wizard of oz slippers nearly two decades ago. they were swiped from the judy garland museum in 2005 but recovered in 2018, they re valued at around $3.5 million. and no, sadly, those are not actually rubies. thanks for joining us, cnn tonight with alisyn camerota starts right now. he just wanted the power to click his heels and be able to go home. i do too but not for $3.5 million. right. good point. that s why he sold them. excellent. thank you very much. i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we ve got the inside story of what happened when harry and meghan were chased by paparazzi through the streets of new york. taxi driver who was at the wheel is with us live to explain what harry and meghan were saying and doing during that ordeal. we all remember when donald trump claimed he could declassify documents just by thinking about it. well, we have exclusive reporting tonight on the 16 records that show trump and his top advisers did know how real declassifi
yes, i feared a lot that the end result, the fact that i lost my mom when i was 12 years old could easily happen again to my wife. we ve got a special guest with us tonight, the taxi driver who picked up harry and meghan last night as they tried to get away from the swarming paparazzi. he s joining us live from the cab in which he was driving them last night and we ll speak with him in just a minute. he tells me to call him sonny. sonny, stand by for just a second. i want to bring in elie honig, richard quest, erin van der kwis. before we get to the point where sonny picked them up in his taxi, what happened from the time they left the event where they were until they got into his taxi? so when they leave the event, they get about to the corner on 55th street, and they ve got a black car with blacked out windows following them, a couple of other vehicles, and then when
taxis in manhattan traffic, it might actually be the getaway because the place they were going actually wasn t far away. it was a couple of blocks. that s where the taxi driver comes in. sonny, prince harry and meghan markle and her mom get into your taxi. did you know it was them immediately, and what did they tell you about what was happening? they didn t say much. it was their security forward who said where they were going, right? and as soon as he s about to say where they re going, all of a sudden the paparazzi just stormed the taxi and there s flashes coming from every direction. they re up against the car just taking pictures and stuff like that, standing in front, and then as we got stuck behind the garbage truck, when the garbage truck moved, they started following the cars behind us. how many paparazzi, sonny? i saw six. and did you feel that you were in danger? i didn t feel like i was in
they gave me a good tip. the the fare was 17.80, they gave me a 50 for 15 minutes of work. that is a good tip right there, sonny. yeah, really good, really good. that s really good. well, hold on, i know that some of my- we re losing you for a second. we ll go right back to sonny. they left edgengland for this. that s why they left britain so they could avoid this. yes, they did leave england through this and then they promptly threw kgasoline on the flames with this, with the book, the interviews. elie and i have written books. we don t get chased around by paparazzi. elie does. i have to say there s a joke in england in britain in private eye magazine that always has a taxi driver saying i had that such and such in the back of my cab once, and he can now say i had that prince harry and meghan in the back of my cab once. yes, he can. my point is why do they
security. the complicating factor is as it was just said here by richard, that s to protect them from threats that you would have against royals and people like that, terrorists, stalkers, you know, assassins, the normal threats. when you re surrounded by, you know, this swarm soft press that are literally slowing you down, blocking you at intersections, getting off the exit is that much harder. it s interesting to hear sonny say he s transported celebrities before but never seen anything like this. i think it s hard for us in the u.s. to understand the scale of the interest that still exists in the uk for them. once in the month of february, meghan made no public appearances and we kind of as a you know, journalistic exercise decided to count the number of stories that the daily mail ran on her, never spotted in public at any point in time,