Tonight on 360 Breaking News and what is being called a targeted attack on two National Guardsmen in Washington DC, the latest on their condition and what we now know about the suspected shooters, a new information just in. Also tonight, new behind the scenes reporting on Secretary of Defense, HEXIS, weighing options on how to punish Senator Mark Kelly over the so-called illegal orders video. We will speak to another veteran and Democratic lawmaker in the video about the FBI seeking an interview with him. And later, as controversy swirls around the phone call between President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Woodcock and the Kremlin, one Republican congressman calls for him to be fired.
Good evening, John Berman here in for Anderson, and we do begin with breaking news in the ambush attack of two National Guardsmen in our nation's capital just blocks from the White House. Both of the guardsmen, according to officials, were shot by a lone gunman. They are in critical condition tonight. We've got new video of a struggle at the scene of the shooting.
A crowd of law enforcement surrounds someone on the ground seemingly trying to subdue that person. A different video from just after the attack shows both National Guardsmen receiving medical attention. CNN has blurred their faces, but still some may find this video disturbing. You see, they are in parent officer of DC's Metropolitan Police, performs chess compressions on one of the guardsmen.
The Metropolitan Police and other authorities held a press briefing late today with the latest on how it all unfolded. The members of the DC National Guard were on high visibility patrols in the area of 17th and high street northwest. When a suspect came around the corner, raised his arm with a firearm and discharged at the National Guard members. The National Guard members, there were other members over in the area.
They were able to, after some back and forth, able to subdue the individual and bring them to custody. With the moments, the members of law enforcement in the area were also able to assist and bring that individual into custody. The one suspect that was involved was innocent. They were shot during the interaction and they were transported to the hospital for treatment.
According to sources who have seen video of the incident, the alleged gunman managed to fire three rounds at his targets before a third guardsmen returned fire. Sources also say the suspect so far has not been cooperating with law enforcement and did not have any identification on him at the time of his arrest. However, the FBI believes they have identified the suspect. Multiple law enforcement officials briefly matter until CNN.
The official said the shooter's initial identification matches a man from Washington State who appears to have immigrated here from Afghanistan in August of 2021. The alleged shooter's victims, members of West Virginia's National Guard were deployed to Washington DC as part of a mobilization that first began in August and was authorized by President Trump. The president who was in Mar-a-Lago was briefed on the shootings and posted this on social media about an hour after the attack. He wrote, The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen with both being critically wounded and now in two separate hospitals is also severely wounded.
But regardless, we'll pay a very steep price. God bless our great National Guard and all of our military and law enforcement. These are truly great people. I, as President of the United States and everyone associated with the Office of the presidency and with you.
In the wake of the shootings, the president has asked that 500 more National Guard troops be deployed to Washington. That's according to Secretary of Defense Pete HEXoth. Let's get more on this now. With this, this is seen senior justice correspondent Evan Perez.
Evan, what have you learned? What's the latest on the investigation and the suspect? Well, John, they're still trying to determine how this gunman chose this location and why he chose this place and these guardsmen to attack. Now, this went down just outside of a Washington metro station, a subway station near Faragat Square.
And it was caught on the video from the metro station there. And it showed really a chilling scene as the gunman approaches these guardsmen who appear to not have seen him coming at all. The first day, the first day, no, that he's there is when he opens fire and strikes one of them and then the other. And then the third guardsmen who are standing there manages eventually to return fire and injures the gunman.
And that's when they finally are able to subdue him. So that's where this investigation right now is focused on is who is he? More about him? They certainly have his identification.
They're trying to figure out if there's any family members, anybody, friends, anybody that they can talk to to learn more about this and why he came to Washington, how he came here today to carry out this attack. Now, as far as the, the, the, the handgun, that is also a focus of this investigation because investigators recovered it from the scene. And so they're trying to figure out how he obtained it. As you know, firearms laws do restrict sales to people who are not permanent residents or citizens of the United States.
He came in here in 2021. So it's not clear to us are the investigators whether he could have legally obtained this firearm. But again, that's a big focus of investigators tonight to find out where he obtained it and to see that again points to the reason why this attack happened today. You keep talking about a reason here.
They are calling this a targeted shooting. Are they saying anything about motive? Well, that's exactly what they're focused on because it's clearly he approached no one else and fired these guardsmen who are obviously wearing uniform. So it was this something that was motivated to attack US soldiers.
Again, the fact that he emigrated here from Afghanistan, that is also part of this investigation. FBI's counterterrorism teams are pouring through all of their resources to see what they can learn more about this person's history, where he came from anything that he, that he presented when he entered this country. All of that is being worked on right now. But no, at this point, John, they do not know exactly what the motive is.
But obviously the fact that the circumstances are sort of blinking red if you're a counterterrorism investigator at the FBI right now. So let's get back to your sources, Em Perez. Thank you so much for giving us the latest with us now seeing a chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller, seen a law enforcement analyst, Jonathan Wackrau and former Boston police commissioner, Ed Davis, John Miller. Let me start with you.
What more are you hearing from your sources about the investigation and about the suspect? Well, it's becoming a little bit of a clearer picture. So, you know, authorities were clear. This was a targeted attack.
Chief Carroll from the Washington, DC, Metro Police called it in ambush. Evan Perez described a video where he comes around the corner, sees the two uniformed soldiers and then approaches his arm extended with a pistol. So we know this was a very deliberate, very chosen attack in terms of this target. What do we know about the individual?
We've been trying to dig into that. What we know is that he comes here from Afghanistan. Now this is a guy who's been living in Washington state, not Washington, DC, on the other end of the country. He comes here from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021.
Remember what that was like? Refugees fleeing Afghanistan. People had to be recommended by US people on one end, vetted on this end by government background checks as far as they could do in Afghanistan, have sponsors and so on. He settled in Washington.
He applies for asylum in December of 2024. Now he goes through another vetting process involving that and he's approved for asylum in April of this year under the Trump administration. He comes in under the Biden administration. These checks are being done.
I remember as a part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York where we supplied people for that vetting process, it was a lot of pressure. There was a lot of people. They were being kept in military installations. A lot of that vetting had to be done very quickly.
I also remember we had to go back afterwards when we found information on certain people and bring them back. In this case, that's all we know about this individual. But it appears that he must have done work either for or with the United States and Afghanistan to become part of the Allies Welcome Program and be brought here. That still doesn't get us closer to motive.
No, although I do imagine we will find out more, maybe much more in the coming hours if he is in the federal records like that. Don't worry, we look at the map and you see pharynx where. This is really just a few blocks from the White House. So how does that impact the investigation?
Well, first you have to think, what is the security of the White House like, even when the president is not there? And it's constantly going to be these concentric rings of protection that radiate out from the White House. This location was clearly within one of those rings. And because it falls within the proximity and the security zone of the White House, you have a heavy concentration of uniform division officers from the United States Secret Service.
So again, the proximity to the White House really played a critical factor in two things. One, the velocity of in the seat at which these officers got on scene, I believe that the Secret Service is one of the first uniformed officers on scene. And when you see that very dramatic video, you see them doing two things. They're trying to maintain scene safety, but they're also in public safety, but they're also trying to address the medical condition at the moment and take somebody into custody.
So there's a lot of things going on at the same time. But the fact that additional people were not injured, that the suspect was immediately brought into custody has to do with that proximity because you had this surge of not only Secret Service, but part police were right around the corner. You had transit police coming out of varigold station. You had a lot of concentration right there.
And for the late person watching these videos, you say, well, is this just a surge that's not coordinated? It's actually highly coordinated. And there, you know, anytime you have a critical incident, and this is stuff that the law enforcement entities in Washington DC practice continuously are these roles and responsibilities in incident command structures. So you have to have that coordinated.
There's all these layers that have to mesh together. Exactly. As you get closer and closer to the White House there. Precisely.
Davis to you. We keep calling us a targeted shooting. The police, the police, the police, they have to have a lot of folks out there who do ‑‑ you know, identify that, determine that. And also how will they go about this investigation differently, having it be targeting National Guard, uniform national guard, as opposed to uniform police officers?
Right. The symbolism here is incredible. Within a couple of blocks of the White House, two military personnel targeted by an individual who came from a war tone country. There's clearly a lot going on here that would send this in the direction of the joint terrorist and task force and really have a hard look at that component of it.
But you determine what kind of a attack it was by the video. much very closely as to how the person entered the area, what the National Guardsmen were doing prior to the assault occurring. And then you see this cowardly attack from the rear of someone who extends their arm and is clearly planning to do this. So then you think about how did they get there, what are they talking about online, are there any co-conspirators?
Motivation is going to be critical here, but it's becoming clearer now as we get as we're getting more information. So we have to go down that road and make sure there's no further attacks planned. All right. So I'm really trying to address this.
John Miller, Dr. Mark Rastam, by please obviously we are getting more information by the minute here. The breaking news continues next. We're going to live report from near the scene of the shooting reaction from the White House as well.
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May of Washington, DC is called a targeted shooting. Video shows an apparent struggle at the scene with several law enforcement officers over a person on the ground. Authorities say the suspect who also was wounded is in custody shortly after the attack. The president said the president is ordering 500 more troops to the nation's capital.
That is on top of the more than 2000 already there. I like the scene as Brian Todd who is near the scene of the shooting and joins us with the latest. Brian, I do understand you spoke with some eyewitnesses. What do they tell you?
That's right, John. We spoke to two eyewitnesses who heard the gunshots and then witnessed what happened in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. One of them, a young man named Ryan Akide, a 21 year old student from Cornell University, here to visit his family at Thanksgiving, he said he was at a potbelli sandwich shop very near the scene. He said he was about 30 seconds after he walked out of the potbelli shop where he heard the shots and said he hid behind chairs because he knew what was happening.
But then he looked up and he saw a person on the ground on their stomach with their hands behind their back being held down by at least one person. He said he assumed that was the shooter. He said he also saw some people administering CPR to someone else who was on the ground. Another eyewitness gave us a fairly similar account.
These accounts pretty consistent that we're getting here. A lady who said she heard the gunshots, she turned and saw a bunch of people giving CPR to someone on the ground. This is the shooting scene right here behind me, John. We're not very far away from it.
These are uniformed Secret Service Police Officers and Park Police Officers. We also have Metropolitan Washington Police Officers kind of swarming the scene here. The shooting scene is just beyond where these officers are in the foreground. It's just less than a block over on that corner there according to Jeff Carroll, the Executive Assistant Police Chief of Washington D.C.'s Metropolitan Police.
That's where the shooting occurred. 17th and I streets northwest, right over there. We're less than a block away from it. He said that at about 2.15 p.m., the suspect quote came around a corner, raised a handgun and then discharged the handgun toward one National Guardsman who was just a mere feet away from the suspect.
Sources tell us that the suspect then turned their gun on a second Guardsman who tried to take cover behind a bus stop shelter and then according to our sources, the guards been engaged in gunfire with the suspect before they were in fact shot. According to FBI Director Cashman, tell the two National Guardsmen are in critical condition tonight. Mayor Muriel Bowser is calling this a targeted shooting. By all accounts, it was an ambush.
We yelled a question to the police chief and the mayor as they were walking away from us this afternoon about a possible motive. They did not answer that question. John. Ryan Todd, working the scene.
Thank you so much for the work that you are doing. I see a senior White House correspondent, Chris, who is in West Palm Beach, traveling with the president. What is the president's reaction to shooting tonight, Chris? The president and the White House are watching this very closely.
We saw President Trump on true social posting about this giving details that were not already public at that time noting that both of these two National Guardsmen had been critically injured and on top of that that the suspect had also been injured. And that was the first time we had heard about what had happened to the suspect. We know he's being briefed constantly and there are a lot of questions within the White House and for President Trump himself on what the motive was. They're still figuring out how this happened, what this looked like logistically.
Obviously, we've been piecing it together ourselves through witness accounts as well as video evidence and that's what the White House and all these federal agencies are doing. But there are still questions as to why exactly this happened. As we know and we've reported, the National Guard has become somewhat of a political flashpoint. Did that have something to do with it?
The other questions about this was the proximity to the White House, something that they were paying attention to. Was that something that was to send some kind of message to the White House or to President Trump? We still don't have the answers to this. But as you can see from the response, it is a full of administration response here and they have their top people really working on this and communicating with the president while we won't see him again tonight.
We are watching to see if he gives the public any more updates on what he's being briefed about. And of course, it is important that the president was not in the White House. He was in Florida where you are with him tonight. Chris at home.
Thank you very much. With us now seen and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Ellie Hone, Ellie, good to see you. Given what we know at this point, you know, what kind of possible charges might we expect this suspect to face? Well, John, first I'd expect to see charges of attempted murder under Washington, D.C.
Local law, the equivalent of state law if it happened anywhere else. Now those charges carry sentences of anywhere from two to 15 years and I would expect to see two counts against the shooter, one for each of the two victims who he shot separately. And in addition to that, we could see federal charges for attempted murder of a federal official. That law does cover uniform members of the military, slightly higher potential penalty there up to 20 years.
Again, I'd expect to see two counts there. And John, important to know if one of these victims, God forbid, should take a turn for the worst, should pass away. We hope that doesn't happen. If that were to happen, that would upgrade these charges then to murder.
And that's significant because that would then raise it to a life sentence. And even on the federal side, a potential death sentence. Also, let me add building off what John Miller told you earlier, depending on the specifics of this individual citizenship status and other specifics about the gun itself, there could be illegal firearms charges here which could add to the penalties. I think one question, common question that people have here, you see Afghan National, there are questions about could there have been religious motivations, could there be Islamic terror?
Again, no idea if we end up going down this road. But what would it take for there to be a terror charge? So you would need to show first of all, if there's some sort of religious motivation, you could see additional charges for hate crime. For there to be a terror charge, you would actually have to show some sort of nexus to an international terrorist group.
You hear the phrase domestic terrorism. That's a phrase that's defined in federal law, but there's actually surprisingly no crime of domestic terrorism. You could show that this was done in furtherance of some designated foreign terrorist group. Then you could see terrorist charges, which of course carries sentences of up to life and potentially death.
Very quickly, Ellie, the president ordered 500 more national guard troops to Washington after this. This is in conjunction with an emergency motion to keep national guard troops on the streets after a court ruled it was unlawful. So what happens next year? Yeah, so the administration has already announced that they will appeal that ruling which came down six days ago from a district court judge in DC.
So that judge ruled that the president's deployment of the national guard in DC was illegal. The judge said, I'm putting my ruling on hold so you can appeal. Now that appeal has been taken. John, really important to keep in mind.
So president is in charge of the national guard in DC. That's different. In the states, it's always under the governor. And so the president has really brought authority under the national guard.
Frankly, I was surprised by the ruling out of that district court judge the other day and it would not shock me if that gets reversed on appeal. All right, Ellie, thank you very much for your help on this. Tonight, online posts already pointing fingers trying to link these shootings to the video from six Democratic lawmakers. One of them, Congressman Christoluzio joins us next and ahead, we'll speak with one Republican Congressman who wants Steve Wickopf fired after he appeared to coach the Kremlin on how to deal with President Trump and a possible Ukraine peace deal.
Plus the latest on the Hong Kong Inferno that has killed dozens and left hundreds missing. More on the breaking news tonight, two national guardsmen are in critical condition after what authorities are calling a targeted shooting in the streets of Washington, DC in broad daylight. The FBI does have a suspect in custody. My next guest is a veteran and one of the six Democratic lawmakers that recently posted this video to social media imploring military members not to follow illegal orders.
The president has suggested they are guilty of treason. The FBI has opened an investigation and I am now joined by Pennsylvania Congressman Christoluzio Congressman. Thanks so much for being with us. First, I just want to get to reaction to the shooting in Washington, DC that unfolded this afternoon.
It is now, obviously, we're getting new information tonight. Yeah, just heartbreaking news. I certainly send my thoughts and my prayers out to those two national guardsmen, the brothers and sisters in arms they serve with their families in West Virginia. Just awful news.
And I really, if you're a praying type, pray that those two folks come through. I mean, obviously, the latest we know is they are in critical condition right now being treated in separate hospitals. Now, it did take long, Congressman. After the shootings, people did start posting online criticizing you and the five other Democratic members of Congress for posting your video suggesting that it may somehow have put a target on the national guardsmen's backs.
Now, I know you didn't mention any specific orders in the video, but some critics of the president have suggested that national guard deployments around the country broadly speaking are not always legal. So I wanted to give you a chance to respond to some of this criticism, which I'm sure you've already seen. Yeah, it's just crazy stuff. I'll rate just stuff.
I mean, it's been about half hours since we've even learned any basic facts about the alleged shooter here. Dangerous rhetoric. And let's be clear, the only threats and calls for violence came from the president and his supporters after he called for our arrest are death by hanging. That's where the calls for violence have come from.
From the most powerful man in the country who has more power and more responsibility than anyone else to condemn these calls for political violence to bring the temperature down. I hope the president will do that. I hope those around him will do it. The country doesn't need any more of this.
They don't need these calls for political prosecutions. They don't need these calls for violence. It's a dangerous time and a dark time, but I will tell you what I hear from folks back on Pennsylvania. They've had enough.
They've had enough of these calls for violence. They've had enough of targeting of political opponents by this president or people around him. They've really had enough of it. Have you been contacted by the FBI as part of their now investigation into the six of you?
Well, and that's been reported now, I think, since yesterday, right to the FBI wants to ask me and the other members of Congress I served with for voluntary interviews. As I said, when this news broke, it's a clear attempt to intimidate us as members of Congress to try to deter us from criticizing the president, my goodness. And remember the thing that we said, a basic foundational truth about our Constitution, about the oath we all take. It's something that you'll learn, whether you go to boot camp, that I learned as a plea with the Naval Academy that commanders and the jaggleers around them train troops on as the Justice Department and the FBI and Donald Trump are going to go investigate everyone who trains their troops on what orders they have to follow.
It's outrageous. It tells you how outrageous it is. What contact has there been from the FBI so far? I'll leave that to defer that over to the FBI, but what's been reported out there is they've tried to contact me and the other members of voluntary interviews.
Do you plan to cooperate? I'm not planning to sit down for a voluntary interview now. Oh, why not? Well, look, everyone in this country has a right to refuse to do that.
And I think this is a clear attempt to intimidate us. I'm a member of Congress. And the article one of our Constitution, I have the president and his Justice Department and FBI trying to intimidate and silence his perceived rivals who stated the law. Remember, stated the law, the thing that we said that our oath to the Constitution comes first, that no service members can ever be required to follow illegal orders of something you learn, your first day in the military and train throughout your time in uniform.
And the president's response is to call for our arrest and death. And the fact that you now have a Republican elected official speaking up saying this is not about saying enough is enough. It tells you something outrageous. This really is.
Consumility from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We do appreciate your time tonight. We wish you a happy Thanksgiving. And along with you, I know your thoughts are with those two guards in critical condition in Washington hospitals tonight.
Thank you. All right, back with us. John Miller and Jonathan Wacker. I want to go back to the investigation.
John, the fact that this suspect is not cooperating. A surprise? How does that affect the next several hours? You know, we've seen this both ways in cases where the suspect, if they survived, you know, the attack has been fully cooperative because they want to get their story out to authorities and then to the public.
We've seen the opposite, which is I'm not saying anything. So it's hard to say what that means. But regardless of whether he cooperates or not, the attack is on videotape. His life is deeply embedded in US government records because of the vetting process he would have gone through coming as an asylum seeker from Afghanistan, going through that asylum process just this year, the number of statements, the background, the stories that he would have had to tell to authorities to get that asylum approved.
So they have a lot that's going to be on their plate getting into a social media. What he's been looking at, who has he been talking to? Those things may get us closer to motive. I have to tell you, I mean, even sitting here during the breaks listening to two law enforcement professionals was so much knowledge.
I learned so much. Jonathan Wackrell, what questions do you have as this continues to unfold throughout the evening? Well, listen, there's a lot more information that we need to start piecing together. Was this a targeted attack?
But you were starting to get closer there. The fact that this suspect may have traveled across country, that's really indicative of behavioral threats. That's really indicative of goal-based behavior, not a spontaneous act. So someone had to actually think about traveling all the way, all the logistics of traveling into the national capital region.
That's one issue. So we're looking at the attack dynamics coming up behind these guardsmen, taking them, really catching them off guard, and then attacking them the way that he would know that they would be most vulnerable. They're wearing combat armor, not helmets in this instance. So the attack methodology would be to attack them where they do not have that armor.
Someone with working knowledge of that would plan the attack that way, not a spontaneous act. Someone who's doing this spontaneously would shoot at center mass. So there's a lot of these little behavioral traits that we need to start piecing together, investigators need to learn where did that gun come from? Is there anybody else?
Is this part of a larger group that is now anti-government, anti-military? Is there going to be a copycat attack? We have the holidays tomorrow. The National Guard around the country is still deployed.
Is there a risk of a copycat attack? Those are the questions I want to ask. John Miller, we've got about 25 seconds. What about that?
You've been in so many public positions before on big event days. The fact that's happened the night before Thanksgiving, what will that do around the country? You're going to see a whipsaw effect of security being increased, but in different ways, in different places. New York City is already operating on a high-tier threat level alert.
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and shortly after the secret service surrounding the building in the streets taking off the streets in saw one national guardsman uh... being wheeled out on a stretcher he had a device helping on pump his heart it looks like uh... doing automatically cpr and his face was covered in blood was already chaos when you came out of the subway to hear the shots yourself so we did not hear the shots we were actively coming up from metro center and we're just told by national guards people to run and we heard from a woman next to us that there was a shooting so we went into the years building in the lock the doors and from there's where we saw the medical as personnel helping the national guardsman how many long for some on the scene from your vantage point so many uh... i saw if the i a secret service vehicles uh...
policemen uh... more national guard people it was it was a lot in their people actively taking off the surrounding streets in we're just in the midst of it was going through your head at the time about the range of possibilities and really just a couple of walks from the white house yeah that was definitely something that i thought of uh... also i don't think either of us any idea what's going on there's nothing in the news yet we're just kind of looking around as soon as i thought uh... secret service vehicles and as the eyes even more confused to be honest uh...
i don't know i think our minds kind of worst places but state in that building and state of the people in the building until returns of a leaf in how long how long did it take for you to be able to get out and move around and clear the scene uh... i was texting call my dad i want to say around like two twenty i don't quite remember we were in there for hours i thought we were in there for fifteen minutes we were in there for hours um... there's just more and more personnel outside we're just waiting to be told what was happening if someone had been detained we knew that there were shots fired people in the cafe heard that there were six shots fire uh... and we had seen the cars in role in the structure right in front of our eyes and had no idea what was going on well chris i appreciate you being with us now it must have been a very difficult afternoon for you in the city thank you for time i'm next to terrifying scene of fire tears through several high-rise apartment buildings in hong kong dozens killed hundreds missing tonight the latest on the investigation ahead also a woman family ties to white house press secretary caroline leavitt taken into ice custody we've got details or breaking news live feed live now from hong kong where several high-rise apartment buildings they are still on fire with a twelve hours ago this was the scene just terrifying after that fire broke out of public housing complex the death toll is out forty four nearly three hundred people are on a counted for so that death will be very much rise or the say the receive calls for people trapped on higher floors and struggle to reach them the people who did make it out say they had little time to escape please a three-man working for construction company arrested on suspicion of manslaughter following the fire please accuse the three of gross negligence after they say they found flammable boards blocking some windows so here in the u.s.
president trumps controversial immigration crackdown is now affecting a top member of his staff a woman with family ties to white house press secretary caroline leavitt was arrested by ice this month but for ara is the mother of leavitt's eleven-year-old nephew homeland security describes the brazil native as a criminal illegal alien and is moving to report her let's get more on the story from cn it's time for amid the autumn leaves near boston a woman goes to pick up her young son but is picked up herself by ice agents who ship her more than fifteen hundred miles to a detention center in louisiana threatening deportation the rob this allegedly undocumented immigrant runa for era had that child with the brother of white house press secretary caroline leavitt a leading defender of the immigration roundup from the get go our heroic ice agents continue to prioritize the removal of violence criminal illegal aliens in communities across the country white house did say it would focus first on dangerous criminal for deportation but even before a vast majority of those arrested would be found to have no serious record leavitt was weaving a bigger net if you are an individual a foreign national illegally enters the united states of america you are by definition a criminal for a restore is complicated homeland security and sister you overstate a tourist visa that ran out in nineteen ninety nine her sister says for a row is brought from brazil as a child by their parents and she has done everything in her power to build a stable honest life including legally staying in the u.s. under the daca program her lawyer says she was unable to renew her status a few years ago but is currently in a lawful immigration process for u.s. citizenship homeland security says for a has a previous arrest for battery her lawyer says we dispute that she has any criminal she should not be sitting in a jail hours away from her family and taking from her child's life for his attorney says she and leavitt's brother were once engaged but live apart and share custody of their child what's more for rarer and the press secretary have not spoken for many years and leavitt is not talking publicly about the situation now or backing away from her previous comments about other immigrants and their families caught in the crackdown you don't have to go home but you can't stay here Tom Foreman CNN Washington right thanks so much for being with us have a wonderful Thanksgiving the news continues the source of Caitlin Collins starts now talking grief building community that's what the podcast is all about this is all there is listen and follow wherever you get your podcast I'm Daniel Day Kim I'm going to South Korea to figure out how this small nation conquered the world with its culture join me and meet the artists and creators behind the phenomenon K everything now streaming on the CNN app