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i'm jessica dean on capitol hill, and this is c, h n. at this hour, let's start with the big news from supreme court n. a 6-3 decision, they agree to give broad maps to the legislature and in doing so, to agree to judicial rereview. and they give supporters of donald trump. >> if the court had ruled otherwise, it would have radically altered the floodgates, and if so, those floodgates would have within opened, but they are closed. >> now, let's bring in jessica

h. >> well, things? that broad theory that would have up ended the way that elections are run. the chief who ruled for the 6-4 majority, and they said, no, the state legislature don't have the final say of how state courts have the authority to establish in and potentially abrournlg and think also said that courts throughout the history have been the ar. >> and many of them had backed donald trump in the election,

because clause 22 says that legislature could skroep sxwroerm and they are run, and caught of how he looks. >> we are yoeting that, and then people sfroermt and the supreme court is essentially saying here that they had to step in because of the 2024 election looming, and if the question was still up in the air, it could have led to a real powerful struggle because the state legislatures, and now we know thoo hoving floepg

sgrerng and the storm and also, near tracy, he is no sfwloernlgt and also, there is state election looming voting, and in the 2000 case bush v. gore and the counting was stopped and handing the election to gorge b.w. push, and maybe it is not the end of the litigation around this topic, but for now, the u.s. supreme court is clamping down on the id e.

>> all sgrirnlgts and looking o here, you can see, big deal, and if had been titch and if it had been legal, how would the trump team have used it? they were trying to go down the avenues, and they had seem signs that they would do it again 224? >> well, yon it is a doer rus xint to think of, and all of these pressure point to get around the constitution if this were indeed a legal theory with the constitutional muster

approved by the supreme court maybe other alleys and the aids would have come to a different conclusion, and oh, no that we can return the electoral votes back to the states having nothing to do with how americans voted in the states, but just has to do with the state chose t thon and it is mind betting to neernltd snarmt and it will not be going forward, because youz i don't have idea out there that some state ledge lay chur to itself has some unfettered

inclusion of state races. >> and from what was written in the majority, some state court what do you see with this in place? >> gor goils in rest, and they love to say, we will give you some more interpretation later. so the way i read it, the states can dom is of to absurd situation that david nicely outlined there, and the state legislature can and put some on the limitations, too. >> can you talk about what was

notably involved in this court case, and people were expected it to go along political tie, and a it has become the twos and i think it was two parts of the key act being upheld by the same majority, and minus coney barrett. and so, they are not political, and whether you like it or not, that is the answer. a lot of ut were and they are

doing what we want them to do number 10, and that comes out with the better laws. >> and that i would say that the betting would be on them waiting it out, and we will not take this case, but they affirmatively chose to, and it is a statement, and it it is important to understand this theory, because it understood as a whim. could it be argued that legislatures can do whatever they want to. >> and the u.s. constitution says this. >> and the supreme court of the constitution cannot do anything about this. and it gained steam slow, and for people looking at this, they said, could we have a repep

>> yeah, it exploeted noernlgt and they were using this as a potential way to wedge the 2020 election. >> and what could have. >> thank you, david and ellie for being here. >> after days of wondering where in the world is wagner bet joost. he says that he is there. and then he bragged about holt hole and now, donald trump talking about what appears to be donald trumps in his own hand, and you will hear trump talking about what is apparently secret documents.

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highly -- this is vek het. >> overnight, reaction from quote the derain and we will sgrrm and sara murray, you could hear the remarkable audio quality to hear the former president in his own word in that moment, quite revealing. >> it is very revealing, and when you are thinking of the backdrop of this meeting. he is meeting with people working on a book with mark meadows and work on a sensitive document about potential attack

plan against iran, and you can even hear donald trump acknowledge that the document has not been declassified, and he has no way to do that now that he is no longer the pft. listen to a portion of this tape. >> these are bad, sick people. >> that the cue, against you. like when and with milley, he said that, for example, he said that i wanted to attack iran, and look at this amazing big pile of papers here, and look at this, it is them. and look at this, they presented me this. this is them. this is the defense department

and him. this is not me, but it is him. look at this stuff. pages long. wait a minute. let's see here. you know, this is totally going to win my case. >> you are not going through -- i should send it to anthony weiner. just saying, because we were talking about it, and they said that he wanted to attack iran. >> you did. >> this is done by the military and given to me. i think that we can use this. >> well, we will have to figure out. >> as a president i could deply.

>> and look, you have already not believed me, but now you believe me. hey, bring some cokes in, please. >> you can hear how casually they are talking about this sensitive document, and even laughing and joking that one of the staffers is point ing out that trump did not have all of these, but they were newspaper clippings, and other picture, and when you are saying, let me show you the paper, and you can hear pictures tlim sfwurmt and

in this tape as well as another person in the meeting to try to get more co. >> and we bridgecology days. >> i will be right back. right on top of that, rose. and we have renata with us now. and i have heard some people couch it in the analysis as if this is admissible, then x-y-y, and is there any reason this offer ker he literally rode it

into the indictment. when i was looking at the indictment, i was very careful of what the evidence was. they will take you to task for it if you said something that you would use in for the closing, and it goes to trump's state of mind. one of the significant elements of jack smith has hear and the way this is not admissible is if he cries >> o and up against in his own

words back on june 18th, and let me play a portion of where he is talking about this document. >> it is no document, because it was a massive and of documents and talking about iran and other things but it was not is a document purr way. it sus >> that explanation does what if brought up court. >> i have to say it is very hard, and you know, you were talking about it a moment ago that he was holding up a but

any. >> sglournlgt. >> and really, there is nothing positive for him in this recording, and so as a prosecutor, no question that you want to get this >> and you were nuking about the document itself as sara and john were reporting, that trump's team was not able to produce the exact tame dock ute, and if that not a document for trump, who is that a problem for? >> well, it can be for both ways, and the trumps can argue, that turnlg sglournlgt.

>> i have to vacate this audience, because it is som daening in which a lot of the jurors will be guiding with the government. >> and from this audio recording, and there are other people in the room who can speak to irnlg the president of belarus says he knows exactly where he is. and russia going to drop all of the charges for them, and what this means for the west, and as well as the war in ukraine next.

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so, to day they saw him surrounded and trapped todayb and deliberately so. what was going on there? >> messaging pure and sipple. putin comes out to tell the security troops that they did a terrific job stopping prigozhin, but we know it is not true, because they got almost all of the way to moscow and turned around by themselves, and if you are listening to prix agozhin,

because we can hear him there. and if one bit of it is a lie, then what about the other pieces? and the communication in russia, they don't work well. we have heard from the national police toll and whatever we do, we have to keep doling what putin is telling russians rer fibl hoff. he in very little terms said that your uncle is a wagner

sdwroshg and every time he comes out of the company called, called, commodore, and this company he said, it was concord rather, and he said that he got a $1 billion worth of contracts from the government, and perhaps some of the money that had given to them was misspent. so he is laying ground trouble for financial financials against bu goe shun urmt >> and now, this picture is speaking of me, hey, i'm in control which is the message that he is seeming to convey in that message there. and nic, what is going to happen to prigozhin if he is in

belarus? >> well, if any of the people come with him, and if they do, they won't kill anyone. if that happens, then all bets are off. prigozhin is trying to save his own commander and own troop, and they had come out of the front line, and they were sort of emotional, angry, a half mad is the language that lukashenko used, and that is why he didn't paint himself in a big position of talking prigozhin down from the ledge so to speak. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. >> i wanted to follow up on that conversation with army major and now, she is with the long-time moscow bureau, and i should mention that. and now, talking to luke shen

koeshgs and he has indi-- lukaso that he had spent hours talking to them, and is he sort of bragging in here, and does that bravado look weight, because he did manage to do. >> there was so much and then he comes out to give them three choices. you can go home, or you can go to belarus, and your bell ha ruse is to important geopolitically, and he has to resurrect or do something with them. 75,000 troops is not just flipping a switch, and taking away the equip and repurchasing them. so there is a lot of the first

and so i am not convinced that putin is going to put lukashenko on ice. >> and now, we will be coming right back, because putin had to utter the word civil war after this mess of infighting with russian, and how is this play on putins sglirmgt he is in this and he has to go into those fighters and the wagner fighters, and there is the people, and that stage behind them is one of the most historic buildings in the kremlin, and it

is a symbol of power and the estate. so picnics, sxwroushgs and so this is to say that everything is down the more the russian company gave un7 yil yon sflournlg -- and this is not

over, and so we have to look at what happened with prigozhin in that sense. >> and jill, one of the most staggering things that you don't hear about is how much money the russian government was paying prigozhin, and he has mercenaries all over the world, and he has 25,000 fighters, and very few of them coming over when they said, you can come to join us in russia or not, and so you have these 25,000 fighters who are is seemingly loyal to prigozhin, and he is now in belarus. but any chance that he stays alive? is there a fight >> and it is all going to be coming down to how they are finance or paid. they could matriculate up to

belarus, and come back. what they have are troops loyal to him, and not the state. >> when you start to talk ant that, and jill mentioned him potentially jalg -- jailing him, and is lukashenko showing his power to negotiate in all thofshgs and it could have a regional ripple effect, couldn't it, jill? >> well, i think that, you know, victor fernl. >> and on the government, and the structure of the sxwroushgt.

>> if you wanted to tell me, i could go get it. >> but if he sends them off to africa, he has lot of fighters in hot trouble. thank you all for joining us. and now, the death in federal prisons when he was died behind bars, and that report is just a ahead. communities and the people who liveve and work there grow and thrive. we're proud to call these places homome too. they're where we put down roots,

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mostly empty offices have become a major problem for the commercial real estate industry. building values are lumting as people are still working from home. now rising interest rates could make things even worse. cnn takes a closer look. >> reporter: they are vast and staggering and they are empty. skyscrapers and office buildings once stacked high with

businesses are experiencing high vacancy rates in the u.s. nearly 19%. 5.5% higher than before the pandemic. >> i think it's a very unique moment. nothing like any disruptive marketplace that i have experienced over the past 40 years. >> the pandemic emptyied offices around the country the number of people returning to in-person is less than 50% in ten major metro areas forcing companies to rethink physical office space. half of the biggest global companies say they will need less real estate in the next three years leaving landlords with loans to pay in a bind. >> if there's no tenant, you're not make ing money. >> there's no recooping lost income for down time. >> reporter: steven runs the leasing a at new york city's largest commercial landlord with more than 30 million square feet of space to rent, the collapsing demand for office space means their vacancy rate shot up from 3% pre-pandemic to 10% today.

that calls for some creativity. >> you can build a set in here. you can have a fight scene in here. >> reporter: they are now working with a company a that connects landlords at 332 buildings with film and tv companies. this episode of "law and order" was filmed in this vacant office in manhattan. the watcher on netflix and these east side offices. >> i think people are starting to look wholistically at how they can support a revenue stream. >> reporter: this year sl green say it is will earn $3 million from film and tv shoots. >> it's really helped mitigate the loss of income during the down time periods. >> reporter: empty office buildings could be turned into residential, a big need. this project in washington, d.c. once an office building is being turned into apartments. but that's not an easy, quick-fix process. less than 1% of apartments

nationwide are converted from commercial properties. and across the river in arlington, virginia, the city is trying to get get ahead ofs i its empty office space problem at 22%. >> i'm sitting right today in northeastern's d.c. campus. last year university was not allowed to take up space in an office building. >> reporter: thanks to new city zoning laws, that's now possible along with seven new types of dmeshl businesses like animal boarding, hydroponic farms andic the ball. it's already happening in south jersey. this 22,000-square foot pickle ball facility was a vacant coat fac factory. regional mall van can sit is at a record high. >> i think we had more opportunity than we thought there would be in the market. >> reporter: pickle ball is the fastest growing sport in

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we have to wait and see here. this is just the beginning. but it's something to keep an eye on. >> vanessa, thank you very much. i have an idea. why don't they turn it into affordable housing. or why don't they just give everybody a raise? >> what gets me in every day is the comradery. >> thank you all for joining us. this is "cnn news central." "inside politics" is up next. my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supppporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. the all-new tempur-pedic breeze makakes sleep feel cool. so, no more sweating all night... ...or blasting the air conditioning. because the tempur-breeze feels up to 10° cooler, l night long. for a limited time, save $500oe mattresses.

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