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>> thank you so much for joining news. "cnn news central" starts right now. ♪ a titanic tourist subgoes missing, now there's an operation underway, racing against the clock to find it and rescue those on board. a new report in "the washington post," accuses the fbi of slow walking an investigation of donald trump's role in trying to steal the 2020 election. what it means for the former president's legal troubles and the potential for another tine di -- indictment. top diplomats sat down with chinese leaders. both sides say they made some progress, but mending the bruised relationship will take more. we have all of that and more coming into "cnn news central."

we begin in the atlantaic ocean with an urgent rescue operation. gone missing, a submersible operating tours near the "titanic." they are working on reestablishing contact with that submersible. miguel, what do we know about this search and rescue? >> we know that several ships have left st. johns in n newfo newfoundland. this is near the coast where the submersible has gone missing. oats gait expeditions is the company that runs the submersible. they do everything from research to underwear photography and video, and then on one of these

subs, it can hold ago many as five people. sometimes they do take tourists on the subas well. the company releasing a very brief statement, saying they are exploring and mobilizing all options to bring nair crew back safely, and their entire focus is on the crew members on the submersible and their family members. right now, we are trying to gather more details to figure out sort of where this was, what exactly it was exploring. it is in that area with the "titanic" went down. a and, the subor the submersible they may have been using is a newer one they seem to have launched in 2021, made of titanium and carbon fiber. they are desperately trying to

figure out if they can bring people home safely. boris? >> you noted the depth. we're talking about nearly 13,000 feed below the ocean surface. obviously anyone who may have been at those depths in any submersible risks extreme danger. has the company given an official count of how many people? >> no. they can hold up to five, but it doesn't necessarily have five people on there. as you note, the pressure once you get to that level in the ocean is extreme. and this submersible -- it appears they launched it a couple years ago, sort of the newest, latest and greatest, the "titanic" was a different company that mapped it recently. there's been a lot of submersibles that have been able to get down there since the '80s. this may have been the first

accident or certainly concerning situation since the "titanic" winter down in 1912. >> we'll stand by. miguel mar quesquez, thank you much. "the washington post" is reporting that the fbi waited at least a year before launching an investigation into donald trump. the post reports that the doj and fbi may have been overly cautious, because they did not want to appear partisan. there was die bait about how much evidence was exactly needed to probe trump's actions. kai kaitlan, i have been following this for some time. i not cnn has some of its own reporting. was it a deliberate decision? was it part of a broader,

methodical approach to this? >> yeah, jim. this is just two -- in hindsight, apparently in "the washington post", they are now saying they were dissatisfied with the way this was moving early on, but then the attorney general had puckly stated they were following the facts as they led them. cnn, here our own reporting has been for several months even in 2021 cases in court, something that they had never seen the likes of an investigation like this before, they were approaching it with the full green light to take an investigation the whole way to donald trump if they needed it. they needed to follow the facts and the law as merrick garland was posted.

how hard do you go for donald trump early on after the capitol riot? and now, looking back, what we know is that the prosecutors, even before the special counsel came in to formally look at donald trump, they came in trying to follow the finances, the money, early on. was there an infrastructure to help violent rioters on the capitol grounds? that investigation continues now. we also know, jim, that the special counsel investigation, as soon as it -- moved very fast and got lots of testimony, including from mike pence, the former vice president, that would have been unheard of. >> so, what you're saying, it's not a deliberate decision here to kind of put this on a shelf, but that there was a process

underway to decide who as to prosecutor first and build it from there. is that what the takeaway should be? >> reporter: yeah, there's different people out there saying they wanted things to happen a bit earlier. our understanding is this investigation unfurled. if you remember, right after the capitol insurrection, the u.s. attorney acting at that time publicly came out and said people should be charged with sedition conspiracy. the justice department had to take several months to get to the point where they were able to charge that and ultimately were able to prosecutor and obtain convictions. this was a long process, still under investigation now. >> and continuing, no question. lots of decisions till to be made. kaitlan polantz, thank you so much. a new order that donald

trump cannot share any of his evidence with his supporters or the media. this is a ruling that bans the former president and his close aide from talking about any of the information shared with their legal team during the discovery phase. trump also cannot post about it on social media. cnn's evan perez is joining us now on this. i think, evan, his team expected this, so perhaps that's not surprising, but this is something that might be difficult for donald trump to do. >> right. his discipline, let's just say, is not something he's known for. can the former president abide by these rules? so anything under this protect i have order that his team has agreed to, by the way, with the special counsel, anything they get, this is the unclassified part of the discovery they'll in and out start getting. anything he sees in those sessions with his lawyers, he's not allowed to disclose. that goes for his and him

codefendant, walt nota. and the justice department will start sharing some of the classified materials that right now his lawyers are trying to get their approval for a security clearance so they can start reviewing this stuff. but, you know, this obviously is a standard part of the process. these cases, when you have something like this ongoing, it's very routine to have these orders. but, as you pointed out,s donald trump is who we're talking about. >> two former trump cabinet officials, bill barr and mark es esper, criticizing his handling

of -- >> they took criticism for doing things that seemed like they were protecting him. so it's remarkable of the cry i'm you're getting from both. bill barr was criticized for the way he ran the justice department. listen to their comments over the weekend. >> do you think trump can be trusted with the nation's secrets ever again? >> well, based on his actions, again if proven true under the indictment by the special counsel, no. it's irresponsible action that places our service members at risk and our nation's security at risks. >> he will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego above the country's interests, no question about it. >> you hear how stark that criticism is. again, these are people who worked very closely with the former president. >> especially bill barr.

he's not backing him up on this at all. evan, thank you. jim? some progress in the midst of serious tensions. the u.s. and china take steps, beijing still not budging on key issues. what secretary blinken is saying about his high-stakes meetings with chinese leaders. tanks with tons of explosions, blown up remotely, as ukraine claims gains. and they spent hours reeling in a giant fish for $3.5 billion prizes, then another sea creature seemed to have spoiled the party. there's always a bigger fish. details when "cnn news central" returns.

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critical talks hoping to cool things down between the superpowers. that's secretary blinken departing beijing a short time ago this morning, on his way back to the u.s. after two days of crucial meetings with top officials, including a significant, though relatively short, meeting with president xi jinping. it was over many issues, both sides hailed some progress this morning, though they said there were no key breakthroughs. >> very candid, very in depth, and in places constructive. in other places, we have a lot more work to do. >> cnn national correspondent kylie atwood is live in beijing. there was a lot of expectations

going in. but they were talking. what did the u.s. officials say they accomplished here? >> well, listen, what the secretary of state said is both sides agreed on the need to stabilize the relationship. that, in and of itself, jim, as you know, is pretty significant. he said it's his expectation of better engagement going forward. they don't want the competition to spiral out of control, situation where there could be misinterpretation as or conflict. what they did was military-to-military communications. they are not rely gular communication. the secretary of state told me at the press conference here this morning before he left beijing, that china simply

didn't great to stand those up at this time. that's something they're going to continue to press forward. here's what he said. >> i think it's absolutely vital that we have these kind of communications, military to military. that imperative i think was only underscored by recent incidents that we saw in the air and on the seas. and at this moment, china has not agreed to move forward with that. >> reporter: now, there were a whole host of issues, where it seems that both parties were pretty ingrained in their positions heading into the meeting and out of the meetings. taiwan was one of the issues. haim righ human rights was another case. the secretary said he raised issues of human rights in the meetings, but no movement from

china. where there was movement was a economiment to stand up a working group on fentanyl. we know there's an opioid crisis in the united states and a lot of precursor chemicals come from china, so significant that they're willing to work with the u.s. on that. >> on the air, on the sea, we'll see if he can work it out moving forward. brianna? >> let's talk about this with kim kimberly dozier. how concerning is it, kim, you are not seeing this military-to-military connection restored? >> it's dangerous, because without that hotline, the next time a chinese warship plays chicken with the u.s., and the

u.s. doesn't hit the brakes fast enough, that could escalate into something more dangerous, like armed conflict. i think probably xi wants to wait for a potential meeting face-to-face with president biden at the apex summit in the fall before he makes that concession, if only the rhetoric, messaging to his own people. we don't give this concession to a secretary of state, we'll only do it leader to leader. >> how key is that? >> i think in terms of some of the things that play, it's the only way to resolve some of it. xi knows that biden needs successful trade ahead of the next election. if there's a burt of economic activity, that's positive, but what the biden administration needs to do is that the chinese stop doing some of the pro provocative behavior. it's doing more patrols in the

south china sea. it's asserting its influence, whereas beijing is saying, this is our area, back off. you stay in yours, this is ours to do with what we will. stop doing things like your nuclear sub deal with australia. >> we were talking during the break they need economic cooperation, further compounding how different the needle is. china always factors so large in the rhetoric. we see, for instance, state-level legislation blocking chinese purchases of agricultural land. what are you looking for? >> there's a lot of bipartisan support on capitol hill on both sides. you have democrats and republicans who read the top secret intelligence reports of chinese spying, chinese stealing

of u.s. intellectual technology and also the continuing cyberattacks that happened on several different levels. you can expect almost a competition between the republicans and the democrats who can be strong enough on china, even as they're one of the u.s.'s largest trading partners, and the biden administration needs business to get back to normal. >> kim, thank you so much. it's a really different situation for the president to contend with. thank you. boris? still to come, russia reportedly showcasing a possible new tactic on the battlefield, sake this tank was detonated wry motorially, causing a massive explosion. we'll take you live to ukraine in just moments. at least one person is dead in mississippi. the threat of tornadoes there not over yet.

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♪ a rash of gun violence across the country. shootings turning celebrations into chaos. now here are just three cases. in willow brook, illinois, just outside chicago, a mass

shooting, killing one person, injuring 22. police are searching for a number of unknown suspects there. in st. louis, a 17-year-old killed, nine other teens injured. police recovering an ar-15 style rifle and a handgun. bullets were firing in washington state at a music festival. please say and the suspect was taken into custody. josh campbell joins us live. there versus more mass shootings than in days this year. what does the data show us about how frequently these are hatching? >> that's right, bore ig, 15 mass shootings in this country.

as we look at the total number of -- we're talking nearly 20,000 people killed this year alone from a star arm. 315 total mass shoalings this year, and as you look year by year, i mean one thing, if there's any good things, there were fewer gun deaths from last year, but only slightly. look at that spike on your screen. from 2019 to 2021, there's a spike of about 25%, so we're at the high elevated levels of gun deaths. we could forget we're talking about individuals, people, people this past going to juneteenth events, father's day events and music festival. the centers for disease control

tell us the number one killer of children in this country is firearms. >> josh, thanks so much. possibly new and alarming tactic in the war in ukraine, russia using a tank as an impro improvised device now, this video does seem to show a tank hitting a mine, which complicates part of russia's claim here. a senior ukrainian officials says kyiv's forces have recame up torrid -- rben wedeman is in zaporizhzhia, so a lot of conflicting information here. ben, what is the latest from the front lines? >> reporter: brianna, the day

started with a failure optimistic news coming from the ukrainians, that they had managed to liberate eight settlements, about 44 square miles, but as the day progressed, the situation looked more ambiguous, particularly around this town which is about an hour's drive from here. the latest we are hearing is that it's taking heavy shelling and air strikes from the russians, and that even though the ukrainians appear to be nominally in control, that the situation is really so ambiguous, that even if there are ukrainian troops in the town, they addon't seem to be secure at all. what we're seeing is the russians do seem relatively

prepared for this ukrainian counter-offensive, and as a rule, it's easier to defend than retake a territory. the russians seem to be using a new tactic where they are stuff a t-54 tank, dating back to the soviet era. according to the tell gram channel of the russian defense minister, they put as many as five or six tons of explosive, and sushl put a brick on the accelerat accelerator, but appears to have hit a mine from those ukrainian positions, but creating a huge explosion. we don't know at this point where there were any ukrainian casualties, where the russians were able to take advantage of that explosion to advance into

the ukrainian lines, but certainly a new tactic we are seeing here. brianna? >> thank you, ben wedeman, live for us in zaporizhzhia. boris? a fishing competition ending in controversy. why the catch was disqualified, costing the team a cool $3 million. plus republican officials in kansas are on alert after at least 100 letters containing a suspicious white powder were sent to state lawmakers and public officials. we have the latest from accacckansasas, when we come back. i got you. looking great you guys! ♪ go to your happy price ♪ ♪ priceline ♪ >> tech: when you have auto glass damage... choose safelite. we can come to you and replace your windshid. >> grandkid: here you go! tech: wow, thank you! >> customer d grandkids: bye! >> tech: bye! don't wait, schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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here's a look as some of the other headlines we're following this hour on "cnn news central." a fishing crew out a $3.5 million prize after the blue marlin was disqualified from a fishing competition. the tournament service it was due to a, quote, mutilation by a fish by a shark or other sea creature, the idea being it was easier to reel it in. the runner-up had a blue marl listen at more than 484 pounds. that's not bad, eastern. a man in arizona died after falling over the end of a popular tourist atrash over the grand canyon. the 33-year-old man was on a glass bridge that -- when he went over the edge, plunging

4,000 feet into the canyon. severe weather in jasper county, mississippi, has left at least one dead, two dozen others injures. according to the weather service, twidespread destructio was. hundreds of letter in kansas were sent to hundred of of lawmakers with suspicious white powder. so far they have found no biological agents of concern. rosa, you spoke to a lawmaker who received one of these letters. what did they share with you? >> reporter: you know, boris, i spoke to representative steven owens. he says it was a terrifying experience. he says that it was calculated and that it started republicans.

he says that the return address on the envelope appeared to be from one of his constituents. he didn't think twice when he opened that envelope, but then, of course, that's when he saw the powder inside. he says so far all the recipients he knows about are fellow republicans. take a look. he points specifically to two sentences in that her that say, quote, to honor your recent accomplishments, it's important not to choke on your ambition. hi points out, of course, this is a cryptic message, but he think this could about a reference to the super majority that the republicans have in the house resolution and senate and that gyre was used to override nine vetoes by the democratic governor. all of this was controversial in the state of kansas. one of those involved the definition of a man and woman, and the other involved

transgender sports. now, he also states that it was calculated, because he -- because of the return address, he and others simply just opened these letters. now, authorities are not specifically talking about motive at this point. there is no one who has been arrested, but he's not the only one who feels targeted. take a listen. >> kansas legislators that are republicans are being targeted. there is some message, the message is somewhat unclear, but it was intended to be threatening. >> reporter: now, kansas authorities say that they have tested some of these letters -- these are 100 letters that went across the state of kansas to public officials. they have returned negative for common biological agents. boris, of course, there is huge concern in the state of kansas because of this, and they do

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today in america, we commemorate juneteenth, the annual holiday that celebrates the end of slavery specifically the arrival of union troops in texas in 1865 freeing 250,000 enslaved african-americans in the state and enforcing the emancipation proclamation's two and a half years after its signing n.charleston, south carolina, at the site of one of the world's most prolific slave ports, a museum has been built honoring the thousands of a cans forced to leave their homes under barbaric conditions. the international african museum also severs as a memorial and a research center allowing african-americans to connect with their ancestors to find answers about their place in american history, and my cnn colleague victor black s'well joining us now with that. victor, you actually worked with the pewsium for several months

to research your own family history. tell us what you discovered. >> yeah. they actually did all of the work. i answered a few questions, and for six months they traced my family back 300 years, and to say that i was surprised by what they found, that would be a se severe understatement. very few moments in my career have ever brought me to this. this is -- man. it happened at the international african american museum in charleston, south carolina which opens this month. six centuries of history packed into 150,000 square feet at the historic gadson wharf. >> about 40% of all enslaved african-americans would have come in through this wharf. we've referred to as ground zero as enslaved people in the united states. dr. tapia matthews is the

president's ceo. >> a place of saolemnity or celebration? >> i refuse to choose. >> reporter: tribal arts and fashion, relics of protests and resistance. >> it's this infusion of trauma and joy constantly that we like to talk about here. you get the full story and you're going to get all of the context in it. >> what arguably is the best ilstation of storm context is the museum's center of family history. it's a team of researchers with access to millions of records that can trace african-americans back to this very port. the expert genealogist spent a month tracing moy lineage, and this was the date of the long-awaited reveal. >> make sure you've got a box of kleenex by you and sit back and enjoy. >> reporter: that's the museum's top genealogist who is joining us from the university of virginia.

this is a snapshot of your tree and i'm following your maternal line. >> wow, that's a lot just seeing the tree. >> you see that box? well, that represents david vennec my great grandfather's grandfather. he lived in virginia on a farm with judy and their 18 children, and in 1871 he filed this claim to be reimbursed for livestock and supplies requisitioned by union troops during the civil war. >> another thing that is significant is that he owned the land that he's on, and it was 23 acres. >> where did a man. >> yes. >> in the 1870s so soon after the end of slavery get the money to buy 23 acres? >> absolutely. and -- and the thing of it is i would even question he said he was free born. >> for some answers we have to go back more than 300 years to my great great great great is

great great great great spth great grandmother mary who arrived in a ship in 1712 before america was america. her granddaughter, my eight times great grandmother bess, was with her accord to this centuries old deposition that dr. murphy's team uncovered. why a deposition? we'll learn that a little later. >> and bess at the time was about 13 years old. witnesses apparently said they looked like they windians. >> researchers believe that mary and bess were like the people of the northern neck. >> we're not sure where they came from, but thomas smith of richmond county did enclave one of bess' churn and that was sarah. >> and it's sarah, my seven times great grandmother works changes the trajectory of her

children and all her descendants who followed. >> there was a law back in 1705 that declared that all children that are enslaved or free, their condition would be based on whatever their mother was. >> remember, sarah and bess arrived free people. >> so sarah has a raw suit that's filed saying we're free. >> this is the actual lawsuit filed by sarah suing for her freedom and for the freedom of her descendants, and that deposition was from a witness who saw mary and bess arrive decades earlier. >> so in 1791 the court appear the can sarah and her chirp and grand chirp and all of those relatives who were descendants of mary and bess are going to be free. >> that my ancestors filed and sued for their freedom, it is

remarkable. >> we're not done. >> we're not done. >> we're not done. okay. we're not done. let me get a kleenex, doctor. >> i told you have-to-have a box there. >> not all of sarah's family was free. before the court's decision, sarah's enslavers illegally sold her daughter rachel and then rachel was sold again and for the next 20 years unaware of the court's ruling rachel and her children remained in bondage. when she learned of the decision in 1807, more than a quarter century after her mother's ground breaking raw suit for freedom, rachel filed this lawsuit against her enslaver claiming that she was the daughter of a free woman and, therefore, she and her children should also be free. >> and guess what in the witnesses and things all came through and they were awarded their freedom. so what do you think?

>> man. this is -- oh, man. to be an enslaved woman suing your slavemaster, to do it twice in one blood lipo. >> in virginia. >> it remarkable. >> your line started out enslaved and became free up until where you're at right now. >> it became free because those women fought for it? >> i'm going to tell you what, victor. the women in your family are unbelievable. >> hmm. >> it fills in a lot of gray. a lot of blank space. there was nothing there. there was an assumption, now there are names, relatives and places and stories. it certainly fills in more of the story of my family's place in this country.

i'll tell you. those were tears of joy and tears of gratitude to those women who sued for the freedom of their children and grandchildren and descendants moving forward. if you want to start this work for your family go to the website for the international african american museum. they put the resources there. start with what you know and branch out, and as they grow the center for family history, they will start have appointments one-on-one to do for you what they did for me, and as invaluable as i've called, it digital heirloom for my family, bri. >> unbelievable, victor. we were doing your piece gathered around the return monitor silently watching, almost in disbelief as each part of this story revealed itself. how much does that mean to you as you have this sense as we got in your piece of, you know, the

celebration of something also so awful, but have you this sort of push and pull that i can see happening unfold even in your own personal story? >> yeah. you know, i think the director of the museum said it best. it is the co-existence of joy and trauma at the same time. the joy that these women fought their slavemasters for a better life for themselves and their chirp and there is a that was the condition in which they were in, and what it probably took to sue a slavemaster in virginia in the 18th century, what they endured. again, joy, gratitude, but it's still reverberating internally and throughout my family. now what does this mean? put this into the context of your life and all the little things that you think are so big now. there are people hundreds of years ago who sued to be free so that you would have an advantage in life. i'm still working my way through

it honestly. >> victor, thank you, for taking us on that journey with you. we do appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks. >> jim? >> that is a truly incredible story, you're right, brianna. another story we're watching this morning, time running out for people on board a missing submersible in the atlantic ocean. the coast guard is now involved in the search. can they find that sub before it's too late, before the oxygen runs out? an update ahead on cnn news central. nu lineup. just give us a number, we got the rest. number three? the monster. six? the boss. fifteen? titan n turkey. number one? ththe philly. oh, yeah, you probably don't want that one. look, i'm not in charge of naming the subs. i gave my dad the ancestrydna® kit. honestly, i saw it on sale and i was a- broke grad student so i like a sa. honestly, i saw it on sale i think it was a good gift. it blew my mind. give ancestrydna®. now on se for father's day.

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