well, the stage is now set for a potential presidential rematch. president biden has officially launched his re-election bid. he says the battle for the nation's soul as he's described it is not over, and he's ready to take on so-called maga extremists. and a new threat in war torn sudan. one of the warring factions seizing a laboratory in khartoum. samples of polio, measles, and cho cholera potentially exposed. and officials are warning a germ

bomb could be released on the already devastated capital city. and parts of the midwest could see the worst flooding in 20 years here in the coming days. earlier than expected snow melt is pushing the mississippi river closer to cresting in parts of iowa, minnesota, and wisconsin. what this means for some of the major crops that americans depend on from those areas. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. four years to the day after he launched his 2020 presidential campaign president biden announced his bid for 2024. >> four more years! >> his re-election message got a warm reception at his first

public appearance today before the national association of building trade unions. he repeated the message in his campaign launch warning that the opposition is going after, quote, bedrock freedoms. >> the threat the maga republicans pose is to take us to a place we've never been and where the last guy tried to take us. and look how hard we had to fight to prevail and project labor agreement, health care. my god, we had to fight like hell. >> let's discuss now with cnn's dana bash who of course co-anchors "state of the union" sunday mornings. he did this by video. what struck me you have two messages here. one he wants to run on his accomplishments during his first term, legislation, et cetera including on environmental legislation, but he's also

repeating part of that message of the cause of 2020 which is that we're fighting for the nation's soul against, well, trump and maga republican extremists. >> he's going to the fundamentals that spurred him into office. it was a lot easier for him to make that argument when he was actually definitely running against donald trump. if the election were taken today, the primary election it looks like if the polls were right, that would happen. but we're very early in the republican nominating process. so i did think that what you just mentioned, those are very interesting points about his video. the other was he has spent the last, you know, several years, his presidency up until now trying to make the case for government working for you, for the american people, and that is kind of a cornerstone of the democratic party. but at least the beginning of

his video is i want to keep your freedoms and it was almost taking the conservative mantra and trying to re-claim it. >> it's a great point and struck me, too because i was like wait a second, what's the message? that's a message i'm used to hearing from desantis and trump. he connected crucially to women's reproductive rights, for instance. >> women's reproductive rights, what you can read, the book banning particularly for students, talking about lgbtq rights, things along those lines. and, yes, sort of the content and the substance of each of those veer towards the democratic philosophy, but the notion of how those -- those rights should be out there for people, it is more -- if you say live and let live, that is a lot of what republicans in theory believe. >> for sure and we'll see how it plays out. it does strike me it wasn't long ago before the mid-term elections where there was this building mostly in private, deep

skepticism and beyond skepticism about him running again. more like, well, eventually he's going to come around to the idea really hahe's too old for this, that kind of thing. that changed of course dramatically you might say because the party seems to be behind him now. not voters, by the way, because that's not clear but party leaders, voters who want to challenge him otherwise. >> you had ro khanna on earlier. he was a big supporter during the democratic process, and people who you might think quietly consider explore challenging him never got there at all, didn't even take those steps because he is an incumbent president and because they realize that it tends to divide the party. it has happened before. ted kennedy against jimmy carter. there have been other instances, but in this case because they

all feel that the record that he has is very good to run on, then they're just going to have to talk around or talk up -- address somehow the issue that is giving voters pause even democratic voters which is something he can't change, which is his age. >> let's, by the way, note the are contrast with the republican party. grant as you say it's early and trump is leading and his own vice president is running against him, if you compare the relative unity between the two at this point. >> almost running. >> dana bash, thank you so much as always. we're going to be talking about this more than once coming up. the republican party has officially responded to biden's campaign announcement sort of. the rnc has already released an attack ad slamming the idea of four more years of biden. but the catch, the video which you see here, was generated by artificial intelligence. that's right even political spin doctors now have to worry about bots taking their jobs.

let's discuss with the host of cnn's night cap, john sarlan. for all of the hype about this being ai do you really see something that different from a typical attack ad? >> well, as long as there have been photos and videos, campaigns have been using deceptive photos and videos. what's different here is that it's ai, this technology that is rapidly improving is approaching a point where images generated using ai are becoming increasingly difficult to discern from real images. so the rnc put this ad out on the heel of joe biden's re-election announcement, and it paints a dystopian world if he were to be re-elected. >> this morning an emboldened china invades taiwan. >> financial markets are in free fall as 500 regional banks have shuttered their doors. >> border agents were overrun by a surge of 80,000 illegals yesterday evening.

>> closed the city of san francisco this morning citing the escalating crime and fentanyl crisis. >> so those images were generated with ai. they're completely fake images, and yes the rnc could have used photo shop and other photos, but it used this ai technology that is now spreading images that are close to real. and so right now this is the beginning of ai being used in political campaigns. >> is there anything governing the use of this? >> so election officials i talk to said pretty much not. political campaigns are allowed to lie. that is protected speech. they can be held responsible for libel, but that's a really high bar. so when you start to think about what these ai technologies mean in the hands of people with a political agenda it means two things. to quote steve bannon you can flood the zone with b.s. fake images can spread rapidly which

has the inverse effect of degrading real images and real audio which now has to compete with those fake images can i be dismissed as fakes themselves. the rnc said this was yea generated. the question is, though, will the next one? >> will the next one and the next one, no doubt. john sarlin, thank you. boris? in sudan right now a three-day cease-fire is shaking. there have been reports of gunfire and fighter jets have been seen around the capital of khartoum. each side says the other is to blame for breaking the truce. at least 460 people have been killed in clashes and thousands have been injured as demonstrators take to the streets to protest the violence, some sudanese say the desperation is starting oo set in as food and fresh-water is running out. we're also seeing pictures of rescued u.s. diplomatic staff arriving at the u.s. base in juputy. that's where we find cnn's sam kylie live for us. sam, the u.s. is sending two warships to port sudan.

what can you tell us about that? what is their mission? >> reporter: well, their mission is a contingency really, boris. they in combination with a large amount of air assets, drones and the like that the americans have put up in order to maintain an understanding of what's happening on the ground may be used going forward as part of a ground move potentially if there is a lot of pressure from american citizens in particular to get out of the country, they could be guided to safety potentially to port sudan. port sudan is a location already being used for evacuations. a french frigate docked today with the aim of taking out 500. a ship left yesterday with several onboard. so it does function. the french warship is taking out 500 people that did participate in a convoy organized by the united nations from khartoum to port sudan. the problem is that in the view of the americans the situation

on the ground means their advice to american citizens is to hide in place, in contrast, for example, to the british who think there might be a slight reduction in the violence which could potentially allow what is planned to be two rotations of aircraft going into khartoum's twin city to its west to try to bring out british citizens. but that's a military airlift. you can't lift out the number that may really have to be rescued if this cease-fire breaks down, boris. >> as it likely will as we've seen. none of them have held thus far. we want to go to cnn correspondent elizabeth cohen, because besides everything sam just reported a high ranking tells cnn a paramilitary group has tagen over his health lab in khartoum and they're warning about the possibility of a, quote, germ bomb. what do you make of all of this?

>> you know, i think there are a lot of ifs here. so what this source is saying is that this paramilitary group is in the lab. the lab like all public health labs, you know, around the world, many public health labs keep specimens of various germs. so we are told that this one could have cholera, polio, measles. it is obviously not good if this has happened, but i want to put this into perspective. there is quite a bit of measles and cholera out there already in the world. in other words, these three things are not new. it's not like those three things would be unleashed into the world for the first time. there's also actually a fair amount of polio as well in the west -- in, you know, highly vaccinated countries the vast majority of people are vaccinated against those. the real risk if -- and again, i'm using the word if here. if something bad were to happen on purpose or by accident, you know, the people who would be most at risk would be people who are in that immediate area especially since you don't always have very high vaccination rates in that area.

let us take a look. you mentioned the germ bomb. so this is from cnn's medical source, what they say is that the danger lies in the outbreak of any armed confrontation in the laboratory because that will turn the laboratory into a germ bomb. an urgent and rapid international intervention is required to restore electricity and secure the laboratory from any armed confrontation because we are facing a real biological danger. now, again, we don't know really how much danger this present. that remains to be seen because there are so many ifs here. boris? >> elizabeth cohen, thank you so much for that eye opening report. jim? coming up, new updates on that close friend of supreme court justice clarence thomas, the one who paid for lavish trips for the justice and his wife. turns out he did have business before the supreme court at the time, what we're learning about that case. and flood waters have just

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happened. he has said that carroll is, quote, not my type. we have cnn legal analyst laura coates joining us now. she's a former federal prosecutor. this is a really interesting case because so much time has passed. how tough is it to win a case like this after so much time? >> well, remember this is a case that was kind of revived with the new york legislation that said cases that are way past the limitations period can still now bring some sort of suit. this is based on battery and defamation. the defamation cases notoriously are difficult because you have to prove that there was some reason that you know the person was lying or they had some knowledge of the truth and acted against it. if you're actually the person who's alleged to have engaged in this behavior, she alleges rape, then defamation is a little bit easier to prove if you can show maybe you told someone close in time. one reason so interesting, briana, the people who will testify in this trial who by the way might not be trump is she

told two women allegedly contemporaneously what happened. that's important because all the time that went by you're going to have to corroborate her statements, showing that somehow it is the precise story that was told all those years ago and now. >> so what is at stake for trump because we've heard her allegations, right? she's written a book. we've heard them. what else is at stake for trump here? >> well, first of all we're about a block away from where he was arraigned two weeks ago in a case not like this one but in a case very consequential as well. so the idea here what's at stake is just a culmination of other cases. however, this is a civil prosecution. he need not even appear. that might surprise some people. you don't have to actually show up, but he has shown up for a deposition. and those statements he said then could ultimately come in. and if you're e. jean carroll's attorneys knowing, number one, perhaps the unpredictability of a current in-person testimony and a witness, you want to rely

on what's already down in black and white on a piece of paper through a transcript. so him not testifying might ultimately be to the benefit of e. jean carroll, but then again the amount of time that has elapsed. some of the jurors were asked the question how they viewed the me too movement more broadly and some who said they had strong emotions regarding it were dismissed. this is going to be in the backdrop the big elephant in the room, the time passed, the me too movement, the politic of all of this and of course e. jean carroll himself. >> and what kind of circumstances will you maybe see trump testify under. >> they'll have an opportunity to call him as a defense witness if they'd like to, which means they get the whole benefit of the entire plaintiff's case. if they come in with something they feel something consequential to say something to clarify and not expose the pandora's box he might do so.

but again this is civil. he hasn't faced a criminal penalty. we're talking about money. >> money very important to trump, though. >> we'll see. >> all right, laura, thank you so much. jim? more about money. we have new developments in a story we first brought you earlier this month involving supreme court justice clarence thomas and a gop megadonor who paid for lavish trips and stays for justice thomas and his wife. the justice never disclosed those gifts and today we learned a company tied to the same donor did in fact have a case before the supreme court. justice thomas crucially did not recuse himself from that case before the court. cnn's supreme court justice reporter -- supreme court reporter arian joins me now. this is key, right, because the revelations were enough getting all these gifts and we're talking about a whole lot of money in terms of value. but now there was a case before the court and he didn't recuse himself.

what are the consequences? >> right, so this all dates back to that propublica story, the mega-gop donor harlan crow, i gave these lavish gifts, this travel to justice clarence thomas. clarence thomas didn't disclose it, and at the time you and i talked about it he issued a state, right? and in the statement he basically said, look -- here it is early in my tenure at the court i sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and he basically made the point that he was advised this sort of personal hospitality from a close, personal friend who did not have business before the court was not reportable. >> that's notable. >> that's the key point that did not have business before the court, because now we learned in fact a company with close links to crow did have business before the court. >> what was the case? >> so it wasn't a big case. it was a firm that was trying to sue this company. it want today go to the supreme court. it wanted the supreme court to take up the appeal.

the supreme court didn't take up the appeal. but you didn't see any notification that he, thomas, had recused himself in any way. >> so let me ask a question because part of his defense at the time was that the rules changed. and this is true. they've become stricter. >> right. >> since this happened, since those first trips took place in terms of reporting. but i don't think -- tell me, did recusal rules change during that time period, or have they always been the same? >> wem, that's the thing. it brings us to the bigger question here. and that is that the supreme court does not have an ethics code that is directed directly at the justices, right? and that's what this story today brings up, the relationship between the two men and this larger question about ethics before the court. >> other lower court judges do, supreme court does not. >> yep. >> there are a lot of questions around the vote. thanks so much for staying on

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right now there is major flooding happening across the upper midwest. near record snowfall is now melting and causing the mississippi river to slowly crest. you can see here the rising water creeping up against homes and businesses in wabasha, minnesota. that's about 90 miles southwest of indianapolis. and in iowa the rising water rising so rapidly in some areas the governor there issuing a disaster disaster proclamation for at least ten counties. chad, this is flooding because of snow melting, and it is going to be very, very widespread across the floodplain. >> that's right. and the water is really spreading out now. we're talk not talking about the record flooding we had in fargo years ago where we were up to the second floor in downtown. that's not happening, but this is low land farmland and even into the lower river towns they are now getting flooded.

flood warnings all the way from minneapolis even down to st. louis. let's get to it. this is where we are at this point. we are seeing the rain come down in some spots, and we are seeing some water rise in others. everywhere you see a purple spot that is where the river is in major flood stage. and it's still rising in some spots and going down in others. the farther you get to the north, it's starting to go down. red river of the north actually goes the other direction. it goes into canada where the water you see here that's now all these big numbers here, major river stages here across parts of the mississippi river now back even into 400 miles long of that flash flooding. and it's river flooding so it's not coming up really quickly, but people just see -- they can stand in their yards and they go here it comes, and then two days later it's a little bit closer and a little bit closer and a little bit closer. and we are still seeing the snow melt. there was a lot of snow up here. if you were just to the south of this white line, that's what's

going to drain back into the mississippi, if you're north over here that's going to go into lake superior and that's going to take that up into canada, flooding in all those places. here is where the radar -- the river gauge now beginning to show that the water still going up in places but beginning to come down in others. what the minnesota governor just talked about is what we don't want now is rain. there's some scattered rain, one inch or so, but so far so good. don't melt that any fastwer the rain and don't make it go up any faster as the water runs off, boris. >> we'll make sure to ask the weather gods to slow down on that rainfall and slow down on the snow melt. chad myers in the weather center, thank you so much. a new study finds the planet will see more record heat waves as it warms, and the dangerous temperatures will devastate countries that are least prepared to handle it. we have cnn's chief climate correspondent bill weir on this story. walk us through the places that are most at risk and why. >> well, let me set the baseline

for you first, brianna, if you remember summer of 2021 in western canada, this very temperate moderately zoned little town saw temperatures of 50 degrees celsius, 1221 degre fahrenheit for several daych the whole town burn down because of that. that was considered a statistically implausible temperature there. scientists looked at projections and laid out this map here that shows where this could possibly happen again, what placeerize most vulnerable to being caught by surprise by some devastating heat wave like this that just shatters records. the reddest spots you see in central america that could have a real impact on migration in north america. we've seen that historically. parts of germany are bright red, afghanistan given their vulnerabilities after years of war make them vulnerable. beijing, china, is in a high risk area.

250 million people living there. but even in places where there's not anyone living like in siberia up on the east coast of canada there, that's a methane bomb. if the heat wave melts the permafrost there that means a heat wave for everybody heating up the planet. but this is looking at the most vulnerable spots. >> and are these areas we're looking at or where are those? >> it just means sort of the green or vast majority of the planet has a moderate risk of this happening. heat waves that wouldn't have happened in a century are happening in less time than that. so they're calling for leaders to prepare accordingly. you kind of have to prepare for a heat emergency you can't even imagine in some temperate zones. that means cooling centers, that means thinking about maximum work hours. and some of these temperatures we're seeing more and more of the human body can't tolerate them for more than an hour at a time. so this has an effect on both

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as russia's brutal war leaves much of ukraine in ruins the u.s. and the european union insists the economic sanctions on moscow are working, but they clearly are not stopping the ex-wife of russia's deputy defense minister from living the highlife in france and across europe. cnn's clarissa ward has more on how she's getting away with it. >> reporter: she's a woman of expensive taste. diamonds and couture, extravagant parties and european vacations. just last month she was seen shopping and dancing in the

elite french ski resort. but she's no ordinary russian socialite. she's the other half of russia's deputy minister of defense. one of the most senior architects of russia's invasion of ukraine. and according to a shocking investigation she continues to galvent around france more than a year into russia's bloody war despite the fact that he was sanctioned by the eu in october. the explosive report put out by the anti-corruption foundation, an investigative outfit founded by russia's jailed opposition leader alexei navalny, is based they say on a leaked archive of more than 8,000 of the e-mails over the last 12 years and has racked up more than 6 million views on youtube. it claims that on march 25th,

2022, as dozens of missiles rained down on the ukrainian city of kharkov, she spent more than $100,000 in a top paris jewelry store. how is it possible that she can continue to do this? >> it's a very simple trick that they play. number one she has an israeli passport through her first husband, and second of all six months into the war they have filed for divorce. they haven't split any assets. nothing has changed in terms of like, you know, daily life. whatever they owned they keep owning to get there, but technically they're not legally married anymore. >> equally shock rg the opulent lifestyle and the lavish spending that the leaked e-mails document. according to russian business publication rbc. ivanov's official income was

declared to be more than 2.2 million rubles a year, less than $175,000, yet navalny's report calculated the couple spent more than a quarter of a million dollars in just one summer. cnn has not been able to independently verify those numbers. how is he funding this lifestyle? >> well, the answer is corruption, corruption and specifically kickbacks. >> reporter: according to the russian government he oversees construction for russia's ministry of defense including what the anti-corruption foundation describes as lucrative contracts to rebuild the ukrainian city of mare yoepal which fell to russian forces under punishing bombardment last may. >> the russian forces have destroyed, demolished 70% of the apartment blocks in town. they had to build new one and they did. so that company that built displayhouses in mariupol were

the same that paid his bills. >> reporter: putin toured the construction project last month. a request for comment on the investigation from the russian ministry of defense received no reply. in france, though, the pressure may be mounting. on sunday afternoon the anti-corruption foundation organized a small protest outside the paris apartment it claims she still rents demanding to know how she's allowed to spend the profits of russia's war in the heart of france, a question so far without any satisfactory answer. cnn has reached out to the french foreign minister who responded saying we do not comment on individual situations. france with its eu partners has ended visa facilitation for russian citizens and has also adoped targeted individual sanctions against 1,499 russian

officials and their supporters. we attempted to reach out to her sending her an e-mail, but as of yet we've not received a reply. clarissa ward, cnn, london. >> clarissa, thank you. boris? now to some of the other headlines we're following at this hour. new court filings by prince harry's attorneys claim that his brother, prince william, was paid a very large sum by rupert murdoch's british newspaper group to settle phone hacking claims. harry himself is suing murdoch's company alleging its tabloid hacked into his voice mails and deceptively obtained private information. also the fda has brand new guidelines that say it's okay to bring your dog to a restaurant's outdoor seating area if state and local laws and the restaurant allow it. dogs still are not allowed indoors or anywhere food is prepared unless of course it's a service dog. and today matell introduced

its first ever version of the barbie doll representing a person with down syndrome. she's part of the barbie's fashionista line is that designed to fight the stigma. missouri is now the latest state to restrict medically necessary procedures for transgender people. the republican attorney general there announced an emergency rule limiting gender affirming care. it is expected to take effect on thursday, but now advocacy groups are suing to block it creating another standoff on an issue that state republicans have latched onto in recent month. cnn will be talking to the missouri secretary of state next on "the lead." . it's part of a pattern we're seeing in republican controlled state legislatures. what is the defense of this policy? >> listen, it is a hot button very divisive issue, transgender and gender affirming care in

particular across the nation. but as you mention, jim, specifically in republican controlled states including missouri. and what's interesting is though you have republicans in control of the legislature there you are seeing some division among the attorney general in particular who's pushing through this law that would really restrict access for some of the gender affirming care for our viewers. that includes puberty blockers, hormone therapies and gender surgeries requiring years of evidence to submit that you are actually going through gender dysphoria and 15 hours of consecutive therapy over 18 months before receiving any of that care. now, the secretary of state jay ashcroft says that's a bit too far because this law would ban it applying it to both children and adults. and the secretary of state says going after adults is a bit too far. perhaps legally, morally he may agree with this law, but he says legally he doesn't think it will get very far.

>> good to see you on "the lead." thanks so much. one of the surviving roommates of that multiple stabbing in idaho is being asked by the suspect's attorneys to testify in an upcoming h hearin. we'll tell you why next.

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jean is covering this story for us. how unusual a move is this, jean? >> reporter: this is very unusual. to have a witness for the defense, someone the defense is saying we want them to testify at the preliminary hearing. remember this roommate we haven't heard from at all, in the probable cause affidavit we heard about the other roommate she bumped into someone all in black, walked toward her, she froze, he turned around and he left. but this is the roommate who was on the first floor, who we never heard anything from and still haven't. but the magistrate judge who is going to be presiding at the preliminary hearing of brian kohberger at the end of june has sent an order to nevada, where she lives, ordering her to come to idaho that week of the

preliminary hearing to testify for the defense as a defense witness. now the judge said that she bases the information on her belief from what she has learned ex parte, so only from kohberger's defense team that she may be a material witness and also the affidavit of the defense private investigator who said that yes, bethenny frank spoke with investigators, she was at the house when law enforcement arrived but he goes on to say, listen to, quote, during the course of my investigation it became known to me that bethenny funk has information material to the charges against mr. kohberger. portions of information ms. funk has is exculpatory to the defense. her information is unique to her experiences and cannot be provided by another witness. her side wants to quash it saying there should be a hearing

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