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Tiger Woods In Jail After Being Arrested On Suspicion Of DUI; DHS Funding Deal Collapses, GOP Leaders Reject Senate-Approved Bill; Fulton County, Georgia And DOJ Battle Over 2020 Election Ballots; Iran-Linked Hackers Breach Kash Patel's Personal Email; Artemis II Crew Arrives At Kennedy Space Center Ahead Of Launch. Aired 6-7p ET

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PHIL MATTINGLY, CNN HOST: Welcome to The Lead. I'm Phil Mattingly, in for Jake Tapper.

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This hour, we are following breaking news out of Florida, where golf legend Tiger Woods has been arrested on suspicion of DUI after a car crash in Florida. The local sheriff saying Woods clipped a truck pulling a trailer, causing his car to roll on its side. What else we're learning about the crash in just moments.

Plus, thousands of Americans will now go another weekend without pay after Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill failed to, let's be blunt, do their jobs. The Senate passed a bill to end the partial government shutdown, meeting -- then meeting a quick death at the hands of Speaker Mike Johnson. And now TSA agents, FEMA employees, cybersecurity workers, yet their pays back in limbo. Don't worry though, Congress still getting paid.

Also, with so many TSA agents calling out or quitting all together, there is absolute madness at a growing number of airports today. Passengers flying out of Houston telling CNN they're arriving seven hours before their flights. Wait times are more than three hours in Baltimore. How much strain can the system really take?

And hackers linked to Iran have breached the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel. Sources tell CNN the hackers took photos and documents from the account and posted some of them online. How big of a security risk could this be? Will more officials be targeted as the war goes on?

We are following that breaking news tonight. Golf Legend Tiger Woods is in jail, arrested on suspicion of DUI. Woods was driving a Land Rover in Jupiter, Florida, this afternoon when police say he clipped a pickup truck pulling a trailer, causing Woods' car to roll on its side. This is, of course, not the first car accident or first arrest for allegedly driving under the influence for Woods, who was arrested in 2009 and 2017 for DUIs. And in 2021, he was seriously injured in a rollover crash.

Woods is 50 years old and has been on the golf comeback trail after rupturing his Achilles a year ago and undergoing his seventh back surgery late last year.

I want to get straight to CNN's World Sports Patrick Snell. Patrick, what more are we learning right now?

PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Hi there, Phil. Yes, really, really concerning. Tiger Woods, of course, one of the greatest players ever to have played the sport of golf, and these are very much unwanted headlines for him, no question about that. Golf, 15 time major winner, second only to Jack Nicklaus, who recorded 18 majors.

But, yes, within the last 90 minutes or so, this is what's been unfolding, according to police down there in South Florida. This hour, Woods in jail after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. That's according to the officials there in Florida.

Woods driving a Land Rover, and here's what we know, it allegedly clipped a pickup truck which was pulling at the time a small trailer. That collision causing Woods' Land Rover to roll onto its side. When police got to the scene, Tiger Woods showing signs of impairment, according to police down there. And also further to police, Woods allegedly crawling out of the passenger door of his vehicle.

Let's hear now more from the officers there in the Sunshine State.

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SHERIFF JOHN BUDENSIEK, MARTIN COUNTY, FLORIDA: Question is, breathalyzer was zero and it's a urine test. The answer is yes. So, on scene, we had DRE experts evaluating him and they believed from on scene that he was not impaired on alcohol. They believed it was some type of medication or drug. And, again, at the jail he cooperated with the urine -- or, I'm sorry, he cooperated with the breathalyzer and then the urine, he wanted no part of.

REPORTER: Is there going to be any testing afterwards? What's the procedure with that to verify if he was under something?

BUDENSEIK: So, the question, will there be any follow-up testing? The answer is no. He has a right to refuse that test. There is a Florida statute which he will be charged with for refusing to take that test, but we will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash.

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SNELL: And, Phil, I think very important to point out that, thankfully, nobody was injured in this incident. That's certainly something to highlight, and that is actually good news, the fact that nobody at all was injured.

But to your point just before, Woods was -- you're quite right, he was on the comeback trail. I recall reported extensively on his 2021 car crash in Los Angeles, in Southern California, and the whole series of surgeries he had after that to his leg and his ankle. Nobody -- well, some thought at the time he would never play again, but he made the most miraculous recovery after that car wreck in Southern California. I witnessed his comeback at the Masters in 2022, which was quite incredible.

And he had just spoken this past week in South Florida about potentially playing at this year's Masters. He's not played competitively since 2024, so it now looks, well, let's just say, what's going to happen with his perspective appearance at the Masters in April, which starts on April the 9th. You have to think now that is most likely unlikely. Back to you.

MATTINGLY: Yes much more significant focus I think for him on the personal side.

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Patrick Snell, thank you, great reporting as always.

I want to bring in criminal defense attorney Bill Brennan, also bring back CNN Sports Analyst Christine Brennan.

Bill, I want to start with you. Officials say that Woods showed signs of impairment but was not under the influence of alcohol, was arrested after he refused a urine test. What do you make of what you've heard?

BILL BRENNAN, PHILADELPHIA CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, as somebody who's handled a lot of DUIs primarily in Pennsylvania and in our neighboring state, New Jersey, first, when the responding officers come upon an accident, they evaluate the crash site, see if everybody's okay. Then they look at the drivers and they look for signs of impairment.

Apparently, this got to that stage. It then was amped up a little bit to a breath test, which purportedly showed all zeros. They asked him to submit to urinalysis. He said, no. And the difference is breath will show alcohol. Urinalysis will show more.

In Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, we primarily amp it up to a blood test. But that would show if there was a medication prescription or otherwise, or some type of substance other than alcohol. And, you know, that may be the case here. It may not.

Florida has similar penalties to Pennsylvania where it's called a recidivist statute if you have a DUI and then within ten years of that DUI, get another, then the penalties are enhanced. So, it's reported that Mr. Woods had a DUI in '17. He's almost there, but not quite there yet, so that would be an issue.

There's also in Florida, as there is in Pennsylvania, a -- you have the right to refuse the testing, but there's a penalty for that. And, for instance, in Pennsylvania, you read these things for the O'Connell warnings and they say, look, you know, we would like you to take these chemical tests. But if you don't, then your driver's license will be suspended for a year. So, it's its own penalty.

So, I mean, thankfully, it doesn't seem like he was hurt or seriously hurt, or no one else was, and it'll meander through the court system.

Before it starts the full meandering process, and, again, not to make light of it, I'm just trying to think through, we heard the sheriff say that he's going to be held in jail for at least several more hours tonight. What is happening right now with him behind bars?

B. BRENNAN: Well, one of the reasons that people are held in New Jersey, there was a very sad case that changed the law where someone was arrested for DUI, and they were processed and then they left, and there was a fatality on the way home. So, he's there to be processed. He's also there, if in fact he's under the influence of any substance and he's presumed innocent, nobody knows that he is, but it's also there to protect him and to protect the public, you know, to have somebody come get him, perhaps, or -- but let's get through that part. He will be processed. He'll be charged possibly. He'll certainly, I think, be charged with a refusal. That's its own problem. And then he will have a hearing before a Florida judge. And whether they charge him with driving under the influence or not, he'll certainly go and deal with the refusal issue, but probably deal with both.

And because I believe, if the reports are correct, that it's not a first offense, it'll be enhanced. So, the penalties would be a little more serious. But, you know, each state is different. For instance, in Pennsylvania, it's a violation of the traffic code. It's also a criminal offense. It's a misdemeanor. In New Jersey, our neighboring state, it's purely a violation of the vehicle code. But penalties are serious when there's more than one DUI.

MATTINGLY: Christine, you've covered Tiger from the beginning of the phenom or Woods, Stanford, U.S. Amateur. I'm interested in is what we know about, and based on your reporting, has he's been doing the last several years, right? Like, yes, he was recovering from an injury, a very serious Achilles injury, the back surgery. Obviously he's been probably the most watchable virtual golf tournaments that I've ever seen in my entire life. But do we know much about kind of what he's been up to outside of that?

CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS ANALYST: Phil, he has businesses, that he has golf courses. He is, as we talked an hour or so ago, he's a dad, right? And his daughter played soccer and won a state tournament and she's in college. And his son is a golfer and he's going to Florida State to play golf.

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So, Tiger shows up like, you know, many parents do at the kids' games and that's where he's been. And he has also been a force in trying to work with whatever men's golf is going to look like worldwide with LIV Golf, with the PGA Tour, all the things that have been happening, the machinations there over the last few years. And Tiger's really been seen as a leader and potentially that kind of a force moving forward, another role for him in the sport of golf.

And so, you know, he's been more human. He signed some autographs. You know, he was so focused with blinders on, Phil. You know, that's the way he was trained by his dad. And now we've seen a more human side. Obviously, this is very, you know, troubling and appalling considering his recklessness and what his history has been if this is in fact true that, again, that this was a DUI, if we find that out to be a fact, it's a very, very troubling turn for him.

MATTINGLY: Yes. Well, especially based on the past. Christine Brennan, Bill Brennan, fairly certain, no relation, didn't check that with you beforehand, just going to go with that. I appreciate you guys both. I appreciate you, thanks so much.

Well, despite the ongoing government shutdown, TSA agents could see paychecks on Monday. How likely is that? And what about the rest of the money they're owed? That's next.

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MATTINGLY: Breaking news in our National Lead, House Republican leaders rejecting the Senate-approved funding bill, which would've paid almost all -- funded almost all agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, with the exception of ICE and Border Patrol operations.

So, where is the Senate? They are not in the building you're looking at on your screen. They're already out of town, starting a two-week break. Now, in their defense, they passed it 100-0, essentially by unanimous consent last night, assuming the House would follow suit. It doesn't look like that's going to actually happen, which means this DHS shutdown will likely last at least several more days.

Now, TSA workers have been going on pay -- going without pay. This will now be their second full paycheck missed. And administration officials say some employees have received eviction notices, drained their savings, while others have resorted to sleeping in their cars, selling their blood and plasma, taking other jobs.

I want to bring in TSA Agent Johnny Jones, also the secretary treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees TSA Council 100. That council represents more than 44,000 TSA officers.

Johnny, a lot of people woke up this morning rightfully hopeful that this was all about to finally be over. What are you hearing right now from your fellow TSA workers?

JOHNNY JONES, SECRETARY-TREASURER, AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES TSA COUNCIL 100: What I'm hearing from the -- from my colleagues is that they are about as confused as it gets. Number one, they were optimistic this morning that things were going to be resolved. Unfortunately, yet again, TSA officers and other components of DHS are going to be used as political pawns on either side to try to resolve these issues.

These TSA officers, more specifically, were going into our second full missed paycheck. But, really, it's technically really our third because we didn't receive much of a paycheck at the end of the month. We are struggling. Officers have -- are at wits end. Their mental -- they've taken mental abuses. Their financials are abused. Their families are suffering.

It is one thing to -- when you don't get paid, you cancel all kinds of things. This is just unsustainable, unreal.

MATTINGLY: I want people watching to think about what would happen if two consecutive, three paychecks did not show up, and how life would be on that. And it's why -- like I'm trying to understand more about what is unilaterally being set in motion by the administration.

The pay for TSA workers, it could start as early as Monday is what the administration has said. Is that a sure thing? And does that have anything to do with back pay at all?

JONES: Well, that is the back pay, like I'm sure. I think one of the questions is from the workforce is like, well, is this temporary or is this like TSA is fully funded now, so to speak? We're going to get paid even though the government shutdown? This is definitely something new that's happening. But this executive order, you know, most of us are -- we're about as confused and I'm sure there might even be a legal challenge, for all I know, coming down the pike.

So, whatever in the world is going on, most people at TSA, like my colleagues, are just like, well, I'm going to get paid, but are we still shut down?

MATTINGLY: Because the last month hasn't been hard enough. I really appreciate your time, perspective thinking the best for you and all of your colleagues. Johnny Jones, thank you so much.

JONES: Thank you so much.

MATTINGLY: I want to bring in Republican Congressman Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania. He's on the House Homeland Security Committee.

Congressman, when you hear something like that from TSA officers who -- they're not pointing fingers one, one side or the other, just saying like, look, man, pay us right now, what's your response?

REP. RYAN MACKENZIE (R-PA): They absolutely should be paid. And that's why I supported and voted three times here in the House for full funding for all of DHS, not just our TSA agents, but FEMA, Social -- our Secret Service agents, Coast Guard, our military members and individuals in ICE and CBP. All of those individuals are doing critical work across our country. They should be getting paid.

And not only have we voted three times for that critical legislation here in the House, and the Senate has failed to get that bipartisan support, but we also do need a long-term solution to this problem. I was a state legislator before coming here to Congress, and one of the things that we made sure was that even in shutdowns, an absence of a budget passed at the state level, critical workers still received their pay. And there are a couple different categories here at the federal government level, but the most absurd one are these individuals that are still having to show up every single day and not getting paid for that work.

So, I've introduced and supported legislation that would alleviate that problem going forward so that we could once and for all and this kind of ridiculous chaos. [18:20:01]

MATTINGLY: Honestly, anything that could end any element of this ridiculous chaos would be great. But can I ask you, though, like, I understand you are absolutely right on your votes. Every Senate Democrat I've talked to says, look, I've put up all of these, U.C. requests to have a vote on one thing or another, like this goes back and forth. It's a game on some level. And I understand, like you guys have voted on full year. You guys have voted on full agency. You guys have voted on full DHS approach (ph) in isolation. Democrats are voted on full just TSA and full just Coast Guard. Like what is the resolution here? Like there is no way to marry what Republicans are pursuing right now and what senators did last night. So, where does this go?

MACKENZIE: Well, I think what we want to see is we want to see full DHS funding for every component of it. But we also, as a part of this conversation, are seeking meaningful reforms. And there are bipartisan reforms that the White House agrees on, the Democrats would agree on. There is a bipartisan proposal out there with some members of the House, things like body cams, making those mandatory, making sure that badges and identification are worn by agents that are out on the field. We also want to make sure that we improve training, make sure the de-escalation training is a requirement, and then improving and bolstering internal investigations when things do go wrong.

And so all of those things have bipartisan support. We should come together on those things that Republicans and Democrats agree on, pass a funding, even if it's short-term funding, like we're offering up here in the House tonight, say let's have this continuing resolution go for two months, get that going, but also make sure that all -- every part of DHS is funded, but continue these conversations on bipartisan reforms that are really meaningful.

MATTINGLY: We will certainly be watching as this continues to play out.

Republican Congressman Ryan Mackenzie of Pennsylvania, appreciate your time, sir. Thanks so much.

MACKENZIE: Thank you.

MATTINGLY: Well, oil companies could soon be facing a big legal battle that goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. CNN's Bill Weir is in Washington, D.C., and joins us live in the studio to explain, next.

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MATTINGLY: In our Earth Matters series, while war abroad threatens the stability of oil and gas prices around the world, a different kind of battle back in the U.S. has big oil running for cover.

CNN's Bill Weir looks into a new legal challenge that hopes to hold oil companies accountable for their role in climate change. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT (voice over): For the seventh straight year, Washington's famous cherry blossoms are blooming early, one of the prettier warnings that Earth is overheating. Much less pleasant are the record-shattering heat domes out west, or the life-changing flashfloods in Hawaii, or any of the billion-dollar disasters mounting by the year.

Evidence shows these are intensified by every gigaton of fossil fuel burned, and that oil companies knew it would happen decades ago. Internal memos are the basis of over two dozen lawsuits brought by cities, states, and tribes, all hoping to make big oil pay damages. But President Trump wants to shut them all down, one way or another.

After rejecting five appeals from big oil in the last three years, the Supreme Court finally agreed to hear the case brought by the city of Boulder, Colorado. But some Republicans don't even want to take their chances here with this conservative court and want to pass a new shield law guaranteeing that executives from big oil would never get sued ever again.

REP. HARRIET HAGEMAN (R-WY): Clearly, this is an area in which Congress has a role to play.

WEIR: In a recent hearing, Wyoming Republican Harriet Hageman asked the Justice Department for legal help and hinted at the kind of liability shield that was given to gun makers after mass shootings brought a slew of lawsuits.

HAGEMAN: To that end, I'm working with my colleagues in both the House and Senate to craft legislation tackling both these state laws and the lawsuits that could destroy energy affordability for consumers.

WEIR: It's enough to bring Jay Inslee back to town, one of the few Democrats to ever run for president on climate action.

FMR. GOV. JAY INSLEE (D-WA): I am kind of playing the role of Paul Revere here, the British aren't coming, but the oil and gas industry is coming.

WEIR: It's been a long seven years since the former congressman and governor of Washington launched his campaign in storm-ravaged Iowa. He was trying to keep climate in the debate. But now the party in power is at all-out war with climate science.

INSLEE: Hey, why do you have a picture of Senate Republican leadership?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know, with no spine?

INSLEE: With no spine.

WEIR: But his party has no clear national leader focused on this issue. INSLEE: These oil and gas executives are terrified of having to face their own record. They're terrified of being cross-examined and read the things they wrote back in the 70s and 80s that predicted this catastrophe that we're now experiencing. It's worse because at the same time, we are exposed to enormous increased costs associated with energy in part because they had a corrupt scheme with the president of Mar-a-Lago. He said, give me a billion dollars and I'll prevent your competitors from doing business.

So, this is all part of a corrupt scheme to not only deprive Americans of access to the cheapest electricity in America, which is solar, wind, and batteries, at the same time gouging Americans for electricity prices and gas prices to then turn around and say, and we're exempt from all the laws, we're above the laws, we don't have to be accountable for our deception. And Americans should revile that action and we should not allow it.

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WEIR (on camera): Harriet Hageman, who beat Liz Cheney in Wyoming, for her seat, now running for the Senate, we reached out to her because I was dying to ask more about this idea that if big oil gets taken accord, it'll add even more to gasoline bills these days, but she wouldn't talk to us right now.

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But the worry is that this is the kind of thing gets slipped into an appropriations bill on a Friday and never gets debated.

MATTINGLY: It's a fascinating story. Bill Weir, thanks, buddy.

WEIR: Thanks.

MATTINGLY: I appreciate it.

Well, next, much more on our breaking news, Tiger Woods arrested on suspicion of DUI after a car crash in Florida. Stick with us.

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MATTINGLY: We're back with the breaking news. Golf legend Tiger Woods arrested for suspicion of DUI after a rollover crash.

I want to bring in Joel Beall. He's a senior writer at Golf Digest. Joel, just to start with, again, I think a lot of people are trying to, especially who came up with him, trying to see how could this possibly be happening again, the echoes of past incidents, what was your reaction?

JOEL BEALL, SENIOR WRITER, GOLF DIGEST: Exactly that, you know, not this again. It was just five years ago that Tiger was involved in a single car crash in Los Angeles, the crash that was so severe that there were questions if his left leg would need to be amputated. Before that, in 2017, was pulled over for reckless driving under the suspicion of DUI, and obviously that Thanksgiving Day wreck where his private life became very public.

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So, for this to happen again, clearly there's a pattern.

Thankfully, he was not injured. He is okay. But at this point, you do wonder what type of intervention needs to happen involving Tiger in cars.

MATTINGLY: Can I ask, I was talking to Christine Brennan earlier about this, what's he -- explain to folks what he's been doing in recent years, like obviously recovering major surgery, another back surgery, Achilles repair, but what's kind of his involvement in the game right now?

BEALL: Yes, he hasn't played an official tournament since the summer of 2024. He's sort of moved to an advisory role with the PGA Tour. The Tour has a new CEO in Brian Rollup, who came from the NFL, and Rollup brought on Tiger sort of as a way to a conduit for players to -- as they build a new schedule going forward. Tiger's kind of been the liaison between the new leadership and the players. So, really, he hasn't been a player in quite some time.

That being said, he did return to TGL earlier this week and there was hope that actually today we could hear that Tiger was going to suit up to the Masters in less than two weeks. Obviously, that crash today puts that prospect in jeopardy.

MATTINGLY: What's the response been either from folks that you're talking to, I've been on air for most of the time, the golf world right now, that you've seen as everybody kind of digest this?

BEALL: Everyone's just concerned. You know, he is undergoing -- or he is coming back from back surgery in the fall. He's still dealing with injuries suffered from that 2021 car crash. His recent appearances, people have kind of been whispering, is something going on?

So, this -- I don't want to say people knew what was coming, but this was definitely a fear that given his past troubles with medications, especially with medications concerning his back. There was worry that Tiger could have been showing signs that he was dealing with prescription trouble again.

And as we heard in the sheriff's press conference today, blew zeros on the breathalyzer, but did not adhere to a urine test, under suspicion of DUI. And as they're also pointed out, it was likely drugs or medications.

So, I think everyone's just concerned for his wellbeing at this point. His playing days at this point aren't really a concern for most.

MATTINGLY: You mentioned, you know, the last time I thought about it was when I realized that, hey, he may be playing in the Masters because he said as much, which was kind of Tiger at the Masters in April. You see the commercials, like the -- everything's looking up. What is his physical state or was his physical state in terms of playing ability over the course of the last couple of months?

BEALL: I think it was non-existent. Earlier this year at his Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles, he had mentioned he was up to at least hitting balls, but it wasn't going as smoothly as he wanted, that there was still pain associated, that he returned to TGL was at least a sign in the right direction. But there's a very big difference between hitting balls in a simulator versus dealing with Augusta National, and let alone one of the best fields in golf.

So, I think even if he would've come back for the Masters, it would've been mostly as a ceremonial role, which fans would've been fine with. They just want to see Tiger again. They want to see him inside the ropes, even if he might not be the same competitor as he once was. Just -- I mean, he's already 50 years old, even divorcing from all the injuries and setbacks he's suffered. You don't see too many 50-year- olds competing on the PGA Tour at the moment.

So, I think fans were embracing this new Tiger. But, yes, today's news, I think just people are hoping for his wellbeing at this point, any aspersions to him coming back and playing, I think, aren't founded.

MATTINGLY: Yes, I think everybody should hope for his wellbeing, obviously thinking about, his kids and family as well.

Joel Beall, I really appreciate your time and perspective. Thanks so much.

BEALL: Thank you.

MATTINGLY: Well, turning now to another major story in our Law and Justice Lead. Today, lawyers for Fulton County, Georgia, tried to get back the 2020 election ballots federal officials seized during an FBI raid in January.

Here now is David Becker, the CEO and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research.

I'm just going to ask you what I asked you during the break beforehand, like this is surreal that feels like a Mad Libs that somebody made up.

DAVID BECKER, CEO AND FOUNDER, CENTER FOR ELECTION INNOVATION AND RESEARCH: Yes.

MATTINGLY: What's actually happening here?

BECKER: So it's been five and a half years since the 2020 election, and the ballots in that election in Georgia and nationwide have been counted and recounted and reviewed by courts, and we know exactly what happened in that election. In Georgia specifically, those paper ballots throughout the state were counted three times, three different ways, once entirely by hand with observation from both parties. But here, we have the administration still trying to re-litigate the 2020 election. And, of course, we remember about two months ago, the FBI went in and seized all those materials. Now, shortly after that, we saw the affidavit that supported that warrant. And I think to most observers, including myself, that affidavit was incredibly deficient. It did not allege intent. It didn't even really allege a crime. It didn't even allege that there had been election theft of any kind. It kind of acknowledged the fact that the election was confirmed multiple times. And then, finally, it didn't even mention the fact that the statute of limitations was five years on any alleged crimes, and that has passed.

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It relied on debunked conspiracy theories that had been reviewed by many others over the course of the past few years.

And so Fulton County established this action to try to get their stuff back. The problem with that is the standard is very high. And so what this hearing today was about was whether or not the government had acted in callous disregard when it used that warrant to seize the materials. They heard testimony from experts that pointed out the omissions in the affidavit, that pointed out that it relied on conspiracy evidence.

And also the DOJ did not put on the witness itself, the FBI agent who had testified, who provided the affidavit in that case. They opposed a motion to have him testify. So, the question was whether or not the government -- whether or not Fulton County could establish that there was callous disregard. The hearing took all day. We don't know what's going to happen. We might get a ruling sometime next week.

MATTINGLY: I mean, at least the DNI chief was there. That was obviously the most important.

BECKER: Yes, exactly.

MATTINGLY: It's insane. And I think that -- actually, we only have like 30 seconds left. But like is this a real -- what are they trying to do here?

BECKER: So, it's hard for me to say exactly what they're trying to do, but I'm very confident that this was not an effort to actually collect evidence about a crime. There was no crime. The statute of limitations bars it. You've got the DNI inside the facility while the evidence is being collected. It's going to be very hard to introduce it.

So, I think it looks like this is more use of law enforcement as a P.R. tool or a campaign tool, rather than as a law enforcement tool. And that should, of course, concern the courts. We'll see what the court does here.

MATTINGLY: Dave Becker, I appreciate your time, sir.

BECKER: Thank you.

MATTINGLY: Thank you so much.

Let's go back to that crash involving Tiger Woods. CNN's Randi Kaye just arrived at the jail where Woods is being held. It's in Martin County, Florida, north of Palm Beach, along Florida's east coast.

Randi, what can you tell us from your vantage point right now?

RANDI KAYE, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Phil. We are here in Stewart, Florida, where the jail is located. And what we know is this. There is a lot of media here waiting for Tiger Woods possibly to be released later. They can hold him here in the jail, we're told, for about eight hours. So, we're waiting on that. That could happen later this evening.

But this all started just before 2:00 P.M., when the sheriff says that Tiger Woods was driving his Land Rover. He was coming up quickly on a truck that was pulling a very small trailer. And the truck was slowing down, trying to pull into a driveway, apparently. And he told the Sheriff's Department that he could see Tiger Woods approaching him very quickly from behind. Apparently, according to the sheriff, Tiger Woods tried to swerve, clipped the truck and then his Land Rover rolled.

Now, it rolled on the driver's side, and apparently he was able -- according to authorities, was able to climb out of the passenger side.

Now, police -- the sheriff's department are saying that Woods showed no signs of impairment, but they have charged him with -- showed signs of impairment, excuse me. They have charged him with a DUI, property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test. Now, this is because when they took him to the jail, he had taken a breathalyzer, and the sheriff says that he blew a triple zero, so no alcohol. But because he was showing signs of impairment, they wanted to do a urinalysis. And the sheriff says that Tiger Woods refused to take that urinary test.

So, he will, as I said, likely be held here for about eight hours, which would put him here until about 10:00 or 11:00 PM tonight. And the sheriff did say he will not be held here in the general population. Phil?

MATTINGLY: Randi Kaye, keep us posted with whatever you learn. Thanks so much for the great reporting.

So, what exactly did hackers gain access to when they breached the personal email of FBI Director Kash Patel? What's next?

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MATTINGLY: In our world lead, hackers connected to the Iranian government accessed FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and posted materials, including photos and documents taken from his account. That's according to a person familiar with the hack who confirmed it to CNN.

Now, CNN has chosen not to broadcast any of the stolen pictures or email, but I do want to discuss the implications of this with former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Beth Sanner. And the reason why I want to discuss the implications of it is Iran. We were just talking about Iran's cyber capabilities have always been held in high regard or at least considered a threat in a high regard. They've been considered threatening.

We are at war right now with Iran.

BETH SANNER, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY ANALYST: Yeah.

MATTINGLY: What do you think that they're doing right now in cyber? And what is this an example of?

SANNER: Well, I mean, this is an example of them being a nuisance and making a point. And they do this all the time, like Israel, they've been at cyber war with Israel for years. And so we've seen this pattern.

They spill -- hacked and leaked all the information from a gay dating website, all the information about patient records at one hospital. Very depressing things for people to have to deal with and upsetting things. So that's one category. But I think that, you know, maybe you and I think of Israel -- Iran as a -- as a cyber threat, but there are a lot of people I think, that underestimate because they see this sort of thing and they're like, whatever.

But there's actually quite a risk in terms of their capabilities on cyber security, on critical infrastructure. And that's particularly true of water systems, which they seem to specialize in.

MATTINGLY: What does the U.S. have in place to stop them? Is this a reactive type of capability, or is the U.S. offensively going after things right now?

SANNER: So, I mean, definitely there are reactions that are offensive, but that's not going to really make any impact on what Iran wants to do. I mean, they will find and be looking for and they're scanning systems all the time here in the United States, in the Gulf, in Israel. And, you know, if they find their way in, then they will strike.

They took down about a dozen U.S. rural water -- water facilities, in 2023. And that's because they were running the ICT that was designed by Israel, and they had encountered it in Israel, and they knew how to do it.

I think the big danger for me is thinking about the Gulf critical infrastructure. We know that they're probing, that. We know that they've struck these facilities kinetically. So why not go after cyber as well? I think that they're, you know, either waiting or they're working on it.

MATTINGLY: It's clearly something U.S. officials behind the scenes have been thinking about working on as well. We'll see how it plays out.

[18:50:00] I do want to play something for you, mostly because most of the time when you and I are talking about this current situation, we're talking about the Strait of Hormuz, and apparently, Trump was just talking about it during a speech down in Florida. Take a listen.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I have to open it up. They have to open up the strait of Trump -- I mean, Hormuz. Excuse me for -- I'm so sorry. Such a terrible mistake. The fake news will say he accidentally said -- no, there's no accidents with me. Not too many. If there were, we'd have a major story.

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MATTINGLY: I don't have a great question here. I have lots of thoughts, but I'm interested in your perspective on that.

SANNER: Well, you know, I think it is kind of I think the Europeans will think it's very funny because Rubio was just talking to them and saying that they needed to take the lead in opening the strait of Trump. So, I mean, oh, whoops. I mean, Strait of Hormuz.

So, you know, either were going to open it and were going to run it maybe with the ayatollah, as he said earlier, or maybe -- maybe somebody else will. And you know, we'll call it the Strait of Denmark.

MATTINGLY: Yeah. It's, you know, joint venture. I told it to be named later straight of Trump. It is serious, like people do not understand how serious what's happening right now in the Strait of Hormuz is. And it's the people who are going to get hurt. Are not the people making the decisions.

And I joke, whatever. Thank you.

SANNER: Moving on.

MATTINGLY: Beth Sanner, appreciate you, my friend.

In just a few days, NASA hopes to launch four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. Details on this blast into a new space race and potential galactic discoveries. That's next.

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MATTINGLY: In our "out of this world" lead, the countdown is on. Today, the crew of Artemis II arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for their upcoming mission around the moon. If all goes according to plan, they'll blast off Wednesday night on their historic trip.

And joining me now in the studio to talk about all of it is former NASA astronaut Scott Scooter Altman. He spent more than 50 days in space. I am terrified of the concept of being in space. What are these

astronauts thinking right now, like in this moment before going up? What are you thinking about?

SCOTT ALTMAN, FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT: So, they've just gotten down to the cape. They've got a couple of days to kind of finally get themselves ready to go spend a little bit of time with their families who come down there and really last chance to feel like you got everything ready to go. It's an exciting time actually, as you get close to launch, finally.

MATTINGLY: How much of it is, you know, you've got nerves. It's definitely exciting, but you are going in your head, you are walking through every single technical detail, engineering detail, whatever your task is.

ALTMAN: Yeah, typical astronaut's prayers. I don't care what happens as long as it's not my fault. You don't want to be the one who makes the big mistake, but at the same time, when you come down to go get on the vehicle to launch, to me, it felt like Christmas morning.

I'm coming downstairs. I don't know what I'm going to get, but I know its going to be great. And that's just what flying in space is like.

MATTINGLY: Artemis one was uncrewed. There's four astronauts flying on Artemis II.

How much preparation goes into having humans on board a ship like this?

ALTMAN: Yeah. So for Artemis I, they didn't have to have an environmental control system to keep people alive. Now we have folks living on the vehicle, but you also have the opportunity for people to actually have hands on. They're going to do a flight control test as part of this where they actually undock from the launch vehicle and maneuver around to see how they control.

It's very similar to some of the tests we did on Apollo when we did Apollo Nine with the lander there, they got to orbit, did tests and everything before we sent folks to the moon.

MATTINGLY: The Canadian astronaut on mission, Jeremy Hansen, he has a quote where he says, "It's plausible that we can't talk to earth and we're having trouble with the spacecraft. What are the bare basics to give us a fighting chance and still be breathing, and to hit somewhere on the planet and ideally hit the Pacific Ocean? Obviously, I've had that conversation with my wife and children."

There are a lot of firsts on this mission.

ALTMAN: Yes.

MATTINGLY: Some freak a lot of people out, some that have candid conversations going on with families.

Walk people through kind of what those firsts are and how you prepare for them.

ALTMAN: Well, you have to realize there's an awful lot of energy being put into the vehicle when you have a six-million-pound vehicle being pushed at 8.8 million pounds of thrust. That's a lot of energy. Theres always going to be some risk with that.

And then getting so far away from home and being able to get back, there's challenges there, too. But you know, everybody who's worked on the vehicle. You know, the people who put it together. My company actually supported Lockheed Martin building the Orion vehicle that they're going to be riding in.

So, we all feel like we have a stake in this and it's a team effort. You all work together to minimize the risk as much as you can.

MATTINGLY: As a -- as the least, I know the least about space of anybody on the show team at THE LEAD, which by the way, is a very, very high bar I found. So that doesn't mean I don't know anything. They just are all brilliant and very interested in it.

What's the one thing people need to know about kind of what this sets off for the potential of being back on the moon?

ALTMAN: Well, so the administrator now has brought a lot of excitement back to NASA with his idea that we're going to change and put people on the moon to stay. And having that capability. This is step number one. To make that happen. You got to take that first step. And here we are ready to go.

MATTINGLY: Scott Scooter Altman, I'm ready.

ALTMAN: All right. Let's go.

MATTINGLY: I appreciate it.

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