out to alec baldwin who i previously interviewed about all of this. we haven't heard back from him just yet. he is recovering from hip surgery but all of this news is coming amid the fact that as of right now, alec baldwin has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the shooting on the set of "rust" so that is still pending in new mexico. we're waiting for the d.a. to fully clear him sometime this summer but, again, we've reached out for further comment and reached out to matthew hutchins and the family for comment as well. >> chloe, thank you. >> thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. >> it could have been catastrophic economically and globally. >> the bill heads to president biden's desk for his signature. >> right up to the deadline and that's when everything magically comes together. >> because of the good work of president biden as well as democrats in the house and democrats in the senate, we are

not defaulting. >> days before a portion of an apartment building in iowa collapsed repair work was under way on that section. three people remain missing. >> i said, if you value your life, get away from that building and an hour later i heard the building fell. >> the inspection never failed. it was incomplete. so the work was still in progress. >> this needs to be done in a way that it respects that this is a resting place. >> president biden tripped over a sandbag and fell. because this wasn't the president's first stumble it has gotten a lot of attention. >> according to white house official, totally fine. >> remember to stay true to ourselves. >> jokic knocks down the three. the first finals game in franchise history is a rousing success. >> p-s-a-m-m-o-p-h-i-l-e, psammophile. >> that is correct.

>> after much anticipation about a spell-off, a 14-year-old dev shah won the 2023 scripps national spelling bee. >> it's surreal. i didn't even let it settle in. my legs are still shaking. good morning, everyone. i'm here with rahel solomon, poppy harlow has the day off. his legs were shaking, he said. he looks like he's in disbelief. >> hard to believe he's 11. so much pressure for him and, you know, having gotten across the finish line, wow, what an incredible accomplishment. >> i'm looking forward to that. i love these moments, so that is something we can all look forward to. also maybe a little bit of relief. many americans are feeling that, a lot of lawmakers are after this came down to the wire but the debt limit crisis now over. >> on this vote the yeas are 63 and the in. ays are 36. the threshold having been achieved. the bill is massed. >> there you go. the senate passing the deal days

before that potential default which could have wreaked havoc on the economy. >> president biden set to sign the bill and also address the nation from the white house. this morning, we are keeping a close eye on wall street to see how markets are reacting when they open a short time from now. meantime, we have team coverage on this big day in washington, jeremy diamond is at the white house. first to lauren fox. she is on capitol hill. lauren, this is the quickest the senate has moved in a long time. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. last night they had nearly a dozen amendments to vote on. none of the amendments could pass so it was really a futile effort but it was required from some republican and democratic lawmakers so that they didn't slow down the process. they voted so quickly that chuck schumer's really keeping time on how fast they were moving. that's because they wanted to get this done so they could get out of town. if there's anything the senate likes to preserve it's their weekends and their long weekends at that. but this was a piece of legislation that really was always going to be about that

coalition in the middle. there were a number of republicans who did not back this proposal. some of them didn't back it because they didn't believe in increasing the debt ceiling without cutting spending further. some of them didn't back it because they were very concerned about how much the country was planning to spend on defense arguing that it was not enough. in fact, in order to fast-track this agreement and move last night, senators wanted a requirement and a promise from leadership that they were going to work hard to try to push forward with additional money for ukraine in the upcoming months, so that became a critical part of securing the fast-tracking of this legislation but it's done. they passed it, and obviously huge questions about what this means moving forward for the speaker and what this means for this coalition of members in the middle who helped pass this bill. >> yeah, be interesting to see if that coalition can hold for perhaps some other things moving forward. jeremy, meantime, as we noted we'll hear from the president later today. but the white house has actually

been fairly quiet this week, it seems like. >> reporter: yeah, but, you know, one thing we certainly can hear are the sighs of relief from white house officials, not only because this legislation averts a potential default that could have come as early as monday but because it helps to smooth the path for the white house over the rest of president biden's term. that's because this bill incentivizes congress to pass regular government funding bills by the end of the year to avert a government shutdown or face across the board to defense and nondefense cuts of about 1% to the budget next year. that's a major piece that white house officials have been stressing to me as one of the major benefits of this bill. now, listen, president biden, he put out a statement last night hailing this as a major win for the american people and for the economy, and he also said that america is a nation that pays its bills and that this vote proves that. this bipartisan vote, he thanked

the senate majority leader chuck schumer and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell for passing this bill quickly and getting it through and he now looks forward to signing this bill as soon as posh. we're told that that could happen as early as today, but as you mentioned, tonight president biden will address the american people from the oval office at 7:00 p.m. this will be his first address from the oval office. certainly something to watch. >> we saw him take what appeared to be a pretty hard force at the air force. how is he doing? we know he made a joke of it but do we know how he's doing? >> reporter: well, the white house says that he is totally fine, that he simply tripped over that sandbag that was left on the stage after and we should note this came after he shook hands and saluted cadets for over 90 minutes on stage, hundreds of those cadets but the president did indeed make light of it. you can see how he's doing for yourself. take a look at how he returned to the white house last night.

>> i got sandbagged. >> reporter: you see the president doing a little bit of a two-step to show folks he's doing from now florida governor ron desantis set to make his first campaign stop in south carolina as a presidential candidate running on his first full week of campaigning following stops in iowa and new hampshire. now, while much of the focus has been on desantis and former president trump, the gop field of candidates is growing and it's about to get even bigger. jeff zeleny live in des moines, iowa. former president trump was campaigning yesterday and talked about his competitors. how does he see the field?

>> reporter: hey, good morning. the field is getting bigger. next week alone three republican candidates are set to join the race, in fact, there are so many alternatives to donald trump, it is benefiting of one person of all, that's the former president which is exactly what he's counting on. >> mr. president -- >> reporter: so far donald trump is getting most everything he wanted from the republican presidential campaign. >> there's no way i can lose iowa. let's see what happens. i don't think so. we'd have to do some really bad things to lose at this point. >> reporter: including a list of rivals that's growing by the week with the anyone but trump lane of the race becoming remarkably crowded. >> i think it's advantageous to trump. i don't like that. >> reporter: julie is a loyal republican who came to see florida governor ron desantis the other night and is sizing up several contenders but offered pointed words of advice for those entering the race. >> stay for awhile, see what happens, but then don't stay too long, because we need to beat the democrats. >> reporter: as summer approaches the republican field is starting to burst at the seams.

with former vice president mike pence and former new jersey governor chris christie set to jump in next week joining former governor nikki haley and tim scott of north carolina, asa hutchinson and vivek ramaswamy who are already in the race, doug burgum is also poised to announce next week and new hampshire governor chris sununu promises a decision soon and virginia governor glen youngkin is not ruling out a run later this year if some contenders flame out. >> if that many stay in the race, that benefits trump and that's why we'll see if we learned our lesson and learned our lesson well report bob is an influential leader in iowa and says the party should not repeat the mistakes of 2016 when trump claimed the nomination with a divided republican electorate rather than facing a head-to-head match with one strong opponent. >> my concern is not how many get in, but when do they go get out and give america a clear

choice between the former president and an alternative. >> a big field is what trump is banking on and basking in as he shook hands and took questions at a series of small events in iowa while making clear he's fixated on one rival above all. >> ron, as i call him, ron desanctimonious. >> we could bring back george washington, i don't know that he would be able to get it done in just four years. >> reporter: and sought to mock the florida governor's pitch that he's eligible for two terms, not simply one more like trump. >> you don't need eight years. you need six months. we can turn this thing around so quickly. who the hell wants to wait eight years? >> reporter: in new hampshire desantis hitting back at trump. >> why didn't he do it his first four years. >> reporter: as the campaign intensifies signs are emerging as candidates begin blanketing the state early next year. lori also believes the field is cluttered.

in her mind it's already a one-man race. >> president trump already made america great. now we need him back to fix it. >> reporter: she drove four hours to catch a glimpse of the former president outside one of his iowa stops. do you think others should step aside and let him run and focus on president biden or do you think a competitive republican primary is fine? >> i will say step aside but they won't, and i don't know if -- they won't and more keep coming in. it's like, come on, mike pence, really, mike, give it up. >> reporter: so that sentiment, of course, is expressing the challenges facing former vice president mike pence as he announces his bid here in iowa next week. there are also many republicans who welcome his true conservative views reaching out to evangelical voters here, of course, very important to this core, so, rahel, virtually all of the candidates back in iowa this weekend with the exception

of donald trump. they have an event at the iowa state fairgrounds so republican voters have many options to choose and that is specifically what worries some of the voters who are looking to turn the page. >> well, jeff, it's interesting because you're saying in your piece it may be too early to say it's a two-man race. walk us through some of the other candidates because i think there is this question about do any of the other candidates have a real shot other than trump and desantis? >> reporter: sure, that's what the campaign is all about and here we're just at the beginning of june. the candidates out working talking to voters, nikki haley for one has been having more events. the former south carolina governor and is gaining traction. south carolina senator tim scott, his name comes up again and again and he has a lot of money behind his candidacy. he's already running television ads on the air in iowa, so, look, this is the season of where voters are shopping, if

you will, looking at all these potential candidates and, yes, trump is leading the race. he is the leading candidate but he's not the presumptive nominee. it is far too soon. the history of iowa shows front-runners are often humbled here. many people who come into iowa back in 2008, rudy giuliani, he was seen as a front-runner. of course, he fizzled. the list of that is long and it's known for elevating challengers, humbling front-runners, we will see what happens this time. >> that is a very interesting historical nugget, jeff, thank you. details this morning about what happened in the days leading up to that partial building collapse in davenport, iowa. just four days before that wall came crashing down engineers had warned that parts of it could crumble. the city has released that report and along with it some pictures, three people, by the way, are still believed to be inside. brynn gingras has been going through this. what more are we learning about

the state of the building? >> there's a lot of alarming details including correspondence between the building owner and city. some damning pictures but four days before the collapse work was under way to fix the facade and wall issues and the city just released a proposal from the engineering company dated may 24th, the collapse happened, again, last sunday on may 28th, four days earlier and part of that report, let's read it here, says there are several large patches of clay brick facade separating from the substrate. these large patches appear ready to fall imminently. just look at this picture. you can see that there is a gap between the brick exterior and the rest of the building and then the report talks about windows that had been bricked over saying, quote, the clay brick facade on and between these openings is bulging outward by several issues and looks poised to fall. this is what they're talking about. you can see there are cracks in the wall where those windows

used to be and then this from elsewhere in the building, the window openings were never filled with brick or block. this lack of bracing helps explain why the facade is currently about to topple outward. words like falling imminently and about to topple outward appearing throughout the report as we see more pictures of that work getting under way. one masonry contractor who did not work on the building but put in a bid said he saw evidence of a big problem when he was inside a few months ago and says he was at the scene shortly before the collapse sounding the alarm. >> if you can just hear noises and you can see debris falling and there's a guy working and i said, if you value your life, get away from that building and then an hour later i heard that the building fell. >> now three are still missing and nine have been rescued but the family members of those still missing, some of them sleeping outside on the concrete

outside of that building just wishing to hear anything about what's coming next. we should learn more later this morning. the city is going to have a press conference and we'll bring that to you, erica. >> hopefully answers for those families. brynn, appreciate the update. the texas police say they have arrested a suspected serial killer who may be tied to as many as 12 murders. investigators say they arrested raul meza after he called police and confessed to killing two people. when they found meza he was carrying zip tie, duct tape and a gun. >> but i will let you know that mr. meza said he was ready and prepared to kill again and he was looking forward to it. >> cnn's ed lavendera is live in dallas. ed, what else do we know here? bring us up to speed. >> well, this is really stunning. on may 24th, according to an arrest warrant affidavit, raul meza calls a detective from the austin police department and says, my name is raul meza, i think you are looking for me. and that's how all of this

started in recent days as investigators by meza's own words according to this arrest warrant affidavit implicated himself in the murder of 80-year-old jesse frogga and 66-year-old gloria frofton. lofton was murdered back in 2019 and according to investigators there in the austin area, they believe that meza is not only connected to these two murders that he has been charged with but as well as eight to ten other murders over recent years that might fit similar circumstances, so they are continuing to look into that and always mentioned when he was taken into custody just a few days ago he had a bag full of duct tape, zip ties and a handgun as well and the austin police believe that he was willing to carry out more murders at some point, so some really disturbing allegations and all of this is really stunning because meza's criminal background is extensive.

back in 1982 he was convicted and sent to prison for murdering an 8-year-old girl in austin. he got out about 11 years later for good behavior and has been in and out of the prison system several times since then, and, in fact, in that phone conversation with investigators, he did say that when the last time he got out of prison in 2016, he had committed a murder shortly after getting out of prison, so some really disturbing allegations and details emerging from this case in the austin area. >> disturbing for sure. ed, thank you for bringing that to us. thank you. coming up, gun sales have been steadily rising in the u.s. so why would one georgia gun shop owner decide to close his business? because of the kids. you will hear from him this hour. we will also hear from former president trump and his reaction to cnn's reporting that he was caught on tape admitting he kept a classified document after leaving office. >> there might be a tape

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might be a tape recording that, quote, where you acknowledge that you understood -- >> yeah. >> -- that these were classified documents. first of all, do you know who this call may be with? >> no, i don't know anything about it. all i know is everything i did was right. we have the presidential records act which i abided by 100%. >> that, of course, was former president trump at a fox town hall denying cnn's reporting about the audio that proves that he knows the documents he took from the white house were still classified. special counsel jack smith now has a recording of trump discussing a document about a potential attack on iran telling two people without security clearances that he cannot share the information. cnn's paula reid joins us now. part of the team that broke the story, so what do you make of trump's response and what he said last night? >> reporter: we discuss heard a tiny bit of the clip where he refers to the presidential

records act insisting that he had complied with it fully, of course, we know that's not true because his team had to return 15 boxes of materials to the national archives and that was before the fbi conducted a search of his mar-a-lago residence and then subsequently his attorneys did additional searches, not only for possible presidential records so those are materials that are created during the administration, that are the property of the government but also, of course, looking for any classified documents of which we know there were many. so this explanation doesn't quite add up. but this is what we've seen before from the former president when he's under investigation, he makes a blanket insistence he has done nothing wrong. there is rarely any nuance. what we've seen them do is try to conflate the idea of complying with the presidential records act, again, it means you have to put all these records back in the archives when you leave office because they belong to the american people and also these questions about possibly

mishandling defense information or classified materials. it's a way to kind of confuse the issues and also downplay really the gravity of what investigators are looking at. >> paula, of course, that was a clip from a fox town hall. he was talking to the press. i mean, do the constant denials at least to members of the press, do they impact the case against him at all? >> not really. i always remind people it's not a crime to lie to the media, to lie to the public. it is, though, a crime to lie to federal investigators and we know that as part of this criminal investigation, the justice department, special counsel jack smith is looking at whether the former president or anyone else tried to obstruct this investigation. what's so interesting, though, about the audio recording, i keep reminding people, he knew he was being recorded. this was a recording that he made as he was in the habit of doing that summer whenever he was talking to journalists or writers, people working on books, he would have his aides record the conversation so he knew he was being recorded when

he suggested, he claimed that he was in possession of a classified document and then also really acknowledged the limbs of his ability to declassify it so it's really hard to reconcile those statements with the public defenses that he and his attorneys have given but ultimately what truly matters are what they say to investigators and what they say in court if there are any charges brought. >> watch this space, paula reid, thank you. so for a closer look at how this could fit into the special counsel's larger investigation let's turn to elie honig, also a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and former federal and state new jersey prosecutor. there is a time line here, right? this recording was apparently from july of 2021, but at bedminster. >> yeah. >> how does that fit into the larger mar-a-lago case? >> this is such an important reporting by paula and the team. the best way to understand look at the time line. january 20th, 2021 at exactly noon eastern time, donald trump leaves office most importantly,

loses the power to declassify documents at that point. now, a few months later in may of 2021, the archives starts in interacting with trump's team and says, hey, we have some concerns, there are some documents missing. we're going to need to talk. archives proceeding to negotiate with donald trump over the next several months, and during that time, two months after that, this is our new reporting, so we're in july of 2021. donald trump has this meeting that paula talked about at his resort in bedminster, new jersey, where he's meeting with these writers and there's been a story out about how trump allegedly was planning to attack iran. trump doesn't like that story so says on the recording, we haven't heard it but know the substance, i have a document that disproves that but it's classified, i cannot show it to you. after that archives continues negotiating. trump turns over 15 books to archives, in january of 2022 but archives says we still have concerns then they call in doj and that leads us to last summer when doj does the search warrant at mar-a-lago. so this timing on the bedminster

recordings is important because it's after he loses the power to declassify and after he knows archives says, we have concerns. >> and the fact he said i can't show it to you because it's a classified document. we're starting to get a sense of what the former president's defense will be, those comments last night but from tim parlatore. i want you to take a listen to what he said to jake tapper. >> this is a situation where failure of process is what led to documents leaving the white house, going to mar-a-lago, failure to get a facility in palm beach as they have for every other president since reagan get a facility within the hometown of the president where they move to to move the documents to. that's what led directly to documents going to his house. >> he's saying there is a failure of process. it's my understanding from our own cnn reporting, he is wrong. that is not how this works, that, in fact, the documents

would be under the auspices of the fat archives which came knocking at one point, right? they would end up wherever a former president decides to have a library. >> this argument about the warehouse is a so what argument. when you get down to the law, prosecutors have to prove, one, donald trump had knowledge, did he know he had these documents? obviously. he's acknowledged that many times including in this recording. two, did he have some sort of criminal intent and one thing we've learned from the reporting, he was doing something with those documents. he was using them to try to shape the public narrative about his time in office and let's remember, he has made these repeated false public claims about whether he declassified. we remember at the town hall kaitlan asked whether trump had ever showed classified documents to anyone and trump responded not really, i would have the right to. by the way, they were declassified after. we know that's not true. here he is after office saying these are still classified, i can't show them to you and that goes to criminal intent. >> whether we put it all together, we always like to end

on, hey, where do we think we are? do you have a sense as a former prosecutor as to how close jack smith and the special counsel could be to recommending or not charges? >> a lot is happening behind closed doors but my prosecutorial speedy sense tells me they are near the end and jack smith is looking at mar-a-lago and january 6th as the special counsel, he will make the first recommendation, indict or do not indict. ultimately that goes over to the attorney general, merrick garland. important to note the attorney general has to give and i quote the law, great weight to whatever jack smith has to say so he doesn't necessarily have to agree with jack smith. if he disagrees, garland, that gets reported to congress and find out about that and the american public and, of course, bigger picture, we've got the mar-a-lago investigation being handled by jack smith and we have the january 6th investigation, of course, trump also has been indicted in manhattan. he has a trial date set for next march and have the fulton county d.a. which seems to be gearing up to potentially indict later

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a former "playboy" model is suing bill cosby accusing him of drugging and raping her more than 50 years ago. victoria valentino filed a civil lawsuit against him in los angeles on thursday. she alleges that in 1969 she and a friend went to dinner with the actor where he gave them each pills. according to the lawsuit he drove them to an office where she and her friend passed out. she eventually woke up and says that cosby raped her. we have more from los angeles with the details. is valentino talking about why she's decided to file this lawsuit now? >> well, erica, she's saying it's time for accountability and she's suing bill cosby for both sexual battery and sexual assault. now, she's able to do that right now because of a new law in california that allows these civil lawsuits to go forward

that would otherwise be barred by an expired statute of limitation. what she's saying she met cosby in 1969 and this was after the loss of her son so she says that sometime later, she ran into him at a cafe and he invited her to dinner with her friend. she went to dinner and at that dinner she says he took advantage of her grief offering these pills and telling everybody if they took these pills, they would feel better. she says she wanted to go home after taking the pills because she was dizzy and nauseous but instead he went to or he took them to his office. that's where she alleges rape. now, here's part of her statement and why she's saying she wants to file this lawsuit. she says the trauma he inflicted upon me affects not only me but my children and grandchildren. by breaking my silence and speaking my truth, i hope this serves as my legacy to my family and shows those survivors who have yet to find their voices that hope and healing are possible. now, it is important to point out that bill cosby has denied

all of these allegations and through his publicist also released a statement saying this, victoria valentino has skirted from town to town promoting her alleged allegations against mr. cosby to anyone who would give her the platform without any proof or facts and he goes on to say that, you know, essentially it is way too late for all of this. but, again, he is denying all of these allegations, erica. >> camila, thank you. in a move rarely seen in this country a gun shop owner is closing his business after the recent uptick in mass shootings involving children. john opened his store in 2021 because he wanted a career that was pandemic lockdown proof. well, that year almost 500,000 guns were sold in the state but as sales increased so did mass shootings. he spoke with abby phillip about why he's closing.

>> it's really the kids. my son is going through mass shooting drills at school. it's nothing like that when i went to school and it's sad that he has to live like that. i sell higher end items and i don't want to sell something that could be used against my kid let alone anybody else's. >> he's now working on getting rid of his stock of guns and ammunition. certainly not something we see a lot. >> it's not and such an important point about how differently kids are growing up and this is normal for them to have that training and that's -- >> rare for someone to put their money where their mouth is. well, june, of course, is pride month and it's something that's been getting so much more attention and rightful recognition over the last several years and yet now a number of companies are facing boycotts, even threats to their employees for showing support to the lgbtq community.

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june is national pride month and the lgbtq community is raising the alarm around the record number of bills which have been introduced across the country specifically targeting the community. there are restrictions on gender affirming care, tighteninged regulations on school curriculum, laws restricting transyouth access to sport, efforts to ban drag performances, flooding state legislatures. you may remember this scene as well from montana back in april when state representative zooey zephyr spoke out against one of these proposed bills and ended up being censured but then the past week we have seen a spike in the backlash to companies as well supporting pride month selling pride merchandise. joining us now is montana state representative zooey zephyr. it's nice to have you with us in the studio. you and i had actually spoken

about a month ago right after you had found out that you were pushing to be reinstated. that wasn't happening in montana. where we tan this morning it is remarkable what we've seen in the last week or two in terms of pushback on companies criticized for, perhaps, rainbow capitalism and now there is a criticism for embracing and supporting pride month. i want to ask, kohl's was coming under fire. they had a pride collection with clothing and stuff for kids. and laura ingraham on another network, an opinion host suggested on twitter the company does not in her words respect common sense or the american ideal. when you hear words like that, the american ideal and common sense, what does that say to you? >> as a legislator one of the things i think about is when these bills come forward, they get talked about as if they're very narrow. this is just about sports. this is just about health care for a certain age group. but what we see in moments like

this is that the people who support anti-lgbtq bills are not content with a single piece of policy. they want to see us removed from all store, they want to see us removed from public life. to me that's why it's so important in this moment we fight back and that our allies both individuals and corporations are willing to stand alongside us. >> representative, aclu put out analysis that said by far most of this anti-lgbtq legislation is not even passed but you say even if it's not passed, it's still harmful for young people. >> the harm comes immediately even when these discussions are brought up, we know in montana that there was a transteen who attempted suicide while watching one of the hearings. that's how her mother found her with the hearing up on the tv. this is the kind of risk that comes just from the discussion of these bills, and then as they get passed and enacted, it becomes harder and harder because these bills themselves create conditions where having a

joyful, meaningful life becomes very difficult for transpeople and lgbtq people. >> you talk about allies. what does it mean in your view to be an ally in 2023? >> it means being unafraid to stand up in the rooms that you are in. i'm in the legislature doing my best to stop harmful policy, to move the needle with my colleagues. but that's just one room. whatever room you're in, whether it's a newsroom, whether it's an office space, pta or awkward family dinner conversation, have the courage to stand up because right now lgbtq people need that support. >> what is your reaction when companies, corporations try to stand up and then they face the backlash that some are now facing? what do you think when you see the backlash that some are facing? >> i think it's -- when we talk about the breadth of bills attacking the lgbtq people, bills attacking our past when they ban our memoirs or ban our collective history in drag, bills banning our present by banning teaching about us in school or public access to

bathrooms and our future by our health care, i think the companies facing backlash are seeing a sliver of what lgbtq people are facing with the harassment we're dealing with and we can't put our identities back up off the shelf so it's important that these companies are standing beside us in a moment where we're under more attacks than we have ever been. >> do you wish target would have kept some of its merchandise on shelves and done more? >> i wish every corporation who is pushing -- putting out pride products would have the courage to understand that they have lgbtq employees, they have lgbtq customers, and by supporting our presence, you don't take away anything from anyone else. you show we belong here as well. >> what do you think it is in this moment that has made not just the lgbtq community but specifically the transcommunity such a target? there are no facts out there that support that the transcommunity is coming after children, right, and is trying to change things, in fact, from all of our reporting, and from

members of the trans community i've spoken with, it's quite the opposite. people just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace and be their true selves. why do you think there is such a focus on them. >> we know the joy they have when they're allowed to transition and come fully into ourselves and there is an attempt to create a bogeyman as they did in '80s with the anti-gay movement. language in the '90s around gay people, quote, recruiting, we see resurrected here in caulk trans people, quote, groomers. it's that harmful rhetoric that they're trying to resurrect but it'll fail for the same reason. that's because transpeople, we are part of every community. you're never far from a transperson or someone who loves us, whether you're here, whether you're in your office or in the governor's mansion in montana whose own child is nonbinary.

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years to turn this around, you don't want him as your president. >> why didn't he do it his first four years? >> that is the sound of the 2024 gop primary. downtown and florida governor ron desantis campaigning in iowa and new hampshire. here is more of what trump said in a fox news town hall about desantis who is right now polling in second place behind him. >> i think the one who is second is going down so much and so rapidly that i don't think he is going to be a second that much longer. he going to be third or fourth. he had a very bad day. he got very angry at the press. you are not allowed to get -- >> a little bit of irony there. he was referring this moment between desantis and a reporter at a campaign event in new hampshire. listen. >> what are you talking about? are you blind? are you blind? >> i am not blind. >> so people are coming up to me talking to me, whatever they want to talk to me about. >> joining us with more on this

is cnn anchor and host of "who's talking to chris wallace?" chris, welcome. ron desantis no longer tip-toeing around the former president donald trump. he called out trump for siding with disney, accusing him of increasing the national debt. trump lashing out about desantis' proposal to trim social security, medicare, spending, saying desantis isn't ready for the oval office. how do you think all of this will play with voters? >> well, i mean, we secretly -- we probably don't want to admit it, secret will i political reporters love it and the idea of these two guys going toe-to-toe, hand to hand, insult to insult. desantis has been a formal candidate for three days and we can look forward to this for six or seven or eight months depending how long the nomination battle goes. i will say this to ron desantis. careful what you wish for. i covered the 2016 campaign.

i saw donald trump up on that debate stage with seven or eight or ten other candidates. he is really good at insult politics, and he is the winner and undefeated champion of that. you could say, well, that's a very questionable title, but he very good at it. i can remember one debate in detroit in 2016 where they literally got into an argument, marco rubio and he, about the size of trump's hands. marco rubio never recovered from that. donald trump didn't blink and went on to the nomination. >> i remember that moment well, as well. one of many. you are right. puck buckle up. for political reporters it's going to be a lot. when we look at who you have coming up, on this weekend's show i love the pairing this weekend. you have dr. phil and you have jay leno. dr. phil joining you. he is wrapping up, i knew it was a long time, 21 years of his

talk show, ending in the spring. what did you two talk about? especially the way that he ended and how he is feeling about it. >> he feels great about it. he has been number one or number two in daytime television. he has a deal to start doing prime-time programming. one of the reasons we wanted to do him today is that the surgeon general just came out, vivek murthy, with a report about the social harms of social media, especially to kids, and we talk in depth about that with dr. phil. is this a clip or? >> i think we have it. we don't. >> in any case, he basically says that, you know, in the early 2000s apple, he doesn't single them out, dropped a bomb to on society, which is the iphone, and he says there are too tarn many kids sitting there fixed to the iphone looking -- not thinking about their own

lives, but living or watching other people's lives and it's not really their real lives, it's their fantasy, which makes them more isolated and feeling worse about themselves. >> when you spoke to leno he opened up about his long road to recovery following two zengts, also had to get row constructive surgery to of his face. >> you know, people think that the skin grafts are expensive. i have a friend who is a moyle and he gave me bag of them. you can't even tell. there must be 50, 60 -- >> it doesn't look like foreskin. >> well, nevermind. yeah. >> i walked right into that. >> very -- >> i will tell you this interview is so funny but also revealing. it's interesting. jay leno is a very nice man and

genuinely funny, the villain in the late night wars, leno versus letterman, leno versus o'brien. he talks about that, his work ethic, which is extraordinary, and why he thinks he got the job to succeed johnny carson as the host of the "today" show and letterman didn't. >> that has been that. >> and that is what you call a tease. >> there you go. there you go. chris wallace, always great to see you. appreciate it. thank you. >> see you, guys. of course, catch "who's talking to chris wallace?" tonight 10:00 p.m. right here on cnn. "cnn this morning" continues right now. >> 63. the nays are 66. the bill is passed. >> good morning. i'm rahel solomon with erica hill. poppy harlow has the day off. crisis averted. the senate passing the debt

limit deal days before potential economic disaster. live to the white house where president biden is preparing to sign the bill and address the nation later today. a contractor this morning says he raised the alarm about an apartment building in davenport, iowa, warning it was a death trap before that building collapsed. as of this morning three men remain missing. and erica, i don't know if you heard, but america has a new spelling bee champion. that young man will join us live this hour on "cnn this morning" which starts right now. ♪ >> well, this morning the debt limit crisis appears to be finally over. the senate passed the deal late last night and president biden is set to sign it into law today. he is also planning to address the nation from the white house later tonight. this comes a few days before a potentia