>> the street. >> in front. >> of you? >> yes. it's not our target. >> but finally. >> he's walking toward the corner with a backpack. >> there he is. right there espalda. por favor. espalda. >> at the ice offices. >> in manhattan. >> ronaldo. >> ana luisa. >> is processed and fingerprinted. he chose not to speak to cnn. despite the seemingly. successful operation. ken janello. >> the. >> head of ice new york city. is frustrated. >> we were able to. >> take him down. >> with no issue. >> this this is the way you would prefer it to be done. >> in front of me? >> um, actually, i would prefer to take custody of the individual from nypd or the department of corrections. >> new york city. has sanctuary laws that limit local law enforcement's ability to coordinate with federal immigration authorities, even in certain cases involving convicted felons in the country illegally. ana luisa pleaded guilty to rape and was released after

serving his sentence of 273 days. >> the nypd, or even in this case, the new york city department of corrections, had just reached out to us. if we had interest in this individual, we would have taken them immediately from them or from right from rikers island. >> it avoids having. >> and it avoids this whole scenario that we're working on right now. cases could take weeks, months, sometimes, and sometimes even longer, because we don't know where the individual is at. >> even new york city's mayor is advocating for a change. >> those who are committing crimes in our city must be. >> addressed. >> and we should change the current sanctuary city law to address that issue. >> danilo emphasized that i.s.i.s. focus is on those who pose a threat to the communities they are in. >> that's why i get disgusted and disappointed when i hear these false narratives about i.s.i.s. out doing sweeps. ice is out doing raids. once ice is done, going after criminals within like 3 to 4 months,

they'll be going after and targeting abuela. i mean, in my lifetime, i don't know what planet these people live on. um, but it's going to take us a lot longer than three months, especially here in new york city and the other largest cities, to arrest the criminals that are at large in our communities. >> e. jean carroll. >> but trump's border czar stresses that others could be deported as well. >> there's going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities because they forced us to go into community and find and find the guy we're looking for. when we go find our priority target, which is a criminal alien. if he's with others in the united states illegally, we're going to take enforcement action against him. >> shimon prokupecz, cnn, new york. >> votes away from getting the job. perhaps the senate set to vote on pete hegseth nomination to be defense secretary today. and he is now facing new

questions over a $50,000 payment to a woman who accused him of sexual assault. president donald trump is entering the oval office with two major natural disasters on his hands, and now his responsibility. storm cleanup on the east coast fires out west. he's traveling to both areas today. and a mayor is now accusing ice agents of a raid. he says unlawfully terrorized his city. what happened in newark, new jersey, that has local leaders now speaking out? i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central a major moment is coming for the new president. the new republican majority in the senate and in the congress, and trump's hopes for his cabinet. the senate will be voting on the nomination of president trump's unconventional and controversial pick to be defense secretary. tonight, up to this point, pete

path to fine gael to this final vote has been marred by uncertainty. after a contentious confirmation hearing. two republican senators, lisa murkowski and susan collins, announced they will not support him, citing his character and views on women in the military. to add to those concerns, perhaps overnight, cnn has learned new information about a $50,000 payment to a woman who accused hegseth of sexual assault, an allegation he denies. cnn's lauren fox has much more on this. and the math is the math. republicans can only lose three republicans in order to get him over the finish line. what do things look like? what are you hearing today? >> yeah. >> kate, i mean, we do. >> expect a final. >> vote for. >> this nominee later this evening late into the night. that is likely if democrats don't agree to expedite this nomination swiftly. but the reason we know more details about this settlement is because of questions that came from the senate armed services committee

members. this was in response to a question after the public hearing from senator elizabeth warren. these are known as questions, for the record. essentially, they're a list of written questions that lawmakers often send to nominees after a public hearing has taken place. sort of follow up opportunities. and that is where this information about the amount of the settlement, $50,000 that was paid to this woman who accused hegseth of sexual assault back in 2017. now, hegseth was never charged with sexual assault, and he has denied that he ever sexually assaulted anyone. but we should just note that this is new information because of these questions. for the record. now, this is unlikely to change the math for pete hegseth nomination in the hours ahead. as you noted, there are two republican women who have now voted against advancing pete hegseth. we expect that they will continue to do so. that's senator lisa murkowski of alaska, senator susan collins of maine. and, you

know, they both issued really lengthy statements explaining their votes. both of them cited questions about whether or not hegseth had really had a change of heart about the fact that he had previously said he did not believe that women in the military believed in combat roles. you also heard from senator murkowski. she had questi its massive scope and the fact she said she really doubted that he had the professional experience to be ready for this job. kate. >> lauren, thank you so much to start us off this hour. john. >> all right. we are standing by to see the president leave the white house for the first trip of his new term. the president is visiting disaster zones in north carolina and california. and we woke up to the news that the president actually invited california senator adam schiff to tour the california wildfire destruction with him. now, you will remember, trump has called the senator the enemy within. among other things, schiff's office politely declined the invitation. they say, because of the scheduled confirmation votes. we're just hearing about

that. let's get right to cnn's alayna treene at the white house. it really was a surprising invitation. elena. >> oh, absolutely. and i'd remind you as well, john, that donald trump's first day in office, just hours after he was sworn in, when speaking to reporters from behind the resolute desk in the oval office, he called adam schiff scum. and so this is, of course, a surprising development. and of course, the two of them have a long and fraught history. but i want to read for you what a spokesperson for schiff's office told me about the invitation. they said, quote, senator schiff greatly appreciates the president's visit to see the devastation of these wildfires firsthand and the invitation to accompany him and regrets that he is unable to join the president in los angeles due to scheduled nomination votes. now, look, when i talk to donald trump's team about this and about the visits more broadly today, both to north carolina and los angeles, they told me that one of course, this is something donald trump has said he wanted

to do for weeks now, but also that, you know, he wants this to be more of a stately visit. he is president and he's going to these devastated communities, one by a hurricane, the other by these wildfires. and he wants to keep the attention, or at least the white house wants to keep the attention on those affected by these disasters. although i will say the one adviser who told me this also said that any sort of criticisms against democratic leadership, including that of schiff and california governor gavin newsom and another person, donald trump, has really gone head to head with, would be justified in their words. now, look, we also know that donald trump wants to talk about fema and the role that fema plays. we heard him discuss this earlier this week in an interview with sean hannity, saying that perhaps he would look into a way to streamline the amount of money and the resources that get funneled to these states. so that could be something we hear him address in more detail once he is on the ground, both in north carolina and california, john. >> and we again are standing by to see him leave the white house not too long from now. alayna treene great to have you there.

thank you very much, sarah. >> all right. joining me now, monterey park resident ray reynaga, who lost her home in altadena. ray, you know, i talked to you two weeks ago. you loved your home. you lived there most of your life. it ended up being consumed by flames. you captured video of that as you fled in a heartbreaking scene. and we're looking at those some of those pictures. now, where are you living now? and and have you been able to to get any emergency help? >> i'm living at my father's house in monterey park and services have been very slow dealing with fema and the application process is just very overwhelming. and the insurance companies, it's discouraging. they don't make it easy. i'm still waiting on funding on both

ends. >> that's got to be really frustrating. and i know you speak for a lot of your neighbors as well, who are trying to unravel the bureaucracy around trying to get help after such a terrible disaster. i do want to ask you about something that we're hearing from residents in altadena saying they did not receive evacuation warnings before the fires burned through their neighborhoods, and they had to fend for themselves. did you get a warning, whether it be electronically or someone knocking on the door during that night nothing. >> i did not get a warning. i did not get anybody knocking on my door. as a matter of fact, the day before we had power outages and that day it was completely dark black. no power. it was just a nightmare. >> so you did not receive a warning. what would you like to tell? you know, local authorities about the possibility and the danger of all that and what you want to see done.

>> do better because lives have been lost. do better. this is completely unacceptable. i was the last person on my street. they had to come get me. i could have lost my life. and again, if it wasn't for my sister, i probably wouldn't be here now. they better do a much better job because it's. it's unacceptable. >> president trump, as you know, traveling to california today to assess the damage. but he is also at the same time threatening to withhold federal emergency aid to california to help with fire recovery. what do you think about that threat? >> that's terrible. we need to rebuild. we need funding. we need financing, and we're still waiting just to even get any information from fema. so that would just devastate and victimize us all over again. >> can i ask you what your

biggest concern about your future is right now in altadena, which is a neighborhood that has historically black. it is a neighborhood that is of middle class people who, you know, some of whom have had even their insurance taken away from them before the fire fires hit. what is your concern about the future of of your beloved neighborhood? >> uncertainty. that is my concern. i'm uncertain if my neighbors are going to return. i'm uncertain if i'm going to have the funds and the help and the assistance to rebuild. i'm uncertain about what my community is going to look like and how we're going to recover and repair. that's my big concern. >> right now. reynaga thank you so much. i know it's hard to keep talking about this, but i know that you're trying to fight through it with everything you have, and it's good to hear that your family is is able to help you out at this time as well. thank you so much for your time. appreciate it.

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way that immigration and customs enforcement would board a deportation flight. but what is striking here, of course, and what is. notable is the military aircraft. that is what is different about this photo. and again, this is part of the trump administration's plans to use pentagon resources and pentagon assets to deport migrants back to their origin country. so we anticipate that there is going to be more flights, of course. again, the pentagon had said this would be in el paso and in san diego. but clearly those these flights using the military aircraft have now started. >> that is a change. and it is something that bears watching. priscilla, thank you for that. we also woke up to the news from officials in new jersey. state and local officials there that there were raids from immigration officers there overnight. what have you learned on that front? >> we're still collecting details. >> on this, but it also speaks to the fears within many

communities about what these raids entail and the fears that are often quickly fueled when they see immigration and customs enforcement. now, in this case, again, still trying to get more details. >> but what we. >> do know from the business is that they said, or rather, the mayor, that this business that you see here was, quote, raided and they detained undocumented residents as well as citizens. and it seems that a military veteran. now, what we got in a statement from ice is the following. it says. >> quote. >> u.s. immigration and customs enforcement may encounter u.s. citizens while conducting fieldwork and may request identification to establish an individual's identity, as was the case during a targeted enforcement operation at a worksite tuesday in newark, new jersey. and i want to note here, because this has happened before, where ice will go in for a targeted enforcement action. they may come across someone and it has happened in other administrations as well as the previous, that a u.s. citizen could get caught up in this. but all of the same, this we're

told, was it started because of a tip. now, again, this. >> is all. >> still coming together. it does appear that it was targeted, though. of course, as i said earlier, it has sparked additional fears and it has raised alarm. and the reaction to this is notable because, of course, even if ice. >> was. >> always carrying out routine operations, the response and the reaction has been fierce, especially from democrats, because the reason behind them is unclear. so again, we will learn more about this exact incident. but certainly the business owner saying that he is concerned, especially for any empye work. >> priscilla, i know you'll keep digging on this. you provide great reporting and great context on this subject. thank you so much for your work here. sara. >> all right. it's the one thing president trump has not blamed for the fires. that's climate change. and as he prepares to visit areas hit by extreme weather disasters today, we're going to look at the impact this early decision on

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as well. what do you think was the most significant impact of that then, and what does it mean this time well, last time. >> he did this in. >> the first administration. it just meant that other people had to step in and step up. and that's what mike bloomberg did then he basically made sure that would cover all the funding gap that we had, and that the u.s. would still be active on the international stage. and he made sure would keep reporting what we're doing here in the united states. and he's doing exactly the same thing again. so i think that this is all an effort to try to move fossil fuels along, to try to give it the boost that this president wants. but frankly, claiming this is a national emergency on energy is absolutely ludicrous. the problem he has is that clean energy is so strong, so effective, so much less

expensive, and so much more popular among the american public than than what he is trying to do, which is to revive fossil fuels and make that the winner. it wasn't it isn't now, and it isn't going to be. so he has to look at the future and stop looking at the past. >> this you're getting an interesting element of this that i'm picking up in some reporting. i'm seeing that the energy industry might not be. i'll just call it listening to donald trump this time. reuters has new reporting that u.s. oil and gas producers are applauding his focus on more domestic energy development. but here's the reporting. gina. big u.s. oil companies, however, believe the withdrawal only limits from the climate accord. only limits washington's ability to influence an ongoing global energy transition to cleaner energy and exposes them to an uneven regulatory environment. that's according to reuters interview with industry industry

reps. and here's what they're saying. marty durbin, president of the u.s. chamber of commerce's global energy institute, which represents u.s. energy companies, said its members would have preferred trump keep the u.s. involved in the pack. a spokesperson for api says that the group has long supported the ambitions of the paris agreement. you read that, and i'm. could his move here this time? i don't know, hurt less backfire. what do you do with this? >> i think, frankly, everybody is scratching their heads because the movements he's made is doing nothing to benefit him off fossil fuels. it is doing nothing but an attempt to slow down the clean energy revolution that is, frankly, winning everywhere. you know, if he cares about serving the people, he's got to step up. look. and when the federal government falls apart like it's doing right now, we have a whole bunch of folks in america is all in in bloomberg and

others working together, governors and mayors, they're going to keep filling this gap. everybody knows that clean energy is hands down the winner. and and yet he is denying the ability for us to actually move forward internationally and domestically with the right actions that the american people need to see. so i don't blame all of the institutes now who are sitting there dying for fossil fuels to advance, who are now realizing, oops, we better start rethinking that, because if he's looking to push more fossil fuel oil out the door, he's just going to lower the price more. they're going to lose their profits. so in many ways, this is all about the money. is it always is here. and i think it's really important for folks to remember that a lot of the resources in the inflation reduction act that has gone to support this transition is in the hands of

cities and towns now. so that's where all the juice is going to come from. and even though the federal government wants to step aside, governors and mayors and business leaders are still going to move forward. and that's what you're seeing now, because it doesn't make sense not to. >> real quick. you were epa administrator under obama. do you have an opinion? what do you think of lee zeldin? who could be heading up the agency if he gets confirmed? >> you know, i really don't know him, and i don't know many who do. you know, i've seen some decisions he's made in new york that looked okay. i've seen other decisions that looked horrible. so we'll have to wait and see. hopefully he'll realize that he's running one of the greatest agencies in the united states, and he's going to do what he can to protect our health and well-being. i'll keep my fingers crossed, but we better keep a close watch. >> gina mccarthy, good to see you. thanks for coming in, sarah.

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been that can apply often, and it definitely applies this time. president trump is rounding out the first workweek of his second term with his first trip outside the beltway as he's heading to north carolina and california. the week began with a flurry of executive actions, starting minutes after he was sworn in. the executive actions designed to undo what biden did and make good on campaign promises. let us recap on the week that was the initial wave of executive actions included pardoning almost all january 6th defendants, throwing tiktok a lifeline, extending the deadline for the ban, declaring an emergency at the southern border, moving to end birthright citizenship, which has already been challenged and blocked by one court. he withdrew from the world health organization. he is once again withdrawing from the paris climate accord, and trump rolled back more than 78 biden era policies. that was monday. deep breath. on to tuesday. the executive order train kept on moving with an executive order to end all federal detainee programs, putting those

employees on administrative leave. he also circumvented the usual security clearance review process for his staff. instead, he himself simply just granted temporary top secret security clearance to incoming white house officials. then wednesday, he turned his focus on the scientific community, halting all biomedical grant approval through nih, hhs, calling it a short pause, but it already resulted in researchers across the country getting notifications that grant approval meetings were canceled. and at the justice department, they also brought things to a halt. every case in doj civil rights division put on hold. and yesterday, donald trump took his campaign trail rhetoric to davos, virtually bashing world leaders to their faces, essentially issuing his most explicit threat yet to slap tariffs on european exports and saying build products in america or else. he called for a negotiated end to the war in ukraine and continued his

singular focus on nato, a la his first term demanding member nations more than double their defense spending to 5% of gdp. also yesterday, he ordered all files associated with the assassinations of jfk, rfk and mlk be released. andy pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists. that brings us now to today. are you still with me? the president traveling to two places hit by natural disasters. asheville, north carolina, continuing to rebuild from hurricane helene and southern california, where wildfires are still actively burning, and the entire communities, as we have been covering have been just wiped out. so add all of that up and what do you get? you get harry enten to come in to run the numbers. seriously. so, harry, how is the public seeing all of this that i just described? >> i got to tell you your reading comprehension. your reading abilities are quite off the charts. >> i have very few talents i can read what i. >> wrote that was tremendous, tremendous read.

look, the american people really like what they're seeing, at least compared to where donald trump started eight years ago. right? all right. this is donald trump's net approval rating. this is reuters ipsos. it's among adults. it was taken the first few days of this administration. look here. back in january 2017, donald trump became the first president in history to start his presidency with a net negative approval rating. look at where we are now in january 2025, considerably better at plus six points. that's up nine points to borrow a donald trump phrase. this is big league. this is a sign that the american people, at least initially, like what they're seeing. and so you see right here, more americans approve of donald trump's job than disapprove. and that is very much, very much unlike what we saw eight years ago. >> so compare the rating now to the entire first term. >> yeah. so it's not just that he's doing better than where he was doing eight years ago. it's that he's doing better than he ever did during his entire first administration. so i again. >> he never was he never was over plus three.

>> he was never over plus three. the highest rating he ever his highest ever net approval rating was plus three in march of. >> your choice of photo is quite. >> he likes what he's seeing. he's smirking at the american, at the american media. >> just doesn't like you. >> maybe. maybe not. although he should like these numbers and the way i'm presenting them. you look at january 2025. look at that again. you get plus six. so donald trump isn't just in a better position than he was eight years ago. at this point, he's in a better position than he was at any point during his entire first term. things have very much turned around. this is a very, very different donald trump. he's leading a very different administration the way he's attacking things. and the american public is very much more in line with him than they were at any point during his entire first term. >> well, i11i would say, correction, he's not a very different donald trump. this is a very different donald trump as being viewed by voters in this. >> and the way he's going about things with susie wiles leading things, i think he is, you know, going at things in a much less disorganized fashion, much more organized.

>> take me back in history. >> take you back in history. so it was so interesting to me that donald trump's first net approval rating of his second term is higher than his entire first term. and i was interested. has that ever happened? has the second term net approval rating in the first month? have you ever had a higher rating than any net approval rating during the entire first term? donald trump is the only. >> hard time believing this. >> this is 100% true. i went back, i love spreadsheets, donald trump's is the first guy ever who's net approval rating in the first month of his second term is higher than any rating that he had as an entire first term. kate baldwin this is true. i don't make stuff up. the numbers are the numbers. >> i believe you in nothing except when you have it in the wall. and then i believe everything. >> they say. that's exactly right. >> which is why i'm now going to the wall. what is this tab? >> yeah. >> what is this here? >> what is going on here with the bills? well, my buffalo bills are taking on the kansas city chiefs this weekend. and i have a forecast. and that is bills by a billion. the buffalo bills are finally going to slay the dragon. they're finally

going to defeat patrick mahomes. they are going to the super bowl for the first time since i was one, two, three, four i think five years old. i don't even remember that particular super bowl. the bills are going to do what they're going to march into arrowhead, and josh allen is going to deliver. he is going to be the savior for bills mafia. >> that's a pretty big spread, i have to say. >> i'm just going. >> to say i'm sorry, america. >> yeah. no. >> i am stuck with him. >> i think he's like the chiefs one and a half. but but you're going with bills by a million. >> bills by a billion. john. you were off by a big factor there. they're going to win by a billion points. you heard it here first. >> this is this. this is that like amorphous thing. and it's not amorphous. but it is to me, this overunder concept is that what this is? >> this is harry enten math. i'm a forecaster. you trust me here? >> yeah. you've just lost all credibility with the first four tabs with this one. >> well done. well, you know what? if i want to lose credibility, i would lose it on the buffalo bills any day. for my dear friends, including my dear savior, josh allen. >> i am sure you're not setting yourself up for disappointment. >> never. >> harriette. good luck. good luck with that. thanks. this

morning, the wall street journal editorial board is criticizing president trump's decision to end security details for former trump administration officials john bolton, mike pompeo and brian hook. all three had extra security protection for years because they were under what was considered very real threats from iran, the journal writes, quote, this looks like a new low. mr. trump reportedly has ordered an end to security protection for three former advisers who were living under the threat of assassination by iran. pray it won't happen. but what if one of them now gets attacked? with us now is democratic strategist matt bennett and madison gesiotto, a republican political strategist. matt, what does this look like to you? >> well, this. >> is typical trump. it's retribution against enemies. >> both real and imagined. >> and i think it's very important to emphasize that with trump. two, the only thing that matters is absolute loyalty. it's ironic because, you know, they're making a big deal about getting rid of di, because all they want are people that rise

on their own merit. and yet, the only thing that gets you into the trump administration or gets you the president's favor, is being absolutely loyal to trump. and he has decided that these three guys haven't been loyal to him, and that makes them. and he's taking away their security protection, which means they're now vulnerable to assassination by the iranians. he's sending a very clear signal to everybody. not only could you lose your job, you could lose your life. if you cross trump in ways that that rise to his attention. >> madison yeah. >> i just don't think. >> that's the truth. >> i mean. >> there is a lot of intelligence behind this going into this decision when you're granted this type of protection. it's not for life, it's not forever. and so they continue to analyze that information. this is something that biden did as well, actually taking back some of the protection for one person involved in the same situation under trump. and so president trump and his team, they reviewed this information and they determined that these threats were not what they once

were. and so they decided to pull this back. keep in mind, of course, that this costs millions of dollars per person per year that taxpayers have to pay. and so if this threat isn't as high as it once was, and they don't seem to think that that protection is warranted, then i think it's absolutely justified to pull it back. >> it is notable that the biden administration thought it was merited until just a few days ago, when they were still in office. i also want to talk on the subject of foreign policy. look, president trump has said a lot the last four days. i mean, kate just ran through the huge number of things he's done and that his run hand in hand with these huge number of running news conferences and commentaries, and he did go on quite a bit about his feelings about what happened in ukraine. listen to this. >> zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. he shouldn't have done that because we could have made a deal, and it would have been a deal that would have been. it would have been a nothing deal. i could have made that deal so easily. and

zelenskyy decided that i want to fight. >> i want to fight. madison zelenskyy decided he wanted to fight because russia invaded ukraine. i mean, wasn't there a time, madison, when republicans would have looked at this and said, that's that's appeasement? >> well, i think. >> as a republican, you know. >> you look. >> forward and what's in the best interest of not only ukraine, but in the best interests of russians and the best interests of the entire world, and that's less lives lost. and so if we can make a deal at this point with trump in office to make sure that we now tamp down on the number of lives lost moving forward, i think that's in the best interest of everybody. >> true. although, matt, that was backwards looking, that was saying he was. if i say true, that's maybe what donald trump is looking for going forward. but that was backwards looking to the extent saying that zelenskyy should have fought back. >> i mean, how do you make a deal when your country has been invaded, when your civilian population is being attacked, your energy infrastructure is being

attacked? your nuclear energy facilities are being attacked by a gigantic army. that is the most ridiculous comment of many ridiculous comments trump has made over the last several days. there's absolutely no way that zelenskyy could have cut a deal with an army invading madison. >> what do you make of the fact that president trump, we learned when we woke up this morning, invited senator adam schiff with him to tour some of the fire damage in california. he has just the other day called adam schiff scum. he also said that he was the enemy within and should be in jail. what do you make of that outreach? >> yeah, definitely. >> not expected, but i think anytime we can see bipartisanship, especially in a time of natural disaster, is very important. but of course, trump going in this morning to california and he's been very critical of many of the democrats in that state, including newsom. and of course, wildfire management isn't the only criticism he's had of him. he's been very hard on him on elections, too. you know, here in ohio, we have free and fair elections. it's very easy to

vote. it's very hard to cheat. and we count our votes very quickly. california, not so much. i mean, they were still counting into december. they mail out tens of millions of ballots that aren't even requested. and so he's hit newsom very hard on this. we saw trump work very well with newsom in certain instances during that first administration. i think we'll continue to see the same, but it may not look the same as it once did. and so i think that will be something interesting to watch this morning in california and moving forward in this administration. >> and look, we are standing by to see president trump leave the white house. i'm sure he will comment, probably speak to microphones there. we might get a sense of what the tenor will be over the course of the day. matt, do you care to lay a wager on whether or not president trump will rise above politics and talk about disaster relief and aid? or do you think by the end of today in california, politics will get back into it? >> i think the odds of him rising above are about the same as the bills winning by a billion, which is to say, zero. he never rises above. he is he is incapable of rising

above. the only thing that matters to trump is his own interest and his own personal grievances. so he will not. if you think back to the first term where he was supposed e the consoler in chief, when terrible things happened, natural disasters or mass shootings. i mean, remember the image of him standing with the baby who had just been orphaned in a mass shooting with his thumb up and smiling? he does not know how to have human empathy. and when he goes to these places, he's very bad at it. so guarantee that he will take shots at the governor, and he will not provide the kind of comfort that a normal president would in a place like los angeles right now. >> we will see he will be leaving the white house shortly. matt bennett, madison jim sciutto, thanks so much for being with us this morning. have a great weekend. thank you sarah. >> as john just said, the president will be leaving the white house shortly expecting to visit disaster zones in both north carolina and california. we will wait to see if the vitriolic political fight

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positioning and the gun being hidden, not the software failing to detect a weapon. police have confirmed that this same a.i. system is used inside all nashville public schools. all right. a punch line that ended in jail time. a florida woman was out on bond when police spotted her holding a bag labeled definitely not a bag full of drugs, which, as it turned out, was definitely a bag full of drugs. deputies say when they searched the bag, they found meth needles, narcan and a load of other drugs. less than two weeks before that, she was arrested for the same thing. and just outside of boston. listen up, mr. berman, a suspected bank robber arrested after trying to get away by taking a cab. the driver says the suspect asked him to make a quick stop at the bank before getting back in his cab with a bag full of cash. the cab driver says he didn't have a clue what unfolded inside of

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help with his own paralysis. but nearly 30 years after his accident, spinal cord injury patients like javier are now reaping the benefits. >> so it was actually my last day of high school, and i was over at a friend's house and we were swimming. i just jumped out a little too far and ended up hitting my head where it started to get a bit shallow, and it made it on the bottom and broke my neck. >> like reeve. >> jake was also left paralyzed. instead of walking with san ramon valley high school's graduating class of 2016, jake was weighing whether or not to try an experimental treatment based on stem cells. >> i didn't know a whole lot about it, but i knew that it could potentially help me or, you know, potentially help others. and i didn't see a lot of risk in it. so i decided to do it. >> stem cells. >> can become. >> by definition, any of the cells of the human body. they just need the instructions and the information. >> brian kelly is the ceo of lineage cell therapeutics. >> we convert those stem cells into the actual cells that comprise and make up the spinal

cord. >> think of the spinal cord as the nervous system's inner state. with these electrical impulses, sending messages from your brain to other parts of your body. now to send those messages more efficiently. a conductive sheath of fat and protein known as myelin wraps around the nerves. but when the spinal cord is injured, the myelin can become damaged as well. when you've actually injected these cells into the spinal cord and someone like jake, what sort of results have you been seeing? >> to date, 30 individuals have received these cells. the initial objective was to demonstrate the safety. but the data which we collected and the conversations that we had with the surgeons really encouraged us that there was some improvement. that was somewhat unexpected. >> improvements for patients like jake that now allow him to live his life, drive and work. >> i ended up getting some return here in my right hand so i'm able to wiggle this index

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