nypd, a suspect set a woman on fire while she was sleeping on a subway train this morning. that victim, who has yet to be identified, has since died from her injuries. and now authorities are calling for the justice system to punish that suspect if convicted now we're calling upon the rest of the justice system to step up and do their jobs. >> there must be strong swift consequences on this person, and i use that term lightly. who committed this brutal, brutal homicide? there is no room in civilized society for people like him to be walking around. >> cnn's gloria pazmino has been following this story. gloria, what more can you tell us? >> well, jessica, just like you said, it is just a horrendous, tragic incident that took place early this morning inside the f train in brooklyn at the stillwell avenue station in

coney island. now, police tell us that there was a woman who appeared to be sleeping inside that subway car. the train was not moving at the time. and then there was this other man who approached her, seemingly out of nowhere, out of nowhere, and used a lighter to light a blanket that she was covered on, covered in that blanket, quickly set ablaze, setting her in flames. there were police officers that were patrolling the station at the time who smelled the smoke, saw the smoke and quickly responded, but they were simply too late when they tried to put her out. ems also responded to the scene and they pronounced her dead inside that subway car. now it's been several hours, but in the last two hours we heard from police officials after they were able to make an arrest. so there's two important details to this incident. one, just a horrific nature of what happened here. but the very important role that technology played and the reason i say that is because police very quickly were able

to put out photos of the suspect they were looking for, and they got those photos from cameras that have been recently installed on the subway system, the new york city subway system, for the first time has 100% coverage with these cameras. and so the combination of technology and good police work led to the quick capture of the suspect, who is now in custody of the police department. i want you to take a listen to the police commissioner just describing what happened today and talking about the work that they did to capture this person. >> someone who we believe carried out one of the most depraved crimes one person could possibly commit against another human being. and it took the life of an innocent new yorker. but at this hour, i am pleased to announce that a short time ago, alert nypd transit officers took a person of interest into custody. >> that person was actually taken into custody in midtown

manhattan, very far from the scene, but it was actually after three high school aged new yorkers saw him and reported it to the police. that's what the law enforcement officials told us earlier today, that it was because of that call that they were able to apprehend him. so again, the combination of technology, the photo being out there quickly and police working to apprehend this individual. but, jessica, this is happening as there is a really wide and ongoing discussion about public safety, not just here in new york city, but specifically in the transit system. just a few days ago, governor kathy hochul deployed additional an additional number of national guard service members into the subway system with public safety, especially right now during the holiday season, where the crowds are much larger and there's a lot of tourists in the city, but there's a lot of criticism that that that that is not enough. there's also the other aspect of this, which

is that it's believed that the victim here was a homeless person who was sheltering from the cold. that's been extremely cold here in the last few days. and people who are homeless often take shelter in the subway system. so two really significant and difficult to tackle issues that public officials here in new york city will certainly be asking questions about in the next few days. jessica. yeah. >> gloria pazmino, thank you very much. and joining us now is retired nypd captain john monahan. he's also the author of a series of detective novels, novels, the latest of which is called the guns of antwerp. it's great to have you here with us. i just want to start first with your general thoughts. we have a little bit more information now that we've heard from the nypd commissioner and others just a little bit ago. what do you make of of this crime and also how they were able to find and arrest the suspect it's great that they were able to find and arrest the suspect. >> jessica, you mentioned and your reporter mentioned the

technology playing a role in this. >> and, you know, the cameras in the subway when you look at the footage captured by the camera in the car, that's one thing. then you look the really clear photo came from the cops body camera. i don't know what the teenagers were looking at or what app they were looking on, but it's the use of this technology. it's great having those cameras in the subway cars that captured a lot. i believe the photo from the cops body worn camera was very clear. what i'm getting at is nothing beats having a cop on patrol and deployment and then being on the job, being alert, being at their station. you know this all. jessica, what do you think of the chances that this part paid his fare to access the system? slim to none. i'm sure they'll probably backtrack and see exactly where and when he did enter the system, but this starts at the turnstile. this starts with fare being 90% 90% of gun collars made in the subway system by transit cops are made up of the turnstiles when they stop fare deadbeats.

it's it's the solution has been simple for a long time. and the cops are locking these guys up. there's record numbers of arrests the last couple of years in this attempt to combat subway crime. but they'll let them go. they'll lock them up. they're right back out. used to be you stop a fare beat. they have a warrant, you take them into the system and they were off. you know, they were in the system for a while then. not anymore. i mean, it really, you know, the chief of the mta security there, he mentioned, uh, i was going to say i heard him say that. >> yeah. and it was interesting. he he said that, too. he said, now it's he really put it on the prosecutors now to to move forward with this. >> right, right. the cops keep locking up the same people, jessica. 6% of the ridership that don't pay their fare, that's it's a large number because we've got millions of riders, but it's the same people over and over again. the cops did a great job, you know, and you had commissioner miller on earlier today. i listened to that. and he talked about how the seeds that were planted by

jessica tisch when she worked in the i.t. department, in the police department, have come to fruition today. uh, it reminds me of, you know, the history of the transit police is that they were a separate department until, you know, bill bratton was the police commissioner. and then they merged with the nypd. and if you're going to put if you're going to put like the governor is talking about, uh, national guard, it'll help as long as we keep them up by the turnstiles when we graduate cops from our academy, and they're going to be assigned to transit, they've got to go to a separate transit academy, to police those platforms and those tunnels. it is a whole other world down there. you get into those tunnels, green lights, yellow lights, right? and you have to know what each one means. it's a life threatening situation. chasing someone into those tunnels. and if you don't know exactly what you're doing, you don't belong down there. so, you know national guard, they'll help. but as long as we keep them up top by the turnstiles. but that's where the fat beats. you got to stop the fat beats because this guy didn't pay his fare. i'll bet my career on that. >> that's. and when you say fare, it's just for everyone watching. and just for my own. you're talking about people

that go in and don't pay their fare when you when normally you would click or you swipe your phone or a card, pay your fare, go through the turnstile. you're talking about people that jump over the turnstile or don't pay their fares. >> exactly right. exactly right. and so most of the criminals enter the subway that way. >> yeah. and i also wanted to ask you just specifically about this suspect, the victim as well. we still don't have an identification on the victim. they said they're working to do that. we know it was a woman who died from her injuries with the suspect. again, we don't have. they didn't give us a lot of information on that either. only that he had arrived from guatemala in 2018 as john miller. john miller, you noted, was reporting that they're now trying to kind of process through, get more information about him as well. what what do you glean from all of that? >> the chief of mta in his press conference, and i think the police commissioner also mentioned, you know, that he didn't want to call him a person. and he talked about

something like, this doesn't happen in a civilized society. this perpetrator, i don't think, came from a civilized society. those three teenagers that made the call. that's civilized society. and, you know, i'd like to know what were they looking at and that they recognized him and made that call. but this guy came from i mean, there is a culture here of, you know, like i said, 6% of the ridership for beats, that they don't pay their fare very small number of criminals in our society. it's the same number of people. it's a small percentage of people creating the large percentage of crime. and in a civilized society, something like this guy, he wasn't stealing anything. he was. this was a deeply psychotic act. and to sit there and watch it. what kind of a human being does that? you know, this is not someone that that understands how new yorkers live, how americans live. this is just it's so far off any other crime that that you typically see, i can't

even understand it. but again, thank god the cops that were on patrol captured him with their body cameras. and those three young teenagers. kudos to them. i hope they get a reward of some kind. >> all right, we'll see. we'll see what happens if they get a reward of some kind. john monahan, thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> let's turn to politics now. the panama canal, tiktok renaming an american mountain meeting vladimir putin and building a potential iron dome for america. president elect donald trump ping ponging through various issues at a conservative event in phoenix today. cnn's steve contorno is joining us now from west palm beach with the latest on this. steve, this was kind of billed as his first big rally, big speech since he won this election. what more did he say? >> well, jessica, it was very reminiscent of a campaign style speech. in fact, some of the lines i've heard probably dozens of times in the past year and a half, but there was some new ground that he traversed as well. you mentioned tiktok. he opened the

door to allowing them to operate in the country once he takes president. they potentially were supposed to be banned under a new federal law. he also talked about sitting down with russian president vladimir putin about the ukraine war, which he has promised to solve within the first day of taking office. he didn't speak a lot about what happened this past week, where we saw this fight on capitol hill, over, over spending and him losing to some of his close republican allies. but he did respond to the attacks from democrats that his coconspirator in blowing up the the funding negotiations, elon musk is now sort of in charge of the government. take a listen to what he said the new one is president trump has ceded the presidency to elon musk. >> no, no, that's not happening. but elon's done an

amazing job. isn't it nice to have smart people that we can rely on? no, he's not going to be president. that i can tell you and i'm safe. you know why he can't be? he wasn't born in this country. >> now, one thing he also brought up that he has been posting on social media is this idea of taking back control of the panama canal that has been in the hands of panama for half of a century, but donald trump suggesting that there is something the u.s. can do to potentially get prices down for people who use the canal for shipping and potentially taking back control of it. though he offered little insight into how he might do that. jessica. >> all right. steve contorno from west palm beach, thanks so much for that. still to come tonight, a real risk. that's how a top biden adviser describes the possibility of iran reviving its nuclear plans after the fall of syria's

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middle east when it was mistakenly fired upon by the uss gettysburg. our julia benbrook is joining us from the white house. julia, what more do we know well, u.s. >> central command is calling this an apparent friendly fire incident. they've said that the two u.s. navy pilots were safely ejected after their fighter jet was shot down over the red sea on saturday, and initial assessments have found that one crew member did sustain minor injuries. here's what else we know so far. now, centcom has said that the aircraft and f a 18 was operating from the uss harry s truman when it was mistakenly fired upon by the uss gettysburg. the uss gettysburg, a ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser, is a part of the truman carrier strike group, which entered the waters of the middle east one week ago. now, as we've mentioned, this investigation is ongoing, but we do have an idea of the types of questions that will be

asked, including what the sailors on the uss gettysburg saw, what they thought was coming at them, and why they fired all right. >> julia. also, we wanted to see what you have learned about the incident, because it's coming after the u.s. carried out these airstrikes against houthi targets in yemen. is this connected? do we know any more about that? >> well, the apparent friendly fire incident happened the same day that the u.s. carried out airstrikes against houthi targets in yemen, hitting a command and control facility as well as a missile storage facility. and the u.s. said that they also shot down, shot down one way attack drones and an anti-ship cruise missile. now, those strikes did involve the same type of fighter jet, an f, a 18. but u.s. military officials have told our team that the downed jet that we have been speaking about was not involved. and jessica, in a statement earlier today, yemen's houthi rebels claimed

that they shot down the f a 18 aircraft over the red sea. the group has repeatedly made false claims of striking u.s. warships in the area, and again, u.s. officials have been calling this an apparent friendly fire incident. >> all right. julia benbrook at the white house, thank you so much for that. let's bring in retired air force colonel and cnn military analyst cedric leighton to talk about this. let's just start first with what julia was just running down, colonel. how does this happen? this friendly fire incident? thankfully, these two pilots are okay. but how did this happen yeah. >> jessica, this is one of those moments when you don't want to be on the gettysburg. and in this particular case, what happened apparently was a misidentification of the aircraft. this can could be a very busy area from a military aircraft. and flight picture standpoint. so there is a possibility that the iff or identification friend or foe

system on board the f a 18 was not functioning properly. that is one possibility that would then potentially lead to a misidentification on board the gettysburg. if that happened. then there are other ways to ascertain whether or not an aircraft is friendly or an adversarial aircraft. but that could have potentially caused an issue for those who are trying to identify and protect the gettysburg, as well as the truman carrier strike group. >> is this something i hear what you're saying about this particular area? does this happen often? >> not as much as it used to in the old days. you know, if you go back to world war two, it happened all the time. and as our technology got better and better. and if systems were developed so that you could actually identify based on a transponder, which aircraft were flying where and which ones were yours. so that really helped a lot. plus, there are other sources of information that the navy and the air force

use to determine whether or not an aircraft is a friendly or an adversarial aircraft. and so this type of incident is much less common than it used to be. but sometimes these incidents can be a real disaster, such as in the 1980s when we shot down an iranian civilian airliner over the persian gulf. again, similar region, you know, basically on the other side of the arabian peninsula, that was an absolute disaster and should never have happened. and this could have been a much greater disaster than it than it is. >> yeah. i also want to talk to you about iran and what national security advisor jake sullivan has is saying about that. he spoke with cnn's fareed zakaria earlier, talking about what a weakened iran could mean, and if it could potentially go back to trying to get nuclear weapons. let's listen to this one of those things is if you're iran right now and you're looking around at the fact that your conventional capability has been reduced, your proxies have been reduced, your main client

state has been eliminated. >> assad has fallen. it's no wonder there are voices saying, hey, maybe we need to go for a nuclear weapon right now. that is a real risk. it's a risk we are trying to be vigilant about now. it's a risk that i'm personally briefing the incoming team on. i was just in israel consulting with the israelis on this risk. and it's something that is the consequence not of iranian strength, but of iranian weakness. and that's the kind of thing that in a dynamic and challenging middle east american statecraft is going to have to account for what do you think about that yeah. >> jessica, i think jake sullivan is spot on. basically what he's saying is that if the iranians are backed into a corner, they may very well resort to the development of a nuclear weapon to protect themselves and to protect, as they would see it, their state from from being eliminated. so that's a very dangerous course

of events, but it kind of goes to the we'll call it the libyan lesson, where libya gave up its nascent nuclear capabilities. and what happened to moammar gadhafi was, of course, he got he was toppled. and libya has basically become a completely failed state now. so iran is trying to avoid a similar fate. and it's, you know, kind of what you see in north korea, where they've developed nuclear weapons on their own, much further along than the iranians are, as far as we know. and they are basically doing this in order to keep their state alive. so the iranians might have a similar philosophy. the key will be to make sure that the iranians don't feel that they're backed into a corner, and that requires a very deft diplomatic hand at this point. mhm. >> and then there's also the russia piece of this, because moscow has been weakened by the collapse of the assad regime in syria as well. how has that impacted putin's position with the war in ukraine. and then you factor in to the change

coming at the white house yeah, those are big changes all around. >> and as far as you know, putin losing access to bases in syria or at least potentially losing that. what you see is the russians are moving potentially some assets into libya. so that makes for, you know, potentially interesting dynamic in the mediterranean where they could still pose a danger to u.s. and nato forces, but from a different vantage point, a more southern vantage point in this case. so that's one possibility. but another thing that they're dealing with, of course, is the fact that they were not able to rescue assad. so that paints the russians in a very weak light. and that means that a lot of the foreign countries from africa all the way to ukraine, that were either relying on or fighting the russians are looking at things very differently. and so when it comes to the ukrainians, they are trying to exploit some degree of weakness that the russians are showing, and it's going to be, i think, a race of

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>> the suspected killer of united health care ceo is due in court to face his arraignment on several charges from new york state prosecutors. the state case includes charges of murder and terrorism. luigi mangione is facing a separate federal prosecution as well, including one count of murder. that count is eligible for the death penalty. we'll bring in defense attorney misty marris. misty, thanks so much for being here with us. take us to tomorrow and what we can expect. >> so tomorrow is the new york state case, and this is where luigi mangione has been indicted, meaning that a grand jury convened and determined that there was probable cause, that a crime was committed, and that he's the one that committed the crime. >> so he will go into court tomorrow. >> he will presumably plead not guilty. >> there could be a discussion of bail which his attorneys may make an argument, although it is very unlikely, if not impossible, for him to actually receive bail. but that's how the proceeding is going to play

out. we're likely to get that not guilty plea on the record, and then the next step will be a potential preliminary hearing off to the races towards trial. >> and then there's this question of do you have the state charges that i just talked about? and then you have the federal charges as well. how do those interact with each other, affect each other? >> yes. so this is the state case as we just spoke about. an indictment has already been done in the federal case. it's at the at the complaint stage. so the next step is for a preliminary hearing to be held that's scheduled for the end of january, or a grand jury could convene and indict in the interim. so the timing and the procedural posture is a little bit different for both. but the facts of the case is overlap tremendously. the legal theories, however, are very different in the federal case. it's about stalking thompson that mangione over interstate lines. he came from atlanta to new york for the purpose of killing thompson with a firearm. so that's the federal case. whereas the state case

relates to this amplifier of in furtherance of terrorism, that that's why the murder was committed. so the legal theories are a bit different. but what we saw, jessica, in that criminal complaint, which related to the federal charges, all of these excerpts from the manifesto, they actually are very relevant to the new york state case, where prosecutors will have to prove motive. they'll have to prove that the motive is more than just a personal vendetta, that there is a broader purpose to impact a policy or to force or coerce a civilian population. so there's a lot of inter overlapping factors that will be at play. although the cases proceed in two different courtrooms. >> i'm also curious what your take is on the potential impact in the courtroom or in this case, for all of the public fascination support for luigi mangione. i mean, even on snl last night when they were making a joke, they just said his name and the audience went crazy. and colin jost kind of

was like, oh, this, you know, okay, it is it is kind of remarkable. but what kind of real world impact could that have? >> the response is shocking, and i watched that snl skit also, and just the audience enthusiasm for just his name being spoken is very shocking. so from a legal perspective, there are considerations that will need to be taken into account when you're selecting a jury. there's a couple of issues the prosecutors will look out for. one is what's called jury nullification. that's when jurors may go against what they believe to be the right outcome, meaning that they think the evidence is there to convict, but actually make a determination based on a public policy perspective or something outside of what happens in the courtroom. that's, of course, going to be an issue in a case like this where we're seeing this type of response to the defendant. there's also something called the stealth juror, and that's a juror who wants to be in that jury pool, wants to be in that courtroom for the purpose of

impacting the income or the outcome of the case, one way or another, have to look out for that. and then from a defense perspective, he's innocent until proven guilty. so you need a fair trial to so voir dire process will be laborious to say the least. >> all right misty marris great to see you. thanks so much for being here thank you. tomorrow the house ethics committee is expected to release its report on former congressman matt gaetz. that's according to two sources familiar with the timing. the multiyear probe investigated several allegations against the florida republican, including whether he engaged in sexual misconduct or if he used illicit drugs. gaetz has denied all allegations. cnn's brian abel has the latest on this. brian, much was made over this report when gaetz was initially going to be the nominee for attorney general, whether it would come out, whether it wouldn't come out now, he's no longer the nominee, and it sounds like it's coming out. >> yes. now it is coming out. what a whirlwind it was. we do know, jessica, that some of the individuals who made the original allegations talk to the ethics committee. so we

should expect to know more about what those people told committee investigators about matt gaetz and his behavior, as well as who else the committee talked to and their conclusions. it was earlier this week when we learned that the house ethics committee had a secret vote to release its report into the conduct of former rep matt gaetz. and now we know when multiple sources telling cnn the report will be released tomorrow. this release is a pretty stark reversal by the committee, which just last month voted to shelve the report after gaetz resigned from congress once he became president elect. donald trump's pick for attorney general. now, gaetz withdrew himself from consideration of that role after trump called him to say gaetz didn't have enough votes in the senate to get confirmed. the report that ethics report, it concludes a years long probe by the ethics committee into numerous allegations against gaetz, including whether he engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, whether he paid for sex, used illicit drugs, shared

inappropriate images or videos on the house floor, and more. now, gaetz has strongly denied all the allegations and has said the committee's investigation is a witch hunt, saying this on x after reports of the committee's decision to release the report, quote, the biden garland doj spent years reviewing allegations that i committed various crimes. i was charged with nothing, fully exonerated. now, the post went on to say it's embarrassing, though not criminal. that i probably partied womanized drank, and smoked more than i should have earlier in life. i live a different life now. we should also note, jessica, that it is rare for an ethics report to be released after a member has left congress, though it has happened on a couple of occasions in the past, and gaetz also spoke today at that turning point conference. >> did he talk about this at all? >> he did not address it directly, though he did allude to it. this is pretty interesting because gaetz has

said he has no plans of returning to the house next year. as a result, house speaker mike johnson, he called that report a moot point and advocated for it to not be released at all. but here's what gaetz said this morning. at that conference and some of you throughout this conference have even given me a few suggestions. >> my fellow floridians have asked me to. >> i, the governor's mansion in tallahassee, maybe special counsel to go after the insider trading for my former colleagues in congress it seems i may not have had enough support in the united states senate. maybe i'll just run for marco rubio's vacant seat in the united states senate and join some of those folks. >> now, we are expecting this report to be released tomorrow. but when? tomorrow? that is still an open question, jessica. >> all right. brian abel, thanks so much for that. winter storms, staffing shortages, just a few of the pitfalls facing holiday travelers this week. how you can plan a detour

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consumers, energy bills, producers, production volumes, they depend much more on the whims of the global marketplace than what any single president can do. >> and the u.s. is already producing more fossil fuel for that market than any nation in history. so drilling on more federal land, experts say, would not affect gas prices. >> private land and shale is really where the action is. federal land. >> you can tinker with things on the margin. >> maybe get a couple additional 100,000 barrels a day. >> you're not going to double u.s. production or increase it by even 25%. >> good afternoon. >> and remember when the pandemic and opec caused oil prices to crash? >> it was good for consumers but horrible for u.s. oil companies. so trump asked russia and saudi arabia to stop drilling so prices would go up, making it so that our industry does well and the oil industry does better than it's doing right now. >> when does an american president call opec to cut

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