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Police Release Video from Tiger Woods' Latest Rollover Crash; Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi; NATO Secretary General to Visit President Trump Next Week; UK Hosts Virtual Summit on Reopening Strait of Hormuz; Artemis II Crew Orbits Earth in Preparation for Moon Fly-By. Aired 3:30-4p ET

Aired April 02, 2026 - 15:30   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're still going to have our medic come and check you out. I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, we're not going to.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to have our medics check you out, all right?

TIGER WOODS: Yes, yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're good. Yes, all set.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's OK. I just checked for anything on his back. I didn't feel anything.

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BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: CNN's Isabel Rosales joins us now. Isabel, that is only one of the clips that's been released, what else is in the footage?

ISABEL ROSALES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, and more. CNN is still working to review all of the video files that have been released by the Martin County Sheriff's Office and obtained by our CNN affiliate WPBF. Now, for the first time, we're seeing here images of that failed sobriety test where we can see Woods calm and coherent, but also as outlined by the arrest affidavit, the signs of impairment that deputies noted from the golf icon, the bloodshot and glassy eyes, the pupils that were dilated.

We saw on tape him hiccupping throughout the entire DUI investigation, these suspicious characteristics that made deputies determine that this had to switch over from a crash investigation over to a DUI investigation. Now, Woods told deputies in one of the videos that he had not consumed any alcohol, and in fact, in a breathalyzer test, blew triple zeros, meaning he in fact did not have any alcohol. But he did acknowledge that he had taken prescription medication earlier in the day.

Combined with the arrest report, we're getting a fuller, comprehensive picture of what happened during that crash last Friday. And when he failed the field sobriety test, this is what happened. Take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DEPUTY: You going to face my car and place your hands behind your back. There you go.

So at this time, I do believe your normal faculties are impaired. OK, and you're under that unknown substance. OK, so at this time, you're under arrest for DUI.

Yes, sir. Do you have anything on you that's going to help you?

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ROSALES: And while removing items from his pockets, they pulled out cash, pulled out headphones and also two white pills that were noted to be prescription hydrocodone. Now, it's important to note that Woods has entered a plea of not guilty. He is demanding a jury trial -- Boris.

SANCHEZ: Isabel Rosales, thank you so much for the latest there.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been fired. We have the latest breaking details after a quick break. Stay with us.

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SANCHEZ: Breaking news. We're hearing from Pam Bondi for the first time since President Trump ousted her as attorney general a short time ago.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN HOST: That's right. In a post on social media, she says, in part, quote, "Leading President Trump's historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure has been the honor of a lifetime and easily the most consequential first year of the Department of Justice in American history."

CNN's Evan Perez joins us with more on this. Are you learning some more about why she was fired?

EVAN PEREZ, CNN SENIOR JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Look, I think the one of the things that was on the president's mind more recently is the fact that she has this this deposition scheduled for the next couple of weeks. So the question is what happens now with that? Because that is a reminder -- that was a reminder to the president of this Epstein debacle that has really hung around both Pam Bondi's neck and has really damaged the president with his own base. Right.

This is a thing that that the base has not let go since Pam Bondi last year in February did that whole event where she invited people to come look at the Epstein files in binders. And one of the things that I think has reminded the president talking to sources over the last few days is that, you know, the retribution agenda is not what he wants it to be, despite the fact that she's actually you know, she's tried. She has done as much as she could to make it happen. It's just that, you know, in some cases, the cases are not very good. The evidence is not there. Juries are not there.

And so that's part of the problem for the department. The question now is, who can he find who is going to do everything that he wants?

That is one of the requisites for this job. The job is not only do you need to leave the Justice Department, you need to go get his retribution done, but also you need to do everything he wants you to do and do it the way he wants it done.

And so Lee Zeldin is one of the names that has been floating around. He's the EPA administrator. We've heard Trey Gowdy's name, Jeanine Pirro, who is the U.S. attorney in Washington. Those are the names that have been circulated over the last few weeks.

There's Mike Lee, who is a senator from Utah, whose name has also been circulated. It's not clear where the president goes, but universally, the people I talk to and the people our team have been talking to, you know, we don't know where the president finds someone more pliant than Pam Bondi. And that's the big question for the president going forward.

SANCHEZ: Evan Perez, thank you so much for the reporting.

So what can be done to ease tensions between President Trump and NATO ahead of a visit from the head of the alliance? We're going to talk about it with a former U.S. ambassador to NATO when we come back.

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KEILAR: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will visit Washington, D.C. next week to meet with President Trump as Trump repeatedly criticizes the lack of support from members in the war with Iran. In two interviews yesterday, the president suggested he's considering withdrawing the U.S. from the alliance. Today, dozens of nations joined a virtual summit hosted by the U.K. looking at options to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and trying to contain the growing fallout from the war. Notably, the U.S. did not participate.

We're joined now by former U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder. He's currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center and host of the World Review with Ivo Daalder podcast.

Ambassador, thanks for being with us. I wonder, considering the president's comments yesterday, considering what he said and did not say in his address last night, where do you think things stand right now between the U.S. and NATO?

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IVO DAALDER, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NATO: Well, the situation is not good. Of course, the United States is a member of NATO, so this idea that there is a difference between the United States and NATO is part of the way the president talks about it, says NATO is not doing anything, but of course, we are the leaders of NATO.

And that goes to the core of the problem that I think we're seeing right now. The president has long believed for many, many, many years that NATO is more of a burden than a benefit to the United States. I happen to think he's wrong.

I think most people who have worked with and in NATO think that the United States gains tremendously from being a member of NATO, but that is his view. And the situation has become aggravated because of this war. He did not consult with the allies.

Many allies think that this war is indeed illegal and are therefore taking steps not to in any way be associated with the war, including limiting their air bases and airspace at times to American overflights and American bases and refueling. That is pretty unique, particularly since it involves major allies. And it just goes to show that the depth of the differences between the United States and our allies in Europe is now as big as I think it has ever been in the history of the alliance in the last 77 years.

KEILAR: And what about this visit by the Secretary General? What is his mission? How can he convince President Trump of what you said, that as the U.S. relates, I guess I should say, to its NATO allies, that NATO -- being a part of NATO, being the leader of NATO really does serve America?

DAALDER: I think the most important message that Mark Rutte can deliver both publicly and importantly privately is to lay out for the president the plan that the European allies and Canada are embarking upon to reduce their dependence on the United States. For too long, the United States has borne too much of the collective defense burden. And the time has long since passed, not just because of Donald -- President Trump, but many other presidents have long pressed the Europeans in particular to spend more on defense and to take on more responsibility for defense.

And what the secretary can say, we heard you. We have, as on your urging, Mr. President, agree to increase defense spending up to 5 percent of GDP by 2035. Now, here is how that money is going to be spent over the next nine years to enable us to take more and more responsibility for the defense of Europe and therefore less and less responsibility having to lie on the United States.

I think that is the best way to convince the president that Europeans are taking, doing their share and more than their share, and that they are now getting that message. That is the message I hope he will send, whether that will be sufficient given where the president is and given what's happening in Iran and the difficulties that he faces in Iran is yet to be seen.

KEILAR: The UK is hosting this virtual summit today on the Strait of Hormuz crisis. There are representatives from over 40 countries. This is something that's been announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer just yesterday. I wonder what you think Secretary General Rutte should do if the message from President Trump in this meeting is just sort of, hey, the strait is your problem, deal with it. And he's really seeking some kind of agreement on the part of NATO allies to take care of this situation that has been created by the war.

DAALDER: Well, I think it's remarkable that we do have 40 countries coming together. This is in fact comes out of an initiative that the Secretary General Rutte started a few weeks ago in order to respond to the call for NATO countries to do more. We've had a statement first of six major countries, European plus Japan, which expanded and now there are 40 countries involved.

Importantly, though, the focus of this effort is to figure out how do you maintain the strait open after the war has ended, not during the war. And as long as the war is going to continue, no European, no other country, including not the U.S. Navy, is going to try to force it open.

The reality is that the Strait of Hormuz was open on the February 28th. It closed only because the United States and Israel decided to launch a war. And it now needs to open, and that has to be related to the end of the war.

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I do think that Rutte and the Europeans and others can say, listen, we understand we have a responsibility for maintaining security in the Gulf. We have done that in the past, indeed. Many of these countries have had a military presence for many decades inside the Gulf, including Britain and France and the Netherlands and other countries. We will continue to do that in a more concerted effort.

But ultimately, as long as there is fighting across the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf, we're not going to be part of that. We didn't start this war. You didn't ask us whether we should start this war. You, Mr. President, will have to figure out how to end it, and then we can talk about what we can do.

KEILAR: Yes, it'll be a critical meeting and very important to watch. Ambassador Daalder, thank you so much for being with us.

The official first day of the Artemis II crew's historic lunar mission is in the books, but they're not quite headed to the moon yet, though that is going to happen soon. We'll have the latest on their voyage after the break.

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SANCHEZ: The Artemis II crew is now starting their second day of operations for their mission to the moon, and last hour they received their official wake-up call from NASA. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning, Artemis II crew.

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SANCHEZ: Little John Legend and Andre 3000 for the wake-up call there. Right now, the crew is still orbiting the Earth at over 5,000 miles an hour as they prepare for a complex maneuver that'll send them hurdling around the lunar surface.

KEILAR: Until then, they're taking in what they describe as phenomenal views of our planet while gearing up to go farther into space than humans have ever traveled.

Here with us, retired NASA astronaut Colonel Terry Virts. All right, Colonel, so this is a test mission hoping to bring NASA closer to landing humans back on the moon. What's been happening so far as we're looking towards this very important moment this evening?

COL. TERRY VIRTS (RET.), FORMER NASA ASTRONAUT: Yes, this first day, we call it flight day one, has been really busy. Of course, launch was the big thing, and then getting the spaceship converted from a rocket- borne capsule into an actual spaceship was another task. They did some manual flying where they kind of spun around and rejoined on their booster rocket just so the pilots could practice flying the capsule.

They reboosted themselves into a very, we call it highly elliptical orbit where at the top part, they're 45,000 miles away from Earth, and at the bottom part, they're 1,500 miles. So that's very high. That's higher than I was on the space station, so that was pretty cool.

And then the big thing tonight, in a couple of hours, they're going to do what's called a TLI burn, the Translunar Injection Burn, using just their own service module. So that small European-built rocket on the back of the capsule is going to boost them from 17,000 miles an hour to 25,000 miles an hour and put them on escape velocity on a trajectory to the moon. So this first flight day one, in addition to the wake-up music by John Legend, has been a really busy day.

SANCHEZ: There are a number of key moments during this 10-day mission. So what are you going to be looking for as we get closer to their actual arrival near the lunar orbit?

VIRTS: Well, the big thing, this TLI burn is really critical. So it has to happen right to be put on the precise trajectory to the moon. And you don't just fly a straight line to the moon.

You have Earth's gravity the whole time bending your course. And then as you get closer to the moon, the moon's gravity becomes really important. So it's the big arcing parabolic trajectory.

So the burn tonight, the rocket engine has to fire for the precise amount of time. It's a few minutes. So that's a really important thing. Plus, once that's done, they can't come back to Earth. They can't abort. Like right now, if there was a medical emergency or whatever, they could turn around backwards, fire the engine, and splash down.

They can't do that after the TLI burn. So that's a big deal. And then, of course, for the whole mission, they have to make sure the life support systems work.

So the atmosphere and the cooling and the water and the bathroom and the food and everything that humans need, that needs to work. The navigation needs to work. So they're going to be doing some testing and experiments on that to make sure that the capsule can see stars and can see the moon and navigate itself.

And the coolest part is going to be flying around the moon. I mean, these guys are going to be glued to the window, taking pictures. They have a lot of experiments to do during those few hours when they're close to the moon.

And then the big thing that happens, you know, a week and a half from now, when they finally come back to Earth, the heat shield is a big part of the test and also the parachutes and all that to make sure they splash down in the right part of the Pacific.

So as a test pilot, I'm excited because there's a lot of test data points that have to be checked out.

KEILAR: All right. Talk to us about the food which you mentioned, because NASA posted the menu and it has 189 unique menu items, 10 kinds of drinks, five different hot sauces. Pretty cool.

What was your favorite thing to eat in space and what would you recommend staying away from?

KEILAR: Real quick. We have like 30 seconds.

VIRTS: Well, the hot sauces are a big deal. Your taste buds change in space. And so you need more spice.

Everybody loves shrimp cocktail because it's spicy. We had this German Zepf, which is the German word for mustard that was super popular. The standard hot sauces, anything that's spicy, the astronauts will love.

And since this is a short mission in a capsule, they got to pick their food, so you don't have to eat from the community pantry. They got to pick what they wanted.

SANCHEZ: I hope somebody packs some glizzies. Get some glizzies out there in the lunar orbit. Colonel Terry Virts, thanks so much for the time. I appreciate you.

VIRTS: Thanks for having me on.

SANCHEZ: Of course.

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