Tonight on 360, the alleged CEO killers day in court from angry out for his decision to fight extradition back to New York for murder charge awaits him. Also tonight, tracing his privilege past and more immediate history in search of a motive for the murder he's accused of in an explanation for the target he allegedly chose. And later, how other notorious cases over the years just like this one have been broken by everyday people who say something, say something and help keep their neighbors safe. Good evening, thanks for joining us.
We have just learned that Luigi Manjione made a to-do list for killing as well as notes justifying those plans. That's what CNN's John Miller just got from a long course from a source briefed on the matter. According to the source this material was contained in a spiral notebook, along with what police have already characterized as a three-page handwritten quote claim of responsibility. It comes at the end of the day that began with Manjione making it clear he is not going quietly, not procedurally, not otherwise.
That was the defendant on his way into a courthouse in rural Pennsylvania where he elected to fight extradition back to New York on murder charge. On clear what he was referring to or responding to, he was lower key on his way out after prosecutors detailed the gun, silencer $8,000 passport and multiple masks he was carrying when arrested and the judge denied bail. Today his attorney took issue without saying anyone not charged with the capital crime is entitled to bail. The judge could set a million dollar bail, it could be $5 million bail but you get bail, that's what you do.
He also told reporters that his client intended to plead not guilty to the New York second degree murder count he was charged with late last night. You were under the impression that you were trying to defend the client on the fact that he is not the shooter? Listen, I haven't seen any evidence that says that he's the shooter and remember, and this is not just a small thing, the fundamental concept of American justice is a presumption of innocent and until you're proving you ought to be unreasonable and I've seen zero evidence at this point. I'm not even aware of what any charges are.
That's just regarding the extradition request. Well, duty here today was the extradition so we're going to take one step at a time. It's a long process. As to that process, local DA, Peter Weeks pledged full cooperation with New York authorities.
We acknowledge that the New York City Police Department and the Haten District Attorney's Office charges should take precedence. They're more serious. We intend to cooperate with them to facilitate their prosecution of this defendant first. We don't intend to withdraw our charges.
Earlier today, Pennsylvania authorities released this mugshot of the defendant, a far cry from the smiling man flirting with a hostile employee in New York and the state police put out a photo of him eating what appears to be hash browns inside the Altoon and McDonald's were police caught up to him just yesterday. Again, it is this new so-called to-do list that starts us off. She has the latest with that. So what do we know about that?
So this is really striking and very significant certainly for law enforcement to have this. It's how they describe it as being a to-do list and also information about his plans about how to do this. And there are two things that are very striking here. Number one, he says that there was some talk about potentially using a bomb, but he was scared that innocence would be heard in that.
So that was a bad plan. The other thing, and this is a quote according to our colleague John Miller from this notebook, and he sort of says, in essence, what could be better than to quote, kill the CEO at his own bean counting conference. So in essence, law enforcement and certainly investigators will view this as a confession. So this is not the man of quote-unquote manifesto, which maybe is too grandiose a term, but this is a notebook.
This is a notebook, handwritten notebook, it's a spiral notebook. Remember there was a backpack that he had with him, so presumably that's where this was found. All right, sure. Thanks very much.
More now on how unexpected this all is to those who've known this defendant said one former classmate, I feel like it's a cliche. Everybody is like, he was a quiet guy, but like he wasn't even more normal than that. But then he added quote, I know he kind of fell off the radar with everybody. That is what investigators are focusing on in part.
What happened during that time? Did this person, appearance, back problems or possible insurance issues play into it? Police want to know, and what about his mother filing a missing person's report for him 16 days before the shooting? There's a lot to learn, seems like Todd sets the stage.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, shooting suspect Luigi Mangione maintained an active social media presence for years, posting smiling photos from his travels and gatherings with friends. He worked as a software engineer for the online car sales company TrueCar, according to his LinkedIn page. There was nothing came off weird about him. He had great friends.
He had a lot of female friends as well. He was a relatively unassuming kid. He was down to earth. He was smart, well adjusted socially.
His most recent address was in Hawaii, where he lived for about six months at a coworking and co-living space in Honolulu, according to a building manager. His only known encounter with the law there was a ticket for trespassing. People who know him in Maryland, in Pennsylvania, at Stanford and in Hawaii, and those who know his family have all told CNN that he was very bright and expressed surprise that he would be accused of murder. I was just stunned, shocked, couldn't believe it.
It's just not who you would think of at all. About six months ago, his social media activity suddenly went cold. Post from X this past October showed concern from friends. One post says, quote, Hey, are you okay?
No one has heard from you in months and apparently your family is looking for you. In recent years, Mangione suffered from back pain and underwent surgery for treatment, according to the Hawaii building manager. He mentioned, Oh, I need to go back to see my doctor and I'm going to have to have surgery. It also weighed on him that he knew that there was an impending surgery.
The profile photo on an X account that appears to belong to Mangione features what looks like an X-ray image of a spine with hardware from a surgery. And post from a now deleted Reddit account that closely matches his biographical details say that the user had suffered from backaches related to Spondylolisthesis since childhood, but aggravated the condition after a serving incident. Quote, my back and hips locked up after the incident. The user wrote in July, 2023, adding that intermittent numbness has become constant and I'm terrified of the implications.
He was in bed for about a week. We had to get a different bed for him that was more firm. And I know it was really traumatic and difficult. You know, when you're in the early 20s and you can't, you know, do some basic things.
Police are investigating whether a back injury on July 4th, 2023 could be related to the murder of the United Healthcare CEO. Some of the writings that he had he was discussing the difficulty of sustaining that injury. So we're looking into whether or not the insurance industry either denied a claim from him or didn't help him out to the fullest extent. When do we know anymore about his family's efforts to find him during the past six months when he seems to have been isolating himself?
Anderson, according to the New York Times, Luigi Mangione was the subject of a missing persons report filed in San Francisco by his own mother on November 18th. We have reached out to the San Francisco Police Department for more details on that. Now the NYPD says that he does have some ties to San Francisco but the exact time that he was there is unclear. That's which was what happened.
And so while yes, they're still gathering a lot evidence. They have all the evidence they need to charge him at this point. But I think there's still a lot to find out about him. And I think that is a very important part of this investigation.
What do you, what stands out to you at this point? Yeah, she wants to spot on. The investigation is going to start slowing down, right? There's a big difference between apprehension, right?
A crime was committed. We need to find that suspect. We need to gather items of evidentiary value to make attribution to get this individual in custody. Now he's in custody and the investigation is going to slow down all in the furtherance of the prosecution.
So investigators are going to work backwards. And as you said, they're going to start making sure that every item that they have lines up to support the ongoing prosecution of this individual. They have to go back and they're going to start over with all of the video surveillance evidence. This massive mosaic of thousands of hours of video.
They're going to really piece that together to start to tell the story of everything that happened prior to the attack. The attack itself in a moment afterwards, really showing that premeditated action that he took. They're also going to look at other witnesses that they have. He was here for a long time as they were trying to apprehend him.
They didn't have the ability to go out. They cast a wide net on who else interacted with him. Now they can. They have the luxury of time to slow down and find all of those additional individuals.
Karen, we mentioned that he's fighting his extradition to New York. New York Governor's plan to submit a warrant to bring him to the state. What are the next steps for the Manhattan District Attorney? How does the suspect contest contesting his extradition?
How does that complicate things? Well, extradition is a very perfunctory process that happens every day all across the country because otherwise any fugitive after they commit a crime could just go to another state and not be prosecuted. So this happens all the time. The next thing that happens is he fill out a form.
You get what's called a governor's warrant by the governor of New York who requests from the governor of Pennsylvania that he brought here. He has a couple of weeks to file a writ basically to essentially contest that and that will trigger a hearing. And at the hearing, prosecutors will have to put forth some of their evidence to show that they have evidence to support these charges. Just a very thin amount of evidence, but they have to show that they have probable cause that a crime occurred and then the judge will decide.
So it's going to happen either way. He's going to be extradited. The only potential wrinkle would be if Pennsylvania said they wanted to go forward with their charges first, which I think I've already said they don't want to. But that's the only thing that could delay it.
This extra dish, this type of extradition, as I said, is very common. And I don't foresee any issue with that at the end of the day. Chief Corey, we mentioned investigators also looking to this notebook from the suspect. He references the United Healthcare Conference, the To-Do lists on task to facilitate or murder.
Something like that. How does that impact investigation? No, so I think that's one of the things that the investigators are going to start looking at now. Like Jonathan said, right now the urgency has stopped, right?
The suspect is in custody. Now the detectives have to work to put a case together. And a couple of the things that they got to know is how long was he planning it? Where did he get some of the information that he had?
How did he know that the victim was going to be where he was at that specific time? How did he been surveilling him? How long had that surveillance go on? And also, what has he been doing since he left New York City about an hour after the murder?
He was out of New York City. So where has he been for less several days? And who has he been dealing with there? Yeah.
And they're looking into this back injury and whether that played some trouble at all. Yeah, because they want to see if there's some kind of claim was denied or whether there was some other thing. The other thing they may be looking at to see if he was on any kind of medication for it. So they're going to be able to get all of his medical records.
The District Attorney's Office will be able to subpoena that and able to get that. You know, for the DA's office and for the prosecution, they now need to start anticipating what the defense will be here once they get an indictment and potentially goes to trial. So you could start to see all of that information, the gathering of all of that. So, you know, it's kind of like they don't want to leave any zone unturned.
So they're going to try to get as much as they can as they get ready to prosecute him. I want to play that sort of upper seat had as he was entering court today. I mean, Jonathan, I'm wondering if anything stand out about that. The thing that hasn't talked about it.
I mean, most people who have mental health issues don't aren't violent. But that's certainly an option here. I mean, this guy disappears on his family for six months. They're trying to find him.
He disappears on all his friends. It certainly wouldn't be a surprise that there's something going on his head. No, there definitely is. Not from this video, though.
This was performance art. Right? This was this individual seeing the media seeing in seizing that opportunity. I mean, just look at the amount of people that have animated around him in support of him, you know, in the last 24 hours.
I mean, this was performance art. The key is is that notebook, right? And we talk about that pathway to violence and actually we spoke about it last night where it starts with the grievance. And I said, at one point, we're going to see ideations of violence.
Here is the written proof of the ideations of violence. We already know that there was planning and preparation that went on. We now know it's a very clear pathway to violence. Shimon, you're thought about he's been radicalized somewhere.
That's key, right? So while he was a lone actor in all of this, he was influenced by something, right? You don't go from a grievance to killing another human being on the street that quickly without other influences. And that is what law enforcement is going to focus in on now is where were those influences?
Is anybody else at risk or being targeted by a broader group? And they have to act quickly. I just want to bring up a point, and I don't think anyone's really making a big deal with this, but the missing persons report to the San Francisco Police Department. I think we need to know more about what prompted that and what did the San Francisco police do.
I think it's important because something had happened and there was a reason the family went ahead and reported that and maybe there were signs. You know, it's always important to sort of look at that to see, did someone try to go report him what was done? And Karen, Manj, you don't need to say the judge should have imposed bail saying that in Pennsylvania, Ms. Crimes are a bailable offense.
Is it unusual that he was not bail in this case? I don't know that he would have any chance that bail. Certainly when he comes to New York, I can assure you a judge is not going to set bail. So that could be one of the reasons he's fighting extradition is to try to see if Pennsylvania typically does set bail might give him an opportunity to be released here because he's going to be in for a very long time.
This case is going to take quite a while to go to an ultimate trial. And I agree with much of what everybody is saying, but I think one thing I just want to point out is it looks to me like this, there might be an not guilty by reason of insanity defense that they're going to be thinking about because the evidence is going to be so overwhelming that he did what he did. And I hear what you're saying about being radicalized. I hear what you guys are saying, but as a former prosecutor in that office, I would be concerned that you have someone who was valed to join in this class.
He was brilliant his whole life. He comes from his great family. Something changed significantly something changed. And they're going to I think potentially have a not guilty by reason of insanity potential defense.
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I wasn't looking for impressions. What I was trying to do was form a bond with Mike Line. I went in to trust me and I wanted him to be confident that I'm here for him. And I feel that I'm very pleased.
As we mentioned before the break, some of his friends described in dropping off the radar recently. We still don't know much about that. We know more though about what came before and our dear talkman has that. The high school valedictorian, Luigi Mangione, graduating from Baltimore's Gilman School in 2016.
An exclusive private school. I'm going to answer your today. First off, sending us the Gilman was far from a small financial investment. Indeed, tuition at the private school was and still is pricey.
It almost $38,000 a year today. But murder suspect Mangione had a family with plenty of money. I was just stunned, shocked, couldn't believe it. It's just not who you would think of at all.
Thomas Moronic Jr. is an attorney who knows the family. Mangione family is one of the prominent families of Baltimore County. They own a lot of real estate.
They own golf courses. They're just a very well respected name. In this family picture, Luigi Mangione stands third from the left. He is surrounded by his sisters.
His father, Lewis and mother Kathleen are on the right. In the late 70s, the murder suspect's late grandfather, World War II veteran Nicholas Mangione Sr. and his late grandmother, Mary, started creating a business empire. The grandfather grew up in Baltimore's little Italy neighborhood.
He ended up buying two country clubs, started a nursing home company, and bought WCBM radio, a well-known conservative talk station in Baltimore. Family members also run a family foundation that has nearly $4.5 million in assets and were longtime benefactors of Loyola University, Maryland. The suspect's father today runs the family business. Attorney Moronic used to be a talk show host at the radio station owned by the family.
Well, they donated money for the pools, the swimming center at Loyola University. It bears their name. That's a huge amount of donating to get that. One of Luigi Mangione's cousins is a state legislator in Maryland.
I am Delegant Nina Mangione for the record district 42A in Baltimore County. Republican Delegant Nina Mangione introduced a bill earlier this year to bring back the death penalty in Maryland. I believe that we need to send a strong signal to the most vicious of all criminals that if you take a life, that justice in turn will demand your life. The bill failed.
Notably, New York State, where UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed, also does not have the death penalty. State Delegant Mangione released a statement on behalf of the family that says in part, our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest. We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson, and we ask people to pray for all involved. We are devastated by the news.
Luigi Mangione received an Ivy League education, graduating with a bachelor's and then master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. That, coupled with his family wealth, afforded him advantages most don't have. To conclude his high school valedictorian speech, he said this. It's been an incredible journey.
I miss if we can't imagine the last few years with any other group of guys. A young man of promise then, an alleged killer now, whose journey into darkness has only just begun. Gary Talkman, CNN, New York. Some perspective now, joining us as forensic psychologist Chris Mahindee and senior national security analyst Julia Chaim.
I'm listening to Gary expand on his background. How does that or how might it fit into the puzzle investigators are trying to piece together right now? Is that this the usual profile for a shooter and this kind of crime? The profile is different, but the idea that he had a great education and came from privilege.
We've had killers like this before, in particular the Unibomber. Kaczynski was Ivy League educated, was quite smart, had a purpose for his killings. So the thing that they're going to try to connect, at least in the investigation, was what happened to lead to this moment? Was it the physical pain that he was in, was it outside substances, drugs or whatever else?
Was it a radicalization process either through books or online? So they're going to be looking at that, that got him focused on not just hating our healthcare system, but actually hunting down a CEO. Chris, we've learned the suspect fell out of contact with his friends and family for about six months ahead of the alleged killing. What does that tell you how critical will his actions during that time period be for investigators and just to kind of understand what it, what, why he did this?
I think it's going to be critical to piece together what was going on in those six months. The fact that his mom filed a missing persons report November 18th strongly suggested there was deterioration that they noted. His friends noted that he dropped off the radar. All of these things are consistent with, you know, provide these kinds of statements likely that there's a likely deterioration in his mental state.
He actually looks different than he did as the joyful younger man that he was. There's an intensity that is about him that he did not used to have. I believe that there's a chance that he could have a significant mental deterioration. That doesn't change the fact that he had agreements that was likely based in his own personal experience and then learning about the experiences of others and then immersing himself in the materials in books that he was reading, deny, defend, delay, or some bearing to that, a couple of other books, as well as his identification with Ted Kaczynski, who was mentioned by other esteemed guests here, that led him to justify those other statements that were in that alleged manifesto of the parasites had it coming and then ultimately to prepare, which is these are the steps that a person goes through to ultimately do involve themselves in this kind of targeted violence.
I just want to play again with the incident as he was being led into court today. Right. You know, I mean, there's some people out there who were portraying this guy as like an avenger for, you know, a cause. What I don't understand is how much is it just he read stuff and is impassioned and did this, which seems less likely to me than he had some severe mental health issue that then he started to focus on this particular thing through that lens.
Yes, I know it could be all of the above that there's mental deterioration, then it's linked to what we understand is a physical ailment. And then this is the key and goes to what he was saying there, then him creating a narrative of why it wasn't just about him, right? And this is exactly what Kaczynski did and the ties, the clear ties between Kaczynski and this case in terms of creating a narrative that the killing isn't just a killing, it's a killing for a purpose that purpose then elevates the person, right? So they become sort of some sort of cult leader.
Remember, Kaczynski also had followers like this. We didn't have the internet or social media, but he had a lot of people who were kind of into him. And we see that now and the danger of that isn't simply it's wrong, it's disgusting, he murdered an assassinated person, but then you get into the copycat aspects of this people who do not have the mental deterioration or the physical deterioration. And just decide this is the way forward for social, for whatever I deem as social justice.
Chris Mandidjaliak, I am. Thank you. Coming up, a tip from the public was the key to the apprehension of this suspect. We're going to take a look at other high profile investigations that came to a close with the health of Good Samaritan.
We're learning more tonight about the suspect in the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a source tell CNN police have a notebook that includes a to-do list for the killing. This comes a day after the suspect was arrested by the official role in a number of high profile investigations, Randy K. Tixley. When Secret Service spotted a rifle poking through the bushes of Trump International Golf Club in Florida in September, they opened fire.
Ryan Wesley Ruth, allegedly there to shoot Donald Trump, quickly escaped. Because information was that the suspect was possibly headed north on 995. That information came from a quick thinking witness of the scene who gave police a description of the suspect as well as a picture of the car and license plate. Minutes later, Ruth was arrested.
The witness from the incident at Trump International was flown to the scene by the Polish County Sheriff's Office and he was able to make a positive ID. Ruth pleaded not guilty and his behind bars awaiting trial. When escaped prisoner Michael Burnham broke out of jail last year, he was on the run in Pennsylvania. That was until a couple and their dog, Tucker, spotted him in a wooded area.
I knew who it was when we stood up. Anyone from photos from video? I mean from the photos you see on TV? Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, we seen, you know, it's been what it was 9 or 10 days he was on the loose. Yeah. And you know, we seen plenty of photos and, you know, news coverage and whatnot. The news and everything were saying he could be armed in dangerous, so I don't know if he has a gun.
The couple called police. Burnham was arrested and later sentenced to 25 to 50 years for the escape and a kidnapping. In 2022, Frank Robert James unleashed a smoke canister on a crowded Brooklyn subway car, then opened fire. Ten people were shot and at least a dozen other suffered injuries.
James escaped in the chaos. The 28-hour manhunt ended when keen observers spotted James and called police. I said, no, this is the guy. I can't believe that my eyes broke.
Like we need to call the police and we told the police and the police. And the police were just told me, thank you. James was arrested in Manhattan's East Village. After admitting guilt, he was sentenced last year to life in prison.
The manhunt for this pair gained national attention in 2022. Alabama Fugitive Casey White was on the land for 11 days with former corrections officer Vicki White, who helped him escape from an Alabama County jail. Hundreds of tips came in, but just one ultimately led to the location of the fugitives. Authorities forced the fugitive's car into a ditch in Evansville, Indiana.
Casey White was arrested and sentenced to life last year for escaping. Vicki White died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds after the crash. Four brave citizens gained to the rescue of eight-year-old Shasta Growny nearly two decades ago. In 2005, she was kidnapped by Joseph Duncan, along with her brother whom he later killed.
Authorities had been frantically searching for the children when they got a call that Shasta and her captor had been spotted at a Denny's restaurant in Idaho. And all four decided that Duncan would not leave the restaurant that night with Shasta. Two of the tipsters were Denny's employees. The other two were customers.
They all split the reward money. Randy K, CNN, West Palm Beach, Florida. Next guest worked to apprehend the New York City subway shooter that Randy Cage just mentioned her report back on the his Kenneth Corey, former Chief of the Department of Chief of Training for the New York Police Department. So what are the advantages?
I mean, putting the information out there, getting the public involved in a manhunt. Can it also complicate an investigation? Yeah, and it does. So the decision on when to go public with information is always a strategic one.
And it's always one that's held in consultation with the case detectives. You know, normally once detectives have identified a suspect and they have probable cause to arrest, they're going to want to try to take that individual into custody as quickly as possible, but also as quietly as possible. They obviously don't want to alert the suspect that they're on to them and have he or she run. And at the same time, they want to have the opportunity to question the person without, you know, having them necessarily invoke counsel, or I should say without counsel invoking on their behalf.
And that happens quite often. As soon as the suspect's name goes out, the police department gets a letter from an attorney that says, Hey, that's my client. You can't talk to him unless I'm present. So they want to kind of avoid that circumstance.
So you're chief of department of NYPD in 2022 in the shooter opened fire in the Brooklyn subway car, which was really, I think the last major manhunt in New York City before this one. What were the main differences between that manhunt and the one we saw this time? So every case is different, obviously, and therefore every manhunt is different. In the Frank James case, he had left behind a tremendous amount of evidence at the crime scene.
We had credit cards with his name on it, you know, in a bag on the subway train. Of course, we didn't know initially that Frank James was the perpetrator in that case. He could have been one of the victims who left a bag behind. He could have been the property could have belonged to somebody that the shooter had robbed earlier in the day.
Within a few hours, we were able to dial in on Frank James as a person of interest. And probably by late afternoon that day, we had developed probable cause to arrest him. Detectives then went out. Go ahead.
I mean, yeah, go ahead. Detectives went out. They went to a bunch of locations that he was associated with when they didn't take him. When they weren't able to get him overnight, very early the next morning, we made the decision to go public with it.
We actually lit up the emergency alert system in New York. Only the second time that that's ever been done. The first time was after the Chelsea bombing in 2016, basically directing every cell phone in New York, everybody carrying a cell phone. Hey, go to this website.
Look at these photos. Have you seen this person? It's got to be difficult in a case like this one with this Manjione that there's no criminal record to speak on me. It wasn't in the system.
Yeah. So that's where the limitations of technology come in. You know, we talk about technology, video, facial recognition, even forensics, and they are all going to be key elements for the prosecutor here in ensuring his conviction. But in terms of identification and apprehension, they weren't getting us there.
He's not in the system. So the facial recognition, you know, at least in New York, that's limited to what's in government databases. So it's going to be primarily mug shots, maybe some drivers license photos, but NYPD doesn't use it to scan social media. I also don't think that the photograph was adequate for facial recognition because most of his head is covered.
They talked about, right, Joe Kennedy, the detectives talked about evidence left at the scene, the water bottle, they bought a star box, the kind rapper. They got a partial fingerprint off that. His fingerprints aren't in the system. He's never been arrested.
His DNA is not in the system because he's never been convicted of a crime. So now that he is in custody, they will collect his fingerprints. They will collect his DNA. They'll do direct comparisons to connect those items to him, but they weren't going to aid in his identification.
And are there other databases like for fingerprints or a photo that law enforcement can access? So the fingerprint databases, you know, in New York, you're going to go through, every state is going to go through their own state's database, and then they're going to submit to the FBI for the federal database to see if he's been arrested in any other state. So that person has ever been arrested, convicted of a crime. If they've ever been fingerprinted non criminally, they apply for a job.
They had to get a background check. They were going to be bonded, like working for an investment bank. They would have had to submit non criminal fingerprints. They can work as a teacher.
So those would certainly return as well as fingerprints in the system. DNA, you know, again, much harder. Unless you're convicted of certain offenses, the government doesn't have the DNA of all 330 million Americans on file. Yeah, Kenneth Corey, I appreciate your time.
Thank you. Ciena, just going to continue to monitor story, bring your latest developments. We want to move toward in Syria about this after the surprising fall of the Assad regime. A new interim prime minister has been named with the potential to help reshape the entire Middle East.
What that might mean for Russia's military and their influence in the regional details ahead. An interim prime minister has been appointed by the rebel groups now in control of Syria. Muhammad al-Bashir will oversee the country's transition over the next three months. Now the fall of the Assad regime is sent shockwaves throughout the whole region.
Israel says it carried out hundreds of strikes across Syria. The past two days on facilities, it says contained chemical weapons and long-range missiles. IDF ground troops have been deployed into a demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries for the first time in 50 years. And the Israeli Defense Minister claimed that the Syrian naval fleet was destroyed overnight.
Still, one of the biggest unknowns remains what the collapse of Assad means for Russia's military influence in the Middle East. Red, like Ben has more. As Syrians embark on a new era, after ousting longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad, Russia fears the era of its massive military footprint in Syria could be coming to an end. The former commander of Russian forces in Syria and now member of parliament is already warning Russia's leadership not to make concessions.
Any gesture of goodwill in the Middle East is perceived as weakness. Weakness is unacceptable, he says. What should be done in the situation? He's asked.
Talk from a position of strength, he answers. But how much power does Russia still hold in Syria? Kremlin-controlled TV strategizes over what might come next, with maps showing Russia's bases in Syria. A guest acknowledges Moscow was caught off guard again.
Thinking about how it all happened in Syria reminds me about how it all happened in Ukraine in 2014, he says, I want to highlight one universal lesson for world powers. Don't take wishful thinking for reality. When a power is crumbling in days and can protect itself, this is a verdict. For years, it was the Russian military that kept the Assad regime afloat.
Russia's air force pounding rebel groups its navy firing cruise missiles at ISIS militants in eastern Syria. In return, Assad gave Moscow a 49-year lease on both its main airbase near Latakia and a military port in Tartuz, allowing Vladimir Putin to protect power throughout the Middle East. The fact that Russia has its military assets in Syria also makes Moscow a key player in the Middle East, but now the Russians acknowledge that that status is in jeopardy. Once a key ally for the Russian leader Putin now allowed Assad and some of his family members to flee to Moscow.
A decision folks in Moscow told us they support. We don't abandon our men, he says. He is our man. It was the right decision.
He has nowhere to go. He would have been killed. But even here, Syrians living in Russia telling me they're happy Assad's been ousted. We will be able to live in calm and peace and be able to safely visit our country, he says.
We don't have to worry that someone can throw us in prison because they don't like what we said. We're happy that the dictatorship is over. Moscow hopes the end of Assad's rule will not spell the end of its military engagement in the Middle East, while acknowledging it's still too early to predict. You know, Anderson, the Kremlin was asked today what role if any of the Russians played in actually getting Assad out of Syria, as of course, things were collapsing really quickly around him.
The Kremlin spokesman said that the leaving Syria was Assad's free will and the rest he said the Kremlin would leave without comment. Anderson? I'm Fred Blake, thanks so much. Coming up in the latest episode of All There Is, my podcast, my grief and loss just got posted.
Wherever you get your podcast this week, my guest is Tyler Perry. He's built an extraordinary entertainment empire, but it's only recently he's begun to turn to where the trauma he experiences the child. And the grief he feels over the death of his mom, Maxine, who died 15 years ago this past Saturday. You're going to hear from Tyler in just a moment.
An all new episode of my podcast about grief and loss, All There Is was just released minutes ago. You can point your phone's camera right now, the QR code at the bottom of your screen and follow the link that pops up to the podcast. This week I'm joined by actor, writer, entertainment entrepreneur Tyler Perry. He's only recently begun facing head on the trauma and abuse he experiences as a child and facing the grief over the death of his beloved mom, Maxine, 15 years ago this past Saturday.
Here's some of the interview from the podcast. What have you learned in your grief that would be helpful to somebody listening to this? What I've learned is that it's, it is what it is. And I would try and suppress it or not cry when it came or just push it to the side.
You have to let it visit it will. You have to let it be what it's going to be so that you can move through it. And I really do feel like it's a living thing. Like it is a visitor that will knock at the strangest moment at the worst time.
You can't fight it. Let it be. Because in order for it to get better eventually, it's got to move through you. Because when my mother first passed, it would literally take my breath away.
I'd find myself gasping for air when I would think about her or I'd fall asleep and she'd be in my dreams and I would feel myself waking up and I'm fighting to stay asleep so I can just talk to her one more time. After your mom died, you weren't sure you would survive. No. You were drinking.
You'd said at one point that if you hadn't had so many work commitments, you might not have stuck around. No, no, that wasn't, that wasn't what was the point. You know, what was the point? What was the reason feeling that level of love leave me and leave me.
But also because all of the, so much of the drive that you had and have was about her. It was about providing for her and making sure that she had everything that she wanted. Yeah, that was the goal and the purpose. And then when she was gone, so was that desire and I drive to keep pushing and working hard.
And so the strangest thing was because there was so much trauma because there was so much poverty, I never thought I had enough for her. I always thought this is not going to be enough to make sure she's okay. Anderson, I'm angry, man. I'm so angry.
I'm so angry. That's the part of the Greek too. I'm angry. That's another part that you have to be careful with when you're grieving.
And this is why around this time of year I go away because I don't know how it'll show up. But the anger is, is, oh God, I remember the first Mother's Day when people are saying Happy Mother's Day and I'm like, I don't even want to hear it. And then to see friends who won't even call their mother or talk to their mother, they get the business from me. I was just like, what is wrong with you?
And I would get angry because I wish I had her. So I'm just working my way through the stages of grief was hard. I think the anger was the hardest one. I felt this rage, the, it's the hard, harded rage of a child.
And I remember feeling this a little kid just terrified when my dad died and stunned, but just filled with rage that has continued throughout my entire life. And I think there's, it's been fuel in so many things I've done, but it's hard. I wasn't allowed the rage. I wasn't allowed to have that because culturally, just being 6'6 and black, there was this from the time I was in school.
It was like, you're big, get to the back of the line. You're too big. So I wasn't allowed to have that kind of freedom to just be enraged about something. So anger, my anger was quiet and slow, slow to build.
But I felt this anger coming about me. And all I could think of and here was, don't you can't do that. You're too big. And one therapist said to me, you deserve to take up a spot.
You deserve to take up as much space on this planet as anyone else because you're here. You don't have to be smaller. You don't have to make yourself smaller. And I was able to just let it all go.
The new episode of All There Is with Tyler Perry is now available. Wherever you get your podcast, you can also point your camera at the QR code on the screen right now. Click the link, get it. Or go to cn.com forward slash all there is online.
It's our new online grief community. All the podcasts are there. So it's all the videos of the Tyler Perry interview and the other interviews we've done. You can interact with other listeners as well.
The Tyler video is also available on the C&M channel on YouTube right now. I hope it all makes you feel a little less lonely in your grief. That's it for us. The news continues.
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