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all right. >> happening now. we're getting new details on the suspected killer now behind bars this morning. we are standing by to see if 26 year old luigi mangione will be extradited from pennsylvania, where he was caught, to new york, where he has now been charged with the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. it is believed the police have the murder weapon and new insight into a possible motive including a handwritten note. some people call it a manifesto. in his writing, the coming. let's get right to cnn's brynn gingras for the very latest reporter yeah, guys, it appears that even friends are questioning what happened to luigi mangione. >> one friend telling us that they never got the impression that this was someone who was going to self-destruct. and if you look at all of his social media accounts, it really

paints a picture of someone who grew up in a prominent family in maryland went to some of the best schools in the united states, and lived a pretty good life. you know, his social media shows pictures of him on his travels, hanging out with friends. we know that until recently he was living in hawaii and he was part of a co-living space and he was actually head of their book club. he enjoyed to go on hikes, but really until about this last summer, it seems that he sort of dropped off. we see people tagging him in accounts asking, you know, are you doing okay? your family is worried about you. there was a person who questioned, is he still going to honor the rsvp to that person's wedding so it is appear something switched. now what? that switch is, is what investigators are trying to answer. now we have learned based on those accounts, his exit account. it has a picture of a spinal x ray with some hardware in it. and we have learned that he moved to

hawaii. he had some chronic back pain. he took a surfing lesson and then was bedridden for about a week. does that exactly point to the health care industry and a motive toward carrying out this act? it's hard to say, but certainly investigators are going to work to connect the dots. i want you to hear from someone who who knows him in hawaii about that back pain before he moved in. >> i remember he said he had a back issue and he was hoping to get stronger in hawaii. 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. we had to get a different bed for him that was more firm, and i know it was really traumatic and difficult. you know, when you're in your early 20s and you can't, you know, do some basic things, it can be really, really difficult. >> and cnn also found a reddit account that appears to belong to mangione, and it talks also about suffering from lyme disease and brain fog and expressing frustration that the medical industry doesn't even understand what brain fog really is. so again, all of

this is sort of part of the investigation what did what caused mangione to commit allegedly this act. and that's what investigators are trying to ask. of course, they have scrubbed all of his social media as they work to answer that question guys. >> all right. our thanks to brynn gingras covering the new york side of this. let's go to cnn's lee waldman, who is outside the pennsylvania prison where mangione is being held still this morning. good morning. lee. what's the latest from there john. >> good morning. so we know that he was taken here last night after that initial court appearance. this prison is located right in the middle of a neighborhood it's the oldest state prison in pennsylvania. we spoke with a source over at the department of corrections this morning who told us that luigi mangione is being held in isolation here. there was no incident with him overnight and that he is being held at a maximum capacity level here at

this prison. now he is also going to be kept here for an indefinite period of time. >> that judge at his initial court appearance did not set a bail for him here. >> so we're just waiting for any further movement with the court system if he'll be making another court appearance here in pennsylvania or if he'll be extradited quickly to new york for those additional charges that were filed late last night. >> all right. good new information. great new reporting from pennsylvania. lee waldman, our thanks to you. >> kate, joining us right now for more on this is cnn senior law enforcement analyst and former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe. it's good to see you, andy. what do you think of everything that's come out overnight? i mean what was found on him, what has been revealed in his online footprint? what sticks out to you well, i mean, the two biggest lessons, kate, are the importance of crowdsourcing that information with his photograph very, very early in the case. >> we've learned this time and time again that the public can often be law enforcement's

strongest ally in finding someone very dangerous that we need to get back, get into custody quickly. and then i guess the second big lesson here, kate, is like wow, don't carry the murder weapon with you. i'm stunned that this this young man who apparently planned every step of this of this horrible act, this assassination and, you know, he's clearly not a professional, but a very kind of meticulous person likely, you know, tried out each step of the process of escape to ensure that he could get away with the least possible, you know, raising as little attention as possible. and yet he carried that gun on his person. i mean, that's basically like putting a sign in your pocket that says, i did it. so the case against him right now is really very very simple. it's basic and super strong. >> and andy add to that because that is obviously a very important question because it

seemed a lot of people thought that he did so much and so well to plan out this, you know plan out the murder and then not only having the ghost gun on him, but also still having the fake id still having the fake id on him. the new jersey fake id, that was also presented at the hospital where he did check in ten days before the shooting. does that suggest that he was not following or not able to follow how the police manhunt was going for him? because that was one thing that was very obviously out there was the fake new jersey id yeah, really strange set of circumstances here. >> um, as you said, like super careful and meticulous in planning this out and then massive mistakes that of course, being one of them. there's a thousand places he could have gotten rid of those ids and that pistol, as he was making his escape out of new

york. and had he done so the case against him would be very different. he would essentially be able to put on a defense claiming it wasn't him. and if he hadn't left dna and had those items of evidence on his person when he was arrested, you would have had a pretty good argument saying, it's not me. that guy looks like me but it's not actually me. in a case that would have founded on you know, um, a reasonable doubt. now, really, there's no doubt whatsoever why he did that. it's harder to figure out he's clearly, it seems, the the narrative we're getting from his social media is he's somebody who is you know, not, uh maybe going through a hard time in his life mentally, maybe struggling emotionally, disappearing from his friends and family, suffering with some sort of illness that might have been the source of his animus towards the health care industry. um so it's hard to say exactly why he was so good in some respects. and then in other respects, may just really obvious mistakes that led to his capture. >> he can fight extradition

back to new york. i mean not indefinitely, but can fight it why would he kate. >> almost no one ever does. because there's no good reason to extradition from one state to another on a criminal charge really comes down to just the issue of identification as soon as the kind of receiving state can prove in court that you are the person that they've indicted, then you're you're shipped out. so there's really no reason to go through that process most people waive it and are quickly transported to the state that wants them. i would expect that will happen here. that's likely what any lawyer will advise him to do yeah. >> andy, it's great to see you. thank you so much for jumping on. coming up still for us live pictures we're going to show you can get their promise out of malibu, california, where a fire has shut down pepperdine university for the day and strong winds are expected to pick up once again this morning. donald trump's pick for defense secretary is

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flames on the hillside and firefighters all scattered throughout these neighborhoods. >> but it's been pitch black because the power is out. i don't know if you can see a little bit behind me. the glow from some of the fire right behind us. >> what's so tricky about these wildfires, especially in these canyons, is they the embers will travel and then they'll create these big bursts of flames. it'll die down and then the flame can travel up to a mile and go somewhere else. and so these firefighters have really been chasing this fire through the canyons where we are right now is on a stretch of pch with very high end restaurants and businesses that line here, the malibu pier, the iconic malibu pier is right down the street from us, and right behind us here is nobu malibu, very high end restaurant and some firefighters just pulled in here to kind of monitor all of these restaurants here. there's also many, many houses scattered throughout here and then just on the other side of us up here, we saw a lot of

flames in this neighborhood. these are homes that are overlooking the ocean the activity with firefighters has died down in this area for now, because the flames have jumped to a different part of the canyon. demir if we can just move over just a little bit more, perhaps we can see some of the flames here from the distance. but again these fires in these canyons are very difficult because these are two lane roads that go up into the hills, making it very difficult for firefighters to get an access to these neighborhoods. and then there's also all of these residents. this is a fire that blew up in the middle of the night. so we have seen many residents here along pch just sitting and watching not evacuating, even though there are evacuation orders. we've also seen a lot of people rushing out. and then we've heard of stories of animals because they're, you know, deep in these canyons, too. there's a lot of farmland. there are people who, you know, have livestock. they have animals up there and had having difficulty getting those animals out. we did see a horse trailer racing

past a couple of hours ago. so our goal is to get into the canyons after this live shot to see if we can get better access to see what's happening up there with homes, what kind of damage there is. but it's been very hard for us to tell because it's been so dark. so we've seen a lot of flames. but from this vantage point, we cannot say for certain if there are homes that have gone down and are you know, demolished at this point. >> john, look it's been a tough, tough night there the pictures that you're showing us right now and the pictures that we've seen are extraordinary. and we know from speaking to students at pepperdine they didn't even get the warnings to shelter in place until after 11:00 at night. so hard. hard for people to evacuate at that hour. veronica, we'll let you get back on the road. get where you can to show us the situation there. thank you so much for your reporting. all right new details from a closed door meeting on capitol hill. what was said that has republican senators now falling in line with trump's controversial cabinet picks and

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combat. hegseth is now trying to clarify those remarks, which he says were misconstrued. let's get right to cnn's lauren fox on capitol hill. so where do things stand this morning lauren? >> well pete hegseth just arrived on capitol hill, and we know that he is set to meet today with senator lisa murkowski, a republican from alaska. tomorrow, he is going to vote with he's going to join senator susan collins, a republican from maine. but this all comes as there has been renewed focus on from hegseth team on trying to court and win over some of these republican women senators. yesterday he met once again with senator joni ernst, a republican from iowa who he met with last week. and the two of them had described their meeting as a frank and thorough discussion. here's what they said after the meeting yesterday he is very supportive of women in the military. it is one thing that we discussed. >> some of our greatest warriors, our best warriors out there are women who serve raise

their right hand to defend this country and love our nation want to defend that flag and they do it every single day around the globe and just some context. >> senator joni ernst is a veteran. she is someone who has fought very hard to secure women's roles in combat zones across the world. and, you know, she's someone who has made that a cornerstone of her time on capitol hill. so obviously, this was an issue that she wanted to discuss with hegseth, an issue that he is now trying to clarify. it is probably an issue that's going to come up again with senator murkowski, senator collins, but again, this all comes as pete hegseth began the week last week, really embroiled in controversy and ended it with a lot of republican senators not closing the door to his nomination. so this is a yet another critical week for him. but it's just important to point out that the majority of republicans in the senate next congress, it's going to be very narrow. so that means that pete

hegseth has very little room for air. he can only afford to lose three republicans if he loses four. he cannot get through as the next leader of the pentagon. >> now, at least for now, though, it appears as if he is surviving until hearings that will take place, which may be a little different than what it looked like ten days ago. lauren fox on capitol hill for us this morning. great reporting. thank you kate. >> and with us right now is cnn political commentators, republican strategist shermichael singleton and democratic strategist maria cardona. thanks, guys, for being here. maria, let's just start with you. there seems it's hard to read into the shift or not shift it is always very hard. i mean, joni ernst essentially, i think i'm reading this as a joni ernst no comment when she says i'm going to support him in the process but if hegseth has allayed the concerns of senator joni ernst especially with what he says now about women in combat. what say you well, i think it's more

about what kind of threats and bullying and pressure the extremist maga supporters of hegseth and supporters of donald trump are now activating against senator ernst. >> and that, i think, is going to be what will tilt one way or the other, because look, senator ernst, clearly feels very strongly a way about hegseth. and she didn't try to hide it before. and i think, you know, it's clear that she wants the process to to move forward and to see it through which which is good. she should listen to him. but the things that he has said and the things that he has done and the allegations that he has have got to be extremely troubling to especially somebody like senator ernst, who is a sexual assault survivor, a combat veteran herself. and we've known what hegseth thinks about and has said about women in combat. and she is somebody who has fought to allay misconduct

allegations or misconduct sexual misconduct in the military that is her legacy. we've seen steve bannon don junior and other maga extremists go after her, not just publicly, but privately essentially saying to her if she doesn't support hegseth, they're going to find somebody to primary her and she is up for reelection in 26. and so i hope that she has the mettle. she has the backbone. she has the spine to stand up to to him and to to essentially demonstrate what her own values are because if she does that, i think it would be very hard for her to say yes to him. >> there is and what this gets down gets back to shermichael is what we just played. what pete hegseth is saying now, when in saying his words were misconstrued. but it was very recently that he seemed very clear on a podcast of what he said. i want to play it again

for people, listen i'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. >> it hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. >> and now he wants to put clarity in context around it, saying his words are misconstrued. do you believe him? >> well, look from my understanding, i believe he was referencing a question from the interviewer pertaining to some data that came out, i guess, recently, about the effectiveness when comparing gender roles in combat. >> that's up for debate. this data actually came from the pentagon itself. with that said, however i understand why joni ernst is somewhat moving forward with wanting to ultimately support pete. she has a constituency donald trump won the election. republicans expect, for the most part, for senators to do their jobs, but to also support the nominees from the president elect. and if they aren't willing to, for whatever personal reasons they may have, maybe they're interested in the job. not saying that the senator is, but some have sort of thrown that out there. then

those constituents in her state are going to call and say, we support donald trump and we voted for you. you have an election coming up in about two years. if you want our support then you need to ask your tough questions get the answers that are necessary. but let's move this process along the president elect deserves that opportunity, and i think that's why you're seeing the senator move forward. >> at least move through the process. let's see where it ends up. it's like the process occurs. and then and then what is your opinion senator? that's really where we end up. something else i want to ask you guys about, because there are more than 75 nobel prize winners are urging the senate to not confirm another nominee, rfk jr.. is hhs secretary. according to the new york times. they obtained the letter. it marks the first time in recent memory that nobel laureates have banded together against a cabinet choice and here is why. they put in the letter this placing mr. kennedy in charge of hhs would put the public's health in jeopardy and undermine america's global leadership in the health sciences. one of the one of the doctors leading the charge here said this to the times these

political attacks on science are very damaging. you have to stand up and protect it. maria, what do you think the impact of this is well again, i think it's going to all land on the senators and their mettle and their values and whether they are able to stand up to the kinds of pressure we are seeing not just from donald trump with all his posts on truth social and with his interviews, but with all of his maga extremist army and whether senators are willing to put the best interests, the health, the survival, the livelihood of the country before all of those things. >> and and that's tough because shermichael is right. donald trump won the election. he is putting his people forward, i believe, and i think a lot of people don't believe they are the best people. and these senators have a very difficult decision to make because while they absolutely are prone to capitulating to

pressure from donald trump, so many of them have bent the knee. so many of them have kissed the ring. so many of them have, you know, genuflected at the altar of donald trump for their own political purposes, their constituency is the american voter the americans who depend on them to make the right decisions for their own lives and livelihoods and this is somebody like robert f k jr. is not in the best interest, especially health wise and lives wise of the united states of america and the response the even more so than no equivalent to how impactful maybe this group of nobel laureates coming out and saying this is here. >> the also is the statement from the trump transition. let me read this to you from the the new york times obtaining this statement saying americans are sick and tired of the elites telling them what to do and how to do it. our health care system in this country is

broken. mr. kennedy will enact president trump's agenda to restore integrity in our health care. these aren't elites though. i mean, these are world renowned leaders in fields like medicine, chemistry economics and physics. they include the men who were awarded this year's nobel prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of micro rna. my, my thing about this is i get we we are all very clear on what it feels like to, you know, play politics with whatever. but when do we start and stop listening to people who are actual experts on things i don't think we should necessarily stop, kate, but i think we should challenge. >> and they are elite in terms of their pedigree. like, i have a lot of elite in terms of their intellectual capacity. sure, sure i have respect for people who spent a lot of time mastering something and moving the needle forward in terms of our understanding and sort of rare or complex disciplines. i think that that matters for us as a nation and for the world. however let's look at some of the facts as it pertains to our health care system 40.3% of

americans, according to the cdc, are obese. that number has increased since 2011. the united states, according to the same data ranks 34th in terms of our health care system. >> people will also not potentially endanger america's children by pushing anti-vax conspiracy theories for years. >> well, i'll say it also endangered americans children kate, was a lot of the rhetoric that we heard from many of the same experts during the covid pandemic, where now you have millions of american kids who are significantly behind academically they're going to struggle to catch up with the rest of the world who are leaps and bounds ahead of us, and we listen to the experts. then we trusted the experts, then all. i'm simply saying is, it's okay to ask questions. it's okay to have a healthy dose of skepticism the data suggests that that's perfectly fine many scientists would even argue, have an hypothesis about something, and challenging it over and over and over again to see if you can replicate it with the data is okay. and in a political sense, i think many

americans want someone who's willing to ask some very tough questions as it pertains to our health care system, and i would argue that they would be right in doing so because our health care system is not where it needs to be. it doesn't make sense for the wealthiest country in the world to rank 34th in terms of like life expectancy. how is that possible? it makes no sense that nearly half of americans are obese, so we do have to ask those questions. >> kate, you can ask lots of questions and questioning covid lockdowns is one thing. what is what is not in question is how many lives have actually been saved by things like the measles vaccine, the polio vaccine? what has happened and that is what i'm getting at because you're adding two things together. lots of people can question how experts handled a unfolding pandemic in in front of all of us it's one thing to deny the data from decades of how many lives have been saved from vaccines that that children do not suffer from, and what it would mean if

that if that skepticism and the questions were suggesting are out there, then start getting getting into the mindset of millions of americans once again led by someone who has not only been a skeptic of vaccines, is a cynic of vaccines. that is not. i'm not denying i'm not personally denying the results of vaccines kate. >> so i want to be clear on that. >> but that's that's something yeah. >> go ahead. >> kate no, i'm just saying yes. but just these things, these are like apples and oranges, like questioning covid lockdowns and and and not in saying, but like that's a good question to have. but also maybe you should question vaccines because that's what's being added together. all right. clearly we got to go because they're about to cut my mic to. guys thank you. so much. coming up for us cnn's clarissa ward in syria. and inside a garage full of luxury cars kept by syrians now former dictator bashar al-assad, while his people starved. and we're just learning the rebels have installed a new

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on the ground in syria in the days after the fall of the assad regime. our clarissa ward and her team have been some of the few western journalists there they've been sending back these reports and she was in the middle of this scene not long ago, in the middle of what was sort of a demonstration, speaking to people whose lives have been upended. they hope for the better i've been living 13 years in war and death and darkness and this is amazing. >> this is unspeakable. actually, this is here. here you can see the the breath of freedom this is absolutely amazing this is i hope we can do more. this is this is only the beginning. this. it has to be a mess in the beginning. but i'm sure we can do something more and more in the future. thank you so much judith. >> and it really is sort of wonderful, honestly, to hear that kind of optimism, because as i mentioned, those first couple of days, those first few days, a lot of tension, a lot

of anxiety, some chaos and looting in the beginning now that there is a degree of calm and control in the city. you are seeing people come out and finally, just this outpouring of jubilation after more than 50 years under the totalitarian regime, totalitarian regime of bashar al-assad and hafez al-assad, his father before him after 14 years of the most brutal and ugly civil war. these people want the world to know that syria is free and is beginning a new chapter. >> again, our thanks to clarissa ward and her team, and i can't stress enough how remarkable it has been to have her there, sending us back these reports with us. now you can see him. ambassador ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, iraq, pakistan and syria an ambassador. you know, you've seen firsthand over the years that list of countries, these moments of hope, but also that hope disappear. what's the most important thing and what's your

biggest concern over the next few days well that's exactly it, john. >> that that the hope be sustained and that means security stability and the emergence of some form of government that will have a better contract with its people than assad did. surely. but that is a very tall order. we've seen the other scenes of jubilation from arab springs arou shifted to disorder, and even tragedy. so it the interlocutors just said this is just the beginning. and right now there is a lot of disorder, a lot of happiness. but it is a very tall climb to get to a stable, sustainable syrian state. >> the the rebel group, the main rebel group that has spearheaded spearheaded the overthrow of bashar al assad. we just got word a few minutes ago they've they've appointed an interim prime minister who

is someone who had been something of a bureaucrat for rebel controlled areas before. is that the kind of move or what is the impact of a move like that well, one hopes it's a good beginning, but there is a major difference between running one province of syria idlib in the north and running a whole country with all of its disparate ethnic and sectarian groups. >> it's a conglomeration of political actions and actors. uh we're just going to have to see what happens in the coming days. the most critical element right now is to maintain some semblance of security and move quickly to restore services and then to try and coalesce around some political order. because again, he has led this revolution. but it is not the sole revolutionary. and we've

seen moments of jubilation turn quickly to tragedy and disorder when the those who toppled the regime proved themselves not capable of restoring a new order. >> um and i know in these situations officials in the united states are trying to get as much information as they can as quickly as they can. and i have to believe they're watching clarissa ward's reports as she sends them back to us. and one of the truly interesting moments, very small moment happened when clarissa was going to assad's compound and got a look at all his luxury cars inside. but in the process the rebels who were in control of it, they won't speak to clarissa until she put her headscarf back on in. one of the unknowns has been this rebel group. how much would they lean into islamic fundamentalism? so what is that? one moment? i know it's just one small moment. what does it tell you? what concerns does it raise

well it was a very telling moment. >> i saw that and uh, uh, it was an, uh au moment, if you will uh, he is an islamist group. they have broken with al qaeda or so they say but still follow a strict islamist ideology. and they are allied with other groups of similar outlooks. so they have said the right things about pro all minorities including christians, alawites and kurds. uh, we're going to have to see if they actually follow through on that. uh it is, again, a moment of great uncertainty. it's a true revolution and in revolutions, no one knows exactly what's coming next, including the revolutionaries ambassador ryan crocker, putting it in perspective, they're a true uh-oh moment. >> thank you for coming on and helping us understand it all. appreciate it so a defective and deadly product. an ai

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