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including stalking. and this federal complaint also reveals some new details. >> investigators say a notebook found on mangione included an august entry that said, quote, the target is insurance. the 26 year old high school valedictorian landed in new york this afternoon. you saw those that video. and here's a picture of it here. as he was escorted to a van from a helicopter. he was surrounded by new york officers and also officials, even including the mayor, eric adams. the mayor later called those who cheer the suspect's alleged violence as vile. cnn's shimon prokupecz is outside of the federal courthouse there in new york. shimon, give us the latest here. >> okay, so we can say now that the hearing is underway. the first appearance for luigi mangione on the federal charges is now underway. and he is seated between his attorneys at this moment, according to our kara scannell, who is inside

the courtroom watching all of this unfold. so he's in court. the judge will start the proceeding. there will be a series of questions. he will be told what his charges are. those four counts. very serious. four counts. i do want to note about what he looks like. he is no longer wearing that orange prison jumpsuit that we have seen him now as he was leaving pennsylvania, being brought here by plane and helicopter. he is now in street clothes. he is wearing a. give me one second. a white button down shirt, a navy three quarter zip pullover and khaki pants. so his attorneys, it appears when they arrived here, they brought clothes for him to change in so he doesn't have to appear before this judge in that orange prison jumpsuit. he is now wearing street clothes. and that hearing, as i said, is now underway. um, so just one

other thing i want to read here from our producer there inside, who says that he came into custody at approximately 1 p.m. he was transported to the southern district of new york, which is the courthouse behind me, by nypd personnel. and then the fbi. and so the fbi took him into custody. and so we are here today. um, they also said that prosecutors are now saying that the victim's family has been notified, so they are aware of these federal charges. we know that the manhattan da's office has been in touch with them. and now federal prosecutors here from the southern district of new york and the fbi, as well, are in touch with them. and so that hearing, as i said, is now underway. and so we await for what happens here. really, the key here also is that we're going to get to hear from his attorneys, hopefully in some, you know, in more with more information, more in depth than we have from statements that

they have made to us, written statements and comments on their way in both the attorneys did not want to speak, but hopefully when they come out, they will say something. because i do think this the way in which all of this has unfolded certainly caught many of us by surprise. we were all set to be in a state court today. there was a whole process laid out where he would make an appearance on the state charges, and then all of a sudden this morning, we started getting word that everything was going to change and that the fbi was going to arrest him, that he was going to be taken into custody on federal charges. and just how everything has been done in this case, from the way he was transported, flown here, the helicopter, you know, the walk that they did from the helicopter, the nypd and the fbi into a waiting van and just the whole circumstances around all of this, certainly unprecedented. i mean, i've never seen anything like this. i've been covering courts here. i've been covering law enforcement here over 20 years.

and this is just so remarkable about how everything is being done here. it'll be interesting to hear what the attorneys think of it. and i think also interesting to see if if luigi mangione even understands what's going on. so we wait to hear, hear about what happens here in court and perhaps to hear from his attorneys once the hearing is over and this federal complaint revealing some new details about the evidence against him, walk us through those details so just some more information from court. before we get to that, i'm reading here. it says that mangione answered yes. so we heard from him in court. he answered yes twice to confirm he understands his rights, and he has seen the federal complaint against him. the judge who was judge parker, is reviewing the charges in the complaint. so as this first appearance gets underway, as we expected, they are now. the judge is now explaining the charges to him. luigi mangione

answering yes twice to the judge, confirming he understands his rights and he has seen the federal charges against him. his attorneys would have shown that to him. they met with him right before the court proceeding, and now the judge is going through that process with him, as we would normally see in a first appearance. but this is quite different than most cases than anything we have seen. certainly in quite some time. um, to your question, boris, the notebook, the notebook is a key piece of evidence here for the fbi and for federal prosecutors. from what they lay out in the federal complaint, there is new information. and that new information has to deal with the planning that went into this. the entries that mangione made in october, talking about this, then again in august, where he wrote about how he waited to do this, that he's happy he procrastinated

because allegedly it gave him more time to learn about things. the other thing about the notes is the focus and how he allegedly talks about the insurance companies, and also talks about there's one very striking quote in the in the pages of the notebook and allegedly mangione and handwriting, where he writes the word. whack and it's quoted as the word whack. whack. allegedly referring to the ceo and saying how he would do this attack at this conference. so key pieces of evidence for prosecutors. but i thought that word was just so striking to hear that word, to hear that, to see that in that complaint. and again, you know, the complaint really talks about a lot of the evidence that the nypd had gathered. that evidence is now in the hands of federal prosecutors

and the fbi. and the other thing now, this these charges are much different. look, certainly the state charges were very significant. he was facing life in prison, but now he is eligible because of these federal charges, he could be eligible for the death penalty. that is a decision that will be made, you know, far down the line during the trump administration, under the new attorney general, who will who will have to personally make that decision. so certainly a long road ahead for luigi mangione, uh, now that he's facing potentially the death penalty in terms of the state case, we'll see where that goes. and if he really ever appears in the state court on those murder charges, shimon prokupecz live outside the federal courthouse in new york. >> please keep us up to date with what is happening behind closed doors. again, cameras not allowed inside the courtroom, but we do have reporters there in the room. let's dig deeper on this now with john miller. he's a cnn chief, law enforcement and

intelligence analyst. we also have misty marris, a trial and defense attorney. thank you both for being with us. misty, first to you, i'm struck by the fact that mangione changed out of that orange jumpsuit and he's now wearing street clothes, apparently dressed kind of a bit like a prepster. he's wearing like a white button down shirt, a navy pullover, khaki pants. why would his attorneys have him change before going into federal court? >> well, this was very interesting today because the federal government generally doesn't do what we call a perp walk. but that is what we saw happening from that helipad all the way to the courthouse. so it's likely that his attorneys made a request that he is able to appear not in that orange jumpsuit. part of that can be to avoid prejudice down the line. very often, that type of thing can matter, that they don't want the person to be viewed as guilty before stepping into trial. it is absolutely an attorney's request that was made that was granted by the judge in this instance. >> and john, talk about this

perp walk that we're watching here. it was extraordinary. >> well, it certainly is a spectacle, but it was one by design. first of all, you have the nypd transporting him from pennsylvania. they are met there by the fbi. who is going to take him into custody and accompany him to that u.s. magistrate's courtroom, where they're going to talk about the charges he's facing. but you also have a really unusual defendant here who is someone who usually when they surround somebody with this kind of security and protection, it's because they feel that somebody may try to attack them for what they have done. in this case, the security around him is really for the opposite, which is they believe that there is so much support that they've seen online and additional calls to free luigi that they wanted to have a phalanx of people, a motorcade with its own emergency service team with

long guns in terms of a counter assault team, motorcycles to clear the route so that nobody tried to free luigi. that's what you're seeing in one regard, what you're seeing in another regard is the other piece of this, which is they wanted to demonstrate that this person is in custody, is in the custody of the new york city police department, the fbi's violent crime task force, with the fbi and nypd together, and that he is being brought to justice. but those two factors combined for the scene we saw here, the fact that the mayor, a former police captain, was present, i think was key because he is also sending a message to new yorkers that this kind of thing won't be tolerated and there will be justice. >> yeah, it was interesting to see that as the mayor was there shortly after the da alvin bragg had a press conference announcing that one of the mayor's top aides was facing charges in a completely separate investigation. nevertheless, quite the split

screen for the new york mayor's office. john, if you could talk to us about the significance of this evidence that we've not seen before that was included in the federal complaint in which mangione was writing as of august, talking about insurance being his target. it obviously speaks to a motive, a frame of mind, and it might cut into a potential insanity defense. >> no, well, it might or it might work. certainly to his detriment. murder is generally not a federal charge. generally, that's a state charge, and he's charged with murder by state prosecutors. but this is interesting. in the three page, what they call claim of responsibility that was allegedly found on his person in his handwriting. it's addressed at the top of the page to the feds, which means he assumed that at some point he would be tracked down, identified, captured, and probably by the fbi. so that

wasn't a surprise to him. it certainly came as a surprise to state prosecutors, who only learned last night that the fbi would be taking their prisoner into custody as a state supreme court justice was waiting in a courtroom to arraign him. but the new evidence that is cited in the complaint talks about his description in his own handwriting, not in the claim of responsibility note, but in a separate spiral notebook. now, boris and brianna, he refers to this spiral notebook in the claim of responsibility, allegedly by saying the plans are in the spiral notebook and, you know, you can look there for that. don't try to get into my electronics because they're pretty locked down. so he basically directs them to this notebook. but he talks about his intent, as shimon told us, to whack the ceo of one of the insurance companies at its investor conference, saying that one and a half

months this investor conference is a true windfall. and most importantly, the message becomes self-evident. you would interpret that to say it's the investors conference. the conference is the very symbol of how the top health insurance provider company in the united states, the fifth largest company at the time in america, behind apple, google and walmart. is they're meeting with their investors, talking about how much money they're making and that killing him at what they describe in this note as the bean counters conference has its own symbolism. what does he say? because the message becomes self-evident. he also talks about the details finally coming together. i'm glad in a way. i've procrastinated because it allowed me to learn more about that company. the target is insurance because it checks

every box. what he's saying there is his larger problem. you could interpret that as meaning is with the health care industry in general, but the insurance company is where all the costs and where the consumer may get short shorted, where it all comes together. >> so in this complaint, i'm so sorry to interrupt you. we need to go to shimon because he does have some new details there at the federal courthouse. shimon. >> so we heard, as i said during my last live shot, that we're waiting to hear from karen agnifilo. uh mangione attorney. and she herself, karen said that she was seeking clarity. she was talking to the judge. and i'm not quoting here, but so, in essence, what she was saying to the judge was that, um, she was kind of surprised by this today and that. hold on. i'm sorry. i'm just losing. let me go back. she says she's seeking clarity about the situation between the federal district and state case. and she says she was prepared to go in arraignment on the state charges today in

state court. and according to our producer in there, she suggested karen agnifilo suggested that bragg's office. this is the district attorney of manhattan who brought those state charges that he may have not known that there were federal charges being brought against mangione. you know, we've been speaking all morning about just how unprecedented all of this has been. we all were gathered outside the state court, the media, because we were expecting that mangione would appear in state court. and then at the last minute, the fbi and the u.s. attorney's office here are announcing that they were taking custody of mangione. and now we're hearing from his attorney, mangione, his attorney, that she's seeking clarity about that. what what happened here? um, perhaps completely irrelevant, but we can already see her forming some kind of defense. you know, she's going to perhaps try to argue here.

um, i'm just trying to see one other thing here. she's also saying that bragg, the manhattan da, didn't mention federal charges during his press conference. that's true. i was there, and so she wants clarity about where there are 1 or 2 investigations. and so that is the update. and last we heard that mangione he is still in court. the judge has left the bench. it's unclear why. and that mangione at this moment is standing at his attorneys and explaining things for him. and so now we are being told that the proceedings are over. our reporter inside, kara scannell, is saying that everyone is walking out of the courtroom. mangione is leaving the courtroom and that his ankles were shackled. and so now he has left the courtroom. the proceedings are over. we finally heard something from his attorney. we hope to hear more from her as she leaves here. it will be really the

first time that we will hear from her in any significance. so the proceedings are now over. we wait to hear where mangione will be housed, where he will be jailed as he awaits trial. they were not seeking bail in this case. certainly, the defense agreed. it seems that that would not be appropriate in this case. so at this point they were not seeking bail. so he will be held in a federal jail, most likely in brooklyn, which is known as the mdc. uh, interestingly enough, that is where p diddy is. we know that that is where other high profile cases we know many different defendants who have been there. so it is likely that is where mangione will be headed towards. after here to brooklyn, to the federal jail there as he awaits this trial shimon, please stand by. >> the top line is coming from this first federal court appearance by luigi mangione being that he acknowledged to

the magistrate judge that he understands what he's accused of. his attorneys expressing some surprise at the federal charges that he's facing. we are set to hear from his attorneys in just moments and also significantly, that they're not seeking bail for him, something that was unlikely to be granted to begin with. >> yeah, it seemed like it might be a perfunctory request that they would proceed with, but in the end, they did not. we are going to take a quick break. we'll be right back with more analysis on this court appearance of luigi mangione that has just concluded. we'll be right back. >> my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back. now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clear skin. things are getting clearer. i feel free to bare my skin. >> yeah, that's on me. nothing is. everything whoa.

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just left off a moment ago, i do want to point out we are anticipating that mangione attorneys will be walking out of the courthouse shortly and speaking to the press. we saw a bouquet of microphones stationed out there, not speaking. >> they're actually not speaking to the press. >> we just literally just learned that, as i said, they're great. so that bouquet of microphones is essentially useless. let's collect those and move on and get to misty and john. misty, i wonder what you make of what karen agnifilo, mangione attorney, said, talking about seeking clarity and specifically the question of her alluding to potential double jeopardy facing these federal charges along with the state charges for her client. >> i guess we won't be hearing from her, but absolutely, boris, that is where this is going. she the legal team, is teeing this up to argue that these federal charges violate a criminal defendants constitutional right of double jeopardy, meaning that you can't be charged with the same

crime twice. now, there's a supreme court case right on point. a criminal defendant can be charged with a state crime and a federal crime, so long as that individual violated a a state statute and a federal statute. so that's what we have here. this is proceeding on two different legal theories on the federal level. it relates to this interstate transit stalking, resulting in murder, that crossing of the state lines is the avenue the federal government is taking in the criminal complaint to bring this into the federal court system. the state obviously relating to those terrorism in furtherance of terrorism charges. but that's not going to stop the defense team from raising the argument and trying to get rid of pretrial, the federal charges and saying and probing, as we heard about in the courtroom as to the genesis of these federal charges, are there concurrent investigations that are going on? so that's where this is going. another thing i think to point out, there had always been a

question of whether or not there would be a competency argument. competency means does a defendant understand the charges against them and is able to participate in their own defense? we see now in the courtroom that mangione was asked, does he understand the charges? he said yes. so it doesn't appear that that issue is going to be raised, but we can expect a real fight on that double jeopardy component. >> yeah, we'll be watching for that. misty. stand by for us. let's go to kara scannell. kara, you are now out of court as the day has concluded for luigi mangione. tell us what you saw during the proceedings well, it was a packed courtroom. >> mangione was led into the courtroom by two u.s. marshals. he was changed from that orange jumpsuit into street clothes, a white button down shirt, a three quarter zip navy overshirt and khaki pants. he was shackled at the ankles and his hands were clasped in front of him, but but not shackled. so he entered. he sat down. he

was quiet throughout the proceedings, didn't make many facial expressions. he did acknowledge he understood his rights. when the judge read them to him, he said he understood the charges against him at all times. just answering very briefly. yes. he consulted with his attorneys and at some point he was flipping through the complaint, reading the murder, the stalking charges that were levied against him. the hearing was very brief. the judge just going through the process. but the big moment there was his attorney, karen friedman agnifilo, saying that in her 30 years as a prosecutor and a defense lawyer practicing in new york, she had never seen a situation play out like this. in fact, she said she was told to appear at state court at 2 p.m. today for his arraignment on state charges. and then they were shocked when they turned around and found that there were federal charges. and this first presentment today in court, the judge set a preliminary hearing for the middle of january. that is presuming that mangione is not indicted before then on these federal charges. today's charges were a complaint. the next step will be that

indictment on federal charges. she did note that one of these charges is has the possibility of the death penalty. the prosecutors did not say whether they were going to seek that in this case. they they didn't even respond to her allegations about how highly unusual this was, saying that that will be discussed at a future court hearing when it is more appropriate. the judge acknowledging that they didn't really have to address it today. we are waiting now for his attorneys to exit court. mangione was taken back into custody. he will be detained for now. they did not seek bail, but we are waiting for the lawyers to step out. they are not expected to speak to the cameras, at least at this point. but mangione for now in federal custody is unclear when he will be in state court to respond to those 11 count indictment on those state charges. brianna, boris. >> all right, kara, thank you so much for that. let's go to john miller now. john, you know where mangione is going to be held? >> yeah, he's going to the metropolitan detention center,

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after president elect donald trump and elon musk effectively torpedoed the original plan that speaker mike johnson put on the table, a plan that included billions for disaster relief and economic aid for farmers, millions to help with access to child care funding to protect the homes of supreme court justices, and also a nearly 4% pay raise for lawmakers. the world's richest man, though, went on a social media tirade, reposting false claims that the measure didn'a't actually include like a 40% pay raise for congress and billions for a new nfl stadium, saying that this bill should be killed. joining us now is republican congressman rich mccormick of georgia. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. first, i just want to see if you have any update for us on house speaker johnson and democrats finding some alternative to this bill, a cr that would keep the government open past tomorrow night. >> yeah, unfortunately, all of us are working off of just

rumors right now. we don't have a long term plan. we don't have a short term plan. some people are talking about shutting down the government. some people are doing a clean cr. it'll be interesting to see what the speaker comes up. he's negotiated both with the blessings of jeffries, but also the president, ellen, vivek, anybody else who has a seat at the table who can control the media, control the narrative, control our constituents opinions. that's where this is in play right now. >> congressman, you've previously said you knew you were a no coming in. actually, i literally just got handed an update. congressman, i'm learning this as i'm speaking to you. it sounds like members are now leaving johnson's office saying there is an agreement on government funding, but they are not offering details. and this is coming from a republican congresspeople, tom cole, stephanie bice, mario diaz-balart. there is apparently some kind of an agreement. there would be an announcement shortly. i wonder what is in there. obviously, we're learning this as we're speaking, but you previously said that you saw this impasse coming because the bill

doesn't fix spending issues more broadly. you've argued that other republicans who are now expressing surprise should have seen this coming. you said earlier today on another network, quote, shame on us. who in your party do you think bears responsibility for this? >> well, we all do in many ways, if you think about it, we've had control of the budget for two years now. since i was voted into congress. i haven't seen anything conservative really pass. when you talk about the the, the fema and the budget, we have to relieve people who have hurricane damage and. devastation. 40% of this year's fema budget, according to the hearings we just had, fema director was there. and the report they did in april showed that 40%, almost half the budget was spent on covid relief by law. that's the law that we wrote as republicans. that's the one we passed and set up the senate. we didn't take any of that out. and it's no wonder that we ran out of money, whether it be on people who came here illegally or on money spent on covid. two years after the pandemic. you know why you get those phone calls from people that say, hey, we have some money for you, we're

going to cut of it. we're going to give you some money. the government spends it there, and we don't have anything left over for the hurricanes that's on us. and when we don't responsibly budget the money, you run out of it pretty quickly in the areas that you have 81% or approximately such goes to snap out of the agriculture budget. so all those things that we're spending money on, we need to be shifting towards where it's really needed and not just handing out to people who want to have a piece of the pie without actually putting something in. >> so do you think that the problem is with leadership? i mean, if you think that everyone bears some responsibility, who should then be held accountable, is it house speaker johnson? >> of course, the buck stops there. i mean, you have leadership for a reason. you lead, follow or get out of the way. that's what we say in the marines. there is no more culpability than the leadership position. of course he's responsible. that doesn't mean it's an easy job. it doesn't mean that you're going to be able to just snap your fingers and make it happen. but he has to answer that long term vision that he put before all of us, where we're going to take the debt and deficit seriously, we're going to actually have a

plan. we're going to have something to follow through where he's actually taking input from all of us. with only a two vote majority, he has a harder issue to to hammer home than the senate does right now. and that's a monumental challenge. but it shows that this is going to be his time to either shine or sink. >> do you think he should remain speaker? >> that's about to be told. it depends on what kind of plan he has, because quite frankly, this will define him. this is his defining moment. whether he's going to survive and go forward and make us flourish, or if we're going to pick another leader. >> congressman, you spoke of a broader vision for government spending, a long term strategy. president trump told nbc news that he would back abolishing the debt ceiling altogether. you voted against spending it. it's supposed to be this tool that helps the government keep its word when it comes to a budget. but as you know, it's been suspended over and over and over again. would you support abolishing it not a

chance. >> let me tell you why. it's kind of a marker in time. how fast are we closing in on that extension? hey, if you want to extend it by $4.5 trillion and get it up to about $40 trillion in debt, when you pay $1 trillion in in interest payments per year, i think that's a great one, because then you can see how fast you basically spent in deficit. the amount we bring in in revenue every single year. think about that. 4.5 trillion is what we bring in in revenue. how fast are we going to consume that if we extend that debt. and then the public can actually see, oh my gosh, we just burned through that in two years, the entire deficit. so in other words, in one year you bring in 4.5. in two years you spent that in excess. that should be shocking to people to say that we're not having a serious conversation about controlling our spending. it will catch up to us. it will affect our currency standard in the world. it will affect our place in history. and if we don't do it right, our children and our children's children will suffer. >> i have to say, though, during donald trump's first term, he suspended the debt

ceiling three times, including once for a two year period by some estimates, he added nearly $8.5 trillion to the national debt. have you seen any evidence, any indication that donald trump will rein in spending during his second term, that that is a serious priority for him? >> well, to be honest, you can't really compare a covid era spending bill with something we're doing right now. >> first of all, he did very critical. he did suspend the debt ceiling way before covid. there was a two year suspension in his entire presidency, and that's what i was addressing. >> but quite frankly, that's what we've been promised. when we talked to ellen and vivek and they came here and we talked about the doge, and we talked about saving social security from a 21% automatic cut, which has to be done soon, by the way. and it's not just going to magically happen. it's going to happen without a vote. there's going to be an 11% cut on medicare without a vote unless we do something, unless we're bold. and it has to be bipartisan. because quite frankly, i don't want to have somebody making commercials about me pushing grandma off a cliff because i tried to do the right thing to save grandma from a 21% cut, or from adding

so much deficit and debt that our children will never have the same country that we've grown up around. >> mass deportations are a top priority for president trump in this incoming administration. you know, that's going to have a huge cost. i mean, are you concerned about the kind of money that that would add to the debt? >> that's not even a that's not even a legitimate question. if you think about how much money we spent on bringing them in here, putting them in houses, feeding them, giving them health care, you think it's going to cost more for us to deport these people than it is to sustain their entire family when they can't pay taxes and they can do nothing but consume. and they came here with the idea that, hey, as soon as we get to america, even though we can't work, we can't pay taxes, we're going to get free housing, free food, free medication, free education. >> those folks actually do work. a lot of them work in agriculture. like half of the ones who came here illegally is in this country. >> who came here legally. no, no, no, no. >> half the agriculture industry in this country. the

work is done by undocumented migrants and they do pay taxes through things like sales taxes. so it's not just the cost of supporting them. it's not just the cost of deportation. it's not just the cost of deporting them. it's also the economic cost to the country. you don't have concerns about how that might affect the economy. >> that's why i'm very bullish on immigration reform, right sizing it every single year to what we need in i.t.. agriculture, health care, hotels, you name it. but right size it. don't bring them in here illegally. bring them in here legally and then punish the people who hire people outside the law. make sure that people are paying their taxes. i don't care if you want to give them dual citizenship. after a certain period of time, they can go back to their home so they don't have to smuggle their family up here, give them some sort of motivation to follow the law than some sort of, rather than some motivation to break the law, because right now we're doing it the opposite way and we're paying the price. >> congressman rich mccormick, we have to leave the conversation there. very much appreciate you sharing your perspectives. please keep us posted. if you hear any details about this apparent deal, we'll do. >> thanks so much. >> thanks so much. next, a

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co-defendants? >> so the trump team had been trying to get fani willis removed from this case because of her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor, nathan wade, who she tapped to oversee this. they were not successful at the trial level, but here the court of appeals says based on just the appearance of impropriety, usually that's not enough. but here what this romantic relationship did to sort of taint public perception of the case, that is enough. and again, this is rare that this would be how they would go on something that was just the appearance that something wasn't off. but they said, look, the only way to really restore public trust in this case is for her and her office to be removed from the case. so the case itself was not dismissed. but after this opinion, they would have to find a new prosecutor, a new office that would want to take on this case. now, it's not just president elect trump. there are other co-defendants attached to this case. incredibly complicated because it's a rico prosecution. the way they brought this case, there are always questions about whether it would even make it to trial based on the

complexities. but look, trump, throughout his entire life, really, he's been trying to undermine trust in the criminal justice system, and especially when it comes to his own cases. he was always attacking prosecutors, judges and here fani willis really handed him a very legitimate question. and i was speaking with a source close to this case who said, look, no matter what you think about trump, yeah, this is a win for trump. but he said this is also a win for the rule of law, because i think most people would look at this and be like, look, there is something off about having a romantic relationship with a special prosecutor who's profiting off of this. there were questions about his billing practices, and it's notable that here the court of the court of appeals said, look, we don't have to have a finding of impropriety, just the appearance here. as a prosecutor, you need to keep everything above board. and she failed to do that here in a historic case. >> paula reid, thanks so much for the update. up next, thousands of amazon drivers going on strike in the thick of holiday package season. we're going to look at the impacts

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at four states at seven locations across those states. but they represent much more less than 1% of the workforce. the strike, though this is going to last more than one day, and that is creeping into the holiday season. and at the core of this is the teamsters saying that amazon has failed to negotiate with these drivers, but amazon is saying we don't have to negotiate because they're not recognized as part of a union, and they're not recognized as part of a union by the national labor relations board. but it is very personal for these drivers who work all kinds of hours in all kinds of elements. listen to one very this early this morning, who was just getting on to the picket line. >> many of us, we don't have any christmas presents under the trees this year because the wages, the hours that we get working for amazon just simply aren't enough to get by in today's economy now, amazon says that they believe that the

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