back on blue origin's new shepherd rocket. sanchez, also a helicopter pilot, said she's ready to head to space one day. >> she wants to go. >> i'm ready. >> together? >> no. he's already been. >> we'll see. i think she has some ideas about who she wants to go with. we'll see. >> it will be a great group of females. >> a source familiar with the making of bezos megayacht says the billionaire had a figure head at the bow of the shape made in the likeness of the no, sir goddess with a striking resemblance to sanchez, a grand gesture may hint at a grand wedding to come. >> well, listen, this is all everyone has been talking about. no idea when this -- these n nuptials will take place. she has been instrumental in helping him with his philanthropy, like i said. she will be headed to space. they have the bezos academy. so they have been working together and obviously, you know, truly in love for the past several years. they're making it official.

>> okay. i have just a really quick question. i promise it will be quick. the statue that everyone is talking about that they think is her on the yacht s that her? >> so, it is not her. although a striking resemblance. it's actually the norse goddess freya. beautiful looking mermaid on the front of the ship slash megayacht. it's not a boat. it's much bigger than the boat. >> you don't have that on your yacht? >> i don't have the yacht. >> thank you, chloe. >> thank you, chloe. >> congratulations to them and "cnn this morning" continues right now. ♪ a u-haul truck rammed into security barriers near the white house. and the driver is around arrest for threatening to kill, kidnap harm the president, vp or family members.

looming debt limit deadline. experts warn of a global recession that could take years to recover from. >> this would be a generational, economic self-inflicted wound. >> the fact that they are still committed to getting a deal is a positive sign. >> i felt we had a productive discussion. >> i believe we can get it done. two new developments in the former president's many legal challenges. >> e. jean carroll's team said trump's post statement reveal the depths of his malice. >> he was having this conversation with the lawyer, asking how can we fight? >> he is trying to willfully retain the documents? portuguese police at the request of german authorities will search a reservoir -- >> christian bruchner never charged. does raise questions it was a german man. a tip came from germany. could these things be related? falling away, puts it up. nikola jokic knocks it down! denver makes history. the nuggets are going to the nba

finals for the first time in franchise history. >> i have a lot to think about to be honest going forward with the game of basketball. >> i think it's nice to be a nugget fan. ♪ sometimes, sometimes you just have to wait 47 years. and then you make it to the finals. >> it happens. it's good. >> very proud of them. >> yes. >> are you a basketball girl? >> i do like basketball. and i'm concerned about lebron leaving the game. >> you are? >> yeah. i need somebody next to me who knows about sports. it's very important. kaitlan usually has my back. i'm glad you got that, too. we'll see what happens with lebron. we'll get to that overnight. we begin with very serious news out of the nation's capital this morning. developing overnight a man in a u-haul truck intentionally rammed security barriers near the white house. that man has been charged with threatening to kill, kidnap or harm the president, vice president or their family. video shows investigators at the scene inspecting a nazi flag

with a swastika, a black backpack, roll of duct tape, notebook and other items the suspect had with him. the secret service evacuated a nearby hotel as bomb technicians searched the truck to make sure there weren't any explosives inside. here is what one eyewitness who watched it all unfold said. >> it's a u-haul truck coming on h street. then it tried to run into the white house. and then he tried the first time and then went to the second time. now it is right over there, right in front of the white house. >> let's bring in former deputy director of the fbi and cnn senior law enforcement analysis andrew mccabe. andy, i woke up to this. this happened after i went to bed last night. people are waking up to this what should they be thinking because the secret service saying this may have been intentional and then you look at the contents of what this suspect apparently had on him. >> well, poppy, i think that the

charges alone speak to the intentionality of the act, right? so prosecutors have to have a factual bases to charge this person with those -- with trying to attempting to kill or maim the president. they have to have probable cause to be able to do that. so they have some information or evidence that indicates very clearly that this was an intentional act. that's coming not just from the physical things that we see, the video of the truck ramming the barricade, but likely even from material they collected from within the truck. we've heard there's been a notebook. there may be writings or statements or maybe postings online, things like that, that are telling them that this person's intent was, in fact, the target the president or someone in the white house, which is particularly, particularly concerning. >> andrew, for so, so long we have been hearing not only from the president but even the fbi director that white supremacism,

far right wing extremists are the biggest threat to this country. and its safety. and then you look at the contents of this person's backpack and you can't help but think, i guess they're right. >> that's absolutely right, sara. we heard this again and again from the director of the fbi, from the secretary of homeland security and others testifying in front of congress that this is the number one -- certainly the number one terrorist threat that they're tracking right now, that is domestic violent extremists. and particularly domestic violent extremists who are motivated by anti-black, racial sentiments, right? so this fits very neatly within that warning that we heard again and again. and i think you have to draw a line from this apparent attack on the white house by someone baring a nazi flag to at least some of the people -- it's hard to say how many, but some of the people involved in the january 6th attack on the capitol. how do we know that?

because some of those folks were carrying the same sort of symbols, nazi flags, confederate flags, things like that show you a commonality of ideology. doesn't mean they know each other or planning it together. it shows you a thread of extremism and particularly racially-motivated extremism in this country that is also now directed at institutions of government. so these are things that our security professionals are very focussed on right now. as we saw last night, for good reason. >> it's terrifying. andrew mccabe, thank you for all that. all right. also this morning, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy expressing optimism about their debt ceiling meeting monday. mccarthy says he does feel that they did make progress, although no deal has been reached yet. >> i did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion. we're going to have the staffs

continue to get back together and work on some of the things that we had talked about. >> the two sides still remain pretty far apart on the issue of caps on future spending and now a separate fight is brewing among the democrats. progressives are growing increasingly angry about the discussions of work requirements for social safety net programs. cnn's lauren fox is live on capitol hill with more on this. you hear the optimism here, probably for the first time between the two of them. but they are still far apart, aren't they? >> reporter: yeah. exactly, sara. you know, productive but no progress is washington speak for this is slow going, at least in terms of where they are standing nine days before this critical deadline. the biggest sticking point that remains between these two party leaders is the reality that they are just very far apart when it comes to how much they believe we should be spending in terms of federal government appropriations. right now house republicans are arguing they want to stick to

those fy22 levels with just 1% increases for about six years. meanwhile, the offer that the white house gave republicans over the weekend was to freeze spending at the levels we are spending right now in fy2023 and then move that forward for another two years. that gives you just a sense of how far those sides are apart. that's about $131 billion right now. are they going to be able to work through that issue and then deal with some of the ancillary issues we talked about, things like work requirements, things like claug back some of those covid funds. those issues can't be dealt with until they see if there's progress or room to move forward on that bigger question of how much the federal government should really be spending right now. >> you've been reporting that there are some infighting among democrats now as this goes on. they are fraying. what's happening between them? >> reporter: well, i think one of the realities of these negotiations is everything is

very closely held. because not much progress has actually been made, there's some concern growing on both sides. we talked a lot about those conservatives who fear that mccarthy could cut a big deal or a bad deal, excuse me. now you have some liberals saying we're worried that biden could cut a bad deal. here is representative pramila jayapal. >> i think there would be a huge backlash from our entire house democratic caucus, certainly the progressives, but also in the streets. you know, i think that this is -- it's important that we don't take steps back from the very strong agenda that the president himself shepherded and led over the last two years. >> reporter: and progressives are arguing they also have very strong concerns about adding new work requirements to social safety net programs. that just shows you any deal that's reached between biden and mccarthy is going to have to go right through the middle of both of their caucuses. sara? >> lauren fox, thank you so much for all of that there on capitol

hill. also more trouble, legal trouble potentially for former president donald trump. his attorney representing him in the justice department's probe into classified documents found at mar-a-lago took highly detailed notes about their conversation, a particular note. the former president wanted to push back against the justice department's efforts to recover those classified documents or at least asked his lawyers if it would be possible to fight that subpoena. the notes are now from trump's lawyer, evan corcoran, in the hands of special counsel jack smith. also, sources tell cnn prosecutors subpoenaed the trump organization for information about business deals with foreign companies, specifically in countries that may have been interested in the types of classified materials recovered from the former president at mar-a-lago. the trump organization has just released a statement. let me read it to you in part, quote, we made a strict pledge to not enter in any new foreign deals while president trump was in office. a commitment that the company fully complied with. joining us now, cnn political

commentator errol louis and jeremy salon. good to have you both. jeremy, i'll start with you. it's normal that an attorney, a good attorney, evan corcoran, would take detailed notes. how they got to the media is another question. but the fact that jack smith has them now after such a fight to get to this point regardless, how could this impact the investigation? >> well, on its face people can think or assume that the president is just saying, hey, i want to fight this. this is a reasonable conversation to have. >> it mike, right? we should give him that. >> certainly should, but at the same time, that's a direct look into his intent and his knowledge that these are documents that are classified. these are documents i have to return. >> that i shouldn't have. >> correct. but nonetheless, i'm going to find a way to challenge it. and there's legal means to do soon then there's legal means to not do so. it kind of defeats the argument that i didn't know. >> that's so interesting. >> i wanted to ask about attorney/client privilege. i couldn't help myself the notes of one of his attorneys was sort of in the hands of jack smith.

can they use that if they deem, look, we got these. can't say how. but we have them? >> you certainly raise it as a defense. but as we know, attorney/client privileges defeated if what is going on is an attempt to either commit or obstruct the investigation of a crime. and in that case he's right back where he started. so, you know, what's really going to matter is what else went on in that conversation. it's one thing to learn that donald trump asked can we sort of fight against the subpoena. but what else was said? what did the attorneys then tell him? how did he react to that? that's where it's going to start to get sticky, i think. >> that's really interesting. >> it's interesting because that's the defense nixon tried to use and the supreme court said, look, you can only do this to a certain point. and when we're investigating a crime -- let's turn the table here on what e. jean carroll is trying to do after winning that sexual battery and defense case against the former president. she is now trying to open up an on going case to add more,

jeremy, of trump's words in the cnn town hall defaming her into that. do you think she'll be success nfl. >> as a matter of law, there's a determination by that verdict that his words were malicious and defamatory and he doubled down and continued that. let me take that back. it's amending that on going complaint that already started from 2000 -- from the previous complaint. and it establishes and confirms that the president was willing to be malicious, knew it was and it wasn't just his opinion, he was really using some of the same words that he was found liable for almost moments ago. >> i have a question about recent polling errol, to you. the numbers have gone up. even after the -- >> for trump. >> even after the liability, the $5 million that he is to pay, according to the judge, e. jean carroll. you're seeing these numbers trend up. why is that? >> yeah. one part of it, very core thing you have to keep in mind, is that most people are not paying attention to these things.

so in whatever capacity donald trump's name gets mention and gets national exposure, it reminds people, he used to be our president, i kind of liked him, i might vote for him, you'll see those things play themselves out. does it necessarily mean that people look at him favorably and think that this means that he should be president because he just lost another case or has been indicted criminally in new york city? i don't think so. >> i couldn't help this, i get a lot of sort of solicitation for money from all the parties because -- as a reporter gone -- >> right. >> so what you see sometimes is these cases being used as, look, they're coming after me, please give, 5, 10, 25. it's being used as a fundraising tool. >> it is. i use the term funny but that's really not appropriate. the argument has always been the deep state is after me. look, they're coming after me. but, what the deep state, it's a

state of mind and his words getting him deeper and deeper in trouble. ultimately this is going to catch up to him. he's got georgia, the city of new york. now he has the federal probe that's been on going. just one on top of the other. the more he does this, and the more he uses his words without his counsel and evidently even with his counsel the more he will find himself in deeper trouble legally. i would not be shocked ultimately if he does end up incarcerated, which is something i would not have thought months o ago or -- >> why do you think it now? >> so many different things that developing that are really significant crimes. you're taking documents and materials that are confidential and using them to your advantage or concealing them. there's an on going investigation. you knowingly taking steps to prevent the government from retrieving that property. that just sort of furthers the -- my belief and i think many people, though as i always say, the people or the government have to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt that there is something amiss here. it's continuation and

continuation of trouble that he's getting himself into with his words that are contradictory and his actions that arguably speak for himself. if you recall in the federal matter the judge said on its face there's criminality. that's a lower standard. >> you have to continue -- it's a lower standard. >> to continue the probe. >> correct, correct. allowing the piercing of that privilege because the crime fraud exception. there's something here. can't just say where there's smoke there's fire, but it's building and building. i would be very concerned if i were donald trump. >> wow. jeremy, errol, thank you. good to see you. new this morning, the u.s. general surgeon is issuing the impact on children's mental health from social media use. warning of profound risk of harm. cnn medical correspondent meg terrel is with us in the studio. meg, you ended up speaking with the attorney general about this. i think anyone who is a parent, anyone who is around kids can

see this harm happening on a day-to-day basis. >> yeah. this is something that the surgeon general is really worried about both as a parent and the doctor for the country. of course we know that use of social media among kids is almost universal. kids 13 to 17, 95% report to use social media. and though the minimum age is typically 13 to join these platforms, they found that 40% of kids ages 8 to 12 are on these platforms as well. while they found there is some benefit to using social media like creating community, especially for marginalized groups, they found the risk of harm is potentially much greater here, including things like depression and anxiety, going on social media instead of sleeping, online harassment and, of course, low self esteem where we have seen a lot of stud dishere. their calling on policymakers and technology companies to be more transparent with data and try to put more safety controls into place. >> it's really, really hard when you consider this. how are social media companies responding to this? they have heard this before.

families have come out against them. >> yeah. the pressure is really on these companies. and we haven't heard back from them this morning yet, but we did reach out. they put these family guides into place. tiktok, instagram, youtube, guidance for parents about how their kids can use this safely, but one of the things the surgeon general told us is that independent researchers say these companies are not sharing enough data. they need to be more transparent and that's something they're really calling for. >> you talk about the fact that kids that young, i didn't realize it was 40% of kids that are really, really young and impressionable, what can parents do? if this data is not out there, they just have to deal with this on their own. >> yeah. that's one of the things they're trying to address with this advisory to give more guidance. create a family media plan, really talk about this, figure out what you're going to do. create tech free zones particularly around bedtime and meal times. encourage your kids to have in-person friendships and really foster those for that important sort of brain and social development. and also model responsible

social media behavior. we all have to get off our phones when we're around our kids. i only have a 4-year-old and i need to do that better. teaching your kids about technology, reporting when there's cyber bullying either to school or even to law enforcement. and working with other parents. the surgeon general told us that's something they're trying to do with young kids 5 and 6, banding stogt because there's strength in numbers and finding like-minded people trying to do the same thing. >> these are really good. i think the hardest one for anybody is this one is not just to say it but to do it yourself. it is hard. i just made a check there. you're welcome. >> there you go. really emphasize it. >> thank you so much for your reporting this morning. >> thank you. donald trump taking another shot at ron desantis and praising senator tim scott as he jumps in the presidential race. >> thank you so much. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy visiting troops on the front line as russia grapples with a major surprise attack on russian soil. ♪

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♪ welcome back. south carolina senator tim scott is now the latest republican to throw his hat into the 2024 presidential ring. he joins a growing crowd of -- field of candidates. it's a crowded one. looking to capture their party's nomination and shake up a contest that has been largely dominated by former president trump and florida governor ron desantis who by the way has not formally announced but is expected to in the coming days. scott will try to strike an optimistic tone. scott called himself the candidate democrats fear the most. listen. >> when i cut your taxes, they called me a prop. when i refunded the police, they called me a token. when i pushed back on president biden, they even called me the n word. i disrupt their narrative. i threaten their control.

the truth of my life disrupts their lives. i'm the candidate the far left fears the most. >> let's talk about that with senior reporter and cnn political commentator errol louis. do the democrats fear him the most? >> i do not think smoch he'll have to break 2% before anybody fears him. no. look, tim scott is running on his biography. he talks about how he went from cotton to congress. and it's an inspiring story and a great story, but it's not contrary to what democrats talk about. i mean, the idea that he was raised by a single mother, overcame those obstacles and now had a successful political career is not out of step. it's not a partisan message. very deeply american message a lot of people can relate to. when he talks about personal responsibility as the engine that got him there, you know, democrats can if they do decide

to engage him turn around and say, well listen, you know, you have a lot of poverty in your state. it's nice to give people lectures about personal responsibility, but you could try raising the minimum wage or improving what is ranked as the sixth worst school system in the whole country. >> yeah. there are some other things that tim scott has come out against, being the only black american right now that is in the senate as a republican he has opposed civil rights laws, made it more difficult and increasingly targeting diversity, equity and inclusion policies. within his own party and the democratic party, democrats fear him the most, the idea is that some democrats may vote for him because of his story. does that work? does that make sense? >> i think it's really difficult to try to understand what lane tim scott would take up because he's talking -- you know, he's almost invoking this welfare queens nostalgia talking about this victimhood mentality, kind of bringing back these things, very targeted ways of talking

about poverty, kind of ways of talking about race without talking about race. so i think it's hard to imagine him capturing particularly white liberals or black voters with that kind of talk. but then you also think, okay, is he going to get the trumpist? he's not a trumpian candidate. who is tim scott for? >> that's interesting. >> i thought this response yesterday in the interview he did with nbc was interesting on abortion. this is a question every single republican candidate is going to be asked and that is, would you sign a federal abortion ban? what's your actual stance as president on this? here is what he said. >> i believe that life has intrinsic value because it comes from god. i have 100% pro life voting record. i'm 100% pro life conservative. as president of the united states, i would sign the most conservative legislation pro life legislation that can get to my desk. >> it's in contrast to what nikki haley said last week,

which is essentially i'm going to level with the american people. there's no way that at least a federal ban is boing to happen. >> well, look, tim scott is clearly playing to the evangelical base of the republican party. he wants to go as far as he can in that direction to secure to the extent he has a path to victory, he thinks that's how he going to start and maybe pull some other people in. that is a very tricky proposition, frankly. when you're talking about the most conservative thing that can get to his desk, nikki haley may have sense what had we just saw in the last midterms which is that if you want to awaken the democratic base, start talking about, you know, taking away the abortion healthcare rights and see where it takes you. i don't know if tim scott wants to do much more than win that evangelical base, win iowa which has happened before, you know, but it has not worked for republican nominees. it was ted cruz in 2016. there are evangelical candidates

who win iowa and get sort of a head of steam but they don't get the nomination. the last one to do that was george bush in the year 2000. that's a generation ago. >> a long time ago. >> i found it interesting because republicans have repeatedly said abortion is a state's rights issue. then you start hearing that apparently for some it is not. it is something they like to do federally. i do want to ask you quickly, jessica, you talked to political scientists what scott's real objective is. he will say it is run for president. is he looking for a cabinet position? >> that's a possibility. that's something i spoken to political scientist professors about, do you think tim scott is running? we don't know. we're not inside his head. but i mean, it does seem like he has a very small lane to win. but could he end up in a trump cabinet position? is that something he's really thinking is much more of a possibility? i think that's definitely potentially true. >> switching gears here because

we have you guys, brilliant political minds. i want everyone to listen to what james comer said yesterday. obviously he is the chair of the house oversight committee and this on going probe. here is what he said on fox yesterday. >> you look at the polling and right now donald trump is 7 points ahead of joe biden and trending upward. joe biden is trending downward. and i believe that the media is looking around, scratching their head and they're realizing that the american people are keeping up with our investigation. and they realize something is wrong here. >> show's linking his investigation to biden's poll numbers. it's reminiscent of what kevin mccarthy said in 2015 vis-a-vis benghazi and hillary clinton. let's listen. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee. a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping.

>> a few days later walked that back, errol said, no, i didn't imply that the work is political, of course. it's not. >> yeah, okay. well, it cost him the speakership in 2015. on the other hand, he's the speaker now. so perhaps the politics are changing. i think what you saw from comer, look, saying the quiet part outloud, saying on national television what you would normally say in a closed room with donors or inside your caucus as you're making political strategy. it's nice that he sort of laid out for us exactly what they're doing. i think there will be a backlash. i don't think americans like to see their government being used in such a nakedly partisan passion. i think it will cause a lot of people to discount whatever it is they come up with. and in the end, he may wish perhaps he had kept his mouth shut. >> thank you. great to have you. all right. this fake image claiming to show an explosion near the pentagon causing confusion and even spooking the stock market.

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♪ this morning, millions of people in mexico are being warned to prepare for possibly evacuation as mexico's most dangerous active volcano roars to life again. local authorities say the volcano has been spewing ash on to several towns nearby, about 25 million people live in a 60-mile radius of this volcano, about 45 miles southeast of mexico city. the volcano had been dorm ant for decades until it erupted in 1994. what you're about to see is not a real imagine, but the confusion it caused was indeed real. this picture reporting to show an explosion near the pentagon was shared by multiple verified twitter accounts on monday, including an account falsely associated itself with bloomberg news and a major indian tv

network which later retracted the report. even the stock market took a momentary dip shortly after the images started circulating. joining us now is donie o'sullivan. >> i know that all our jobs are in danger, but we'll start with this. where did this image come from? >> yeah. so there's two parts to this. and neither bodes well for the current information misinformation environment we're in. they were shared by verified twitter accounts, meaning accounts with those blue check marks, which essentially means nothing anymore. >> i was going to say. >> blue ticket meant the person running the account has been -- >> was actually the person. >> twitter had proven the person is the person who said they are. now anybody can get a blue tick once they're willing to pay elon musk a few dollars a month. so what happened was a bunch of accounts, a bunch of verified

accounts including an account that falsely claimed to be linked to bloomberg news shared this image. all of a sudden across multiple media platforms so it seemed pretty coordinated. the other part of this, of course, is the image itself. if you look at the image there, if you look closely, you know, doesn't actually look anything like the pentagon, but an a.i. experts we spoke to say that there's lots of indications in that image that say -- that showed it was artificial intelligence technology. two parts to this. it ended up getting picked up by russian state media funny enough. television network in india and just as you mentioned, it led to the dip in the stock market. so even a pretty crude, fake image like that, pair it with some verified twitter accounts can cause trouble. >> scary. >> before you go, i was just looking for this update because what we saw late yesterday was tiktok hit back at montana banning tiktok from use on any

phones, not just government phones, anyone. we talked to a small business owner last week who uses it for her business. can you just speak to the legal grounds on which tiktok is standing? >> yeah. this is going to be a really interesting test case, right, for all the other states in the country. tiktok, montana trying to put in a total tiktok ban from january 1st of next year, as you mentioned. we have heard from influencers, tiktokers in the state. i was talking to one tiktoking mom last week from montana. she said that her family's income tripled in the time that she had a tiktok account. it's a real source of income for people. what montanans will be able to do this or not, tiktok is saying this is a breach of the first amendment. it's also goes beyond the rights that states actually have. and people are also just saying technically how could you do this ban. montana is pointing to how betting apps in states are

blocked. >> they would fine the big companies that provide the platform. >> not the citizens. >> but china interestingly weighed in and now and called this an abuse of state power because tiktok is owned by chinese company bytedance. >> i'm sure that tiktok coms team in the u.s. are so happy that the chinese foreign ministry is trying to help make their case while tiktok here is trying to distance themselves from the chinese communist party. >> donie o'sullivan, you have so much work to do. so much work. >> we'll get an a.i. of me to do some of the work. >> save the country technological -- >> we are counting on you. donie o'sullivan, thank you for coming on this morning. now to the man accused of killing four university of idaho students appearing in court and choosing to stand silent when asked to enter a plea. what that could tell us about his potential defense. also happening today, police in portugal resuming their

search for little madeline mccain who was a toddler when she disappeared from that family vacation. this is madeline back in 2007. we'll tell you the suspect that prosecutors are pointing to this morning.

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♪ the man accused of killing four university of idaho students stood silent in a courtroom yesterday as a judge asked him to enter his plea. >> is mr. kohberger prepared to plead to these charges? >> your honor, he will be standing silent. >> he said nothing. bryan kohberger in an orange jump suit stared straight ahead in court yesterday. the judge then entered not guilty pleas on his behalf. kohberger is facing four murder charges and one burglary charge. investigators accuse him of

killing these four college students at an off campus home in november. they believe he stabbed them to death while they were sleeping. cnn's jean casarez is here. jean, prosecutors now have to decide if they're going to seek the death penalty, but i do want to ask you first, how unusual is it for a defendant to sit there and say nothing during a simple arraignment? >> sara, i covered the highest profile cases in this country for over 20 years now. i've never seen it. i have never seen it. and so i looked up the law because his attorney stood up and said, your honor, we are standing silent. those were actual words. now, under the law, the judge has to then enter pleas of not guilty. but i looked up the idaho procedural criminal statutes and they don't talk about standing silent. what they say is refusal to answer. that's what they say. and when someone refuses to answer, then that not guilty

plea has to be entered. but i have not seen it. we could make assumptions all day why he is doing it, right? but let's look at the facts. his attorney is very astute. she is the most aggressive, most proficient, death penalty qualified public defender in idaho. let's look at the defendant. he was a criminal justice -- he has his masters. he was working on his ph.d.. did he want to do this? remember, the defendant is in charge of his defense, right? and i just looked this morning, brand new motion posted by the defense. they want all of the grand jury materials in their possession. they have asked the judge -- the judge has agreed for a 30-day extension for them to file any motions on this. so there could be a plan here with the defense that we don't know. but it's highly unusual. you know, i looked at him yesterday in court as he was being read the indictment by the judge. normally you just look at the judge. that's what i have seen defendants do. he was reading it just like he was in a class and he would look

at his attorney and sort of smile. and he was -- his demeanor was very, very interesting just to watch. but he has pleaded not guilty by way of the judge. the trial at this point is set for october 2nd. so they better file this motion of intent to seek death if they so do very rapidly. there will be a hearing in june on the gag order. >> these poor families will have to go through all of this all over again. jean. >> mr. gone sal ez wanted to make it uncomfortable for him. but he is innocent until proven guilty. >> thank you for your reporting. police in portugal are beginning a new search for british toddler madeline mccann. she was just 3 years old when she vanished from her bedroom while on vacation with her family in may of 2007. now police are searching near a reservoir that's about 31 miles where she was last seen.

cnn scott mclean has the details. >> reporter: madeline mccann would have turned 20 this month-her family last saw her when she was 3. she disappeared in 2007 during a family holiday in the algarv region of portugal. she was with her younger twin siblings while her parents were dining with friends nearby. mystery of her disappearance gripped many across the uk, portugal. >> tuesday, portuguese police at the request of german authorities will he seven a reservoir around 50 kilometers. over the past 16 years, police have searched numerous wells and properties in the area, including this one which was searched in to 08. it is unclear whether it's connected to christian brueckner, the german suspect first named in the case in 2020. brueckner, a convicted sex offenders, lived there during

1995 and 2007. in an apartment about a mile away from the resort with the mccanns were staying. he is in prison in germany for the rape and murder of a 72-year-old woman committed in portugal at the same resort. he has not been charged in mccann's disappearance and denies any involvement. but one german prosecutor said he believes she was killed by brueckner. >> what makes you so certain that madeleine mccann is dead? >> we have some evidence for this. we have no frez orensic evidenc but other evidence. >> reporter: her family cling on to the hope that she is still alive. >> i won't give up unless we know for certain that the child is dead. we don't have any evidence. >> police say they are looking for evidence of brueckner's activities. the last time it was searched in the water. this time there are divers in boats. this time on land. german prosecutors it seems have

some level of circumstantial evidence in this case. under german law they have to prove to a judge they could secure a conviction and the clock is ticking. brueckner is serving a serve-year term and he has already completed more than half of it. >> scott thank you, very, very much. her family in our heart as they continue to look for her. the writer strike enters the third week. how networks are working to try to strike-proof their fall lineups. and happening overnight a man is charged with threatening to kill or harm a president, the president, after crashing a u-haul into a security barrier near the white house. what investigators found at the scene. the alall-new ergo smart base from tempur-pedic automatically responds to snoring. so, no more hiding under your pillow.

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into the third week. they are demanding a new and fair contract. they argue with the studios saying the writers guild proposals on the table would cost the industry $429 million a year but yield 19 billion in original content for streaming services this year alone. this shutdown not felt since the wind g w , if affected late-night television, award ceremonies, game shows as hosts sit out in a show of sol dcharity. by the way, this is going to get more complicated with the directors guild. is this going to be 100 days plus? >> they are dug in. >> could you explain the difference? the real argument is streaming is different. t we need to be compensated for

that, not the traditional way of compensation. >> both sides are under a lot of scrutiny. the writers feel they can't make a living doing eight episodes on netflix, episodes on paramount plus. the studios are under financial duress thanks to streaming, the economics are different and they are under a great deal of pressure as well as from wall street. >> how could you strike-proof a lineup? that seems -- >> that's a good question. >> weird to me, or hard. >> it is hard. i think that's the network's own nomenclature. we will find out. you use a lot of unscripted shows, reality competition programming, documentaries, news side stuff, sports, big on -- last week -- everyone trying to sell their ads for next season. disney did an hour on sports and other things, marvel and "star wars" later on.

>> right. you wrote about that in your piece. this was interesting. sports and news, however, perishable. you still have to tune in at the exact moment that it airs to derive maximum enjoyment from it and that draws simultaneous crowds that mcdonald's and apple that make cash registers ring and revenue flow. this is a trend that was emerging, right? but this strike accelerated it? >> that is correct. they put more pressure on it. everyone migrating from primetime dramas and comedies to watching something on netflix and amazon. by fall there will be little 10:00 on wednesday -- >> we'll be here. >> that's right. and sports. cnn, news, sports, that will be on. you can guarantee. that's strike-proof. >> there a fear on the part of writers that this will a accelerate because of the

strike, that this will accelerate? and to be fair, we want scripted programming. like this shouldn't go away. because they are moving to doing things like reality tv a lot more, is there a fear on the part of the writers, uh-oh, this might make this a faster turn? >> i am not sure. i think unintended consequences, they want fair pay and conditions, @sathe same time accelerate a trend that could backfire on them, absolutely. >> isn't this what caused the rise of reality tv was the last strike? >> it helped certainly. we see that as a -- you see on all the offerings, from abc, you know, all kind of -- cbs announced yesterday they are going to run "big brother" a week later to go into the fall season. you are seeing what's going to be on the air very soon. >> i am getting depressed because i like beautifully scripted, thoughtful stories. >> thank you.

"cnn this morning" continues right now. james inside. shot blocked. it's over! over! the nuggets are going to the nba finals for the first time in franchise history. good for them. right? i was definitely not up to see the game. >> neither was i. >> good morning, everyone. we are glad you are with us. sara is by my side today, sara sidner. and the denver nuggets heading to the nba finals for the first time ever after sweeping the lakers. now lebron james is hinting at a possible retirement. in the mar-a-lago classified documents case, a source telling cnn the special counsel is looking into donald trump's business deals in foreign countries that might be interested in those top secret records. we will tell you how