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president macron and ukrainian president zelenskyy. you're looking at a live shot from paris where trump is set to attend the reopening of the notre dame can cathedral. i'm molly line, griff. griff: as we go back to the live shot at paris. we're waiting for french president macron and ukrainian president zelenskyy and president-elect trump. and it's remarkable with 40-something days to go before the inauguration, already donald trump making a splash on the world stage, meeting, of course, with zelenskyy for which the end of the russian war in ukraine will be on tap. we also expect at some point, there's a possibility that trump and prince william will meet and it's really sort of significant, i think, as we wait to watch to see the world

leaders come out, that trump is wasting no time, molly, for his impact to be made on the world stage and the shift in policies that we expect, based on things he said during the campaign, as they relate to world events. we are going to continue to watch this shot. you see there, the guards, they'll come out there just behind that and we will bring it to you as we get it any moment now. so a lot of moving parts here. meanwhile, that manhunt for the killer of united health care ceo brian thompson is now in its fourth day and expanded nationwide and the n.y.p.d. believes that they left the city shortly after the shooting. alexis with more on that. >> right now, the manhunt is nationwide and started in the big apple and now it's ex expanding across the country and police need your help. the fbi is also now involved. the person of interest took a bus to atlanta before the

shooting and the same place right after and the question now, where is he? >> yeah, we believe he was here for about 10 days, but we have that bus leaving the same morning, him going up to the port authority terminal the same morning of the incident. approximately an hour afterwards. >> all across new york city-- >> police telling fox news that the person of interest arrived in new york on november 24th. came in right around thanksgiving and checked into an upper west side hostel that same day. this is where he spotted on camera, that's where they got the smiling photo at the hostel and he went to various locations as well and the shooting was caught on camera. the words deny, defend and depose were left on the shell casings. similar to a title of a book that slams insurance companies. it's the same industry that brian thompson was in. thompson was the ceo of one of the largest health care insurance companies in the world united health care.

that's why he was in new york in business and having meetings. there is dna evidence in this case, important to point out to people at home, how they're going to track this guy down. they say that the person of interest bought a drink in the local starbucks, he finished it, and threw it out and they have a saliva sample and fingerprints from a discarded burner phone he dropped in an alleyway and that's going to be used to build a profile. >> we have a tremendous amount of evidence we've collected, dna evidence, fingerprint evidence at the lab now being processed. >> so dna, fingerprints, a burner phone and other things and the picture. they also now have a backpack, they believe that the suspect dropped in central park. what's in that backpack? we're waiting to find out. griff: alexis, thank you for the updates. molly. >> this is sort after chilling

moment. this is the actual crime scene and walking eastbound, mr. thompson was talking that morning about 6:45 a.m. when the shooter acrosses the street from behind me where we showed where he was posted up, crosses south to the south side of 54th street underneath this awning. he then follows mr. thompson this way in conditions much like this, dark, but again, he knew it was thompson, and he shoots him about here. molly: that's retired n.y.p.d. inspector and fox news kbter paul morrow providing a walk through of the suspect's movements. and what he discovered walking the path of this suspected killer. thank you for giving us your time today and also for doing the walk-through, it was enlightening and gave us familiarity that the suspect in that area and for me got me

thinking about a lot of different things. funny, there was a bike involved in this as he supposedly whipped through central park and seen riding in the far reaches before he made it to the bus terminal by the end of the day. what did you glean from this walk? >> when you actually visit the crime scene and retrace the suspect's steps. and you go to the sal yent point. theres with an a data point that was collected from a camera in a cigar store that seems to show the shooter exiting the subway 57th and 6th. here is why it's a little bit of a conundrum, first of all, he doesn't have the bike with him. people do take bikes on the subway in new york, if case anybody doesn't realize it. if that's him and reporting is, that it is, and the bike had to be staged there earlier, much

earlier. and they had him way up on the west side 5:30 that morning and he emerges from the f train at about 6:20 or so, very near the shooting site. why is that problematic? because the f-train goes nowhere near the upper west side. that's borough, through queens, midtown manhattan and brooklyn, nowhere near the upper west side which would argue he had to purposely try to obfuscate his movements to take a series of trains to go to that spot, shows stage craft. despite the fact he might have had insight into how to avoid trying to be detected, et cetera. made a lot of mistakes. the idea that he's a professional killer, a myth in general, that's not accurate. they're going to get him. a lot of data points and very good people on this. molly: that was sort of my next question. walking this, how much of insight were given as far as him being a professional or did he just have the 10 days to

walk routes, to make a plan, to figure out how to get a bike or any indication that someone else may have helped? that someone could have placed this bike? >> very good questions. so, i would pour a lot of water on the idea that he was a professional. as i said, this idea that you can walk into a social club or something and hire a hitman, it just doesn't happen and is it possible? sure, anything's possibly, but i think far more likely the latter of what you said is accurate. he came in 10 days ahead of time and maybe he's done a little bit of reading, a little bit of planning. it's possible he had an accomplice, and would maybe explain why the bike was waiting for him and he could explain the real glaring data point here, which is if mr. thompson was due at 0800 at 8:00, excuse me, for the conference at the hilton, how did the shooter put him on a dime, 6:45, almost an hour and a half before the event. how would he know he was there, especially the reporting

directly from the chief detectives is that the shooter was posted up, waiting for mr. thompson only about five minutes before he arrived. so, somehow or other he seemed to know that thompson was on the way and he acquires mr. thompson definitively from across the street in twilight conditions at about 75 feet. i walked it. and there's a lot of car traffic and everything else. not impossible that he had somebody that told him, hey,'s on the way and we have that still image of the shooter on a cell phone on the way to the event, and so it is possible that somebody was helping him. we have to admit to that possibility, but right now there's no indicia of that, we want to be careful and looks like the police department is saying at this point he seems to have acted alone and they're onto him. molly: thank you so much, appreciate it. i was going to ask you about the last data point about the backpack being found. and alexis was highlighting that. do we have time for that or--

>> i do. molly: go ahead, paul, excuse me. >> that would be important for a host of reasons, but certainly a lot of dna from that. he handled that backpack, et cetera. might be able to trace where he bought it. i had the case where the purchase of a backpack became significant. maybe it's an unusual backpack, an unusual brand and trace it by a serial number or something. bottom line getting dna out of that and he's not as clever as he thinks, this guy. molly: paul mauro, thank you very much. and greatly appreciate your insights. griff: molly, our viewers may have been watching in the bottom right of your screen there. you see president-elect trump has left the palace after meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy and french president macron and he'll ahead to attend the reopening of the notre dame cathedral in paris today over five years after the devastating fire at the landmark.

and several world leaders are expected to attend the event where macron will speak ahead of the ceremony and we've got chief religion correspondent lauren green live in paris with a look at today's significant event. hey, lauren. >> yes, a very significant event. the sun has obviously set here in paris, but thousands and thousands of people are lining the seine river, watching the full screens lined along the river to watch the ceremony set to begin in a few minutes. dignitaries are arriving and they watched as president zelenskyy, and macron and trump left the presidential palace to arrive shortly. as you said, trump and macron met at the presidential palace. it's trump's first appearance on the world stage since winning the election november 5th and reports are he will-- he has met, of course, with zelenskyy, the three have met together, but it was macron's invitation that is the first of

the world leaders to actually extend the olive branch to trump and the world leaders who was in office during trump's first term that ended in 2020. the two talking about the past and the future. >> it's an honor for french people to welcome you. >> it's an honor to be here, we had a lot of good times together and great success working together. >> as they said, zelenskyy is also here and he had met with trump and macron and 1500 guests are here, including the prince of wales and first lady jill biden and john kerry is here. five years ago, the world watched in horror as fire engulfed notre dame. and president macron vowed our lady would be reopened in five years.

so the work began. 2,000 statues and decorative statues and features were restored or rebuilt. the trusses, the roof, and religious relics saved from the fire, restoration cost $800 million and 65 million came from the united states. first and foremost, notre dame is a house of worship to glory of god and to honor. >> and the first ahead is after macron speaks. griff: a historical landmark for so many christians around the world. lauren green live in paris, we'll get you more as we get it. thank you very much. >> today president biden marks pearl harbor remembrance at the

white house as speculation grows over additional pardons as he leaves office. lucas tomlinson has the latest on this. >> good afternoon. hunter biden received a pardon from his father a few weeks before christmas and since this, reporters were anxious to speak with karine jean-pierre for the meeting after months of saying that the president would not do it. and preemptive pardons, something that kjp refused to rule out. >> look, i'm not going to get ahead of the president, but what i can say is that the president is reviewing other pardons and commutations. >> now, some of the names floated for these preemptive pardons, dr. fauci, mark milley. liz cheney and adam schiff.

some predicted that the pardon would come after hunter was sentenced. biden spent thanksgiving with him before jetting off to africa. >> he did, he wrestled with this, he wrestled with this. and again, he said in his statement in his own voice that he made that decision this past weekend. and the fact is when you think about how the president got to this decision, circumstances have changed. he wrestled with these circumstances. the president laid it out himself in his own words, he did. he laid out how he wrestled with this decision. he wrestled with it. >> donald trump's incoming press secretary reacted to this about-face. >> you tell the truth and i think that karine jean-pierre was lied to or to the american people, a dereliction of duty.

>> and molly, now we wait to see if any of the preemptive pardons were coming. molly: it would be fascinating and historical, lucas tomlinson. thanks for covering. griff. gr griff:. >> i'm excited because tom homan is a brother border patrol agents and served in this uniform and i'm excited to see anybody in our green family make good and excited to see what they do. i can tell you deportation represent a consequence, a consequence not following our laws coming into our country the right way. >> the fiscal year just ended and there's been a lot in terms of enforcement, not just gang members, but also narcotics and other dangerous migrant criminals. tell me about the enforcement of the last year. >> almost 520 known gang members, 27 of those are from the notorious tren de aragua gang and the spices, you name

it. and 106 on the terror data screening set. and you can imagine going into a movie theater or a restaurant and every person in there was a member or on the terror screen data set. that's how many people that the minimum the united states border patrol that represented a risk to our communities were kept from infiltrated and getting in and doing who knows what. they were responsible for 35,000 criminal arisses-- arrests, ranging from convicted murderers, assaults, you name it. griff: terror suspects to tda members. and that's the depth of criminal migrants crossed the border as the u.s. cities grapple how to respond to upcoming mass deportations. and let's bring in raymond lopez and former dhs advisor.

and i want to start with you, we were able to get some sound from chicago residents about their feelings on the criminal migrants. here is some of what they had to say. i want you to listen and get your response. >> you all, to push to illegal immigrants, you told trump, you ain't going to blink, we ain't either. >> you are going down in history as the worst mayor in america. >> our mayor is embarrassing us around the world and you all took the power back from him to say the city of chicago is out of the business of funding illegals. >> alderman, it seems like the chicago residents are not on the same page as the mayor. >> when the mayor says he's leading with chicago values at heart, i don't know what values he's referring to because overwhelmingly chicagoans have said they want to see us take care of our residents, our

citizens first. we can address and deal with how we help undocumented individuals or the migrant asylum seekers, but we have to take care of our people first and to be perfectly clear, our mayor, brandon johnson has never once called out the government, has not called out president joe biden or his border czar, kamala harris, for the border crisis that became our back yard crisis. we need to do better and i think at some point the next administration of donald trump needs to look at how we can start removing those individuals who were aided and abetted by the administration to manipulate asylum in order to gain entry to our country. griff: and michael, from coast to coast, in san diego, where the san diego city council is vowing to resist and not cooperate with ice, all the way to boston, where their city council just trying to say that they also will not cooperate. you've got the battle lines drawn over the incoming trump administration's effort to simply remove a threat to

public safety, criminal migrants. here is a little bit of what rodney scott, the incoming cbp chief had to say about the importance of the planned deportations. listen here. >> we just need to go deport these people. sanctuary cities is going to be a challenge, but nowhere is going to be off limits and basically empower the personnel, dhs in mine specifically, cbp to do the jobs that america hired them to do. >> it's astounding that we're considering this issue as a discrimination issue as opposed to a national security issue. when i was in the homeland security spot if you told me there would be millions of people coming across the border and we didn't know who they were, what type of training they had and motivations were, i would have never believed it. yet, that's where we find ourselves today in addition to which, there's this criminal element we know exists within the migrant centers and within the migrant population.

the big question, is america now going to take a stand and sit there and say, we need a secure border. we need to find the folks, especially the criminals and gang members and take them and remove them from this country. it is an incredibly difficult challenging task, but that's what donald trump ran on. griff: michael, i'm almost out of time, but i wanted to get your take on whether or not you see, if we do see mayor johnson and others in these localities resist ice, is that going to ultimately have an impact in the next elections, in midterms coming up? >> i think it will, but you know, here is the other thing, the federal government's incredibly powerful in so many different ways, so i think that donald trump's a great negotiator and you're going to work with these cities, sanctuary cities and sit there and say let's reach an accommodation where we can get the bad guys out first and then begin more deportations. and you ignore that you'll pay

a price. griff: and i am up against the clock. where do you think it's headed? >> if donald trump wants to be transformative, he can do things he promised, deport all the individuals who came here manipulating asylum and answering where obama and biden both failed which was to give dreamers and those who are daca eligible a path to citizenship. if he can do that, he will change the landscape for the voting public for a generation and i think that people like brendan johnson, who are posturing now, are going to fall to the wayside once the federal government comes in and starts holding them criminally responsible for the laws that they are breaking when it comes to immigration enforcement. griff: alderman lopez, michael balboni, we're up against a break. thank you for your time. molly: and still ahead the cabinet picks work to shore up support next.

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>> president-elect donald trump showing support for his defense secretary nominee, pete hegseth as he faces nomination. and rich edson is live from florida tracking trump's appointments. >> good afternoon, molly.

president-elect trump is looking at the nominees. and pete hegseth met with those on capitol hill, it appeared much of the week that it was in trouble and trump was asked whether he still has confidence in him. >> yes, i do. i really do. he's a very smart guy. i've known him through fox, but i've known him for a long time. and he's basically a military guy. i mean, every time i talk to him all he wants to talk about is the military. >> one of the republican senators hegseth and trump are trying to convince, combat veteran joni ernst. she and her senators want to make sure that the allegations against hegseth have been cleared and she'll meet with him next week and that their conversations have been constructive. over in the house the speaker says he's optimistic hegseth gets confirmed. >> we'll all made mistakes in our lives and we believe in redemption and what pete brings to the table, a love for the military, a great education

background, a great experience set. i think he's well-suited for the job and he'll shake up the status quo. >> now, another of the president-elect's controversial nominees, former senator tulsi gabbard with be back in d.c. and about her comments on russiaen, and syria's assad. and trump posted online and said that syria is a mess, not our friend and that the united states should not get involved. molly. molly: yeah, certainly fascinating considering that devolving situation in syria. rich edson, an interesting week ahead in washington. thanks for the update. >> vice-president elect j.d. vance in one of his first

appearances since the election. and the latest on what he saw, hey, christina. >> hi, griff. president-elect j.d. vance visited folks and the hurricane in north carolina, and he surveyed the storm damage and reassured hurricane stricken residents that orconcerns will be addressed. >> i know that a lot of people in this neck of the woods feel forgotten and i want to make sure they feel that their government leaders remember them and they do. and we'll help them rebuild and get them back on their feet. >> in north carolina more than 100 residents died from the storm. the hurricane caused more than 53 billion dollars in damages and apparently, people had trouble reaching their loved ones after the storm pummelled the area. vance says it's a disgrace that we have star link and access to modern technology and people still ran into these problems. >> the things that we're going

to focus on in the next administration is to make sure that our communications infrastructure is in a place, if, god forbid, at least we have it to minimize damage and allow people to communicate with the people that they love. >> even though vance was there to help hurricane stricken residents, reporters still asked him about trump's cabinet picks and whether he had concerns about pete hegseth being nominated to lead the department of defense. here is vance's response. >> pete hegseth is going to get his appearing before the senate armed services committees, not a sham hearing before the american meeting. we believe that pete hegseth is the right guy to lead the department of defense and that's why president trump nominated him. we're not abandoning this nomination. >> meantime, the hurricane cleanup continues in north carolina, more than 120,000 homes were damaged there from the storm. griff. griff: and it is indeed cold there as they suffer.

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>> the jury in the new york city trial will be back on to deliberate on criminally negative homicide. after jurors were unable to come to a unanimous decision on second degree manslaughter leading to the dismissal of that charge. cb cotton, what's next in penny's trial. >> with jurors out of the courtroom, daniel penny's team objected to the lesser charge.

and he said it would be elbowing the jury, and called for a mistrial. the judge denied the request and now deliberations continue on the lesser defense. if jurors convict him on negligent homicide, they're fairly confident that the last charge will be dismissed on monday. attorney brian claypool who we're about to hear from, tells fox if jurors convict him of the less are charge, he thinks that the defense team will have a strong appeal, saying that the judge never looked at why the jurors remained deadlocked on the lesser charge. >> if that hung on that, the entire case should have been dismissed, that judge never asked and that's an appealable, erroneous issue on the judge's part. >> so the trial has lasted more than a month. prosecutors argue nealy, who was homeless, battling mental

illness had an outburst on the subway that lasted 30 seconds and they said that penny's chokehold went way too far. and the defense argued that he protected her riders who were glad he stepped in. activists maintained that the case is about racism. >> racism is still alive and kicking in america. there's no other way to view this. everyone has looked at the case and those among you who say that daniel penny is innocent, have racism and bias in your heart. >> deliberations pick back up monday morning and we'll be monitoring, griff. griff: all right. cb cotton with the latest here, molly. molly: we just heard from him and i'm very fortunate to welcome back attorney brian claypool for a little more insight on this case, as we look towards monday when the jury gets back to deliberations. brian, i want to start with

this, the judge drops one charge, the more serious second degree manslaughter, but in a way does it almost point the jury towards the second charge, this criminally negligent homicide charge? >> yeah, hey, molly, brought to be with you, absolutely, are you kidding me? i thought when the case started that this prosecutor overcharged daniel penny. this never was a second degree manslaughter says, that requires penny to intend to harm jordan nealy, that requires proof that you know, penny knew and had reasonable to know that he was going to die because of the chokehold and still did it. there are no facts to support that. so these prosecutors overcharged knowing they'd never a get a conviction on second degree manslaughter and got what they wanted and then the judge to say, okay, we can't agree on that let's go to th which is easier tt does, it induces juror their ar

deliberating three or four days, okay, let's just get him on the lesser charge. it's patently unfair and a miscarriage of justice. molly: yeah, we also have the statement from the attorney for daniel penny who says they're being deliberate and since set a note regarding a reasonable person's standard. justification for the charge, if the jury found the government failed to disprove justification, the charges including the top count, will be dismissed. your thoughts on that argument and also your predictions come monday. >> that's exactly what i said on laura ingraham's show, i was on her show yesterday. you showed the clip to explain to your viewers, legal justification is an absolute defense, molly, to all the charges in this case, both charges. second degree manslaughter and negligent reckless homicide. the first very on the verdict form, what the jury reads and has to answer. first question should be, do you find anonymously that penny

was justified in his actions? right? that question has to be answered, and first, first, and if all 12 jurors do not agree on the justification issue casea mistrial is declared. what this judge did wrong is he didn't go back to that jury with a question and say, why have you reached a hung jury here, what is the basis for your hung jury, did you decide on the justification issue, and if that jury came back and answered that question, saying we couldn't decide on justification, that case is tossed and i can't believe a judge in new york city can't do his job and get a simple answer from that jury that would deck dictate the fate of daniel penny. molly: a lot of suspense for monday. the jury gets back to work and brian claypool, we appreciate

your insights. griff: and syrian opposition storming towards the capital, as more on the powder keg in the middle east. more on that next.

>> there is a new push for a cease-fire deal between israel and hamas before president-elect trump's inauguration and the teamworking with qatar on the truce. joining us now, stephanie. >> hey, molly. the qatar prime minister said there are two key issues here, whether there's a willingness to have the prisoner exchange and whether there's a desire to end this war in the first place and that prime minister held the doha forum today and he reconfirmed that the committee is renegotiationing, and mediating them and engaging with the incoming trump

administration. >> we have seen a lot of encouragement from the incoming administration in order to achieve a deal even before the president come to the office. >> and earlier this week, donald trump issued a warning to hamas, threatening all hell to pay if the hostages held in gaza were not released by the time he returns to the white house. the idf announced today it will deploy additional troops for defensive measures in the golan heights area. tensions rise with neighboring syria, as this war continues to spill over. thousands of fleeing the central syrian city as syrian rebel commanders say they've overrun an army camp today and also nearby villages. of course, rebels have seized a string of major cities within the last week,starting with aleppo and now heading towards damascus. thousands of troops went over the border of iraq to seek medical attention according to a local iraqi mayor. and 280,000 syrians have been

displaced within the last week or so and fear thanumber could reach 1.5 million. molly. molly: yeah, the big headlines may be coming out of syria in the coming weeks. stephanie bennett, thank you very much. griff: that's where we'll pick up, thank you. and in a truth social posting, president-elect trump called for the united states to let the situation in syria could be play out and not be involved. and we're speaking with the former ambassador to iraq and syrian engagement, james jeffrey. ambassador, great to have you here and what an opportunity to have someone with your background as we watch syrian opposition forces just on a thunder run to the capital in damascus, putting assad on his heels. withdrawing personnel and russia withdrawing personnel and it looks like a situation. before i get to president-elect

trump's reaction, what are we seeing develop there? >> the bottom line, first of all, we're winning. stephanie's report which started with a possible cease-fire in gaza, and then move to syria underlines the fact that across the middle east iran overstepped in its proxies on the 7th of october by attacking israel. there are steps taken by israel, the united states, other partners, most recently turkey and of course, the syrian opposition forces have now really devastated the entire iranian access throughout the region. this is a hugely positive development and also undercut russia's position in the region as well, which is an added plus. griff: and with president-elect trump's post today he simply says in all caps, the united states should have nothing to do with this. it's not our fight, let it play out, don't get involved. your reaction to what he's saying. >> he's right this isn't our fight. but just as president trump did, during the first administration, we do-- he recognizes we have real

interests in syria. it's just that we'll do it through our partners and allies and we have good ones. we have the israelis, who are very much involved. the turks, very much involved. and our on the ground, syrian kurdish -- syrian defense force, democratic forces in the northeast. they're all participating in this, they're all helping to drive out iranians and put assad under terminal pressure. that's all good. i'm sure that president trump as he said at the beginning of that statement recognizes that. griff: does this create in your mind, real opportunities as the trump administration prepares to take over? >> sure, but of course, we live hour by hour in a crisis like this and my sympathies go out to the people in the white house right now who are trying to deal with ever-changing developments. in a situation like this, there are a few basic principles. one, we protect our military forces on the ground in syria, diplomates and american civilians. two, we work closely, again,

with these partners, turks, syrian kurds and israelis. and we want to see iran expelled an i long with proxies from syria and we can are more nuanced on the russian bases and we want to see an eventual cease-fire, no civilian casualties, and calling for new constitutions, reconciliations and work through the other actors. griff: you put your finger on something important that some americans may not realize. we have over 900 u.s. military personnel in the northeastern, eastern side of syria right now. how concerned are you about their safety in a conflict like this that's moving so quickly? >> well, we always have to be cautious. and we lost three soldiers who were actually supporting the deployment in the south of the country a few months ago, but

first of all, they're well-trained, they're well-protected and they're making a huge distribution ever since 2018. you remember that president trump wanted to pull them out. he was then convinced they should stay in. their staying in syria was critical to everything that's happening now. griff: we shall be following it. thank you to have your insight as always, sir. >> thank you. griff: molly. molly: a ground of heavy snow leaving 20 inches on the ground in one part of the country. that is next.

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>> and today is the 83rd anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor, 353 japanese war planes striking the u.s. pacific fleet in hawaii sinking four battleships, among them the u.s.s. arizona. you're looking live in washington at the world war ii memorial where they're honoring those veterans attacked that day. nearly 2500 americans were killed on that day. they will mark pearl harbor's anniversary here in washington on a frigid day, molly. molly: and family's elf on the shelf is home safe and sound

with the help from a sheriff's deputies. the georgia mom captured her child's elf, and they said they were found at the school. >> and in western vermont in the snow, he's heard saying there's close to 20 inches on the ground, a winter weather advisory for the region started early friday morning, and it's cold just looking at this video. i know it's december, but already it's frigid all across the northeast, molly. molly: yes, cold in some spots and beautiful. that looks like a post card. i love it. much more ahead as we continue to track the manhunt who killed the united health care ceo. and we'll look at as president trump takes on the reopening of

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