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but right around 02:00 p.m. local time and mountain time after a lengthy investigation, the two suspects were taken into custody police say there were short vehicle pursuits there were no shots fired or extensive use of force in this operation when they took them in. and that is from the police chief, there. as a reminder, this all started wednesday morning at around 02:00 a.m. that's when the person on the left on your screen that's the alleged accomplice helped the escaped inmates. that's the person on the right there by apparently shooting at the emergency room entrance of the hospital where this inmate was being treated. and they escaped in a gray honda the idaho state police, during this press conference say that they are investigating to have homicides at separate locations in neighboring counties, possibly related to this investigation, adult males two to reiterate.
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this was not an accident. this was a deliberate act. they say this escape from the hospital. so the new information and besides the fact that they've caught these two people now, is that they are investigating these two homicides that are possibly related. we do know that they were captured in the twin falls area in idaho that is southeast of boise, about 120 miles southeast so they have been on the run since about 02:00 a.m. wednesday morning. and just to go over how this even happened to begin with the boise police say the department of corrections rather say that skyler mean that's the person you're seeing on the right side of the screen? he was serving time since 2016. he was in a very secure part of the prison system i we need to confirm exactly which location, but he had apparently injured himself. they say which required medical
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attention and that's why they transferred him to the hospital. at around between 09:00 and 10:00 p.m. tuesday night and he was treated and then discharged at 2am approximately? that's when this other person they say shot to corrections officers. they will recover from their injuries, were told. and when boise police responded to that, they accidentally i'm only shot a third corrections officer who thankfully will also recover from his injuries change. >> so natasha officials, are speaking still, right now about this capture invoice idaho. let's let's take a listen. let's listen in it's too soon to to speculate on that. >> we're one of those homicides >> i didn't they were both in one. we don't know where it occurred, but they were both located in rural vida who so not inside to the limits, wouldn't be applied again, i'm not going to get into the details of the homicide >> one. i'm not there. i guys
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are still on scene doing that job until i don't want to get it wrong. >> do you believe they may have been heading to twin falls county i'm not i'm not trying to be smart. all we know is that's where they ended up and that's where we caught him. again, the investigation is ongoing you know, that they wanted to get to these two people. nothing specifically >> the the motive and why they they did what they did i don't, know what whether he whether up winner wasn't number of areas >> i believe that director confirmed that, yes. that accurate, correct >> what role did the fbi play >> they assisted us >> and in terms of the area lights, anything being done in the prison to address that? given that >> i will happily do you got to turn this over to the director >> yeah. the area nights are one of multiple security threat
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group groups that we monitor and try to interrupt their activities >> i think >> that that's a daily occurrence within the department of correction is trying to trying to help trying to mitigate the damage that gangs can do primarily primarily >> when >> that criminal activity can extend beyond are secure perimeters and wind up back out and our communities but in terms of, in terms of the actions of skyler made and nicholas on for an hour their gang involvement doesn't necessarily indicate that this was a some sort of gang sanctioned event in fact, we have i think that's all i'll leave it at that right now. but but independent of their actions, the department of corrections and our team of investigators and staff work hard every day hey, to try to disrupt any sort of organized
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criminal activity that happens within our facilities where they being held. >> what's next? >> they were arrested in twin falls counties, so they will stop start there i'm sure that we take into the twin falls county jail to begin with from there. as the investigation proceeds, and we develop more information they will probably there's a good chance that we prosecution in several different locations >> whose car was the honda civic? honda accord >> that often hours? >> and i think we're going to cut it off at that point >> associate to asia homicides with this case >> by information that we developed on the scenes of the homicide i can't go much
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further than that in the last 24 hours. and that's truly all. thank you, folks. >> law enforcement authorities on boise, idaho giving an update on the manhunt that has successfully resulted in the apprehension of these two individuals. natasha chen, your response to what you just heard? >> yeah. this is very concerning obviously, how this could have been orchestrated and conducted. here we are with three corrections officers injured. thankfully, they are going to recover from those injuries, but a very serious a look at how this could have happened. i think the authorities there did say before, you we took that live, that the two people that you're seeing on the screen, they're both spent time at the prison and overlapped for a brief period of time. so that's potentially how they're connected. they also, in previous press conferences yesterday, had noted the tattoos, skyler meade had a one
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one stands for the first letter of the alphabet, a 11 for k. that's the 11th letter. >> area nights. >> jake, >> all right. let's ask can thank you so much joining us now to discuss rob to mika, the former deputy operations chief for the fbi's hostage rescue team. so thank you so much for joining us meet as a documented gang member with ties to the area nights we just heard gangs like that pose a daily threat to law enforcement around the country. what can you tell us about this group in general and what role do you think members may have played in this escape plot? >> well, it's an active prison gang, and as soon as you get into the prisons, you have all different kinds of gangs in their based on hispanic gangs, you have black gains, you have white gangs in some people join it just for protection. they're not really hard-core gang members. they join it in order there to protect themselves from the other gangs. but then you have like these guys hardcore they met in there and i'm sure they'd planned
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started planning it in there. and when one got out, he continued probably with his group i'm surprised they actually got caught so quick, but it is a violent encounter i thought they would have had a better means to go to ground and get go dark for awhile, but that didn't happen. >> why do you think that? why why did you suspect that they would have had more means just because the gang that white supremacists gang in idaho has a lot of connections and ties to authorities, even they do >> and i believe they train. there's lots of military camps up there where they train and they plan things. they pick this time for their choosing. you would have thought they had things laid out a bit different that they could again, go dark, get out from you know society to a point but i did fit suspect that if they came across someone turned violent, then that's when they would probably be captured because
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that's where police would go to. i think if they just got out and just got away from everyone, then police would had a hard time understanding where they're at, but that violent encounter point in them and direction and then they're all the resources went to that area. >> the director of the idaho department of corrections called this incident unprecedented and unthinkable how can authorities prevent something like this? remember happening again because obviously this could have resulted i mean, it's, it's a horrible story no matter what, but it could have been even worse >> yeah, it is one of the more daring bold. it reminds me of when they >> tried to land a helicopter down in miami to bring a cartel guy outage. so bolden and doing a shoot out at a hospital. i think doing it, in, the middle of the night with the guard force. that probably wasn't understanding that one guy had gotten he escaped from a juvenile detention center before, and some of the things going on it's one of those
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complacency kills to a point where you just think something's happening. you go through the motions and you don't understand that people plan that and during the time. so i think they are going to go back and start looking at how did they communicate that they sneak cell phones in and you can use we have some technology that my company uses to locate past performance of phones and be able to associate where they were. you see him in prisons where they're not supposed to be and then they may have some covert means of communications, in books in the library and such that this was planned out. but now that they know what happened, they'll go back and start looking at that stuff really hard to understand how it was planned. >> and i think >> anytime something like this happens and you go back and people are more suspect of it, then when they're doing things at will understand that there is no complacency when you're dealing with these folks? >> yeah. probably amika. thank you so much for your time and expertise coming up. the breaking news as we just mentioned, and escaped inmate in idaho, captured along with
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sexual advances, he denies that and then there are the former trump whispers, shall we call them, who are back as some of trump's biggest defenders that would include republican operative roger stone, who was indicted by special counsel, robert mueller, convicted of obstructing a congressional investigation into trump's russia ties. he was pardoned by trump, steve bannon, who had pleaded not guilty to charges here. he departed donors in a we build the wall online fundraising campaign. he also pardoned by trump. by pardoned by trump and michael flynn, trump's short-lived former national security advisor, who was charged with lying to the fbi, who was everybody pardoned by trump? without trump's intervention, it is possible, of course that manafort stone ban in an flynn could have spent this election cycle serving time my panels back this hour to discuss an aleks, you also have some similar reporting about former trump aides who have been cast out and now coming back into trump's inner circle. >> yeah. and i can tell you me and my colleagues via chi reported that some trump age referred to as many of these
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people as quote, unquote, the crazys. and essentially, this is the most professional operation campaign operation that donald trump has ever had going back 20 2016 was basically just him doing the rallies with korea lewin dow's k 2020 was this big bloated operation. this has been a a small insular, largely at least drama free, well, at least it hasn't leaked out. drama free operation. but the crazys quote, unquote, had been circling the entire time. we've been told basically the thanksgiving weekend of 2022, that was when kanye and white nationalists, nick fuentes and dine with donald trump the campaign afterward was like, how did this happen? and essentially they decided someone always had to be there just in case one of the crazy is made their way in and they and they manage to keep the crazys largely out this entire time. but now that he is the presumptive nominee, that everyone is descending, roger stone was that mar-a-lago, you're seeing all these stories about the paul manafort and cortland ascii, who by the
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way, don't like each other. maybe going on the rnc together and it's just this very dynamic fluid situation now that he is the nominee and canvas the chris lacivita, susie wiles have been leading campaign. can they keep them out? we don't know, >> just to be clear, you're not the one calling them the crazys. it's the campaign professionals going them. the crazy is i just want to make sure alice, you're like, i don't know if i would use that term crazy colorful might be one term, but the one thing they all haven't somewhere between the yes, exactly the common thread with all of these people they are loyal to donald trump, yes, to a fault, the despite all of the issues surrounding them personally, they would not only go to bat for him, they would go to the mat for him and they would certainly go to jail for him. and that is why they are coming back into the fold. and that is what donald trump is looking at. it. look, you have to give them credit they did when they were on the winning team in 2016. so they have that going for him but here's the thing. donald trump has also surrounded himself to alex's point right now with a great team, susie wiles is
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tremendous. chris lacivita is tremendous. and the fact they were able to put donald trump under such message discipline to get through this primary that says a lot for them. i have a lot of faith and the fact that susie and chris are the grown-ups in the room, and all of that collateral damage will get under their fold. but the reality, people across america don't care about the palace intrigue. they don't care about who surrounded with donald trump. they care about the policies that he is putting forth. they're concerned about the economy, immigration, and foreign policy in this palace intrigue doesn't move susan christian are the adults in the room. they took a guy who was disgraced, who mitch mcconnell was attacking on the floor of the senate. kevin mccarthy was attacking in the floor of the house, who was 20 or 30 points behind ron desantis, metropolis through >> and these two lacivita and >> wiles took him into the dominant position where he is now certainly republican nominee. and how does trump repay that loyalty, right? by crashing a clown car into the broome where the adults are and
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letting all these bows, those fall out. i mean, it voters don't care. but as a professional i have to say, i'm i guess there's a democrat. i'm happy that he's bringing all these eccentrics back in. >> but just as a professional, like these people got him where he is, that is lacivita and susie wiles. and you bring all these other people and it can only undermine the people who have gotten trump to the point that nomination and outs we also have new reporting. the florida senator marco rubio is being seriously considered as a potential vice presidential pick for donald trump the night the name might come as a surprise for some of you watching, you might remember if you follow the 2016 16 campaign, how trump called him a little marco on the campaign trail. let's take a listen i call them little mark, a little marker. hello, my >> he said i had small hands, little marco would say, i think he's gone. i think he's gotten the hate him in florida. i want to tell you in florida he doesn't show up to vote. so when a little markers fuses crap about the size of my hi
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hands, which are big, go. i looked at him, i said, marco that thing about the hands really bothered him anyway, last month, i asked marco rubio center rubio about some of the comments donald trump generally made on the 20 let me 16 campaign trail that rubio condemned at the time. and he basically dismissed what happened in 2016 is that's just american politics. it's the campaign trail, no big deal. take a listen the sort of nastiness trump gives us good as he gets there. we know that it's just part of these campaigns cycles. unfortunately, people don't like it. they're turned off by whatever it may be. but at the end of the day, i think one of the things i'm not gonna do any longer, it's like respond to every comment donald trump makes and said, are you still support them? i do. >> that's gonna be tougher if he's the vice presidential nominees. >> exactly. look, the reality is for many republicans, rational republicans this year and in years past, donald trump is not the first pick in the primary. the second, third, fourth, or fifth. but right now, we're in a general
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election campaign, and there's a binary choice between trump and biden and republican say i would much rather have the policies donald trump then with joe biden and i think i asked someone in rubio world about this vp pick and they said, well, did you see the interview with jake tapper and the things that he said with you, i think indicate he's keeping his cards close to the vest. he's making sure he doesn't get too far out there, but he i think has been strategic throughout this entire process, assuming trump would be the nominee. he did not endorse his home state governor. he didn't support his best friend and the senate, tim scott, and he didn't support nikki haley who helped him so much. 2016. and i think he was playing longabaugh does seem to suggest and who knows if he actually picks a serious person like marco rubio, but it does seem to suggest maybe the adults are in charge of that process also. we have not dropped not picking marjorie taylor greene, for example >> yeah. i mean or kari lake, which was out there before. and i also the thing is i think we're in for a long process here along. your longest, he
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>> check. >> we hear nothing but space shuttle accidents, usually not one thing. it's a series of events is that part of the wing coming apart space shuttle columbia have final flight from your sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn >> we're just getting some new video of migrants rushing a portion of a us border fence and el paso, texas. let's go right to cnn's 11 dara to tell us more. he's at the scene where this happened, ed, give us some context of the video as we watch her >> well, you as you watch this video, this happened just a few hours ago here on the eastern side good of all paso. and you can see behind me the larger border wall and beyond it. is several hundred more yards before you get to the rio grande and beyond that that you really i can't really see from his vantage point is another long line of channeling vents and razor wire that has been put in place by texas national guard soldiers over the last several months what happened in
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several hours ago is that we were told by cbp officials that there were a number of several hundred migrants now that essentially overwhelming number of texas national guard soldiers that were there were also told that and we witnessed this when we when we arrived here at the scene, all of these migrants were then take it into border patrol custody and they are right now in the process of being processed by border patrol. they were put on buses. what we saw is mostly a lot of massive group of young men so women and children, part of this group as well. and all of this, we should be very clear we're not exactly sure what instigated this or what sparked this particular attention to arise at this moment, we are told by border patrol officials here in this region that there hasn't been any kind of sign of rising tensions between migrants and border patrol of visuals and national guard soldiers over the last few days leading up to there. so the circumstances of what led to it and what sparked all of this is unclear at this moment. >> all right, 11 der and i'll pay so far us. thank you so
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much. turning to our worldly to branch of the terrorist group isis, based in afghanistan known as isis k is not only willing but capable of attacking the united states. now, it could do so in his view as six months with no warning that assessment today from a top us general, this after tuesday's hearing with two now retired senior generals who were in command during the us withdrawal from afghanistan general's milli and mackenzie spoke at length that day about the strategic failures leading up to and during what they saw as a rushed withdrawal operation. joining us down to discuss lieutenant colonel scott man are retired green beret who was deployed in afghanistan. he wrote the book operation pineapple express, which details the true story of a group of green berets who saved a former comrade, as well as 500 others, afghans targeted by the taliban during the chaotic us withdrawal. lieutenant colonel, first of all, thank you so much for your service and for what you did to help people get out of
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afghanistan. january general million mackenzie directly blamed the state department for delaying the noncombatants evacuating evacuation operation for all the remaining us citizens in afghanistan, making it difficult to extricate them after cobble fell to the taliban. take a listen i was concerned by the middle of july having a plan as one thing, preparing the plan, vetting the plan, coordinating the plan with the people that are going to actually carry you out. the department of defense that's another set of tasks completely and that was too little too late. it was my judgment that it was far too little far too late. was that your general millie >> it was. and i would broaden it a little bit by saying it was a pretty consistent assessment by me and other members of the uniform military up through and including the secretary so the? us >> state department responded on wednesday saying that a publicly announced evacuation plan would have weakened the position of the then afghan
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government, potentially signaling a quote, lack of faith. what's your tech? >> object, thanks for having me on. you've always been someone that's been a voice for the veteran community. you and i were at the press club on the anniversary of the explosion this past year when you and sean ryan talked to the goldstar families of the 13 who fell, you talked to? two members of operation allies, refuge who were at abbey gate and what i will tell you, man, as i'm traveling the country and i'm talking to veterans, they are really, really upset and feel a sense of betrayal by the way, this went down. and yes, the state department was the opponent for it. they dropped the ball, they fail to plan. but i also have to say and i think i'm speaking for a lot of veterans that when i watched that testimony, these two general officers who both said they knew this was coming, they knew this was going to happen. the question is so many veterans have on their minds is why did a flag officer not throw his or her stars on the table take, a stand against this, particularly seeing the way that ice is k and al-qaeda
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are now re-emerging in a place where 911 originated from. it just makes no sense to me. former >> secretary of defense, mark esper told me yesterday that one of his main takeaways from the tuesday hearing was the clear warning to president biden that he should maintain a small troop presence in afghanistan to avoid what we're talking about here with isis kaye, take a listen to maintain a minimum force are 2,500 troops on the ground. mostly special forces with allied troops and contractors. in order to sustain the afghan national security forces. and its government until the diplomatic conditions of the door agreement are met. without this support, it was my view at the time that it was only a matter of when not if the afghan government would collapse and the taliban would take control >> so s best profound that surprising that was milly you heard there in that clip, obviously right after the withdrawal, president biden told abc news that his military advisers never recommended that, but it seems, it seems pretty well documented at this
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point that people like general million others had told him to keep a small special forces operation in bagram yeah, i don't think, there's any doubt that senior military officers made it very clear. and i've heard this and other circles as well in my interviews and in writing the book that that those those warnings were indeed put on the table again, but i just don't think that any of our senior institutional leaders that were involved in this should get a pass on it. yes. i mean, there needs to be a level of accountability in the sense that if you know that terror organizations like al-qaeda are going to reconstitute as a result of this and the entire nation is going to collapse the aftermath of that you're going to see a resurgence of al-qaeda and isis on a level that we haven't seen since 911 the moral injury that that inflicts, first of all, on our veteran population. but i'll so the national security risks that is post from that is unprecedented. i mean, we have eight new al-qaeda basis in afghanistan right now to
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include one in the picture valley, which is unprecedented and the light the dashboard is blinking red, jake, and it just it was strike it seemed like to me kind of a sloughing off of responsibility once again. and the veteran population just shaking their heads as they watch it, that moral hazard is really important and it's something that i think a lot of people don't understand necessarily if you could just elaborate on that, my understanding is that from talking to a lot of veterans as they wonder what the hell was that all four if things are just now back in the hands of the tawam on the afghan allies that worked with us are not being given honored with the promises we made them what did my buddies give their lives for? what please elaborate. >> yeah, 100% i mean, general millie talked about how for 20 years american fighting forces stood their ground and kept the united states tate's safe. and that's absolutely true. that did happened. and we also spend our blood and treasure to build capacity so that the afghans could stand on their own. but it was 20 years fledgling when you're army, it was going to take longer than that. do that
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and nobody knows that better than a senior flag officer or a general or an admiral who has been around this. and then to just walk away from our allies 30,000 house in commandos for example, who were, who were left to be executed and kill videos that are being sent over to our veterans right now that are still on the phone with them, jake, and we've got veteran groups like moral compass that haven't hung up the phone since this happened to select the world's longest 911 call. and the moral injury, the violation of what one knows to be right by the leaders you trust it underpins the post-traumatic stress, survivor's guilt and it's killing our veterans right now at a rate much higher than 22 a day. and you need on to recognize this and get retire the tenant colonel scott, man. thank you so much, please. his come back soon. we'll talk to you more. coming up a fever pitch of questions is one of the biggest stars and pro baseball finds himself at the center of a scandal surrounding sports betting and investigative reporter who has been talking to some of the key names in this story is going to join us next.
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reports at the number allegedly stolen is 4.5 million born and raised in japan. the pitcher in power hitter recently signed with the dodgers for the biggest contract in baseball history, ten years, 700 million. so who allegedly stole from him? well, according to the los angeles times ohtani's attorneys claim it was ippei mizuhara ohtani's longtime friend and interpreter who the dodgers just fired yesterday. but wait, here's a curve ball. before the accusation espn says they interviewed the interpreter about his gambling debts and that's where they say he claimed ohtani knew about his gambling problem and had agreed to pay his debts. and did so willingly through a wire transfer. and according to espn, ohtani spokesperson initially told espn that ohtani was covering his longtime friends debt than a few hours later. the narrative changed then ohtani's attorneys starting accusing mizuhara of stealing from ohtani. talk
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about a change-up mizuhara then tells espn he lied and then i've done enough ever knew about his debts and did not make any payments >> what >> i want to bring in someone deeply sourced on the stories and loss of talked with ohtani's former interpreter, espn investigative reporter tisha thompson. tisha, welcome to the lead. great to have you. this is a really wild and messy scandal. what unresolved questions stand out to you the most? >> the conversations that were had with ohtani after the dodgers played, their season opener in south korea after i had interviewed me, zahra in a 90 minute interview, a few hours before that game, there was a meeting in the dodgers locker room right after the game there was a series of comments that were made. the owner said there was a story coming. mizuhara got up and apologize for gambling. and then according to two sources, close to ohtani's camp, who
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have told espn ohtani knows enough english to start to wonder what was being said because an official with the dodgers got it up and said to the team that ohtani had paid the bets based on what mizuhara had been saying to us in the interview that we had done with them at the same time, ohtani's spokesperson was also checking out what music zahra had said because we are close to publishing and that's when that statement comes is that there's been massive theft and there was so much movements so quickly, even within just a couple of hours, mizuhara was fired. so it moves very, very rapidly. there was a big one at on what had happened. and then i myself call he's a hard to try to figure out what's going on because we're getting we're getting told what something by ohtani, a tiny spokesperson but i wanted here from mizuhara, what happened and he didn't tell me much. but when i said
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did you lie to me in the interview, he said, yes and then i through a series of questions and answers, he said to me essentially that ohtani had never known about but the gaming deaths and that ohtani had not made the wire transfers. but here's the thing jake, this is what's really important. so weird. ohtani's name is on the wire transfers. i've seen two of them. there's a series of them that were made for at least four million is what multiple sources are telling us. so >> and >> misa joro wouldn't give me that number, but we think it's at least 4.5 and we have confirmed ohtani's name is on those wire transfers. >> so here's the thing >> mizuhara told you that ohtani knew about his gambling problem and then he came back to you and said, i was lying to you which one of those are you inclined to believe? statement one or he says, ohtani knows >> i'm not going to tell no, i'm not going to tell anyone
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what i'm going to believe it's not my job to speculate. my job is to try to collect facts and information and get accounts from the folks and what i do know, what i can tell you is ohtani's name is on the bank transfers. what we do not know at this moment is who sent if the bank transfers in ohtani's name. so >> it's possible that >> mizuhara sent the bank or someone else sent the bank transfers in ohtani's name. that's that's possible what we know is that ohtani's attorneys have referred according to their statement, are referring the matter to authorities we are trying to figure out right now is which authorities were trying to get that information, including have you filed a police report? right? we did have a source close to tani say to us, it's complicated in part because so much of the dodgers organization including a taney's agent, folks that, you know, the owner of the team, but also ohtani and these a
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harm themselves are all in south korea right now, which has a huge time difference and that's currently what i what i'm being told. >> so lastly, i guess here's the question. i have >> if >> ohtani, if the first story ends up being the true one, not this one about the money being stolen from ohtani and ohtani new nothing if the first story ends up being the accurate one. ohtani is trying to help his friend who has gambling debts and gives him or lens them the money >> is there something illegal like is there something wrong with that? i mean, it as long as it's time he didn't know about the bets i think you need to talk to legal experts about that, but i will tell you there are lots of legal implications happening right now. there's the potential for a criminal investigation to what ohtani's lawyers have called massive theft. we started this whole story in part because there's a federal investigation going on according to moles let's will sources into a bookmaking
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operation that mizuhara admits to have been placing bets with these wire transfers are connected to what we have been told by multiple sources is a federal investigation of bookmaking all right. >> it's going to be a great movie someday. our book before that, to shut thompson, perhaps you'll write a thank you so much. appreciate it coming up. a gang notorious for brutal acts across the us. one of its leaders who was on the fbi's most one wanted list, has now been captured. >> why >> the fbi may have waited to tell the world about the arrest for a few weeks. that's next >> this is carbonic >> and so is this and this is how you can sell your car visit carbonic, and your license later event, answer a few questions and are powerful technology will give you a >> real offer in seconds. then set a time for us to pick it up and hey, you on the spot >> karma sell your car the easy
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jake as you know, ms 13 is a los angeles based street gang that then was exported back to el salvador, spread to honduras but operates in multiple us states and he was basically on their board of directors. he was arrested by the fbi in san diego near the mexican border. and they're not saying a lot about how that came together. except that he's in custody and he's going to be coming back to new york to face trial. >> he was arrested weeks ago, but we only are not just now hearing about this arrest why? i mean, he's on the fbi's most wanted list for the last four years, you'd think they would they would trump it this well, that's where the sensitivities are here, jake, and it's really very interesting because you have the tensions between us >> prosecutors trying to deal with some of the top people in ms 13. actually using charges that they would use with terrorist groups charging them with material support of terrorism narco terrorism
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because of their multinational capabilities and the fact that they put out hits on government officials and have access to bombs, grenades, guns, rocket launchers. so it's an unusual case, but there's also attention with el salvador where some of these people have been in prison there and then been let go despite the fact that the us has said, as soon as their sentence there is over, please hand them over and in a couple of those cases, arrangements have been made and we're not exactly sure how at this stage of our reporting to get them captured in other countries, mexico would be one of them. so we don't know if that's what happened here today. we just know that they were probably not going to announce this till he showed up back in new york for his arraignment. and they're keeping it secret because they're probably trying to preserve those arrangements to make sure that they can get more of them. >> so, ms 13 has been around for decades committing some really horrible crimes. how does this group work? how do
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they manage to operate in so many different countries, including the us and they really seem to be thriving honestly well they are, and they work very much the way a drug cartel or a mafia family would work, in >> that they have leadership. this suspect parada was on the what they call the ron fla nasia now, which is their board of directors now their board of directors sends messages down to regional leaders who were the head of clicks in cities across america and they set the rules and they have procedures like what they call opening the valve when they tell the leaders of clicks if you think there's witnesses are cases coming up, or people who may testify hi are members who were disloyal. now, you can go kill them and then they have closing the valve when they say the heat's getting too tight, we're going to we're going to reduce that level of violence, but it's highly organized, hily profitable, and highly
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senate majority, right now is razor-thin. there's so much on the line republicans, we know what they're going to try to do and pushing national abortion bans and other policies that they get control all of this senate to run as an independent that will be something that will make it even harder for democrats to be able to secure this seat here in new jersey. so it's very alarming and something that i find very irresponsible, dangerous so you're worried that if he runs as an independent ultimately, that could assuming you become the nominee, that that could hurt your support, that maybe some >> democrats will support him, vote independent and the republican could squeak by whoever that is well, look, right now, i've learned to not take anything for granted in our politics these days but first of all, i think it's very dangerous betrayal of what the democratic party stands for. but beyond that, yes, i mean, i think it can make things vulnerable now, that being said i'm a dad democrat
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that want to district trump won twice. i'm a democrat that's been able to win races and i'm actually the only candidate running for senate right now for the democrats, that has won an election before. so i feel like the democrats have to put forward their very strongest candidate for the general election. and i hope that i can be that nominee that can win regardless of whether or not menendez is on the ballot, are not >> he the exact sentence he's got, quote, he made was i will not file for the democratic primary this june. i'm hopeful my exoneration will take place as summer and allow me to pursue my candidacy as an independent democrat in the general election. so he's leaving the door open if he's exonerated, which who knows if that's going to happen. do you think he's doing this because if he runs before the trial or whatever happens, he's clearly going to lose to either you or another candidate. >> look, i think that this curve very well be just a legal tactic where he wants to go, he's going to be going into the trial in may. so this could
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be a situation where he wants to not necessarily go into the trial being a lame-duck senator who's not running for reelection, then it could be a legal tactic. but if it is this is again, just that same situation of putting personal benefit ahead of what's right for the country. i just find that to be again, just so that is the case. i think that would be so out of touch with what people want right now. you're tired of the situation where people are putting their own personal benefit ahead of what's right for the nation >> democratic congressman andy kim of new jersey. congratulations and all the endorsements you've gotten from the county, a democratic parties. and the like. we'll check in with you again. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> you're going to follow me on twitter and social media everywhere.