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bombed by 12 30,000 pound bombs is buried under a mountain devastated and obliterated trump and defense secretary pete hegseth spent much of the day pushing back against a preliminary intel assessment from the pentagon's defense intelligence agency. >> sources tell cnn it says iran's nuclear program was set back by only a few months. president trump is acknowledging the report exists, but he's lashing out at the media, saying the analysts who put it together were just taking a guess. >> they said it could be limited or it could be very severe. they really didn't know. the report said what it said, and it was fine. it was severe, they think, but they had no idea. they shouldn't have issued a report until they did. >> q the fallout we're learning from the administration, that is, they're moving to limit the classified information it shares with congress. and his team is promising to go after leakers if it. >> was a member. >> of congress himself or

herself who leaked this. are they immune from criminal liability for putting the safety of the united states of america at risk? i nowhere that i read. >> now trump's intel chiefs are backing up the president with their own assessments. the director of national intelligence, tulsi gabbard says this new intelligence confirms what potus stated numerous times. iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. cia director john ratcliffe says cia can confirm that a body of credible intelligence indicates iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged by the recent targeted strikes. the white house also put out a statement from the israel atomic energy commission. even before the israeli prime ministerer's offie released it. it reads the devastating u.s. strike on fordow destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. now, those statements all say it would take

years for iran to rebuild its nuclear program. secretary of state marco rubio is trying to spell out exactly why. now, he says the damage to one of the three sites targeted was so extensive that it wiped out iran's ability to turn enriched uranium into fuel for a bomb. and he says he knows this because that facility is actually above ground. >> so in esfahan. >> there was this conversion site, which is. >> how you turn. >> this metal into something. >> that's useful. that's wiped out. >> can you you. >> can rebuild anything that's destroyed. >> you could if you wanted to, but it's. completely wiped out. >> and so. >> they. >> can't do that today. >> some of the biggest questions over the fordo site. that's the one buried deep under a mountain, which is why it's hard to know the full extent of the damage. but cnn political and global affairs analyst barak ravid says israeli intelligence is largely aligned with how trump is describing it. >> there is intelligence that shows that there has been internal collapse, underground.

collapse inside the. >> facility. >> which is something that shows. >> us that it. >> was badly damaged. because if you have centrifuges in this facility and there was a penetration of a. bomb inside, and there was collapse inside, then those centrifuges are gone. >> now the problem is there's enough conflicting information out there that it frankly, it's hard to know exactly what to believe. and the top democrat on the senate intel committee says that, of course, can lead to some serious trust issues. >> if you start trying to cook intelligence or try to manipulate it in political fashions, that you don't have a good history with that this is how you destroy trust with your friends and also with your foes. if people are misrepresenting or lying about the effects of this attack. who's going to trust us going forward? >> my team of military and intelligence experts are standing by to unpack all of the dynamics at play tonight. but first, to mark caputo, senior

politics reporter who covers the trump white house for axios, mark. look, president trump isn't just sending out angry social media posts. as you know, it appears he's also taking some action to limit the sharing of classified intel, even with lawmakers. what are you learning tonight? >> according to the white house. this damage assessment report that's caused so much of a stir. >> that cnn. >> first reported was. >> put by the. >> administration on this. >> internal sort messaging. >> board. >> called cap. >> net, where. intelligence classified. information is. >> shared with members of congress, select members. >> of congress. and shortly. >> thereafter, according. >> to the. >> administration, the information. >> about this assessment leaked. and in the eyes of. >> the trump. >> white house. >> this probably means that someone in congress either. >> leaked it. >> or going forward, would leak

such information. >> they don't. >> want. that to happen. so there are talks about limiting. >> the sharing. of this information. >> in that. >> way with congress. >> well, we know that tomorrow hegseth is going to give a briefing, which is was supposed to happen yesterday. there was a lot of anger why it did not happen. what can you tell us about the briefing? is it going to be about explaining the different intel assessments, or are you expecting to hear grievances? >> how about both? >> okay. >> you saw today. at the you saw today at the press conference at nato that hegseth is eager to make this a story of an unpatriotic media and sort of how dare you. obviously, he has an opportunity to answer these other questions. just which sort of tack are going to take? i guess this is what makes the trump white house sometimes like a tv show. we're all just going to have to tune in and see. >> well, this seems like a bit of a rerun, sandra analogy in the sense that trump has had a

long history with the intel community. they were at odds for some time during his first term. how much is that experience coloring this season of the administration? >> a big. >> part. unlike in. >> his first term, when he was investigated and accused. >> by a number of people of being a russian. >> asset, and even some claimed a russian agent. trump was. deeply and has been deeply embittered by. >> the intelligence. community or members. >> of it. >> he does want to not just rein. >> it in, but he'd like to scale it back. >> so far. >> those plans haven't happened. and obviously now we see with. >> the entire. >> conflict with iran, the ability for donald trump to. sort of juggle all of these. >> balls. >> he's got. >> iran, he's got a peace deal. he wants to strike in ukraine. he has his one big, beautiful bill in congress. it's going to make it difficult for him to do

all of these things. but donald trump is sort of deeply paranoid about members of the intelligence community or some members of the intelligence community, which they call the deep state. and this recent leak only sort of heightens that concern. but as nixon had famously said, and yes, nixon is one of the presidents that donald trump admires. just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get us. at least that's the view of the trump white house. >> not a week goes by that someone's not quoting nixon. mark caputo, thank you so much. nice to see you, my friend. i want to bring in ceo of the foundation for defense of democracies. mark dubowitz, also retired army brigadier general steve anderson, cnn national security analyst. peter bergen, senior fellow for the soufan center. kenneth katzman. glad to have you all. here. let me begin with you, peter, because we often talk about the fog of war a lot, sadly. but what about the fog of explaining the aftermath of what's going on? do these

competing intel reports now make it harder to know exactly who to trust? >> i think the short answer is no, because it's actually very common for different parts of the intelligence community, have different views. think about the chinese lab leak question and covid. fbi has a slightly different view than other parts of the intelligence community. so the fact that you're seeing different, by the way, they're called assessments, and they're also called estimates. so they're not you know, they're not this is not like a mathematical equation or truth that is being delivered. they you know, eventually. and by the way, i have a suggestion, which is we should have something called a national intelligence estimate. that's a formal declaration by the 18 intelligence agencies. president trump could order one. it would take a bit of time, but it would largely settle this question because that's a formal assessment by the intelligence, by the entire community. >> but the the distinction you're trying to make is for the audience by calling it assessment, you're implying that this is supposed to be an

ongoing, not a not finality is that your estimation. >> is not moses coming down from the mountain with, you know, the truth. this is this is it's it's a and it's of course, we're so early into it and, you know, so, you know, we're only three days later. it's just, you know, six months from now, we may have a better sense of what really happened. >> well, kenneth, i mean, tomorrow the top senate intel democrat, as you know, mark warner is warning the administration against any sort of manipulation ahead of tomorrow's briefing, whether that's heated or whether that's offensive to them. who knows? but he says that's how we got into iraq in the first place. so could these intel disputes be leading us down a bad path with iran? >> it could. >> but i worked for. >> the congress for 30. >> years. >> and what. >> they. >> should be talking about is. what do we. do if the. ayatollah supremely decides to rebuild the program? because if he does, i can assure you he's going to put the iranian people through continued war warfare. israel is

going to keep striking. we're in a new normal. we're in a new normal. israel is going to keep striking. if iran, even touches any nuclear material from now on. >> so what does that. >> mean. >> for us? >> involved new normal. the mr. trump will, if he needs to get involved again, he may strike again. he said that he said he might strike again. >> well, that's the question then when you think about it. so if that, according to you would lead us into that, then the fact that congress has not had a particular role in deciding where we go, if this is going to be the predictive nature, then what does that mean in terms of what trump should have done with congress well, again, i think the, you know, the debate between the executive. >> branch and congress has been. >> longstanding. >> i mean, commanders in chief have made this decision. without notifying congress. >> i think. >> 99% of. >> the time. >> since the end. of world war two. >> i think. >> he's resting on his constitutional authority. >> but what's. >> more interesting to me is. >> and we.

>> haven't really talked about it except in reference is. >> the agencies that. >> i trust the. >> most. >> on those. >> on this. >> intelligence assessment are those who have the incentive not to exaggerate. and that's the israeli intelligence agencies. >> why do you think them above, say, the u.s. intelligence would have no incentive to exaggerate. >> because the israelis want to. >> go back in. >> they want to go. >> back in tomorrow. >> and if they think that the fordo facility has not been destroyed, they want to go back immediately. if they think there's still 20% and 60% enriched uranium, they want to go back in and they've had a sober, apolitical, analytical assessment of what has happened. and they've said that fordow has been severely disabled. they think it's set the program back by years, that isfahan has been destroyed. by by key facilities like this metal facility. as secretary rubio was talking about. and natanz has been destroyed. and they also think that 20% and 60% is buried under fordo. so when i look at the assessment of the israeli atomic energy commission by a modern military intelligence, by mossad, again, their incentive is to be sober and analytical

and to understate, not overstate. i think that's important intelligence that that that the u.s. congress also should be aware of. >> what i find interesting about that is for me, that could play the other way. if there is some notion that one has to walk on a bit of diplomatic eggshells, the united states asking for the help of having these buster bombers and of course, these unbelievably heroic, you know, military who went and executed this mission. unbelievable. but if the thought is you might offend trump, who is saying that it was obliterated, i wonder if that factors into their willingness to come out today and say that they have a complete assessment. what do you think? >> absolutely. i mean, it's it's what we're. >> seeing is. >> the. >> politicization of. >> the intelligence community. and it's just so shameful and so wrong. >> what's the risk of that? >> the risk is that we're not going to get the analysis and the intelligence that we need. if our enemy is ten feet tall and bulletproof, our soldiers in the foxholes need to know that. now, donald trump says that it was obliterated. everybody knows. that's pretty much

laughable. okay. was it severely damaged? absolutely. but but obliterated. we need to assess exactly what you know, what what happened? there's 400 400kg of highly enriched uranium that's out there somewhere. there's supposedly two secret or maybe 3 or 4 secret facilities that they've got in the mountains. remember, iran is two and a half times the size of texas, so there's a lot of places they could hide this stuff. and we know that the 400kg could be hidden in one van. >> so is there some reason i don't mean obliterated means something. it's actually a defined word. so when i hear it, i'm thinking about the dictionary definition of it. is there some military response or thought in the background where they might look at this and say, you're calling the semantics? the point is, iran is on notice that there's a problem? >> yes, absolutely. i mean, that obliterated is not a term that you'll find in any intelligence analysis. you won't find that, but you will find terms like significantly damaged or even destroyed in there. and if that

proves to be the case, then we're going to find that out. >> what do you think? >> i mean, i'm not an intelligence analyst. >> but you are intelligent. your interpretation. >> let me, let me, let me. i mean, obliterate i mean, there is a sort of semantic quality to this. i mean, what's the difference between obliterate severely damaged set back many years? i mean, we basically, i think, are in agreement that something really bad has happened to their program, the defense intelligence agency assessment of knocking it back a few months came out early. it you know, we're now a few days later, i will say something about dia, which is, you know, pete hegseth is his part of his the pentagon, you know, bomb damage assessment. and the general would probably know more about this than i do. surely the defense intelligence agency bomb damage assessment is something that they do fairly routinely. and so you you can't say that this is just a laughable assessment. >> what about his point that he trusts more that of israelis?

>> well, i mean, i agree with what you were saying, which is like, you know, israelis also. i mean, they know how to deal with donald trump, which is you basically agree with him you know. >> well. >> i mean, the mossad is iran is crawling with mossad agents right now. i mean, let's let's israel will find out. they probably already know what happened because there are iranians who are against the government that don't like the government that are reporting to them. that's how they were able to assassinate all these iranian revolutionary guard commanders. they know where they live because they have confederates who are iranian nationals, who are reporting to them. they will find out exactly what is left in this facility. now, the issue is, have we deterred iran from rebuilding? is it too much? is iran going to face too much punishment to keep the nuclear program going? and i think right now, if i were the supreme leader, i would say i'm not going to put my people through this for years more. i'm i'm out of this.

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ocasio-cortez embracing mamdani last night to hedge fund manager dan loeb posting on x, quote, it's officially hot commie summer. well, wall street is worried about policy positions like freezing rents and opening city run grocery stores. but mamdani says his laser focus on making new york affordable helped him win and could be replicated nationwide. >> i think ultimately, this is a campaign about inequality. and you don't have to live in the most expensive city in the country to have experienced that inequality, because it's a national issue. and what americans coast to coast are looking for are people who will fight for them, not just believe in the things that resonate with their lives, but actually fight and deliver on those very things. >> well, my next guest knows a thing or two about new york politics. former new york governor david paterson, who endorsed cuomo for mayor. governor, welcome back. i mean,

cuomo, like yourself, is a former governor and has been in new york politics for decades. can you tell me why you think he lost? >> i think he lost because his campaign was kind of old fashioned. they rode around on big trucks in the street. nobody could even see they were campaigning. he didn't go to many debates. it was like the rose garden strategy. and while he was doing that, mr. mondaini, who i have a lot of problems with, but just on campaign 101, he was everywhere. he went to every neighborhood. he went to neighborhoods in places where he'd be perceived to be not liked. and he probably didn't do well there, but he just overwhelmed the the situation. >> well, governor, democrats all across the country are looking at his win and they're looking for a message. you say that you have problems with assuming his platform. tell me about those issues that you take with it. and what do you take away from his victory?

>> well, when you say that people should ride the subways free, that's easy for you to say. but he doesn't run the mta in this city. the governor does. if you say that there should be a minimum wage of $30 an hour, then you have to figure out where that money is going to come from. he has never explained these things. and i think where his opponents made a big mistake is they attacked him about his anti-semitic remarks, which was right. and they attacked him about how he's offended so many people in the city, which is also right. but they didn't call him out and make him explain, either by writing a paper or making a statement other than a 32nd moment where he would explain how he's actually going to do these things because he can't do them, not because he wouldn't try, but because the way what he described he wants to do is impossible. >> i'm glad you raised those points. and also, of course, he has tried to explain that he does not have those anti-semitic views, but certainly there are

those who believe that, in fact, he does. the voters seem to think that he is the qualified person for the democratic primary. but president trump says that democrats, quote, crossed the liline by nominatin mamdani. republicans are turning him into the boogeyman, which, frankly, is probably expected with a major city like new york. are you worried that they'll be effective in using this again? he hasn't won the race yet, but he has the democratic primary. do you worry that they'll be effective in using him to define the national democratic party? >> those who have attacked him, the republicans and president trump and whoever they've been doing that they didn't start after the primary. they've been doing that for the last couple of months. it didn't stop him. neither did it stop him. when the democrats did it. as i said before, what's going to stop him is when the public sees that he has drawn up a beautiful like president trump's beautiful

bill. he's got a beautiful plan. but the plan can't work because he doesn't have the money for it. and he's not really being honest about exactly how it would actually work. >> given the powers that governors have versus the limited powers that a mayor would have. former governor cuomo could realistically perhaps decide to run as an independent and try to tout those differences. and his expertise, should he run as an independent now? >> well, george bernard shaw, once wrote that hell is to drift, heaven is to steer. governor cuomo appeared to be drifting last night. it kind of seemed like maybe he'd had enough. but he came back today with an analysis of the data that shows that the primary vote really doesn't relate well to the general election vote. so there is a lot of room for him to come back or retool and win in november. >> i wonder if he will. well, the ex vice chair of the dnc, david hogg, he posted that cuomo

is cooked. and he also added, so is the, quote, establishment that brought us here. so, governor, what do you say to people who think this is an example of why the party needs generational change if it's going to win.? >> to a certain extent, he's kind of right. a number of people, the number of 18 year olds that voted in this primary is unprecedented. the number of young people getting involved, as they did in in the late 60s, is similar, but what they're going to have to do in addition to demonstrate anger or saying they're getting rid of the old guard, is replace it with workable and sensible and achievable solutions to problems which i don't think they've researched enough to come to that conclusion. >> we'll see about the actual general. governor paterson, thanks for joining. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to talk about the national political implications with two cnn political

commentators, brad todd and karen finney. all right. so, karen, one of the biggest endorsements came from senator beie sanders, as you know, who told politico, democrats need younger leadership and added this quote, i think that the democratic leadership is way out of touch. is this a kind of tea party moment for democrats? >> i don't know if i'd say that. and i think we have to be careful how much we draw from this, because first of all, it was a primary. but second of all, i think what's interesting is two things. one, actually, bernie sanders changed the electorate in new york city with his own campaign. so it's not surprising that that would have helped mom and dani. what i think is interesting is how mom and dani won, and how cuomo lost. >> how do you analyze it? >> so a couple of things. number one is former governor paterson said cuomo didn't really get out and talk to people. he did a lot of closed door meetings and touted a lot and put a lot of money on television. hasn't

lived in the city for 20 years. and i think there was a sense of like, you can't just walk in here and assume we're going to get take our votes. mom. dani i mean, they had thousands of volunteers knocking on good old fashioned campaigning, knocking on doors, talking to people. he seemed very willing to go all over the city and talk to people and take tough questions on us. and i mean that to me. i hope my party is paying attention to the fact that part of what he did was to put together a broad based, multiracial multi, you age coalition. he won an area called oakland gardens, which is in queens. trump actually won in 2024. lee zeldin won it in 2022. he flipped it. so i mean he it was interesting to see how he won. and it's again, the other thing, what was he talking about costs. the number one thing and we're seeing this nationally. people are still frustrated and anxious about costs. cost of childcare, cost of

transportation. cost of food. cost of housing. so i mean that i hope, is the blaring red light that everybody focuses on, that people are anxious about the. >> well. >> you know. >> who was focused and that's president trump, brad. because this might not speak to the whole nation. however, president trump is looking at this. and he said he wasted no time attacking mamdani. posted on truth social, saying mamdani quote is 100% communist lunatic. is this the the kind of foil the republicans want? >> it certainly. >> doesn't hurt republicans when you have a 33. >> year old socialist. >> who's never run anything as a new poster. poster child for the democratic party. >> and how does it help republicans? >> well, because. >> i think we know that bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez, they they sort of animate the washington democratic party. they are the furthest left people. that is not something that swing voters are going to accept. and i looked last night at the results and i saw that, you know, he zoran did lost by 20 points. with black voters, with hispanic voters. he lost with the working

class. where he won was. >> with working class. >> he won. >> with very well with. >> working class. no, he he. >> actually lost black and brown voters. >> he he. >> won upper middle income white voters, very educated voters. that's where his margins came from. he lost that. look at look at the breakdown. stats of the stats. >> he that's. >> what's happening in the democratic party today though the democrats are struggling with the working class because they're overly animated by hyper educated liberals, particularly liberal women. it's costing them elections. and it really is helping republicans form a new coalition. >> i have to say, i wonder, i want you to address this too, because one would assume that by virtue of being a part of the working class, cost would be an issue for you and would animate the reason you show up. so he seemed to be successful in that in that area because. is that the area? is that the connective tissue across the nation? >> i mean, look, sure. i mean, some of the numbers that i looked at, he actually did pretty well with working class voters. but this is part of the challenge that the republican party is having right now with the big beautiful bill when the working class is part of your

base, you can't just cut their health care with medicaid. you can't just take away things like, you know, food for kids. you can't just increase your. >> taxes either, which is what democrats. would do if bill doesn't pass. the taxes go up. >> on everybody. >> who. >> works, not actually on everybody on the very top. >> well, if you. >> talk about wait, hold on. >> wait, hold on, credit. i want to hear both. >> but karen. >> we're not done. i want to hear your point. >> that you raised. i want to correct. >> you because the child tax credit is. >> going to get cut in half. the standard deduction is. >> that's one of the taxes. rate about. >> the rates. the rates. >> the tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%. >> if you pay. 10% rate, you're going. >> to pay 12. >> that's that's the working class. >> well let's wait let's go back though. that's an important part for congress to talk about. >> yes. >> but in new york i want to focus on this because this might be a bellwether. and i think everyone's including the united states on this very issue to figure out whether this is representative of where democrats future is and whether that's a good thing for democrats or not. >> yeah, two things. one,

important to stay connected to the voters, talk about the issues they care about the economy clearly still a big issue. it's a big problem for republicans going in when you have, you know, mitch mcconnell saying they'll get over it and you have joni ernst saying everybody dies someday. that's not a good look when we're talking about these kinds of issues. i don't know if we can say new york is a bellwether, but i think there's a lot to be learned from the way he campaigned by going everywhere, by talking to people and by being online and in person. i think. >> that's about. >> what can we learn about the fact that he is being attacked online as a result of having one based on financial based campaign? i mean, they're talking about his religion. they're attacking him for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with his actual politics. >> is that instructive? no. he's been attacked because he. >> refuses to renounce. >> the phrase globalize the intifada. he still refused to do it today. it's an anti-semitic phrase that calls. >> for the extinction of the state of israel. >> an extinction. >> of jews worldwide. >> that's what he's being

attacked for. besides his socialism and his crazy ideas that he can't pay for. >> can i make one quick point on this interesting column in the forward today, which talked about and this is, i think, an opportunity for him. what he needs to do is take this issue somewhat off the table in the context of new york city, because republicans are going to hit democrats with this. it's a stupid issue. they're going to hit us with. >> it. just say i was wrong. >> oh, no, no. but what i think he can do, i think he has tried to explain, which is always a challenge in politics. the conversation is about how do you keep the jewish community in new york city safe. talk about anti-semitism, talk about islamophobia, talk about homophobia. if you tolerate. >> people saying globalize the intifada. >> let me hear a point. >> but i think if you make it but the question, the point this article in the forward was making was the issue is how do you keep people safe? because the problem with anti-semitism is the danger that it that it causes to jewish people in new york city. that's what people are worried about. he needs to acknowledge that, deal with the politics of that. but have that

conversation with people that acknowledges, i understand why you're afraid. that is not my position, and explain his position. but again, make it a broader conversation. >> it's quite striking that this is that that would be a need to be explained after having want you to say primary. well, i'd like to hear from him and i invite him on the show any time. thank you very much, brad. karen, i appreciate it. up next, the f bombs fly in a senate confirmation hearing as one of trump's most loyal lawyers faces questions in his bid to become a federal judge. my next guest once refused to take orders from emil bove, and he says it's not about his credentials. it's about his character. he'll explain next. >> can a personal loan unlock your. >> ambitions? >> oh yeah. consolidate bad debt and save money for your next goal. take a swing at your kitchen, renault. >> and that literally. >> or design your actual dream wedding. all your ambitions. all

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cnn. >> a trump judicial nominee feeling the pressure today on capitol hill during a heated senate confirmation hearing. things became so tense that at one point he declared, quote, i am not anybody's henchman. that man is trump's former personal attorney, emil bove. now, you might remember him as one of the defense lawyers in trump's hush money trial. well, he's now up for a seat on the third circuit court of appeals. the federal court. just one step away, of course, from the supreme court. beauvais also served briefly as acting deputy attorney general, where most notably, he dropped the charges against new york city mayor eric adams.ow, a new whistleblower report obtained by cnn alleges that beauvais intended to ignore court orders regarding deportations, allegedly saying the doj should tell the courts, f you. choice words that beauvais now denies. >> you frequently suggested that

they. say you and. >> ignore court orders. is that. >> also something you frequently do, such you might not remember doing it in this occasion? >> no. and as. >> i explained, i have never said. >> did you or did you not make those comments during. >> that meeting? >> which comment, senator. >> you really need me to repeat it. did you suggest, as mr. reuveni wrote, that doj would need to consider telling the courts you. >> and ignore. >> any such court order? >> i did not suggest that there would be any need to consider ignoring court orders. at the point of that meeting, there were no court orders to discuss. >> well. >> did you. >> suggest telling the courts you in any manner? >> i don't recall. >> joining me now is ryan crosswell. he's a former federal prosecutor who resigned after beauvais directed him and his colleagues to dismiss the adams case. ryan, what do you want people to know about beauvais? based on your

experience specifically? >> you know, laura, today, mr. beauvais said. something along the. >> lines of, i'm. >> not a henchman, i'm not an enforcer. i'm a lawyer from a small town who never expected to be in this arena. that makes two of us. i never expected them to be in. >> this arena either. >> i am, because mr. beauvais did order that. that case be dismissed. it wasn't based on the facts. it wasn't based on the law. he did threaten those who refused to do it. good public servants lost their jobs. he had the opportunity to exercise the right character in february, and he didn't do it. and he had the opportunity to clear the air today. and he didn't do it. so he's unfit to be on the third circuit. >> well, let me ask you. you heard him deny those claims from whistleblower report alleging that he told the doj to ignore court orders. also to stop deporting migrants to el salvador. do you believe that

laura, i think we watched this play out in. >> judge boasberg court. he was repeatedly stonewalled. and so i do believe the whistleblower. i think we watched it happen. and this just confirmed that. and he also. denied that there was ever a threat issued to my colleagues and i. and i can say firsthand that there was and i think that the senators know this. i think they know that. i think what was it? eight attorneys didn't resign for no reason. they resigned because of what he did. it's obvious, i hope, that these senators will do the right thing and reject his nomination. >> what's your message to them as they prepare to vote and evaluate what he has testified to well, aside from the fact, i don't think he was truthful about what happened, i would also say, particularly to the republican senators who i do believe probably care about law enforcement, how much he's weakened the department of justice, he's weakened the morale. >> i talked to agents and prosecutors that are still in the department that are sickened by this. morale is down, and i

think a lot of them will probably resign. and when you think about the important mission that the department does, protecting our citizens from drug traffickers, violent criminals, child predators, fraudsters, it's so unfortunate. and aside from that, i think he's also weakened the credibility of the department when it goes into court. we've built up that credibility with judges, and when they believe that attorneys will be fired, if they exercise candor, our credibility is hurt and our ability to convict bad guys is hurt. >> as a former prosecutor myself, i understand that the sanctity of that credibility, when you're in that courtroom and who comes behind you as well. ryan cresswell, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead, more coverage on the intelligence dispute over the strikes in iran as the pentagon gets ready to hold what the white house is calling a major briefing tomorrow morning. but first, prosecutors in the case against sean "diddy" combs making some sudden changes to the allegations that they want the jury to consider. i'll

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of kid cudi's car, the kidnaping claim comes presumably from the testimony of one of diddy's former employees. capricorn clark, who testified that diddy forced her to accompany him to diddy's house. now it all sets up what we're told will be a four hour closing argument from the prosecution. that will happen tomorrow, followed by the defense's arguments on friday. with me now, trial attorney monique pressley and former federal prosecutor jean ross, she is also the host of make it make sense with monique pressley on youtube. well, i'm going to ask you to make it make sense in a second on that, but let me go to you first on this. what does it signal to you that they are no longer pursuing the attempted arson and attempted kidnaping in relation to rico? and keep in mind, we don't have the final verdict form that the jurors will actually see when i have that, i think we'll have a better sense of exactly what they plan to say in closing and what they'll argue. but knowing what we know now, what strikes you. >> what strikes me about.

>> the. >> proposed jury instructions is a couple of things. when you start a case, when you're preparing your opening, you have to submit jury instructions to. >> the judge. >> probably maybe a week or two. you've done it. and you. >> why do you do that? >> you do. >> it because the judge wants to know the law. when the evidence comes in, so he can determine or she can determine what's relevant and irrelevant. what strikes me in monique and i talked about this. this is an eight page. >> letter. >> actually making very significant changes in the jury instructions. and we finally agree on something. this shows that unless i'm betting wrong, that the government is very concerned about their case. >> do you. >> agree? >> yeah. >> thank you. >> i agree with me and jean tonight. listen, from the beginning we've been talking. >> about this case. >> they overcharged it. they

came out guns blazing. they did. >> what even progressive prosecutors have a problem with where rico is. >> concerned. >> where you try to throw. >> everything in. including the kitchen sink, and see what's going to stick. >> and i were i the judge, never mind the defense was probably just wanting to stand. >> on its head when. >> they have the charging hearing. but the. judge were i, the judge would be very upset. because i'm taking you. really at your word and at. the strength of your papers and at the recommendation. >> on what you submitted. >> saying you're going to offer proof. >> concerning these things. well, we all. >> know we all watched the trial. >> we know they didn't. offer anything that would look like requisite proof. so at the end. >> they attempted to do obviously the prosecution feels they attempted to do so, but it had enough days of testimony that they seem to think that through this. just to be clear, for the audience, too, if you have these so-called predicate crimes, you're doing kind of mini trials to figure out if this if do you believe that arson happened? have you proven it? have you proven kidnaping?

and then you use that to form the basis of the rico? but you have been saying, frankly, both of you on both sides of this issue about this very point, but i want to go to the fact that the defense they didn't really present a case. they don't have to. right? it's the prosecution's burden. right. but he's not going to testify. they are not calling witnesses. good idea or heavy gamble. >> the only idea i. >> mean, we've we had this conversation. >> as well. every time somebody asked me, is he. >> are you guys talking about me? is he going to. you know, i have fomo. >> excuse me on camera. >> fine, fine. go ahead. >> camera. but every time someone asks. >> i would say. >> the only way. >> he testifies. >> is if he's not listening to his lawyers. because this case is not aided by hearing him discuss whatever happened in the bedroom in his own voice. the jury not hearing it in his voice and not attaching him to these actions is the best thing for his case. now, that doesn't mean that they don't. >> buy.

>> any of it. it just means that all they really have is the one audio. >> for what. he actually. >> communicated to these women, and they're left to their own devices. so when the defense comes up and says these were choices. these were adults. >> this was a payoff. >> this was a money grab. you're not going to hear the voice of mr. combs saying anything. love or hate, wishing or desiring, hating or liking. you don't get anything. and that's where it should be. because the losses, the potential losses from him getting on the stand and all the things that they could ask him about, no, that would have been a catastrophe. >> if that's exactly what the defense goes in their closing. whereas the prosecution need to do tomorrow. >> i was just going to suggest. >> that that's the the. >> prosecution has a heavy burden here, not just because it's beyond a reasonable doubt. they have to. and it goes with what you just said, laura, for count one, rico, it's not just explain the elements of rico. you have to describe the

elements of arson, of kidnaping, of bribery, of drug dealing. that's going to take time. and if they if that prosecutor loses the jury during that segment of the closing, then they're not going to get a conviction on rico. if i were the if i were a betting person, i think counts of three and five. the mann act. >> those are the transportation to engage. >> yeah. >> it's. >> sort of it's a it's a. relatively easier count. i think they have a shot at a guilty on those two counts i do. >> well we'll see what happens. monique. jeanne, it's almost time. thank you so much. thank you all for watching as well. jessica dean picks up cnn's coverage next. >> it's the stephen miller 4th of july sale. don't miss savings on cooler sleep ache relief and all night, every night comfort. it's the lowest price of the season on the p5 smart bed. check it out at a sleep number store or sleepnumber.com. >> i brought.

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