then they spoke to pamela brown who first broke this story. here's her report. >> nothing but the truth so help you god. >> reporter: these four women all say tathey were sexually assaulted by the coast guard in different eras. >> i was groped several times sometimes with 30 laughing witnesses. over the course of three days he repeatedly raped me in that room. >> two first class cadets broke down my roommates and my locked door, entered our room and jumped onto our beds on top of us. >> reporter: tincluding a curret cadet at the coast guard academy. >> what i thought was an innocent ice-cream date on campus turned into a sexual assault that has haunted me ever since. >> reporter: a rare bipartisan hearing investigating the way coast guard handles reports of sexual abuse. >> i've been here more than 12 years is this probably some of the most powerful, important, and on point testimony i've heard. >> we learned about the filed anchor report only because cnn found out about it, reported on it. >> reporter: cnn first uncovered a history of sexual

and then, they spoke to pamela brown, who hasn't mentioned, first broke this story.ere is her report. >> nothing but the truth, so help you god. >> these four women say they were all sexually assaulted in the coast guard in different areas. >> i was groped several times. sometimes with 30 laughing witnesses. >> over the course of three days he repeatedly raped me in that room. >> to first class cadets broke down the roommates in my locked door, entered my room, and jumped on to our beds on top of us. >> including a current cadet at the coast guard academy. >> what i thought was an innocent ice cream date on campus, turned into a sexual assault that has haunted me ever since. >> a rare, bipartisan hearing investigating the way the coast guard handles reports of sexual abuse. >> i've been here more than 12 years, and this is probably some of the most powerful, important, and on point testimony i've heard. >> we lelearned abouout the foud ananchor reporort, only bebecaun founund out abouout it, repoporn it. >> cnn f first uncovovered a history y of sexual l assaults n t

. >> cnn chief investigative correspondent pamela brown and her team have been digging in on the story for months. walk us through what happened. >> reporter: this is the cullment nation of our team's reporting. as you know, it is rare to get by partisan agreement in washington. both the democrat and republican senators said this was the most powerful testimony they have heard. that is because four brave women agreed to tell their stories of sexual assault, including a current cadet at the coast guard academy. cnn uncovered a long history of rape and sexual assaults that were mishandled or hidden. they kept the results a secret. that meant the coast guard didn't fix the issues and raised awareness about them. the current coast guard has ordered sweeping changes since our first reporting, five months ago. the women who testified today represent decades of service in the coast guard. most of them faulted coast guard leadership, which in the past made it difficult to report sexual assaults. many times they were punished if alcohol was involved. they were promoted in some cases. kiara grac

. >>> if you missed an the league, our coverage continues with pamela brown in the situation room. we get days but possibly hours now, two high stake appeals for donald trump. the president is doubling down on an angry christmas message to his opponents wishing they would quote rot in -- new images from inside iraq where they were around at militants for a drone attack, iraq is calling them hostile acts and warning them they can ratchet up tensions in the middle east. the anti-semitic outbursts, written in hebrew. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm pamela brown and you are in the situation room. we are with the next donald trump legal battles, just days to go before the new year and weeks to go before the first 2024 presidential contest. >> pamela, donald trump's legal team is spending the last days of 2023 prepping for an immunity case they will argue on january 9th. they have submitted their brief, that was over the weekend and they are once again arguing that donald trump cannot be prosecuted for anything related to january 6. as they returned

of wrongdoing were about to retire with full benefits. >> this is really impactful reporting, pamela brown, thank you so much. >> there is new video out there that shows the moment that u.s. border patrol agent rescued a migrant from the rio grande on friday. you can see them and struggling to stay afloat as the agent comes, is thankfully he was okay, they arrested more than 8000 migrants over the past three days, we are joined from a border town in south texas, we understand ea have witnessed troubling scenes, tell us what you are seeing. >> this part of the rio grande is one of the deadliest parts for migrants and this is according to a medical examiner that services about 10 counties along the border, let me start with a big picture of the u.s. southern border because the federal government is dealing with two epicenters on the southern border right now, one here in eagle pass, texas where i am, the del rios center also in lukeville, arizona part of the tucson center, these two areas have been receiving thousands of migrants entering every single day, that has prompted the federal gover

here's more from our pamela brown who first uncovered how their cases were extremely mishandled. >> nothing but the truth, so help you god. >> reporter: these four women say they were all sexually assaulted in the coast guard in different eras. >> i was groped several times, sometimes with 30 laughing witnesses. over the course of three days, he repeatedly raped me in that room. >> two first-class cadets broke down my roommate's and my locked door, entered our room and jumped to our beds on top of us. >> reporter: including a current cadet at the coast guard academy. >> what i thought was an innocent ice cream date on campus turned into a sexual assault that has haunted me ever since. >> reporter: a rare bipartisan hearing on how the coast guard handles sexual abuse. >> this is some of the most powerful, important and on point testimony i've heard. >> we learned about the filed report only because cnn found out about it, reported on it. >> reporter: cnn uncovered a history of sexual assaults in the agency that were ignored or mishandled. the coast guard substantiated dozens of rapes in an i

pamela brown is checking the facts. gary has his focus group of voters in iowa.nd our political panel here. first, a moment from the debate stage. a clash between chris christie a vivek ramaswamy with nikki haley it in the middle. >> you do this at every debate. don't interrupt me. you say this -- you do this -- you do this at every debate. you go out on the stump and say something. all of us see on video. we confront you on the debate stage. you say you didn't say it and then you back away. i want to say -- no i'm not done yet. look -- >> hold on, hold on. [ cheers and applause ] >> let me say something. this is the fourth debate, the fourth debate that you would be voted it in the first 20 minutes as the most objnoxious blow har in america. we are 25 minutes into the debate and he has insulted nikki haley's basic intelligence. not her positions. her basic intelligence. she wouldn't be able to find something on a map that his 3-year-old could find. look, if you want to disagree on issues, that's find and nikki and i disagree on some issue. i have known her 12 ye

about all of this until cnn started reporting on this and our chief investigative correspondent pamela brown and her team has been working on this and telling these stories. pamela, you and your team exposeded this to the public, but this had been going on for awe very long time and there was an investigations and what can you tell us about what to expect going further? >> that's the big question. there are four investigations going on right now. we do expect more to come out of all of this, but in terms of the hearing, sara, it is so rare to give bipartisan agreement in washington these days that both senator richard blumenthal and ron johnson middle this was the most powerful testimony they have heard and that's because four brave women agreed to tell their stories of sexual assault including a current cadet at the u.s. coast guard academy. cnn uncovered a long history of rapes and other sexual assault about the coast guard that were mishandled and hidden and when the coast guard did a years' long investigation they kept the results a secret. that meant the coast guard didn't fix its issue

. >> reporter: pamela brown, cnn, washington. >> our thanks to pamela and the investigative team for that report. "cnn this morning" continues now. >> was he not being honest in january of 2020 or has he just flipped his position? >>> a revealing cnn town hall with ron desantis attacking donald trump on personal and policy terms. >> we are all in on nikki haley! >> the opposition is divided. it will allow trump to conquer. >>> at least nine israeli soldiers including a commander killed. >> flooding the hamas network of tunnels flushing out militants. >> he has not given any support in a two-state solution which is important for the u.s. >>> ukraine's president seeking more aid and congressional republicans resisting. >> we'll supply with critical supplies and equipment as long as we can. >> as long as it takes is the refrain we have long heard. >> this is exactly what vladimir putin has been waiting for. >>> republicans have taken the next step in their impeachment inquiry into president biden, threatening to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress if he does not show. >> that's go

cnn's chief investigative correspondent pamela brown has much more on this. ard work has gone into to uncovering a lot of this, pamela. what does this report say? >> that's right, kate. >> this has been a team effort covering the story for several months and this report from the coast guard is unbelievably direct about the problems within the coast guard. for months, cnn has been covering a culture in the coast guard that goes back decades of sexual assaults that were ignored and victims were told to keep quiet. survivors sometimes punished while their perpetrators were never brought to justice. the head of the coast guard launched a 90-day review after cnn's first story over the summer interviewing hundreds of coast guard members sifting through data and the resounding message is this. these failures and lack of accountability are entirely unacceptable. the coast guard must do something about it. the report shows the coast guard failed to live up to its core values by lacking the programs to prevent military sexual trauma and properly supporting victims and t

. >> cnn's chief investigative correspondent pamela brown got a copy of that report. >> reporter: this culture of respect report obtained by cnn was based on interviews with hundreds of coast guard employees in 2015. among the alarming conclusions, coast guard personnel accept poor behavior as status quo. the coast guard does not provide sufficient measures to prevent sexual assault. and coast guard personnel have been discriminated against and sexually harassed. it's been kept from the public, dubbed for official use only. the front page saying it should be disseminated only on a need-to-know basis and kept in a locked container. the report describes the failures of coast guard leadership, claiming leaders are not fully aware of perpetrator/predator characteristics and have allowed coast guard members to escape accountability. in one example cited, a military member was reduced in rank and asked to leave the service after being involved in a sexual harassment complaint, only to be hired later as a supervisor and accepted as a vic tick advocate into the coast guard program. >> i've exp

pamela brown is in for wolf blitzer but she's in a place i like to call the situation room next door. happy hanukkah. we will see you tomorrow. >>> happening now, donald trump defiant as he leaves his civil fraud trial in new york after hearing a key defense witness try and poke holes in the case against him. >>> also tonight, so trump's gop rivals hit the campaign trail in iowa and new hampshire after their fourth debate without him. nikki haley's response to being the top target. >>> smoke in the air over gaza and fierce fighting on the ground. israeli forces intensifying in their hunt for top leaders of hamas, two full months after the brutal attack on israel that launched the war. >> you are in the situation room. >>> we begin this hour with donald trump's returned to his high-stakes new york civil fraud trial. the former president spending a full day in the courtroom as an accounting expert testified for the defense. paula, how is making their case here? >> there's so much on the line for the former president, this case strikes at the heart of his identity as a businessman and th

. >>> if you missed an the league, our coverage continues with pamela brown in the situation room. we get days but possibly hours now, two high stake appeals for donald trump. the president is doubling down on an angry christmas message to his opponents wishing they would quote rot in -- new images from

i'm pamela brown in "the situation room." thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, fears of an expanding war. us navy intercepting missiles in

pamela brown in for anderson tonight. we begin with the return of the tepid reaction to outrageous statements the former president makes that have slowly been returning within the republican party since the shock of january 6th. specifically, reaction to this from over the weekend about undocumented migrants. >> they are poisoning the blood of our country, that's what they've done, they've poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. not just in south america, not just in three or four countries we think about. but, all over the world are coming into our country from africa, from asia, all over the world. >> it is clear to point out specific countries there. this is language, poisoning the blood used by hitler as i noted earlier, and until recently, it would be shocking from any other candidate of any party or any office. republican candidates, presidential candidate, chris christie sharply contended telling cnn's jake tapper, quote, he is disgusting. ron desantis on the other hand said this today. >> you

i'm pamela brown in "the situation room." thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >>> "outfront" next, fears of an expanding war. us navy intercepting missiles in the red sea as israel says it is being attacked from seven directions. plus, former president trump telling his foes to quote, rot in hell, the fbi investigating death threats against colorado judges. and a cnn investigation. the california man scammed out of more than a million dollars. it all started with a simple text message and you'll never believe who is behind it. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erica hill. "outfront" tonight, fears of a widening war and a greater u.s. involvement. the us navy intercepting krdron day tacks today. these are just the latest in a growing number of attacks in the area. they also come just one day after president biden directed strikes against a militia group. now iraq accusing the u.s. of quote hostile acts. all of this raising questions and concern about how deeply the u.s. is being drawn into the conflict in the middle

i'm pamela brown in for anderson tonight. first up, why the former president's legal team asked the supreme court not to bypass an appeals court and quickly take up the question of whether he enjoys legal immunity for his actions as president. a decision you think any defendant facing charges the white be invalidated would want asap, except perhaps this defended, who is running for president. we're going to talk in a moment with our legal panel about that and how the supreme court should handle last night's unprecedented colorado supreme court ruling of the former president is an insurrectionist and does not belong in the states primary ballot. president biden was asked abou t that today. >> is trump an insurrectionist, sir? >> i think it's self evident. whether the 14th amendment says, but it certainly supports insurrection. no question about it. none. zero. >> all right, so more on that in the trump legal team's request on the presidential immunity request i'm joined by jessica schneider. jessica, what more can you tell us

i'm pamela brown, and this is "the source." ♪ >>> good evening.ill be back with you on monday. tonight, president biden is dodging questions on the nine new tax-related charges against his son, hunter. and the white house is refusing to comment, only saying, mr. biden, quote, loves his son and supports him as he continues to rebuild his life. hunter, however, is lashing out at house republicans today, after his second indictment in three months w a bold claim, saying that they want to kill him to take down his father. >> they are trying to, in their most illegitimate way but rational way, they're trying to destroy a presidency. and so it's not about me. and their most base way, what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle. >> well, republicans have been relentless in their pursuit of hunter through their own investigations. but this indictment didn't come from the gop. it came from president biden's own justice department. a special counsel was appointed. the

pamela brown is in for wolf blitzer but she's in a place i like to call the situation room next door.py hanukkah. we will see you tomorrow. >>> happening now, donald trump defiant as he leaves his c

good evening, i'm pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. and we begin with not just the ruling, which is historic. but what happens when almost certainly reaches the u.s. supreme court, which could be seismic. starting us off tonight, cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, tell us more about this really surprising ruling? >> surprising, and remarkable, pamela. and the judges, here they acknowledge that. at the top of their opinion, they talk about the weight and the magnitude of the issue that they are deciding here. i mean, this is the biggest court decision to impact national election since bush v. gore. and even though this only impacts colorado, the implications could be national. because here, we are talking about the 14th amendment of the united states constitution. and there's a section of that amendment that bars u.s. officials from engaging in insurrection from holding public office. now when this case, and when colorado it was at the lower court level, there was a trial. they found that trump did engage in an ins

. >>> i'm pamela brown, and this is "the source." ♪ >>> and good evening to you.aitlan is off tonight. just three hours from another truce deadline, what could be the end of the pause in fighting between israel and hamas. negotiations going down right to the wire once again on this seventh day of the truce, as a seventh group of hostages were freed and are now safely back in israel. only eight hostages released in this handover. israel and hamas agreed to count the two extra israeli russian hostages released yesterday as part of the ten required in this deal. there are significant questions about whether this deal can survive another extension. negotiators initially believed hamas wouldn't likely be able to offer more women and children to stretch the pause beyond an eighth day. and meanwhile, there is a major story tonight from "the new york times," also reported by israeli media, that israeli officials had the battle plan for the hamas attack more than a year before it happened. but the israelis largely dismissed it as aspirational, considering it too difficult

cnn's pamela brown joins us with a fact check on that, and vivek raab asami's claim about. it pan? >> yes, anderson, entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy has a history of peddling disinformation about january 6th. his ranch tonight against the deep state sparking the insurrection is just blazes example of that. here's what he said. >> why am i the only person on this stage at least who can say the january 6th now does look like it was an inside job? that the government lied to us for 20 years? [applause] about saudi arabia's involvement in 9/11, the great replacement theory is not some grand right wing conspiracy theory, but a basic statement of the democratic party's platform, now the 2020 election was indeed stolen by big tech, that the 2016 election, the one that trump won for sure, was also one that was stolen from him by the national security establishment. >> okay, thank. you >> the trump russia collusion was false. >> much of that ramped is debunked conspiracy theories. the claim that the insurrection was a flat out lie was a inside, i was a flat out lie detachment reality in and su

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without decimating black and brown families because of the racism that has infected the criminal justice system. >> reporter: those trying to recall district attorney pamelahat they will exceed the 93,000 signatures needed after the first of the year in order to get that recall on the ballot. back here at the east county hall of justice in dublin, those two defendants i mentioned earlier are expected back in court at 9:00 a.m. reporting live here in dublin, bob redell, "today in the bay." >> we know you will continue to follow that for us, bob. thank you. >>> well, 6:39 right now. flu cases are increasing here in california and more than a dozen other states, in part because vaccination rates are lagging, and that could make holiday travel tricky this year. take a look at the cdc map, the most recent flu activity map. california in the red indicating high activity, most of the states, the southwest to the southeast, are seeing that similar surge. according to the california department of public health, flu hospitalizations were up nearly 40% last week, covid hospitalizations were up more than 17%. rsv activity is elevated as well. but according to both th