>> yeah. i couldn't find a rope so i took two heavy duty extension cords, tied them to the back of the truck and i was going to bring them out. >> good morning, everyone. i'm phil mattingly with fpamela brown. millions of americans in the northeast are still under flood alerts as a slow moving storm continues to dump rain on new england. >> and president biden is meeting with nato allies in a crucial summit. the war on ukraine dominating the agenda and sweden is now poised to join the nato alliance in a major employee to russia. john kirby will join us live just moments from now. and grand jury selection set to begin today in fulton county, george, where former president trump is facing yet another potential indictment. this tomb for trying to overturn the 2020 election. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now.

a kruch nato summit underway. president biden meeting with allies as the war in ukraine rages on with no end in sight. a major show of force and unity, sweden is poised to join the alliance after turkey gave its blessing. it's a huge strategic blow for vladimir putin. president biden sat alongside the nato secretary general as he welcomed sweden to the table. >> following the agreement yesterday, we will soon also be welcoming sweden as a full-fledged member. so welcome to you. [ applause ] >> one of the biggest and most contentious topics of discussion will be ukraine joining nato in the future. president biden is expected to meet face to face with ukraine president volodymr zelenskyy tomorrow during the summit. >> joining us is the white house

national security council spokesman john kirby. i want to start with the tweet that we saw this morning from president zelenskyy. there is a significant show of unity right now at the nato summit in lithuania. obviously, the pathway cleared for sweden. a big moment for both the alliance and president biden. a lot of work behind the scenes here. but president zelenskyy coming out and really kind of breathing some fire on the process of a nato invitation for ukraine as he is heading towards lithuania. what's your response to that. >> i would tell you, and we said this many, many times, we believe that nato is in ukraine's future. i mean, that's something that the alliance agreed way back in 2008. there is some reforms, good governance that ukraine needs to work on. we understand it's hard to work on that when you are at war. of course,are war right now.

so nato membership in the immediate future isn't likely because that would put nato at war with russia. what the allies will do over the next couple of days is talk about a pathway to get ukraine there eventually. what that pathway needs to be look like. part of that is making sure that the allies stay united on two things. one, supporting ukraine in the fight they are in so they can succeed in this war against russia. two, look at their long-term self-defense needs. what kind of security commitments do they need from the united states and allies and partners as they work towards that path towards nato membership. there is a lot of things that still need to be done before, you know, we reach that point. >> i think the question that i have had coming into this summit, we know where the president stands and the president is in the alone in the stance you can cannot invite somebody into nato in the middle of a conflict or else article 5 would trigger and everybody would be in the conflict. i don't think anybody questions that. in terms of long-term security

guarantees, some type of umbrella or package that could be put together with actual tangible details, is that something that is expected to come out of this very specific guarantees from the alliance to a non-member? >> well, let's see where the discussion goes. i don't know that coming out ofville news you are going to see an actual blueprint with great specificity what the commitments will look like, but i think you will see the alliance united in the idea of long-term security commitments to ukraine and making sure that they have all the self-defense capabilities they need after the war is over. we don't know when that is going to be, and we don't know exactly what those needs are going to be for ukraine. but one thing is sure. they will have a long border with russia they need to protect and they are going to find in the united states and they are going to find in now 32 members of the nato alliance a real strong resolve at making sure they can continue to defend themselves. >> do you understand there may

be frustration from president zelenskyy and his top advisors about the am am by fwuty across the board, not just nato invitation or process to join nato but also with what a long-term security guarantee consists and would look like? yeah. >> they are in the middle of a war right now. ambiguity is not necessarily helpful for them. >> of course we understand that. and they are fighting for their lives. literally fighting for that's lives. and you can't -- look, just around the world and not see how united so many countries, 50 are, to helping them succeed in that war. but that's got to be the focus. i think you're gonna see a lot of attention by the allies on immediate security needs and as i said long-term security needs as well. but, yes, there are frustrations, there are desires to end this war quickly, all of that we understand. of course, we share many of those concerns. >> one of the questions i this is significant and very

surp surprising of move forward in terms of president erdogan clearing the pathway for sweden's ability to join nato. what's your understanding of what president erdogan received in order to clear the pathway there? >> first of all, we thank president erdogan for his leadership. i mean, this was a bold step that he took at a very critical time for the alliance and we are grateful for that. there were lots of conversations and engagements by the administration over recent days and weeks with not just president erdogan, of course, but with the prime minister of sweden who was here at the white house and there were many discussions here. ultimately, this is good for the alliance. this is a terrific ared mo earp military we are used to working with. they use western equipment and systems. they will add to nato's eastern flank. we are grateful that president erdogan was willing to make this bold step and move forward and i think a lot of it was, frankly, to your question, a lot of it was based on conversations and

dialogue between sweden and turkey over turkish concerns and making sure the concerns were appropriately addressed and we believe and have believed por quite some time that sweden had met all their commitments they put forward on the margins of the madrid summit a year ago. >> before i let you go, on the issue of cluster munitions you have been clear about your perspective and i think some of the pushback you have received and you have addressed that as well. my question, there is two rationales. one is the fight that the ukraine are now in where russians are very dug in across the front lines, these would be a helpful defense capability to have. the other is purely running out of defense industrial issues that the u.s. and its allies are having. which is it? i heard both as the explanation. which is it? >> it is actually both. the prime driver right now is the inventory issue. the ukrainians are literally in a gun fight.

it's an artillery fight and they are trying to get through minefield while being shelled by the russians. so it is a heavily dependent -- it's a heavily -- it's a fight heavily dependent on artillery and they are going through many thousands of rounds per day. and it's difficult for the west to keep up with the artillery shell production that they need, unitary shells. so while we are ramping up production of those shells, and we are, we aren't where we want to be. as a bridge so they don't run out of shells so they can continue to fight in this gun fight, we are going to provide them with the bridging solution of some cluster munitions. the cluster munitions do add some capability to them. they do allow them a little bit more flexibility in breaksing through some of the russian defenses. the main reason is really to get a bridge to a larger production rate of unitary normal artillery shells that they can continue to use in the counteroffensive. >> white house national security council spokesman john kirby. i trust that wasn't your car

alarm. if it was, please rush back to it. >> i hope not. all right. less than two hours from now grand jury selection begins in fulton county, gorgeous, in the case for indictment against former president trump, members of his inner circle and some georgia state officials for their roles in allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election in that state. cnn's nick valencia is live outside the fulton county courthouse. i want to start with nick. tell us what potential charges will the jurors be looking at? >> reporter: yeah, good morning. fani willis the district attorney, her investigation has been broad in scope and she is looking at everything are from obstruction of justice, conspiracy charges and even racketeering. we talked about the special purpose grand jury over the course of the last year. they have met in the evidence fiz phase to gather evidence in this trump probe and they have handed over their charging recommendations. willis takes those to the grand jury that will be selected

today. that grand jury, it will be up to them whether or not they decide to bring an indictment against the former president and some biggest names in his orbit. they will be selected from a pool of jurors in this predominantly democratic-leaning county in the process is expected to last the day with the anticipation that the decision about a potential indictment or indictments will come as early as august. pamela, phil. >> all right. you have been covering this case for months. >> yes. >> when? >> we expect that she is going to make charging decisions, again, in august. she sent a letter to a number much stakeholders in georgia telling them to get their security position in order, suggesting her staff was going to take some remote work days and others may want to consider doing the same thing. i think what's interesting about what's happening today you are going to choose grand juries that are going to be heamurder charges, armed robbery, carjackings and at some point we expect them to say okay today

you are going to hear a different kind of case. at that point they will present their trump case, we are expecting, as soon as she decides to seek indictments, which we still expect, and we will see if the grand jury decide toss return an indictment. >> since january we have been saying it's going to happen. here we are july. the expectation? >> yeah, hard to imagine you go through all of these lengths to set up all of these sort of security procedures ahead of time if you are not planning on making a big announcement. this is a black democrat district attorney in the south who faced a lot of threats so far against her and her staff. i think they want to be thoughtful and cautious whenever they come out with their announcement. >> all right. thank you so much. all right. more catastrophic flash flooding in the northeast this morning and weighs called an historic once in a millennium rainfall. bracing for more.

intense rain, impassable roadways. two dams are expected to breach their spillways today. and more than 100 people have been rescued in six hard-hit counties. others watch as their belongings are swept away. >> this is my home. that is my garage. >> what have you lost? >> i don't know yet. >> we don't know yet. all i know, there was a whole bunch of tools in there and we watched them go down. >> how strong the current was. if it knocks a few branches off, imagine what it can do to a house. >> as long as we are all safe, that's the important thing. >> miguel marquez is live in montpelier, vermont, one of the hardest hit areas. you have been doing the reporting here. what didcan you tell us about what's happening on the ground right now? >> reporter: it is stunning. this river goes through the capital city here and around 2:00 this morning, so, what, six

hours ago, it was crested at 21 feet. we are just west of where the north branch of this river hits the winewski and this bridge, the water keeps coming up. i want you to listen to what this sounds like. the water has overtopped this bridge, an old trestle bridge built in 1929. the concern is if enough debris gathers, and we are seeing tons of trees and branches, i saw pieces of some sort of building earlier hit this thing, it gathers and goes under, it is able to move. look at this walking bridge, this trestle bridge just to the west of where we are. it's starting to overtake that bridge as well. we are a block from the state capitol here. the wrightsville reservoir is on the north branch of the river. that went up 42 feet in 12

hours. it had more rain on monday in montpelier than any day in history, 47,000 days or something that they have been keeping records. so just a massive amount of water. the problem -- the biggest problem is they had so much rain the last several weeks, the sponge is full. there is nowhere for it to go ex except over land. the question now, there are concerns whether this bridge will stand. there are a lot of rescues, over 100 now, and concern about people staying safe. back to you guys. >> all right. miguel marquez? vermont, thank you. looking at those images, let's talk to someone on the ground trying to help those residents as the water pours in on the phone is the assistant city manager of montpelier, vermont, kelly murphy. looking at miguel's live shot there, it shows you how dire the situation is. what can you tell us about conditions there right now? >> yeah, good morning. thank you for having me.

so they are pretty dire. travel conditions are extremely poor. we have had to evacuate city operations downtown. we are currently at water plant which sits uphill just off of one of the main arteries. we are monitoring things closely, including the wrightsville dam which was just mentioned and, hopefully, we won't experience an overlap there. but it's getting close. so we're keeping an eye on that. a yeah, things are not looking great. hopefully, they will start to look better. >> you say it's getting close. at 3:50 this morning your city manager posted on facebook it had six feet of storage capacity left. could you be more specific where things stand now? >> we are four and a half feet and the water is rising at about a half a foot per hour. there is a little bit of lag time between sort of, you know, when sort of the rainfall happens and it comes through the

dam. so we are watching. we have somebody out there monitoring. we are evacuating along spring street to get folks out of that watershed. >> wow. yeah, it's a race against time when you put it that way. how much is left for the dam, how quickly water is coming in, water rescues are underway right now we know. tell us about that and will they be able to get to people if the dam spills over? >> we have two swift-water rescue teams in place and an operation. they rescued several people at this point and are continuing to go out to get folks. we have been encouraging folks, if they can, get to higher ground and then, you know, call 911. we have got our dispatch up and running and we'll answer the call. >> what should residents who have not evacuated be doing right now? >> i think so first and foremost depending where you are, stay home and stay safe.

and then if the water is rising, seek higher ground and then call emergency services. >> all right. kelly murphy, pest of luck to as you help the residents in month peelier navigate this historic rainfall and flooding there. >> incredible pictures there. we are also getting new images of the latest round of protests in israel. demonstrators taking to the streets after israeli lawmakers voted to strip the country's supreme court of the power to declare government actions un-r.j. the first of three votesnd a part of a judicial overhaul measures to weaken israel's court and give more power to the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we will keep monitoring this. attorneys for former president trump are asking them to postpone the classified documents case until after the 2024 election. why now? we are going to discuss the political implications with our very own jake tapper who, by the

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welcome back. republican alabama senator tommy tuberville raising eyebrows over his definition of a white nationalist. kaitlan collins asked him last night to explain comments he made in may which he said he considered white nationalists to be americans. shear is last night's exchange. >> someone who believes that the white race is superior to other races. >> that's some people's opinions. >> that's not an opinion. >> pardon? >> what's your opinion? >> my opinion of a white natio nationalist to me is an american. it's an american. now, if that white nationalist

is a racist, i'm totally against anything that they want do because i am 110% against racism. >> that is a -- a white nationalist is racist, senator. >> well, that's your opinion. that's your opinion. but if it's racic, i'm totally against it. >> joining us is cnn chief washington correspondent anchor of "the lead" and "state of the union," jake tapper, his latest book, "all the demons are here," is out today. you should read it. first, i'm going to ask jake to explain exactly what senator tommy tuberville was trying to say there. >> i can't get into the head of senator tuberville. he seems to be parsing the difference between people who are abject racists like members of the klu klux klan and people who are merely white nationalist who believe in the supremacy of white people. this is not a difference, a distinction without a

difference. it doesn't make much sense. his comments make more sense when you consider what he said in october at a campaign rally. the most abjectly racist thing i heard from a u.s. senator in decades. he said this on tape. later today you can roll the tape. democrats, quote, want crime because they want to take over what you got. they want reparations because they think the people that do the crime are owed that. now, as we all know, reparations is -- that's a debate going on about whether the descendants of former slaves should be paid reparations because of the -- of that history. the idea that he defines the people that do the crime as the defendants of slaves is nakedly racist. that is senator tuberville's own words. i think there are serious questions about his views when this comes to matters of race and white supremacy. >> yeah, that was illuminating when he said that. wow.

let's talk about something else in the news today, jake tapper, what donald trump's legal team is seeking to postpone the trial a in the classified documents case. they are signaling that they may want to wait until after the 2024 election because they argue it would be unfair to do so while he is running. this delay, a potential delay, would be add vntageous for the former president. >> absolutely. it's not -- it's not unexpected. it is what i would expect any lawyer to try to do. obviously, you want to delay the case as long as possible, a, to prepare for it, and b, if president trump is re-elected in november 2024, then the case goes away. so it's not anything that i would not expect his lawyers to be pushing. in fact, it suggests his lawyers in this case have some idea of what they are doing and are aggressively representing their client. i don't expect the judge to go along with that. that's not a legal argument to

say i want to be able to push this off because i am going to be busy running for president. but it is -- i think right now we need to keep an eye on the judge to see what she does. >> yeah. and certainly she made a lot of news. very interesting to watch. all right. tapper -- >> yes? >> we got to ask about your book. pretty sure it's the only reason you woke up to hang out with us, but i will take it. >> 80%. >> charlie is a senator. this is a third in the series that jake somehow found the time -- >> dothis one, all the books ar stand alone. this one stars charlie and margaret's kids. ike is an awol marine, working on the pit crew of evel knievel and lucy is an aspiring journalist in washington, d.c., and gets caught newspaper a brand-new tabloid. i tried to make it about this incredibly bizarre time. i was 8 years old. neither of you existed for it. but the 1970s in america while

they get a rap for being a time of lameness and malaise and the like, it was actually a really bizarre and weird time for this country. so i really tried to dive into that. e eve knievel, elvis, ufos, the rise of tabloid journalism, the son of sam serial killer in new york and tried to tell this amazing story in the context of this really weird legitimate stuff that was actually happening. >> you look at the '70s, what parallels do you see what was happening then and in our world today? >> a lot, frankly. first of all, you had tremendous mistrust of government. disillusion. with the people in power. following watergate and the vietnam war. you see a lot of parallels to the lack of faith and confidence people have today. the rise of tabloid journalism that started in 1977. i have lucy joins up with a rupert murdochesque character.

that was the time that murdoch got a toehold with the "new york post." we are living with that today. lucy's adventures in the world of tabloids and how people are trying to push her journalism to a place she is not comfortable is apparent on certain other channels where we see that all the time, the pursuit of ratings over facts and truth. that's where this really began in earnest in the united states. >> there is a lot of parallels. the disinfected the vietnam veterans that ike is with and kind of getting into the mentality of what they were thinking and what drove them to make decisions. it's a fascinating overall book. like everybody in washington i was reading the acknowledgment and sources pages, jake, at the end of the book, just for -- i am not in them. which is fine. i am not taking that personally. >> you were between the lines, philip.

>> there is one that kinda caught my eye you are talking about staying at one of your friend's fishing lojs in idaho. >> yes. >> and that friend is jimmy kimmel because skbrak is hanging out with jimmy kimmel. >> great guy. >> i was inspired by his and fellow guest p.j. clp's love of ev eve evil ken eve. >> that is kbho? >> johnny knoxville. >> elaborate on that because -- >> so i go on a fishing trip every year with my family. jimmy is a very lovely host. and he loves evel knievel. and look, the appeal of this guy, for those who don't know, was a larger than life stuntman, motorcyclist, and he was huge in the '70s. he would be on abc wide world of sports. he would do tremendously sensational jumps. in 1974 he tried to jump over snake river canyon. it ended in near disaster for

him. he was on the cover of sp"sport illustrated," "rolling stone." jimmy and johnny knoxville convinced me to look into him and i made him an america because he is this character that you trace back to pt barnum. the salesman. the show man. there are roots of donald trump in him in his ability to get media attention, his ability to shoot from the hip and get fans for that. so that was very fun and i do thank judge any. i am not sure if jimmy kimmel has been the muse for a work of slitture before. but now he is. >> now he is. thank you, jimmy kimmel. book out today. congratulations, jake. >> thanks, guys. >> incredible that you have been able to churn out these books, right? >> infuriating, yes, i feel like a total slacker. >> thanks for your support and thanks for reading them. catch jake on "the lead" at

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. this morning the bud light boycott, the one taking sales by more than 28% over the last four weeks, beer brand's partnership with the transgender influence that sparked that culture war can be felt across the country, especially in nashville where the company is facing backlash from both sides. cnn's ryan young reports. >> reporter: a culture war is brewing over bud light. dividing beer drinkers as much as the country itself. >> unlike anything i have seen. >> i don't give a [ bleep ] if you drink bud light, coors light, miller lite, doesn't matter. >> doesn't matter. >> i celebrated my day 365 -- >> reporter: the brouhaha stems from bud light's short lived

partnership with transgender influencer dillon mulvaney. the fury from the right enough to dethrone bud light adds t best-selling beer in america for the first time in twodecades. in nashville two of country's music stars, garth brooks and kid rock, steps away from ooch other on broadway. >> what's fascinating me is right here on broadway in nashville, tennessee, the culture wars have come down to two big personalities in this town. it illustrates the way the country is responding to the transgender acceptance. >> reporter: garth brooks says he plans to carry the beer at his yet-to-open bar. >> i am a bar owner now. are we going to have the most popular about beers? yes. i get it. everybody's got their opinions. >> reporter: a block down broadway kid rock made his feelings known when he posted this video shooting up cases of

bud light. despite the online bravado and talk of a boycott, bud light was available when clinic stopped in recently. it's not clear if the ban had been lifted or if there had been one to begin with. bill fletcher says the whole country seems to be engaging in the same heated conversation. >> with kid rock you have this dark, angry, finger-pointing, shooting a gun at a bud light can, and garth brooks is, hey, i love everybody and openness and acceptance. and i think it's what you seen in the country going back to african americans, to gay people. now it's transgender. >> reporter: here on bradley fans from around the world come to listen to music and drink some beer, this bud light controversy has left a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths. >> it's simple. people just don't want to shoved down their throat. >> no bud light. because it's like i have

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♪ this morning texas republican senator ted cruz is facing another democratic czecher. state senator roland gutierrez became the second high-profile democratic to launch a bid for cruz's seat. gutierrez represents uvalde, texas, the same city where a gunman took the lives of 19 elementary school students and two teachers last year.

>> i am willing to stay angry for a long time. you haven't seen what i have seen. you never seen so much blood in your life. when i see these kids, when i go to bed at night, i see them in the morning when i wake up. >> that was this past may. now gutierrez is making the massacre at rob elementary school his cornerstone message. >> what happened in uvalde wasn't just about guns. it was about neglect. the neglect of rural texas. the ngt of the systems in the state that are supposed to keep us safe. it hasn't been aisolated. i am running against ted cruz because everything that we have seen in this state has been nothing but taking care of rich people while the poor people,

the working class get screwed over. my father used to tell me, [ speaking in a non-english language ]. that's what i promise to do. work hard at fixing the real problems of today. >> my name is roland gutierrez, proud texan, and i'm running for united states senate. >> candidate for u.s. senate roland gutierrez joins us now. you have been in the texas state legislature since 2008. why now? why run for senate now? >> well, i'll tell you. it's been a very hard year, obviously, since may 24th of last year, and a lot of ways it informed my decision to run, because as all of that tragedy unfolded and the investigation ensued, i had to sue the government to find out what went on, to see all of the failure that happened. and when you look at that failure, it's not just independent to what happened in that tragedy in uvalde.

you saw what happened in texas when 800 people died in a winter storm. that doesn't happen in most states. our senator at that time, ted cruz, decided to run off to cancun while the rest of us had to suffer and grin and bear it. nobody expected him to go out on a utility pole. we just expected to have some empathy and be hear with us. so we have a lot of work to do in texas. there is a lot broken from our grid to women's reproductive right issues to basic infrastructure to just making ends meet. and certainly on gun control we need significant gun reforms which most republicans agree on in texas excitement for the likes of ted cruz. >> you say most republicans agree with it. texas has some. lacksist gun regulations on the book. you can open carry, conceal carry without a permit in texas. cruz's allies have tried to paint your democratic opponent

as out of step with the state on gun rights. criticism that is likely to be levied against you, too. texas has a lot of enthusiastic gun owners. most households own a firearm. how do you convince texans that there should be stricter gun laws? >> yeah, i own quite a few myself. i don't own an ar-15. i don't need one. i am a believer in the second amendment. what we are asking for is to raise the age limit, protective orders. if you see something and say something, a personal is mentally ill and shouldn't have access to guns we should be able to take those away. closing the gun show loophole. the last several polls, 66% of republican voters said those were good ideas. so i think that the person that's out of touch is ted cruz and others like him that refuse to stand up to the nra, to just do the basics to safeguard our children. we have got a lot of work to do in this state. but we have to start with talking about the real problems that are facing us. >> yeah, and i am not exactly

sure which poll you are referring to there. i want to note you will be facing off against congressman a allred, he raise the $2.6 million in the second quarter. are you worried you are at a disadvantage? >> i have worked hard all my life, in my private life, as an attorney, entrepreneur, construction as well. to my public life, in public service, volunteering for the state of texas and the city council, san antonio before that. we have done incredible work and we have created amazing projects over the 18 years i have been in public service. we are going to continue that hard work and i thisnk when people hear the story and where i come from they will hear a message that resonates, commonality in their own lives. we have to listen to people in a better way. ted cruz simple lu doesn'to that. >> you can't look at your race without looking at historically what happened in texas. 2018 you had beto o'rourke

closer than expected. he shattered senate campaign fundraisek records but in the end cruz won by less than three percentage points. this is the closest democrats got to winning in texas in 30 years. is this different? >> bet owo is a great friend. amazing work igniting texans and provoking them to think about what's truly happening in their lives. we are going to have a similar discussion but we are going to talk to people from all over the state in spanish and english and everything in between from el paso to east texas and the panhandle of brownsville. we are going to work very hard to try to evoke this sense of change because it really is all about us and what we have to do to create change. you can't just simply scream at the boogeyman and blame everything on immigrants for what's going on in texas for failed schools, failed health care systems. people are still making 7.25 an

hour, working two or three jobs. that's certainly not freedom. bev to do work at the things that are truly challenging people at home. the out of pocket medical care costs. ted cruz doesn't vote for anything positive. he he is voted against the infrastructure bill that brought $66 billion in job. he voted against the debt ceiling which would have stabilized our economy. we have to just get rid of these charlatans and start working on the things that matter most to people. >> democratic texas state senator roland gutierrez, thank you. >> thank you so much. and like father, like son. a new home run derby champ has been crowned. more on this moment and the state of baseball in america. harry enten has this morning's number coming up. there he is. there he is. look at him. >> still trying to dance. ♪ up to 1010° cooler, all night long. for a limited d time, save $500 on all-new tempur-breeze

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oh, popped it up. got to have one. >> i don't think that he did it. >> he did not do it. >> oh, my. >> vlad guerrero jr. will hang on and win the 2023 t-mobile home derby. >> ahead of tonight's major league all-star game, vlad guerrero jr. emerging victorious in the home run derby last night, but despite all the excitement you see from fans and players, is baseball still america's fair pastime? harry enten is here. answer me. >> this morning's number is 11%. because american's favorite sport to watch just 11% said baseball in 2022, down from 39% in 1948. baseball is not just not number one, which is football, it is arguably number three behind basketball as well. so baseball while we may love to

watch it, at least you and i, phil, athe fact is americans ar like whatever. >> maybe there is an american right here that doesn't watch it very often. but i do know there is an all-star game tonight. and i guess one of the questions is, do you think that it is because there is not a lot of well-known stars that could be feeding into baseball's problems? >> i think it absolutely could. take a look at this. americans who can identify yankee greats. back in 1949, 74% could name joe dimaggio. 1 1964, 80% could name mickey mantle. now just 29% know who aaron judge is. so baseball has a lack of stars. >> no, it doesn't. that is -- ohtani is one of the greatest players in history. mike trout. aaron judge. okay, i have to ask this. i'm angry.

there were rule changes. bump fan engagement. is it working? >> i think it is working. look, the game time change down by 26 minutes. games are 26 minute faster. stolen bases up 41%. base hits up 3%. so the game is becoming more entertaining, so we'll see if the fans follow. >> it will be okay. you'll be okay. phil, it is okay, we all love you. we're here for you. >> harry, usually i like you. now i don't. but always a pleasure. >> thanks, harry. grand jury selection is about to get under way in fulton county, georgia. jurors awill heart case for charges against former president trump and others for their alleged roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election results. i need it cool at night. you u trying to ice me out of the bed?

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