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Zelenskyy Says 10 Percent of U.S. Patriots Would Destroy Russia's Missiles; Conflicting Accounts After ICE Agent Points Gun at Woman; Several Close Aides Joined Trump on Secret Flight; 2 Pilots Dead After Military Helicopter Slams into Texas Field; Lindsay Clancy Sobs Through Children's Autopsy Testimony. Aired 8-8:30a ET

Aired August 13, 2026 - 08:00   ET

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ZELENSKYY: ... We will destroy all the Russians' ballistic missiles.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: And has that request been answered yet? Have you had a clear indication as to whether...

ZELENSKYY: The answer is, for today, is next. I have 1 percent. This is in what I live each day.

From 1 percent to 5 percent, I have some months and million phone calls and anything else. What can I do? I do some things which I can't even share.

It doesn't mean that it's out of the law. No, but I can't speak about it.

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ROBERTSON (on camera): This is where those US stocks are so urgently needed. This city has really changed. People used to walk calmly through air raid sirens like nothing was about to happen.

Now they run to the subway for shelter every night. Deep anxiety that the missiles will yet again get through. Many days waiting for yet another Russian massive assault here that's yet to come.

And ultimately, it seems a decision in Mr. Zelenskyy's eyes rests with President Donald Trump as to whether he's going to give more of U.S. stocks to Ukraine, where every night they could save lives.

ERICA HILL, CNN ANCHOR: So important to have you there back on the ground. Nic, appreciate it. Thank you.

A new hour of CNN NEWS CENTRAL starts right now.

SARA SIDNER, CNN ANCHOR: Developing this morning, ICE pulling a gun on a woman they say tried to run them over, but her dash camera video doesn't appear to match their claim. This morning, new questions about the agency's tactics and the government's narrative about what happened, what led up to this very moment, and what comes next.

Breaking this hour, we are standing by for a key report on inflation, tracking prices and possibly telling us how much more we might be shelling out for everyday items or if it'll go down a little bit.

And a deadly military helicopter crash in Texas, the impact so forceful that it forced the evacuation of nearby homes and businesses.

John and Kate out today. I'm Sara Sidner in Atlanta. Erica Hill is in New York. This is CNN NEWS CENTRAL.

HILL: This morning, a controversial confrontation is raising new questions about the tactics being used by ICE agents. This confrontation caught on camera. So in it, an ICE agent is seen pointing his gun at a woman behind the wheel of a vehicle in Virginia, an image she captured on her cell phone.

Now, though, you're hearing from both sides, and the stories are not at all the same in terms of what led up to this moment. So we want to play for you part of that video. Again, the woman recorded on her cell phone.

She also released some dash cam video. Let's start with that cell phone video.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You almost ran us over.

CAROLINA MOLINA, RECORDED ENCOUNTER WITH ICE AGENTS: I didn't almost run you over.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You almost ran us over.

MOLINA: You're so full of s**t.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stop playing.

MOLINA: You are full of s**t.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're not funny.

MOLINA: You're not funny.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I will arrest you. Keep it up.

MOLINA: I'm a legal citizen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep it up. I don't care.

MOLINA: Oh, my goodness.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have to lock you up.

MOLINA: OK. For what?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're the one that tried to run us over.

MOLINA: Run you over when? I got recording. I got dash cam. I got dash cam.

That's a lie.

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HILL: So, as you heard her say, she had dash cam video. She did release some of that video publicly. In it, you can hear her talking about it right in the cell phone video.

Carolina Molina is a health, mental health therapist. She said she was in that location because she was visiting immigration workers, immigration lawyers as part of her work on Monday. And she said while she was there, she saw agents handcuffing two men who she referred to as Latino men.

She's heard on the video, as you heard there, yelling insults at the officers. And then moments later, she says, that's when she decided to leave. She turned her car around and was trying to leave when she says this grey SUV cut her off. Then the agent jumps out, gun drawn as you saw in the cell phone video. Now Molina was not arrested. You heard threats of that.

DHS, though, says she could still face prosecution for quote, weaponizing her vehicle. CNN's Jason Carroll joining me now. There are so many questions especially because the two accounts that we're hearing from DHS and from Carolina Molina, they are not the same.

JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And this isn't the first time, right? We've heard various accounts involving ICE, two different accounts in this situation, as we've heard in the past, this time around again, two very different accounts of actually what happened here. Carolina Molina, as you've heard, says that she saw that these ICE agents were out there handcuffing two people and then she saw them escort them into an unmarked vehicle.

She says she then rolled down her window and admitted to shouting insults at these officers. She said during a press conference yesterday she is an admitted loudmouth. She then says that she tried to turn her car around to drive away.

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That's when she says the ICE agents drove their cars to try to block her in and that's when she says one of them pulled out a gun.

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CAROLINA MOLINA, RECORDED ENCOUNTER WITH ICE AGENTS: There was a shock when I saw him pull in front of me and take the gun out because as he's walking up the gun is already out and then he starts pointing it at me. So as you can tell in the video, I said are you really meaning like are you really doing this like I can't really believe it.

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CARROLL: Molina at a certain point also referred to Renee Good of course the mother of three that was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minnesota earlier this year. Her death sparked national outrage and called into question how ICE agents operate and their tactics out there in the field. In this case the Department of Homeland Security released a statement saying in part, "While ICE was conducting targeted immigration enforcement in Falls Church, Virginia, an anti- ICE agitator began to drive her car in circles around our ICE officers and then attempted to harm officers by weaponizing her vehicle against them -- all in an attempt to help illegal aliens," as they describe them, "get away. Fearing for their safety, ICE officers conducted a vehicle stop of the driver."

Now again Molina says her dash cam footage shows what really happened. You know what would really help provide more clarity in all of this is whether or not we knew that these particular ICE officers were wearing body-worn cameras and as you know ICE is in this middle of this nationwide rollout of body-worn cameras and they are expected they say they are on target to have all of these officers have these body-worn cameras by the end of August but it's unclear at this point whether or not we know these ICE officers were wearing body-worn cameras.

HILL: Which is an important question and certainly also perhaps clear up some of what we're hearing but we will wait for that, and I know you'll continue to dig in. Jason, thank you -- Sara.

SIDNER: All right, thank you Erica.

We have some new CNN reporting this morning. We're now learning fighter jets accompanied the secret flight President Trump took out of Turkey last month and that fighter jets also flew alongside the original Air Force One plane used as a decoy. On board that plane were journalists and some cabinet members like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. But we now know Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was actually on the flight with the president along with some of the president's close personal aides in a different plane.

CNN's Kevin Liptak has new reporting for us this morning. What are you learning Kevin?

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Right and the manifests of these planes are interesting they were the product of this hours- long scramble on the ground there in Turkey to come up with this plan of deception. The two cabinet secretaries Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent who were on the original Air Force One were aware of this plan. They knew that the president had been spirited away in the catering van to the other plane.

Of course many others on that plane, the press, including some White House staff as well, were not aware of this plot. When it comes to those two personal aides who joined the president on the alternate plane Natalie Harp, Walt Nauta, also Dan Scavino and Pete Hegseth, White House officials say that that's not necessarily a surprise. They are by the president's side almost everywhere that he travels and it's interesting in video from the tarmac in the UK you can see Pete Hegseth, Walt Nauta and Natalie Harp accompanying the president as he gets back on that Qatari donated jet to fly back to Washington.

Now in the weeks after this all transpired there has now become some skepticism about exactly how serious this threat actually was. It originated with Israeli intelligence. They are coming to the U.S. with this information that perhaps there could be this Iranian cell inside of Ankara who are trying to assassinate President Trump including potentially by using a shoulder-fired missile to take down Air Force One. American officials did view that with some degree of skepticism, in part because they thought that Israel could be trying to influence President Trump's thinking at what was a very sensitive moment in the war with Iran.

Remember this is when his ceasefire was on the verge of collapse. He was considering going back to full-scale conflict with Iran.

The other reason that they thought it might be implausible was the level of security that you saw there on the ground in Turkey and it was remarkable. You know, tens of thousands of police checkpoints everywhere you go, even for a summit like this it was really an extraordinary level of security. And so they were viewing it with a degree of skepticism, but U.S. officials and U.S. intelligence did gather their own information.

Part of what was alarming to them is the level of detail that Iran had about the president's arrangements there in Turkey and so the decision was made to green light this decoy mission and as you said they even mustered fighter jets to accompany both of those planes out of the country.

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SIDNER: Kevin Liptak, still more questions and you have been getting some of the answers. We really appreciate it -- Erica.

HILL: Well, this morning, we have some new details about a deadly military helicopter crash that killed two people, sparking a grass fire and some evacuations. That's ahead.

Plus parts of the Midwest under severe flooding threats right now, as a number of communities are actually still underwater.

And a dramatic rescue caught on camera. A driver pulled from a burning car.

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SIDNER: This morning, investigators are trying to determine the cause of a deadly military crash in Texas. An Army Apache helicopter went down yesterday near Fort Hood, killing the two pilots. The two-seater chopper slammed into a field, sparking a wildfire there.

You can see the results. CNN's Pete Muntean joining us now. What are you learning about what may have caused this crash? PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT: Well, still very few details in this crash, Sara.

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And unlike an accident involving civilian aircraft, military investigations are not done out in the open and the results rarely released to the public. So it could take some time to figure out exactly what went wrong here. But here's what we know right now.

This crash took place in Salado, Texas. That's about 40 miles north of Austin, just south of Fort Hood, which is a major helicopter base for the Army. What's apparent from the video is that this helicopter hit the ground very hard and lit off a large brush fire of about 150 acres.

Still not clear the purpose of this flight. This crash site is away from some of the areas typically associated with training operations at Fort Hood. And there's been some speculation that could have been a maintenance test flight, but there's no official confirmation from the Army on that right now.

We do know that this was an AH-64 Apache helicopter, first built by McDonnell Douglas, now supported by Boeing. The Apache has been in the service of the Army about 40 years now, more than 800 of them in the Army fleet. And with recent tech upgrades, this helicopter will likely be flying until at least 2050.

Long service history like that does not come without its issues though, Sara. Apache's have had issues with what are known as strap packs. It's a critical structural part on the main rotor head.

In 2023, the Army disclosed electrical generator problems leading to smoke in the cockpit. That's a huge issue for pilots. And then there was a cluster of incident in 2024 that prompted renewed security of the aircraft's safety record.

Of course, a lot of people are watching this for new details. The Army has not yet released the names of the two soldiers who died in this crash.

SIDNER: There are some clues, but you don't necessarily know what it was that caused this particular incident where two soldiers died. Pete Muntean, thank you so much for keeping an eye on it for us. Appreciate it.

All right, ahead, the murder trial of a mother accused of killing her children is set to resume in just a few minutes after emotional testimony in court. Clancy breaking down in tears during testimony about her children's autopsies.

Plus this morning, lawmakers demanding answers after reports of extremely poor conditions for sailors aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Middle East, including a shortage of food and hygiene supplies.

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HILL: So next hour, the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy is set to resume in Massachusetts. Court ended on Wednesday with highly emotional testimony for Clancy, who previously admitted to killing her children. Her attorney says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and that she's not criminally responsible.

Yesterday, Clancy broke down in tears as the medical examiner described the results of the autopsies.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And what about injuries?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, counsel, could -- I want you to take a break for this time, all right?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Court, all rise. Jurors, close your notebooks. Place them on the chairs, please.

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HILL: And that we see her there, her head on the desk. Jean Cazarez is with us now, has been covering this, so many difficult emotional moments in this trial, Jean.

JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, this was the autopsy results of two of the children, Cora, five years old, Dawson, three years old, about the ligature strangulations. And what happened right after that, we heard in the final pretrial hearing, she has to have two nurses with her at court every day because of her need. She's paralyzed from her lower torso down.

And so they ran up to the front. One of them I saw took the wheelchair because she's in a wheelchair, obviously, ready to get out of the courtroom at that moment. But it was sudden, it was fast, and the jury had to listen to her, of course, right?

And listen to the testimony. But today, more witnesses for the prosecution still in their case in chief. Yesterday, Latiesha Dukes, master's degrees, highly educated in psychology and mental health counseling, took the stand.

And she actually treated Lindsay Clancy December 2nd through the end, about a month, about three weeks before it all happened. She said when she first saw her, she said, I have anxiety, I can't sleep, I'm depressed, and I don't want to be here any longer. And so there is a protocol they go through.

And one is, what is the plan? She didn't have a plan. So they cannot say it's suicidal ideation.

Next time she came in, she called the hotline over the weekend. She said it was a very tough weekend. I had intrusive thoughts.

Finally, she said, and I'm talking about Latiesha Dukes, she said, OK, you need more care. Intensive outpatient therapy and partial inpatient therapy. And she actually referred her to a very respected program in Rhode Island of women and infants.

And she got her in. On cross-examination, the defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, talks about why Lindsay Clancy was actually not accepted into that very respected program.

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KEVIN REDDINGTON, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You were trying to get her into this program, which would be pretty good for a woman that had postpartum problems, right?

LATIESHA DUKES: Correct.

REDDINGTON: And you made your referral, you opened the door for her, and she got in there to at least be interviewed, right?

DUKES: Correct.

REDDINGTON: And they didn't take her, right?

DUKES: Correct.

REDDINGTON: You know why?

DUKES: I'm not aware as to why.

REDDINGTON: Would it surprise you to know that they indicated that they couldn't treat her as a woman with postpartum psychosis or postpartum depression or postpartum anxiety or any of that, because their opinion was that she was suffering from an overmedication.

DUKES: It would surprise me.

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CASAREZ: And Latiesha Dukes said that in the middle of December, about one month before, that Lindsay Clancy, on that last visit, said, I'm really doing better. I'm going outside and I feel much better.

HILL: Wow. All right, and much more to come today. Jean, appreciate it. Thank you.

And of course, you can catch Jean's coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial. It begins just a few minutes from now at 8:45 a.m. Eastern on CNN ALL ACCESS.

President Trump sued over a new service that offers early access to his Truth Social posts for a price.

And we are standing by for a key inflation report that's due out in just a matter of minutes. We're going to bring you those numbers as soon as we get them.

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SIDNER: We are just over 80 days away from critical midterm elections that could shift the balance of power in D.C. and the country. President Trump making a shocking admission that could drastically impact the vote, refusing to rule out declaring a national security emergency and federalizing control over the midterms if the Senate does not pass his Save America voting bill. Listen to what he said when asked about possibly taking over elections.

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WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: If they never get the Save America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections ...

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