the year. peltola's win flips the seat held by don young, and she will become the first alaskan native in congress. palin became the vice presidential nominee in 2008 and in 2009 resigned midway through her lone term in the governor's office. despite today's setback, she'll get another chance at the house race in a separate election in november. a quick reminder before we go, join cnn for special coverage of president biden's prime-time speech, as he delivers remarks from independence national historic park on the continued battle, he says, for the soul of the nations. the news couldn'ts. let's hand it over to victor let's hand it over to victor blackwell and "cnn tonight". -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com down to the wire, right before the deadline at 8:00 p.m. eastern, the trump team filed its response to the justice department's block bluster

brief, revealing new details. this filing was 19 page es. it did acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago earlier this month. but essentially, it says it wasn't a big deal. says quote, the proported initiation for the probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records. but this discovery, end quote, was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of presidential records. simply put, the notion that presidential records would contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. this is part of a bid by the trump team to have a special master appointed. a judge holds a hearing on that tomorrow. and this comes on the heels of the very serious claims laid out in the justice department's 36-page filing, including another quote here, evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at the

trump home and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. and for the first time, we got this visual of some of the classified documents seized from donald trump's home that serves as a hotel. some of those documents are said to be so highly sensitive that even the fbi counterintelligence personnel and doj attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review. and these were found after trump's lawyers told the doj he didn't have anymore. two sources tell cnn that lawyer was christina bobb, who said this after the search warrant was executed. >> we've been cooperative this entire time. >> there was a subpoena issued that will obviously all didn't comply with because otherwise there wouldn't have been a raise -- >> i wouldn't say obviously we didn't comply with it. we are under the impression that we did comply with it. i'm not aware of them coming back to us saying, you didn't turn everything over zplchlt so, you're saying you turned over

everything that was in the subpoena. >> yeah, that was our understanding. >> the doj says, that's just not true. quote, that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the, quote, diligent search that the former president's counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform, calls into serious question the representations made in that june 3rd and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. the government lists the number of classified documents recovered on august 8th as more than 100, putting the total recovered at 322 at least. joining us now is eli hoenig, errol lewis, and national security official olivia troye, former counter terror adviser to vp mike pence. is this the filing you expected from the trump team? >> no, it's very, very different than the first filing that opened up this whole issue. if we go back last week when

they filed this motion seeking the special master, the bottom line request, the relief they're looking for, we want a special master to review this evidence, it's fairly mundane and minute material. but they dressed it up with crazy talk, with wild accusations of political bias and other sort of over the top accusations. and i think that sort of distorted what they were actually asking for. now trump's team seems to have pulled back a little bit, and this filing is very narrowly focused. there are some overstatements and over steps, which i'm sure we'll get to. for the most part, they're saying, we want a special master. why not? why does the doj get to make every decision on its own? and doj, what are you afraid of? what are you hiding? >> so, they changed the tone, pulled back some of the bluster. >> yeah. >> so, let's talk about what is not included in this document. they do not address the claims that were made in the doj filing, the additional 76

documents, the evidence that the doj says they have that documents were concealed and removed and obstruction. when you read that, that there were even three documents in the 45 office, what do you think? >> well, i'm just thinking, why are these documents there to begin with? i feel like the documents admits that the documents were there now, right? and that's what i'm thinking. so, they didn't give them back the first time. i feel like it's one lie after another. while i think they pulled back the bluster on this, i think it's just another disinformation campaign is how it read to me. it just continues to go down the path of that. >> and errol, we wouldn't know any of the details if not for this request for the special master. we're getting this rolling reveal of this investigation. but it's because of the trump filings. >> that's exactly right. they're in a very difficult position. even within this filing, it's remarkable. they spend the first third of the document making the argument

these are his records, why are you taking these records. that's going to be a problem for him because they're also arguing there's nothing to see here, there's nothing wrong with it. we were going to give it back. if they had just asked us in the right way we would have gladly given it back which suggests that well maybe it's not his. so, they're in a very difficult position. they are trying to play out clearly the ors of a client who has not quite made up his mind what it is he wants to really rest on. first he's the one that announced it publicly that there was this raid going on, that there was this search taking place. then he comes forward and says, well, i declassified it. that doesn't appear in any of the legal filings because he didn't because he couldn't. it's unclear what he's saying to his lawyers or whether or not indeed he told them fully what had been disclose ds. you've got to feel bad for some of his attorneys who are making good faith arguments to the court, r we've given you everything as far as we know that he was holding onto, and it turns out there are hundred of more documents.

>> trump's team says this was all a standard give and take. standard? there's nothing standard about this. doj, the archives bent overbackwards to accommodate him. the other thing, trump's team says it should have come as no surprise documents contain classified materials. that's no surprise. the surprise is those documents were in a hotel in florida. there are some missteps here for sure. >> these attorneys, one of them christina bobb, who signed this as her station saying, you've got everything. there's no more classified information at mar-a-lago. she wouldn't have signed that if she knew there were documents to take. >> i don't know. i question christina bobb's motives. i know christina bobb. she's very, very loyal to donald trump. i knew her when she was an executive secretary at dhs, and she has a habit of lying her way through things. i think she's in some serious trouble. i think when you're dealing with

classified information, anyone who enabled this moment that led to these classified documents to be down there at a resort instead of where they should, which is properly stored, i think the live of intelligence officers are on your head, on your conscience, and you're impacting the entire intelligence community with the cleanup they're going to have to do and the damage you've done. i think you're equally responsible. you're a part of this. >> ellie, what's next? >> tomorrow we're going to have this hearing. it looks like the sor sort of calmer heads among trump's legal team have started to take precedence over the christina bobbs. if i'm trump's legal team, this is not the time to argue the search, whether the search was constitutional or no. all you're asking for here if you're trump's lawyers is a special master, a neutral third party to come in and take a look. i would agree with doj. they said we can do it quickly. if i'm them, i try to keep very

narrowly focused. judge could rule tomorrow. we could know by your show, 2:00, or the judge called take it under advise m. >> they're asking for an unredacted affidavit. they're asking for all the information the government has. they clearly want to find out what all is going on here. i don't know if the department of justice is going to cooperate with that. >> they won't and should not get the affidavit. nobody gets the affidavit until after the charge. that's half an affidavit more than anybody gets at this point. >> errol, the first couple of days after this search, trump was raising a million dollars a day. there were people around him saying, listen, this is the moment to get into the 2024 race. that seems to have tapered off quite a bit now. is this changing? is there evidence this is changing some around him, the party's view of his standings? >> well, it's interesting. his political standing may be problematic at noint. people may decide to hold on to their checkbook for a week or

two. on the other hand, on this filing they point out this is somebody who is going to be a candidate for president. it is critical for his legal defense that he establish himself as something other than a run of the mill defendant who was found with hundred of top secret documents in their possession. if he's just one more american who doesn't have executive privilege, who doesn't have status as a presidential candidate even, he's in deep. >> he needs that protection now. >> and he needs to be held accountable. we cannot allow this to be given a pass because you're undermining the entire rule of law if this is a case. we're saying it's okay to take classified information. it's okay to store it wherever the heck you want when we know there's plenty of foreign intelligence people on that property. it's prime for that, right? i think what are we saying as the united states to the rest of

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defender think. earlier this evening, i spoke to trump's former chief of staff, mick mulvaney. >> thanks for having me. >> let's start with your reaction to the new details for the new doj filing. do you think what's been revealed in these 36 pages is damning for trump team? >> it's certainly damaging. there's no question about that. there's still a lot we don't know. we still don't know about what's in those documents. we'll talk in a second what why that's important. it certainly doesn't look good that these documents were there. keep in mind the president or at least the president's lawyer had written to the fbi saying there were no confidential documents. we're hearing his lawyer in another case, in the new york case, said she had been through all of his document drawers and so forth for that new york case, and she did not mention seeing anything. so, that doesn't look good for the president. i'm not too worried about the documents lying on the floor. i mean, the president commented

today that that wasn't the way he kept his documents. that was my experience. he didn't throw stuff around the room like that. so, some of the more visual stuff is not as damning as it looks in the media. certainly the facts that there are documents there that are apparently in his desk drawer undermines the argument there was nothing there in the first place and undermines the arguments they may have been there accidentally. it's hard to say how something ends up accidentally in your desk. all in all, a bad day for the president. >> let's talk about the three classified documents that were in the 45 office desk according to this doj filing. he would have to know that those were in there, right? no one else would have put those in there. >> i've been on tv a bunch of times saying i know a little bit of how the white house works, how it wasn't working very well at the end of the first term, and it's completely possible they threw documents in a box and left. that inadvertence. if the documents were in the former president's desk, it's hard to say they got there by

accident. it looks like one of his potential defenses is undermined. keeping in mind another defense is the documents may have been declassified really doesn't matter for all of the charges the doj says they might look at. the bottom line, victor, i think is this. and i told the president this when i worked with him in the oval office. it's very rarely the original act that gets people in trouble ft it's the attempts to obstruct or cover up after the fact. and my guess is that it's an educated guess at this point based upon only what we're seeing in the media, that the president may be in more trouble for how he treated the documents after the fbi started its investigation than he is in how he got there in the first place. >> speaking of the access potentially to the desk, to the office, there was this reporting during the administration that there was this free wielding access to the oval office, that people could just walk in. was that the case at mar-a-lago as well? >> it wasn't. keep in mind, the difference is this. it's not the free-wielding attitude.

it's the layers of protection that were in place institutionally. in the oval office, there were people whose specific job it was, it's called the office of the staff secretary, was to make sure that documents were accounted for, that documents were cleaned up after one meeting before another, that documents would be tracked down. there was an institutional sort of layer of protection for the president. i have no idea if that same level of protection applied at mar-a-lago. my gut instinct is that it wasn't and there wasn't somebody who was paid to follow around the president making sure all the documents were where they were supposed to be. an educated guess -- the guess is the level of documents didn't approach what they did in the oval office. >> the doj points out they've gopped evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. i wonder if there's any question in your mind that the former president or his team actively

tried to hide these documents, the classified documents later found in the storage unit from investigators? >> sure, if your question is is there any question in my mind, there still should be. there absolutely should be. there should a presumption of innocence. there's a great deal of distrust between the president specifically and a lot of folks on the right over how the fbi has e behaved over the past five years, the same fbi that presented false information to another judge to spy on the trump campaign in 2016, that maybe the fbi interfered in the 2020 election to provide information about the biden laptop coming out. so, there's a great deal of bad history here. so, to jump to a conclusion that just because the fbi says it it has to be true is lock stock and barrel, i saw some republican commentators saying the fbi had the president dead to rights. i think that's jumping way to

conclusion and we need to let this play out. >> what's the universe of people who would have access to the 45 office to the storage units to know the documents are back. >> not too many in my experience when i was there. i was only in the president's office very, very rarely, only on very special occasions, like when the mueller report came out. that's his private area. his practice may have changed. i said from the beginning, when this was discussion about who the person may be who was the informant to the fbi, the people who will know about his safe would be very, very small. six or eight people. i think the people who would have access to his desk are smaller than that. yes, mar-a-lago is a public place, it's a club, there's hotel rooms, and the public areas are widely available. but the president can be a very private man and i don't think there's a lot of people who would have gone into his office. and certainly very, very few people who would know the content of his desk. >> you mentioned this at a station that was signed by one of his attorneys, christina bobb, who said there was no more clas

classified information at mar-a-lago. do you think this is a case of just the president not being honest with his attorneys, not telling them everything that he knows, less of a nefarious element for the attorney herself? >> you know, it's sort of hard to say about that. i can't imagine that a lawyer would sign a document if they were concerned that their client was lying to them. they would want to satisfy themselves that that's accurate. that being said, i have never been impressed with the president's legal team. you know, i'm not sure who his lawyers are today. i'm not even sure if his lawyers understand the issues they're getting into. i think the motion for the special master was filed with folks generally see as two weeks too late and probably too late to have an impact on how the documents were handled. so, it's sort of been a clown show of legal representation. i don't think it's possible to say that the president lied to his attorney or the attorney didn't do a good job. the fact of the matter is this, victor, there's a piece of paper

signed by someone saying it's false, and the doj is not going to take that well. >> the first few days after the search, he was raising a million dollars a day. that tapered off and you're hearing republicans say, maybe we should pause. >> raising a million dollars a day and not sharing it aggressively with other republicans. this whole issue puts rank and file republicans in a real pickle. they would much rather be talking ability inflation, the weaknesses of the biden administration. and when the president comes out in the middle of the night and tweets and does his whatever, truth social is, based on the zuckerberg comments we should redo the 2020 election, all these candidates are going to have to answer questions about donald trump. and there's really no good answer. they could ask the question, do you think we should redo the 2020 election and say they yes, they lose swing voters. if they say no, they lose maga trump voters. and they lose the opportunity to talk about what they want to talk about. he is becoming more and more an

issue in the midterm elections and you're starting to feel momentum move away from republicans, although i don't think it's near a difficulty for the republicans as some in the media make it out to be. >> mick mulvaney, thank you. an american state capitol is in crisis for a third day, now with no clean water. imagine living like this. >> we have dishes piled up because we cannot wash them. there's no -- currently no water coming out of the faucet. we're not going to be able to flush the toilet. >> sad reality for the people of jackson, mississippi, right now. and that man you just heard is about to join us, along with the leader in his city with more on the conditions there. why is this fix taking so long? that's next.

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waiting in line for hours for the most basic human need, a case of water. >> it's horrible. and i would like it to be fixed. please fix our water. >> it's been rough. >> ain't nobody pay attention to this until it happened. >> i mean, jackson has to do something about this. what about the kids? what about the community? what about the people? i mean, somebody could do something. >> the president declared a federal disaster to get emergency assistance moving and a new rented pump is up and running at the crippled water plant. the mayor tells cnn he's confident water will be restored this week. but the problem goes beyond just refilling an already dangerous system. i'm joined now by the president of the jackson city council. welcome to you both. let me start with you, ka hen day gainer, you've got a family of five living through this.

i can't imagine doing it myself. how are you making it through this crisis? >> we're making it day by day. it's extremely different. we were dealing with this just less than a year ago during the winter freeze. so, that winter freeze kind of helped me to prepare for what's happening right now. and it's dev sastating as a fatr because, you know, we're the providers for the family. and right now, we are just crippled because we have no control of what's happening on the outside of the home. so, i can only control what's happening on the inside, just trying to be as prepeared as possible. and that's what we're doing right now. >> hey, kehinde, i understand before this most recent emergency, you started getting bottled water for your family because the boil water advisories come more frequent, last so long, that now you're paying the water bill and you've

got the water you have to buy to drink. >> right. my father-in-law actually made a great suggestion. during the winter freeze, he said, listen, you need to subscribe to -- that's not to put a particular water brand out there. after i did that, we started receiving five gallon water jugs, which helped, to have to keep from going out to the grocery store to buy bottled water. and then when you would go out there, the shelves would be empty. you would have to wait in line just to get maybe 1 to 2 pack of water, which is not very helpful. but it does some help. so, yeah, we expense a lot just to have the basic necessities, to have bottled water and to have filtered water in our home. >> dcouncilman, when is this going to be fixed? when is the water going to be safe in jackson? >> that's an unnoble answer to me and a noble answer to the

people who have takenover the plant now. the state came in and added resources. hopefully we'll get resources from the federal government. they're working hard at it. this is an all hands on deck type of situation that i'm glad we've gotten additional resources to supplement the resources that the city had there. it's a serious issue for health issues and for a number of reasons. it's also a serious issue because of our fire system that relies on water to the hydrants. so, both those things and additional quality of life issues make this something that we need all the resources possible to work at this. >> now, when the mayor says that he is confident that water will be restored this week, you say that it's unknowable when water service will be restored and safe. how can those two things be true? who's wrong here? >> i'm not saying anybody's wrong. i think he certainly wants that to be the case.

i talked to the people out at the plant today. they had to stop services today because they had a 10 million-gallon tank that had to be dispersed and pumped out and then refilled so they could bring that water, the new water, up to quality standards to send out into the system. so, we're doing everything we can at this point in time. hopefully the federal system as well to address these issues. we're also bringing in the national guard so we'll have non-potable water hopefully by the weekend. but as to when we'll be able to have it back the way it should be, i'm hoping that we'll have that in a week or two weeks. but i'm just not in a position to estimate that. >> when you say the way it should be, it should be the way it was before the water pressure bottomed out. it should be better than a boil water advisory four times in the last 18 months, some of them

lasting a month long. so, when you're saying, it should be, are you telling me it's going to be a quality that people can drink and brush their teeth with without toiboiling ft in a week or so? or it's going to go back to the water you had before? >> i would hope -- no, i want to go just back to where we were before this latest episode. we want to go back to where it should be, high quality, dependable water system that delivers water that the people can trust, the businesses can trust, and they can plan their lives around it rather than being the uncertainty that citizens face today like lekinde, which makes life much more complicated than it should be. >> so, how do you get there? it ain't free, it ain't cheap, and jackson don't have the money. >> you're right. those are all three true. we get there by working hard at it and using resources necessary to get it up and running.

this should be a -- every citizen should have access to clean, drinkable water in their homes. and we've got to get -- >> councilman, that goal -- let me interrupt you, please. i hear the goal. >> yes, sir. >> everyone shares the goal of getting water that people can consume and brush their teeth with. what i'm asking you is, how do you get there? what is going to happen between now and then so that his children can bathe themselves. what is going to practically happen between now and then? >> we're going to add staff. we've been -- part last many years we've been understaffed and we've also had less than necessary preventive maintenance applied to the plant in a way that can keep it running in a top form manner. so, we've got to do better at that.

in the meantime, we've got to bring in the resources, the staff, additional staff that have the credentials and the qualifications to run the plant around the clock, three shifts a day, seven days a week. >> councilman, i know that none of these answers is easy, and again, jackson doesn't have the money. i hear what you're saying. it does not get an answer to the question of what will actually happen. i'm hearing goals. i'm hearing hopes. but these, i understand, are difficult questions that both the city council and the gov have to answer. what's your reaction? there's a hope that you'll get water, but there's really no guarantee or time line on when that will happen. >> right. and, you know, i don't fault the councilman. i don't fault the mayor or the government. this is a system that has been taxed for years, decades.

so, it's not one person's fault. it's not one entity's false. it's just something that has been -- a can that's been kicked down the road for several years. and what i'm hoping is that the state government and the city government can really work together to provide whatever resources is necessary to help the citizens of jackson. i'm not really interested in the politics side of it. i'm not interested in any of those things. i really want to see all of us come together to work this thing out so we can have a good quality of life. that's all i'm asking for, just the quality of life. >> one last question for you councilman. are the mayor and the governor speaking to one another? >> i'm not sure if they are or not. you know, i'm speaking to both of them, so i can certainly be an intermediary there. but the important thing is that

as my partner said is that we get to work on the issues. i can go into more specifics. we've got 12 water towers that need to be filled with water. >> i understand that. >> the plant doesn't have the capacity. so, if you wanted more specifics, i can give them to you, but i didn't want to get too deep into the weeds. there's a lot of things i have a plan to accomplish that. >> i appreciate it that. no one wants to get deep into politics. but the mayor and the governor in a crisis need to be communicating. and it's unfortunate, no one is sure if they are really speaking to one another. i thank you both, and we all hope that jackson gets the water service that it deserves. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you for covering this story. >> certainly. to the big politics new, former vice presidential nominee, sarah palin, will not be making a comeback as a u.s. congresswoman, at least not yet. that's next.

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s.e., let me start with you, sarah palin, huge name recognition. that was the play. she had the name recognition. didn't win. >> well, i think errol and i were just talking about, fellow daily news alum. i've had a daily news column for 12 years, in part because the first column i wrote was about sarah palin -- is what people thought her name was. >> we were trying to figure out the pronunciation. >> i liked her story. i thought as much as he hurt john mccain, she also helped john mccain. she went on to be fox famous and she wanted to sort of follow fame. and i get that she looked at this landscape with the marge t marjorie taylor greenes and the matt boeberts and thought great, finally a chance to be famous and not have to govern that much. but i think alaskans were turned off and abandoned by her when

she left the state in search of more famous pastures. i think that was the result. >> is this about sarah palin specifically? there's no kind of lesson that republicans can glean from this loss? >> if they wanted to talk a lesson from it, it might well be that the local leads -- in this case, alaska only gets one representative. they've got to get it right. they've got salmon shortage, climate change issues just like everywhere else. and it seems voters don't want to throw it away on someone that's going to get up and do the clelebrity thing. i don't know if they're looking for a celebrity there. that's a lesson republicans should take to heart. >> let's also not sell the democratic now winner short here. i mean, first native alaskan ever to be elected. i think that says something. also a democrat hasn't won in, what, 50 years in that seat? i mean, that says something.

and i think it's another indicator that democrats have hope. >> let's turn to dr. oz on comments on abortion. we're going to play first what he said in may of this year. this was during the primary. then we're going to play something from an interview he in 2019 where he talks about heart beat bills that were being passed. let's watch. >> i do believe life starts at conception, and i said that multiple times. and i still think conception, why do you care what age the heart starts beating. it's still murder if you were to terminate a child whether you're heart is beating or not. >> alabama and antiabortion laws they're passing in alabama. >> i'm really worried about it. this other thing is this thing

about heart beating, the electrical exchanges at six weeks, but the heart's not beating. if you were to say starting from when we can hear the heart, when the heart's really doing something, that would be different. that's not six weeks though. >> which is it? how can you believe both of those in a span of three years? >> you can if you're a politician and you're running nks right? it's a little unsurprising, especially dr. oz. he's got this sort of label as flip flopping and not really being from pennsylvania and running one way in a primary and another now in a general. and not all that surprising. we've seen a number of ka candidates, especially on the abortion issue, try to moderate in a general election. that happens. president obama, then barack obama, famously shifted after defeating hillary clinton in a primary, went more to the center on economic issues. and it really angered a lot of folks in the left wings of his party. the problem is this is a super important issue this election

cycle. people are really paying attention on both sides to what you're saying. >> yeah, we're seeing this just like s.e. said all across the country here. in iowa, for example, i would say iowa 3 is literally the most important frontline race in the country. the democrats are trying to protect, that republicans are trying to win. and you've got the republican candidate who stood there, i suppose, during the primary with his hand up in the air saying that he doesn't support any exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, anything. and yet, like a week ago, writes an op-ed for "the des moines register" completely changing his point. but that is an ad running against him in iowa three. it matters. you're going to see this continue to play out across the country as we hold these republicans accountable for where they stand.

>> we're seeing a lot of republicans trying to moderate those views, at least the s message of those views. thank you very much. a tennis match for the history books, with legend serena williams advancing in what could be her last professional tournament. right back with the latest on the greatest of all time. . younger zoe: i'm listening to music. so today, let's paint... ...with behr and make yourur home, yours. right now, get america's most trusted paint b brand at an everyday low price.

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say serena williams defeated the second round, patrick. i seen you there at flushing meadows. i saw clips and the cheers over taking the microphones. what did it feel like in there? >> i'm telling you, victor, i've been lucky enough to be in this stadium behind me for some of the all time matches in u.s. open history.

serena against big sister venus, federer, djokovic. i have never ever heard what we're hearing, what we heard tonight. we're still hearing as serena is doing finishing up with her on court interviews. we saw some vintage serena williams playing against a legit competitor, the number two ranked player in the world. serena wins the opening set. energy drop in the second set. loses that one but boy, oh, boy tennis. 11 aces and 38 winners for serena williams and this one and the serena swan song lives for at least one more night. unbelievable here. >> fantastic. i mean, i am glad to be here if not here i would be there with you watching it. but for her to make it to the third round of a tournament, she's not done that since 2020

and no doubt the energy and the love and the cheer for every point at these tournaments, each round, that's carrying her through. >> well, there is no doubt, victor, we were all coming into this thinking okay, this is going to be a celebration of the greatest career in tennis for serena williams, 23 major titles, 14 in doubles with her sister venus, six u.s. open titles but now, now we're all starting to think -- and i think serena is starting to think wait a second. i just beat the number two player in the world and the way serena is moving, victor, her movement has been so off coming, since coming back from wimbledon. she didn't play for a year. that was to be expected. how quickly she's seemingly finding that a game again and i think the dreams that we all had about serena making a big run and going deep in this tournament are starting to become a potential reality right now. >> yeah, she didn't make it

beyond the first round at wimbledon but to come back at fleshing memeadows, i was theren 2014 i think when she won the singles. she's playing again on tomorrow, the doubles, right? and then friday she's back on the court for a single's match. i'm just looking at these pictures and i can imagine the energy there celebrities packing the place standing for every point. >> you know what is so exciting about watching this version of serena, victor? obviously, in her prime she was so dominant. she was so far above the rest of the field. but now you're seeing another side to serena williams. that's why i remember the words she said i'm e vovolving away f tennis. not retiring. you're seeing her evolve on the tennis court. she's more vulnerable as a player. she's not as dominant as she once was. nobody can be at age 40 but

battling as hard as ever and trying her you know what off out there and to see her raise the level and the fans get behind her and imagine all the pressure she's under. because everybody is so fired up and pumped up about this and what is she doing? she's delivering yet again. this will be quite something as we get ready for it. you can bank on this, victor, friday night so if you can get out herere friday night, i'll b happy to s sit with you in the stands. >> i'll take you up p on that. we had a picture of the handshake at the net. thank you so much. i'm so happy for serena. we'll be right back. a is for awareness, because knowing that your chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes could progress to dialysis is important. b is for belief that there may be more you can do. just remember that k is for kidneys

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that's it for me. "don lemon tonight" starts now. all right. that's it for me. "don lemon tonight" starts right now. >> i have a story, we're watching serena. did you see spike lee, by the way? >> i didn't. i didn't. >> you were