happening. our lead story out of ukraine, a major disaster is unfolding in ukraine after a large dam has been destroyed. the kremlin is denying acquisitions that russian forces blew it up. thousands of civilians are in danger and evacuations are going on. exclusive cnn reporting. a mar-a-lago worker flooded a woman that stores surveillance video. it's raising eyebrows in the special investigation. the race for presidency about to get more crowded. chris christie set to announce he is running today and we are expecting mike pence to jump in tomorrow. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. so this is where we begin this morning because what is happening in ukraine is very, very significant. this is cnn exclusive reporting. we will get to ukraine in a

moment. this is where we begin in the u.p.s. sources say a mar-a-lago maintenance worker flooded a computer server room when surveillance video -- where surveillance video was stored when that worker drained pool, this happened in october and raising a lot of questions in the special counsel's probe of donald trump and hayes handling of classified documents. we are told this is the same maintenance worker spotted on surveillance footage moving boxes before the fbi executed a search warrant and found hundreds of classified documents at mar-a-lago. it's not clear if the surveillance video room was flooded intentionally or if this happened by mistake. our sources are telling us that it happened during a string of incidents that federal prosecutors find suspicious. >> surveillance video is a key piece of evidence in special counsel's probe. prosecutors have been involving whether trump and staffers tried to hide the classified documents from federal agents. cnn senior justice correspondent

evan perez. whether the surveillance video was tampered with, what's their end game as far as you know of right now on this issue specifically? >> i think this is one of the data points that prosecutors are working with. there is, obviously, the moving back and forth of boxes around the time that prosecutors were down there to visit and to try to retrieve some of these documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so for prosecutoring this asking witnesses about this flood and the timing is the key here. this of course came after there was a subpoena for the production of these documents. it came after the fbi did the search at mar-a-lago in august and then this happens in october also, you know, after prosecutors had sent another subpoena for additional surveillance video and then they finally sent a preservation order at the end of august. again all of this driving towards the idea of whether anyone else decides the former

president, whether those workers who were moving boxes, anybody was involved in trying to obstruct this investigation. obviously, we don't know whether there is going to be any charges, but what we -- the picture we are getting certainly is the activity that prosecutors are driving towards is to try to wrap up this investigation and so trying to get the answer to some of those questions is very key. i will note that, you know, the sources told kaitlan that at least in some testimony that prosecutors received they said that there was no damage that was done to this i.t. room where some of this stuff happened. >> in terms of your point about are we getting to the end of this, what do you know about the meeting yesterday between trump's legal team and high-ranking officials at the justice department, including jack smith, the special counsel? >> right. they wanted a meeting because they said that they believe there is a prosecute torial misconduct.

they ended up getting a meeting not with the attorney general, merrick garland, or with lisa monaco, the deputy attorney general, but the top career official at the justice department. also met with jack smith, who i don't think they wanted to see after all their complaints are all focused on the conduct of jack smith's office. we don't know their exact complaints, but we know that prosecutors have obtained material that they are very concerned about, the trump team is very concerned about, including things that they believe are attorney-client privilege materials that almost never fall into the hands of prosecutors. they did so, of course, because a judge declared that it was something prosecutors needed to see under the crime fraud exception. >> thank you for that reporting. >> sure. also this morning, two more of donald trump's former allies are getting ready to take him on in the race for the white house. former new jersey governor chris christie is expected to join the race today. he was an early and high-profile trump endorser in the 2016 race

after he dropped out and trump's own former vice president mike pence is expected to announce tomorrow. joining us right now abby foothills, cnn political correspondent and anchor of "inside politics" sun. i want to apologize, abby. >> apology accepted. >> when i was in japan and did your show and you talked to me before the show started and i woken up three minutes prior having only slept once in 36 hours i don't think i was very nice, kind of short. i apologize. it has been bothering me. i just remembered. oh, my god, i forgot to text abby and apologize for that. on note, thank you. >> phil is capable of being mean? >> i wasn't very well it. >> if short is your mean, i'm here for it. >> no problem. >> i literally just remembered. >> you are forgiven.

>> with that, two new entrants into the republican race, abby, your sense of what this does, if anything, to a growing dynamic that has been kind of moving this direction the last several weeks? >> it's just making the field a lot bigger. i think that's really mostly what it is. there has been a big question for me and i think a lot of people watching how "big" is it gonna get and will that give donald trump a hand up in this race. nd a i think we are getting perilously close to that point where you are looking at a size of -- a sizable field that is pretty similar to the last time around when he -- the rules of the nominating process on the republican side that make it easy for someone like a donald trump getting 30% and above to sweep because it's a winner take all system. once you get a plurality in some states, you can take all of the delegates. and they keenly understand that. so while all of these candidates have some rationale in their own

minds for running, the real question is gonna be down the road at what point do they get out because i think it's gonna be one of those situations where they have to look at the numbers and the map and determine whether it's possible for them to win. i think it's more interesting from a perspective of the primary what chris christie is gonna do because i think he is a little bit of a "x" factor. >> to your point about when they get out, that's so interesting that governor sununu told dana bash yesterday everyone in has to be keenly aware of how quickly they get out. chris christie, are people underestimating his ability in this? many not just republicans, many pundits are saying he is there to bulldoze trump and that's it. i mean, is that dismissing how he ran the state of new jersey and the margin by which he won? >> it is somewhat dismissing a long record of someone who -- at their original stage of chris christie's career he was seen as

someone who could embody -- >> he was the guy. >> he was the guy. and that flipped so quickly partly because trump transformed the party. so i think people are putting him in a trump antagonist role in this race a partly because there hasn't been evidence he has been able to make inroads among the republican elector i can. the pences and christies are running idealogical test cases, can you be anti-trump and have some level of support amongst republicans. for pence that pro-life wing is that driving the republican activism? he has a lot of trust among that group of people but it's not clear that he is going to be prioritized over others, particularly when he crossed trump on things like january 6th and the rest. so i think these new candidates are testing kind of theories about the electorate. we don't have a sense they are able to build those types of coalitions. this year is about can you break

into that top tier. if you are desantis. you have to be looking at people getting into the race, are they cobbling up 2 or 3% that i might need to cross donald trump's threshold? those winner take all states mean thinks high floor in the 30s and 40s becomes really, really important. >> here is the case for chris christie doing something i think a little bit different from some of the other candidates. frankly, christie has proven that he is a more dynamic personality, someone who thinks on his feet pretty quickly, and when you are talking about a donald trump, there is are really -- look at the field. there is not that many other candidates who can kind of go toe-to-toe with him in that way and that will start to matter talking about debates, especially once we are talking about the attention of republican voters. people discount the degree to which republican voters like trump because he is entertaining, he kachlgs their attention, he knows how to suck the energy out of the room and

for all of the policy differences between all of these candidates not many of them can really match trump in that way and i think that's one of the things that christie thinks that he can try. we played a montage of all the times on the debate stage when he went after marco rubio and it was a legendary takedown in that way and i think he is kind of banking on a similar ability to really go frontally against trump and do it in a way that catches people's attention and makes headlines. if you want to stop trump, somebody's gonna have to do that. >> if i was trump, i wouldn't wouldn't chris christie in my debate. i wouldn't if i am the other candidates either. he provides a wow card factor, can perform on the stage. to the marco rubio point, you don't know who is going to be the opponent on the other side of those attacks. i think that's a real "x" factor. >> that was the gasp or could not catch my breath in real time.

if you are ron desantis looking at the people coming into this race, and you made an interesting point on the evangelical side of things, if you are ron desantis, who are you looking at and saying i need them out quickly? >> everyone to is not donald trump. he needs to go into 2024 as that other alternative and coalesce those other options. i think somewhat the growing nature of the field is a reflection about a donor class, a republican class that feels a little more unsure about ron desantis than after the midterms. there was a sense of coordination after the midterms that this -- they had chosen the kind of guy who was gonna be the alternative here. that shifted allowed people to come back into the race, people like glenn youngkin, the north dakota governor, this opened up partially because people -- >> yeah. >> because partially -- >> he knows his name.

>> more about politics than i will ever know. i'm just messing around. >> about glenn youngkin if i were ron desantis glenn youngkin is the only person who could enter the race who would -- he is a governor, a culture wore guy. >> and the independent money. >> yeah. i think in some ways glenn youngkin doesn't have the sort of personality problem that ron desantis has or ron desantis has a convince people he is personable and he can do the glad handing and the retail politics. glenn youngkin doesn't have to do that. it would be interesting to see how those two kind of compete for the same types of voters if the theory of the case that they have is correct, which is that republican voters really want more than anything else a huge culture warrior in this race. and i think that remains to be seen, too. >> can you, like, move here in new york so we can have you two with us here every day? it brings such nice energy.

thank you both. >> we don't even have a -- >> abby apparently wants a bigger field. i feel like he accomplished a lot. tomorrow our very own dana bash moderates the cnn republican presidential town hall live from iowa with former vice president mike pence 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. a second flight carrying migrants arrived in sack on monday. causing california's department of justice to launch an investigation. the state's attorney general says he does not believe the migrants were fully infield and the relocation was not fully consensual. isabel rosales is live in atlanta for us. do we know if any other flights carrying migrants are expected a at some point in the future? >> good morning. california and sacramento officials have said that they are not aware of any plans for more flights to arrive in

california. however, the mayor of sacramento says it's a reasonable expectation that these flights will continue, saying that the city is prepared to receive these migrants. now, cnn reported that back in may the florida division of emergency management selected a company to execute the migrant relocation program but also selected two other companies. so far, with we have only heard from the attorney general of california. ver tall chartering these flights. it raises the question are more flights coming? a political tug-of-war wages on between florida governer desantis and gavin newsome ever. this was the second trip this plane made to sacramento in recent days. >> we have been working together over the last 48 plus hours to make sure that first and foremost that the people who are scared, who are vulnerable, who

are flown here under some lure of jobs and/or services, that they know that they are safe and that they will be well cared for. >> reporter: according to interviews, all migrants arrived in sacramento with paperwork saying the plane was chartered by a private company-based in florida. contracted by florida's division of emergency management. individuals approached the migrants speaking in broken spanish and asked them to sign forms to take them to sacramento. not all understood where they were going or signed the forms. migrants were initially approached in el paso. then were transported 100 miles away to an airport in new mexico and flown to carle. >> i said it many times, repeatedly from this podium, that busing or flying migrants around the country without any coordination with the federal

government is dangerous a unacceptable. >> reporter: california officials are accusing desantis of bolstering his campaign for president. >> what matters is, is the tactic of using the most vulnerable people as your political pawn. >> reporter: newsom up tweeting to desantis he is small, pathetic man and suggested this could constitute kidnapping under california law. >> we believe florida is behind this and we are investigating to see if there are criminal or civil laws violated. >> reporter: last fall desantis claimed credit for orchestrating two flights carrying migrants from san antonio to martha's vineyard. florida spent over $600,000 on those flights and over $1.6 million last year on its migrant flight program. and investigators will be looking closely not just at the

documents these migrants were carrying with them but also their cellphones. we are told by the california attorney general's office that some of these migrants actually took pictures and videos of their journey capturing the images of the people who led them to california. >> thanks so much. also new overnight ukraccus russia of blowing up a critical dam. the kremlin is rejecting those accusations. dramatic video those forcing hundreds to evacuate. live next to ukraine. china blames the u.s. for blatant military provocation after a series of close encounters in the south china sea. we will speak with senator chris murphy about all these developments coming up next. she picks only the perks she wants and saves on every one! all with an incredible new iphone. act now and get iphone 14 pro on us when you switch. it's your v verizon.

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this morning water pouring out of a critical dam in ukraine on the front lines of the war in a russian controlled area ever the kherson region. ukraine says it was blown up by russian forces in what they call a panic. the kremlin strongly rejects that accusation, says this is deliberate sabotage from ukraine. this is result. the surging waters flowing and flooding towns forcing more than 800 people from their homes this morning. sparking fears of large-scale devastation and fears of an environmental disaster. ukrainian president zelenskyy holding an emergency meeting with top officials about this crisis. sam kylie is live in kharkiv, ukraine, with more. good morning to you, sam. what can you tell us? ? . >> reporter: well, the first thing to say is that the ukrainians have not offered any proof at all for this being an explosion that caused the breach in the dam. the dam had been dangerously

holding back very large amount of water in the river and lake above it and there were deep concerns it could be breached. just in the last few days that indeed happened on a limited level with the road across the top giving way and the waters pouring over the top of the dam. there have been explosions subsequent to the breach which may be attributed to the mines and other explosives that the russian occupiers left at that location. nonetheless, 80 settlements and villages, towns and others are under threat. eight have been completely inundated according to the ukrainian authorities. nova kakhovka under russian control, the russian authorities admitted has been inundated. there is a threat to kherson city. the greater threat is to russian forces who occupy the east side of the bank. that is the location, those other locations which they have been using artillery and rockets, direct fire from tanks

to attack ukrainian civilians and military on the other side of the river and they are in the lower ground much more vulnerable to flooding. the key issue then will be whether or not they had prewarning that this breach in the dam was going to happen or whether they have been caught up in this. either way, a deep humanitarian disaster for the ukrainian population on both sides of the river with the ukrainian government in kherson ordering evacuations, offering evacuation trains and exalting people in the low-lying areas to get out their homes, release their pets and flee with essential documents. >> sam kylie, thanks so much. new this morning, china blaming the u.s. for what it calls blatant military provocation after recent encounters in the south china sea as we have been covering, a cheese warship cut in front of a u.s. vessel in the 2008.

taiwan strait. >> a chinese fighter jet made an unsafe maneuver close to a u.s. spy plane. these near misses underscore why u.s. officials want a high level dialogue to restart on a military-to-military basis. here is what mark milley cold cnn in an exclusive interview. >> i don't think that war between china and the united states is inevitable, i don't think it's imminent, but it needs to stay in a sta status of competition. countries have to talk to each other and in times of crisis it's necessary to de-escalate. >> joining us is democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for your time. i want to play sound from national security advisor jake sullivan who spoke to our colleague fareed zakaria. he said he wants to speak with xi jinping but he is going to be speaking with xi jinping. this was how jake framed things.

>> we will, i hope, soon see american officials engaging at senior levels with their chinese counterparts over the coming months to continue that work. and then at some point we will see president biden and president xi come back together again. >> i think the question i have had, i think there is a difference between military and military engagement and, obviously, there have been engagements, some on the economy level, u.s. officials meeting in beijing as well. the question i think has been what is rationale from your perspective as to why china has not engaged on the military-to-military side and why xi has not seemed to show any interest in having a conversation president biden very much wants? >> well, the chinese explanation for their reluctance to engage their defense minister is relative to sanctions that united states has on china. but it's consistent with this broader decision that xi has made to keep engagements at a lower level. i think he notices the fairly

bold steps that the biden administration along with congress have taken to try to put the united states in a better position to compete. this isn't the temper tantrums of the trump administration. this is really strategic thinking and direction on behalf of the administration. for instance, the congress with the president's support passed the c.h.i.p.s. act which seeks to start a new microchip industry in the united states so we are not dependent on china nor taiwan, the united states has upsurged military support to taiwan to make sure that taiwan can defend themselves in the case of a chinese invasion. and, obviously, that rufls feathers in beijing. i'm sure that china wants to send a message to the u.pnited states and the biden administration that there is some diplomatic price at the very least to pay for the biden's decision to get serious about a comprehensive strategy

to manage china's rise so it doesn't hurt u.s. interests. >> i am interested in your perspective on what congressman mike turner who is the chair of the house intel committee to say on sunday about where he thinks the add manaadministration is falling short regarding china. >> unbelievable congress of china of the balloon that flew over the china, the chinese police stations aggressiveness against our planes and ships in international water you get this sense of permissiveness that the administration needs to make sure that china has identified itself as an adversary and we will treat it as much. >> is there more the administration could do there? >> you this they took definitive steps, including canceling a high level trip by secretary of state is part what aggravated china so they are responding with denial of meetings of military leaders. we have also sanctioned

innumerable chinese high-level officials for their conduct in shing zhang, their cooperation with russia and the biden administration has a suite of policies that's standing up an ability to combat china's economic and military rise. i understand there are a lot of republicans out there who are, you know, interested in our entire relationship with china being one of confrontation. i just don't think that's smart because what we are trying to avoid is a direct military conflict, which would be disastrous for the world, for the united states and for china. so i think have to have a policy of strategic competition and also pursuing some ability to deconflict and cooperate where we can cooperate and we shouldn't forget there are places we can still work together, whether it's on north korea or iran or climate. we can't give up opportunities to try to find common cause where they exist with the chinese government. those are limited but shouldn't

forsake that opportunity. >> do you feel like lifting the sanctions on secretary austin's counterpart would be a helpful element? >> no. i think it's an excuse -- >> i understand that. do you feel that should be on the table for the administration to consider? >> no. the chinese have cooperated with russia, helped russia's war in ukraine, and any country that is assisting in the obliteration of international norms has to pay a fr price tfor that. >> on ukraine you were one of the point people in senate democratic caucus. you have been over there constantly. what is your sense right now given what we are seeing at the dam, what we are seeing in terms of more kinetic action the last several days, what is happening on the ground? >> i don't have any independent confirmation that this was a russian operation. it's certainly possible that this was a natural breach. but it certainly would be consistent with the way in which

russia has been operatek. they have been in panic mode for nearly the entirety of the conflict, launching attacks deliberately targeted against civilians and civilian infrastructure to sow dissent inside the ukrainian population to get them to come to the negotiating table too early. they are panicked about this ukraine offensive. i don't know how successful it will be, but there are all sorts of signs that ukraine is going to be in a position to take back significant territory and that would be at the very least a devastating public relations blow for russia. it would really compromise putin's political position inside the kremlin. you are seeing him getting, i think, more significant resistance from left and right, and wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that putin might be panicking at this moment knowing that he is maybe on the cusp of losing significant amount of territory. >> talk about guns because this

is -- hthis has been your mission. it's going to be a year june 25th since you got through and president biden signed that bipartisan gun safety bill. he said god willing it's saved a lot of lives. since then 18,000 americans shot and killed. you are about to hold the safer community summit this month. as we are seeing a sit-in in the capitol in colorado of women, specifically asking for the governor there to ban guns, knowing the unconstitutional alley of that, but that's what they are saying is the crisis. how are you addressing it with this summit? >> people are at wit's end. people are proud we finally passed legislation that the nra opposed last year that makes the country safer. it's not enough. you will continue to see this movement grow all over the country, demand that states and the federal government do more, universal background checks, take assault weapons off the

street. the summit happening in hartford on june 16th is an opportunity for us to assess how well we are doing in implementing the law last year and that law takes guns away from domestic abusers, makes it harder for young buyers to get assault weapons, it locks up more gun traffickers. it is saving lives, but not it's a persuasive argument when aem people are drying. so this summit is an opportunity to plan for the future, to have all of the anti-gun violence groups, leaders, representatives from the biden administration in one place to say what's the next step because i believe that we have now broken the back of the gun lobby. the movement is getting stronger. more republicans are willing to support anti-gun violence measures. i think the next five years will be consistent victory for this movement. so this is an opportunity to help plan for that success. >> and you have republicans involved? >> this summit will be mostly members of the advocacy

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triggered intense anger across the country. melissa bell is in paris. what's the latest on the ground? >> reporter: you mentioned a moment ago what happened at that site at the northwest of paris set for the 2024 olympics. we have seen it time and time again. before these protests ahead of the main protest they get into the building, symbolic ones, take on the stock exchange, the headquarters. this is main protest today. so the police pretty heavy visible presence at the front of the march and the demonstrators preparing to carry on walking. there has been a little bit of tear gas. not very much. but certainly the authorities are expecting a lower turnout today than what we have seen the last few weeks. the idea of the unions is of course to gather support ahead of that vote on thursday, yet the government have found a mechanism to allow them to get around which has taken the wind out of the sails of the movement as has the announcement by the

biggest union this will be the last of the main protests against this particular reform ahead of the summer. phil. >> thank you so much. oklahoma approving the first religious charter school in the nation setting up a legal battle not only between church and state but the republican governor and the republican attorney general in that state. details ahead. (vo) if you've had thyroid eye disease for r years and the bags under your eyes are looking more like purses, it's not too late for another treatment option. to learn more visit trtted.com. that's treatt-e-d.com. befo... and bath fitter. now's the ti to call bath fitter to get a butiful “after.” with our unique tub over tub process, there's no mess or stress. bath fitter. it just fits.

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taxpayers, but it's independently managed. this online catholic charter school is expected to require more than $23 million in state funding in the first five years. the state's attorney general calls this unconstitutional but has the support of the republican governor. ed lavender is live in dallas with more. this is so interesting, especially given the direction the supreme court has gone on all of. what can tell us? >> reporter: everyone watching this closely, fully expects this to ultimately end before the u.s. supreme court. but on monday a little known government agency known as the oklahoma state wide virtual charter school board, yes, that is a thing, voted 3-2 to approve the application for the saint izdorf seville virtual catholic charter school run by the archdiocese of oklahoma city and tulsa. the application was approved by a vote of 3-2 after a three-hour debate yesterday. clearly, a lot of intense

opinions about all of had. the governor of oklahoma described this vote as a win for religious liberty and education freedom. it also has the support of the superintendent of education who described it as a monumental decision. it has come under scathing scrutiny from the oklahoma attorney general, also a republican, who said in a statement, quote, approval of any publicly funded religious school is contrary to oklahoma law and not in best interest of taxpayers. it's extremely decision pointing that board members violated their oath to fund religious schools with tax dollars. this has exposed the state to hefty legal fees here in the future. so great deal of controversy swirling around the future of this school and what it means for public education in the state of oklahoma and across the country. >> you know, you mentioned the inevitability of a legal challenge. do we have a time lane, when this will start moving in the

courts? this is going to end up in one place only, it seems like, the supreme court. >> reporter: right. i think everyone agrees that ultimately the fate of the school will be determined in court system. right now the school has been permitted to open in fall of 2024 with about an initial enrollment of 500 students. how long it takes to move through the court system suspect clear. but it sounds like those who are opposing the application of this charter school will be moving rather quickly on the legal front here. >> ed, thank you. fascinating. we'll track it. also this morning, a former fbi agent who became one of the most notorious russian spice in u.s. history has died. the federal bureau of prisons says workers found robert hanssen unresponsive. he was later pronounced dead. he was 79 years old. hanssen joined the fbi in 1976 and three years later started spying for the soviets. using the alias ramon garcia he

accepted more than $1.4 million in cash, bank funds and diamonds from the soviet union in russia. he handed over highly classified information, including how the u.s. planned to react to a potential soviet nuclear attack should that ever materialize. investigators say he compromised numerous soviet sources providing information to the u.s., some later executed. the fbi says hanssen went undetected for years because of his training. they finally did arrest him just before he planned to retire. this was 2001. they caught him making a dead drop, you are seeing had actual video, february 2021, making a dead drop of classified documents in a park in virginia. he pled guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy. they didn't seek the death penalty and a judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. our leave law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. good morning.

reminder for people there who don't remember the specifics, i was one among them of this case, huge. and just talk about the significance of this. >> well, i mean, if you go through the pantheon of leakers and traders, robert hanssen is set apart from the rest. it's not just that he leaked documents, which puts him in the edward snowden class or others. he leaked names. and these were names of active soviet agents who were working for the united states inside the kgb. these were people like martinov who were executed. a soviet general in prison. others were questioned and tortured and disappeared. the damage to the united states intelligence collection efforts and then the human toll was unparalleled. >> why did it take him so long, unlike poppy, i -- i have been so fascinated. the books, the movies,

everything. >> is in your backyard. >> close to where i live. i try to find bags of cash, as we were talking about. why did it take so long to find him and what broke the case? >> hanssen was interesting because if you look at the who he was, he was a devout catholic, six children, career fbi guy, showed up to work every day in a black suit with a dark tie, and was a career russian counterintelligence guy. he was not the what you were looking for, son of a chicago cop, law enforcement family. but when you looked behind those layers, he was a guy with a big ego, personality issues, unappreciated, felt under financial stress all the time, trying to keep up with the costs of the house and the six kids, and he was a guy who just

decided i'm smarter than everyone around me even if they don't think so and i can play the first baseman by day and in my alter ego life i can be the master spy working for the russians and conduct this orchestra. he was trite. he did it for years. >> right. they got it on video. >> amazing. >> john miller, thanks so much. >> thank you, john. this just in. a new court sketch showing prince harry in a london courtroom. he is suing a major u.s. tabloid claiming that multiple tabloids used illegal methods, including phone hacking, to get access to stories about him. we will tell you what he told the court. a nike co-founder phil knight is fighting to bite nba's portland trail blazers to the tune of $2.2 billion. our own prince harry enten is here with this morning's number. >> good one.

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2,000%. up worth $2.3 billion and $4.5 billion on average. why are the teams so valuable? they are limited teams so owning could be a wealth symbol and sports team are some of the rare events millions of people watch in this era. >> i'm happy that rich people are getting richer and like very rich people are getting way richer. one of those people you mentioned paul allen, sports isn't his only investment that's paid off since 1988, is it? >> no, look at the microsoft stock, it's up, get this, about 130,000% and that is part of the largest stock boom with the nasdaq 100 up 8,000% since 1988 well beating the s&p 500 baseline. >> 1988. we love you, harry. >> your stock is always up, harry. >> thanks, buddy. >> this is for you to read. >> i'm on it. >> super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs visited the white house. see what happened when travis kelce tried to take the mic. upg! the new #19 the pickleball club.

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for your morning moment, this is a fun one, president biden welcoming super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs to the white house on monday after the team gifted biden a personalized number 46 jersey, the chief's tight end travis kelce decided to seize the moment and try to steal the mic. that is when the quarterback patrick mahomes stepped in. >> so i've been waiting for this -- >> sorry. i'm sorry. >> now, despite the chiefs winning the super bowl three times, this visit marked the first time that the franchise met with the sitting president and toured the white house. the team's first visit was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. just a great team. >> apparently this happens all the time. >> yes. >> so glad i have a chief white house correspondent next to me. we will see you here tomorrow. thank you so much for joining us, cnn "news central" starts now.