♪ good morning this saturday, july 30th. welcome to your "new day." i'm boris sanchez. >> and i'm sara sidner. >> sara, great to be with you, as always. we begin this morning in kentucky. the scene of catastrophic flooding where at least 16 people are dead, including six children. and authorities warn the death toll is almost certain to rise. >> kentucky governor andy beshear says because cell service is out in many areas, it's hard to assess the exact number of the miss organize deceased. rushing waters ripped homes off their foundations and wiped out roads across parts of eastern

kentucky. >> it's hard to put into words the amount of devastation that we've seen. you know, you're talking about some really, really good people here in eastern kentucky don't have a whole lot. and a lot of them have lost everything they've got. >> you can hear just sorrow in his voice. the fast rising flood waters forced many people to evacuate, but the storms ended up catching a lot of people by surprise because they happened the middle of the night. >> and we are learning some really heart breaking stories, like this one in knotts county, four people killed when kids and their parents were forced to go to the roof. the young ones were swept away as their parents tried to hold on. >> there was a house there and

this trailer with this family of six. and it just washed them away. >> cnn's joe johns joins us live now from hazard, kentucky. you can see some of the damage behind him. joe, tell what you say the latest is. >> reporter: well, just let me give you an idea, sara, of where i am and what we're seeing. this is what's left of an antique store. and as you can see, sort of the bottom was ripped out of this building. it's dex ter's general store. been here just about 50 years in hazard, kentucky. and that's just the beginning of it. let's walk up the bank here and i'll show you a little bit more what appears to be the remnants of a house. this is very typical of what we've been seeing throughout eastern kentucky. and as you look this way, you see there's the foundation right there. so around 1:00, 2:00 in the morning, a woman was inside the

house, which was sitting right here. she felt that house moving. and she was able to get out. the water picks up the house and essentially demolishes it, leaving the debris down both sides of the bank. very typical of what we're seeing in eastern kentucky. now, big picture, the authorities say, of course, that woman is one of the lucky ones. and they still don't know the full extent of this tragedy here in eastern kentucky. what they do know is they have to go through the nooks and crannies and down all the water ways to try to get a feel for the number of people who are missing, the number of people who are dead. and there are real challenges to that because authorities say, number one, there are so many remote places. number two, there's a real breakdown in infrastructure, gas, electricity, telephone cutoff in some places just over the past few hours we learned

something like 17,000 people are still out of power. that makes it very hard for first responders to try to make contact with people to find out about their welfare. back to you. >> joe johns, that store there, people don't realize some of these places that's a really important place for people to gather and get things. and for that to be gone and then you look at the houses, it really is devastating. thank you so much for your reporting, joe. joining me now is zach cotten, whose home was damaged by the flood mchg thank you so much for joining me this morning. let me first check in with you. how you coping this morning? >> good morning. doing a lot better this morning versus what we've seen the past few days. now we're really starting to see the full breadth of the devastation as the waters are starting to recede some.

>> where are you now? and how is your house? >> yeah. i'm currently in my kitchen right now. we've had several people that have been coming and going, staying at our house. we're one of the last places with internet, power and running water here in eastern kentucky. >> sounds like your house has become sort of a community gathering point. you know, you're going through this. you're seeing the devastation in your neighborhood. you yourself are experiencing some of the damage from these floods. and yet you did something for your neighbors. you reached out. tell me what some of the things that you did to help other people while you're also going through this. >> yeah. so, our family kayaks. we gave those to people to get their families out of their homes. people were on jet skis, boats, just trying to rescue whoever they could. i took all of the medical

supplies, food and water that i had in my home and went and donated it. a friend and i both walked about five to six miles total just to get to a local community center in order to make sure that everyone was okay. try to contact their families and give them food and water. >> zach, can you give me a sense of what this was like? i know that flooding started overnight. people were just not expecting it. can you describe to me what it was like for you and your family and for your neighbors? >> for me personally it was very scary. my family has been in florida for the past week, so to wake up on my own, scared that my house may be one of the ones that may be flooded was very scary. i didn't know what was going on. people were beating on my door at 6:00 a.m. and then to walk outside my entire community be fallen

apart, it was and still is devastating to me. >> and how are your neighbors? and how have some of those houses fared? i saw some pictures that you took. where the water is all the way up to the roof. >> yeah. some people -- some of my neighbors have lost entire homes. there was a landslide right in front of my home that took out an entire house. the entire environment around us has been affected by this. roads are completely torn up. people are getting around on four wheelers and side by sides. there are still jet skis parked on main street from when the waters were high. >> can you tell me what you need right now for people who see this and they feel helpless and for, you know, the government. not a lot of people have the ability to talk to us and to talk to others because cell phone towers are out. tell me what you need.

>> yes. so we've relocated everyone to our local high school and we have had the red cross come in. we've had national guard. we've had various organizations so many people are displaced that we're already so low on supplies. we've run out of water. we're in need of baby supplies. we're in need of animal supplies, probably displaced animals. and we're in need of cleaning supplies as well. it's just we're getting -- we're giving these supplies out faster than we can get them in and water is the big thing right now. >> so water, animal supplies, baby supplies. you know a lot of people forget about the animals when this happens. but they're part of the family so i know that will res sew not w nate with a lot of people. thank you for being a decent human being and helping out your

neighbors as you're going through this as well. you're a great example to all of us. i appreciate your time today. >> thanks. this has been called a 1,000-year flood. later this hour, we'll tell you why. ♪ and the justice department preparing for a legal fight with former trump white house officials as it looks to compel several members of the trump's inner circle to testify about the former president's actions and conversations surrounding january 6th. one major point of interest is the 25th amendment. we're learning the committee is seeking testimony from cabinet members who discussed the possibility of removing former president trump from office. >> key witnesses include former treasury secretary steve mnuchin and former dni john ratcliff, but at issue are claims of executive privilege that prosecutors expect the former president to make in order to shield some information from the federal grand jury as the criminal information deepens.

cnn's ryan nobles has more details for us. >> reporter: the department of justice is inching closer and closer to former president donald trump. new cnn reporting reveals that prosecutors are girding for a big fight over executive privilege to force witnesses to testify about the role trump may have played in the dates leading up to january 6th. >> when courts considered these separation of power issues in the context of criminal cases, they haven't really looked favorably toward the white house and the presidency. the biggest and the most obvious one is the united states versus nixon. >> reporter: trump himself is not considered to be a target yet. but the list of trump officials who have already cooperated with the select committee and are now cooperating with the doj is fwroeing. it comes as the select committee has begun the process of handing over transcripts from their interviews to federal investigators. >> they have indicated they want to have access to a certain

number of transcripts. and we've negotiated back and forth. and they've committed, make that available to them. >> reporter: the committee also stepped up their outreach and engagement with former cabinet officials. mick mulvaney met with the committee on thursday and said investigators are very interested in the players pushing false claims of election fraud and their access to the white house. >> that sort of inner circle of people that have been described by others as the crazies. how did they get the access they did when they did. >> reporter: among the other cabinet officials they've spoken to, former dhs secretary chad wolf. text messages were lost from their government-issued electronic devices. in a tweet thread in response to the story, wolf said he handed over his phone in tact when he resigned after january 6th. meanwhile, the house minority leader kevin mccarthy cassidy hutchinson said was among the republican leaders who pleaded for trump to call his supporters

off, claims he doesn't remember calling her. >> if i talked eed to her, i do remember it. if it was coming up here, i don't think i wanted a lot of people coming up to the capitol, but i don't remember the conversation. >> reporter: boris and sara, we're learning more about the timeline of when the inspector general for the department of homeland security first learned that these text messages may have been deleted. it's much earlier than when he informed congress. in fact, we're told joseph knew and was informed of the fact that these text messages could be gone as early as may of 2021. that's more than a year before he informed the congressional oversight committees that were interested in this information and also the january 6th select committee. i spoke on friday with jamie raskin, a member of the committee, he told me that he is very suspicious about the way these texts were deleted and he believes the committee needs to know more about why they were deleted and if it is possible to retrieve these messages in any way, shape or form.

boris and sara? >> our thanks to ryan nobles there. >> yeah. last hour i spoke with former federal prosecutor and defense attorney shen wu about the chance of the doj being able to win the battle over executive privilege. >> i think it's a very good chance they will win that battle. the precedent is on their side, starting with the landmark case of nixon's proceeding back in watergate where the supreme court specifically said that a generalized assertion of executive privilege is going to fail as compared to a particularized need in a criminal case. that's what the situation would be facing them here. i think also the issue on executive privilege is really -- it's really a question of the delay. that's the big problem for the justice department. i think garland is uniquely suited to lead the department on a legal battle. he's a former federal court of

appeals. it will take time. the other side will try to run out the clock. i think they would win. doj should win in the supreme court, but it's not going to be quite the slam dunk that it was during the nixon era either. >> we should note that court's generally have viewed executive privilege claims to be more easily cleared away in criminal investigations compared to what we have now, a congressional probe. hey, you have to make sure you check those mega millions tickets. we're still waiting to see if anybody won that monstrous $1.28 billion jackpot from last night. the mega millions website still lists the next drawing prize as pending and a spokeswoman tells cnn the draw team is still waiting for results from several of its jurisdictions. if you've been trying to check your lottery ticket but you've been having trouble, you're not alone. the website has been crashing ever since friday night when the drawing was done at 11:00 p.m. eastern. everybody is trying to figure out if they're a billionaire.

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♪ house speaker nancy pelosi is off on a trip to asia. the big question is whether that trip will include a visit to taiwan. uncertainty over the potential visit is heightening tensions between the united states and china. >> if pelosi does visit taiwan, china has vowed to take what it calls resolute and forceful measures in response. cnn correspondent blake is live for us from tokyo. blake, give us an update on this potential visit. there's a lot at stake here. >> reporter: yeah. boris, sara, speaker of the house nancy pelosi is planning to visit, japan, south korea, singapore and malaysia on her trip to asia, but will she visit the self governing island of taiwan. we probably won't know for sure until it happens or doesn't. either way, the prospect of her visit alone has infuriated china and put the white house in a tough position with u.s./china relations already at a low point. now this was the backdrop for

the more than two-hour phone call on thursday between u.s. president joe biden and chinese leader xi jinping. during that call she said that china firmly opposes taiwan independence and warned the u.s. saying that those that play with fire will parish by it while president biden reiterated that the u.s.'s one china policy that acknowledges taiwan part of china hadn't changed and the u.s. opposes any unilateral effort to change the status quo or undermine peace and stability across the taiwan strait. the trip does happen, it would be the highest level u.s. visit to visit the island in the past 25 years. to this point, officials and lawmakers in both the united states and china have weighed in on the speaker of the house visiting taiwan, but that hasn't been the case in taiwan. experts say taiwanese authorities are likely keeping a low profile to avoid the perception that tie pie is encouraging the speakers visit which could provoke beijing. the people living in taiwan a

general lack of concern has to do with the fact that beijing has not amassed troops or issued any new, strong warnings against the island. it's important to remember that taiwan has been living under the constant threat of china for more than seven decades but some people in taiwan just don't think beijing will do anything as a result of pelosi's visit. boris, sara. >> can you give me a sense of what may happen if nancy pelosi does decide to go to taiwan. what would the plans be to keep her -- to have her be safe? what kind of apparatus would be going with her? >> reporter: well, sara, with pelosi's trip to taiwan uncertain, the pentagon said it's developing a security plan with ships and aircraft in the region to keep pelosi safe. experts tell cnn a military operation to get pelosi to taiwan would likely include ships or land-based assets with high powered radars to provide

protective bubble around her airplane that could warn of any potential threats. although senior u.s. military officials say that no military assets have moved towards taiwan. the u.s. does currently have an aircraft carrier and its strike group in the south china sea as part of routine operation with fighters and reconnaissance aircraft on board. boris, sara? >> blake, thank you so much joining us there from tokyo. >> blake, thank you. keeping our focus overseas, cnn has learned new details about a possible prisoner swap to get two detained americans out of russia. sources say that russian government officials have requested that a spy convicted of murder be included in the proposed swap. >> now, the original deal being floated would exchange notorious arms dealer viktor bout for americans brittney griner and paul whelan. the state department says both are wrongfully detained.

cnn white house correspondent natasha bertrand joins us now live. natasha, what more do we know about this new request by russia? at one point we understood that viktor bout was the person that we would get two people back to the united states. now they're asking for more, yes? >> reporter: yeah, sara. surprising request by russian government officials in response to the u.s. proposal to trade vick ktor bout for these two americans, brittney griner and paul whelan. the russians after receiving this proposal by the united states, they responded via informal channels, via back channels, that they wanted this former fsb kernel who was convicted in murder of germany last year. the u.s. saw this as very problematic for a number of reasons. the first being that he is currently in german custody. they also did not necessarily view this as a serious formal proposal by the russians because, as i said, this was presented to the americans kind of through an informal fsb back

channel. now, of course, the fsb is the domestic security service in russia. so the u.s. did not see this necessarily as a serious, legitimate counterproposal. however, they did reach out, we are told, to the germans, to see whether they might be willing to include him in this swap because, of course, he is not in u.s. custody. so the united states would have had to try to convince the germans if they wanted to move forward to release him from the life sentence that he is currently serving in a german prison. however, we are told that these conversations were never really elevated to the senior levels of the german government and the germans are not seriously considering releasing this guy because of how massive a case this was in germany in 2019 when that murder in broad daylight in berlin was carried out by this former fsb kernel. the united states now is saying that they never viewed this as particularly is serious, as i said. but jn kirby the national security council spokesperson

did speak to this last night saying this is not a serious counterproposal. >> holding two american citizens hostage in exchange for an assassin in a third party country is not a serious counteroffer, jim. it's a bad faith attempt to avoid a very serious offer and proposal that the united states has put forward. and we urge russia to take that offer seriously. >> so despite reaching out to the germans to see if this might be feasible, u.s. officials now saying this was an effort by russia to buy time to stall until after brittney griner's trial is over. >> thank you so much. >> we should also mention, griner has been in jail for five months. and whelan has been there since 2018, for four years. it's been a really, really difficult for time for these families and for the two of them. >> no question about that. all right. >> so there's a big question among economists and they're

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jasmine, can you take us through the president's legislative accomplishments? this has been a long road. >> reporter: yeah, sara, it has been a long road. look, the white house needed a shift of energy and this week that is exactly what they found. now, in the first of the wins category for the president here is that chips and science act passed bipartisanly by house and senate. it's meant to boost u.s. semiconductor chip production and increase competitiveness with china, something president biden long talked about since being in office and even before. biden praised the chips and science act on thursday. he said it's exactly what this country needs for our economy to grow. remember, our economy right now for the president is a bit of a sore spot. now house speaker nancy pelosi sent it to president biden's desk and awaits signature and waiting to hear from the white house on when that would be signed. now, also the president urged the senators to quickly pass that inflation reduction act.

again, you can see it on your screen. that is that surprise deal that was ironed out between manchin and schumer and puts in a lot of the president's priorities that were thought to be dead just a week ago. that includes climate and energy provisions being able to negotiate drug prescriptions, also healthcare subsidies. certainly this is a bountiful week for the president when just a few weeks ago we thought a lot of these provisions were really dead in the ground there. >> jasmine wright, thank you so much. many are questioning if there is a recession. and if so, just how bad it will be for their personal finances. the latest gdp report shows that the u.s. economy shrank again in the second quarter. another key measure of inflation also set a fresh 40-year high last month. the personal consumption expenditures price index rose by 6.8% compared to the same period last year. joining me now is professor of economics at dartmouth

university andrew 11, also former special adviser at the federal reserve board. all right, the u.s. economy shrank again for the second quarter. isn't that by definition a recession? >> well, great question. you should probably have in mind two different types of recessions. one, what we have seen in the last 15 years in 2008 and again at the beginning of the pandemic was a really horrific recession that wentz up 10% or more. if you look back earlier, in the early '90s and early 2000s there were mild recessions where many people weren't very affected by it. the economy is definitely slowing down. it's possible that we will have what becomes officially defined recession, that would be more like '91 or 2001. i think we're hopeful that we're not going to have a horrific recession, like we had in the last 15 years. >> you know, it's so confusing

to myself. i'm no economist, but i think to a lot of people, because there are some things that feel like a recession. i mean, we can all feel the inflation. we are all struggling with the cost of things, everything from gas to food to you name it. but there are a lot of jobs out there. is this odd? is this different than in recessions of past? >> yes. so actually the inflation picture looks like what we were facing in 1970s. so you're going back 50 years. 40 to 50 years to -- inflation is very difficult for ordinary families. very difficult because their wages now of many american workers are growing at 5 or 6%, but the cost of living is rising by 7 or 8 or 9 or 10%. it's difficult for family to pay their rent, to pay for their gasoline, to pay for their

fwr grocery bills. that's why a lot of ordinary americans are feeling very tough time right now. it's not the typical recession that we saw 20 years ago nor is it the horrific recession that we saw in the last 15 years. this is like what we called stagflation in the 1970s where the economy is kind of stuck in the mud, growing very slowly or not at all, but inflation is running very high. and workers are struggling to keep up. >> another key measure of inflation, as you mentioned, sort of set a fresh 40-year high in june. it is, you know, marked by record gas prices. do you think that we're going to continue to see inflation rise? and if so, what can be done about it? is it enough to change the interest rates? >> well, so first of all, i

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has been drawing pga players with huge guaranteed paydays and also drawing the anger of activists who say that liv golf is simply a way for the saudi regime to sports wash, to change the conversation and its reputation of carrying out human rights violations. among those protesting the tournament, 9/11 justice, a group of families who lost loved ones in the september 11th terrorist attacks, who say they are outraged that saudi officials have not been held accountable for their role in the attacks. joining us now is tim frolic, a 9/11 survivor who worked at the world trade center and suffered major injuries that day. tim, we're grateful to have you this morning sharing part of your weekend with us. i'm wondering what your reaction was to hearing that this tournament was going to be held fewer than 50 miles away from ground zero. >> thank you, first of all, for having me. it's absolutely reprehensible

that this tournament is in the united states, being held 50 miles from where thousands of people were killed and hundreds of rescue workers as well as unfortunately myself were seriously injured that day. >> what message do you think that sends, not only to the saudis but to the world? >> well, the message, as far as i'm concerned, it's sending is that former president donald trump is now an official ambassador of the saudi government by holding this tournament. he is representing the saudi government. that to me is deplorable, disgusting. and a real slap and a kick in the face to all the 9/11 victims. one of the things that i wanted to say is that thanks to president biden's release of the operation encore documents, just last year, the families and the american public now have the

truth. and three short years ago i was fortunate enough to be part of a fw group of families who met with president trump at the white house on the anniversary of september 11th, 2019. during that meeting, president trump turned to myself as well as several other -- all the family members that were there that day and said i'm going to help you. and i'm going to release the operation encore documents. less than 24 hours after that meeting when we were back home with our families, those documents were sealed by the trump administration under classification of state secrets. up until last year and thankfully with the leadership of president biden, we now have those documents. when a country like saudi arabia sponsors an act of terrorism, when a country's employees

working for that government sponsors an act of terrorism, those individuals must be held accountable. if you remember back in the pan am flight 103, the terrorist flight done by the government of libya, okay, our own government was on the family's side in that terrible tragedy. it's just been recently, one year ago, that we got the documents. we waited 20 years for this information to come out. and now the families are demanding accountability. we're demanding some form of restitution and certainly demanding that the truth be finally exposed and come out about what saudi government employees did 20 years ago. >> and tim, you mentioned restitution. i'm wondering what your message

is to u.s. lawmakers, perhaps to president biden himself, what does justice and accountability look like for you and other victims? >> well, the first thing i think thanks to leadership again of president biden, he has been the leader here. he has been the one that has stepped forward and released these documents. that's a tremendous help. the families believed that president biden will stay engaged with us and continue to help us in our call for some kind of accountability from the kingdom, some kind of an acknowledgment and ultimately restitution for the crime of murder that was done upon this country almost 21 years ago. >> so tim, what is the organization doing to show your opposition to the liv golf series and the players that

decided to participate in this circuit. i'm wondering what your message is to those players? >> well, again, like i said, donald trump has become, as far as i'm concerned, become an ambassador of the saudi arabian government. every player who accepted blood money and accepts this sports washing of the sins of what saudi arabia did to this country and did to the thousands of victims, some of which today are still dying because god bless those rescue workers, i was rescued by several heroes. if this is not shown and this is not understood by the american public, and i believe they will understand it and they do understand it, that's one of the goals of 9/1 is 1 justice.org. >> we're showing our viewers some of the images of the group protesting outside of bedminster. i understand there's supposed to

be another liv golf tournament that's to be held in doral at trump's golf club later this year. do you plan to protest there? what do you expect of -- >> i would love the opportunity. i would love the opportunity to once again continue the information and continue to have that opportunity to point out that this is an outrage. this is a kick in the gut and slap in the face, particularly after the blatant lies that president trump spoke to us about directly when he met with us in 2019. he assured the families i am going to help you were the words that he said to myself and 12 other families. and within less than 24 hours those documents were sealed and,

like i said, the idea of state secrets was declared on them. >> tim -- >> so we never had an opportunity to look at the now released operation encore documents that are out there. and that's clearly thankfully as a result of what president biden has done for the families. again, we do hope that he will stay engaged with us and help us move forward in this atrocity of golf tournament and the atrocities and the lies from former president donald trump. >> tim -- >> he's no friend of the family. he is no friend to the families. he has friends apparently based on his recent comments in the saudi government. he's no friend to the families. >> tim, we have to leave the conversation there. we hope you'll come back on with us to tell us about your latest

efforts to bring awareness to what you pointed out is the consensus in the u.s. intelligence community about saudi arabia's government in funding the september 11th terror attacks. tim frolich, thank you again for your time. >> thank you, guys. god bless. stay with cnn. we'll be right back. [ sfx: submarine rising out of water ] minions are bitin' today. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. libertyty. ♪ minions: the rise of gru, only in theaters. how did olay top expensive creams? like this with hydration that beats the $100 cream in every jar of regenerist retinol24 collagen ptide new vitamic and the icon red jar can't top this skin shop now at olay.com to be healthier, knowlee is everything. steps. calories. exercise minutes. because proven quality sleep is vital to our health and wellness, only the sleep number 360 smart bed keeps you cool, then senses and effortlessly adjusts for your best sleep. tells you exactly how well you slept. your sleepiq score.

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