welcome back from just outside buckingham palace, when you talk about history repeating itself, in this case, after nearly 70 years, without him, i take a look at this nearly unearth photo. that then four-year-old prince charles, i think that king george just a bit ago, i apologize. king charles. then four years old, looking bored, as if you'd like to be any place else, as his mother, queen elizabeth, takes the crown at her coronation, nearly 70 years ago. that is by no means the only photo of royal child being a kid over the years. here's prince william. now, the air to the throne, covering his eyes on the balcony of buckingham palace. that a ceremony in 1988. decades later, here's williams oldest son, prince george, at the same ceremony, looking kind of like a grandfather 1953. and many will remember williams youngest son, louis, then for, at the queen's platinum jubilee last june, covering his ears

during the flyover. he's just as mother, princess catherine, and made another funny face during the jubilee concert. we'll see if any young royals to anything similar this time. in any case, be sure to watch our special coverage of king charles coronation, starting at 5 am eastern time, saturday, here on cnn. the news continues, cnn prime time with abby philips starts now. i everyone, thank you for tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrow's news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share their scoops. we have melanie zanona, danny freeman, diane gallagher, and omar hernandez. but, it's not enough of democrats turned defendant, kirsten sinema, your up front -- and, new reporting, just coming in from cnn's kfile and upcoming start in the republican party, -- of a deadly school shooting, and there is more. let's go out front. good evening, i'm pamela brown,

in for erin burnett. at night, placing a revenge, the sound of aerate siren, heard across ukraine's capital as the city prepares for russia to retaliate, after the kremlin says, it prevented that assassination attempt on vladimir putin. on russian state tv, this right here is the message. >> every day control centers, the presidential office in kyiv and the government building should be turned into dust. >> those sorts of, threats creating chaos in the streets of kyiv after a loaf flying drone was spotted in the capital. you could see it being hit right there. and then going down in this ball of flames. shortly after that incident ukraine acknowledging the drone was one of its own. shut down because ukraine lost control of it. now, this was a sigh of relief, one that may be short lived. meanwhile, russia ramping up its claims, that yesterday drone strike, on the kremlin was carried out by ukraine and the u.s.. and, tonight, the u.s. is

responding. >> i know there's lots of questions, but we just don't have any evidence. one thing i can tell, you for certain, is that the united states was not involved in this incident, in anyway, contrary to mr. peskov's lies. and that's what they, are just lies. >> and in a moment, i'm going to speak to a russian lawmaker who told cnn exclusively that it was russian partisans, not ukraine behind the drone attacks on the kremlin. inside he fore shared with our matthew chance who's been covering the story extensively. matthew, what more are you learning tonight? >> well tonight there's a lot happening in russia because russian television is reporting more drone strikes in multiple locations across the country. particularly in areas close to the ukrainian border. this as the kremlin vows to press ahead with the victory day celebrations, that the military parade, that scheduled in a few days from now. despite those dramatic drone strikes, on the kremlin,

earlier this week. >> 60 minutes, the kremlin version. with breaking news of three more attempted drone strikes on russian soil. the anchor, a kremlin mouthpiece tells her millions of viewers how to attacks on oil facilities were unsuccessful. but another targeting a vigilant near the ukrainian border, she admits got there. in ukraine it's coming home. [speaking non-english] just hours before was the kremlin itself in the line of fire. a ukrainian assassination attempt on president putin said officials, denied by ukraine. and, the kremlin says it's the united states that's to blame. >> we know very well that the

decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks are made not in kyiv but in washington. >> and kyiv does what it is told to do. >> there's a word, out that comes to mind, that i'm obviously not appropriate -- >> u.s. officials are pushing back. >> mr. peskov, lying, obviously it's a ludicrous claim. we don't even know exactly what happened here, caitlin. but i can assure you, the united states had no role in it whatsoever. >> but, ukraine is bracing itself for a further russian response. earlier russian drones with messages from moscow and from the kremlin, scrolled on them were intercepted. >> all of this as ukraine's president is on an unannounced european tour. briefly stopping in the netherlands to condemn his russian counterpart. >> of course, we all want to see different vladimir here.

in the [inaudible] the one who deserves to be sentenced for these criminal actions. >> back in the capital of the russian federation, but they seem unfazed, at least publicly. by the extraordinary events unfolding in their city. >> the drone strike, on the kremlin was going to happen sooner or later says this man. >> we live in an awesome country, says anastasia, the best protected in the world. even more shocking than, that someone was able to penetrate those defenses and attack. >> yes, shocking indeed. well, tonight, of course the kremlin is lashing out. still at ukraine, united states as well but pamela the fact is that drone strikes, political

lists estimations, arson's attacks they fall in the past months or so become effective every day russian life. >> back to you. >> matthew chance, thank, you up front now the former russian lawmaker who is forced into exile after he became the only russian lawmaker to vote against the annexation of crimea, by russia in 2014. so, as i mentioned you told matthew that you believe the drone attack on the kremlin was the work of russian partisans. why do you believe that? >> good evening, i just don't simply believe, it i know that it was a fact. i know the people who actually use those drones, and those drones were not clean. they weren't demand -- we were discussing that they had planned to attack the red square on the 9th of may.

-- they were thinking that maybe it would be better to make a warning strike made with vladimir putin to cancel the military parade on the ninth. >> so, you talk to them directly, that you discuss this with them? >> yes, matthew, as you just heard, they're just mentioned other drone strikes in russia do you think that russian partisans are behind those two? >> there are different attacks. , because there are attacks that have military meanings. and the attacks on the oil refinery or stores that would happen next to the ukrainian border -- but at least most of them for sure it will be the effects that are carried up by the ukrainian security forces who are preparing for their offensive. , and the cutting supplies of the military goods and everything related --

and at that time it was a big scandal and there was even the washington guys calling the office in ukraine. and they were complaining that they promised, not to attack the russian children which was a gargle. and, at that time, ukrainian officials were asking what there was indeed russian part given that information about this. but, at this time, it is about the offensive. but, what's happening in moscow, for sure it is of ukrainians. and, it is out of range. the reason why anti missile defensive russia did not intercept those drones were because of drones that were launched right next to moscow. >> what do you think the real impact of this attack on putin was? if it's in fact, that these

partisans, as you say, do you think that their objective was achieved here? >> we will see on the ninth, obviously the security measures in moscow will be tightened and i hope that via, the russian authorities will make the right decision to downsize the military parade that their object would demonstrate russia. >> everybody has to take aside to make this decision, and cannot just sit on the couch and watch the tv. that is the real war. you know, russia touted security, often it ability to taunt student. do you think it's embarrassing to putin? >> no, i don't think that there was any immediate threat to vladimir putin. because, it was indeed a very

lightweight attack on the dome of one of kremlin's buildings that could not affect vladimir putin theoretically. but, if he were in that particular building, he would not be affected. but right now these propaganda statements were an assassination of them. obviously, it was just a symbolic act that was targeted to show the parade could be affected. and it would be an even bigger in embarrassment if some drones would land on its core, on the very 9th of may, we're all this military quitman, glorious military equipment would be demonstrated there. >> all right, atlanta nomarev, thank you. >> former secretary defense for russia, ukraine, arena, executive director -- so, evelyn, based on what you just heard there, do you think

that it is likely that russian partisans are behind the kremlin drone strike? what is your take away from that interview i just did? >>, yes pamela, i think it's a really incredible interview, that is quite a group that met the got there. first of, all because guilty as been incredible person, he's very much connected to, what i call the resistance inside of russia. , and i've also spoken to russians who were in exile, as you, will hope -- working for them in the u.s., and they have told me that they don't know in the west, all of the sabotage missions that have been executed on russian soil. , and what they meant, when they told me, that is that they're not being covered by our media. and, of, course many times, people don't know that they should be attributed to russian citizens, rather than ukrainians. >> that's interesting. why would you think that that? is that the media would still -- cover these there. >> i think it's just the access, we are not in russia, you know we don't see everything that is happening.

that is one example that this particular person was telling me about the pakistani women blocking the highways so that they couldn't, so that the russian officials could not come in and take more of their men for the war fighting effort. and, eventually, the new york times covered that. but, i heard about it earlier through these russian exiles. so, i do think that they're quite active. there's also part, resistance activity in belarus. so some of the railroad derailment, tax on the infrastructure are also orchestrated by bellow russians and, perhaps russians. so, i think that this is important, an important point. because, of course, the u.s. government has been very anxious not to have the ukrainian government escalate the war, and make it kind of a russian people against ukrainian people kind of war. i, find what is interesting, here is that vladimir putin didn't try to kind of hush --

paper over what happened, he went on television and said that they told the russian people that there was an attack on the kremlin. , so it sounds like he's really trying to draw up nationalistic, reverting to get the russian people to see this war as a war between the united states. the united states, using it as a pawn against russia. that, he things might get the russians to be more interested in the war, i doubt it highly, but that is probably part of his ploy in putting this on russian television, putting it out there so publicly. because, otherwise, i think it would try to cover it up. it is embarrassing. >> that's, why i was asking that former lawmaker and also it would make sense that he would want to whip this kind of attention up against ukraine, and the u.s. before that may 9th parade, that is expected there. and, in russia -- so, as you point, out russia is accusing the u.s. of being behind, this calling it an assassination attempt. do you think that the people, the majority of russians

believe this? do you think listening to putin say this, that they're buying what he's trying to sell here? >> it's hard to tell pamela, i think that there are a lot of russians who want to believe the kremlin line, the older russians, the russians to watch television, who get their news through television they want to believe it. and, so the kind of go along though it's inconvenient to fool themselves, this is a lot of the way that the russian line worked under the soviet time. there, are the, many younger people who get their news on the internet. so, you cannot block the internet in russia, the way that you can in china. and, so they have a better sense of what's going on through telegram, through other internet sources. telegram is sort of like twitter. so, i would say that it's hard to full all of the russians, all of the time. but the russians, i think our preferring to be largely in denial. they're not interested in going

to war, and i think putin has to decide if he's going to try to mobilize more people if this offensive comes and use the excuse of the, west the entire west ganging up on russia to see if that works. or, is he going to have to say, well, you know what all these western weapons, we're going to have to take a pause. and maybe we'll back his courses. >> i think he's looking for a narrative, and there was an intelligence that was leaked, recently, you guys probably covered. it indicating that he might be planning to do this. >> yes, it's interesting, because a top administration official head of dni had testified that the assessment, right now is that russia is capable for a large offensive across ukraine, giving the fact that so much of their ammunition and weapons have been used in the word to this point. evelyn farkas, thank you for the conversation. >> thanks pamela. >> up front, next, four members of the proud boys today found guilty of seditious conspiracy for trying to overturn the election on january six. so, what does this verdict mean

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merrick garland vowing to keep prosecuting those who are involved in the january six insurrection. and it comes as more members of the far-right group, proud boys, were convicted today on seditious conspiracy charges. >> today's verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything in its power to defend the american people and american democracy. our work will continue. the justice department will never stop working to defend the democracy, to which all americans are entitled. those convicted of seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge related to the january, six include the longtime chairman of the proud boys, and regain tarrio. members of that group were at the front line and the mob on capitol grounds. and they were there when the first various were breached.

dominic sollitt, was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy. out front now, our legal analyst, ryan goodman. so, ryan, this is the third time the doj has secured convictions for seditious conspiracy, related to january six. how significant is this burden? >> it's significant in the way that the proud boys evidence are far more compelling in the sense that they explicitly and specifically pre-plan on the capital. so, to have an acquittal in case is a major setback. and, hopefully it sets up a deterrence anti government extremists in the case of the oath keepers and the white supremacists paramilitary groups in the case of the proud boys. that the justice department will be able to bring formidable charges against them like seditious conspiracy. >> and they've already brought over 600 cases. prosecutors, in this, case described the proud boys as donald trump's army that was willing to do whatever it took

to keep them in power. it also know that the chairman, and we get into, you had charge -- what could this mean for possible charges against trump? what would prosecutors need to show? >> so, there is this big question whether or not prosecutors will be able to connect trump to the violent assault on the capital. i do think there's a lot of information to connect other efforts to overturn the election. but this is the key one. and we should recall, the january 6th select committee in the house made a criminal comparable to the justice department, saying they had sufficient evidence that were called for at least an investigation as to whether not president trump aided and abetted an insurrection. the fact that they had this burden is important as a foundation to that kind of claim. if they were an acquittal, in the case that would just go away. it would not really be on the table. it was on the table, and the question is in part what do you ask, with roger stone, is there

not connective tissue, but they not be able to connect dots to be connected? because roger schoen is deeply involved with the proud boys, he even saw an oath to the proud boys. according to the january six committee, there's an important communication between the two leaders of the conspiracy. the stewart rhodes of the oath keepers, and enrico atari who is just convicted today for seditious conspiracy, on january six at 2:20 pm, how did they communicate? on an encrypted channel called friends of roger stone. because roger stone said it up and that network. that's the kind of connective tissue. but whether or not they can prove a deeper connection, beyond the reasonable doubt, that's the question. >> ryan goodman, thank you so much. out front next, democrat turned independent, senator kyrsten sinema hasn't even announced she is running for reelection. at, already she's taken, incoming in fire from all political sides. [crowd chanting] we're up front, in arizona.

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tonight, democrat turned independent, senator kristen sinema of arizona is bucking president biden yet again. introducing a bill to counter the expected surge of migrants at the border, when trump lives title 42 next week. that's the pandemic a rule, that border officials used, and nearly 3 million times to expel migrants from the u.s.. sinema is also calling out the

white house for its claims that the border is secure. obviously, the borders not to care. anyone with eyes can see that. it would be most helpful if the administration would start by actually enforcing the laws that are on the books. >> this all comes as cinemas reelection plans remain a mystery, but she's already taking coming in fire from every direction. can law is out front, in arizona, with more. >> [crowd chanting] >> nearly all of these arizona democrats work to elect kyrsten sinema to the u.s. senate in 2018. >> how many of you will do that again? >> in her first term, senator sinema has blocked her own party. blocking the white house from the debt ceiling to filibuster reform. and, late last, year bolted from the democratic party to become an independent. >> registering as an independent, showing up to work, with the title of independent

is a reflection of who have always been. >> sinema has yet to announce she is running for reelection. doing so would be a political gamble. registered voters in the battleground state are split nearly evenly between democrats, republicans and independents. [applause] >> we call upon your legs ignition. >> the democrats say they feel betrayed, accusing cinema of listening to donors, instead of voters. >> sinema sold out! i [crowd chanting] >> that anger is offering a political opportunity for the democratic congressman, latino and a combat veteran. he's challenging sinema, from the left. >> she broke trust with a lot of the people of arizona, they don't trust her values anymore. and she's not trying to repair that relationship. >> do you believe that arizona is a blower state? >> i think it's a blur state. you stopped a, fight gustaf to win the moderate vote. >> this battle? >> it's like the popcorn, kind of watching at. it >> is welcome news for

republican state representative, justin wilson. >> so, it's nice to see. >> it's nice to see? >> sure, i'm a politician, minimal republican, and knowing that your opponent is getting scrums in their play is a good thing. of course it is. >> still, uncertainty on the side. trump loyalist, teasing a possible senate. he says that a three-way race with independent incumbent sinema scrambles the entire swing state, again. >> man, she is interesting. she has like a nikkhah wrapped with a burrito around it. it's just so crazy, and it's a testament to arizona and what the status. and i think she has a legitimate chance. >> she is very wildly, small, politician. >> so must path, to politician, likely rests with these tampa voters, registered independents. the crew meets monthly trying to find solutions to political extremism in arizona. even here, sinema is divisive. >> i'm wondering, who is her

constituency? >> i give her money, and she is dead to me. >> i think she stood firm on the budget, and i agreed with her. >> but, can she win? >> well, i think she's not stupid. >> running for one party and then turning around right when you switch, that's just wrong. >> i really want somebody who's going to say, this is what i believe, this is what i'm going to do. i don't care what party i'm affiliated with. >> clint smith, leading the meeting. he ran for congress in 2022 as an independent candidate, putting his campaign on the high numbers of independents. he lost. >> does she fall the same fate as you did? >> she's got some major advantages that i did not have. a lot of name recognition and some major banks. >> but do you think she will win? >> from my experience, i feel like people rushed tree to their corner when people come to shove. >> we did reach out to senator sinema's office, to take part in the story. her office declined to do so. and says, sending us this statement saying, quote,

kirsten is focused on delivering real solutions, not campaign politics. pam? >> all right, camilla, thank you so much for that. also tonight, growing questions over the ethics of supreme court justices. cnn's looking that -- both received royalties from the book deal with payment. but, they did not refuse themselves from cases that came before the court involving the publishing company. and this comes as propublica reports yet another undisclosed gift that justice clarence thomas received from texas billionaire, harlan crow. this time thousands of dollars in boarding school tuition for thomas's grand nephew. the gop meadow don't, or giving republic a statement about the tuition payment, that's, us in part, quote hauling quote has long been passionate about the appointment of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate. especially at risk youth. this is just the latest in a long list of perks thomas has

accepted from crow without disclosure, according to propublica. including, luxury travel, pro super, got private jet flights and an undisclosed real estate transaction involving three properties owned by thomas and his relatives. up front, now, josh, one of the reporters who broke the story for propublica, wow, josh what a story this. is you obtained records of these payments by harlan quote, one shown here was 60 $200 for one month. and the georgia boarding school, your report said he paid for a full year at that school. and that came after he already paid for a year at another boarding school in virginia. so how much money in total are we talking here? >> yes, so the exact total that he paid for this child's tuition over the year, isn't exactly care. but if thomas is, friend actually published, and released a statement confirming that he had paid for tuition at these schools, he said he paid for when you're.

each and if we look at the tuition at that time, that would be about $100,000. >> $100,000. well, and you note the two possible reasons justice thomas would not have to disclose these payments, one is that the grandnephew does not qualify as a dependent child under a federal law which defines that is quote, a son, daughter, step son, stepdaughter. thomas said, quote, we're raising him as a son. but he is his grand nephew, as we know. although thomas has said. that and another way is that somehow this is a gift straight from harlan kuo, to the grand nephew. but experts you spoke with say, that doesn't fly, right? >> right, and it's important to have been size that this is not just some relevant convert -- thomas was legal guardian. he took legal custody of him at six years old, raised him with ginni thomas, at, assuming virginia as a son, as he said. and, expert thomas said that he could make the case that these

gifts were to the child and not to him. and he didn't have to disclose them. because technically the child is not his son. and they also said that farfetched. children rarely pay for their own private school tuition, and it's the legal guardians responsibility to make that. that he was required by federal rod to report these payments to the public. >> and you actually spoke to thomas's grunt nephew, who said he wasn't aware that he was helping for the tuition, right? >> but he does say, he spend a lot of time with the texas billionaire that he lived a justice thomas, and the wife. what did he tell you? >> he said that he had vacation with thomas in the crows, at least once a year, over the course of the childhood. and that he lived with thomas from age 6 to 19. and that included trips to roads private luxury resort in adirondacks. and to international vacations

on crow's super yacht. one was in the caribbean, they remember riding jet skis off the side of the yacht. another was a trip to russia in the baltics, where the tour st. petersburg rented helicopter. another guess, on that strip was chris muth, who at the time was president of a major influential conservative think tank, american enterprise institute. >> we're also learning about two other justices, liberal, once justice sotomayor, -- so there are a lot of questions tonight. broader questions about ethics within the supreme court, and whether there should be a reform. and, this is also largely driven by your excellent reported, joshua, on justice thomas and his friendship with harlan crow the billionaire. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> out front next breaking news. the new york times reporting federal prosecutors investigating trump's handling

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breaking news coming, in the new york times is reporting tonight a witness is not cooperating confidentially with the justice department and its probe into former president trump's handling of classified documents. this witness, is an employee who has worked for trump at mar-a-lago, according to the times. the reporting also says, the witness provided investigators with the picture of the storage room at mar-a-lago, where the sensitive material had been held. the identity of the witness, has not been disclosed. >> ryan goodman, back with me, to help me understand what this means. now, this is someone, who, according to the times work for trump is now cooperating confidentially. and, it appears that this person could shed light, at

least, on the obstruction of justice part of its probe. right? >> that's right. and, there are times that identify the person as an insider, with the familiarity of the storage facility itself. so, it seems like an important breakthrough for the prosecutors, both in terms of trying to assemble what they know about the case. but it could be, also, an important breakthrough for thinking ahead if they want to indict what the jury might be able to be told by actually having an insider who is being cooperating, talk to them about what was going on behind the scenes. that could be very important. and even, a reason to bring the case. because, yes, somebody like that in the fold. >> what does this tell you in terms of where this investigation is? does it give you any further clues? >> it's not from this alone that one can try to figure out where things stand in the investigation. i mean this does suggest that they would have enough evidence to compel someone to want to cooperate. but i think we already have the scene of mountain of evidence from the department of justice. and the fact that they have somebody like this is one of

the steps that they would like to have before deciding as to whether or not to indict. so it's important in that respect. but, reporting alone i think it's just part of a mountain of evidence already that they're quite far along. >> and, part of that mountain of evidence is what cnn just reported, exclusively last night, the jack smith, special counsel was looking into whether surveillance footage from mar-a-lago was tempered with. so, what does this say about what the special counsel was focused on, and what does it tell you in terms of what might be ahead in this investigation? >> so, that's another important part of the new york times reporting it corroborates what cnn reported last night. so, the new york times is saying that the prosecutor, is indeed asking multiple witnesses about missing or unavailable surveillance tapes of mar-a-lago. , which they were subpoenaed and had to turn over to the justice department. that sounds like the prosecutor is looking squarely at obstruction, and that kind of evidence could be very damning if there was actual tampering

with the surveillance tape. they both goes to obstruction, and it goes to the guilt of the underlying conduct of retaining classified documents. why would anybody want to be tampering, with the, tapes unless they're trying to hide into line crime. so, i think it's super important, thanks to the cnn reporting from last, night that already pointed us to that direction. and, if they have something like, that that they're looking at open question, what did they find something there, that would be significant, and very hard for the justice department to turn away from indicting a case that would have anything like that kind of obstruction at the center of it. >> right, and the reporting from our -- ampler, reads last night, helping us have a better picture of where things are today in this investigation. thank you so much, ryan goodman. thank you for coming back on to discuss this breaking news. >> up front next, new reporting from cnn's kfile, into how rising republican star and gubernatorial nominee referring to survivors of the parkland school shooting as, quote, communists. plus, president biden

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republican party calling survivors of the schools, quote, stupid kids. and a quote, call me stupid. that's new reporting, coming up, front from cnn's kfile. kfile has a long history of attacks for north carolina lieutenant governor, mark robinson who is widely expected to be the republican nominee for governor. one facebook posts, robinson shared just days after the shooting said that the survivors wrote, quote, a river of blood to 15 minutes of fame bill. senior editor of cnn's kfile is out front. so, andrew there are a lot more comments where those came from. >> yes, that's right the lieutenant governor of north carolina has a lengthy history of attacking those student activists survivors of the 2018 shooting, in parkland florida, calling them prostitutes and spoiled little best herds in some of his post. now, you mentioned, earlier that post that we saw, was just

days after the shooting in one of these posts that we see here, he refers to david hogg, and one of those as communists. i want to show this other post that he put up here, these two post about david hogg where he, this is a meme i guess that he made of david hogg in which he put them in almost a boss hog from the dukes of hazard. and then you see these memes where he laughs about people who are saying that you shouldn't be making fun of children who were in that school shooting. >>, and we also found that he justified the shooting of protesters. >> that's, right in one radio show, that we went, on we found that he actually justified the shooting of student protesters of kent state, in 1970, saying that that something he wanted to see emulated today. , now even the nixon and

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tonight, the white house is sounding the alarm of artificial intelligence, meeting with top tech leaders, and president biden personally urge them to keep the technology in check. >> [inaudible] >> the white house is also revealing that president biden, himself, has experimented with

chatgpt, the popular ar chatbot. and it comes as more examples surface of a eye being used in deceptive and frightening ways. top foreman is up front. >> a 15-year-old arizona girl -- a desperate phone call home. >> i hear my daughters voice and it, says mom, and she's sobbing. , and i asked her what happened and she said, mom, i messed up and she's going, help me, mom please help me, help me. >> jennifer says that then a man came on, demanding ransom. the girl had never been taken, she said that it was all a scam. her daughter's voice was apparently generated by artificial intelligence. >> i never doubted it for one second that it wasn't her. that's the freaky part that really got me to my core. >> fear of runaway smart technology has dominated sci-fi for decades. but, now real life concerns about this technology running amok has the white house

meeting with google, microsoft, open a i and others. and, putting $140 million into a.i. research. the move comes as analysts fear a.i. bots could pour unprecedented amounts of false information into upcoming elections. republican national committee has already rolled out this political ad, comprised of doomsday images created by a.i.. >> border agents were overrun by a surge of 80,000 illegals yesterday. >> the illegal city of san francisco, this morning. >> again, none of that israel, neither this, it's just elaborate computer simulations. >> we're entering an era, in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is seeing, anything at any point in time. >> concerns about a i go beyond politics to education, crime, privacy issues, but the technology brings promise to. >> in the hit, film top gun maverick, the actor wasn't able to speak as a result of cancer treatment. , so a i sampled old recordings

and created the voice you heard. >> the navy needs maverick! [crowd chanting] >> what worries about the downside seem to hover everywhere. one, issue in the hollywood writers strike, will a i take away some of their work. >> this whole technology is moving in such a breakneck pace for, not no one can say where it's going to, be even in the near future. but, one study has indicated, a high, worldwide could affect up to 300 million jobs. >> pam? >> while, tom foreman, thank you, and thank you for joining us, tonight ac360 starts right now. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael, holmes appreciate your company. coming up on cnn newsroom. the second mass shooting, in