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 6-5 come back win over

the orioles. >> the highlight of the show for me. >> i like the squirrel. we will see you tomorrow. >> thanks so much for joining us this morning. cnn "news central" starts right now. >> look at that beautiful day out there. i love that shot of the hudson. finally making it official, florida governor ron desantis is set to launch his presidential bid today. how he changes the race as the republican field expands and what does elon musk have to do with it? shelter now. a stark warning as a typhoon packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour barrels into land. a look at the devastation as the worst of it is hitting right now. the mar-a-lago documents case reaches a critical moment. donald trump's lawyers demand a meeting with the attorney general as the special counsel closes in on a decision about whether to charge. this is cnn "news central."

let the games begin. the one competitor that donald trump appears to be most focused on is about to jump in the race. florida governor ron desantis is set to launch his presidential campaign today, and he is going to do it in a somewhat surprising way, not holding a big rally like we saw from tim scott just this week. not putting out a big video like we saw from president joe biden in announcing his reelection bid. instead opting for a twitter chat with twitter owner elon musk. the event is being billed as a live unscripted q&a, but make no mistake, team desantis has been fine-tuning his 2024 script for months. and despite a dip in recent polling, desantis is still seen as posing the greatest primary threat to the current republican front runner, donald trump, and that has become evident as in

trump's recent attacks against the governor who he once endorsed, those attacks have been sharpening. one fun fact, if elected president ron desantis at 44 years old would be the youngest -- one of the youngest presidents ever behind jfk and teddy roosevelt, a striking contrast with both donald trump and joe biden of course. let's get started. cnn's steve con tern know is in florida and standing by. what more are you learning about the campaign rollout plans for ron desantis today? >> reporter: kate, governor ron desantis will join elon musk for a twitter conversation where he is expected to launch his presidential campaign. that is slated to begin at 6:00 tonight and desantis from there will host a fundraiser here in florida where his campaign will begin dialing for dollars to get as many resources as possible to take this challenge directly to donald trump. they already have more than $100 million behind them and that number is expected to grow by the end of the week.

now, desantis has been teasing this announcement for months now, he has had this long rollout of the campaign, it's included a book tour, a national travel, stops in early states, even an international trip, but this will become official later today. his wife first lady casey desantis teased the announcement yesterday with a video showing her husband walking out on to the stage. take a look at what they put out there yesterday. >> but is it worth the fight? do i have the courage? is it worth the sacrifice? america has been worth it every single time. >> reporter: so that fight begins this week and desantis has been eyeing this race for a while, but he has said he is mostly focused on challenging president biden and will not spend a lot of time publicly attacking donald trump. that will remain to be seen once

they officially are head to head against each other, however, his super pac supporting him has been spending a considerable amount of resources in recent weeks defending desantis on the air and going after donald trump, so while he is publicly avoiding confrontations with donald trump so far, he has a super pac who is sort of doing the dirty work for him, kate. >> oh, yeah. how presidential politics works these days. steve, thank you very much. we have that coming. john, it will be interesting to see how long they can go without going at each other head to head. >> we will learn very soon exactly what he will do going forward. just a quick recap of what he's been up to the last couple of weeks, he signed a six-week abortion ban under it doctors cannot knowingly perform abortions after six weeks in most case. he signed legislation that will allow gun owners to carry a concealed firearm in public without a government-issued permit, certain training requirements will also end when this takes effect in july. >> you don't need a permission

slip from the government to be able to exercise your constitutional rights. >> it will still be illegal to carry a firearm in certain gun-free zones including schools, courthouses and college campuses. desantis signed a bill that eliminated unanimous jury decisions for the death penalty, no other state has a lower threshold than that. he signed a bill banning tiktok on all government devices, a crack down on immigration which includes a possible five year prison sentence for $5,000 fine for someone in the u.s. illegally. and he signed new restrictions on transgender floridians, transgender access to treatments and bathrooms will now be limited. >> we are going to remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy and kids should have an upbringing that reflects that. >> lgbtq advocates called this bill an all out attack on freedom.

they say desantis wants to erase them from florida schools and society. sara? prepare now and anticipate the worst. officials in guam are warning residents they will have just minutes to evacuate and respond as typhoon mawar is slamming the island as we speak. experts believe it's the worst storm to hit guam in decades. the national weather service is warning of torrential rains that may result in landslides and flash flooding on the island as well as catastrophic wind and life-threatening storm surge. the island is home to about 150,000 people and several u.s. military installations. cnn meteorologist derek van dam is in the weather center for us. can you give us a sense of where this storm is headed? >> well, share ration they're still very much in the thick of the storm. when this video was shot a couple hours ago they were under what is called an extreme wind warning, the national weather service reserves that for only the most extreme wind cases.

it's like getting hit with a tornado for several hours. that is what they were experiencing, especially across the northern and western sections of the island of guam. here is the latest satellite imagery and we've been annualizing this and keeping a close eye on it because we thought a direct landfall was imminent. it went through what is called an eyewall replacement so actually curved the if storm just north of the island and it's basically hugging the coastline on the western shoreline and that has major implication on who gets the storm surge, who gets the heaviest rain and also the strongest winds. 140 mile per hour winds at the moment, near the center of the circulation, it's a slow mover so it's dumping a lot of rain, but here is the impacts on the storm surge, 4 to 6 feet. if you recall yesterday we had up to 20 feet here along the east coast. that was with the anticipated landfall for that section, but that didn't happen. so that's the good news but nonetheless never' still getting walloped by heavy rainfall and flash flooding warnings in place or flood warning with some of the rain gauges already picking

up over a foot with another 5 to 10 inches of additional rainfall. you can imagine what that means in terms of landslides and mudslides. a look at the winds, they are going to be in tropical storm force winds for the next 24 hours, sara. >> it's incredible to see how large the storm is and how small the island of guam is. >> it's like threading the needle. >> thank you for that update. just into cnn, new information on the debt ceiling negotiations. cnn's lauren fox just chased down house speaker kevin mccarthy for his first comments in some time. you can see the pictures right there. i don't know if we're playing pictures first or going to lauren first. lauren, you are on capitol hill, why don't you tell me what the speaker said. >> reporter: yeah, i spoke to him just a few minutes ago, john, and he told us that he has not talked to president joe biden since their monday meeting. he also told me that negotiators are expected to meet again on capitol hill sometime today, likely this morning, but one thing remains clear, both sides

are very far apart when it comes to agreeing on how much money they think the federal government should be spending over the next several years. at the cornerstone of this negotiation has been the question of not just raising the country's borrowing limit, but what negotiators would agree to when it comes to spending caps. and that remains the key sticking point. i talked repeatedly yesterday to garret graves and patrick mchenry, two of the leading republican negotiators, and they said both sides remain very far apart. kevin mccarthy echoed that once again this morning saying these talks have been productive but there still is not the kind of significant progress that you would expect to see given the fact that we are now eight days dshl i will repeat that -- eight days away from that june 1st deadline. that is the date that treasury secretary janet yellen has laid out as potentially the very first moment where the u.s. could default on its debt. john, i would just underscore to you that there are some conservatives who are now arguing that that june 1st date

might be in question, saying that janet yellen may not be being forthcoming about that date. we should just note that one of the lead republican negotiators, patrick mchenry, said yesterday he trusts yellen, he believes her shat treasury department is full of bureaucrats who do not pull punches and that june 1st is the date that the republican negotiators are operating off of. >> when we say there are eight days left the house speaker made clear he needs at least three of those days to let members read whatever bill comes out of the deal. there aren't eight days, there may be four or five left depending on how you count. lauren fox, keep up the good work, let us know who else you chase down. thank you. i will take it and i will also say but when they really are hard up on a deadline, john, they often can say, do you know what, that three-day period, well, we will try better next time. let's move on because as you heard lauren say, patrick mchenry just said that he trusts janet yellen and other conservatives are saying that they do not.

that gets us to where the debt ceiling with this debt ceiling standoff as it is playing out, the treasury, though, is scrambling to count every dollar. right now federal government cash reserves stand at $68.3 billion, cnn's christine romans joins me now. this has been something -- i'm not going to call it your pet project, this is something you have urgently started to track every day. how much money the u.s. -- the u.s. government actually has in reserves, where does $68 billion get you? >> it's like asking $128 in your checking account and you have the mortgage bill coming in, your geico insurance payment coming in, you have all of these bills and you only have a few dollars. it shows you what they're dealing with. they're dealing with diminished funds. now, on june 15th there will be money coming in from state and corporate tax receipts, maybe that will be $79 million billion, that's the estimate but we are not for sure. what comes due on june 1st, $47 billion for medicare, $25

billion for social security, $2 billion for medicaid and $12 billion in veterans benefits. anybody receiving one of those checks does not think -- does not think that they are negotiable here. they want to see that money coming in. i think what the treasury department has to decide to do, will they pay the interest and principal on our debt? i'm sure the answer to that is yes. and then after that where do they find the dollars to pay all of these obligation as soon as we have hundreds of billions of dollars of bills coming due to june and we only have $68 billion in the bank account. >> janet yellen also said it might not even be as easy as we will pick a priority of what bill to pay. she has recently said she's not even clear how that is actually going to work to pay some, to not pay all. that's not how the system is set up. >> our payment system is made to pay our bills on time. that is what the international prestige of the united states is it pays its bills on time. we are not even built not to do that exactly.

we are heading into some pretty dicey days, i think, as we figure out how to get those bills paid, which bills to pay and whether they can avert disaster here. you keep hearing there won't be a default. okay. then show us how. >> and now pick your verb, pick your adjective, but you're hearing republicans saying it's getting more urgent. >> it's not helpful. >> we don't need to pay attention to janet yellen. >> it's not helpful. >> great to see you. attorneys for former president trump want to meet with attorney general maerrick garland. they have some questions as it appears the special counsel may be in the final stretch of the investigation. also south carolina's legislature is the latest to pass a restrictive six-week abortion ban. how soon the state's governor may sign it into law. and the crackdown begins today. the days of using a friend or family member's netflix password, they are about to end.

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on the radar this morning more than 450 catholic clergy in illinois sexually abused nearly 2,000 children for decades. that is the conclusion from a new report offering a comprehensive investigation from the comprehensive investigation by the illinois state attorney general. now, the abuse was tracked in this report, it was from 1950 to 2019. the diocese of springfield said in the report that the reminder is that some clergy in the church committed shameful and disgraceful sins against innocent victims, survivors and did damage that cannot be undone. also we're getting new information about former president jimmy carter who is currently in hospice care at home. his grandson said the

98-year-old is staying busy with jun states on his humanitarian work. he said he is in good spirits enjoying visits with family and also regular servings of ice cream. three months ago after several hospital stays the former president announced he would begin receiving in-home hospice care and would forego further medical inter jennings. netflix is officially track cracking down on sharing your passwords. the streaming service has begun sending emails to all u.s. subscribers who share passwords with people outside their household warning that will cost an additional 8 dollars a month. they said password sharing by millions of users is cutting into the company's bottom line. the missouri teenager accused of crashing a u-haul truck into a security barrier near the white house monday night is sed to appear in federal court today. varshith kandula was deemed a flight risk and held without bond by a judge yesterday.

according to court documents he told investigators he intended to kill the president if necessary to overthrow the government and put himself in power. cnn's brian todd is joining us from outside the federal court in washington. what can we expect today from the hearing and the charges that will be facing the suspect? >> reporter: well, sara, we can expect to learn a little bit more about where this young man stands legally at this moment. we do expect that the charges will be read to him and right now he faces one formal federal charge, that charge is deprivation of property of the united states in excess of $1,000. now, there could be more charges added on to that because he was arrested on several charges on monday night when he was arrested. so we will see if more federal charges are added to that. we do expect that he will be advised of his rights as a federal defendant, we will find out if he has an attorney and, if so, what his attorney may be saying about all of this. if the government decides to

ask -- to keep him behind bars until his trial, then we do expect the judge to set a date for a detention hearing. we do expect that the judge presiding over this hearing when it happens, and we don't know exactly the time that it will happen today, that this judge will be magistrate judge robin meriweather who will preside over this. we will learn more about where he stands legally, whether he has an attorney and what the attorney will be saying. we do have some detail from charging documents that were filed yesterday of some disturbing comments that he made about white supremacism, about naziism. as we've been reporting when he emerged from that truck after it rammed into that security barrier on monday night he had on him a nazi flag, it had a swastika on it. now, according to the secret service agent who interrogated him, who interviewed him and who filled out these charging documents, he made some comments about admiring the nazi culture, about admiring their authoritarian nature is what he called it, their eugenics and their, quote, one world order.

that he admired adolf hitler because, quote, he was a strong leader. so some very disturbing things coming out in his charging documents there. we're going to learn a little bit more about that maybe later on today. also, you know, we did speak to two former high school classmates of this young man and they described him sai varshith kandula as a guy yet young man, never got in trouble in high school. we are being told by law enforcement sources that authorities are examining what role that mental health may have played in this incident. so, again, we may learn a little bit more about that later today. sara? >> brian todd, thank you so much for that. john? sara, today marks one year since a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school in uvalde, texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. texas will hold a moment of silence and is lowering state flags to half-staff in honor of the slick tims. president biden marked the day by calling for congressional action to address gun violence. cnn's shimon prokupecz is live

in uvalde for us this morning. you were down there the day after it happened, you've been down there so much over the last year and you were there this morning. just give us a sense of what the mood is like. >> reporter: yeah, john, this is the very same street that you and i were standing on a year ago, i'm sure you remember, just behind me here when we started to ask questions to try to unravel exactly what happened here. again, here we are today and not much really new has been learned for these families. they haven't gotten a good accountability. the mood here, it's somber. it's much different obviously than it was when we were here a year ago when all of the news crews were here and the law enforcement presence and all of the people that were coming here by this hour and dropping off flowers. behind me you see the crosses in memory of the children and the teachers who died. this is obviously a very difficult day for the family

members who have not felt the support that they need, have not felt that they have gotten any kind of accountability and certainly this is a community that has been fractured, has been divided because of what has happened here. so for them, for the family members, today they want to come together, obviously to remember their kids, but this is a much different kind of response to, sadly, what has happened so many times across the country after a shooting where you see community come together, there is a planned memorial. things here are much different right now, john. >> you mentioned that's where we were standing one year ago and so many people will remember that image from a year ago. what's going on in that building behind you now? anything? >> reporter: well, nothing. right now the family members want to make a memorial here, which would require demolishing the school, but the district

attorney here who is in charge of this criminal investigation is preventing the school district from doing that. she said she needs to still preserve it. but i will tell you that in just -- in recent days, in the past few days, they have finally allowed the family members, the parents, to go inside the school to see where their kids took their last breaths and to stand and be in a place where their children died. and for the family members i have talked to about that, they said they needed t it was closure. it allowed them to be in a place where they can remember their kids, allow them to feel things. they said they could see the bullet holes, some of them have been covered. the classrooms have been entirely cleaned out so many of the desks that were there and the other things that were inside the classroom, but they could see and feel things and they said it was important for them to be there. thankfully -- they've been fighting for this. like everything else they've been doing, they've been

fighting to go inside this classroom and finally they got to do that in the last few days. >> think about having to fight for as much as they have after everything they went through on this day one year ago. shimon prokupecz, i know you've been a help to them in the work that you and your team have done, so thank you for what you've done and thank you for being there today. kate? ahead for us on cnn "news central," the date is set for donald trump's day in court. where he is going to face criminal charges in new york. the warning, though, now that the judge has given donald trump on what he can and cannot say in public about the case. plus the parents of gabby pa tito are heading back to court today. what they want from the parents of their daughter's killer. that is coming up. they'll be here in 5, we ready? - there's uh... - oh. left. left. i don't have it. i don't have it. - keep going. - we should've used behr. yeah. today y let's paint. right now, get america's most t trusted paint brand at a new low price starting at $28.98. behr. only at the home depot.. ♪

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welcome back to cnn "news central." here is a look at a few of the top stories we're following this morning. florida governor ron desantis is set to kick off his republican presidential primary campaign tonight. desantis will make the official announcement tonight in a conversation on twitter with its owner elon musk. typhoon mawar is lashing guam with torrential rain and devastating winds. the national weather service says it could be the strongest typhoon to hit the u.s. territory in more than 20 years. posing a triple threat of category 4 hurricane equivalent winds, exceptional storm surge and torrential rainfall. according to the joint typhoon warning center mawar still has

winds of 140 miles per hour with gusts up to 165 miles per hour. kate? south carolina lawmakers have now approved a six-week abortion ban and the bill is headed to the governor's desk to sign. he is expected to sign it as he has tweeted overnight, quote, unquote, as soon as possible. the state senate voted tuesday to pass this ban but this has been a long drawn-out fight we have been following with women state senators standing up to stop this from happening. that effort officially failed yesterday. dianne gallagher is following this for us. what happens now? >> reporter: yeah, well, kate, after the governor signs this into law expect lawsuits. according to planned parenthood and even before the governor himself commented they said once this is signed into law, they will see south carolina in court. that is particularly germane to south carolina because they actually had a six-week ban in

place in law before and the state supreme court struck it down. according to those five women senators on the floor of the senate last night language that was tweaked by the house members they believe opens the state back up to the same issues they had when the supreme court struck the bill down originally. now this new ban -- this new abortion ban bans abortions essentially after six weeks, before many people know that they're even pregnant. it does include some exceptions for fatal fetal anomalies, in some cases the health or the life of the patient, as well as exceptions up to 12 weeks for rain and incest victims, but they have reporting requirements for doctors to local authorities, which opponents say could discourage those victims from actually coming forward. it also includes a slue of differences from the current law, including adding penalties for doctors up to felony charges, fines, jail time and

opening them up to civil suits if they knowingly violate the law. now, look, lawmakers said that those five women said they fought as hard as they could and said that they are now going to strategize at this point, kate, on what their next steps could be. >> all right. thank you so much for the update. let's see what happens now. john? all right. a new move this morning from donald trump's legal team and perhaps a sign that they think the investigation into the mar-a-lago documents is close to a conclusion. trump's lawyers they are requesting a meeting with attorney general merrick garland, they are asking to discuss what they call, quote, unfair treatment by the special counsel jack smith. cnn's kara scannell, step into the interview chamber here is with us now. what exactly are they asking for, what, and what signs are there, like there's other stuff happening today that indicates that there's movement here. >> this is a request from trump's legal team to meet with

the attorney general merrick garland. they're saying they want to discuss the unfair treatment of former president trump. what's interesting is they don't say which investigation they want to discuss because the special counsel is looking at both the handling of the classified documents and the election interference and whether there was any, and they're also asking for this meeting with garland but not jack smith, the special counsel. that is when you do see attorneys want to go in and kind of give maybe their last pitch of why their client shouldn't be charged, they usually meet with someone who is on the team not going straight to the attorney general. so real interesting question if garland takes this meeting or if they make an appeal to jack smith himself. because there are signs that this investigation is potentially winding down, particularly the mar-a-lago one. i mean, in that case the national archives is set to turn over documents today which suggest that trump and his team knew the process for declassification. that has been one of his defenses this whole time, that, you know, he declassified the documents when he left office, but there is a process and

that's what these documents may show. also they have interviewed so many people around this. remember the search of mar-a-lago was last august, ten months ago. jack smith has been in place for quite a while and they have interviewed members of trump's legal team involved in responding to the subpoena that kicks off part of this investigation, particularly the part where they are looking at obstruction. >> kara scannell, great to see you. thank you so much for this. a lot of signs we don't know what's going to happen but stuff does seem to be happening. thanks so much for being here. sara? police in portugal are focused on a marshy reservoir miles from where madison mcgahn was last seen 16 years ago. what led authorities to the site and a live report straight ahead. my bottle of choice? neutrogena ultra sheer. a lightweight blend that protects s 6 layers deep with a smooth dry-touch finish. this round is on me. neutrogena ultrara sheer. hi, i'm norma, and i lost 53 pounds on golo. (soft music) a lot of people expect to fall apart as they age,

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former british prime minister boris johnson has been referred to police over new claims that he may have broken covid lockdown rules. the times of london is reporting there is new evidence johnson was visited privately by friends touring the pandemic. the former prime minister was already fined last year for breaking covid rules in 2020, that was just one of the scandals that eventually led to his resignation. johnson's office calls this new referral briz czar and unacceptable. so some much needed relief is on the way for flood victims in northern italy. the italian government approved an emergency package of more than $2.2 billion to help the flood half ajd region. more than 36,000 people were evacuated and 14 people died in the floods since that flooding began last week. about 23,000 people are still homeless in some cities remain flooded. searches in connection with the disappearance of britished to land madeleine mccann resumed

today in portugal 16 years after she vanished. a police source in germany told portugal that pictures of the reservoir they are searching were found on the computer of christian brookner, a man named as an official suspect in the case last year. yesterday search efforts were canceled due to heavy rain and wind. john? overnight drone strikes inside russia's belgorod region injured nine people. that's over the border. that's according to the governor of the region who said the attack damaged cars, homes and administrative buildings. power has not been fully restored. the drone strikes came one day after a rare ground assault by anti-putin russian fighters. one official told cnn that ukraine was given a heads up about the raid but maintained that ukraine was not involved. russia's defense minister said they will respond, quote, harshly to any assaults they

describe as, quote, terrorist attacks. let's go to cnn's frederik pleitgen who is in kyiv. all of a sudden a lot of activity happening in this belgorod region where i know you spent a lot of time particularly in the beginning of the russian invasion. what's going on? >> reporter: first of all, you're absolutely right, there is a lot of activity happening, you had that cross-border raid by those anti-putin russians which is absolutely correct. it's humiliating for the russian military because it took them more than 24 hours to come to terms with that situation. it was late yesterday that the russian defense ministry came out and claimed they had pushed all the attackers back into ukrainian territory, also claim that they had liquidated as they put it 70 of them, which seems to mean killed, captured or wounded 70 of them. the groups themselves, those anti-putin russians, this he deny that that happened, they say their fighters got back, they said some of them might actually still be inside russia, they weren't willing to say exactly, but in general this is not a good look for the russian

military. you're absolutely right, at the beginning of the war i spent a lot of time in that area, it's a key area for the russians, right on the border with ukraine, it's a highly militarized area, they have a lot of military bases there and for this group of armed russians to come over into russian territory and be able to go there for that amount of time is certainly something that is very difficult to stomach for a lot of people. there is still a lot of people in that region who is not able to go back to their houses because there are still sweeps going on and there are a lot of people asking how something like this could happen. that ranges from the governor of that region who said he has a lot of questions for the russian military to also yevgeny prigozhin the head of wagner who has been fighting in bakhmut. he said what's to stop them from going to moscow next time? something that's embarrassing for the russian military, a lot of russian haves a lot of questions and one of the things i think that you said, john, is also absolutely key as well, the

ukrainians now a source telling us they had a heads up but continue to say they had nothing to do with this. that these are groups of anti-putin russians that fight with the ukrainian armed forces here inside ukraine but when they do things in russia, they do that independently, john. >> they are russians. fred pleitgen, enormous powers of conversation with the bells of kyiv ringing behind you, something i think actually defiant about hearing those bells in that beautiful city. great to see you. thanks, fred. still ahead, a pair of hearings today in the civil trial between the families of gabby petito and brian laundrie. what petito's parents claim laundrie's parents knew but kept hidden after gabby disappeared. also can artificial intelligence read your mind? let's hope not. the research that could have major implications for people with certain disabilities. ♪ ♪ ♪

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of conduct. he spoke at a d.c. event last night. >> and on a final issue of concern inside the court, i want to assure people that i am committed to making certain that we as a court adhere to the highest standards of conduct. we are continuing to look at things we can do to give practical effect to that commitment, and i am confident there are ways to do that that are consistent with our status as an independent branch of government under the constitution's separation of powers. >> now there are some in congress pressuring the court to adopt a formal code of ethics. cnn's supreme court reporter joins us now. you heard words that might give us an idea that they're going to do something different. >> right. at the very least, he is making clear that he has heard the

criticism here about ethics and of course, it all comes, remember, as clarence thomas was revealed that he took lavish trips and engaged? real estate deals with the gop donor and never disclosed it on his financial disclosure forms and congress is getting involved here. democrats particularly are saying, look, you have to come up with this ethics code and if you don't, we will and so there, that was roberts last night. he was receiving this medal, and he made those comments and there was a little news there because he clearly says something is going to change, and we weren't sure that it was going to, but then he also pushes back at congress. in a way, he kind of politely says back off. we are going to handle this ourselves and those are the tenets of separation of powers and so it was a very interesting statement that he made in that speech last night and of course, it comes, as you know, new polling that shows that 41% of

people that approves of what the court is doing, 59% that disapproves and the justices themselves, this is the busy season. they are working up, voting rights, religious liberty and right now the spotlight is on the supreme court in more ways than one. >> it truly is and that is remarkable to look at the approval ratings. you never see that with the supreme court and you always see that with congress and the president. thank you very much, ariane de vogue. the civil trite between gabby pettiito and brian laundr and his laundry's disappearance and subsequent death. gabby petito's parents are suing for emotional distress claiming the parents of brian laundry knew he murdered gabby. jean, what is going to happen

today? >> this is all about the letter. there was a letter that was found in the backpack of brian laundry when his remains were found and that letter was from his mother and the letter, according to the plaintiff's attorney because he saw it at the fbi says things are scathing in regard to their knowledge of what was going on -- >> the parents' knowledge. >> yeah, the parents' knowledge, so gabby petito's family, they want that letter. they want to see it and this hearing is all about they're trying to say no. this letter is not relevant. you don't deserve to see it and ultimately they would want it as evidence in the trial. we want to show everybody what are some of the contents according to the hearings so far. one thing is in the letter says, quote, i'm bringing a shovel to help bury a body. that's one of the things and then at the last hearing we heard something else that came out about baking a cake. that they were baking a cake.

she would do that, his mother with a shiv in it and it said burn after reading and roberta in an affidavit said, this has nothing to do with gabby missing. the letter is not dated. i wrote this long before gabby went missing. brian and i were having a difficult relationship. we had enjoyed some books together that had some of these phrases in them, and i was trying to repair the relationship and gabby had a book called "burn after writing" and we used to joke about that and that is why it's on the outside of the letter. this hearing today will be a big argument about that, they are alleging you, the parents knew what brian had done and you knew he murdered our daughter, you wouldn't return our calls and blocked us on facebook and we were desperate for answers under

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