tell you, winning solves everything and go blue. >> by the way, go blue. >> i have a son at michigan. >> michigan. oh, no. >> my husband graduated from michigan. so yeah, it was an intense rivalry. they shouldn't have necessarily planted the flag, but this is ridiculous. >> i mean, last word real quick for me. >> go, bucs. go, gators! >> go, blue. >> we don't want any brawls at this table, but it's impossible to understate how frenetic you know it is between ohio and michigan. >> i mean, ohio state. yeah, it's it's crazy how intense the fans get. >> yeah it's incredible. >> and that when that unfolded, it seemed so wacky to watch it. >> yeah. >> aileen cannon cops used mace. >> use mace to break them up. make what? >> illegal. oh. the fighting. >> the fighting. how about that? that's illegal. well, that's my point. it didn't need to worry about it. >> by the way, this is inciting planting a flag is inciting these poor kids to violence. they would never have gotten violent were they not looking at a flag that offended them. like what? are you kidding me? >> it makes no sense. everyone, thank you very much. and thank you for watching newsnight. cnn's coverage continues next.

>> police say they now have crucial connections between the 26 year old and the manhattan crime scene. >> what we're talking about is fingerprint evidence and some ballistics. >> it's one of many secret prisons across the city. >> i can't tell, though. it might just be a blanket, but it's the only cell that's locked. i wait to see the committee hearing before reaching a final decision. >> we will go to the extent of cutting off their energy. going down to michigan, going down to new york state and over to wisconsin live from london. >> this is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane. >> hello. >> and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from around

the world. i'm max foster. it is thursday, december the 12th, 9 a.m. here in london, 4 a.m. in new york, where police now say they can directly tie luigi mangione to the sidewalk. execution of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. first, the police commissioner says the 3-d printed gun found on mangione when he was arrested on monday in pennsylvania matches three shell casings found at the crime scene. plus, she says mangione fingerprints matched those investigators found on a water bottle and an energy bar near the scene. mangione attorney says he still hasn't seen the evidence, but there is no question his client will plead not guilty to murder charges. >> the burden of proof is always on the government. >> okay. so, you know, again, people forget that he and any other person charged with a crime is presumed innocent. that means we start off square one with a presumption of innocence, of him being innocent. and the rest then follows. and then? and then we challenge the evidence and

contest it and battle it out in court where it belongs. >> more now from cnn's brynn gingras. >> while luigi mangione sits alone in a pennsylvania jail cell, police say they now have crucial connections between the 26 year old and the manhattan crime scene. >> first, we got the gun in question back from pennsylvania. it's now at the nypd crime lab. we were able to match that gun to the three shell casings that we found in midtown at the scene of the homicide. >> the nypd commissioner also confirming what cnn first reported. mangione fingerprints match evidence found where unitedhealth ceo brian thompson was gunned down a week ago. >> we were also able at our crime lab to match the person of interest fingerprints with fingerprints that we found on both the water bottle and the kind bar near the scene of the

homicide. >> sources also telling cnn a to do list on how to carry out a killing was found in the pages of a spiral notebook, along with notes justifying the plan, suggesting what could be better than, quote, to kill the ceo at his own bean counting conference. it's clearly out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the american people that lived experience. investigators are also working to track his whereabouts days, weeks, months before the murder, a hotel clerk telling abc mangione tried to check into this altoona, pennsylvania, hotel before his arrest. >> there was somebody that checked in and the officer goes, did he have a mask on? did he ever take a mask off? i was like, no, he never did take the mask off. he says, i'll be down in five minutes to talk to you. we pulled it up on surveillance and sure enough, they go, yeah. that's him. >> in february, mangione traveled to japan and met japanese poker player obara june, who tweeted about having lunch with him in tokyo. a month later, it appears the 26 year old went backpacking in

thailand and told a fellow traveler he was in between jobs and was planning to return to the u.s. in june. he stopped hearing from him in july, according to reuters. mangione neighbor in hawaii says he ran into him 3 or 4 months ago after not seeing him for a long time. he was a nice guy. >> he, you know, said hi. we rode the elevator a couple times, always smiling. really good. i just asked him where he's been and for like six months. he was like, on the mainland. like he just sent medical stuff. >> then this summer, it seems as if mangione fell off the grid as concerned friends reached out. i haven't heard from you in months, one friend commented on x and more about that missing person's report filed by mangione mother. a source telling cnn that she told police she did it because she tried calling her son's personal phone, his work phone where he was working at the time, and everything was going to voicemail. and she said she was worried about him, but she was not worried that he was a danger to himself or to others. brynn gingras, cnn, new york. >> well, a blogger who

corresponded for months with luigi mangione says the shooting suspect expressed a diverse range of political views. the blogger says mangione complained about how expensive u.s. healthcare was and expressed support for a nationalized system, and he vaguely remembered mangione discussing a back injury he sustained while surfing in hawaii. the blogger says mangione also opposed identity politics and spoke out against wokeism, saying he didn't believe it was an effective way to help minorities. prosecutors and police are looking closely at all of mangione social media posts as they try to nail down a motive for the murder, and one notorious name from the past has got their attention. cnn's jason carroll reports. an insult to the intelligence of the american people. >> if luigi mangione speaks like he did outside court tuesday, investigators listened closely and not just to what he's saying now that he's in custody, but also to what he has said or written in the

past, such as these unsettling words violence never solved anything is a statement uttered by cowards and predators. mangione wrote that in january 2024, in support of the notorious unabomber ted kaczynski. it's part of the goodreads review. mangione wrote of kosinski's 1995 antitechnology manifesto industrial society and its future. >> we just hope that this might be of additional assistance in obtaining leads regarding the unabom. >> suspect, kaczynski terrorized the nation for years. >> he served eight life sentences for sending mail bombs that killed three and wounded 23 others. from the late 70s until the mid 90s. according to an nypd intelligence analysis report obtained by cnn, mangione may have found inspiration in ted kaczynski. the report reads. he notably praised the writings of kaczynski. mangione liked

several passages from kaczynski's manifesto in his review, defending it, writing, it's easy to quickly and thoughtless. write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic. >> i think mangione is very much inspired by the work of kaczynski and his manifesto. >> scott bond is a criminologist who has written about serial killers, and kaczynski. he says he sees a chilling similarity. >> they have to find a way to justify it, and in the case of kaczynski and also mangione, i believe that they justified it as this was a necessary evil. >> other notable similarities. both men are highly intelligent and ivy league educated. kaczynski, a harvard grad mathematician. while mangione minored in mathematics at the university of pennsylvania, where he also majored in computer science and engineering and had a masters. kaczynski was estranged from his family, living as a recluse in montana. mangione mother reported her 26 year old son

missing about two weeks before the shooting, telling police at the time she had not spoken to him since july. and while kaczynski targeted universities and airlines, mangione allegedly had his sights set on the health care industry and unitedhealthcare ceo. police found a three page handwritten claim of responsibility on mangione. he also wrote in a spiral notebook, much like kaczynski did, writing what could be better than to kill the ceo at his own bean counting conference. it should be noted that kaczynski's brother david has spoken out in the wake of the shooting, saying violence is not the answer. in a statement to cnn saying kaczynski's actions were blind, misguided, cruel and utterly inconsistent with his goal of preserving our basic humanity. we must remember that our world is never improved by violence, only by love. jason carroll,

cnn, new york. >> fbi director christopher wray says he'll step down at the end of president joe biden's term in january. he made the announcement on wednesday at a town hall in washington, claiming it was the best move for the agency. >> 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 in how we do our work. >> well, a clear reference there to the shake up expected when president elect donald trump takes office. the move seemingly clears the way for trump to install kash patel as the new director. patel has been on capitol hill this week looking to drum up support for his nomination, and says he'll be ready on day one to fill the post. cnn's kristen holmes has more now on donald trump's reaction to this news donald trump and his allies have been celebrating the resignation of christopher wray. >> in fact, donald trump posted on truth social saying this the

resignation of christopher wray is a great day for america as it will end the weaponization of what has become known as the united states department of injustice. i just don't know what happened to him. we will now restore the rule of law for all americans. under the leadership of christopher wray, the fbi illegally raided my home without cause. worked diligently on illegally impeaching and indicting me and has done everything else to interfere with the success and future of america. now he goes on and on. he talks about kash patel. but the reason why this is so significant is because he is talking about one specific instance in this post, which we are told by sources around him, was kind of a turning point in his relationship with christopher wray. one donald trump was not happy with the end of his time in office, particularly january 6th. the fact that he believed that his law enforcement should have stood up and rallied around him, which the fbi, he believes did not after that election. but the other part of this was when his house was searched in

2022. this was a search that was conducted by the fbi looking for classified documents, which ultimately led to his own indictment. trump's indictment in 2023 donald trump, viewed this as a breach. it is something he has mentioned. he even brought it up over the weekend when he was asked about christopher wray. now, in that same interview, when he was talking about christopher wray, he was asked if he was going to fire him. he alluded to the fact that, yes, he would say that if i've already put forward kash patel, there's reason to believe he would have to fill somebody's job and that job would have been christopher wray. now it seems clear that wray had understood that there was two pathways here. one was resignation, two was being fired by president elect donald trump when he came into office. but when i'm talking to trump's team, they feel very pleased that this is the path that wray chose because they believe it paved the way for kash patel, who they say is doing very well on capitol hill in these various meetings with

senators. kristen holmes, cnn, west palm beach, florida. >> the leader of canada's most populous province says there will be blowback if the us president elect goes through with his threat of new tariffs. donald trump has said he'd slapped 25% tariffs on all goods from canada and mexico on his first day in office. that is, until they stopped the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs into the us. canada's prime minister justin trudeau, held a virtual meeting with the leaders of his country's provinces yesterday, and the premier of ontario later said canada has always found ways of pushing back. >> we will go to the extent of cutting off their energy, going down to michigan, going down to new york state and over to wisconsin. i don't want this to happen, but my number one job is to protect ontario ontarians and canadians as a whole. we'll use every tool in our toolbox, including cutting them off energy that we're

sending down there. folks, this is coming. it's not. if it is, it's coming, and it's coming january 20th or 21st. and we need to be prepared. >> mr. trudeau also plans to step up border security and crack down on illegal drugs, which he discussed at yesterday's meeting. turning now to syria, where we're hearing new pledges from the leader of the main rebel group hgs, after the group pushed for the fall of the assad regime, reuters is now reporting that mohammed al-jolani said in a written statement that he would dissolve the syrian security forces and shut down all notorious prisons. meanwhile, there's fighting underway between pro-turkish and kurdish factions in northern syria. the syrian democratic forces, a coalition of militant groups dominated by kurdish organizations, says turkey and its militia allies are bombarding areas near the turkish syrian border. and human rights watch warns tens of thousands of people who fled

to kurdish controlled northeast syria for safety amid the rebel offensive are now facing dire situations. conditions rather, reception centers in at least two cities have reached capacity, and there's a lack of basic necessities. while israel is hailing the downfall of the assad regime, officials also fear what could come next. it's prompted hundreds of strikes on military assets in syria. in an effort, israel says, to prevent them from falling into the hands of extremists. cnn's jomana karadsheh reports from damascus. >> that thick plume of smoke that you're seeing there, that's rising from the military air base, this was a regime strategic military site here in damascus. >> and over the past couple of days, it was among the targets that have been hit by the israeli military. >> they've carried out hundreds of airstrikes on different syrian regime military sites, installations,

weapons depots and others. >> now, as we were approaching it, we heard a couple of blasts. >> it's unclear if those were fresh airstrikes or if this was some sort of secondary explosions that were triggered by those past strikes. >> well, israel says it has detained the suspect in a deadly shooting shooting in the west bank. officials military officials say an assailant opened fire on an israeli civilian bus on wednesday night, killing a ten year old boy. three other people were wounded. the west bank has seen a major uptick in violence since the outbreak of israel's war in gaza in october last year. now still to come. south dakota's governor is under fire for her response to severe weather back home. could it derail her chances for a top federal appointment? plus, donald trump's pick for defense secretary has been meeting with key republican senators on capitol hill. the latest on what they're saying about pete hegseth welcome to times square that's

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up for trump's inauguration. he says canadians need to be prepared for the impact of the next trump administration. tens of thousands of people in syria are facing dire conditions, according to the group human rights watch. the group says reception centers for people fleeing to kurdish controlled north east syria are at capacity, and authorities are working to establish more centers. thousands have fled north since rebel groups started their push towards damascus about two weeks ago. families are still desperately searching for loved ones in syria's notorious prisons that have been operated by the assad regime. cnn's clarissa ward went inside one of them and made an incredible discovery behind a cell door. >> deep in the belly of the regime's air force intelligence headquarters. these are english letters we are hoping to find traces of austin tice, an american journalist held captive in syria since 2012. it's one of

many secret prisons across the city. this specific branch was tasked with surveillance, arrest and killing of all regime critics. >> these are all clean now. >> we don't find any hints of ties, but come across something extraordinary i can't tell, though. >> it might just be a blanket, but it's the only cell that's locked. >> is he going to shoot it? >> the guard makes us turn the camera off while he shoots the lock off the cell door. we go in to get a closer look. it's still not clear if there is something under the blanket. oh. it moved. >> is there someone there? don't move. is someone there or is it just a blanket? i don't know. i think it's someone. >> hello okay. he's just. >> i just saw.

yeah. oh. >> that's okay. it's okay, it's okay. >> murphy. murphy. it's okay, it's okay. >> journalist. >> i'm a civilian. he says i'm a civilian it's okay. >> it's okay, it's okay. hamas. jay-z hamas. >> he tells the fighter he is from the city of homs and has been in the cell for three months. >> okay, okay. you're okay you're okay, you're okay, you're okay. >> nala clutches my arm tightly with both hands. >> okay does anyone have any water water my my my my my my my. okay. >> it's water. it's water okay okay okay. >> you're okay you're okay.

>> you're okay. >> we start to walk him outside thank god you are safe. don't be afraid. the fighter says you are free this is the third prison they brought me to. he says the third prison? after three months in a windowless cell, he can finally see the sky. >> hello. hello hello. hello. the light, he says. >> oh, god, there is light. my god, there is light okay, okay. >> okay okay. okay. okay, okay. >> you're okay. stay with me. >> stay with me repeats again and again. okay, mike hello. my name. is.

>> for three months. i didn't know anything about my family. i didn't hear anything about my children. >> nadav shoshani al ahly. >> the fighter hands him something to eat. barely lift it to his mouth okay, but his body can't handle it. >> okay. you're okay. >> his captors fled during the fall of damascus, leaving him with no food or water. that was at least four days ago i'm shaking. my face is shaking. >> he says. >> the rebel tells him there's no more army, no more prisons, no more checkpoints. are you serious? >> he says. syria, hurra! >> syria is free, he tells him

it's the first time he has heard those words he tells us his name is adel herbel, and that officers from the much feared mukhabarat intelligence services took him from his home and began interrogating him about his phone. they brought me here to damascus. they asked me about names of terrorists, he says. >> did they hit you? >> the fighter asked. yes, yes, he says adel. >> as a paramedic arrives, the shock sets in. >> there's nothing. everything's okay. the red crescent is coming to help you. this man assures him you are safe. don't be afraid anymore. everything you are afraid of is gone hamas tens of thousands of syrians have disappeared in assad's prisons up until 15 minutes ago. adel herbel was one of them. he is still

petrified. >> la la la hilal. ahmar. >> don't be afraid. don't be afraid. the ambulance worker reassures him. every car i got into, they blindfolded me, he says. it is the end of a very dark chapter for him and for all of syria. clarissa ward, cnn, damascus what a story. >> and just one of them as well. america's top diplomat is on his way to the middle east for talks on syria. secretary of state antony blinken will arrive in jordan today, where he'll meet with king abdullah and top officials before leaving for turkey later in the day. he's expected to discuss four key principles the us expects of a new syrian government, which includes respecting the rights of minorities renata dwan south korea's president has lost support of his own party as he fights to keep his job. on wednesday, the ruling party made a

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mangione fingerprints matched those on a water bottle and a kind bar found near the shooting site. mangione is facing murder charges, but his attorney is fighting extradition from pennsylvania to new york. mangione attorney says he has yet to see the evidence reported by the nypd, and that there's no question his client will submit a not guilty plea. >> what we're talking about is fingerprint evidence and some ballistics. those two sciences, in and of themselves, have come under some criticism in the past relative to their credibility, their truthfulness, their accuracy. however you want to do it. so that's why, as lawyers, we need to see it. we need to see how do they collect it, how much of it matches. >> well, a vocal group of supporters is coming to mangione defense, especially on social media. cnn's randi kaye has that part of the story. >> he's accused of cold blooded murder on a new york city street. yet support for

luigi mangione is exploding online. >> if we let o.j. off the hook, why can't we let luigi off the hook? >> on tiktok, the hashtag free luigi is inspiring videos like these. >> we need to go ahead and get down to business and figure out how we're going to help my boy, luigi. we need to put some money on the man's books. make sure he can have honey buns for days. okay, while he's in there. >> this tiktokker echoed frustrations, writing, people are tired of being treated like a number. >> people get into these jobs and positions and forget that these numbers that they're interacting with affects actual people's lives. >> others offering themselves up as alibis. >> listen, luigi mangione could not have killed that ceo that morning. i know, because he was on a zoom call with me organizing a fundraiser for kids and canines with cancer free luigi. >> the propping up of mangione is so outsized, one tiktokker even suggested time magazine

should make him their person of the year. >> fremont boy, he didn't even do it. >> mangione has inspired merchandise too. online retailers are selling free luigi christmas ornaments, sweatshirts and coffee mugs, one emblazoned with the words i'm in love with a criminal. mangione lawyer told cnn that people have been reaching out to his office offering to pay mangione legal bills. he's not sure he'd accept the money. >> obviously, my client appreciates the support that he has, but it just doesn't sit right with me. >> a legal defense fund has also been set up on behalf of mangione. by wednesday afternoon, the fund had reached over $30,000. some of the anonymous donors included the words deny, defend and oppose in their message. at least one referred to mangione as an american hero. in altoona, pennsylvania, where mangione was arrested at a mcdonald's after an employee called police, support for him has given rise to threats in the community. >> you know, we have received some threats against our officers and building here.

we've started investigating some threats against some citizens in our community. we're taking all those threats seriously. >> the mcdonald's is being targeted to fake reviewers online writing, never eating at this mcdonald's again. imagine going to grab a big mac and witnessing officer snitch snitch. employee of the month calling the feds on a hero, referring to mangione, another fake review reads why go here when taco bell is just across the way and knows how to keep their mouths shut? >> joe, good morning to everyone other than the person that snitched on my dog luigi, like you. why didn't your mother teach you? snitches get stitches. >> back in new york city, so-called wanted posters have turned up, possibly suggesting some sort of rallying cry. the posters show faces of executives and ceos, including brian thompson, who mangione allegedly gunned down his is marked with a red x. it's unclear who is behind the posters. randi kaye, cnn

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someone holding a tray of drinks from him directly. >> correct. 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. sadly. 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. >> you allege that you were forcibly pushed into an suv by sean combs. that act alone, according to your lawsuit, left you in considerable pain. and then once inside the vehicle, your lawsuit says plaintiff was held down by combs, who overpowered him while he

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