>> welcome back to cnn tonight. new developments in the trump investigations. a less redacted version of the justice department search warrant for mar-a-lago last summer. it reveals what prosecutors knew before the fbi went in looking for classified top secret documents. investigators say quote, video footage reflects the evidences been moved to recently. joining me now, cnn legal analyst and former assistant u. s. attorney, jennifer rodgers. cnn senior political analyst and anchor, john avlon. editor at large at reason, matt wealth. gop surrogate, joe and michael,

great to have all of you. this affidavit, what did they know? what does this less redacted affidavit reveal? >> well, not a whole lot, alison it is still heavily redacted but at least we know that they knew about some of the shenanigans in and out of the storage space. that not only forms the basis of the classified documents, but the obstruction part of the case. all of this in and out, and trump is reviewing documents. they are hiding all of that from his lawyer at the time, i've been corcoran. it is really important, evidence. we didn't know how early doj -- but we have to wait to see more. of course, trump and his team will have access to the unredacted version, and they will make their challenges to the search warrant based on that. the rest of us will have to wait and see if the litigation proceed, so we can learn more. >> doesn't look as though it is

well not who is donald trump's body man, meaning he was helping him at all times, sort of an aid, he was apparently caught on tape moving the boxes. is he in more trouble today? >> well, you know, no, because doj obviously has known what is under there. so this is not really about who is in more trouble or less trouble. we we all know about, what kind of trouble they are in. but of course he was wrapped up all in this case. so, you know, he is in the thick of it, and ascendancy gets litigating in this case, we will have to see what he decides to do, and face whether he would rather faces charges or perhaps cooperate against this. >> the latest polling from fox finds that trump gained ground since the post indictments. so since this stuff has come to light, his polling numbers are up among primary voters. what does that tell us? >> it tells you the republican primary voters have a rally around trump, and it is based

on the indictments. but you know, i need to emphasize to folks that is not a national audience. that is republicans. and it does mean that they are rallying to him because they feel like he is being somehow, not prosecuted, but persecuted. that is, if there is a 0% reason to do anything but enforce the law. don't over analyzed. don't think it will last forever either. but if they are reacting negatively, the fact that the accountability is finally being imposed, let's see how they feel in six or eight months. >> what makes you think it would change? >> i think because gravity starts taking over. the reality that while his poll numbers are rising, among the general electorate. if republicans, and republicans you talk to them often, they all know that this is a disaster to have multiple indicted to the next one. but they're all still afraid of

trump. they are afraid of the base. they are afraid of poll numbers. so they are trying to keep it down and unless their name is chris christie, which they are embracing it. but it is not going to last. i'm not saying his numbers are down. he's in full position right now. but some people will look at this and stacey, the problem list, we enforce the law. that just made him stronger. that's exactly the wrong lesson to take. >> i think when you look at the numbers, wt striking to me, especially over the last 2 to 3 mont, is a small -- donald trump has been around 50% plus a cole percentage points for a long time. state, national, doesn't matter. desantis is at 20, and then everybody else in the single digits. it says to me one of two things, either, this is what i really hope for, no one is really paying that much attention because it is just june of 2023. we shouldn't be paying -- we should be touching grass and watching baseball games. however, it could also suggest, perhaps, that there is some number, this is the greatest

question in american politics right now, what is the lowest possible number of the trump support within the gop. is it 50%? i tend to think that it is probably lower. but it will not be all that much lower probably. how many appealable votes are there right now? i think that it might be 40, 35, we don't know, but until the republican party figures that out, they are stuck in a bit of a loop because trumpism is not popular with the general elector. it just doesn't. how many times do we need to see that proved out? until there is a republican challenge to, that in meaningful one that is not 16 people, it is a couple, they are in trouble. >> joe? you have your finger on the pulse of republican politics being a republican. so why aren't his republican opponents oozing on, it and you agree with there is a sign of what will happen? >> i disagree with the assessment. part of the reason the opponents are not seizing on it is because if they, did their

numbers would go down, and his numbers would go up. i think you see that reflected in what is happening with chris christie. the highest negatives of any candidate running, despite the fact that he is, for all intended purposes, a quite accomplished governor who got a lot of stuff done in new jersey. so yeah i think the reality is, i don't think that gravity takes over, i think in many ways president trump is only going to go up from here. but also, correlation not causation, it is also because of the fact that the other people, mainly ron desantis, who is touted to be the challenge to president trump, has in many ways continued to biden's -- including that latest bizarre ad that ended up on twitter, because again, it appears that they are more concerned with trying to win the twitter news cycle, and actually trying to cultivate and actual consistency within this republican primary, that has all their hopes and dreams still in the basket of donald trump. >> i feel like we need a whole different methodology for dealing with this phenomenon, which is having something to do with the cult of personality, and how people do or don't

change their beliefs. it does seem, i think that jen perfectly summarized what is going on, this case is about shenanigans. dicey legal term, i can define it, it is lawton, we know what this case is about. it doesn't matter, it clearly doesn't matter, i think that that question of what is the percentage of republicans who messed up, that is the question, but we need to be thinking about what, if anything? what if anything can penetrate the kind of orbs of misinformation, and a group belonging? this is not a right or left issue, this is on the left as well where there are calls of personality, and we saw what we call spirituality, where left when people take on right-wing conspiracy theories because it fits their worldview. we are seeing a growth in profoundly non rational and non reflective thinking in this country across the ideological spectrum. and it is frustrating to come here a night after night and talk about the latest development that no one seems to care about. >> well, there is a pattern for how you get people out of called, stat radicalization

process, the problem is it is not scalable. but that is a known pattern, you need to confront people with their ideals, not go directly at the figure that they've attach themself to for reasons of saving face, but remind them of what their own alleged beliefs were, and let them de-escalate, but right now the environment is creating this group thing. but the fever will break, pull to do and, and a lot of accountability has to go forward no matter what the polling shows. then exactly break before there was a violent insurrection. >> i'm saying in terms of coming to your senses at some point. >> some people come to some of their census.

and the point, it is around the spectrum. not only right focusing. >> that is true, let's not do the moral equivalency. i think talking robert f. kennedy being the anti-vaxxer stuff is a good example of the horseshoe theory. where the far-right and far-left conflate. right now, there is no equivalent to donald trump. >> ten 15% of democrats following this cut, versus 56%. >> i think there is a misnomer. that president trump created the paradigm when in reality is our body of politics that created donald trump. i think that this is the kind of really bizarre way of how we try to -- i think it makes difficult what's going on through the minds of republican voters. i get you don't agree with that. but somehow -- >> >> but joe, but joe. you are republican expressing distaste for what is going on, but not offering a prescription. other than don't take on donald trump directly. at some point you have to offer

solutions. what would you do if, you are trying to stop them from being the nominee as a republican, what would you do? >> my job is not to stop donald trump. stop joe biden from have a second term. >> look, be clear. are you endorsing donald trump for reelection? >> so do you think the donald -- i think the republican party should -- >> that's not an answer. >> i think maybe you don't like that answer. i just think it's a bystander, not a leader position. >> the reality is, my position is to say that we have to do with the people in the party want to do. i think that -- >> take a stand for what? chris christie is running for president. i'm not. my job is to sit here and see why republican voters are supporting donald trump in spite of what's being thrown out. call it what you want to call it. but i think that is what we are dealing with right now. >> gentlemen, thank you very much for the debate and the

perspectives. coming up on tonight's reality check, the social media account reporting to be a left leaning, wildly liberal activist. but it may not be what it seems. john will explain.

some biden administration top officials to stop their communications with social media companies about certain content. this is a win for gop states in the lawsuit against the government, accusing them of going too far in the effort to combat covid-19 disinformation. and this just in, the justice department is appealing. the judges order, my panel is back with me. okay, jen tell us what you think about this ruling. what do we need to know here? >> yes alisyn so this is the

deeply flawed ruling i mean the kind of common sense for review that the judge is going to prohibit a large swath of the government from having any contact with social media companies. letting things show up on social media, that are dangerous that our national security and threaten individuals personal safety is ridiculous. but as a legal matter, it seriously flawed. you have no standing here, you have a misunderstanding on the part of the judge of the first amendment adjourns prudence. you have a vastly over broad -- on so many levels that this was improper. and i think doj is very smart to appeal, it i think that they will win that appeal and i'm sure the panels will talk more about how outrageous the hush of this is in a more general sense. but legally, this is very, very problematic. >> matt, here is what the judge shed, blocking the biden and mr. shin from communicated with social media companies, specifically flagging -- platforms and foarding such to social media companies,

urging, encourpressuring or inducing in any matter the removal, -- , or reduction of content containing protected free speech. that is a lot of legal -- your thoughts on this? >> there's also a lot of open door in the second half of the injection allowing for some national security suppression or job owning to get in which i found it unfortunate. i think it should've been broader. i think the outrage here is from the government's behavior. especially in the year 2021. >> wait, just help us understand what do you think they should not be doing? >> i think that the president of the united states shouldn't be saying facebook is killing people. because that is nonsense santos. i think that the surgeon general of the united states shouldn't be out there calling for a whole of society, not even whole governmental whole of society crackdown on misinformation, which then fails to define and i think that jen psaki as white house press secretary should be

telling spotify that you've got to do more about joe rogan. here that's crazy. 20 years ago, after 9/11, we all remember this one -- came on, he took so much heat from cnn, from a lot of people here probably and from me definitely when he said that in the wake of 9/11 americans need to watch what they say. that's all he said. there wasn't anything backed up there wasn't regulation. american said he was talking about didn't have business in front of the government, the federal government. he said that he took a ton of heat because we understand we don't want the government to be telling us that. now, we have the government telling social media companies, you need to kick all experienced an off twitter. that's bad. they're using national security to suppress the hunter biden laptop story. which was a national security story. that's bad. so, the outrage for me is not this ruling, it's weird, it's 45 pages, the outrage is in the government's behavior, especially in the year 2021. >> jay? >> look, this is really the twitter files case. this is a weird mismatch of a sublimation of anger at exactly

what matt must talk about. i'm not sure i share that anger, but that's what it, is that rage into a very bizarre order that should be overturned on appeal. this particular judge does have a record of kind of some wacky rulings, you know, that's just his track record. i don't need to say maga to know that's what it is, but that's what it is. but i think this is a very poor vehicle for expressing some that very real concern. there's also a real diameter, and i think it's naivete, or a willful naivete, but there are some exceptions in the order, which generally are included in the quick summary of it, which do accept, you know, national security, a couple of other criminal acts. others sort of a sex trafficking ring the government knows, about they can tell the social media companies -- so, there are those exceptions. however, it is obvious that the free speech law does not say you can shout fire in a crowded theater, that's the cliché. that's true, what that means is you can say that speech causes imminent harm. there may be a question of fact as to whether covid misinformation causes material

harm. that may be an interesting factual debate, which we can have. but the idea that any speech, except for these tiny exceptions for national security and so forth, is just allowed because we support free speech, that has not been the law of free speech for 225 years in this country. >> i think we find ourselves in a dangerous place, where the government is effectively building back doors and private companies to monitor its citizens. i think we can have an intelligent conservation about where this misinformation began, what qualifies as actually being a danger to society. but we have many instances that have been put before us that show these were not eminent threats. these were just people who are saying things that people at the white house disagreed with, and all of a sudden, the call would go out, the email would get sent. so, yes, i would agree with you that this is probably, again, a ruling that will be overturned. this is probably, again, a poor vehicle to have that outrage sent their. but if we go all the way back to the patriot act, what happened with metadata, and now

all the things that are dangerous about that, i don't think this is -- >> if there was better regulation of these social media giants, who have so much control -- >> human their own regulation? >> if there was actual -- instead, we have this vacuum. >> whose fault is that? >> no, i'm not arguing with you. >> we have a legal category of journalist for more speech right elation. just bizarre to me. it's megaphone regulation. this is all about saying whether it's hate speech -- >> i'll have to get drawn in. because also, misinformation is dangerous. we do know that. misinformation and disinformation, it is hard to police, john, as you're about to show us. because reality check, you have a particularly acute example of how hard it is to tell what is disinformation online. >> and misinformation. and i appreciate matt's point. the consistent libertarian is always appreciated on a panel. that this is an interesting story about the difficulty and importance of dealing with some of this. so, let's take a look at this. >> look, if you believe, like i do, that bipartisan polarization is one of the biggest challenges america

faces, then you probably know that there is an outrage industrial complex proliferating online. it's this feedback loop between experience. and it's used as an excuse to increase distrust and vision. the thing is though, a lot of it is fake, all ginned up. it was brought home by a washington post story reported by drew hartwell about a prominent social media account that purported to be a self styled democratic activist. under the name erika marsh, the account went viral by carving out extreme positions on the issues of the day. the account is now suspended, but well active, get this, one tweet published after the supreme court affirmative action decision, that tweet was viewed 27 million times, providing plenty of opportunities for i told you so outrage and virtual signaling from folks like congressman matt gaetz. now, for an allegedly liberal accounts, it's audience seemed to primarily beat people on the right looking for confirmation bias. and according to the accounts biography, this wasn't just some random person on the far left streaming into the digital wilderness, no, it was somebody

who purported to as work as a field organizer on the biden campaign, volunteered at the obama foundation, someone who seemed to be in the proximity of power. but as it turns out, that seems to be does a lot of work. because according to the washington post, there is no record of this person, erica marsh, ever existing. >> so, john, who is acting as erica marsh men? >> well, this is part of the difficulty of figuring out the root of this stuff. but that is just part of the latest example of this sort of weird culture of trollish sock puppet accounts, created by people looking to gin up anger and self righteous defense on their side of the aisle. seriously, let that -- sink in. and then understand why we need to do a better job of and disinformation efforts that are designed to divide our democracy. we need guardrails, reasonable regulation, especially the rise of a, that promises to supercharged disinformation efforts going forward. it's a job for platforms, as well as politicians, who are willing to think beyond partisan self interest in the

short term and take action together to get something done. and that's your reality check. >> john, come back and join us. thank you, that was a great abject lesson in misinformation. so, she doesn't exist. basically, this erika marsh doesn't appear to exist. they can't find any records of her. and yet, she joins up all this outrage, and she's used by the right as, look at this crazy liberal, this is what we're all fighting against. but she's a bogeyman. >> yeah, and thankfully, we had a lot of good, private speech and journalism that show that -- >> [laughter] >> on this nice private network here. it's a wonderful corrective. no, it really is. and we saw this during covid. there's a reason why people are mad, because voices that dissented that were sometimes wrong, but sometimes they were also right, were kicked off of platforms under pressure from the government. it made the discourse about our measures worse. we should be mad about that. that's okay to be mad when the government wrongfully suppresses viewpoints. >> but jay, let me get zheng rogers in.

jen, there is -- i mean, you hear what everybody is saying yes, yes, freedom of speech is obviously fundamental. however, disinformation and misinformation is dangerous. and if the social media platforms aren't self policeman, what's the answer? well >> we'll, listen, if this lawsuit were filed by someone who is kicked off, and they filed a lawsuit alleging they had been kicked off because someone in the government applied serious pressure, but in the social media platforms that they did remove this person. then you'd have a real lawsuit. that's not what we have here. what we have here is a group of states that don't have standing trying to get what they got, which is a nationwide, you know, massively over broad order saying that these large swaths of the government, not individual actors, but agencies, entire agencies, aren't allowed to communicate with the social media platforms. you know, you can't even point out that there is a problematic post, you have to trust that they will find it with their own algorithms. the government has a massive,

massive infrastructure in place to find problematic communications. and they're saying you can't even let them know about that so that their own -- for taking out that if nation can kick in. so, it's just -- it's an overwhelmingly problematic order. it's taking a blowtorch to, you know, to figure analogy right, you need a little tiny hammock, you are taking a blowtorch. it's not the right approach you, and stephanie going to be overturned. >> -- >> i mean, if we are to zoom back, matt brought up the patriot act, and some the controversies 20 years ago, if you to tell me 20 years ago that these fundamentally unregulated gigantic monopolistic companies would have so much authority to either regulate, to suppress the speech, to allow, speech to decide who to regulate that, could be up to one billionaire, elon musk, to totally change the rules of the game on a platform that has massive impact in terms of how people act and how -- i thought you were crazy. i mean, we are living in this bizarre digital gilded age, or because of the failures of government to do what they're supposed to do, which is have

standards that we can argue about, that we can have a libertarian and a non-libertarian argue about, and an actual democracy, we would actually debate some laws. we had figueroa the standards would be. instead, there's been this complete abdication of responsibility. and it's the wild west. so, there's these back channels connections between the governments in these countries, which i agree, is completely already just. >> but no one's talking. like, i hear you, right. but it's not like joe biden's getting on tv and saying we must either hold these tech companies to the actual letter of the law, when it comes to section 230, or we must actually get rid of those protections. no one's really having those real conversations. i see you shaking your head, but -- >> i, am because this has been a conversation both with president biden and with people in congress. this is been a bipartisan priority. by the frustration -- is >> but the bipartisan parity would've happened. >> no, joe, welcome to congress. this is the problem. this is the problem. there is -- >> both parties with section 230, but with different problems -- >> exactly, but there is room for actually established

reasonable regulation, some basic guardrails. it's something that should be able to get done, and it needs to get done. so, it's not the discussion of whoever's running the federal government at a given time. we have to put partisan considerations outside, think about what's best for our democracy, that's what we, need rules for the road. >> that's what you're, saying that's how it happened. that's all i'm saying. there is a broad coalition of people that goes beyond, you know, republican or democrat, who want to see something get done. but even in the legislation around tiktok, we found that even that was an abomination. i mean, it was an abomination that made, you know, the patriot act look like something you'd actually want to happen. >> all right. >> it's really a problem. we just need to get to the real, the real issue here. because what you're talking about is great, but no one in d.c. is actually having that conversation. >> let's leave it there. i often give joe the last word, as you know. >> -- >> i know you are. i appreciate that. up next, ukrainian president zelenskyy, in a cnn exclusive interview, warning that russia may be planning an attack on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in ukraine, europe's largest nuclear facility. we have more, next.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> new concerns in ukraine tonight that russia may be planning an attack that could unleash a nuclear disaster. ukrainian president zelenskyy tells cnn's erin burnett that russian troops could be planning a terrorist attack on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. >> so, what i have, really, from intelligence, i had documents. i don't -- i can't tell you what kind of documents. but it's something connecting

with russia. i had said that they are tactically ready to do something. it's very important that they might -- some local mining's. >> at zaporizhzhia? >> yeah, at zaporizhzhia, at the station there, they are technically ready. that's why we put -- in english in english's iaea, yes. when we push them, and we said, look. your team there, they are for, for people. and this plant is like city. it's really like -- >> huge? >> it's huge, very big. four people will not find minds. >> joining me now is colin clark, director of policy and research at the sun fawn grove. colin, thank you so much for being here. so, let's talk about that. why would vladimir putin unleashed a nuclear disaster so

close to his own borders? >> well, i mean, look, nothing is beyond the pale for someone like vladimir putin. this is an individual that has detained people, tortured them, executed his own citizens, he'll do anything to hold on to power. and i think coming on the heels of yevgeny prigozhin's abortive mutiny, he feels more vulnerable, and its legitimacy, more challenge than ever before. so, putin may be looking to do something drastic in order to kind of gain the upper hand. >> okay, let's listen to what president zelenskyy told erin about how he believes putin will not have to consolidate russian power in society even further in the wake of prigozhin's failed uni. here it is. >> [speaking non-english] >> translator: i think that putin will make an attempt to consolidate his society. he will make everything in order to nullify the

wagner-ites fame, and everything they're doing. he will be distancing itself from all that, and will be communicating extensively to unify the society. his society is on a unified. pay attention to this interesting example. after all these events, where did putin go? i can tell you, he rarely comes out to the street. we see him in his offices et cetera, but we never see him out and about. >> colin, you've written an opinion piece in the times this week about the relationship between putin and prigozhin. so, what do you think putin will do next? >> i mean, i tend to agree with zelenskyy here, i think, you know, he's desperate. he's never been embarrassed the way that he was just recently, with prigozhin kind of standing up and marching into russia. you know, if you seen these interviews with putin where he's at one end of the really long table and someone else is at the other end, what is macron or someone else, now, all of a sudden, he's out in the streets, glad-handing with russian citizens.

he's backed against the wall. and i think putin is likely to try to consolidate power. but the reality is, he needs wagner, or if not faulkner itself, another wagner-like entity. russia is now addicted to mercenaries. and they rely on this kind of sub state actor as the tip of the spear for russian foreign policy. they can't live without it. >> so, let's talk about that. since he has dispensed with prigozhin, and many have said that putin looks weekend after precocious failed uprising, so, what will he do without wagner? >> well, he's got a couple of options. one, he can disband wagner and try to reflect them under the russian military. that comes with its own set of complicated circumstances, including the fact that many of these individuals have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. it makes russia even more of a pariah in the actual system. he can trying to spin walk near and put them into pre-existing, rather than military companies.

that kind of decentralized is their power, makes them less of a force multiplier. or, what i think is most likely to do, install a new head of wagner like and the, someone far more pliant than prigozhin, and try to go about, you know, his business as usual, which is essentially what he's told african leaders and others in the middle east not to worry, don't worry, the russians aren't leaving, we're still going to be there, operating in the same fashion. it just maybe a different head of wagner. although that also has its own kind of drawbacks, because many prigozhin's men were fiercely loyal to him. >> cannes, clark, grace to get your expertise on this. obviously, we will watch -- wait to see what happens in this very tense moment. thanks for being here. >> thank you, appreciate it. >> just ahead, a series of shark sightings, and attacks, in florida and new york on the fourth of july weekend. is this normal, or something different going on? we're gonna get answers from wildlife expert jeff goldblum.

>> it was a busy holiday weekend for shark sightings and attacks. in florida, frightening video shows a shark swimming right by a bunch of swimmers near pensacola. in new york, on long island, five people were bitten by sharks in the 24 hours between monday and tuesday. in a separate incident off the coast of new york's fire island, a 15-year-old boy was bitten on the foot by a shark while surfing monday afternoon. so, what's going on here? joining me now is a wildlife biologist and host of abc's

wildlife nation jeff -- . jeff, great to see you, as always. why are there so many shark attacks in the new york area? >> while, it's summertime, and summertime means people are loving the beaches, they're surfing, they're swimming, and so are the sharks. all the -- , alisyn, and if you're like me, chances are you're on the water with a fishing rod, looking for police to catch the strippers and tune, as looking for mackerel, while, so our sharks. and its zenith of life moment along our coastlines in new york and connecticut, sharks are there, the people are there. the good news though, if there is good news, is these are probably very small sharks, maybe like sand tiger sharks. certainly not great white sharks, if it was a large predatory shark like that, it would be more than just someone getting bit on the hand or foot, it would be quite a serious injury. >> yeah, but i don't want to be bit on the hand or foot either by a smaller sharp. that you see, jeff, of that

video of all the swimmers in pensacola? and the shark is so close to the shore. isn't that unusual? isn't that different seeing a fan like that, that close? >> it isn't actually that unusual at all. every time i'm in florida, i see sharks. every time i'm on the water, i was out today, and i saw a shark. so, they're very common. we said this before, if you are in a healthy, pristine marine ecosystem, you are never more than 300 feet away from a chart. and most shark attacks happen in five feet of water or less. in the case of this one, this shark was not interested in the people. this was likely, i'm guessing it was a very large hammerhead shark, and it was clearly in pursuit of fish, a school of fish, which it was hammering into, as they do so well, because there are a lot of nice delicious looking people on the beach there, and that shark didn't mess with any of them.

>> okay, i will take some comfort in that. do you know how the number of shark attacks already this summer does compared to previous years? >> so, there have been a lot of attacks this year. and thankfully, we've not had a significant amount of fatalities. the most significant shark attack we've had was actually in the caribbean, where a woman lost an appendage when she was scuba diving, actually, she was snorkeling, and likely hit by a bull shark. but thankfully, we haven't had any extreme attacks as of yet that i'm aware of. but they are up. and i think that has a lot to do with a lot of people are spending a lot of time at the beach, in the water. we are also seeing an increase in shark attack -- so, there you go, it's up by one. not so bad, am i reading that right? >> no, you're reading right. but we're only halfway through the summer, most maybe a third way through the summer. and i just was wondering because there seem to be so

many sightings, i know that you'll probably say they're just being reported, more people have more cell phones. but it feels like there is more. i mean, do you understand why people are feeling a little freaked out the summer? >> absolutely, because we're seeing an increase in sharp numbers in new england, and we've mentioned this before, because the seal population is increasing, gray seals, harbor seals, that is the ultimate buffet treat for a shark. that's why we're seeing more sharks here. and along the west -- florida, the southeast coast, we're seeing more sharks because there is a lot of fishing going on. and there's a lot of shark fishing going on a lot of interactivity. and that is likely increasing sharks. it's also the breeding season. this is when shark -- people are there for all the fish in the healthy ecosystem, the sharks are there for the same reason. they're popping at their nurseries. we've had a lot of rain, and you know what it's been like in new york and massachusetts, been raining, rain for our

fourth of july. and that permitted he in the water makes it hard for sharks to discern between a tasty finish and a human being. >> yeah, i don't like that. but jeff, i also want to get to this video that you sent us of a whale being caught in fishing gear. and just tell us how dangerous, obviously, this is for the whale, but also for the people trying to rescue the whale. >> while, this is, this is a horrible situation we're in right now. this is a north atlanta right whale. alisyn, only three -- we were just discussing this recently, and because of our conversation, i really dialed into this situation. it's really catastrophic. 340 remaining north atlanta right whales. they're getting hit by container ships and other vessels when they navigate from florida up north. the climate change is affecting the fisheries in the north.

but they're getting entangled in fishing here. here, we see a crew, we have crews from noah, the center for coastal studies, which are experts at going in, like we see right here. this is dangerous work, but these folks with cc, with coastal center for coastal studies, and with i fought, the international fund for animal welfare, they're doing whatever they can to save the species. alisyn, they only produced 11 surviving offspring this year. that means this uniquely new england ambassador whale species will become extinct at this rate within the next few years. so, every whale matters, which is why we have groups like ccs and ifaw and noaa out there to save these whales. >> well, thanks for alerting us to this desperate situation. jeff, always great to talk to you. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> monday and tuesday where the two hottest days ever on planet

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