check on everybody after the incident, comes over to where you are? brian, how did he look? >> he was i think he was in shock. i think he felt that he wanted to see what what people were going through he walked to the back and i immediately engage with them and said, what was that? >> and he >> openly admitted he said, i lost control the plane, my gauges just kind of went blank on me and that's when the plane just took a dive >> literally, he says the gauges went blank >> yeah, he said they malfunctioned and did he did he say that >> may >> him so he didn't have the ability then to even >> control it, to fly it. >> he said for that brief moment, he couldn't control anything and that's when the plane just did what it did. and

then you said the gauges came back and in re-engaged in the plane just re-engaged to its normal flight pattern >> we have no issues before. >> no issues after, but just that moment i'm quite certain that is terrifying. can i ask you what it was like after this happened in the plane flies again and obviously the pilots are in the front and you're all back there was it silent? what were those last 45 minutes? >> there was there was 25 minutes of eerily silence from the ones that we're okay and then a lot of you could hear people sobbing and a lot of people kind of in pain with kind of yeah. just kind of hunched over and people shaking like there were their hands were shaking and it was it was bizarre. it was i have to say it was and seeing those people fly around, it was like to see

him out of exorcist. i was like, what is this it was it was hard to believe that to see that happen firsthand. >> what brian thank you very much for sharing it with us. >> of course. sorry. so sorry for you and everyone. the board that plane. it is terrifying. what happened terrifying with the pilot told you and we all want some answers and obviously, you and your fellow passengers deserve them as quickly as possible. thank you. >> thank you for thank you for having me. >> thanks for joining us. the lead starts now >> welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper this hour warnings from within what you have not heard about donald trump and his admitted admiration of authority qatarian leaders reportedly saying, hitler quote, did some good things and quote or that putin was an okay guy. the quotes go beyond trump's public praise of authoritarians plus what cnn is learning about that doctored photo by catherine princess of

wales, after her public apology her mysterious illness still not publicly disclosed. and the questions for this high-ranking member of the royal family and leading this hour, a cnn exclusive interview with the man known as trump employee number for five, brian butler worked at mar-a-lago for more than 20 years only to find himself in the middle of trump's classified documents case where the former president is accused of keeping top secret national defense material at his private resort, mar-a-lago, and then refusing to return it. sea lions, katelyn polantz as part of the team breaking this story. present kaitlyn trump, employee number five, mentioned multiple times in special counsel jack smith's indictment. why is he also known as brian butler? why is he coming forward now? >> what, butler says now that the reason he wants to speak publicly is because he wants people to know the facts. and this is a person who has sat down with process heaters multiple times, who is very likely to be a witness at the trial of donald trump and his two co-defendants. when it is

coming up. we don't have a date yet, just yet, but he's very likely to have to speak about that and he's saying now that in his experience here, he's putting the puzzle pieces together. he's realizing this is not a witch hunt of donald trump, and that he had overheard thing he had seen things in this alleged cover-up that donald trump and others were taking part in to keep the classified documents out of the hands? so the federal government that he believes it's enough for him to come forward. and also jake, this is something that has been personally difficult for him. he spoke at length about that with kaitlan collins, his best friend for 20 years, carlos de oliviera, whom he worked with at mar-a-lago, is a co-defendant of trump's, and they do not talk anymore. and butler's said to us that trump has divided the nation. he also has divided him from his best friend, kaitlan. >> what do we know about butler's role in the special counsel's investigators? >> well, there's a couple of

points where brian butler is trump employee five and described as witnessing things in the indictment specifically quickly conversations he was having with carlos de oliviera in the description of what they were doing afterwards, the interest in surveillance tapes and other things. but the one area where brian butler also was privy to the major thing happening here was june 3, 2022. that's when he's at mar-a-lago club. >> and then walt nauta >> the co-defendant of trump asks him to borrow an escalate or requested he thought was a little bit odd for not as typical role in his typical job there. >> he loaned walt nauta >> the escalate and on that same day, that's when the justice department and the fbi had come to mar-a-lago to meet with trump in his attorneys to collect all of the records that trump still have there on the property that they didn't get all of that time. here's more of what brian butler had to say to kaitlan collins earlier today? >> and then what happened is

walt left before me and he'd goes directly to the plane. he's either in the motorcade when he goes there with the boss, which the former president, and i remember telling him he left the club with i didn't know what he had in his vehicle, but he waited for me at a nearby business and i told him i would tell him when i was leaving marlon logo. so i left mar-a-lago. i texted him, hey, i'm on my way >> he followed me. he pulled out and got behind me. we got to the airport. i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes you noticed that he had thought they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. that's what i remember loading. >> and did you have any time any idea at the time that there was potentially us national security secrets in his box and no clue no i had no clue. i mean, we were just taking them out of the escalate piling them up. i remember they were all stacked on top of each other and then we're lifting them up to the pilots. >> how many boxes?

>> they asked me in the interview and i believe it was i tend to 15 is what i remember. i know the investigators, correct? >> and when you look back on that now well, i had no clue until probably the end of june, there's a few different things that happen that kind of opened my eyes to, you know, something's going on here >> you get that unusual request. did you ever think to yourself, why were there so many boxes at mar-a-lago? >> for me. i'm just thinking out of the former president and he has a lot of stuff he likes to lug around with them. i never would've thought it was anything like what we see testify jake we've. received one comment in response to this story >> from the defense teams here.

that is from carlos de oliviera's lawyer, john irving, and he says that they look forward to seeing what brian butler will say under oath, potentially if he's called to testify at >> all right. kaitlan, poland's along with kaitlan collins big scoop today. thanks so much. former federal prosecutor elie honig is back with me. elie. what do you make of that response from the oliveira's attorney >> what it's certainly fair for any defense lawyer to say we don't want to make public statements and will be litigating this case in court. notably different, however, from the approach of the co-defendant, donald trump who has very much tried to litigate this case in the court of public opinion. now it's also worth noting. it's a virtual certainty that this individual, mr. butler, has already made statements under oath, either to a grand jury or as katelyn polantz just said directly to a prosecutor, which is punishable by perjury. now, there's a difference between testifying to a prosecutor or two grand jury where you're not being cross-examined and testifying on the witness stand at trial where you are subject to cross-examination. so that's really where the rubber hits

the road. this is a fair i think response by the oliviera, but not in step with the other defendants in the case. >> how might trump's defense team pushed back and try to cross-examine a witness like butler yes. so there's some interesting strategic >> considerations here. some of the defendants, donald trump's lawyers are going to say, but you didn't hear any of this directly from donald trump. however, the problem is that's going to harm deal of the era. and walt nauta, the other defendants who did have direct conversations with mr. butler. i think they're also going to use there's this sort of standard argument, this person has incentives to try to please prosecutors that he got some sort of softball deal and i think ultimately the test for the jury will be a does the person appear credible? we've seen some of the video and i think our viewers will be able to make some of their own decision on that. and b, does the other evidence back him up? that'll be the crux of the battleground at trial. >> elie honig, thanks so much. kaitlan collins has much more of that exclusive interview coming up on the source that's tonight at 09:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn on capitol

hill house, republicans released a new report today in an effort to discredit the january 6 committee. and one of its star witnesses, cassidy hutchinson you might remember her dramatic, although secondhand account of a physical altercation that took place or so she was told she says between trump and a secret service agent the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel mr. engel grabbed his arm said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle >> so just remember she was in that testimony clip we just showed she was relaying what two secret service agents had told her or one secret service agent and one former secret service agent today, house republicans released a transcript from an interview with the third secret service agent, the one who drove trump's vehicle that day. and he disputes at an altercation ever took place. cnn's melanie zanona is live for us on

capitol hill. melanie, what more can you tell us? >> so this report is accusing the january 6 select committee of purposely withholding it testimony that directly undercuts cassidy hutchinson's explosive testimony about trump's behavior on during your six inside the presidential motorcade that transcript in question, which republicans have gotten their hands-on, include testimony from the driver who says yes, trump's voice was raised, but he was not screaming at the secret service agents in the vehicle and that he did not lunge or physically reach for the steering wheel as hutchinson testified, so republicans are saying the select committee he purposely and selectively play up cassidy's testimony because it was more damaging to donald trump. but jake, there are a few points worth noting here. number one, the department of homeland purdy said that the transcripts were not released because they were under review at the time. number two of the january 6 select committee in its final report, does acknowledge that there were conflicting accounts about the incidents the motorcade, but they said the bottom line is unchanged that trump was insistent on going to the capital after his speech at the ellipses in an effort to stop

the legitimate certification of the 2020 election extreme results. and third, cassidy's lawyer says that she told the truth, and as a reminder, as you pointed out, jake, she was just relaying what she had heard secondhand. she had never said that she had witnessed that incident. fant herself, but of course that has not stopped republicans from accusing her of lying, trying to discredit her testimony as a witness as they look to turn up the heat on the january 6 select committee eight and tried to absolve trump for his role that day. >> all right. melanie zanona, thanks so much. former trump adviser peter navarro has just eight days to report to a federal prison. today, navarro's attorneys said he has until next tuesday to start serving his four month sentence. navarro was convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the house january 6. committee. navarro has been trying to avoid reporting to prison while he appeals the case for two years now, with the help of the us and allies, ukraine has found a way to fend off russian forces, but if donald trump is elected, that aid will apparently be cut off. that's according to a high

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hostility towards the lgbtq community, and others and all of this comes as multiple former senior trump advisers are revealing shocking comments that trump has made behind closed doors, gushing over autocrats, even allegedly praising hitler in some ways, this is all detailed in jim sciutto's brand new book, the return of great powers. we're going to talk to jim in just a few minutes. but first a quick reminder, donald trump has hardly been secretive about his affinity for authoritarians. here are just a few of his public comments. >> like me sort of trump geico i'm stages putin them. >> he is a great guy. i think we had a really good meeting, really good i think he is a good person. >> i got a very beautiful letter from kim jong un, repay right from top to bottom >> a really beautiful letter is there's nobody in hollywood that could play the role of president xi's the look, the stroke of president xi of china and putin, russia got to know a lot of the leaders. it tough cookies and smart now, a

charitable soul might be willing to say that's what trump is saying publicly to be a diplomat and achieve good things. but according to cnn's chief national security analyst, jim sciutto, writing in his new book, this is what donald trump says privately as well. beyond more on that in a second. but for now, let's bring in mark esper, the former secretary of defense under former president trump's secretary esper. but before we talk about trump and orban, i want to ask you about something that fbi director christopher wray just told a senate committee on this annual hearing on worldwide threats, wray said that the threat of a terrorist attack against the united states his gone to a whole other level since the october 7 attacks against israel. what more could you tell us about that >> well, jake, i'm not surprised by that. these are all iranian proxy groups. we know that hamas is in the united states, has velocity, united states there are certainly others who ascribe to the iranian theology and to the palestinian cause. and so i'm

not surprised that you may have either an organized effort to maybe create a terrorist act or lone wolves who are acting on their own. so look, i take chris wray at his word, the fbi, i'm sure is all over this, so we should be concerned now back to victor orban. he says when it comes to the russia, ukraine war, this is, this is after his meeting with donald trump trump quote, has a very clear vision. trump says the following. first, he will not give a single penny for the russia. rosseau ukrainian war, and that's why the war will end because it's obvious that ukraine cannot stand and on its own, two feet unquote. that's or ban talking to journalists. friendly journalists after his meeting with trump. what's your response? >> i think that all makes sense, jake, i believe it look, donald trump said months and months ago that he would bring putin and zelenskyy together and end this war in 24 hours because he's a great dealmaker and look, we know the only person can end this war in 24 hours as vladimir putin, if he would just pull out of ukraine which he so viciously attack.

but, you now at this point you have congress led by the house republicans who are doing the work for him by refusing to pass the supplemental spending bill, which includes funding for ukraine. so if, if the funding bill doesn't pass, then i think ukraine, it's only a matter of time before they run out of arms and ammunition and if it does pass one last time that i think one of the first things trump will do if he's elected and gets into office in january 2025. is to immediately cut off us assistance to ukraine. and then it's only a matter of time. i think a number of our nato allies will weaken immediately. others will hold on for as long as they can but, you know, you frank can't fight this fight without nato arms and assistance. >> so new exclusive cnn reporting shows that russia is producing producing three times the artillery munitions than the us and europe for this war. what's your assessment of ukraine's ability to fend off russia if there is another huge offensive i think it's really

tough, jake. i mean, russia has four times the population and so ukraine is having a manpower problem right now. and then on top of that russia has ten times the industrial might, the economy of ukraine that's another issue and russia for some time now, who has been on a war footing over 7%, i think of their gdp he's not dedicated defense and nato and the united states have not done that. in fact, we're cutting our defense budget. and so you could see that russia is really taking this war seriously. and we are not taking it as seriously as we should do, should be. now look, the pentagon tried to do a lot of work in terms of bolstering our defense industrial base. it has exposed weaknesses isn't in terms of producing volumes of arms and ammunition in a timely manner, something we have to be prepared for for potential future conflict with china. but we're nowhere in terms of meeting either us or the europeans. the needs of the ukrainians right now when it comes to simple things like 155 millimeter ammunition and explain if you would, why you disagree with this position by

donald trump, by congressional leaders right now, why you think that >> the us should be helping ukraine? >> well, look, we are in an era of great power competition. the autocracies led by china and russia against the democracies led by the united states, or at least used to be led by the united states. and if we don't push back on them now, then putin will gobble up ukraine. where will he go next to georgia, to moldova, and the same that true is beijing. i'm sure zhizhen campaign is taking careful notes right now with regard to how long the west will last, what type of sanctions that they apply? what are the loopholes? how do you get around sanctions? because he knows that if he goes to after taiwan, he's going to have to deal with all this. so i think it sends all the wrong messages. we have to stand up for the world's democracies ukraine is not asking for western manpower. all asking is for the arms and ammunition to fight the fight, they show great courage and bravery and skill on the battlefield. we need to support them in this contest. >> how much do you feel that the modern republican party still represents your views on

these issues? >> look it's been declining over the two plus years that the war has been on. i think it's now down to mitch mcconnell, some senate leaders, you have some stalwarts in the house as well. but clearly the numbers who support continued funding for ukraine has slipped and people need to understand the end of the day. this is not just ukrainian sovereignty, this is about american security as well. it's about this the global rules and norms that helped make us propers that prosperous and helped us live a good life, if you will. and so instead we're throwing out false choices like we can either spend money on ukraine or the southwest border. the fact is we can and should do both so we need to get rid of false choices. we should move forward and support ukraine with this funding. >> i think you were at west point in the '80s when ronald reagan was president wonder, what would you make of today's republican party from that vantage point when you were at west point when ronald reagan was president well, look even better. ronald reagan inspired me to go to west point to serve

my country. and so, you know, he's eye-view the greatest president in my mind. and so he talked about peace through strength, and he certainly stood up for countries who were faced with evil and repression. i mean, it was ronald reagan who, who, who pushed the united states who talked about a shining city on a hill who gave us an optimistic view of america and told us that we could do better and should do better and build up the united states military to the point that we stood down the soviet union and the cold war ended after what, four plus decades. >> we need to >> get back to that type of view in terms of international leadership. and i know i know the burden of leadership it's hard and it's having it costs money, it costs time, et cetera, but it's worth it because the alternatives are far worse. living in a world dominated by russia or china is far worse than us fighting today, supplying ukraine with what it needs to beat back this autocracy >> former defense secretary mark esper. thank you so much, sir. appreciate it. you've heard some of donald trump trump's public praise of authoritarian leaders is former aides describe what else he says privately, such as saying,

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hungarian strongman viktor orban joining us now cnn anchor and chief national security analyst jim sciutto, his new book the return of great powers, russia, china, and the next world war hits shelves tomorrow. you just heard esper talking about the great power divide. so you spent a lot of time researching trump and his relationship with dictators. you interviewed dozens i've intelligence officials and world leaders. this quote stood out from your interview with estonian prime minister kaja kallas, when she invoked winston churchill's warning before world war ii, quote appeasing the dictator is like feeding the crocodile, hoping that you are the last to be eaten. do you think that that's why he's trying to appeal? he's dictators to save himself? or is it something else with donald trump? it seems to be a number of things for one, general kelly, john bolton, and others describe how trump does envy their power. he would like it to be, he would like to be a leader who could do whatever he wants by fiat.

and several times during his first administration, they do explain to him we're almost like explaining to a child who didn't take civics that the president has to go through congress for instance, spend money or has to tell congress if he is going to do things like shoot down an iranian missile. i tell the story of that in the book how he wanted to do that without really telling anybody. so partly it is envy of that power and a fundamental lack of understanding standing of the us system. but it's also that trump feels and affinity for these leaders. he feels that by pure force of his personality, he could charm kim or putin, or xi, or others into doing what he wants, which is also a fundamental misunderstanding because russia and china, by all accounts, even as don't advisers, but us intelligence, our allies, our allies in asia and europe they don't want good for the us, the leaders of russia and china want to tear down the system that the us benefits from. they want to weaken the us. trump in their description just simply

doesn't see that he believes otherwise based on what we don't know, but he believes otherwise your book also reveals these fascinating, exclusive details and terrifying details about how close russia was deploying a tactical nuclear weapon in 2022 >> against ukraine. you write that the united states began preparing rigorously at the time. what did those preparations look like? and how did the usther countries eventually get putin to not hit the trigger? so the >> preparations were across the board really that they were preparing potential us and western military responses to a russian nuclear strike. and they're not a nuclear strike against russia. i was told that was not on the table. but there were going to be military consequences for russia, possibly including the us striking russian military forces in ukraine in response, they were discussing a whole host of potential responses, as well as economic as well. but primarily they were trying to head this off and to head this off, they did a few things. one, there was direct high-level contact between us officials and their

counterparts. the cia director meeting his counterpart, mark milley, the joint chiefs chairman, meeting his counterpart, blinken to lavarov right on down the line. but they calculated they needed more than us to russia contacts so they enlisted the help of unusual allies in this namely india and china, because they calculated that india and china did not want nuclear war in europe for nuclear strikes in europe anymore than the us did and they say that those contacts from the highest levels right up to president xi jinping and the indian prime minister helped push russia away from making what would have been a truly catastrophic decision. yeah, who knows where that would have ended. so you also write about what you call a 1939 moment in here. well quote, russia and china have proven themselves willing to seize nations are parts of nations by force or intrigue. and many western officials believe will do so again, if left unchecked threatening the relative peace that has endured among the great powers since the last world war. the lessons of 1939 loom large, you mean

appeasement looms large? is that what you're suggesting or said? and i know the hitler comparisons have been made to putin and to others putin has not carried out a holocaust. he has certainly shown no reluctance to kill civilians wholesale in ukraine. what he has in common with hitler is that he is willing and has tried and has successfully they changed the borders of europe by force. and he's done it prior to february 2022 when you had the full-scale invasion of ukraine, he sliced off a piece of georgia he sliced off pieces of ukraine in 2014, and now he's launched the largest war in europe and the question is, what do you do in response? because you have a camp in this country as you know who says and donald trump among them, just give it to them right? and everything will be fine. when you speak to folks who have lived under russia's yoke, like kaja kallas of estonia, only a generation ago they say, you give him that will be next. the eastern european allies will be next. and if europe seeds ukraine to russia, china

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year. here's part of her story she had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12 she told me not just that she was raped every day but how many times a day she was raped. >> now, the story is true about that sex trafficking victim the problem critic say is as senator burt seem to suggest that this was going on in the united states and that it was the fault of president biden because after the anecdote, she said this we wouldn't be okay with this happening in a third world country? this is the united states of america. and it is past time, in my opinion, that we start acting like it president biden's border policies are a disgrace

>> the washington post fact-checker, glen kessler gave senator britt four pinocchios for her story because she seemed to be suggesting that it happened in the united states and recently and under president biden, when none of those three things are the case, now the woman, the victim herself, karla has who story britt tell cnn who story britt told tells cnn quote, it's not fair that britt told her story the way she did. and cnn's rafael romo spoke with i santo and has her story texas area january 2023. >> so it's very very unfair to the people here close to the border. >> a group of republican senators getting a firsthand look at border challenges from victims of human trafficking. >> one of the victims that delegation heard from was this woman. god luck has seen two whose testimony is so moved, alabama senate that are katie britt. she gave the victim a hug, fast forward to today >> no, but

>> i've seen to his fuming because she says bread gut many of the facts of her story wrong in the republican response to president biden's state of the union address, the senate or made it sound like you had been a victim of human trafficking? recently during the administration of the current president of the united states, joe biden. is that the case? >> no. >> not at all. i was a victim. it seems to me starting in 2004, i arrived in mexico city in 2008 when i was already a survivor. >> were you ever trafficked in the united states? >> no, but i'm not at all. no. i was a victim here in mexico. >> we have known has seen to for nearly a decade in 2015, cnn profile her story as part of cnn's freedom project, which seeks to raise awareness about modern day slavery, which is in an interview with cnn from mexico city city, she told us she learned about this speech controversy on social media at one point when i met you years and years ago, you

told me that you felt like at the beginning, mexican politicians had taken advantage of by using your story for political purposes do you feel like that happened once again here in the united states, steve >> joe? yes. in fact, i hardly ever cooperate with politicians because it seems to me that they only want an image, they only want to photo and that to me is not fair. >> senator britt spoke again about the story on sunday in an interview with fox news, to be clear, the story that you relate is not something that's happened under the biden administration. that particular person well, i'm very very clearly said i spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked, when she was 12. so i didn't say a teenager. i didn't say a young woman, a grown woman, a wall woman when she was trafficked, when she was 12, jassim also told us no one reached out to hur to ask for her permission to use her

story as part of a political speech. what would you like to tell senator britt about what happened? >> but it will study yet >> well, at this moment, i would like her to get informed a little more about the topic. and that is some point. if she wants to contact me to talk about the topic, she can do so. she can also contact people who have really gone through what she says. i would love to have a pleasant chat with her instead of using it in a political way to gain a position. >> sean ross britt's communications director, told the washington post that the senator was talking about jacinto and disputed that britt's language was misleading >> and jake, >> in response to the backlash, katie britt has defended her telling of the anecdotes, saying the human trafficking and industry has increased dramatically under the biden administration saying quote, if you look back under 2018, a human trafficking was five $500,000,000 industry is now a $13,000,000,000 industry brits said on fox news that she was

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>> we don't >> know what editing she did a the palace haven't released the unedited version so is this just an amateur photographers learning experience or is there something more to the picture that's fueled 1,000 words of speculation so jake, the reality here is that this photo shop or whatever it was was so cack-handed. i was so obvious to spot that you're left with the fundamental question. cockup or conspiracy and it was so badly done, one has to believe the level of incompetence it was just cockup. >> yeah. i mean, they could put this all the bad right now by giving you are max foster an interview like in the next couple of hours, i mean, that's that's my suggestion. >> yeah. and um, >> she could pay to her advantage. she could say, look, this was the original and this is what i was trying to do. and then you have you have done the same and i know, but know

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