summers. >> swimmers, tiktoks showcasing those treats at the olympic village took off. the village started selling out of the muffins after his viral reviews hailed the muffins as 11 out of ten. >> see how i do my makeup for work? very demure, very mindful if you're like me, i had no idea why everybody was suddenly saying demure this year. >> oh, guys, come on, you're not giving me enough credit. the people who i do actually know what this is. the term took off after this video from tiktoker jules lebron. according to google, the word became the top search for people trying to figure out the meaning of that internet trend this year. i mean, i guess i, i guess i did probably have to google it, i don't know, did you guys have to google it like, i don't think i would have picked it up. i'm not that cool. all right guys, thank you very much for being here. thanks to all of you for joining us. i'm kasie hunt, cnn news central starts right now

the clues, the courthouse outburst and the extradition fight, the new details about the suspected killer, including what he was thinking before the shooting as he now fights to stay out of new york. >> a cnn exclusive this morning for the first time, hear from a male accuser who says sean diddy combs drugged then sexually assaulted him at one of those infamous white parties. >> the mysterious drones seen flying over new jersey. not just anywhere over key infrastructure. lawmakers want answers, and they want them now. i'm john berman with kate baldwin and sara sidner. yes, we're all here. it must be big. this is cnn news central all right. happening now. the

man accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson is behind bars in pennsylvania and fighting extradition here to new york. we're getting new reporting this morning on why he's fighting. it could slow the process by weeks. he was denied bail after an angry outburst outside court. right there overnight, his lawyer told cnn he has seen zero evidence against his client. but police say they have tons, including new writings and a notebook of a so-called to do list. before the killing. at one point, the suspect wrote about using a bomb, but did not want to, quote, kill innocents. all this, as there is disturbing support surrounding this murder. in some circles. this is what the suspect's lawyer told cnn about offers he has received to cover the accused killer's legal >> obviously, my client appreciates the supporon't know it it i'd have to look in, but it just doesn't sit right with says, you know, all these rich

billionaires can give all kind of money to candidates, and that's free speech. so maybe these people are exercising their right to free speech and saying, that's the way they're supporting my client. >> all right. with us now is ashley southall, new york times reporter who has been all over this story. you and your team have been doing great work at the times on this, as has john miller here at cnn. but i want to ask you, given what we saw in court yesterday, you know, what's next and what questions do you still have? >> all right. so thank you for having me on. what we think happens next is that the suspect he's fighting extradition. it's rare for a judge to reject extradition, that all the prosecutor has to prove is that he was somewhere in the area at the time of the crime, and that he resembles the person that the wanted poster in new york is for. and certainly we have seen those images that phase i mean, they look pretty close to me. and i think that fake id that he showed officers in pennsylvania is going to play a critical

role in proving his connection to new york city, because what how could a judge is not going to believe it's coincidence that your client happens to have the exact same id and the exact same face? that's a that's a requires a judge to be a little. incredulous. but best case scenario, we see him back in new york in a month or two. however, with the delays that he's trying to force in this case, it could be slightly longer. >> and do you think that would give him more opportunity for more public outbursts like this? >> i mean, certainly if he appears in court, he might have more. he might have more episodes like this. it's unclear what causing him to have these outbursts. if this is something that he's doing consciously, or if there is some sort of mental or psychotic break going on there. but you saw we saw in court yesterday that when his lawyer told him to shut up, that's exactly what he did. yeah. >> these are fair questions. but giving him an alleged a suspect who may want publicity. it is interesting that he chose to have those outbursts. all

right. there have been some posters and messages all around new york, all around the country, in fact, sort of targeting other ceos. what's going on here? >> yeah. this is all sort of the public anger surrounding the health care industry. once it became clear or at least suggestive that the suspect had done this sort of for symbolic reasons, he had the inscriptions on the on the bullet casings that had words that alluded to a health care, a book about the health care industry and how they extract profits and profits at the expense of patients. and so once it became clear that he was doing this for political reasons, he gained a lot of supporters who have had similar experiences, unfortunately, with health care or with health insurers. and they have. and so they rallied around him. if you want me to say a little bit more about the investigation and what goes forward, so while he's fighting extradition and while new york is trying to get him back to this state, there's a really broad investigation going on to close

some of the the the open questions. who was he on the phone with before the shooting? we have no idea. we've heard that he's been exchanged for people for months. so who would he make a call to? that person is going to be important. the witnesses, the cab driver, the hotel clerk who checked him in and had him remove his mouth, remove his mask. they're going to be critical. and one of the big questions that they are going to try to figure out is where he's been these last few months. he left hawaii sometime over the spring or summer, and we don't see him until he is on a bus bound for new york, where he does where they think he believes he did this killing. >> ashley southall, thank you so much for being with us this morning, sharing your reporting on this great work. thank you. >> and kate, and we have a cnn exclusive this morning for the first time, a man accusing sean diddy combs of sexual assault is speaking out about what he says happened. the accuser says he was a bodyguard at one of combs white parties in 2007, and says he was drugged and

assaulted. >> the first drink started to have some effect on me, and i just thought, wow, these are really strong drinks. it wasn't until the second drink and it was already too late, that i realized that there was something wrong with the drinks. sean combs was waiting in the wings. he was watching from some sort of vantage point, and once i was in a helpless position and he was sure that he was in a position of power, then he took advantage of the situation. >> cnn's elizabeth wagmeister has this exclusive interview. she's here with us now. and tell us more about what this man is saying, and also why he decided to come forward now. >> yes, kate. this john doe yesterday at his home in new jersey. and since the night that he alleges that this happened to him, he has never told anyone. and this allegedly

occurred in 2007. so we're looking at nearly two decades ago, he didn't tell his wife at the time. he tells me that he is no longer married. he hasn't told his family members or his coworkers, but when he saw that other alleged victims were coming forward, you may remember that there is a group of over 120 accusers of combs who are coming forward. he is part of that group being represented by that legal team. that legal team says that they are representing a child who is the age of nine. he says when he saw the news that there was an accuser who alleged that they were nine years old at the time, he said if a nine year old has the courage to come forward, then i have to come forward. he said he felt like if he had said something before, maybe he could have stopped this alleged behavior from happening now. he did file a lawsuit back in october 14th. so these allegations that i spoke with him have been out there before, but this is the first time that he is sitting down. in fact, it's the first time that any accuser of sean

combs is sitting down since he has first been accused a year ago. let's take a look at what he told me about that alleged abuse that occurred. he says in 2007, i was screaming. >> i was telling him to stop. it was incredibly painful. and he was acting like it was nothing. and he seemed to be disconnected from it. it was abusive beyond belief now he says that he thinks about this every single day. >> he says that it has impacted every single facet of his life. and i asked him, why are you coming forward anonymously? obviously, as you see there, we shielded his identity. he did file as a john doe, and he said, i want to keep some semblance of my life. he says he hasn't had a happy life since that night, that nothing has ever been the same. but he

said, the privacy that i have, i would like to retain that if i can. >> how did he come across? i mean, if this is the first time he's ever even spoken about it, i can imagine that was pretty hard. >> it was it was an emotional interview and i was with him. our team was with him for a few hours to to speak about what had happened to him. you know, aside from calling those attorneys when he decided to me forward in his civil suit against combs, he's never spoken about this to anyone. so you could imagine talking to a stranger, to a journalist the first time is scary situation. >> elizabeth, great reporting. you've been on the you've been on the front of this this entire time. thank you so much for coming in, sarah. >> all right. thank you. kate. a huge, out-of-control fire forces schools to close burned several homes and forces nearly 20,000 people to evacuate in one of california's most beautiful and expensive cities it is a notorious area. >> the winds coming straight down malibu canyon like a blowtorch. and so they're

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advisers have lived within a stone's throw of mar-a-lago. >> well, that has been the case up until recently, because we are now starting to see the epicenter of his political team shift to washington, d.c. allies are on the hill walking these nominees through these capitol hill and senate meetings. we are seeing his advance team scouting out space for inaugural balls and fundraising events and such. even people who are hoping to have an in in the administration groups that have been close to them, they're now renting office space near the white house, and people who have been living in south florida advising trump. they are now relocating to washington, d.c., and this is all happening on a much faster timeline than eight years ago, with the hope and expectation of donald trump hitting the ground running on day one, we talked to one of trump's top advisers who told us, quote,

part of the reason we're all descending on d.c. so early is because the nominees were landed quicker. the sub-cabinet is starting to form policy, teams are in place, and so what's left is figuring figuring out where the hell we're going to live and staffing up. everything is oriented to oriented to being as ready as humanly possible. and i should point out, there is one exception to this, and that is donald trump himself. he is so far continuing to hold court at mar-a-lago, welcoming world leaders, having advisers fly through west palm beach airport and meeting with him there. and so certainly he continues to operate out of mar-a-lago. but it's been a very concerted and quick shift to get his team in place in washington ready for day one. kate. >> all right. steve contorno, great to see you. thank you so much, john. >> all right. this morning, a wave of panic among top ceos wanted posters targeting them

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across the country, forcing corporations and their leaders to elevate their security measures. cnn's matt egan has more. what are some of the steps that these companies are taking? and obviously, their ceos and leadership as well. >> yes, sarah, the level of fear in c-suite seats right now is palpable. >> this shooting in midtown manhattan, not far from where we are right now, has been a real wake up call. >> security firms that are paid top dollar to protect these ceos. they told me that their phones are ringing off the hook right now from worried corporate executives and one official, one security official told me. >> corporate america is nervous, he said. health care is the target now, but who's next? and so companies yes, they are considering a range of steps to ramp up security. first, they are reevaluating their existing security protocol. they're considering increasing the number of security personnel and the amount of technology in offices

and at the residences of executives. they're also urging ceos to delete their digital footprints, including things like the floor plan to their residences or information on where their kids go to school. they're enhancing mail screening. and there's also this sense that this murder really showed that the security blanket that exists around the top security, the top executives, needs to be extended to their lieutenants because there's a lot of corporations that have division ceos like brian was, who may not get that top notch security that the big boss gets, but perhaps they need to. and so the level of concern is high for a number of reasons. it's not just where this happened, it's who the alleged shooter is, right? one security official told me that this isn't a guy. this isn't ted kaczynski living in a cabin somewhere, right? this is someone who actually has a similar background in terms of schooling to some of the corporate executives, but it's also the reaction that this

shooting has gotten in terms of positive reaction online. and there's a concern that that plus some of the attention that the alleged shooter is getting could trigger copycats. and we had this nypd intel report that was obtained by cnn's john miller. and it did say that this shooting appeared to be driven by one anger against the health industry, but two, corporate greed as a whole. and this report cautioned that the positive online reaction may signal an elevated threat facing executives in the near term, with the shooting itself having the capability to inspire a variety of extremists and grievance driven, driven malicious actors to violence. and so it's that environment now that companies are reassessing the security that they have to try to protect their executives. >> yeah, i mean, the online sort of atmosphere is very interesting. and you can understand when you look at it, people very upset about what's happened with health care, lashing out during all of this. and of course, the fear of a copycat is a real one. it is a

real one. matt egan, thank you so much for that reporting. it was great. >> and kate bouncing off that by the way. that intel report put it that positive online reaction. there is real new concern over the morbid glee that has flooded the internet over the ceo's killing and the glorification of his accused killer. from ebay to amazon, tiktok to instagram people and products cheering on luigi mangione while showing little sympathy for the father of two who was murdered is really everywhere. several companies now trying to stop sales on disturbing merchandise, capitalizing on the murder separately but interesting. a book written about the health care industry published in 2010 called delay, deny, defend, has now jumped to amazon's number two spot in the nonfiction section. those words we know, were found on shell casings at the murder scene, and officials are now speaking out. alarmed by social media posts like these this ivy league hottie named luigi is the robin hood that we never knew that we needed.

>> i listened to luigi's manifesto this morning three times and i cried. honestly, it's beautiful and i agree with him. >> at least he left a very powerful message and he highlighted how terrible the health care system is in america. i think he'll go down as a hero in history. >> joining us right now is david gilbert, a reporter at wired covering, who covers misinformation, disinformation and online extremism. david, thanks for coming in. for i was reading through some of what you had picked up on in your reporting, looking at online stores, selling t-shirts and hoodies and mugs and more, applauding mangione with lines like in this house, luigi mangione is a hero. end of story. products of his with his picture and the phrase mama, i'm in love with a criminal. just this morning we found t-shirts being sold saying health care reform luigi style. what are you finding with all this? >> yeah, thanks for having me, kate. it's really interesting.

it's something that we haven't really seen at this scale or on mainstream platforms before, where people are lionizing or glorifying the shooter and pretty much ignoring the victim. in this case and it wants for the first 5 or 6 days when mangione identity wasn't known. this online community, millions of people who, as matt mentioned previously, were really angry about, you know, the health care industry and what had happened to them. they kind of created this fantasy, if you will, of a left wing kind of hero, a robin hood, as we heard in that clip, who they wanted to be their hero and who was doing more for them than anyone else had done. but even when his identity was revealed and we saw that he had gone to prestigious schools and worked in silicon valley and, you know, followed right wing people, this community still embraced him. and as we said,

we saw t-shirts with, i love, um, mangione with his picture on it and tote bags and mugs. and there's, you know, fundraisers happening for him online. it's it's something we haven't seen at this scale before. um, although we have seen mass shooters or, um, school shooters embraced in this way by online communities, it's never been as mainstream as this. >> and that's the difference, i think. and that's what, you know, i think you had seen this too. but alex goldenberg with the network contagion research institute, which tracks online threats, talked to the new york times about this and saying that this internet rhetoric has left experts pretty disturbed by the glorification of the murder. and it's not just the internet. there's always been a corner of the internet where cruel, disgusting things flourish. but it's this big jump in a quick way to mainstream. i mean, no, none of those people that we just played were hiding their faces.

they were on just mainstream social media saying, this type of stuff is it what is driving not just the level of cruelty and lack of empathy? i think of this, as you said, just ignoring the victim here. it's the comfort level with which people are doing it that is that's striking to me yeah, that's definitely what's new here. >> um, i, i think there's two things happening. i think the idea that people are glorifying the shooter is one thing, but it's also they're not exactly the vast majority, at least, are not calling for more murders, for ceos to to be murdered. um, i think people are just so angry at the healthcare system in the us that they see this as an opportunity to lash out, to kind of, you know, vent all that anger that has been pent up for so long. and this is an opportunity for them to join in with millions of other people because you have that sense of community online for people to

really say things that maybe normally they wouldn't say. and there's this sense where people are getting caught up in the moment and they are, um, you know, as you say, posting videos with their face open, you know, glorifying a man who shot someone in midtown manhattan. um, it's it's a really stark thing to see, given that for years i've been tracking kind of the reaction to mass shootings online. and what we see there is typically anonymous accounts glorifying these people. um, and then maybe years later, other mass shooters referencing them in their manifestos. so that's how that kind of, um, network works on the fringe. what we don't know is whether it's going mainstream, like this is going to have a similar radicalizing or inspirational effect, and whether other people will then take up the mantle and do something similar. that's just conjecture at the moment. i think. >> yeah. and also definitely the fear and concern. your

reporting is always so important. david, thank you so much for coming on, john. >> all right. this morning, president biden is facing increasing pressure from within his own party to take action on immigration before leaving office and before president elect trump's promised mass deportations. let's get right to cnn's priscila alvarez for the latest on this. what are they calling for and what power does president biden have here? >> well, democrats essentially want the president and his administration to extend protections to immigrants already in the united states for fear of what president elect donald trump's mass deportation plans may look like and who they may target, because so far, the president elect's team has been quite vague. >> but the conversations within the administration and within the white house, according to the sources i've been speaking to, are quite complicated. >> they're wrestling with these demands from democrats and their allies, but at the same time, they're trying to avoid overreaching on an issue that strategists argue cost

democrats the white house. >> and on that front. a senior administration official telling me, quote, the paradigm has shifted. really, the reality of the electoral results is in part playing into these conversations. now, all of this, john, is a reflection of the state of immigration policy. it has been made through the executive branch. so yes, with a stroke of a pen, donald trump can get rid of most of what the biden administration has done. but what democrats are urging the administration to do is, at the very least, try to extend protections. just make it a little harder for donald trump to target some of these communities. now, the senators that are publicly calling for the white house and privately calling the white house on this include, for example, senators alex padilla, dick durbin and catherine cortez masto, tammy duckworth, among others. and in a letter to the president this week, they said, quote, the following. i'll read just part of it. we urge you to act decisively between now and the

inauguration of the president elect to complete the important work of the past four years and protect immigrant families. that could include, for example, extending a form of humanitarian relief known as temporary protected status for certain countries, expediting daca renewals and processing pending asylum claims. now, john, the administration is still doing some work. just yesterday, they announced that they were going to they finalized an automatic extension for certain people with work permits. but the argument here among democrats and immigrant advocates is that there is so much more to be done. the challenge within the administration is what they can do. also, taking into consideration that the american people have largely spoken on this issue, and many of them disapproved of what the white house did on border security. >> all right. priscilla alvarez, all over this. thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> kate, there is an investigation underway in ohio after cincinnati bengals quarterback joe burrow's home was robbed while he was on the field playing on monday,

according to the hamilton county sheriff. someone called 911 when they found shattered windows in a bedroom ransacked there. the wild thing about this is this is not the first time that we have been talking about something very similar. there have been a string of high profile home break ins against professional athletes starting back in september, so much so that the fbi has said that it's investigating whether the burglaries are actually linked and connected to a transnational crime ring. it's definitely seems it's not ending at least yet. cnn's andy scholes has much more on this. this is wild that it continues. >> andy certainly is, kate, especially with, you know, the security that all of these athletes, you know, probably have in their homes and burrow just the latest high profile athlete to be a victim of a break in. >> so while he was playing in texas, influencer and swimsuit model olivia ponton arrived at burrows house in cincinnati to find a shattered bedroom window in a room ransacked. >> ponton, who has 7.6 million followers on tiktok, originally called her mom, who then called 911. ponton then called 911 herself, saying someone broke

into my house. it's like completely messed up. now. in the police report, ponton was described as an employee of burrow, a cnn affiliate. wlwt reports citing radio traffic, that there was an officer on detail at burrows house that night. now, back in october, the homes of chiefs stars patrick mahomes and travis kelce they were broken into, and nba players bobby portis and mike conley jr.. s homes, they were also burglarized. now both the nfl and nba have sent out memos to all of their players. the nba said the fbi has connected some of the burglaries to transnational south american theft groups that run highly sophisticated operations. the leagues also urged players to take additional precautions to secure their homes, especially especially when they're out on the road playing in other cities. >> it is really wild. andy, thank you so much for putting it together for us. really appreciate it, john. >> everyone knows the schedules. >> all right. >> this morning a man is in custody after allegedly assaulting congresswoman nancy mace on capitol hill in drones

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limited state of emergency over dozens of mysterious drone sightings. >> the fbi is looking into the mysterious activity of the drones that are said to be the size of an suv, and have been seen flying near at least one military base. new jersey governor phil murphy said his office has been briefed i was on with the white house and homeland security leadership literally at the very top yesterday for pretty much all day. >> i'm hoping we'll get answers sooner than later. >> the governor also saying the drones do not pose a threat to the public. joining me now, ranking member for the house homeland security subcommittee, democratic congressman seth magaziner. thank you so much for joining us early this morning. we heard from the governor, and he said that he doesn't believe that the drones pose a threat to the public. can you say with certainty that the drones do not pose a threat to the public? >> well, i think as of right now, we don't know very much.

we had a hearing on the committee of homeland security yesterday on this issue with leadership from the fbi and customs and border protection and they did not know what these drones were. we were frustrated that they didn't know more. and i think they were frustrated that they didn't know more as well. we've seen no evidence that these drones are carrying weapons, payloads or anything like that. but at this point, we still have more questions than answers. and it's a concerning situation. >> the governor also said, as he had also been briefed, that these seem to be highly sophisticated. these drones. what are the chances in your mind that these drones are being used by a foreign government trying to get intel or surveillance, similar to what we saw, but more bold than the chinese weather balloon well, i think we can't rule anything out at this point based on eyewitness accounts. >> at least some of these drones do appear to be larger and more sophisticated than what you or i could go and buy

at retail, at the store. and so these seem to be sophisticated devices, but we don't know exactly what the nature of them are, and we don't know who is operating them. and i, along with my colleagues on the homeland security committee from both parties, really impressed upon the leadership at homeland security and the fbi that they need to prioritize this. we are living in a world now where we've seen the chinese spy balloon, we've seen drones being flown over other sensitive areas, including military bases, and we've got to get a handle on this. >> i do. i mean, i think everybody has the question, especially those who have seen these things flying over new jersey. how is it possible that government officials don't know anything about where these drones are from and what they've been doing after all these days of sightings over new jersey yeah, i mean, we're in a technological arms race with uncrewed vehicles now with drones and with uncrewed sea

vehicles. >> et cetera. and so the technology is developing very rapidly. and with the the newest generation of drones, it's very difficult to track where their operators are. it's very difficult to track their flight paths. and at the same time, we are also working on improved signal jamming technology and tracking technology. so again, there's an arms race going on right now and that's one of the factors that makes it very difficult to understand who is flying, what appear to be sophisticated drones like these. >> all right. i do want to switch gears real quickly here, just because you are the lead sponsor of a bill that could ban members of congress, their family members, and dependent children, their spouses and dependent children from being able to trade individual stocks. and i'm curious, because it's been tried before, why do you think this might have a chance of passing? >> well, i'm going to be the lead sponsor of this bill going into the next congress starting

in january. and the time has come. i mean, trust in congress is at an all time low, and members of the public need to know that when they send their representatives to washington, that that their representatives are going to be making decisions based on the best interests of their constituents and not the best interests of their own bank accounts. this is a bipartisan bill. i give great credit to abigail spanberger, the retiring member of congress from virginia who originally introduced this bill. she made it bipartisan, got, i believe, 80 co-sponsors, both democrats and republicans. i'm very excited and motivated to pick up this bill now that she is retiring, working with chip roy, the republican lead from texas. this is a bipartisan bill. and my god, like people want it. you talk to the average member of the public, and they think it is wild that members of congress have access to all kinds of insider information. and then when they hear that information can go and call their stockbrokers and trade off of

it. it's wrong. it creates perverse incentives. and come january, when i'm the lead, i will be making a big push to try to get this bill over the finish line through whatever mechanism we're able to. >> all right. congressman seth magaziner, thank you so much for coming on and discussing some of these important issues of the day. appreciate it. john all right. >> this morning, the ceo of the onion is expressing deep disappointment after a bankruptcy judge in texas blocked their purchase of infowars, the platform of conspiracy theorist alex jones. the judge cited an issue with the auction process and ordered the court appointed trustee to go back and work out what he wants to do next. the onion made the winning bid last month with the help of the families of the victims of the sandy hook massacre. they want a huge defamation suit against jones, tallying more than $1 billion. this morning, capitol police say they have arrested a man accused of assaulting representative nancy mace, the south carolina congresswoman said she was, quote, physically accosted on capitol grounds yesterday. she said on social

media her wrist and arm were injured and needed a brace. she also suggested the attack was in response to her calling for transgender bathroom bans. last month, mace introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women's bathrooms on capitol hill. this morning, a wisconsin man is in police custody after faking his own drowning and abandoning his wife and three children and fleeing to europe. investigators say ryan borgwardt staged his disappearance in august by overturning a kayak, which triggered a $35,000 search operation. he told authorities he faked the entire ordeal because of, quote, personal matters. police say he could be charged with obstructing the investigation into his disappearance. kate. >> and yet, there still will be more on that story. now to a cnn exclusive. clarissa ward goes inside the presidential palace in syria, now taken over by rebel forces. and this is just days after dictator bashar al assad fled the country. the assad family lived here for more than 50 years, ruling syria. the palace is one of, you could say, describe it as

one of the lasting symbols of that brutal regime. >> outside the palace of bashar al-assad, syrians gather to pose for photographs and celebrate the removal of its despised former owner. >> the public is not allowed inside the sprawling compound yet where the courtyard stretched longer than a city block. this is the driveway into bashar al assad's palace, and you can see how enormous it is. there are still casings all over the ground from rebel celebratory gunfire as they swept in here and took control at the entrance. an iranian flag unceremoniously laid out for people to step on. iran, one of the regime's staunchest allies, where once foreign dignitaries roamed the halls. now rebel fighters have the run of the place. you can see blankets on the sofas in here. it looks like this is where the rebels are sleeping. and in

fact, over here you can see they've got some kind of a makeshift dining area going. some of their weapons here. a couple of rifles on this sofa. so this gentleman here who is with the rebels has just asked that i put on my scarf. it's the first time since we've been here that anyone has asked me to cover my hair. calfire al-awda nguyen khac giang min ayla and arwa min. idlib. omar ghraieb dick schoof he's says that he's from idlib and that this is the first time he's seeing the palace. well, keith powers robert hur zain asher be unveiling. >> here. >> we feel that the injustice will break down one day and justice must win. this is the idea of justice in our religion, he says. in islam, it is a must and a promise of allah that islam is victorious.

after nearly 14 years of a vicious civil war, to stand in this palace is a proud moment. capping off a seismic victory. so the rebels here want to stress that they tell us that it was not their group that ransacked this office when they first swept in. you can see, actually, some of the graffiti here that those first rebels wrote on the window. it says allah curse hafez's soul. hafez al-assad being the father of bashar, when you look at these ceilings and these chandeliers, the marble, the detail, this is the kind of opulence, this lavish lifestyle that engendered so much resentment from so many syrians who have been struggling to survive for decades. while the assad family lived like this in a warehouse, rows and rows of luxury