good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day." i'm amber walker. >> i'm phil mattingly. it is a crucial day on capitol hill here in washington. democrats are getting ready to advance president biden's massive economic and climate bill, teeing up what could be a major win for the white house. we'll take you live to capitol hill to tell you what's in it and how soon it can pass. >> and a major blow to abortion advocates. indiana becomes the first state in the country since roe v. wade was overturned to pass a law banning nearly all abortions. we'll tell you when it goes into effect. and ready to talk. russia is open to discuss a possible prisoner swap with the u.s., after wnba star brittney griner is sentenced to nine years behind bars. and a crisis in the classroom. across the country, schools are facing a critical teacher shortage. ahead, we're going to talk to a school superintendent about what he is doing to stack up and what it could mean for the rest of the school year.

hey, everyone. it's saturday, august 6th. thank you for waking up with us. phil -- i shouldn't ask about how you're holding up. how is your wife holding up with those four children? >> they have been fed, as far as i know right now. not watching on the cameras like you guys have. they are happy with their breakfast. i hope there's some cartoons going on. i have to be careful about tv stuff. it's saturday. you watch cartoons, right? >> phil, when are you coming home? after 11:00. don't worry, wifey. >> walk through the door and here's the children. it's the beauty of it. amara great to be with you. step by step, democrats moving

closer to a major climate bill. that bill has passed a key hurdle in kyrsten sinema, who supports the legislation. her support is essential as democrats push for passage of the legislation, after what we will call a convoluted procedural process. >> here's a snapshot of what is in the bill. it includes $369 billion to combat climate change, which is the largest investment in u.s. history. it gives medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices. it caps medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2 million and extends affordable care act subsidies for three years. >> melanie, we understand that democrats are making progress, even this morning towards a vote. give us an update on where things stand and what's ahead now. >> there's three steps before democrats can move to final passage.

the first is that the senate needs to rule on whether this package complies with special budget rules to pass along strictly party lines. democrats got some good news on that front early this morning. the senate parliamentarian cleared the tax credits. but we're waiting on clear rulings on medicare drug prices. then, they will move to a procedural vote, a motion to proceed. that requires a simple majority. and then, there will be a maximum of 20 hours of debate. they do not need to use up all of that time. then, they move to the third and final step in the process. that's the unlimited amendment process, known as a vote-a-rama. as you can see, the timing here is a little in flux. they will tee up a bill in the house on friday. >> i'm not a procedural nerd, to use the words of mr. phil

mattingly. maybe phil is and maybe you are. >> phil actually is. not myself. >> okay. phil is the big nerd here. so, vote-a-rama. explain to us what that is and how the process is used. >> essentially, during this process, any single senator can offer an amendment. there is no time on this process. we see the minority party will dr craft votes that are amenable for the other party. listen to lindsey graham describe it. >> what will vote-a-rama be like? they deserve this, as much as i admire joe manchin and kyrsten sinema for standing up to the left at times, they're empowering the legislation that will make the average person's life more difficult. >> chuck schumer talked about taking tough votes. saying the passage of this bill

will outweigh anything else. but we're buckling up for a long weekend, guys. >> thank you very much. good to see you. after months of setbacks and false starts, the biden administration is celebrating some major wins on multiple fronts. >> for the record, senate procedure is cool. i don't care what anyone says. >> it is cool. you're a cool nerd. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i don't know if mel agrees. but kevin will, about the victories on the international stage. it comes with biden facing very low numbers. there's kevin on the north lawn for us at the white house. kevin, the president's week started with the announcement of the death of al qaeda leader ayma ayman. >> there is guarded optimism. white house aids saides have b

burned in the past. you're seeing them regaining some of the initiative here. it did start this week, with the death of that key terror leader in kabul. the intelligence officials have been pouring over his movements for months. president biden actually signed off on that a few weeks ago. but it took a few days before it happened. he came out on monday and announced that strike. it was a major deal. the top leader of alak qaeda. it had some ramifications how the president's withdrawal from afghanistan is going. of course, that the terror leader could be hiding out there. it was a big deal for the president. on tuesday, the key legislation on burn pits passed the senate. the president had been watching that closely. democrats saw some good news in the midterm elections, in the primary elections in kansas. voters rejected a measure that would have restricted abortion.

democrats see that as a sign this could be a very goalvanizig issue come november. on wednesday, we saw support consolidated among democrats for the major reconciliation bill. i don't think the bill had been left for dead over the course of the last year. now, this really seems to be like it's moving forward. 28,000 jobs was a significant development for the president. the president and his aids are certainly feeling good, as this week comes to an end. the challenge now will be selling those wins to the american people. this string of victories show to the american people they could be affected leaders. the president's approval rating is very low. but you're starting to feel a

sense that they are starting to regain the initiative and grasp the momentum heading into november. phil? >> i guess the biden administration is feeling good. the question is, are the american people feeling good? and how do they feel about the money in their pocket. kevin, appreciate you. thanks so much. indiana has become the first state to pass an abortion ban since roe v. wade was overturned. the bill would provide exceptions for when the life of the mother is at risk and for fatal fetal anomalies. it would allow for exceptions for some abortions if the prosecutingcy pregnancy was the result of rape or incest. protesters filled the halls of indiana's state capcapitol, as voters voted on the measure. the law goes into effect september 15th. former president trump's legal team is in direct talks with justice department officials. >> now, the d.o.j. is

intensifying its criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection. and the talks are talking about the limits of trump's privilege. >> good morning. donald trump's defense lawyers and justice department prosecutors are talking, marking a significant point here in the ongoing january 6th criminal investigation. what they're talking about are the conversations that donald trump was having in the white house and his interest in keeping those conversations from the federal grand jury. this is coming after a steady amount of grand jury activity in d.c. where prosecutors were bringing in counsel to testify. those witnesses aren't able to share everything they know. donald trump wants to try to claim executive privilege as a former president, protecting advice he received while in the white house, and statements he would have made then.

we asked a trump spokesman about this. the statement he gave, was a window into the trump team's legal arguments here. how can any future president have private conversations with attorneys, counselor or advisers with any adviser is forced during or after the presidency, to reveal those confidential discussions. that's likely what he is telling prosecutors, too. our reporting team has learned through sources about what's happening behind the scenes with trump and his lawyers right now. he's warning that indictments are possible. they are working on defense strategies and warning him to stay away from people who might get swept in the january 6th probes, people like his former chief of staff, mark meadows. trump being trump, he is skeptical and doesn't appear to be following all that advice. >> thank you very much. here to discuss the legal implications, former u.s. attorney michael moore.

i want to start with the new cnn reporting on trump's legal reporting. there's been an avalanche of news about the investigations over the course of the last several weeks. tough to keep up with it. this one piqued my interest, because of the privilege issue involved. is this heading towards very critically towards the president directly at this point? >> good morning. i'm glad to be with you. there has been a lot of moves and dropouts. i don't know if i would get if there's a life jacket at hand. this is just part of an investigation. we just need to step back a little bit, let the investigation roll its way through. there's nothing unusual about the defendant target, witnesses. and a former president, talking about privilege, to have his team talk to prosecutors. these issues are going to come up. what it tells me more, maybe

than when we may see an dimt or if we see an indictment, we're fixing to see litigation that's going to last for a long time, over the next year, at least. i expect they will challenge executive privilege. let's pause and say, i don't care if it's trump or somebody you like as president. executive privilege is important because it allows the president to get advice. you hope that he or she is getting good advice from people. we want to have protections. in this case, he may have pushed it to shield himself, somewhat from his involvement in the january 6th incident. but this question is not just about trump. the executive privilege question is shg omething that will apply presidents going down the road for the rest of time for us. it's a question that will be decided by the courts. and you can't use it to cover up crime. you can't whide behind it. but you need to have the ability

to have candid talks with advisers, without having those people subpoenaed at the drop of a hat. >> the president is critical and it's the office, not the individual in the office. you make a good point. as somebody -- i'm not covering this investigation day-to-day. i can't necessarily put two and two together, when i see the various threads, particularly the number that have come over the last several weeks. we learned that former white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy were subpoenaed here. when you're looking at this as a former prosecutor, what do these moves signal to you about the type of investigation that's going on right now? and the work that's being done at d.o.j.? >> yeah. i think that more importantly, what i see is it's being thorough. and it's starting to target. the fact that cipollone and the deputy counsel have been subpoenaed to a grand jury,

that's important information. it's good information. i would suggest they have been subpoenaed because they had a front row seat to what was happening as opposed to the fact that they may have a silver bullet against trump. they would have been present during the meetings when they had the gaggle of voting machines and releases. things that clearly were outside the bounds of any norms. this is something they will be talking about. it may tell us, are we going to see indictments and charges against hiring administration officials. is there a separation between what trump told people to do, as opposed to people around him making decisions? again, i really think you're talking about a former president who is trying so hard to hang on to power, he was listing anybody that would come up with some kind of idea.

these witnesses were more about what is happening. they may indict trump. that is something that could happen. it's not hard to indict people. it's harder to convict people and convince 12 people on a jury because you need one juror to hang up. these discussions have to be going on in the department of justice and along with the thorough investigation. >> can i ask you one more quick one, from a legal side of things. we saw a dramatic moment in the courtroom, in the alex jones proceedings in the course of the last several days. he was informed that his defense team was sent reports to him. there's an overlap with what the january 6th committee is working on. there's discussion of the committee getting ahold of those. what is the process. do you see that as a potential thing that can occur? >> the text messages and the phone records, at least in some

part are now in a court record. they've been filed in court. that makes them easier to get. in all accounts, it may have been delivered in error but they did nothing to fix that or file a protective order on the evidence. the problem for jones is the information is unknown and it's out there. it's clear there was testimony during the course of discovery. i would be surprised for the subpoenas to come down. and ultimately, they will get it. it will be used to see if this connects any of the dots that the committee has been trying to do for the last many months. is there a direction from trump and other people in jones' circle, that we find in the text

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it's hard for things to be out in the open like this. the kremlin understands that the biden administration is under pressure, and all of society to bring britteny and paul home. >> i think one of the questions the administration doesn't want brittney griner back, they want paul whelan back, that's been there for significantly longer. it's made clear they have offered viktor bout, the former arms dealer. bout has been an objective of the kremlin for a long time. do you see that being possible? or is the u.s. going to consider someone else? >> viktor bout is a huge arms trafficker. he had the language in jail.

but the russians want him home because it ties to intelligence. you think he would want to strike a deal. they don't care about their people like we care about ours. they may try to add another name to the list just to drag out negotiations and punish the biden administration. >> one of the things i was struck by with the sentencing, brittney griner was sentenced to nine years and she will serve that time in a penal colony and not a regular prison. do you think that's part of a leverage play here? and can you give a sense of what conditions would be like at a place like that? >> pretty grim. this isn't a soviet-era gulag. but it's not a happy place. when i was a state official in russia, i went to russian prisons at time, to check on the welfare of americans. these are not happy places. i don't think she will spend nine years there. but nevertheless, i don't think she will be singled out for mistreatment, given her celebrity status.

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floodwaters pushed dumpsters and cars into other cars. park rangers say about 60 vehicles belonging to visitors and staff are buried in several feet of debris. and in los angeles, witnesses and officials say a car -- a car that actress anne heche was driving slammed into a house on friday. the actress reportedly suffered burn injuries and is set to be in critical condition. no one in the house was injured. state police tells cnn ten people and three children have died in a house fire in pennsylvania. authorities responded to a fire in a two-story home before 3:00 a.m. on friday. three adults made it out safely, while the victims ranging from 5 to 79 years old, found dead inside. a judge has ordered the

right. wing conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay $48 million in punitive damages over lies over the sandy hook shooting. >> jones called the shooting a hoax but during the trial admitted that it really happened. >> reporter: a big number, $45.2 million. and remember, that is added on to the $4 million that this jury awarded earlier in the week to the porn parents of jesse lewis. jesse lewis, one of the victims of the sandy hook massacre in 2012, the massacre that alex jones for years said didn't happen, was a hoax, that the parents were crisis actors. that's why the parents sued. that's why this jury has awarded this huge sum, by the way, under texas law, may be reduced because of caps on these punitive damages.

nonetheless, a big victory for the parents trying to stop alex jones from lying about their son. alex jones did apologize during this trial. the people at sandy hook did die and it really did happen. that was too late for these parents who had endured years of the lies. this is just the beginning, really, for alex jones, which could be troubling for him. he has another trial in the same courtroom next month, with the family of noah posner. knoah was the youngest victim. and at the end of proceedings, there was a question of phone text messages found during this trial, inadvertently sent from the defense to the plaintiff's attorneys, that supposedly the january 6th committee wanted to get their hands on.

the judge said, if you want to send them, go ahead. that could take place. >> thanks for that. it's difficult to see those faces of the little victims from that massacre. jurors in the trial for parkland school shooter nikolas cruz will not meet again until august 22nd. a judge dismissed them after an emotional day in the penalty phase of cruz's trial. >> jurors visited the school building where the massacre occurred to decide if cruz should get the death penalty. the crime scene has been left untouched since 2018. >> reporter: the 1200 building has haunlted the marjory stoneman douglas community for four years. a crime scene left untouched since 2018, for this date, the date jurors would walk through what remains of the horror that unfolded in those walls.

the bloodstains, the shattered glass, and random shoes were left behind. today, jurors saw it all. >> i keep thinking about these kids that should not be experiencing this. >> former teacher iva shemus remembered what she left that day. >> there's valentines that the students brought me. >> reporter: the jury will have to decide if cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison, after pleading guilty to 17 murders and 17 attempted murders. >> is there something you want to tell the jury about your dad? >> yeah. >> what is that? >> it's okay. tell them. >> reporter: more damage left behind for loved ones. agony, that will never go away.

strains on relationships. >> we have a void in our lives that will never be filled. >> reporter: for days, loved ones told the court about the realities of their lives. >> helena was murdered on her father's birthday. >> to try to articulate how it's affected me, would be for me to rip my heart out and present it to you shattered in a million pieces. >> reporter: testimony that brought even the shooter's defense team to tears. this comes after weeks of the prosecution making the case this was a methodical and calculated school shooting. prosecutors showed the jury social media posts by the shooter months before the massacre. some reading, i'm going to be a professional school shooter. and multiple posts expressing hatred. >> just want to kill people. >> reporter: there were internet searches, including one for good songs to play while killing people. revelations in court and at the crime scene that explain to a jury what led up to the massacre that forever changed a school

and shattered lives in this community. >> being able to say the truth of what happened in front of the shooter, like that doesn't happen often. most of these mass shooters don't survive these shootings. i'm sorry to say i don't have sympathy for him. i really don't. i don't hate. i don't hate nanyone. but he deserves whatever he is going to get. >> reporter: it was a lot for the jury to take in. a lot to see and understand. we noted one juror took a handful of tissues and two jurors were seen sobbing in the courtroom. >> so much heartbreak. we're going to switch gears and talk about the weather. it is going to be a scorcher across much of the u.s. this weekend. we're going to tell you how hot it's going to get. ♪ ♪ ♪ "shahake your thang" by salt n pepa

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as you all know, the coronavirus pandemic has caused ongoing supply shortages of all kinds of items. but the nation faces another potentially catastrophic shortage. a lack of teachers. that's reached crisis levels in districts across the country. look at some of the facts here. the nevada state education association estimates it has roughly 3,000 teaching job vacancies. in illinois, a january report by the association of regional school superintendents said more

than 2,000 teacher openings were either empty or filled by less than qualified workers. that is frightening. joining us now is dr. carlton jenkins, superintendent of madison school district in wisconsin. he has a ph.d. in policy analysis. thank you for joining us. how bad is this teacher shortage? not just in your school district but across the nation? what are you hearing? >> first of all, thank you for having me here this morning. i'm here to speak on this particular matter. and my colleagues and i across the country have been wrestling with, in the pandemic and the increase in teacher shortages. as you know, we had a teacher shortage before the pandemic. but now, since the pandemic, it has really increased. in fact, this is our largest number of vacancies since 2017.

about 30,000 more vacancies than in 2017. we've been working together as superintendents across the country, sharing best practices about what we need to do to address this. the pandemic has caused a lot of stress among our staff, as they had to pifvot and do a lot of virtual teaching in a moment's notice. and the increase in teaching virtually and the impact of our families socially, emotionally, and mentally. and i mean families, not just the child, has caused teachers to think about what they want to do with their future, whether they stay in teaching or go to a place and provide for themselves. >> clearly, superintendent, apologies for cutting off there. this is pandemic-induced. we've heard grievances about low pay for many years. i'm sure the gun violence adds to the stress.

talk about why we're seeing teachers leaving the profession or just not wanting to come into the profession at all. >> at the beginning of the pandemic, and the preparation coming in to this, not understanding the culture, which we were coming in. they had to do a lot of pivoting, as well. and feeling supporters at the district. and we also know nationally, teachers did a lot. and yet, when it comes to conversation, particularly in our state, at the state level, we did not fund public elducatin at a level to retain some of the teachers we had in the past. >> i guess desperate times call for desperate measures. what are you doing to fill some of the vacancies because i hear there's going to be people teaching the children. college students are allowing

teaching jobs. florida, allowing veterans without a bachelors degree teaching, as well. >> i'll tell you, right now, we're about 7% down from what we hired all of last year. we have commitment letters and waiting on the teachers to confirm. once we do that, we will hire more teachers this year than we did last year. and recently, going to the colleges, historical black colleges, to recruit, recognizing that we are a diverse community. we're trying to go to some of the places, as my colleagues, to get some of those hard-to-find individuals, more males in the field. and putting ourselves out there in many ways, and doing interviews like this, and recently in "the washington post," we had people reaching out to us north, south, east and west, trying to recruit. our board has taking a stance, too, in terms of us being able

to get people in our district and taking a strong stance on social justice. looking at that. and also, caring about anti-rusism. you can see the medallion i have on, acknowledgment. we are a diverse people. and i see other colleagues trying to do the same thing, making it a welcoming environment for individuals they are recruiting in, so we can recruit and retain teachers. > >> we wish you and all of the superintendents across the country the best. you have about 200 teacher vacancies. you have time, the school in madison starts on september 1st. all the pbest to you, carlton jenkins, thank you. >> thank you so much. we have a fair going on, through august 22nd, we hope will get more teachers. >> thank you. on the next episode of "united shades of america," the

ongoing fight for asian representation in the media. here's a preview. >> with "crazy rich asians" it shows the power of the community has. >> is this what we want the community to see? >> how i justified it, it was a love story. and you never saw asians in rom-coms. so many of us who have been in the business for a long time, felt like we've been the only one, climbing up this ladder. it was a very lonely ladder. and so, to know that there are organizations now, taking it bon themselves, right, to promote and to build infrastructure, the fact we're having this conversation for television, means we're moving in the right direction. >> yeah. >> one of the most thought-provoking shows on tv.

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