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>> the man accused of killing unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson back in court to enter a plea of not guilty to state murder and terror charges. >> what comes next in this case? >> plus, the final draft of the long awaited house ethics report on matt gaetz. >> finally seeing the light of day among the most salacious accusations that gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex and drugs. ahead, how the former congressman is now responding. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central and thanks for joining us on this monday. >> i'm erica hill, along with danny freeman in new york, brianna and boris are off this week. we begin with luigi mangione back in court. maintaining his innocence

today, the man who stands accused of killing united health care ceo brian thompson in a new york courtroom during that arraignment. he pleaded not guilty to 11 state charges, including first degree murder and terrorism related charges. now, if convicted on that top charge, the 26 year old could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. he is, of course, also facing charges in pennsylvania and at the federal level. mangione attorney today arguing in court officials are using her client as, quote, political fodder he's being prejudiced by some statements that are being made by government officials. >> like every other defendant, he is entitled to a presumption of innocence. but unfortunately, the way this has been handled so far, his rights are being violated. and as you know, your honor, there's a wealth of case law guaranteeing his right to a fair trial. but none of the safeguards have been put in place yet here. in fact, it's just the opposite of what's been happening. he's a young man and he is

being treated like a human ping pong ball between two warring jurisdictions attorney karen friedman agnifilo specifically calling out officials for that huge show of force last week when he was extradited from pennsylvania. >> upon his arrival in new york, calling it, quote, the biggest staged perp walk she has ever seen. cnn's kara scannell joining me now with more. so, kara, what more did we learn? what did we hear at this arraignment earlier today? >> so the arraignment itself was only about 20 minutes. and as you saw, luigi mangione was escorted into the courthouse with plainclothes officers on both sides of him, their arms interlocked with him as he was shackled at his wrists and at his ankles. now, inside the courtroom, there were four rows that were filled for the public. about roughly 30 members of the public, all relatively young, and the majority of them women, which is just interesting. no one said anything, of course, because the court officers keep a pretty strong hold on the decorum in the courtroom, especially in such a serious charge case. outside the

courtroom, there were also some protesters with free luigi signs, which is a little unusual. outside of new york. you don't often see that sort of people showing up outside of a courthouse. but, you know, inside, his lawyers are making the point that she was concerned that he would not get a fair trial because of that very public perp walk where mangione arrived in new york by helicopter and was walked down that pier where he was then taken into federal custody to face the federal charges that were announced on thursday. he, of course, today in court arraigned pleading not guilty to those state charges. you know, the prosecutor said that the volume in this case is voluminous. he said that they have thousands of hours of video tracking mangione movements, that they will be in the process of turning over to him. mangione lawyers making an issue of some of the statements the public officials have made, including new york city mayor eric adams, highlighting that and noting that adams himself is facing federal charges of alleged bribery. so saying that he should know something about the presumption of innocence.

now, as leaving court, it was really unclear where mangione was going next because the prosecutors said that they believe they have primary jurisdiction over him because federal prosecutors said the state case could go first. the judge saying, well, you need to work that out with the federal government because he's currently in federal custody at the metropolitan detention center in brooklyn, new york. so the question is, does he get transferred to the city to face the state charges? that would mean he would get transferred to the jail at rikers island, another location that is also known for its notoriously bad setup? erica. >> yeah, absolutely. kara, i appreciate it. thank you. also with us this hour, misty marris is a trial and defense attorney. misty. good to have you here. i want to pick up where kara just left off. so this question of jurisdiction, the judge saying, hey, you need to figure this out. how quickly do you think we could have an answer? there? >> i think we could really see a push pull, erica, because it doesn't seem like the type of case that the local prosecutors in manhattan are going to want to give up on. >> if the federal government

behind the scenes says, we want our case to have priority. so oftentimes it would be an agreement between the two offices. now, new york would have the argument that their charges were actually filed first, and therefore this case is already off to the races. a federal grant or excuse me, a state grand jury has indicted them, whereas the federal case began by federal complaint. so there had yet to be a formal indictment. but that's something to be worked out. and we can't ignore the elephant in the room that the department of justice is about to have a dramatic change come january. so how, you know, collegial those conversations are about which jurisdiction will actually proceed first could largely depend on who's at the helm and the attorney general position and the position of the department of justice. >> so to that point, then, is this something that you don't think will be resolved in the next in the coming days, even weeks? >> well, it's funny enough, because this case, we've heard so much about it and we talk about it every day, and there's a lot re in the

very, very beginning of any criminal cas where the decision is not made for for a couple of weeks, as these cases begin to play out. that being said, i think you're going to see a strong push from alvin bragg, especially given what we saw, the entourage, the escort of luigi mangione to the courthouse with new york city police department and the mayor there, it's likely they're going to want to hang on to it, and they'll be advocating for that behind the scenes. >> well, to that point that, you know, as kara mentioned, did come up today in court, karen friedman agnifilo bringing it up specifically. and she said, and i'm quoting her here, the staged perp walks to the media were unrelated. she talked about how this how this was utterly political and then went on to, to, to quote, why this was unconstitutional, saying because it was a staged perp walk to the media that was unrelated to a legitimate law enforcement objective. she finds that that was unconstitutional. what do you think she is laying the groundwork for there? if

anything? >> yeah, absolutely. and by the way, it was very, very unusual, especially when he's being escorted to a federal courthouse. usually we see black cars unmarked, driving down the fdr, kind of flying under the radar in order to make that type of transfer. but, erica, you raise an excellent point. she's laying the groundwork for various due process challenges. remember, everything that happens in the course of this case could result in an appellate issue. so could it potentially be a change of venue request that she's saying the mayor himself is standing in this entourage, front and center, making statements which would tend to undercut a defendant's constitutional right to be innocent before until proven guilty. so all of that is going to be the basis for potential challenges, whether it be to evidence, whether it be to venue or whether it be appellate issues that could occur down the road. it's all in preservation of the record moving forward. >> all right, misty, really appreciate it, as always, and stay with us. i know you're going to be back for a little bit more. danny erica.

>> thank you. we're following breaking news out of d.c. the house ethics committee releasing its scathing report on former congressman matt gaetz. it says that it found evidence that gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying a 17 year old girl for sex in 2017. now, gaetz abruptly resigned from congress last month after president elect trump picked him for attorney general. but then gaetz withdrew from consideration a week later after it became clear he would not have the votes to be confirmed. gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, though cnn crime and justice correspondent katelyn polantz has been following this all day. caitlin, what more do we know about the ethics committee's findings? >> well, danny, the big picture here is that the ethics committee, through interviewing witnesses, testimony as well as evidence, have found that matt gaetz was providing money to women in exchange for sex and or drugs. many, many times. and then specifically on top of

that, one of those women was at the time, a 17 year old girl headed into her senior year of high school. this is the big picture of the committee's findings. here's what they wrote. many of the women interviewed by the committee were clear that there was a general expectation of sex. one woman, who was paid more than $5,000 from representative gaetz between 2018 and 2019, told the committee that, quote, 99% of the time that they were hanging out, there was sex involved. so that's a big takeaway here. and then the committee digs in further to look at this moment. in july of 2017, a party where matt gaetz had sex with a girl who was 17. twice, they wrote in their report on that finding, the committee received testimony that victim, a and representative gaetz, had sex twice during the party, 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. now, all of this is findings that the house ethics committee says were in violation of what their ethics are in the house. gaetz is no longer a member of congress, but the house ethics committee chose to make this report public this morning. i should note, though, gaetz was investigated for the possible violation of federal laws, including federal sex trafficking, and was not charged with any crimes there. the house says that they believe there is a possibility he violated florida law in having sex with that minor girl at the time, but he has not been charged with any crime, and he has said multiple times to the committee and also publicly on social media, that the allegations against him are false. danny. >> all right. katelyn polantz, thank you very much. misty marris is back with us, along with former fbi deputy director

andrew mccabe. thank you both for breaking this all down for us. andrew, let's start with you. just. can i get your top line reaction to the contents of this pretty intense report? >> yeah, danny, it's incredibly the report is graphic and really holds nothing back in its recitation of the many ways in which they believe the former congressman violated the standards of the house ethics committee and potentially violated federal and state law. >> it's also clear to me that there there is a there is kind of a note of, um, of of bitterness here on the part of the committee because they clearly feel like they were not, uh, treated appropriately by mr. gaetz or by the department of justice. for that matter, they spent some time in the introduction of the report relating how matt gaetz essentially refused to cooperate with any aspect of the investigation. he refused to be interviewed. they served a subpoena on him. he didn't

respond to the subpoena. they gave him some questions, and he simply gave some very simple answers publicly. rather than treating this thing with the seriousness with which the committee clearly gave it. they also had some trouble getting any sort of substantive responses from the department of justice about their investigation of the former congressman. so releasing the report, it seems to me, was based partially on wanting to set the record straight with the work that they had done, despite some significant investigative hurdles. well, it's interesting because in contrast to perhaps the committee's difficulty in terms of getting responses or answers from mr. gaetz himself. misty, we're now hearing a lot from gaetz, who really has been going on a bit of a tweet storm this morning since that report was released. i think we have at least one of the tweets we can pull up, in part, where mr. gaetz said giving funds to someone you are dating that they didn't ask for and that isn't charged for sex, is now prostitution. there's a reason they did this to me in a christmas eve eve report, and not in a courtroom of any kind

where i could present evidence and challenge witnesses. misty is this is this argument going to work here in your head? >> oh, believe me, if i were his lawyer, i'd be saying, get off the computer, shut it, save it. because a lot of what we see in this report has the potential to be referred, whether it be state level prosecutors in florida remember this individual was allegedly a minor who is in the bahamas. and there's the possibility for statutory rape or soliciting prostitution. those statute of limitations would have told. however, it can be extended when you're talking about a minor. so there's a lot of legal minefields here that he's stepping in. and by putting his position out in this way by saying, now buying a gift for somebody that you're dating is prostitution, you're basically putting something out there that can never be retracted and could ultimately come back at you in the courtroom and speak to some of the elements of those potential prosecutions or civil actions, whatever it might be. but

certainly putting this position out there, to the extent it gets into the court of law, there's an opportunity to do it. but providing these types of factual statements that would ultimately make it into court from his perspective, not a great idea at this juncture, especially given the results of this report. >> i just want to read a little bit more from the report. just because, listen, we've known a lot of this. a lot of this has been reported out before. we've heard this, i should rather say. but the language in the report here seems striking. the report says that based on the above, the committee concluded that there was substantial evidence that representative gaetz violated house rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the provision of special favors and privileges, and obstruction of congress. and yet, as caitlin noted, the doj ultimately did not decide to bring a case against gaetz gaetz back a few years ago, which he has trumpeted over and over again.

andy, to misty's point. do you see any way that prosecutors, whether federal or state, bring this up again? >> i don't think there's any room for federal prosecutors to bring it back again. >> having already issued essentially a declination after a, what, two year investigation? there's great questions to be asked of doj, though, in terms of why, what were the circumstances surrounding their decision to walk away from what the committee describes as substantial evidence? they may have had good reasons to assess that a prosecution would not have been successful. um, they, you know, having to deal with witnesses like joel greenberg and others who have really terrible records for credibility, that sort of thing. but nevertheless, they should have to provide, i think some, uh, some, some answers to congressional overseers. as for the state level, there is nothing to prevent state prosecutors from going down this road. now, would they have to eventually deal with the fact that the feds took a look at it and said, no, probably. but nevertheless, i think misty

is absolutely right. like anything that gaetz says publicly about this, that could possibly be cast as an admission is is wildly against his interests and a really bad idea. and i think we'll it's yet to be seen if we're going to hear more from mr. gaetz in the coming hours, if not days. andrew mccabe misty marris. thank you both so much for your analysis. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. still ahead, president elect donald trump gives new insight into his second term agenda while also pushing back against democratic claims that elon musk is actually the one in charge. plus, a major merger, honda and nissan officially begin talks to create one of the world's biggest automakers. what this could mean for you the next time you're looking to buy a car. and they starred in one of the biggest hits of the year. but now actress blake lively has filed a complaint against her it ends with u.s. costar and director justin baldoni. coming up, the accusations that truly are shocking hollywood.

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>> there on a new kick. russia. russia. russia. ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. all the different hoaxes. and the new one is president trump has ceded the presidency to elon musk. no, no, that's not happening. 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. ha ha ha now, one thing trump did not bring up at all at this sunday event was the continuing resolution vote to fund the government, and the fact that he did not get what he wanted in that deal, which was an extension of the debt limit beyond 2025 when he takes office. >> however, many of the people who spoke at this conference, several of them close allies with donald trump, they reiterated his threat that republicans that stand in the way of donald trump and don't

go along with him could face primary challenges in the near future. >> erica steve contorno appreciate it. thank you. danny. >> new today, a huge announcement that could potentially create the world's third largest automaker. honda and nissan formally agreeing to hold talks about merging the two brands with expectations of creating a new mega company in 2026. cnn's vanessa yurkovich is tracking all of this. vanessa, what's driving this potential deal for both companies? >> yeah, well, danny, if you can't beat them, join them. >> so you have these rival automakers, these japanese automakers that are saying they're going to team up and potentially merge to create the third largest automaker in the entire world, only to be bested by toyota and volkswagen. >> but if this deal goes through, the companies will be worth about $50 billion and they'll jump ahead of stellantis and gm in the rankings. now, why this merger? well, the two companies need to

remain competitive, and they believe that by joining forces, they'll be more competitive in the market. also, mitsubishi is an alliance with honda. but it's interesting to note that nissan in the two parties is on shaky financial footing. many experts believe that they could go bankrupt by 2026. so this merger is actually really good for nissan. also, though, danny nissan has a lot more electric vehicle infrastructure, something that honda is very interested in. so the joining of these two companies, if it goes through, will start in 2026. and for the average consumer, listen, there might be more cars on the market to choose from, especially those electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles. danny, which are super popular here in the united states. >> it's a fascinating story, and i'm super curious to see how this develops. vanessa, while i have you, i just want to pick your brain on a separate issue. the national bureau of economic research, they put out a report about inflation, saying it was the

cause, not just the symptom of the u.s. labor market. can you tell us a little bit more about what they found? >> yeah, it's the great reshuffling. initially, when people were looking at what was going on, they thought, wow, a red hot market. higher wages was leading to higher prices, inflation. but this report actually found the opposite, that inflation drove the red hot job market because prices were so high and people were feeling really nervous about it. so they were looking for new jobs or they were renegotiating at their current jobs. and you can see at the end of that line chart right there around 2021, 2022, you just saw inflation skyrocketing at the same time you saw so many jobs that were available, a lot of job vacancies, while at the same time the unemployment rate remained very low. and that gave the appearance of a really tight labor market. and of course, the danny. hindsight is 2020. at the time, economists didn't

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>> former costars blake lively costars of blake lively's are now voicing their support for the actor amid allegations of harassment on the set of her recent film. it ends with us, a movie which also centers on domestic violence. lively, filing a civil rights complaint against the film's lead actor and director, justin baldoni, as well as others for sexual harassment, and also alleging of a plot to destroy her reputation. america ferrera, amber tamblyn and alexis bledel saying in a statement, quote, we are appalled to read the evidence of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice. most upsetting is the unabashed exploitation of domestic violence survivors stories to silence a woman who asked for safety. going on to say the hypocrisy is astounding. cnn entertainment correspondent elizabeth wagmeister joining me now. elizabeth, when this dropped over the weekend, a lot of people's jaws dropped. walk us through what blake lively says happened to her and others on set. >> yes. and one of the reasons why so many people's jaws

dropped is because there was already intense speculation over what was going on on this set. the reason why is because when this film was released, a lot of fans noticed that blake lively and other cast members from this film didn't follow justin baldoni on social media, and the two stars never posed for a photo together or did a single interview in the promotion of the film, which obviously is incredibly rare for two costars. well, now we are learning more of what happened, at least from blake lively's side in this civil rights complaint, where she alleges that she was subjected to an unsafe work environment during production of the film, and that she was subjected to sexual harassment by justin baldoni and another male producer on the film. now, some of her allegations include that there were unwanted sexual comments made that justin baldoni was talking about his sex life. she alleges that he and that male producer came into her trailer numerous times, uninvited, when she was

either undressed or breastfeeding her newborn. but this isn't just a sexual harassment complaint. this is also a retaliation complaint. blake lively and her lawyers are alleging that after she spoke up about this alleged misconduct and alleged sexual harassment, that her team asked for safeguards and they got that there was a meeting because things got so bad that they had to have a meeting and come to an agreement over different protocols that would make blake and her employees feel more safe. they all agreed to have an intimacy coordinator on that set, but then afterwards, blake says that she believes that justin's team led a sophisticated and coordinated campaign behind the scenes to essentially take her down. now, this lengthy, lengthy complaint includes dozens, if not hundreds of screenshots of text messages between justin and members of his team. i believe that we have one of those, and i want to read you part of it, erica.

this is between two representatives of justin baldoni saying in part, we can't write. we will destroy her. so they're blake's team saying this is proof that they were putting a coordinated effort to quite literally destroy her reputation. now, justin baldoni team is denying this fiercely. they are saying that this is commonplace where there are private conversations behind the scenes, where publicists have to talk about public image. in fact, they say that blake lively's team was actually planting negative stories about justin. i want to read you part of the statement that i obtained from justin baldoni attorney. he says, quote, it is shameful that miss lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations at yet another desperate attempt to fix her negative reputation. now, blake lively, in a statement 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, erica, you walked through some of the support from blake lively's former costars. there has been some other support from the author of the book on which this movie was based on. also a former director that blake lively worked with and justin baldoni has been dropped by his talent agency, wme. i confirmed that with the source over the weekend, and it is important to note that wme, that talent agency, also represents blake lively and her husband ryan reynolds. >> elizabeth wagmeister really appreciate you walking us through all of that. thank you. also joining me this hour, civil rights and employment attorney nancy erika smith, who of course, represented gretchen carlson and her successful sexual harassment suit against roger ailes of fox news. it's great to talk to you as always, especially when we're looking at what we see in this civil complaint here. this is not important to note. it's not a lawsuit. but given the fact that it was submitted to the california civil rights department, if they accept it,

this could potentially, if they investigate, this could lead to some sort of legal action based on what you see here, what do you expect will happen? >> i expect it to lead to a lawsuit because i think that miss lively has clearly laid out a clear campaign of retaliation because she complained about sexual harassment. >> um, and the answer to to her complaints is old school. it's been done for a long time. >> roger ailes had a black ops organization in his own in fox news to attack any employees who complained about him. we know that weinstein had a retaliatory organization that went after anybody who complained about him. >> they really attacked rose mcgowan, who was the first woman to publicly accused weinstein of the sexual abuse that we now know was so rampant. um, o'reilly did it at fox news against the first

woman to publicly accuse him, andrea mackris. and then we learned that the, you know, $30 million was paid to 6 or 7 women who he sexually harassed. >> so it's old school to attack, but it's actually illegal to attack and retaliate against women who complain of sexual harassment. and here it looks like the production company itself was involved. and the answer is so tone deaf. except it may be how we live now. >> it's deny, deny, deny, attack, attack, attack. >> it's right out of the apprentice movie. >> what roy cohn taught donald trump. >> they continue to attack miss lively, even though other cast members have joined her, including colleen hoover, the writer of of the screenplay and the book that the movie is based on. so other people in this workplace saw and experienced sexual harassment. one of the things that miss lively complained about is them showing cast members naked

pictures, talking about their pornography addictions, talking about their genitalia. not just she didn't just complain for herself, she complained for other people. >> so here we are, almost 2025. they're still extremely harassing and toxic work environments. >> and the retaliation works because, as mr. baldoni's own two female crisis manager said, it's kind of sad how everybody is eating up the misogyny. >> it takes a whole culture to accept this kind of trash. >> talking of women. >> well, just to pick up on what you said there, one of those women and this is this is in the this is in the complaint. right? there's a screenshot of a text that says, and i'm quoting here, it's actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women. this coming from another woman, allegedly. when we look at this, you know, you point out which i think is important here too, in this filing, right? it goes through and alleges the complaints that were lodged with hr on the set by other

women. the concerns that were raised, again, not just by blake lively part of that agreement. then afterwards, as filming continues, was not only an intimacy coordinator, but it also included an agreement during filming that the studio wouldn't retaliate against blake lively. how could that come into play? >> well, it shows that she anticipated retaliation and that they knew that she feared retaliation and that they typically, unfortunately for all of hr that i've experienced except the hr representatives who i've represented, who tried to do the right thing, hr does not help women complaining about sexual harassment. hr participates in the retaliation. that's the reality that i have seen for more than 40 years, representing women who complain about sexual harassment. so that's why we need to go to courts. that's why we need jury trials. that's why it's so important that we have now outlawed forced arbitration of sexual harassment claims. so

they're public. and so they can't protect the harassers and go after the women like this. let's have a public airing of how this happened. there are a lot of enablers in this case, and they're powerful enablers as we move forward on this justin baldoni also someone who over the last number of years has really cultivated a public image of someone who is an ally to women, calling out toxic masculinity a lot to a lot to unpack here. >> we'll continue to follow it. nancy erika smith, always appreciate your insight. thank you. >> thank you erica. >> just ahead here on cnn news central, the new york city police commissioner calls it one of the most depraved crimes a person could possibly commit. a suspect arrested in the killing of a woman who was set on fire in the new york subway car. how police were able to track down the alleged culprit new year's eve live with anderson and andy. >> live coverage starts at eight on cnn. >> do you know why i stopped cleaning my apartment? because my first cleaning with a glow was just $19. since then, i was

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