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optimistic that they will survive. meanwhile, a massive manhunt is underway for the suspect, who authorities say targeted the victims at their homes impersonating a police officer. joining us right now is cnn's veronica miracle and cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem. let's begin with you, veronica, on all the details that we're learning, fredricka. >> all of this started to unfold around two in the morning overnight when police say that they got a call about a shooting at a residence at minnesota. minnesota state senator john hoffman's home. they entered and they found both his wife and state senator hoffman were shot and injured. both of them, as you mentioned, went into surgery and they are expected to survive. as this investigation was unfolding, deputies at the scene decided to preemptively send officers over about five miles away to the house of minnesota state representative melissa hortman. it's when officers arrived at that home

that they discovered the suspect, who was dressed and impersonating a police officer, had a big suv with lights. and when they encountered the suspect, they engaged in a shootout. that suspect eventually went inside the home and was able to escape. when officers were able to get inside that residence, that's when they found. state representative melissa hortman and her husband had been killed. as i mentioned. that individual was was impersonating a police officer and officers at the press conference today said that if that suspect was in the room with them at that moment, people wouldn't have been able to distinguish between the impersonating officer, that suspect and real officers. so certainly sending fear throughout the community. as you said, a massive manhunt underway and what the officers at the scene discovered inside the car of the suspect is also startling. take a listen. >> we did a search of the

vehicle. there was a manifesto that identified many lawmakers and other officials. we immediately made alerts to the state who took action on alerting them and providing security where necessary. >> and it's because of this discovery is why police officers believe this was politically motivated. now, the brooklyn park community is under lockdown currently and also they are asking police officers are are telling people not to open the door to a single officer. the officers who are real, they're going to be traveling in pairs to make sure that everybody is okay. but as you can imagine, of course, that entire community on edge as they search for the suspect right now, fredricka. >> indeed. all right, veronica, thank you so much. let's bring back cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem. and juliette, you know, obviously, this not only this shooting not only invokes fear, but now a level of apprehension. and that's underscored by the police chief of the brooklyn park area saying, people, if a

police officer knocks on the door, if it's one officer, call 911. if it's in pairs, you can more likely trust them. talk to me about how this also complicates their investigation and gathering of evidence. when now you've got this distrust that has been. injected into the situation because of the way in which the suspect behaved and identified himself. >> right. that's exactly right. so you saw the police chief try to reinsert trust into the process, because obviously now everyone is going to be skeptical of a police officer. and as we were discussing in the last hours, not simply impersonating and badge, but at one stage was utilizing a car that was make and model were similar to to police cars, and had clearly sort of souped it up in terms of sirens to to approach the houses as if it was an authoritative. authorized visit. so the rule of two is essentially just what the police

officers are, are, are promising the community, which is if anyone is approaching you and, and and it's an individual, you have to assume that that individual is not representing valid law enforcement. and you don't don't answer the door or call 911. and so that deployment. but just think about that. now you got to double your. your, your having your capacity to be out there because you now have to have every police officer into. but it's important the shelter in place is really important. you just don't want to put into the mix other variables. a normal car accident on a saturday morning might have all sorts of consequences or fears because of what's going on in the community. so basically, the the shelter in place is to keep the sort of the, the normalcy of what happens and the demands on public safety on a saturday, sort of off the street for now. so people need to abide by that.

i'm, i would suspect in the next couple hours we'll begin to learn, at least in terms of a loosening of that, of that of those orders. i want to say i'm very curious who's on the list, because that's going to get you to motive. we now have two democrats, and this is just description. it's not commentary. you have two senior democrats within the minnesota legislature attacked by someone premeditated two and 330 in the morning. both spouses harmed and who clearly wanted to do more harm. but but for the sort of forward leaning of the police sort of worried about other legislators. who's on that list? what's their party affiliation? how are they protected right now? where they on certain committees, where where they tied to a constituency or constituency group that that was mad at them? and what is the motivation of this person? and because a manifesto, one has to assume he's been thinking about this a

long time and probably left clues. >> and then, julia, you know, if you are a resident or lawmaker, whomever on that manifesto that we now know police did reveal, they collected that manifesto, you know, from this suspect, have they likely been given additional security or been asked to, you know, leave their place of residence where, you know, just in case, especially this suspect was working with others, right. >> so so we don't know if this is an individual who or if this individual is tied to a group that has a political animus against them. that is why our discussion about about democracy and violence is is important to restate today things that that would be normal course. although of course the police, the police and the state police and the governor are not going to say the details. every single person on that manifesto has gotten a security detail. that's what the

state police do. it may be that the governor is seeking additional resources from from other localities to protect them. those individuals, just because i know how these details work, will be allowed to choose whether they want to stay at home and the detail will follow them. i would not blame any person, especially because spouses were targeted. we don't know if there were children in the home that's, you know, and or where the children, if there are children and where they are absolutely terrifying for any public servant. and the consequences of this, i have to say, as we learn more is, you know, we talk about new generations and people entering public service, people of good faith and good will who may have disagreements, disagreements, and this this is terrifying to all people who presently hold a position, but also people who would think about holding a position. >> yeah, indeed. juliet, thank you so much. don't go far. i

want to bring in now cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john, what are you thinking right now? what have you learned as well from some of your colleagues? >> well, the. >> idea of. this attack. >> being done in the early morning hours, the time that we identify as really the lowest ebb in terms of people's awareness, alertness, showing up in the ford explorer, which is the same make, model and type of vehicle that most of the police departments use there for patrol. having this vehicle equipped with a with a light package similar to the police, and to be able to be dressed in a tactical vest to bang on the door to wake people up. as the police. and remember, you're coming to the door at three in the morning, bleary eyed to what appears to be a police officer in a police car. now, for elected officials, as crazy as it may sound. this is not way

out of the realm of possibility. we live in brutal political times. we have gone through as a nation this whole habit of swatting where a police officer will come to the door after somebody makes a complicated 911 call saying that you're being held hostage and say, listen, we're just here to check this out. we think it's, you know, probably not a real call. so they may have been not too terribly surprised to open to the door to law enforcement at this odd hour, given the pattern of these things that happened, not knowing that it was literally the opposite, that it was someone who had engaged in a lot of planning, had multiple targets on that list. and but for, as veronica miracle described it, this incredible, proactive police work of getting to the next location, saying, we've got to cover the homes of elected officials in this area

and running straight into the suspect. it is possible that he could have gone down that list of targets that were found in the car. other elected officials and government officials, without without being interrupted so early in the game. as tragic as the results have been. >> and i asked this earlier, you know, about the tools that investigators will use in this investigation, and it might be helpful that many homes in the area, most homes almost everywhere these days, are equipped with some sort of cameras, recording devices. how will investigators go about trying to scour those images to see if they can hear or glean? learn anything about the whereabouts of this suspect? >> well, there's a couple of things going on there. number one, you know, they're going to look at every ring doorbell camera along whatever the route they believe this individual took. they're going to look at

every traffic camera. they're going to look at any lpr license plate readers at key intersections before you get into these neighborhoods. and they're going to scour that to see if they can get the direction the individual is coming from. but we've got to break this down, which is they have, as juliette pointed out earlier, they have the vehicle he came in, he was surprised and had to flee, leaving behind a lot of things that he didn't want to leave behind at this stage. so everything in that car, before you get to the video canvass, before you get to the lpr, everything in that car is going to be the most urgent set of clues that are going to put them onto the likely identity of who they're looking for. but i said a couple of things, so let's turn that over. they've got the car, they've got the rest of his weapons inside that car. according to sources, they have the manifesto. so they know

what the motive is and they have the kill list, so they know the other targets. so they've been able to move out to those places and protect them. but guess who doesn't have that car? he doesn't. >> right. >> he wasn't expecting. maybe he wasn't. he wasn't expecting not to have it. so now you have to kind of if you've identified your suspect, figure out what is his immediate network there, because there's two hazards. one, he's going to flee to the home of a friend or a trusted colleague and say, i need to hide here or two. he's going to commit another home invasion and say, you know, i need to hide here. so that is why the shelter in place, that is why this is so dangerous. he didn't get away in his getaway plan. he got away on foot and now he's improvising and he's deadly. >> yeah. you have a more potentially volatile suspect. all right, john miller, thank you so much. we're going to take a short break for now. we'll be right back with our continuing breaking news coverage of the shootings of two minnesota

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early this morning at their homes. officials are calling the attacks politically motivated. one of the lawmakers, state representative melissa hortman, was killed and so was her husband. hortman was the top house democratic leader in the state legislature and a former minnesota house speaker. state senator john hoffman and his wife were also shot. they are in the hospital after undergoing surgeries. officials say they are optimistic that they will survive. police say the suspect targeted the victims at their homes, impersonating a police officer. he also reportedly left a manifesto. the suspect that is in his car, identifying many lawmakers and other officials. security for those officials have been beefed up. let's go now back to the white house and betsy klein with more on the statement. the official response coming from the white house. betsy. >> well, fredricka, the white house is monitoring all of this quite closely as it develops so

quickly. the president himself personally weighing in in a statement a short while ago, he says, quote, i've been briefed on the terrible shooting that took place in minnesota, which appears to be a targeted attack against state lawmakers. our attorney general, pam bondi, and the fbi are investigating the situation, and they will be prosecuting anyone involved to the fullest extent of the law. president trump goes on to say such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the united states of america. god bless the great people of minnesota, a truly great place. now, we also know that attorney general pamela bondi says that she is closely monitoring these developments, and fbi deputy director dan bongino says that the fbi is, quote, fully engaged. the department of homeland security also monitoring the situation. we've also learned that u.s. capitol police have been checking in with members of congress who were on the shooter's alleged target list, according to one source, to let them know that they were part of that. of course, there's also

significant security being beefed up here and in washington and back in minnesota. the president is here at the white house this weekend. he is celebrating the army's 250th anniversary at a parade a little bit later today. we have also seen vice president jd vance, chief of staff, susie wiles and other top officials arriving here at the white house within the last few hours. of course, all of this comes at a moment when temperatures are very high. the president himself has attacked the state's governor, tim walz, in recent days. twice this past week, most recently on thursday at an event in the east room called him a disaster. we are also expecting protests across the country today as a result of some of the president's policies, including his mass deportations. what we know right now is that state senator melissa hortman and her husband have been killed. we know that state senator john hoffman and his wife were shot and have undergone surgery, and

a suspect is believed to be on foot and still at large, according to local officials. governor tim walz said that this appears to be a politically motivated assassination. the suspect also was impersonating law enforcement officials and people in the state of minnesota in that area are told to call 911 if a single police officer approaches their house, they are told that police and law enforcement will be operating in pairs until further notice. the white house of course, keeping very close tabs on all of this, fredricka. >> yeah. very startling, frightening sequence of events. thank you so much, betsy klein. appreciate it. we'll continue to follow this breaking news out of minnesota right after this. >> eva longoria searching for spain sunday at nine on cnn. >> the cockroach resilient. >> creatures where there. >> is one. >> others aren't far behind. >> well, that's horrifying.

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political violence. peaceful discourse is the foundation of our democracy. we don't settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint. in the state of minnesota, and as recently as last week, in the most closely divided state legislature in th things out. we debated, we shook hands and compromised, and we served the state of minnesota together. we proved that it's possible, even in these politically charged times, to find compromise and adhere to the principles of democracy and civil discourse. we must all minnesota and across the country stand against all forms of political violence. at this precipice moment. we're on. this tragic act here in minnesota should serve as a reminder to all of us. the democracy and the

debates in the halls of congress, in state houses, in school boards, is a way to settle our differences peacefully and move society to a better place. we're collaborating with all local, state and federal agencies on a full investigation. we're committed to keeping minnesotans informed as the situation continues. i assure you that those held, those responsible for this will be held accountable. and each and every one of us are committed to making sure that a tragedy like this never repeats itself in minnesota or across this country. >> investigators say the suspect was impersonating a police officer at the time of the shootings. we'll have more on that. breaking news in a moment. we're also following another major story in just a few hours. a massive u.s. military parade will get underway in the nation's capital this evening. president trump's military parade is set to roll through

the streets of washington, d.c. it's happening on the army's 250th anniversary, which also happens to be trump's 79th birthday. the army has been gearing up for the event for several days now, and it's unfolding on the same day as protest organizers say some 2000 nationwide demonstrations will be taking place in all 50 states. all happening in opposition of president trump and his policies. they're being called no kings gatherings. but again, the one that was scheduled in the minnesota area has been canceled due to the shelter in place as a result of the shootings. of the two lawmakers there in the nation's capitol. there, we see our julie benbrook on the national mall, where people are gathering and things are about to be getting underway ahead of the parade. so what's happening right now? >> yeah, fred, there's been a lot of talk about the parade that is happening later this

evening. but the plans for that really only became clear in these last several months when president donald trump started his second term. but the plans to celebrate and hold a festival for the 250th anniversary of the army, those have been in the works for a couple of years now, and i'm on the mall where that festival is taking place. we've got equipment, we have vendors, and i'm going to bring in scott emerson, who served in the army for 31 years. tell us, scott, you're here as a volunteer today. what are we looking at? >> we are looking. >> at. >> a 1970s version. >> one iroquois built by bell helicopters. >> it served. >> in vietnam. >> and we spent years flying, flying. >> them in the heritage foundation. i spent years flying these on. >> active duty as well. >> and tell me a little bit about your service 31 years. >> so i started. >> in the army in 1989. so i worked there, started flying helicopters, went right into flight school. >> it's a great opportunity. >> for me, high school to flight school, basically. and i started flying there. i flew for

probably 3 or 4 years flying this and teaching at fort rucker and the flight school. after the panama invasion. and then i came back and started flying airplanes for the army. i ended up flying jets for the army, for retiring. so highly recommended army for anybody for it was awesome. >> well, thank you so much for your time. i know you have a line here to get back to. we appreciate it. >> you're next. you have. >> to get in. there you go. and also on the national mall. this is a kid friendly event. we've got concerts that are starting up. earlier, there was a fitness competition to highlight the teamwork that takes place in the army. we're also going to see a cooking tutorial. we're going to see an nfl skills and drills competition. and then this is going to lead up. we're going to see a recognition of medal of honor recipients, as well as a ceremony at the end with a birthday cake. because after all, this is the 250th birthday for the army. as you mentioned earlier, it's also flag day. it's also trump's birthday and about 6 p.m. that's when things are going to transfer to that parade, which is going to travel from the lincoln memorial near

the white house. >> all right. keep us posted. julia benbrook there on the national mall. appreciate it. all right. also happening right now, the so-called no kings day protest underway around the country. this is the scene outside mar a lago in florida, where protesters were met with what appears to be layers of law enforcement there. we've got a team of correspondents covering the some 2000 scheduled rallies sweeping across the country in all 50 states, according to organizers. cnn's leigh waldman is in philadelphia. cnn's ed lavandera is in houston. let's go to you first, leigh, with what's happening. >> right now. >> you're marching in philadelphia. >> they're shouting. >> things like, whose streets are streets? saying, no queen, no kings. yes, queens. we have taught here with us. who calls philly home? you were talking about how philadelphia is a special. >> place for. >> this no kings protest. because this is where democracy

started, right? >> exactly. >> the foundation. >> of our democratic republic. started here. when ben. >> franklin came out of. >> the. >> constitutional signing, someone said. what did you come up with? >> and he. >> said. >> a republic. if you can keep it. i think many of us for so long. >> have taken. >> those. >> fundamental rights. >> for granted. >> and that is all changing. >> we have the the. >> erosion and. assault on democracy. >> that's why you see thousands and thousands. >> of people of. >> all backgrounds. >> here and across. >> the country. and about 2000 demonstrations, and. >> this is what. >> we have to do in the spirit not of king trump, but of martin luther king, of engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience. >> and. >> todd, you have your daughters here. he has two girls with him, almost. ten and almost. >> eight now. >> and you see they're holding a sign here encouraging people to defend democracy and vote. todd, quickly, why is it so important to you to have your young. daughters here?

>> well, we i think young kids have to from the earliest of age, know the the fundamental tenets of what it means to be a citizen. it's the in many ways, the highest form of the highest office we can have. and. i think voting is something again that that so many have struggled for in the civil rights movement. and we're we're doing that again because we could lose that vote. i think there are many people who question whether there will even be a november election, given what's been going on with immigrants and and other efforts to to really. undermine the fundamental rights that we all take for granted. >> thank you so much. >> so many people here and passion to share their voices here. you can hear the. >> shouting and the distance. behind us. >> as thousands of people are braving the rain. as we make our way down to the museum of art here, fred.

>> all right. >> well, we'll keep checking in with you throughout the day. thank you so much. off to houston. now. that's where we find ed lavandera with the crowd of people whose march is already underway. ed, tell us more. >> good morning. or good afternoon, fredricka. this rally here in houston, the no kings rally started off as the news emerging from minnesota was beginning to take hold. it took a while for, i think, that news to spread through here. but here, the theme, as it has been in other protests similar to this across the across the country, chants of we will not bend down to fascism. very critical of what they view as the trump administration's dictatorial tendencies. that has been the theme. and now, after listening to speeches for more than an hour, this crowd is now marching through the streets of downtown houston, and there are thousands of people out here. we don't have any estimates yet in terms of just how large this crowd is, but it is significant, as this march has been going through in extends for blocks and blocks through downtown

houston. at this point, we spoke with one attendee here this afternoon who is an 89 year old former government teacher in high school. and this is what he told us. well, i've been opposed to fascism all my life, and i was a high school government teacher. and these people's kids would have failed my course. the people who. support trump, they don't understand anything about the fact that we're all kings, not him. and frederica. this march now is a looping its way around downtown. and it's impossible. you don't even see the end of it. we're pretty much several blocks of it has already passed us where we are here in downtown houston. and this continues for blocks and blocks. we can't even see the end of it at this point. so one of the larger crowds that event organizers here tell us that they have seen turnout for one of these types of events and that the protests that they've held over the last few months. but this is definitely much larger in scale than what

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>> and this. >> is cnn. >> all right. more of our breaking news out of minnesota, where a gunman shot and killed minnesota state representative melissa hortman and her husband, mark, early saturday morning. officials said the gunman also shot minnesota's state senator john hoffman and his wife multiple times at their home, a no kings event in minneapolis was canceled today due to a shelter in place order. now, after that overnight shooting, governor tim walz is calling the attacks a politically motivated assassination. here's more of what he said earlier. >> my good friend and colleague, speaker melissa, and her husband, mark, were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. our state lost a great leader and i lost a dearest of friends. speaker hortman was someone who served the people of minnesota

with grace, compassion, humor, and a sense of service. she was a formidable public servant, a fixture, and a giant in minnesota. she woke up every day determined to make this state a better place. she is irreplaceable and will be missed by so many. minnesotans. thoughts and prayers are with her family, her loved ones, her children and her parents. >> let's turn now to cnn's veronica miracle with more on this investigation. veronica, what more can you tell us? >> well, fredricka, the minnesota state patrol has released new evidence that has resulted in governor walz and other law enforcement officials asking people to not attend those no kings rallies all across minnesota. they're asking people to not attend those events. and that's because they found multiple fliers that said no kings inside the car of the suspect. there are just a whole stack of white papers with no kings written across those papers. they have released a

photo. we're working on getting that to you now. and so because of that information, because of that evidence, they're asking people to not attend those events. a no shelter in shelter in place order is still in place for the area where those shootings took place. the shootings took place within about five miles of each other at the homes of state representative melissa hortman, as well as state senator john hoffman. as we know, john hoffman and his wife at the hospital expected to survive. but state representative melissa hortman and her husband were killed. and part of what is so troubling about this event is that the suspect was fully identifiable as a police officer. impersonating a police officer wearing gear that looked just like an officer. and so that is why law enforcement asking those people who are sheltering in place to not open the door, if a single person who looks like a police officer comes knocking. they're sending

out their officers in pairs, in groups, trying to make sure that everyone is safe, but also recognizing the severity of this event, fredricka. >> all right, veronica, thank you so much. we'll check back with you. also joining us right now, cnn chief, law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john, glad you get oh, it looks like we've lost john miller, actually. so we'll just continue on then. so again, we continue to keep a close watch on this breaking news. the shootings of two minnesota lawmakers, one who was killed, representative melissa hortman and her husband. they were killed after this suspect came to the home looking like a police officer, as well as visiting the home of state senator john hoffman. hoffman and his wife were also killed, and now the manhunt continues for the suspect, who is believed to still be on foot. we'll have

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see it step by step. the first actions, they've already explained that this was intelligence driven intelligence that they've been generating for more than a year to know where these top nine nuclear scientists and physicists were in iran, to know where the top military commanders where were all at the same time, all on the first night, hit them, hit other strategic targets. now they're making their their work, if you will, of broadening out the target list, going after the other things, the missile storage, the missile sites, the nuclear facilities that are hard to penetrate. now it's working on taking out the air defense systems. it means it will have a greater and freer hand. israel said. over friday. over friday night, they launched 200 raids over over friday night into saturday. they launched 150 raids. the raid, they said that cleared the way here for these further operations involved 70

aircraft striking 40 different sites. so if you will, it does two things. it gives israel greater freedom to go after the targets it wants on the ground. but at the same time it pushes back the distance from israel, where iran can launch those ballistic missiles. and that means one very simple thing. although these missiles fly high, they fly fast the further away they are launched from israel, it gives israel a greater opportunity possibility to intercept them. so this is what israel's strategy appears to be at the moment. >> all right. nic robertson in tel aviv, thanks so much. all right. coming up, we'll have the latest on the shootings in minnesota that left two people dead and two others, all lawmakers injured. all right. now a manhunt is underway for the suspect. >> eva longoria searching for

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