though he admitted not knowing much french beyond bonjour. so there you have that. that's pretty remarkable because i am clearly bad at it, even in my native english language. a new hour of cnn news central starts now all right. >> breaking news, new evidence authorities have against the man suspected of killing the ceo of unitedhealthcare. we are just learning fingerprints. a match between mangione and prince found at the scene of brian thompson shooting. police say they have those we will discuss. and a cnn exclusive for the first time. you will hear from a male accuser of sean diddy combs, who says the rapper drugged and then sexually assaulted him at one of those infamous white parties. and sources at cnn say president elect donald trump's pick to lead the doj civil rights department is preparing to go on the offensive and reverse many of the biden

administration's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate baldwin. this is cnn news central all right. >> so we are tracking the breaking news. sara was just talking about a moment ago. we are just learning fingerprint comparisons made between prints collected at the scene of the brian thompson murder. compared with prints taken in the arrest process of luigi mangione mangione show a positive match. two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter have just confirmed to cnn. we're going to have more on that in just a moment. also, this hour, mangione is still behind bars in pennsylvania after a judge denied him bail. for his court appearance. that was yesterday, he yelled and struggled against officers. once he turned and saw that the media was standing outside the courthouse. and

police now say a notebook that they found on him has a so-called to do list in it from before the killing, as well as a reported reference to deciding not to use a bomb to target the victim so he would not, quote unquote, kill innocents. also new this morning, disturbing video of what appears to be wanted posters popping up around new york city for other health executives. all of this, as the speaking out about offers they say they've received to pay for from outside to pay for his legal fees obviously, my client appreciates the support that he has, but i don't know, i just it it i'd have to look in, but it just doesn't sit right with me. >> really. the supreme court 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 they're saying that's the way they're supporting my client

joining us right now, cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, cnn law enforcement contributor steve moore. >> also here with me. john, this is your new reporting. and this is a big deal. this is the first positive forensic match that we know of. walk us through what you've learned. >> so fingerprints collected at the scene of the thompson murder from a plastic water bottle from a discarded cell phone, the so-called burner phone have now been compared against the arrest. fingerprints taken by police in altoona of the suspect. and yesterday, they were able to make a match to the prints that they collected at the scene. not a surprise in some regard in that they had an individual allegedly with a gun and a silencer and a mask and and those things. but it is the first scientific forensic match that that joins the growing pile of circumstantial evidence that they can say, well, how

else would it be someone if that fingerprint is here and he's there with that gun and so on. now there is more, which is dna evidence still pending, ballistic tests still pending. part of that is because the gun was recovered in pennsylvania to match that, to be the same gun, they would have to obtain it, fire it, test it, compare the shell casings and the and the bullets. but this a big deal. >> it is a big deal because, you know, to this point that could have that could be one of the things that you could hear from the suspect's attorney saying, you don't know if this is the guy. this could this wasn't. i mean, we talked about this, right? like, you could say, this isn't me, a guy with a mask and whatever, whatever. but this is scientific connection. forensic connection between the two. talk to me more about ballistics. is it just a. logistical kind of obstacle that needs to be overcome in order to get confirmation or not, that the ballistics match?

do you think, or, you know, the gun is actually the charge that they are holding him on in pennsylvania? >> so that evidence needs to stay with him because, you know, they are the ones who have him in custody and he has not waived extradition, which basically says, i'm not going y then turn over all that evidence to new york city and then have them do those tests. but they understand, you know, they are in it for the long game. they don't need to know that tomorrow or the next day, and it gives them more time to do investigation they're still doing, which includes mundane things, but very necessary things like completing the video canvas, tightening up that map where they can show a picture of him almost through every step of his new york journey. >> i want to get to more of that. but, steve, let me bring you in on this. just the importance of what john miller has learned about

fingerprint match. >> yeah, as we've learned, something can look like a slam dunk case, but a lawyer can find just niches or cracks in the in any kind of strong case. >> and what they're doing now is filling up the cracks there. they're eliminating any doubt before they go to trial that this is the person who committed this crime. he's already, fighting. he's already shown what he's going to do. he's going to fight every single motion, even even a perfunctory extradition motion. so he he isn't going to go quietly on this. so the police are obviously, um, dotting the i's and crossing their t's for sure. >> and john, something that we've talked about and i guess it still remains, you know, there are so many questions that remain. and i'm wondering if this notebook that we're learning more about kind of adds to this picture is how did

this this guy know that the ceo was going to be where he was going to be when he was? is that what is that? is that where the line of thinking is in investigating how how we learn more about that? >> there are clues. i mean, you know it because you've been by there. but that new york hilton hotel takes up, you know, half of a full city block. it has doors all the way down 53rd street and all the way down 54th street and a front door and a rear driveway that's like 20 entrances you would have to cover to know, where is this guy going to enter the hotel. but you would also have to know, what if he is going to enter from this side, because i have learned he's staying at the hotel across the street. how would you know that? he gives us an oblique reference in the three page note that that we've loosely called the manifesto, where he says, you know, this wasn't that difficult. it was a combination of social engineering and computer assisted design and

engineer term cad. he referred to it as. but i think what he's telling us there on the social engineering side is, um, this is what people do when they create an email, you know, a spoof email or a phone call saying, you know, i have a delivery, which, you know, where do i bring that? posing as somebody else, he's suggesting that he learned intelligence information on his target by doing that kind of thing. but then when you get out of the note and into the spiral notebook and he acknowledges this in the note as well, he said, you know, my electronics you're going to find are pretty locked down. but in the spiral notebook you'll see to do lists and other notes. some of those notes. are um, theoretical notes about targeting. and, you know, what is the just way to commit such a crime? he talks about ted kaczynski, the unabomber, and how if he modeled after him, a bomb in a in a in a shareholders conference could kill, you know, innocent people. same on

the street. but he talks about, you shooting being the more precise way to take on his target. and one line he says, and what better way to take out the ceo than to to to shoot him at his own quote, bean counters conference. >> yep. an investor conference is exactly what you could say. that is right, steve, what do you think? there's so much that is coming out. i mean, this reporting from john is most significant about the forensic that they're now positively iding. what question would you what questions do you have that remain now, steve? and where you would say leaning on your experience with the fbi, where do you think this investigation focuses a lot of its energy now? >> um, well, you've got a lot of the basic building blocks of this case already being nailed down. what i want to do is, uh, is shore up the areas where you don't have direct knowledge

yet, or at least they don't haven't said they have direct knowledge of the shooter's actions. for instance, you know, before a shareholders conference like this, they're going to be setting up for about a week. they're going to do rehearsals and speeches and stuff. um, i would want to know where he was. you know, we have cameras and everything. on the day of shooting, but i'd like to see cameras. uh, uh, around the entrances and find out whether thompson did the same thing for several mornings or whether maybe somebody in the hotel actually provided him information. uh, i suspect he was. he went a week early, and i suspect he was, uh, doing canvasing and surveillance that entire time. >> you know, it's interesting when you talk about that because that's the the backward building of this video canvass. he comes in on the 24th. that's like ten days before the actual shooting. and

where they have tracked him is he comes out of the port authority bus terminal and does not go to check into the hostel where he's going to stay. he goes straight with all of his bags to the hilton hotel, and he starts doing those walk arounds. but they also have him in a mcdonald's, which we now know, i guess was his preference for hanging out. >> i was going to say his preferred, his preferred stop along the way for sure. john, thanks for running up and giving us the new reporting, steve. thank you as always. it's good to see you, john. >> all right. for the first time, a man accused accusing sean combs of sexual assault is speaking out. what? he exclusively told cnn. and this morning, an emergency warning from explosive wildfires. nearly 20,000 evacuated their homes. and a father who faked his own death and fled to europe is now behind bars. we've got new details on his capture and arrest. >> now's the time to go back in time and shine a light on the family journey that led to you. learn when they said, i

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advantage of the situation all right. >> cnn's elizabeth wagmeister is doing really amazing reporting on this subject is here with your exclusive. what was it like to sit down with this man? >> you know, jon, this was the first time that he has told anyone other than his attorneys this story. he as you see, we concealed his identity. he filed his lawsuit back in october as a john doe. he says that he wants to keep his anonymity because he wants to keep some semblance of his life private. but that's a difficult thing to do, to sit down and tell your story to a stranger as a journalist. so i asked him, why now? why are you coming forward now? and he said that he did not know that there were other accusers of sean combs out there. he only found out from seeing news reports. and there was one report he saw that there is somebody who alleges that they were nine years old. when they say that they were abused by sean combs and this john doe that i sat down with, he said, if a nine year old could do it, then i

could do it. and it made him feel like he wished that he spoke out before because he could have prevented children from allegedly being abused. now, as i said, this lawsuit was initially filed back in october of this year. so these claims are not new, but this is the first time that he sat down. in fact, john, this is the first time that any accuser of sean combs has sat down with the media for an interview. now i want to play you a bit more of what he told me about these allegations. what he says happened that night in 2007. but i do want to warn our viewers that what he says is graphic and disturbing 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 not a day

has gone by where he hasn't thought about this. he said that when something like this happens to you, which is, of course, his allegation that he was drugged and sodomized by sean combs back in 2007, he says that it impacts every part of your life. he has not been able to carry on with relationships. he says that he did not tell his wife at the time who he was married to when this allegedly happened to him. he hasn't told family members or coworkers. and again, that is one of the big reasons why he wants to remain anonymous. >> incredible to hear him tell this story. all right. elizabeth wagmeister, thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. joining us now, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson, to discuss more about this. all right. first of all, this is a civil lawsuit. it is not part of the criminal prosecution. but in hearing this and now that he is coming out to speak, could it be so? >> we'll see. there's a lot that has to be unpacked, right? the first thing is, is remember, sarah, that this was an amended complaint. why do i say that and why is that

significant? it's significant because initially when it was filed in october, there was the indication that it happened in 2007. right. learning, however, that p diddy was in saint tropez then, so it could not have happened then. so it was amended to include. right the year after. okay. that's a problem. there was also the indication initially that he wasn't married and now we're learning he is. why do i say that? because every case turns on its facts. so if you're going to determine right civil it's a civil case. it involves monetary damages. not not criminal. you're going to assess the credibility of it. now attorneys for of course p diddy are going to have a field day with that. of course, because when you sit down with your lawyer, you verify your lawyer doesn't say, oh that's what happened. okay. you verify it, you vet it, you ensure that it's factually accurate. and so therefore, i think those two distinctions are going to be very important. would you have not known that you were married at this time? would you have not known? should you have shared it with your spouse? potentially not. it's embarrassing, but did you know

you were married at all? did you know where you were, when you were, et cetera.? so it's a question of fact and i think it will be vetted, certainly by criminal investigators, to determine whether or not it's useful. and then it'll be up to the judge to determine whether it is admissible. >> i am curious about something he told our elizabeth wagmeister there that he had not told anyone about this until he spoke. i think, to his attorneys. how difficult will it be to prove this? >> so what ends up happening is, is that, you know, there's a lot of embarrassment and a lot of shame, right? and there's a lot of sensitivity as it relates to victims. and sometimes you have a victim and it's called recent outcry information, where they'll say something to a friend. i can't believe it. that's powerful evidence. in some circumstances, this humiliation and they don't. and there are experts who will testify to that. on the issue of proof, however, there's the indication that a celebrity was present. that's according to this particular victim, elizabeth, doing an excellent job in that interview. but there was the issue of, hey, there's celebrity present. does that celebrity come forward? there's the

indication that he told his supervisor he being the victim who worked for a private security company, telling his supervisor, will the supervisor come forward? did anybody else know? so these are all questions of proof. and to the extent that you have corroboration, meaning it's not just you, there's other people. it's easier to establish your claim. >> and speaking of this idea of shame that victims often feel this victim has not wanted to be named. he's not named in the suit. he is still a john doe. how long can that last? because at some point. right. that has to change. >> correct. yes. so, sarah, it's up to the discretion of the judge. and what the judge does is a balancing test between your right to privacy, intimidation, humiliation, a number of other factors. to what extent could you be retaliated against, et cetera., versus the public interest and also, right, the party you're suing certainly has an interest. and so a judge will assess various factors, weigh those factors, and make an assessment as to whether not the john doe continues or it

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them. again, they also won't probably be doing a lot of investigations into police use of force. that's usually not a priority, and it is not expected that they will support trans rights in the same way that the biden administration has, though they have an explicitly said what stance they will take, for example, on a case related to minors. it's before the supreme court. but, kate, the big question was who would they get to oversee this division because they needed someone who is ideologically aligned with

trump, but who also had enough experience to run a division like this successfully, especially if they wanted to be active. so he has tapped harmeet dhillon, one of his lawyers, as she has represented trump in several cases. she is among several of his attorneys who have been tapped for these key legal positions in his administration. but we've spoken with many people close to her who have worked with her and learned a lot about her experience. she is an indian born immigrant. she's been active in republican politics since the early 2000, but she has a lot of legal experience. people describe her as someone who, quote, advocates for the little guy. of course, aside from her, her client, the president elect. but she worked on cases of migrants seeking asylum. a lot of first amendment issues. so it is clear that she has the litigation experience to oversee a division like this. but what we're going to see the big change here is going to be an ideological shift in terms of how that critical division is used at the justice department. >> paula, great reporting, as always. thank you so much for

bringing it to us. john. >> all right. this morning, the renewed calls for a ban on ghost guns after the murder of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. ghost guns are untraceable. they can be made at home and do not require background checks. police say that thompson suspected killer, who is now in custody, was carrying a ghost gun that may have been made on a 3-d printer. he was carrying it when he was apprehended. with me now is congressman mike lawler, a republican from new york who actually has worked on legislation over ghost guns. congressman lawler, nice to see you. i know this because i saw so many of your campaign ads where you talked about your work across the aisle on gun safety issues, the untraceable firearms act. i think it was pushing for renewal of that. so the murder of brian thompson with, we think, possibly a 3-d printed gun. i mean, what questions does that raise for you well, obviously, law enforcement did a phenomenal job capturing the suspect in a

very short period of time. >> and, you know, certainly over the coming days, we're going to find out more information as to the motive. >> and of course, the weapon used, you know, in the state legislature, i supported legislation to ban ghost guns precisely for this reason. i believe in law abiding citizens, second amendment rights and the right to carry arms. however, the fact is that you need to have a a legal way of doing so and to allow for someone to build a gun using a 3-d printer, obviously is disconcerting. you saw in the video. the fact is, it looked like the gun possibly jammed several times while he was firing it. and in this congress, i was proud to lead the effort on the undetectable firearms act to make sure that

no gun is manufactured or sold with less than 3.7oz of metal so that it doesn't evade a metal detector. obviously, you know, when you're talking about public safety, when you look at schools or airports or concert venues, that piece of legislation is critical to ensure that someone doesn't illegally bring a gun into a public space and cause mass harm. and so obviously, if somebody is using a 3-d printer, that certainly would evade the law there. so that law had been in effect for over 35 years. it was signed into law by president reagan. we extended it by seven years. that certainly is a common sense measure to ensure the public's safety. so we'll learn more. and obviously, you know, address issues as they come up. >> you know, some people say it's a way, obviously, to get around background checks. if you print a handgun at home, you're not obviously having the background check that you

would have if you were in a ston advocates, some people in your party say that. look, crafting guns is something that goes back to revolutionary times and that can't be legislated. what do you say look again, the undetectable firearms act, the intent is to ensure that no gun is brought into a public space unlawfully and can evade a metal detector. >> and so if you're having a situation where somebody is using, obviously technology today that allows for 3-d printing, that certainly will evade a metal detector. and look, this is about safety. we want people to be able to lawfully own and carry. and, you know, one of the things that i've always talked about with gun safety, and you see it in new york, the failure to actually prosecute criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime, which has been a big problem with alvin bragg,

they do not prosecute those who actually use guns. they release them back out onto the street. 80% of those arrested in new york city were released back out onto the street. so it's not always just about adding new laws. it actually is about actually prosecuting those who use guns in the commission of a crime. that is, i was asking specifically about the 3-d printed guns because, again, you've done you've done a lot of work on this subject. >> you've been asked a lot on our air and other places about donald trump, president elect trump's prospective nominees for cabinet positions. and typically what you say is that he has the right to nominate who he wants in the senate, has the right to advise and consent. so i'm not asking about his right or his power to do so. i'm asking your opinion on the propriety of it all. aaron blake, the washington post has noted that over the two terms that trump has picked his daughter as a white house adviser, his son in law as a white house adviser, his daughter's father in law as a white house adviser, his son's father in law, his son, his son in law's father as an ambassador, and now his son's

fiance or ex-fiancée, kimberly guilfoyle. as an ambassador to greece. i'm just asking you as a general, feeling, how do you feel? how comfortable are you with this notion of keeping it in the family? is this something that you think is good for the american system? >> look, the question to me is whether or not the individual is qualified, not what their family relations are. if he feels that these individuals can best serve him and his administration, i don't have a problem with that. i think ultimately, at the end of the day, and i've been in and around politics for a long time, it's not like you're going to hire people who don't support you or are trying to undermine you. so if you feel that you are the best person too be related. you know, certainly as long as it is legally permissible. no, i don't i don't have an objection to that. >> do you think it's just happens to be you think it's just a question related look, i think the question is whether

or not that person is qualified and capable of doing the job. >> somebody shouldn't be precluded from a position just because they are a family member. if they are able to do the job. so that in and of itself, to your question, no, that does not give me concern on its face. i think the question is whether or not that person is capable of serving. >> congressman mike lawler from new york's 17th congressional district, we appreciate you being with us this morning. thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. wanted posters of ceos of fear mounting among top executives in the wake of the unitedhealthcare ceo's murder. a former health care executive will join us to discuss next welcome to times square that's not on my mind. >> it's so embarrassing. >> new year's eve live with anderson and andy. live coverage starts at eight on

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wendell potter. first of all, you when you look at what's happened online, were you in any way surprised at the amount of, frankly, hero worship towards the man accused in this killing i was because nothing like this has ever happened. >> so i think it took us all by surprise. i will say though, i'm not shocked when you stop to think about the rage that people have about health insurance companies in this in this country. i experienced that even when i was in the industry, we knew we being other executives, that uh, health care, uh, people in health care in this country do not like health insurance. they know that these companies are in the business to make money, and they've erected barriers that make it increasingly difficult for us to get the care that we need. so people are just speaking out. i think, uh, out of frustration and, uh, it's unfortunate because we've

lost a life and presumably someone at least what i've heard who might have been a lone voice within united health uh, trying to get the company to be more friendly toward its customers you mentioned this, but you walked away from a six figure salary as the former vice president of cigna back in the early 2000. >> what was it? you know, in a nutshell, that that made you say, i can't do this anymore you know, there were 2 or 3 things. >> one, i refer to those barriers. one in particular is refusing to pay for medically necessary care. there was a case involving a 17 year old girl in los angeles who needed a liver transplant, and a medical director for cigna, 2500 miles away, said he didn't think it was medically necessary. the surgery had been scheduled. the the a liver had been found. that was a perfect match for nataline sarkisian. but cigna said no, it wouldn't wouldn't cover it. and, uh, eventually cigna caved to

public pressure because it became a very highly publicized case and it became a big pr problem for cigna. and cigna eventually agreed to pay for the transplant, but it came too late. delays can be lethal, and these companies delay needed care all the time. and that was the case for nataline sarkisian. she died just a few days before christmas in 2007. and i, i walked away. there were other reasons people are being saddled with high out-of-pocket costs. uh, prior to that, i went to a medical clinic in east tennessee where near near where i grew up in east tennessee, and people were standing in long lines at a county fair, at a free medical clinic, waiting to get care that was being provided in barns and animal stalls. many of those people had health insurance, but they were in plans with high deductibles, and they just didn't have the money in the bank to cover the care that they needed before their insurance would kick in. um, we pay higher and higher premiums every single year, but one way or another, insurance

companies are devaluing our policies. and that's what this rage is all about. >> i do want to ask you about something that you said to the senate health care reform panel about 20 years ago. you said insurance companies routinely dump policyholders who are less profitable or who get sick as part of their never ending quest to meeting wall street. relentless profit expectations. do you see any changes for the better from back then? about 20 years ago, 2009? >> sadly, no. in fact, these companies are making even more aggressive use of prior authorization. they are increasing the out-of-pocket obligations year after year. uh, and they they just simply are not paying attention to the needs of, of, of patients. they are dropping customers as well too. we're seeing that this year. uh, most of these big insurance companies have largely taken over our medicare program. unitedhealth, in

particular, enrolls about a third of people who are in so-called medicare advantage plans. and i say so-called because they're able to advertise in ways that deceive people, to get them to enroll in these plans. um, but increasingly, insurance companies this year have been dropping their medicare advantage enrollees because they thought they were needing more care than, than than than they wanted to pay for. so humana and cvs, which owns aetna, have been pulling out of a lot of markets around the country, leaving their medicare advantage enrollees. uh, in the lurch. they have to figure out what they're going to do next. so that happens all the time. >> wendell potter, thank you so much for sharing your expertise and giving us real insight into an issue that affects all americans. really appreciate it. >> thank you. sarah all right. >> we have brand new data on inflation this holiday season. and the verdict is bah humbug.

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