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was on the scene baldwin faces up to 18 months in prison and phoning home to astronauts talking about there much longer than expected stay on the ai and when they could finally returned to earth, we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central president biden's realized election campaign facing further uncertainty as more top democrats speak out already today to prominent democrats who recently hosted a biden fundraiser. hollywood icons george clooney and rob reiner are calling for the president to step aside in a new york times op-ed, clooney writes, quote, it's devastating to say it. but the joe biden, i was with three weeks ago was not at the fundraiser, was not the joe big effing deal biden of 2010. he wasn't even the joe biden of 2020 he was the same man. we all witnessed at the debate

shortly after reiner posted on social media saying, in part quote, we need someone younger to fight back joe biden must step aside. now at the same time, two of biden's closest political allies on capitol hill, former house speaker nancy pelosi, and congressman jim clyburn or publicly questioning whether the president's decision to stay in the race is final lesson it's up to the president to subside if he is going to run. >> we're all encouraging him to make that decision. i want him to do whatever he decides to do and that's that's the way it is. >> decision final oh, i have no idea. you have to ask him. i don't know all right. >> let's start with cnn senior white house correspondent mj lee, who is falling president s the global leaders here in dc with thell eyes on biden, how much is at stake for the president well, just

this is an unbelievably tenuous moment for president biden. we are some two weeks removed now from that cnn debate. and the democratic party is in a state of utter chaos and panic about the future of president biden's political future, but also the question of whether he is really the best person to represent them at the top but the ticket heading into november, and we're seeing how the president really has been under a microscope. every public appearance that he has made since that debate, every speech, every the interview, every public appearance really has been closely scrutinized in this week this all happens to be taking place on the global stage. the president right now is behind closed doors, meeting with nato leaders. and earlier, we did see him talking about and touting the ways in which he has helped to strengthen the nato alliance that of course has it's been a key pillar of his foreign policy. take a listen for 75 years.

>> our nations have grown and prospered behind the nato shield today, we're stronger than we've ever been since i took office we've doubled a number of battlegroups and natoce eastern flank and the united states has finland and sweden have joined the alliance. and the number of allies spend at least 2% on defense has gone from nine to 23 that's not happened by chance, but by choice the president may not have said donald trump's name there, but there's no question that that is a rebuttal of sorts to his predecessor, who has at times excoriated certain nato countries saying that they not paying their fees, that they are due to pay the president's audience right now, we should note is not just americans here at home, but really global leaders, global well mads, many of whom are here right now at

this convention center and having an raising some of the same questions that a lot of americans have been raising since the cnn debate is the president a healthy, is he fit to serve the rest of his term, let alone another four years at the white house and one thing that i think that is worth noting here is how much foreign policy we'll see it has really taken up. >> so much of the president's first term in the white house. this is something that advisers over the years have talked about as gotten as having gotten in the way at times of his ability to focus on issues at home. and we also know that the president, after the debate, blamed his foreign travels and the focus on foreign policy for that disastrous debate. and now here here we are at another important moment for him. here at home and he is having to spend a stretch of days focused on foreign policy and again, on the global stage all right. >> mj lee forrest, thanks. so much for that reporting. let's go now to congressional correspondent lauren fox, who's on capitol hill lauren, what are you hearing for democrats now? it is wednesday.

we've had a couple of days at the mall together. what are you hearing today as this continues to have evolve yeah. >> if the biden campaign had hoped to put any concerns to rest, the reality is the democratic lawmakers or deal trying to grapple with how to move ahead, right now, you have many democrats who are basically arguing. they hope that biden makes the right decision despite the fact that two days ago, they received a letter from the president explicitly saying that his mind was made up and that he was staying a top democratic ticket. i think jessica, that reveals just the fact that they are trying to give him space. they respect biden. they believe that they have worked closely plea with him to do things that they believe have helped the american people. they want to show a sign of deference. but at the same time alarm bells are going off both in public and in private. you now have eight democrats who have publicly said that they hope that biden gets out of

this race, hopes that he steps aside they also oh, have a large contingent of democrats who are privately telling their colleagues that they do not believe that biden can win three of those democrats that, made their case yesterday to their colleagues that includes michael bennett, who then came on cnn's air last night and said that he did indeed say that privately at this lunch and that he believes that publicly that biden cannot beat donald trump's. so that is something to keep in mind as we move forward here. but jessica, it's just a good reminder that there is this middle ground that democrats are trying to walk and fact, here's senator jones manchin. when i asked if he thought there was room for biden to get out at this point do you see a world in which the president would change his mind at this point though, i've always said this if we can't change your mind, you can't change anything everyone. let's see if they see fact and they feel that the right

decision is the right decision that they want to make. that right decision even though they may some overtures other than that, i've always believed rational people do the right thing. >> and tomorrow biden campaign officials will come and meet with senate democrats and a special discussion where of course democrats they're hoping to get additional clarity from the biden campaign on what the strategy is going forward and the biden campaign, of course, hoping to put any questions about the president's fitness and mental acuity to rest. jessica, lauren fox on capitol hill. thank you so much for that. and now let's go to cnn's eva mckend, who is in dallas. she is following the vice president, kamala harris what has she been saying today? eva, a lot of eyes on her. she's in a really delicate position you know, jessica, this was a crucial appearance at the aka convention during a significant week for the vice president and seeing her give these remarks this afternoon, seeing her up on that stage, it really

allowed her to showcase her up philippine to this ticket as a black woman that can relate to other black women. >> so core to the constituency of the democratic party. she also used the platform really, as a call to action, to lean on this incredible network of hundreds of thousands of black women to get out and support the tip, get mobilize black voters, and really just get out the vote. she also announced the creation of the national health and safety standards former personal care, and talk about reproductive rights and how they would be a real, under real threat under another trump administration. let's listen and understand the former president wants to pass a national abortion ban to outlaw abortion in every single state. >> but we will not let him we will not let that happen we have worked hard and far too

long to see our daughters grow up in a world with fewer rights than our mothers you know, jess, something else that really stuck out to me that i think is quite significant if she talked about the conservative policy outline project 2025, when she mentioned it, you can hear thousands of women in the crowd, echo that project 2025 and that tells me that the democratic messaging on that issue that has really resonating and the democratic voters are afraid of the policy implications of what another trump president, presidency might bring i'll also tell you that i spoke to many of the women in the crowd and they say they want the status quo, they want this ticket as it is, to stay the same. president biden at the top vice president harris running as his running mate? yes. all right. eva mckend for us in dallas with the vice president. thank you so much for that reporting for

us. >> joining us now to discuss, is democratic congressman sean casten of illinois congressman. thank you so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. do you think that this matter is decided? do you think that door may still be open in your eyes to president biden stepping aside from the top of the democratic ticket i? can tell you there's a rich conversation going on within our democratic family right now. but what were, what were completely unified on his understand the stakes of this election the joe biden has had an extremely effective presidency. we know that in the alternative, we have a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who brags about taking away roe v. wade, who because of this supreme court, has been empowered to be a desperate on day one. and we will want to make sure as a democratic family, what we do next. whatever that is ensuring that we went in november when i say democratic family i'm not talking just about those of us

who have the privilege to work in this building. i'm talking about about my own constituents back home as well. we understand the stakes given the stakes, do you think that president biden gives your party the best opportunity to win in november well, i'll tell you that here's a there's a healthy debate within our caucus about whether that family conversation is best out in public or in private. >> and my personal view is that joe biden has earned the respect to have that conversation privately, so i'm not making any public statements about where my own opinions lie on that, but he certainly expressed that to our leadership into our broader democratic family. understood. i think it's still a fair question whether you think that the party in terms of lawmakers on capitol hill and specifically the leadership, could have enough sway toward seeking a second fall from president didn't biden because from the white house

perspective, this is already decided they don't actually even want to talk about it. it seems like lawmakers have questioned the wisdom of that decision well, look, i mean, i think you heard you heard speaker emerita pelosi say that this is biden's decision to make, and i would emphasize, again four years ago, this building was under attack. >> we were in the middle of a massively deep downturn in our economy that we're body bags in central park and over the past four years, we've not only recovered from covid fast, another country we've expanded nato we've built us a standing on the world stage all were inflation and other countries that as a result of that and if all of that doesn't grant president biden the ability to make that decision then then i don't want to be a democrat and so i think we're respectful of his process and want to make sure that that goes through. but again, keeping an eye on the fact that our job is to preserve this

beautiful 250-year-old experiment in democracy. we have and we need that has to be the top priority understood. >> so what is it that at you as a group are watching for to determine that president biden is the best candidate, moving forward what is it specifically that you would like to see that you think would quell that healthy debate that you say is ongoing how do we make sure? >> for that? everybody is comfortable? that come next november or we're not going to have to have the same conversations that i had in july 4 parades last weekend, where people people were not coming up to me and saying, i want you to take a position at the democratic convention in chicago. people were coming up to me i'm saying, can i trust that democracy is going to survive in this moment? how did we get to a point where nixon was forced to resign before this? in court found him guilty. and yet this supreme court has said that a president is above the law. folks are

really scared about that. and what has to happen is we have to be comfortable well, as a party, as a country that we can take democracy for granted. again, not that we ever could, but that's what we have to feel comfortable about that we know we're going to have a happy outcome and i wish it wasn't partisan to say that, right? because next week we're also going to see the republicans nominate said adjudicated rapist without a shred head of self-reflections or concern. and there's a lot of weight us all wait on us as democrats right now because it's awfully lonely to be the only party that's defending defending democracy, defending the rule of law i understand that you don't want to weigh in on whether you think president biden should good to run or not, at least publicly. >> but i am wondering where you stand on the question of whether that debate was a single bad night or a symptom? of something recurring because i think that's a question. a

lot of democrats have. i'm also wondering if you think the white house and the campaign can do more to fully answer that question well, i've i said publicly after the debate and it's been reported and i'll repeat it here that i think i think the white house can do a lot more too. answer that question by making public biden more publicly available i think we've all been with him in small settings and large settings and scripted settings and unscripted say headings and at least for me personally, that debate was painful to watch. but also not the person that i hadn't been been. spending time with at the white house picnic two weeks before but they need they need to prove that this was just a temporarily hold muscle and not something that needs to take them i'm out of the relay. >> how far do you think this press conference at nato toward the end of the week, we'll go in changing the narrative they've around the president

speaking only for the legislative branch. i think a lot of this was around conversations he's going to happen with me and my colleagues and not with with other foreign leaders what it does specifically, the availability that you're describing from the white house to make the president more accessible. do you think that that could change the dynamic because we've seen him talk to reporters, we've seen him or at least in a one-on-one interview setting and on msnbc, we've seen him at rallies, we've seen him at a specific events, but we haven't seen him give like an open sort of press conference i assume that's what you mean when you say that you you want to see him be made more available by the white house yes. >> we'd like to see him more available in unscripted moments, but but i keep coming back and maybe it's just because i'm standing here in the capital the january 6, we came so close to losing everything we came so close to losing everything, we didn't lose everything in part because

the democrats controlled the house. and when we were deciding, what are we going to do to reopen the floor? for nancy pelosi was in charge of that decision? i have no idea where kevin mccarthy was in that moment. and we need to be focused in the house on making sure that we win house and we want to have a partner in the white house to do that. but we need to make sure that we keep the house as the bulwark to democracy. and then make sure that we're working with the white house to coordinate, to make sure the american people understand as we do the deep and existential stakes of this election it sounds like it's an ongoing conversation congressman sean casten, we appreciate your time. we hope your turn to continue that discussion thank you, boris. thanks so much. so it's day two of the nato summit here in dc. what does president biden need to do to reassure world leaders about the alliances? future will discuss plus alec baldwin's manslaughter trial is now underway. these are live pictures from the courtroom as

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speaking with participants, foreign diplomats, leaders who have come here they certainly say that it is somewhat distracting from the very important goals of this summit. >> this was already a crucial and historic summit is set 75th anniversary with a lot of work to be done on ukraine and other subjects. but this discussion about biden is taking away from some of that. at the same time, there is a lot of concern serhan among people hear about biden's condition, his ability to lead this military alliances. of course day, like so many democrats and americans want to see up close essentially how he's doing in the wake of the cnn debate. so we saw president biden speaking last night in his speech, he opened the nato summit. i heard from a number of people who thought that he done quite well. of course, i was a scripted event. we are now towards the end of the first working session where those, some of those nato leaders will, will get to see him up close. in a more unscripted way. so they really are taking stock of him and his political

fate because that will have a major impact. on the nato alliance. who the next president is, what president volodymyr zelenskyy, excuse me, talking directly to that point, saying everyone is waiting to see what will happen and in november, the russians included, he said, because president biden and former president trump, of course, have very different views of nato for president biden, nato is a cornerstone of american foreign policy see for president trump, he has spoken about it with some disdain. so the diplomats here are quite concerned about the political fate of president joe biden, but the same time they are very focused on accomplishing the goals that need to get done during the summit reinforcing support for ukraine, confronting china along with a whole list of other things and celebrating, frankly, jessica the 75th anniversary of this alliance, just alex marquardt for us in washington, dc. >> thanks so much for that. let's turn now to cnn political commentator and former defense secretary harry under president trump, mark esper. he also serves on the board or as a strategic advisor for a handful of aerospace and

defense-related companies. secretary great to have you here with us i want to talk about with this summit here in washington, ukraine, and its future really at the centerpiece of this week's nato summit first, you expect ukraine will ultimately become a member of nato. and if so, how? do you think that plays out oh good afternoon, jessica. >> look, i hope ukraine ultimately ultimately becomes a member, but my crystal ball doesn't go that far. that said, i think it's important that we signal strongly a willingness to bring them in. i was hoping for something stronger than what we are likely see out of this conference with regard to that decision. but it is important that we bring as many members in the can qualify to serve. certainly ukraine being under nato umbrella would protect it in the future, much like it has the last many years for the baltics romania poland, and other frontline states and last

week, i want to ask you about this to us officials, learned that russian backed actors were considering carrying out sabotage attacks against us military personnel and facilities across europe it appears that this would be an escalatory move by russia. >> how do you read this and how would you expect the u.s. to respond? we know they've made some changes in security, but how would you expect them to respond? responded. this did in fact happen yeah, it certainly would be escalatory in my mind, we haven't seen something like that in a while. of course we know for years now, and including this year in particular russia continues to want to influence our elections and not just ours, but others in europe. and so that's another fact that we continue to deal with on a daily basis, but look, i think first would be making sure we understand the nature of that threat. was conducted. if so there was some suggesting that they might use a third third-party the bomb or commit arson at one of our bases. but look, i think we have to stand up to them and pushed back pretty hard and at

all times i haven't necessarily necessarily seen that from this administration. i hope they will do more in terms of responding to any russian bad behavior and seeking to determine the future if we zoom out for a second and the context around all having all of these global leaders here with nato, protecting democracies across across the world. >> and we are seeing russia with these, with these strikes on ukraine on that children's harms hospital in the last couple of days were so many children had to be evacuated and moved after that was hit. we were seeing china with these military exercises, with belarus, right on the border of poland. of course, a nato member they really seem to be trying to make a message as nato is happening or has gathered here in washington this week yeah they certainly are jessica you mentioned that the strike on the hospital, what could be a more chilling message. they're willing then putin showing that willingness to do awful, terrible things to a civilian population. you mentioned china, but of course

we have to mention iran and north korea. putin was just in asia a week or so ago visiting north korea and vietnam. and certainly in the case north korea bargaining for additional arms and ammunition to his country, we know that china is providing dual use and other capabilities and items to enable russia's war machine. and of course, iran is providing missiles and drones. so you see this blowing, this growing block coming together of an axis, if you will, that is determined to push back against the western democracies. first and foremost to that being the united states of america and so with that backdrop, our colleague jim sciutto is reporting that nato officials and us allies have doubts that joe biden can get reelected and that they are bracing for possibility of what they consider to be enormous change in the u.s. >> role in nato. if trump is reelected, we'll he reduced the u.s role in nato. he has said, he's made a lot of passing

comments about it, said that if other countries in europe aren't paying their fair share, that russia can, putin can do whatever they want to them, things like that. how do you think that these domestic politics could potentially affect the global stage? they're affecting everybody. jessica, whenever i travel abroad, whether it's europe or asia, the first question always asked is what's the status of the race? what will trump do? how does he look upon our country? this alliance, whatever the case may be, and those fears have only grown exponentially here in the last few weeks you know we wake up this morning, we see new polls saying that states that were in the lean democratic bucket are now toss-ups and ones that were likely democratic are now lanes and they see these, they see the momentum. they see joe biden's disastrous debate and they're bracing, bracing for what may come and look at. they believe if you are to believe what president trump says he was says he will not support ukraine. he has threatened in the past withdraw from nato, and he could do any number of other things. and of course that's just our european allies i'm sure our allies in

south korea and japan recall what happened the first term and some of the messaging he delivered. there are concerned as well because they are facing off against the more ambitious and aggressive that's of china as well just quickly before i let you go, does that concern you or yeah, deeply concerns me because look, the world is under a lot of stress these days. there's conflict breaking out everywhere. president biden is right. this is an era where the democracies are facing against, facing off against the autocracies of the world and the role requires american leadership. and if we don't lead that vacuum will be filled by somebody else and we don't want it filled by china or russia american needs lead on the world stage, bearing that leadership is a heavy burden. i know, but it's very important if we want to maintain a stable, proper prosperous global order. one is based on our values and interests much like we had last 75 years for the next 75 years going forward. >> yeah. there's a lot at stake. all right. secretary mark esper, always good to see you. thanks so much.

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cinematographer halyna hutchins and director joel souza after baldwin's prop gun went off hutchins, of course, would not survive in their opening statements, prosecutors accused baldwin of recklessly mishandling a firearm while the defense argued weapon weapon safety was not part of his john. >> this was an unspeakable tragedy, but alec baldwin committed no crime he was an actor, acting playing the role of harlan rust an actor playing a character can act in ways that are lethal that just aren't lethal on a movie set these cardinal rules they're not cardinal rules on a movie set. >> he pointed the gun at another human being caught. the hammer and pull that trigger and joining us now to discuss is defense attorney misty marris and misty great to have you on we're watching these live pictures as this trial

continues today. >> and it's coming to a close on on this on this day, what has stood out to you will the opening statements were certainly very compelling on both sides, but there was something in the defense opening statement, and we can expect to hear the same theme throughout the trial. prosecutors said, every actor it's supposed to treat a gun, whether it's a prop gun whether or not they're an actor, they should pretend that it is a loaded gun and therefore, alec baldwin acted recklessly because he was holding that gun and pointing it at people, putting his finger on the trigger recklessly using it as a pointer. that's the prosecution's argument. but the defense said none of that really matters because a live bullet was found on that set and that never should have happened. alec baldwin could never have known that that would be the case. it was incomprehensible. something else we heard in the opening statement, we know alec baldwin made a very public early on interview. he said never pulled

the trigger. will the defense walking back a bit on that saying it doesn't matter whether or not he pulled the trigger because that live bullet never could have been foreseen. so these are themes we're going to see from the defense throughout the course of the trial misty there was sort of a win for the defense even before the trial started when the judge ruled that baldwin's role as a producer on the movie was not going to be considered during the trial why do you think the judge came to that conclusion? >> and how does it shape the proceedings? moving forward? >> absolutely. a huge win for the defense. so for the entirety of this case, the prosecutors had two theories. one, alec baldwin as the actor that's what we heard about the opening statements, how he mishandled that gun and short to safety responsibilities. that's now the argument that's going to be raised to this trial. the alternate argument that the judge will not allow in its alec baldwin as a producer, the argument was

that since he was a producer on the set, he was actually responsible for all of the safety failures, including hiring a armorer, hannah gutierrez reed, who was not qualified for the job. all those arguments it's have been thrown out including testimony and video footage showing alec baldwin rushing through scenes rushing to keep production on track. so now that none of that's in the case, this was so critical for the defense because it really narrowed what evidence prosecutors are going to be able to show since he's not responsible for the safety on the set over all, that, the prosecutors really lost an argument about how to establish recklessness. now it's just relating to alec baldwin's handling of the gun. the reason the judge came to that conclusion, she said she didn't understand how he could have been the actor and then also responsible for all of those safety failures when there's these contractual responsibilities that it simply didn't make sense and was too prejudicial. so that was a big win for the defense. >> all right. misty marris, more to come on this. thanks so

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police were called to the house when they heard women screaming and the police went in with medical services, they discovered the women all three of them injured, but they died shortly afterwards. >> and the video of a man leaving the premises with a crossbow is what led the police to this cemetery here kyle clifford was his name they lead he lived in this neighborhood of london about 45 minutes away from where the women were discovered. and within 24 hours for police had tracked him to this cemetery where they say they captured him he was injured. they say no shots were fired, but he was medically evacuated given medical treatment on the scene, and ben been taken to hospital quite how he knew this family isn't clear, but by the nature of the fact that all three women,

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>> yeah, they left earth on june 5. they were expected to return nine days later. we've passed that date. now, there were turned has been delayed indefinitely after the boeing starliner spacecraft suffered a series of technical issues. so let's bring in our space correspondent, kristin fisher kristen how did the astronauts explain this extra lengthy stay in space so both members of the starliner crew, butch and sunny say that they remain confident that this starliner spacecraft is going to be able to get them back safely to earth the way that they explain this. jessica and boris is that what they want to do? the reason that they're staying up there is they want to do more testing to figure out the cause because of these problems, to figure out what caused the helium leaks and thruster failures. and so that's what they say this delay is all about because the place on the spacecraft where these problems took place on a part that's not going to survive re-entry. so scientists on the ground, and engineers on the ground are going to lose

all that data once they undocked for the international space station. but this was the first time that we've heard from butch and sunny since they've been up at the international space station. here is the commander, butch wilmore talking about why they're still up there? >> failure is not an option that's why we are staying here now we did have some degradation and our thrusters and we know that and that's why we're staying because we're going to test it. that's what we do. that's what we do in this instance. we're going to get the data that we need to help inform our decisions. we make the right decisions. and that's why and we feel confident and so not only is that testing continuing in space, but they're also continuing to test at a facility in white sands, new mexico but bottom line here, we still don't have a return date for these two astronauts at the earliest, it's looking like end of july. more likely august, boris and jessica, but get this something else that we learned today during this press

conference right before they launched nasa had to add some hardware a replacement pump for the toilet up at the international space station inside starliner. so to do that, they had to take out some weight, removed some mass and what they chose were butch and sunni's suitcases to personal suitcases, one for each astronaut inside where they're toiletries, shampoo, personal soaps. so things you might need for an eight-day mission in space, but you would definitely want, if you're up there for as long as they've been up there? >> they couldn't go with their own personal belongings because they had to take a toilet pump out there. i hope that there's extra shampoo on the iss, kristen? >> there is, but i mean, that would be like using the hotel shampoo for a month. who wants to do that? yeah. is that what you're now it seems like worse could do it just fine. we might struggle a little but maybe i shouldn't go to space. you

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says she gets countless messages from people who are big fans of his work. >> so i'm even stand in the front of their house and say, that's where the many picasa lives. despite his young age and fame jim laurence parents are thinking ahead all of the money is saved until he turns 18 and then they say he can decide what he would like to do with it. he's only to two his little to be painting like that that good. >> i don't know if i could do that. well, right. i just think yes, i believe in you, of course you could do that. i don't know. like it's on for 7,000 bucks while there's only one way we don't know boris, there is there is if i were his parents, i would just start having random people fingerpaint and claim that it was the many picasa and then just start mass-producing these payments in many regards, is asleep for a nap. ate fruits college hey, thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. you know who loves finger-painting, the great jake tapper jake tapper starts right now