first steps since being ambushed and shot. but he s not in the clear. his family saying he will have to spend several days inside the intensive care unit of a boston hospital. doctors performing a second surgery after he landed overnight from santo domingo. today, his wife releasing a statement, saying ortiz is stable, awake and resting comfortably, but also asking for privacy. ortiz underwent emergency surgery in the d.r. doctors removing parts of his liver, small and large intestines. medical experts say the gunshot wound could have easily killed him. the retired slugger shot in the back on sunday night while out in a nightclub in his hometown. this man, eddy feliz garcia, taken into custody by police in connection with the shooting after witnesses grabbed and beat him. ortiz s assistant saying there is no doubt this was the work of a sicario, a hitman. the motive is still not clear, but police say this was no robbery.
mouths. tying up women, putting tape on their mouth. they tie up women, taping them up. women are tied up. they re bound. they have women in the back seat of the cars with duct tape all over the place. there s only one problem. it s not true. it s a hollywood illusion like the scene from the sequel to sicario. you remember this? the president and his partisan pals sell you the image to convince you the wall will save these victims. but it won t because while he s right that trafficking is a problem, they re not coming across the border on foot. most were born here. this isn t playing with stats. it s an obvious truth, and i m not cherry-picking some article for proof. i did a documentary with a team that spent months tracking the problem for hln, our sister company, across the country, and with professionals who spent years trying to stop this, and with victims who endured a lifetime of abuse. none comes from south of the border in a car kidnapped.
referencing women with tape and prayer rugs. we know he s got the movie sicario. whether he s getting this whole wall thing from jack nicholson and a few good men. you need me on that wall. everything he does, he gets from television or media. and it s not really rooted in fact. but this is a big, big mistake. well, he loves movies, he loves tv. but let me go back to this whole question of is he trying to distract the public s attention. eric, listen to congressman adam schiff today about the fight to come. he s pretty much daring the court to strike this down. so it s hard to imagine a poorer case. i ll say this, dana. it is going to be a real test for my gop colleagues in congress and their devotion to the institution. if we give away if we surrender the power of the purse, which is our most important power, there will be little check and no balance
president trump has some dramatic new talking points on his manufactured crisis at the border, like human traffickers gagging women with tape as they drive them across the border illegally. and if that sounds like something you see in a movie, well, maybe it is. cnn s miguel marquez explains. reporter: sicario is a dark and ilnt take on the u.s.-mexico border, middle eastern terrorists, drug car tells and the u.s. government efforts to disrupt them. it s fiction, right. show me your hands! reporter: there are prayer rugs in the film. the president tweeted about
tied up with tape and put in cars to traffic them across the border and the border patrol having amazing cars u.s. law enforcement can t keep up with, both of those things do feature in a new movie called sicario: day of the soldado. in that film, which is fiction, one of the things that happened is there a woman taped up in the car. in that same movie, there are also mexican smugglers with amazing vehicles that are too fast for american law enforcement to keep up with. also, you know that thing the president keeps saying about the prayer rugs being found in the desert at the border, that is in that same movie, too. again, all plot points in the same movie, which is fiction. now, in a normal administration, it would be insane to suggest the president of the united states seeing stuff in a movie and him maybe thinking it was real, or at least real enough to justify a u.s. military deployment of thousands of