stars on strike, and hollywood at a standstill, and 160,000 stars are joining the writers to picket and something that we have not seen since 1960. and the effects will ripple into your home. and now, capitol hill, the voting is under way. the fight over the money and the military is now reaching a fever pitch. we have the very latest developments on the stall of what has been the stalled defense bill in the house of representatives. i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner, and this is cnn "news central." all right. the breaking news, the house has just voted and the final passage of the big defense policy bill, and the bill has passed with the changes and the controversial changes of hard right and far right republican members of the

house. let's get over to manu r raju f the breaking news. and what is the final count here? >> yes, this bill passed after days of wrangling behind the scenes of house republican leaders trying to get their conference in line, but barely getting this major defense bill through the house, and the one that would authorize the programs national defense programs and typically one that is done and the bipartisan basis, but because of the changes made, it went along the party lines. the vote was 219-210. 218 votes is a majority of the house. so 219-210 was the final vote, and the gavel just came down and four democrats voted for it including the democrat from maine who represents a swing district from maine and one from washington state and there were four republicans who voted

against it including ken buck of colorado, thomas massie of kentucky, andy biggs of arizona, and eli crane also of arizona, but that is even with, because of the democratic defections, that is essentially going to help to get the bill over the finish line, because most of the democrats had initially planned to vote for this bill, but they ultimately decided not to, because of some significant changes that were made dealing with the social policy issues added to the bill through the amendment process, and one would nix the pentagon's policy to provide reimbursement for abortion service members or their family to go out of state where it is banned. also, targeting the transgender rights for veterans which is eliminated for part of this bill, and eliminate the diversity and equity part of the pentagon and not to allow the pentagon to have a department of

defense schools to have bipartisan support, and speaking to the congressmembers including tim birshette who i spoke to. >> when you have a man in a dress that is recruiting the military it is not going to fly in tennessee or most places in america. when we are getting away from what traditional america believes, traditional america is not going to play ball with you. >> i am a proud combat veteran and this is an insult to all who serve and particularly all who serve, and including those risking their life right now. >> reporter: that last comment

coming from the democrat who would have voted for the bill, but voted against it, because of the change, and it is not sure what tim burchett said with a man ri kruting in the military base or what, and he did not say specifically, but those are the issues that won over the folks on the far right and folks that would have typically voted against, but they liked the social issues, because they believe that they are violating the federal law for reimbursing people for abortion issues, and that is why senator tommy tuberville is holding up senate appointees in the military. so this is a big fight in the months ahead, and it is a significant bill and one that passes year after year, and setting the military policy, and

can they reconcile in the two chambers and get the white house to pass it into law, and the way that the speaker of the house deals with the narrow majority and work with the far right members, even if it cost them democratic support. >> i wanted to ask that, manu, and the context there, and manu is standing outside, because after this vote, that is when the members head for the exits, and you can see the cars there, and manu is going to be speaking to some of the members heading for cars as they head back to their district. but it is not going to pass in the democratically-held senate, and so it is a must-pass bill, and what is going to happen now? >> well, this is the challenge, and how kevin mccarthy has dealt with this majority so far. he has tried his best to keep all of the members in line. including some of the folks on the far right. and remember, they have the

power with a single vote to call for his ouster, and he agreed to the concession after winning the speakership after 15 ballots, and so what he as tried to do is to get the people on the far right, and including the people who are not happy with him to support it, and he did it with the debt limit, and he had to come back to compromise, and he is going to have to do that again with the spending legislation to keep the government open september 30th, and try to get his conference in line, and then cut a deal which could anger the folks on the right, and the here with the defense bill, you have to cut another deal that could anger those folk, and so that is going to go a long way to determine his power in the house, and how long he is going to be keeping the gavel. >> thank you, manu. we will be checking back with him. sara? hollywood shuts down for the first time in 62 years, and two

unions on strike at the same time. this is some of the world's biggest tv and movie set productions heading for the picket lines. this will comprise of 600,000 actors going to strike after their talks with the management and the streaming services failed. they will now join the writers union that has been striking since may. tv premiers and other movies will not be coming out, and movie and hollywood actors will not be doing any more promotional work. and the show "oppenheimer" that is to premier july 21st, it was premiered last night, and the actors walked out on the premier. chloe, these are well known actors and what are you hearing? >> well, first of all, matt

damon, part of the highly anticipated "oppenheimer" movie, he had some strong words before they walked off. >> you have to make $26,000 a year to qualify for the health insurance, and there are a lot of people who get across the threshold through the residual payments, and we can go long stretches without working and not by choice obviously and we have to find a way to bridge so that those people who are on the bubble are taken care of. you know, it has to be a fair deal. we have to get what we are worth. >> sara, we will see the picketing starting in an hour, and we will see it happening in los angeles, new york, and in front of the big studios and what is at stake here? well, the writers and actors alike and the unions want better pay, and more money when it is coming to residuals, and more

transparency coming to the streaming, and artificl intelligence address. th is what the studios have to say. they say that the amtp offered a historic pay and groundbreaking deal with digital likeness. at the union has chose anne path to lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people across the industry. we have to point out, sara, it is not just writers and actors, but it is the craft services, the security, and the light production crews, and so many people that are at a loss. >> thank you, chloe milos. >> kate? and now, september usually brings a brand-new season of so many shows, but now you can't count on it with this strike,

and in place of the scripted shows, you can expect more reality shows to pop up, and more game shows even. when the writer strike was looming, streaming services like netflix started to prepare, and the ceo said in april, we have time to make plans for the worst, and we have a robust slate of releases to take us into a long time. here is another caveat with all of this, the network productions for daytime soap operas can continue, because they are not members of the union and actors have different contract than the one that has expired. as for movies, any remaining production as we have been discussing, it has come to a stop. the release of next year's blockbusters like sequels of "gladiator" or "more catal comb and the only exception could be

dependent if they are tied to the unions. and theatrical performances can continue. >> and now, we are joined by melissa wagner, and three weeks before this happened, the president of s.a.g. fran drescher said that things looked good and they would reach an agreement, and what happened? >> what happened that both sides did not come to terms whatsoever. and yesterday, we saw fran drescher saying that the actors are the victims, and saying that they are offended by the deal that was presented to them, and clearly, the both sides are not on the same page whatsoever. then if you are looking at the studio side, they are saying that we have given a historic deal, and obviously, that is not what the actors believe. a big component of this is a.i. of course, a strike comes down to money, and to pay pay, but in this changing errof the

streaming business where there is no precedent, it is protections from the technology, and so it is not just getting a fair share of the streaming success, but it is about protecting your likeness which is a big point of contention that they could not come to an agreement in that negotiating room. >> can you dig down a little bit on the a.i. issue, because it is not unusual when these strikes happen that the money, the pay is always on the table. but a.i. is a whole different level of thing, and can you give us the example of what they are talking about, the actors, when it comes to why a.i. is going to be such a problem for them, and take money away from them. >> absolutely. so we have heard a lot of the big actors talking about the strike and supporting their union. this strike isn't really for the big actors. we know they are wealthy and they get big paychecks, and they don't have to work again. this is the strike for the working actor, the extras and

the background actors, and one of the proposals in there from the studio side that pertains to a.i. is that background actor show up to set, and their face is scanned, and they are paid the day rate and they don't show up again. the day rate for the union is around $200, and if this is what is in the proposal, it means that a background actor is paid $200, and their face is scanned, and they don't know up again. these sets of hollywood is full and full of extras, and any time you see people on the sidewalk or sitting in the restaurant, and a.i. can essentially take scary, and a scary possible reality for all of the actors, and many of them who can make their entire living annually just off of being a background actor. >> it is important that the a-list stars that we all know, it is not going to affect them financially, but there are

160,000 actors and 11,000 writers who are not paid anywhere near that. let me ask you quickly about the corporations overlooking this, and the industry leaders. what are they saying about this? >> they are saying the writers and the the actors are not being realistic. obviously, we are in a trying time, and still feeling the effects of the pandemic. a lot of the studios and big media conglomerates are putting a ton of money and resources into the streams strategy in the last few year, and it is not paying off, so they have to recoup, and this is what they are saying, but of course, again, when you are looking at the at actors, they say, you can afford this, because you are not a business without us. >> thank you, elizabeth wagmeister. and now, the president of

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in a new interview with a russian newspaper, russian president vladimir putin offered up the fate of the wagner fighters after the rebellion planned last month. he staid that the private military does not exist in the legal sense. putin on to describe what happened in the meeting with yevgeny prigozhin after that meeting, and what he offered to the fighters. alex marquardt is there, and what more is putin saying? >> well, kate, remember when this insurrection led by yevgeny prigoshin abruptly ended, it was understood that he would go into exile in belarus, and then he

pop up in russia. and not only that, but heed a face-to-face meeting at the kremlin with vladimir putin, and it happened five days of the failed mutiny. and wagner fights were there in the kremlin, and putin said, that you can keep fighting, and fighting under your direct commander, and sadoy, and his call sign is "gray hair." then the commanders nodded along, and prix goeshy -- prix goe -- >> i am sorry, alex, i have to go over to the house authorization bill that just

passed. we will go to the house speaker. >> thank you for coming. i am sorry to disappoint you that republicans continue to keep our promises, and we just again from all of the questions all week long will the nda pass this week. not many of you ask me about the policy, so i wanted to spend some time with the question, yes it passed. and now, i want to thank the chairmen for what they did with the appreciation of the support. we said that we would fight for a nation that is safe. today, we kept that promise by passing the national defense authorization act. under this bill, the men and women in uniform who make sacrifices or our nation everyday will receive the biggest pay raise in decades. we all know they deserve it.

radical programs that are reducing our force are eliminated. cutting technology that is essential for the country and to keep freedom around the world in the rise of china and russia will receive more investment than in the past. and taxpayers will be saving $40 billion as this bill is going to root out the spending. the real question that you never ask me that i wish you would. why did the democrats vote no? technically it is a bipartisan vote and four democrats voted with us. are the rest of the democrats against a pay raise for their veterans? are they against deterring china for a safe future? are they against rooting out wasteful spending, because they all voted against it today. they can claim a lot of things, but the biggest issue they claim they voted against, they voted

for just last year. it is a good thing that the republicans are in the majority. but it is more important that we keep our promises to america and to our men and women who serve to defend us. today, it is exactly what we did. with that, let me call up our leader, leader steve scalise. >> thank you, mr. speaker. good to see all of you here. today was an important victory for our men and women in uniform who risk their lives to keep us safe, and important victory for every american in this country who wants to see our military focused on our enemies abroad and not on wokeness and all of the indoctrination attempts that you are seeing within the pentagon. there because massive push for

those things under the biden administration. that is not what we saw under the obama administration, and biden has tried to change the military and what you have seen is the republicans and the democrats coming together to say, focus on the enemies all around the world. there are still bad actors out there who want to do us harm, and countries like china who are investing in a different kind of military that we need to be focused on, and as the speaker pointed out, chairman rogers and all of the members of the house armed services committee spent weeks an months putting together a bill that refocuses military on the core mission, the mission that under the constitution that we as a congress have an obligation to go out and fulfill and protect and fund. that is what this ndaa does. it refocuses on the real threats to america as a free nation, and the leader of the free world to allow us to get back focused on

that role. yes, it is a shame that the democrats walked away from that, and a shame that the democrats walked away from a 5% pay raise to the men and women in uniform who deserve it, because they wanted to defend a far left woke ideology, and that is not the focus of the department of defense. i am proud of what the members did coming together in a difficult time to say, let's get that focus back to where it needs to be and protecting the friends around the world in standing up to the bad actors which there are and they are getting more and more aggressive and we need to be more and more focused. that is what the vote today produced. the gentleman who put together that vote coalition is our whip mr. emrick. so we have listened to steve scalise, and the 219-210 vote, and many of the provisions that they are out thing as successes

in this bill are the same provisions that came out of committee on a bipartisan vote that existed in this massive defense policy bill the ndaa before the controversial amendments were added overnight, and still the questions remain of the fate of the bill, and it has passed the house, and now over to the senate to take action. sara? and now the discuss this and other issues like what is happening in ukraine and russia, retired army major mike lions, and first the defense bill, and i know you don't want to tango with the politician, and stay in your lane, and this is what happened in the last minute these amendments have been passed, and what is happening to the trickle down of the troops on the ground as they are learning of this, and does it affect the morale? >> yes, it does. the military families are resi resilient, but they see the

progress and they like to see the politicians getting along, and soldiers are destroyed with the navy and the marines in the foxholes, and when they get to the news, they will see a big pay raise and things that go with it, so september, they will be ecstatic about the politicians able to figure it out. >> you said that you know someone affected by the bill, and can you tell us how this is affecting them as the fighting is going on, because the bill is not completely passed, but by the house, and has to go to the senate where we expect it to fa fail. >> it is going to be coming down the training and training dollars and what deployments are going to be scheduled, and that is going to fail, because the money is going to be frozen, but now the money can be freed up, and the soldier and sailor are

enduring tremendous hardship, and this bill is going to allow the training to go forward that has been canceled in the past. >> yes, the money part of it, and the culture war of it that people are concerned about with 20% of the military being women. i wanted to move on to extraordinary news that russian president vladimir putin says that this wagner group does not exist. >> it is opposite. to say they don't exist does not make sense. there reports of them this morning training in belarus, and some of the potato soldiers there in those places. and vladimir putin is trying to consolidate power, and he noes that prigozhin is a strong charismatic person who can have people follow him, and he is not

going to get rid of the wagner group, because they work throughout africa and other places. so that a lot of fiction today. >> we are seeing putin trying to split yevgeny prigoshin away from the commanders there, but a reshuffling or the firing of the generals, and russian generals in the actual military and not the pers theimercenary group, a will they use it to their advantage? >> well, you are seeing the situation that our president had in the civil war, that they could not find the right general from abraham lincoln's perspective. and trying to find the right leadership in ukraine, and it could be something that could happen if he finds right one,

but that one did not work out. so they are still on the defense. they are going to win by not losing right now, which is going to be taking place for a long time until they recognize that ukraine can bring more offensive capability to the situation. >> mayor mike lyons, promises made at the nato summit and expectation, and we will see what happens going forward. thank you for coming in. jared kushner is definitely a member of donald trump's inner circle is testifying before a grand jury investigating the 2020 election interference, and what thihis investigation memea for donald trump. we wilill be back. epe corrector diminishes wrinkled skin in just two days. gold bond. chchampion your skin. ♪ with wet amd, sometimes i worry my world is getting smaller beca. but now, i canpen up my world with vabysmo.

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did former president trump acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election and how was he told that he lost the election? sources say this is what the federal prosecutors want to know. first reported by the "new york times," cnn has learned that donald trump's son-in-law, jared kushner and former aide hope hicks have testified before a grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. with me now with more on this, the former federal prosecutor, renaldo renati, and what do you

feel about this, because "the new york times" had said they had previously asked if donald trump had acknowledged that he had lost, and they wanted to know how he was informed that he lost. why would the prosecutors want to know so much to get down to this? >> well, ut maltly at the end of the day, kate, they are trying to whittle down the defenses. they can't call him and he has a right to remain silent, but what he might try to do is to put on other witnesses who can try to make his defense, and the defense is going to be that he genuinely believed that he won, and all of these fake elector schemes and other methods to try to object the proceedings of january 6th were that he was cheated out of a legitimate win, and what the viewer sauce preview of this hearing is that

they want to lock in all of the witnesses around trump, and people pro-trump, his family and advisers were telling him that he had legitimately lost the election. >> and not surprising that the council would want to speak to those in his inter circle like jared kushner and hope hicks, but what does it indicate to you about the investigation? >> well, it is looking like they are preparing to charge trump. you don't talk to jared kushner, because you are going to bring up charges against john eastman or someone like that. it means that kushner does not believe that he has criminal liability or he would have taken the 5th. so he is testifying ultimately, and they are preparing to come forward in the next month or two. >> and also, there are other court filings that the charges that donald trump faces over the mishandling of the classified

documents, and the attorney for the court handling has ripped into the trump team, and the special counsel says that trump's team is giving a misleading picture of the amount of evidence, the amount of material that the defense team needs to look over, and trump's team is pointing to 800,000 pages of discovery, and they say it is a fraction of that and 4500 key documents, and they say that in some, neither the amount of classified discovery in this case for the timetable for this production is a reason for indefinite discontinuance of the trial date. what do you think of this? >> both sides are presenting a somewhat slanted picture. i think that the government is trying to push back against defense arguments, some of which are legitimate, but many of them are disingenuous and silly, and

smith is right about that. but the relevance of the documents is not completely playing it straight by the government either. in other words, the government selected 4,500 documents that they believe is the most important, but the defense is going to have their own view as to what documents is important, and their own defense, and they may be silly and not the strongest, but they will want to review every page of the document, and this is the weak part of the defense's case is the amount of discovery. >> and maybe we will find out next week in front of the judge eileen cannon what the start of the trial could look like. it is nice to see you, renato. sara. the nation is dealing with sweltering heat, and parts of europe is also dealing with dangerous conditions. we will go to rome for the very latest. hey little bear bear. ♪ ♪

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right now, more than 90 million americans are under extreme heat warnings across the country. forecasters are saying that residents avoid the outdoors between 9:00 and 6:00, and basically all day, and forecasts could challenge the all-time high temperature of 117 degrees on sunday. in texas, zoo keepers at the el paso zoo got creative to get the animals cool by making ice pops and setting up misters and cooling sheds. according to national weather service, the temperature has reached 100 degrees at least for a streak of two weeks in las

vegas. and this is a record that breaks previous one set in 1977. this texas sun is no joke. what isis happening there? ed lavandera? >> well, the smartest people in dallas are those children running through klyde warren park in downtown dallas. the heat is relenting for several days, and it is going to continue to be that way for the foreseeable future, and the warnings are out what is going to happen. as you mentioned 90 million people in heat advisories and over 900 heat records set in communities in july alone and over 100 heat records expected this weekend. so the intensity of this is really unrelenting. and the high, the areas with the

highest heat indexes recorded yesterday were in texas and oklahoma, and the region is hit very hard by this heat wave, and leave it to an 11-year-old to capture what this experience has been like this summer. >> it feels like if hot sauce could be felt without you having to taste it, and like it was poured on my back. >> i would love to enjoy some time outside without getting wet like riding bikes and stuff, but every time i go out, i get tired very fast because of the sun, and i am like, okay, i have to go in. >> reporter: and sara, the hottest place on earth is death valley, california, could reach 130 degrees this weekend, and it has only happened five times since the records were kept. by the end of this weekend, we

will all be heat zombies, sara. >> people say it is summer, and it is hot, and we get it, but this is potentially deadly. ed lavandera, stay cool. >> heat zombies from ed lavandera. the united states is one of the many places hammered with the extreme heat. europe up against it as well. in greece, the heat forced officials to shutdown the acropolis of athens. and in itley, health warranties for the stcity of rome, and how are the people handling it there and what are the authorities saying? >> well, it is really, really hot here, and one of the biggest problems here is that it is the height of tourism season. all of the people here in the heat shouldn't be, because the authorities say that you should not be here in the heat, and they don't have a chance,

because they have booked it months and month and years in advance. we are near the front of the coliseum, and it is blazing sun, and well over 100 degrees. this is to be the cool est and one of the most important thing to remember is that most europeans don't have air conditioning, because only 10% of the homes have air conditioning, so there is no end in sight. it does not cool down at night, and hot in the shade, and humid beyond belief, and it is going to be worse. >> thank you for the context, barbie. >> well, the real life barbie in since mattel launched the doll in 1959, it became a global icon. the live action movie debuts next wook and could help

revitalize a brand that has seen a slump. en cnn business correspondent has more details. virginanessa, what's happened w the barbie brand? we have seen them, but what's happened business wise? >> does barbie even need an introduction? she's been around for 64 years. she has gone through some transitions. the maker of barry has worked with many other brands to try to boost barbie's sales. but they are look ing at this live action movie as a way to bring nostalgia back. >> barbara roberts, you know her as barbie. parents born in 1959, but doesn't look a day over 19. >> everyone had a barbie. it was the thing to have a barbie. >> next week, barbie comes to it life in a new movie with an a-list director and actors.

>> hi, barbie. >> distributed by warner brothers discovery. >> it's an incredibly important milestone for the brand. >> reporter: barbie has had ups and downs. >> back in 2014, we hit a low. it was a moment to reflect in the context of why did barbie lose her relevance? he didn't reflect the physical ty, the look, if you will, of the world around us. >> reporter: now barry, ken and friends have many stint tones, shapes and special traits that make them look more like us. but this year's first quarter sales of math tell slumped down 22% from last year. >> how is mattel and barbie viewed as a brand? >> there's been a lot of decline in that differenceuation and that relevance that keep a brand top of mind from a purchase persp perspective. brands go into a police of fatigue. >> reporter: mattel hopes the

movie will give them the boost they are locking for. >> we also have the opportunity to reach new ages and stages that ultimately from a business perspective provides huge merchandising and monetization opportunities. >> we're standing in front of barry. >> reporter: the owner of this toy store can't keep movie barbie on the shelf. >> in a day, they were gone. >> have you always had barry? >> absolutely. it's a staple. it's the moms and dads who are nostalgic than the kids. >> reporter: but that nostalgia isn't for everyone. >> i don't know how she's e evolved. does she have a college degree now? >> the movie has calculated for that. >> you haven't played with barbie since you were like 5 years old. >> you're never too old for barbie. >> i'm 90 years old. or i should say, 90 years young. >> reporter: carol spencer didn't grow up playing with barbies.

>> this was my first project. >> reporter: but barbie wouldn't be barbie without her. >> i was a design if the barbie doll starting in 1963 for over 35 years. and i loved every minute of it. >> while carol helped make barbie, barbie helped make mattel. as other toys have come and gone, barbie is still strutting. >> barbie carryied mattel for a great many years. sglu i thought if every child had played with a bar by doll as my child, let me tell you, i have a big family. and i love it. >> reporter: and that is the magic and power of barbie. >> when barbie came to market in 1959, she was a teen fashion model. she went on to become a fashion designer. but then consumers started asking questions. could barbies have are other

jobs. not that those jobs were bad, but could barbie have a man's job. so we saw lawyer barbie, scientist barbie, and of course, we have reporter barbie right here for us. not the first time that's happened. and we have camera woman barbie here. so clearly, evolving. but mattel says that barbie is a blank canvas and can be whatever you want her to be. >> there's been a presidential candidate barbie that be bst around for a long time. i got the opportunity to speak with margo robbie. and neither of them played with barbie as kids. america said the reason why is she didn't feel like it represented her at the time. has that change d the representation of barbie? >> i have always had conflicted feelings. >> mattel saw sales drop dramatically.

2014, 2015, because they did not diversify fast enough. then when kids were at home during the pandemic, they started buying barbies again. and then this movie is an attempt to bring in more diversity with barbie and friends. but certainly took them awhile to get there. >> maybe barbie is evolving as well. >> thank you so much. thank you all so much for joining us. this is "cnn news central." "inside politics" is next. with its customizable options chain, easy-to-use tools and paper trading to help sharpepen your skills, you can stay on top of the market from wherever youou are. e*trade from morgan stanley. power e*trade's easy-to-use tools make complex trading less complicated. custom scans help you find new trading opportunities, while an earnings tool helps you plan your trades and stay on top of the market. e*trade from morgan stanley. ♪ ready to feel what it's like? when you can du more with less asthma. it's possible with dupixent.

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