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cnn, the world's news network today and inside politics, an unparalleled moment in american history. >> ten days before putting his hand on the bible at the u.s. capitol and taking the oath of office for the most powerful position in the world, donald j. trump was sentenced in his 34 count criminal conviction. we have all the details from inside the manhattan courtroom today. plus, another deadly inferno is erupting in ravaged los angeles county. cnn is live on the scene with a new update on firefighters attempts to contain the flames as intense winds continue to complicate their efforts and charred remains of people's lives and entire communities across the populous county are really, really in trouble. and not only that, they're unrecognizable in many cases. i'm going to talk to a woman who is returning to what's left of her beloved neighborhood

today. i'm dana bash. let's go behind the headlines and inside politics. you're looking at images from inside a new york city courtroom this morning where president elect donald j. trump appeared virtually to be sentenced in his criminal hush money case. in a dramatic statement, the judge made clear that donald trump would be sentenced without any jail time or any other penalty for that matter. and that's because of one reason and only one reason his status as soon to be 47th president of the united states. trump spoke on his own behalf, showing no contrition, bragging about his election win and slamming the justice system. >> it's been a political witch hunt. it was done to damage my reputation so that i would lose the election. and obviously

that didn't work. and the people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom. >> cnn's kara scannell was inside that courtroom, and she joins us now. kara, what was that like dana, really an extraordinary moment. >> donald trump had been at every single day of this criminal trial. but today, the day of his sentencing, which he fought so hard to try to stop, he appeared on a video screen. it was set up in the courtroom. and when trump delivered those statements to the judge, judge juan merchan, who was sitting on the bench, had turned, was facing the monitor, watching trump as he sat beside his attorney, todd blanche, and delivered those statements. and then the judge delivered his sentence. he also continued to look at that monitor as he spoke to the president elect and explained to him that he could have sentenced him from as much as one and a third to four years in prison on each count. but he emphasized, as you noted, that trump is now reelected to the

office of the presidency, and that weight those legal obligations and benefits that he receives heading into that office is what guided his sentence. llevar a cabo un precio. >> it is the legal protections afforded to the office of the president of the united states that are extraordinary, not the occupant of the office. ordinary citizens do not receive those legal protections. it is the office of the president that bestows those far reaching protections to the office holder. and it was the citizenry of this nation that recently decided that you should once again receive the benefits of those protections. it's the notion that he has now, there was judge juan merchan speaking there. >> you know, this is the first time that the public has heard the judge speak. trump has been critical of the judge, calling him biased. for months, both at the beginning of this trial and

ever since the jury's verdict, the judge there explaining, you know, his belief that this sentence, even if it's an unconditional discharge, does reinforce that very jury verdict. and the public now can hear the judge can hear his manner, his tone. that is exactly what he brought throughout the trial, that even in the face of trump insulting him and the rule of law, the judge has maintained kind of that steady, even presence from the bench as his parting words to trump as he was wrapping up the sentencing was, he said, godspeed to trump as he entered the the the white house for his second term. >> dana, thank you so much. i mean, i cannot even imagine what it was like to be in there. thank you for giving us so much of the color and more importantly, the information. i appreciate it. i want to bring in some excellent reporters and legal experts here. cnn's chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid, former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst elie honig, former federal prosecutor shan wu, and cnn's very own jeff zeleny.

paula, i want to start with you with now that we have the details with the big picture here, because we sat at this table for months and months and months talking about not just this case, but the other cases that donald trump was being investigated on was being prosecuted for federal new york as he was running for president in the republican primary. then, of course, in the general election. and here we are, just a little more than a week before he is going to take the oath of office again. and we learned the answer to a question that we've been asking, which is what kind of impact is it going to be? and the answer is not only no politically, but legally. the answer is virtually nothing aside from today, which is not nothing. but there's no there's no penalty. >> you face a more significant

punishment for speeding in manhattan than what trump got today. he faced four criminal cases, some real serious legal jeopardy, particularly in the federal cases. but as of now, this is the only consequence and it's de minimis. it's really it's nothing. and his defense team deserves a lot of credit for guiding him through these cases and helping him to delay. but you know who also deserves a lot of credit? the courts and some prosecutors. i mean, we look today we were one justice away from this sentencing not even happening today. four justices agreed that this sentencing should be delayed, which really surprised a lot of legal experts who thought it was way too soon for the supreme court to get involved. of course, a trump appointed judge down in florida, she tossed out the classified documents case that's on appeal. but that really shocked most legal experts. the supreme court waited seven months to weigh in on immunity, made it impossible for jack smith to bring the january 6th case, and also gave him some immunity. and then down in georgia, the final case, the lead prosecutor had a romantic relationship with the person she appointed to oversee

the case. so yes, the trump defense team has done an extraordinary job by their client here, but he also got a lot of breaks from questionable decisions within the judiciary and prosecutorial offices. okay. >> let's thank you for for putting that sort of in the broader context, i do want to drill down on what we heard this morning, because just listening to it, we first got the quotes from the judge, and then we actually got the audio and listening to it, it was it was really dramatic listening to judge marchand, who of course, donald trump has spent the better part of a year, maybe even more than a year, really trashing as somebody who is biased and so forth. the judge clearly wanted to, as cara suggested, maintain an even keel. the kind of comment, though, that he made was very clear and deliberate. uh, kind of what you said, which is this is not so much the fact that he is getting no penalty, so much

about what he is convicted of doing. it's about what he is about to become. let's watch. >> the considerable indeed extraordinary legal protections afforded by the office of the chief executive is a factor that overrides all others. to be clear, the protections afforded the office of the president are not a mitigating factor. they do not reduce the seriousness, seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way. the protections are, however, a legal mandate which, pursuant to the rule of law, this court must respect and follow. >> so, to sum it up, the what the judge is saying is that u.s. citizens don't get special treatment, but the office of the presidency does.

>> yeah. the judge went out of his way to make a point in that clip we just heard and throughout today of saying, the reason i'm sentencing you to nothing is not because you did nothing wrong. the reason i'm sentencing you to nothing is because you have been reelected president. and out of respect, not even for you, president elect donald j. trump, but the office of the presidency. that's why i'm doing this. and that's what compels us. and i'm glad you raised the point earlier, dana, about the tone of the sentencing. people got to hear it. obviously. shannon and i have both been to many of them, but sentencing is a really solemn occasion. in a case like this, even where, you know there's not going to be prison time more so where somebody is going to have their liberty taken away. and i think it was a good lesson in the way our courtrooms and our processes should work. everyone, i think, gets credit. i think the d.a. made a brief but compelling and concise presentation. trump did his sort of usual song and dance, but in a subdued tone. right. i mean, dana, you've heard him in different tones before, i'm sure, but he was subdued today and i think the judge did a good job of saying, here's what brings us all here today and here's why i'm making this

decision. but ultimately, was donald trump unfairly singled out or is he being held to account like anyone else? we'll let that one play out on appeal. >> shan. >> i think decorum was certainly the winner today. i think mike johns done a great job in the trial up until the conviction. then i think he kind of got derailed. he overthought the case. in my opinion. he should have just sentenced the man and then let the appeals process take care of it. today. he actually, i kind of, all due respect to him, disagree with a lot of what he said. i mean, he had many options. he could have imposed the sentence and then suspended it. he could have done a lot of things other than the unconditional discharge. but give him credit, he did seem to find a way through the minefield where if he had not said no jail time. real question if that supreme court vote would have been just a tad different and stopped the entire thing. so you give him credit for actually, in bill barr's words, landing the plane at this point. >> and the fact of the matter

is, even though there's no penalty, he still is going to take the oath of office for the first time in u.s. history as a convicted felon, which is what is so extraordinary about this entire episode, really, if this case had not come forward, there are serious questions. >> if donald trump would have won the republican presidential nomination. so in many respects, this entire episode, thinking back to when he first left trump tower, i think it was like in march or so of 2023, and you could just see once this case sort of came, the party and his supporters rallied around him. so now we are full circle. yes, he will be sworn in in ten days as a convicted felon. but the bigger picture is the people had a chance. the voters had a chance to weigh in on this, and they don't care about this particular case. so i think that it will be a piece of history. but today, i don't think will be thought about for a long time. i mean, look, he's already moving forward.

his administration is taking shape. so yes, we are talking, and rightly so, about the historic nature of this, but it's largely over and behind him. but i was struck by his tone this morning. to your point, ali, it was entirely different than when he was in the courtroom. he also made the decision to not go to the courtroom, as he didn't do during the campaign, which became a campaign stop for him. he quite literally used this on his way to the white house. so that's what's also so extraordinary. so it wasn't all bad for donald trump on this, but he is a convicted felon. and history will note that. >> and you mentioned the supreme court. i just want to circle back to that, paula, because this is really important not to get lost, that the sentencing went forward this morning because the supreme court last night said 5 to 4 that it could. yes. um, let's just look at how the justices ruled, voted, voting to halt the sentencing. justices thomas, alito, gorsuch and kavanaugh to proceed. the chief justice roberts, coney

barrett, kagan, sotomayor and jackson. so one of donald trump's appointees, coney barrett, said, no, it should proceed along, of course, with the chief justice. >> so going forward, as we contemplate appeals, what they're focused on is the supreme court's recent immunity decision, where they said presidents cannot be charged for official acts. but you also can't use official acts as evidence. and that's what the trump team is focused on here. they argue that some of the evidence that came in during this trial, which was before this decision, constituted official acts. so conversations he had with hope hicks, other aspects, and they argue that based on that, this entire case should be tossed. and last night's decision, it was considered a long shot that he would prevail there. he got four justices. he only needs one more justice to agree with him on the interpretation of their immunity case. to have this entire conviction overturned. and that, to me, seems like likely, if not highly probable, we're out of time, but i'm just i don't want to also lose sight of the fact

that the president elect put a phone call in to judge. >> excuse me, justice alito. now, alito says we didn't talk about the case, but. >> you know, what he should have done in the line of these are not normal things. >> i mean, what he should have done is click, just hang up that phone right away. >> it's completely inappropriate to take the call. it's completely inappropriate to take the call days before you make a decision like this. >> yeah. all right, everybody, thank you so much. don't go anywhere. up next, we're going to go back out to los angeles and the apocalyptic scenes, entire neighborhoods wiped off the map. and more than 150,000 people under evacuation orders. we're going to have the latest from our reporters on the ground there on the california wildfires. and some magic wall to help everybody understand, really what the scope of this devastation is. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports

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gary hall jr., detailing onehart this hour. five wildfires are still raging across los angeles county, burning through nearly 36,000 acres. that's larger than the entire city of miami. but the nightmare is very far from over. as the most destructive palisades fire is just 8% contained. here's what mayor karen bass said moments ago i want the residents of los angeles region to have faith in what we are doing 24 hours a day. >> i can say on behalf of our first responders from the fire department, the police department, we are doing everything we can to bring the situation under control and success has been reported. >> i want to get straight to cnn's stephanie elam, who is

in altadena, california, one of the many neighborhoods that has been absolutely decimated by one of the five fires that's out there. stephanie, how is it looking now? >> yeah, it looks worse by daylight. dana, when you see it, i'm looking here at this area where you have almost this entire block taken out, but then you've got one house that made it so that's a positive. and it's also just disturbing. i can see this big tree has fire that burned through it. it seems like it might make it. it's burned up through the branches. but then look at this house. this house next to it just completely gutted everything. burned out the car in the backyard. just charred the glass. molten metal melted kind of into the sides of that vehicle that was there. and when you look at this devastation all around, there's other signs of things that we haven't really seen. because remember, it was extremely windy. we had those hurricane force gusts that were

coming through here. also with the palisades fire out by the coastline. look at this tree taken down by these winds. and we talked to one of the men that works in this building next door. and he said that he was here. the tree was up tuesday and now it's down. this kind of devastation is what you're seeing throughout here. we now know that the latest update that this fire has burned through some 14,000 acres, that there may be 4 to 5000 uh, structures that have been destroyed, but they expect that number to go up as well. and same thing for the palisades fire. so all in all, they're saying more than 10,000 structures lost. and a lot of those structures are homes. so you think about these people. where do they go? a lot of these people, this was their nest egg. this is what they were counting on to retire. and you have entire blocks like this here. also at the palisades fire where i was earlier, just completely gone. it looks like as if you were going to film a scene in a movie of what decimation looks

like, but it's actually true. it's actually happening to these people. it is astonishing. and i can tell you, along with the air quality here, almost everybody in l.a. county is impacted by these fires because of school being out, because they don't want to send people in. almost everybody knows somebody who's lost a house or has been evacuated. when you think about the fact that there's hundreds of thousand 200,000 people who could be impacted by this, either by a warning and then others who actually did have to evacuate, this is something that i don't think l.a. county has seen outside of, you know, an earthquake. and it's been a long time since we've had a big earthquake here in los angeles. so this is, for a lot of people, the most devastating natural disaster that they can remember. >> yeah. and of course, earthquakes are something that people in california think about and prepare for. that happens and it's over, except for a few aftershocks. these are fires that have been going on for days now, and it really

is. you said it perfectly. it is like a movie set, and they're trying to show what it's like almost at the end of civilization. it's just horrible. thank you so much to you and to your amazing crew. stephanie and i want to come back here into the studio because cnn's tom foreman is at the magic wall. you see him there. and, tom, this is so important because i have a pretty good understanding of the geography of los angeles. but it's hard to it's easy to get lost when you hear about the pasadena fire or the different names of fires, without truly understanding how vast it is and how much of what we're talking about are close to, or even inside some very familiar places. to people who know about los angeles or even hollywood. >> yeah, if you're a tourist and you go out to hollywood, this is where you're going to mainly be down, sort of like beverly hills.

>> the hollywood walk of fame, capitol records, universal studios a lot of that is all kind of down in here, a little bit sort of north and west of los angeles, or the proper city of los angeles. but this is a sprawling town, and if you are from los angeles, you know, all these places that are affected, because while the movie and tv industry is down here, the people who make it run live in these places, palisades out here, this is right along the pacific coast highway that takes you past santa monica, all the way up into malibu. you've seen these scenes a million times. if you live there, this is where you take your friends on the weekends to go hiking up in the hills and and see unbelievable views of the pacific. very much a community, very much part of the bigger community. same thing over here with pasadena. we were talking a little bit ago. stephanie was in altadena. altadena is the northern part here of pasadena. so i'm telling you, this is a big, sprawling city, but everybody in this city knows these areas that are being affected, and many of them are in those areas. and if you look at the size of the fires right now,

palisades fire, look at this. 20,438 acres burned eaton fire 13,000. those are the two big ones. you look at these containment numbers. you'll see these all the time. you say, well, this is smaller fires. these are much more contained. containment means if you were trying to draw a line around the fire to hold all of it, how much of that line have you drawn? 3%. that's all they have contained there. 8%. that's all they have contained there. that's why they keep saying these fires represent a constant and growing threat, because 8%, 3%, they fought hard to get that. and it's not much. >> it certainly is not much. that was so helpful. thank you for for showing us that. and now i just want to ask you about the aerial images that we've probably all seen online of neighborhoods before and after the fires tore through. >> yeah. if you look, if we go to palisades, which is what we've talked about so much, look at this. this is palisades. before anything happened, big neighborhood. like i said, these are where

people live. just normal folks having normal communities. think about size here. baseball complex over here. not a baseball diamond. that's a diamond. that's a diamond complex. you get a sense of how this is the same neighborhood afterward. and there are some structures standing here and there, but by and large, everything here is gone. and when i've been around fires like this, you watch it just eat through a neighborhood very quickly. and if you want to know a sense of the bigger sense of how much has been burned out there, we talk about acres all the time, which, not being an agricultural country so much anymore. for most people at least, they don't really understand. acres 36,000. it's almost 37,000 acres now. well, that's 55 plus square miles. it's two and a half size at the time. the island of manhattan. and one way to think about it is that an acre is about 75% of a football field, so about 27,000 football fields, 27,000 football fields. >> that does bring it home. tom, thank you so much for that. i really appreciate it.

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in part, the radical democrats have lost another pathetic, un-american witch hunt. today's event was a despicable charade. and now that it is over, we will appeal this hoax, which has no merit, and restore the trust of americans in our once great system of justice. jeff is back with us, along with laura barron-lopez of the pbs newshour and cnn's lauren fox. laura, you, uh, what do you take away from not necessarily just donald trump's reaction, because that's pretty predictable. but the overall political consequences or the political reality that got us here. >> i mean, what's striking here is that, yes, donald trump is claiming that it's not that somehow this was democrats lost or that the case was lost. well, it wasn't lost on merits. >> i mean, he is convicted. he was he's a convicted felon now entering the white house, and he's trying to spin it to say that somehow he's not guilty. that's not

the case. but i think that, you know, there was polling during the election that showed that people didn't necessarily want someone in the white house who they thought had committed a crime or who they thought would go against the rule of law, or who they were worried about potentially pursuing, pursuing authoritarian measures. and despite all that, even though some voters expressed worry about it, they still ultimately voted for him. and i think that was because of the other realities, which was this frustration with the incumbent president and the frustration with the economy. and that's how we got here. >> and, yeah, and and immigration and and other issues. i'm glad you brought up a poll because we have one example. this is an ap-norc poll conducted april 4th through eighth. unfit if donald trump, excuse me, is donald trump fit to serve as president if convicted in this very case, unfit 50%? well, obviously, at least some of those people, maybe not obviously, probably

at least some of those people voted for donald trump. so i mean, i will just tell you from a political standpoint, there is a real sense from republicans that they won the argument, despite the fact that we got here for a myriad of reasons involving the legal system. >> and there were a bun decisions that were made along the way that got us to this point, that were independent of politics. at the end of the day, republicans feel like all of their sticking with donald trump has paid off in a major way. and today is sort of the culmination of that. right before we came on, you had a statement from speaker of the house mike johnson basically saying that this shows that donald trump did nothing wrong. that's not really what this shows at all. but at the same time, on the political argument, republicans feel like they are in the stronger position right now. >> and you mentioned earlier, jeff, that and we can't lose sight of this, that a big part of why he won

the republican nomination is gop backlash against these four lawsuits that were going on against him. and the federal lawsuits because of the supreme court have gone away, but the investigation has not. and there was an appeals decision yesterday that said the jack smith report, which is sitting at justice, ready to go, could in fact be released. >> look, i mean, and that's a reminder that these actually are all for different, very different cases. but donald trump, very successfully, politically speaking at least, kind of combined them all into one and made it look like from the very beginning that his opponents were out to get him. they were all very different cases. you know, it's a moot point at this point, but for academic reasons, you can argue, what if the jack smith case had come sooner? what if the georgia case had come sooner and fani willis not january 6th? >> classified documents.

>> exactly. and fani willis in georgia had not had her issues, et cetera. but that is a moot point. it's academic at this point. so the reality is republicans are casting this as a win, but he's still on history on january 20th. when he raises his hand, he will be a convicted felon. and that does matter to donald trump. he is aware of how he is viewed in history, but he won and he's heading back to the white house. so i think we'll talk about this today. but after today, you know, it is just one of those many things in history. as we look back on this extraordinary period in american life. >> yeah, it certainly is. thanks, everybody. don't go anywhere because we have much more news. we're going to head back west ahead. >> i lay on my back, frozen, thinking the darkest thoughts, and then everything changed. >> dana said, you're still you. >> and i love you, super man. >> the christopher reeve story february 2nd, safe flight

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hitting that he hit with his truck, as we understand. and that is when this video picks up. i'm just going to play it for you and we'll talk about it on the other side. so that exchange of gunfire, you saw the officers essentially approaching the driver's side of the door. the airbags had already been deployed, so it seems like the truck had already crashed. and it seemed like there may have been before. this video picked up a brief moment of. i don't want to call it pause, but enough of a moment for officers to get close enough to that driver's side vehicle. and then there's a specific frame of the video i want to show you that. police also highlighted as well. you see that flash right there. it appears that the driver shot from behind the deployed airbags. and that's what began that exchange of gunfire. two officers were

injured in this. and as we heard from police. police returned gunfire here after being fired at. so they acted well within policy here. but it just gives you a sense of how quickly this this situation changed from an already dangerous situation to one that involved gunshots back and forth. there were already extra officers in the area because of new year's eve, but also there was a big college football game going on that day as well. the sugar bowl between university of georgia and notre dame. so there was a big police and law enforcement response in the initial seconds, really, of this attack. but you see clearly the added danger that happened in just a split second, really. dana, we sure did. >> thank you so much for bringing that to us, omar. and we want to go to breaking news in atlanta, where passengers have just been forced to evacuate a delta flight on a snowy runway after an aborted takeoff at hartsfield jackson airport. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean

joins me now. pete. what happened? >> well, these passengers have a pretty harrowing story to tell. >> 201 passengers on board this boeing 757 operated by delta airlines flight 2668, was on its way from snowy atlanta. >> a pretty rare snowstorm there. on its way to minneapolis-saint paul. when the data from open source data compiler ads-b exchange shows that this flight started to begin to accelerate for takeoff on atlanta's runway nine left there, the data says the flight got to about 85 knots, 90mph. when the crew decided to apparently abort the takeoff. this flight, coming to a stop about 5000ft down this runway, and then the crew elected to have the passengers aboard through the emergency slides on the runway there in busy atlanta, one of the busiest airports in the world. the video is pretty incredible of the passengers going down the emergency slides there on the runway. this flight did not make it to the ramp. there's some pretty interesting questions here. of course, passengers are telling us that they saw one of the engines on fire, which is still unconfirmed at this point, although may explain why the

crew elected to have the passengers abort there on the runway. that is a bit of a risk too. and we know that some passengers were injured here, at least in maybe the evacuation or maybe the deceleration itself. four passengers with minor injuries, according to the atlanta airport. also one of them taken to a nearby hospital. but this could have been so much worse. and these things can happen very quickly. dana, it's so important to listen to the flight crew in a situation like this. leave your bags behind. it can really hamper the evacuation and make it harder for people to get out when lives are at stake. >> really, really scary. thank you so much, pete, and thank you for joining us on inside politics. cnn news central will start after a break. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. kobe premieres

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