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Suspect In Custody To Face Charges In Attack On Pennsylvania Governor's Residence; Commerce Secretary Lutnick Defends Tariff Exemptions As Trump Claims None Exist; DOJ Says Maryland Man Mistakenly Deported To El Salvador Alive And Secure; Wisconsin Teen Allegedly Killed Parents In Plot To Assassinate Trump; Star-Studded All-Female Crew Of Space Tourists To Launch Monday. Aired 6-7p ET

Aired April 13, 2025 - 18:00   ET

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ANNOUNCER: This is CNN Breaking News.

JESSICA DEAN, CNN HOST: You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Jessica Dean in New York.

And we do begin tonight with breaking news out of Pennsylvania. Police saying they have a suspect in custody set to face charges of attempted arson and attempted homicide in the attack on Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro's residence overnight. We know Shapiro and his family, which includes four children, were woken up by police around 2:00 a.m. and evacuated after their home there was set on fire. Amazingly, no one was injured.

Shapiro, getting emotional in a press conference that wrapped just a few moments ago, saying this was a targeted attack.

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GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Lori and I are -- Lori and I are overwhelmed by the prayers, and the messages of support that we've received from all across Pennsylvania and all across the United States. But we do know that this attack was targeted. We don't know the person's specific motive yet, but we do know a few truths. First, this type of violence is not OK.

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DEAN: Just hours earlier, Governor Shapiro had posted this photo because he'd celebrated the first night of Passover with his family and others there at the governor's residence.

CNN's Danny Freeman is live for us tonight with more on this story.

Danny, we are expecting to get more information very shortly when these charges are officially filed. Walk us through what we do know right now. Obviously, a big question around motive. We do know that the governor was celebrating Passover, a Jewish holiday, with his family the night before this happened early in the morning. And tonight is the second night of Passover. But we're still waiting to figure out exactly what the motive is here.

DANNY FREEMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Jessica. And really, we got a tremendous amount of new information from that press conference that just wrapped up, I would say the main headline, as you noted, is that a suspect is in custody at this time. That's 38-year- old Cody Bomber. He's expected to be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault. That's according to the Dauphin County D.A. And again, we'll wait to see what is some of the details inside of that probable cause affidavit when it's filed a little bit later this evening.

But let's go through exactly what we know about the timeline of last night. As you said, yesterday evening, Governor Shapiro was hosting a Passover Seder for the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It was with his family. He also had other guests in attendance at the residence. He and his family, and some of those guests then went to sleep. And then at some point over the night, likely a little bit before 2:00 a.m. police say this man Bomber jumped over a fence at the residence, was able to then evade state troopers who were on site.

The trooper said that they actually knew that a breach had occurred, but this man was able to evade them, break into the residence, set fire to the residence, and then escape back over the fence again without getting caught until much later on today at some point. He had homemade incendiary devices on him, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

Shapiro said that he woke up at around 2:00 a.m. to bangs from first responders saying his house was on fire. Thankfully, he and his family were in a separate part of the home from where the fire was going on. First responders were able to knock down that fire and thankfully no one was hurt. But Pennsylvania State Police said that there was considerable damage done to the residence. And you could tell Governor Shapiro really overwhelmed by the support that he's received and by how intense this act was, especially because this man was able to actually get inside of the residence.

Governor Shapiro said that he actually spoke with the director of the FBI, Kash Patel. The FBI is assisting in this investigation.

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But at this point, we do not know if there will be any federal charges when it comes to this particular suspect who is currently in custody.

Frankly, just a mess of a situation here in Harrisburg, Jessica. But I will say, as you noted, Governor Shapiro said that violence is not acceptable and he will not be deterred whether it is in his job or whether it comes to practicing his religion. He said he plans on having a seder tonight, the second night of Passover, in spite of everything that happened overnight -- Jessica.

DEAN: Yes, and hopefully he and his family can take some comfort being together. And again, Danny, we are expecting more details once these charges are filed. So we will keep you close. And thank you so much for that update. Joining us now is retired FBI supervisory special agent Rob Damico.

He's also a former deputy operations chief for the FBI hostage rescue team.

Rob, thank you so much for being here with us. As we're kind of getting more of these details, what questions do you still have right now? What's standing out to you?

I don't think we can hear Rob. Let's give him just a second to see if we can check on that. Again, we're going to give Rob just a second. Let's see if we can hear him now.

Rob, can you hear us?

ROB D'AMICO, RETIRED FBI SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT: Yes. Sorry.

DEAN: There he is. No, it's all right. This is great. So we're glad that we can proceed. We were just saying. What questions do you still have? What is standing out to you?

D'AMICO: Well, the biggest thing is everyone is going to ask, how could he get over the fence and into the house without the troopers finding him? As you look at the property now, it's actually fairly decent from the fence line to the house. It's 2:00 in the morning and anytime the first time something happens it's really tough to anticipate that the no one has ever broken over the fence. And, you know, lit the residence on fire. So that's not what they're expecting.

They probably had some type of protrusion alarm that someone got over, and they were looking for someone who was on the ground, maybe looking to, you know, do some graffiti or something along those lines because they haven't had something this serious. So I think when they look at the after action, and they're going to be very critical, they're going to need technology. Sensors, lighting, you know, motion detection, lighting to help them do it.

Have a dog on presence, up the number of people that are on the residence in the middle of the night, because now it's coming to the point where this is going to be prevalent. Violence is starting to happen. As Andy McCabe said last time, there's no federal domestic terrorism charges. There are state ones. So that's going to come into play on the prosecution side. But I think really what's going to happen is you're going to see a much bigger detail and you're going to see more permanent personnel around his residence and his family.

DEAN: It is so striking to know that this person was able to make it inside the governor's residence and the way they were describing this, that this person, they said, was quite methodical in how they did this. They had these homemade incendiary devices, as you and Danny noted. And then they were back over the fence and that they were apprehended, I believe, just a little time ago.

It is remarkable that all of that was able to happen. And we look at the images. This was a very, very serious situation.

D'AMICO: Oh, absolutely. If he had -- if he had a better layout of the house and understanding maybe where they're at, and he was more determined to actually do harm to them, I think you could have a very different situation. I think probably when he went in and lit the fire, the people that were on call at that time were going directly to the family to get him out. And it probably lessened the number of people that were able to look for him, because you want to deal with his safety first.

So again, I think you're going to see a lot bigger presence when they get this house repaired and he goes back in there that they're going to have more permanent personnel around there. They're going to have probably dedicated people, and then you're going to have to harden the entries and like that. So when I do security assessments, that's what I look at. If someone gets over the first barrier, how long does it take them to get to the next barrier?

How quickly can they get through that? Because that all determines what you have to put in place to understand that if someone is motivated and they want to get in there, how fast they can do it.

DEAN: And we, again, don't know the motive yet. We do know, as the governor said, he says this was a targeted attack. That's what law enforcement and the D.A. also said. What do you read into that at this point?

D'AMICO: I think they've talked about religion only because, one, he just made a post about Passover. And I think that's the one that sticks out the most. But you're really going to have to start now doing the investigation electronically. Has he posted something on social media?

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Does he belong to any groups that are anti-Semitism type groups? Is he affiliated with anyone? Did he text anyone about this? Also look at when he bought these items to make these incendiary devices because you look at when the governor posted that photo to how quick and depending on the devices he had, how quick did he make them. He may have had already had this in plan, and it just happened to be that he posted the pictures and people are linking it to it.

But also look at some of the laws he just passed and some things that happened. But that's where the investigation is going to come in to put motive. And they did allude to the probable cause warrant that's going to be coming out. And it may have something that he said that really gives the authorities the idea of why he did it.

DEAN: Yes. And they said we should have that in the next they said several hours. We will see if that transpired, but certainly more details to come.

Rob, thanks so much. We appreciate it.

D'AMICO: Thank you.

DEAN: Still ahead, how will global markets respond this week to the tariff whiplash that we've seen from the White House? And what the White House is saying about the new electronics exemptions from China. Are they exemptions?

The FBI saying a disturbing plot to assassinate President Trump is discovered after a Wisconsin teenager allegedly killed his parents. We'll have more on that. And also a little bit later, Katy Perry, Gayle King and four other women are getting ready to head to space, the edge of space aboard Blue Origin for a tourism mission. More on that.

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DEAN: Tonight, more confusion and backtracking as the White House attempts to clarify its latest pivot in President Trump's tariff policy. Late Friday night, the administration announced exemptions for certain electronic products coming from China. But now the president says there is no exception and, quote, "nobody is off the hook."

CNN's Kevin Liptak is live for us in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the president is wrapping up his weekend and headed back to Washington.

But, Kevin, the top line here is there's a lot of mixed messaging just over the last couple of days on this. What is the White House saying and what's the state of play right now?

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And what officials are saying today is that if there is an exclusion on these high tech products from China, which we learned about from this message from Customs and Border Patrol on Friday, but that reprieve will essentially be short lived. They say that this will be a temporary exclusion as they work to determine new tariff rates on these products that are coming in from China.

And what they'll do is conduct a national security study. It's called a Section 232 study that will essentially determine what the potential risks are of importing semiconductors from China. Those are the tiny computer chips that power things like iPhones, laptops, computers, all of the items that CBP said would be excluded from those reciprocal tariffs. Once they complete that review, which Howard Lutnick, the Commerce secretary, said would take one to two months, then these new tariffs will go into effect.

And I think one of the reasons why this is all so confusing is because people like Lutnick, like the president himself, had spent the last several weeks saying that there would be no exclusions on these products, only to learn in this late night notice from CBP that there would be exclusions, at least for the time being. Listen to just a little bit more of how Lutnick explained this earlier today.

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HOWARD LUTNICK, COMMERCE SECRETARY: President Trump has called out pharmaceuticals and semiconductors and autos. He called them sector tariffs, and those are not available for negotiation. They are just going to be part of making sure we reshore the core national security items that need to be made in this country.

These are included in the semiconductor tariffs that are coming and the pharmaceuticals are coming. Those two areas are coming in the next month or two. So this is not like a permanent sort of exemption.

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LIPTAK: Now the president himself is also trying to clarify matters. He wrote on Truth Social, "Nobody is getting off the hook. There is no tariff exception announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20 percent fentanyl tariffs, and they are just moving to a different tariff bucket."

Essentially, what the president is saying and what his team is saying is that this was the plan all along. These carve outs were part of this vision for global trade that the president is executing. But I don't think you can deny that this is now governed by a whole lot of uncertainty as the president applies these tariffs, lifts these tariffs, makes exemptions, says the exemptions are temporary.

If you're a business owner, big business, small business, you're really wondering how you can possibly make any kind of investment in this environment. But what the president is saying is that this is all going according to plan -- Jessica.

DEAN: I think you just laid that out as best it can be.

Kevin Liptak, thank you so much for that.

And joining us to discuss this further, economist Natasha Sarin.

Natasha, thanks so much for being here with us. So all of this that Kevin just laid out, this latest update of the back and forth, what's exempt, what might not be exempt, playing out over the weekend, obviously, the market is set to open tomorrow. What are you anticipating if there is a crystal ball to look into at this point. But what are you anticipating to play out in the next 24 to 36 hours?

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NATASHA SARIN, ECONOMIST: Well, it's always dangerous to predict what's going to happen and try to guess at the future, but I will say that this process that Kevin was describing, I mean, process, there doesn't really appear to be much of a process here. You had the administration saying like, oh, you know, there are no exemptions. Well, actually the press release they put out on Friday was a list of exceptions to the tariff announcements. And so there is a ton of uncertainty at the moment.

Economic uncertainty is at its highest levels that it's been in the last three decades. That's the same thing for consumer sentiment is at its lowest level that it's been for the last three decades, and inflation expectations are going way up. Why they're going up is because we're watching all of this unfold in real time. And I run at Yale something called the Yale Budget Lab that's trying to analyze the impact of these different policies. Our expectation is that they're likely to raise household prices by around $4800 each year.

And obviously, we're trying to crunch all these numbers as all these twists and turns are evolving. But consumer electronics are going to go up if these exemptions are not in place. They're going to go up by something like 12 percent to 18 percent, double-digit price increases for your iPhones, for your laptops.

DEAN: And so, Natasha, as we're listening to all of this, and we know what the White House is arguing. They've said this is going to do a number of things, but they think it's long-term going to be beneficial for the American economy. Do you see a benefit or benefits to this plan as they're enacting it now?

SARIN: So what we know based on the analysis that we've done is that prices are going to rise and the economy is going to be persistently smaller as a result of this trade war. GDP is going to be lower, and there's going to be less employment in this country.

And all that raises the question of why exactly is it that the administration has decided that at a moment when the American people are coming off the heels of a tremendous amount of inflation and increase in prices and consumer prices, that people really felt the pain of, what they want to turn around and do is enact the most inflationary policies of my lifetime through this trade war.

DEAN: All right. Well, thank you for that analysis. We really appreciate it. I know you guys will continue to crunch these numbers as we go through more twists and turns.

SARIN: Do our best, Jessica.

DEAN: All right, Natasha, thank you so much.

And joining us now, CNN political commentator and Republican strategist Brad Todd. Also with us, CNN contributor, "New York Times" journalist and podcast host Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Great to have both of you here with us.

Before I do want to do a lot on tariffs, but we got to go back to the breaking news for a second and this suspect that's in custody on attempted murder and arson charges with Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro, his family.

Lulu, I just want to start first with you. We are just seeing just in the last year really extreme examples of political violence. And it just seems like we continue to see these. And this is a very specific moment in time.

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I think at this point, we have to acknowledge that the United States is in a cycle that many ailing democracies suffer from, which is that this is now a country where political violence, the expression of violence as, you know, as your own political viewpoint, is now pervasive. And we've seen the knock on effects of this. We've seen -- this is something that is impacting the left and the right, but we've seen how many people do not want to enter the public sphere anymore.

They don't want to become congresspeople. They don't want to become judges. They don't want to go and participate in civic life because they get death threats. They have people attempting to kill them. And this is, of course, unacceptable in any democracy. But it is a symptom of something very, very dark that we're seeing in America right now.

DEAN: It is. It is hard to watch and to really take in.

Brad, to Lulu's point, this is kind of where we are right now. And it's happening, you know, I was just saying last hour, Pennsylvania, also the site of President Trump's first assassination attempt, the first attempt on his life last summer. Now we're having the governor who someone was trying to harm or kill. This is -- how do you stop this from continuing?

BRAD TODD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, first off, our thoughts and our prayers and concerns are with Governor Shapiro and his family, especially during Passover which is a special time for them. I think I'm taken back to that attempted shooting of President Trump in Pennsylvania. And, you know, you remember a lot of liberals cheered and said, oh, it's too bad they missed. And I don't think that was the norm among liberals, but I think it was -- there were more than we needed than that.

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And I think that's part of our problem is the coarseness of our politics and the stakes that some people perceive are way too high. And then you get these crazy people, a few crazy people who take action on it. It's more the reaction of the others that troubles me more than the fact that, you know, we can solve some of these other attempts, problems with better security. And I don't think a lot of our elected officials have enough security.

If you've ever been close to a member of Congress and the Capitol Police, by the way, stop these threats all the time. It's not uncommon at all. But members of Congress just don't have much security. They wonder about their districts and the airports and the city with no security at all, mostly. And it's something we probably have to reassess right now.

DEAN: Yes. And there is so much more we could talk about just on that subject, but we do unfortunately have limited time. So I do want to talk about some of these tariffs as well. And Brad, I'll go back to you just on this messaging that Kevin kind of laid out. It's this, it's that, it's on, it's off. It is -- if you're a small or big business owner right now, you're really confused. And it's hard to do business in this.

Does this make sense to you? Where do you see -- what do you say to those people that are just trying to do business?

TODD: Look, I think messaging is very important for the White House, you know, and in fact, I think they can win on with this on their messaging. You saw the CBS poll came out today, 51 percent of the country believes that the president has the right goals. Only 37 percent don't. That's a winning math for him. But he has to be very clear. It has to be this simple. Do you believe that a Corvette should face four times the tariffs in Germany than a Mercedes does when it comes here? We should make those fair.

Do you believe that Harley Davidson should have a 100 percent tariff in India while we tariff their bikes hardly at all? Of course not. Everybody in America will agree with the president that we need a lot more fairness. And tariffs are really the only tool to get them. We've tried multilateral negotiations. They didn't get there. And I don't think long term tariffs are a good idea to be clear. But I think the threat of tariffs is all that you can do to make the playing field fairer and freer.

DEAN: Lulu, do you think tariffs are the only way to get there?

GARCIA-NAVARRO: It's funny that Brad mentioned math because math seems to be something that the administration is really struggling with at the moment. I mean, they are constantly shifting the goalposts. They haven't been able to articulate what the point of these tariffs are. People agree that targeted tariffs will help certain industries. But these blanket tariffs are depressing the economy.

And what you're seeing actually is bad math in terms of polling for the president and this administration. His numbers keep on going south. And we have seen that the American people don't have a lot of patience with high prices. It hurts their bottom line. This president was brought in on a wave of optimism on the economy. And what we're seeing, in fact, now is the prognostication that we're going to end up with higher prices, a smaller economy, and possibly in a recession.

Now, whatever the long term goals are --

TODD: But that presumes --

GARCIA-NAVARRO: -- it is very hard to sell that. It is very hard to sell that. You know, most people are living day to day. They are trying to make their, you know, pay their bills and you telling them that, yes, Harley Davidsons, which they'll never be able to afford, might, you know, at some point reach some kind of parity. I don't think that's a winning message for them.

DEAN: All right.

TODD: Well, the people who make Harley Davidsons in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin might think that they need to make some more of them. But first off, last month's prices actually went down. That never happened when Joe Biden was president. We never had a month where the prices dropped from the previous month. So the president is on the right path on that.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: That was before all these tariffs, Brad. That was before all these --

TODD: But, Lulu, these --

DEAN: Well, that was, to be clear, just to level set, that data was pre-tariff.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Yes. And so like, I get it.

TODD: Give the president credit for his policy that he gets the tariff --

GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, I get it. Listen.

TODD: He's got prices headed the right direction.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Nobody wants the economy to crash.

TODD: You don't give the president credit. You don't give the president credit no matter what happens, Lulu. You got to give him credit for this. I mean --

GARCIA-NAVARRO: But this is pre-tariff.

TODD: I agree with you that long term tariffs would be a bad idea. But --

GARCIA-NAVARRO: I'm happy to give him credit. I'm happy to give him credit. I'm just saying --

DEAN: All right, guys.

TODD: Historically in our country mostly Democrats have been for tariffs more than Republicans historically. This is a -- this is historically a Democratic tool on trade. I'm surprised that Democrats are not embracing it, but they can't because it's Donald Trump. And they couldn't embrace Donald Trump if he cured cancer. They won't. They don't -- they believe in their hate of him more than they believe in any of their own ideology.

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DEAN: OK, I got -- we're out of time.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: I just have to ask one more thing.

DEAN: Go ahead. Quick.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: With a great deal of affection to you, I just want to make something clear, which is, again, this is about facts and math, and it literally is all the prognostications are that the economy is slowing down and that this is going to be detrimental. Now, we'll wait and see to see if that happens. But, you know, again, this is to do with actual figures, numbers and the people who deal with them.

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DEAN: OK. I'm so sorry we got to leave it there. But Brad and Lulu, I really do appreciate both of you. Good to see you on this Sunday. We're going to be right back.

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DEAN: Tomorrow, President Trump will host El Salvador president Nayib Bukele at the White House, marking the first visit from a Latin American leader since Trump's return to office. The Trump administration has been sending alleged criminals and gang members to El Salvador's notorious mega prison as part of its immigration crackdown. In a social media post, Trump praised Bukele, saying he is, quote, "graciously accepted into his nation's custody some of the most violent alien enemies of the world."

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We should note the post did not mention the Maryland father who was mistakenly deported and sent to the mega prison. The Trump administration said in a filing yesterday Kilmar Abrego Garcia is, quote, "alive and secure." That comes after the Supreme Court ruled the administration must, in their words, facilitate his return to the U.S.

CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson is joining us now.

Joey, thank you so much. The Supreme Court said that the administration must facilitate that return, but did not put a deadline on it. The administration has said they can't do that. But President Trump is meeting with the El Salvador president tomorrow. What's the holdup here legally?

JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: So that's a very good question. And just to reset based on this case, Jessica, good to be with you, is that the administration admits that this was a mistake. There was a person who was here lawfully. There was a 2019 decision from an immigration judge which indicated that he would not be removed. Since he's been here based upon that lawful order by that immigration judge over the course of time, six years, no crimes were committed. He checked in with immigration as he was supposed to.

And just to be clear, he was detained and he was unlawfully arrested. Right? No warrant. No probable cause. Nothing. Shipped over to a Maryland detention center. Then taken to Texas, then taken to Louisiana, then shipped to the supermax prison. The administration says, oh, it was an administrative error. But by the way, he's no longer in our jurisdiction so there's nothing we can do. And so I just think that on its face, that is problematic.

And it certainly begs the question of because of the position the administration is taking, he's no longer here. We can't do anything about it. What happens in the event that a U.S. citizen is mistakenly sent to El Salvador? Could we not do anything about that? I think it's disingenuous. And the federal court judge has said update me every day by 5:00, showing me the steps you're taking to, as the Supreme Court said, facilitate his return.

And so I think that it's tragic in the event that he's not brought back immediately. And the problem, Jessica, is that the Supreme Court did not impose a specific deadline. Had they done so, potentially he could be back.

DEAN: Yes, it was a unanimous ruling, but no deadline in there. You're absolutely right. So how long could this take?

JACKSON: I'm hopeful it doesn't take long. I mean, the reality is, is that again, it was a mistake. There's no issue as to that. Mr. Trump himself has said that in the event the Supreme Court tells him to, he'll bring him back. Now that runs, I should say, contrary to what his Justice Department is arguing, saying, we don't have any jurisdiction to bring him back because he's out of our control.

And so this should not be that difficult. And by the way, as you mentioned, the president of that country is just going to happen to be meeting with the president. How about just saying, hey, you know what? We made a mistake. Can you get him on the next plane? This case would be over. I think it's troubling. It's problematic.

Look, whatever you feel about immigration, whatever you think about illegal people being in this country, whatever your position, whatever your rhetoric, everyone says it was an error. What we do in life, Jessica, is we correct errors, especially when they're against the rule of law. This is what should be done here. This is not a hard case.

DEAN: All right. Joey Jackson, as always, good to see you. Thanks so much.

JACKSON: Thanks, Jessica.

DEAN: Still to come, a 17-year-old in Wisconsin is accused of killing his parents as part of a plot to assassinate President Trump. A live report on that is next.

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DEAN: A Wisconsin teenager allegedly murdered his parents, and now federal authorities say it was all part of a plot to assassinate President Trump and overthrow the U.S. government. The details of that plot have just been released in a newly unsealed court documents. Officials say the 17-year-old shot his parents and then hid their bodies. And it wasn't until that teenager was apprehended following a traffic stop 800 miles away, officials unraveled his alleged plan.

CNN's Natasha Chen joining us now live.

Natasha, what did the documents show about these disturbing allegations?

NATASHA CHEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Jessica, the affidavit shows that the 17-year-old allegedly killed his parents for financial means and autonomy in order to kill President Trump. Now, the 17-year- old was arrested in Kansas for SUV theft and firearm possession. After authorities got a search warrant they found material on Nikita Casap's phone about the Order of the Nine Angles, which is about a Neo-Nazi, racially motivated set of extremist views, according to court documents.

The FBI found a three-page document calling for Trump's assassination to create a political revolution and to, quote, "save the white race." Casap faces nine felony charges, including two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of hiding a corpse. Investigators are also pursuing another three federal charges of presidential assassination, conspiracy and use of weapons of mass destruction.

Authorities actually believe his parents were killed on February 11th, but they weren't found until two and a half weeks later. In between, there were texts sent from his stepfather's phone claiming he was ill and couldn't go to work. Casap's own phone pinged in Iowa. Then there was a welfare check requested, and that's how the parents were found dead from gunshot wounds in Wisconsin. That same evening, police in Kansas arrested Casap in his stepfather's vehicle, the complaint says.

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It also says that inside the car was $14,000, jewelry and a 357 Magnum revolver purchased by his stepfather. An affidavit says the 17-year- old's classmate told the sheriff's office that he claimed to be in contact with someone in Russia, and that they were planning on overthrowing the U.S. government and assassinating Trump.

The Waukesha County complaint says detectives also found messages indicating he planned to leave for Ukraine with him saying, quote, "So while in Ukraine, I'll be able to live a normal life, then even when it's found out I did it." CNN has reached out to Casap's attorney. So far, county records show he has not entered pleas on any of the state charges yet. He's scheduled for an arraignment on May 7th -- Jessica.

DEAN: All right. Natasha Chen, thank you so much for that update.

Still to come, star-studded crew of six female passengers is set to travel to the edge of space on Monday aboard Blue Origin as part of a space tourism mission. We'll discuss.

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DEAN: Tomorrow morning, a star-studded group of female space tourists will rocket into history as they take off on Blue Origin's New Shepard 31. The crew was made up of six women. That includes pop star Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, of course, who's engaged to the Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos. Also on board will be two scientists and a film producer. The women will travel more than 62 miles into space before unbuckling to float weightless, returning to earth about 10 minutes after takeoff.

Miles O'Brien is a CNN aerospace analyst and science correspondent for the "PBS NewsHour," and he joins us now to talk more about this.

And Miles, the launch window opens at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Walk us through what we can expect to see tomorrow morning.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN AEROSPACE ANALYST: Well, Jessica, there's been more than 50 people who have done this so far including Jeff Bezos, the owner of the company on the first mission. William Shatner was among the other all-stars that went along. Michael Strahan. And the flight is fairly straightforward. It's just a little over what we call the Karman line, the Karman Line 62 miles above us.

That is the arbitrary boundary of space. So they all technically can say they went to space at cocktail parties, bragging rights for sure, although technically they don't qualify to be astronauts as this vehicle is completely automatic. They don't do anything but strap in and then unstrap at the appropriate moment for about four minutes of weightlessness and look out the window and take in the wonder below them.

It's a fairly straightforward 11-minute event. And it's hard not to think about this as a glorified joyride. But it is a spectacle which we will be watching, isn't it?

DEAN: So, OK, with that in mind, though, what are we supposed to get from this? Is it about bringing attention to Blue Origin and what they're trying to do? Why do this?

O'BRIEN: I think you hit the nail on the head that we're talking about Blue Origin. As I said, you know, more than 50 people have flown. A few of the flights have gotten attention. The first, of course, William Shatner's flight, did get a little more attention. This is one way to be a part of the discussion.

When you look at the grand scheme of women in space and accomplishments, the first woman to fly in space on an all-woman crew, she was a solo pilot, was Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 of Soviet cosmonaut, and of course, subsequent to that, Sally Ride became the first U.S. female astronaut. Eileen Collins became the first commander of a space shuttle mission. Kathryn Sullivan, the first woman to do a spacewalk, American woman to do a spacewalk.

So there have been many accomplished women along the way who have really earned their chops in space. And this group, which seems to be focused on making sure they've got their hair and makeup right and the right outfit on may not be in the same category, but having said all that, it proves that space is now available to a lot of other people who may not have done as much work on the math and science in school.

DEAN: Right. So to that end, they get in, and how much training do you have to do to do something like this? And kind of what are you responsible for?

O'BRIEN: No training and there's no responsibility. They just get in.

DEAN: Oh, they just get in. O'BRIEN: And they strap in. It's just an automatic ride. It's kind of

a glorified bungee jump, if you like, Jessica. And they don't do anything. It's all automatic and they just enjoy the ride. So they truly are passengers, tourists.

DEAN: Space tourists is what they say. Yes.

O'BRIEN: And if they get any astronaut wings, I would equate them with those plastic wings that they give you on the airlines for kids. It's not a real astronaut experience.

DEAN: All right. Well, there you heard it from Miles O'Brien. OK. Thank you so much. Good to see you. We appreciate it.

O'BRIEN: All right, Jessica. Take care.

DEAN: Thanks.

Still ahead, we're going to turn back to our breaking news as Pennsylvania police say they have a person in custody accused of arson at the home of Governor Josh Shapiro, where he and his family were sleeping at the time. We have a live report straight ahead.

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