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in fact, they have been defined, even though that fbi informant was charged by the fbi for making up these false at bribery allegations about joe biden then those now discredited claims were memorialized in a document and fbi document known as a 1023, something that republicans fought for months to make public last year. and it really was at the heart part of the reason why they opened an impeachment inquiry in the first place. but now they are trying to downplay the significance of that allegation. just take a listen to this exchange between manu raju and how judiciary chair jim jordan >> you said the 1023 is the most corroborating piece of information you outbreaks, but it doesn't, it doesn't change those fundamental facts. so now it's not true. well, so okay. so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi when we when we were trying to get the 1023, they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security, this aid to this source didn't want to release it. and now they're saying you know, he he he gave false information. the oth
in fact, they have been defined, even though that fbi informant was charged by the fbi for making up these false at bribery allegations about joe biden then those now discredited claims were memorialized in a document and fbi document known as a 1023, something that republicans fought for months to make public last year. and it really was at the heart part of the reason why they opened an impeachment inquiry in the first place. but now they are trying to downplay the significance of that...
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remember, the ex-fbi and forth? woman whose testimony had been central to house republican allegations. the one that special counsel, david weiss, already charged with lying. well, the special counsel now says, not only did he commit perjury locating the bidens in a business deal. this informant has now told prosecutors that he was tracking trafficking and information false. it turns out provided to him by the russians so fell the basij wall here, house republicans within opinion which one inquiry based at least in part on false information from a guy who now says he got stuff from the russians. cnn, senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz, with all this, this russian connection, kaitlan john on it, just information coming from alexander smirnov, who's now arrested and released from >> detention, coming into the fbi for years and even recently. so what is at stake in his case is questions about what he was telling the fbi related to hunter biden they didn't burisma and joe biden, he had alleged that there
remember, the ex-fbi and forth? woman whose testimony had been central to house republican allegations. the one that special counsel, david weiss, already charged with lying. well, the special counsel now says, not only did he commit perjury locating the bidens in a business deal. this informant has now told prosecutors that he was tracking trafficking and information false. it turns out provided to him by the russians so fell the basij wall here, house republicans within opinion which one...
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time we are hearing from republicans trying to impeach president biden after the revelation that an fbi informants who gave false information about president biden was fed dirt by the russians president biden, calling out donald trump for his quote, outrageous comments. this after trump, once again refused to condemn vladimir putin and he's comparing his legal troubles to that of alexi navalny and tragedy in texas, the body of a missing girl has been found days after she disappeared. the man police say is responsible, has a long criminal history. i'm fredricka whitfield along with sara sidner and john berman. kate is off today. this is cnn news central >> any minute now, house republicans trying to impeach president biden will meet behind closed doors with the president's brother, james. this interview comes as a series of biden family business associates have testified that the president was not involved in his family's foreign business dealings, which undermines the central allegation that is part of the republican investigation. >> on top >> of that, the stunning revelation overnight
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in the us, specifically, the fbi. he was charged last week and arrested on charges related to lying to the fbi, speaking to them about joe biden and his son, hunter biden, their connections to burisma, this ukrainian energy company. he had alleged that there were bribes. there were none of those of, you the biden and hunter at that time and so he was charged with lying because that had become part of the political discourse. it was something that the fbi had heard from him. you can't tell lies to the fbi as a confidential informant then just yesterday, we see him in court because the justice department is fearful that he could continue to sow disinformation into american authorities investigators. that's because he told them even after his arrest. and in recent months that he was receiving information from russian officials, specifically russian intelligence, and he had a lot of contact with foreign intelligence services >> so >> the justice department went to court and they told the judge yesterday, this man, alexand
in the us, specifically, the fbi. he was charged last week and arrested on charges related to lying to the fbi, speaking to them about joe biden and his son, hunter biden, their connections to burisma, this ukrainian energy company. he had alleged that there were bribes. there were none of those of, you the biden and hunter at that time and so he was charged with lying because that had become part of the political discourse. it was something that the fbi had heard from him. you can't tell lies...
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so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi when we we were trying to get the 1023, they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security, this aid to this source didn't want to release it. and now they're saying how he he he gave false information. the other thing is a story out to they scott braised, the us attorney did check the travel records of this confidential human source and found that he was at those places. he said he was so put your promotion of a bribery scheme he was false. >> not at all. we're we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true absolutely true. but joe biden bragged about it >> what's mute? i've said is not true to concede that. well, yeah, that's what >> the fbi saying and this is a critical moment for this impeachment probe, because not only is the president's >> brother james biden now, behind closed doors, but hunter biden, the president's son who has been at the center of this investigation is also expected to come behind c
so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi when we we were trying to get the 1023, they told us, oh, this could jeopardize national security, this aid to this source didn't want to release it. and now they're saying how he he he gave false information. the other thing is a story out to they scott braised, the us attorney did check the travel records of this confidential human source and found that he was at those places. he said he was so...
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i'm speaking cheap pena will speak the fbi sec. douglass williams will say a few words. tab see director kevin lilly will make some remarks. the update on the actual investigation is going to come from all commander of a homicide hassan well, follow up in spanish with commander hector garcia would probably just summarize everything that everybody is saying up here briefly. and then we'll go to a question and answers also want to acknowledge the director of dps, gerald brown is here. thank you. >> and also harris county sheriff egg gonzalez, and i'll district attorney kim august is here as well. and if i've missed out on somebody, you let me know, but a lot of work has been conducted and just since yesterday and a lot of things are still going on, we will not be able to answer it every question information that we do have will share it which you have week, if we can, but let's just take that into consideration. also, want to close out by saying it's important as the mayor said, that our community, and not only religious institutions all of our communities we need the whol
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so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi, but to promotion so a bribery scheme was false? >> not at all. we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true. >> what evidence do you have a bribery scheme now? >> we've got lots of was prosecuted for five years and i don't have trust in our criminal justice system, in our system of justice. generally so you're seeing some republicans distanced themselves from this informant. others saying that they cannot trust the justice department and some simply saying that there's much more information like jim jordan who says that they've facts that they have gathered so far are enough in his view to a bribery scheme, even as we have seen, the after so matt of these doj or j. charges against that fba informant here. but the question ultimately is, where does this impeachment probe go? james biden behind closed doors today, hunter biden, the president's son behind closed doors next week, and then the decision will be made. w
so the fbi told us that this source was selling 14 years. this source was a paid source by the fbi, but to promotion so a bribery scheme was false? >> not at all. we're we're looking at the four facts i just gave you. those facts are true. >> what evidence do you have a bribery scheme now? >> we've got lots of was prosecuted for five years and i don't have trust in our criminal justice system, in our system of justice. generally so you're seeing some republicans distanced...
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sean, how is the fbi able to do this? this is an incredibly complex group and has done a lot of damage that's right, sara, it looks like the fbi and its law enforcement allies and the uk and australia and across europe had a long running >> access to the ransomware groups servers, to their systems. they infiltrated them deeply and were able to see a lot of data that the group was collecting on victims and they also the fbi and its allies also developed a decryption software where they're able to hopefully unlock the systems of hundreds of victims that have these hackers have targeted. so it's a big deal to big bust the big catch, however, is that some or many of these folks are based in russia. the alleged attackers so this is a multinational ransomware group, but two of the man indicted today are russian and as you know, cooperation between moscow and washington on cybercrime and other issues is pretty much nil right now. so the odds of them seeing the inside of the us courtroom are pretty thin. however, this is a big bl
sean, how is the fbi able to do this? this is an incredibly complex group and has done a lot of damage that's right, sara, it looks like the fbi and its law enforcement allies and the uk and australia and across europe had a long running >> access to the ransomware groups servers, to their systems. they infiltrated them deeply and were able to see a lot of data that the group was collecting on victims and they also the fbi and its allies also developed a decryption software where they're...
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look, special, counsel, david weiss says that this longtime fbi informant alexander smirnov, lied to investigators when he accused joe biden and hunter biden of corruption. he made up a story about the bidens taking millions of dollars of bribes from the ukrainian energy company burisma, where hunter biden was on the board, including when his dad was vp. so this informant past that tip along to the fbi in the summer of 2020 seemingly corroborating the republicans claimed that the biden's were peddling their influence in ukraine to get rich. there was only one problem though, brianna, it wasn't true according to this indictment, according to special counsel, david weiss. and remember, weiss not a biden crony. he he's a trump appointee. he has literally currently prosecuting hunter biden during an election year, but he said that these were fabricated allegations. >> republicans have tried to nonetheless discredit weiss, as i mentioned, these allegations, he's discredited allegations. marshall have really been the linchpin no matter what james comer says of so much of what republicans h
look, special, counsel, david weiss says that this longtime fbi informant alexander smirnov, lied to investigators when he accused joe biden and hunter biden of corruption. he made up a story about the bidens taking millions of dollars of bribes from the ukrainian energy company burisma, where hunter biden was on the board, including when his dad was vp. so this informant past that tip along to the fbi in the summer of 2020 seemingly corroborating the republicans claimed that the biden's were...
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informant touted as a key witness in a key source so of information was indicted for lying to the fbi and lying to the fbi about his claims that biden was involved in a bribery scheme. >> so the >> house oversight chairman james comer, who has been leading part of the impeachment inquiry. he is now trying to downplay the importance of this informant he wasn't an important part of this investigation because i didn't even know who he was all i knew was there was a 1023 that alleged bribery. my investigations about all the money, the biden tip taken from china, from romania, from nuff, can stay or not, you're paying for nadeau thing this guy. absolutely nothing to do with it. we got a tip, we investigate, we couldn't figure out who it was seen as lauren fox has more from the hill for us, lauren is what commerce saying, true? >> well, a lot of republicans like comer, are trying to downplay how foundational this 1023 was two moving forward with their impeachment inquiry. but here's just a snapshot of what republicans have been saying over the course of the last several months about the imp
informant touted as a key witness in a key source so of information was indicted for lying to the fbi and lying to the fbi about his claims that biden was involved in a bribery scheme. >> so the >> house oversight chairman james comer, who has been leading part of the impeachment inquiry. he is now trying to downplay the importance of this informant he wasn't an important part of this investigation because i didn't even know who he was all i knew was there was a 1023 that alleged...
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to know the motive, how she got the weapon, why she did this we're not there yet. >> if and when the fbi does make an inquiry about weapons are going to try to be purchased by someone who has mental health issue and a criminal background what do you do with that information then afterwards. >> so when that information comes through, the fbi will receive it and then we share that with our with our local partners. >> yes. >> yes. go ahead. is it clear how much ammunition to the suspect was carrying amongst those two rifles? >> i think we're still working through it, but can i say multiple rounds of ammunition? multiple rounds were fired, but just 24 hours into it. i don't want to give you a definitive answer. multiple rounds. and multiple rounds fired. go ahead and we'll work on i'll wait to the bank way more >> spanish indicated a christian christian moreno. is that the officer for hpd then returned fire? >> yes. christopher marino and we'll be sending that information out to you. and i don't want to speak for my dbc, but what will get that out sometime pretty soon >> moment at marino's i
to know the motive, how she got the weapon, why she did this we're not there yet. >> if and when the fbi does make an inquiry about weapons are going to try to be purchased by someone who has mental health issue and a criminal background what do you do with that information then afterwards. >> so when that information comes through, the fbi will receive it and then we share that with our with our local partners. >> yes. >> yes. go ahead. is it clear how much ammunition...
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we learned a lot about this when the fbi director testified last week on the hill. tell us about what you found. >> this report really shows us that the hackers were in the systems a lot longer than we previously knew. they are kind of burrowing their way in, and at least five years ago, they started probing the computer networks of things like water treatment plants, energy plants, and what they are looking for is a way to get from the more public i.t. systems that are out there to the sensitive computer networks that interact with machinery and keep the lights on and that kind of thing. it is very much a long game that they are playing and this report that cnn obtained that is out publicly really outlines the cat and mouse game that is going on with the u.s. government and with the u.s. hackers and critical infrastructure. they've tried to evict them. they've come back. it's really an ongoing thing and it's all in the context of the u.s., china relationship over taiwan. for a long time, u.s. officials were warning us about russian hackers that were doing something
we learned a lot about this when the fbi director testified last week on the hill. tell us about what you found. >> this report really shows us that the hackers were in the systems a lot longer than we previously knew. they are kind of burrowing their way in, and at least five years ago, they started probing the computer networks of things like water treatment plants, energy plants, and what they are looking for is a way to get from the more public i.t. systems that are out there to the...
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and by the way, similar level of classifications of documents were found at mar-a-lago during the fbi search there. so the comparison, of course, is there. and a lot of them had to do with joe biden's personal notes . notebooks that he took of situation room discussions. part of this was joe biden's very, very strong opposition to a troop surge in afghanistan late in the obama presidency. this is a very important thing the report describes, a very important part of joe biden's legacy as vice president. it was very well detailed, it is something that he discussed with his ghostwriter. and the ghostwriter produced audio recordings of those discussions. and in one of those discussions the former vice president at the time of this recording says i just retrieved these classified stuff downstairs. i don't have it in front of me the exact wording, but that is the gist of the comment that is made by joe biden, then the former vice president to his ghostwriter. he says i just looked at this classified stuff downstairs. and that appears to be, according to this report, the most damning evidenc
and by the way, similar level of classifications of documents were found at mar-a-lago during the fbi search there. so the comparison, of course, is there. and a lot of them had to do with joe biden's personal notes . notebooks that he took of situation room discussions. part of this was joe biden's very, very strong opposition to a troop surge in afghanistan late in the obama presidency. this is a very important thing the report describes, a very important part of joe biden's legacy as vice...
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i mean, if you go back just a couple of weeks ago, the department of homeland security, the fbi in the nsa issued a joint bulletin which talks about a chinese cyber espionage program. it's called volt typhoon. and the bulletin reads volt typhoon has compromised the it environments of multiple critical infrastructure organizations, primarily in communications energy, transportation system so what you're seeing is the government telling us that critical infrastructure and things like the cellular phone carriers are the target of these infiltration plans. now, the chinese one, which is called volt typhoon, is one that they wanted to warn people about because it hides within the operating system and looks like the normal operations of your system. but the russians for years ran something called cozy bear, which was part of the solar winds infiltration where they basically took the system that people use to update their computers and installed well things and install patches and all that overnight and infiltrated that. so it's one of the go-to theories when there's no explanation. now, let'
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love 40, providing false information about the bidens to the fbi. it is sort of this conflict fluence of events that you really see this remark, a sticking out. now, as he does often, president biden is being a little more unvarnished in these behind the scenes. fine racers, there were reporters there, but it's not on camera. and certainly president biden, a feeling a little bit more willing to talk more candidly about some of his foreign counterparts on the global stage. now, in the end, us russia relations are already at an all-time low. they have really soured. but i don't think president biden's remark is necessarily going to cause them to the sour more of it certainly making clear where he stands guys unvarnished, quite a way to describe it. kevin liptak, appreciate the reporting. thank you so much. >> still ahead this >> hour on cnn news central, the dominos are falling to more clinics in alabama are pausing ivf treatment following a controversial ruling by the states supreme court for the first time in more than 50 years, we are headed back t
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but instead of the extortion site where you get as a big logo of the fbi, the uk national crisis, and seen others saying, hey, we were inside your systems and it's really a taunting trash talk from the authorities for lack of a better phrase. >> and >> like i said, it's been going on for months and now we have the public evidence that the fbi is saying that they are able to unlock victims systems if they've been infected, come contact us. we have the decryption key, and they also the european authorities announced two arrests of lower-level members. the main core members are believed to be in russia and two of those men were indicted today, unlikely that they will see the inside of the us courtroom given relations between moscow and washington, but still a big blow to this group's operation. brianna. >> and how about in the context of ransomware operations, generally couldn't some of these folks just like do lockbit to 0.0 and start operations elsewhere. exactly. well, this is, this is three point out, so you might see four point or another branding. it's all about branding as they ca
but instead of the extortion site where you get as a big logo of the fbi, the uk national crisis, and seen others saying, hey, we were inside your systems and it's really a taunting trash talk from the authorities for lack of a better phrase. >> and >> like i said, it's been going on for months and now we have the public evidence that the fbi is saying that they are able to unlock victims systems if they've been infected, come contact us. we have the decryption key, and they also...
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director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi. these are experienced people at the justice department, who spent decades working at the justice department. and they are saying it is gratuitous. they are saying that it isn't appropriate, that it is inconsistent with doj policy and practice. that is them saying it. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night, you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we certainly agree that it is gratuitous. but i explained this a little bit in the opening, we are in a very pressurized political environment. and when you are the first special counsel in history not to indict anybody, there is pressure to criticize, and to make statements that maybe otherwise he wouldn't make. and, i think it leaves you wondering why some of these critiques are in their. but i think it's also important to just fundamentally distinguish between the prior case that you mentioned, i want to be careful -- and the special counsel report goes into great detail ab
director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi. these are experienced people at the justice department, who spent decades working at the justice department. and they are saying it is gratuitous. they are saying that it isn't appropriate, that it is inconsistent with doj policy and practice. that is them saying it. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night, you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we certainly agree...
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he opened up every room in his family home and his beach house for comprehensive fbi searches. the first time in history. he sat for two days of interviews, and interview that i will add, and the president talked about this last night, took place the day after the brutal attack on israel. the president was managing an intensive international crisis. you just heard the vice president talk about this. he answered dozens of follow-up questions to the special counsel in writing. three, he didn't exert executive privilege over any contents of the report. he was transparent, he had nothing to hide. there was a long, intensive, and in many ways, yes, excessive investigation. but for context, you should all remember, in the case of former vice president mike pence, who had a very similar incident occurred right after president biden, the case was closed within a few months. it was a brief, one page letter to mike pence. but in this case, there was a 15 month investigation. the special counsel interviewed 150 witnesses. he sought and obtained 7 million pages of documents down to emails
he opened up every room in his family home and his beach house for comprehensive fbi searches. the first time in history. he sat for two days of interviews, and interview that i will add, and the president talked about this last night, took place the day after the brutal attack on israel. the president was managing an intensive international crisis. you just heard the vice president talk about this. he answered dozens of follow-up questions to the special counsel in writing. three, he didn't...
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of your republican colleagues admittedly, one who had touted the now-discredited information from an fbi informant who was closed mr. russian intel and is now charged with lying that colleague of yours characterized hunter biden, is defiant and dishonest in this closed-door testimony. what's your perspective on how this was? >> gosh, i think i was watching a different deposition. i didn't see that. i saw someone who is more calm. the answer the questions in a forthcoming way. i also saw somebody who he just came off as credible. in fact, i distinctly remember the way it worked as a lot of us members were sitting in the room and we were sitting next to each other as republicans and democrats were kind to intermingle. and after one of the answers that he gave i actually said to my republican colleague, i thought that was a pretty good answer and is shut shut down the line of questioning and he agreed with me and i think that that is probably because hunter was probably a biden was probably prepared for the questions. i also say i also have to say that he was candid about him being tell us
of your republican colleagues admittedly, one who had touted the now-discredited information from an fbi informant who was closed mr. russian intel and is now charged with lying that colleague of yours characterized hunter biden, is defiant and dishonest in this closed-door testimony. what's your perspective on how this was? >> gosh, i think i was watching a different deposition. i didn't see that. i saw someone who is more calm. the answer the questions in a forthcoming way. i also saw...
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. >> but cyber attack is in the discussion because it was just on february 7th when the nsa, the fbi, homeland security, >> and a lot of federal partners, issued a warning about the chinese hacking threat i mean, has anyone stood up at&t or anyone who stood up and said, hey, it's definitely not a cyber attack. and the part that strikes me what time is it? it's like 1008 right now. this has been going on for hours, a very long time. >> okay. so we're talking about i'm talking about as someone who has experienced in crisis communications both at the fbi and the nypd we are talking about two different system failures here. one is the technical system failure and the other is the strategic system failure, which is not getting out and talking about this to their customers. when i went to their website just after 07:00 this morning all it had was opportunities to buy and more phones. there was no boxing. we know we're experiencing problems. we're trying to resolve that. here are things you can do. wifi calling text, and so on. so that's something that on the backend of this, they're going t
. >> but cyber attack is in the discussion because it was just on february 7th when the nsa, the fbi, homeland security, >> and a lot of federal partners, issued a warning about the chinese hacking threat i mean, has anyone stood up at&t or anyone who stood up and said, hey, it's definitely not a cyber attack. and the part that strikes me what time is it? it's like 1008 right now. this has been going on for hours, a very long time. >> okay. so we're talking about i'm...
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he's former fbi, also a senior law enforcement analyst for cnn. >> steve. >> when you hear about >> this kind of situation, this sort of setting, what details stand out to you about what we're learning specifically about two people being detained, both of them aren't well, i think the first thing excuse me that stands out to me is that people were taken into >> custody alive, which kind of indicates to me at least that is not customary, that is not usual when you find somebody who's an active shooter, a terrorist, something like that, they do not want to be taken alive and they have a weapon to make sure that they don't get taken alive so that's that's one thing. it's i'm not saying it's not the case, but it lobbies towards another type of shooting this is an area this area was where you can have an immense potential target count and that's big for terrorists and active shooters. but it also brings in diverse groups who may not like each other. and so you also have the possibility that this was potentially gang-related something in that vein. and we won't know until we know more about th
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documents that were retrieved by the fbi from mar-a-lago in 2022. in some cases the government is arguing that the documents are so sensitive that the former president and his codefendants should not be able to see the documents and they have summaries that have been prepared on some of those documents and that is something that the trump team should not be and that if the documents are being used at trial or are relevant to his defense that he should have full access. the courthouse behind me has a special room that is made to view and hold classified documents and that is where they have been the last few hours. they expect this hearing will wrap up shortly after which the special counsel, the government will have their turn to make their argument to the judge to make sure that these restrictions in place remain in place during the upcoming trial. >> all right evan, thank you for that report from florida. >>> former federal prosecutor renato mari anee is here to walk us through this. prosecutors in the intelligence agencies do not want them to acc
documents that were retrieved by the fbi from mar-a-lago in 2022. in some cases the government is arguing that the documents are so sensitive that the former president and his codefendants should not be able to see the documents and they have summaries that have been prepared on some of those documents and that is something that the trump team should not be and that if the documents are being used at trial or are relevant to his defense that he should have full access. the courthouse behind me...
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and also, they found classified documents in about 300 boxes that the fbi searched at the university of delaware. these were president biden's papers from when he served in the senate. one other very important point here, the special counsel goes into chapter and verse about why they are not going to charge the president. it is not only because he is the sitting president, there is a doj prohibition on charging a sitting president with a crime. what they talk about here is that they believe the evidence that they have would not be able to be sustained, would not be able to sustain a conviction if this was brought before a jury. one of the reasons why as they say that despite the fact that he did bring these documents home, that that then vice president when talking to his ghostwriter simply was inadvertent in some of the documents, and some of the sharing of that classified information. they also say it is clear that joe biden has a faltering memory , he is an old guy. they point that out and they say that for those reasons they don't believe they could sustain a conviction against j
and also, they found classified documents in about 300 boxes that the fbi searched at the university of delaware. these were president biden's papers from when he served in the senate. one other very important point here, the special counsel goes into chapter and verse about why they are not going to charge the president. it is not only because he is the sitting president, there is a doj prohibition on charging a sitting president with a crime. what they talk about here is that they believe the...
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entered here on the west side of the church, and we've also learned in the last few hours that the fbi, atf, has been assisting in a search of a home in the city of conrow which is about 45 to an hour's drive north of the houston area. that search of that home has gone on throughout the evening hours. we don't know many details as to what exactly was uncovered there and that sort of thing. we're expecting to hear from houston police here in a couple of hours, around 2:30 eastern time, 1:30 central time, for the latest updates on this investigation. as you mentioned, sara, the woman who showed up here was wearing a long trench coat, was carrying this assault-style rifle underneath there when she began opening fire. you can hear from that video clip from inside the church just how chaotic and confusing it must have been for many of the parishioners who were inside. investigators and church officials, joel osteen, who is the lead pastor here, says that it could have been a lot worse had it happened at a different time, that they were in between services. in fact, the spanish language serv
entered here on the west side of the church, and we've also learned in the last few hours that the fbi, atf, has been assisting in a search of a home in the city of conrow which is about 45 to an hour's drive north of the houston area. that search of that home has gone on throughout the evening hours. we don't know many details as to what exactly was uncovered there and that sort of thing. we're expecting to hear from houston police here in a couple of hours, around 2:30 eastern time, 1:30...
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these are the most sensitive documents that the fbi retrieved back in august of 2022. the trump team has been arguing that they should be able to get full access to every single document that is going to be used at trial. that trial is still set for may, but what we're seeing is a lot of maneuvering behind the scenes, part of the goal here, of course, by donald trump and his legal team is to delay that trial, to make sthure that we don't have a trial in the documents case before the election, sara. >> i do want to ask you about some of the other fighting that's been going on behind the scenes. what can you tell us about some of the other arguments being made in this case? >> reporter: right. there's been a lot of closed-door, certainly sealed proceedings that have been going on, and a big part of that has been fight over the witnesses, and the identities of those witnesses. the trump team says there's no reason why any of those witnesses need to be shielded from the public. the special counsel in just the last couple of days, you know, has argued that some of those wit
these are the most sensitive documents that the fbi retrieved back in august of 2022. the trump team has been arguing that they should be able to get full access to every single document that is going to be used at trial. that trial is still set for may, but what we're seeing is a lot of maneuvering behind the scenes, part of the goal here, of course, by donald trump and his legal team is to delay that trial, to make sthure that we don't have a trial in the documents case before the election,...
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of course, the fbi has charged in informant alexander smirnov with making false statements with allegedly lying about things he said about hunter biden and president biden receiving bribes. >> so >> republicans, not necessarily feeling as confident as they were before those allegations, but this is still a significant witness that they're really only able to get in the chair because they were willing to negotiate here yeah. >> and as you say, the timing is fascinating as the impeachment inquiry itself seems to be sputtering a little bit. paula reid. thank you very much. i know we'll be talking to you extensively tomorrow a. former trump attorney who helped lead the charge on the 2020 fake electors scheme and the secret twitter account. what a kfile, cnn kfile investigation found that has officials in michigan saying they want to know more and a new report on major safety gaps found at boeing will be back sunday van jones. it's home to find out what is driving the divide in tennis they see politics. >> there has been a very active 20 to 30 year effort to separate us. >> the whole story wit
of course, the fbi has charged in informant alexander smirnov with making false statements with allegedly lying about things he said about hunter biden and president biden receiving bribes. >> so >> republicans, not necessarily feeling as confident as they were before those allegations, but this is still a significant witness that they're really only able to get in the chair because they were willing to negotiate here yeah. >> and as you say, the timing is fascinating as the...
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but there is that thing hanging over this it's that fbi informant that was falsely accusing him and joe biden of bribes, and there hasn't been evidenced that house republicans have found linking foreign money directly to joe biden in a corrupt fashion >> all right, so standby to see exactly how this goes down, kaitlan, poland's all over it for us it's gonna be quite a morning, john. all right >> also, this morning, no deal. not yet, which means a government shutdown is still on the calendar, just days from now, this comes after president biden met with top congressional leaders at the white house, senate majority leader chuck schumer said the meeting was quote, one of the most intense he had ever encountered. cnn's lauren fox in washington for the very latest, where do things stand in these talks, laura? >> yeah. you would be forgiven if you feel a little confused waking up this morning because it does appear that speaker mike johnson has sort of changed his mind in terms of the direction that they want to go. he has offered to move forward with a short-term spending bill to get them ov
but there is that thing hanging over this it's that fbi informant that was falsely accusing him and joe biden of bribes, and there hasn't been evidenced that house republicans have found linking foreign money directly to joe biden in a corrupt fashion >> all right, so standby to see exactly how this goes down, kaitlan, poland's all over it for us it's gonna be quite a morning, john. all right >> also, this morning, no deal. not yet, which means a government shutdown is still on the...
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should drop the charges, that he was more cooperative than biden, which we know is not true given the fbi had to issue a search warrant to retrieve his documents. so far, he has not touched on the mental fitness, the age lines from the document. one thing to point out is while donald trump has alluded to biden's age, often called him incompetent, he never brings up his age. for two reason. one, because donald trump himself is an older man. two, because donald trump's supporters are also older. he's trying to not risk alienating some of those people as well, and drawing attention to his own age. so will he bring attention to the mental acuity? likely. will he bring attention to the age? likely not. now, the one thing i want to note is it is undeniable, yesterday is arguably one of the best days for donald trump in the time since he has actually announced that he was going to run for office in november of 2022. including with those supreme court arguments. he watched them, he thought they went very well. this is what he said at a rally yesterday about them. >> our supreme court hopefully wi
should drop the charges, that he was more cooperative than biden, which we know is not true given the fbi had to issue a search warrant to retrieve his documents. so far, he has not touched on the mental fitness, the age lines from the document. one thing to point out is while donald trump has alluded to biden's age, often called him incompetent, he never brings up his age. for two reason. one, because donald trump himself is an older man. two, because donald trump's supporters are also older....
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they got the fbi involved. there was an additional examination of the gun involved and knew experts that have come onto the case say that alec baldwin statement to the effect that he didn't pull the trigger is inconsistent with the forensic evidence in their investigation and examination of the gun. also, we are now learning that this armorer who we know was very inexperienced, hadn't had the level of responsibility on a movie set that she was given on this particular set may have been using cocaine, alcohol, and marijuana the night before the shooting took place. even some allegations that she is the one that broth live ammunition onto the set ahead. the live ammunition with the dummy ammunition in her hotel room the night before, apparently their text messages, what she's talking about, getting high. so there's a lot of damaging information that i think is going to be a difficult for the armorer to overcome in her trial. and then could bleed into the trial for alec baldwin because the charge against him is th
they got the fbi involved. there was an additional examination of the gun involved and knew experts that have come onto the case say that alec baldwin statement to the effect that he didn't pull the trigger is inconsistent with the forensic evidence in their investigation and examination of the gun. also, we are now learning that this armorer who we know was very inexperienced, hadn't had the level of responsibility on a movie set that she was given on this particular set may have been using...
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the failures of leadership and everything that has been learned and uncovered even recently after the fbi investigation, what are you hearing about this grand jury? yeah. so after the doj did their invasion let's and there was a civil investigation and they found all of those critical things that police should have been doing. they were not doing the grand jury started hearing this case just the day after they were seated, some for the past month now, in uvalde there has been this grand jury that's been hearing evidence. i was told this morning that actually officers have already testified some of the investigators have gone in already and given testimony and now the grand jury wants to hear from some of the first responders, some of the officers who responded in those critical minutes and essentially nothing was done. so that's who's going before the grand juries at some point next week, some of the first responders, other officers, they've been subpoenaed from the texas department of public safety and other law enforcement agencies. remember kate, there were over 300 officers, nearly 40
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. >> let's break down the story with a former member of the fbi hostage rescue team, rob d'amico. he's the founder of sierra one consulting rob, thanks so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. i want to get your reaction to this news that alexia navalny, according to aides, the kremlin was ready to release him and a pair of american citizens in exchange for this convicted murderer and former fsb officer. does that seem like something these parties would have actually agreed to? >> yeah. i just read it and i was kinda shot to it but when you're doing negotiations, you really only have to ensure that who you're talking to actually has the connections to make what you're negotiating happened so if whoever we were talking to in this, if it was going on, they may not have had the kremlin's permission to do this. it may be something that they were working that they are going to bring up or if the kremlin actually kind of game the bill had what level did that happen? >> and did the >> people holding him actually understand that? unless he sick to a point that he was a couldn't
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criticizing them for their coverage over the last few weeks of alexey smirnoff, who was assessed by fbi informant who's now been arrested for allegedly lying about hunter biden and president biden, why did the white house to decide to send that letter? >> so look the letters from my colleagues speak thanks for itself, and you're right. that letter was sent. what i will say this more broadly is that we understand how difficult it is for all of you. we understand how difficult is for and you know this john, how difficult it is true. the reporting and we understand how important it is to report on the facts and to be accurate. and that's what we're asking. let's get four. we're asking to make sure that when reporting about issues that are critical that american people are hearing about a need to be, it needs to be factual, and it needs to be accurate. and again, the letter speaks for itself that my colleague sent out. >> does the white house feel as if the supreme court is acting urgently? in regards to the federal case against donald trump decided to hear the immunity case in late april >
criticizing them for their coverage over the last few weeks of alexey smirnoff, who was assessed by fbi informant who's now been arrested for allegedly lying about hunter biden and president biden, why did the white house to decide to send that letter? >> so look the letters from my colleagues speak thanks for itself, and you're right. that letter was sent. what i will say this more broadly is that we understand how difficult it is for all of you. we understand how difficult is for and...
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was there at that to that >> point, the republicans star witness and star information, this former-fbi and he's indicted. >> that's right. this is totally anti-climatic hi, there is nothing that's going to come out of this. harry was 100% right? what they're going to do, and if you really want the see the roadmap of what they're going to question about. it's in jim jordan's tweet that he put out there a couple of days ago where he goes through all of these conspiracy theories and all of these dredged up allegations made over the years. and essentially what it all comes down to is that hunter biden was trading off his dad's name essentially, this is the same thing that we've seen prior with lyndon johnson's brother, with jimmy carter's brother, with richard nixon's brother. i mean, this is no different. it's basically what my dad said to me. you can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives >> my sister what can we pause here? >> hello. and hunter biden. since hunter biden is taken out, abbe lowell, his counsel, there's been this aggressive defense here against particularly th
was there at that to that >> point, the republicans star witness and star information, this former-fbi and he's indicted. >> that's right. this is totally anti-climatic hi, there is nothing that's going to come out of this. harry was 100% right? what they're going to do, and if you really want the see the roadmap of what they're going to question about. it's in jim jordan's tweet that he put out there a couple of days ago where he goes through all of these conspiracy theories and...
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let's speak now to former deputy operations chief for the fbi hostage rescue team, rob d'amico. rob good to have you. >> good day. good to be here. >> so we now have some video, the operation that rescued two israeli hostages as well as some details to hostages rescued. perhaps some 100 palestinians killed in that operation. i wonder, what does that mean for those who remain in captivity? i imagine hamas might look to protect their hostages more. but also you have the issue here of civilian collateral damage i think, there's two things. >> i think >> kamaz understands that there may have been some hostage rescues going on. they planned for that, knowing that israel was going to two hunt down there hostages and try to rescue him. so i don't think that surprised them. i think the hundred casualties on the palestinian side could, could throw a roadblock in a little bit into the negotiation because they're so close. i think it just gives hamas something to push back on saying you, you rescued two, but you killed 100. but it's still all part of the play, true negotiators are going to
let's speak now to former deputy operations chief for the fbi hostage rescue team, rob d'amico. rob good to have you. >> good day. good to be here. >> so we now have some video, the operation that rescued two israeli hostages as well as some details to hostages rescued. perhaps some 100 palestinians killed in that operation. i wonder, what does that mean for those who remain in captivity? i imagine hamas might look to protect their hostages more. but also you have the issue here of...
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but again, the search here continues actually just also got off the phone with the fbi, brianna, who says that they do have investigators and resources here on the ground to help with the search and just to go back to what audrey cunningham, his mother just told me, she says that her daughter is beautiful. she just hopes that everybody can look at that picture and look at our daughter. and if anybody saw anything, if they can please call police brianna. >> clearly, a beautiful child there. thank you for that report. rosa, from livingston, texas for us now, to some of the other headlines we're watching this hour police in colorado are investigating two shooting deaths at the university of colorado as a >> double homicide the victims have been identified as selye montgomery and students samuel nop. police say the deaths do not appear to be a murder suicide, or the result of a random i'm attack. meantime, former president jimmy carter just marked one year in hospice care, which the 99 year-old entered in february of last year after a series of hospital visits over the years, carter has
but again, the search here continues actually just also got off the phone with the fbi, brianna, who says that they do have investigators and resources here on the ground to help with the search and just to go back to what audrey cunningham, his mother just told me, she says that her daughter is beautiful. she just hopes that everybody can look at that picture and look at our daughter. and if anybody saw anything, if they can please call police brianna. >> clearly, a beautiful child...
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committee was relying on for so much of its information was the source, the confidential informant for the fbi? who now has been discredited, charged criminally arrested, and the government has alleged that he was in contact and gathering his formation from russian intelligence sources based on what we know so far from the deposition today, it doesn't sound like hunter biden has revealed information that supports the committee's theories in any way, will see the transcript when it come out and comes out to see if the facts are anything different than that. >> if you were a prosecutor peter, and you had say, i don't know, filed an indictment or you were pursuing something in the central basis for it, was that you had someone like the smirnoff guy alleging what he alleged that now turns out he fabricated it. he's very much in touch with russian intelligence. he's facing charges for lying. what would you do if you were prosecuting that case? and then this is what happened to the evidence you are hanging your case he said, well, when we're in the criminal justice system and when we're talking abou
committee was relying on for so much of its information was the source, the confidential informant for the fbi? who now has been discredited, charged criminally arrested, and the government has alleged that he was in contact and gathering his formation from russian intelligence sources based on what we know so far from the deposition today, it doesn't sound like hunter biden has revealed information that supports the committee's theories in any way, will see the transcript when it come out and...