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international university suddenly collapsed. the 170 foot long newly installed bridge had been under construction. >> i35 >> w bridge minneapolis, minnesota august 2007 13 killed 145 injured, a major interstate at a standstill after the 35 west bridge collapsed during rush hour, federal regulators blame the accident partly on support plates, which they said were half as thick as they should hi regency sky walks, kansas city, missouri july 1981, 114 were killed when the walkways on the second and fourth floor of a hyatt regency hotel collapse due to a design flaw. it was known as one of the most devastating structural failures in us history so much tragedy, their experts tell us when things like this happen. it's an opportunity to once again take a hard look at the countries infrastructure. if
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you think about this in these terms across the country, there are more than 600 bridges in the country. 42% of all bridges are at least 50 years old. and so experts say once again, this is an opportunity not only to take a look at protection for bridges, whether it be in the water, but also maybe that means updating them as well. min terms of their infrastructure, jason, thank you. thanks to all of you for joining us. ac30 60 starts right now >> tonight on 360, the latest from baltimore. all we're learning about how a massive cargo ship, it, a major bridge outside of vital poor. how it made a call just seconds before impact, save lives the search for six people still unaccounted for. now, presumed that also tonight, a new york judge has now issued a limited gag order against trump. he can still attack the district attorney bernie, who's already got death threats against him. but he can't go after witnesses, prosecutors, or jurors, and a day after
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homeland security officers rated two of his mansions and senior law enforcement tells a source tells us sean diddy combs this is a target of the investigation, and he's just responded to the news. good evening. thanks for joining us. it is a grim night on the waters outside baltimore. take a look at live pictures where the francis scott key bridge, key bridge should be and where the container ship dali or any large vessel should never be just moments ago, the coast guard suspended the search for survivors. it was 01:28 a.m. early in the morning that the bridge collapsed the whole brain is just well now, start sorry, whoever, everybody, the whole room is just the last video of the >> moment it happened as the 100,000 ton container ship dali first hit a bridge piling then in just a matter of seconds, the bridges entire main span collapsed about 15 seconds was all it took baltimore harbor pilot who was at the helms as he did all he could to slow the ship and keep it away from the
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bridge according to a pilots association official six people are still missing now presumed dead. the bridge is a crucial link in the beltway around baltimore. its collapse shut down one of the busiest sea ports in the country, first in the nation for shipping cars and trucks according to maryland's governor by any measure of this is a disaster of national proportions with after effects, possibly stretching out years from now >> we're going to send all the federal resources they need as we respond to this emergency. i mean, all the federal resources. and we're going to rebuild that port together. it's my intention that federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge and i expect the congress to support my effort >> now in a moment, we'll talk to baltimore's fire chief and later a former navy seal on the search and recovery effort underwater but first cnn's pete muntean, not far from the fallen bridge. so talk about the decision for rescuers to suspend the search efforts >> anderson, we just got the dr. about that in a news
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conference here and the united states coast guard says they do not believe they will find anybody a lot. i've here tonight, you have to think about the risks and the danger. they said it has gotten a lot cold or with nightfall here, not only the air temperature, but also the water temperature also the visibility underwater is very poor. they say that is very risky because there are sharp peach because of the key bridge still in the water that could puncture a suit or an airline, and they simply do not want to add to the disaster that occurred here >> a >> runaway cargo ship taken down on iconic baltimore bridge is being described as a scene from a movie now, investigators have new questions about the final moments before the crippled mv dolly veered off course and into the key bridge, the 911 calls frantic as steel and concrete plunged into the potassium go river below the bridge, collapse into the water. and there are unknown
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amounts of people and we're vehicles in the water entire cambridge in the harbor are advised to hold all traffic from committing to the bridge. i advise again it's higher. cambridge has fallen into the harbor >> officials say the dalai set sail at 12:28 a.m. under the command of a port of baltimore pilot, who boards large ships as they navigate the 700 foot wide channel security video shows minutes before the impact, the lights on board, the dalai shut off twice, then the bounce i'll swung right. briefed by the coast guard, maryland congressman dutch troopers berger says the crew experienced power issues and a loss of propulsion with alarms on the bridge blaring. the preliminary investigation points to an accident we haven't seen any credible evidence of a terrorist attack. >> key to investigators will be the ships black box mandated by international law, a voyage data recorder captures parameters like headings, speed, and water depth, as well
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as the condition of the engines, thrusters, and rudder the recorder also captures crew conversations on the bridge key to investigators probing what caused the crew to apparently lose control. >> it will be critical. it's a critical piece of our investigation, which is why we have a recorders team here are the latest data shows the dali was traveling at a speed of eight knots, roughly nine miles per hour fast enough to trigger a disaster that could have been much worse. >> this is a unique circumstance. i do not know of a bridge that has been constructed to withstand a direct impact from a vessel of this size what do we know about the two people who were rescued out of the water >> few official details right now, anderson, one of those men was taken to the hospital still in the hospital tonight one met with rescuers on the scene and refuse treatment. they were two of the eight total crew that was on this bridge doing deck
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work, repairing halls. that means six are still missing tonight >> and in that speeded up image where the ship is approaching, we see vehicles crossing the bridge. they were they were they able to stop i assume they were able to stop vehicles before it hit they were able to get out a call. the maryland transportation authority police was essentially here and able to cut off more cars from entering the bridge. but we know from i'm sides sonar searches by the coast guard and the state police that they've been able to find five cars underwater that may also include something they say his tractor trailer, like anderson all right. >> pete muntean. thank you. i wanna go next to seen as brian todd, who's on the water near the scene. brian, i know you've been out there for a long time. what have you been seeing at the site of the collapse and what are conditions been like for emergency crews? i mean, it's incredibly difficult very difficult. anderson and the conditions are worsening tonight. it's getting much colder outside, as we
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mentioned, the water temperatures is really plummeting. so conditions are getting worse out here tonight with our second camera, you can kind of see the boat the ship behind me, it's partially illuminated by its own lighting there. but there are still rescue and recovery boats all around the dalai, the name of the tanker the container ship that crashed into the bridge just over my right shoulder there all day long, we've been seeing that kind of activity, rescue recovery boats buzzing all around the point of impact. you could see the tangled metal and the concrete from the supports draped over the bow of the vessel. they're still there what we were told this morning as we deployed out into the water was i spoke to a marine construction an official here who's going to be part of the salvage and reconstruction efforts. he said it's going to take days just to get the heavy equipment they need to get in place here to begin the process of just taking apart the remnants of the bridge. they can have to cut those big remnants into smaller pieces
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just in order to remove them. that's going to take floating cranes and a lot of other heavy equipment just to do all that, it's going to take several days just to get that equipment in place. so it kind of gives you an idea of just the logistical challenge that's going to be involved in salvaging and removing all of this wreckage from the water. and as people i mentioned, a dangerous job, i mean, a lot of this a lot of the wreckage is still underwater getting to it and getting it pulled out is going to be very dangerous. they have suspended the rescue operations, not believing that are going to find any of those six individuals alive, but then comes the the very challenging task of trying to get this boat moved and it's unclear when that's going to be whether they can have to remove a lot of the containers from the vessel in order to move it and of course, as we've just mentioned, trying to remove the remnants of this bridge in order to get reconstruction going again and to get this port operational again, anderson and that's really what's daunting that could take several weeks. >> and this is usually a pretty
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busy area with ship traffic >> it really is baltimore as one of the heaviest traffic ports on the east coast. it is a huge port for the transportation of new automobiles and light trucks into the united states. there's a vessel just to my right. you can't see it in the darkness now, the carmen, it's a large tanker vessel that transports automobiles and light trucks into the port of baltimore. it's stuck in port there. as are many other container ships. it is a huge economic disruption. the bulk, the port of baltimore alone last year your processed about 850,000 vehicles into the united states. that's how important it is for the importation of automobiles and light trucks. all of that coming to a very sudden stop. it's unclear what any of that is going to resume. we are told by the governor of virginia and other officials that some of the ocean carriers are going to be able to be diverted to the puerto virginia, which has about 220 miles south of here on the hampton roads, virginia area but again, that's all
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challenge to they've got to get that port up to speed and getting some there's no traffic in there. so it just gives you an idea of the incredible disruption of economic activity here. one other thing that i can tell you is this, the francis scott key bridge is the only avenue he knew where hazardous material can be transported north and south along the eastern seaboard in this area, they're not allowed to transport hazmat material in the tunnels underneath the bolt underneath the baltimore harbor. that's where the civilian automotive traffic goes, but the has not material all goes over the key bridge now they've got to figure out ways to reroute all of that. >> brian todd, appreciate it. thank you. joining us now, is baltimore city fire chief james wallace. chief wallace, thank you for being with us. i know you're a firefighters and rescue personnel had been working just nonstop on this can you talk about what it means for your teams as this moves from a search and rescue mission to her recovery operation >> good evening, anderson. and
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thank you for having us so our operation has actually shut down for the night due to the dangerous conditions. as it's been reported on cnn >> think we just lost connection with the chief will try to unfortunately reestablish that clearly is talking from his vehicle one of the things that we have just learned as you heard from the chief is that the rescue operations that in fact all operations this evening he has been suspended underwater. the difficulty for the divers under the water is extreme. the cold temperatures, the frigid conditions, obviously that temperature only drops at night and the visibility was said to be no more than six inches in some cases. so it's been very difficult until we have the chief back with us. chief, i'm sorry, we lost contact with you. we appreciate you rejoining us. can you talk about the conditions the divers have been working under because
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i understand that visibility has been like six inches, that the temperatures are frigid. i mean, there's a lot of debris underwater yeah, that's correct. the surface water temperatures when we arrived this morning were approximately 47 degrees with an air temperature around 44, 45 degrees visibility in the harbor decreases significantly as you increase depth. so the deeper you go, the less you're able to see water. water depths in and around are under that bridge vary from 40 feet in some places to an excessive 60 feet. so as you go deeper, the divers are exposed to colder temperatures. they have zero viz and as you look at a lot of the photographs, especially what you have on scene imagine what you're seeing there also being the case underwater so there's a lot of there's a lot of still underwater there's
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bridge deck underwater, and there are a lot of hazards down there and will reach steps with the divers are literally feeling their way around. so that has a lot to do with why the operation has ceased for the night that the course compounded by darkness >> to imagine, divers down there who obviously are eager to do the job and rescue anybody there who's to bring anybody back up but not knowing i'm not sure how strong the current is. i've heard it, maybe not that fast moving, but not knowing what might be coming at you with all that metal underwater. i mean, that a diver could easily be injured and then you'd have a whole rescue operation just to try to relieve that diver that's correct. that that portion of the taps go river is tidal influence so it goes through tides, cycles, just like the open waters in the chesapeake bay does the io again, the
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issues, especially subsurface in this operation also really include a lot of instability. we know that we have steel sections of the bridge that are are hanging on other pieces of debris on supported we know that we have a lot of the steel superstructure that is actually laying across the bow of the ship itself and is very unstable. we know that we have sea containers that are onboard the vessel that are hanging off there also unstable and then the final piece that we're very concerned about, this, the remaining bridge structure that bridge has suffered catastrophic impact. and catastrophic failure. so although there are pieces of the bridge that remain structural stability of what remains, there is also a major concern as well. >> i heard you talked earlier about using infrared sonar technologies to search for vehicles in the water do you do you sort of have to try to
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create an underwater map or is it just looking in quadrant by quadrant to just see what's there? >> so we're actually in the process of mapping that underwater are searches right now, we broke the search area up into two quadrants in north and south quadrant. and we deployed multiple teams there when we first arrived during the night, we were very fortunate to have had air support from the maryland state police helicopter and then we also gain their support from the baltimore police department they have infrared technology we had infrared infrared technology on the water in addition to side scan sonar. so we were able to actively engage in search in the dark as well during the day daytime is more of a side-scanning sonar operation. but to your question, yes. this this is going to be an operation where we begin tomorrow, we're going to begin to map this underwater
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with numerous federal we'll state and local doc teams. >> she follows. i'm sure your folks are exhausted. appreciate all your efforts, and i appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. thank you >> yes, sir. thank you. >> to follow us coming up next more on the missing workers and we've talked to a navy seal on the challenges recovery crews are facing later, sean diddy combs, israel section two, news that he's now the target of a federal investigation by the team that handles sex trafficking >> what's the greatest invention of all time, new hands-free sketcher slip ends. you just slip in and they're on. it's like they have an invisible trouble built-in shoe horn. so your foot slides into place that bending down or touching your shoes, then the heel pillow technology keeps your foot coffee and secure hands-free sketch your slip how's my favorite client? >> great. >> i started using schwab investing themes. so now i can easily invest in trends like wearable tech trends, or that research sounds exhausting. >> know schwab's technology does the work so if i spot an
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>> this source with kaitlan collins tonight at nine >> we were talking before the break with baltimore's fire chief about what is now or recovery operation for six construction workers now presumed dead, who were on the francis scott key bridge when it collapsed two other workers were rescued early on in a moment, the challenges facing searchers tonight, but first cnn's danny freeman, who's, who has more on those missing. so i know you spoke with a family member of or family members. i should save their pair crew who were on the bridge at the time of the collapse i mean, what i cannot imagine how awful this day has been for that >> yeah. understand it really is hard to put into words. i spoke to a number of people who said they had family members
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who were on the bridge behind me early this morning when it collapsed. and at that time, they were incredibly distressed, incredibly set. but they were still waiting on information, waiting on any sign of hope. and then i can only imagine what they're feeling now that this is a recovery emission. but those family members told us that the workers worked for broader builders. that's a local construction company. it's only about five miles from where this bridge is. and i spoke to one woman in particular who said that at the time she had to immediate members in her family who were missing. she didn't feel comfortable at that time providing their names, but just to illustrate how close they were to this construction business, she said that she had an uncle who worked at this construction business for many, many years and absolutely loved this job, loved coming to work prc and making sure that the roads around this area are clear and safe >> has the construction company said anything tonight >> interesting? we reached out to brunner builders a number of times that they did kinds of comment to us when we got in
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touch with them, however, just in the past few hours, the executive vice president of that construction company jeffrey pritzker, told the baltimore sun that this was a terrible, terrible, unforeseen tragedy. and actually was one of the first people to say hey, that he believed that those six missing were presumed to be dead even before we had heard that from the coast guard. so that's what we're hearing from them now, but only from a few local outlets. >> i asked pete muntean about this earlier, but definitely more information about the two people who were rescued after the bridge collapse. do we know where they actually in the water >> listen to understand we don't have a tremendous amount of details about exactly how those two who survived actually were able to survive. but i spoke with two other women who said that they were family members with one of the men who survived. they were they were so happy, but also very sad because they told me that while they're so glad he is okay and he survived, they said that
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he's actually not okay because you can imagine the emotional and mental stress that these survivors have gone through. even the governor of maryland said, told to cnn that one of those menn, it has to go through shock trauma therapy because of what he went through earlier in the day. so again, we're still waiting on some details as to how exactly these menn were able to survive. but clearly after experiencing such a traumatic incident and louis seeing now we know six other members, at least of your crew. again truly tragic and heartbreaking moment for that entire community to anderson, danny freeman. >> i appreciate it. thank you. right now, our guest is kid courtly retired navy seal and author of the book seal survival guide navy seal secrets to surviving any disaster kate, thanks for being with us. i'm sorry, it's under these circumstances, but given what you know about how this claps unfolded, i mean, the idea that anyone was able to survive on that bridge, it would be extraordinary can you
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just a person trapped on a bridge that suddenly is plunged into the water, into water at that temperature, i'm the light likelihood of survival is very low >> it really is anderson, it's going to be with you think about a situation where from the point we're this bridge collapse, you're 185 feet above the water. so if you survive the impact into the water, you have tons and tons of debris coming down on top of you. if you made it through that, now you're find yourself completely stressed out. potentially injured maybe in shock in 47 degree water now, you are going to be unconscious in water at that temperature within about 32, maybe 60 minutes. and you are going to pass away after one to two hours. so the fact that anybody made it out alive is pretty incredible. it's unfortunate, but i would say within about two hours to three hours after this bridge collapsed, we were
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in recovery mode. >> i just talked to the fire chief and, you think about the fire fighters and other divers, police divers, i mean, they had a lot of folks in the water, dozens of divers in the water i mean, just how difficult that is, six inches of visibility at its best all this debris, all this metal jagged pieces of metal jutting out. you don't know how do you i mean, six inches. you can't see anything you're literally it's sort of like, i mean, it's like archaeology by braille isn't it? >> i mean, it really is. you're using your hands to try and find something >> a couple >> of the fire chief was amazing, 2.2 points to repeat the biggest one is there so much instability with the bridge wreckage i mean, you've got a major piece of it that is on the bow of the ship, container ship. so that's any thank but stable. >> and then you add >> in, as you spoke of the lack of visibility. so hopefully there and i think the chief
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alluded to it. they are going to map this out the best they can using technology like site and scans toner because the key to a successful search or recovery is to narrow down that area to the best you can before you put divers in. because the last thing you want is your recovery to turn back into a rescue mission after one of these divers, but yeah, absolutely. these guys, i mean, nothing. you're seeing, nothing and you're gonna be doing this and you were surrounded by tons of steel concrete, bent ribs i mean it is one gigantic hazard, but that's why these guys do this job. >> i've been on a boat and dived on a rack with sides and then we went over the wreck with side-scanning sonar and you could see the bow and everything quite easily. and again, this was low visibility but it wasn't a great depth. i mean, this is holt it's three-dimensional. so decide sing, scanning solder. give you a sense of does just show you the top of what the debris is
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or does it show you all the layers of debris underneath? >> you're getting a profile is what you're getting basically almost like if you're looking at a picture and the best thing about that again, as i spoke of earlier, is you're narrowing down where you're going to put your people in the water because that is going to be the, you know, the riskiest part of this entire recovery thing as soon as people go in the water given what is going on there with all the debris. that is the hybridise part of it. but again, that's why these guys get paid. the big bucks. they're going to be fine with the temperature. the depths are not extreme, 40 to 60 feet. that's very workable. >> but it's so unstable. i mean, this is, these are tons and tons of steel and concrete that is just in the water. imagine trying to find something in amusement park after you filled in museum park with about 60 feet of water and no visibility, that's kinda what these guys are deal with her i'm sure they are not
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getting paid enough to doing this job, but i wish they were it's extraordinary what they do quarterly, it's good to talk to you. thank you so much. >> good to see anderson. thank you. >> take care is still ahead the former president has been hit with a limited gag order and his new york hush money, election interference case. what it could mean for the upcoming criminal trial next have you heard sling tv offers the news you love for last wait, you look and sound just like me actually i am, you because i'm the same news programs on sling for less. you mean you're me but for less money, a lot less. i'm all your favorite news programs and more on lng, starting at just $40 a month. everything great about me, but for less money, which makes me greater than you think it's sunday news for less, starting at $40 a month >> i still have to serve snowboard. and of course scape. so i take cute on magnesium to support my muscle and bone
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>> deranged jack smith's. have you ever heard of deranged jack smith during jack smith, did the range one, i call does they look the range and you take a look at that face. you say that guy is a sick man. there's something wrong with them i mean, a woman outside a bergdorf goodman i took her upstairs to a changing booth. >> it was all made up. i don't even know who this woman is. what else can you expect from a trump haiti clinton appointed judge. i have a trump-hating judge. there's rogue judge trump pater. we have a rope, judge >> this judge is a lunatic and if you've ever watched him and the attorney general may be worse, maybe worse. you have a watcher. i will get donald trump, letitia james, the corrupt attorney general of new york he's a corrupt person. she's got serious trump derangement syndrome every single day and suing him. i'm going to sue him >> by the way, under this limited gag order, he can still rail against, as i said, alvin bragg, the district attorney, even the judge on the case as
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he has before, just not witnesses or jurors or prosecutors. the job i'd send an april 15 trial date. as you may know, rejecting the former president's latest attempts to delay it. joining me now is legal analyst elie honig and senior correspondent carrots canal >> was this >> limited gag order, was this expected? >> so it's interesting, this process, the prosecution made this request a month ago and the judges had it fully briefed for three weeks beaks and he's made other findings on other motions in that time period, but he waited until today to do it and he noted in his gag order statements that trump made yesterday after the hearing at 40 wall street where he criticized by name one of the prosecutors in the case, mathew colangelo's easily one of the lead attorneys, and it was after that that the judge issues this gag order also after for trump had made comments about the judge in his daughter on social media, but this will not cover the judge. and it based on the reading of the order, doesn't appear to cover his daughter either, but the judge saying that he was taking all of trump's statements, many of the ones that we just played in totality
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and his his view of it was he said that these extra judicial state since went far beyond defending himself against attacks by public figures. indeed, a statements were threatening inflammatory denigrating, and the targets of his statements read from local and federal officials, according court staff, prosecutors and staff assigned to the cases and private individuals, including grand jurors, performing their civic duty. so saying that this is not john thus trump defending himself at the beginning of this case, he said he wasn't going to step in. he was not going to put a gag order, but now he's saying based on the evidence that there had been an increase in threats against the district attorney's office and the prosecutors that he thought now it was important and i thought another line that he had and they're risky said because the trial is so close, just three weeks away, he said the risk of harm is now parent fermat >> what do you think about this? because again he's free to attack the public figures, just not the witnesses or the jurors. yeah. i think this gag order >> is perfectly appropriate because it is carefully crafted. its narrow. we use this phrase, gag order. lawyers
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use it. regular people use it, but it's a bit misleading because when you think of someone who's gagged like an action here, when a '80s movie, they can't talk at all. donald trump can still say plenty here. he can still criticize the judge, the de, he can say his calling it a limited gag everyone know he's going to fund off this saying, oh look, they're trying to silence me when in fact exactly again the public figures, he can still graph and that's why i think it's going to survive if he appeals, i think it's absolutely going to survive because what this gag order protects is the jurors, the witnesses, and the staff, they are the most vulnerable people. they're the people who need to be protected. there are off-limits, everything else. so he's free to talk about what are the punishment though. >> i mean actually be and as we, saw in the civil case, trump violated that gag order a couple of times and it cost him a couple of thousand dollars or nothing that was that serious to him. i mean, in this case, it's not clear, it's not like he would get sent to jail right away if he violated it. but the judge also in a separate order today relating to challenge to his process of receiving these motions did it have a shot
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across the bow to the attorney's saying he's all for zealous advocacy, but he says you have to follow the decorum and the order of the court really imposing over these past two days, we're starting to see him say he's trying to keep this in line and trying to impose some order over it. i mean, he hasn't said what would the sanction be if this was violated, but but could be monetary. it would be a leap to put them in jail >> usually the judge would give you a verbal admonishment first, which for an ordinary person is enough to dissuade you write, you don't want the judge ticked off at you, then you get into financial penalties and then ultimately we're not going to get there. but theoretically he could he could lock them up. how long do you think >> this trial will go? go so the day has >> said six weeks, but trials having done them have a way of sliding and extending maybe a juror gets sick, maybe a witnesses testimony last longer. the other thing is the da can only estimate the da's case. the de doesn't necessarily know what the defense is going to do in their case. now, a defendant does not have to put on any affirmative case. but of course, the big question is, will trump take the stand? we don't know but
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if he does, this could go 78 weeks. i mean, we're gonna be busy from mid-april and karatay, the judge reaffirms in this opinion, he says we are on the eve of trial for mid-april through june or so. >> has the trump team responded to the limited gag order? >> so his lead attorney, todd blanche, declined to comment on it. you know, his campaign spokesman was saying this is an attack against the for some men minutes unconstitutional. now the judge explained in the order that this went far beyond what he saw as the constitutionally protected first amendment speech they haven't said i asked directly if they were going to appeal this. they declined to comment on that as well. so we'll wait and see if they do buy on the point of their witnesses mean trump has said his attorneys have said i want to call an expert witness. the judge said that person's not really an expert. so if you're going to call them their testimony is going to have to be very different than what you think it's going to be. or it's possibly donald trump, they don't have a big list of witnesses, at least so far. they could still change your mind. >> it would be extraordinary if you took the stand. oh, my gosh. it would be i think reckless, but it would be certainly very dramatic. one
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important point on the appeal if donald trump tries to appeal this gag order a, he will lose. it, will not delay the start of this trial. all right. >> away, honig. thanks very much, garrison. gets canal as well. thank you. coming up next more breaking news. the first response from an attorney for sean diddy combs after the federal government raids at least two of the hip-hop moguls, manchin's, the attorney calls it quote, unprecedented ambush. what else is saying coming out >> congrats, carroll, your youngest, finally popped the question, but now you're really going to have to get those new dentures after raul, you need to smile that matches the moment this, might be a good time to mention that has been dental can create natural looking dentures in no time just for you. and that comes with $0 down plus 0% interest if paid in full 18 months, helping mothers or grooms and look their best. it's one more way aspen dental is in your corner >> your ancestry is so much
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as search warrants were executed, mr. combs, residences, there's no excuse for the access of show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated get the attorney goes on to say, quote, this unprecedented ambush paired with an advanced coordinated media presence leads to a premature rush to judgment and mr. combs and has nothing more than a witch-hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits. yeah, it's quote, mr. combs is innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name with more on the investigation. tai'an here cnn's josh campbell a law enforcement official, now confirming to cnn, sean diddy combs he's now a target of a federal investigation carried out by a team that specializes in human trafficking crimes two homes belonging to combs, one in los angeles and one in miami beach were searched monday, according to a law enforcement source briefed on the investigation, a second law enforcement source familiar with the search warrants tells
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cnn agents were authorized to search his homes for documents phones, computers, and other electronic devices, armored vehicles to send it on the properties simultaneously of precaution reportedly related to armed private security teams employed by combs, his homes were searched by hsi, the principal investigative arm of the department of homeland security with personnel stationed across the globe, which specializes in countering human trafficking focused both on rescuing victims and identifying and prosecuting suspected traffickers. this investigation coming on the heels of several civil lawsuits, all of them were incredibly graphic, accusing diddy of rape grew sexual assault, drugging women. there's a lot of similarities in these lawsuits. >> one >> of those from a former >> girlfriend, cassandra ventura, who goes by the stage name cassie, alleging rape and physical abuse, was settled in november and december statement combs responded to the claims and all the lawsuits saying sickening allegations have i've been made against me by
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individuals looking for a quick payday. let me be absolutely clear. i did not do any of the awful things being alleged. cassius attorney responding to monday's searches and the investigation hopefully this is the beginning of a process that will hold mr. combs responsible for his de braids conduct. another lawsuit filed in february by a former employee do so, rodney jones, who goes by the stage name lil rod, accusing combs of, among other things, sexual assault. the musician was not at either home at the time, but monday's searches by federal agents, his whereabouts are still unknown i understand we're learning that a member of combs inner circle was arrested yesterday, 25-year-old brendan paul was taken into custody on drug charges doherty is alleged that he had cocaine in a personal bag. he was arrested at a miami airport that was happening while federal agents were at combs home. now we're attempting to reach out to him for comment. he was in lock-up overnight, but has since been bonded out. but this does raise interesting questions about who else in combs orbit may find
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themselves in legal jeopardy depending on what federal agents found yesterday. again, no criminal charges yet against anyone related to those searches, but the agents who were doing those searches, as we've been discussing, their focuses on human trafficking, which of course is a very serious crime. and if proven, anderson carries very serious penalties. >> josh campbell, thanks so much. joining us now, is former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. so the attorney's statement essentially says this all is based on information or as a result of civil lawsuits is it common for civil lawsuits to spark interest of homeland security and launch an investigation >> well, it's not uncommon for allegations and civil lawsuits to be considered by federal investigators and federal prosecutors and reviewed to determine whether or not a federal crime hi may have been committed. and that seems to be what happened here. i thought it was interesting that the attorney's statement really basically confirmed for the public that some of the
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investigative interests was likely generated from these lawsuits which is interesting because several of the lawsuits allege activity that likely would fall within the parameters of sex trafficking. several of these women claimed to have been transported from one state to another, and then drugged and assaulted or his former girlfriend, you claims to have been forced to perform sex acts with different people in different states as they traveled around the country. so i think it was unfortunate, almost admission by the lawyer i'm not that has legal significance, but it's certainly puts us in a position to speculate more accurately about what's actually driving this investigation. >> i mean, it's interesting that if that was a mistake by the attorney or unwise wording by the attorney. they had a day to come up with a statement. it's interesting that that's then what they came up with i mean, are some what are some of the reasons why law enforcement officials would choose to
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execute to search warrants simultaneously. and with that level of us, because that's the other criticism by one of the other criticisms by the attorney me that it was an over the use of sort of armored vehicles and folks and kevlar >> yeah so why the search warrants simultaneously? well, again, at the attorneys direction, we can now look to the civil suits for clues. and one of them for me is that several of these victims alleged that mr. combs and his associates videotaped the sexual encounters. that is exactly the kind of evidence that you would want to go to someone's home to see if you could find so expect that that was probably included in the search warrants, both at the same time because once you hit one house the subject knows that you're probably going to hit the other houses looking for the same stuff. so you're better off doing them. >> if you can, if you have >> probable cause in two locations, you're better off
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doing them at once. and finally, the round house swing he took at the show of force really classic defense attorney tactics. try to turn around a bad press but in fact, mr. holmes is a long history of being investigated for things like assaults harassment, threatening people with baseball bats and kettle bells, and things like that >> and the way it works in >> law enforcement is when you are planning a search warrant, if you have any information and it doesn't have to be a criminal conviction, just intelligence that indicates that someone who's going to be at that resonance may have a violent history or have armed themselves against people in the past. you're going to automatically qualify that search warrant or classify it as armed and dangerous in that classification alone brings an additional level of protection of tactical prepared yes to ensure that there's no problems that everything is done, it is safe away as possible. so i think what we saw yesterday was understandable in the context of an armed and dangerous
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five-star reviews, women everywhere i breaking up with bad bros. >> the source with kaitlan collins. >> next independent presidential candidate, robert f. kennedy jr. today announced that nicole shanahan will be his running mate in the 2024 election shanahan is 38 year-old oakland native, silicon valley attorney and entrepreneur who was formerly married to google co-founder sergey brin although she's fairly unknown to the public, kennedy's campaign is hoping she could be the boost they need to make it to the white house or gary tuckman is in virginia beach and spoke with some rfk junior supporters. here's his report next, president of the united >> these supporters of robert f kennedy jr. have meeting every other week since september at this virginia beach irish pub
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and restaurant we're a bust of his uncle, jan f. kennedy is prominently displayed. >> what i want to ask >> you first, what did you all think of this event >> great, wonderful. >> i know you all like rfk june mean that's why you're here. do you think it's a stronger ticket now because we've got this of his vice presidential announcement >> i do. yeah. i think nicole's there dicing she's great momentum and had really important points to share >> you feel the same way >> yes especially about the food situation that chemicals in our food supply and the chronic diseases that fits together very well with robert hur here. so important question i want to ask all of you and chips you could just give me a quick answer on this if robert f. kennedy hey, junior weren't running, would you be more likely to vote for trump, biden, or somebody else >> i don't know. i don't vote for four years ago biden, what about you who was a democrat? >> who would you vote for? i think i would lean towards donald trump, >> who would you vote for
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>> i leaned toward trump's. >> who would you vote for? >> i this is not a fair question, gary, it's picking the between the worst of two evils and that's what bobby was talking if you go for four years ago, i voted for biden, but don't actually would vote for trump if you really pushed me into a corner, but thank god, those aren't the options. >> so you wouldn't vote for trump fill possibility. >> i would only because i'm very for anti-establishment and that's what bobby is. he's anti-establishment without all the baggage. he's going to restore trust and transparency to our federal institutions because he's a man of integrity who has honore and you his honest when asked you the same question, who would you vote for if rfk junior weren't running trump-biden or somebody who i was still on a sighted, but i would have to lean towards trump. >> let's see, your son >> decided this year though you're correct. so you're just here. i'm just i'm open-minded, but trump would be the candidate and so that binary choice here, that athletes, what about you? >> i would lean towards trump. >> what about you? i'd have to go third party. i just can't support either of those candidates south biden from trump >> so to review, how many of you set up rfk junior warrant running, you would most likely vote for trump. raise your hand
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high so i can see 12345. how many said biden? and i think it was just one. and you said third party? are you concerned that your vote for rfk junior could be a spoiler vote. is anyone concerned? >> no. no. i'm not concerned about that. we need to change an n america. we have to ship from the unit party yes. >> i'm i'm sorry. i would love to address that because i think that's ridiculous. there's never been a better time for a third party to win. now's the time to do it >> let me ask you the slope one of you concerned that his family members, many of them, his siblings, cousins, of commodity against their own family member because that >> raise a red flag for the biden administration. so but there's still his family. there's a lot of his family that's support him to write any also. >> and he says, but i don't know >> your siblings were against you. it might make a voter think about it. >> it's a good question, but he has a huge family that's a good question. yeah. it is a good question. he has iron 20 family members. i do things in life
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that my family doesn't agree with >> your family. i'm just joking around i i understand it. see you all feel strongly about that. that's not an issue. final question. do you really think this guy could win the presidency rfk junior? >> yeah >> believe it yeah. >> gary, i know you're with a larger group now how did they say they would vote if kennedy jr. wasn't in the race some 31 people here, i've asked all 31 people that question. if are juniors out of the race, would you lean towards trump biden, or either 22 of those 31 people say they would not support trump or biden eight of the people say trump only one of the people, the woman you saw in the story says biden. so this obviously our case can see in this particular place on this particular night affects trump more. but at something we have to keep an eye on nationwide. >> there are some things so much the news continues. the source with kaitlan collins starts now seeing them on