the screen. she is a cutie. like any good, you know, dog walker. you know, everybody knows you have to go and clean up and pick up the poop after them. for some reason, where i live in washington, d.c., not everybody likes to do that. i don't know if this is a crime. not picking up dog poop. >> it is a crime in new york. >> it absolutely. >> should be. i would argue, punishment like, you know, hard labor camp out in the desert somewhere i think would be nice. but since we're going petty crime, i think if you do not clean up your dog's poop, you should have to go around the neighborhood, your community and pick up whether it's backyards, pick up dog poop, wearing a sign that says, i didn't pick up my dog's poop. now i have to pick up all the dog's poop. >> i agree while listening to mariah. >> 100% all. >> in the. >> dog defenders are the absolute worst worst your dogs. >> that

>> after refusing to comply with the trump administration request. and this time it's related to president biden. and we'll. governor kathy hochul act to remove mayor eric adams. why tomorrow could be a make or break moment for her decision tonight on laura coates live. good evening to you. i'm jessica dean in for laura coates tonight and donald trump is revealing more about elon musk than ever before and why he sees him as critically important to his administration. he sat down with the billionaire for an interview at the white house and painted him as the enforcer of his executive orders. >> you write a beautiful executive and you sign it and you assume it's going to be done, but it's not. what he does is he takes it. and with his 100 geniuses, he's got some

very brilliant young people working for him that dress much worse than him, actually. they dress in just t-shirts. >> you wouldn't you. >> wouldn't know. they have 180. >> wait a minute. so he's your tech support? no, no, he is actually. but he's much more than that. >> i actually am tech support though. >> but he gets it done. he's a leader. he would have those people go to whatever agency it was. when are you doing it? get it done, get it done. and some guy that maybe didn't want to do it, all of a sudden he's signing. >> for weeks, democrats have been going after musk and his push to gut the federal government. they've called him president musk. they've dubbed him the unelected billionaire. but today, trump is making it clear his first buddy status is as strong as ever. >> elon is, to me, a patriot. so, you know, you could call him an employee. you could call him a consultant. you could call him whatever you want. but he's a patriot. >> now trump is saying you can call musk whatever you want, as he just did there, because he's not actually officially running the agency. taking a

sledgehammer to the government. a court filing from the administration says he's not even a doge employee. so who is in charge? well, the white house has been trying to clarify that all day. >> what is his role at doge? >> sure. i'm happy to clarify. elon musk is a special government employee here at the white house, serving at the direction of the president of the united states, donald trump. elon musk has been tasked with overseeing doge on behalf of the president. >> so who is in charge of doge? >> the president of the united states? >> does elon musk know he's not in charge of doge? doge? >> again, the president runs the government. then the president appoints advisers, including elon, including myself. >> it may not be clear who's technically got the top title at doge, but it doesn't seem to matter for trump. musk has his ear, and the president is trusting the team that musk has

selected. but the scope of what doge has access to is dizzying. staffers already have their paws in a slew of federal agencies, and now they're trying to get access to sensitive data from the irs and the social security administration. lawsuit after lawsuit has been trying to slow them down. but tonight, a federal judge is refusing to block musk and doge from accessing data at seven federal agencies. the very same judge who oversaw trump's federal election interference case. she is also not stopping doge from carrying out worker layoffs. now, this is a big win for the trump administration, at least temporarily. now, doge will get to keep digging. and we're hearing staffers began holding meetings at the pentagon late last week. musk's companies have billions in federal contracts with the defense department. in trump's telling, though, there's nothing to worry about. >> any conflicts. i told elon any conflicts. you can't have anything to do with that. so anything to do with possibly even spacex, we won't let elon

partake in that. >> joining us now, democratic strategist chuck rocha, former communications aide to senator lindsey graham, rt aurigae and senior politics reporter for axios marc caputo. good evening, gentlemen. thanks for being here with us. marc, let's start first with you. trump and his aides say the president is in charge of doge. we just heard them lay it out. but when you take all of the facts that musk hired, the staff held a presser in the oval office that he is posting about alleged fraud almost daily. how do you square that? >> well, i don't really square it. i recognize that because it's subject of a lawsuit. the trump administration wants to say that elon musk doesn't really have this role because democrats and plaintiffs in lawsuits are claiming this is such an important role that elon musk operates in, that there needs to be more oversight. he

might even occupy a cabinet level type position, and therefore he needs to be voted on or confirmed by the senate. and so the way for the trump administration to sort of avoid that is like, no, he's not really in charge, but he is. >> he's not. but he is. t.w. tonight, hannity asking musk to respond to all the vitriol that he's gotten from critics over the doge work i want to play. his response. >> well, i guess we must be over the target or doing something right. you know, if they wouldn't be complaining so much if they weren't doing something useful, i think, um, but all we're really trying to do here is restore the will of the people through the president. >> i mean, it does sound like he's running things, and he is obviously taking actions that, you know, and making decisive actions. why is the white house trying to distance him from all of this? does it go back to, as mark is talking about these lawsuits?

>> i'm not a lawyer, so i'm not going to speak to the lawsuits, but i'm going to say that this he's carrying out the will of the trump voter. look, donald trump made no surprise during the campaign that if he got elected, he was going to let elon musk go in there with a sledge hammer and find the waste, fraud and abuse throughout the federal government and start streamlining things. look, jamie dimon called elon musk the einstein of our time. i would actually say he's the henry ford of our time. and why you wouldn't want that type of person trying to streamline our agencies that have insane bloat is sort of beyond me. and i love hearing the left say, oh, well, you know, we all agree that there is bloat and waste in government. and so count me in. and yet when there's one person fired or one line item cut, the sky is falling and the planes are falling with it. it's not serious. the american people don't buy it. that's why they voted for donald trump. they're psyched to see what elon is doing, and they're not crying for the bureaucrats that lost jobs in the dmv.

>> and chuck t.w. makes makes a point, which is trump was very clear about elon musk and the role he would likely have and what he wanted him to be doing. and the american people did vote for him. musk has portrayed his doge work as fighting for the will of the people. does that stand up to your scrutiny? what do you think? >> well, i think that elon musk spent $288 million of his own money to elect a guy who gave him that job. so i think it was a great investment for him to be able to then go in and wreak havoc in our government. and god forbid, i'm the one here and i'm going to be one of those folks that t.w. was talking about and saying, look, if you're going to get my trash picked up on time or make sure that the snow is removed off my street, count me in in a efficient fashion. we want our government to be efficient. we haven't always done the best job at doing that, but the republicans are brilliant to put a democrat like me in a position to have to defend all the bloat that's in our government. i hope they go to the pentagon and work on some of them. $10,000

toilets i've been hearing about for the last 20 years. count me in. but the bottom line is we have billionaires and now in charge of our white house. when a majority of americans. stay with me here for all you elementary math students like me, a majority of people who voted in this election voted for somebody other than donald trump. and now donald trump is running around like he won 90% of the vote here, breaking things and moving quickly. and i think he's going to break something that he's never going to be able to get back into that box at some point, and he's going to pay for it in the midterms. >> mhm. and mark, i want to stay with musk for a second because former trump adviser steve bannon has called elon musk a parasitic illegal immigrant. no love lost between those two. how does all of this play out within maga world? >> well, that is part of what you just read there. the dispute over the h-1b visa issue, where steve bannon is much more aligned, much more in tune with the maga base. a lot of working

class voters, even independent of maga, who don't like the idea of sort of importing more labor, including high skilled labor and replacing u.s. labor and u.s. workers. so that portion of it, uh, i see bannon prevailing on because if you look at the polling, he's with that portion of the base or those people, but elon musk is sitting down with the president. the president repeatedly praises him. it's difficult to see, especially after months and months of people predicting that donald trump is going to get sick of musk and he's going to chuck him, that all of a sudden there's going to be this falling out. uh, the best way, i think, to forecast this is elon musk has a job to do. it's this doge committee or whatever we're going to call it. and once that's done, maybe there's going to be more of a separation. but until then, all signs are is that donald trump really likes the guy, likes the work he's doing, and elon musk is going to be sticking around the environs of the white house for quite some time. >> yeah, this moment, full steam

ahead to president trump keeps joking about a third term. going back to steve bannon for a second. he has not been joking about that. he's he believes trump is eligible for another term. i know we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here, but do you think that's something that republicans would entertain? >> well, i think one did already, but no. in short, i don't think that fight needs to be had. by the way, donald trump is no spring chicken. he does enjoy his golf and his sunshine. i don't think he's going to want to do it anyway. and i think that's a really bad road to go down. but to the steve bannon point, look, steve bannon was in the center of power in 2017. he then went to prison for what he thought was for the president. and he didn't wind up back in the white house like, say, peter navarro. so this is a lot like seeing a girl you were seeing going out with another guy and posting it all over instagram. it hurts. and you have two options. you can try to understand her perspective and

get over it. or you can go to war. and he just chose to go to war with the richest man on the planet who owns x now. so we'll see how it works out for him. >> yeah. and chuck bannon has said he thinks, quote, musk is the one with the power at the moment. democrats are nowhere to be seen. he says future party leaders won't be politicians, but big personalities like stephen a smith. i'm curious if you see it that way. >> look, there's a lot of soul searching. he's going in the democratic party. and to my friend t.w., i want to get even with him. on stealing my ex girlfriend line that already had wrote up for tonight. being jealous of my beautiful wife. >> beat you to it, baby. >> but the point about what you're saying is there needs to be a reexamination. we've lost touch with the working class of this country, and steve bannon does have his hand on that. he has for a long time. and i think he sees through people like elon musk and other billionaires who are in it. i think my personal opinion for their own well-being. so there's something to be learned here by democrats to take on a fight, because if you want to take on a bully and take on people, you got to learn

how to fight and to stand up to bully, because normally they'll run away. >> and t.w. in the meantime, republicans are are just fine with, with with going ahead with their plans and the democrats being out in the wilderness. >> yeah. i mean, i think it's full steam ahead for doge. we've seen you know, i think it's unusual for the american people to see the president and his advisers out in front of the media every single day. i think they find it unusual that doge is tweeting several times a day about the things they're slashing, and they find it rich when they find misreported information about some of what doge is doing. like, for example, the nuclear agencies or the faa. when you find out that those employees, um, were temporary employees or only there for under a year and not watching nuclear codes. so, yeah, i think things are going well. they're going to be hiccups, play fast, make mistakes, as my grandmother said in cards. but but we're on a good path. >> and just i did want to ask you, trump has said tonight

he's not going to touch social security unless there's fraud. earlier today, he did claim millions of dead people are collecting social security payments, which we you know, we'll wait for that evidence. but where where do you think that's going? >> i think there's definitely fraud somewhere in social security. and i have no doubt that the whiz kids at doge will find it. it's an antiquated coded system. everyone knows that. so i'm stay tuned. i'm sure you'll find plenty. >> all right. and the first. >> time that somebody misses their social security payment, i'm going to run a tv commercial. we're going to win the house by ten in the midterms. >> all right, save some money. >> on that note, thanks to all of you for staying up late. we appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you. >> still ahead tonight, an order to launch a criminal investigation into a biden initiative ends with a top federal prosecutor resigning. the dramatic moment inside doj, and why? some fear that there is more to come. plus, as president trump seeks to end the war in ukraine, he's now lashing out against president zelenskyy. and

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asked for my resignation. the doj firing back, saying chung refused to fulfill a basic request and follow the chain of command. but it highlights the growing tension between career prosecutors and the new bosses at the doj. chung's resignation coming after the standoff over the eric adams case, where the doj demanded prosecutors drop charges against him. eight prosecutors resigned, one of them just yesterday. and more than 900 former justice department prosecutors signing an open letter in support of current prosecutors, saying that they are dealing with, quote, ethical challenges of a type no public servant should ever be forced to confront. with me now, former federal prosecutor brendan belew. he resigned over trump's pardons to january 6th rioters. brendan, thanks for being here with us tonight. denise chung refusing to go along with this order to open an investigation that she says lacked evidence. what message do you think this sends to the rank and file over at doj? >> well, i think the fact that

she had to resign is a message that this administration is trying to politicize the entire process of justice. you see that both in this matter as well as the january 6th pardons and the eric adams attempt to drop that investigation. i will say that the the fact that she resigned itself, um, i also think sends at some level a positive message, a message that line level prosecutors can actually play a role in resisting that politicization. >> um. >> and so many prosecutors have been fired or forced to resign. what do you think they achieve with with these resignations, these firings? >> yeah. so i think the purpose of the resignations, from the perspective of the line level attorneys, is to show that these actions by the administration are politically motivated. and i think in that extent, in that respect, they have been tremendously successful because they've really revealed the

extent to which this administration is trying to use criminal law to push a political agenda. if i can just add very briefly to that, that all matters, because the department of justice can't act alone. it needs grand juries to indict. it needs trial juries to convict. it needs judges to rule on motions. and to the extent that these line level attorneys can show that these are politically motivated prosecutorial decisions, it's going to make it harder for the department of justice to do any of that. >> mhm. so back to this epa. epa. situation. the doj wanting to freeze the payment of $20 billion to the epa is clawing back money for the administration. do you think part of the motivation here is it simply that it was a biden era. >> yeah. it seems like this was a prosecution in search of a crime. um, miss chung, based on the public reporting, did

everything she could to legally comply with what this administration was asking her to do. but i think it's important to remember that, you know, not just the president, not just elected officials, but every government employee takes an independent oath to uphold the constitution. and it sounds like she took that very seriously. >> yeah. i mean, several of the resignation letters by these prosecutors have been scathing. they've been calling out politics, calling out potential wrongdoing by doj. do you think that that begins to influence public opinion? >> absolutely. you know, the department of justice isn't like nasa. you know, we don't have rockets in our command. the only thing the department of justice has is its credibility. and i think with these very public resignations, these attorneys have shown the political nature of these prosecutions, which in and of itself makes it less likely that these prosecutions are going to be successful. >> mhm. >> and if there are more dismissals and, and a focus on loyalty, do you know, do you

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vladimir putin when the war started. >> this guy is now almost 70 years old. he realizes he's in the back stretch. he probably feels that his legacy is not yet complete unless he can restore greater russia, which has to include ukraine at least under his thumb. >> the administration's response to the war just one of several issues democrats are now grappling with in this new trump term. and while there are many issues at hand. my next guest says ukraine is one that democrats should not back down from. >> so, so far we have two hills. >> you're not going to die on birthright issue and plastic straws. ukraine. >> i would. >> die on the ukraine hill. >> tim ryan joins me now, former democratic congressman from ohio. congressman, thanks for being here tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> when you see how this administration is approaching these peace talks, and when you

hear what we just played from president trump, they're suggesting ukraine is to blame. i'm curious what your reaction is. >> well, ukraine didn't start the war. so clearly he is misinformed about how this all got going in the first place. i think when you look at how russia handles his energy, uh, with regard to europe, um, you know, and all of these other things in syria, in the middle east helping iran, all of these things that russia has had its fingers in. and now to come in and what it looks like and we'll see. we'll see what happens. uh, it looks like, you know, trump's going to do anything to, to get a deal. and that that deal very well could be we reward really bad behavior. we reward a dictator who's going into a free country and killing and slaughtering innocent people. and to me, i think, you know, ronald reagan and george herbert walker bush and john kennedy, uh, a lot of, you know,

patriotic americans from both parties are rolling over in their grave right now. >> what kind of precedent does that set? >> well, i mean, we're out of the precedent setting and blasting of precedent since trump came in in 2016. i mean, there no longer is any any precedent. i don't think it's like whatever trump feels like in the moment is the right thing. um, that's what he's going to do. and if he thinks he can get a deal, make peace, regardless of the precedent that it will set for the future. uh, i'm not sure that even crosses his mind. >> and we played that moment where you told bill maher you think ukraine is a hill democrats should die on? what does that actually look like? and what do you want them to do? >> well, when it comes to ukraine, i'm not exactly sure. uh, it's not clearly it's not an easy one. um, but i do think it is. it is a principled one

that you have to, um, you have to draw a line in the sand, i guess. you know, that's why i think it's so stupid to be falling on the. they're dying on the hill of usaid. uh, getting involved in every single argument or just chasing trump around washington, d.c. for the last month. um, because then when you do have to take a stand, it doesn't have as much power, as much meaning, as much force. and so i do think you need to stay focused. but but look, do we want to be a country who says it's okay for a really bad guy? the kind of the guy that marco rubio was just talking about, the pre, uh, confirmed marco rubio? um, do we want to let that guy walk into a free country and take land? would we want someone to do that to us? no, those aren't the basic principles we want to live under. and so whether it's it's, you know, support ukraine to the extent we can to at least raise the threshold of pain for

for putin. but look, that's out of the question now because trump's not going to do that. and they have already pulled the funding. so they already tipped their hand to say that, you know, they've increased putin's negotiating power here because they said we're cutting off funding. >> and i do want to get your thoughts just more broadly on overall democratic strategy right now, because i think some americans and people who consider themselves democrats are throwing their hands up, saying not enough is being done. this is what james carville recently said. well, listen to this. >> what i think they should do is what we call in rural america play possum. just let it go. don't get in the way of it. or as we like to say, don't just stand there, do nothing. let it let this germinate. we don't need to be. we don't need to get in front of it. this this freight train is moving. let's just get out of the way and then we're going to have time.

>> and we could talk a lot about this. we don't have a ton of time, but i do want to get your thoughts on on that idea. >> i like the rope a dope strategy. i think carville is right. um, because this is what the american people voted for. let them see what they're going to get. you know, you may have to pick a spot here or there, uh, you know, and i think we should be talking a lot about the economics. i think you sit back, let him do what he wants, just like carville was saying, play rope a dope, but start laying the groundwork for the economic argument. why is he focused on all this bs while price of eggs are still high, wages still aren't going up. working class people aren't the focus anymore. for the trump administration. and then when he comes with this four and a half, you know, trillion dollar tax cut that he's going to pass, that's going to go 85% of the wealthiest people in the country. you can say, look, there's another there's another thing he's doing that he's not focused on your pocketbook issues. so let him go out and do all this stuff down the down the

line. stay back, but constantly be be putting it up. the background music on the economy. and then when the time is right, people will draw their own conclusions. we've tried since 16 to run around with our hair on fire, and that is not to diminish how important this stuff is. saying the judiciary isn't important, saying some of these programs aren't important. that's not to diminish any of that. but what it is saying, do we do we want to win elections, or do we want to try to be right on every single issue? and i think carville is right. >> all right. former congressman tim ryan, thanks so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> still ahead tonight, a judge set to make the doj explain why it wants to drop the case against new york city mayor eric adams. as governor kathy hochul holds a meeting to discuss his fate. so will she remove him? and what exactly is she waiting on? one of the city leaders who met with her today will join me next. and later, the video seen around the world. that delta plane caught on camera crash

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ability to assist in trump's immigration crackdown. tomorrow, a judge overseeing the case will hold a hearing to discuss the dismissal motion with prosecutors and adams. adams is vowing to stay in office, but some lawmakers question if he's now beholden to trump. >> it's a deeply disturbing development. mayor adams has a responsibility to decisively demonstrate to the people of new york city that he has the capacity to continue to govern in the best interest of new yorkers, as opposed to taking orders from the trump administration. we have to protect our values. and if the mayor can't send a message to us straightforward, that he's going to stand with us to preserve those values, then he may have to step aside. >> joining me now, the comptroller for new york city, brad lander he met with hochul today. he's also running against adams for the democratic nomination for mayor in new york. brad, thank you so much for being here with us tonight. first off, i just want to know,

based off your conversations today, can you read the tea leaves and see what direction the governor might be headed in? >> look, we're all concerned about how we provide continuity of government. there's going to be a big snowstorm thursday. will the sanitation plows be out? we'll be able to get people off the streets so they don't freeze. will we be able to fight the fires that come in those storms? that's what the governor is focused on. that's what i'm focused on. we've got to see what happens with judge ho tomorrow. i've called on the mayor to deliver a real clear contingency plan. what is he going to do to replace those deputy mayors and guarantee services to new yorkers? and how can we know that he works for us and not for donald trump? and that's what we're all waiting to see. >> yeah, and some supporters of adams say that removing him before a judge makes a decision on the case violates his right to due process. what do you think about that? >> well, i thought he definitely has a right to due process, but that presumes a trial. so if what he wants to say is i don't want the dismissal of the case, i want my day in court. i think

that's what we were all expecting. and that is what justice and due process would look like. >> and you mentioned this contingency plan you want to see. you gave the mayor an ultimatum here. you said get that contingency plan together by friday or you will be forming what's called the inability committee. that's the first step. the city council can take toward removing mayor adams. what would it take to convince you he should stay on the job until november? >> well, first, let's see what happens with judge ho. because if the case was to proceed, or if it was to be dismissed with prejudice so he wouldn't be being held hostage by trump for his mass deportations and immigration policy. that would help. if he makes clear, here's how i'm going to replace the deputy mayors who oversee the police, the fire or sanitation, transportation, housing, health and hospitals. here's how i'm going to run the government. then that would show his ability to fulfill his duties as mayor. and that's what i asked of him. >> it sounds like you want a plan.

>> a plan. look, new yorkers have to know their government's going to be there for them and that their mayor works for them and not for somebody else. and that's what it will take for him to persuade us that he can do the job. >> i also, as i noted at the beginning of our interview, you are running against adams. are you concerned that people see this in you're maybe using it to your political advantage? >> well, look, the four deputy mayors who resigned yesterday were all appointed by the mayor. and the senior deputy mayors in his administration are saying, we don't have confidence here. we feel this is a corrupt bargain and we can't do our job. so this is not about me. this is about him and trump. and again, that inability committee has four other people who aren't running for mayor. it's got two thirds of the city council required. so, you know, it's a hard question. is he able to fulfill the duties outlined by the city charter and that new yorkers deserve? or is he so compromised by trump and so

damaged by chaos that he can't fulfill his duties? that's a big question, but it is one that new yorkers want answered. >> and adams has been rallying support. he's been blasting people calling for his resignation. i want to listen to a clip from what he said yesterday. >> i remember listening to some of doctor king's teaching, and he talked about the book mein kampf, and he indicated, if you tell a lie long enough, loud enough, people will tend to believe it's true. and that's what you're seeing right there, right now. modern day mein kampf. >> you are the highest ranking jewish elected official in new york city. i want to get your reaction to that. >> i mean, it's gross. it's offensive, it's anti-semitic, and it just shows a lack of concern for the real issues. you're deputy mayors all quit. and rather than saying, here's how i'm going to make sure new yorkers have services, you go quoting hitler, what is wrong with you? >> um.

>> and obviously you're a strong you've been a strong critic of adams, but you are also you're pursuing this job. why do you want this job? >> i mean, this is the greatest city in the world, but the price of housing is crushing families. the. we've got a mental health crisis in our subway system. new yorkers need a government that is delivering a safer, more affordable and especially a better run new york city that will take an honest, effective leader at city hall. and that's why i think eric adams has got to go and why i'm running to replace him. >> okay. and so to that end, sitting right now, do you think the governor should remove eric adams? >> well, we need to see what happens in court tomorrow. we you know, we need to see where the court case goes. we need to see whether he answers my letter and provides a real contingency plan. we need to see whether he goes into court to get the $80 million that elon musk stole from us last week back. and whether he works for us or donald trump. so we've got to see those things before we can take next steps. >> and quickly. how long are you willing to give him to do that?

>> well, i asked for that contingency plan by friday. >> right. so this is a friday deadline, pure and simple. all right. brad lander, thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> up next, the crash landing in toronto caught on camera. so what went wrong? a former pilot is looking at that video frame by frame and weighing in. that's next. plus not guilty. the must-see moment in court as rapper asap rocky gets acquitted of assault and leaps into rihanna's arms. >> cookbooks. >> corporate fat cats. swindling socialites, doped. >> up cyclists then yes, more crooked politicians. i have a feeling we won't be running out of those anytime soon. >> a new season of united states of scandal with jake tapper, march 9th on cnn. at morgan stanley. >> old school hard work meets bold new thinking. partnering to unlock new ideas, to create new legacies, to transform a company

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partner, superstar rihanna, seen outside of court celebrating that verdict, giving rocky's lawyer, joe tacopina, a new honorific. >> rocky is one of my closest friends, but he's also just a great, great person. rihanna. they say. >> joe said. >> they they are. they are seriously the greatest people. and i said, i love them and i really do love them. and i got emotional in my summation because i care about them. this is one of the happiest days of my life. >> cnn's elizabeth wagmeister has more. >> find the defendant, rakim mayers, not guilty. >> the a. not guilty. verdict sent rapper asap rocky leaping into the arms of superstar rihanna. it's the end of a case that began in 2021 with a confrontation in the middle of hollywood. shots fired, prosecutors say, near the famed pantages theater. one of the men involved. the grammy nominated

rapper asap rocky. his family is world famous. his partner is singer and billionaire businesswoman rihanna. the couple have two young children. >> he doesn't get to be the big celebrity in a jury trial. >> prosecutors allege a deteriorating relationship between asap rocky, whose real name is rakim mayers, and former friend terell ephron, known as a$ap relli, led to the confrontation. prosecutors say rocky fired two shots, one grazing his knuckles. the defense says rocky merely had a prop gun that fired blanks, which he was known to carry for security. no weapon was recovered, and police found no shell casings until relli says he returned to the scene to find two from a handgun. >> impossible for them to miss that seven officers, 20 minutes. search lights. impossible. if the defense position was, the prop gun was correct, there should have been casings there

from the prop gun. they weren't. >> the defense paints relli as a jealous man out for money. he also filed a civil suit seeking millions of dollars. >> this isn't about justice for him. it's about payout and payback. >> rihanna herself present in the courtroom several times with the couple's two children. her name brought up during closing arguments. the defense pointing to an article the alleged victim sent to a friend. >> entitled. >> rihanna fears heartbreaking consequence of asap rocky strata. and he sent it with a smiley. >> face. >> a smiley face. >> this parasite. >> is hacking. if he can hurt that bad. >> it's a classic hollywood courtroom battle led by two high profile lawyers. prosecutor john lewin featured on hbo's the jinx. >> i was. >> going to flee the country.

>> and joe tacopina, a new york defense attorney who repped president trump for a time during his hush money trial. the pair creating plenty of courtroom theater. >> he might want to stop. >> i'm so i'm so grateful. >> you should be, joe. >> but the unforgettable drama of this trial came at the very end. now, jessica, that was truly a stunning moment inside the courtroom as a$ap rocky leaped right into the gallery, straight into rihanna's arms. but you can understand his sense of relief. if convicted on both counts. asap was facing up to 24 years behind bars. jessica. >> all right. elizabeth wagmeister, thank you very much for that. new video from both inside and outside. that delta flight that crashed and rolled over at toronto pearson international airport. officials still won't say what caused the crash because the investigation is still in its early stages, but the video that that gives us this invaluable insight into

what happened. first, the video shows the moment the plane touches the ground, rolling over to one side, which appears to cause the wing to rip off, and then you see the fireball erupting, and it all ends with the plane's landing gear facing the sky. commercial pilot and flight instructor erin murphy telling cnn today. >> the thing that i'm seeing on that approach is what we call a stabilized approach. it looks fine with the with the wind gusts and the conditions that we had that day. i would expect to see the aircraft struggling to maintain wings level. we should see a lot of roll inputs. it looked incredibly stable to me all the way down to the very last seconds of that approach and landing. and it's it's almost as if they picked up some kind of a downward gust. or maybe a gust had suddenly stopped at the time of landing and kind of dropped out the bottom of the aircraft, like the aircraft seems to have just

dropped to the runway suddenly. and that really struck me as odd. >> then there's this other new video showing what all of it looked like from inside the crashed plane. passengers you see there still strapped into their seats, hanging upside down like bats. former inspector general at the department of transportation mary schiavo, talking earlier today about what may have happened. listen to this. they were getting gusts of wind as they were. coming down, and they smacked down pretty hard. according to the eye. witness or the ear witness reports, and those people on the plane right at the end of the threshold of the runway. and at that point, what looks like might have happened from very grainy videotape from other cameras is the landing gear. the rear gear might have snapped off at that point, along with the right wing, which with the left wing still on the plane, lifts the plane, causing a plane to roll. and tonight we're hearing

a new account from a passenger who describes just how harrowing the crash was. >> you could see. >> kind of row by row or area by area. people were checking one another out, making decisions about whether we would help one another with their straps, or if by doing that, would they be landing on somebody else. and then we looked over and the windows were just there was just liquid pouring over the, the, you know, the small windows. and suddenly it smelled very strong of what i heard people later call av gas. we all made our way kind of, i don't know, 6 to 8ft and then climbed out and it felt like i was stepping onto the tundra. the most powerful part of today was there was just just people. no countries, no nothing. it was just people together, um, helping each other. >> um. >> officials saying today, 19 of the 21 hospitalized in that crash have been released. and new tonight, cnn has learned attorneys for diddy are once again trying to get his federal

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