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it is thursday. >> i'm off tomorrow for my daughter's first play. this is very exciting. >> you're looking particularly beautiful this morning. >> oh, gosh. you are so sweet. >> it's true. we have a lot going on this morning. let's get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 1st. also i had mom's birthday. happy birthday, mom. really significant news here first on cnn. caught on tape. federal prosecutors have donald trump in his own words acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document after he left the white house. and told people he couldn't share it with them. this is first on cnn reporting. what does it mean for the investigation? and speaking of trump, his former number two mike pence about to take him on for the white house. pence will announce his run next week as will former new jersey governor chris christie. the house overwhelmingly passing that debt limit deal in a move to avert a national and global economic crisis. the fate of the bill which

garnered fierce backlash from the far right and left, it is live in the senate. and to basketball. the nba finals start tonight. the denver nuggets take on the miami heat in game one. >> "sex in the city fans" rejoice. the band is getting back together. samantha in for the reboot. it's only for one scene in the season two finale. what we know about her quick return and just like that, "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> i can't wait. >> and here is where we start this morning, there is a tape, an audio recording of former president donald trump admitting that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting he wants to share that information but he's limit bid

h -- limited by his post presidency to declassify records. jack smith has it in his possession. sources describe it as a, quote, important piece of evidence in the possible case -- possible charges against trump. it undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. we're told the reporting is two minutes long from july of 2021 and in it trump talks about a document involving a potential attack on iran. abby philip asked trump attorney about this last night. he deflected. >> did you know that this tape existed? are there others? >> i'm not going to try a case based on the government leaks. >> cnn's senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid helped break this story. good morning to you. walk us through what is in those two minutes. >> so, let's set the scene here.

this was a meeting that occurred at trump's golf club in the summer of 2021. in it, among the people in attendance, were several trump aides and two people working n an autobiography of mark meadows. during this time, trump was in the habit of having aides record conver conversations journalists, writers, anyone working on a book. he was aware he was being recorded. while we have not heard the tape, multiple sources say that on this recording, trump makes it clear he is still in possession of at least one classified document from the pentagon describing a possible attack on iran. we're told you can hear paper rustling. but it is unclear if it's the document he is referring to or something else or theatrical effect. most importantly, four investigators on this recording

trump is heard acknowledging the limits of his ability to declassify materials once he was out of the white house which, of course, undercuts every public defense and his attorneys have provided for why he was still in possession of some of the nation's most sensitive secrets. >> this is really significant because we're talking about a recording and also what it shows based on the other public comments that have been made by the former president and his legal team. >> that's exactly right. over the past year, he and his attorneys, they've given various at times conflicting explanations for why he did not intentionally retain this sensitive information. they said that he had a standing declassification orders. anything that left the oval office was declassified. he told fox news declassified things by thinking about things. he was only in possession of the materials because it was

chaotic, at the end of the administration and he wasn't aware. but this recording, it really shows that none of those statements are true. this also exposes the true legal jeopardy he is facing. most of the reporting up until now has focused on classified materials down in florida. but here in this recording, it reveals at least one classified document was up in new jersey. trump's attorneys searched bedminster last year, they didn't find anything. again, raises new questions. how did that document get there? where did it go? >> so many questions. really phenomenal reporting, paula. thank you. joining us now, bradley moss, national security attorney and deputy executive director of the james madison project. good to have you with us this morning. based on what we have learned from paul why and her team's reporting overnight, what sticks out to you here? are there potential charges that you see? >> yeah.

what sticks out to me is the comprehensive nature of this factual background that jack smith appears to have been compiling in the case that he does shchoose to bring indictments. we thought there was on obstruction angle. we have seen a lot about that in the search warrant back in august 2022. this shows that donald trump brought documents, classified documents to mar-a-lago but he knew he had them. he knew that they were still classified and he knew he couldn't disseminate them to other people. this goes to the intent. this underlies and undercuts the potential defense issue that he was going to raise if he automatically declassified it or didn't know. no, he clearly knew. the that is knowing and willful resengs of national defense information. that is the espionage provision right there. >> let's talk about the espionage act and how that could

play out. ryan goodman brought that up. he talked about how he could or did, he says, declassify documents. >> it doesn't have to be a process, as i understand it. you know, different people say different things. as i understand, it doesn't have to be. if you're the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified even thinking about it. i don't have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way, they have become automatically declassified when i took them. >> when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? >> not really. i would have the right to. >> what do you mean by not really? >> not that i can think of. >> can you talk about that? this memo has to do with iran. when you look at the heespionag act, that would be a charge.

how would a charge under the espionage act look? >> yeah. the espionage act pro dates -- predates the classified act. it refers to national defense information. now generally speaking, whenever there is a production for leaking or mishandling or stealing classified documents, they still use the espionage act and demonstrate it qualified. but it doesn't have to be. here's the thing. donald trump has a slight bit of truth in his statements. this is the most dangerous place for him. yes, when he was president, he had all kinds of authority to declassify documents. but the courts have weighed in saying there has to be proper declassification. every single time it's been handled, there has to actually be the demarking, the documentation of the declassification. he can't just walk off with it as he flew down to mar-a-lago and say it's declassified. it's not the way it works.

he understands a small bit of the legal theory. he is taking that to the extreme. that's going to be his undoing here. >> be his undoing in terms of the past statements. what about what we heard from his attorneys? what's interesting, too, is his attorneys have avoided saying, it seems, as much in court that he followed every legally mandated procedure. they've been very careful, understandably, on their language. >> yeah. so, this legal defense that we've been hearing on tv and i heard james trusty saying i'm not trying this case in the media as he sat there very long with your colleagues, last night he tried it in the media, is what i would describe as a political set of talking points masquerading as a legal defense. tez not going to say just how, you know, on point how much he did or did not happen. probably because he doesn't know one way or another. these are arguments they're not likely to make in court because they would face potential ethical issues if they were to

misrepresent things to the judge. that's why they refuse to do so when dealing with the special master where they kept balking and refusing to indicate whether or not trump had declassified these documents and if they could prove it. they don't want to get to that point. they don't have anything other than trump saying, yeah, i looked at them and said in my mind, it's declassified. they know that's not going to work in the end. they can play this game in the media in the interim. >> bradley moss, thank you. the race to avoid a catastrophic u.s. default is in the hands of the u.s. senate. lawmakers voted to raise the debt limit through the end of the year. >> the bill is passed. without objection. >> that 117 voting no was made up of 71 republicans and 46 democrats. they voted against a bill arguing there were too many concessions given to the other side. now the senate has until monday

to get this thing to the president's desk before the u.s. could default. our lauren fox following all this on capitol hill. through the house and now to the senate. we heard senators saying they'll close it like bernie sanders. but they said, it will pass. i'm essentially saying this because i don't believe it. >> well, poppy, last night's vote in the house of representatives was really a blowout. kevin mccarthy had a huge victory in part because he got far more than just a majority of his republican majority. that was a key hurdle for him to clear. really to secure the support from conservatives. some of whom did not back this legislation. and they were threatening his speakership. now the hope is that momentum is going to follow across the capitol and really put them on a path to pass this very quickly. that is the hope, in part because we are bumping up against that deadline on monday of june 5th when the country could default on its debt.

a couple of things at play here right now. there a number of republicans and democrats who remain undecided about this legislation. there's also a huge question of how quickly the senate is going to move. you heard yesterday from minority leader mitch mccanonne he was hopeful they could put this in motion thursday or friday. you have to get a time agreement. there are a number of members who want to have amendment votes. the big question and the big problem for an amendment vote is none of them actually can pass. otherwise, you have to send this back to the house and you're in a position where you definitely miss that monday deadline. so, they have to have a couple of amendment votes. stl they have to get a time agreement. how quickly that comes together, that's a huge question and we're watching closely on what happens next. >> poppy? >> no break for lauren fox. >> no. appreciate it, thank you. overnight, strikes in kyiv killed three people including a child. we're live in ukraine.

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and another woman. ukraine's minister of internal affairs says all three deaths were tied -- all three tried to enter a bomb shelter that was closed. russian president putin said he launched this invasion to stop nato from getting closer to the russian border. now nato's secretary-general said that is exactly what will happen. >> so, last year, one agreed that ukraine will become a mechanic of this alliance. and we are making concrete steps because ukraine is moving towards nato. meaning, that they're coming closer and closer. they're moving from the soviet standards to nato standards equipment doctrines and we're helping them do that as we speak. >> cnn sam kiley joining us in eastern ukraine with more on this. so, first, sam, let's talk about the attacks overnight on kyiv. what more are we learning?

>> well, we understand, erica, that these ten missiles were shot down over the ukrainian capital after a brief sort of nearly a day long lull in which there were no attacks. that was the first day that there had been no attacks for about two weeks in ukrainian capital which has been the focus of attention of the russians bombardment. tragically, three people killed. and a number -- well, they were all killed in a large number injured when they found themselves locked out of a significant bunker. these are soviet air bunkers that are built around the city. very frequently close to or underneath tower blocks and residential blocks. but for reasons that are now subject to an official investigation in kyiv more than a year after the war, somebody had locked the door, trapping people outside. and then tragically, they were hit by debris descending. this coming on a day in which the russians continue to be under pressure, too.

they're saying in belgrade province in the south of russia, on the northern border with ukraine, that large number of villages along the border are evacuated. they're talking about evacuating women. much that's because a number of towns are being hit with ukrainian artillery and mortars. this the is now part of a new pattern across border operations being conducted by ukraine inner loop russia. they've been rare in the past. now they're becoming more routine. you're seeing a lot more of this tit for tat effect on civilians on both sides of this conflict. >> so there is the tit for tat aspect and then the comments saying that nato members agree ukraine should be a member. what is the sense this morning in terms of what that could prompt in terms of attacks from

russia? >> i don't think the russians have a good deal in the armory deployed in some kind of response to this sort of vevent. it's a mistake when people are prosecuting a war will react to anniversaries or retaliating. they are prosecuting an on going campaign here. they'll use this statement coming from stoeltenberg to prove their point to the russian population that they need to go to war to spprevent nato doing this and it will be up to the russians to decide whether or not the ukraines closest to nato is a consequence the russian invasion rather than anything else. >> sam kiley, live in ukraine this morning, thank you. the nba finals tip off tonight. it is the heat versus the nuggets. butler versus jokic. we have a preview of this game ahead. ♪ yeah ♪ dead guys made up work, way back when. ♪

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that's on tnt for that one. tonight, we get to see jokic on the biggest stage for the first time ever. this is one of the biggest we've ever seen. he was the 41st pick in 2014. espn broadcast went to a taco bell commercial during his selection. i think it's safe to say that we'll never have a two-time mvp in history of the nba that ever drafted again during a taco bell commercial. that's how special he is. >> i agree he is special. you know why. i think also -- wasn't tom brady like the 99th draft pick or something like that? >> yeah. he was also a sixth round pick. yeah, these things do happen, i he guess. >> and they make for great stories. >> yeah. >> great stories. >> andy, appreciate it. than >> all right. >> the 2024 candidates are higt the trail. the stops they're taking as the gop field gets a lot more crowded this morning. also this. why the pentagon is cancelling what would have been an air force base's third annual drag

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nikki haley's husband is set to deploy to africa for the national guard. michael haley will remain overseas through 2024 which accounts for most of the presidential campaign season. the former south carolina governor releasing a statement

saying, quote, our family, like every military family, is ready to make personal sacrifices when our loved one answers the call. i couldn't be prouder of michael and his military brothers and sisters. all right. just hours from now, two top republican presidential hopefuls will hit the campaign trail. donald trump heading to iowa. just missing his opponent florida governor ron desantis. desantis spent the first full day campaigning there yesterday. he is headed to new hampshire. and the trips come as two more gop hopefuls get ready to get in the race. chris christie will announce his bid on tuesday and former vice president mike pence is set to do the same on wednesday. jessica dean is live in new hampshire this morning. good morning to you. so, what will we see from desantis there today? >> good morning, poppy. we expect to see him doing the traditional campaign swings all through new hampshire. he was here not too long ago. roughly about a month ago. he head lined the dinner, the

annual fund-raising dinner for the state gop party. he broke fund-raising records. it was the biggest fund-raiser they ever had. they're going to see him doing multiple swings through new hampshire. this follows the similar playbook in iowa. we see the campaign taking shape and seeing him really maximize this first week of being out on the campaign trail in these early states which will be so important there in the beginning of the primary season. so we expect him to spend a lot of time in these states and to boot, he'll be circling through south carolina tomorrow. and then back to iowa for this weekend. we're also seeing him kind of road test new policy ideas as he's out on the road talking to voters. one would be to give back pay to members of the military that re-enlist who left after an -- and will re-enlist after the covid vaccine policy. the other is for universities to pick up the tab if students cannot pay loans back. so, we're starting to see the

policies come outen on the campaign trail. the first stop is right behind me. >> what are we going to learn from mike pence? he's been on the book swing for months now. now he's going to make it official on wednesday. sounds like right before condition has tcnn has its town with him. >> this gop field is getting more crowded. we're seeing more and more people jump in. he'll get in on wednesday. of course, a lot of eyes have been on him as he's been on this book tour and keeping himself in the spotlight as he contemplated whether he would get in or not. we expect to hear his reasoning behind getting in. and, of course, he is orchestrated all of this with the announcement, with a video all in iowa and then our town hall will take place later that night. of course that, comes the day after former new jersey governor and former gop presidential hopeful chris christie gets in the race. poppy, a potential debate stage getting more and more full as the days go by. >> i see images of 2016 in line. a whole lot of them on the

debate stage. jessica, thank you for the reporting. as we just mentioned, dana bash will moderate that cnn republican town hall with former vice president mike pence. that is wednesday, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. then before that, this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, join jake tapper as he moderates a town hall with nikki haley. this morning the pentagon is ordering a nevada air force base to cancel a drag show set for today. this is the first day of pride month. lloyd austin spoke in support of pride month in the military. a pentagon spokeswoman says he is now drawn a line in allowing shows to be hosted at military bases because, quoting here, hosting these type of events in federally funded facilities is not a suitable use of dod resources. natasha bertrand joining us live from the pentagon. what's, i think, perhaps even more interesting natasha is the air force base already hosted two drag events in the past.

third time is not the charm here. why the about-face from the pentagon in 2023? >> yeah. this would have been the third drag show that they would have hosted in celebration of pride month. they have done this numerous times before. but this year the pentagon actually stepped in to cancel it. it had already been approved by air force leaders and it was set to move forward. but when secretary defense lloyd austin found out about it, the fact it was moving forward, he stepped in and he ordered that it be canceled. now, this obviously comes at a moment when these kinds of drag shows are becoming politically contentious with conservative policymakers, republicans on the hill arguing that the military bases should not be hosting these events because they should not be essentially using taxpayer money to fund them. and we should play a clip from the house arms services committee hearing on march 29th when representative matt gaetz a republican questioned austin and mark milly angrily about the

drag shows that have been taking place on bases across the country. take a listen. >> you had the drag show on june 17th. who funded these things, mr. secretary? >> listen, drag shows are not something that the department of defense supports or funds. >> why are they happening on military bases? i just showed you the evidence. am why are they happening? >> i will say again, this is not something that we support or fund. >> that's the first i'm hearing about that kind of stuff. i don't read those news stories. i don't know what you're talking about. i'd like to take a look at those because i don't agree with those. >> as you mentioned, erica, austin spoke out in support of pride month in the military before. he said, quote, lgbtq plus citizens fought to defend our rights and citizens of the founding of our nation from the civil war and beyond. given the politically contentious environment and his testimony that where he specifically said that the

military does not support or fund these kinds of drag shows on bases at this time, the military wanted to make sure that he -- his testimony was accurate. so now what we're seeing is according to an air force official, they say consistent with his testimony, the air force is not going to host drag events anymore at these installations or facilities. >> really appreciate the reporting this morning. thank you. all right. ahead, this is so fascinating. could a very popular weight loss drug also help people stop smoking? stop drinking? stop biting their nails? what researchers say about addictions and ozempic. >> plus, samantha jones is back, my friends. she is returning to her iconic "sex in the city role." . >> i'm so sick of these people with their children. i'm telling you, they're every. where sitting next to me in first class. eating at the next table. look at that.

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action thriller space. her first best-selling novel falling and garnering so much success. it will be adapted to a motion picture. and just in time for summer, t.j. is out with a new thriller called "drawning: the rescue of fl flight 1421." she joins thus morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> we love your story. it's about hope and perseverance. let's talk about the new book. just reading snip its of it, it does have people on the edge of their seat. here is part of it. "6:37 after flight had taken off, flight 1421 crashed. from the moment of impact until the plane came to rest was nine seconds and somehow the plane was still in one piece. passengers who survived the crash thought it was a miracle. they thought they were the lucky ones. they had no idea the worst was yet to come." tell us about it. >> i mean, that's what the book

is. it's a flight from new york to san francisco. the passengers evacuate. until an explosion forces those that didn't get out in time to close the doors. but it's too late. the plane floods and sinks. 1 people trapped inside including a father and his 11-year-old daughter. and now their only hope of survival lies with an elite rescue team on the surface led by her mother and soon-to-be ex-wife. >> wow. >> told you. >> i know. i know. it's so perfect. as pop write said, we're super excited about the book. i think what we both really love is your story. the fact that you didn't give up on this dream. you were rejected famously 41 times. your first book. and, yet, i love in the latest review from the "washington post" for this book, they write, the expertise displayed nifrt b -- displayed in her first book

was not a fluke. it was not. how does it feel to see that in print? >> it's validating. i worked so hard on this book. i worked so hard on the first book. i worked so hard on this book because i just wanted to prove to myself and to say thank you to everyone who read my first book. and loved my first book and told me they loved it. and to have the privilege of their time and attention was not something i take lightly or for granted. i wanted to give them the best story i possibly could. and to be here sitting with you on cnn talking about it, it's surreal. when you came from the airport last night, the we passed the old crew tell where i stayed as a flight attendant and then drove by the apartment i stayed in in new york and i kept getting rejected, i kept thinking, i'm going to be on cnn in the morning talking about my book that i wrote.

i was driving past the old memories. it was all surreal. >> viewers looking at the pictures of you as a flight attendant over the years. i think we may have photos of you in your actress days back when you were trying to make it as an actress. you wrote about tleenhis recent. you are said i spent years pursuing my dreams in broadway and left me with a thin resume, buying a one-way ticket home to arizona. you slept on your twin beds as a child and for years you wrote figuring out my life on every to-do list you had. talk to people who are v. that hope but haven't achieved it yet. >> i hope if there is one thing from my story that people can take away, it's that it can happen. if it can happen to me, it can happen to you. i didn't know anybody about publishing. i didn't know how to get a book published. i was just willing to do the work and then kept researching and kept going until i got everything that i wanted.

and it's been really, really nice to have sort of that response from people who have heard my story. and who i have seen that, i didn't know anybody. i didn't have an in. and my whole background was in it rejection. i submitted this -- my first book to 41 different agents. and all 41 rejected me. and my 42nd was my one and only yes. but oinltit only takes one yes. i hope there is anything that people take from this, it it's keep going. it can happen to me, it can happen to you. >> that's great. you also wrote some really powerful words from maria schieffer's paper. i would encourage you to read about paying it forward and being the example and really owning your dream. it is such a treat to have you here this morning. we're so excited for your success and for this book. can't wait for number three. no pressure. >> no pressure. number three. >> congratulations. people write things down on cocktail napkins because they

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are we alone? nasa held the first public hearing surrounding that age-old question. this summer a panel of 16 publicist who's published the first report on unidentified

phenomena known as uaps or to us chon common folks, ufos. there are 800 sightings of unidentified objects in the last 27 years. 2% to 5% are really, quote, ano, ma'am -- anomalies. joining us is an astro physicist. every time that word comes out of my mouth, i feel like i'm going to manning w-- msangle it. >> what is the take away? >> we need better data. the job is not to understand the nature of the events in the report but to give nasa a road map of how they can contribute to our understanding. now, the military is actually our lead agency in studying the events. we saw the chinese balloon are military issues. nasa is different.

nasa is a citizen agency. and nasa can bring in the scientific method. they can bring in really citizen scientists as well as professional scientists to address this. and what we found is most events are explainable. balloons, commercial jets, drones, weather phenomenon. but there are some events where we don't have good enough data to see what's going on. >> but how do you get it? part of why you do this you said, is to remove the stigma that commercial and military pilots often feel like they won't be taken seriously if they report something they don't know what it is. >> for nasa to make use of things like the three to four billion cell phones we have and develop apps that can record information from your phone. your phone not only takes good

images, of course, gives you a location, it measures sound and graphtational field, it measures local magnetic field. you can imagine incrypting all that data and uploading that to web sites. >> if people voluntarily upload it. what i think of is major privacy concerns. >> people are only going to do this if they see something they don't understand. >> and they want to share it. >> do you think it would be, my guess, there is a lot of interest in people participating in that. >> this question of are we alone is a fundamental question. people want to understand what's out there. that's one of the sources of curiosity. you see something you don't understand. you want to figure out what it is. >> and i think this is an opportunity to engage the public in what we do as scientists. now one thing we do as scientists is we don't always jump to the most exciting conclusion. when we see things we don't

understand, we try to get good data. if you can see something, if you take a picture and i take a picture, just by combining those two images we can figure out the distance to the object. if we take multiple pictures, we can iner if the velocity. if five or people take pictures, you can verify the quality of the data. one problem that we see in some data is optical effects inside the camera. if i point my camera in one direction and the sun is over there, i think we've all taken pictures where the sun does weird things. and you want to have multiple images and verifiable data if you are going to draw interesting conclusions. >> i'm sure that would help prevent against ai being used to create things that are not really there which is going to make your job a lot more complicated. >> somewhat more. i think one can do things to

enript encrypt data on a phone. >> thank you, david. we'll continue to track it. >> terrific. >> and "cnn this morning" continues right now. >> trump seems to indicate he is taking classified documents and he is limited to declassify them. that would undercut the argue am he's been making all along. >> they become declassified when i took them. >> to be at a country club and talking about plans for a possible military invasion. >> recordings are like gold to prosecutors. >> the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. a huge relief for president biden and kevin mccarthy and the global financial system. >> democrats kept our promise. >> we all made history. this is the biggest cut in savings this congress has ever voted for. >> russia's war is increasingly spilling into its ow