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Suspects and how common is this kind of training? >> yeah. thanks for having me. so we dont know a lot about the composition of the training. this is something i asked the pentagon. theyve not answered me today. we do know that training, you know, u.s. military folks training colombians is pretty common. it is probably the most common training arrangement in the entire western hemisphere. its not unusual for colombians to be involved. what is unusual here is for, you know, former colombian soldi...

Emmanuel sanon, a failed businessman from florida, hired the 26 colombians and two haitian-americans to carry out the attack with his goal to take over as president. haitian professor michele plancher said sanon told him last month that he was on a mission to replace moise, that moise would be resigning soon. but a former associate of sanon said that he would never get involved in an assassination plot. >> i dont believe he has anything to do with it. he would seem to be a gentlemen with a good ...

Dont exactly know as you point out what a mass arrest of 57 democrats will look like. >> if theyre waiting for them at the airport, it is a detail, a smaller detail, but also she says they have plans. this was the same question we asked after the general session, the regular session. said, how do you do this again? they have done it again. we will see if theres another trick up the sleeve. >> okay. meanwhile, a top tennessee vaccine official says she was fired over a disagreement about vaccina...

President are now emerging. matt rivers is joining us from port of prince right now. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez also has been reporting for us. hes here in washington. matt, what are you learning, first of all, about the suspect accused of actually orchestrating the assassination and his possible motive? >> yeah, wolf. we went a few days without a significant update from authorities here in haiti. last night on sunday evening haitian authorities called a press conference to talk...

Who are believed to have carried out this assassination plot. according to authorities, he organized them here. initially, were told, these men that he hired for hired to provide him some sort of personal security here on the island. but in the words of authorities, their mission changed over time, which we are to infer that meant to assassinate the president of haiti. now, in terms of him, what we know about him according to authorities is that he came here to, quote, capture the presidency. bu...

Haitian police say they have arrested a man they say helped orchestrate the assassination plot. matt rivers is live in port-au-prince, haiti, with more. >> reporter: we did get big news here in port-au-prince in the investigation into the assassination of the president jovenel moise. in part they held that press conference to announce the arrest of a 63-year-old man that they say was born here in haiti. they allege that this man actually helped recruit and then subsequently organize here in hait...

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Niviane Petit Phelps, a 39-year-old nurse from Miami, was arrested on Friday. She is charged with threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris, a criminal complaint said. Phelps, who is Black, was angered by the false idea that Harris is not really Black, the Miami Herald said. A Florida nurse was arrested Friday for threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris, Miami Herald reported. Niviane Petit Phelps, a 39-year-old moth...

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