missions they are doing on a near daily basis. >> well, first off, this isn't exactly where we expected it should be on this deployment whenever you're doing something for the first time. in a region that's, that's not without risk, but we have managed that risk two our strike group and our air crew through the management of combat power. >> with no end in sight to the houthi attack because us officials tell cnn, they don't know how much capability the rebels have left as they continue to be resupplied by iran. >> three is electronic attack. >> the commander of the carrier strike group told cnn, they will stay in the red seat for as long as necessary. >> the sustainability a weekend go for a long time we've got our logistics train already mapped out to stay here as long as the president needs us to stay here >> now, one of the biggest questions that we were left with, poppy and phil is just how much of the houthis capabilities the us has managed

to destroy. in its strikes inside yemen on houthi targets over the last several weeks, these strikes have been come extremely regular happening on a near daily basis, but officials could not give us a good sense of just how much of the houthis weaponry the us has actually managed to destroy. that is going to be a really key part of how the us determines how long this operation against the houthis is actually going to need to last. poppy phil >> really remarkable reporting from natasha there. thank you, natasha, cnn this morning continues right now. >> but when i get indicted, the first time, it's all all of these cases and all of these indictments are all him. it's him and his corrupt department of justice >> what do you, everyone we're glad you're with us. what you just heard that was donald trump at a rally last night, falsely blaming president biden for his criminal indictments. also this morning, there are crucial hearings in two of the for legal cases against the former president what's happening in courtrooms in new

york and atlanta could determine when trump could stand trial. >> also developing this morning, the tragedy, the super bowl celebration for the kansas city chiefs the mass shooting kills a local dj, injures nearly two dozen people including children. >> also in space. the white house set to brief lawmakers on what is being called a serious national security threat from russia. this hour of cnn this morning starts now and this is where we begin this morning, two dueling courtroom hearings and trials of donald trump won in new york, the other end, georgia right here in manhattan. a judge will hear from trump's legal team as they argue to have his hush money case thrown out trump is expected to be in the courtroom. he's accused of falsifying business records to cover up payments to adult film actress stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign. it could be the first case to come to trial

if the judge keeps a trial date for next month and in atlanta, hearing related to georgia's election interference this case, trump's lawyers want fulton county da fani willis disqualified for having alleged improper relationship with the lead prosecutor, nathan wade, who's set to be the first witness today. willis is also expected to testify, not clear currently, when we have team coverage covering everything right now, if kristen holmes in new york, zach cohen, and atlanta christmas start start with you. donald trump decided to physically be in new york. that's why you're here. >> what does it show you? what, what does that tell you about how we've used this trial and how he views kind of the process going forward as courtroom and politics converge once again yeah, courtroom campaign trail, all coming together yet again, donald trump here in new york and i am >> told that he got some points, wanted to go down to atlanta to fulton county, but that his senior advisors convinced him that this was more important, that this directly affects him. this is a criminal case and as you said, it is a critical day here we're

going to learn today likely if donald trump will face trial before the election in 2024 while he is potentially the republican nominee for president. now, let's talk about what this case is exactly. just a reminder here of the charges that were brought by district attorney alvin bragg. he is charged with falsifying business records and accused of allegedly covering up to hide reimbursement payments. so remember, these are payments that michael cohen made to adult film star stormy daniels. is that they say that he covered this up with these reimbursements. now, he has pleaded not guilty to 34 charges and denied the affair with stormy daniels. i do want to point out something really important here. donald trump's campaign has said that they believed that he is going to be the nominee. by mid march. >> if this trial date holds, >> it would be march 25th, meaning the republican nominee for president again, if their math is correct, would be sitting through a trial ahead of a general election in november 2024. that couldn't be more crucial. now today, donald

trump's lawyers are attempting to get this case dismissed. they will also likely attempt to delay that trial date. but again, if that trial date holds that will be quite striking to learn that donald trump will be sitting through a criminal trial ahead of that 2024 election it really would. >> and is what about today in georgia the fact that the lead prosecutor in that election subversion case is going to take the stand what's he going to be asked and what could the come here be >> yeah, bobby donald trump may not be in the courtroom here in fulton county today, but he knows and fani willis, the district attorney's office, knows the stakes really couldn't be higher for this hearing. there is going to focus on these allegations that fani willis and her top prosecutor, nathan wade had an improper romantic relationship and thus, they should both be disqualified from the case. that's what trump and his defense attorneys are arguing and we may hear from nathan wade directly today. defense attorneys that are surface these allegations initially he said that they want to call nathan wade as their first witness. the judge in this

cases had he wants to hear from a nato, its former law partner first, so it'll be interesting to see if he allows the defense attorneys to call nathan wade first and question him about the timing of this relationship and talk and ask me what but the name nature of it. was it romantic and most importantly, the judge wants to nail down on whether or not fani willis benefited financially from her relationship with wade. take a listen to what the judge said on monday when he was ironing out and laying out the parameters of today's hearing i think it's possible that the facts alleged by the defendant could result in disqualificatio n. i think an evidentiary hearing must occur to establish the record on those core allegations, the state has admitted a relationship existed and so what remains to be proven as the existence and extent of any financial benefit again, if they're if they're even was one it's proving those allegations will be key for the defense attorneys and it really does lay out two outcomes. one is fani willis is disqualified and that could

potentially derail this entire criminal case. but the other is fani willis, stays in place and continues to oversee this investigation and it kind of sets the case back on track and shifts focus back to the criminal charges which is faced by donald trump and his other co-defendants. >> all right. zach cohen for us in atlanta. kristen holmes in new york. running point on a very big day of legal news here at cnn, joining us now to discuss all this, cnn legal analyst michael moore, cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz and cnn political analyst and new york times national politics reporter astead herndon, guys, thanks. so much. kaitlan, i was with you because this new york case was the first one out of the gate arguably changed the trajectory of the republican primary. that's the politics stuff. but on the legal side of things, it's always been kind of framed in a pejorative manner. it's the rank, it's not the big deal. and am i wrong >> right. still a charged case though right. so explain to people people who maybe haven't been paying attention since april what is this case? how big a deal is it? >> it's a former president on trial indicted by a grand jury

>> this >> is a situation where it's not just people making accusations about donald trump, how he was running his business, how he was paying off stormy daniels through michael cohen. now, we are in the process of stress testing these cases. there, there prosecutors that did the investigations, they took these through the grand jury. there are four criminal indictments against donald trump and whether you think the hush money case, it has the least likelihood of success before a jury right now, this is where judges does, are coming in and looking at the validity of the case, the validity of the charges, the judge is looking at the motions to dismiss that trump has filed today. we're likely to hear that, not just a trial date. if he wants to toss the case or keep it there are checks and balances here within the system. and then even with fani willis in georgia, this is also a stress test de for that stress testing, the ethics of the prosecution team, letting it go forward. so allowing all of that to move forward at the

end of the day at donald trump will be before a jury of peers and those people will weigh on whether these charges are valid enough to convict a quit or ended in mistrial its momentous in any situation, whether you think it's a bad case or not, you just won't know until it's before the jury astead looking at the numbers that harry broke down from earlier today, between the two of us. the numbers for the hush-money case in terms of people who would turn to not vote for him if convicted are there there, but there are much lower than the election subversion case, either the federal one are the ones in georgia. can you talk about the politics surrounding these cases? yeah. i think the herring numbers really laid out what we see anecdotally when we talk to republican voters mostly, but kind of voters at large that the hush money payment deal to phil's point was kinda seen as a thing that was already known. and so it's not necessarily the idea that the facts are in question. but

when you are learning new information about donald trump, the more correct no elements we always hear people talk a lot more about what happened in georgia and what happened on january 6, way more than i think i've actually heard from people about maybe the hush money payments or or even the documents case down in florida. now, i will say that it's important for us to kind of change our lens on the political question here in the primary, it was really about republican voters who but rallying around him and becoming closer to donald trump because of the kind of victimhood is created. but when we look to a general election since getting indicted is not a good thing it's our job is losing independent to the mass rate is bleeding out winnable voters for republicans and has a very big electorial problem when it comes to november because of this. so the numbers do tell us that even when it comes to convention oh, conviction. you can see more people dropped, drop off, but the facts of these indictments have really seeped in with a lot of winnable voters for republicans, and it's the reason their party is in the trouble with this, no matter what happens going forward, the theater cannot over-complicate us from knowing the facts here

and getting criminally indicted is not a good thing. >> politically astute analysis is why they pay him so much at the time >> that's not good to be >> indicted if you're running a political union, a general election >> atlanta. i'm i'm fascinated by what's developed over the course of the last several weeks as just a general observer of news and reading things, i'm sitting there going, this is, this is not good, but i don't know what it means. can you explain for people wanted me? yeah. well, i'm glad to be with you. it's not a good day for the state and for the district attorney today, and it wasn't a good day earlier this week when the judge basically said, this is enough to have disqualification of the prosecutor here. and so really, what you're seeing is while the law is pretty stringent with both what constitutes 2ts enough evidence to disqualify entire da's office. what you're seeing play out is sort of this salacious tale of a prosecutor and somebody that works for the reals that bar michael in georgia, where i'm going to

have the appearance h. this is about the flow of money that's created from this case and it's it's, you know, it's about three-quarters of $1 billion on the on the low, we and it may be more when we start talking about other members of his law firm. and so that's that's what changes the argument. the case. i think what the judge has said, he said and i think he said the message this may be enough to get relevant. you better think about what you're doing and it gives her a chance to say, well, maybe i should shoot back away. and today, the problem that they have is they maybe walk into a trap that was set for them by actually merchant the defense lawyer she laid out in her motion a very simple allegation like this is happening. it baited the district attorney and mr. wade into giving a response under oath that in a court filing by all accounts, she has this evidence. and so now, if she proves that they told something that wasn't true in their court filings. they've they've done the sort of fallen in the trial after a lot of people doing

that is the cover up is what catches of more so than, than the axioms. >> the calls le, for a couple weeks ago when this started to come to light for da willis to recuse herself from folks that's it because then you can get another prosecutor and their and keep this going can you talk about what happens if indeed she is disqualified, doesn't that really stole this whole thing? yes. if she is forcefully disqualified by this judge, that will take her entire office the entire fulton county da's office, out of this case. and what happens in georgia and michael sort of walk me through this, but there's this special panel then that can reassign the case to a different county, but that takes forever. you may recall two years ago, fani willis was actually disqualified because she had a conflict of interests on a small piece of the investigation. that piece of the case has still not been reassigned, so if fani willis is disqualified, that will be a major problem for this prosecution. and i want to make this point the judge tried to give fani willis a hint the other day. right? judges do this, they will signal to you, hey, i'm kind of leaning this

way. so if you want to work something out or do the right thing before we get to the moment of truth. go ahead and they are proceeding with this today. i think they the da's office very much at their own risks and one thing that fani willis could do here, it doesn't look like she's going to do, but that she could do is she could step aside. she could say, i have a conflict of interest by the way, not necessarily any shame in having a conflict of interests. they happen all the time. it just means that you don't want it to look bad for the public. and so she could say she hasn't, but you could say, i'm going to step aside. i'm going to point such and such. my trusted longtime deputy will step in as acting district attorney for this case. she would spare the hearing that her office is about to go through and she would save the case if she did that. but she's dug in said to state the obvious, this is political gold for donald trump is not great to be indicted and running in a general election, but it sure is great to have ammunition to try and >> undercut those indictments in the public. and it's my us has absolutely nothing to do with the actual charges in the case which there are tapes that helped demonstrate.

>> but >> politically, what is something like this do for all of the indictments that that kaylin's been talking about? >> yeah. i mean, as someone who kind of tries to steep themselves in like kind of the language of trump and hallam conservative media when this stuff came out, i thought, oh, my god, it's like this is exactly what they have been kinda the kind of language to really minimize the prosecutors to try to act as if they're acting in their personal interests. and i think mostly just to distract from the substance of the case, right. for voters, this is already a lot to keep track of. this is already a kind of legal ease spread out of 11 of a person. they kind of intuitively think, they understand and the more that donald trump and his and of allies can point to things that are outside of the substance of the case and make him kind of go from criminal to just a spat between the political system that feeds their narrative. that's what they want to do. and so, you know, it's not this if, you know, maybe there's qualifications happens or maybe it doesn't. but i think already the ground h muddied by the biden these

allegations and the district attorney has no one to blame for that, but herself, right >> and not just on the political side, but go ahead. sorry. not can help with the jury as well. yeah. and so i just think that is in the air in a way that i think helps the kind of trump and republican allies. but obviously he's got indictment after indictment, right? so even if we're talking about georgia, the january 6 case, once i've been coming from special counsel, jack smith, that stuff is still going to really linger. and so, you know, he got a win here, i think on the rhetoric side, but there's more to calm particular financially, politically that he still has to overcome. >> what about none? it isn't. i mean, the georgia case would be a state case. so if he wins again, need to have less power to do something about it. yeah. i mean, he looked at cases not happening before the election. let's be clear. i know our calendars. your said the da is in fact asking for an august trial date. that is not a serious request. the da has said that would mean we'd be on trial from august through 2025. there's no chance on earth that donald trump is on

trial and kept in a courtroom from august through the election into 2025. >> thank you all very much. big day ahead to say the least, we will have special coverage of the trunk trials starts in less than an hour, 09:00 a.m. eastern. right here. >> the other big story we're following the deadly shooting after the super bowl victory parade for the kansas city chiefs, a local dj killed 20 others, shot witnesses tackling could see it there. the alleged shooter where the investigation stands this morning. >> i'll seeing us intelligence suggesting russia wants to deploy nuclear anti-satellite system. the top democrat on the house intelligence committee joins us next >> united states self-scan with jake tapper sunday at nine on cnn >> from o to o, baby so many ways to save life, ready wallet, happy, that 365 by whole foods market saving for over 45 years has taken a toll on my body. i'd take kunal

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>> we're now learning that a local radio dj was killed and nine children were among those injured during that mass shooting during the super bowl celebration in kansas city just yesterday what you just saw, that was the moment that gunfire erupted at broke out in a victory rally while chiefs flares were still on stage, around 1 million people were downtown for the parade and the rally. you can see just a huge crowd running for safety. >> and here you can see the swarm of police please state troopers, undercover officers, fbi agents, in tactical gear, all rushing in. investigators say three people were taken into custody for questioning. cbs news spoke to a survivor who says he he overheard an altercation right before the shots rang out >> i heard the altercation of the girl who some girl who said like don't do not here, this

is stupid or something like that. >> wow. >> and then the guns, the gunshots right before it ended up happening. there was his group dressed in all black or 56 kids look like with black on black masks and they disappeared into the crowd. and then the show in and he's soon as we started walking out it happened >> now we are also hearing from the good samaritans who tackled one of them, wrestled him to the ground until police get there. this video you're watching is of the dramatic takedown. listen to them describe that confrontation i just hurts yelling to stop this guy >> tackle him as i'm taking him down to the ground i see the gun on the ground. so i take them down and i'm putting all

all my body weight on him. >> we were pretty elated wazzani know we had and they started yelling that there's a gun, there's gun. >> he was heavy at first actually thought it was looks like boy, but then once i picked it up, i quickly realized it definitely was not >> now, as we noted, one person has been confirmed dead. she's been identified as local radio dj lisa lopez galvan by her station with us now our chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller. good morning. so glad you're here, you've got new reporting on this there lot of questions, right? they don't even know food, just one gunman or more. what can you tell us this morning? >> well, police have been working through the night as we know, they have three people in custody. what we don't know, and they're being very tight-lipped about this for a reason because they don't don't know how many other people who were not in custody are involved and they're trying not to show their cards, but ultimately they're going to be relying on three kinds of information human information. what are the three people they have in custody telling them if any? what are their human

informants out there from the gang intelligence division team that works with them giving them on what this might be about or who might be involved what are the witnesses who saw things? and we just heard from a couple of them which are giving extremely valuable information and descriptions coming up with. then there is the video. what did people capture on the phones they've set up a drop where people can send in their video so whether they think it's any value or not they won't know till later. but they'll bank all of that and go through that. that's an fbi program that they developed during the boston marathon. and then there's the technology piece and that's the shell casings on the ground at the scene that could tell a lot of the story. it can tell us is that one shooter with a lot of rounds, is that two shooters shooting in the same direction? is that two groups shooting back and forth? those shell casings will not only match up or not match up to the guns that they recovered yesterday

as they took these people in the custody. but in the nibin system, which is run by atf they can put those shell casings in and it can scan across every shooting in kansas city in missouri, in the united states to see as one or more of those guns fired shots that turned up at a different shooting scene? a month ago, a week ago, a year ago. is that connected to a gang? do we have named suspects in that? so all of these wheels are turning simultaneously in this investigation to try and give them a richer picture of something that happened in panda-monium. and it's pretty unclear, the initial, i think fear everyone has a moment like this, is that it's terrorism, that it's very clear at the is not the big concern right now. you've mentioned gangs a few times. what do you think police investigators are looking at as they try and pin down the actual genesis of this. >> so kansas city the police have a lot of experience here. they are almost always in the top ten cities for gun violence, which is not the first thing you think when you would think about kansas city last year, 182 murders what

does that mean in perspective? new york city had twice that number of murders last year but new york city has 8.6 million people. kansas city has 500,000. if you look at the rate of violence there. and what are they confronting? they're confronting gangs like the to 47 crew, that street crypts, the benton street gang. i mean, there is crips sets, blood sets it's a city that has a terrible problem with youth violence, gang violence, 25% of their shooting victims are between 18.24. so some of that's going to factor into the thinking here. but they also have a good base of knowledge of who the crews are and who the players are, and we don't know what the shooting is yet but there's a lot of people with knowledge in there who should be able to put those connections together if they're there? >> yeah, absolutely. john miller, we appreciate it as always. what's sheriff's deputy in the florida panhandle has resigned after mistaking the

sound of a falling acorn for gunfire and shooting at a handcuffed suspect this body cam video is released of deputy jessie hernandez shooting at the suspect, mark keith jackson inside a patrol car after the officer thought he heard shots. another deputy also fired. it started with a disturbance call from jackson's girlfriend, who claimed whose violent and had a gun. >> so this body camera footage shows jackson being searched, no weapon was found. he survived the shooting. an investigation revealed the sound the deputy heard was likely an acorn hitting the roof of his patrol car. here's what the sheriff said. >> we're actually going to use this particular case has a potential thing that we need to watch out for to make sure that we never put someone's life in jeopardy again. >> hernandez was found of used excessive force. he and another officer were cleared of criminal wrongdoing, also

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israeli hostages may also be inside. and this comes a day after the idf ordered hundreds of displaced civilians to leave the hospital are nic robertson joins us live in tel aviv. good morning. obviously there's always extra scrutiny, right when when forces go into one of the last working hospitals in gaza, what do we know this morning >> yeah, this hospital has really been at the center of the idf's operations, intense operations in the western part of hanunis for a number of weeks now hospital officials say that the wall also the compound were breached, that there was destruction in the orthopedic area of the treatment area of the hospital. in fact, in the dust and debris there, you can see doctors continuing to try to help patients covered in dust on their gurneys and hospital beds as they're being removed from that area. the hospital officials say that during the idf's military operation and susan pipeline was ruptured,

they say in the early hours today, one person died and they're worried about the fact that now they don't have an oxygen supply going to their icu. they're intense so care unit in the hospital, we've also heard in the last few minutes from medicins sans frontieres, doctors without borders. this international ngo did until the early hours today, have people, staff working in that hospital, but they describe now the scene in the hospital as chaotic. an unknown number of people dead and injured and they say this is despite the fact that the idf yesterday said that doctors medical personnel, and patients could remain in the hospital. they say their own staff have left face say that the idf has sort of set up a control point, which is how the idf operates in these situations. it tells us civilians to flee an area than it sets up a control point to that they can check the civilians and we know from the idf that they've now made a number of last but msf doctors without borders are reporting

that one of their staff has been detained by the idf and msf is now calling for a complete ceasefire at that hospital immediately >> okay. nic robertson, please keep us posted. thank you >> well, this morning, national security adviser said to brief top lawmakers about a new nuclear threat from russia, multiple sources telling cnn, the us has new intelligence on russia's efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite weapon in space some lawmakers say the intel is serious enough that it should be declassified and made public. experts say an anti-satellite weapon in space with threaten us nuclear command and control satellites. this story actually broke because of the house intelligence committee chairman who should issued a rather cryptic statement that the panel had quote, information concerning a serious national security threat the national security adviser, jake sullivan, seem to question turner's decision to make that public statement >> so i am a bit surprised that congressman turner came out publicly today in advance of a meeting on the books for me to

go sit with him alongside our intelligence and defense professionals tomorrow. that's his choice to do that >> joining us now is congressman adam smith of washington is a top democrat on the house armed services committee. in terms of the rationale behind the statement, i'll get to that in a minute, but i wanna start with based on what, you know right now, is this some kind of imminent threat or can people not be as alarmed as they were when they initially saw the statement yesterday. well, it's difficult and i'm actually going to be in that meeting that jake sullivan was talking about later on today and good. get more information. we have been briefed on this before. we have been made aware of it. >> but luck, i mean, despite what >> congressman turner did, this information is still classified. so i can't really talk about it publicly. and frankly, i am mystified why chairman turner decided to essentially go public with this. i know he didn't specifically release it, but by sending out that statement and then opening up the intelligence to every sink and goal member of congress he had to know that within hours it

would be public information and that's essentially what happens. so i think is very questionable decision by the chairman to release this information. it's a threat that like i said, we've been aware of national security council and others are dealing with it, but it's not something that should have been leaked publicly. willy in this manner, in my view, do you have any sense as to the wyhe the reason i ask is because congressman turner is respected on capitol hill is respected inside the intelligence community, works across the aisle. parson, when he needs to be in, wants to be, but certainly democrats can say nice things about him, which is a rarity to some degree that this day and age. there are two a big legislative debates ongoing, particularly within the house republican conference. and that's aid for ukraine and also the section 702 reauthorization. do you think either of those are the reason why >> look, i concur with the remarks you made earlier. i've served with congressman turner for over 20 years. he's a senior member of the armed services committee or i've been the chair in the ranking member. >> we want we're closely

together. we have sparred from time to time, but always respectfully and i was trying to find him yesterday to have this conversation, but he was a little preoccupied i don't know why he did this. i dumped it is inexplicable to me but i'm sure he has a reason. again, i just think it was the wrong choice. this is stuff that should not be made public. and the reason for that is we're trying to protect sources and methods for trying to make sure that adversaries don't know what we know unless we think it's to our advantage. and then also we're trying to make sure that we preserve the people who are giving that information and how we're getting in this places that at risk. now, there are circumstances when we want the other side to know what we know, but that is a decision that is made at the highest levels of the executive branch. it's not a decision that one individual member of congress wakes up one day and decides he's going to do on his own >> so this is a >> highly, highly risky move that i don't have an explanation for it at this time based on what you do know in

the briefings that you've had, and i'm not talking about specific if intelligence here, but also given your role on the committee, do you believe the us is prepared to address any capability that may be forthcoming from the russians in this kind of battlespace for potential battlespace like i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we live in an uncertain world to say that we are 100% prepared >> for anything that possibly could come at us is naive and wrong, okay? it's unpredictable, it's uncertain, it's dangerous. i can say this we are aware of it we have defenses, we have our own capabilities, and we have means and methods to protect ourselves there are no guarantees here but we've been aware of it. we are working the issue. let's put it that way. >> before i let you go, i want to ask you because you said after the president's press conference last week, and i'm paraphrasing here. basically, there's a better way to handle that are better way to do it. in the wake of the special counsel report, the white house has been very aggressive and their allies have been very

aggressive in pushing that i'm back on that against robert hur, the special counsel in the days since then, what's your kind of judgment of the response so far from their operation? >> well, i think that's been good. i think they should push back. how can i push back hard on it? >> i mean, that >> in that interview i also said that this was a politically motivated hatchet job by the special quasi. he didn't have to make his own independent judge hi, jasmine, about what he thought the president's mental faculties were. it was clearly wrong. and i think they should push back hard on it. what i also do think though is that having the president come out there immediately angry and defensive wasn't a good look. now, it's understandable. i mean, they they called into question his memory about his own son's death and the president took that really personally, and he was angry and he went out there to express them but on this level, you shouldn't do that. and that's going to happen. i think since then they've been really smart about the way they've pushed back on it drawing the contrast, obviously

with the light plea republican nominee donald trump and really driving home a hard message and also focusing on the issues. i mean, talking about the fact that we have the ability to pass a border agreement. we have the ability to get a national security package to help protect you, saying that the republicans are killing, okay? those are the issues talk about huge, talk about what matters the american people and deliver that message. and i think since that initial press conference, they've done a very good job of that yeah i think that that matters a lot. >> and an important point that national security funding package is in the house, his hands right now and they have a majority for it. to put it on. >> good, good, good. give us a vote. just say, you know, we won't vote for ukraine unless you include the border. now we won't vote for ukraine if you include the border. so the republican position on this as dangerous for the country, it is admittedly confounding. >> how should add smith? appreciate your time as always, sir. thank you >> thank you. >> well, moments ago, donald trump left trump tower to appear at a hearing in the hush-money case against him right here in new york city. the hearing has happened think at the same time, same day as a

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your case, now called bunny hundred 8149977. >> i'm paula reid in washington and this is cnn a shocking discovery in a case, lawyers call fertility fraud. a woman learned she dated her half-brother after dna tests revealed they shared a biological father, that man is the fertility dr. who treated their mothers in the 1980s and is accused of secretly using his own sperm instead of that of the donor. our kyung lah investigates >> i mean, i'll just put it out there. i mean, i was intimate

with my half-brother you didn't know? >> i didn't know yeah >> they couldn't have known. in the early 2000s, they were two teenagers growing up in wallingford connecticut, a suburb like any other where victoria hill met her high school boyfriend. >> this i think was junior year. >> obviously, you're dating here what vittoria didn't know then my husband and and i tried for a while and it wasn't working. well, this the infertility world, like back then, back then, everything was quiet let's kissed, not really secret, secret, but it wasn't advertised >> must be her mother merely hilou turn to a new haven, connecticut fertility specialist, dr.. two burton caldwell. she says dr. caldwell told her he would inseminate her using an anonymous medical students sperm. hill got pregnant. >> there's baye erased it in my mind that they weren't my

husband's biological children until recently when victoria took a commercially available dna tests curious about her health history to her shock, she found half-siblings. she never knew existed. one of them reached out revealing their biological father is dr. caldwell, but i opened it up. >> it >> basically just kind of put out there what you're seeing, some half siblings because we believe that the dr. that you did your mother there's fertility treatment might be our biological father. >> and i >> just i just remember sitting there just be like quiet what is happening >> victorious. high school boyfriend who asked his identity be concealed was also donor conceived. his parents also use dr. caldwell, the boyfriend took a dna test. >> he texted me and it was a screenshot of the 23 and me connection. and it said you are my sister >> why >> we're siblings

>> so she continued to find more brothers and sisters all discovered through dna, all connected to dr. caldwell yeah. >> i've slept with my half sibling. there were four of us that we know of in the same high school and other half sibling, we went to the same elementary school and that's just in the 23 that i know let go. boom. >> you're going if my children have 41 first cousins that we know of the most which are local to how many could there be >> victorious story is a worst-case scenario in the fertility field. the fda regulates sperm and egg donations but it doesn't limit the number of donations nor the amount of offspring vastly behind some western countries with tighter controls. and when it comes to doctors using their own sperm without patient consent, there's currently no federal law and only 13 states with existing fertility fraud laws. >> i consider you guys sisters or i'll say like half sisters, a lot more people than we know,

struggle to conceive. and that's why all of our moms did what they did because they wanted they wanted babies. they would do anything for my kids sake will be get the top all james, victoria, and to of her half sister say they are caldwell's biological children are born within four years in the 1980s, it's only through commercial genetic tests that they >> can track their growing numbers none of us knew and every single time it comes up, we end up having to relive what that experience was like. so jeanine, you went >> and saw dr. caldwell yes. >> you snapped a picture? my did you take a picture >> i wanted proof, but >> i >> still when i see that picture, it's this sick feeling. i felt strongly that i had to meet him to make him and the whole situation real and tried to make it make sense. >> jeanine pirro some filed a civil lawsuit against caldwell last year. it's all she can do for some sense of justice. >> we don't want this to happen to anybody else, right

>> dr. caldwell stopped practicing some in the early 2000s, but he still lives here in connecticut so we decided two stop. can see if we could chat with him >> okay. so i saw dr. caldwell. he appears to be frail, quite elderly. i chatted briefly with his wife, who did not want to talk >> the law is frankly way behind technology in this area. >> attorney matt blumenthal represents victoria hill, her high school boyfriend, and hills mother. there are dozens of reported cases like this of other fertility dr. accused of impregnating their patients hundreds of offspring who only recently discovered the truth because of dna testing it's been kept from them for so long. they can't do anything about it because the legal system may not provide them a remedy. >> it's insane to me that there's just no justice, there's no no recourse. the reason why i'm telling the

story for me coping, i need to make meaning of this somehow. i am happy to be alive, but i don't want to be the product of a fraud. >> i'll victoria hill is here in washington and joined by advocates. she will be spending her day talking to members of congress. they are pushing for proposed federal legislation nation that would outlaw fertility fraud nationally. the bill has been written it as sitting in the house, we will be following them on their journey today. we did reach out to dr. caldwell one more time, his through his attorney and the attorney had no comment phil poppy >> that is an insane story. our thanks to kyung lah. we're looking now live at donald trump's motorcade, pulling up to the courtroom in lower manhattan. he's attending the hearing and the hush money criminal case against him. cnn's going to have lives special coverage starting at the top of the hour. >> we'll be right back >> nexium 20 prevents heartburn acid before it begins get all day and all night. harbours

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