>> st. louis'll own jon hamm voicing a new ad for marine veteran lucas koontz, the democrat who wants to replace josh hawley in missouri. >> no n. missouri you can't fake courage. we're the show me state. courage is something you have to show us. >> the first lady jill biden becoming the piece de resistance on the food network. she made a cameo last night on "chopped." she surprised four active duty military chefs taking part in the finale of a salute to the military. >> please welcome first lady of the united states dr. jill biden. >> our military is so important, and we are so thankful for everything that you do for our country. >> thanks for your time on "inside politics" today. we'll see you tomorrow. "cnn news central" starts right now.

florida governor ron desantis will soon make his presidential bid official and a you this cnn poll is giving us the latest snapshot of the republican race. one key takeaway, desantis is going to be facing some challenges. and a critical moment in the mar-a-lago documents case. the special counsel closing in on a decision on whether to charge former president trump. his lawyers are requesting a meeting with the attorney general. ahead, what this could signal. and target is taking some of its products celebrating pride month off store shelves. why? they cite confrontational behavior and threats toward store workers over its pride collection. we are following these developing stories and many more coming in right here to "cnn news central."

the race for the republican presidential nomination is about to get much more competitive. just a few hours from now florida governor ron desantis will officially launch his 2024 white house run in an unconventional way. he's announcing it live via twitter discussion with the platform's controversial owner elon musk. desantis needs a jolt of momentum because a new poll out today shows a majority of republicans still favor donald drup. his 53% support more than doubles what desantis has. and despite legal challenges trump has widened his lead in recent months. let's take you now live to miami and cnn's steve contorno. steve, governor desantis set to hold an event later where you are in miami. but first, what are we expecting from this twitter announcement? >> well, boris, desantis loves surprises and he loves keeping the media on their toes. they're keeping a lot of the details for tonight under wraps. but here's what we've been able to zblaen from sources. desantis tonight in this

conversation with elon musk will announce that he is formally a candidate for president of the united states. that is an announcement we have expected for months. he has been building up to this for much of the past six months. and it will become official tonight. now, from there desantis is expected to hold a fund-raiser thursday in miami where he is going to start bringing in money for his campaign. his donors will be told it's time to start dialing for dollars. but we're already getting a lot of feedback from his potential rivals about this announcement. we heard from donald trump, a superpac supporting him saying, quote, it's one of the most out of touch campaign launches in modern history. and nikki haley, another potential contender for the nomination, has said desantis is trump without the charm. i've got to tell you i'm fielding a lot of calls from republican operatives and democrats saying this is one of the oddest campaign announcements they've ever seen. but this is in keeping with how desantis is going to conduct this campaign. he's going to be unconventional.

and he's going to try to stir the pot in any way he can and this is the first step in that. >> yeah. supporters believe this makes him more of an insurgent candidate. that's the brand he's trying to embrace. steve, what about the next few weeks? i imagine desantis is going to be heading to some of those early primary states as he campaigns. >> that's correct. and we're actually just learning that desantis is no longer going to hold an event in his hometown in florida. that was originally part of the plan. however, they have scrapped that and now they're going to focus instead immediately on going to those early primary states and on getting in front of those voters who are going to decide who's going to be the nominee for the republican going forward. and desantis is going to try to convince them that he is in a better position than trump to carry the mantle for the gop. that argument is going to be based on his record. it's also going to be based on the fact that trump is a lame duck the moment he gets into office, whereas desantis can serve for two years and push through a -- excuse me, two terms and push through a

conservative agenda over those eight years, boris. >> and both supporters and critics are going to be watching how he handles those moments in crowds. criticisms over his ability to conduct retail politics have been looming over his campaign. steve contorno in miami. thank you so much. over to you, brianna. >> let's talk about this now with washington bureau chief for "usa today" susan page. this choice of desantis to use twitter as a venue. what does it signify? what are the upsides? what are the down sides? >> one upside is 140 million. that's the number of followers that elon musk has on twitter who might be watching, tuning in. that's a huge audience. it's a little different too. so is if you're going to have a pretty big republican field, and it looks like we're going to, we expect additional challengers to get in in the next couple weeks and months, it may not be a bad idea to look like you're a little different and you're willing to do something no one has done before. >> how does he substantively celt himself? what is his pitch going to be that sets him apart? >> one thing is he won re-election in florida, a key

state, by 19 percentage points. that's pretty significant. he has enacted a conservative agenda in florida. now, that may be a double-edged sword, good in the primary, bad in the general. that would be the argument that he makes, that he can do things including some things that donald trump supports but he does not carry all that trump baggage. >> how does he need to broaden his appeal? because obviously he has some folks who are very enthusiastic about him but that's not going to be enough. >> right. and he has a lot of big donors who are enthusiastic about him and who are maybe a little tired of donald trump. that's important too. but yes, you have to sell yourself, not just your policy proposals. you have to make people feel like you're someone they trust, someone they'll want to follow. you have to be an effective campaigner i think to win election as president. and that is something that's kind of tested desantis so far. >> you have to be an effective campaigner. you have to be a good retail politician. he sells himself as trump without the drama. is he also trump without the charisma?

or is he just not really trump at all? i think it is hard for someone who does not grab your attention to make it through this presidential process. but we'll see. his early start a little bit of a stumble. maybe he waited a little long. he's still finding his footing on how to respond to attacks from donald trump. but he's got time. where everything stands in these national polls they're going to be way different by the time we get down the road. >> in your experience covering presidential candidates is there a learning curve? can they figure that out over time, how done a better retail politician? or is that just something you're born with? >> well, both. there are some innate great campaigners. donald trump would be one. ronald reagan would be another. barack obama would be a third. but you do learn things through presidential campaigns. that's one advantage that trump has. he's been down this road before successfully. twice gotten the nomination.

once won the white house. that is a big advantage. >> susan, great to have you. thank you so much, susan page. jim? >> well, donald trump's lawyers sent a letter to the attorney general, and on the same page they request a meeting and also harshly criticize the nation's top law enforcement officer for the act of investigating the former president. he then posted the letter, which was dated yesterday, online. it says in part, "we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors." let's discuss more. cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, it's not clear which of the doj investigations he's referencing here. do we know or is this a catchall? >> it appears to be a very general catchall letter asking to basically speak to the manager of these investigations. it's not terribly lawyerly in its language and it's lacking specifics about exactly what conduct by the special counsel they take issue with.

now, typically if your client has been informed that they're the target of investigation and likely facing an indictment, it is not unusual for them to go in and try to make arguments to prosecutors about why their client should not be charged. but our reporting now is, jim, the former president's legal team, they've been given no indication that, a, either one of these investigations is over or that there is any indictment that is imminent. in fact, our reporting is that even in the mar-a-lago probe, which is in its final phase, they may be getting more evidence as soon as today and they could also hear from more witnesses. so it appears this is just a general request to speak about it. >> okay. does the doj give this meeting? >> it will be interesting to see. they're asking for a meeting with the attorney general of the united states. you are not entitled to a meeting with garland no matter what you think of the ongoing investigation. this is unique because this is a special counsel probe. and merrick garland is the one who oversees the special counsel's work. but optically as we reported just a few weeks ago doj did grant a similar request to hunter biden's attorneys, who

they too didn't have any indication that an indictment was imminent. they e-mailed doj and said hey, we'd like the opportunity to get an update and explain to you why we think you shouldn't proceed. that was granted. they met with career officials at the justice department and the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who is overseeing that probe. now, this is a different kind of investigation. different matters. different oversight. but to the average american if hunter biden gets a meeting at doj to, quote unquote, speak to the manager and trump doesn't optically this puts the justice department in a tight spot. >> oftentimes the former president will make arguments about his various cases that are not necessarily legal in nature or not even intended for, say, the judges, more for public consumption. is this about public consumption or is there -- you say they have a right to make their case to someone investigating them subpoena that the aim here or is this more public messaging? >> is certainly seems more like an argument in the court of public opinion. if you truly wanted a meeting i

don't know thawed other put it on truth social. it does appear that there's not a lot of goodwill between the former president's attorney and the special counsel. this feels like something in the court of public opinion. it's also an attention grab on the same day that someone else is entering the presidential race -- >> what else is happening today? trying to remember. >> just a few things. but it makes the same arguments the former president has made publicly. >> paula reid, thanks so much. boris. >> coming up, eight days. that's how soon the u.s. could default on its debt, which could spark a worldwide economic disaster. we're going to get you live updates on where negotiations stand right now. plus, hurricane-force winds, flash flooding and a power grid meltdown. we're tracking a massive typhoon hitting the u.s. territory of guam. and later, what target is saying after pulling some lgbtq merchandise from its shelves just days ahead of pride month. these stories and much more right here on "cnn news central."

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still far apart, but talks continue. today house republican negotiators are at the white house squaring off trying to reach a debt limit deal to prevent a default and a potential global economic catastrophe that could come as early as june 1st. right now markets are being impacted by this disagreement. the dow is down some 275 points. both sides have called talks productive, but they've also given bleak signals and a wide gap still remains over spending cuts. i want to take a step back and look at the u.s. budget. what our government is spending money on. that number for 2023 is $4.6 trillion. but there's one specific part of that budget in particular we want to zoom in on.

net interest. that's what we pay as a nation to borrow money. that amount is $395 billion. that is money that's not going to any government program, not for health care, social security, roads, national defense, none of that. that's just the amount that we pay to borrow. by comparison, what we pay for veterans' benefits, 156 billion. we spend nearly 2 1/2 times what we spend on our veterans, the people who sacrifice so much for this country, just on interest. and here's another problem the debt ceiling creates. if lawmakers and the president can't figure this standout off -- standoff out i should say, if they default or even get close to i adefault like we saw in 2011, credit agencies are going to downgrade american credit ratings. we're going to wind up paying even more money just to borrow money. brianna? >> yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense. so now for the latest from capitol hill and the white house at this critical moment we have cnn's manu raju and arlette

saenz with us. manu, i want to start with you. it does feel like there's a little bit of a pattern here, right? we see the speaker and the president meet, maybe a little bit of optimism or this sense that it's a productive meeting. you have the speaker go back to his conference. and then it's pessimism. >> yeah. there's no question about that. there's a huge gulf between house republicans and the white house and simply not much time in order to get a deal and move through both chambers of congress. the difference remains over federal spending. the republicans are insisting that there must be significant spending cuts, really below this year's level in terms of cuts. that's what they are seeking. the white house has tried to offer what they view as a compromise, to freeze federal spending. that is something the speaker says is a no go. also there are other policy issues at play too including a push by republicans to impose work requirements on food stamps and other social safety net

programs. that is not enough for the white house to go along with. they say that is not something they would be amenable to. but even if they were to reach a deal, getting it through the house and the senate will take time. drafting the text, going through the house will take at least 72 hours. it could take up to a week or so to get it through the senate. and that means they have to also get the votes. also a huge question mark, which is raising a lot of concerns about whether they could avoid a default as soon as june 1st. now, one of the big questions and something that has rankled democrats over the last day or so is when kevin mccarthy told me yesterday that he would not agree to any other concessions. the only concession to raise the debt ceiling himself and asking democrats to move in his direction on spending cuts. so i asked the speaker about that position today and he defended his approach. >> democratic votes probably in the house, definitely in the senate. you have a democrat in the white house. why not offer a single concession beyond saying we're not going to default? >> we've offered a lot of

concessions. the cap on the spending is a democrat idea. the work requirement was a democrat idea. >> they're opposed -- >> i can't help it if the democrats have become so extreme and now it's a party of bernie sanders than the party where joe biden was elected. joe biden is the president of the united states. he is the head democrat. but if aoc and bernie sanders is going to run their party, that's not my fault. i'm not even sure bernie sanders is a registered democrat. >> and those two issues in which mccarthy suggested were concessions actually have been rejected by democrats who don't want to roll back federal spending and don't want to impose those work requirements. so just giving you a sign there of how far they have to go and they're facing pressure, republicans are, to hold the line in those spending talks. democrats too on the left, raising -- many members raising concerns about what they could concede and give kevin mccarthy. so lots of question marks here with the economy hanging in the balance, brianna.

>> arlette, what does the white house think about the speaker saying the only concession he'll make is increasing the debt ceiling? >> well, brianna, sources tell us those comments from the house speaker have irked some here at the white house, especially after they had been describing these conversations on monday as being productive. but look, this really points to some of the frustration that's been bubbling up over the course of the past few days around these negotiations. just think back to president biden's comments on sunday when he said that in order for a bipartisan compromise to be reached republicans are also going to have to move. they're going to have to give something up. and comments like that from house speaker kevin mccarthy in the view of democrats simply don't jibe with that kind of idea. you know, one thing that democrats are quick to point out, you've heard this from for instance house minority leader hakeem jeffries, is that the white house has made concessions in some ways when it comes to the issue of spending, even proposing freezing spending at current year levels, which is

something that republicans think they want to see more than just that. but it really speaks to some of the tension that has been rising around these negotiations. now, at this very moment white house negotiators and negotiators on behalf of kevin mccarthy are here huddling at the white house trying to see if there is any further room for compromise, any way that they can try to hammer out some type of agreement as each side is keenly aware of the very serious time crunch that they are facing as that june 1st potential deadline for a default quickly looms. >> that's the deadline. but make no mistake, right now is go time and it's hard to see that they understand that. so we'll keep our eye on this. manu, arlette, thanks to both of you. jim? >> yeah, and even folks questioning whether there is a deadline so soon. well, a hearing expected any moment for the man accused of crashing a u-haul into a security barrier very near the white house. we're going to be live outside the courthouse. and a massive storm packing wind gusts over 100 miles per hour is hitting the u.s. territory of

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happening now, a typhoon is wreaking havoc in the pacific. hurricane-force winds pummeling

the u.s. territory of guam for more than 12 hours. it's the most powerful storm to hit the island in decades. cnn's chad myers is live in the weather center for us. chad, the governor understandably is urging residents to stay inside. do we have any indications that this thing is starting to slow down? >> no. no. we don't really have any kind of ground truth either because yesterday, last night at least, the power knocked out our radar. so what was our real eye on this storm here really just got knocked out. so now we're only in the visible satellite. it did move to the north of guam just a bit. so the center of the eye did not pass over the island itself but to the north. the problem is most of the energy was on the back side of the eye. and so the west side of the island, probably not as prepared as the east side expecting landfall from this direction, took the brunt of it as it really came around the back side of the eye wall.

just blowing in the wind. now, the problem we have now is this long duration, as you talked about, how long this storm sat right over the island and now finally moving away a little bit. but it's just that one board comes off and then another comes off and it's that long duration damage that we were seeing here. back to an eye again here, which means this storm is reintensifying. not going down. getting stronger. but the good news is it has now moved away from the islands. and a long way to go before it would hit anything else. this is a long, long track storm. and the philippines are kind of in the way but the track takes it to the north of the philippines. there is the wind right now. 61 miles per hour. some of the spots have picked up between five and six inches of rainfall over the past couple of hours. and some of them two to three inches per hour. that's why we still have all of these flood warning for the entire island there of guam. many of the areas across the south, that's where the heaviest rain was. likely if you're listening to this internationally, almost 500 millimeters of rainfall.

so 18 inches of rain here up on top of these mountains. and the mountains are about 1,200 feet tall. all that water is now rushing down those rivers. we are going to lose some wind. it is going to go away. that's the good news. as the storm travels to the west. but here's where we have to keep an eye on this. this is still 155-mile-per-hour storm 72 hours from now. this is very warm water. i know our atlantic season doesn't get going for a couple more weeks. but in the west back out here the water's warm, almost all year long. there isn't a hurricane season -- or typhoon season. it's just forever. it can help any month of the year, boris. >> we certainly hope those folks in guam are okay after that storm as we watch video of some of the damage. chad myers, thank you so much for the update. jim? >> well, just moments ago the man accused of ramming a u-haul truck into a security barrier err very near the white house appeared in federal court. investigators say 19-year-old

sai v sai varshith kandula had a nazi flag, expressed admiration for adolf hitler. brian todd joins us live outside the courtroom in washington. are we going to hear from the defendant at this hearing? what do we expect to happen inside the courtroom? >> well, we could well hear from him, jim. he's in the court right now pretty much as we speak. we expect to get an update from our producer who's in the courtroom very shortly. but what we expected would be happening right now in the courtroom was that he would be read the charge against him. right now one federal charge against him and that is depredation of property of the united states in excess of $1,000. but we're told there could be additional charges filed. also what we could hear from in this hearing is whether he has an attorney. what the attorney has to say about all of this. as you mentioned in your lead-in here there have been some very disturbing things that he said to a secret service agent who interviewed him and filed some

court documents yesterday in this case, basically indicating that this defendant said he supported nazi ideology, that he supported the nazi idea of ujennics, that he said hitler was a strong leader and that he said he would kill the president and harm anyone who got in his way. this is what he told an interviewing secret service agent on monday evening after he emerged from that truck with a nazi flag, of course after he rammed that truck into a security barrier about 200 yards from the white house. so we hope to get some more information on kind of his disposition. we have been told by law enforcement authorities, jim, that authorities are considering the idea of how much mental health may be playing a role in this incident. maybe we'll learn about that. cnn did speak to two of his classmates from high school back inchesterfield, missouri who said he was a very quiet guy in high school, that he never got in any trouble. but again, he just graduated from high school last year and

we talked to experts on extremism. a lot of people become radicalized online. their parents at that age, he's 19 years old, parents don't necessarily know about it. that was the case with the buffalo shooter, we were told. so again, maybe find out more information on that from this hearing. >> i've got to say when i look at that video again, authorities in that moment did not know what was in that truck, right? they did not know if there were explosives, et cetera. certainly a harrowing moment outside the white house. brian todd at the courthouse. thanks so much. brianna. one year later what has and hasn't changed in uvalde, texas after the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. we're live outside robb elementary school next on "cnn news central." but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody.

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one year ago today a teenage gunman walked into an elementary school and unleashed evil. 19 schoolchildren and two teachers slaughtered in uvalde, texas. and a botched police response followed by a lack of transparency and accountability has only added to the heartbreak and agony. last hour across the state texans held a moment of silence at 11:30 central time, marking the moment that the shooting began. statewide, flags are also flying at half staff. and this afternoon president bide lenn speak, calling on congress to confront the nation's gun violence epidemic. cnn's shimon prokupecz is in uvalde. and shimon, you've spent so much time there over this past year. how's the community holding up today? >> reporter: you know, certainly you can feel the sadness. you can kind of feel the loneliness, the emptiness of what is around us at this

moment. you know, behind us is the school. we're seeing community members, parents bringing their kids, laying flowers. we've seen some of the family members of victims come here and lay flowers. so it's a somber day of course. we'll see more activity later tonight when there's a candlelight vigil. but this is a day that for parents here they were scared, they were afraid for this day. they didn't know how things were going to go because this community is still so divided, brianna. there are still so many questions about what happened here, the fact that there's not been any transparency. many of the families still asking for answers to the questions they have about exactly what happened here. and the other thing is family members had the opportunity recently to go inside that building and see where their kids died, took their last breaths. and from what i'm told from these family members it was such a sad moment for them but they

appreciated that moment, to finally getting to where their kids spent their last moments. so there's still a lot of grief, still a lot of anger here as they really try to move forward. but there are things, brianna, that are just preventing that from happening. >> they want to know what their children went through. and shimon, this weekend you unveiled a documentary on the massacre, what's really been a tragic mishandling by law enforcement. and you talk about transparency. so many of these parents have found their best shot at transparency has been through journalists like yourself. i wonder what the feedback has been from the community seeing some things in that documentary that they never saw before. >> reporter: well, for some of the family members who've asked us to see video, body camera footage of their kids who survived running from the classroom, they are appreciative. they are happy that they can see this footage. they are happy that they can

know more information about exactly what happened to their kids because law enforcement and specifically the district attorney here is not providing any information. she's not answered any questions from the media about the investigation. instead kind of, brianna, what she's done is she's attacked our reporting. just the other day when we did our story about the video and allowing the family members to see that video, she released a statement sort of attacking us saying that we were sensationalist journalists and that we were retraumatizing these families when in fact that was not the case. the family members wanted to see this because they're trying to get answers to certain things about what happened here and the district attorney here has prevented that from happening. she's claiming there's this investigation, but she's not really explaining to them exactly what's going on. so that is a frustration here for the family members

certainly. hopefully at some point she will be able to release some information for them. they cannot see that closure until they get more information. >> there is a lack of ethical and moral accountability, but perhaps it's on their part. shimon, thank you so much. we do appreciate the reporting as we remember those who were lost on this day, one year ago. shimon, thank you. and we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ get it with gurus. cargurus.

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this is "cnn news central" and here's a look at some of the other headlines that we are following this hour. colombian officials say search teams have discovered new traces of the four children who went missing last week following a plane crash in the amazon. they report finding a pair of tennis shoes about 550 yards from the site of the crash along with a dirty diaper, the cover of a baby bottle and the frame of a mobile phone. the new discoveries are closer to the wreckage site than a set of footprints that were uncovered last week. plus a new stud write claims taking multivitamins could help improve memory in older adults. the research published in the "american journal of clinical nutrition" found that taking a multivitamin each day for three years slowed cognitive aging and improved memory in adults over 60 compared to those who took a

placebo. and nearly two dozen alleged tomb raiders accused of running an international art trafficking ring are now in custody. italy's art theft police squad say that it recovered more than 3,500 pieces of ancient art. 3,500 taken by grave robbers in southern italy. officials say some of these artifacts were taken from previously unexplored archaeological digs. jim? >> well, confrontations between customers and employees, team members getting threats, shoppers causing a scene, even throwing merchandise on the floor. that's why target says it is now pulling some lgbtq plus products like this from its store shelves. for several years the retail giant has celebrated pride month with items ranging from clothing, books, music, home furnishings. these are just some of the items that are part of the pride month collection. cnn's matt egan joins us now with more on this. matt, i wonder, have we seen this elsewhere, these kinds of

protests and have we seen companies then respond like target is here by just pulling the stuff wholesale from its shelves? >> reporter: well, jim, clearly this is really just the latest battleground in these culture wars in the united states. i mean, last month it was bud light facing this anti-transgender backlash. and now target, yes, they're saying that they're pulling some pride products just days before the start of pride month. and what's really interesting to me here is of course why they're doing this. they say that they're worried about the safety of their employees. let me read you what target said in the statement. they said -- they said we've experienced threats impacting our team members' sense of safety and well-being while at work. given these volatile circumstances we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior. now, we don't have all the details on the precise nature of

the threats here, nor where they happened. but target told the "wall street journal" that people have confronted workers in stores, that they've knocked down pride merchandise displays, they've put up threatening posts on social media that that included video from inside the store. clearly, some serious reaction. the actual target includes everything from gender-fluid mugs to children's books. target said exactly which items they're pulling, but some are going to be pulled here. this is just the latest example of how brands are struggling here, trying to navigate this political mind field, these culture wars in the united states. where up with wrong move, they'll threaten to alienate a big segment of their customer base. it is very tricky for brands and very upsetting for customers,

too, jim. >> it looks like the protest work, right? if you throw enough rainbow flip-flops on the floor of a store, you can get the store to pull their products. >> that's some of the criticism we're already hearing from people reacting to target's move. we heard from the southern poverty law center via twitter and they said that the message here to opponents of lgbtq community and their rights is that violence and threats of violence actually works here. >> appears to have worked. matt egan in new york, thanks very much. boris? convicted murderer alex murdaugh is facing new charges. he's been indicted on 22 federal counts related to alleged financial schemes. the disbarred attorney was convicted in march of killing his wife and son two weyears ag. cnn's diane gallagher has been following all of this for us. diane, alleged financial crimes. what exactly do these new charges entail?

>> yeah, boris, 22 in that now unsealed indictment from the federal grand jury. 14 counts of money laundering, five counts of wire fraud, two counts of fraud conspiracy and one count of bank fraud, all of this is in relation to the multiple victims that those who have been following the alex murdaugh family are familiar with. the family of the former housekeeper, hakim pinkney and others, whose names are probably familiar to those who have followed these allegations surrounding alex murdaugh. his attorneys did release a statement to cnn who said, quote, alex has been cooperating with the u.s. attorney's office and federal agencies in their investigation in a broad range of activities. we anticipate that the charges brought today will be quickly resolved without trial. now, look, they did not elaborate beyond that, but of course, alex murdaugh is currently serving two life sentences in a state prison for

the murders of his wife and son. and so, it is worth pointing out, he is currently in state prison and it's possible that they could be looking at -- seeking a relocation of some sort to a federal speculation. i will point out that we received a statement from an attorney representing many of those victims in the indictments. the last line of that, boris, simply said, while it is said that lady justice is blind, she is not a sucker. bottom line, can't run or hide from justice. >> quite the statement there. diane gallagher in charlotte, north carolina, for us, thank you so much. brianna. now to a cnn exclusive. some new details about the u.s. drone strike in syria earlier this month that may have killed a civilian by mistake. a senior u.s. general ordering his team to tweet that a senior al qaeda leader was targeted in the strike without proper evidence confirming who was killed. this is according to multiple defense officials. cnn's oren liebermann was part of the team behind the story.

oren, take us through the timeline here. >> so, brianna, this story plays out basically since the beginning of the month or nearly the beginning of the month and it starts on may 3rd. that's when u.s. central command carries out a drone strike against what they had high confidence at the time was a senior al qaeda leader. and as we've learned from multiple defense officials, it shows derek carillo ordered centcom to put out a tweet saying they targeted a senior al qaeda leader and saying more information will become available when there are more operational details about the strike itself. and this plays out in the hours after the strike is carried out. even though officials knew at the time that it would take a few days, if not longer, to get a better sense of who exactly was killed in the strike, and that's because there are no u.s. troops in northwest syria. so as the days pass, there is no absolute confirmation or evidence confirming that the person that they were targeting,

a senior al qaida leader was in fact the person who was killed. on may 8th, according to officials, "the washington post" begins presenting information to cen centcom, suggesting that it wasn't that senior al qaida quaid leader what was killed, but it was a civilian that was killed. cnn has spoken to members of that casualty's family, and it was a farmer, a family of ten who was killed in that strike, not a member of al qaeda. it takes another week from that point until may 15th for u.s. centcom to open what's known as a ccar, a civilian casualty credibility assessment report to look into whether it was in fact a civilian that was killed or somebody else. and that is ongoing. at that conclusion, there may be a 15-6, a more formal investigation to find out if it was, in fact, ruled that it was a civilian that was killed. so all of this plays out and has been playing out. the question, of course, the timeline, why did carillo order

a tweet to go out so quickly, saying a senior al qaeda leader was targeted, if centcom knew it would take longer to have fidelity on who it was that was killed in the strike. officials say there is still some belief that it may be a member of al qaeda that was killed. though, of course, this isn't close to the high confidence that there was when the strike i itself was carried out. >> oren, thank you for that exclusive reporting. we appreciate it. jim? >> still ahead, the days of using your parents or friends' netflix account may be over. how much a new password crackdown may cost you. ntly went through a divorce. she had a lot of questions when she came in. i watched my mother go through b being a single mo. at the end of the day, my mom raised ththree children, including myself. and so once the client knew that she was heard. we were able to help her move forward. your client won't care how much you know

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