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ERIN BURNETT, CNN HOST: OUTFRONT next:

Breaking news, dramatic new video showing the moments leading up to the deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Good. Video filmed from the ICE agent's cell phone, which you see him holding right there. So, we're showing you that. You'll see the details here, frame by frame, as clashes between protesters and federal officers break out in Minneapolis. We'll take you live to the ground this hour.

And they're, quote, made up fake wannabe law enforcement. That is how Philadelphia's sheriff is describing ICE agents. And at least one Republican tonight is calling for her to be arrested. The sheriff speaks OUTFRONT tonight.

And more breaking news. Iran in crisis, protests growing. They're deadly. Trump tonight warning Iran, quote, "will start shooting".

Let's go OUTFRONT.

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BURNETT: And Good Friday evening. I'm Erin Burnett.

And OUTFRONT tonight, the breaking news. We've got revealing new video just in. And what it shows is the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good. And this video is from a new point of view, one that we have not seen.

Specifically, it is the cell phone video from the ICE agent who shot Good on Wednesday, and you can actually see in this image him holding the phone here as he is filming Good's wife at the scene.

Now throughout the video, the agent circles Good's car and you hear Goods final words to the agent. I'm going to play it for you now. First, of course, to warn you, obviously, given the horror of what happened here, it is a disturbing video.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's fine, Dude, I'm not mad at you. Show your face. I'm not mad at you. UNIDENTIFED FEMALE: That's okay. We don't change our plates every

morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come. Talk to us later. That's fine. U.S. citizen, former veteran. Do you want to come at us? Do you want to come at us?

I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.

ICE AGENT: Out of the car. Get out of the car! Get out of the fucking car! Get of the car!

ICE AGENT: Oh!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BURNETT: And you see her there, you know, kind of. Turn that sharply. Turn that steering wheel as she's beginning to move. The video was first shared with a conservative outlet and immediately reposted by the vice president in the administration, who claimed that it backs up their narrative, which they had reached a conclusion on before we even knew the name of the victim.

Vance saying, quote, the reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defense. Critics of the administration, though, say the opposite. They suggest that it is even more, since you can clearly hear Good's say, quote, "I'm not mad at you".

Now, in a moment, we're going to break down the video, the frame by frame. What do you hear in the milliseconds, right? In terms of moving of the car and the shot, you can make decisions for yourself about what led up to this deadly shooting.

But tonight, Trump is defending the DOJ's decision, his DOJ's decision to block Minnesota officials from having and getting access to any evidence in the case.

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REPORTER: Do you believe that the FBI should be sharing evidence with state officials in Minnesota?

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, normally I would, but they're crooked officials.

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BURNETT: Officials in Minnesota are not backing down. The county attorney now launching a site for witnesses to share any videos or information related to the shooting.

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MARY MORIARTY, HENNEPIN COUNTY ATTORNEY: I can't speak to why the Trump administration is doing what it's doing or says what it says. I can say that the ICE officer does not have complete immunity here.

(END VIDEO CLIP) BURNETT: Omar Jimenez begins our coverage. He is on the ground in Minneapolis OUTFRONT tonight.

And Omar, where you are obviously the flowers people have been visiting, grieving, Renee's death, the city so much on edge where you are on this Friday?

OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. You know, we've been monitoring protests in various portions of the city. The mood here at the memorial site has been a little bit more somber over the course of today. I mean, people have been really continuously, even though there have been spurts of protests, as you're hearing now. It's really been people kind of continuously coming through here over the course of the day to pay their respects.

You see some other names that that are in there as well. As we look them up there, they are just other people who have died in either ICE custody or ICE related deaths. Not all of them, I should say, from the Trump administration. Some predate this latest Trump administration.

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But there are also major protests at the state capitol today. These where we are right now, much less confrontational, despite the chanting that you hear behind me, much of the confrontation has happened at a federal building miles from where we are right now, and that has typically been in the face of federal agents. That is where we have seen a lot of pepper spray deployed at times, people being taken down, taken into custody.

There are even additional barriers that went up today that federal agents and federal authorities put up. One of the interesting things here where we are is that previously, this entire block of where this shooting happened and where the vehicle ended up on this pole behind me had been blocked off. It had been closed even last night. There were literally makeshift barriers sort of blocking vehicular access to get into this area.

There's at least one lane of traffic open now. But I bring all this up because for the first time, we have actually seen Minneapolis police officers here on the scene in significant numbers, which notably, we actually have not seen them throughout much of the protest, even ones that have marched through the city to this point. A lot of the confrontation has been with federal agents, Erin, to this point, as opposed to police officers, which you might typically see.

BURNETT: Yeah, yeah, people, people obviously seeing the distinction in this case, obviously, of what law enforcement did. What -- thank you very much, Omar. On the ground there.

And now that new video, as I said, it is so crucial because it was filmed by the ICE agent involved, but also because in that, it is that -- it is providing an angle we have not seen before, and it does give a whole new perspective.

It also, though, raises new questions. Kyung Lah is going to go through this slowly, bit by bit. OUTFRONT with the special investigation to look at every piece of video, that one and all the others to say, what is the story here?

And of course, I warn you, when you put all of these together, you will have to see what happened again and again.

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ICE AGENT: Out of the car.

KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: For the first time, we are seeing the fatal Minneapolis shooting from the ICE officer's point of view. Footage taken on his own cell phone. It's a critical angle of many cameras on the street that captured Renee Good fatal encounter with ICE agent Jonathan Ross, using surveillance footage, bystander video and Ross's own phone.

CNN synced multiple perspectives of the shooting and mapped this incident in 3D space. Taken together, they show the fullest picture yet of what happened that day. A home surveillance camera captures a moment.

Renee Good pulls up in a maroon-colored Honda SUV. Four minutes before the shooting. 20s after she arrives, her passenger and wife Becca, wearing a white beanie, gets out of Good's car. Good then parks the SUV perpendicular in the road.

Here's how Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem described what Good did.

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KRISTI NOEM, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question? Who was blocking the officers in with her vehicle, and she had been stalking and impeding their work all throughout the day.

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LAH (voice-over): Available video doesn't show any possible contact Good may have had with ICE before this confrontation. What this video does show is that for a few minutes, while she is perpendicular to the roadway, several vehicles drive by. Even large SUVs are able to drive around her as she moves back and forth on the street, and that includes this light-colored SUV. It slowly drives around Good's car from the rear and stops.

Agent Jonathan Ross is recording video from his cell phone as he crosses in front of Good's car recording, as he sees her up close, she looks calm and you can see both of her hands as she talks to the officer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's fine. I'm not mad at you.

LAH (voice-over): Renee Good's wife, Becca, who had been the passenger in the car, approaches. Cell phone cameras on the street, start recording as Ross walks around Good's car with Good's wife following.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I should go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.

LAH (voice-over): Renee Good backs her car up as the agent walks around the front of the vehicle. At the same time on the other side, two more agents approach. One tries to open the door as Good backs up.

Goods vehicle starts moving from Ross's cell phone video. You see Becca, the woman in the white beanie, trying to get into the car again. You also see Renee Good turning the steering wheel to the right.

ICE AGENT: Get out of the car!

LAH (voice-over): She then accelerates, slowing this down again and matching the exact time of these two angles. This angle appears to show the vehicle moving close to the agent, but in this angle, he does not appear to be in the path of the vehicle, when he fired.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) god, what the (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

LAH (voice-over): Seconds later, Becca Good runs to her wife, followed by the agent who fired his weapon. He briefly looks into the driver's side of the car and then walks away.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Shame, shame, shame.

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LAH: And what we cannot see in Ross's cell phone video is if the SUV made contact with the agent because the camera angle jerks up to the sky.

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But DHS still says it supports the agency's initial position, releasing this statement saying, quote, the footage corroborates what DHS stated all along that this individual was impeding law enforcement and weaponized her vehicle in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to federal law enforcement. The officer was in fear of his own life. The lives of his fellow officers, and acted in self-defense. The American people can watch this video with their own eyes and ears and judge for themselves. The shooting itself, Erin, is also not visible. You do, though, hear three gunshots -- Erin.

BURNETT: All right. Kyung Lah, thank you very much.

That is incredible work. Just to see all that put together. Everyone is here with me.

Joey, does that change anything? Obviously, this new video is a new perspective, but then, just as Kyung has reconstructed frame by frame, those crucial instances from all the perspectives we now have.

JOEY JACKSON, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: I think it's problematic for the officers with respect to justifying the force. And I'll explain why. The first thing is, let's talk about the policy. I do have the Department of Justice policy, which talks about the preservation of life, but it also talks about the obligation to get out of the path of the vehicle, right, not to stand and shoot. It talks about getting out of the path of the vehicle. And it also talks about de-escalation.

Why is that significant? I don't see much de-escalation there. That's important. I hear words to the effect of effing B-I-T-C-H. That goes to me to state of mind. So if you're not --

BURNETT: Of the officer saying that, right.

JACKSON: Of the officer.

I mean, so it's one thing to defend yourself. It's another thing to be angry and use animus with regard to employing force. The other thing that's troubling to me is that if you're not standing in front of the vehicle, but if it seems to be not, I'm not saying it. It's what the video shows. You're off to the side of the vehicle. Then how is it representing an imminent threat to death or physical injury?

The other issue is you have to justify every projectile. If you're shooting a projectile and the car is not coming at you, what's the basis? And if you're shooting into the window when the vehicle is going away from you, that's further problematic as well.

So, it goes against the notion of immediate fear of death or serious injury. It goes against the notion of the proportionality of the force. And finally, Erin, it goes against the issue of it being reasonable.

So, as I see this, it's a problem to me for the officer, even though the White House says there's nothing to see here. There is plenty to see from my perspective.

BURNETT: So much to see. I mean, John, because also one thing you see her do well, there's a couple of things that would show, first of all, her wife, Renee's wife moves to get in the car, which would indicate they're leaving, which they were told to do. Right. She moves to get into the car at that moment. Stop filming. Okay. Number one, number two. Then you see her on his -- on the office.

You know, turn her wheel sharply away from him, and then. Then the acceleration. Now, I know every single instant is going to matter in terms of what really happened, but there's no mistaking what she's doing with the wheel.

JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LEGAL ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: Only if you're looking at it. And we don't know whether in his tunnel vision he was focused on her or the front of that vehicle or it's direction. But what we do know is the value of this video is it's another angle.

BURNETT: Yeah.

MILLER: We came to conclusions, which are now questioned. When we looked at the first video, because we got a second video, this would be a third video, which is instructive in a different way. What do we get out of this? We get three things.

One, we get that it's not a high tension situation. She's smiling and saying, I'm not mad, and her friend is taunting them, but saying, you know, here's our license plate. We're not wearing --

BURNETT: We don't change our license plate. By the way, awareness of if you want to come and get us later, go ahead. You know, you have the license number.

MILLER: Right. So I mean, tensions at that point are low. As he comes around the car, the officers who pull up in the pickup truck are saying, out of the car, out of the car, they're grabbing one door handle, which is locked. She starts to accelerate her wife is on the other door handle, which is also locked.

And if you look at that video, here it is when we come around to the front of that car. This is a different video. When we come around to the front of that car, which we'll do in a minute. You see, if you're the agent, his point of view is the car is now moving forward. He unholsters his weapon and you see the car moving towards him.

Then you lose sight because the phone goes down as the gun comes up, but you hear an impact. What sounds like an impact which leans towards the officers account, and DHS assertion that the vehicle made contact with him and you hear a groan and simultaneous with that, not separate. You hear these three shots.

At the end of the day, the three things they're going to have to consider is, are they in policy with the agency? Probably not. Were the tactics Good? It would have been easier to leave your weapon holster and get out of the way than to end up in this confrontation.

But was it legal? Did he feel threatened in the moment he pulled the trigger?

BURNETT: Well, Gil, what do you see there?

GIL KERLIKOWSKE, FORMER COMMISSIONER OF U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION: Well, there's nothing that a city police officer would do in that situation that approximates what the ICE agent did.

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BURNETT: Meaning, in terms of the level of force.

MILLER: They've all been trained to get out of the way of a car.

KERLIKOWSKE: Yeah. Not only the level of force, but all of the other tactics. I mean, there is one reason that the president, the vice president and the secretary are so hyperbolic over this because they want to get out from and away from this as fast as possible. This is their worst-case scenario of a white woman, a mother being shot by ICE agents, a U.S. citizen.

And so that's their whole mission is to get away from it. And they say, well, you know, the American people can look at this video and make their own decisions. Unfortunately for the administration, the American people have already looked at this video and they have made a determination about this. This is their Kent State moment.

BURNETT: So, Joey, I mean, to what Gil is saying when you look at it and I understand what you're saying, John, the kind of second by second millisecond actually milliseconds are going to matter. And in the millisecond, you know, did he feel scared? Suddenly something goes from this level to this level. Okay.

But I guess what you see when you look at this and I don't know how you can't see it, Joey, is that it didn't have to end this way, right? He could have stepped away as angry as he may have been in that moment, and she would have driven off because she had turned the wheel.

They could have arrested her. They could do whatever they wanted to do. Later they had the as -- as her wife said, you got our license number.

JACKSON: Yes. So, look, you never want to give condemnation to police or law enforcement. At the same time, you want to act reasonably. And I think people have a right to believe that if they're ICE agents or anyone else, the first objective is, is this note is the preservation of life. And when you see a situation where you have an officer firing, where they're off to the side of the car, it refutes and disputes a narrative that the car is coming at me.

Now, let's just say that that was the case. Then you parse this was the first shot, right? Was that then potentially okay or justified? Right now, that will be an open question. But what about the other shots shot when you're clearly on the side of the car into the driver's side? How is that justified? Where is the immediate of the threat there?

And the bigger problem I have with this, Erin, we have to as a society, if we're going to trust anything, put our trust in an investigation and see where it leads. How do you do that when the FBI has taken control of the investigation and has indicated the state can't be involved? And by the way, the president says there's nothing to see here. The vice president says there's nothing to see here. And the secretary says there's nothing to see.

Well, how do you think the investigation is going to turn out? That's troubling.

BURNETT: And, Gil, it's also -- I -- you know, I find it somewhat disturbing that the ICE officer felt that he had to put a cell phone. He felt he had to film it because things, you know, he wanted his record because she was filming. People can understand that in this country because people all have phones.

But when you're doing that in the middle of a moment like this, your attention is diverted.

KERLIKOWSKE: Well, it was obvious that when he's doing that and wanting to see he's got the license plate, he's filming this, he doesn't perceive her or them as a threat. He can see her hands on the wheel. It doesn't look like she's --

BURNETT: Her hand outside the window.

KERLIKOWSKE: Her elbow, and she. And it doesn't look like she's reaching into the glove box or going under the seat. He doesn't see that, and she comes across as not a menacing individual. She clearly comes across as not a domestic terrorist.

So he feels comfortable. And police officers do this all the time now, using their cell phones, but they wouldn't do it in a situation in which they felt --

BURNETT: In which she felt threatened. So it's different than what I'm saying there. Okay.

KERLIKOWSKE: Exactly.

BURNETT: So then -- so then -- the bottom line is when that shooting happens at the end, right, and the thud happens, does -- does the fact that there was a cell phone out at that point impact it?

KERLIKOWSKE: Well, I think that you don't want to concentrate on trying to film and use your cell phone and then also reach in and take your weapon and feel that, you know, you're now in danger because this vehicle is coming at you. You won't -- you don't want to do too many things at once. You want to kind of concentrate on the threat. If there is a threat.

BURNETT: All right. All, thank you very much. And next, Renee Nicole Good wife is speaking out tonight with a message about her late wife.

Plus, President Trump tonight upping the ante on his quest to take over Greenland

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TRUMP: If we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way.

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BURNETT: And a CNN exclusive this hour, our David Culver flying over the jungle in Colombia, a country that Trump is now threatening to target next.

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BURNETT: Breaking news, Renee Good's wife, who is there with her at the time of the shooting, is now speaking out, saying in part in a statement, quote, on Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles, they had guns. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him as he believed that there are people building a better world for him, that the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts. And we need to show them a better way. We're just getting that from her.

Joining us now OUTFRONT on the phone is Renee Good's former neighbor, Jennifer, who has asked us not to include her last name for security reasons.

But, Jennifer, I do appreciate your speaking out. So that people know more about Renee than what we see on this video.

And I know that you knew her. You lived across the street from her, her wife and her son. Not very long ago, just in 2024, before she moved to Minneapolis, your kids had playdates together. What do you remember most about her?

JENNIFER, FORMER NEIGHBOR OF RENEE NICOLE GOOD (via telephone): And first of all, thank you for letting me speak. I really wanted to impress upon the people of our community of what a wonderful woman she was. I didn't know her that well. And it was for a shorter amount of time, about six months, that we lived, across the street from each other. But she was always so kind and generous.

The really -- the biggest memory, the most core memory I have of her is the fact that in the mornings, I would be sitting out on my front lawn drinking a cup of coffee, waiting for the bus to come pick up my daughter, and I would hear laughter spilling out of their house. You could hear it from across the street. That's how happy this family was. And, you know, they were always checking in, saying, hi. Anything we can do for you, those kind of things.

We, you know, it was just a neighborly relationship, but they were really lovely neighbors and we miss them greatly.

BURNETT: That that laughter is, I think, something that sticks with you, Renee and her family, her wife and son moved from Kansas City after the 2024 election, pretty much right after and you said that that's why you only knew them for the period of time you did.

Why did they tell you they were leaving?

JENNIFER: They said they were getting away for a while after before the inauguration. They were I think they were a little afraid of what was to come. And they had the ability to get out. So, they did.

BURNETT: So in this new video that we have Jennifer by the ICE agent that just came out, you know, we do see Renee on his video turn her wheel to the right, which would indicate she was trying to get away. Of course you do. See hear the thud. And then the shot. Perhaps of the agent being hit.

So, you know, look, were all trying to understand exactly what happened here, but President Trump says she was violently, willfully and viciously ran over the ICE officer. I'm not trying to put you in a position of trying to analyze the video, Jennifer. It just more of a perspective of the person that you knew.

Do you think that Renee would have had any intention of ever harming somebody?

JENNIFER: Running someone? No. I've seen I saw the video this afternoon and to me it looks like she's trying to get away and she's trying to de-escalate the situation. And that would be. I had of her, you know, like she not that she would run for problems, but that she, you know, she wasn't ever trying to incite violence.

BURNETT: Yeah. All right. Well, Jennifer, I appreciate your taking the time to talk and share this about your neighbor. Thank you so much.

JENNIFER: Thank you.

BURNETT: And we have more breaking news right now. President Trump is saying he officially supports the FBI cutting Minnesota officials out of its investigation.

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TRUMP: They're crooked officials in Minneapolis and Minnesota. What a beautiful place. But it's being destroyed. It's got an incompetent governor, fool. I mean, he's a stupid person. It's a very corrupt state.

I feel that I won Minnesota, I think I won it all three times. Nobody's won it for since Richard Nixon won it many, many years ago. I wanted all three times, in my opinion.

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BURNETT: Not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of fact. And he lost Minnesota three times. But there's a lot there that he just said.

So, I want to go OUTFRONT now to the Democratic senator of Minnesota, Tina Smith.

Senator, I appreciate your time very much. You just heard what the president said there. What's your response?

SEN. TINA SMITH (D-MN): Well, the president continues to just make stuff up, and there you go watching him do it again. I want to go, though, to what is happening with this investigation. You know, you have right now this killing in Minneapolis, you have the highest leaders of our country saying that they already know what happened. They know exactly what happened. They labeled this mom a domestic terrorist before they even knew her name. And now they're somehow asking us to believe that we can trust them to do an independent and unbiased investigation.

And clearly, the people here in Minnesota don't believe that. And that's why it's so important that we do a joint investigation with state authorities like we have done so many times here before, and that's what we should be doing now. BURNETT: So today, you know, the big revelation was the cell phone

video. No bodycams on these officers, but the officer that shot recorded the interaction on his cell phone and that has just come out. Ill play it here.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's fine. Dude, I'm not mad at you. Show your face. I'm not mad at you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's okay. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come. Talk to us later. That's fine. U.S. citizen, former (INAUDIBLE).

Do you want to come at us? Do you want to come at us? I said go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead.

ICE AGENT: Get out of the car. Get out of the car! Get out of the fucking car!

ICE AGENT: Oh!

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BURNETT: Senator, the vice president says that that video shows the ICE agent's life was in danger, and he fired in self-defense. By the way, interesting. You know, you heard her say it will be the same plate when you get us. You know, as it is now, right? In other words, they're not going to change our license plate. If you have an issue with us, which obviously, letting a car drive off and pursuing it later would be consistent with policy.

I know you've been at the scene of the shooting today, so you know, you have that context yourself palpably. What do you see then when you see this video?

SMITH: Well, I see a street that I have driven down myself probably hundreds of times. Its only a couple of miles from where I live. And the street that I visited today. First of all, you can see from this video that it is a lie to say that the officer was run over. And second of all, I could say having, you know, I worked at the city of Minneapolis. I was the chief of staff.

I've worked closely with law enforcement in my roles at state and local government, and I have never seen anybody describe as protocol holding a cell phone and taking video while you are simultaneously shooting a gun that ends up killing somebody. It's kind of unbelievable.

You know what I saw today on this street in Minneapolis was just people coming together in grief and anger and also solidarity. I was thinking about how most people, they're probably never knew Renee or her family, but they just felt compelled to go and show support.

And it was a peaceful and beautiful moment. And so completely the opposite of what happened on that -- with that terrible shooting. BURNETT: It is deeply disturbing to see the footage someone's filming

and then and then the shot. You're right. Theres something deeply incongruous and disturbing about it. Senator, I need to ask you about one other thing that just happened here in these past minutes. Another breaking story. As a member of the senate, of course, you would have a say in whether the United States is at war or peace, at least ordinarily so.

But president Trump tonight is threatening military action against Greenland. He's doing so repeatedly. I wanted to play for you what he just said.

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TRUMP: We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not. If we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way. We're going to be doing something with Greenland, either the nice way or the more difficult way.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BURNETT: It's interesting because Speaker Johnson, Senator, this week said, quote, nobody's talking about using military force in Greenland. Of course, obviously, the president of United States is talking about that.

The question for you, senator, you sit in the Senate. Is there any chance that this congress would move to stop Trump from using the U.S. military, at his own whim to do anything that he wanted in Greenland?

SMITH: Well, it's just so inconceivable what he's talking about. And I will note that members of his own administration have said that this is that there is no plan to do a invasion of Greenland, even while the president continues to say the opposite.

And I think it's also important to note that just a day or so ago, Congress, the Senate voted to begin debate on a war resolution to stop the military action in Venezuela. And so that tells me that maybe there is a little bit of a fracture in the facade of Republican unconditional support for the outrageous things that Donald Trump says and talks about.

If we are willing to step forward and say not -- no to what's happening in Venezuela, I would hope that we would see the same from our Republican colleagues. If it comes to Greenland, and something that would fracture the NATO alliance irrevocably.

BURNETT: Yeah. Of course, Greenland, part of NATO territory. Thank you so very much, Senator Smith. I appreciate your time tonight.

SMITH: Thank you so much.

BURNETT: And next, a Republican is now calling for the arrest of Philadelphia's sheriff after she warned ICE agents and called them wannabe law enforcement.

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ROCHELLE BILAL, PHILADELPHIA: You don't want this smoke because we will bring it to you.

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BURNETT: She is OUTFRONT next.

And Trump is issuing another major warning to Iran tonight as that country is plunging into chaos amid the largest anti-government protests in years.

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BURNETT: Breaking news, Philadelphia's sheriff calling ICE agents fake wannabe law enforcement and warning, quote, "You don't want this smoke."

And her comments are generating a lot of headlines and some outrage. One Republican is now calling for her arrest. Well, let's tell you exactly what she said. Here is more from Sheriff Rochelle Bilal.

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BILAL: I called them made up fake wannabe law enforcement because what they do is against not only legal law, but the moral law. If any of them want to come in this city and commit a crime, you will not be able to hide. Nobody will whisk you off. You don't want this smoke because we will bring it to you. The criminal in the White House would not be able to keep you from going to jail.

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BURNETT: And she is OUTFRONT now, the sheriff of the city and county of Philadelphia, Rochelle Bilal.

And, Sheriff, I am grateful for your time tonight. So, obviously, you used those words knowing full well they would be heard and you were prepared for them to be heard as they have been. Why did you feel the need to speak out as a law enforcement officer so passionately against ICE?

BILAL: First of all, thank you for having me. While attending the D.A. Krasner press conference on dealing with the situation with Ms. Good that happened in Minneapolis. What was stated was that the district attorney said, if you're going to come and Philadelphia and commit a crime, that he would arrest you.

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The sheriff's office, it deals with transportation. So basically, I said you would not be able to hide. Nobody would whisk you away. And if he charges you, then you can be arrested. What I was saying is that when I said, you come in this city to do a crime, we will bring the smoke to you.

People are tired of these people coming into the city masked up, basically all masked up and pulling people out and causing havoc. This was supposed to be helping cities out. This was supposed to be eliminating crime. But yet, you are committing them here. You are putting people in fear. You are breaking up families.

BURNETT: Is it making your job harder?

BILAL: Enough is enough.

BURNETT: Is it making your job harder?

BILAL: It is because in Philadelphia, because there are two branches of law enforcement the Philadelphia police department that, you know, does the investigation, arrests, patrol the city? The sheriff's office is the security of the courts. We have K-9 bike unit, warrant unit that works 24 hours out in the streets. And I'm being blamed about ICE agents being around the courts.

Now, I can't stop ICE from being outside, hanging around the courts because public sidewalks, public building. But what I can do is if the district attorney arrest you and charge you, then we make we will make sure we transport you to where you need to go.

BURNETT: So let me ask you, because you know, the video that we've had on this and I'm sure you've seen it from various angles, we now have a new angle tonight, filmed by the actual ICE agent who shot Good himself, right? He filmed their interaction and has released it.

Vice President Vance says it shows that the ICE agent that his life was in danger, and he fired in self-defense. You do see them interacting, and it seems to be rather calm interaction. Her arms out the window. Then it escalates within milliseconds to the shooting. You know, looking at this as law enforcement, okay. And what he did and what happened.

What do you see?

BILAL: First of all, law enforcement professional does not put themselves in the place of danger. You don't stand in front of a vehicle. Basically standing there so that you can get hit or cause an accident. And then when the woman and Ms. Good turns to get away from them and the officer is on the side, where is the threat? There's no more threat for you to shoot twice into a car. There was no gun shooting at you.

The car turned you out of the way. That should have been it. Two more shots into the vehicle, killing this woman. It's wrong.

BURNETT: Sheriff Bilal, I appreciate your time tonight. And thank you so much

BILAL: You're welcome. Thank you.

BURNETT: All right. And next, we have breaking news. President Trump is threatening to strike Iran. The country is in the midst of its biggest crisis in many years. Dozens are dead. Anti-government protests are now exploding around the country.

And our David Culver tonight joins Colombian police on a dangerous mission deep in the country's jungles, a crucial report as Trump has threatened Colombia with military action next.

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BURNETT: Breaking news, Trump is warning Iran chaos is spreading across the country. Iran is facing its largest anti-government protests in years, and at least 45 people are reported dead. Obviously, the numbers could be, you know, we don't know, right?

I mean, this is all hard-to-get information. The regime has cut communications. Theres a nationwide internet blackout. Trump is now threatening American action on top of it.

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TRUMP: So Iran's in big trouble because that's a very dangerous place right now. And again, I tell the Iranian leaders, you better not start shooting because we'll start shooting to.

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BURNETT: Jomana Karadsheh is OUTFRONT.

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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Iran is facing its biggest internal crisis in years as anti-regime protests spread like a wildfire to every single one of its 31 provinces. Here in the city of Mashhad, the birthplace of the supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei, protesters take down the Islamic republic's flag and tear it to pieces.

Dozens of protesters have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands detained, according to activists and human rights groups. But that did not appear to deter Iranians who poured onto the streets of Tehran and other cities. The regime shut down communications, with fears now growing that they are once again using the blackout to unleash an even more brutal crackdown.

President Trump has repeated his threat to hit the regime hard if they kill protesters. Chants for the return of the monarchy, something we hadn't heard during previous waves of protests.

Some of the demonstrators appear to be heeding the calls of this man, Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the last shah of Iran.

The 65-year-old came to the United States when he was 17 and remained exiled there after his father, the former shah, was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic revolution. [19:50:04]

For years, the exiled crown prince has sought to present himself as a man who can lead Iran's opposition and rid the country of the repressive, theocratic rule. In a Washington post op-ed this week, Pahlavi said he doesn't see protesters chanting his name as a claim to power. Instead, he sees himself as a unifying, transitional leader who would help guide the country from tyranny to democracy, but he is a divisive figure.

While he does have the support of many Iranian monarchists who are nostalgic for the days of the shah, it is unclear just how much support he really has inside the country.

Many Iranians say Pahlavi hasn't set foot in the country in decades. He's too disconnected from the people who have been on the front lines of the battle for freedom and democracy.

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KARADSHEH (on camera): And, Erin, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, today dismissed the protesters as agitators that he claimed were out to try and please the U.S. president. In a response to President Trump's threats to strike hard if the regime killed protesters, he said President Trump should focus on the problems in his own country -- Erin.

BURNETT: Jomana, thank you very much. Reporting live tonight.

And next, an exclusive OUTFRONT. Our David Culver going inside the jungle of Colombia, and wait until you see who he's with and what they see in this country that is now on the front line. Trump threatening military action against Colombia.

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BURNETT: Tonight, the Colombian President slamming Trump's ICE agents

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GUSTAVO PETRO, COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT: For us, ICE operates the same way as the Nazi and Italian brigades, the fascists.

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BURNETT: David Culver is OUTFRONT in Colombia tonight, and he has this exclusive report filmed after Trump's latest threat to use the American military against the country.

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DAVID CULVER, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: What you're looking at here might look like military special forces, but these are Colombia's national police, anti-narcotics officers, and they're prepping for a jungle mission near the country's southern border.

This operation comes at a moment of regional tension. You can almost feel it at times with uncertainty in neighboring Venezuela spilling over after the U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro. And as President Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro are increasingly trading sharp words with one another, some are asking just how serious is Washington about confronting Colombia next?

CULVER (voice-over): From the air, the scale is overwhelming.

Vast stretches of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, spread across the jungle below us. So why don't they just eradicate it all?

CULVER: He points out, all of these plots of coca are protected by armed groups.

CULVER (voice-over): Which is why police say they focus on sites they believe will have the biggest impact on disrupting drug production and trafficking.

CULVER: All of this is coca, he points out. And all of this, the officers say, is on unclaimed jungle land. This essentially is a kitchen or a laboratory where they do the first step of producing cocaine from the coca plant.

CULVER (voice-over): As police secure the area, locals begin to gather some out of curiosity. Others, police say, may work these fields for criminal organizations.

CULVER: I mean, there's a few people who are standing around us. They then go through the process of determining what, if any involvement they might have had with this, and then will process them accordingly.

CULVER (voice-over): Officers quickly set the lab on fire to keep it from being used again.

CULVER: And police stressed to us that none of this would be possible without the support of the U.S. From training to technology to equipment and most importantly, intel.

CULVER (voice-over): That cooperation is something police bring up repeatedly, and it's something we ask about directly.

CULVER: Between the FBI, DEA, are you still working together?

CULVER (voice-over): The general tells us support from the U.S. has not changed. And he describes the relationship with U.S. law enforcement as the best it's ever been, helping drive what police describe as historic drug seizures in 2025. He warns that without that partnership, criminal organizations would win.

We see just how vital that U.S. investment is at a training base outside of Bogota.

CULVER: All the weapons, he points out are from the U.S.

CULVER (voice-over): The gear they wear, the buildings that house them here, nearly all of it, they say made or paid for by the USA.

Back on the mission. It's time to go. We're rushed on to the Black Hawk, part of the anti-narcotics police fleet. They say they have more than two dozen of them, all provided by the United States.

As we pull out, smoke rises from the jungle below, one of several cocaine labs police say they destroyed on this deployment.

CULVER: They're all now returning after what was, for them, a successful mission. And they reiterate to us over and over the decades of cooperation with U.S. law enforcement remains essential for them to stop drugs leaving Colombia and entering places like the U.S. and beyond, even if politics at the very top are telling a different story on the ground, they stress the relationship for now at least strong.

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BURNETT: All right, just part of David Culver's incredible reporting there. He has a full hour report that you can see on what's next for Venezuela. That is this Sunday on "THE WHOLE STORY" at 8:00 with our David Culver.

Thanks so much for joining us. "AC360" starts now.