connected to a criminal organization nor would they share the number of people that they believe were involved. more now from rosa flores across the border in brownsville, texas. reporter: two of four missing americans are back in the yupd and receiving medical treatment after being kidnapped in mexico after what a u.s. official tells cnn was a case of mistaken identity. two were found dead and one of the survivors is severely injured with a bullet wound to his leg. according to u.s. and mexican officials. in the party of four, latavia mcgee and eric williams were killed. shaeed woodard and zindell brown were killed. and we extend our condolences to the families. reporter: they crossed the border into mexico for mcxwee to obtain a medical procedure. and they drove a white van and got lost while trying to locate the medical clinic where they were headed. before they were able to locate the clinic, disturbing video shows the aftermath of the kidnapping as heavily armed me
so they are hyper, hyper vi violent. and mexico suffers from at least 35,000 deaths from cartel violence each year. mike, thank you so much for your analysis. just a tragic story there. and mcgee s mother and daughter will speak with the horrific ordeal she faced in mexico on cnn this morning. the u.s. capitol chief of police tearing into tugger carlson over the way that he used footage from january 6 that house speaker kevin mccarthy gave him exclusive access to. in an internal memo obtained by cnn, the chief says that carlson conveniently cherry picked from the calmer moments of our 41,000 hours of video and he called commentary filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the january 6 attack. several congressional republicans most notably mitch mcconnell criticized carlson s
think amongst some of them still. what is the stain on the american republican party as this human tragedy comes into focus? it is staggering to think that it was a few days ago that former president donald trump described putin s war of aggression against ukraine as an act of genius. a really smart move. that is staggering. most popular political leader in the republican party and tugger carlson within the republican party is just as pro putin. you would think that this could be an opportunity for a reorientation, a gut check, a turning away from the direction that the republican party has been on for several years but i thought the same thick after january 6, the attack on the capitol. i thought finally this might make republicans come to the