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lot of americans don't though they have and is available for everyone. congressman seth moulton, thank you for caring about this issue. >> thank you. "cnn this morning" continues right now. is it worth the fight? co do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. >> top of the hour. big day in politics. >> if you are wondering what that was, months in the making. there are big questions about whether or not it will help his numbers. >> we are talking about ron desantis. what you saw was a clip of a hype video ahead of his big announcement tonight. it's one of the big stories we will be watching today. >> the florida gore is set announce he is running for president. here is how he is doing it, on twitter with elon musk. we have new cnn reporting about how one of his biggest
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challengers if not his biggest challenger former president donald trump is playing to undercut the campaign launch. speaking of trump, the special counsel investigating the former president is about to get some crucial documents from the national archives today. they could end up potentially being key evidence in his probe. and the man accused of ramming the barricades near the white house and threatening to kill the president will appear in court. new details about what the suspect said after the crash. also guam getting slammed by one of the most devastating storms we have seen there in decades. today marks one year since that mass shooting in uvalde that left 19 elementary school children and two teachers dead. president biden is planning to address the anniversary calling for an end to the gun violence epidemic happening in america. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now.
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today florida governor ron desantis will officially launch his presidential race. we are told he will make that announcement tonight during a discussion on twitter with elon musk. a source tells cnn former president trump and his allies have coordinated a plan to undermine desantis' campaign launch, including a social media blitz by conservative commentators and trump surrogates in miami where desantis is set to begin meeting with donors today. trump hats been attacking desantis now for months. the governor is widely considered to be trump's toughest competition for the gop the presidential nomination. but desantis has been slipping in the polls recently leading up to the launch of his campaign. so we have team coverage on this. in miami, kristen holmes is following all things trump. starting with you, steve, today is the day. >> reporter: it is.
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and this is what we have been waiting for. this long, slow rollout of ron desantis' campaign. he has been a book launch, a national tour, traveled the country, signed a bunch of bills, put together this agenda that he is going to run on. today is the day he will officially announce he is running for president. he will do so on twitter as you mentioned, which is a very unconventional way to introduce yourself as a presidential candidate. most of the time we see candidates do these announcements in their hometowns. but he will be joining elon musk in a twitter chat. we are told this will be unscripted and there will be a q&a and opportunity to sort of engage with the audience. and then from there desantis will speak on fox news later tonight. as you mentioned, meeting with donors tomorrow and then start hitting the campaign trail for this challenge to donald trump and attempt to wrestle the future of the gop from the former president. >> of course, the former president is the gop frontrunner in this right now.
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kristin, you know as well as i do he has been attacking desantis long before this announcement became official today. how are they planning to responded to specifically? >> reporter: that's right. even this morning he already has been posting on his social media site about ron desantis. it clearly is living rent-free in his mind. this is what he and his team have been most focused on. he is likely his chief rival. part of this is a plan they have been working on for months, how to get the oxygen away from ron desantis and put it back with trump, which is something we know trump is markedly good at. part of this involves a rollout of videos, including one of trump looking at the camera addressing desantis' candidacy. another part of the plan is going to be this social media blitz. something that trump's team has spent a lot of time focusing on is getting these conservative commentators with huge followings to back the former president. they brought them to mar-a-lago, flown them on the plane with the former president to campaign
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events. they are likely to try to tap into that network today. so things that we are looking at, surrogates will be attacking desantis on a number of different policies, including when he was in congress as well as since he has been governor. that's reforming entitlement programs, trade policy, china, desantis' covid-19 response, which we know something which trump advisors are concerned that trump is vulnerable on. they are taking this very seriously. those polls, of course, recently showing trump with a huge lead. that is not something they are taking for granted. i can't find one trump advisor who will tell me that this is over. >> definitely far from over. we will see what the fundraising looks like as well. thank you both. also this morning, this is the other big story today, which is happening in washington. this deadlock that has been happening. the white house and house republicans have just eight days left to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling as that
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deadline to avert what economists say would be catastrophic default is rapidly approaching. house speaker kevin mccarthy and president biden with negotiations. mccarthy said there is still only one concession he is willing to make. >> you have been asking for the white house to make concessions. what are those concessions? >> raise the debt ceiling. >> that comment saying that that was his only concession out ranged democrats who say they believe mccarthy is frefusing t compromise as the white house has been seeking a deal in good faith. >> as these negotiations continue, hopefully, in the right direction, conservative hard-liners in congress are growing skeptical about janet yellen's june 1 deadline. >> i don't believe that the first of the month is a real deadline. like i don't understand why we are not making janet yellen show
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her work. >> she will extend it, but right now she is using june 1st. everybody knows that's false. >> the fact is we passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling. the fact is we are going to have cash in june. the fact is we are not going to default on our debt. that's just completely false. we have got the money to do it. so everybody just needs to be patient. >> so that's what they think. what are the facts? christine romans is here to help answer that question. help! help! >> follow the money. i'll show the work for you. june 1st, janet yellen's earliest estimate, many say there is no reason to disagree with her. that's the earliest possible date that the u.s. bank account goes below zero. moody's has a scenario that's more like june 8th because of tax receipts that could be coming in and maybe some more moving of money around that the treasury can do until then. the wil besseling august 8th. what's the problem?
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we are running out of money quickly. a year ago that cash balance was more like 800 to 900 billion. right now it's 68 billion. 68 billion, keep that in the back of your mind, june 1st we have medicare payment of 47 billion and on the 2nd we have a 25 billion social security payment. that's 72 billion. i can add more here. we have another 2 billion for medicaid and another 12 billion for veterans benefits. all of that will be going out the door the first two days of the month. so that's the kind of math that we're facing here. you are going to get tax receipts on the 15th but that's on the 15th. that's why so many people are worried about the first week in june, you guys. >> moody's, you know, one of the biggest rating agencies in the world, what -- they are sort of best-case scenario is august? how do they get to that? >> let's walk to that august number. you are talking about money coming in, right. so pass go on june 15th.
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you've got about $79 billion coming in, in tax revenues. we don't know for sure because california, alabama and georgia tax collection has been delayed. you have corporate money coming in. maybe that gives you a chance to get to june 30th. what happens? there are more extraordinary measures the treasury secretary can do, and that is the spending investments into some federal retirement accounts that. could free up maybe $145 billion. but on june 30th you have 98 billion in payments due, including 12 billion in interest. you can't miss that payment. that's how you can squeak by by finding every nickel in the couch cushions. maybe, maybe there is a 1% chance you could get to early august. this is why the june 1st deadline is so important. it's prudent to plan for running out of money at that time. that's when the treasury has to decide whether to prioritize paying its bills, whether to
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delay paying social security recipients, delay playing military contractors who is going to feel the pain first. those are the questions we are asking in the largest economy in the world. >> obviously, what we are watching in washington is not just about the numbers but also the political blame game, what biden said in his press conference in japan was would he be blamed on the merits, he doesn't belief he should, but on the politics. and numbers on how americans see this, what they want to happen. >> i was surprised 15% of people said don't raise the debt ceiling allow a default. those are the ultimate, i guess, con trarions of the world who want to see the u.s. economy go up in smoke. 60% said only raise the debt ceiling if there are spending cuts. i think that shows that the public is aware that debt and deficits long term are a concern for the united states of america, but i would make this point i have been making for some time. the debt ceiling is not an instrument of fiscal discipline. the budgeting process and the
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ballot box, quite frankly, are where those decisions are made. this is the least efficient way to address deficits is by not raising the debt ceiling or tying spending cuts to the debt ceiling. the big drivers of the nation's debt are not what they are talking about. social security, medicare, net interest on the debt and tax receipts that are too low. they are not talking about the real things that will fix the debt and deficit problem. >> that was fascinating. thank you, thank you. >> i hope you can take that. >> mondopoly board to washingto. you need to collect more than $200 after they pass go, by the way. >> go straight to jail, man. >> gosh. we will see. we are getting new updates this morning into what happened yesterday. this scene here. a u-haul truck that crashed intentionally, according to the authorities, was being driven by a 19-year-old. this 19-year-old reportedly as you can see here drove this truck into a security barrier near the white house and that 19-year-old is now set to appear
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in federal court today. prosecutors said sa ican doula said he aimed to get to the white house, be put in charge of the nation and he was, quote, prepared to kill the president and would hurt anyone that stood in his way. police say after he crashed he pulled a nazi nag out of his backpack, telling vfts that nazis have a great history. he praised hitler apparently for being a, quote, strong leader. kandula says he had been planning the attack for six months and flew to washington from st. louis earlier that evening. >> this just? police arresting a man for having firearms on preschool property. we will tell you what we know ahead. in south carolina the senate in the state has just passed a bill that would ban most abortions after six weeks. we will speak a republican lawmaker who has been fighting it that bill next.
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game. guam. become the latest state to abortion after six weeks. the state senate voted yesterday to ban most abortions after early cardiac activity is detected. that could be six weeks before women know they are pregnant. the bill offers very few exceptions, including fatal fetal anomalies like heart and brain defects and health and life of the mother. it would make exceptions up to 12 weeks for cases of rape on incest. a filibuster of five women have now become known as the sister senators trying but ultimately failed to block the measure. >> 100% responsible for pregnancy, men.
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men are fertile 100% of the time. so it's time for men in this chamber and the ones across that hall and all across the state of south carolina to take some ejacklation responsibility. we in the south carolina legislature are not god. we do not have the right to make decisions for someone else. >> it bothers me that it has been admitted in this chamber and acknowledged that what we are doing here today is going to not do away with illegal abortions. it is going to cause illegal abortions. and so, women, everybody, when you look back years from now and your teenagers end up dying because they have gone to get an illegal abortion because they didn't know they were pregnant at six weeks, it is our fault!
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>> that bill now heads to the desk of republican governor henry mcmaster, who said he would sign it into law as soon as possible. joining us now is one of south carolina's sister senators that you just heard from there, republican state senator sandy sin. we talked about this last week. you were saying it was going to basically be a nail-biter to see if your male colleagues stood with you and the other women on this. what's your reaction waking up this morning knowing that the governor is planning to sign this into law as soon as he can? >> well, i mean, i would be lying if i said i wasn't disappointed. actually, it came down to one male. you know, i'm thankful they stood with us before. but basically at the last minute he caved and when he did the other two went with him. so that left us with just five. i can tell you we would certainly be a lot more powerful if we could elect just three more women. with three more women, this whole situation would have
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turned out a lot differently. >> yeah, and i know you and your other colleagues are wearing buttons talking about electing more women yesterday. you referenced -- from senator tom davis, who ultimately was the reason this passed yesterday. do you have a message for the governor this morning on this bill? >> i won't be able to convince the governor. he is -- you know, i don't fault true believers. there are a lot of men in the chamber who just are true believers. they think this is the way to go. but i do fault moderates and those who are basically making trades and doing whatever they're going to do or just trying to say what they think is maybe off the primary. i fault them because they know better. they have children. they have even spoken of their children before and how they don't want their daughters to be in situations like this and yet they turned around and voted for it. but the bottom line is, i can't just keep looking my way.
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i have to get spring back in my step and focus towards getting more female colleagues elected. >> i'm from alabama. i know what the abortion access looks like in the south. south carolina was one of the last remaining states where women could go and have access to abortions. what is your message to women this morning? >> that i'm very sorry we disappointed you. but we tried. >> i can tell this is emotional and personal for you. >> it is. but anyway, like i said, we've got to get it back together. and we will. we are all five meeting here in about the next hour and coming up with some game plans. we were very heartened to see all of the support in the lobby. i am thankful to see so much republican support. i cannot tell you how it's just overwhelming. i had a lady from ireland write
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me today. she is a republican though. she is originally american. and there are so many people that have reached out and so giving you it that kind of encouragement is really needed. >> you're a republican. as part of this, you banded together your other female colleagues, some who are democrats, some independents, but given how widespread the abortion discussion has been on a national level, do things like what happened in south carolina yesterday hurt republicans ultimately do you think? >> yes. yes, absolutely it does. and i don't understand why my colleagues don't see that. i think that just for so long they have beaten that pro-life mantra. and we are all pro-life. but they have taken it too far. and i feel sorry for the women in florida. they are now going to have to -- you know, south carolina was -- and i don't want our state to be an abortion destination, but we are putting woman in the southeast in a total bind. if you don't have money to fly or a lot of money and time for
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gas to go all the way up the east coast, then, you know, you're just in trouble. and i think about the young, young victims, you know, of rape and incest, or, you know, those that just had boyfriends and got in trouble. i feel so sorry for them because i think they need a little bit of time. they don't need a lot of time. i think they need to make up their mind. certainly i would have thought that first trimester would have been a better option than where we are now. >> state senator sandy senn, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> i think she brings up an important issue that justice interest rate bader ginsburg said years ago, which is to not have access always disproportionately affects poor women. that's what she is talking about. if you don't have the money to go to another state, this effects you more. >> we had her on last week. we talked to her a bunch during this, but also she and the other sister senators have interviewed multiple times. you see she had tears in her
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eyes talking about this. it's incredibly personal for them. >> she feels like she let many constituents down. >> they pafaced a lot of backla. they had protesters, threats, threats to -- >> that's right. great interview. also, we are learning that police arrested man with weapons in his car. they arrested him for trespassing at a virginia preschool. the fairfax county police released this photo. look at those weapons. showing what they say they found during the search of the car. the large weapon at the time is an ac 47. athena jones has been following this at a preschool? >> truly frightening. this is coming from the fairfax county police. they tweeted out that photo. this happened yesterday. a man was from florida, 32 years old. he was found trespassing on preschool grounds in virginia. that is about a mile away from the cia. this man, eric sando, told
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police he was headed to the cia. and so fairfax county police, they arrested him, detained him. executed a search warrant on his car and they found those weapons. you can see an ak-47, smaller handgun and tons of ammunition. truly frightening to know this man was a few minutes from the cia and on the grounds of a preschool and given, you know, the number of terrible gun violence incidents in america over the years, this is just truly killing. poppy. >> thank you for the update. chilling indeed. >> let us know what you hear from the authorities. it's been one of those days that is seared into the minds of so many americans. certainly mine. one year ago today is when a gunman entered robb elementary in uvalde, texas, and changed the lives of so many, killing ultimately 19 children and two teachers.
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texas governor greg abbott is asking for all flags to be zone at half-staff and issuing a statewide call for a moment of silence statewide. >> president biden will deliver remarks to remember those lives lost and to reiterate his call for congressional leadership to stop gun violence. shimon prokupecz joins us from uvalde. you have been at the center of trying to get answers for these families about the response and lack of response to save these children's lives. i can't how imagine how hard it is to be there with still so many unanswered questions, but it is an important day to mark. >> reporter: it certainly is. and i think this is a day that many of the family members here, you know, have been dreading, have said it's going to be a tough day, a day where it brings them back to what happened here a year ago. part of what makes it so difficult for them is that they haven't had any kind of closure. so many questions still remain.
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so much of the accountability that should have already occurred has not occurred and at every turn they are just stonewalled or told we're still investigating and we still don't have answers for you. and just a couple of days ago some of the family members of the children who died, the parents and other family members came here to go inside the school for the first time since this happened. and they described just a very sterile kind of scene. much of the rooms have been cleaned out. a lot of the desks are gone and many of the places where the kids took their last breaths, they were able to stand there and just think about their kids and what their kids went through. they still don't exactly know what happened in those moment. but for today many of them, it will be a way to have some unity
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where we don't see that in this community. this is a community that is very much divided over what people should be doing, whether or not to move on, whether or not to keep remembering. so for many of the family members, certainly this is going to be a day where they are going to try to have some kind of moment together, kind of reflect on their loved ones and those that they have lost, but, obviously, moving on and having any kind of closure, we're nowhere near that. >> yeah, nowhere near that. it's hard to see this and also to look at the divisions that happened because of this that are still so deep in that community. i know you will be there all day. thank you. we'll be right back after this. ♪ you were always so dedicated... ♪ we worked hard to build up the shopop,
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his bid for the 2024 republican nomination. it will be a very unconventional launch. he is expected to have a live conversation with elon musk on twitter spaces. i should note it's going to be audio only. users can participate. musk publicly confirmed the conversation at a "wall street journal" event. >> yes, i will be interviewing ron desantis and he has quite an announcement to make. and we'll be the first time something like this is happening on social media and with real-time questions and answers. not scripted. >> musk still says he is not endorsing a candidate yet. so this isn't an official endorsement, lest you be confused. he did last year tweet this, if desantis runs against biden in 2024 desantis will win, he doesn't need to campaign. joining us are the very serious newsletter writer josh barro and
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communications director alyssa. good morning. >> that's the name of it, because otherwise sounds like poppy -- >> i know, the name and the description. two in one. >> you are not allowed to smile if you are mr. very serious. rein it in. all right. good morning. we talked a lot about the twitter of it and that's how you a unique to say the least. but desantis' wife put out this hype video of him saying, you know, america's worth it. you are inside the trump white house, inside the trump orbit. what does this mean? >> so this has -- this is going to go one of two directions. either disastrous or brilliant. ron desantis has made a name for by passing traditional media. we know everything is heading towards streaming. this is going to still be covered mainstream media but the attacks right themselves by trump. twitter is a platform donald trump understands. i think can scavino is champing
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at the bit how to disrupt this, use the army of trolls to try to distract from this launch. it's a gamble. if i were advising desantis i think it's too big of a gamble. the first day of a launch is the easiest, straight down the middle, no screw-ups is what you are going for. i expect to see trump recycle the biden of attack he is in the basement, not on camera, not out talking to media. there is some attacks that write themselves. >> he will be on fox a few hours after that. there are questions. twitter has not been running its best lately. we will see if there are any glitches there. to the announcement, long anticipated. there is a question among some republicans of whether waiting cost him because we have seen how in the months since he had that he soared to re-election, he sunk in the polls. something that trump points out every chance he can. >> and trump has been campaigning during that period, whereas ron desantis has been governor in florida and has the shadow campaign. i think there is a disskrang he
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is not out there forthrightly making the case why he ought to be the republican nominee for president. i will be interested to see. he is not the frontrunner in this race. donald trump is the frontrunner in this race. he is going to have to make the case about why donald trump should not be the republican nominee. he talks about i am a winner without really saying trump's a loser even though that's supposed to be the implication. at some point he has to make the argument why not nominate donald trump again. there is a way to do that without attacking from the left and i don't think we have seen that attack tried out. i expect he will try to make anthony fauci, donald trump's running mate, saying all the stuff you didn't like during covid, that started in 2020 on donald trump's watch when i was doing something different. so i think, you know, we will see the extent to which that case resonates. i don't think we have seen him make it in full yet. >> you talked a shadow campaign. all the bills he recently signed? if we go through what he is trying to do to run to the right of former president trump sign that six-week abortion ban,
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concealed weapons permit, banned transgender youth, restricted drag shows, block aapi studies, i could go on and on, expanded the so-called "don't say gay" law. now is the test, is that what the republican party wants? >> using twitter 20% of americans are on it. we say all the time twitter is not real life. i wonder if these early steps are not in touch with the broadest swath of conservatives want to see. ron desantis i think would have been wise to focus on no income tax, great jobs environment in florida, we got your kids back in school when other states were locked down, the free state of florida. instead he went into the wedge culture war issues and this will be a test if that resonates. those are powerful with the base, but i don't know that that's the full swath of primary republican primary voters. >> i think abortion, obviously, will be one of the biggest ones because certainly it helps in a
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primary. does it help in a general that you have signed this six-week ban into law? the other thing that desantis has making an argument the other day that i found interesting was talking about the supreme court. obviously, that is a big part of what helped trump get elected. whenever he was saying basically i would not only be in office for one term, i could have two, there could be two vacancies on the scot and how he would like them to look like. that seemed to be another argument to make that to just a bigger swath of republican voters. >> i am not sure this is a differentiator. any republican who becomes president is going to appointed conservatives to the supreme court. >> if he wins both. >> i assume donald trump will say i will pick a great running mate. we have never this situation where somebody sought a second term as president ever since the second non-consecutive term as president, the first where you will have someone up against the
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limit with one term. it's still kind of a bank shot. sonia sotomayor is 68. i don't think it's very likely she is going to leave the court involuntarily in the next ten years under a republican president. maybe. maybe, you know, maybe you get an extra term because you have the ability to run for re-election and maybe she dies. frankly, that's a morbid thing we are talking about here. it's a contingency on top of a contingency and all of the republicans will appoint the same kind of judges. >> one like of attack that desantis had that has broken through, it was from his pac, to say donald trump spent more thun attacking him in the primary. they are like, hey, they is not fighting for all our guys, it's about him and fighting his grievances. they should lean nor into that. i am not sure this is as strong. taking it from the trump playbook. i remember advising him on putting out a list of potential
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supreme court nominees in 2020, any republican is going to go for conservative justices. >> we will see what it actually looks like. all eyes on the launch -- >> what it sounds like. we don't get to see them. audio audio launch first, right? >> thank you, guys. also this morning, speaking of not just audio, visual as well, netflix cracking down on users who share passwords. hair /* how much you may have to pay up.
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more? >> this to me sort of gets at what's going on. what is the top reason you sub vibe to a streamer? cost is number one at 37%. 35% because of specific shows. the ability to log and share is just 2%. it's number eight on the list. but in terms of sharing your streaming log-ins, 50% say charging for sharing is a reason to in fact drop a streamer and 39% say they would actually pay for being able to share those passwords if they split the cost. i am not sure they are fog to gain folks but i am not sure they are going to lose that many folks either. >> >> yeah, they are watching "the crown." >> love "the crown." >> thanks, harry. get your new password. groundbreaking nel technology powered by a.i. could give those who could no longer communicate a voice again. donie o'sullivan tried to out. how close to go to reading his mind. >> good morning. >> thank you! >> what's your n netflix -- ♪
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mind reading may not only be a thing for psychics and mentalists, soon it could be the work of artificial intelligence. >> that's because scientists in texas are now training artificial intelligence to read brain scans and spit out a partial transcript of what that person was thinking during the scan. the research could have major implications obviously for people with certain disabilities. cnn's donie o'sullivan took a firsthand look at what this technology to co-do. >> you're reading people's minds. >> we don't like to use the term mind reading. >> reporter: these neuroscientists at the university of texas in austin say they have made a major breakthrough. they have figured out how to translate brain activity into words using artificial intelligence. earlier this month they published a paper explaining how they had research volunteers listen to audio clips while having their brains scanned by an fmri machine. over time ai algorithms, the
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same tech behind chatgpt were able to figure out what the volunteers were listening to just by watching their brains. >> it is just crazy, you can watch how blood flows through the brain and using ai and gpt and everything else translate it into words. >> it's wild that this works when you put it that way. >> thumbs up, donie. >> reporter: to test it all out professor alexander hoot and i had our brains scanned while listening to parts of the "wizard of oz" audio book. >> big brain. like obnoxiously big. >> hi, donie, we have a picture of your brain. >> i have a brain. >> it looks good. >> reporter: i was scanned first, followed by professor hoot, capturing images of the changes in our brain's flood flow as we listened to the words from the audio book and showing how our brains interpreted those words. >> when she had finished her meal and was about to go back to the road of yellow brick she was startled to hear a deep grown. >> we're getting recordings every two seconds while he is
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listening to a story. we will feed this data through our decoder and try to predict the story he is currently listening to. >> reporter: the next morning the results were in. okay, so it's been 24 hours since we got our brains scanned. you can confirm i have a brain. >> absolutely. >> brilliant. >> we were able to decode some stuff from my brain, not so much from yours. this is one from my brain, this is from the "wizard of oz." so on the left side is the actual words that i heard, when she had finished her meal and was about to go back to the road of yellow brick, she was startled to hear a deep grown nearby. the decoded version is on the right, i was about to head back to school and i heard this strange voice calling out to me. it gets some things right, was about to go back, it completely misses some things, but then it gets this nice example, she hears something and then instead of a deep grown nearby it said a strange voice calling out to me. it means something related even if it's not the same words.
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>> still pretty incredible to think was about to head back as something that just by scanning your brain -- >> yeah. i think that's one of the things that's surprising to us about this. it can get things like this, can get these entire phrases of exact words. so here is the same segment for you. >> now, so we expected mine not to be great. >> because we haven't trained the model on you. the whole day i would be fine but she wanted me to make it to her place, first i got a little excited about it. >> reporter: the reason it wasn't able to decode my brain was because the technology currently needs people to assist in the fmri machine for more than 16 hours so the ai models can train on specific people's brains. >> are we going to live in a world where, you know, i can walk by somebody on the street and they will be able to hold something over to my head and they will know what i'm thinking? >> currently we're very far from that. that might also never be possible. we can't completely rule it out, but as far as we know that certainly won't be possible in the next few decades.
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the real potential application of this is actually helping people who are unable to speak without them needing to get neuro surgery. >> now we have this snapshot of the brain. >> reporter: jerry tang explained how they used open ai's chatgpt model to uncode the plain. it is made up of multiple pages of text from the internet that the ai trains on and learns how sentences are constructed and how people talk or think. >> gpt made our predictions a lot better. >> reporter: but it doesn't just work listening to audio. professor hoot showed us what happened when he watched a movie with no sound. watch as the technology is able to decode with his eyes are saying. >> she took my hand and held it to her lips, she kissed it, i smiled and she pulled me in for a hug. i got her back for about hours, i had to stop the bleeding and gave her my shirt to put over it.
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it's pretty good. i don't know. a pretty good description of what was happening here. >> should we be scared by the work people like you are doing? >> we think it's really important to continually evaluate the implications of brain decoding and also to start thinking about enacting policies that protect mental privacy and regulate what brain data can be used for. >> so, yeah, you heard the term there mental privacy which is the most disopen yan thing i have heard in a while. look, it was unable to read my brain, but we did confirm there is something in here, but, look, this only works right now on very controlled environments, but as he said there, this one day could progress in a way that it actually can read your thoughts. really important potential and even last when we debuted this story last night heard from somebody who has a loved one who can -- can't communicate after a stroke. this kind of technology could be life changing. >> it's important to talk about because while it's far from
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finalized we always talk about the dangerous side of ai what that could look like with lawmakers, it's important to note there could be a lot of potential good here. >> a lot of potential good but also a lot of potential -- >> do i want to know your thoughts? >> do i want to know your thoughts? >> i feel like i'm pretty blunt with my thoughts, i don't know about yours as well. >> i hide my darkness. >> donie, thank you very much. >> thank you, donie. all right. happening right now, we are also tracking the strongest storms in decades that is now hitting the u.s. territory of guam. we will get the latest for you on the ground ahead.
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truly one of the greatest movies of all time, we watch that every christmas. >> christmas vacation. >> it's so good. it's not that scene in particular, but kind of looks like it because for your morning moment a baseball game turned into a scene basically out of national lampoon's "christmas vacation" when this squirrel started running on the outfield ball completely not at all freaking out some of those guys right there. eventually the squirrel jumped down the 8 foot 5 inch wall and flew through the air on to the field. the yankees not distracted making a
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