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Central starts now a. Critical, day for former President Trump. Hes in a florida courtroom looking to delay his federal classified documents trial or get at tosca lately. And any moment, a judge in georgia could decide if Fulton County Da Fani Willis will be kicked off the election subversion case there plus vice. President Kamala Harris is making whats believed to be a historic first, visiting a clinic that provides abortions and a dangerous trend, more Election Officials, andrew their families are finding themselves the targets of a dangerous hoax. How criminals are weaponizing local Law Enforcement will have all those stories. Im sarah sidner with john berman and kate baldwin. This is Cnn News Central today is a big day on to legal fronts for donald trump as he continues to lean into his campaign, meets the courtroom strategy. Everyone one is standing by for the judge in georgia to drop his decision on District Attorney fani willis. His final word on whether she will continue leading the case or if he will disqualify her. Also, any moment we could see donald trump heading out of maralago and headed to Federal Court where he and his legal team will be arguing against special counsel jack smith on two questions. Basically we now before the federal judge, there will trumps classified documents charges be dropped, or move forward. And will that case go to trial before november cnns Kaitlan Polantz is live outside that Federal Courthouse in florida, joining us now, katelyn what is expected to happen today . Okay. Its a day of arguments in court, arguments from trumps lawyers and arguments from the Justice Department to judge Aileen Cannon who is going to be listening to them because donald trump wants this case to be dismissed. He has that ability to make those sorts of bids as a criminal theyll defendant its very typical for arguments like that to take place. But these arguments are special in there about his power as president and the decisions he was making when those classified documents were removed from the white house and taken to maralago at the end of the presidency by donald trump. And then kept there even and when the federal government was trying to get them back under grand jury subpoena. Donald trump. His arguments are going to be presented by his lawyers. He will be in the corner room and theyre going to be saying things to judge Aileen Cannon, like these were his personal records because trump decided he wanted to keep these records, that the these were records he had the ability to have because he was a classification authority. He had the ability to have a clearance and to have National Security records in his possession but and also theyre going to say that these laws are very vague around National Security records. Now, the Justice Department is going to say none of that is true. And the trump as president should have known how serious it was if records like this, were in the wrong hands or even just taken out of somewhere where they were secured reminder case these records, its more than 30 documents that trump is charged with mishandling and obstructing the Justice Robin as they tried to get them back. And they are things about the national defense, things about us nuclear programs, plans. If there was a foreign attack on the us and the capabilities of the United States and other nations to have weapons and military capabilities that they would have. So very serious things at stake, too big hearing for judge Aileen Cannon. Shes not expected to rule today from the bench. We are listening quite closely as to what questions she asks and how much deference she appears to be giving to the former president. Now, kaitlan. So glad youre there. Thank you so much, john. Yeah. How much deference well get to that in a moment with me now is former federal prosecutor for the Us Attorneys Office in the Southern District of new york. Danya perry. Danya, we should note, is represented sending Michael Cohen and the criminal case against donald trump in new york, danya, there was an element of this argument being presented before judge cannon today, which is that donald trump is arguing he could keep anything he wants on the merits. What do you think of that argument you know, weve seen shades of this kind of argument in many of his cases, right . Hes hes argued that as a former president , hes immune from prosecution and weve seen that in several of his cases if not all of them, here, he is saying that he has essentially designated these documents as personal documents, and then that is immune from judicial review. So this is in some ways not a foreign argument. And hes making that argument today. And a special counsel has pretty forcefully argued in response that no, there is that the former president does not have the right to make this unilateral decision and designating these kinds of sensitive National Security documents. Suis bhante on his own as having been personal in nature. And so thats one of the several arguments that will be in front of judge cannon today. As well as this argument that the former president has come up with that these documents should be decided under the president ial records act at all the special counsel says, no, you have the wrong legal structure. In fact, that the proper rubric that we should be looking under an executive order. And of course, the Espionage Act and the former president has ignored the executive order, which was an obama era order, that the former president actually could have acted upon while he was president , but did not and that is the structure that is in place. And that does not allow him to have acted the way he did that required certain procedures that he didnt have follow. And so thats a special counsels argument that will be under debate today in front of the judge. Well, Kaitlan Polantz was just saying shes gonna be watching very closely for how much deference judge. Aileen cannon pays to donald trump and his legal team. What about how much deference she has shown so far . How would you assess it its. Surprising to me. The this, this is the kind of thing i ordinarily would have expected. You have been decided on the papers instead, the judge has allocated, i believe, an entire day for arguments, so that seems a fair amount of argument there also i believe she is reserved time for this selective or malicious prosecution argument that is really a non argument that is something that i believe the 11th circuit which is the court in which this District Court sets. I dont know if you want to get into that, john, but its its a whole separate argument is is something that the 11th circuit has never countenanced. So i believe this judge is giving a lot of deference to the former president and his legal team. And i know kaitlan will be setting by to see exactly how much weight she gives these arguments therefore, its a lot, its a lot more than a lot of people think is merited, or that a lot of other judges would give in this situation. And you can almost read the frustration from jack smith and his legal team in their filings. Dani, you know, youve been for a lot of judges. What do you do when youre before a judge that really seems to be giving lets say it euphemistically, a lot of deference to donald trump and his arguments well, we might see after today, i agree with you. The general tone of a Government Prosecutor is very straight down the middle. We have started to see, i dont want to say cracks, but the tone i agree has shifted a little in the most recent papers with respect to the selective prosecution arguments the special counsels office has come out swinging a little bit. They said, well, weve never had an argument like this because weve never seen a case like this. There has simply never been other president who has acted in any way like this remotely. And so it may be that if the judge starts to push the date and we may see that as soon as today, they it is possible that they may seek review of that. It is even possible. I mean, this is pure wild speculation that they may seek to have another judge put in place, but i think that is probably very remote possibility. We will see how today goes. Danya perry. Thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it. Sara. Later today, potentially historic visit for the Vice President. 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The beating was filmed by a bystander, the girl was thrown to the ground, punched repeatedly, and then her head was repeatedly slammed into the sidewalk cnns Jason Carroll is following the story for us. Jason, i understand theres an arrest in this case. Well, first first and foremost, yes, there is an arrest, but this is just its just an horrific story. I mean, the girl in question is in Critical Condition she does have a superior head injury. There are calls for suspect. Shes a 15yearold girl. There were calls for that suspect who has been arrested for her to be tried as an adult. And first, we should tell you that this brutal attack is so violent that we cant show you the video. The video was out there. It has gone viral we. Can show you still shots of what happened here. It does show the suspect attacking the young girl repeatedly on the ground at one point banging her head into the concrete at one point she stops moving. She starts convulsing as the fight continues around her police say that this happened last friday afternoon. Thats when they got the call about some sort of altercation. When they got there, the young girl was already on the ground. They immediately took her to the hospital. They immediately made the arrest of the 15 yearold girl. Police, not identifying the 15 yearold girl. Theyre not identifying the suspect. Theyre not identifying the young girl either, but theyre already been the calls for this 15yearold to be tried as an adult, missouris Attorney General weighed in on this, saying the following. I am praying for the victim. The criminals should be charged and tried as an adult. Fault if the victim dies that offense should rise to a homicide. Now, also, sara, its clear from the video that there are several people out there who are fighting. Again, one person under arrest, the 15 yearold girl. 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Now streaming on max so this morning were learning that us officials held a secret indirect hawks with the reigning officials amid all the tension in the middle east and marks the first known engagement, between the us and iran since the two countries swap prisoners in september, seen as kylie atwood is with this with the details here, kylie, when did this happen and what was it about . Yes. This happened in january. It was in oman according to a us official familiar with this dialogue, and it was indirect talks, john. So what that means is that us officials, iranian officials were in the same building. Im told, but there were omanis who were bringing the messages back and forth between the two sides. As you said, this is the first known interaction between us and iranian officials since september there was that prisoner swap. But of course the context here is the rising tensions in the middle east and there were a number of things that were discussed in this january meeting, one of which of course is the iran nuclear program. Another one it was houthi attacks on ships in the red sea. And i think its fair to raise questions about how productive this engagement actually was. We know that there is not another engagement of the type on the schedule right now, well watch and see if that does happen. But the us had carried out has carried out a number of attacks on iranianbacked back proxies in the region after this meeting happened around the time of that meeting in yemen, in syria and iraq. So its not quite clear that this interaction was able to drive down concerns about iranian proxies in the area. Now, a state Department Spokesperson got back to us and said that theyre not going to comment on specific engagements with iran, but said they have multiple channels for communicating with iran and said, since october 7, they have really been focused on trying to engage iran through indirect ways, of course, to make sure that they are not its collating the situation in the middle east anymore than it already is right . Interesting that these discussions took place at all. And as you said, important to raise the questions about what came out of it, kylie atwood. Thank you very much for that. Okay. So the Biden Administration is now considering using Guantanamo Bay to handle migrants fleeing haiti. As us officials are preparing for a mass exodus of people fleeing the escalating Gang Violence that has really taken over the country. Gangs now control 80 of haitis capital. Thats the latest estimation and floridas governor is also preparing now for an influx of people trying to flee the violence. Seen as Carlos Suarez is in miami with more on this for us carlos, what is the Florida Governor planning to do . Well, look, kate, good morning. So the Florida Governor is moving personnel and equipment to the florida keys. Now, the coast guard tells me that so far they have not seen an increase in the number of haitian migrants that are trying to make it to the us officials. However, they were clear to say that the Security Posture could change as the crisis in haiti on folds. Now, on wednesday, the Florida Governors office said that a number of Law Enforcement personnel and equipment will be deployed to the florida keys and the Southern Coast of florida. Were talking about well, over 250 additional officers and members of the national and state guard that have been called up and more than a dozen airplanes and boats have been made available. Now since october of 2023, the coast guard said that about a 131 haitian migrants have been stopped and sent back to haiti. In fact, this past tuesday, a group of 65 migrants were stopped near the bahamas. Kate and carlos. It really grabs your attention just simply hearing that the white house is now considering using gitmo to house people fleeing will anywhere fleeing haiti or anywhere what are you hearing about that yeah. Kate, so Guantanamo Bay has a center thats been used to hold and process migrants before returning them to haiti and to other countries that now the discussions to expand the capacity, i think kind of hints at the concert, at the Security Concern here. In recent years of federal officials in south florida, theyve had trouble processing these large number of migrants. I covered incidents were boats with well over 100 people were on board and theyve made it pretty close to shore. And as you can imagine at that puts a strain on local Law Enforcement agencies. Which often are the ones that have to hold these migrants onto a federal officials take custody. Kate, the last time that we saw this kind of Security Buildup was around 2021 after protests broke out in cuba and the coast guard increased its patrol off the Southern Coast. Florida. Carlos suarez, thank you so much for that report, john, are we do have Breaking News Update on the planned space x rocket launch. Lets get right to cnn space and defense correspondent Kristin Fisher a delay. Kristen well, we knew that this rocket could launch anytime within 110 minute launch window, and so we just have a brand new lift off time and that is 825 excuse me, 925 eastern time. Apparently, there are quite a few boats in that part of the Gulf Of Mexico. And so they are having to notify those drivers of those boats to get out of the way for this rocket launch. But you know, john, its pretty remarkable that this launch is even happening today because spacex just got its Launch License from the faa at 05 00 p. M. Yesterday afternoon. And on top of that last night, elon musk, the head of spacex, said, maybe starship will be launching tomorrow. So its been kind of hit or ms about whether or not this is going to happen, but now it appears were about an hour away from liftoff. They have just started Propellant Load down when it boca chica starbase, as they call it. And so if successful, john, what well see is the biggest rocket ever built lifting off about two minutes after liftoff will see the two stages separate. The superheavy booster should splashdown back into the Gulf Of Mexico and the Starship Rocket on top should travel for about 45 minutes and then attempt to splashdown in the indian ocean, which is different than those previous two starship flight attempts, which ended, of course, in a spectacular explosions, john. So a lot riding on this, i mean, now i said, is planning to invest about 4 into the Starship Spacecraft because this is the spacecraft thats going to be needed to land. Astronauts, nasa astronauts back on the moon for the First Time Since the apollo program. And nasa has said that they were hoping that starship would be a little bit further along in its development. Right now. So this is really a critical component of nassers efforts to beat china back to the moon as well. So some National Security implications here as well as we watch this launch which is now hopefully just about an hour away, john. Yeah, we had thought would be 830, which would be just a few minutes from now. Now, pushed back to 925 or so as you say, which is its pushing the back end of the window where it could happen today. So another delay if it were to happen might take it out of it. All right. Well, watch this very closely. 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But this time, she will also it will also be an historic first harris will be the first sitting Vice President to ever to visit an abortion clinic, cnns Priscilla Alvarez is at the white house for us with much more. Priscilla, its a symbolic first what are you hearing about today and what it represents really for not just the white house, but the Biden Harris Reelection Campaign and its also significant, kate, i mean, it could Vice President Kamala Harris has emerged as the key voice on this issue for the white house and for the biden campaign. Remember, in january she lost and just this Reproductive Rights Tour that she kicked off and wisconsin and since then has visited multiple states to talk about reproductive freedoms and this is going to mark her sixth stop in minnesota. Now, while shes there, shes going to visit a Planned Parenthood Facility the first time its believed that a Vice President has done so and shes expected to speak with staff as well as tour the facility. And this is an issue of course, that democrats have seized on. Its an issue that theyve seen as one in the ballot box, but also one that has come up Time And Again as a top concern among voters, it was also one of the top issues that President Biden touched on during his state of the Union Address. So the Vice President making it very clear here that this is top of mind for her and for the white house by taking this historic visit to a Planned Parenthood Facility. Now the president in the meantime, is going to be going to michigan. That is a battleground state, one that he only narrowly won in 2020. And while he is, theyre expected to participate in Campaign Events and this is a state that also had those uncommitted two votes during the primary. This is a state where they know that they have to build up their coalition when it comes to the votes of those who are concerned about what is happening in gaza. So taken all together, this is the president and the Vice President trying to galvanize voters to show up to the polls in what has been a Campaign Blitz on the heels of that state of the Union Address and priscilla, its not just the president going to michigan where there was that small but still significant, uncommitted vote. The campaigns also reaching out to the arab and Muslim Community this morning they arent senior white house officials are going to be in chicago for meetings with those communities again, to hear their concerns about the situation in gaza. Now this taken again all together is what youre seeing, is them trying to build up their coalition. You have the Vice President were trying to to get those moderate voters to show up for democrats in november on abortion, you have the president trying to shore up support in michigan, especially among unions. And now you have senior white house officials also hitting chicago to try to repair the base when it comes to the israel hamas conflict, which has been a very difficult and contentious issue for them to navigate here domestically. So these senior white house officials will be meeting with members of the community to hear their concerns. There also expected to broadly discuss concerns over islamophobia and chicago of course, is a community that is still reeling from the death of that sixyearold who was allegedly killed by his landlord for being muslim so all of these themes are expected to come up in these meetings, meetings that have been difficult for this white house to put together because there has been so much there was a lie few little bit of beset with where the administration has gone on this issue. So even the fact that theyre having this meeting is significant, should it go as planned . Yeah, its great to see you, priscilla. Thank you very much for the reporting on all that. Sara and to discuss joining us now is congresswoman Debbie Wasserman . Schultz. Thank you so much for being here. I want to go forward with what the reporting you just heard about white house officials meeting with arabic and Muslim Leaders in chicago. How do they handle this . Because there is a huge number of people that we saw in michigan, for example, vote uncommitted. Some of them saying theyre not going to vote for joe biden because of his stance israel gaza war, President Biden and the white house, are handling this like any american president should having a meeting with people who matter in our country, sitting down with muslim, Muslim American leaders and palestinian leaders who are deeply concerned about whats going on in the middle east. And its such a clear contrast to former President Trump, whose first action when he became president was to ban muslims from immigrating to this country its essential that in order to build consensus and make sure that you demonstrate the kind of leadership that this country needs us to move forward. That President Biden and his, and his team are sitting down with people who are deeply concerned and understandably so yeah, theyre angry about it and theyre not shy to say so. And i do want to talk to you about where theres confusion. There is confusion. I think a little bit of the Administration Stance on a ceasefire. We heard from Vice President Kamala Harris, who came out very forcefully and publicly saying an immediate ceasefire needs to happen, right now within six tweaks i mean, force this week, but she she used the word immediate ceasefire and we havent heard the same exact thing publicly from President Biden, so so why why why isnt the messaging the same from the two of them . Im in the mess. I listened to Vice President harriss speech. What she said was she used the term immediate, but she also said for six weeks that they are consistently for a temporary pause in the fighting to ensure. And this is essential that the hostages can be released, that we can make sure that a threat that exists to israel who are from an entity that is sworn to its destruction can be eradicated we can make sure that theres a negotiation for a longer term eventual olonga term ceasefire. But theres no country on earth that should be expected to the live with the Terrorist Threat on their border. An entity like hamas is sworn to israels discretion, destruction, sworn to the eradication of the jewish people. And its Still Holding 133 hostages, including Five Americans and several remains of americans that need to be released. Now there is, of course, a lot of pushback there and we heard this actually from joe biden is just the numbers of People Killed the numbers of palestinians killed, and the devastation that theyre seeing. And whats going to happen in the end. And i do want to show you some numbers wheres that came out . That were startling disturbing. Its the number of children that were killed and theres this graph here the children killed in conflicts in the number of children killed in gaza in the past for months is now more than the number of children killed in conflicts over the past four years around the world. Do you think Something Like this and seeing those images . Well change the Biden Administrations policy towards israel, push it to do Something Different is devastating. That there are children in killed that anyone is being killed. But lets remember that these are victims of hamas as well. Hamas, this entire conflict could end tomorrow hamas, lets remember, hamas attacked israel on october 7, 1,200 israelis slaughtered raped. You have 250 of there people held hostage, including six americans that were held hostage. Its absolutely essential that hamas released the hostages. And at the same time, we are at the table every day because of our close relationship with israel bill working together sidebyside to make sure we can have a piece a ceasefire with release of the hostages negotiated, while also supporting israels absolute right to defend its people and to ensure that this threat is eradicated. Remember hamas . After october 7 said october 7 was the first time, and that thered be a second, third and 1000th time. That is not a tolerable situation that any country you should expect to have to live with. The argument that isnt tolerable to have bombs raining from the sky and killing up to 30,000 people. I mean, thats not hamas, that is the israelis who are doing that. Well, theyre, theyre engaged in a war. War is horrific. But there is a way out of the war where hamas needs to to accept the deal thats on the table. Israel and the United States and hamas representatives and qatar theyve been negotiating over how we can get to a ceasefire and hamas needs to accept that deal and release the hostages and save their own people who they have subjected to this war, who had they havent built shelters for, but no time. And using as Human Shields i want to ask you lastly about something thats close to both of us. Weve seen a lot of people coming out and talking about their cancer diet big gnosis. You had the defense secretary, lloyd austin. You have Christie Brinkley coming out, olivia munn just came out about her Breast Cancer diagnosis i know that healthcare is a big issue for the Biden Administration. Im curious what you think its being done or if its the messaging is being done properly about combatting the cost of all this to americans and how they are having to deal with potential bankruptcy when they get some sort of a health scare . Well, thats why the Affordable Care act was so important. Because making sure that you got rid of the elimination the prevention of coverage for preexisting conditions, the importance of having Preventative Care. Be free. Mammals grams are now available without a copay screenings for for colonoscopies and other forms of cancer available without a copay removing the barriers to the cost of Preventative Care helps make sure that cancer is caught early. And we know that the survival rate, you know, im, im a breast 16 in your Breast Cancer survivor and i know what youre going through now. And we need to make sure ive introduced legislation that we have care through a continuum after active treatment, so that we can make sure that the quality of life and care and access to an equity equitable access to taking care of people so that they can stay healthy the rest of their life ives thats critical on the Biden Administration through the Moonshot Initiative that is the Bidens Keys A Cornerstone to fight cancer that continues and that we resource it to make sure we can go after cancer and all its forms. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman schultz. Thank you so much for coming in, which one you love and thank you. John, Election Workers facing a new threat just as the Campaign Season heats up, they are targets for swatters. What that means it is proven almost impossible to stop. And then breaking moments ago, a potential american buyer just emerged for tiktok. The former Treasurer Suri Secretary for donald trump. 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But this year, many of them have actually decided that its not worth their time less than half of the conference is planning to show up the twoday retreat is typically used to talk policy, go through ongoing debates and house representatives within the party. So what does it say that fewer than 100 republicans have rsvpd, that they will attend cnns melanie, Melanie Zanona is at the conference in west virginia. Shes joining his top mel you also have new reporting that donald trump was invited and even hes not there yeah, thats exactly right. Im told that House Republicans did invite former President Donald Trump to attend the retreat here in west virginia, but he declined. Now, kate, he might have a legitimate reason for not coming. He is expected to attend a hearing in florida today related to his classified documents case, but other republicans did not have quite as strong ong of an excuse. Just take a look at what some lawmakers told us about why theyre not coming. Kelly armstrong said, no way i have to run for governor. Tim burchett said, i got a farm to run and Republican Nancy Mace said she is appearing on Real Time With Bill Maher later this week, yet, i would say one of the most overwhelming reasons why republicans decided not to come here this year or is because they are just simply exhausted by all of the republican infighting from over the past year. Some of them have also grumbled about the location here in west virginia. A break from past retreats in sunny florida, but Speaker Mike Johnson defended his decision to bring lawmakers here, and he also expressed confidence that they will be able to unify despite all the messiness from the past year. Take a listen it is really, really bright, but beautiful day, and were delighted to be here in greenbrier. It is not far from washington, so a good place to bring the members, get them out of the hustle and bustle of capitol hill. And well, we live in challenging times. We live in a time of divided government democracy is messy. Sometimes its very messy so johnson, theyre hoping that this can be a moment where they can rally around their message and around their unifying policy platform heading into the 2024 election. And hopefully this retreat can provide a much needed reset for the conference kate, at much needed, let us see if that reset occurs is great to see you, melanie. Thank you so much, sir. All right. The volatility of this president ial election just gotten more dangerous for Election Officials. The consequence of fake calls being made to local Law Enforcement some Election Officials are finding themselves falling victim to Swatting Calls. Our kyung lah has the details the emergency call, reports of shooting underway shocker more than a dozen cars from the sandy springs, Georgia Police department . Both cared for the inside a home in this Quiet Atlanta suburb but seconds, theres no lights on and how so . I have a funny feeling. This is like a Swap A College or like a Swatting Call or Something Like that. Swatting of fake call, please, to Law Enforcement of a Violent Crime underway, weaponizing the local police against an unsuspecting victim. In this case, an election official. We all know the intent of swatting has to have somebody come out so confused and the police come out so hyped up that somebody gets hurt or shot what is the mindset of the officer in responding to that column well, when wanted officers in route, theyre going through their mind. The scenarios are Different Things that can happen if youre confronted by an individual, what theyre going to do, the hoax creates a situation of a lot of unknowns. How easy is it for a mistake to happen its definitely a possibility. I anticipate well probably see some more of these as we get closer and closer to the election. Its sucks, but thats the reality of the world were living in now, swatters if at the homes of four Election Officials in recent months ahead of this novembers election, Election Workers already dealing with threats. Nowadays this escalated risk more personal and potentially dangerous attacks a cnn analysis, including interviews with 16 current and former election Law Enforcement officials, shows the tech swatters use is advancing faster than the tools available to investigators. Jefferson city, missouri a call to police, a man claimed he had an ar 15 and a shot his wife. The address of the Bogus Incident was very surreal republican secretary of state Jay Ashcrofts home. I think they sent seven or eight patrol cars to my house walking outstanding in my driveway with all the lights on my hands up. Well, heavily armed officers come Out Of The Darkness is a different feeling. This could have gone sideways, it could have. They make the most egregious allegations they can in the phone call because theyre trying to force the police to act out of adrenaline. All your children were home . Yeah. Your wife was home . Yeah were officers all over, spread out and theyre full Tactical Gear big guns. Whats the purpose of it and if its tend to mydate, if its to harass, you know, its its pretty disgusting that thats what youre doing. Your time it strikes at the heart of our republic. Its scary that its this prevalent. The criminals hide behind Technology Using altered voices like this Swatting Call to local Police Targeting florida senator rick scotts home last december i took my scene but shot. Chad three times and for boys and fast its hiding behind virtual private networks. The fake calls can bounce from Internet Locations around the world, often making it nearly impossible, say, investigators to arrest them i run a swat for higher surface and you can find them online. They operate so boldly and without fear that in about an hour, we found anonymous accounts that claim to swat for money. Can you tell me how it works we are paid and given information on a victim how do you avoid getting caught . When we swap, we use Burner Phones and ai generated voices. Hence, we are not traced back were not worried even a little bit about being arrested. Its also a reason im talking to a cnn reporter from my personal account. You have to make sure that if people put other individuals and danger, that theyre punished appropriately thats how you curtail this. Thats how you get people to stop doing this and such an incredible piece by Our Kyung Lah and Team Reporting that out for us. Thank you. To her, john. All right. We do have breaking news. Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Just Announced that he is putting together a bid to buy tiktok, which is obviously the app that faces an uncertain future here in the us, a lot of words here im sorry it comes 24 hours after the house passed a measure to ban the chineseowned company or forced a sale to an americanbased odor cnns matt egan is with us now, look, this is crucial because if this ban gets through the senate and is signed by President Biden, it would need to find a buyer or will go away. It would john, this is quite the plot twist in what is already an amazing story former President Trumps Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin just went on cnbc and announced that he is assembling a team of investors to buy tiktok. And this is notable. He appeared to break with the former president by coming out in favor of the legislation that just got through the house and faces an uncertain future in the senate he said, im just going to try to read you some of the comments he said he said that he continues to believe that tiktok should be sold. He says he thinks the legislation should pass. He thinks it should be sold. He was asked, youre trying to buy tiktok. He says, i am that we should note we reached out to tiktok we have not heard back. We dont know yet exactly who are the other investors whod be interested here . Mnuchin said that the existing us investors would be rolled over in any sort of deal here and we should also note that im Steve Mnuchin. He has been pretty busy. It was just a week ago that he launched a one billiondollar rescue of an embattled regional bank, new York Community bancorp, that deal move the market that was an actual deal. This one seems to be more hypothetical at this point, but it would be big if it came to fruition. You bring great points up here. Number one, it is a break from donald trump, who says that this ban should not be signed into law. Mnuchin said it should now it made me because hes got a selfinterest because it means they the company would happen they go up for sale and he wants to buy it. He says it should pass. We should also note that no one says its up for sale right now. Exactly. Right. He can say hes putting together a group of investors. It does not mean that bytedance, the Parent Company or china is going to allow it to be sold so we should just note why former President Trump has come out against that bill. He says because he thinks that if tiktok went away that would help facebook and he called facebook the enemy of the people theres a lot of different threads going on here, but Steve Mnuchin is apparently trying to put together some investors to buy tiktok if its for sale, if its resilient, it is an important piece in this emerging puzzle so matt egan, thank you very much. Sir. All right. We could see a verdict in just minutes for James Crumbley, who is charged with four counts of Involuntary Manslaughter for the deadly Michigan School shooting. Purpose treated by his son. Four students were killed in school that day. Crumbley did not take the stand and its own defense. Unlike his wife, cnns jean casarez is live outside the courthouse in Pontiac Michigan for us. What can you tell us . Does a jury have the case now looking at it, making their decisions . The jury has the case. They deliberated about an hourandahalf yesterday before going home, we believe theyre going to to start any minute right now, starting to deliberate with jennifer crumbley, it was a ten hour deliberation, but this case is not quite as long large James Crumbley did not do a lot of social media. He followed his son on instagram. We dont know if he ever saw anything, but we dont have all the texts and all well, that what he didnt take the stand. Youre right. But the jury will have to assess him. Theyll have to look to see if he committed Gross Negligence with that gun hi to unit where he hinted getting it to begin with theyll have to look at all the facets of him. So in a sense, he was on the stand because he took his Sunday School every day. He would tell him oh, he loved him. He talked to his son the very last morning before that Mass Shooting saying, i know youve got a bad grade and geometry. Were here to help you. You can come to me anytime i love you, we just want you to try and school. He told his son he loved him again when they saw him after the Mass Shooting. So does it amount to the Gross Negligence . Because that is a very, very High Standard with that gun that allowed this Mass Shooting to happen. Buying the gun. So we had access to it or will they say this was a father that tried his best, but just didnt was negligent. Maybe maybe it should have done more with the gun,