that oversight and investigations is one of the most important functions of the united states congress. >> a system of checks and balances and would respectfully disagree with what president trump has said, that they should go to jail. it will be

interesting to watch this play out and i also will say to, i know people are talking about, well, should biden give them a blanket, a pardon? pardon but a lot of people don't want that to happen. >> schiff doesn't want it to happen more than that. >> i've talked to many members of the committee because it implies that what they did was wrong and what they were doing was their job. >> so this is the central question, because if you're accepting a pardon, you're in many ways acknowledging acknowledging guilt. >> guilt doesn't necessarily exist or arguably does not exist in this sort of scenario. and this is one of those things where trump has this incredible ability to float an idea that he certainly has about pardoning himself preemptively or reactively during his own term when he was in power, and talking to his lawyers about it as he kind of explained in this interview and then forcing the democrats who claim to have the moral high ground in all of this, to then in response to to trump making all of these threats suddenly have to look into breaking precedent, forging new territory, and leaving everyone in an

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we're looking at winds making it up to 40 or 50mph going into tuesday, really peaking with the worst conditions on tuesday, and then improving improving by wednesday again, relative humidity will be very low, dropping to 20% at times, and that could cause some problems. any fires that start would spread rapidly. casey. >> all right elisa raffa for us this morning. alisa thank you. all right. so coming up here after the break, after more than 50 years in power, the assad regime is over. after less than a two week offensive by rebel forces. plus, president elect donald trump pledging to keep his campaign promises with hardline immigration policies implemented on day one. >> president trump regardless, on day one, is going to issue a series of executive orders that seal the border, shut and begin the largest deportation operation in american history from creating memories to

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underscored the risk and uncertainty i want to say it again, sovereign syria with a new constitution, a new government that serves all syrians. >> and this process will be determined by the syrian people themselves and the united states will do whatever we can to support them, including through humanitarian relief, to help restore syria after more than a decade of war and generations of brutality by the assad family all right. >> joining us now cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier. kim, good morning. always wonderful to see you. let's talk about that risk and uncertainty that president biden mentioned there. what are the strategic imperatives for the united states going forward here well, they don't want syria to turn into a patchwork of different territories run by different armed groups, which is essentially what it is right now so the tass, one of the groups that's taken over, has

said they will hand over to a transitional government in days to weeks. >> but what that government looks like and who are the nation states pulling the strings behind the scenes? we don't know any of that yet. so far, we haven't seen any sort of vengeful bloodletting. we haven't seen people from the former regime pursued to their houses and killed in the streets, the kind of thing we've seen after, for instance, the fall of kabul. but people in syria are watching for that some people still afraid to come outside and everyone's waiting to see who will end up on top after this initial joyous celebration. >> kim, there have been some comments from you mentioned this group that we have seen in damascus and of course, their leader al-julani, formerly of al qaeda, but split with them some years ago. now some commanders under him saying some things that suggest that

they might be willing to allow religious tolerance in the country, saying things about how it's a, you know, syria is a place for for druze and for christians, for others do you buy that? and how do you think that, um relates to whether or not we're going to see a stable syria? >> well, the group has been going through a metamorphosis since breaking from al qaeda, a few years back. and areas that it has ruled over christians, for instance, have been allowed to go about their daily lives. so that's been seen as a hopeful sign but the group is still on the us terrorism list. the us can't legally have communications with them right now and when we were trying to press administration official about this last night briefing reporters, we couldn't really get a good answer on what sort of legal hoops they would go through to try to talk to the incoming people. you know, the

leader you mentioned there's still a multi-million dollar bounty on his head from the fbi. so this is going to be complicated. at the same time, this group seems to want to embrace responsible actor. and saying all the right things initially. >> all right kim dozier for us this morning. kim, always grateful to have you. i hope you'll come back soon. i'm sure this we're going to be covering this story for quite a while, so thank you all right. let's turn now to the to politics on the campaign trail, donald trump had promised mass deportations starting on day one. and now, during his first sit down interview since winning reelection, trump reiterated that deportation pledge. he also vowed to end birthright citizenship is it realistic to deport everyone who had no choice? >> first of all, they're costing us a fortune. but we're starting with the criminals, and we got to do it. and then we're starting with others, and we're going to see how it

goes. you know, we're the only country that has it. do you know if somebody sets a foot just a foot, one foot, you don't need to own our land congratulations. you are now a citizen of the united states of america. yes. we're going to end that because it's ridiculous. >> all right. joining us now to discuss this is nick johnson. he is publisher at axios. now nick, of course he is wrong. we are not the only country in the world with birthright citizenship. now, that said, it has historically been a central part of of the the founding of this country to british common law. >> i looked at the case history on this. back to the 1600s. >> and you can vow to end anything. >> but like, that's not how government works at all. >> what did you make of how donald trump addressed this issue because there were some nuances for example let's let's watch what trump said about the dreamers in particular. he was asked about these are people that were brought to the united states as very small children and have lived here for most of their lives. let's watch that. >> you said once back in 2017,

they quote, shouldn't be very worried about being deported. should they be worried? now the dreamers are going to come later and we have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age. >> and many of these are middle aged people now. they don't even speak the language of their country. and yes we're going to do something about that. does that mean it's hard to tell what he means there by do something about this? >> i mean, it's hard to tell what he means in a lot of this interview, we talked about donald trump and the we've on the campaign trail, like just pulling out the transcript of the interview yesterday. >> you get the exact same kind of thing. but the nuances are interesting. >> as he begins to tick through what he actually means on the immigration stuff starting very broadly, we're going to deport everyone. what do you actually mean by that? okay. >> well, we're going to focus on some of the criminals actually first. >> and then he digs in more. >> what are you doing about the families of that? if there are children who are born in the united states, of those of who came here illegally. what are you going to do about that? >> you dig in a little bit more, okay. >> how are you going to approach dreamers? well, we're going to do something about that. >> so there's just massive

amounts of nuance in this. >> what's fascinating about this i think what we need to be watching for after inauguration next year is how this stuff becomes reality. >> this is grand sweeping trumpian statements about murderers and gang members and millions of peoples and billions of dollars in tariffs. okay, when we translate that actually into policy, what does it actually become? and i think we've just begun to sort of chip away a little bit of that at that interview yesterday about what he actually means when he's talking about this deportation. >> well, and it's worth noting that of all the things he promised when he came in in 2016, he wasn't able actually to be able to execute on a lot of his, even his immigration related policies. the wall the wall is not done. >> the tariffs weren't as extreme as, as as they announced in the previous campaign. like there's a huge gap between this kind of campaign rhetoric and what trump is famous for. this broad the weave of this rhetoric and what it actually becomes into policy, how it impacts the hill, how it impacts the policymaking apparatus. if you have to go to supreme court, if you're going to try and change the constitution, that's what birthright citizenship is. there's a big gap in between that. and i think we're going to spend a lot of time up until

inauguration day trying to figure out what's going to fill that. >> nick, the other piece of the immigration question is, of course, family separation, which, you know, we saw at the border coming in when trump was president last time. now, of course, the conversation is around families that are here and what do these deportations mean for them? trump was asked, pressed about this in this interview. let's watch that piece also your border czar, tom homan said they can be deported together is that the plan? >> well, that way you keep the well. i don't want to be breaking up families. so the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back. >> of course, if you send them all back and you're talking about members who are members of a family who are u.s. citizens. >> yeah i mean, the policy gets complicated there with some of those people have been here also, would those people be dreamers if you're sending their families away? >> and so again, he speaks in very broad strokes we're just beginning to figure out what those broad strokes will look like when they begin to translate into policy. we know what his aspirations are. it's millions of people being

deported. it's if those families need to be deported, the children who might be american citizens go with them. what does that look like when it actually comes to policy? when he's working with state and local law enforcement to enforce it? if he has to go to congress or other policymaking activities to get it done. >> all right. nick johnston for us this morning, sir. very grateful to have you. thank you. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, the latest on the search for the killer. police releasing two new photos of the suspect. but key pieces of evidence remain missing. plus slugger juan soto. yeah, he's staying in new york, but he's not going to be a yankee. bleacher report next it's the most wonderful time with the kids. >> jingle be of good cheer. >> it's the most one. >> whether your phone's broken or old. we've got you with

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photos, two new photos released by police they show the suspect with a hood in the back seat of a taxi and wearing a jacket, walking on the street. the backpack he wore when he shot ceo brian thompson found discarded in central park, was filled with monopoly money, but no weapon. nypd divers looking for that firearm and other clues over the weekend in a central park pond and while authorities believe the suspect is long gone from new york, they remain optimistic they'll capture him even though they are missing three key pieces of evidence. the suspect's identity, the weapon that he used, and the bicycle that he escaped on the manner in which they were able to follow his footsteps to recover evidence some of it some of it is known. >> some of it is unknown. but the net is tightening and we're going to bring this person to justice cnn senior law enforcement analyst, former

philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey joins us now. >> chief ramsey, always wonderful to have you on the show. this is just a remarkable situation. what stands out to you about what we know and what we don't know? and whether you think at this point it's likely that they're actually going to find this guy well, first of all, i think eventually they will find him. >> but this is more complicated than we thought in the very beginning. they've recovered a lot of evidence, but so far the evidence hasn't led them directly to a suspect. the fact that they're putting out photographs with no name attached to it tells me that they're still trying to find out who this person is. they've recovered some dna, for an example, but this person is not in codis or the dna database. and unless you're in that database, then there's not going to be a hit. apparently a fingerprint, whether it's a full print or a partial print. but again, if you're not in the system, then there's not going to be a hit on that. and

so they've recovered evidence, but the key is to find the person responsible. you know, being able to identify that individual and so far i don't believe they've been able to do it, although like any other case, you know, detectives hold things close to the vest. they may have a person of interest, but they just haven't released it yet publicly. >> so chief, how does the public and the public reaction to this impact the ability to identify him? because i know my sense from from talking to to folks like yourself and others who've come on the show, is that you can crowdsource with this picture, right? like there's someone out there who saw the photo of him from the hospital with his mask down and knows who he is, but there has been this really striking reaction in the wake of this crime where people seem to be taking their own feelings about the health insurance industry, the frustrations they have. i mean, when unitedhealth posted something about this on facebook, there were tens of

thousands of laughing emoji responses to this. is that do you think getting in the way of the the police's ability to figure out who he is? >> yeah, i do think it gets in the way because, you know, someone may actually recognize who this person is, but they're sympathetic toward that individual for whatever reason. and so they're not notifying the police. you got to take all these things into consideration. now, there is a pretty hefty reward on this individual eventually someone may call, but they're getting thousands and thousands of leads. they have to follow each and every one of those, uh, hoping that one actually leads them to the suspect. but the fact that you're starting to hear so much through social media, you know toward negatively toward the health insurance industry, that certainly doesn't help things at all. but again, police have to just keep at it eventually they will find this person. but the longer it goes, the more difficult it becomes he could be anywhere in the country right now.

>> what do you make of the monopoly money in the backpack? is he just trolling? >> you know, it could be when? when i heard that i don't know if that's a reference to, you know uh, you know, some kind of. you know, paid hit. if it's some reference to, uh, you know, the fact that the insurance agency companies don't want to really pay anything, uh, should a person file a claim? i mean who knows? it was intentional, though, and that individual had been in new york for like ten days prior to the actual killing, so he had plenty of time to go through central park and figure out what's a good place to plant the backpack where it's not easily found. certainly didn't put the gun in there. the gun is somewhere else. could be in the water, could be anywhere. who knows? i mean, this is well planned out. not just the assassination itself, but that period of time afterwards. the escape, the clues all those kinds of things. um and that's not typical in a lot of these

cases, for sure. >> all right. charles ramsey for us at chief, thank you very much for being with us. i really appreciate your time. thank you. all right. time now for sports. the bracket now set for the first ever 12 team college football playoff coy wire here on with more on who made it. who was left out. it's the morning's bleacher report. koy. good morning. >> good morning casey. >> the long awaited much anticipated selection sunday finally arrived, and the matchups have been revealed. >> undefeated oregon getting the number one overall seed in a bye. >> from there, things get interesting. >> the other byes go to georgia, boise state and arizona state with the biggest debate centering around whether alabama deserved to get in ahead of smu. three loss. bama had a much tougher schedule, but didn't make their conference title game. smu had just two losses, one of them to clemson in the acc title game. on a last second field goal, the committee sided with smu. they will go to penn state, while clemson plays at texas. the other matchups are notre dame hosting indiana and ohio state hosting tennessee. the

first round games kick off december 20th and 21st. two of them on our sister channel tnt to the nfl where the chiefs keep their eyes on a three peat in dramatic fashion. down one to the chargers in the final moments when patrick mahomes just pulls off more wizardry, setting up a game winning field goal attempt for matthew wright with just one second left. and watch this casey wright just signed with the team, doinks it off the upright, but in chiefs win 1716, claiming their ninth straight division title they have now won 15 straight games by one score or less. how in the world do you keep doing this? mahomes we believe in each other. >> you know it's never one group. it's everybody. offense, defense special teams. and that's what the special teams do. and so i was glad that matt was able to knock that thing through. and we got the win. i'm just glad it went in. i wish it went right down the middle. but three is three. >> all right the bills quarterback josh allen making

history against the rams he's the first player ever with three passing touchdowns. and three rushing touchdowns in a regular season game. but his six touchdowns still weren't enough to get the win. la finding their stride, winning in a shootout 4442, snapping buffalo's seven game win streak. here's allen after the game hate losing you lose by two. >> you lose by 100. it don't matter. you're still losing an offensive. offensively we got to find ways to score before the half and score after the half. so we didn't do our part either. all right casey get ready to spit out your coffee. >> superstar slugger and outfielder juan soto reportedly signing with the new york mets with the richest deal in history of sports 15 years, 765 million bucks. that beats out shohei ohtani's ten year deal. he signed with the dodgers last year. the 26 year old heads to queens after one season in the bronx as a yankee, where he helped lead the pinstripes to

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