Cartel suspected of American kidnappings issues alleged apology letter

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Sources tell CNN the cartel investigators believe is responsible for killing two Americans last week, issued an apology letter and handed over five of their members to authorities. Two other U.S. citizens survived the kidnapping, including Latavia Washington McGee, who traveled to Mexico with her three other friends so she could undergo a medical procedure. Cheryl Orange was supposed to join her four friends but didn’t have proper identification to cross the border. She tells Anderson Cooper about the moment she realized something wasn’t right when her group of friends didn’t return to the hotel.

Plus, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins AC360 to discuss President Biden’s new budget proposal and the criticism House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing over giving Fox News host Tucker Carlson more than 40,000 hours of security video from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight with breaking news.
0:02.9	Donald Trump may be just a short time away from becoming the first former president ever
0:06.8	to be criminally indicted.
0:08.4	New York Times is reporting that the District Attorney's Office here in Manhattan recently
0:12.1	offered him one final chance to testify next week before the grand jury hearing evidence
0:17.1	in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
0:19.4	According to the Times, such offers almost always indicate an indictment is close.
0:24.0	In the now the investigation, you may recall, centers on $130,000 that one time fixed
0:28.8	her Michael Cohen paid to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels near the end of the 2016
0:34.0	campaign.
0:35.0	Cohen was later reimbursed by the former president.
0:38.0	According to the Times, he's yet to testify but is expected to joining us now with more
0:42.6	CNN's carousal now.
0:44.6	What are the details you've learned?
0:46.1	Well, so interestingly, you said the New York Times is reporting that Donald Trump was
0:49.4	offered to appear before the New York grand jury investigating this hush money payment
0:53.6	scheme.
0:54.6	Now that is required under the law when there is a criminal investigation.
0:58.2	So that step certainly indicates and tells us that this investigation is wrapping up.
1:02.5	And that's also evident by the parade of witnesses that have met with prosecutors and
1:07.2	appeared before the grand jury.
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