. >> it is an honor to welcome you all to duke university to celebrate the life and legacy of associate justice sandra day o'connor. the 2024 recipient of the carl and susan bulch prize for the rule of law. president price asked me to share his deep regret that he could not join us this evening due to the travel delays that are affecting so many people right now. but we are delighted that so many distinguished guests are here with us. the chief justice of the united states, john g. roberts, and his wife, jane sullivan roberts, justice o'connor's son, scott o'connor, and his wife joni, susan -- [inaudible] cofounder of the institute, and many current and former members of our federal and state judiciaries including chief justice paul m. n if ubc of north carolina -- nuby. i'm also lighted to see so many friends, faculty, students and alumni of cook law school. peter khan, the chair of the advisory board and a former trustee of duke university, is also a here along with several current and former members of the advisory board, all of whom have helped make the institute so successful. but

we havejust had a statement from the duke of york's office, and they are saying that the duke of yorkcontact with the businessman accused of being a chinese spy after receiving advice from the government. the statement says" the duke of york, prince andrew, followed advice from the government and seized all contact with the individual after concerns were raised. the duke met the individual through official channels, says the statement, with nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed. in the statement goes on" he is, the duke of york, unable to comment further on matters relating to national security. " on matters relating to national security. sojust a on matters relating to national security. so just a storm up, the duke of york's office saying he has ceased all contact with the alleged chinese spy who he has been linked to all after he got advice from the government and ceased all contact with the individual after concerns were raised. the duke says the statement scott met the individual only through official channels are nothing official channels are nothing of a sensitive nature

now the duke chronicle, crystal mangum admits to fabricating 2006 duke lacrosse scandal the allegations triggered a i widespread response to the media which spent months on and around duke's campus even though the charges were dismissed in 2007 the lives of those involved were permanently altered. let's bring in a journalist focused on that cheat political analyst brit hume. brit great to see you. looking back it is quite something. >> it was bret and i was managing editor in that bureau down there in washington and i thought i smelled a rat right from the start because i had a son who was a lacrosse player who had gone to the same -- who went to the same school where david evans went and we knew the family and i had a sense what kind of kids played lacrosse and what kind of kids these were accused and it didn't smell good to me and i assigned it to meghan kelly a correspondent in washington and she at first thought the evidence looked promising and didn't take her long to smell something was wrong and she said look this evidence isn't looking very good and she was among the very first

h6 also had a note on how to handle the duke himself.er espionage investigators fear is the duke had been a target of elite capture, that is the chinese communist party's operation to seek influence across british life. so the home secretary used her exceptional powers reserved for the most serious national security cases to ban the uk. mis�*s chief has warned of the scale of china's information and intelligence gathering in the uk. we information and intelligence gathering in the uk. we see the chinese authorities _ gathering in the uk. we see the chinese authorities playing - gathering in the uk. we see the chinese authorities playing the l gathering in the uk. we see the - chinese authorities playing the long game and cultivating contacts to manipulate opinion in china's favour. seeking to influence prominent people across the political landscape, but early in people's careers and life, garnering a debt. ~ , people's careers and life, garnering adebt. , a debt. with the chinese embassy has cold the allegations _ a debt. with the chine

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he'd targeted the duke in an operation to influence him.an, the duke's adviser, dominic hampshire. he gave h6 the green light to act for the duke in talks with chinese investors. when the security services became suspicious and searched h6's phone, they found evidence he was a state agent — a conclusion that doesn't surprise experts. typically, they would go for members of the house of lords or prominent businesspeople or people who, you know, have a voice in the community. it's quite ambitious to target a member of the royal family and quite unwise for a member of the royal family to allow himself to be targeted. the court found that: there was a letter from dominic hampshire on the phone. he told h6 that: h6 also had a note of how to handle the duke himself. it said: counter—espionage investigators feared the duke had been a target of elite capture — that's the chinese communist party's operation to seek influence across british life — and so, the home secretary used her exceptional powers, reserved for the most serious national security

the duke's adviser, dominic hampshire, told h6 that he could act for the duke in talks with potentialurity services searched h6�*s phone in 2021, they saw evidence that he might be deceiving the prince to gain influence for the chinese communist party. the court found that h6 had been in a position to generate relationships with prominent uk figures which could be leveraged for political interference purposes. there was a letter from dominic hampshire on the phone. he told h6 that... h6 also had a note of how to handle the duke himself. it said... m15 concluded h6 was working for beijing. there's no suggestion mr hampshire was aware. the bbc has approached him for comment. counterespionage investigators feared the duke had been the target of elite capture. that's the chinese communist party's operation to seek influence across british life. and so the home secretary used her exceptional powers — reserved for the most serious national security cases — to ban the businessman from the uk. the chinese embassy has called the allegations a baseless smear, but experts are not surprised. typi

duke advisor told h six he could act for the duke in talks with potential chinese investors.rity services searched age six phone in 2021 they found evidence he might be deceiving the prince to gain influence in the chinese communist party. the court found h six had been in position to generate relationships with prominent u.k. figures which could be leverage for political interference purposes. it was a letter from dominic hampshire on the phone. he told h six outside of the prince's closest internal confidants, you sit at the top of a tree many people would like to be on. hc had a note of how to handle the duke himself. it said important. manage expectations. really important to not set too high expectaons. he is in desperate situation and will grab onto anything. my five concluded h six was working for beijing. there is no suggestion mr. hampshire was aware. the bbc has approached him for comment. counterespionage investigators feared the duke had been target of elite capture, the operation to seek influence across british life. home secretary used her exceptional powers re

duke lacrosse team.was the head coach at the time. um, but what a lot of people don't know is that the district attorney at the time, mike nifong, who was in charge of of the case, was actually disbarred a year later for withholding dna evidence that actually, you know, was the thing that exonerated a lot of these these players. um, and so at the time, the players, you know, a lot of people thought they were were guilty. but when the then attorney general, roy cooper, who is interestingly, you know, the former governor of north carolina, um, dropped charges and said they were innocent. the season was still still canceled. um, and a couple of the players transferred had to transfer out the ones accused. and it really, you know, still affected the relationship between the lacrosse team and duke administration and durham. so there are a lot of lot of fallout effects to the case. >> yeah, quite the ripple effect. i've been in touch with one of the attorneys who represented one of those players at the time. t

well, she was in the duke lacrosse case. she is now totally admits now she totally made up the rape allegations against these duke lacrosse players back in 2006. by the way, we were right on this program on that issue. the damage has been long done, and with the help of the woke legacy media mob, the far left professors at duke university, the lives of these innocent college athletes were totally upended. we have those details tonight and later we're going to tell you, well, there are some d.c. restaurants they are planning to resist and take their power back from the incoming trump administration by punishing them and not serving them in a restaurant that might be called discrimination, according to the washingtonian. anyway, these workers in dc are pledging not to serve trump officials or trump supporters, which is pretty dumb considering there will soon be no tax on tips. bad service means lower tips. all right, but first tonight, good news in less than two months, the greatest political comeback in american history. it w

stunning twist in 2006 duke lacrosse case.mith with "america reports" at the top of the hour. we will see you in 11 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> some restaurant workers in d.c. preparing for trump's next term and reportedly making plans to make him and his staff feel unwelcome and here are one telling the washington you expect the masses to ignore rfkg in a diplomat on a sunday morning after mimosa not to throw a drink in his face? that is nice. another fine dining bartender at this, "this person theoretically has the power to take away rights, but i have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entree." tough guy but this retaliation is not new here to be this in trump's first office in 2018 and then press secretary sarah huckabee sanders thrown out of virginia restaurant, remember this, because she worked for trump? that seems fair and dhs secretary christian nelson was heckled at a mexican restaurant. watch. [screaming] mexican dinner as you are deporting tens of thousands of people seeking asylum in the united states. >> it wa

the three students settled out of court with duke for an undisclosed sum. back to you martha.ya host of the michele tafoya show podcast. we remember the case very well. these young men went through a difficult time when no one believed them and he went on tv and basically said this is white privilege and these young men are bad people and clearly they raped this woman. he was disbarred because of it. >> it was a huge story and it went so far beyond just sports. you talk about and steve talked about all the layers to "the story". i keep coming back to the one phrase. i was an airport recently and saw a woman wearing a t-shirt that said believe all women. and we know we can't and it's because of women like crystal mangum and many others. there are stories all over the sports line state of ohio state and a young high school player in southern california who spent six years in prison after being falsely accused of rape. their lives are forever changed. naturally the players get targeted. in this case i think at duke because they were white and it was an elite university and probab

. >> sandra: a stunning twist and duke university that shocked the nation 2006.oman accused of three men rape said she made it all out. steve harrigan has that story live in atlanta for us. hi, stay. >> sandra this admission a long time coming, 18 years, in fact 2006 duke lacrosse team had party and a stripper climbed that she was rape-80 by lacrosse players. now yesterday for the first time from jail where she serving prison sentence for murdering her boyfriend crystal mangum said in fact, the rape never happen and a story she made up and offered 18 years later an apology. >> i hope that they can forgive me. and i want them to know that i love them and they didn't deserve that. and i hope they can forgive me. >> this case really created a firestorm of national attention on one side. you had three white students at an elite university. they were prejudged as guilty by the media and by their own university and even by the prosecution, the chief prosecutor was eventually disbarred for withholding dna evidence. the president of duke, richard, said we got it wrong af

three men lose the ability to attend with the most prestigious universities in the country at duke.were thrown off when the best college across the programs that is ever existed duke lacrosse in the top 10 every single year they are a phenomenal program. lacrosse coaches lose a job. administers and schools lose jobs duke lost millions of dollars these kids reputation, that does not matter there exonerated at a later date. if you google their names this is the first of it's going to come up for every job search you cannot scrub the internet the court of public opinion is very damning regardless of whether your exonerated or not these of the types of allegations that prevent people from getting jobs i will follow you forever. unfortunately the apology as indicated is obviously appreciated. at this late stage they did the truth all along and as you indicated there is no way she can put the toothpaste back in the tube. she lied, it's out she cannot put it back in. she cannot fix the harm that she did. arthel: finally how does this impact defense of actual rape victims? we go to courtroo

i mean, again, it's duke is a very particular environment and duke epitomizes and i don't say this negatively, this is duke epitomizes the pre-professional you hear about among so many students today. and i don't know if this is a direct answer to your question, but i think one of the challenges or when it comes to students engaging in public life in an earnest and you know exuberant way is correctly have a sense that our economy is extremely unpredictable and fickle, that kind of wrong direction and type of mentality that i described before that, you know, a surveyed by gallup that in them too, they really believe that if they don't if they don't take, may if every step they take isn't the right, isn't isn't considered one, that if they kind of strayed far from responsible return on investment, things to do that their lives won't turn out correctly. so they're they're they're creatures of extraordinary caution. but i don't think is on them. i think that is a completely sane response to the time and the society that they live in. one of the things we all need to do just in terms of the kind o

one against duke, another against durham, the city of durham. but now that she has come out on the record saying it, let's see, legally what is available because it has been almost 20 years and i'm sure her resources are very, very sparse at this point. but we have tried to. contact the three now men involved in this, their attorneys and a local paper said that there are not comments at this point of of their reaction to all of this. >> wow. all right, gene, stand by. really appreciate you being on with us this morning. i do want to go to katerina dipasquale. she is the podcaster who interviewed crystal mangum when this admission was was offered up. katerina, i understand you're on the phone with us. tell us a little bit about this interview. yeah. how did this come about well, so i'm a i'm a new yorker who lives in durham, north carolina. >> i have been i started my show, let's talk with cat.com, and i was i was looking for an interesting interview in my circle. um, people have talked about crystal, and there was so much mystery around it for m

canceled, and duke's head lacrosse coach was forced to resign. the questions and the chaos continued for more than a year until the woman's story fell apart. despite earlier claims she told the da she could no longer say for sure she'd been raped. the da dropped the rape charge but pursued the other charges before recusing himself from the case, citing a conflict of interest. the attorney general's office took over. >> we believe that these cases were the result of a tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations. >> 13 months after it all began, in april 2007, then north carolina attorney general roy cooper declared the players innocent based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness. >> we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges. >> vindication gave way to elation. >> it's been 395 days since this nightmare began. and finally today, it's come to a closure. >> knowing i had the truth on my side was really the most comforting thing of all

for the duke in talks with potential chinese investors.n the security services search h6�*s phone in 2021, they saw evidence that he might be deceiving the prince to gain influence for the chinese communist party. the court found that h6 had beenin party. the court found that h6 had been in a position to generate relationships with prominent uk figures which could be leveraged for political interference purposes. there was a letter from dominic hampshire on the phone. he told h6 that... 0utside hampshire on the phone. he told h6 that... outside of the prince's closest internal confidants, you sit at the top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on. h6 also had a note of how to handle the duke himself. it said, important: manage expectations. really important to not set too high expectations. he is in a desperate situation and will grab onto anything. mis grab onto anything. mi5 concluded h6 was working for beijing. there is no suggestion mr hampshire was aware. the bbc has approached him for comment. counter espionage investiga

duke. he's a senior director for economic policy at the center for american progress. prior to joining cap, he worked as a senior policy analyst on the national economic council and served on the biden administration's supply chain disruption task force. he's also been a senior adviser to senator michael bennett, worked for the center for budget and policy, and most importantly, in his distinguished background, he was part of the democratic staff of the joint economic committee. so welcome back, mr. duke. the floor is yours for 5 minutes. >> thank you, congressman beyer, and thank you members of the committee. my name is brendan duke. i'm honored to submit this testimony about president-elect donald trump's tariff proposals. trump has unveiled several proposals to tax imported goods, too many for me to go through the allotted time here, but his most consistent idea is a sweeping 10% to 20% tax on all imported goods with a special 60% tax on imported goods from china. taxes on imported goods

duke has comments?there's been some analysis showing, obviously, donald trump campaigned on, you know, making it easier for oil companies to drill oil, that was made, but a lot of analysis saying that oil companies don't want to drill because they want to keep their profits high and i think what the caller just explained is part of the dynamics, now, drilling more at higher margins is not good for them and so, i think chances are he's going to try to claim he's, you know, opening up all of this drilling, but chances are, i don't think that oil companies are going to take advantage of it because they'd rather keep their profits high by not doing much. >> let's talk to nathaniel next in illinois. you're next. >> yes, i would like to know why do they have to come down on joe biden so rough? i understand that we are divided in this country. that man tried to do the best that he can, that he could. he's the one that used that big raise on social security a couple of years ago what you're getting this year be

of york will not be joining the royalfamily the duke of york will not be joining the royal family forrew is instead expected to stay at—home in windsor palace, sources are saying they hope the duke will honourably withdraw from royal events this year to prevent being a distraction. a little earlier this afternoon, the alleged chinese spy with links to prince andrew was named after a court lifted an order protecting his identity. the businessmen who can be identified as yang tengbo had previously only been known as h6. he was banned from the uk last week by a semi—secret national security court. mr yang, who agreed to have his anonymity lifted, said he had done nothing wrong and descriptions of him as a spy were "entirely untrue". the former conservative leader iain duncan smith has raised the case in the house of commons as an urgent question saying the h6 case was simply the tip of the iceberg.- the tip of the iceberg. yang tentbo, the tip of the iceberg. yang tengbo. h6. _ the tip of the iceberg. yang tengbo, h6, was— the tip of the iceberg. yang tengbo, h6, was in - the tip of the

duke's lacrosse season was canceled. the coach fired a year later with no evidence to back up the accusations. north carolina's then attorney general and now governor roy cooper, dismissed the charges, but the stigma lingered. cnn's rafael romo is following these developments. rafael, i mean, this was a huge story. this sru lot of lives. so now what? >> what's been the reaction, as many of us remember that because it was just so big and it's a case that ignited a national firestorm. >> it happened in 2006. that's when crystal mangum a then exotic dancer, accused three duke men's lacrosse players of rape. now, 18 years later, mangum says it was all a lie. in an interview for the web show let's talk with kat, hosted by katerena depasquale. mangum said she testified falsely that the interview took place at the north carolina correctional institution for women, where the 46 year old woman is serving time for a 2013 second degree murder conviction for stabbing her boyfriend two years before. this is the part of the interview

you knew, oh, that's one of the duke lacrosse players. well, a year later, the attorney general exonerated them. and at the time there was a statement, there was a press conference, but then there was a trial of the district attorney, mike nifong, and i was in the courtroom for that trial. and so were these three young men. they were in the courtroom also. and we really heard the truth during that trial. and it was one of the defense teams had a young attorney who had just graduated from law school. this was his first case, basically, and he would stay up at night and read all the forensic dna analysis that they had gotten from doing the tests on crystal mangum and what he found in a small paragraph embedded within thousands of pages was that the dna of the three duke lacrosse players was not a match to any of the dna of all of the items that they tested, along with crystal mangum herself. and that's what exonerated them. but it was the defense team that found it. and mike nifong, the district attorney, was charged for criminal contempt a

plus, she set off a national firestorm back in 2006, falsely accusing three duke lacrosse players of rape. now, nearly two decades later, crystal mangum admits it was all a lie. why she's finally coming clean. >> also ahead, better and more accurate weather predictions. how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of forecasts. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. >> a deepening mystery unfolding in the tri-state area today. people in the new york metropolitan area are now reporting a growing number of drone sightings in their communities. this follows a wave of mysterious appearances in the skies over new jersey, sparking major concern among residents as well as among local and state leaders. the white house and fbi say there is no evidence to this point that the drones pose a national security threat or have any kind of foreign connection, but that's only adding to the confusion, because so far there are no explanations as to what they even are, or where they're coming from, or who might be launching them.

a statement issued by the duke of york's office said the duke of york followed advice from his majesty'sed all contact with the individual after concerns were raised. the duke met the individual through official channels, with nothing of a sensitive nature ever discussed. he is unable to comment further on matters relating to national security. prince andrew has a long history of promoting trade links with china. the revelations that he was in a close working relationship with a man who worked for chinese intelligence have been made public after the man, known only as h6, was barred from the uk on national security grounds. when m15 became suspicious of h6, they searched his phone. they found a letter from prince andrew's senior adviser, dominic hampshire. it said, "outside of the prince's closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on." and in a note he'd written to himself, the alleged spy said, "manage expectations. "really important to not set too high expectations. he is in a desperate situation and will grab at anything." i

they did and these professors did at duke.e i actually took the time, didn't rush to judgement. i drove over to the home of one of these kids, met with some family members. i knew there would be exculpatory evidence that they had. nobody else in the media, none of these professors on that campus that signed that letter, basically saying they are guilty , none of them took the time. they just smeared and slandered these kids. do you think there is any legal venue for them to get their good name back at this point? >> no. they will always be haunted by it. they filed a bunch of lawsuits and receive financial compensation but you cannot get your good name back amongst some people. this woman's despicable lies ruin the lives of the lacrosse players. her story early on unraveled, it was demonstrably false, it was a hoax. anybody paying attention knew it, the d.a. either knew it or should have known it but he was so determined to abuse the law to persecute innocent young men that he hid exculpatory evidence. disgraceful. of course h

canceled, and duke's head lacrosse coach was forced to resign. the questions and the chaos continued for more than a year until the woman's story fell apart. despite earlier claims she told the da she could no longer say for sure she'd been raped. the da dropped the rape charge but pursued the other charges before recusing himself from the case, citing a conflict of interest. the attorney general's office took over. >> we believe that these cases were the result of a tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations. >> 13 months after it all began, in april 2007, then north carolina attorney general roy cooper declared the players innocent based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness. >> we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges. >> vindication gave way to elation. >> it's been 395 days since this nightmare began. and finally today, it's come to a closure. >> knowing i had the truth on my side was really the most comforting thing of all

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asaph on the duke street side, on the south side of duke street. so a new marker that's just been yeah. just been installed. a lovely unveiling tonight. okay. well i will try to get to the right spot. it's waiting for you. okay, well, i won't visit it tonight, but i will be because i'm hoping to have an adult beverage after this. well, that would be a great way to end the night. now, we were just the gentleman was talking about the imprisonment of the marquee and his wife and daughters being there and am i correct in thinking her death at such a young age about 47 or something that was precipitated by her time in that dank prison where he was very heavily influenced by her time. and in the prison. yeah. okay. well, again, thanks very much. thank you. it's not directly related to his tour, but you mentioned he had two daughters and a son could you give us a sense of what their lives were like? yeah, i can speak mostly to about his son, who is the one i know the most about. he they they had a they had a they had three daughters. their first daughter

these three duke lacrosse players who were students at duke university and had promising futures. but once that occurred and they were exonerated, there was a trial of mike nifong, the district attorney of durham, and he was convicted on contempt charges, and he lost his bar license. but it came out that that dna was there all the time, and it was the defense, a defense attorney that was young, that had just passed the bar, that stayed up night after night, looking at the evidence he found that dna issue right there, that they were actually excluded from the beginning. and the district attorney had done many interviews standing by that she was horrendously raped. and her specifically, she had her horrific allegations. but i think, brianna, they became household names. collin finnerty. dave evans, you knew their names. you knew their pictures and they have to live with that forever, even though they've been exonerated. and now there is an admittance that there was lying on the stand, and she was never charged with perjury. she's in prison right now, by the way, on a murder charge,

a woman claims she was raped by three duke lacrosse players. this was back in 2006, and now crystal mangum says she made the whole thing up. cnn's rafael romo is following these new developments. rafael, this was a very big story when it broke. it impacted a lot of people's lives. what has been the reaction to mangum's admission that she made up these allegations? >> yeah. totally agree jessica. it's a case that ignited a national firestorm when it happened in 2006. that's when crystal mangum, a then exotic dancer, accused three duke men's lacrosse players of rape. now, 18 years later, mangum says it was all a lie. in an interview for the web show let's talk with kat, hosted by katerena depasquale. mangum said she testified falsely. the interview took place at the north carolina correctional institution for women, where the 46 year old woman is serving time for a 2013 second degree murder conviction for stabbing her boyfriend two years before. this is part of the interview where she asks for forgiveness for lying about what truly happened. let'

i'm a duke. graduate, uh, you know, for the first six months of this case, uh, the boys were declared, you know, guilty. uh, then the narrative began to turn, uh, you know, and at the end of 2006, uh, mike nifong uh, asked crystal if she wanted to continue with the case after she could no longer remember whether she had actually been raped. and so the rape charge was dropped. did she want to continue with the sexual assault and kidnaping charges because nifong himself was leaving the case? because he had to defend himself against the state bar charges against him? she said she wanted to continue. so i don't know why she made that decision. that obviously was a very horrible decision in retrospect. and then it was turned over to roy cooper. you know, this is one of the most amazing legal cases ever. this is, i think, one of the only times i can, uh, i know of where a grand jury indicted, uh, these three boys, they were indicted. and yet there was never any trial. >> it truly is a fascination. it h

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