it's fourth of july, and i'm going to do what it takes to get number 16. >> victory does cost. there's no question about that. in 2021, you set the record, 76 hot dogs in ten minutes. what are you shooting for in this one? do you think you will win it again? >> oh, i think i can pull off the win. and if the conditions are right, i find a mean, nasty rhythm, a record is possible. the crowd is -- it's an amazing crowd. coney island. and they're going to be pushing me and supporting me, and i'm going to do whatever i can to deliver. >> 80? possible? >> 80 is -- oh, my gosh. i didn't practice. things would have to be perfect. and i'm not saying -- you know what? it's possible. and that's the way -- i try not to limit myself and say anything is impossible. but 80 is going to be tough. but it's -- i can do it, i think. >> if you dream it, you can do it. joey chestnut, god speed, and the best of luck to you.

>> oh, thank you. great talking to you. >> nice talking to you, my friend. we have mustered all the news we can. time now for kaitlan collins and time now for kaitlan collins and cnn prime time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . ♪ good evening. i'm kaitlan collins. the night before the united states celebrates its four-week old counteroffensive, president zelenskyy has just penned a new op-ed in "the wall street journal" thanking the united states for both support to his country and liberty. we are now 16 months into the russian invasion. tonight there is an ominous new estimate. 180,000 russian forces making a push on two eastern fronts in ukraine. that's according to ukrainian

military spokesmen. and for context, that's more than twice the size of the british army. president zelenskyy has been openly addressing the difficulties that they have been facing on the e front lines. but he does still maintain progress is being made. he's also making news in a new exclusive interview with erin burnett, who sat down with him in odesa, as he told her he does believe president putin's power is diminishing. >> have you seen any changes in how you think he's acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? >> translator: yes, we see the reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin's reaction. it's weak. firstly, we see he doesn't control everything. wagner is moving deep into russia and taking certain regions shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn't control the situation in the region. he doesn't control the security situation. all of us understand that his

whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there, so all that vertical of power he used to have just got crumbling down. >> that's the latest from zelenskyy. now let's get the very latest on ukraine's counteroffensive and how it's going. cnn's ben wedeman reports from eastern ukraine. >> kaitlan, even volodymyr zelenskyy is acknowledging that the going is getting tough in the ukrainian counteroffensive. he said, last week was difficult on the front line, but we are making progress, we are moving forward step by step. step by step, indicating things are going slow. in fact, the commander of ground forces of the ukrainian army visited the front lines around bakhmut and said one of the reasons for this slow progress is what he called deep russian defenses. we also heard this evening the spokesman for ukrainian forces

in the east saying that the russians had deployed along the eastern front 180,000 troops, 50,000 alone in and around bakhmut. so, when president zelenskyy tells our erin burnett that putin is weak, perhaps politically in russia. but on the front lines, that weakness is not being felt. now, behind the front lines today, the russians fired iranian made drones on the northeastern city of sumy. there they killed at least two people, injured 19, including a 5-year-old child. kaitlan? >> bed wedeman, thank you for that. and for more insight now on what is actually happening on the battlefield, retired u.s. army major mike lions joins me now. you heard ben say there, summing this up, we've been talking about the weakness putin is seeing at home after the revolt we saw by the wagner group. but they're not necessarily

seeing it on the front lines. what does that say to you? >> they have a machine on that front lines that from the very start, from an expectation perspective, was going to be very difficult to think that ukraine was going to do anything and vanquish them. the counteroffensive is going about as well as it can go, given they have no air superiority on the ukraine side. i think it's in a wait and see mode. it's almost like you can't even call it a counteroffensive. we continue to try to -- >> because it's that slow? >> yeah. we try to put american military doctrine on top of this and handed them this kind of equipment. but this is world war i. this is trench warfare that's going on there. and we've got to recognize that ukraine can hold on and do what it's been doing with the equipment that it's getting and maybe we get more from the west. it'll at least have a chance to get russia to negotiation table. that's really about it. i heard him talk about he's not giving up crimea. i have a hard time thinking he's got the military assets to take back crimea.

he's got to threaten it but i don't think he can take it. >> let's talk about that because that stood out to me the moment i heard him say that. obviously crimea was illegally annexed by russia in 2014. this is what he said about the end result could look like in crimea specifically. >> translator: we cannot imagine ukraine without crimea. and while crimea is under the russian occupation, it means only one thing. war is not over yet. >> to be clear, in victory, in peace. is there any scenario where crimea is not part of ukraine? >> translator: it will not be victory then. >> is that -- do u.s. officials see that as realistic? >> difficult. if there are reports of 180,000 russian troops within that region now, he'll need 300,000 in order to mount some kind of counteroffensive in order to do

that. sebastopol, the black sea fleet, is in crimea. the russians have it. they took it in 2014. ukraine had a leasing agreement with russia to it. they have to have that. from a strategic perspective. that's why they took it first back in 2014 because it was so strategic to them. so i don't see russia giving that up. perhaps they'll bring more resources down there. but again they don't have the assets on the ground to actually will take it. >> does ukraine have the 300,000 forces to go up against -- you cite that 180,000 number. that's what we heard from a ukrainian military spokesman. >> i'm not sure. it's difficult to say. they've got brigades in reserve right now. each of these units in russia and ukraine are geotagged. if you look at how you would fight this, underneath side is ever going to gain any kind of surprise in terms of principle of war because everybody knows where everybody is. in order to be effective in a counteroffensive, you have to mask troops, think battle of the

bulge. you're going to attack in a way we're going to have success. and we can pretend ukraine will be able to mobilize troops and get there that fast, but i don't see how we can do it with any kind of element of surprise, which is a contributing factor of a counterattack. >> we're seeing how grueling this counteroffensive is. what stood out to me was mike pence, who recently showed up in ukraine, which is notable itself because of the split we have seen in the republican field. he said, quote, there are dangerous signals from the republican party about that support waning. how much time does he have? >> let's hope both parties recognize that it's in the united states' interest to keep supporting ukraine at noint and giving them more equipment, giving them what they need. i would like to see after this nato meeting, the nato countries get together, the cluster

munitions, their attack ms. let's hope that politically we don't make this an issue in this election because it's important from the european allies. nato countries are agreeing -- haven't done that in a long time -- about how to support this operation here. for ukraine to become part of nato, that border is going to be have to be secure. it can't be under duress on any level. let's hope we don't make a political football of it. >> you mentioned that nato meeting that next week. president biden is going -- zelenskyy is saying they need to be invited to it now. is there any chance of that happening? >> i don't think so. i think part of this count offensive is to show nato that they're willing to do whatever it takes. we've got to wait and see. we'll continue to provide the military equipment. it's not, again, in our best interest or nato's best interesting to include that now. >> thank you very much for your time, always ofor your expertise

on this. we're also learning new details tonight about the cia director and a secret trip he made to ukraine to sit down with president zelenskyy and kyiv's other top intelligence officials. cnn's oren liebermann is live for us at the pentagon tonight. we're hearing about this trip with bill burns. "washington post" was the first to report that ukraine had revealed to director burns this strategy, an ambitious one, to push moscow into talks by the end of this year. what else do we know about this trip? >> so, first about the visit itself. cia director bill burns was in ukraine last month in june, according to a u.s. official, not only meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, but also with other ukrainian officials. according to "the washington post," in at least one of these meetings with ukrainian officials, the officials told burns about this plan, continue retaking territory and then force -- or rather enter negotiations, ceasefire, peace

negotiations, with moscow by the end of the year. it seems this is an attempt to first keep retaking territory, as we see the counteroffensive making slow progress. but also then to enter negotiations from a position of power, to be on the stronger side, to have more leverage there by the end of the year. and it's apparent that that's what ukraine is looking for in or at least that's the message they telegraph to bill burns while he was in ukraine. of course that comes with all the challenges we just spoke about. but that at least is an idea of what ukraine is looking at in terms of a grinding, slow, very difficult counteroffensive and perhaps a hint of how ukraine sees this ending. but in terms of what those negotiations might look like, that remains a very difficult question to answer. >> yeah, absolutely. oren, we're also learning about the russian arms dealer that everyone came to know, viktor bout. he was this know toe tores you

arms dealer. isn't this what critics of that prisoner swap said at the time that they were worried about him regaining power and status in russia? >> absolutely. that was always the concern with releasing viktor bout in this prisoner exchange with brittney griner. as you pointed out, he's known as the merchant of death. he's an arms dealer. he was arrested in '08 and sentenced in 2012 to 25 years for conspiring to kill americans, providing material support to a terrorist organization and more. so, there was an open question and critics asked the administration, why trade him for brittney griner. with that prisoner exchange last year believing it was the right thing to do. instead he's more directly entering politics now. i want to get the name of the region and the party right. he'll be running for the deputy seat of the legislative assembly of the -- region of russia.

it's a bit east of moscow. he has certainly entered party in this kremlin loyal ultra nationalist party, where we've kind of seen him before sort of stumping for the political candidates of his party. this appears to be a much more direct entry. the exact concern everyone had raised when this deal was announced and bout was released. >> oren liebermann, thank you. also tonight, we are monitoring israel's largest west bank military operation in more than 20 years. hundreds of israeli troops have stormed a refugee camp in the occupied city of jenin. according to israel, the camp is a haven for militants and weapons. and that is why you're seeing the scenes play out we've been watching all day today. the palestinian ministry of health said at least eight palestinians have been killed. videos that were obtained by cnn from jenin show israeli bulldozers tearing up streets to disarm what they say are

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is there room for a third party candidate in 2024? after all, polls have consistently showed most americans do not want a donald trump versus joe biden rematch. and now a non-profit political group known as no labels, says it is determined to give voters potentially another option, especially if the country is in store for that 2020 rematch. but democrats and anti-trumpers say that a third party could just end up playing spoiler in all of this, by siphoning votes from president biden in swing states and therefore handing the election to donald trump. joining us now is a long-time association of no labels, the former michigan republican congressman fred upton. i know you told me not to call you congressman. so, let's talk about this group, no labels. "the wall street journal" is writing in its latest report, it's called no labels, but many political strategists have their own label, spoiler. is no labels going to end up being a spoiler?

>> no, i don't think so. no labels has been around since about 2008 or '09. it was very involved be the problem solvers caucus, which is a house caucus, which was a vice chair of. it's an equal number of republicans and democrats. you had josh gottheimer and brian fitzpatrick on a number of times. this is a little larger group, bipartisan, bicameral. and they've been until now very focused on the issues. actually they still are. whether it was the debt ceiling, immigration, you know, keeping the government open, a whole bunch of very -- chips bill, infrastructure. but now the polling that we've done shows that literally 26,000 people around the country, it draws equally -- unlike perot in '92, 30 years ago, was that perot basically took from bush and allowed bill clinton to win the election. the polling now shows that we

draw pretty much equally between both sides, the republicans as well as the democrats. and our focus right now is to, like perot was successful by getting on the ballot in all 50 states. it's not going to be a down ticket deal. this is going to be a president and a vice president. we're not going to have congressional candidates or senate or state rep candidates on there. but literally to get on the ballot. we had some good news this last week. utah approved us getting on the ballot. so, you know, our intent is to be on all 50 states by the end of the first quarter next year and a national convention set up in dallas. >> i want to talk more about that effort to get on the ballot because obviously if you want to win you've got to get on the ballot first. and i'm interested in that. but when you say that you're pulling from democrats and republicans equally, we've seen the polling on how voters don't want a trump/biden rematch. but there's very little data on what this exactly would look like. you know, we have this history of people saying, i'm open to

voting for a third party. but when it comes to election day, they don't actually do so. right now what we are seeing is people don't like biden or trump, they're more likely to go for biden. how do you know that it would pull from both candidates equally? >> our polling shows that it pretty much does take equally from both sides. so, you've got a lot of folks, particularly with all these indictments, anti-trump republicans that say, you know, we're not going to go there again. on the democratic side, people are saying, he's too old. what about harris? we have real questions about what's that going to happen. is that going to be our strongest candidate? and yet here we are now in july, and it looks like both of these two are going to be the nominees for both sides. you see that with the way the democrats structured their primary, south carolina being among the first ones.

here in michigan, it looks like it's going to be a sweep for trump. they changed the rules from 2016 where back in 2016 the top three candidates in essence got a third of the delegates. and now it looks like trump will get them all because it's going to be decided pretty much as a convention. and you've got many republicans -- i saw a statement today from stefanik in the republic leadership calling for republicans to now break for trump. it's over. it's a landslide. you saw desantis' team, one of his top people today said that they were way behind in terms of where they are. he's losing -- i think fourth place in south carolina. so, it looks more like it's going to be a trump/biden ticket. and much of the country -- actual a majority of the country says, enough. we don't want this again. >> i still don't understand -- >> can't the two sides elect somebody else? >> i don't understand the argument that it's going to take away from both of them equally because we are hearing from democrats and white house

advisers that they are very concerned about what, you know, if it is a joe manchin or someone, his name has been tossed around, for example. he hasn't committed one way or another. you don't hear that from trump advisers. we only hear concern from democrats that a three-way race is going to benefit trump. >> some of the trump folks are quite -- you know, both the rnc and the dnc, democratic national committee, they don't want us to exist. they like the game as it is. they want their nominee to be there. they don't want a third party to come in. and we think we actually have a chance to get more than 270 electoral votes. and we have until august of next year, '24, to actually pull back if it in fact shows that we can't win. we think we can have a winning ticket with what would likely be a republican presidential nominee and a democrat vice president nominee running together very much along the lines of what john mccain almost

did with joe liebermann back in '08. >> but what's that path to victory? because i've seen the electoral path to victory map that your group has, and it says it requires wins in hawaii, vermont, maryland, and massachusetts. those are all states that in 2020, biden won by 30 points or more. it doesn't really seem like a viable path. >> well, you remember larry hogan, who was one of the co-chairs of no labels actually carried the state in '20 by, what, 30 points, a republican in a state that trump got crushed. so, there is definitely room for people to say, we don't want this rematch. and the polls show that. can you come up with a different ticket? and we actually think that there is a pathway for us to get 270 -- more than 270 electoral votes. but our first goal is to get on the ballot. we've got to get the signatures

to get on the ballot. and that's what we're up to now, which is why utah was a big state this last week. but we're in play in a good number of states across the country at the moment. >> but biden still did win maryland that year by more than 30 points. but you mentioned larry hogan, and he actually made a comment about this yesterday. he is one of the co-chairs. and this is what he told dana bash about him potentially being that choice c for president. >> 70% of the people in america do not want joe biden or donald trump to be president. and if they're going to be the nominees, which it appears that they are, you know, you have choice a, that no one wants and choice b that no one wants. there may have to be -- >> you may have to be a c? >> i may have to be choice c. >> you just said you believe there is a path to victory for whoever this third candidate is. what are the names of people who can actually beat biden and beat trump? is it alar ri hogan? is it a joe manchin? >> well, i know both of them well. we haven't figured out exactly

what the proes is is going to be yet. that's in the works. we're going to have a -- citizens are going to make a big decision here in terms of the path we take. first we're going to get on the state ballots. second, a little bit later this month, we're going to release a common sense booklet sort of like the contract of america with america that newt gingrich helped push back in '94. literally 25 or 30 different principles that will guide where we are in term of selecting our candidates. and then come fall, i think we'll have a better idea of who they may be. and there's a good laundry list of republicans and democrats who i think could fit the bill. >> can you name a few? >> we talked about larry hogan, joe manchin. i'm sure there are a good list of folks that could attract voters to this no labels ticket.

>> fred upton, a lot of questions of what that ticket will look like and if you can get on the ballot. we will be monitoring this as democrats and republicans will be as well. thank you for your time tonight. >> you bet. in the republican presidential race, one of the candidates for the republican nomination, ron desantis, is facing intense backlash over a new attack ad that was intended to knock donald trump. but it may have actually ended up backfiring on him. plus a top official for his super pac is warning he could be in big trouble when it comes to polling. we'll show you what he said next.

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a stark admission from a ke key ron desantis ally today. the spokesperson that is backing the presidential governor had-in his race says the campaign is way behind in fighting to defeat donald trump. his campaign posted a video on friday attacking donald trump for his stance on lgbtq issues. a message so extreme that one

republican-aligned group said it, quote, ventured into homophobic territory. >> i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens. >> if kaitlan jenner were to walk into trump tower and want to use are the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any bathroom she chooses? >> that is correct. ♪ >> reaction to that video has been intense on both sides of the ail, including from fellow republican presidential candidate chris christie, who said this on cnn yesterday. >> it is a teenage, you know, food fight between ron desantis and donald trump. and i don't think that's what leaders should be doing. and it doesn't make me feel inspired. >> i'm going to choose my words

carefully. i can't talk about campaigns. i'm going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices you in between oiled up shirtless body builders and just get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever i see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again, who are you trying to help? >> joining me now to answer that question, cnn political commentators ashley alison and david urban. thank you both for being here tonight. david, i see that you are laugh laughing after watching. >> wow. >> i mean, what did you -- >> listen, it is -- so, christina -- who is a spokesperson for the campaign said, look, we're trying to get across. our point is we are not supporting a national movement here for recognizing pride month. but the imagery, the ad that was created and put up and retweeted

by the campaign, you know, it's both homophobic and homoerotic at the same time. i don't want to have to agree with mayor pete, but i agree. it's a very strange way to make your point. >> i mean, it's body builders, brad pitt, gladiator -- >> spartans and like -- it's very bizarre. >> david, what message does -- is that a message for republican primary voters that they're receptive to? >> i -- i don't know -- i don't exactly know what the message is. if christina's point is that we shouldn't be -- there shouldn't be a federal recognition of pride month, well that's a policy statement. you should make that and make it clearly and articulate. look, that's a debate that people can have, that adults can have. people can disagree upon that. but the way it was presented was so bizarre that the underlying -- that the message got -- you know, the underlying policy message got lost in that whatever it was that you just

showed on the screen. >> ashley, i saw this video after this video -- after that ad came out of 2018 when desantis was running for governor in florida. this was when there was a national debate about transgender bathroom laws. this is what he said then as a candidate. >> obviously i would have to read the bill, but i think getting into the bathroom wars, i don't think that's a good use of our time. >> what do you make of his stance just five years ago, 2018, to now how he is framing this as, you know, he's not going to push these policy issues in the way he claims trump did. >> when ron desantis shows you who he is, believe him. he has been governor, been pushing anti-lgbtq bills, anti-black bills sk. and now this ad is just the personification of who he will be as president of the united states because he is showing who he is and the policies he truly

believes in as governor of florida. the ad is tasteless. it's an attack on the lgbtq community, an attempt to foil trump and say i'm the better version of the most extreme version of my party. it's tasteless. he should be -- we should be taking very great alarm because not only is he implementing these policies in florida, but he's saying he will do this as president of the united states. so, i'm not surprised he has changed his tone since 2016 because he's doing whatever he has to do to win. that's not the type of leader we want. we want someone who understands, believes in the policy, and wants to create a space for everyone to live their full lives in this country. >> i should note that if it is about policy, trump, when he was president, didn't even recognize pride month until his third year in office. he banned transgender people from serving in the military, not exactly the most pro-lgbtq president. i mentioned earlier on the political front, steve cortez used to work for trump.

he's now this top spokesman for ron desantis' super pac. and this is his blunt assessment today of how his candidate is doing. >> right now in national polling, we are way behind. i'll be the first to admit that, okay. i'll be really blunt and really honest. it's an uphill battle. i don't think it's an unwinnable battle by any stretch. but clearly donald trump is the run away front runner, particularly since the indictments. >> what do you make of that, david? >> yeah, look, i know steve. i have a great deal of respect for steve cortez. what he's saying is simply the truth. if you look at the polling and polling is simply a snapshot in time. he's saying right now given the state of polling right now that donald trump is far ahead. he is the run away favorite in national poll af natter nationa poll. and even in these battleground states, these early decision states, he's, you know, 20 points ahead of governor desantis as well. so, steve cortez is just simply -- i don't know if it's

controversial for just absolutely recognizing the facts. so, i'm not so sure why it's so shocking. but he's saying, look, i can read, and we're behind and we need to make it up. and i'm not so sure he'd be happy with missed steps like this tweet that just went out a few days ago on pride month. i'm not so sure that's going to help him. >> ashley, what do you make of it all? >> look, i think the desantis campaign, their strategy is, we hope that something happens where trump won't end up on the ballot when we get into 2024 during these primaries. maybe because of indictments. maybe because he's actually in court. now, he might not be removed from the ballot, but that something happens that is so dramatic to trump's brand that he becomes kind of obsolete. that's a stretch of the imagination. but i think that is what the desantis camp is doing. and they're hoping that if that happens, ron desantis can come in and be a place builder --

filler -- as trump 2.0. whether that's going to happen or not, i'm not really sure. but i do think that is his strategy. that's why he's going after trump but sometimes not really saying his name. >> and notable also -- >> there's a famous -- >> go ahead, david. >> i was going to say, there's a famous saying in politics, hope is not a strategy. >> right. >> we'll leave it there. ashley alison, david urban, thank you both. >> thanks. tonight, arizona's governor says he is surprised he didn't get a call from the special counsel who is investigating former president trump. this is according to new reporting. that was after trump phoned him in the wake of 2020 election and his loss. we'll tell you what the reporting is next. (fisher investments) in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. (other money manager) different how?

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tonight, former vice president mike pence says he doesn't recall that donald trump pressured him to call the governor of arizona about their 2020 election loss. >> i did check in with not only governor ducey but other governors in states that were going through the legal process of reviewing their election results. but there was no pressure

involved, margaret. i was calling to get an update. i passed along that information to the president. and there was no more, no less than that. >> no more, no less than that. "the washington post" first reported that trump pressured then-governor of arizona doug ducey to overturn the state's election results. and the story has a really interesting detail, that the governor, ducey, told a doaner he was surprised the spoecial counsel hadn't reached out to him. we don't know that jack smith haez not reached out to the former of governor of arizona yet. but if he hasn't -- >> what's he waiting for? with all the focus that's been on georgia, let's remember this was a seven-state strategy, including arizona. if i'm no charge of this case, to me, governor ducey's testimony is even more important

than brad raffensperger because with raffensperger there's audio. we can hear the call. you don't need raffensperger's testimony. there's the audio. with governor ducey, there is no known all audio. so, all you're going to have is his account of that phone call. that's crucial evidence, and i sort of share the governor's surprise as to why jack smith hasn't reached out yet. >> as soon as i read this story, there was this moment i remembered. it was right after the election, we were covering trump's efforts to overturn the result. doug ducey was certifying biden's win in aerzrizona and h phone rang. and this is what it played. ♪ >> for those -- could you hear that? >> that's a power move. >> "hail to the chief."

it was former president trump calling, we believe. just the idea that you can see, seeing that and then hearing this reporting and reading this reporting of what was happening behind the scenes. >> it's an interesting moment because he quickly silences it. you would try to confirm there was a phone call. see was there a call from any number we associate with donald trump that went through to governor ducey. another possibility i should say is that jack smith is sort of narrowing his focus in that he's only -- we know he talked to brad raffensperger last week in that perhaps he's only looking at georgia saying let me look at the most flagrant of the seven states. and prosecutors do that sometimes because it's going to take a lot of resources to investigate all seven states. if he's not gone to governor ducey set, it could be for that reason. >> he nce said he did call duce, he just wasn't delivering the message trump wanted him. david weiss, who is a trump

appointee, sent this two-page letter to house republicans defending his investigation, denying that he was blocked from pursuing more serious allegations against hunter biden. and he said basically they want information. and he said, i'm required to protect confidential law enforcement information and deliberate communications, thus i will not provide specific information related to hunter biden at this time. >> good for david weiss for doing that. he's standing up for doj's core principles. you cannot open up to congress. it doesn't matter how many times jim jordan insists on it. what if jim jordan gets serious and says, you don't want to give it to us? what does david weiss do? he will not give that over. imagine if doj just started opening up its files to congress. it would lead to all sort of ridiculous results and problematic results. jim jordan is going to find them in contempt maybe. then what? where does contempt get sent to prosecution. >> to the doj.

>> doj. check mate. so, i applaud david weiss and merrick garland. as much as i've been critical, i think they're holding the line. >> thank you. we'll see what that looks like. up next, we have the latest on the urgent search underway in baltimore tonight, still underway, after another mass shooting has left two people dead and more than two dozen injured following a holiday block party. will raising the reward help police track down the multiple suspects that are believed to be responsible? and the latest on another shooting in the u.s.

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to $28,000 for tips that can help lead to an arrest of those two suspects. we know that 20 year old chylous -- an 18 year old ilya gonzales were killed. 20 more people, most of them just teenagers, were also injured in a shooting on sunday. one of them, just 13 years old. cnn's donie freeman is live in baltimore. danny, what are we learning more about this man hunt that is very much still underway? what a possible motive could be? >> first, the motive we are still waiting for an answer from city officials as to what may have motivated this shooting. at this point baltimore police officers are looking for multiple shooters in this shooting, and at this point they are still looking in an all-out man hunt. 28 people injured, two people killed, and the mayor promised today unequivocal-y that they will not stop looking for these people until they have them behind bars. but i just want to recap and step back and remind viewers how this started. it really happened on saturday

afternoon and saturday evening. there was a block party in baltimore's brooklyn neighborhood. it was called brooklyn de. an annual event that has been happening for 20 plus years. normally a very festive event, attracting hundreds of people, but police say around 12:30 early sunday morning, so just on after midnight on saturday night, gunshots broke out and chaos erupted. we have been showing surveillance video throughout the day. 28 people injured in those two people that you mentioned, mr. gondolas and mr. calm body they were killed. and this one like you said they have been no arrests so we have heard from police and city officials and like i said earlier today, they are putting all the resources into finding at least two if not more potential shooters in this case. >> all right, danny, keep us updated on that. thank you for that update as we are learning more. also tonight, switching gears, and territorial dispute in the south china sea in the new

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one of one of its islands provinces vietnam and several other countries earnestly with china over that area. right now i should note that the warner brothers and the sister company that made this has not commented on the matter. thank you so much for joining us tonight. cnn tonight with alison camerota starts right now. >> hi, caitlin. thank you very much. good evening everyone. i'm alison camerota. welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight the republican infighting has taken nasty turn. ron desantis is attacking don trump with a campaign video that slams trump for one supporting lgbtq rights. after the pulse nightclub massacre. >> i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens. >> our panel is going to explain what this ad says about ron desantis and what he really believes. plus