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right now, we're seeing some action in the court where as we wait for ceo keller, who is accused luigi mangione to enter a new york courtroom for arraignment, this time on state murder and terrorism charges. >> that is a live look for you there inside the court. plus money for drugs and sex on multiple occasions. cnn has obtained the details of the final draft of the house ethics investigation into matt gaetz while he was a member of congress, and they starred in a movie about domestic violence this year. now, actress blake lively has filed a complaint against her. it ends with us costar justin baldoni accusing him of sexual harassment and a coordinated attempt to trash her reputation. i'm sara sidner with kate baldwin. john berman is off today. this is cnn news central

today, the man accused of killing united health care ceo brian thompson is due back in court. >> we are waiting to learn when that appearance will be. it could be very soon. luigi mangione will this morning be facing arraignment on the 11 state charges he was indicted on, including first degree murder, a rare charge in new york. this is in addition to and separate from the federal charges that he appeared in court to face last week. let's get over to cnn's shimon prokupecz live outside court once again. and, shimon, what's the very latest? what are you seeing there this morning? >> so his attorneys have arrived, so this could be happening any at any moment? kate. there is some activity up on the 13th floor where the arraignment is set to take place. we know that mangione is in the building. he was taken this morning from the federal inmate facility in brooklyn and

brought here to the manhattan criminal court, where he's going to be arraigned on those 11 counts. as you said, the murder in the first degree charges and the murder in the second degree charges with special enhancement because of the additional allegations of terrorism. of course, this is also was supposed to happen on friday. we were here on friday expecting him to appear in court here on friday, when suddenly the fbi and federal officials came swooping in and took him over to the federal courthouse, where he was arraigned. and so now he is now looking at the state charges, as you said, those 11 counts. we saw his attorneys walking in. we'll get a chance to hear from them again today in court. they didn't say much on friday, perhaps given the weekend and some more time. and now that this is an actual arraignment, we could hear more from his attorney. karen

friedman agnifilo. we expect that mangione would enter a plea of not guilty once he's arraigned on those charges. also significant here is that it starts the clock. it starts the movement here by his attorneys mangione his attorneys, and decisions need to be made here soon. on whether or not they're going to offer an insanity defense. remember his attorney, karen agnifilo, when she was on as a legal analyst two weeks ago, talked about that possibility. now she's actually his attorney, and perhaps we will start to see maybe even today, some signs of that. if she in fact, in fact, intend to do so. but of course, that's all up in the air. a lot more investigative tools that the police are going to want to do here. like his dna. we could start seeing search warrants to obtain his dna. remember, there's dna that was found on some evidence that police recovered at the scene. they still need to do the dna

analysis on that. so a lot could be happening here this morning. and hopefully we'll hear more from his attorney once she comes out of court. >> absolutely. keeping an eye right here on live picture inside the inside the court. well, it's in the hallway in the hallway outside the courtroom. we're going to keep a close eye on this. we'll we'll see what we can see. shimon, standing by with us to track it all. thank you so much, shimon. sara. >> all right. joining us now is retired fbi special agent daniel brunner. and defense and trial attorney misty marris. thank you both for being here on this holiday week. we're looking at these pictures from inside of the court. live pictures there as we await this arraignment to go on. very different from what you're going to see in federal court. right. because there are no cameras allowed in the court. he's going to be arraigned on state murder charges, among other counts. how will this go down today? just describe what we expect to see in this arraignment. >> so today, mangione will appear with his lawyers before

the judge. the judge will ask if he understands the charges that have been brought against him. will say that there's been a grand jury indictment on those 11 charges. at that point, he'll be asked to enter a plea. i would presume, sara, at this point, the plea is going to be not guilty. there could be a discussion of definitely scheduling, but there could be raising issues regarding evidentiary issues. if the defense does. so that could be something that will give us some insight as to how that defense may play out down the road. this is going to be a largely procedural appearance. however, there's the added complication that we know we have. the parallel federal court case. so there's certainly going to be some discussion about how that logistically is going to move forward in state court, but certainly keep an ear out, because we may hear some information that will give us some insight as to how the defense may formulate and shape. >> yeah, and those parallel cases he has, his attorneys

would have to do both. whereas a state and federal courts have two different prosecutors. so there has to be some coordination there. daniel, when he was brought to court, you know, we saw these extraordinary scenes when he was brought from pennsylvania to new york. we saw the nypd, the fbi, the mayor, the police commissioner all surrounding them. can we assume that this is going to look nothing like that as he as that transfer from philadelphia or from pennsylvania? >> no, i think that the the transfer from pennsylvania has gotten enough backlash as to the overage and way over the top, you know, perp walk. as it said, in in conducting that operation, i understand what nypd presence was in the new york city administration that they want to show that they're but in with an attack like this, he's this was this was behind a rhetoric. he was, in my opinion, a domestic terrorist. this is exactly what he wants. he wants the attention. so i think the focus

is going to shift now to let's keep it, you know, in the courts, let's keep it under wraps. we're not going to do the perp walk. we're not going to be walking him and showing them in federal. it's very, you know, it's very covered. so everything transferred is typically done in sally ports. so, you know it's not available to the public eye to media to press to cameras. so it's going to be conducted very much in coverage because he's in federal custody now, even though he'll be arraigned for the today. but he's going to go back to federal holding at the conclusion of this, back to mdc brooklyn, where he will be held. and it will be like i said, it will be much tighter, much controlled, less fanfare, because what he wants is the fanfare. he wants the attention. so i believe i agree that i don't know if the insanity defense is really going to come up because he controls it, and i think that he wants his day in court. he wants to argue about this. he wants everyone to talk about this. so doing it in court, i think is going to be ultimately what he's going to do. >> daniel, just seizing upon that quickly, you talked about

this sort of this attention, and it is enormous. he has enormous attention and support online. do you it sounds like you think that perhaps what law enforcement did, including having the mayor show up for this, this, as you call it, a perp walk, lionized him. do you think that that actually was a negative? >> no, i think it was. it played to his favor as a domestic terrorist. you think about ted kaczynski and and timothy mcveigh. all of them want attention. they want attention to what they believe is their cause. they want they believe that they are the person. they are the flag bearer. they are the person who's going to move forward, the cause, what they are fighting for. he clearly was fighting for a cause which he believed in, and he's going to show. listen, we saw that, you know, that that small walk from the car to the pennsylvania courthouse where he had to burst out, and i'm sure his lawyers told him, stop that. so now this right here, what you're showing these types of

photos, this where he's showing. i mean, this isn't even safe for cartel members. top ten most wanted get very, very little fanfare like this. so they get him. this type of attention is exactly what he wants and exactly what his you know, what the people that are following him, the people that are adoring him, this is what they want. put him on t-shirts to have attention brought to his cause. so i think it it did not play into the, you know, law enforcement's favor. i think that it definitely was in his favor on that walk. so i think everything is going to be calmed down now after this. >> all right. misty, i do want to ask you about mangione. you know, you touched on this a little bit that he is also, of course, facing federal charges, and he was arraigned on those on friday. how is it decided? which case goes first? >> so there could be a little push pull behind the scenes. sara, where the feds and the state level prosecutors may have arguments about whose case is going to take priority and what case is going to go first.

now, because the new york state charges have been filed, they were the first to be filed. it's likely. and it looks like the state case will likely be proceeding before the federal case. the federal case procedurally, is a step or two behind. that being said, there's a major change coming our way as far as who's in charge of the department of justice and the attorney general. come january 20th. so could that shift could there be a push for the federal charges to go first? absolutely. but as of now, there's it's likely the state court case is going first. and look, there's a lot of coordination behind the scenes, especially with respect to a joint investigation and what materials will ultimately be disclosed to the defense team from those prosecutors. so having those two parallel prosecutions on the state and federal level opens up a whole other host of discovery obligations for what needs to be turned over to the defense side. so there's a level of coordination. but to your point, sara, they do proceed

individually. so the two different prosecutors, two different courtrooms, two different evidentiary decisions that will be made. sometimes having that state case from a prosecutor's perspective, where that case goes forward on the state level, but the federal charges are looming. that's a huge leverage point. >> misty marris daniel brenner, thank you both so much. and again, we're just watching live pictures there from inside court as we wait for luigi mangione to go to his first court appearance in state court for his arraignment. we will bring you the details as soon as we get them. kate also breaking news we're following this morning. >> the house ethics committee has said that it has found evidence that former florida congressman matt gaetz took part in illegal behavior. cnn has obtained the final draft of the house ethics report on matt gaetz and, in part, the committee concludes this. they found substantial evidence that representative gaetz violated

house rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of congress. cnn's katelyn polantz has more details for us. we're bringing it in, gathering it all right now. and, caitlin, this is a pretty review of him and what he's done. >> it is. and the committee outlines not just what their findings were, but also the extent they went to try and get information both out of matt gaetz and out of witnesses or even some of the victims here. >> the most searing part of this is the discussion of gaetz having sex with a woman who was a minor at the time, who was 17 at the time in high school. this is the finding here that they write the committee received testimony that victim a, that would be the underage girl and representative gaetz had sex twice during a party. this is in july of 2017, including at least once in the presence of other party

attendees. victim a recalled receiving $400 in cash from representative gaetz that evening, which she understood to be payment for sex at the time she had just completed her junior year of high school. one of the things also in the report is that the 17 year old did not tell gaetz she was a minor at the time. he was not asking her age, but she did speak to the committee. she did testify about this. the committee says that they weren't able to speak with every woman that was may have been victimized by gaetz, or may have received payment from gaetz. he was paying tens of thousands of dollars for sex and drugs on at least 20 occasions. that's what the report that was obtained by cnn has found. but many of the women did tell the committee that they believed that the payments were for a general expectation to have sex with matt gaetz, and that sometimes in text messages, the committee was able to see that he was asking women to bring drugs to the meetups. so all of this is

being put together at the same time. matt gaetz is denying this. he is saying a few days ago on x, he wrote, in my single days, i often sent funds to women i dated, even some i never dated, but who asked? i dated several of these women for years. i never had sexual contact with someone under 18. any claim that i have would be destroyed in court, which is why no such claim was ever made in court. the justice department did look at this. they chose not to charge him. that is why the house ethics committee was then able to pick up this investigation. matt gaetz has already gone to court on his own this morning. kate. he has sued the committee to try to stop the public release of this report that has been obtained by cnn, and he's claiming defamation and an invasion of privacy there. he's also putting in that lawsuit that his attorneys had sent the committee, or he had sent the committee denials of these things, that they found the whole laundry list prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible

gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of congress. kate. >> wow. there's a lot there and a lot that people are going to be working through. you know, cnn has obtained it. we know other news outlets have obtained it as well. and regardless of whether it technically is released to the public or not from the committee, it is now out there. and a reminder, this is, well, this is these allegations are during a period of time when matt gaetz was a sitting member of congress, just to put a fine point on that, this was not this was nothing. none of these allegations were before his time in congress. caitlin, thank you so much. also, overnight, president biden commuting the sentences of more than three dozen people on federal death row. why? he says he is showing mercy to convicted murderers. and director and actor justin baldoni, now dropped from his talent agency just after blake lively accuses him of sexual harassment. honda and nissan are shaking up the auto industry, or at least trying to. officially beginning talks

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guests look back. >> all the best. all the worst. 2024. thursday at 11 on cnn the breaking news this morning, cnn obtained the final draft of the house ethics committee's report on matt gaetz. >> part of the committee's conclusion after this long investigation is that it found evidence that matt gaetz violated several state laws. the scathing report found evidence gaetz paid numerous women, including a 17 year old girl, for sex. investigators also writing in this final draft that they found that he bought and used illegal drugs, including from his capitol hill office. the draft concludes, saying this, the committee determined there is substantial evidence that representative gaetz violated house rules and other standards of of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of congress. now, matt gaetz has denied all of these claims, and he has now sued the committee. we've learned this morning to try to stop the public release of this report that has been

obtained by cnn. he is claiming defamation and an invasion of privacy there. joining us right now to talk more about this and much more is democratic congressman from illinois, mike quigley. congressman, thank you so much for jumping on this. closes a long drawn out chapter for the now former congressman and for the house. what's the end result here? >> you know, it. it's pretty obviously allegations of statutory rape and having sex with women who may have been impaired by drugs, but i think what's also very telling is that president trump elect appointed him to the highest law enforcement office in the world. despite these allegations. makes you wonder if he even asked for the report. and i think the second point is the republican controlled ethics committee had refused to release this report while mr. gaetz was still under consideration for that

position. would they ever have released it if he had not resigned? and if he was no longer under consideration? that's very disturbing. >> yeah. and what happens now with matt gaetz and his future tbd? we don't need to read the tea leaves on that one. congressman, i do want to ask you about the other breaking news that we saw happening this morning coming from president biden commuting the sentences of all but three people on federal death row, a move that was meant to stop the president elect from restarting stalled executions. he suggests that and points to it in his statement, saying, in good conscience, i cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that i halted. are you okay with that? are you okay with that? >> you know, i have real concerns overall with the death penalty, but i also have concerns with the executive branch overturning cases that have been decided by courts across the country. we have to have some autonomy there. so,

and i understand the concerns and threats of the trump administration going forward on these, but i think the baseline is i think you commute sentences or pardon people when you think justice was not done in those cases. it sets a precedent here that goes well beyond his pardoning his own son, which which again, i think was a mistake because no one is above the law because it does. >> what i think you're getting at is an interesting point, which is almost like using commutations as a point of policy in order to stop the administration coming in next, putting in place policy that they believe, which does seem to be different from what you're looking at with hunter biden. >> you know. absolutely. but it's concerned with how presidents handle pardons and how they handle commutations for their own reasons, their own personal reasons. you know, back to the pardoning of his own son. i heard people say, well, it's the love of a father. i get that, but there's a lot of parents out

there whose children are in harm's way in the justice system, and they don't have the ability to do what president biden did. >> um, one thing that happened. you were the co-chair of the ukraine caucus, and donald trump just he was speaking yesterday at a conference in phoenix, arizona. and in talking and speaking from the podium, he was talking about his first moves that he wants to make as president. like he called it, kind of a preview of his second term agenda. and part of that, he talked about his first moves he wants to make to end the war in ukraine. let me play this for you. >> these crazy wars that we're in, one of the things i want to do and quickly. and president putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible. so we have to wait for this, but we have to end that war he says he wants putin, wants to meet with him as soon as possible. >> there's a lot. i was just talking to jim sciutto congressman about what are the

options of what people really do believe that donald trump will do in terms of the u.s. approach to ukraine. when you hear that, what do you really think is going to happen? >> well, i think he will try to end the war as quickly as possible, and that's a concern. the final analysis we got engaged with this war with our allies from nato for the same reasons we fought the second congressman. >> stick with me for just one second because we're showing live pictures right now from inside new york, new york courthouse. and you see luigi mangione being walked to the courtroom. let's let's just pause and listen and watch. he's right behind that first man right there. let's watch this. jane akre. can you turn your microphone down for just. >> a.

who is your light is on bashar al-assad has u.s. saxony-anhalt erin michelle west camera. >> i shimon prokupecz he's been tracking all of this and watching from outside the courthouse. >> and shimon no longer in that orange jumpsuit that we saw from last week no. >> well, that that orange jumpsuit. let me just do something here to my phone for a second. is is long gone. that was the property of the pennsylvania state prison there. so he'll now every time we see him, if we see him

again, he will be in street clothes for his court appearances. we saw him in street clothes at his last court appearance. and now today again, he's walking. that is that hallway that what happens is after the nypd takes someone into custody, they process the individual and mangione needed to be processed. he was never officially booked by the nypd. so those are the detectives. the detectives that you're seeing around him. those are the detectives that worked on this case. that is the detective who will have the arrest. those are all those detectives, and it's essentially what we saw happen when he first came here from pennsylvania, when the nypd flew him in on their plane and then choppered him over from long island to the south street seaport area. and essentially, now we're getting a second walk of him through that hallway. and many. famous celebrity type people who have

been arrested. harvey weinstein comes to mind who have walked through that hallway after they have been arrested by either the manhattan da's office or the nypd. and that is what we're seeing play out here. he's walking through that hallway for the cameras to see him, for the world, to see him yet again. you see him there shackled. his hands are in front of him, and now he's going to be entering the courtroom on the 13th floor where he is going to see the judge. judge carroll will be doing the arraignment. he will be arraigned on the indictment. the 11 count indictment that the grand jury voted on last week. of course, the murder one charge with the terrorism enhancement being the most serious, where he would face life in prison if convicted. that separate, of course, from the federal charges that we know about. so this is all procedural. it will get underway. we will hopefully hear from his attorney some

more, perhaps now that we've had several days to get some inkling, perhaps, of where this case is going to go, i suspect there will be a lot of legal motions in the future here in the weeks and months ahead. but the other key thing here is, and i brought this up earlier, is the whether or not i think most of us are going to be looking for is whether or not karen agnifilo, his attorney, is going to put up a insanity defense here. she will have only a limited time to do that under state law. i believe it's about 30 days from the day he's arraigned. so we should start getting some indication if that's going to happen. but a significant day here. certainly we'll have this arraignment. we will likely hear a plea of not guilty from mangione, and then the process will get underway. >> absolutely. thank you so much for walking us through it. always. we're going to keep an eye on this and we'll bring you updates all throughout the morning as this as this

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government efficiency, or doge, are expected to target spending on diversity initiatives in their mission to slash government waste. sources say elon musk and vivek ramaswamy could eliminate entire divisions involving dei, but the reality of removing those programs could be harder to pull off than they might think. joining us now is liz king, the senior director of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. can you give me a sense of what this means? they are focusing on this one thing right now, which is dei. how would this affect some of these agencies when it comes to day to day operations? >> look, this is nonsense. this is a distraction. >> they're trying to preserve power for their own benefit. >> they you know, what they're talking about is profoundly unpopular. this is who we are as americans. our national motto is e pluribus unum. that's diversity and inclusion. liberty and justice

for all. that's equity. these values are who we are. these values are what it means to be an american. so first of all, they're going to run into a serious problem because their agenda is unpopular second of all, our civil rights laws. mean that no person is denied the opportunity to participate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or disability our laws are unchanged, so they're going to have a huge fight on their hands if they try and come to this, because we know this is what we want, this is who we're going to be. >> who do you think would be affected? because dei is a you know, people have their idea of what that means. but women have been huge beneficiaries of diversity, equity and inclusion in a different name. it wasn't called dei back then all of us, all of us would be harmed by this agenda.

>> not only are these quotas and delicious, diverse teams make better decisions, we would have fewer inventions. we are going to have more traffic and more global warming. it's going to take longer to cure cancer if we undermine these initiatives to create diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. this is a terrible idea. it's going to set us all backwards. we would all be harmed if this were to go forward. >> i do want to ask you, though, you know, a lot of people look at the federal government and feel like it is bloated. everyday americans feel like there may be way too much misspending there. and this number came out, for example, hhs requesting 113 million in its budget for 2024 for training for diversity in the health workforce. $113 billion is no small amount of money. what do you make of the idea that sometimes americans look at these numbers and say, we got to we got other problems we need to deal with.

>> look, for a long time we didn't know what heart attack looked like in women because the studies they had done about what heart attack looked like didn't include women. we, when we maintain our ignorance by shutting people out, by excluding people from the conversation, it hurts all of us. so yeah, let's talk about where we're wasting money. but ensuring access to healthy lives for every person benefits all of us. we want our neighbors to be healthy. we want our doctors to have all the information they can have to make informed decisions. we want our researchers to come from talented people from all backgrounds, so that we all benefit from the discoveries that they make. this is about all of us. this isn't about any individual group. this is about all of us. and they know that they want to preserve the status quo. they want to preserve power for the wealthy elite. your intro said it all. this is two billionaires coming together to figure out how can they take away from the rest of us.

>> i want to talk to you about some of the other things that could possibly be on the agenda, or maybe should be on the agenda. the according to the government accountability office, both medicare and medicaid are susceptible to payment errors totaling $100 billion. that was in 2023 alone. so just in one year. so we're talking about potential medicare and medicaid fraud. those are really huge numbers. should that be made a priority? something like that, as opposed to going after some of these die programs look, our goal needs to be that everyone can see a doctor when they need to see a doctor, that when people go to the hospital to have a baby, they can have a baby in safe conditions that ensure their health and the health of their baby. >> absolutely. let's make sure that funds are being well spent and that they are actually serving people and providing for their care. let's do that. but let's not call it fraud when we're talking about everyone gets a chance to be

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murdering the united health care ceo brian thompson, in court to face arraignment on the 11 state charges that he faces. this is him being walked out of court. he is leaving, still obviously in custody and surrounded by, as we're told by shimon prokupecz. the detectives that took that investigated and took him into custody. he pleaded not guilty in the courtroom. that was expected not guilty to the charges. that terror and murder charges that he faces. but this now kicks off a clock and a long road ahead on the cases, state and federal, that he is facing. we'll continue to follow this for you. we also have some other headlines coming in this hour. the fda has now approved the weight loss drug zepbound to treat sleep apnea. it's the first prescription medication to be approved for patients with moderate to severe forms of this sleep condition. sleep apnea is common, of course, in serious sleep is a serious sleep related breathing disorder that is also closely associated with obesity, and

studies have shown that zepbound can improve the condition by reducing body weight. according to the fda. consumer financial protection bureau has filed a complaint against zelle for allowing the, quote, fraud to fester within its service. the complaint says hundreds of thousands of customers of jpmorgan chase, bank of america, wells fargo all lost more than $870 million since zelle launched seven years ago. now, zelle disputes that estimate and calls the cfpb complaint meritless. sarah. >> all right. thank you kate. in hollywood this morning, actress blake lively is accusing her former costar and director of waging an online war to destroy her reputation with an online campaign against her after she accused him of sexual harassment. lively has filed a civil rights complaint against justin baldoni producer jamie heath and several others. the actress says baldoni not only engaged in inappropriate conduct, she says he also tried to cover it up by ruining her

public image. baldoni has vehemently denied the accusations. cnn's elizabeth wagmeister is joining us right now. give us some sense of the serious accusations that blake lively is making here. well, everyone remembers what was happening around the launch of the movie, where there was a lot of infighting there. and that is all part of this, right absolutely, sarah. >> and as you said, this really became a pop culture sensation just by the whole press tour that was surrounding this film. fans of the film noticed that many of the cast members, including blake lively, had unfollowed justin baldoni, who was not just her costar but also the director of the film. they didn't even pose for any photos together on the red carpet or do any interviews. and now we are learning that this wasn't just an on set feud, that these were actually very serious allegations, at least according to blake lively. so this saturday.

sarah, this lawsuit hits. i can't even tell you how rare it is for a star of this stature to escalate allegations like this when it comes from a so-called on set feud. but blake lively alleges that she was sexually harassed and that she was subjected to an unsafe work environment. some of her allegations are that there were gratuitous sex scenes that would have been added, that she was not happy with that. some of the kisses from the movie, because remember, they played a couple and this film surrounds the subject matter of domestic violence. she alleged that some of the kisses during this film were prolonged, which she did not agree to. now, as you said justin baldoni, he is fiercely denying this. i want to read you part of a statement from his attorney that i obtained. sarah, his attorney, says, quote, it is shameful that miss lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations as yet another desperate attempt to fix her negative reputation. now, a statement

from blake lively. she is saying, quote, i hope that my legal action helps pull back the curtain on the sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and helps protect others who may be targeted. now the fallout sarah has been swift. i heard from a source over the weekend that justin baldoni agency, wme, one of the biggest agencies in hollywood, has dropped him in the wake of lively's allegations. >> elizabeth wagmeister. we will see this play out likely in court. thank you so much. i appreciate it there's a lot going on with that. >> there's a lot going on today. there's a lot of live. live breaking news happening. we're just tracking luigi mangione in court and out pleading not guilty. that's just some of it. much more to come. this is cnn news central. cnn newsroom up next. >> i want to be the greatest player that i could possibly become

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