mccarthy walk out, he spoke to reporters in front of the west wing yesterday striking a more optimistic tone saying the meeting went better than he expected it to go, they found common ground but i think there are questions about what that path forward is going to look like. this is a refrain we heard from president biden saying when he was on capitol hill he believed lawmakers would argue with one another on the senate floor, house floor, then go and break bread, put their differences aside, and he was lamenting saying that does not happen anymore in his view. >> it was the top of the show. when kevin mccarthy walked out he said the conversation i had with the president of the united states i'm going to keep confidential. i was like, wow, something is different. >> civility might be gone but it can come back, right? hopefully that time is now. kaitlan, thank you.

>> see you monday. >> "cnn this morning" have a good vacation. cnn "newsroom" is now. ♪ good morning, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga. right now president biden is on capitol hill speaking moments ago at the annual national prayer breakfast and calling on republicans and democrats to unite in the wake of tyre nichols' death as he makes a push for national police reform. it comes ahead of his and vice president harris' meeting with the members of the black caucus. it comes after the vice president spoke about tyre nichols saying it is a moment that demands congress to take action. the republican led house is expected to vote on a resolution to remove ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee.

speaker kevin mccarthy said he has the votes to oust her. and going on the offensive. attorneys for hunter biden now calling for criminal probes into trump allies and others involved in disseminating his personal content from his laptop. first, let's go live to ukraine where cnn was on the front lines. city officials say the russians not only targeted civilian with the first round of strikes on the city, they then launched another round, targeting the civilians who moved in to rescue those hit in the first stroke. sam kiley joins us now from mykolaiv. yet another warm crime it appears committed by the russians. >> reporter: that was what occurred in kramatorsk where my colleague frederik pleitgen and his team saw with their own eyes where we have seen in the past

indiscriminate shelling of civilians in kramatorsk and last night trying to hit civilians and rescue workers with a double tap, when they go on the ground and clear up and search for you are v-- survivors in the rubble there. officials say three people was killed in that attack. i have come from kherson, that city was liberated from russian occupation several months ago, cnn was on the ground during that liberation, the streets were thronged with people now it is almost a ghost town. why? we frankly lost count of the number of detonations of mor mortars, direct tank fire, multiple rocket launch systems, the launches that fire 10, 15,

20 missiles at a time raining down on parts of that city. the only people we met there were elderly and poverty stricken, who were coming desperately seeking for help. one man trying to find plastic to cover his destroyed window. so continuing attacks on civilians in kherson, too. >> those images are horrific. and president zelenskyy again this morning reiterating calls for a fresh round of sanctions against russia. sam kiley, thank you. in just hours the house votes whether to remove ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. lauren fox is on capitol hill. it appears that speaker mccarthy has the votes to do so. >> this came after a long fight internally between republicans as they tried to wrestle members to get the votes. they did find a compromise. language that includes what republicans are calling due

process for ilhan omar and other members of congress who lose committee rassignments in the future that would allow them to refer cases to the house ethics committee. ilhan omar is expected to be removed from her committee assignment on the foreign affairs committee. here's what she said about losing that job. >> they've been on a vengeance tour. it' it's blatantly clear when we removed those two from their committees in the last cycle it was because they threatened violence against members of congress. >> this is different from what the democrats have done. the democrats walked in and judged republican members of congress for something they said before they were members of congress and threw them all off committee. >> reporter: and one thing to keep in mind here is that democrats did remove two members of the republican party from their committees in the last

congress both paul gosar and marjorie taylor greene. it's important to point out, however, that just a few days ago, last week, kevin mccarthy removed two members from the house intelligence committee. so obviously going forward, the question is going to be is this going to continue to be an issue for republicans and democrats as they take control of the house of representatives. >> what appears to be a tit for tat move here. thank you. with me is heidi przybyla and white house bureau chief for "the washington post." after some wrangling it appears that speaker mccarthy has enough votes to oust ilhan omar from the foreign affairs committee. what do you make of his hold of his caucus given what we saw a few weeks ago as he was fighting for that speakership role? >> kevin mccarthy is trying to find his feet as the speaker and he has been able to corral his

members for a number of key votes. this is one of the votes that was going to be a test of his speakership, whether or not he was going to be able to flip members and he did prove he was able to do that. this is a lower stakes issue than some of the bigger challenges and fights he's going to have ahead on the debt ceiling and what to do about whether he should impeach members of joe biden's cabinet or the president himself but it does appear in the early weeks of his speakership he has able to hold somewhat of a hold on his members which was not clear with several rounds of votes with his moib about his speakership. it does appear on some of the issues it appears he can keep the members of the republican caucus all together. but it's not yet a clear sign he's going to be able to do that when these bigger fights on major policy issues are coming

down the pike and that appears to be soon. >> it does appear to be symbolic. you had republicans prior to the midterms threatening impeachment. yesterday you had the house gop congress andy biggs of arizona file impeachment articles against secretary mayorkas. what does it mean for what's to come in the months ahead? >> it's part of the broader agenda which is investigations. and stands in contrast to one of the issues in this gallup poll that came out this morning of what americans are concerned about, including economy, inflation, guns. this is the tension that republicans are facing, which is that the tools they have are not great if they want to advance major legislation because their agenda is so different from the president so they're going to do these investigations. i think the concern here are those 18 republicans who are in

obama/biden districts who are very concerned that what republicans are doing here is running headlong into, for instance, debates over classified documents, hunter biden's laptop when what the polling shows is that americans, despite the fact that we didn't go into recession during covid are very concerned still about the economy. they're concerned about what we've seen over the past few weeks. which is even though congress passed some of the most significant legislation on guns in the last congress we had more mass shootings this year than the previous year just in the first few months. so that is the risk that republicans run here, which is there's a small fraction of the conference that is demanding these things, such as the removal of ilhan omar from the committee, such as these investigations in order for mccarthy to be able to function and be able to keep his speakership but at the same time the broader public is demanding

progress on much more profound concerns out there in america, including income inequality, including guns, and there's also a sense among the public on issues like abortion where public opinion is very much out of line with what just happened with the ruling, for instance, on roe v. wade. >> so let's talk about the must pass issue facing the economy right now and that is raising the debt ceiling because we saw speaker mccarthy spend an hour and a half with president biden on this subject. president biden not budging when he said he was not going to negotiate on this specific issue. said he is happy to talk down the line on cutting the deficit and deficit reduction but this would be a stand alone clean bill. kevin mccarthy came out yesterday and said he seems optimistic they can, quote, find common ground and reach a consensus sooner rather than later. what did you make of those comments and that optimism? >> we definitely had to read

between the lines a little bit because mccarthy came out of the meeting saying no agreements were had, they were going to continue to talk but it was a good meeting they spoke for a long time, he didn't come out throwing fire bombs at the president and that could be a good sign. he talked about things like finding waste in the government not talking about slashing major programs or having significant cuts to the overall budget. so there could be areas of common ground, programs that have been proven to be wasteful that democrats and republicans can agree on and have different talking points about whether a cut was made. those could take place in this environment which has the president saying we're not going negotiate over the debt limit and republicans saying we have to negotiate over the debt limit. it could be a situation as we get closer to the deadline the different parties have different takeaways and talking points about whatever agreements they

come up with that allows them to save face. it appears that mccarthy is willing to talk in positive ways about the president, the first step towards an agreement to avert a crisis which would come to increasing the debt ceiling. >> i guess the question is mccarthy speaking for himself or the caucus because there are some saying they're not on board within the party. thank you both. a strategy shift for hunter biden. he's now going after the right wing figures who have been using his personal business and legal issues to attack president biden. his attorneys are calling for state and federal agencies to investigate several people they say unlawfully shared contents from his laptop. that includes a computer repair shop owner, rudy giuliani, steve bannon and fox news. let's bring in evan perez and

elie honig. good to see you both. elie has a new book out "untouchable: how powerful people get away with it" i can't wait to read it. evan, what exactly is hunter biden doing here with the shift in strategy? >> reporter: good morning. he's trying to turn the tables on these right wing figures who have really made him a target for the last couple of years, the last four years or so. trying to use some of the contents of this laptop that purportedly he dropped off back in 2019 at this computer repair shop in delaware to essentially use that as an attack -- as a vehicle to attack his father, president biden. he's asking for state and federal officials to launch investigation for not only computer crimes but also for basically violating his privacy. so what we are hearing, though, from his attorney, abbey lowell is a full frontal on all of the

figures including this computer repairman as well as rudy giuliani and others. i'll read you a part of what abbey lowell, his lawyer said in a letter to the attorney general. he said the failed dirty political tricks resulted in the exposure, exploitation and manipulation of mr. biden's private and personal information and allowing for hundreds of gigabytes of mr. biden's personal data to be circulated around the internet. you can tell what this is about is the republican congress that is now using some of the stuff that was found on this laptop, things having to do with his personal business. to try to use these for investigations and tie them to president biden. >> and abbey lowell, a well known attorney within washington who's represented both republicans and democrats. elie, the letter signalled a

change by hunter biden after bringing on the new lawyer to defend him against an onslaught of attacks by republicans. i guess is the question is whether it can be an effectiv strategy? >> yes, some of the things that hunter biden is asking for in his letter may have legal merit. he's asking for two things one he wants a criminal investigation related to the accessing of his information, which can be a federal crime. it's a crime to hack a computer to gain access to somebody's information on the computer without authorization. we'll see if the doj takes that up. the other thing is potential defamation action against people he knows made false and damaging public statements against him. and that could play out in the courts. but ultimately, hunter biden, let's remember, is under a criminal investigation by the justice department for conduct having to do with nothing of either of those things. doj is investigating him for

potential tax crimes and a potential firearms offense. hunter biden may be right in what he's asking for here but it won't defend himself against anything. >> it appears he's admitting the authenticity of this laptop and it belonged to him, which is an interesting point to make. thank you. >> thanks. this afternoon, president biden will meet with the congressional black caucus to talk about police reform, this, of course, in the wake of tyre nichols' death. and learning about potential new charges for the officers involved. new details about three potential mass shootings thwarted this week alone. lapd arresting a man who was pointing a high powered rifle out of his apartment window. and later, the ohio department of education is investigating a home schooling network, amid the assignments, writing hitler quotes in cursive.

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members of the congressional black caucus are headed to the white house today to meet with president biden and vice president harris. and restart the conversation on passing federal police reform legislation. this comes one day after the emotional funeral of tyre nichols. earlier this morning during the national prayer breakfast president biden called for unity and justice for the nichols family. >> tyre nichols and his family and the community of memphis, justice is long overdue. we can't come together to do big things for the country. we can join hands and get things done. >> prosecutors investigating tyre nichols' deadly beating say they plan to release up to 20 more hours of video footage. officials say they haven't ruled out charges over discrepancies in the official police report. ryan young is following this for

us. yesterday memphis was mourning and celebrating the life of the nichols family and mourning with them. today the investigation continues. what more are you learning? >> reporter: we saw that emotion pouring out there at the -- at that church yesterday. you could tell that people were really putting their arms around this family. when you think about the investigation. there are several parts of the investigation going on at the same time, you have the tbi doing their criminal investigation and then you have the police department doing an administrative investigation. and that's because they're looking to see, and to get the da's office involved in this as well. but looking to see what the officers reported in the hours shortly after the beating. when you watch the video and see the things the officers say and the initial police incident report has discrepancies that we're going to notice, they're going to put it together and compile the evidence and get a full picture of what happened and whether or not any officers told lies in the beginning few hours in terms of what they

omitted from the initial police report. listen to the folks yesterday hammering home the fact the need for justice in the george floyd act. >> we demand that congress pass the george floyd justice and policing act. joe biden will sign it. and we should not delay and we will not be denied. it is nonnotegotiable. >> some of us are going to fight until we make this legislation happen. i don't know when, i don't know how, but we won't stop until we hold you accountable and change the system. >> reporter: i think there's an interesting mix here, when we cover these stories, we're not this far into an investigation. you have officers already fired and charged and us talking about additional charges so you see the speed in which the police

department initially moved to make sure things were going in the right process with those officers being fired and the da's office coming in quickly to announce the charges. now as they go through the back half of the investigation you're seeing them pick up steam in terms of the next parts of this and they said there could be more charges for these officers. the community is watching this play out, they like there's been this much transparency so far. we're waiting to see what happens next but at least the five initial charges were serious enough that it gave the community some pause on what was going on, especially after the horrible video we watched. >> and we continue to learn more and more details about the officers' backgrounds and more video is expected to come out as well. ryan young, thank you. could this cell phone video place alex murdaugh at the scene of the crime the night his wife and son were murdered?

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developing this morning, at least three potential mass shootings thwarted by law enforcement across the country this week alone. in los angeles police arrested a man after recovering multiple firearms at a high-rise apartment. police say they seized more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, two assault rivals, several high capacity magazines, scopes and body armor. in washington d.c. police arrested a man accused of shooting and killing a metro

employee wednesday. that employee was trying to stop the gunman after he shot two commuters after an altercation on a bus. and in omaha, nebraska police stopped a man who was carrying an ar-15 rifle inside a target. joining me to discuss is former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. this is the reality we live in. for so long we've talked about the mass shootings throughout the country and obviously that caused many, many americans to lose their lives. that having been said, we don't spend that much time talking about the potential mass shootings that have been thwarted by law enforcement. how important is it to talk about the cases as troubling as they are because they could have been equally as bad? >> it's incredibly important because as you mentioned, it

gives us a look behind what might have happened, but for usually the intervention of law enforcement. i should also say that at a time we seemed to be barraged by stories of law enforcement, misadventures and short comings and in some cases we sort of overlook how incredibly challenging the job is particularly of just officers on patrol every day confronting situations like this, and many, many others. and that is largely because of the unbelievable number of firearms that we have in this country. law enforcement officers by definition are walking into situations like this all the time. just assuming they're going to confront weapons because many are -- or in most cases they do. >> as we saw in monterey park there in california and as we reported today in omaha. it is thanks to brave civilians who confront the ghunman himsel in california a large loss of

life but who knows how many more could have been killed had that brave man not attacked and started to have an altercation with the gunman. do you actually recommend that people confront gunmen in these instances. >> the training for civilians is typically run, hide, fight. that's the levels of response. if you have the opportunity to get away from the shooter, to get away from the situation, you should do that first. if you don't have that opportunity, if you're locked in a building with an active shooter, you should try to conceal yourself and hide from the shooter. but when you are confronted with an armed gunman, someone on the verge of inflicting violence, civilians are actually advised to fight, try to confront that person, get that weapon, it may be your only chance before a lethal encounter. >> so does that mean that you think more americans should have

active shooting training? i hate that i have to ask this question but we've seen training change in schools across the country, is this something that more and more americans should be open to doing? >> you know, as distasteful as it is to try to think -- you know, think down that road a little bit, are we becoming a country everybody has to learn like personal defensive tactics? we start hardening targets like local elementary schools? nobody wants that. but the fact is, we have 120 guns in this country for every person. we have double the number of privately owned weapons in this country than the second highest country on that list. we experience homicides by firearms at a rate 18 times higher than comparative to well developed countries. 20 times higher than eu

countries, 8 times higher than our neighbor north of the border in canada. so the fact is, life in this country, a fact of life in this country has become, understanding that you may find yourself in a situation with a hostile actor who is armed. and so, thinking through those situations and preparing yourself is the responsible thing to do. >> we are ranked up there with countries like venezuela and yemen, clearly nothing to be proud about. andrew mccabe, thank you so much. any moment court will be back in session for day seven of the alex murdaugh murder trial. on wednesday prosecutors played video that say they under cut his alibi his wife and son were murdered. three different voices can be heard in the footage and two family friends testified that one of the voices is alex murdaugh himself. listen.

>> he's got a bird in his mouth. >> bubba. >> hey, bubba. >> it's a -- >> it's a chicken. >> come on. >> whose voices did you recognize on that video? >> paul murdaugh, maggie murdaugh and alex murdaugh. >> how sure are you? >> 100%. >> you recognize paul's voice? >> yes, sir. >> you recognize maggie's voice? >> yes, sir. >> you recognize alex's voice? >> yes, sir. >> 100%? >> yes, sir. >> can't get more confident than saying 100%. a defense attorney is now joining me. misty, alex claims he was never at the kennel tell the of their murder. now you have two witnesses saying under oath that was his voice. how much of a game changer was this?

>> this video was foreshadowed by the prosecution, we knew it was coming and now it's here and we have two witnesses, both are long-time family friends, one of them said he's basically another murdaugh family member. they're 100% identifying the voice is alex murdaugh. so the question becomes what's the prosecutor's time line. according to the prosecutors, the murders happened just about five minutes after alex murdaugh is now at the kennel. pros prosecutors are going to use this to say he's lying, he contrived this alibi, a reason these murders occurred, blaming other people, he's a former prosecutor and this is more evidence he is lying and he was there minutes before the deaths occurred. >> what does this mean for his alibi and what does his defense team do now? >> we saw it on cross-examination, it's telling. the defense is saying did you

have any indication that alex murdaugh would do anything violent to his family? we have the other video that shows a nice moment between father and son from earlier in the evening. the defense is going to say his demeanor, this is not a guy who brutally murders his family minutes later. and they're going to focus on the two perpetrator theory. they have a theory there was not enough time for alex murdaugh to use two different weapons to murder maggie and paul. so now prosecutors have it narrow down to about 8 seconds where the deaths occurred. this is based on cell phone activity and lack of activity. the defense is going to take it, flip it on its head and say eight seconds wasn't enough time for him to commit the crimes alone. so we're going to see more on that two-person alternative theory of the case. >> you mentioned cell phones and maggie and alex's phone logs were introduced as evidence yesterday. maggie's showed several missed

calls and texts from alex. and alex's show there were no calls and texts made. how does that compute? could he have manually deleted those calls and that text? >> that's what the witness said, there's no other way these five calls in this critical time period, this is between 8:00 and 9:00 when the murders occurred. there's no other way for them to disappear from the phone. there's not overwriting data, they had to have been deleted. the defense is going to say something that i think is interesting in this case, that this is june 7th, the day the murders occur. the phone isn't taken under the warrant until september. that is a long time. and the witness on the stand in cross-examination said, i don't know who or when deleted these messages -- or excuse me, these phone calls. so that's going to be how the defense uses that to say this

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the u.s. is endangering regional pe peace. the u.s. striking a deal with the philippines to access four more bases on the country. the goal to gain an advantage in the fight over the south china sea close to taiwan. joining me is seth moulton, appointed to sit on the newly formed select committee on china. great to have you on. on the one hand this move reassures regional allies that the u.s. has its back as china is more aggressive in the south china sea. on the other hand it's coming as there are increased concerns about conflict between the two countries. an air force general noted he fears war could happen within the next year or two, that's not the official line of the u.s. military, but it is stunning. my question to you is, does this

deal now with philippines is it a sign that the u.s. is perhaps preparing for some kind of conflict? >> it's a sign we're taking the threat of chinese aggression seriously. as someone who has done four combat tours in iraq. i know in a very personal way that we must avoid war with china. a war with china would be brutal. and the key to preventing war with china is to show xi jinping and the chinese communist party if they start a war, they will lose. a key part of our strategy to make sure they lose any such war is the relationship with the allies. you can see how important the allies have been in the ukraine war in europe p. our allies in the pacific need strengthening. i led a bipartisan congressional delegation to the philippines in october and one of the conclusions was we need to do more to shore up our alliance

with the philippines. that's what's happening today so the biden administration deserves credit for the deal. >> there's the military aspect in the deal, but there's also an economic and national security conflict that's brewing as well. and i want to get you to respond to what democratic senator michael bennett of colorado said. he's calling on apple and google to remove tiktok from the app stores calling it an unacceptable threat to the national security of the united states. now previously we had seen tiktok removed from certain government devices, right, but this is a completely larger, separate move. do you agree with that? do you agree with that call it is a national security threat? >> look, this is controversial because a lot of americans like tiktok. but at the end of the day, it is a threat to our national security. let me speak for a second as a dad. i don't want an app that steals my daughter's data and influences their behavior on their phones.

they're too young to have phones right now but they'll get phones some day soon and i don't want a chinese company stealing their data. that's exactly what tiktok does. so it is a threat. not just to our national security at large but frankly to american families. >> do you think that apple and google should heed those warning and remove tiktok from their app stores? >> one of the things we'll discuss on the china committee is how to respond in a comprehensive way to all these national security threats. some of which come in the form of missiles pointed at taiwan, some of which come in the form of apps that show up on the app stores on our phones. and we're going to have to develop a comprehensive strategy because maybe we should ban tiktok but what happens to the next tiktok that comes along. these actions that senator bennett is calling for on tiktok specifically, they probably make sense. but let's make sure we have a comprehensive policy so the next app gets dealt with as well.

>> let me ask you to respond quickly to what ray dalio said this morning about china. he said we are at the brink of economic war with the country. is he right? >> look, there's certainly a risk of that. but you also have to remember that our economies are incredibly intertwined we depend on the chinese market, on chinese suppliers and they depend on us. what the biden administration has been trying to do is take a targeted approach. not completely shutoff commerce with china but say if you're buying things that can be used against us militarity, you're not going to do that anymore. that's the kind of approach we need to take. the challenge, of course, is extending to things like the apps on your phone, like tiktok, that's complicated but that's the issue we're going to examine on the china select committee. >> we are intertwined but no one expected the two to decouple as quickly as we have. congressman seth moulton, great

to see you, thanks so much. >> good to see you. still ahead, a home schooling network with more than 3,000 subscribers is now under investigation in ohio. this after reports that white supremacists material was included in the crumurriculum b can the state actually put a stop to it? we'll look into it straight ahead.

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and online home schooling network is now under investigation in ohio after the parents reportedly shared racist and white supremist information. one of the homework assignments shared quotes from adolf hitler. so, this is beyond disgusting, omar, and the question is if the state officials can do anything about it? >> that is the question, because one official told me that the state of ohio is reviewing compliance with the regulatory and statutory requirements, but it is not clear what they can do about it, because they don't control the curriculum when it is coming to home schooling. this is a group believed to

operate out of upper sandusky, ohio, and you talk about the information, they are not shy about it. they will teach handwriting, but they use hitler quotes to teach it. and there is one that they incite negros of referring to say that what is emboldened is what they teach elementary children with saying it is up to us to ensure our children know dr. martin luther king is do not

teach our children this. and so the parents are responsible for choosing the curriculum, and this is not endorsed by the district, but the group has more than 3,000 subscribers and climbing. vi reached out to the group's creators and i have not gotten a response here, but it is obviously something that the state is paying attention to. >> it is raising the question that i am sure that most home schooling, right, it is at the level, and they are teaching the appropriate curriculum, but it is begging the question of how many other programs are out there? >> yes, this is one that is connected through a social messaging platform, and clearly i was talking to one teacher who is a union professional and said this is not clearly representative of all home schooling environments, but it is inherent schools without oversight and accountability. >> that is what it is coming

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top of the hour. good morning, everybody. i'm bianna golodryga. a missile strikes in ukraine and this time targeting the city of kramatorsk, and they were trying to carry out a missile strike when they hit a rescue center. we will take you there in a moment. now, chinese