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Who was affected by saturday s violence. so the judge went down his list and appointed an attorney named charles weber to represent james fields. and we moved on with the proceedings there. we reached out to charles weber for comment on this case, and we have not heard back from him. also, on monday we got word from a security firm in ohio that james fields had worked for the firm, a firm called securtas. he work in 2016 and then from july of 2016 to the present. they said he took a vacation leave to come to charlottesville, and he s since been terminated. christine and dave? all right. thank you very much for that. so the mother of the charlottesville victim, heather heyer, talking to cnn. here s what susan breau told cnn she would say to james fields, the driver who plowed into the crowd of protesters, killing her daughter. you took the child from me. i m going to be the voice that she can no longer be. ....
President talking to cnn in an exclusive interview today, the president saying his nation is not the one who needs to apologize. here we finally have it. moments ago, russian president vladimir putin with french president francois hollande in moscow. saying the downing by turkey caught moscow totally off guard. translator: i repeat again because we considered turkey to be a friendly country. we did not expect such previously we informed our american partners where, when and where our pilots would be working. the american side which leads the coalition in turkey knew about these missions. and then at that time we received a strike. so, we can be asked why did the americans not give us that information. let s bring in cnn local ....
The east room. so this is a repeat a problem that s repeating itself far too much for the secret service s liking. brooke? but minor detail that s significant, the first family was home when this all happened. absolutely. they are celebrating thanksgiving. yeah. of course, we don t know what room they may have been in. but it s a serious thing, having someone be able to jump over that reinforced fence on a day when the president and his family are there. some of these past jumpers have jumped when the president was ov overseas or otherwise not home. he was home with his family celebrating thanksgiving. making this all the more concerning. you have to imagine, for secret service officials. brooke? just don t do it. as you said, file it under here we go again. athena jones, thank you so much. the other huge story we re watching, two days after trky downed that russian warplane, neither side is showing any sign of backing down, turkey s ....
Train loads of men, women and children, mostly from syria flooding into austriaustria. angela merkel says all countries must equally bear the burden. we have cnn correspondent frederik pleitgen live from munich this morning. this is meeting difficult political roadblocks in europe, fred. reporter: you are absolutely right. a lot of political chaos in europe which countries will accept how many people. one of the things, christine, is what the germans have done. we can see hundreds of people flooding in. the germans have said anybody who comes here from iraq or syria, no matter which country he has been to before, he will be able to apply for asylum. that s a key thing. normally, in europe, the first country you go into, that is ....
Flooding into austria and germany. the asylum rule is eroding. all governments in europe must bear the burden equally according to angela merkel. we have cnn s frederik pleitgen in germany this morning. fred, this is a situation that needs to be dealt with immediately. reporter: it is. we can see that here this morning in munich, john. if you look behind me, hundreds of people just arrived here at the munich train administration. they is gone through hungary and austria. many held up along the way. at this point, migration laws are falling apart. there is a system in place that is supposed to put the refugees equally in all countries. at this point in time, it appears the germans that are telling the iraqis and syrians that all of them can come there and apply for asylum. that is what people are doing. ....