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a united front against russia, as they prepare new sanctions, with president zelenskyy to make his case in person. president biden phones home. debt ceiling talks are on his mind. we'll take you live to capitol hill for the latest. and governor desantis fighting with disney. it's already playing out in the 2024 primary race. remember, he isn't even in this race just yet, but his potential
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opponents are sure acting like he is. we're following the major developing stories coming in right here to "cnn news central." a surprise visit to the g7 summit in japan. president volodymyr zelenskyy will arrive in hiroshima this weekend to meet face-to-face with president biden and other world leaders. remember, the g7 used to be the g8 until russia was expelled. the impact of these talks, that could be effective. the u.s. now primed to let nato allies sent those fighter jets to kyiv. and a sweeping list of new sanctioning. nic robertson is in ukraine.
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he's made a lot of international visits before, but this one happening right now on the cusp of this widely anticipated counter-offensive. how important right now? >> it is important to zelenskyy. he's on the record as saying the country is not quite ready for the counter-offensive, but when you -- and go into the conversation recognizing what they tell you would be spin to send a counter-narrative, a propaganda to the russian side, they say they're low in ammunition, but when you get into conversations along the front here echos what president zelenskyy is saying. he needs more equipment, more ammunition. he cannot afford this fight to stall and peter out. russia would bun fed from a
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sustained sort of frozen conflict, trench warfare where no side is making gains. it's said that the f-16 announcement coming from president biden is something that he welcomes, an historic decision. there's been a prelude, he's been to europe, italy, france, germany, the uk. we also had european leaders meeting in iceland. that's where the dutch and other leaders agreed. there's a sense that the aircraft and the tanks announced a few months ago are coming a little too late, a little too short. there's concern along the front line. will they make it through with this big push? >> there were complaints that it took too long to make that
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decision. nic, we know you're going to be there to watch it for us. let's get the view from the g7, where marc is there in japan. tell us who else will be in the room with zelenskyy? and who else is he making appeals to there? >> hi there, jim. as one analyst pointed out, president zelenskyy already has the support. it's other invited guests and leaders that may be of interest. perhaps he could immediate with leaders of indonesia, brazil, vietnam, invited guests to this summit. it would be a chance for him to certainly talk about diplomacy and military action, but mae also put pressure to reexamine
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that relationships with russia. describe more specifically, because i think folks at home are used to seeing batches of sanctions every couple weeks coming from the west. what is truly impactful and new from this latest round of the g7? >> reporter: the goal of the g7, when it comes to the latest round of sanctioning is to basically close any loopholes, a good also that could be provides assist to russia. it is banning imports of russia diamonds, commodities, from the european union, including great britain. we also see australia putting restrictions on imports of things such as construction equipment, other types of materials. if you look at war, there are several components that are
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needed. you need people. you need military equipment, and you need money. this is another attempt to quash the money-making machine that is supporting the russian army. >> the question is how much does china and india pick up. marc stewart there in hiroshima, and nic robertson in ukraine for us. the talks have hit a snag. the setback -- earlier president biden cut short his dinner with fellow g7 leaders, went back to his hotel for a virtual meeting with his negotiators in d.c. the u.s. now has 13 days before potential running out of money to pay its debts. melanie zanona, where do things stand? >> reporter: it's still an
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impasse. garret graves emerged afterwards and saying the talks have been put on pause and things just weren't productive. we caught up with speaker mccarthy moments ago. he confirmed that they are taking a step back, things are on hold. he suggested that spending cuts are one of the sticking points. take a listen. >> well, we've got to get movement by the white house. so we have a pause. >> reporter: the tone seemed optimistic yesterday? >> yes, i really felt we were at the location where you could see 9 path. we can't be spending more money next year. we have to spend less. >> reporter: now, a white house official did say a deal is still possible, but they also acknowledge there are real difference to say work out here.
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look, if these sorts of negotiations, blowups and breakdowns are not that uncommon. they are feeling pressure from the left and right flanks, to show they are fighting, they're not going to give in, but this is a huge setback, they were hoping for a deal in principle by this weekend. that already was an ambitious timeline. the clock is ticking. as of right now no more meetings scheduled. >> mccarthy wanted it by the weekend in principle. only 13 days away. brianna? ron desantis is expected to launch a presidential bid, and he gets big footed by disney. the campus will cost florida
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2,000 jobs. rival politicians are all too happy to blame desantis. natasha chen is on the story for us. he actually just addressed this in new hampshire, clearly trying to make the most of this politically with tough words for disney. >> that's right. it looks like he was speaking at a diener in new hampshire, and made a comment about disney's special tax district he said to put one corporation on a pedestal and have them exempt from 9 laws is not good policy, not something that our state will be involved in. he said i know people try to chirp, this and that, the chance of us backing down from that is zero. he's going all in here, brianna. meanwhile, his potential rivals are weighinging in, including
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mike pence, who spoke to fox business. here's what he said. >> i like walt disney, not woke disney. i'm not surprised to see them cancelling a contract. that will only hurt people in the area. it's one more reason why, as a limited-government conservative, i've said for months i think both sides ought ought to stand down, take the victory in the legislature and move on. >> reporter: this was going to be 2,000 jobs a $1 billion complex. the disney company said this is because of new leadership appeared changing business conditions. they did not mention any politics. clearly that's the blueprint you see for the complex. the fallout for the employees, though, there had been some flexibility in moves the
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employees from california to florida over time. some had already started to do so. a couple hundred employees already in florida. we're told they will be given the possibility of moving back. i'm also told that some employees had 12kid to quit and find other jobs. this is changing a lot of people's lives here. >> a lot of whiplash for sure. natasha chen, thank you. get ready for the race to expand. south carolina senator tim scott has just filed to run for president in 2024, according to the federal election commission's website. he's expected to make a formal announcement on monday. eva, a lot of folks saw this coming. he's been dancing around this for some time.
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i wonder how this would shake up a race that many portray as a desantis contest, but this could change. >> it could, jim. listen, senator scott is arguably one of the most influential black conservatives in america. he's the okay blanl rep currently in the united states senate. he's well known and is well liked. he enters the race with an edge, $223 million left over from his senate run. we've learned he's going to use $6 million in advertisements in the critical states of iowa and new hampshire, in advance of the first republican debate. for folks who don't know him, he has the money to compete, to introduce himself to voters. >> desantis and trump is north of $1 million.
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i spoke at the alfalfa dinner. he has a positive take on america, but he also has a genuine story of coming from nothing, a truly moving one, that he tells well. >> its clear he's going to use the biography in his pitch to voters. this, i think his candidacy is really a test to see if that message can resonate with republican voters. has the party been so steeped in grievance that they don't want to hear a positive message, or does senator scott's story and argument re -- iowa speak to voters, and some of them, as much as they like the former president, they tell me they have concerns of trump being able to win, and they think scott can. >> races can turn on a result like that, even early on. coming up on "cnn news central," a big court hearing
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to see the pentagon s leaker in court. current teixeit his security clearance. remember, there's newly released memos showing that air force leadership warned him repeatedly about his mishandling of classified documents, coming months before his arrest for posting classified information online. let's take you outside the courtroom with jason carroll. has the judge given any indication whether teixeira will remain in custody? >> the judge in this case, david
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hennessey, the federal judge, is looking at all sides, looking at the information very, very carefully. you just look at some of the recent evidence that's come to light. you look at the video of teixeira firing the weapon, uses racial sures. prosecutors say that goes to his character. prosecutors said he tried on three different occasion to access classified information and was admonished. september, another one in october. at one point he wrote a note about classified information. a supervisor told him not to do that again. you remember, though, this was a situation where prosecutors say he was revealing this type of information on a server where you had more than 100 users,
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father's supervision. we'll see what the judge decides when the hearing gets underway in just about an hour from now. jason carroll, thanks so much. in georgia we seem to be getting a clearer signal yet on whether potential charges may come into the investigation into the former president trump's efforts to overturn an election. shy also asked judges to not schedule for parts of august. we have sara murray joining us now on this story. we sort of knew all of this would happen this summer, but this is a narrower timeline. >> she said expect announcements between july 11th and september 1st. she's asking judges, could you not schedule in-person trials
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essentially for the first wthre weeks of august. she says in her letter, but making these changes, you're going to take out 70% of the people who are working in this judicial complex. that's a big issue. they've gotten a lot of threats, so i think they want it to be a smaller presence of people who do not need to be there as possible, in case there's potential threats when she's making these announcements. don't they still have to deal with the former president's request? >> yeah, there's been a pending motion. they want the district attorney disqualified from the case, all the evidence thrown out, and the trump team recently said, give us 21 more days to respond to what the district attorney last had to say about this? today the judge says thanks, but no changes. the judge said to date the court
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has received wet over 500 pages of briefing, arguments and exhibits on the issues raised. that's plenty. no more briefing unless it's solicited in write by the court. so it's clear the court the ready to move the things along. >> that's the judge equivalent president of don't call me, i'll call you. during a surprise appearance, salman rushdie warned against florida's book ban, saying they will suppress freedom t and moms for liberty has been a driving force behind the book bans. their story is just ahead. stay with us. imma new york hotel. yea i'm tall. 563 feet and 2 inches. i'm on top of the world. i'm looking for someone who needs a weekend in the citity.
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♪ author salman rushdie made a rare surprise appearance last night to warn against the danger of banning books. he accepted a courage award from pen america. he praised the organization for suing florida's escam byia county's school district for the removal of certain books from libraries. >> they have to face the problem head on, just as we have done in other countries. the attack on books, the attack on teaches, the attack on libraries in -- how can i put
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this -- florida -- [ laughter ] -- has never been more dangerous, never been more important to fight. >> rushdie survived a near-fatal attack nine months ago while giving a speech. he took a moment to thank members of the audience who came to his aid and saved his life. governor desantis will join the race, and it brings a spotlight on the education law and all the kroys and protests it's spark. it's led to the banning of hundreds of books from hundreds of public school reading lists. he already has a small army of
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moms behind him. e elle reeve has more. >> reporter: we are asking them to carry a load that's much too heavy for them. instead of anal sex, perhaps we should go back to teaching cursive. >> reporter: the group began in florida to protest public schools being closed for mask mandates. they became a present at school boor meetings. >> this is about more than masks, for the record. >> reporter: now there's more than 250 moms chapters nationwide. it has morphed into something else, a campaign against supposed indocket runation. >> i have a right to say i don't
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want my kids to learn this. i don't agree with this movement. that's my right. >> so books should fall into the category as well. >> reporter: we wanted to understand what's driving these moms on a deeper level than viral videos. he met with the chapter in el paso county, colorado, where conservatives won majorities on school boards in 2021. they talked about how to pressure the boards into making the policies they want. >> what school districts are most of you guys in. >> reporter: what they have become more famous for is libraries contain pornographic content and trying to get some books removed. >> i've read a lot of criticism of your group. people say this is kind of, like, a moral panic, that people have been an irrational fear of what's going on. >> we're not looking to ban books. we're not looking to burn books.
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we just need to get back to a system where parents know what their kids are learning, and for the most part educational, not political. >> one books on the list is "slaughterhouse five". >> right. i read that in high school. >> would you want that removed? >> no, again, age appropriate. what might not by appropriate for a 6 years old is appropriate for a 16-year-old. >> it's the right of the parents to know it's there, that their children have access to something they may not have access to at home. >> reporter: one of the big issues is pronounce. in march, it was considered a proposal to prevent kids from asking pronounce. >> teachers can no longer ask kids their pronounce. that's right. no more grooming kids with
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pronounce. >> reporter: the school board has tabled the proposal. why is asking a child their pronounce indocket lynnation. >> if you ask my children who are 7 and 8, what are their pronounce? they don't even know what that is. when you ask that, they're planting a seed in their mind, maybe they should identify as anotherend is hip or cool. hey, my teacher is asking me, so maybe this is what i should do. >> reporter: i certainly never felt that way. i didn't learn i was heterosexual from my health teachers. it is from watching '90s movie with brad pitt in it. >> i think that's how most of us are. >> reporter: we wanted to hear some of the more liberal parents. the next day we met with the parents. for the report, have any of your kids said i'm feeling peer
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pressure to be gay or trans? >> no. we aren't going around, i want you to think about it, what gender are you? >> they say it's happening. >> it's not. we are professionals with degrees -- >> reporter: and also the mom of a transgender student. so -- i'm sorry, can you ask me again? i'm getting pissed off. >> reporter: do you want to talk about that first? why does it make you emotional to talk about this stuff? >> i get emotional when other people, who don't have children who are transgender or queer, place an assumption on it, for the sake of persecution. based on their own belief.
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>> when you're putting this curriculum everywhere, and telling kids, hey, you can come talk to me behind your parents' back, i've got your back. i mean, there's a clear move to bring more of that into our school, and it's just not the school's place. >> reporter: what i feel like you're strongly implying, and i would like your take on, because i don't want to attribute something to you that you don't mean, it means like there's a high-level coordinated effort to make more children trans and gay. >> yes. >> reporter: who is directing that? >> teachers' unions, our presidents, and sourcing, and unions are heavily backing the curriculum. >> reporter: why would they want more kids to be gay and trans. >> because it break downs the family unit and conservative values. it changes the way that people
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think. it changes the way that people handle politics. >> reporter: of course, there's no evidence of a coordinated plot to make kids trans. does it sound like a conspiracy theory to you? >> it's not a conspiracy theory that the state -- whether you're talking about colorado or the federal government, is taking a stronger and stronger hand in public education in raising our kids. do i think that, for some reason, people want everybody to be gay? that's a mischaracterization of what i think. i think that people will use -- the people that wand to erode away at parental rights, they will use lgbtq or whatever the case may be at the time. those are just tools to erode away parental rights. >> reporter: the last meeting of the year seems to be awards and
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performances. >> as we reflect over the last year, removing rogue, woke teachers, and counselors is a must. >> reporter: and a couple students push back. >> a teacher's ability -- you remove the ability for safe spaces to exist, taking away the safety of the students. >> i want to recognize our students and the support staff that are supporting our students out there. >> my child thinking it's ludicrous that it's such a big deal. to them it's just normal. to their friends they don't care how nigh child identifies. they love them for who they are. >> reporter: elle reeve, cnn, colorado springs, colorado. thank to elle for the story. the man accused intentionally driving his tesla off the cliff with his family inside, says he was just pulling over to check the tire pressure.
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now to some of the other headlines we are watching this hour. jimmy buffett is in the hospital for undisclosed medical reasons. he was set to perform this weekend? charleston, south carolina, but was forced to cancel his show. he described his ailment in the only way he can, by saying -- growing old is not for sissies. i promise you. a douglas county northbound sheriff's office is looking for the brave individuals. they rushed in to help deputies
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lift off a car off a motorcyclist who ended up under the car after a crash. that's amazing. finally a break-in at the vatican. this video was shot late last ni ni night. the vatican says the driver was taken into custody and is now receiving psychiatric treatment. a california man accused of driving his wife and two young kids off a cliff on purpose told police he pulled off the road to check the tire pressure. those details from court records obtained by the "san francisco chron cal." his wife told he took the tesla over the cliff on purpose. the chron cal cited a search want for the details. fortunately everyone survive the
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crash. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: hey, boris, he told investigators as he was driving to his brother's house, he stopped three different times to put air in his tire. he says the sensor still showed low tire pressure. he says the car started feeling different. he pulled off to a dirt path, and checked his tires again. he said that shortly thereafter, he drove a bit. that's when he fell down the cliff. as you mentioned, his wife shares a very different story. these documents obtained by the "francis san francisco
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chronicle" it was on purpose. this is a heroic effort to pull the people out of the car. it was patel, his wife and two children. they all survived, but he is now facing the three counts of attempted murder. the documents also show that he told investigators -- patel told investigators he was not under the influence, not taking any medication and investigators asked him if he was depressed. according to the court documents, he said not really. he said he felt down, but it was because at times things were just bad in the world. he pointed to war and drugs. he was then asked if he was suicidal. his answer to that was, you know, not like a plan, not usually, and then just pointed to bad times in the world. this is a sort of he said/she accepted situation, bus
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too. >> if we can find mistakes that we made, perhaps we can keep it from happening in some other community. >> it is cold. >> do you think that you will ever see what you want done, what you think needs to be done to protect your kids who are still living in the community? >> i think that we'll make sure of it. >> that was a clip from this week episode of the whole story. and with us now is justice correspondent shimon prokupecz. he and his team won a peabody award for their extensive coverage of the story. and you also spoke with two 10-year-old survivors who lost their friends that day. >> yeah. jayden and aj lost friends. aj was shot in the leg. jayden was not hurt. but certainly is going through a really rough time in life and
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the psychological and emotional scars very visible when you talk to him. they were both inside the classroom. both hiding, both faking their death so that they could survive. take a listen to what they told me about their lives today. do you ever think about your friends from class that day? >> yes. >> what do you think about? >> i think that i miss them. >> how about you, jayden? >> i miss my friends. >> i mean, there is a lot of differences in between him since that day. like certain things trigger him. this lady looked at him with the evil eyes and he had an anxiety attack and he was like it reminded me back to the way the
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gunman was looking at me with his evil eyes. >> what happened? >> you're on the headphonese a lot. why? >> so if i hear something bad, i can just put my headphones on so i won't have to hear it. >> so you can see there jayden talk about that. he still thinks about what happened almost on a daily basis. anything could trigger that moment when they were inside that classroom with the gunman. and so he wears the headphones because of the noises. noises that he hears sometimes that remind him of the gunshots, the loud bangs from the ar-15 that the gunman was using to kill his friends and his teachers. and aj there who was sitting
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next to him, he was shot in the leg. he changed completely. he is now disabled. he used to play football. he says he can't run anymore, he can't do the things that he is used to doing as a child and just 10 and 11 years old. and they already cannot do the many things that you would expect kids to be able to do. and the other thing they talked about is just missing their friends. so many of their friends that were killed that day, missing their teachers. it is still really an emotional difficult time. and then for the parents still trying to get answers for what happened that day. during the filming of this, some of the parents, the moms, came to us asking to see video of their kids like jayden, aj, being rescued from the classroom. all captured on body camera foot think a. and we sat there with them as they watched this video for the first time with their kids coming out alive from the classroom. it was quite a moment, a
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remarkable hour that we put together with the family members and some of the kids. >> yeah. and this is such important work that you have done here. i just have to say, i watched you over the course of the year as you have become invested in finding answers for these families. and i've seen the pain in how you are just trying to cover it. and not to make you the story, i think the point is that you aren't the story. and yet even just the pain of covering it, which is eclipsed by the pain that the families feel. but just the proximity to trying to claw the answers out of the situation. and the enormity of what the families are feeling. you can't even imagine it. but you have this view to it having been with them so far of the way. >> and they know that i have
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seen things. i got a call today from a parent who said i want to see some video too because they know that i have seen everything and they want to see everything because they are trying to just get some information about exactly what happened to their kids. it is a role i never thought that i would have to play. it has been difficult but important work. and no, i'm not the story, but of course it has been very painful because i have had to be there for these family members. and for my team, the year has been very difficult. but nothing compares to what these families have had to deal with. in part the pain is because they don't get the answers. they don't have the accountability. we have a year later. and quite honestly, changed.
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