Four U.S. citizens kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico in case of mistaken identity

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

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A U.S. official tells CNN that four Americans were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico on Friday after they were targeted by mistake. Investigators believe a Mexican cartel thought the U.S. citizens were Haitian drug smugglers. John Miller is the former NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism. He tells Anderson Cooper how the FBI will work with Mexican authorities to find these Americans.

Plus, CNN Chief Correspondent Kaitlan Collins joins AC360 to discuss what a possible matchup between former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could look like in the 2024 Republican primary.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	We begin tonight with the contest for who will lead the Republican Party as its presidential
0:05.1	candidate in 2024 as well as the touch of irony, both are embodied by the op-ed that former
0:09.9	Maryland governor Larry Hogan wrote for this Sunday's New York Times.
0:14.2	In it, he writes, to once again be successful governing party we must move on from Mr. Trump.
0:19.9	He also takes aim without naming him at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and what he refers to
0:23.9	his quote, angry divisive and performative politics.
0:27.6	Now in Hogan's view, the party needs someone other than Trump or DeSantis, a non-device
0:31.6	of common sense conservative who can broaden the party's base.
0:34.7	Someone his argument suggests like him.
0:37.3	The irony is, he's writing those words in an op-ed explaining why he is not running for
0:41.8	president, which with all due respect, Kenne and Snicky Haley in Vivek Ramaswamy, right
0:46.7	now leaves the fields the top polling figures in the party, which is Donald Trump and
0:51.1	Ron DeSantis.
0:52.3	Each spoke over the weekend and though Governor DeSantis at the Reagan Library was more
0:56.5	measured in tone than the former president at the conservative political action committee
1:00.7	convention, both portrayed themselves as leaders in a culture war.
1:06.9	We will demolish woke tyranny.
1:09.1	They should not be teaching a second grader that they can choose their gender.
1:14.2	I will revoke everybody in policy promoting the chemical castration and sexual mobilization.
1:21.7	There's a new sheriff in town now.
1:24.1	The band transgender insanity from our military.
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