when a gunman opened fire at marjory stoneman douglas high school in 2018. scott peterson wept in court as the verdict was read. he faced 11 counts, including felony child neglect and culpable negligence. you will remember, peterson stayed outside during the massacre. prosecutors accused him of ignoring his training and doing nothing in what remains the country s deadliest high school shooting ever. this is what he told reporters after the verdict. i got my life back. we ve got our life after five and a half years. it s been an emotional rollercoaster for so long. but don t anybody ever forget this was a massacre on february 14th. the only person to blame was that monster. a father of one of the victims is outraged by peterson s comments after the verdict. i think that the right thing to do, the manly thing to do, the honest thing to do is to walk out of that room quiet. be quiet. the attorney and peterson, keep your mouth shut, get in your car, and go to your perfect life. but
cnn has exclusively obtained documents that suggests a top russian general, sergey surovikin, who has not been seen in public since last saturday short-lived or vault was a secret vip member of the mercenary wagner group that led the rebellion. cnn s matthew chance joins us now from moscow for more on the man nicknamed general armageddon through his ruthless tactics. matthew, these documents, what do they tell us about general surovikin? they are pretty interesting. because they suggest or tell us and show according to the dossier, which is a russian investigative organization, that obtained these documents and show them exclusively to us, they show that there is a registration document for general surovikin, that is science in a wagner sort of membership number, i suppose. that membership number than appears in various other lists of people who belong to the wagner mercenary organization. it s a vip member. it does not indicate to us what vip status actually means, whether he s on
but, you could have heard a pin drop in that room, john, cheering as i said, the nearly hour of reading. a witness to history, once again, thank you for sharing those moments with. us with us now, cnn s laura coats and van jones. and with me here, kenji he is the chief justice earl warned professor of constitutional law at nyu law school. justice warren wrote the unanimous opinion in brown versus board of education. then i just want to start with you, obviously, an historic day. what s your reaction to the i was born in 1968, the year
development, as you just touched on a moment ago, the documents case. according to a source familiar with the matter, it involves a current senior campaign official, susie wildes, with the former president allegedly showed her and just how frequently she has been talking to the feds. cnn s paulo reid joins us now with the latest on that. paula, susan wilds, first of all, explain how important she is in this and what she saw. let s go back to the indictment. one of the most striking details in this indictment was this allegation that the former president had shown, a representative from his political action committee, a classified map, shocking for many reasons. one is that he would show someone without a clearance a classified document, but also that this was someone close to him in his inner circle and it raised questions about whether this person could ve turned on him, given this information to investigators. a source tells cnn, and caitlin worked on this story along with our coll
presumed human remains of the five men killed when the u.s. coast guard says the titans suffered a catastrophic implosion on its way to the titanic wreck. cnn s paula newton is with us from canada tonight. paula, what more can you tell us about where exactly these human remains were found? you know, again, we have to say, given five lives were lost, this is difficult for the family i m sure but also a measure of comfort knowing that those presumed human remains. they were found within the cabin inside that wreckage site. experts will tell you that this is consistent with the catastrophic implosion, as opposed to an explosion. john, this is good for the investigation in the sense that it will more materially give information about what happens in those last moments before the five lost their lives and what exactly the timeline would ve been. i add to that that here in ottawa the transportation safety board released a statement saying it had the data recorder from the polar prince. y