The latest news from around the world with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul. Today, victor, christi. T streets remain quiet protected by a perimeter, heavy Law Enforcement presence, a presence that some members of the Community Welcome and others say is an overcorrection after what they see as failures a year ago. Kaylee hartung In Charlottesville, thank you so much. Listen to this, russian trolls apparently exacerbate the racism in the aftermath of the charlottesville rally last year or they did, blaming the violence on black lives matter. This year there are fears they may try to do the same thing. Former Senior Adviser to president Obamas National Security council is with us. Sam, thank you for being with us. What evidence is there that russia did try to use the division in the u. S. As an opportunity for them . Christi, this is a big weekend for Vladimir Putin. It is a prime opportunity for him to sew divisions and create confusion in the United States which we know are two key tenets of his operation. It is high impact. Putin knows millions of americans will be on social media this weekend talking about unite the right protest, racism and counter protests planned tomorrow in washington, d. C. And around the country. So because he knows that so Many Americans are going to be on social media, he is going to enlist his digital army, bots, trolls to develop and spread inflammatory messages and even to encourage americans to protest. We have data points from the past several years on a range of inflammatory issues, much like charlottesville, the parkland shooting, and even black lives matter and nfl players kneeling. We have information from the Senate Intelligence committee that Vladimir Putin and his bot and troll army encourage two
technology to identify bots and trolls at the front end. But i think we all know what news sources are trusted and various signs of bots and trolls that seem to be automatically retweeting very suspicious hash tags. We talked about russian meddling in elections that has been so concerning. And it is not just here in the u. S. There are allegations of the same in france and the uk and germany. For a moment like this beyond social media, is there anything russia might target . Any way for them to infiltrate otherwise . I think the russians are infiltrating on Information Warfare stage in a variety of ways, in particular again any inflammatory content or issue in the United States or even in Western Europe where they have been promoting language by Extremist Groups like the National Front in france, the league in italy and other kind of right leaning nationalist
groups that promote antiimmigrant messages, and again anything thats going to divide a country, and it is ironic that Vladimir Putin doesnt allow protests in his own country because he knows how divisive they are, but is actively using bots and trolls to promote them in countries like the United States because he is hoping it fosters these divisions. Samantha, we appreciate you being here. Thank you. Up next, an Airline Agent steals an empty passenger plane, pursued by jets as he performs stunl stunl stunts in the air and crashes and dies an wooded area. Well hear that conversation with the control tower. An ordinary traffic stop became something much worse when a man pulled his gun on two officers, seriously injuring them. Details ahead. We speak to the man that inspired spike lees new movie, black Police Officer in colorado
springs able to infiltrate the kkk back in the 1970s. The kkk was planning an attack. How do you propose to make this investigation. Establish contact over the phone. A white officer to play me when they meet face to face. It becomes a combined. Can you do that . With the right white man, we can do anything. My life is here. [telephone ring] ahoyhoy. Alexander graham bell here. No, no, my number is one, you must want two two, i say like my father before. [telephone ring] like my father before. Ahoyhoy as long as people talk too loudly on the phone, you can count on geico saving folks money. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Barrel roll, if that goes good, i will a he just go nose down and call it a night. They say this is not a terrorism case. This is whats called a Ground Service agent. That was his job. They can be in charge of everything from directing the plane on the ground to handling bags, but flying is not part of the job description. He flew the plane almost an hour, tried several stunlts, coming within feet of the water. Then he crashed into a wooded area 40 miles from the airport. The Pierce CountySheriffs Office didnt release the mans name, say he was a 29yearold man who was suicidal. There are several times during the recording that this man apologized. Listen. I got a lot of people that care about me, and its going to
disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose i guess, never really knew it until now. Earlier we talked to John Walldren who was on a walk, he filmed that. Saw fighter jets is courting the plane but knew something was strange, thats why he started to record. Take a listen. We have two large military bases within ten miles from where this all happened. So it is not uncommon to see fighter craft up in the air, but to see them in the manner they were flying, and at that location where they were at was a little bizarre. So i started to tape the aircraft. Out of nowhere the guy flying
the q 400 pulled the stick back, put this into a complete loop. I honestly thought he was going to stall and hit the water. I mean, it was just very shocking to see. So i just kept taping. I was completely unaware of what had happened at the airport. I had no idea the plane was hijacked. It appeared the fighter jets were escorting him, they were alongside him, then would trail behind him. I dont know what they were trying to do at that time because like i said i was unclear about what actually was going on. He headed towards where he eventually crashed. He pulled the nose back up again, thought he was going to stall again. He made his way down. I looked again, he was in a nose dive, went straight into the ground. Saw a brief flash of flame and big plume of smoke and the sound
of the explosion. I just had a bad feeling that it wasnt an exercise or anything. I just knew he had crashed at that point. Joining us to talk about this, rene marsh, cnn aviation and government correspondent. Good morning to you. What are we learning about how this happened . I will say we have a lot of information, victor, good morning. But theres still a lot of outstanding questions. For example, how is he able to get this commercial plane from the ramp to the runway and then take off . You have to assume he had to be ignoring directions from the ground crew and air Traffic Control because i can tell you, you cannot taxi and take off without first getting clearance from air Traffic Control. Of course, i can tell you the key Thing Investigators are going to want to be doing now if they arent already is looking at all available pieces of video to piece together a time line of how this man was able to do this, get into this plane and
eventually take off. When you look at The Big Picture here, a commercial plane stolen from a major airport in broad daylight really, happened 8 00 p. M. Local time, but the sun is still up there in seattle. It is unbelievable. And this is your classic Insider Threat case. This man had the badges, he had the authority to be in a secure area and was able to pull this off. This is not someone unauthorized to be in the secure area of an airport. This person was authorized. This is one of those classic Insider Threat cases. Whats more difficult to assess is the persons state of mind, and thats clearly an issue at play. Authorities say he was suicidal. Thats the sort of thing if the airline is unaware of the employees state of mind, this is how Something Like this can
happen. You would have to think that one of the issues theyre looking at is Wellness Checks and did they miss something. Did his coworkers miss something in the days leading up to this. But really there are a lot of outstanding questions still need to be answered. How was he able to get the plane from the secure ramp to actually take off. Rene marsh, thank you for bringing us the latest. Appreciate it. We have been talking with cnn Military Analysts all morning. One said this is a test of the system. What we have here is a test of the system that we have for air defense in this country, and the fact that the f 15s from 142nd Fightser Wing and Oregon National guard unit came so quickly shows that at least that part of the system is working. Rick francona says this
reveals a lot about the system and what needs to be fixed. Theyre going to have to come up with specific guidelines for each airport. The problem is once somebody does this, he puts a lot of people at risk. One guy gets in one airplane, he takes off in a crowded metropolitan area, and look what happens. Not only does it tie up the air traffic system but who knew, no one knew what his intentions were. He could have easily turned north and gone to Downtown Seattle and caused countless deaths on the ground. So this is a vulnerability that they have to address. And this just in, indicted new york congressman Chris Collins announcing this morning he is suspending his campaign for reelection. He wrote this. I decided it is in the best interest of the constituents of new york 27, the Republican Party and President Trumps agenda for me to suspend my campaign for reelection to congress. Collins maintains he is not guilty of Insider Trading charges brought against him
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there are multiple events planned In Charlottesville to mark a year since the unite the right rally where white nationalists launched violent protests on university of Virginia School lawn in downtown charlottesville. The mother of Heather Heyer who died in the protests is speaking out about losing her daughter. I talked with her about the state of Race Relations in this country, about her message for unity, and a message for President Trump. Listen to this. I always have three pieces of advice for trump and for anybody, same advice i gave to fourth graders, same advice i give to myself. Think before you speak, always tell the truth, and be accountable for your actions. But the Problems Didnt Begin With Trump and theyre not going
to end with trump. We have to acknowledge that and look inside ourselves to fix the problem. With everything youve seen this year, with all of the work youve done, all of the people you talked to, do you believe that people can truly change . I do. And are they willing to. I do. I see individuals change. Theyre sort of like infants in a way that theyre not sure where to put that foot, where to step. And im trying to coach people, trying to encourage people, trying to teach people to think in the immediate, think in the practical, think of direct action. Dont have such lofty ideas that you never act on them. Tomorrow by the way susan told me shes going to visit the spot where her daughter died on Fourth Street at the time her daughter died to lay flowers there in her honor. Hello, this is Ron Stallworth calling. Who am i speak white gold . David duke. Grand wizard of the klu klux klan. That dude . What can i do you for . Since you asked, i hate blacks. I hate jews. Mexicans and irish. Italians and chinese. But my mouth to gods ears, i really hate those black rats and anyone else that Doesnt Have Pure White aryan blood running through their veins. Talking to a true white american. God bless white america. Thats a clip from spike lees new film blackkklansman which he deliberately released this weekend to mark the passing of charlottesville. It is based on a true story of an africanamerican Police Officer in Colorado Springs who infiltrated the kkk along with his white partner. The man that inspired that film,
author of blackkklansman is with us by phone. Ron, thank you for taking time to be with us. My pleasure. Thank you. What was it like to see this on film and to take yourself back to those moments . It was a very i have seen it four times now. I never tire of watching it. It is like an outdoor of body experience. Very surreal. Hard to believe that thats my name thats coming out of the mouths of the actors and the events that i lived are being recreated in some cases almost identical to what happened. Its a very strange experience, very surreal to see this. It is interesting. We know that tomorrow in washington david duke will be
grand klansman is going to be speaking and i understand you gained his trust during your time when you were infiltrating the kkk and he recently called you. What did he say . We talked for about an hour. It was a week ago tomorrow that he actually called. We talked about an hour. He said different things. He talked about he was very concerned about his image, how he was going to be p