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their confirmation battles. in the meantime, trump is laying out aggressive day one plans, including pardons for january 6th rioters. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we do begin with a major development in the manhunt for the killer of unitedhealthcare ceo, brian thompson. new york police are heading right now to altoona pennsylvania. they are going there to question a 26 year old man who is now in custody. two sources telling cnn the man detained had a gun with a suppressor. you may think of that as a silencer and also multiple fake ids. and this just in the man has been charged with offenses related to the gun recovered. you may recall last wednesday, a gunman seen using a suppressor killed thompson outside a midtown manhattan hotel. let's get right to cnn. chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john

sources are indicating to you that a mcdonald's employee tipped them off to this person that's right. >> and you know this story is developing bit by bit so as it develops what we now understand is that a patron may have approached the employee, pointed the individual out and said, it looks like the guy in the picture wanted for the new york murders, and that the employee may have placed the call to the altoona pennsylvania police, who then responded and found this individual. but this is normal in a story like this where details start to come in one piece at a time. but yes, that's how police were alerted. >> all right. if you can stand by for us, john, we do want to bring in bobby chacon. he's a retired fbi agent who served nearly two decades in the new york office. bobby, what do you think about how this has come together after what's been a really intense search with so much public interest for this gunman

well, you know, it's kind of something i expected. >> although i did expect them to kind of get a bigger getaway, maybe even internationally but his his face and those photos were plastered by your network and other networks, literally globally. i was on the news in australia recently. i mean, his picture went everywhere, so i was waiting for somebody to either pick up a phone like happened in this mcdonald's in pennsylvania or a friend family member, classmate saying, i know who that is. it was, i think it was inevitable with when those when those images were plastered on. and this is why the news like your show is so important, because you have to get that out there. and the police can't do that without the media's help. and so we pushed those photographs out, and i thought it was just a matter of time before somebody recognized this guy as just happened. this morning. >> and, john, i want to ask you about the details in his arrest because he's been arrested oh, so we don't have. john, i'm sure he's taking calls from sources as we speak on this fast developing story. bobby, to you, does it surprise you that he's been arrested on these gun related

charges? he's not yet been arrested or at least there's no indication that he's been confirmed as to be suspected to be the killer in this case even though officials say that he had a suppressor and fake ids on him including the fake id that officials believed was used in new york. how soon before they point to him as the suspect? if all the evidence is pointing in that direction yeah. >> well it takes some time. it'll be a couple of hours, because, remember he was he has to be charged in manhattan. so the manhattan da's office has to get the information from the nypd. detectives who are enroute to pennsylvania. they're going to be interviewing him, and that takes time. some of the forensics that they gather from him have to be matched to what was found at the scene that takes a little time. so, you know, the da's office in manhattan now has to type up the charging documents that they have to go to court with in manhattan to, to then get an extradition from pennsylvania so, so all that paperwork takes a little time but right now, what's happening is the detectives are interviewing him. they're probably stepping out and completing reports.

either, you know then emailing those reports to the manhattan da's office to other detectives there so they can start typing up the charging documents in manhattan, where the crime occurred. that's where he has to be charged. so he's charged with, you know probably carrying a suppressor, which is illegal on most guns. it just to hold him in pennsylvania. the charges in manhattan have to be brought by the manhattan da's office and they're probably typing that paperwork as we speak in constant communication with those in pennsylvania as to what they can put into the charging documents in manhattan. >> and, john, you're back with us now. talk to us a little bit about the things that would need to come together to make this case. >> well, it has the potential to be an extraordinarily strong case based on the evidence. we know about. so people briefed on the investigation have told us that they have extracted dna from a phone from a water bottle that he drank from, from a power bar that he ate and these things were discarded along the trail where he fled

after the shooting. now, if this individual who's in custody is the person behind this crime, the dna should match to the individual the print may match the individual because you can't eliminate that somebody else didn't handle the phone, but the gun that he's arrested with, with the suppressor, that's going to be key. once they fire a bullet through that gun and look at the shell casing and look at the bullet matching the ballistics on both ends is a very well honed science so there is a lot that goes beyond the circumstantial that would allege allegedly tie him to this crime and john, what about some of the documents you are learning that he apparently had with him when he was encountered by police today and gun related charges? well, this was initially described to us as maybe a manifesto. what it is, is a relatively short meaning a about two pages of a

of a document that talks about the health care industry, that talks about inequity, that suggests that violence is, you know, one of the answers and it is being looked at as something that is probably going to be key to this investigation. when you find a man in a mcdonald's allegedly with a gun, a silencer and a document railing against the health care industry, when you have the head of the largest health care, you know, insurance provider in america gunned down by an individual of similar description with a similar weapon and bobby, as we're getting details about this mcdonald's employee calling police after recognizing the face of this individual just kind of stunning to think of how that moment went down. >> talk a little bit about how it appears this really did come down to that photo and the

reach of it. so broadly. and to local law enforcement responding to a tip yeah. >> and you know, i wonder how many tips you know, countrywide nationwide have gotten because he doesn't look unique so there are other people that probably look similar to him and whether or not other police departments have responded and kind of ruled people out and things like that, but certainly this employee, you know, saw those photos on a news network somewhere and you know, was, you know, was created a strong enough memory in her, her mind that when she saw this guy as a customer with no mask, you know obviously she saw his face and she said that looks just like the guy. and she was you know, wise enough to and sharp enough to call the police and check it out because that's all you have to do is call 911. the police come over and check it out. and as they're questioning him all of a sudden, you know more suspicion grows. he's got a backpack, he's got a gun, you know, and that. and then it takes off. but it's great that the public was able to. this was a you know, a crowdsourcing type thing. people were looking

at that image. you guys were blasting that image everywhere. and and it had its reach. and now it's had its effect yeah. >> potentially a major break in the case just six days after the shooting and killing of this ceo, john miller. bobby chacon thank you both. appreciate your time thanks. back here in washington i hate it when that happens it's the start of a big week on capitol hill for three of president-elect donald trump's most controversial picks to join his incoming administration. right now, his embattled choice for defense secretary pete hegseth is back for a second week trying to rally support as he faces an allegation of alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct. and we're told that hegseth is intensifying his focus on winning over three key female senators iowa's joni ernst maine's susan collins and alaska's lisa murkowski. two other trump picks, kash patel, who is his choice for fbi director, and tulsi gabbard for director of national intelligence, are also up on the hill today, both expected to face some tough confirmation

fights. let's go to cnn's kristen holmes, who is in west palm beach near mar-a-lago. kristen, what more do you know about hegseth zeroing in on these three female senators who have raised questions about his past well, brianna and boris, we should go back to last week because they believe that they being trump's team as well as hegseth and his allies, that they are in a very different place today than they were at the end of last week. >> now, part of that is because we saw donald trump coming out twice, once on true social, once in an interview with nbc saying that he supported hegseth too because of what we have heard from joni ernst essentially, they had a very frank conversation. multiple sources told me and my colleague lauren fox back last week. they weren't sure where it was going to land. however, we saw a little bit of what they believe was a shift in joni ernst talking points over the weekend went from essentially being just concerned to moving towards the idea that he should get a confirmation hearing that she was going to meet with him

again. they view that all in a positive way. remember all of this comes down to the math here. whether or not he can get across the finish line. does he have enough votes? and they believe they ended last week and are starting this week with no hard no's, which for them is a very good place to go. so that's what we're looking at today. we also know, given the nature of what the allegations are against him, there is alleged sexual assault, which he has denied. there is alleged alcoholism, which he has also denied that they believe that they're going to have a tougher time with some of these female senators you actually heard pete hegseth mother on fox and friends just a few days ago essentially imploring these female senators only saying, i hope you'll give him a chance. he's actually not a bad man. now, this, of course, came after the new york times reported an email that she had written hegseth back in 2018, when he was going through a contentious divorce in which she said that she that he was mistreating women. she has since said she has apologized for that so let's go to the other two that are up on the hill today, because that's obviously very critical as well. tulsi gabbard, one of the reasons why this is going to be

so critical once she has a past used to be a democrat. now she's a republican. people have a lot of questions about her. she's viewed as a very controversial figure, but so far, at least from the public posting we have seen, it seems as though her meetings are going well. joni ernst actually just posted this on twitter. she said, uh wonderful catching up with tulsi gabbard, a strong proven leader. so clearly they're both women served. they are both former military so clearly they're showing that she has some support for tulsi gabbard in a way we have not seen for pete hegseth. the other one being kash patel, who would be up for head of the fbi. that's going to be a very interesting dynamic, just given the fact that that job doesn't actually exist right now. christopher wray is technically in that job for full ten years. and just a reminder, donald trump put christopher wray in that job when he was back in office as a ten year term, and he would have to fire him before kash patel could even take that. kash is seen as a loyalist who has said some pretty outrageous at times things to a lot of republicans.

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that they might need. >> take a look at this line here. we're outside a bakery. these people say they've been waiting more than half an hour. some of them, they're waiting for bread. we've seen lines like this around the city. people are lining up for cash. they're lining up for gas. they are trying to make sure that they have enough food to ride out this transitional period where nobody really knows what's going to happen. now, you can see behind me at the end of the road there that is the central bank of syria. yesterday there was extensive looting there. a lot of people in the city started to feel a little bit concerned that this was going to be a chaotic period. then more rebels arrived in the capital. the looting appears to have stopped. it does seem very calm on the streets. of course, there are many people who are elated that bashar al-assad is finally gone, but there is also the day to day that people need to focus on to ensure that they have enough bread, enough gas,

enough cash, enough supplies to get them through this tenuous transitional period. clarissa ward, cnn damascus. >> our thanks to clarissa for that update. the biden administration is welcoming the assad regime's fall, yet they are clearly wary of the power vacuum that could follow. not long after the dictator fled. the u.s. military says it struck more than 75 isis targets in syria to prevent the terror group from exploiting the situation in terms of what has transpired of course, as this unfolds there's a potential that elements in the in the in the area, such as isis could try to take advantage of this of this opportunity and and regain capability. cnn's mj lee joins us now live from the white house. mj obviously, it's anyone's guess what happens next in syria. what is the president's plan to try to

bring stability to the region? >> yeah, this is definitely a watershed development and a moment for the region that the biden administration is tracking very closely. >> u.s. officials, of course, are keenly aware of the potentially huge ramifications. and also just the uncertainty surrounding the events of the last couple of days. yesterday we did hear directly from president biden himself, who said that the fall of bashar al assad was a fundamental act of justice, that presents, he said, a historic opportunity for the people of syria to try to build a better future for themselves. the president did, in his speech, outline a couple of priorities, including, of course, the protection of u.s. forces in the region including, of course, inside of syria, protecting and supporting syria's neighbors, and also preventing the resurgence of isis. and to that end, the president announced that there were a dozen dozens of strikes aimed at isis targets inside

syria as well over the weekend. white house officials, as you said, boris is making very clear that there is a moment of real uncertainty right now. this is what white house spokesman john kirby told our john berman earlier today about the question of who actually is running syria at the moment. >> i think they're trying to work that out amongst themselves, but it is an open question. in fact, the very fact that it's an open question, john gives us concern. as the president said, we're in a period of uncertainty here. and so we're going to be working through all the processes we can including at the un, to make sure that there is adequate communication with these opposition groups and that we are all working together on the for the best aspirations of the syrian people and the other very important and significant headline that we should touch on regards austin tice. >> this is the freelance american journalist who has been missing in syria since

2012, the president telling reporters yesterday that he does believe that tice is alive. and he even went as far as to say, we think we can get him back. so, boris, obviously it's impossible to imagine everything that tice's family has been going through over the last more than a decade, as they have been waiting for good news about their loved one. >> boris. yeah, and that may give them some hope there. mj lee, thank you so much. we're joined now by josh rogin, columnist for the washington post also with us, hagar chemali former director for syria and lebanon at the white house national security council. josh, you hear kirby there saying this morning it's an open question. who's running syria which way could this go right. no, i mean i would direct kirby to watch what's going on in damascus. >> there's a lot of interesting things developing. the, uh the a man by the name of mohammed al bashir has been appointed to form a temporary government. he's from the opposition. one

of the opposition technocratic governments that had formed to administer free areas of syria in idlib. jolani, the head of fts, met with bashir and assad's prime minister to arrange a peaceful transfer of power. that's a positive sign. the state employees were told to return back to work general amnesty was given to all syrian military conscripts. uh the the new government said all women can wear whatever they want. journalists shouldn't be harmed. they're getting the airports back up. they're going to get the banks back up. uh so, you know, be patient. john kirby, it's going to take a little while, but so far, so good. that's not to say there aren't risks, but it's not an open question. it's a thing that a lot of syrians are working on very diligently and they could use our support by the way. >> hagar i'm curious about the idea as jake sullivan, the national security advisor, put it, of the u.s. working with all groups in syria, including those designated as terrorist organizations sullivan has said that the rebels have said all

the right things as josh pointed out, there are positive signs. obviously, it is a very delicate situation, though the rebels have said the right things, but words are only going to go so far. i mean, we only have to look at the proof is in the pudding, right? >> hayat tahrir al-sham is was formerly the al-nusra front. i was in the in the government when we sanctioned them uh, an offshoot of isis, by the way and and and its leader, mohammed al-julani, very publicly in 2017 disavowed global terrorism and cut ties with al qaeda and tried to rebrand as kind of a more moderate but still islamist militia. i really i want to stress that that this is not the beacon of democracy. and that's been proven in how they've governed the northwest of syria so we only need to look at recent facts and examples of the fact that they have crushed dissent in that region. uh, they did they have jailed and tortured activists. there were women who were living in that area who said that they were fearful and left, though they were not required to

to to wear a veil and so on and that said, at the at the heart is an islamist militia behind this that has governed with a conservative, if not radical sunni ideology. and so we have to see they have said the right things. as josh said so far, so good. but my experience in in in this region of the world and by the way, when, when we've seen islamist militias in other parts of the world in afghanistan, for example, obviously when they take over is that they promise a lot of things, but then when they want to take when they want to maintain control, they don't necessarily carry out those promises. so we'll have to keep a very close eye. >> josh, i also wanted to follow up on something you said about the u.s. potentially aiding in some kind of democratic process in syria. president elect donald trump says the u.s. should just stay away and not get involved. do you think the u.s. can actually stay out of this conflict completely when there are so many players in that area, including isis sure. >> just quickly to respond to

something that was just said, listen you know, if you're a syrian rebel, you've spent the last 14 years of your life fighting the regime that's bombing you and following any group that would join that fight. so i think we have to understand the context of how we got here. and i think we have to realize that, you know, the hts will evolve. okay. and the syrian rebels are an amalgamation of many different groups that come from many different parts of syria who are trying to work it out and we just we have no reason to assume that they're going to impose some sort of islamist sharia system in syria. that's not what they're doing. it's not what they're saying. so i think we just have to understand that this is a new syria, a free syria, and the syrian people are going to figure it out. now, how can we get involved without, you know making all the same mistakes that all of our past administrations have made well, humanitarian aid, that would be a good thing. there'll be a time to lift sanctions and that should also help the economy. there's reconstruction. we can help on the diplomatic level. there's un council resolutions that can be implemented to help

the syrians form a transitional government to get to the democracy that they want okay. and we can play a big role in that. and it doesn't require one troop or one. uh american soldier. now what the trump people have said, what jd vance said on twitter and what donald trump said on truth social is that they want no part of any of it. okay, fine. you know, the syrians are going to figure it out with or without us. but we do have interests there. we do have allies that have interests there. and there are outcomes that we can help. that would be better for the syrian people and better for the region and better for us and i say we should try to help help those people, those suffering people and and we have a big chance to do it. i hope the trump administration or at least several people in the trump administration will take advantage of that because it could make the difference between people suffering or not. and it could also help us and allies produce a syria that's stable and safe and a productive part of the region, which the assad regime could never do. >> hagar, what do you think

i listen, there are, as josh said, many rebel groups in syria. >> and one of my concerns is that each of them have their own agenda. and in a situation of a power vacuum, they're they're each going to try and pursue that agenda. you also have some really very, very smart, very amazing thought leaders and oppositionists. the hts is not the opposition. it is. it is an opposition. it is not the syrian opposition. it's certainly not the opposition i worked with when i was in when i worked in the u.s. government. and those are the ones you're hoping to see be able to lead a stable transition to democracy. that was what we hoped back when i was in government and so perhaps hks has been will be ultimately the vehicle to bring them in. but they have major ambitions and and it's very aspirational. and i like i said, i hope it happens and i don't want to imply that i am not overjoyed to see bashar al-assad go this is a brutal dictator and war criminal and i'm more than happy to see him run for his life like a coward in sit in moscow, where he can only vacation in north korea.

good for him. but but i am very concerned at at what's to come. but when it comes to the u.s. and its national interests unfortunately, i think that the security interests in syria have shifted. and now it will be focused more on making sure that the neighbors surrounding aren't aren't that there's no spillover there certainly to protect the kurds, who are a major ally of ours in getting rid of isis and ensuring that isis doesn't reemerge. as you mentioned in your report, the u.s. is already is already targeting, targeting targeting isis strongholds. but but also and most importantly, what i really hope to see is, is a focus on releasing american journalists to austin tice. and and you already mentioned this one, and i certainly is that because they haven't neither did trump, by the way so i don't i don't see a heavy hand for the u.s. in syria in the future. but i do hope the u.s. plays a role in at least ensuring some kind of stability, because otherwise you really could see these various rebel groups, each of which have a different agenda. they are by no means united,

which was one of the problems we faced in working with the opposition. i hope that that we can try and do something to ensure that that there is stability and that we don't see civilians harmed hagar. >> josh, thank you so much to both of you. we'll continue the conversation here in the coming weeks. and beyond. we do continue to follow some breaking news. new york city mayor eric adams will hold a press conference where he's expected to address the arrest of a man in connection with the fatal shooting of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. we're going to bring you his remarks live. stay with cnn from creating memories to finding the perfect gift let us make this holiday season a little easier right now.

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holding a press conference where he is expected to address the arrest of a man in connection with the fatal shooting of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. we're going to bring you those remarks as soon as they begin cnn's john miller has been tracking the story since it took place. he joins us now. and i know, john, you've been on the phone with sources trying to get more information. what's the latest that you're hearing after this person was arrested at a mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania believed to potentially be connected to this case. >> well, just a literally a few minutes ago, altoona police announced that they had taken an individual into custody because of a 911 call coming from a mcdonald's from an employee. she told police that there was an individual there who fit the description of the person who was pictured in those fliers from new york city. as someone suspected in that murder. police responded they engaged with the individual who was in mcdonald's um, upon

questioning him and going through his things, they allegedly found a gun with a silencer. some documents that are being examined that relate to the health care industry dissatisfaction about capitalism profiteering, and references to violence and he is being held nypd detectives are in route if they are not there already, and we are waiting for the mayor, the police commissioner, the chief of detectives and others to give us a briefing on how all this came to pass and whether or not he will be charged will be something that the district attorney of manhattan will have to work through, based on the evidence that they get from the police in pennsylvania and how that and evidence from this individual may match to the evidence recovered from this crime scene last wednesday in this

incredible, brazen murder of one of the nation's top executives. >> and i do want to ask you, what are the details? we know about how this transpired? i do just want to note for our viewers, you were looking there at what will be shortly beginning a press conference by new york city mayor eric mcadams. john, i mean do we know was this an employee who was taking his order? did he go and sit down after he ordered food how did how did this kind of and you may not know all the details because i know a lot of it you're just getting your arms around what did this play out like? did police have time because he was sitting there so the story and the details are coming together and brianna and boris, you know, you all know this because you do this for a living. >> the details that come rushing in often change and adjust. but here's what we have now, which is that the call comes from the mcdonald's employee who says this person fits the description, and that's what gets police coming there. there is some reporting that the mcdonald's employee was

approached by a customer who said that individual sitting there looks like the person in the picture. they compared notes and the call was made um, it's interesting. i mean when we when we figure out exactly what the case is, it will be relevant because there's a $50,000 reward which may go to the person who actually spotted them if if that's the employee or the customer. >> so sorry to interrupt you these are obviously key details we're interested in. let's listen to the mayor good afternoon and i'm joined here today by our chief of detectives and the police commissioner and chief of department because we have a strong person of interest in the shooting that shook our city last week, ceo brian thompson of unitedhealthcare was the victim of a senseless

act of violence. >> our officers have been working around the clock many of them are did not go home to pursue this individual. it was crucial that we were able to remove him off the streets of america, and we were going to seek him out no matter, no matter where he was at the time. and so this is a strong person of interest. the police commissioner and chief of detectives will go over where we are right now in the investigation. he matches the description of the identification we've been looking for he's also in possession of several items that we believe will connect him to this incident. how did we do it? good old fashioned police work. the chief of

detectives and the police commissioner made the decision to release as much of a photo that we that we had at the time. we sent it across the country and someone a mcdonald's employee, did something. we ask every american to do if you see something say something. but most importantly, do something and they did. and because of that, we believe we have a strong person of interest to deal with this case. i want to now turn it over to the police commissioner of the city of new york, commissioner tish thank you, mayor good afternoon everyone. >> earlier this morning in altoona pennsylvania, members of the altoona police department arrested luigi mangione, a 26 year old male, on firearms charges at this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the

brazen, targeted murder of brian thompson ceo of unitedhealthcare last wednesday in midtown manhattan. the suspect was in a mcdonald's and was recognized by an employee who then called local police. responding officers questioned the suspect, who was acting suspiciously and was carrying multiple fraudulent ids, as well as a u.s. passport. upon further investigation officers recovered a firearm on his person as well as a suppressor. both consistent with the weapon used in the murder. they also recovered clothing, including a mask consistent with those worn by our wanted individual. also recovered was a fraudulent new jersey i.d. matching the i.d., our suspect used to check into his new york city hostel before the shooting incident. additionally officers recovered a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation

and mindset nypd detectives are en route to pennsylvania as we speak to as we seek to interview the subject further. this apprehension is thanks to the tireless work of the greatest detectives in the world and of course, the strong relationships we have with our local law enforcement partners on every level, local state and federal. we all serve the same public safety mission, and this case which captured the attention of an entire nation, is another example of how connected we are and how important it is to work together, share information, and pursue every lead for just over five days, our nypd investigators combed through thousands of hours of video, followed up on hundreds of tips and processed every bit of forensic evidence. dna fingerprints, ip addresses, and

so much more to tighten the net, we deployed drones, k-9 units and scuba divers. we leveraged the domain awareness system argus cameras, and conducted aviation canvases. and our detectives also went door to door interviewing potential witnesses and doing the good old fashioned police work that our investigators are famous for this combination of old school detective work and new age technology is what led to this result today, and we must also acknowledge the instrumental role the media and the public played in this case, the images that we shared with the public were spread far and wide and the tips we received led to the recovery of crucial evidence. we should never underestimate the power of the public to be our eyes and our ears in these investigations. this is the third time in three weeks that a member of the

public has seen something and said something, and done something that led to a high profile arrest. the triple stabbing homicide in manhattan, the gun point robberies in queens during which an nypd officer was shot and now this. now the case will continue through the criminal justice process. and while we are proud of today's accomplishment, we must, of course remember that a family is in mourning. i want to again extend my sympathies to brian's family. his coworkers, and all who knew him. finally, i want to thank the women and men of the nypd especially our detective bureau personnel, with a strong assist from from our intelligence analysts. we also thank the sack of the fbi's criminal investigative division. leslie rodriguez beaches and i want to commend the staff of the manhattan da's office and especially d.a. alvin bragg. he has been working with us 24 over seven

on this case. and i am incredibly grateful for his partnership. i'll now pass it along to our great chief of detectives, joe kenney, who will provide additional information. chief thank you commissioner. >> good afternoon. as the commissioner stated earlier, a male was taken into custody today in altoona pennsylvania, this morning. he has been identified as luigi nicholas mangione. he is a male, 26 years old. he was born and raised in maryland. we know he has he has ties to san francisco california, and his last known address was honolulu, hawaii. he has no prior arrest history in new york, members of the nypd detective bureau are currently traveling to pennsylvania with members of the manhattan district attorney's office to interview this subject. this case was brought to a successful conclusion based on the coordinated effort between numerous nypd units including the intelligence and counterterrorism bureau. our federal partners at the fbi,

the manhattan district attorney's office, and of course, members of the altoona police department. in pennsylvania. on thursday one day after this crime was committed, the nypd released a photo of the shooter in this case, this picture was obtained by the nypd during one of their extensive video canvasses. we took that photograph and we asked for the public's help in identifying the subject and the public responded. hundreds of tips began to pour into our hotline. each tip was investigated thoroughly and we began to release additional photographs as they came into our possession, the nypd provided these photos to numerous media outlets, local national, and international outlets released the photo via television print, social media, and online content. luckily, a citizen in pennsylvania recognized our subject and called local law enforcement members of the altoona police department responded to the call, and based on their investigation, they notified the nypd. this investigation is still active and ongoing thank

you very much steven cheung we're going to take questions on shooting first and then we'll mark, uh, i had a couple questions about the document that he was found in possession with can you go a little bit more in depth about those motivations that you mentioned? >> was that ceo specifically named in that document? was there anything more about him wanting to go after others and also in that document, was there any indication that explains how the level of detail that he went into killing him, like, is there anything else like i said, that that document is currently in the possession of the altoona police department as part of their investigation. >> but just from briefly speaking with them, um, we don't think that there's any specific threats to other people mentioned in that document, but it does seem that he has some some ill will toward corporate america over here, sir. >> and jay the chief was the suspect wearing a mask at the time he was spotted in the

mcdonald's and also criminal cases often have a linchpin can you point to a single linchpin that helped crack this case? >> there's numerous linchpins in this case, and the fact that we've recovered an enormous amount of forensic evidence is an enormous amount of video. and once again, with your help and the public's help. so i couldn't i really couldn't put it on one thing, but if i had to, it would be the release of that photograph from the media dean are you, uh, you said you had a passport on him. >> do you believe he was trying to flee the country? and also, are you still looking for any evidence in central park in regards to the bike? >> uh, we had divers in the water yesterday that came up negative results. the passport. we don't believe that. he was planning on doing any traveling at this time. we don't think he at this point in our investigation, we don't think he was trying to flee the country. the person at the mcdonald's, were they buying food what were they doing at that exact moment? it was an employee at the mcdonald's. right. >> but what was the suspect doing?

>> he was sitting there eating um, will the suspect be brought back to new york and charged here and went we're going to have to work that out with the manhattan district attorney's office and altoona, pennsylvania. he's going to be facing gun charges there. and at some point, we'll work out through extradition to bring him back to new york to face charges here, working with the manhattan district attorney's office. anita. >> hi, anita. from the new york post. >> i was just hoping to get more details on the capture itself. did he put up a fight? >> did he say anything to cops and we've also reported that he published online anti-health care industry rantings. >> can you share with us some of the services that he posted on? >> we're still working through his social media. we're going to do a complete scrub of that preliminarily, like i said, he seems that he has some ill will toward corporate america, but that will all come out as part of our investigation. we're not done here. we're still going to be putting this together. we're still going to be working very hard to bring this to a successful conclusion. >> and then the capture itself. >> what, did he put up a fight? >> did he say anything to police? >> i don't have that information. jane akre oh, sorry. >> can you elaborate on how he got there?

>> the path you took from port authority and on the george washington bridge to altoona, pa same thing. >> that's. this just happened this morning. we'll be working, backtracking his his steps from new york to altoona pennsylvania i was going to ask if we knew anything, if he took a bus to pennsylvania philadelphia first. >> and then somehow got to altoona. >> but we're still working on that. we're still working through that. brittany is there any indication that anybody else was helping him from the inside? >> you know, as far as tracking the ceo's movements, once again, we're still working this investigation very hard. >> it's not at its conclusion yet that could come out during our investigation. but as of right now, we have no indication that that took place. >> lee sang-min chief did he have any weapons or anything like that with him when he was arrested? >> he was in possession of a ghost gun that had the capability of firing a nine millimeter round and a suppressor joe can you get into a little bit about the technical aspects of the investigation? >> i know you deployed an

unprecedented amount of technology you also activated the sentry program through intel. >> can you talk about how that is going to play into actually building the case as far as cell phone and all of the other technical aspects of what you've done in this, in this case? >> it really came down to technology. was the use of drones in central park and really comes down to the to the video canvass that we did. we used every source of video that we could collect hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours from hundreds of sources. and that helped bring this to where we are right now chief the gun is is it believed to be the gun used in the shooting and there was some talk that it was a veterinarian type gun. >> is that accurate? >> so right now, the information we're getting from altoona is that the gun appears to be a ghost gun. may have been made on a 3-d printer. the capability of firing a nine millimeter round. obviously, that will come out during our ballistics testing

oliver. >> yeah. >> oliver bonds from the financial times. >> do you have any indication how long this, like handwritten. >> is it handwritten manifesto that you found on the suspect? >> and then also whether or not he put it online at all? >> don't know if it's online. as of right now, it's a handwritten three page document chief, does he have ties to that area? >> and was he someone who you knew by name before his arrest? >> we believe he may have attended college in pennsylvania but like i said earlier, he has ties to maryland and california and hawaii. >> and, you know we by name before today was was his name on your radar? >> excuse me? was his name on your radar? >> was he someone who you had been looking into before as a wrestler? >> no. we did not have his name prior to today lynton brant does he have any prior arrest? >> i know there were none for new york city, but is there any prior anywhere else in the country? >> we have not come across any arrests in the country i just. >> chief? hi. >> how are you? um on two things on the ghost gun is it something you're going to be looking into to see if he made

it himself? >> and can he make that himself, or is that would he have to buy the gun the way it was? >> no. once again, that'll be part of our investigation as we follow up. >> i mean, obviously he's going to face murder charges, but is there any chance that he could face any other charges because of he was targeting a, you know, the ceo and because of his writings and other things that we're now finding on him that federal charges or that determination will be made by alvin bragg. >> yes. what connections does he have in pennsylvania that you know, of are they in altoona specifically? >> we believe he attended college in pennsylvania. >> does he know anybody in pennsylvania? >> i wouldn't be able to tell you that. >> all right. we're going to take one more question from shooting mala, and then we're going to go. if there what you talk about the manifesto having said things against corporations, but specifically unitedhealthcare and do you believe that mangione acted alone we believe at this point our investigation is leaning toward he was acting alone.

>> like i stated earlier, we're still we're still working through the investigation. we're not stopping today and as far as far as the manifesto, like i said, i don't have the complete details of that. it's in the possession of the altoona police department. >> we're going to shift to poppy harlow. >> good job. chief commissioner chief maggie yes, sir again, great job by the new york city police department in certain aspects of this investigation and the crime itself is something that we have been zeroing in on. ghost guns. we have really talked about this since the beginning of the administration. they can be made on a 3-d printer, and

they are extremely dangerous. and we must do more on the federal level to clamp down on the availability of ghost guns and it just really leads into just the top areas of what we did last week and what we're doing this week. this week is all about public safety. public safety. i've stated over and over again it's a prerequisite to our prosperity, and we're going to continue to make this city a safe city the safest big city in america but any time you have a crime of this magnitude, it shocks us. and it really has a major impact on the perception of crime in this city. this crime has continued to go down. we're going to continue to do what's needed. today, we announced in every block count initiative and the blocks that we identified since october they have not had one shooting or one shot fire job

that came over. we're going to add that on to our community link operation. that has resulted in over 1000 operations in over 700 complaints resolved nearly 16,000. >> we've been listening to officials in new york delivering major breaking news, a strong person of interest has been arrested in the shooting of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. officials today announcing that they believe the person on your screen may be luigi mangione, a 26 year old who was recognized by a mcdonald's employee in pennsylvania, some 275 miles away from new york city. mangione apparently was acting suspiciously according to officials. he had multiple ids on him. his passport masks like those seen worn by the shooter who was captured on security footage, as well as multiple fake ids, including one that they believe was used to gain

access to the hospital where the shooter is believed to have stayed, as well as some handwritten notes. speaking to mindset and motivation. as officials in new york described it, apparently showing some ill will toward corporate america. a lot of questions still to be answered, but now we've learned that luigi mangione is who officials believe was behind the shooting of the unitedhealthcare ceo and shimon prokupecz was there in that press conference. shimon, we learned a lot. of course, there are still a lot of questions a lot. >> well, yeah, i mean, you know, ultimately we'll hear of an arrest once they can directly link whether it's the weapon that they found on him or his fingerprint that they have recovered at the scene or the dna, and that should be done fairly quickly. so perhaps maybe with technology and stuff by tonight, maybe we should have word of an arrest. but i do want a couple of things that were very significant in this press conference. number one, the ghost gun. i mean, that has been a significant issue for

law enforcement. all across the country. very difficult to trace. you heard the mayor there speak about the fact that it's possible that he put this weapon together himself off of 3-d printers. the chief of detectives said that is something that they will be looking into. the other thing i found it very interesting is that he was simply caught while in a mcdonald's. the chief said that he was eating when an employee spotted him, and then obviously it set off the chain of events where the person luckily called 911 and the local altoona police responded. but from everything that we've been told and from this press conference, the police have a lot of evidence at this point. they have the fake id, the new jersey fake id that he used to check into the hospital, the same the very same hospital. he's caught on camera without