on immigration and they haven't had one for a long time and it's just such a weak spot in a real vulnerability, but i have been incredibly excited to see kamala harris saying, no, we're going to have to fund the border. i do think what she's gonna have to do though, just with a lot of her positions from back in 2019, it's figure out how she explained to the american people why she's having had an evolution on them, what she saw as vice president, what she learned as vice president, that brought her to the positions that she holds. now, i think if she can articulate that clearly and make a what feels like an authentic case for border security and not just a oh, hey, it's an election shan i might need to talk about the border a little bit and get americans to trust her on that and be able to talk about executing the plan, talk about the way that republicans stood in the way of a very conservative senator james lankford, that they talk about them working on it together and how republicans scuttled it. >> yeah. >> then i think she's got i think she neutralizes what is a very potent issue for republicans. all right, we are out of time. we're going to leave it there so good to see all three of you. thanks so much for being here. thank you for joining us. i'm jessica dean, cnn news central starts

right now welcome home. >> americans, newly free from russian prisons are back on us soil. >> after that historic prisoner swap landing in san antonio for treatment early this morning the video, the hugs, the tears, and the message now from president biden as they arrived overnight also, breaking this morning the kamala harris campaign announcing it's raised a whopping 310 million in july. >> that's doubling president trump's fundraising haul for the same we're going to break down what that means for the race, for the white house. and in paris, the highly anticipated and long awaited olympic debut of track star sha'carri richardson, team usa, ready? you go at least we hope we have a preview. i'm omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman and sara sidner out today. this is cnn news central breaking overnight,

three americans freed he'd from russia now back in the united states greeted with understandable amounts of tears and hugs and overwhelming joy after their plane landed at joint base andrews in maryland former us marine paul whelan, wall street journal reporter. >> evan gershkovich, russian-american journalist alsu kurmasheva reunited with their families after unimaginable unimaginable, or deals being wrongfully detained whelan telling reporters every day of the five-years, seven months in five days that he was held he's saying the national anthem gershkovich telling his wall street journal colleagues were on the tarmac. >> i'm home. >> and kurmasheva running into the arms of her daughter, of her two young daughters, reporters on the ground saying that you could hear the little girls sob from many yards away. one of the girls, one of her

girls it turns 13-years-old today. these three americans returning home after a massive prisoner swap that started breaking on this show yesterday, the likes of which have not been seen since the cold war. 24 people involving seven countries a deal that president biden says he was convinced his administration could get done back together relationships with countries we haven't had for nato, we regret the circumstances, allow this to happen that's where i happened. what is your message tonight to vladimir putin strop in the wee hours of this morning, the newly free americans, they left maryland and landed in san antonio, texas at an army medical center there for checkups cnn's priscilla alvarez is at the white house to start us off this morning. >> priscilla, what are you hearing from the white house today well, yesterday was certainly a joyous day at the white house as officials celebrated, that these americans were coming home and

what you see those images there, the freed americans arriving on us soil a remarkable moment that concluded what was a complex and historic diplomatic effort. >> now, the president and the vice president greeting those americans, paul, paul whelan, evan gershkovich, and alsu kurmasheva at the tarmac just after 11, 30 last night. now, as they eat disembarks, the plane, the president and the vice president embracing them. later, the president gave paul whelan one of the pins on his suit and put it on whalen's lapid. now, this had been a moment that had been built up over weeks and months, and that was such a theme some of the day yesterday at the white house talking about the importance of alliances and why you have to keep friends across the world that according to the president, because it was those relationships that he had to

lean on to make this come to fruition, particularly with germany and slovenia. so the president on the tarmac telling reporters that it was the toughest call, but it was not just for the u.s. it was also for allies. now, the vice president, also using the opportunity to reflect on the moment while underscoring the stakes of the election this is just extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy i'm going to see and understands the strength that rests in understanding a significant is up to policy. >> and strengthening online so you hear her there alluding in some ways to republican if former president donald trump's isolationist policies when it comes to foreign policy. >> now of course, these freed americans are, did go to san antonio where they're going to receive medical evaluations and

any other there needs that they have. that the government will be trying to meet over the next few days, but certainly of that feeling of elation yesterday also spilling into today among officials yeah. it's. >> great to see you. thanks so much. >> priscilla, as always an amazing day and amazing and incredible. david knew is going to be historic, but this seems to be now just like the beginning of a process, very serious one though, and that's why we've got rosa flores in san antonio. now for us where the three americans are receiving a medical checkup and rosa, it's our understanding that you were able to speak with paul whelan as well. i mean, what did you see at the conditions of these folks? what did he what did he tell you well, it was a very emotional moment. >> what happened here in san antonio is all three freed americans got off the plane. they were here with their families and they mingled for a little bit. with some of the us state department officials. and

then paul whelan did speak. he he wanted to share a few things he said that it didn't feel real that none of this felt real to him until he was flying over england. and of course he's also a british citizen. and he says that he looked down and at that point, that's when it hit them, that this was real, that he was heading home. now, if you look closely at the video of him here in san antonio, you can see that he is wearing an american flag lapel pen and he explained that this is the helpin that president biden gave to him on the tarmac. they're in dc says that they were just chatting and that the president gave him the pin as a key sake. and he said that this was a good home coming to american soil. he said he was nice to hug his sister and that he's looking forward to recuperate trading here, but he also took a few moments to criticize the russian government for his experience. take a listen i

went, on a two-week vacation now, the fsb grabbed me, said i was a spy apparently a general in the army, secret agent for eia this is the nonsense narrative they came up with it. they just, they wouldn't let it go and omar, he also mentioned and just immense gratitude and he just wanted to thank the thousands of people from around the world who had been praying for him and i have also written letters to him. >> he says he received those letters in detention and he was just so grateful and rosa, look, it's not just a medical checkup that's happening here. >> can you you just explain to everyone they are obviously going to the brooke army medical center, but also what happens there and what the beginning of this process actually is you know, that's a very important question the brooke army medical center is the gigantic building that you

see behind me and the state of the art reintegration program for the department of defense. that's what's happening behind us. and now, what is happening is, is this dod reintegration program that is normally used for four members of the military is fitted for civilians and for civilians who have experienced isolation events just like these americans who were detained, they were in isolation, but they were in conditions that were unspeakable. and so what's going on? behind me is a medical evaluation. first of all, omar, but also they get to decompress and they get to re-integrate to physical exercise, to a regular diet and also the key factor it's re-integrate into their families, their family will also be staying in the base that you see behind me and they're going to integrate both the medical evaluation in the time that they can spend with their families. finally, after this nightmare is over

for them, and we've been showing video just in san antonio, evan gershkovich laughing and smiling with some of his family members and folks around him. but of course, as you laid out, this is the beginning of a process to try to stem some of what could be some long-term effects as well. something to keep an and rosa flores really appreciate the reporting kate coming up for us, eye popping numbers is bring the kamala harris campaign is announcing a monster fundraising total for the month of july. 310 million grazie plus we have new cnn reporting. >> the president biden may send more military deployments to backup. israel against iran, threatened retaliation for the killing killing of a hamas leader on their soil and the u.s. is way on top in terms of the overall and big medal count. but still trailing china in gold, the very latest from paris correct?

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together and where this money is coming from. >> well, a lot of that money came just in the first few days after harris became the expected democratic nominee. and i think you compare that to the trump numbers for this month. that's an important number. it's also an important number to think about where the biden numbers had been expected to be for this month. sources that i've talked to were thinking even pre debate that they were going to have a rough july obviously after that debate and all the trauma that the democrats were going through and biden was going through, it was much lower. so this is a big amount of money for the harris campaign. they are saying that 94% of the donations that came in here are under $200. that means those people can give again, that they are new donors that are coming in. a lot of them. and also means that there is a lot of money theoretically there from some of those big donors that we always hear about the people who can write the giant checks to the super pacs that are potentially going to be flooding even more money into

the trace. we don't know what that looks like yet and whether those donors who had spent a lot of time in july saying that they want joe biden out of the race will be giving the money to support kamalaharris here and we're just showing on some of these graphics, you are just the change in amount from january to february, march, and then you have this explosion there at the edge in july as you mentioned, giving a sense of the enthusiasm that's, that's come since kamala harris entered the race, we're also just days away right now as we expect to find out who kamala harris is running mate, will be and we've heard names in the mix, several top contenders, kentucky's governor andy bashir, pennsylvania's governor, josh shapiro, illinois governor jb pritzker, who even joked about being in the mix. >> take a quick listen lollapalooza is happening this weekend here in chicago. >> and my kids and i mean, tens of thousands of others are going to be there i've heard other governors talk about how they've canceled there we can

plans i was going to perform, of course, with blink 182 sunday, but canceled in order to clear my schedule it seems like everyone's clear in their schedules, obviously, him having a little bit of fun there. >> but you also have some new reporting this morning about the seriousness of these contenders and how close the harris campaign may be here now, one of those contenders, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, who might reported yesterday, had planned to be spending this weekend in the hamptons in new york fundraising that schedule got pulled down. >> the shapiro campaign or the shapiro spokespeople didn't specify exactly why but obviously we know that this process is coming to an end here with an unexpected decision early next week, we do expect that vice president harris will be doing her own interviews with the contenders over the next few days. and one of them one of the factors here that is on a lot of people's minds when it comes to shapiro, as mentioned i've got new reporting on our site right now

there are some jewish democrats who are wondering, is america ready for a jewish vice president and jewish running mate, shapiro is jewish. he's observant in a way that is different from a lot of jewish politicians who are in public life and that is one of the many considerations here as people think about about what the, what the way forward is between the six options that harris has in front of her isaac dovere really appreciate the reporting perspective. >> thanks for being here also breaking overnight, israel says it has killed a top leader of palestinian islamic jihad as the u.s. >> weighs more military, military deployments in the region and an emotional homecoming. what's next for those americans freed in a historic prisoner swap. now back on us soil, stay with us

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house national security council, john kirby. john, thank you for coming in. so according to the readout of the netanyahu called biden said that the united states would support israel's defenses against threats, which would include new defensive us military deployments. what does new defensive us military deployments mean i don't think it'd be good for me to get into too much detail on that cake, but i can tell you that we're always reevaluating our force posture in the middle east to make sure that we've got what we need to defend ourselves, our troops, our facilities, but also our allies and partners, such as israel. >> we've heard the supreme leader i'm clear that he intends to avenge this killing of a hamas leader in tehran and that they want to conduct another attack on israel. we can't just assume that we aren't also potentially going to be victims so that kind of an attack. so we got to make sure we got the right resources and capabilities in the region the defense department is working their way through that. i'm just not in a position to talk about it in any detail at this point. >> when you're talking

resources, is that is that people are, is that hardware it's most likely going to be a combination of both, of course, because it's not just hardware you're adding capability to a region. >> you've got to add troops into that mix as well to maintain and operate that equipment things are already got more complicated in the region this week with the assassinations that were just talking about and promises of retaliation. >> now the idf is claiming it took out another top figure of another iranian proxy, islamic jihad in gaza. what is the impact of this? i mean, i'm kind of nauta three in the last you know, month what iran is calling assassinations on their proxies. what is the impact of this on the president's goal of getting hostages out and getting a ceasefire in place. and obviously avoiding this breaking out into a wider regional war well, i can't confirm this individual report here that we're talking about this strike killing in islamic

jihad. >> leader. what i can assure you is that israel continues to conduct operations in gaza. they continue to put pressure on the leadership of hamas and other groups in gaza that pose a threat to the israeli people. and as president biden made clear in his call to prime minister so netanyahu last night we're going to continue to make sure they have what they need to defend themselves. no country should have to live next to that kind of threat as for an impact on the ceasefire deal, i think all of this activity in the last few days there's it's just too soon to know whether there's going to be a direct effect on our ability to get the ceasefire deal done while i what i will say is that we have a team in the region right now we continue to have conversations with our counterparts, including our israeli counterparts, including last night, between the prime minister and the president and we believe that this is the best way to get a six-week ceasefire and maybe even work towards a cessation of hostilities. we still believe kate, that the gaps between the

sides are are definitely closed visible. they are nail enough that they can be closed. the details are small enough that they can be hashed out. and we're fully dedicated to getting that over the finish line. >> government has hamas like deputize the new person to be the lead negotiator since talk them out i'm not aware of any such move by hamas we continue to have conversations with our partner, qatar who of course has direct communications with hamas we still believe even with a reported killing of mr. haniah, that the ceasefire deal was possible, that negotiations are still achievable. and we're going to keep working to that end americans freed from russia. >> now back on us soil, seeing the video overnight, it is hard to not get emotional saying those homecoming, those hugs what are you. hearing how are they doing what has the president, what has been conveyed about what the conversations with the president that you can, to the

extent you can tell us about those meetings with them last night now they're very, very happy obviously that's for all the world to see they're very excited to be back on american soil and those family members are obviously just overjoyed it being reunited with their loved ones. now, we let you know they're they're on their way or they arrived in san antonio in the wee hours? so that they can get the medical and mental care that they might need as they try to reintegrate back into society. they've been through particularly mr. whelan, just a horrific experience now for what for his case, almost six years. so they're going to need a little time to readjust and we want to make sure that they have that time in that space. and privacy to do so. the president heard loud and clear from all of them though, how grateful they were for his personal leadership and efforts at getting them released. how glad they are to be back on on american soil and he assured them that he's going to continue to work to get other americans that are wrongfully detained overseas back home as

well administration officials have said that the president and the team had tried to get marc fogel out in this group. >> why were you not successful in that the russians just weren't willing to throw him into the mix. >> and we tried many different times. i mean, from a very, early stage here when we knew we had to work on to deal, we included mr. fogel regrettably. they just they just weren't biting at it. but i will say this kate i said the same thing after we got brittney griner home and we could didn't get paul home at that time. every time you do these negotiations, you learned your gain some knowledge and perspective about what the other side will or won't trade for and where are their head space is. and that was the case in this case. so even though we weren't able to get mr. full, will, we learned a lot about the russian perspective on him and his case. and we're going to hopefully be able to apply that in the conversations that we're having right now with them and we are having those conversations now in the midst of this, this is an election year i need to play for you what donald trump and his

running mate set about this historic prisoner exchange listen that i heard he said why didn't trump get them out and he was taken during that text. i got out 59 different people, 59. and i didn't pay money and they allowed some really rough people out, you know that right? >> we have to ask ourselves, why are they coming home? and i think it's because bad guys all over the world world recognize donald trump's about to be back in office, so they're cleaning house. that's a good thing. and i think it's a testament to donald trump's strength how do you respond to that on the last comment i i i don't i don't know what to say. there's absolutely zero evidence at all athithat this deal was brought about because of some potential fear of who might be the next president. this deal was brought about because the president had president biden had alliances and partnerships in trustee could build on particularly with the german chancellor would meet a brave, courageous decision to let mr. krasikov go. that's what that's what brought these guys

home. was really solid relationships and trust and confidence that the president has built up over years with foreign leaders and a lot of hard work and some tough decisions by some very strong leaders here in the united states and around the world. as for the previous comment pence by the previous president trevor reed was taken in the previous administration's time in office mr. biden got him home paula whelan was taken in the previous administration's time in office, president biden gut paul home and i would stress that $0 or exchanged in this deal that brought these people home last night, it was all about people that people exchanges. >> and the last thing i'll say, kate, is that the previous administration also conducted prisoner exchanges. the previous administration also had to make tough decisions to get americans home and i can't dispute mr. trump's numbers there, 59, but just talking president biden has gotten more than 70 americans home. that's what you have to do when you have people in harm's way over

there, you've got to make these tough decisions it's not easy but sometimes it's gut wrenching and sometimes you have to look the other way while some, somebody really bad like krasikov becomes a free man. but in the balance, in the end, better to bring innocent two people home and not let them rot in a russian jail. than to take the risk that somebody bad like mr. krasikov is going to go back to his ways and look if he does, will be ready for john kirby from the white house. thank you thank you. it is 2024 and we're talking about birth certificates. again, the latest twist has president is the former president trump is not giving up on attacking kamala harris is race and identity and she is blowing away the competition in her olympic debut. the must-see shot of chakar richardson's high anticipated, highly anticipated first race this morning there was the american spirit i shall not seek and i will not accept

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continuing to repeat them and luck i can tell you, omar that this wasn't anticipated when donald trump showed up in chicago on wednesday, that he was going to make these types of comments. but now that he did, and that this is out there we know that this is often the case with donald trump. he will just further rather than apologize or tried to walk it back. he is just further putting this out there and amplifying it and we have seen him in the days since even hours after that appearance at the nabj conference, he reiterated that she was the false claims that she is lying about her heritage. he's also been amplifying. we saw this in the last 24 hours, amplifying posts from far-right activists, laura loomer where she shared a photo of what she claimed was harris his birth certificate saying that she was lying about being black, very reminiscent of the birther for conspiracy, the racist birther conspiracy, i should say that he had shared

around barak obama and questioning his birth certificate and whether he was actually american. so we've seen this before. this is the 2016 playbook that donald trump is reverting back to. and i think it's worth noting as well that, you know less than two weeks ago, donald trump was in a very different place. he was just coming off of the republican convention. he had been really trying to stick to policy. you'd see the entire republican party really unite behind him. and now he's back to the same old donald trump that we all know very well we're seeing people in the republican party, including on capitol hill, feeling very uncomfortable with these comments. now i do want you to take a listen because we've actually heard his running mate, j.d. vance, trying to defend donald trump on this they don't give me pause at all. look all he said is that kamala harris is a chameleon. she goes to georgia two days ago. she was raised in canada. she puts on a fake southern accent. she is everything to everybody and she prints students to be somebody

different depending on which audience she is in front of. i think it's totally reasonable for the president to call that out. and that's all he did so the fact that j.d. >> vance is saying this in defending donald trump when i talked to donald trump's advisers, they say this is going to be a line of attack moving for a particularly this idea that she is quote, unquote phony. and that she tries to do different things to different audiences. and so you'll i think you should expect to hear a lot more of this in the future. >> omar, we will see alayna treene appreciate the reporting as always, kate so from russian prison cells back to us soil, wall street journal reporter evan gershkovich, former us marine, paul whelan, russian us journalist, alsu kurmasheva, walking off a plane at joint base andrews just before midnight last night, and then in the wee hours of this morning, land in texas for medical checks, joining me right now is democratic congresswoman from michigan, debbie dingell, the congresswoman, paul whelan is from michigan. >> his parents still live in

your district. you become friends with them and and his siblings. you've been working on this with them? >> in these past horrible five years, what did you think when you saw this video of his first moments of freedom so i mean, i cried again yesterday. obviously we know that this was coming or that the work was being done. i had done the jake sullivan about two weeks ago right after evan had been convicted. and he was like debbie or getting it done. and i told elizabeth, his sister, right after that, i've never seen so committed, but i would say anything people were asking me for comment until we know knew he was an american hand and new was real. everybody was superstitious because there have been so many other false joe biden worked part in this. i can't tell you the number of times i talked to him about all and his parents and his siblings and he kept saying to me, gabby, that with them for

not giving up. i'm gonna get it, john and joe biden and his team, i'm going to start to bragg. they've got it done. they brought him home it's an amazing moment. >> it's so is what broke me. it was seeing was seeing those two little girls run into their mom on the tarmac at was that just broke me in half when i saw that it's one thing it is in his onetime that everyone can say it as good things do matter. the debate over hostages. diplomacy as it is called, when you see them, you can celebrate that they are back on american soil. the fact that this is all happening in an election year, i think is just like an added oh my god. you know, the 2024 is such a wild year and add to the oh my god kamala harris, his team, congresswoman, just announced that its fundraising haul for the month of july is 310 million. it's more than double what the trump campaign raised a majority they say of that 310 million was raised in the first

week of harris's candidacy and she just got in on july 21 that money means what? >> so what i want to say is everybody calls be debbie downer. i'm going to go to debbie realist everybody sound a sugar high right now. there's a new energy. the canvases and the walked that we did last weekend was on doubled the number of volunteers people are excited but michigan, let me give you a reality check. michigan still a purple state. you are seeing people. i think some helping us through the contrast between what we could go back to or what we want to keep working toward. how much joe biden has gotten done president. but this election is not over, so yes, it's wonderful to see that kind of money come in in a laugh. it's grassroots donors, people who have never given before. so people are engaged, but the base on the other side is engaged to our base wasn't as energized as they are now. but

we got to roll up her sleeves and have a lot of work to do. nobody can think to selections over because it's not i know we talked about this all the time, but the democrats need to listen you. we're the canary in the coal mine in 2016. and you always have your ear to the ground when it comes to how things are looking at how people are really feeling, it's good to see you, congressman. thank you so much thank you. omar. >> all right. she thought she'd never stepped foot on the gymnastics for again and now that new goat necklace, it was just up there second in ago, i promise it says it all we're going to tell you what we're watching for from simone biles. next but first, this week's cnn hero has with a nightmare familiar to many americans. her daughter died from a fentanyl overdose at 26, and now she's turning that pain into healing for women struggling with addiction and her hometown of johnson, vermont our johnson always had

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a bomb that had been planted there. a weeks ahead of time if that is in fact true when it's also been reported by the new york times using a number of sources than it would indicate an incredible lapse of security the on the part of the iranian revolutionary guard corps, which was reportedly in charge of security at that official residence. you combine that with the fact that a senior hezbollah commander was killed in a building just to the south of beirut tuesday evening, here in lebanon and that was in fact claimed by israel as an airstrike it shows two serious lapses of security on the part of iran an end, its close ally, but the hezbollah militant group here in lebanon, of course, ismail haniah, he's being awarded the highest honors with his funeral underway at the national mosque in the qatari capital. the

president of turkey, a nato ally, has declared a day of mourning four his assassination. and there are of course, calls of retribution from iran, from the hezbollah movement here in lebanon. kate ivan, thank you so much for reporting. omar well, the wall street journal their newsroom erupted in celebration when to play some of that. >> now that, was the wall street journal's newsroom and celebration when evan gershkovich is a colleagues learned, he'd been freed from russia and was finally coming home. and even as details of his release were being finalized, he showed his dedication as a journalist requesting a one-on-one interview with vladimir putin. here's what president biden said when asked if journalists should be afraid when reporting abroad here with me now is

jodie ginsberg, ceo of the committee to protect journalists and jodi, according to your organization, there were over 300 journalists in prison and just 2023 alone and look in this prisoner swap, there are two journalists, evan gershkovich and alsu kurmasheva have a and when journalists are taken in a country like russia, it obviously sends a message to the individual families affected in their home countries. but what message does it send globally when something like this happens? >> well, it sends a message to put essentially newsrooms and journalists on notice that they could be next, it has a

chilling effect and we saw that with evan's arrest. in fact, we saw journalist pulled back, we saw newsrooms pull back. so it doesn't have just an effect on the individual. it doesn't have just an effect on that individual newsroom. it has a much broader effect on the journalistic community. and then of course on our right to know because we get less information, because we have fewer journalists reporting the facts and that of course, is the critical piece of this. >> and look, you wrote as part of your statement of the committee to protect journalists, that of that of course, you welcome their releases, but also that it doesn't change the fact that russia continues to suppress a free the press. how would you assess the state of reporting in a place like russia it's really challenging. >> we've seen a serious uptick in arrest of domestic journalists and hundreds of russian journalists have gone into exile and in recent months, what we've seen is an uptick from russia in going after journalists in excel. so we've seen people being arrested in absentia, charge in absentia and that's disturbing

as well because if you get a charge, it can often mean that it's more challenging for you to travel and so on. so it's extraordinarily challenging to report inside russia even more challenging increasingly to report on russia from outside of russia. and again, what that means is the amount of information that's available to russians in russia, but also internationally is more and more limited at a critical time as well with a war in europe information could make a difference in someone's life or death i want you to contextualize this moment because one thing i'm struck by whenever i worked through organization or c data from your organization is the sheer amount of reporters across the world that your organization follows, not just in places like russia, but in vietnam, in gaza, we've seen significantly an amount of effect over the past year how would you assess the state of global press freedom, right now, again, outside of countries like russia perilous, i would say last year we saw 320

journalists in jail at the end of 2020 that was a near record high 2022 as a record high. we saw near record high numbers of journalists killed last year. but what i really want to stress is those threats are not just in war zones, they're not just in so to kradic regimes, increasingly we're seeing those threats against journalists here in the united states and the u.s. you yourself were arrested here in the united states. we're seeing increased amounts of threats against journalists online, rising amounts of harassment. and that's particularly the case as you go into highly charged political events like we're seeing with the u.s. election almost inevitably, as soon as you start to move into these political events, you start to see an uptick in the levels of online harassment against journalists that often feeds into physical harassment of journalists. and that particularly affects women. john, this journalist from marginalized communities. and we're really looking for that as we head into the election and making sure that we're

doing everything to ensure john, this have the safety information they need and the protection they need to do their job and just to put it in perspective for the folks watching that, your data shows that in 2023 alone you saw the highest number of journalists and media workers killed worldwide than any other year then i believe you started tracking data back in 19 92. >> so clearly a concerning picture around the world jodie ginsberg really appreciate you being here. thank you okay. >> a big day on tap as team usa is looking to add to its to its medal count. once again, in the paris olympics, united states has the most medals of any country so far, 38. and counting and we're gonna be seeing some big names take to the track today, including sha'carri richardson, cnn's coy wire is in paris. i'm just going to stop their cnn's coy wire is in paris. that's all you need to know. >> nope. said no, i said i got you covered, girl. >> i want to start with simone biles because the goat has

captured and historic gold in the all-around competition last night is the sixth gold of her career more than any american gymnast ever you going to hang that one in the louvre, kate, this was the first ever olympic final, were two former all around chants were battling it out alongside her teammates suni lee. >> suni took the bronze rebecca and drawdy of brazil took the silver. simone has five moves named after her kate, because no one else can do on he's the greatest of all time and she has a shot at three more goals in paris here she was after three years ago, i never thought i'd step foot on a gymnastics floor again just because of everything that had happened, i got back in the gym and worked really hard mentally and physically even this morning at 7:00 a.m. i saw my therapist and so just making sure i'm mentally well, i think you see that out on the competition floor now, with winning the 200 meter freestyle relay, last night was australia. but with the silver medal, katie ledecky's now the most decorated female american

olympian of all time. hi 13 and all she's already won three medals here in paris and she will have a shot at some more and check this out. what a shot kate douglass, winning her first ever olympic gold, winning the 200 meter breaststroke by breaking her own american record. she had scoliosis as a kid, kate, we're back brace for two years, but she persevered, stayed focused and just made her olympic dreams come true the fastest woman on the planet, sprint star sha'carri richardson, crushing the opening heat of the 100 meters here in paris, finishing at 10.94 seconds, about two meters ahead of the next closest competitor. she's 24-years-old after being suspended from the tokyo games due to a positive test for thc. the reigning world champ is looking for redemption. she's looking past the semifinals. kate, for the end in the final or tomorrow for the hundred hot ticket, but also a hot ticket tonight? the men's 100 meter freestyle in the pool caeleb dressel, superman looking to claim his ninth career olympic gold and reigns supreme. once again, the fastest man in the