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>> right now on cnn this morning we should never underestimate the power of the public to be our eyes and our ears in these investigations captured the alleged ceo killer taken into custody at a pennsylvania mcdonald's and charged with murder. >> plus, this is what the left does, sean. >> it's the anatomy of a smear. >> fighting back. president-elect trump's pick to run the pentagon. going on offense to save his nomination and who's running syria this morning? >> i think that's an open question uncertainty in syria the ousting of the assad regime and what the fallout means for the future of the middle east all right. >> 5 a.m. here on the east coast, a live look at the capitol dome on this tuesday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's

wonderful to have you with us. we now know the name and we have a clear look at the face of the man whose search has captivated the nation over the last week. the suspected killer of unitedhealthcare ceo is now in custody. it's a 26 year old ivy league graduate luigi mangione, charged with one count of second degree murder. police arrested mangione at a pennsylvania mcdonald's yesterday when employee called authorities after recognizing him, according to a criminal complaint. when officers arrived the man was wearing a medical mask and a beanie sitting at the rear of the building on a laptop. they asked him to pull down the mask to quote to see his face and quote immediately recognized him within several minutes seconds of the first contact he had asked the suspect if he had been in new york city recently, and that really invoked a physical reaction from the suspect. >> he became visibly nervous. >> uh, kind of shaking kind of

shaking. >> their mangione had key evidence on him when he was arrested. police found a black 3-d printed pistol with a loaded glock magazine and a 3-d printed black silencer in his backpack, and they recovered a fake new jersey i.d. the fake i.d. matched the id that was used to check into the new york city hostel before the shooting, according to the new york police commissioner. authorities say they also found a handwritten document that speaks to his quote motivation and mindset. nbc news obtained this video showing mangione arriving in court yesterday mangione his family responding to the news in a statement, quote, our family is shocked and devastated by luigi's arrest. we offer our prayers to the family of brian thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved. the shocking midtown manhattan assassination uncovered a deep dissatisfaction with the nation's health care system, according to his former roommate. it's something that mangione was in the middle of

navigating himself i remember he said he had a back issue, and he was hoping to get stronger in hawaii, so he's always focused on trying when he first came, he went on a surf lesson with other members and unfortunately, just a basic surf lesson. >> he was in bed for about a week. i know he was really focused on being strong and healthy but it also weighed on him that he knew that there was an impending surgery i knew he was going to have a surgery, so earlier this year i checked in with him. he confirmed that he had had surgery and he sent me the x rays. it looked heinous with just giant screws going into his spine all right. >> joining us now is former supervisory fbi special agent scott duffy. scott good morning to you. thank you so much for being here i think one of the things that people are really focused on in talking about this morning is the background of this young man. he came from a very privileged family. it seemed, in the baltimore area, very prominent family. his grandfather had owned a country club and a nursing home and

some other things. he went to a private school that cost a lot of money. he goes on to the ivy league. he's the valedictorian in 2016. um what what do you understand when you when you think about the profile here, i mean, the one of course, thing that stands out is that he broke. he seems to have broken contact with his family about six months or so ago although the timeline, of course, still being nailed down by authorities. how do you understand why this young man may have done this? >> yeah. good morning k you r h the show. the the motive with regards to the why and the planning. et cetera. all that will lend itself as um, as this kind of goes through the prosecution. i think, though there is plenty of evidence not only what you were speaking of with regards to his background, the the fact that he might be privileged versus not privileged, i don't think lends itself so much as much as his education. the fact that he is

well-rounded well-spoken valedictorian of his class in high school, and so the fact that you have all this, everything at his fingertips everything for a bright future, what is it that clicked in his mind where everything now gets pushed to the back? and it seemed like his sole goal was to accomplish what he accomplished last week in new york city so what happens next here in terms of the investigation the trial? >> obviously, this charge has already been made and it seems they're very clearly confident that they've got their guy. what else still needs to be nailed down? >> yeah. so new york city is resting a little bit with regards to spending countless hours probably no sleep for many of these detectives because they needed a name and they needed a location in order

to arrest him. so that was accomplished yesterday, at least in the mind of new york. with regards to they believe they have sufficient evidence to tie the individual at the mcdonald's in altoona to the scene for the shooting of brian thompson in my world, this is where we say now the work begins. um, it is a tremendous amount of work with all the different, uh units in the police department. and of course all their law enforcement partners you have your bosses that are constantly um, at your desk, probably saying, what do i, you know what do you know? and what can you give me now? it's the prosecutors. now it's the evidence. it is tying um. uh luigi mangione to the crime scene, to unmask that individual, to put that gun that was recovered at the mcdonald's to the very gun that shot those uh, bullets

into brian and and being able to ensure there's no gap between uh, the individual when he arrived in new york, all the days leading up to the shooting. and then, of course, the five plus days that he was on the run and being able to for law enforcement to go through each and every spot location anywhere that he might have stopped other than that mcdonald's. so now they have those five days of gap to fill in and ensure that all the evidence speaks for itself. >> how big of a mistake, sir for this person, for luigi mangione was not getting rid of the gun in his possession. that that detail seems to be a little bit surprising. obviously, you know nypd detectives have been saying they were looking for it in central park, for example yeah, these these are these are

the questions in my mind and in all of society where so now this has been on the news day and night and law enforcement has been looking to put a name to a face. >> and then for this individual, not only think about it, what we have most of our photos are of him with some sort of masking, whether it be a medical mask. uh, this scarf that, um, was on him, uh, at least a similar one. and and then, uh, having his weapon, i think the key and the key here is astute law enforcement. a fantastic, uh call into 911 by whoever it was at the mcdonald's. and then ultimately, i think what what nailed it was the fact that he used the very, uh, new jersey, um id that he provided to the

hospital uh, to law enforcement for him not to realize that law enforcement is going to check that and that they're not just going to look at it and say okay, go on your way to be able to tie those initial pieces. and then, of course having the weapon, um says a lot about the character the mindset was there was his work, not done? was he going to continue on all those questions need to be answered. >> all right, scott duffy for us this morning, sir. very grateful to have you on the show today. thanks for being here thank you. >> good morning. >> straight ahead here on cnn this morning, president elect donald trump shares what prince william told him about the king's ongoing battle with cancer. plus, the challenges of a new syria. how does the u.s. now navigate a region already in turmoil and trump's picks for his next administration trying to win support from skeptical senators? >> i think there's a path forward. >> this is a case of where

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and after trump was announced as coming to this event, we heard that prince william would be going. we always knew king charles wasn't planning to go, but there appears to have been some sort of shift towards the end where they decided, we've got to, you know, go out to france and you know, now that trump is going, let's try to give him a warm welcome, try to get those relationships going. and prince william then ended up going, i'm not party to the discussions there, but we didn't know prince william was going until the last minute. that meeting went incredibly well, and i think the palace was very pleased with how that went. and we heard lots of positive sounds as well, didn't we i'm sure you did as well. from the trump side. so that was seen as good. and then this report comes out and they don't want to speak to it. but i'm not hearing anything concerning about king charles. what i will say is that i think, you know, the last year has been very tough on prince william. if you consider his wife's diagnosis his father's diagnosis, the fact that harry is no longer supporting the

crown and, you know the troubles that prince andrew's had there's been a huge amount of pressure on his shoulders. and i may have just been speaking to all of that yeah. >> he's been pretty candid as well in other settings. i've seen some of the other public comments william has made about how it's been really difficult for him i will also say, max, there was another comment that stood out to me from this. it was actually a lengthy interview that donald trump gave to the new york post about his trip. he said about prince william, quote, he looked really very handsome last night. some people look better in person uh was i have to say that's something that people do say about prince william because he's tall, you know, and he's he's a sporty guy. >> he's very impressive when you meet him. he's very you know, he does feel like a leader. when you meet prince william. he's really grown into his position. so maybe donald trump was affected by that. you know, he doesn't really come across as you see him on on tv fair enough.

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morning everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us some of donald trump's more controversial choices for his cabinet. still fighting for confirmation on capitol hill. the president elect's choice for defense secretary pete hegseth meeting with lawmakers for a second straight week. looking to win over senators as previous allegations of sexual assault, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement at veterans groups have emerged against him. allegations that pete hegseth claims are being made up to take him down this is what the left does. >> sean. it's the anatomy of a smear. they take something and then they add anonymous sources and contortions and flat out lies, and then they try to try you in the media before you can even get into the doors with senators. >> now, he is getting into those doors with senators he is slated to meet with moderate republican senators susan collins and lisa murkowski over the next two days. he's now also met several times with senator joni ernst, the iowa republican has been seen as a key vote around this

nomination. she's not publicly saying yes yet he's supporting the process. >> it doesn't sound like you're a yes yet. is that fair? >> i am supporting the process. >> he is. >> denials about those assault allegations. do you believe those denials? >> i'll refer you back to the state pressure again. >> back home and primary politics. >> play into this. >> we have been talking these same issues. >> every meeting that we've had. >> and he had really thoughtful answers. >> all right. joining us now to discuss pete hegseth and other trump picks. max cohen, congressional reporter for punchbowl news max, good morning to you. thank you for being here. i your read on where joni ernst is especially as she has come under some pressure. pete hegseth has mounted this kind of public campaign. she had been someone who was clearly reluctant. she had kind of gone out in public on fox and in some some people that i spoke to interpreted that as her looking for others who might be willing to say no to pete hegseth now she seems

to be waffling a little bit on her opposition. what's your read? >> yeah, i was in those scrums yesterday with her on capitol hill and it's very notable that she says she's supporting pete hegseth through the process. now, i followed up and i said does that mean you're a yes on his confirmation? and she would not go that far. but it's clear i think she's trying to get to a yes. and if ernst, who on paper is someone who would not be in favor of pete hegseth, let's just take a look. she served in the military. he's been very critical of women in combat roles, and he's also been accused of sexual assault, as you mentioned. he denies that ernst is a survivor of sexual assault. but if she's getting to this more open. yes answer, i think that's a sign that he is in better shape than he was late last week. >> and do you think that that's an indication that she is under pressure from the maga wing of the party? >> i think certainly, you know, as you know, she's up for reelection in 2026. all senators have to have that calculation in the back of their mind. do you want to come back to the senate and i think a primary challenge would not

be out of the question for some of these, you know, big donors for donald trump if she stood in the way of a big cabinet nominee like hegseth. >> what about the other nominees that donald trump is pushing? tulsi gabbard is one in particular. we've also seen kash patel start meeting with senators. where do they stand? >> yeah, i think that those two nominees you mentioned, patel and gabbard, immediately when people saw those names come down, they said that's going to be a very tough lift for my conversations with republican sources in the senate. there's not a huge willingness in my mind, in their minds, to take down another nominee like gaetz. so i think senators are trying to get to yes on those two nominations. on patel, he's meeting with a number of senators today, as well as gabbard and patel specifically met with chuck grassley, the incoming chair of the senate judiciary committee. and grassley had some very positive things to say, which i think is a pretty good sign that patel faces a likely chance of confirmation. >> all right. max cohen for us this morning sir. thanks very much for being here. i appreciate your time. all right. let's turn back now to how donald trump won the right to assemble this new cabinet in the first place, winning the 2024 election partly by

chipping away at a once reliable block of democratic voters. exit polls show that kamala harris won votes in union households by eight percentage points over donald trump. but four years ago, joe biden won that same group by 16 points. the slip comes despite some democrats calling the biden administration the most pro-union presidency since fdr. michigan congresswoman debbie dingell blames the disconnect on poor messaging from her party as democrats, we are not talking. >> we were actually doing things that were helping them. we weren't communicating the way that we needed to. so i think we all have to take some responsibility for what happened. >> our next guest, ron brownstein, writes this about this new divide in organized labor. quote, trump's strong showing among the blue collar components of the labor movement illuminates how high a wall of distrust democrats face in working class communities at the close of joe biden's presidency. quote, look, the

democratic party has lost their way to some extent with the working class said ted pappageorge, secretary treasurer of the powerful culinary workers union local 2026, in las vegas. when we were knocking at the doors, it was pretty clear that trump was winning the fight about dealing with inflation and kitchen table issues. and democrats essentially were being viewed as the party of abortion. ron brownstein brownstein joins us now. ron wonderful to see you. thank you so much for being here. tell us a little bit more about what you learned as you really dug into these numbers. and why do you think this is happening? >> yeah, i looked at a lot of previous. good morning. first of all, i look at a lot of previously unpublished data from both the exit polls and the votecast survey or the ap votecast which are the two major sources. we have right now on voter behavior and they tell a very consistent story. not only did trump narrow the gap among union households but the educational polarization

within the union ranks widened, which means that harris actually ran even better than biden did in 2020. among white college graduates in union households. she ran better among actual union members who are college graduates. but trump expanded on his margins among union households and union members who don't have a college degree, particularly white voters. and really, you know, the point here is that unions represent democrats best vehicle for reaching working class white voters. and if even unions with all of the advantages they have, all the targeted communications, they have the position of trust. they started with their own members cannot slow this movement toward trump among non-college educated voters. it just underscores how big a challenge democrats face. ted pappageorge really puts his finger on it. what

i found in my interviews as a key explanation among almost everyone i talked to, democrats were viewed as focused more on social issues than on economic issues, and despite biden's strong record of supporting unions that record simply had not gotten through to folks and was in many ways overshadowed by inflation. >> ron, one of the words in that in that story in your story is the word trust right? that they don't these union households don't trust democrats anymore. is that a cultural divide? do you think? >> well, you know, it's interesting because i'm not sure it's so much. i mean, there obviously are cultural barriers between democrats and working class particularly white voters. but increasingly latino voters and maybe to some extent, black voters. but i'm not sure it's the issues themselves as it is a perception of where the party's priority is. i mean, that's what ted pappageorge was focusing on. randi weingarten and other former afl-cio political directors that i talked to, um it's a sense that

democrats were not sufficiently focused on their kitchen table struggles. and, of course, that is you know, the irony here. and i think maybe more than an irony kind of the ominous shadow here for democrats is that biden had a very clear theory about how to rebuild support among working class families particularly in unions. and he largely executed that theory. i mean, the theory was he was going to support unions. he often said, and he did govern, i think, as the most pro-union president since franklin roosevelt in the 30s. but most of his domestic agenda was aimed at creating more jobs that don't require a college degree. the infrastructure bill, the chips bill the inflation reduction act and its impact on green manufacturing he created 1.6 million construction and manufacturing jobs during his presidency, over 1 trillion in private sector investment and yet, when i looked at the votecast data, only about one third of non-college whites in union households gave him positive job approval ratings for his

performance. whereas nearly 60% of them were in retrospect, positive on trump's performance. that is just a devastating verdict and a measure of how deeply alienated these constituencies, these working class constituencies are from biden and democrats. at the end of his presidency, do you think that there was anything about kamala harris that made this number worse? >> like if you think if biden had stayed, you know, at the top of the ticket, would this change have been as dramatic well, the fact that his approval rating was 34% among non-college white union households i think suggests that he was heading in the in the same direction. >> i mean obviously, you run into the question when you look whether you're talking about union households or non, you know whether there are voters uh, blue collar voters in particular, who are reluctant to elect a woman as president more than a person of color. you know, when i interviewed david plouffe, we talked about that last week when i interviewed him in that kind of

post-election kind of retrospective, you know he he said that at this point he thinks it's harder to get elected president as a woman than it is as a person of color because of that hesitation it is notable that non-college white women who were very cool to hillary also flipped. um in the data that i saw that biden carried most of those non-college white women in union households, most of them voted for trump this time. so i think there is some of that there. but the larger i think point is that inflation and as debbie dingell said, a lack of communication about some of the accomplishments left biden kind of dug this hole much more than i think. resistance to harris fair enough. >> all right. ron brownstein always so grateful to have you, sir. thank you so much. thanks for having me. all right. coming up here on cnn this morning, donald trump declaring that the u.s. should stay out of the crisis in syria. but our next guest says the president elect has been handed a parting

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exactly who is responsible for them. >> this morning. iran is urging the un security council to respond to israeli attacks in syria. israeli forces striking the country's chemical weapons capabilities. israel says that's in an effort to prevent extremist groups from accessing the weapons the level of the assad regime's brutality coming into focus after the discovery of 40 bodies bearing signs of torture inside a hospital morgue near damascus, u.s. officials also unsealed an indictment charging two former high ranking assad officials with war crimes, accusing them of torturing americans and other civilians. our next guest, joel rubin, calls this a parting gift to donald trump from president biden. he writes this quote, donald trump needs to lean in on syria diplomacy, not look away. trump's first instinct last night was to say we've got no interest in syria nothing could be further from the truth. the stability of a key keystone country in the

heart of the middle east, one whose refugees have reached all the way to the u.s., is worth pursuing. and joining us, joining us now democratic strategist, former obama deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs joel rubin. joel, good morning to you. good morning to see you. thanks. so these strikes, the israelis, uh striking some chemical weapons facilities, you saw the state department spokesman there saying that locking down these capabilities is absolutely critical. where does that effort stand right now? >> well first of all, this is the moment right now where all the world needs to lean in. >> and this is exactly why your point bringing up the chemical weapons shows that once a state fails and collapses, anything can happen. >> so we have the chemical weapons storages that people are aware of, that assad was holding on to, that will require international inspectors to get in to verify whether or not they are still there. but in the meantime, countries around the region are going to take their own independent actions. so israel is doing that. there's the

counterterrorism mission where the islamic state fighters in the east have been fighting our allies, the kurds hundreds are imprisoned there. they can't be let out there are a variety of neighbors who have their own independent concerns. so this really requires an international effort that's together comprehensive consolidated and clear otherwise, we're going to continue to see security threats falling out and coming out of syria. >> so for donald trump, the president elect who you know as you note in this piece, said right away, we want nothing to do with this, right? uh what do you what would you say directly to him about? i mean, clearly he campaigned on and his supporters are very focused on the u.s. not being engaged in foreign wars are there ways in which you see engagement with syria as preventing that kind of a conflict? >> yeah. you know, as much as he wants, we don't control the world. and you have to deal with the world as it comes up and you can't turn your back on crises when they occur. and this is a perfect example of it. it's coming at the end of

president biden's term. it's going to be squarely in the lap of donald trump and he has to decide how it's going to be settled. the united states is not invading syria. let's just be clear. this is not iraq redux. this is not the united states going in to try to overthrow a regime. this is the united states and our allies looking at a country that has imploded and trying to figure out how to make sure the pieces don't scatter across all of us. and so his instinct to stay out of invading wars, understandable but not an appropriate reaction to this, this is one that requires american diplomatic leadership working with the neighbors. iran is also involved in there on the ground. they're going to want to have a vote. and so we're going to have to figure out that point with our allies as well. so there's a lot of diplomacy that's required staying out. that's going to undermine american interests, undermine american national security and harm the neighboring allies of the united states, who are right now looking at syria with deep concern. >> all right. joel rubin, for us this morning, very grateful to have your perspective. thank you very much for being here. all right. time now for sports.

the bengals victory from the jaws of defeat after a huge blunder by the cowboys on monday night football. coy wire has this morning's bleacher report coy. good morning. >> good morning casey. >> it is the final push to the playoffs. just four weeks ago. there's a saying in the nfl among players and coaches. the games they remember are played in december. but for cowboys fans, this one will be one they wish they could forget. dallas defense keeping the bengals in the league leader in passing yards and touchdowns. joe burrow and check a sack with just two minutes to go. but then the unthinkable casey. games tied at 20. cowboys blocked the punt. nick vigil but oruwariye, who was just activated, tries to field it and bobbles it. you're supposed to just let it go. players can't believe it. the coaches were waving their arms like, stay away. bengals recover and that is all joe burrow needed. he hits jamar chase for a 40 yard game winning touchdown. burrow threw for three of them. two went to chase. cowboys

unable to come back. star pass rusher micah parsons was seen walking off the field before the game was over. bengals, now five and eight, keeping their playoff hopes alive. we needed a break. >> we needed a break. we haven't gotten many this year, but it was nice to get that one. >> nice to come out of this, come out of this with a win. >> i mean, we just got a huge stop. we're going in two minute drill. it's just real hard to you, you think to believe you can pull that game out from that situation. um that hurts the race for college football's most prestigious award. >> the heisman trophy. down to four. colorado's two way star travis hunter and boise state running back ashton gentry. oregon's sixth year senior quarterback dylan gabriel and miami's quarterback cam ward named finalists. last night, this year's winner will be announced the 90th heisman trophy ceremony on saturday night in new york. legendary patriots coach bill belichick

confirms that he has spoken with the university of north carolina about potentially becoming their next head coach. on espn yesterday, he said he met with the school's chancellor for about five hours on sunday. coach belichick is 72 years old, won six super bowls in new england, but he's never coached at the college level and is nearly 50 years on the sidelines. he says if he did take the job, he'd have a sort of gm role as well let me put this in capital letters. >> if yeah, yeah, yeah, i f if i was in a college program, the college program would be a pipeline to the nfl for the players that had the ability to play in the nfl it would be a professional program. training nutrition scheme. >> coaching techniques that would transfer to the nfl. >> it would be an nfl program at a college level if that happens as coach, said casey, that would be huge.

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