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>> how a made a call just seconds before impact, save lives and the search for six people still unaccounted for. now, presumed that also tonight, a new york judge has now issued a limited gag order. again, and it's trump. he can still attack the district attorney who's already got death threats against him, but he can't go after witnesses prosecutors, or jurors, and a day after homeland security officers rated two of his mansions and senior law enforcement tells a source tells us sean diddy combs 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 well now start, sorry, whoever

everybody, the whole room just the last >> video of the moment it happened as 100,000 ton container ship dali first hit a bridge piling, then in just a matter of seconds, the bridges entire main span collapse about 15 seconds was all it took baltimore harbor pilot who was at the helms he did all he could to slow the ship and keep it away from the 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, this is a disaster of national proportions with after effects, possibly stretching out years from now >> we're going to spend all the federal resources they need is 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's 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 scene ends, pete muntean, not far from the fallen bridge, so talk about the decision rescuers to suspend the search efforts >> anderson, we just got the details about news conference here and the united states coast guard says they do not believe they will find anybody alive here tonight. you have to think about the risks and the danger or they said it has gotten a lot cold or what night volume? you're 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 pieces of the key bridge still in the water that could puncture 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 of course, and into the key bridge, the 911 calls frantic as steel and concrete plunged into the potassium sco river below the bridge, collapse into the water. and there are unknown amount of people and or vehicles in the water entire cambridge in the harbor revised, hold all traffic from coming through the bridge. i advise again, the entire team for its 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 the impact, the lights on board, the dalai shut off twice, then the bow 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 heading, speed, and water depth, as well 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 to 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 asked 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 a a direct impact from a vessel of this size what do we know about the

true 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? well, 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 work, repairing thank potholes. 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 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 side 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, life anderson. >> all right. pete muntean.

thank you. 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 life 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 mentioned, the water temperatures is really plummeting. so conditions are getting worse out here too. night 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 thicker of 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 the impact. you could see the tangled metal and the concrete from the supports draped over the bow of the vessel. there is still there what we were told. this

morning as we deployed out into the water was i spoke to a marine construction 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're going have to cut those big remnants into smaller pieces just in order to remove them. that's going to take float but in 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 pete 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 you're going to find any of those six individuals alive. but then comes 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 that 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, andrew and that's really what's daunting that could take several weeks. >> and this is usually a pretty busy area with ship traveling >> it really is baltimore as one of the heaven fierce 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 let's 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 there are many other container ships, it is a huge economic disruption. the bolt, the port of baltimore alone last year processed about 850,000 vehicles into the united states. that's how important it is for the

importation of 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 port of virginia, which is about 220 miles south of here on the hampton roads, virginia area. but again, that's a logistical challenge to them. they've gotta get that port up to speed and getting some additional 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 where hazardous material can be transported north and south along the eastern seaboard. in this area yeah 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 it. 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 type. 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 firefighters and rescue personnel had been working just nonstop on this. >> can you talk? think about what it means for your teams as this moves from a search and rescue mission to her recovery operation >> good evening, anderson. and thank you for having us >> so our >> operation has actually shut down for the night due to the dangerous conditions as has been reported on cnn >> think we just lost connection with the chief will try to unfortunately re-establish that clearly, 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 while operations this evening 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 it is so it's been very difficult until we have the chief back with us achieve 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 i understand that visibility has been like six inches. 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 demo. 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 excess of 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 bridge deck underwater, and there are a lot of hazards down there. and will reach depths where 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 tapscott river is tidal influence so it goes through tides, cycles, just like the open waters in the chesapeake bay does the io again, the issues the specialty 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 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 seen containers that are onboard the vessel that are hanging off there also unstable and then the final piece that were very concerned about is 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, review vehicles in the water. i mean, do you do you sort of have to try to 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. 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 when we begin tomorrow, we're going to begin to map this underwater with numerous federal, 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 is reaction to news that he's now the target of a federal investigation by the team that handles sex trafficking. >> in. and there's like some arab dude talking about how islam means peace. you know, that guy but he's always shouting it he's.

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>> sought luxury >> mattresses made affordable >> i'm zachary cohen in washington and this is the we were talking before the break with baltimore's fire chief about what is now a recovery operation for six construction workers now, >> presumed dead, who were on the francis scott key bridge when it collapsed. to other workers were rescued early on. in a moment, the challenges facing searchers tonight, but first cnn's danny freeman, who's wes 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 what i cannot imagine how awful this day has been for them >> yeah, i understand it really is hard to put into words. i spoke to a number of people who said they had family members who were on the bridge behind me early this morning when it collapsed. and at that time, they were incredibly distressed, incredibly upset. but they were still waiting being on information, waiting on any sign of hope. and then i

can only imagine what they're feeling now that this is a recovery mission. but those family members told us that the workers worked for bronner's 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 a 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 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 ban or builders a number of times that declined to comment to us when we got in 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 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 do you have any 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, well, they're so glad he is okay and he survived. they said that 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 men, it has let's 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 men were able to survive. but clearly after experiencing such a traumatic incident and losing, 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 seals survival guide. navy seal secrets to surviving any disaster. kit. 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 just >> a person trout on a bridge that suddenly is plunged into the water, into water at that temperature, i'm the 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 where 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 but you. if you made it through that, now you find yourself completely stressed out. potentially injured. maybe i'm 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 collapse we were 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 an 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's 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 anything but stable. >> and then you add in >> as you spoke of the lack of visibility. so hopefully there and i think the chief alluded to it. they are going to map this out the best they can using technology like site and scans co-owner, because the key to let's 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 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 founded 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 that 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 at great depth. i mean, this is mlt, its three-dimensional. so decide sing scanning solder. give you a sense of does just show you the top of what the debris is 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 gonna 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 the 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 kind of what these guys are deal with her. >> i'm sure they are not getting paid enough to be 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 >> anderson. thank you.

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because we're moving forward with everybody. ♪♪ shell. powering progress. for certain closed captioning brought to you by mesobook.com >> are firm only represents mesothelioma victims and their families. if you or a loved one who has been diagnosed with mesothelial call us now the former president today it was given a limited gag order in his new york hush money trial. the charges stem from reimbursements made to trump's then lawyer for payments he made before the 2016 election to an adult film star stormy daniels, alleging an affair with trump the former president has pleaded not guilty and denies the affair. hey, our with the limited gag order. he's still free to rail against the district attorney, alvin bragg, who as you may know, already has multiple death threats against him, but he can't target prosecutors. witnesses are jurors. the judge cited his history of

threatening inflammatory statements in a number of cases deranged jack have you ever heard of deranged jack smith during jack smith, did the range one, i call does they look to arrange and you take a look at that face. you said that guy is a sick man. there's something wrong with them i'd made a woman outside of 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 painting, clinton appointed judge. i have a trump-hating judge. there's rogue judge trump haider. 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 trees 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, that district attorney, even the judge on the case, as he has before, just not witnesses or jurors or prosecutors the judge set 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 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 it was after that that the judge issues this gag order also after trump had made comments about the judge in his daughter on social media. but this will not cover the judge 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 and his view of it it was he said that these extra judicial statements went far beyond defending himself against attacks by public figures. indeed, a statements were threatening inflammatory denigrating, and the targets of his statements ranged from local and federal officials, according court staff, prosecutors and staff assigned to the cases and private individuals, including grand jurors, performing in their civic duty. so saying that this is not just 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 of 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 three weeks to he said the risk of harm is now paramount >> 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 use it, regular people use it, but it's a bit messy. misleading because when you think of someone who's gagged like an action here, when an '80s movie, they can't talk at all. >> donald trump >> can still say plenty here. he can still criticize the judge, the da, he can say this, keep calling it a limited gag everyone knew he is going to fundraise off this saying, oh look, they're trying to silence me when in fact exactly again, it's just the public figures you can sell 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 there the most vulnerable people, they're the people who need to be protected there off limits. everything else. so he's free to talk about what are the punishment though. i mean, actually be i mean, 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. 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 across the so the attorney is 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 it could be monetary. it would be a leaf 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 go go? so the >> de has said six weeks, but trials having done them have a way of slides being an extending maybe a juror gets sick, maybe a witness's 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 if he does this go 78 weeks, i mean, we're going to be busy from mid april and cares, right. 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 first amendment. it's 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. but on the point of their witnesses mean trump has said that his attorneys have said they want to call an expert witness. the judge so that person is not really an expert. so if you're going to call them their testimonies, 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 shorter if you

took the stand. oh, my gosh. it would be i think reckless but would be certainly very dramatic. one 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. la honig. thanks very much. garrison is 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 he's saying coming out >> houston, check. >> your nothing. >> a space shuttle accident not one thing. it's a series of events. >> is that part of the wing coming apart? >> space shuttle columbia, he final flight or mere sunday, april 7 at nine on cnn

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enforcement official briefed on the investigation says the homes were searched because he is a target of a federal investigation carried out by a department of homeland security that handles human trafficking crimes the music producers, attorney, whoever's criticizing the investigation in a new statement, the attorney says and i quote yesterday there was a gross overuse of military level force 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 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 time here, cnn's josh campbell 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 cnn agents were authorized to search his homes for documents, phones, computers, and other electronic devices armored vehicles to send it on the property simultaneously of rick caution 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 rest it's going victims and identifying and prosecuting suspected traffickers. this investigation coming on the heels of several civil lawsuits, all of them were incredibly graphic, accusing duty of rape grooming, sexual assault, drug fogging 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 in a december statement, combs responded to the claims and all the lawsuits saying sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday today. let me be absolutely clear. i did not do any of the awful things being alleged. cassius attorney responding to monday 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, producer rodney jones, who goes by the stage name little 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 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 in civil lawsuits to be considered by federal investigators and federal prosecutors and reviewed to determine whether or not a federal crime prime 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 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 his former girlfriend who 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? at 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 execute to search warrants simultaneously. and with that level for us, because that's the other criticism by one of the other criticisms by the attorney 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 >> have probable cause in two locations, you're better off 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 precedent it's day. 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 gins that indicates that someone who's going to be at that residents 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 preparing sharedness to ensure that there's no problems that everything is done in a safe away as possible. so i think what we saw yesterday was understandable in the context of an armed and dangerous warrant. >> all right. andrew mccabe. thanks very much. robert f. kennedy jr. is announce his running mate and just longshot bid for the white house, who she is and how it supporter's feel about her next two, the worldwide my tuesday. >> now, i want to focus on what's happening to our planet i'm going to visit coastal communities that have a new ally in the fight. against climate change. this is blue car business, blue carbon >> we just need to plant and we need to protect nature will do the rest carbon a cnn sunday, april 21 at nine.

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liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn 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 as 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 >> supporters of robert f. kennedy jr. have meeting every other week since september at this virginia beach irish pub and restaurant we're, a bust of his uncle john 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

junior, that's why you're here. do you think it's a stronger ticket now because we've got of his vice presidential announcement >> i do. yeah. i think nicole's energized she's great momentum and had really important points to share. >> you feel the same way. >> yes. especially about the the food, situation, the chemicals in our foods supply, and the chronic diseases that fits together very well with robert. hur said an important question, i want to ask. all of you. we shouldn't. you could just give me a quick answer on this. if robert f. kennedy jr. 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 >> i lean toward trump's >> who would you vote for? >> it is not a fair question, gary, it's picking the between the worst of two evils and that's what bobby was talking. >> would you vote for four years ago? i voted for biden, but i would 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 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, has honore, and he's honest when asked you the same question, who would you vote for if rfk junior weren't running trump-biden or somebody who was on a sighted, but i would have to lean towards trump >> lets you son decided this year though, >> so to review, how many of you said if rfk junior weren't running, you would most likely vote for trump. raise your hand 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 in 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 this. so any of you concerned that his family members, many of them, his siblings, cousins, have come out against their own family member does that raise a red flag for vitamin distillation so but there's still this family. >> there's a >> lot of his family that support him to write any yeah. and he says, i don't know >> your siblings were against you. it might make a vote or think of it's a good question, but he has a huge family that's a good question. yeah. it isn't good question. he has a higher in 20 family members. i do things in life that my family doesn't agree with >> your family, doesn't it? i'm just joking around i