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f the debt limit isn't raised or suspended. that's a new really serious warning from the treasury secretary janet yellen. we did learn house speaker kevin mccarthy agreed to go to the white house and meet with the president next week. hollywood writers now on strike. it's the first time they have done so in 15 years. production will be delayed on some of your favorite television shows. for more you on that. also, at least six people are dead after a huge pileup on i-55 on central illinois. more than 70 vehicles crashed due to low visibility from a dust storm. also new this morning, the surgeon general has a plan to tackle america's epidemic of loneliness and isolation. his six-pillar approach to build our social connections. that's ahead. and serena williams, great news, pregnant with baby number two. the tennis superstar made the reveal during last night's met gala. "cnn this morning" starts right now.

♪ so i'm so excited about the serena williams news. >> i know. >> for so many reasons. do you remember when she went on the cover of vogue with the first baby and that amazing article and how open she's been. >> she talked how she would love to continue playing but the physical aspect of growing their family and the toll it took on her and what women have to go through that men don't. it was interesting and candid perspective. >> and for her husband through this all has been so candid, not only so supportive, the important role of fathers in all of this. just like i'm very excited and she looks amazing. >> it was a cool moment during the met gala. everyone is looking at outfits. >> she put out something like the three of us are excited to come. it's very exciting. so very serious news, we are 30 days, less than a month away, from economic calamity if congress does not act to raise the debt ceiling. that's a new and dire warning

from the treasury secretary janet yellen in this new letter to lawmakers. she predicts the government could run out of money to pay bills on june 1st. yellen writes not raising the debt limit would cause harm our global leadership position, raise questions about our ability to defend our national security interests. new this morning, we just learned that house speaker kevin mccarthy has accepted president biden's invitation to meet at the white house on tuesday. both sides still refusing to budge so far in this standoff. speaker mccarthy is demanding spending cuts to gut biden's agenda. the president wants the house to speak a clean debt ceiling bill, without any conditions just like we saw under president trump. time is running out quickly if either side blinks, we could be looking at not only another recession but a global economic crisis. millions of americans could start losing their jobs, benefits and financial security. christine romans will break down the real world impact of a

default in just a moment. but let's begin with the politics, melanie. the news a standstill, but mccarthy is going to meet with biden. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. all four congressional leaders have been invited to the white house. we just learned kevin mccarthy has accepted that meeting. this is a high-stakes moment. they have not sat down together since february 1st. this is quite a bit of movement. at least the most movement we have seen in a couple months between both those sides. despite the fact we learned yesterday the united states could default on its debt as soon as june 1st, both sides are doubling down on their positions. democrats are saying this just shows the urgency of passing a clean debt ceiling hike and we don't have the luxury of time to do anything else. republicans, meanwhile, some are questioning whether that date is even real and also saying this just shows the importance of actually sitting down and beginning negotiations. take a listen. >> they're saying they're going to default on the debt.

>> reporter: so should you find a middle ground? >> a deal with spending cuts tied to debt ceiling increase. >> i think it's a big mistake. >> this deal has to be between biden and mccarthy. or their respective teams because it's just -- there's no other way that something gets 60 votes in the senate. >> reporter: now senate majority leader chuck schumer has taken some early procedural steps to hold a vote on a clean debt ceiling hike. they could also vote on the house passed gop debt ceiling bill which includes a number of spending cuts. but the fact that the only action so far potentially scheduled in the senate are two bills that have no chance of becoming law really just shows how far apart the two sides are. all eyes are on this upcoming meeting. remember, congress only has a few weeks before -- that they are in session before that june 1st date. so the time is ticking. and they are nowhere closer to a deal, poppy. >> at least they're sitting

down, right? baby steps. melanie zanona, thank you. this is not just drama happening in washington on capitol hill. this is a default that could impact you, impact your wallet, our chief business correspondent christine romans is here. >> good morning. >> we're in full-blown crisis mode. we reached the extraordinary measures they were using to move money around and now we have this new warning from yellen that because of the tax they got, what that look like june 1 is the deadline. >> the deadline has really passed. it was january 19th. that's when we hit the debt ceiling. already they have been delaying investments so they have enough money to pay all the bills. and what yellen is saying is that by june 1st, there won't be enough money to pay everything. so what happens? well, goldman sachs estimate tenth of economy just stops. when you're not able to borrow more money to continue to pay. so then what happens? well, for sure you go into recession. that would happen pretty quickly. risk social security, medicare. you would maybe give ious to

senior citizens. you're not going to get a direct deposit in your month this month, but maybe next month we have money to pay you. >> a lot of people, that's all they get every month. >> veterans benefits and all of the big contractors that work for the american government who then wouldn't be paid. so, maybe you would have furloughs for the federal government workers. no doubt a stock market that would fall here. borrowing costs would increase, which ironically would make it more expensive to service the debt they're fighting about. that would be one of those outlooks. you would have 401(k)s plummet, jump in unemployment. look, it's all just really bad stuff. and there's a lot of debate about whether june 1st is the number. maybe you could go two or three more days. this is a discussion that in the united states of america, the fact that we're even having this discussion is completely ludicrous. these are bills we have already paid. congress has already authorized. they're fighting about future spending. put the politics aside. if they don't get this figured

out quickly, this is american living standards that will be smaller. i'll say that again. american living standards will go back in time if they can't figure this out. >> the thing is now they're saying next week, may 9th, a week from today we will go and sit down and meet but they haven't started having these discussions about what this is looking like. seems like that letter from yellen hardened everyone's positions. if you have a home loan, what will that do? >> higher rates across the board. we have already had higher rates. but the cost to borrow would get more expensive because of this treasury crisis. treasuries are the cornerstone. our borrowing is the cornerstone of the financial system, right? you would see dollar tumble, emerging markets that could go into crisis. and -- one way you can look at that is typical home loan in the united states, $130,000 to the cost of financing a typical home loan. that's one real world example. all are very bad examples. we lived through this in 2011 and they raised the debt ceiling

in 2011 after going right to the wire and still we lost our credit rating and still stock markets fell and still we added billions of dollars to the cost of financing our debt. >> just being on the brink itself. it says something that mckag thi is in israel, this is the main thing he is being asked about. real impacts. we'll track all of them here this morning. of course they're very concerning. later this hour, we'll be joined in studio by ro khanna, what she thinks could and should be done soon to avoid an default. a texas sheriff's office released this wanted poster. hundreds of officers and agents are looking for francisco oropesa. he's armed, dangerous and on the run. he's accused of opening fire on his neighbors after a father asked him to stop shooting a gun at night in his front yard because his baby was trying to sleep. a law enforcement source tells officers are on the lookout near the southern border in case he tries to escape to mexico. he is a mexican national.

he has been deported four times after entering the united states illegally. ed lavandera is following this story in cleveland, texas. ed, that was a really stunning development in the last 24 hours. four times over two decades they have deported him and he has come back. >> reporter: right. it's the kind of details, poppy, can complicate investigations like this because investigators here know that the very likelihood of depending on undocumented immigrants here in the united states could be the very segment of people that help them also capture this suspect. so, clearly i think investigators behind the scenes are interested in keeping those lines of communication. there's obviously a great deal of nervousness among that population in the u.s. about coming forward and offering information to law enforcement. so that's one of those undercurrents that's playing in this story. but so far, this has been a slow-moving investigation in terms of being able to find the

suspect. it's now been more than 72 hours since francisco oropesa is suspected of entering the house you see behind me and killing five people in an argument that erupted here on friday night. so, it's not exactly clear where this suspect might be. investigators were very quiet about what has been unfolding. they do not speak with reporters yesterday. the last time we spoke officially with investigators here, poppy, they said that they believe the suspect could be anywhere. so not exactly clear if he's still in the area and hasn't been able to get away. or, as you mentioned, the alerts going out between here and the u.s. southern border because this suspect is a mexican national. so there is that concern that he might try to slip back south of the border in hopes of being able to escape the law here. but we'll see how this plays out in the coming days. >> reporter: wow. ed lachb dar ra, thanks so much. new overnight, hollywood writers headed for the picket

line. they're on strike for the first time in 15 years. saying they're not being paid fairly for their work. the board of directors for the writer's guild of america tweeted they voted unanimously to call a strike effective this morning. walk-out means some of your favorite tv shows could come to a grinding halt including late night television as they're expected to start airing reruns tonight. >> everybody including myself hopes both sides reach a deal. but i also think that the writer's demands are not unreasonable. i'm a member of the guild. i support collective bargaining. this nation owes so much to unions. they're the reason -- [ cheers and applause ]. this is true. unions are the reason we have weekends. and by extension, why we have tgi fridays. >> we're seeing a lot of the late night hosts make jokes. vanessa yurkevich is in

manhattan where stephen colbert does his late night show. we have been talking about this and seeing this pitting these tv and screen writers against the major studios. what are the major sticking points that led to this strike? >> reporter: well, as you mentioned, it's going to be re-runs of late night tv. this is going to impact soap operas. this is going to impact "saturday night live." it's going to impact the production of tv shows and movies. but the writer's guild of america says that the proposal that was offered by the studios was wholly insufficient. now the studios saying they offered a very aggressive compensation package. they increased residuals on streaming, which was a key sticking point, but ultimately the studio said they could not budge anymore because of the requests from the writers guild to increase the size of the writer's room and commit writers to production for a certain period of time whether or not the writers were needed on that

production. so, ultimately no deal last night. that's why we're going to see 11,000 writers strike today. later today we should see some people on the picket lines with signs. but the studios, who are represented by the alliance of motion picture and television producers, are streamers and media companies, like disney, apple, amazon, including cnn's parent company warner brothers discovery. and these companies have had to make cost-cutting measures recently. they've also gone through layoffs. but on the other hand, you have the writers who say they can't support themselves on writing alone because of this massive shift from broadcast to streaming, especially over the pandemic. the last strike we saw was in 2007. that lasted 100 days. and the economic impact was aggressive. we saw that $2 billion in economic losses over the course of those 100 days.

adjusted for inflation, that's about 3 billion today. you know, we'll see how this plays out. it could be a couple days. it could stretch months. it's unclear. but today a strike is happening. >> yeah. of course, if it stretches months, it goes into the production of the shows everyone loves to watch. not just late night. keep us updated as you're watching the strike start today. thank you so much. also ahead, florida governor ron desantis has signed a new death penalty bill into law that could set up a supreme court showdown. we'll also take you live to illinois where at least six people are dead after a huge, fiery pileup on the interstate involving more than 70 cars and trucks. what led to this next. my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva a plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. - [narrator] we just signed the lease on our third shop. i guess we're a chain now, right? we worked so hard to get here. my assistant went to customink.com to gets

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♪ all they're trying to do is uphold the will of the people in terms of what we did to make sure that nobody is governing themselves as a major corporation. >> that's florida governor ron desantis, again, talking about a new lawsuit against disney. the board that he appointed to oversee disney's special tax district in florida voted to countersue the company yesterday

coming after disney filed its own lawsuit against the board, which voted last week to nullify disney's past agreements with the board. these dualing suits are the latest moves in the on going feud between the republican governor and disney in his home state. cnn is live in florida. steve, of course, we're seeing all this play out, the lawsuits, the countersuits. it's easy to get lost in the details of all of this. what is the big picture here of what is happening between desantis and disney? >> reporter: well, kaitlan, this has been going on for more than a year now. in fact, this started in response to a bill that desantis signed that restricts the teaching of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, something opponents called the don't say gay bill. now we have got on the this point where we have disney, one of the largest companies in the state with its iconic theme parks that have drawn millions of visitors to the state each year, now suing desantis and this board while the board

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the clock is ticking, really ticking. treasury secretary janet yellen warns the united states could default on its debt as soon as june 1st. that is less than a month. in a letter to house speaker kevin mccarthy yellen writes if congress fames to increase the debt limit, it would cause severe hardship to american families, harm our global leadership position and raise questions about our ability to defend our national security interests. that severe hardship yellen is talking about is increased borrowing costs, jump in unemployment, millions of jobs here, your 401(k) could get hit really hard, federal benefits and salaries could be put in jeopardy, the house and senate are in joint session for only eight more days before the 1st of june. that deadline, president biden invited congress's top leaders to a meeting on tuesday at the white house to talk about this, the debt ceiling what they're going to do. kevin mccarthy accepted that decision. so let's bring in now congressman ro khanna of california to talk about all of this. notable, too, we'll get to bank

failures in a minute, but two of the big three bank failures we have seen since march are california banks. good morning. thank you for being here. >> good to be here. >> given this yellen letter, the decision makers in washington, i hope pays attention to this, given that we're looking at june 1st for a possible default here if there's no deal, can you guarantee the american people we're not going to default? >> yes. >> yes? >> look, i don't think -- it would be so irresponsible. it would be a self goal. who doesn't pay their bills? we pay our bills as americans. patriotic to pay our bills. i'm confident the president of the united states isn't going to let the country default. the republicans are trying their best to make this an issue. i don't understand why they're acting the way they are. just pay the bills. and then we can discuss how to reduce the deficit. >> are there spending -- well, you know that's not what republicans say they're willing to do. are you willing to agree to some spending cuts? mccarthy's proposal is rolling

back a number of things to 2022 levels. call it what you want, but it's a cut in what spending was going to be. are you willing to agree to any of that to prevent a default? >> i'm not willing to have a conversation under a hostage situation. when i was in congress and donald trump was in president, i disagreed with a lot of his policies but i voted to raise the debt ceiling, i voted to pay our bills. if kevin mccarthy votes to pay our bills, we can discus how to have deficit reduction and in that discuss spending cuts, the biggest part being the defense budget. almost a trillion dollars. why aren't we talking about any cuts there? >> even bernie sanders told dana bash in their interview this weekend i'm willing to look at other things. there's a lot of waste in government. you're telling me there's literally not a thing you would agree in this republican proposal to prevent a default for the american people, not a thing. >> they're not connected. of course there's a thing -- >> republicans are connecting them. >> well, they're doing it irresponsibly, never been done before. donald trump, the democrats voted again and again to raise the debt ceiling.

if you have a credit card debt and as a family, would you say, look, let's just not pay the debt? let's pay the debt and then we can discuss what budget cuts we should make. it's important to realize what they're doing. they're doing it because they don't -- they want the president -- the economy to not do well. people on record saying that. >> do you think that's fair, they want the economy to not do well? >> i don't understand why else they're holding it hostage. >> i'll take that as a no. zero agreement to any spending cuts even if we default. >> i'm open to spending cuts conversation after we pay our bills. >> let's move on to the banks. because we just saw the three big u.s. banks fail since march. that is extraordinary. do you expect more banks -- two in california. do you expect more banks to fail this year? >> i hope not, but there i can't say with 100% confidence until, in my view, we have a guarantee on uninsured bank deposits. i've been calling for that since march.

we need to make sure that we have some guarantee on these deposits. >> let's explain to people why that matters. a lot of the money that was pulled out of first republic, which failed over the weekend, is because a lot of the accounts had more than $250,000 in them, which is the threshold for fdic insurance now on paper at least. you're saying take the $8 trillion of uninsured deposit in this country and fully guarantee them, is that right? >> for the business accounts. if you're a business and you have to make payroll and uninsured which is 8 trillion, for them to, make sure that you're guaranteed. and charge them a fee on that account so that you don't have the situation, which is now happening where they're all going and putting their money in the big four banks in new york as opposed to the regional banks. >> gary cone, the coo of goldman sachs and top economic adviser to president trump for a while, he disagrees with you and here is why. >> i don't agree with

congressman koe hahn that. that's a race to the bottom. >> you picked 2 million, 5 million, 10 million. >> there has to be some limit. at some point you have to limit because you don't want to total race to the bottom where the weakest bank with the weakest balance sheet in the world can offer you the highest rate of return on your deposits therefore you take your deposits there because guess what they're insured by the federal government. that's not what we want to see. >> isn't that an important point, too. >> gary cohn is thoughtful but he is wrong. the fdic said let's look at uninsured deposits insured in a major report just yesterday. second, the shareholders are the ones that lose value. no bank is going to be sitting there saying, yeah, we should go have shareholders wiped out to zero. their inscentive to make sure they're responsible is the shareholders. they don't want to be wiped out. third, increase oversight of

these banks. if we had oversight and shareholders you could have the banks still be responsible. like you have banks actually in new york that are responsible. >> i want to ask you quickly about "the wall street journal" editorial board this morning is calling out jp morgan's acquisition of silicon valley bank in terms of what the government has said and yet what the government has done and jp morgan won this auction. they write jamie dimon must be smiling at the political irony the biden administration went to claims hate big banks signed off on monday to let mr. dimon get bigger and even more profitable by taking over failing first republic. didn't the government need j.p. morgue on the do that? >> it wasn't ideal. we guaranteed the deposits earlier, we couldn't come to this. the fdic has a mandate to have the lowest cost resolution. they have to look at private capital. that's what the law requires.

in these circumstances they did the right thing. do i like it, no. do i like the fact that regional banks are being bought up and consolidated, no. but in this situation, they did the right thing. >> we're in a situation where the biggest banks are the only ones can save us. >> we're in a situation if we're not kbarguaranteeing these depo we'll need private capital. a lot of that private capital is here on wall street. >> come back and let us know how the meeting with big bankers goes. kaitlan? >> great to hear from him there. quick programming note, former president trump is going to take questions from new hampshire primary voters in an exclusive cnn town hall. i'll moderate that wednesday, may 10th. on paper, it should be about child support, but there appears to be a proxy battle playing out in hunter biden's paternity case. we have the details ahead. also this --. ♪

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♪ in a few hours lawyers for e. jean carroll are expected to call two women to the stand. the former columnist battery and defamation trial against former president trump. one of carroll's friends is expected to testify because carroll said she confided in her after the alleged rape that happened in the mid 1990s. she's expected to call jessica leads to the stand. she claims trump sexually assaulted her while sitting in first class on an airplane back in 1979. an accusation the former president has denied, i should note. e. jean carroll is suing trump, alleging he raped her in a burgdorf goodman department store in the mid 09s. the former president steadfastly denied it. his lawyer joe tacopina wrapped up a two-day cross-examination of carroll. his line of questioning focussed on her shopping trips, book and 2012 episode of law enforcement svu. paula reid has been tracking

this trial and joins us now. what are we expecting to happen here in what have we seen playing out not just in this cross-examination but now as they're trying to establish this pattern to back up her allegations? >> what was so interesting yesterday when i was in court is last week was very emotional. at times she answered questions through tears. yesterday was very technical. joe tacopina, what he was trying to do is present evidence to her to show a pattern of what he alleges are discrepancies between what she has said publicly and what she said in this courtroom. for example, he threw up a facebook post she put up describing herself as a massive fan of "the apprentice." she asked her followers on a facebook post if they would have sex with donald trump for $17,000. she responded saying, look, yeah, i like the show and, yes, i made jokes about having sex with donald trump. then he went on to press an issue he has pressed repeatedly here which is, look, you have an advice column where you advise women who have been assaulted to report their assault. but that's not what you did.

they presented different columns she had written. she said, quote, i would never call the police for something i was ashamed of. and they also tried to draw discrepancies between how she describes her life in interviews as being, quote, fabulous and talked about how much she was suffering here in court. and she said i don't want anybody to know that i suffer. now, arguably the whole trial is riding on her testimony and joe tacopina's ability to undermine the credibility of her story. >> you think we hear from trump? >> it's unlikely. at this point he is not expected to testify. though, carroll's attorneys said they plan to use parts of his previous deposition in their case. >> totally separate but in arkansas what we're also seeing play out with hunter biden and his attorneys have been in court. they've been arguing that the way this is being portrayed in the media is wrong, saying he is paying the child support he is supposed to. now he needs to sit for a sworn deposition to answer questions about his investments, his art sales, other financial transactions, all this is part of that paternity-related case. what is happening there? >> sure. so this has to do with his

4-year-old daughter down in arkansas. this is a process that plays out in courtrooms across the country everyday. he is currently paying child support. his lawyer disclosed in court yesterday he pays about $20,000 a month to this -- to the mother of his child. and they revealed that because they want to push back on the idea he's a, quote, dead beat dad. he wants to reduce that amount. if you want to do that, there is a process. again, it's done all across the country everyday, but it requires a lot of financial disclosures. and here, this dispute has become really a proxy battle for a lot of partisan battles that he is fighting. the mother of his child, she has a gop attorney who is very public about aspects of this case. they're also trying to call as an expert witness one of hunter biden's key political adversaries, a former trump aide who they accuse of leaking information. but the judge in this case said, there might be leaks, but i don't really have any proof of it. but going forward, he will have to reveal more of his finances.

the judge said you have to be more transparent. but even some republicans on the hill said they hope that this hearing reveals more details about his finances. now, if they can't come to an agreement, a private agreement about how to reduce this alimony, this case could go to trial in july. he's expected to sit for that deposition next month. this is a common process, but because it's hunter biden and republicans are so interested in his finances, it takes on a national significance. >> yeah. garrett zig ler is the trump aide accused of leaking for hunter biden. >> now involved in a very sensitive court battle. >> a lot going on here. i know you'll keep us updated. thank you, paula. >> thank you, paula. also new this morning, the surgeon general for the u.s. has just released a framework to tackle the, quote, epidemic of lone loneliness. tim pacts of loneliness across the country. we'll talk about that ahead. it's a must-watch in the nba playoffs. lakers versus warriors. lebron versus curry. preview of this rare matchup next.

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nothing but utmost respect for steph and everything he's been able to accomplish not only on the floor but also off the floor. >> we're blessed to be playing at this level still. and excited about a new chapter. >> some positive words there as lebron james and steph curry are reigniting an old rivalry with some praise for each other in san francisco tonight. los angeles lakers,/golden state warriors will square off in the western conference finals. >> the two nba legends facing off in the playoffs for the fifth time after meeting in the nba finals for four-straight seasons between 2015 and 201. let's bring in jeff benedict author of the "new york times" best selling biography "lebron." it's a fantastic read. jeff, good to have you. >> good morning. >> good morning. big night tonight, obviously. it's not like it hasn't happened before, it's interesting that warriors describe draymond green described the series, not just as epic. you have two seasoned guys,

still at the top of their game, but with that wisdom of experience. >> yeah. i think his word epic is a good word. we're going back almost a decade when steph curry and draymond green and clay thompson started playing against lebron in the playoffs. those were four of the most watched, most enjoyed nba finals since the michael jordan era. i mean, four years in a row. and i think that's -- the fact that here we are now in 2023 and those guys are coming back together, it doesn't get much better. >> dun get much better. one thing i was thinking that your book obviously is about lebron. we talked last time when we had you on about his relationship with his mother, particularly, and how much that drove him. but one thing i was reminded of thinking this series the late grant wall, the phenomenal sports journalist put him on the cover of sports illustrated, right? >> yes in. >> in high school. the headline was the chosen one. i hope i didn't ruin this kid's life. >> right. >> clearly, he was the chosen one and didn't ruin his life.

>> yeah. >> but just made me think how his whole life has been preparing for a moment like this. >> grant wall also called him the heir to air jordan which was a lot of weight and expectations to put on the shoulders of 16-year-old who was a junior in high school, not even a senior. a junior. and lebron didn't shy away from that. he actually leaned into it. you know, he wore michael's number. he really leaned into the moment. i think what separated him from really so many other athletes is that he's never shied away from those biggest moments. he's actually had his best performances in the biggest moments of his career. his signature play that he's going to be remembered for is a defensive block in the nba finals against the warriors, against this team. and so, i'm expecting the next two weeks to be some of the best basketball that we've seen. >> it kind of feels like we take it for granted to see two amazing talents -- many on the

teams, but to see these two guys go head to head. it feels like we're -- dream duel. kind of forget sometimes just how magical it is to see two of these amazing athletes. this just doesn't happen everyday. >> no. it's funny to think of them as old guys. >> right. 35 and 38 respectively. >> nba years, they are older players. but when you watch them play, they're so cerebral in the way they go about the game because they have been doing it for so long. the mind games they play against their opponents. the interesting thing against each other, they can't really do that because they both know the other one so well. they've played against each other. there's not really those mind games. i think it's just going to be some fantastic basketball. >> yeah. the steph curry quote, attitude can manfest a lot of things is so great. >> wa did he say again. that was last week? >> that was sunday after he had that incredible game. but he missed five free-throws in the last two or three games. he was saying, that's not like him. but he was