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hello, i'm brianna keilar, alongside boris sanchez here in washington. >> and it could be weeks before luigi mangione is in new york to face the charges that he allegedly assassinated unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. right now. mangione is in a pennsylvania prison fighting extradition to new york, and the judge has given him two weeks to file paperwork. as his attorney stresses. the 26 year old son of a wealthy maryland family is presumed innocent. now, cnn is learning of the first pieces of forensic evidence that allegedly tie mangione to the crime scene. sources say that his fingerprints match ones that were found on a burner phone, that the gunman tossed or dropped as he was fleeing the scene in midtown manhattan. >> sources also say that investigators have located pages of a notebook belonging to mangione, in which he references a conference thompson was going to attend an investor's conference the morning that he was killed. the pages also contained a to do list of tasks needed to

facilitate the killing. sources say in the pages mangione reasons against using explosives because they could, quote, kill innocents. sources add that mangione concludes that a shooting would be more precise, musing what could be better than to, quote, kill the ceo at his own bean counting conference? it's those final sentiments that have corporate america scrambling to protect their senior executives and reevaluating just how prepared they are for a serious threat that just last week seemed unimaginable. >> cnn's matt egan is with us now with a closer look at how this case has really shaken c-suites across the country. matt, what are you hearing well, boris and brianna, this has been a real wake up call for corporate america. >> there's a palpable sense of concern, even fear, in boardrooms and in c-suites. and i'm told that the phones at the security firms that protect ceos, those phones have been ringing off the hook ever since the shooting a week ago. one

veteran security official told me, quote, corporate america is nervous. health care is the target now. but who's next? and so, yes, businesses are taking a range of action to ramp up security. first, they are increasing the number of security personnel and the level of technology at offices and even in the residences of executives. they're also urging executives to delete their digital footprints, stuff like where their kids go to school and the floor plans to their homes. they're enhancing mail screening. they're more closely scrutinizing online threats as well. and there's also a growing belief that the security blanket that protects the corporate parent ceos needs to be extended to their lieutenants, to the division ceos like this unitedhealthcare executive who often don't get that top notch security that the big bosses do. and there's concern that this might not be

a one off, that the online support that we've seen on social media for this murder, for the attention that the suspect has gotten, that it could actually spawn copycats, that is a real concern. the nypd put out an intelligence report earlier this week that said that the rhetoric 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 malicious actors to violence. now, hopefully that is not the case. but for now, a lot of businesses, they're taking this very seriously. they're not taking any chances and they are increasing security. boris and brianna. >> and matt, what's the price tag? talk to us about how expensive it is to protect executives. >> yeah, it is extremely expensive. when you think about the armed guards, the technology, the surveillance cameras that are used, the threat monitoring, cyber

security. now, the median s&p 500 company disclosed spending almost $100,000 to protect their ceos last year, and that was up more than double from two years prior. but that's just the median company. there's financial companies and media firms that have disclosed spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect their ceos. some of the big technology companies, they say they're spending millions of dollars to protect their ceos and the family of their ceos. and again, the thinking is that that tight security is probably going to have to get extended, expanded to even more senior executives, given what just happened here in new york a week ago. so you got to believe that these expenses that companies are, are putting forth to try to protect their ceos and their other executives, all of that spending is going to have to go much higher. boris and brianna. >> all right, matt, thank you so much. and joining us now is former fbi agent and associate professor at the university of

south florida, brianna fox. and retired nypd detective and adjunct professor at the john jay college of criminal justice. david sahni. david, you see mangione here fighting extradition. he could be in pennsylvania for a while. how do you see investigators using that time? >> i thank you for having me. and i'll tell you this. it's great that, you know, for the detectives who've been doing this, you know, not going to sleep working, you know, day in and day out, now you have a chance to call marshaling the evidence, and that's what you're doing. the detectives are now going to work with the district attorney's office to kind of get all of the ducks in a row so they can actually, you know, proceed with this case as it goes forward. the benefit of this is, you know, the detective who has this case wasn't out on every scene. so all of those pieces, all those documentation, he's gonna be able to read over. so this way he can be apprized really in real time of what happened while he's working. and other detectives are working on this investigation.

>> brianna, moments ago, the nypd held a press conference and said they had received the gun found on mangione in pennsylvania. and they said this, quote, we were able to match that gun to the three shell casings that were found in midtown at the scene of the homicide. i'm wondering what you make of that and the news we got about fingerprints matching a burner cell phone that was disposed of at the crime scene compared to what we heard from mangione attorney last night, arguing that he hadn't seen or heard of any evidence that officials have the right person in custody right. >> well, in terms of the shell casings, matching the firearm and being able to establish that so quickly, unlike what we see so often on movies and tv shows, this even recently used to be a lengthy process. we'd have to submit all of the shell casings and the weapon to the fbi forensic laboratory or

local lab, and this would take some time and the evidence wouldn't even get returned for weeks or months. and now, with the advent of the atf's nibin capabilities and others, this can be done sometimes in-house. >> so we have to interrupt you. we have breaking news just into cnn. we've just learned that fbi director christopher wray has just submitted his resignation. cnn's evan perez joins us now live from the department of justice. evan, talk to us about this news. >> well, boris, we were anticipating. i'm sorry. i'm trying to silence my phone right here. we were anticipating that the the fbi director would try to to to talk to his troops, talk to the people at the fbi before making this official. and we're told that the there's a town hall, an all hands at the fbi at this minute where the fbi director, chris wray, is telling the fbi employees that he is planning to resign, that he is planning to resign soon. it's not

effective immediately. we don't know more details at this point, but this has been something that obviously has been the talk of washington has been talk of the country because president trump has made clear that he plans to replace christopher wray, fbi leadership. he already has chosen kash patel as his next fbi director. so the question was really just a matter of when is he planning to go? whether does he plan to leave on january 20th? does he plan to resign, or does he plan to wait for president trump, the incoming president, to fire him? so the answer now, as of this, this hour with the fbi director having an all hands meeting with the fbi employees, the answer is that he plans to leave ahead of the the new president's arrival. so some of the details, i think, are still to be worked out. and behind the scenes. you know, boris, there's been a big discussion for the fbi. one of the parts of this has been how to do an orderly transition to

whoever is going to take over. but there also was pushback from people inside this building, also from people at the fbi, which is not normalizing what donald trump is doing, which is to just habitually replace fbi directors that he doesn't like these these people are supposed to serve ten year terms for a reason, to try to remove them from the influence of politics. and here, donald trump is now about to have his second fbi director, in this case with christopher wray christopher wray pushing him out ahead of the time that he takes office. so at this hour, we know that the fbi director is talking to to fbi employees. he wanted to make sure they heard the news from him, while he also tries to make make it clear that he plans to get out of the way before the new president takes over. boris. >> yeah, it's a real politicization of the fbi, even as people argue. oh, it's been politicized. so there needs to be change. it's sort of this

wheel in a way that keeps going on this issue. evan, i wonder if you have a sense of how people working inside the fbi are feeling about this and the effect that this may have internally on those folks who are doing this work day in and day out. >> there's a lot of there's a lot of concern inside the fbi. look, chris wray is actually pretty popular inside the inside the bureau because, you know, one of the things he has done is he has tried to lower the temperature for the fbi. there's a lot of criticism from from the previous leadership of the fbi, james comey, and the way how he handled the office, especially when donald trump first took office in the in the first term. so inside the fbi, chris wray has been seen actually a very as a as a very thoughtful, as a very quiet leader, someone who is trying to restore the reputation of the of the fbi. that has obviously not worked out that well for especially

among republicans who have been very critical of a number of things, including, of course, investigations of donald trump. the mar-a-lago search is something that donald trump himself raised in his interview over the weekend with with nbc. so there's a lot of concern because you have heard from kash patel, who is the the incoming president's pick to run the fbi next. you've heard that they're planning to try to they want to go after the former president. the president's political enemies. and so inside the fbi, there's a lot of concern that the bureau is going to be turned essentially to go after trump's enemies and take its eye off the ball on things that are actually a threat to this country, including, of course, the threat from from china, from russia, from iran, the national security threats, terrorism, all of those things that really are the bread and butter and the vast majority of what the fbi does. so a lot of concern right now. i think i just talked to to to fbi employees who are a bit shocked

that it's happening right now. they were anticipating, perhaps, that that donald trump would actually do the firing once he takes office on on january 20th. >> evan perez, please stand by. i believe we still have david sahni with us. david, i'm curious to get your reaction to this news, but i just want to point out for our viewers that when christopher wray was nominated to replace james comey back in 2017, he was confirmed by the senate 92 to 5 and donald trump himself and a social media post announcing that he was nominating wray some seven years ago described him as a man of impeccable credentials. what do you make of this news now i'll just say, this being, you know, a retired member of the largest police department, the united states. >> regime change happens. administrations come and go. the work of the people who are boots on the ground doesn't really change. you know, i've seen the police department in

the last three years, and especially in new york city, commissioners come and go, and i've i've worked under several, uh, usually the marching orders will come from the administration from, from higher up from i'll just say from the police commissioner from us and then goes down and just goes downward. but it really comes down to focus. and leadership is always about accountability, responsibility and transparency. the way i look at it, and this is something that, you know, was unexpected, but if you're looking for, you know, he i'm not going to, you know, speculate on what uh, director wray reason why he left. but this happens in any administration. you know, the police department, the police commissioner works at the behest of the mayor. and that's what you have here. we've had several. we've had several police commissioners in the last three years. so but the the reality is the boots on the ground are still doing the work. and, you know, even though we just had a new police commissioner come to the police department, they still did the investigation of the shooting and it was seamless. it didn't affect the the rank and file

for the most part. so we'll see how this goes. i mean, this is what happens in any in any law enforcement administration. you'll have people leave and those people on the ground will just work according to what the edicts are brought up from above. >> and i do want to bring in now, steve moore, retired fbi supervisory special agent. steve, how are you reacting to this news that chris wray is resigning well, i'm kind of surprised, actually. >> uh, there there was a precedent set after hoover where, uh director served for ten years, uh, absent any kind of malfeasance or problems or something like that, and that, that the purpose of that was to theoretically make them, uh, not products of an administration so much as products of a justice system. uh, kind of semi, you know, a shorter term version of a judge, something like that. so i'm a little bit surprised.

um, but after hearing what the president elect has been saying for so long and the fact that he's nominated somebody, um, to be the next director, um, on that side, it, you know, it shouldn't have come as a surprise. i just didn't know how he would, um, navigate around wray being in office, and wray, um, having a pretty good reputation within the bureau to the point about his reputation. >> steve, what do you make of his trajectory from being someone that trump called a man of impeccable credentials being confirmed 92 to 5 in the u.s. senate to now being someone that trump and other republicans have lambasted and now are seeking to push out of office. >> well, i think subsequent to, uh. uh, president, the president trump's, uh, election, a lot of things happened that was not that were

not in his favor. things that he he was not happy with. um, there is a perception among a large population of america that the january six, um, uh, people involved, people were actually, uh, singled out and for higher punishment than other people were. and of course, that involved the fbi, the president uh, the president elect, uh, had the problems with, uh, the documents retained in his possession, and he, uh, ridiculed, not ridiculed, but he blamed the fbi for what he thought was heavy handedness during this. and i'm i'm paraphrasing, obviously. so among, uh, trump supporters, obviously, he took, uh, he took a position that, um, the, the fbi had been weaponized or politicized. and

i think, uh, the, the director's director wray's credentials have not changed. it's just that he has not done certain things that president trump would have wanted him to do and, uh, i think even in the agent population, uh, they feel that the bureau has been somewhat politicized since. uh, say, director comey's comments on hillary clinton's emails and, um, the agent population wanted a more, uh, wanted a stronger, uh, reaction to the politicization of the bureau. and they didn't see that either. so, um, maybe for different reasons, both the agents and, uh, uh, the trump person, trump supporters are, uh, both along the same lines. there. >> and let's, um, steve, thank you so much. i do want to read part of what wray said in his,

uh, according to to remarks, remarks. these are excerpts of his prepared remarks at a bureau town hall. he said after weeks of careful thought, i've decided the right thing for the bureau is for me to serve until the end of the current administration in january and then step down. my goal is to keep the focus on our mission. the indispensable work you're doing on behalf of the american people. every day. in my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work. >> he also adds, quote, it should go without saying, but i'll say it anyway. this is not easy for me. i love this place. i love our mission and i love our people. but my focus is and always has been on us doing what's right for the fbi. he also insisted that the fbi cannot change its commitment to doing the right thing the right way. every time we have a lot of news to break down. fbi director christopher wray announcing his

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because trump is the one who nominated wray during his first term. >> yeah, and that term is not over yet. he still has three years on it. but donald trump has recently a sunday said that he wasn't thrilled with wray. and as you noted, he had already said his intent to nominate kash patel to run the organization. now, he was asked directly if he was going to fire wray during this interview. and he said, seems kind of obvious that if i want patel to run the organization, he'd have to take over someone's job. now, in the past two years, he is accused wray of invading his home. talking about that search in 2022 for classified documents that ultimately led to the indictment of donald trump. in that case, in 2023. he has also indicated he believes that the agency and the fbi has become part of what they call the deep state. so he wanted somebody to come in and shake things up and completely gut the organization, which they believe that kash patel will do. also notable, we know kash patel has been on the hill every day this week. they are

trying to work on his nomination. but i will tell you that speaking to a few trump people just now, as this news was coming in, they are very happy that it worked out this way. again, donald trump did not quite say directly that he was going to come in and fire him on day one, but it was very clear he was going to have to get rid of wray in order to install kash patel. and we were told that it was very critical to him to get patel into that role. so unsurprising on that end that they are happy that it's not donald trump firing yet another head of the fbi. i will remind you in this unprecedented move that we would have seen had wray stayed in as donald trump transition administration took over, would be the second fbi director that donald trump would have fire or would have fired because he fired j comey his first time around to incred with the fbi, that he wanted to see changes in there over the last several years, particularly since he left

office, since he lost the election. he didn't think the fbi did enough work to try and prove that he had won the election. just obviously, as we know, he lost the 2020 election to joe biden, but he wanted his law enforcement agencies to be rallying around him, and they did not at that time under his leadership. so again, unsurprising that this was the end result, particularly given what we had heard donald trump say as recently as sunday that he was likely to get rid of wray, that he was unhappy with wray. he again accused him of invading his home. but the trump people are happy that this is how it's playing out, because it paves the way for kash patel requires them to do less work, and means the job is technically open, or will be at the beginning of his administration. >> yeah. kristen holmes live for us from west palm beach. thank you for that. let's talk more now with democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. he is a member of the house armed services committee. he's a marine veteran who served four tours in iraq. congressman, we were going to have you on to talk about some other things. this just broke that chris wray is

announcing his resignation. i think we expected this to happen, that he would go in some form or fashion. but what is your reaction to this news? >> well, first of all, i'm not surprised. i mean, donald trump wants to get rid of chris wray, someone he appointed to the position because chris wray actually upheld the law. donald trump thinks that he's above the law. but if i took classified documents home to my house, i would expect the fbi to raid my home, too. that's the right thing for the fbi to do. trump thinks he's above the law, so he wants to get rid of his own nominee. >> do you have worries about the politicization of the department, brianna? >> that's exactly the word for it. trump wants to politicize the fbi, to turn it back to the days of j. edgar hoover, where the fbi has its own really lawless agenda, where the fbi is a tool of the state to persecute americans, not to actually uphold the law for

everybody in our land. so it is very dangerous. and the calculation that chris wray made when he decided to to resign is a calculation that hundreds of thousands of federal employees are making right now, all across washington and all across the country. i've heard from a lot of friends who work for the federal government trying to decide, do they wait to get fired? do they resign on their own terms as chris wray decided to do? do they resign in the administration when they get to a point where they're asked to do something that they fundamentally disagree with? it's a sad state of affairs where so many public servants, people who joined the government not because of a political affiliation, but just to do the right thing for the country, know that they're going to be asked to do things that are lawless, and they're trying to figure out when the trump comes into office and turning now, as i mentioned, you're on the armed services committee and the ndaa, which is the huge annual defense authorization bill, is in the

spotlight right now because it includes a republican provisions that would prohibit government provided insurance coverage, tricare coverage of gender affirming care for transgender children of service members. >> i do want to note that tricare covers hormones and mental health coverage, not surgeries, for dependents who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. but i wonder you, as someone who has been critical at times of your party and how they talk about transgender rights issues, did did this being in that bill inform your decision that you will vote no on the bill you know, we haven't had the vote yet, but i am completely against this rider because it is politicizing the defense bill. >> the defense bill has a long history of being totally bipartisan, and this was a very difficult year to actually make it bipartisan. democrats and republicans worked together on the armed services committee through long, long nights over the course of many, many, many, many weeks to get this bill to

the floor without any of these politicization riders, without politicizing the bill, without trying to inject social culture policy into our military, fundamentally politicizing the military itself. and yet at the last minute, speaker johnson went to his conservative agenda and stuck this thing on there that says we as lawmakers are going to legislate health care decisions that should be made by doctors, patients and their families. so i'm completely against this provision. you know, i've made the point that democrats need to be able to engage on these issues, in part because this is exactly what republicans are going to try to do. and if we don't have reasonable compromises, you know, maybe you have restrictions on transgender women in sports, for example, like the olympics does. but in exchange, you ensure you protect the civil rights and access to health care of all americans, including transgender americans. then we're just going to have this debate settled on republican terms. that's exactly what the republicans are trying to do

right now. and it's politicizing our military in the process. yes, sir. >> i do want to be clear. you voted no on the rule to advance it. there has not been a vote yet voted on this, but it sounds like if later. yeah. how would you vote? would it be the same no. >> i plan to vote no. at this point. you know, there's going to be a lot of debate on the floor about exactly how this vote goes, because we want to pay the troops. in fact, this bill includes a massive pay raise, especially for our enlisted troops. that is so important. but it's also really critical that we maintain the bipartisan transition tradition that's been upheld through incredibly polarized times in washington right now of working together on this bill and not having it politicized by republican leadership at the at the last minute. this is exactly what they're trying to do. that's bad for our military. it's bad for our troops. it's bad for the armed services committee, on which i'm proud to serve. >> and a lot of people may not know, but tricare is so

necessary for dependents of service members because oftentimes the spouses of service members are not able to get the employment that they're seeking. certainly not continuous employment because of the challenges of the military lifestyle, which is something if they could have that employment, that might ensure separate health insurance, that they could provide for their children if they do need this coverage, that's just not an option to so many of them, right? and i wonder what concerns you have and what message this sends to certain service members. if something like this is pushed through. >> if something like this is pushed through, just like if the republicans push through bans on abortion or access to contraceptive care, what you're basically saying is, if you serve in our military, you do not get the same health care options as the rest of america, and that's going to hurt recruitment, that's going to hurt retention. there are people who are going to get out of the military at a time when

we need to have more people stay in, when recruitment is a challenge, just because they can't get their families the health care that they need. do you think that double standard, do you think what should be the point, sir, that they may be purging or not covering people of a certain political persuasion or people of a certain familial need? i certainly wouldn't put it past them. i mean, they've nominated trump has nominated a defense secretary who has said that women do not deserve the same standards and opportunities in the military as men. right. and and so when they push things that say, well, women don't get access to health care for certain things that men do, they're setting a double standard. and that's what this ultimately is. it's setting a double standard. that means that if you serve in the military, if you volunteer to put your life on the line for the country, you and your family are not going to get the same level of health care as the rest of america. that's exactly the opposite message that we want to send to our troops. and that's what republicans are

doing when they politicize the defense bill. like this. >> before i let you go, i also want to ask you about something that your state senator told the huffington post when asked about the response to unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson's murder, senator elizabeth warren saying, quote, the visceral response from people across this country who feel cheated, ripped off and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the health care system. violence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far, she said. this is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the faith and the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone. the. but in that sentence is problematic for critics of senator warren on this issue. what do you think about what she said? >> look, as someone who's recently been attacked over 1

or 2 words in a statement, i know senator warren. she's not condoning murder. she's against murder just like all the rest of us. that's not what she's saying. what she is saying is that we have problems in our health care industry that need to be addressed. murder of violence is never the answer. she makes that clear in her statement as well. but we all know every american knows that our health care system is broken. we pay an extraordinary amount of money for health care in america, including a lot of taxpayer dollars that go to medicare and medicaid. and yet we don't have the best health care outcomes in the world. so we've got a lot of work to do. and we can't forget that, even as we're sure that we bring this murderer to justice. >> congressman seth moulton, thank you so much for your time. we do appreciate it. >> good to see you, brianna. >> and again, our breaking news is that fbi director christopher wray has announced his intent to resign at the end of president biden's administration. we have much more right after this

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headed for the door. the big question was whether he would be shoved through it whenever trump took office and fired him, or whether he would walk out on his own. we know that he is now opting to do the latter, announcing that he will be leaving as the current administration departs. interestingly, you know, people are somewhat conflicted. there is a there are a number of people who have been telling me that they personally think that he should have stayed and made trump essentially fire him, thinking that that would help bolster or put a fine point on this ten year term that an fbi director is supposed to serve. now, to be sure, you know, the fbi director serves at the pleasure of the president. but those ten year terms were instituted for a reason, so that any fbi director would necessarily cross over administrations and wouldn't be politicized. and so i'm hearing a bit of criticism, people saying that he should have just stayed and made trump fire him again to make that point. i will note that obviously, this isn't the first time that there has been contention between a president and an fbi director. i mean,

you most famously, you go back, you know, 20 years ago when bill clinton appointed louis freeh, he came in saying that, you know, this is a someone who is a great lawman, who is an exs a prosecutor, and as a judge, and their relationship quickly turned very, very sour. i mean, they those two men could not stand each other. in fact, louis freeh wrote in his book afterwards that, quote, clinton's closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. and so there was that conflict. but you didn't see bill clinton firing the fbi director just because they were in conflict, which i think puts a fine point on you. look at how, you know, my former boss, jim comey, was handled and then obviously director mueller, who came under intense scrutiny whenever he launched his special counsel investigation. and then now, obviously, christopher wray, who has supervised a number of investigations that trumpworld doesn't like. they've had, you know, targets on their back. and, you know, as i've said at the outset, people aren't really surprised that christopher wray will be leaving, you know, in some form or fashion. >> it was certainly expected.

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brother elan alexander, worked together to rape dozens of victims. cnn's kara scannell is following this story. the details here just horrifying. >> kara brianna, in the words of the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, damian williams, he called them heinous. now, what prosecutors allege is that these three brothers, for more than a decade, had sexually assaulted women. in this indictment, they're accusing this assault of being from 2010 to 2021. but prosecutors say that this conduct actually goes back to when these brothers were in high school. so some 20 years and authorities say that they have interviewed dozens of women, and they're asking more of them, as you can see on the screen, to come forward, to reach out if they have been assaulted by any of these men. now, according to the indictment, they say the alexander brothers sometimes acting alone, sometimes with each other and sometimes with other men forcibly raped or sexually assaulted their victims. at times, the defendants physically restrained and held down their victims during the rapes and

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florida. they are they're in detention at this time. eventually, they will come to new york to face the charges. prosecutors are asking for them to be detained. that will all play out in the future. brianna. >> wow. kara scannell, thank you for following this for us. next, some new video shows piles of pills and drug making equipment stacked in a military warehouse in syria, supporting claims that the assad regime was involved in drug trafficking. this discovery, as cnn gets a firsthand look inside assad's opulent palace. >> we really don't want people to think of feeding food like ours as spoiling their dogs. >> good, real food is simple. it looks like food. it smells like food. it's what dogs are supposed to be eating. >> no living being should ever eat processed food for every single meal of their life. >> it's amazing to me how many people write in about their dogs changing for the better.

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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. nguyen khac giang ayla and arwa min. idlib. dick schoof he's says that he's from idlib and

that this is the first time he's seeing the palace. well, keith wojcieszek. >> be unveiling. tom homan 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 cars, ferraris, lamborghinis and classic cadillacs. this was a dynasty that will be remembered not only for its brutality, but its deep corruption below the palace in the heart of damascus, crowds gathered in umayyad square under assad's rule, the syrian people were forced to worship him. now they finally have the freedom to celebrate his demise our thanks to clarissa ward for that fascinating report inside

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