jim acosta. i ll see you again next weekend. good night. mar-a-lago. welcome to the whole story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a plane collided with a smaller aircraft. five crewmembers on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about utah miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s la guardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers on board and 5 crew members, including the pilot, chap tain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff 2 plane collided with a flock of geese. the plane went down. captain sully headed towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 158 peop
moment where you have more than satisfied your burden of proof. there s no room for any reasonable doubt. last night s hearing was the tell them what you re going to tell them part. now, there were moments where they teased the actual telling, the testimony of prominent figures who were relevant not just because of their proximity to then-president trump but also for the role they played within the government, maybe as a member of congress or as a white house aide. or maybe they were playing the role of lawyer in a courtroom, trying to convince a judge of a big lie. i wonder if it surprised any of you to see testimony as part of them tell-them part from one-time trump loyalist like former attorney general bill bar calling trump s election lie, quote, bullshit, unquote. ivanka trump even saying she believed barr, saying she respected him. over her own father she believed him when it came to claims of mass voter fraud. it altered her perspective. did it further surprise you to
what every prosecutor knows. you tell them what you are going to tell them. you tell them that and then you told them what you told them. but beware. the jury is going to have to keep ya honest and they will hold you accountable. that s why, for so many, you underpromise, and then you over deliver which leads you right to that moment when you have more than satisfied your burden of proof. there is no room for any recommend doubt. well, last night as hearing was that tell em what you are going to tell em part. the testimony of pom prominent figures relevant not just because of their proximity to then-president trump but also the role they played within the government. maybe, as a member of congress or a white house aide or maybe they were playing the role of lawyer in a courtroom, trying to convince a judge of a big lie. i wonder if it surprised any of you from one-time trump loyalist like former-attorney general bill barr. calling trump s stolen election lie, quote, bullshi
what was most frightening to me was the silence. there was no engine noise. we could feel our blood pressure shoot up, our perception field narrow because of the stress. i knew without a shadow of a doubt that life was over. i honestly thought that i was going to die. i thought this was it. joining us right now, barry leonard. he was a passenger on flight 1549. you re the one who just said you felt like you were going to die and that you took off your seat belt to take a look. i want to hear more about, you know, what you experienced and remember on that day because this was a flight you were very familiar with, right? new york to charlotte. nearly daily. yeah. i was i commuted back and forth between charlotte and new york. i was turning around companies. i was ceo of three companies in
See this, still, even more than a year later. how did it feel to be in that courtroom last night i mean the chamber i keep calling it courtroom because i did witness in many respects a laying out a case against someone. what did it feel like for you to be in that room? i was glad to be there. it s always you know, watching footage from that day always makes my makes my blood pressure shoot up, makes my heart race. but i m i am very glad that there is a preponderance of the evidence, so to speak. and i am glad that i was able to sit there and i am glad that the american people have been able to see it. what do you hope will be the outcome? i was just talking to a congresswoman who was part of the committee and obviously their role is legislative. what do you hope will be the results and outcomes of these hearings? i hope that, at the end of these hearings, um, there will be accountability in some form