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Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) On Trump's Multitrillion-Dollar Package; Soon: Testimony Resumes In Sean Combs Criminal Trial; Fourth New Orleans Inmate Captured As Multistate Manhunt Intensifies. Aired 7:30-8a ET

Aired May 20, 2025 - 07:30   ET

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We're standing by for President Trump to leave the White House hoping to convince key Republicans on Capitol Hill to back his multitrillion-dollar tax and spending cut package.

Now, House Freedom Caucus chair Andy Harris of Maryland had this to say to Punchbowl. "I always welcome the president, but I'm not sure there's anything he can say that's going to change the minds of people who do believe that this bill needs more work."

With us now is Congressman Warren Davidson, a Republican from Ohio. Congressman, great to see you this morning.

What do you think in this bill needs more work?

REP. WARREN DAVIDSON (R-OH) (via Webex by Cisco): Well look, if it's -- if it's a bill that cuts taxes and secures the border it's pretty nice. I mean, there's reforms in the tax package that should be better but it's a pretty good bill.

The problem is it's being touted as a bill that corrects deficit spending, and it doesn't do that. It doesn't actually manage the deficit well. I mean, there are cuts that are important but a lot of those are promises of cuts in the future -- and often, promises of future cuts turn out to be pretty hollow. We can't even guarantee who is going to be in Congress in one or two, three Congresses from now let alone whether they're going to follow through on the plan that we lay out.

What you can control is this Congress, and this Congress -- it spends more money.

BERMAN: So you would like to see more cuts than are currently in this bill?

DAVIDSON: Yeah, absolutely, and they need to be pulled forward so that this Congress -- the one that we're voting in and the one that we control right now spends less money.

This is all these gimmicks with baseline budgeting. The headline that the speaker will throw out is it cuts $1.6 trillion.

You would think that if we're spending $7.2 trillion now and we have $2 trillion deficits and you say that, you'd say oh well, eventually, we get to where we're spending less than $6 trillion. That's great. We're closing in on a balanced budget. Not even close. We never spend less than $7.2 trillion. We just keep spending more.

Now we're spending less than we were planning to spend, so those cuts are better than not cutting things. They're bending the trajectory a little bit but they're not doing things right now.

So I think the example we set for future Congresses -- this Congress -- we cut spending. Next year we should spend less than we spend this year, and that's what a cut is. That's what cut means, not this fake gimmick stuff.

BERMAN: OK, not this fake gimmick stuff, you just said.

So if a vote on this bill were held today -- and I know that's not what's happening -- it's going to be held in a few days -- how would you vote?

DAVIDSON: Yeah, I couldn't vote for it right now. Now, on the budget committee on Sunday night -- part of the condition that they got four people who had voted against it Friday to vote present, which wasn't to vote for it but say all right, I won't try to block it from leaving committee -- is they're planning to cure it to fit -- to make some amendments before they go to rules. But that's at 1:00 a.m. -- just past midnight tonight they're supposed to go to rules.

So we're having discussions through the course of the day. The president is going to come over and try to put the vote for it. Well, unless you change it, I don't think we're going to have the votes.

BERMAN: So even if President Trump comes up there and says -- and I'm speaking for him right now -- you know, Warren -- Congressman, help me out here. I need you to vote for this. I know it's not everything you want but give this one to me.

Without any changes right now, how would you vote?

DAVIDSON: Well, I think the question is well, what comes after this? Because if you tout this as the deficit reduction bill then it takes the pressure off to do the deficit reduction. If you say well look, vote for this right now. This is better than the status quo -- and it is -- fine but show me where we're going to get after the deficit spending. Show me where we're going to actually spend less money and tell me that's in FY '26 appropriations, which is coming up here this summer. Late June, early July we usually start the voting on appropriations bills.

BERMAN: All right.

DAVIDSON: We're supposed to be done by October first but normally we do a CR. Tell me there's a plan that spends less than $7.2 trillion and then I could be energized by that. But there's not a plan to do that right now.

BERMAN: Got it. If Congressman Emmer -- if the whip is watching right now, he has you marked down as a no for now vote on this bill, and he could only lose a few more of you so that's an interesting place to be.

Before I let you go, I do want to ask you about Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey, a Democrat who has now been charged with impeding, interfering, and assaulting law enforcement officers outside an ICE facility in New Jersey. Democrats say that this is foul. They say it's a blatant attempt by the Trump administration to intimidate Congress and interfere with our ability to serve as a check and balance on an out of control executive branch.

What concerns, if any, do you have about these charges against a member of Congress who was at a protest?

DAVIDSON: Yeah. I mean, I don't know exactly what she did. I do know she's accused of assaulting an ICE agent. You know, that would be serious if she's assaulted an ICE agent. And I know some of my colleagues were getting charged with things in the previous -- under the Biden administration. So any time one party goes after another it's viewed as political. But I think the principle has to be that no one really is above the law.

I hope they work it out and I hope we resolve things in a place that's rational.

I mean, it seems crazy to me that you've got members of Congress and some of the public but not much -- certainly not in my district -- defending MS-13 gang members. I mean, they're not here legally. I think the mandate in this election is they need to leave.

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BERMAN: Got it.

Listen, Congressman Warren Davidson, we do appreciate your time this morning. Good luck at these meetings with the president later on.

And we should note that Congresswoman McIver, from New Jersey, will be with us a little bit later in the broadcast -- Kate.

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks so much, J.B.

Climate scientists have long sounded the alarm about the big one -- an earthquake that could hit anytime in the next 200 hundred years that could just devastate the Pacific Northwest. An earthquake maybe as powerful as a magnitude 9.0, which could trigger a tsunami and wipe out entire coastal cities it would be so severe.

With this threat still out there we are also now learning that the scientists who track and prepare for the big one are being let go as part of the -- as part of President Trump's massive cuts to the federal workforce.

CNN's Bill Weir tracking this one for us and he's here with us now.

BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT: Good to see you -- yeah.

BOLDUAN: (INAUDIBLE).

WEIR: What we know is he's taken a meat axe to climate science --

BOLDUAN: Yes.

WEIR: -- across so many different agencies. That's seems to be ideologically driven but it's also sort of trickled over into earth sciences that aren't related to climate change. That is earthquakes and tsunamis. Solar storms that can affect our electronics in such dramatic ways. And volcanoes for people who live in Hawaii and Alaska, for example.

We talked to Corina Allen, former tsunami program leader at the National Weather Service, who told us we were already underprepared as it was by being able to forecast and alert people through this network of systems of incoming tsunamis will save hundreds if not thousands of lives. That is the work they do at NOAA and that is being impacted directly.

On the earthquake side we talked to the head, Harold Tobin, of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. He's a -- he's also a professor up at the University of Washington. They run this shake alert system which has 800 different seismographs around in the mountains all over California that have to be maintained.

BOLDUAN: Right.

WEIR: And right now these employees are under mandates that you can't spend more than a dollar on any project. And if you need a dispensation to travel there's a culture of fear that these sources are telling us are pervading through these agencies.

So it says -- they told us we wouldn't have the staff we have right now without the funding that it at risk of being axed in this budget. All by itself it represents something like 50 percent of the budget. It won't shut off on day one shake alert for folks out West, but she says it -- or he said it didn't know how long it could sustain.

So there's other examples when it comes to volcanoes and -- but what we're seeing, Kate, is just a systematic breakdown, which is sort of the intent of Project 25 --

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

WEIR: -- to cause the gnashing of teeth from people like we've quoted here. But the risk is out there. It remains one of the biggest threats -- the big one on the West Coast, up and down -- Washington, Oregon, California there. These network systems keep people and give them the precious minutes that they need to avoid --

BOLDUAN: Right.

WEIR: -- a fatal disaster are all being ripped apart.

BOLDUAN: And what I'm hearing -- what I hear here and what we hear in other regards as well is it's the -- it's the seen and unseen ripple effects of the cuts --

WEIR: Exactly.

BOLDUAN: -- that maybe over time have done in a more systematic fashion could be -- mitigated the impact. But shaker alerts -- I don't know anything about it, but I sure know that when they -- when they give you a heads up so you can get to safety --

WEIR: Yeah.

BOLDUAN: -- that could save your life.

WEIR: You'll know about them if you happen to be in L.A. --

BOLDUAN: That's exactly right.

WEIR: -- when a big one hits, right?

BOLDUAN: It's the unseen impacts that is what -- is what you hear these scientists in so many regards --

WEIR: Absolutely.

BOLDUAN: -- saying they're afraid of.

WEIR: And you're hearing that from scientists of all earth science disciplines --

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

WEIR: -- around, saying you don't know what you're missing when the guardians watching at the -- at the gate of these seismic events -- these big events aren't there. And so all you can do is hope that the luck continues.

BOLDUAN: And on the other side of it we also just last week got that internal report -- some new reporting in to CNN that FEMA is saying they are completely unprepared for hurricane season. So on the back end of a potential natural disaster you have FEMA --

WEIR: Exactly.

BOLDUAN: -- because of cuts at that agency they're unprepared in how to help.

WEIR: And the message from the Feds is to the states is you're on your own. Figure it out.

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

WEIR: And I don't -- how does -- how does California or Oregon figure out their own tsunami warning system? BOLDUAN: Well, and when you -- exactly. I mean, seriously. And talk to any governor and they say there's a rule for us --

WEIR: Right.

BOLDUAN: -- but we can't do it all.

WEIR: Right.

BOLDUAN: So, yeah. Thanks, Bill --

WEIR: There we are.

BOLDUAN: -- for shining a spotlight on this as always.

WEIR: You bet.

BOLDUAN: I really appreciate it -- John.

BERMAN: All right. New this morning WNBA star Caitlan Clark says she supports the league's investigation into allegations of racial abuse by fans directed at her rival and fellow superstar Angel Reese. The alleged incident happened during Saturday's game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky.

Let's get right to Andy Scholes for the latest on this. Good morning, Andy.

ANDY SCHOLES, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Yeah, good morning, John.

So no one on the Indiana Fever said that they heard anything from their sellout crowd on Saturday but someone on social media claims there were hateful noises directed at Angel Reese after she was fouled by Caitlin Clark. And that foul on Saturday was upgraded to a flagrant.

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Now the WNBA says they're looking into the allegations of hateful fan comments.

And here was Clark when asked about it after practice yesterday.

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CAITLIN CLARK, GUARD, INDIANA FEVER: There's no place for that in our game. There's no place for that in society. And certainly we want every person that comes into our arena, whether a player or whether a fan, to have a great experience. So I appreciate the league doing that and I appreciate the Fever organization has been at the forefront of that since really day one on what they're doing. So we'll -- hopefully, the investigation -- we'll leave that up to them to find anything and take the proper action if so.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SCHOLES: All right. In baseball last night Shohei Ohtani -- well, he was at it again. He would get ahold of pitch right here for his league-leading 17th home run of the season. Now, the Dodgers though -- they ended up losing that one 9-5 to the Diamondbacks.

The Phillies' Kyle Schwarber, meanwhile, stayed just one home run behind Ohtani with this moonshot. This ball went 466 feet in that thin air in Denver. Sixteen homers on the year now for Schwarber, and this was also the 300th of his career.

The Phillies beat the Rockies 9-3 in that one.

All right. And finally, is today the final day that the tush push will be legal in the NFL? The owners are meeting today and tomorrow in Minneapolis and are expected to vote on the proposal to ban the play.

The Green Bay Packers updated their initial rule proposal to ban any offensive player from assisting a runner other than blocking opponents for him.

Twenty-four out of the 32 owners must agree in order for there to be a change.

John, what do you think? You like the tush push? You want it to stay? You want it to go? I'm not a fan of it. I think it's a boring play. I'd rather see something else. What do you think?

BERMAN: Yeah. I mean, yeah, but boring should be the measurement here. I think, you know -- I don't see what's illegal about it. I don't see why every team doesn't do it. And I don't see why some defensive coordinator doesn't spend some time trying to figure out ways to stop it legally. It just seems like if you start banning plays like this where do you stop, Andy? Where do you stop?

SCHOLES: I guess that's a good point. We'll see what they have to say. They might vote today or tomorrow but we'll know for sure by Wednesday.

BERMAN: Well, one thing I know about NFL owners -- they like to take a bold stand.

Thank you very much, Andy Scholes. Appreciate it -- Kate.

BOLDUAN: I mean, we here at CNN NEWS CENTRAL -- we stand with the tush push.

BERMAN: That's right.

BOLDUAN: We do until our dying day. All right, Andy's like get me out of here. You can go, Andy. I promise I won't embarrass you anymore.

Let's turn to this right now. Happening today, the former assistant of Sean Combs is going to be back on the stand. David James is his name.

He told the court yesterday about a conversation that he had with Cassie Ventura, Comb's ex-girlfriend who is also the star prosecution witness, where she said that Combs essentially controlled her entire life -- her career, her apartment, her livelihood. And that is why James testified when he suggested that she leave Combs that Cassie Ventura told him "I can't get out."

Other testimony the jury -- that the jury is now considering after yesterday, Danity Kane's Dawn Richard and Ventura's former best friend Kerry Morgan -- all of them giving powerful backing to Cassie Ventura's description of suffering years of abuse at the hands of Sean Combs.

Joining us right now is attorney and former litigator Lisa Bonner. Thank you for being here.

LISA BONNER, ATTORNEY, FORMER LITIGATOR: Thanks for having me.

BOLDUAN: Let's talk about Dawn Richard -- some of the description that she offered of Combs' abuse toward Cassie. At one point, the way she described it was "He would punch her, choke her, drag her, slap her in the mouth." The descriptions of violence and abuse were a big part of what the jury heard yesterday.

How does all of that tie into the charges that he's facing, sex trafficking and racketeering?

BONNER: That's such a good question and I'm glad you asked that.

What -- the racketeering case is not only about sex trafficking -- that is a part of it -- but it is also in terms of making sure that they can prove the fact that he -- that Diddy was allegedly talking about choking other women --

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

BONNER: -- and controlling this empire, right?

And so the --

BOLDUAN: Right.

BONNER: -- he RICO charges are very specific in terms of protecting his reputation. Controlling everything around him.

So they are really not only trying to point -- paint a case of domestic violence, which really has nothing to do with it, but it leads into the fact that he controlled the kingdom and everyone, as David James said, was there to serve him.

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

BONNER: So that is something that we need to really focus on. The domestic violence is just a mere part of it and the sex trafficking is a separate charge but is also included in the RICO case. But it is really trying to establish that, listen, everyone here was to serve him --

BOLDUAN: Right. BONNER: -- and it is his enterprise that he is involved in.

BOLDUAN: Yeah, and that abuse leads into --

BONNER: Correct.

BOLDUAN: -- the control.

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Dawn Richard also has, herself, filed a lawsuit against Combs. She's accused him of sexual battery, sexual harassment, and false imprisonment, I think, among other allegations.

BONNER: Yes.

BOLDUAN: Combs has denied these allegations.

I ask -- I wonder though as you have Dawn Richard sitting on the stand and you have this obviously hanging out there how does that impact her testimony?

BONNER: Well, it can impact it a couple of ways in terms of the way the jury might perceive it, right?

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

BONNER: They might say well, she's here because she has something to gain in the civil suit. And that's something in the RICO case, if it's a tort related incident, that the judgment in this RICO case could actually be used in the civil case.

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

BONNER: So it -- they could say that she has -- that she's self- interested. That she has something to gain from this. They already said that hey, he was abusive to you but yet you went back --

BOLDUAN: Um-hum.

BONNER: -- to him and asked to join his group again. So it's really a nexus. I mean, a lot of that is noise that they need to push to the side, and that's going to be the prosecution's part in terms of really redirecting all of this testimony away from the domestic violence and really showing that it's sex trafficking for the purposes of protecting his reputation. For controlling his empire through kidnapping, arson, bribery, obstruction of justice.

All of the other things that are alleged in the RICO case are just a mere part of the sex trafficking. Is a mere part of what is alleged in the RICO case.

BOLDUAN: The assistant gets back on the stand and continues. And then they're also hanging out there -- I know a lot of people are very interested in is when Cassie Ventura's mother takes the stand herself.

BONNER: Um-hum.

BOLDUAN: What do you think she can or what do you think she cannot offer to the jury? I mean, what do you think are kind of the limits of the impact of her testimony or is there no limit to it?

BONNER: Well, I think the mother is going to be a very powerful witness because again, what they're trying to -- what they're trying to show in the sex trafficking is the fact that listen, she may have consented at some point. But in the larger picture -- in the grand scheme of things was she afraid to leave him? Did she consent?

I may have consented but in the totality of the circumstances was her conduct controlled? Was she afraid to leave for fear of retribution? And that's something that's really important that the mother can testify to. Maybe she had conversations with Cassie, and she told Cassie you should leave, and she said I can't. Or Cassie was telling her I can't leave. She may have seen bruises, cuts that we saw yesterday.

So her mother is going to be a firsthand eyewitness to all of that. I mean, who is closest to the mother --

BOLDUAN: That's right.

BONNER: -- but the daughter? The daughter and the mother -- I mean, that's a -- that's a powerful relationship and they're going to seek to really establish that nexus that she did confide in her mother about the abuse and her fear to leave. That is what I would assume reading the legal tea leaves.

BOLDUAN: Yeah. I mean, we'll -- and we'll see. But you know -- and you can also expect it to be highly emotional as well --

BONNER: Very emotional.

BOLDUAN: -- hearing her mother speak to that.

BONNER: And that's going to be the thing -- bringing in the mother --

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

BONNER: -- to lend some credibility to the testimony that she was crying on her mother's --

BOLDUAN: Yeah.

BONNER: -- shoulder and she could not -- she did not feel free to leave. So we'll see.

BOLDUAN: And you know -- yeah. And you know the defense team will be ready for it and working to counter that as well.

BONNER: Yes.

BOLDUAN: Thanks for coming in.

BONNER: Thanks for having me.

BOLDUAN: I really appreciate it -- John.

BERMAN: All right. This morning new information on the manhunt for now six inmates on the run after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole in the wall.

And new video shows the moment that lightning struck a police car during a storm. That doesn't look good. What does this mean for the people who say it's safe to be in a car during a storm?

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BERMAN: All right. Developing overnight, as we mentioned a short time ago, the Department of Justice filed charges against Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver of New Jersey. She is accused of assaulting and interfering with law enforcement during a confrontation with homeland security officers outside an ICE detention center in Newark.

In a statement, McIver said the charges "...are purely political. They mischaracterize and distort my actions and are meant to criminalize and deter legislative oversight."

Prosecutors also said they will drop the federal trespassing charge initially filed against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka who was arrested during the same confrontation. He spoke about Congressman McIver's -- her arrest with Abby Phillip.

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MAYOR RAS BARAKA, (D) NEWARK, NEW JERSEY: I didn't see any of the things that were stated. I didn't see any of those things happen. So I think that the congresswoman will be vindicated. And the videos are clear. Everybody can see those videos. They'll see the whole thing and it will be clear to me, and it will be clear to her in court.

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BERMAN: Again, as we mentioned before, House Democratic leadership condemned the prosecution of McIver as "extreme, morally bankrupt, and lacking in any basis of law or fact." -- Kate.

BOLDUAN: All right. And for more on that, coming up, jurors were presented with new evidence Monday as the retrial of Karen Read enters its fifth week. And the day took a turn when the defense began questioning the credentials of an expert called by the prosecution.

CNN's Jean Casarez is following this one for us and she's here with us now. Jean, what happened yesterday?

JEAN CASAREZ, CNN REPORTER: So much. This case is getting very complicated. But let's talk about one hair -- first of all, one hair that was found on the back right area of the car near the tail light. Well, they did mitochondrial DNA testing. It was a hair shaft -- one piece of hair though. And what they found was that 99.85 percent of the population could be excluded, and victim John O'Keefe could be included --

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BOLDUAN: Hmm.

CASAREZ: -- all right? He was part of that. So in all likelihood it's his hair, all right?

Now, let's go on to forensic processor. Forensic evidence expert Shanon Burgess from Aperture testified about the black box of the Lexus. This is the first time we're hearing about what the brains of the car is saying it did that night.

Let's show everyone. It says that Read's car was first turned on at 12:12:36. Well, that -- we know that they left the bar that night -- the Waterfall -- going toward the house where the afterparty was going to be. Well, they got lost in all of that.

So the first event was a three-way turn -- a three-point turn, and it says that was made at 12:23:38 a.m. And then the second event, which would be putting the car in reverse once outside of the house and driving backwards -- that took place at 12:31:38 through 12:31:43. This is very technical, right?

Well, that is all well and good but here's the problem. It does not coincide with the brains of the iPhone -- what the iPhone forensics said. It's close but he had to do a process where he would put the numbers together and synchronize them. And so he had the final numbers. Well, the defense fought back on that.

But this is what I think is taking everyone's attention this morning. Shanon Burgess had his resume. It was given to prosecutors. And it says that he is working towards his Bachelor of Science degree. He does not have that yet. But then the defense looked at prior resumes he had, what his LinkedIn account said. It spoke about numerous degrees that he had.

Listen to this cross-examination.

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ROBERT ALESSI, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: So this is a third example of a document that incorrectly states that you have a Bachelor of Science when you do not possess that degree, correct?

SHANON BURGESS, APERTURE LLC: It has errors or outdated information, correct.

ALESSI: Well, when you say outdated, how is that you can call a date outdated next to something that you don't possess?

BURGESS: I don't understand your question.

ALESSI: If I did the math correctly, sir, you've been pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree for 17 years, correct?

BURGESS: That is correct.

ALESSI: And you have not obtained it as you sit here today.

BURGESS: That is correct.

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CASAREZ: The cross-examination will continue this morning. How will prosecutors turn that around

BOLDUAN: Good question. Let's find out.

CASAREZ: Because they'll be an instruction at the end. If you believe the witness lied, you don't have to believe any of his testimony.

BOLDUAN: Oof, there you go.

Jean, thank you so much, as always -- John.

BERMAN: All right. This morning the search for a group of escaped inmates is expanding. Hundreds of local, state, and federal authorities now on the case looking for the now six inmates on the run after 10 broke out of New Orleans jail on Friday. Four of the inmates who escaped through a hole behind a toilet have now been recaptured, including one overnight.

Rafael Romo is covering this for us. Rafael, what's the latest?

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: John, good morning.

It was the Louisiana State Police who were able to capture the fourth fugitive on Monday evening. He has been identified as 21-year-old Gary C. Price. In announcing the arrest, Louisiana State Police said that Price was caught thanks to law enforcement agencies working collectively to locate the inmates who escaped Friday from a New Orleans jail. According to police, Price was originally incarcerated at the Orleans Justice Center for attempted first degree murder, domestic abuse, and aggravated assault.

There are still six other fugitives at large this morning, John, and authorities say over 200 law enforcement personnel continue to work around the clock to locate them. The reward for information leading to the capture of each escapee has increased to $20,000 when you combine what the FBI, ATF, and Crimestoppers are offering.

But the fact that they haven't been caught more than four days after escaping is cause for grave concern for people in Louisiana and neighboring states, including Orleans Parish district attorney Jason Williams, whose office prosecuted some of the fugitives.

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JASON WILLIAMS, ORLEANS PARISH DISTRICT ATTORNEY: The two lawyers who I worked with got out of town when this happened with their families. I'm not going to talk about where they are or what protections are in place.

We have reached out to the witnesses and next of kin who testified in this case. There are a number of people who are out there who are scared. We've relocated the ones who wanted to be relocated. Obviously, I'm not going to discuss where they are.

But no one is going to feel safe until he's back in custody, including myself.

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ROMO: And John, because the escapees may have crossed state lines, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked her counterparts in Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Tennessee to alert their law enforcement agencies -- John.

BERMAN: All right, Rafael Romo. Thank you very much for that report.