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just don't know what what, what sparked to this. this confrontation today >> no, but it is it is upsetting to see it on so many levels. i don't think hey, one can deny that all right. thank you very much. on the ground, they are in el paso. thanks for joining us. the lead starts now >> welcome to bleed. i'm jake tapper this hour, a twist in the gambling scandals surrounding one of the highest paid athletes in the world? shohei ohtani, the major league baseball player from japan, his interpreter was just fired from the la dodgers for sports betting. what is attorneys reportedly are saying about the case? there but raises questions about the actions of ohtani himself plus manafort flynn, luan tao, ski and more the former trump aides who became household names for their troubles in 2016 or so, could they all be making a comeback as key players through the trump campaign now? and leading this, our breaking news police announcing moments ago, they have caught an inmate with ties to a white supremacist the group who escaped from custody.
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let's get straight to cnn's natasha jen, natasha big story. the inmate& an accomplice were on the run for a de and-a-half. they were thought to be dangerous. how were they caught? >> and jacob, the police are still talking right now during a press conference. so the information is just coming in. 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 inmate. 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
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state police, during this press conference say that they are investigating two homicides at separate locations in neighboring counties possibly related to this investigation, adult males to reiterate this was not an accident, this was a deliberate act. they say this escape from the hospital. so the new information 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 south east 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 or 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
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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 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 some they say shot two corrections officers. they will recover from their injuries, were told and when boise police responded to that, they accidentally 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 in boise, idaho. let's let's take a listen. let's listen to soon >> to speculate on that we're one. of those homicides in i didn't they were both in one
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we don't know where it occurred, but they were >> both located in rural biden who so not inside to the limits. >> when do you again, i'm not going to get into the details of the homicide >> one. i'm not there guys are still on-scene doing that job until i don't want to get it wrong. >> where 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 them. again, the investigation is ongoing get to these two people. nothing specifically >> the motive and why they they did what they did >> i don't know what role whether opener wasn't number of periods night. >> i believe the director confirmed that, yes. that accurate, correct? >> what role did the fbi they assisted us
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>> in terms of the area les, anything being done in the prison to address given that i will happily turn this over to the director >> yeah, the aryan knights are one of but security threat groups that we monitor and try to interrupt their activities i think that that's a a daily occurrence within the department of correction is trying to trying to help drawn 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 in our communities. but in terms of in terms of the actions of skylar meade and nicholas umphenour their gang involvement doesn't necessarily indicate that this was a some sort of gang sanctioned event in fact, we have i think
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that's all i'll leave it at that right now. but but independent of there actions, the department of corrections and our team of investigators and staff work hard every day to try to disrupt any sort of organized criminal activity that happens within our facilities >> they're really being held in what's next for >> they were arrested in twin falls counties so that they will 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'll probably there's a good chance that we prosecution in several different locations whose car was august on that often hours?
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>> associated that with this case >> by >> information that we developed on the scenes of the homicide and they can't go much further than that in the last 24 hours and that's truly all. thank you, folks >> law enforcement authorities on boise, idaho we're 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. and this is very >> concerning, obviously, how this could have been orchestrated& conducted in 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 took that live that
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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 essentially how they're connected. they also, in previous press conference for instance yesterday, had noted the tattoos skylar meade had a 1.11 one stands for the first letter of the alphabet, a 11 for k. that's the 11th letter aryan knights. >> jake >> all right. let's ask can thank you so much joining us now to discuss robbed amika, 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 aryan knights. 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 not the prison gang. and as soon as you get into the prisons, you have all different kinds of gangs in there based on hispanic gain,
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you have black gangs, 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 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 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 there's 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 that gang, that white supremacist gang in idaho has a lot of connections and ties to authorities, even they do i believe they train >> there's lots of million turk camps up there where they train and they planned things. they pick this time for their choosing, you would have thought they had things laid out a bit different that they
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could again, go dark, get out from society to a point but i did fit suspect that if they came across someone and turn violent, then that's when they would probably be captured because that's where police would go to. i think if they just got out and just got away from everyone, then please what 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 from ever 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 out. it's so bolden and doing a shootout at
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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 complacency kills to a point where you just think something's happening. you go through the motions and you don't understand and people have planned that during the time. so i think they're 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 store looking at that stuff really hard to understand how it was planned. >> and i think >> anytime something like this happens, then you go back and people are more suspect of it
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than when they're doing things at they'll 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 this as we just mentioned, and escaped inmate in idaho captured along with his accomplice, who is suspected of shooting to law enforcement officers also ahead on the lead the long roster of people once booted out of team trump now making their way back in a lot of names you're going to remember, we're back with that story now. >> i thought we had a plan for dad. he was set to go to the senior living community, right by my house. then friends suggested i talked to a place for mom. they really opened my eyes. >> my >> advisor listened and understood his needs and showed us options that were still nearby, but a better fit for dad >> now, >> he's in a warm, engaging community with the pick group of friends. >> i >> know we made a better choice for free senior living advice. go to a place for moms.com
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>> my high alvarez white house. >> and this >> is cnn closed captioning brought to you by mesobook.com >> if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and we'll come to you 808 to 14000 >> in our 2024 lee the old trump band seems to be getting back together once sidelined or fired former campaign aides have donald trump or rejoining the inner circle now that trump is officially the republican nominee, well, i guess it's not official, but he's it's gonna be the nominee, paul manafort, trump's former 2016 campaign chairman, who as you may remember, spent two years in prison for a bank and tax fraud before trump. pardon him. manafort is now up for a job working with the republican national convention this summer, not to be outdone. corey lewin downscale, also being considered for a top job at the invention, lewinsky was fired as trump's first campaign manager in 2016, who is also forced out of a trump super pac after the wife of a donor are accused him of making unwanted sexual advances. he
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didn't hi, is 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. he defrauded 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 adviser, 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 alex, 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 colleague sophia cai reported that some trump age referred to as many of these people as
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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 rallies with korea lewin dow's gay 2020 was this big bloated operation. this has been 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 et fuentes dying. but donald trump, that campaign afterward was like, how did this happen? and essentially they decided someone always had to be there just in case one of the crazys 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 at 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 chris lacivita, susie wiles had been leading the 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 crazys. 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 two. yes. exactly the common thread with all of these people. they are loyal to donald trump, yes, to a fault that 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 and 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
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wiles is tremendous. chris lacivita is tremendous in 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 and 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, me trump was through and these two lacivita and wiles took him into the dominant position where he is now certain republican nominee. and how does trump repay that loyalty? >> right? by crashing a clown car into the broome where the adults are and letting all
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these bows, those fall out. i mean, it voters don't care. but as a professional i have to say, i'm i guess it's a democrat. i'm happy that he's bringing all his eccentrics back in. >> but it just says 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 well who have gotten trump to the point that nomination and 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. guys for some of you watching, you might remember if you follow the 2016 16 campaign, how trump called him 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, a little marco would say, i think he's gone. i think he's gotten the hate him in flux 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 hands,
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which a big well, i looked at him, i said marco >> why 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 but 2016 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, you know, 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 of donald trump and 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 ron desantis he didn't support his best friend and the senate, tim scott, and he didn't support nikki haley who helped him so much in 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 and we have not dropped not picking marjorie taylor greene, for example. >> yeah. i mean or kari lake, which was out there before and also the thing is i think we're in for a long process here along your longest, he loves
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the yeah, the longest season of the golden bachelor ever which is basically he's going to throw out all these names, going to see how people react. he's going to see what is done. i also do think the end the interview with you the other clip that i remember very distinctly was he said donald trump. it was because it was about a question about nato and he's like donald trump doesn't talk like a member of the council of foreign relations, and he helped translate some of more trump's crass remarks. is that more establishment part of the republican party that really rallied behind him in 2016 yeah, paul will never happened, he not pick a more herb. it's by the way, we want someone shorter. we know that but no, because rubio's things for himself too often, it's never going to happen. he's going to pick a hand-held mirror that's, gonna be his running, mate all right >> thanks to one and all we're just learning of a major incident involving migrants rushing a portion of the border and there's video of it. you're going to want to see will bring that to you next
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cnn >> we're just getting some new video of migrants rushing a portion of a us border fence and 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 it >> as you watch this video, this happened just a few hours ago here on the eastern side of all passing, you can see behind me the larger border wall and beyond did i several hundred more yards before you get to the rio grande and beyond that that you really can't really see from this vantage point is another long line of channeling vents and razor the wire that has been put in place by texas national guard soldiers over the last several months. and what happened in several hours ago is that we are told by cbp officials shows that there were a number of several hundred migrants. now that essentially overwhelmed and number of texas national guard soldiers that were there were also hold it we
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witnessed this when we when we arrived here at the scene, all of these migrants were then could take it into border patrol custody and they are right now in the process. i've been processed by border patrol. they were put on buses. what we saw is mostly alone a massive group of young men, also 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 one? we were 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 officials and national guard soldier over the last few days leading up to this. so the circumstances of what led to it and what sparked all of this is unclear at this moment. >> all right, 11 der and el paso for us. thank you so much. turning to our world lead a 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
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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 barea, 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 afghanistan dan 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
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to extricate them after cobble fell to the taliban to take a listen >> i was concerned by the middle of july having a plan as one thing, preparing the plan, vetting the planning, 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 assessment, 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 uniformed military up through and including the secretary >> so the state department responded on wednesday saying that a publicly announced evacuation plan would have weakened the position of the then afghan government, potentially signaling a quote lack of faith. what's your tech >> well, jack, 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
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this past year when you and sean ryan talked to the goldstar families of the 13 who fell, you talked members of operation allies, refuge who were at abbey gate. and what i will tell you manage 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 the proponent for it, they dropped the ball, they failed 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 that so many veterans have on their minds is why did a flag officer not throw his or her stars on the table and take it stand against this, particularly seeing the way that ice is k and al-qaida are now re-emerging in a place where 911 originated from. it just makes no sense 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
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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 at 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 did that. but it seems, it seems pretty well-documented at this 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.
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and i've heard this and other circles as well in my interviews and in writing the book that those those warnings were indeed put on the table big again, but i just don't think that any of our senior institutional leaders that were involved in this should get a pass on this. i mean, there needs to be a level of accountability 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. and in the aftermath of that, you're going i 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 also 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 include one in the pantry or valley which is unprecedented and the light the dashboard is blinking red, jake, and it just it was straight. it seemed like to me, kind of a sloughing off of responsibility once again. and the veteran population just
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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 used we 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 safe. and that's absolutely we true that good 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 army, it was going to hey than that do that and nobody knows that better than a senior flag officer, a general or an admiral who has been around this. and then to just walk away from our allies 30,000 commandos, for example, who were, who were left to be executed and kill videos that
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are being sent over to our veterans right now that are still on the phone with him, 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 feed our leaders to recognize this and get retired lieutenant colonel scott, man. thank you so much. please come back soon. we'll talk to you more. coming up a fever pitch of questions is one of the biggest stars in 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 thanks >> i met with the turbotax expert because i had two full-time jobs, lawyering and mimi count on mamiya. >> i'll file your taxes for you with >> 100% accuracy guaranteed. lead to turbotax full service expert, do your taxes as soon
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allegedly stole from him while 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 franz ferdinand, according to espn, are tiny 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 about a change-up mizuhara then tells espn he lied and then ohtani never knew about his debts and did not make any payments. what i want to bring in someone deeply sourced on the story and rasa talked with ohtani's former interpreter, espn investigative reporter tisha thompson. tisha, welcome
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to the lead. great to have you. this is a really wild and messy scandal. what unresolved questions stand out to you the most? 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 have told espn ohtani knows enough english to start to wonder what was being said because an official with the dodgers got up and said to the team that ohtani had paid the
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bets based on what means a joro had been saying to us in the interview that we had done with them at the same time, ohtani's spokesperson was it's also checking out what visas arra had said because we're very 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 moved very, very rapidly. there was a there was a big one at on what had happened. and then i myself call me is a hard to try to figure out what's going on because we're getting one, we're getting told one thing by ohtani a tiny spokesperson but i wanted here from mizuhara what happened and he didn't tell me much. but when i said 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 the gaming debts that ohtani had
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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 $4.5 million is what multiple sources are telling us. >> 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 where he says, ohtani knows, i'm not going to tell no, i'm not going to tell anyone 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
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on the bank transfers what we do not know at this moment is who sent the bank transfers in ohtani's name. >> so it's possible that mizuhara sent the bank or someone else sent the bank. her transfer is 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 ohtani say to us, it's complicated in part because so much of the dodgers organization including a taney's agent folks that the owner of the team, but also ohtani and these a 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 blast, i guess here's the question. i have. if ohtani, if the first story ends up being
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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 multiple sources, into a bookmaking 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.
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board of directors. he was arrested by the fbi in san diego near the mexican border 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 y 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 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
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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 i've been 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 it's committing some really horrible crimes. how does this group work? how do 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
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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 and 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 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. highly profitable, and highly violent as a group. >> all right, john miller. thank you so much. we'll be right back at granger. we know the ones who get it done where a lot of hats, a hard is one problem-solver is another whatever the job calls for,
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