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pennsylvania, and new images show mangione at the mcdonald's earlier that day. multiple customers and an employee had noticed how much he resembled the target of a nationwide manhunt until an employee called police. listen it started out almost a little bit like a joke that we thought. >> my one friend thought he looked like the shooter. he probably heard us. that surprised me. he stayed there as long as he did cnn's brynn gingras has been covering every twist and turn on this case. >> brian, what is happening at this eradition hearing yeah. >> so, listen, we have a reporter inside the courtroom right now. they are not allowed to have any sort of communication. so we don't quite know just yet if that hearing has started. we're still waiting to get an update. but you can see we know that he is inside that courthouse, at least from that sort of combative moment there, as you showed the viewers where it took several sheriff's deputies to calm him down and get him inside of that

building. as you said, this is really the first time that we are hearing from him his own voice. we do know that he does have a defense attorney who's representing him for this extradition hearing. we know that new york asked for this extradition. a warrant for his arrest has been issued. so it's now up to the trial judge to go forward with this, for the judge to go forward with this hearing. and he has a decision to either fight it or to actually move forward where people from the nypd will and marshal's office will bring him here to new york. and we're learning that that could happen sometime tonight, could be even sometime tomorrow. >> and, brian, what are we learning about a potential motive? >> yeah. so of course, there's an intelligence report that is shared among the intelligence community all across the country that came from the nypd, you know, received by our john miller. and it really gives some more details about that three page document that authorities did find on mangione. they say when they

made that arrest, and it talks about sort of his hatred with the health care industry, and it talks about how he's somewhat viewed himself as, you know, committing a symbolic takedown with this alleged act that he is accused of. in it, he basically said the mafioso has gotten too powerful. and to continue the abuse of our country for immense profits. and he kind of paints himself, according to this report, as somewhat of a hero, saying that evidently i am the first to face it with such brutal honesty. now, of course, you've heard governor shapiro from pennsylvania come out. you've seen the new york governor come out and say he is no hero. of course we should not be celebrating this person, but it certainly is giving a little bit more detail as to a motive, possibly, of why he is accused of this horrific crime. we also are learning more from friends and family. right? we have been talking to many people, some who have lived with him, some people who knew him in college and high school who say, you know, they were, you know, close to him over social media

or keeping in touch with him, but he sort of fell off the grid this last summer. and one person we spoke to talked about a back injury that he was dealing with, which also might be something that could be connecting the dots to the health care industry. but let's hear more from this person who actually lived with him in hawaii at one point. >> 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 yeah. >> again, these are all sort of the things that police are going to be using to connect the dots and try to point to a motive, try to build their case. we know that they've also, of course, scrubbed social media in their efforts in this investigation. as i said, we are now waiting for this extradition hearing to happen. and it's possible that

luigi mangione may be on his way to new york at the soonest. maybe tonight. >> boris brynn gingras, thank you so much for keeping an eye on that. brianna. >> experts say the suspected killer of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson, planned his attack well, but also made some crucial mistakes. so let's take a look at what police say are his key moves and also the evidence left behind. and what this all says about the gunman's strategy before the killing. the suspect cleverly avoided air travel because, of course, had he taken a plane, he would have had to show his id, reveal his entire face under security cameras if he had a gun at the time, it probably would have been detected during luggage screening. instead, the suspect took a greyhound bus to new york, a bus that originated in atlanta. though we still have to wait and see where he may have gotten on that bus. the suspect stayed in a hostel in new york using a fake new jersey driver's license and paying cash again, avoiding a digital trail. there. the suspect was careful up until

this point, including diligently wearing a mask over his face. this was that rare image of the suspects unmasked face captured on surveillance video in a hostile employee, flirted with him and asked him to lower his face mask. and it was these images, of course, that helped spread his identity across the country and even around the world. then lastly, the suspect used a ghost gun, which is an untraceable, self-assembled firearm, kept law enforcement veterans puzzled here, police saying when mangione was arrested at that pennsylvania mcdonald's, local officers discovered this ghost gun when they were searching him. and then after the killing, the suspect seemingly left a trail of evidence behind a discarded starbucks water bottle, an energy bar wrapper, a burner phone that gave authorities dna material, and a partial fingerprint to work with. later, that distinctive backpack, resembling the one worn by the gunman, was found in central park. authorities are hoping dna samples from all of these items would help

identify the suspect. testing, though, yielded no dna or fingerprint matches in law enforcement databases. so we're going to see, though, how those pieces of evidence are going to be used by authorities now that the suspect has been arrested and the suspect's complex path out of new york shows show showing investigators just how much planning went into it here. remember immediately after the shooting, police say the suspect ran from the scene, hopped on an e-bike, rode to central park, ditched the bike and hailed a taxi, then went to a bus terminal with interstate busses headed to a variety of destinations. and it was in that taxi cab where a security camera captured clear images of the suspect's eyes. one of the most baffling last aspects to this arrest is the fact that investigators discovered mangione in possession of numerous fake ids, including this one here, one that police believe was actually used by the suspect in new york city. at that hostel. the question

is, why shed so much other evidence, but keep some pieces of potential evidence, including the fake ids? boris. >> it is a significant question. let's pose it to david sahni. he's a retired new york police detective who is an adjunct professor at the john jay college of criminal justice. sir, thank you so much for being with us to that question that brianna just asked, why would this suspect ditch certain pieces of evidence and keep other things that appear to be critical to investigators connecting him to the shooting? >> well, first, thanks for having me here. um, the ghost gun i'm going to presume is difficult to produce. and this is something he kept, uh, because, you know, a lot of times when people do commit crimes, they throw the gun away. he didn't the manifesto was his writings. and the good thing is a lot of things incriminating in that some people want to hold on to things that are dear to them and what they want to hold on to. the other issue is, um, and this is when it comes down to

the ted kaczynski. he praises him in a little bit of a sense, and you can see or hear the extradition. he's sort of he's one of his spouse. something, uh, fortunately, you have a91 caller calling in, um, the shooter calling the identification of the person at the at the mcdonald's. and that might have stopped possibly anything else. and this is the one thing i always talk about is, you know, the investigation doesn't stop at the arrest of the individual. there's there's going to be an all encompassing thing, uh, the ghost gun, the manufactured, the ghost gun. maybe you're going to have maybe federal law partners involved in, in trying to do research on that gun. how did he get the gun? where did he get it? from his social media. and anything he's ever contacted or touched will be scrubbed because we want to identify anyone who helped him during this time because apparently he seemed very clean. he wasn't like he was hiding anywhere. he was kind of hiding in plain sight. and other people probably did recognize him but didn't say anything. regardless, this is something we have to also look at, and that's why they're tracking his steps from new york to philly to altoona, and

seeing where there's a chance that he might have engaged in other people who might have assisted him in this. >> and david, you mentioned the ghost gun and what will be done to try to put the pieces together as to how he got possession of it and all that. what would the advantage be for a suspect to try to use a ghost gun in a scenario like this well, the difficulty is, is the ballistic aspects. >> if there's really no ballistics on file, it's very difficult to do. but what they're going to do and i'll tell you, we have great people in dealing with ballistics units. they're going to compare and contrast the spent shell casings at the scene to rounds that they will probably fire from that gun. if it's operating. they're going to check the operability, of course, and they will then be able to match determine based on that. you know the trace, if at all.

>> i'm also wondering about the fact that this is now an investigation that spans at least two states. obviously, pennsylvania and new york. what's the process like for investigators to gather all of that evidence together and what comes next well, it's going to be a massive undertaking to take all. >> and i guarantee you also, again, detectives do the best job they can. and this is an all multifaceted, heavy case, and we call it kind of a this is a heavy a super heavy case that all that evidence and all the documentation, like the district attorney's office, is going to work in conjunction with the police department to make sure every all the ducks in a row, all the i's are dotted, t's are crossed to gather all that. and that's the thing is the the the marshaling of evidence, taking all that information so you can prepare for trial. >> did it surprise you, david, that he was just sitting there at mcdonald's for hours and didn't really seem to react

after people were near him, joking that he might be the killer? i mean, one witness, to be clear, one witness said that he believed that he might have heard he and some other friends joking that he might be the suspect this is sometimes the hiding in plain sight. >> some people are not always in tune with what's going on. there are outside surroundings. they're really kind of engaged in their own lives. and the one thing you're dealing with, a customer service employee who really sees everybody. and that's what helped the police identify him. and not only that, the ability of the detectives to do the old, good, old fashioned footwork of doing those extended video canvasses, retrieving that video, getting the proper stills, disseminating, disseminating them locally and nationally. and this is why you have what you have today. that investigation was all encompassing. we used our state partners, our federal law enforcement partners, and altoona police department who really, you know, the officers responded to the scene, did a fantastic job, and a possible situation with a man with a gun

was was pretty much handled as expertly as possible by these officers. >> david sahni, we appreciate the perspective. thanks for joining us thank you for having me. still to come, a new watchdog report reveals how the trump administration secretly obtained phone records belonging to lawmakers and their staffers in an attempt to catch leakers. we're going to tell you specifically who was targeted. plus, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu taking the stand at his corruption trial. hear what he said about the criminal charges he's facing. and actor jamie foxx revealing exactly what happened during his mysterious and lengthy hospitalization last year. that, and much more coming up on cnn news central. >> welcome to times square. that's not in my life. >> that was so embarrassing. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on

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>> it hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. i also want an opportunity here to clarify comments that have been misconstrued that i somehow don't support women in the military. 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? >> so there you hear it. hegseth saying he supports women being in the military, not addressing what he said in the past about women not being fit for combat. some pretty clear comments that he is now saying were misconstrued. cnn's lauren fox is live for us on capitol hill. lauren, what are you hearing from lawmakers as hegseth is getting set to meet with senator murkowski? >> yeah, it's very clear that the fortunes for senator for hegseth have started to shift as he's continued to meet with senators. you know, i talked with senator john cornyn, a republican from texas, who met with hegseth earlier today, and

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pivotal for him. it's important to remind folks at home that the margins up here on capitol hill, for republicans in the senate are really slim. and that means that every single one of these meetings matters a lot, especially with some of these republican women senators. as you noted earlier, hegseth has been trying to clean up past comments that he made about women serving in combat roles. i asked senator cornyn earlier if that was something that came up in their meeting. he said that it did come up and that they both agreed that women should continue to serve in combat roles if they meet the same standards as men. now, he did not clarify specifically what those standards are, so obviously more room to keep pushing there on whether or not there are any differences between what hegseth has said in the past and what he is telling members behind closed doors. brianna. >> all right. lauren fox live for us on the hill. thank you. boris. >> meantime, we're learning of a secret and sweeping investigation conducted by the department of justice in an

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in a position of trust to reporters. so the question is, how do you get at that information? and so what we're learning from this now, you know, over 90 page office of inspector general report from the justice department is that they went looking at reporters and at members and staff members in congress and the justice department was seeking their call records. so i think it's important to point out what the inspector general is reporting is that there was no content of communications, either of members of congress or the staff members or the reporters based on this review that was done, it's not indicating content was obtained. it's obtaining that subscriber information records, in other words, trying to understand who was communicating with who. >> so essentially pings between cell phones, but not exactly what was said, what was was sent. right. >> so they were trying to they obviously really didn't know who was doing these unauthorized disclosures because they cast a pretty wide

net in terms of looking at members and then a wide range of staff members. so over 40 congressional staff members were subject to this. and so they were trying to narrow it down using subpoenas, what are called 2703 d orders. so court orders, based on the opening of those investigations and something like 40 of the congressional cases, the subjects weren't aware that their records had been subpoenaed. >> why is that? and does that give you any concern about transparency? yeah. >> so from again, from a national security lawyers perspective, that would be the appropriate course of action that there are nondisclosure orders, both from the recipients who are who are subject to their records being provided, as well as to the reporters. if you are thinking about this from a journalists perspective or from the person whose records are being revealed to the justice department, obviously then there's a concern about transparency, concerns about privacy. what the justice department would say is that this was lawful process. so

they were following legal orders. the important thing, i think that comes out of the inspector general report is that over time and procedures were improved as a result of this particular issue. this particular set of cases to obtain approval. so high level approvals for the records request that the demands that went to reporters, what their warrant is, there weren't appropriate senior level approvals as a matter of justice department policy for the congressional members and the staff members. and so that is a real area that the department needed to improve on. >> yeah, there was something in the report indicating that while doj has safeguards in place for journalists, there were specific safeguards that weren't followed. yeah. >> so so on the journalists, the the request, the authorization to obtain the records went all the way up to the attorney general, which in my judgment, is the appropriate thing. and these, you know, it's highly sensitive. you're dealing with the news media. if the justice department needs to

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>> i'm elizabeth wagmeister in los angeles and this is cnn. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is not only engaged in a war in gaza and potentially facing threats from the wider turmoil across the region. he's also on trial for corruption. today, netanyahu finally took the witness stand, more than five years after he was indicted. 75 year old is israel's first sitting prime minister to be charged with a crime. >> he's accused of accepting gifts from millionaire friends and for allegedly seeking regulatory favors for media tycoons in return for favorable coverage. netanyahu denies any wrongdoing. we're joined now live by barak ravid, a cnn political and global affairs analyst. barak, thanks so much for being with us. so there are three main cases here. he's accused of bribery, fraud, receiving gifts from businessmen overseas, trying to boost favorable coverage in a top israeli newspaper. which of these allegations do you think most worries netanyahu

well, boris and brianna, i think all of them were in netanyahu very much because at least in one case, there's really no argument over the facts. >> for example, case 1000, where netanyahu uh, received, um, $200,000 worth of cigars, champagne and jewelry from two businessmen whom he. afterwards helped in, uh, on certain issues. he doesn't deny that he received, uh, this champagne and those cigars and the jewelry. he just says it's a gift between friends. uh, on the other hand, in case 4000 about the millions of hundreds of millions of dollars of regulatory benefits that he allegedly gave this telecommunication tycoon in order to get favorable coverage, uh, netanyahu claims that he did not know that he gave this this tycoon those

regulatory benefits. and in the last case, it's, you know, when he tried to get favorable coverage in one of israel's, uh, widely circulated newspapers, there's a recording of his whole conversation with the publisher of this newspaper. so in many cases, in many of those cases, the evidence are very, very strong. and the argument is, how do you interpret those evidence? >> yeah. and he he also we should note barack has been he's saying i've been waiting for eight years to tell my side of the story. but his attorneys have notably sought to delay this case for years. >> of course, you know, it was kind of funny to see netanyahu yesterday saying that, you know, he waited for eight years. the reason eight years have passed since he was first investigated by the police. and until he takes the stand to testify for the first time, is because he and his lawyers delayed it as much as they could. and, you know, to his

lawyer's credit, they did quite a good job. um, and only in the last few days, netanyahu tried to even use the crisis in syria in order to postpone his testimony. he sent the ministers of his security cabinet to sign a joint letter to the judges, something that is unheard of in israel's history that the the politicians ministers in the government are trying to intervene in a legal proceeding asking the judges to postpone the testimony. the judges obviously rejected this request. but you know, netanyahu personally tried to delay and postpone his trial and his testimony. and i'll tell you another thing. today, during his testimony, three times, uh, a courier with a with an envelope with a huge top secret, uh, written on it entered the courtroom to give it to the to the prime minister, allegedly to update him about security issues. that

happened three times a day. and it happened when his own lawyer was questioning him. when the state prosecution will question him, i believe we will see, uh, a train station of security updates and envelopes and couriers in, uh, barack. >> he's also been accused of and you sort of alluded to this. he's been accused of using his own power as prime minister to try to get away from this case to to make these allegations go away, to make the case go away. i wonder if you find that to be a fair criticism i don't think it's, uh, it's a fact. >> what do you mean? it's it's undisputed. um, you know, people, we had a war now for more than a year, so people forget what happened before the war in the year before the war in gaza, the number one thing netanyahu and his government were dealing with is an attempt to neuter the supreme court to

weaken israel's democratic institutions, including the attorney general, uh, and to to pass laws that could, uh, delay or even, uh, cancel netanyahu's trial. that was the reason for what they've been doing. there was no other reason to do it. uh, obviously they built a whole ideology around it, but it was clear to everybody. and you know how i know? because several of of of the ministers in his government admitted that the reason it happened is because of netanyahu's trial. uh, and by the way, this judicial overhaul and everything happening around it is one of the main reasons that october 7th happened because netanyahu was warned four times during that year, before the war, by the heads of the security services, that what he's doing with the judicial overhaul is weakening israel and is encouraging israel's enemies. iran, hamas, hezbollah to go after it, which is exactly what happened.

>> barak ravid, thank you so much. fascinating reporting about what happened during his testimony. indeed. thank you. thank you. so in the meantime, the biden administration says it has no new information about american journalist austin tice, who has been held in syria for so long since 2012. over the weekend, u.s. officials revealed they reached out to rebel forces about tice's whereabouts and the fbi renewed its $1 million offer for information that could lead to tice's safe return. >> president biden has said he believes that tice is still alive, and his family told cnn they recently received confirmation he is alive from what his mother described as a significant source, one of many stories we will keep an eye on. up next, president elect donald trump's legal woes may be over, but the allies accused of helping him try to overturn the 2020 election are still facing some very real charges. an update when we come back. >> welcome to times square.

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enforcement from new york will have to step in and set forth before the judge the evidence establishing that there's probable cause that mangione is, in fact, the shooter of brian thompson. and so they'll have to go. the alleged shooter, brian thompson. it's still it's not an evidentiary hearing. it's rather do they have sufficient evidence to establish that he is, in fact, the alleged shooter? that's. the ultimate decision as to whether or not it will be granted. and after that, then he will be sent to new york to face the charges. >> so what's the standard on that? i mean, what kind of thing might they? they have a ton of evidence. they say, for the fake id that was allegedly used at the hospital, what do they have to present? how involved is that? >> great question, brianna. and there is a lot involved in it. there's testimony you'll probably hear from the arresting officer in pennsylvania about his about mangione demeanor when he was first approached. you will probably the judge will probably hear about the manifesto and in the manifesto,

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