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is the only person anyone will want to watch on that show. >> i saw they're not super happy about being on the show even though the last time they were on it they did well. >> they can count their money. "cnn this morning" continues right now. ♪ more than 1,500 places in the u.s. had experienced record high temperatures so far this month. >> by september, half of the world's oceans will be in a category 3 or 4 marine heat wave. >> feels like you're actually on fire after you're out here for a while. >> that's not going to change this week. and it's not going to change next week either. ♪ >> this is the first time that both sides of this case will appear before trump-appointed judge aileen cannon. >> she did put both sides on notice that they will be talking about a trial date. >> i think in the interest of the american people it should be after the election. critical to our legal system is people buying in.

>> no labels movement has promoted bipartisanship over extremes. >> they've gone too far right and too far left. >> i don't think no labels is a political party. >> people are sick and tired of what they're seeing. this is a good movement. >> let's be clear what it is. the american people will not embrace it. ♪ russia retaliating by air with the naval attack bridge in crimea over the weekend. >> sights and sounds in odesa, one of the most critical and important cities in the country. >> this is an illegal bridge, illegal construction. without seeking any permissions from ukraine. ♪ authorities now say they believe it's possible committing murders for more than a decade. >> officials found more than 200 firearms in a walled off vault. >> every investigative step that we took failed to eliminate him. >> we were shocked. we were disgusted. we were embarrassed. ♪ good tuesday morning, everyone. poppy is off this week. abby phillip joins me. abby. >> nice to see you again. >> always a pleasure.

there's a lot of news. but i'm also fascinated by the developments in the trump case which is rarely something i say publicly, but this one is an actual big day. >> there's actual movement today. we will get to that right now. just hours from now, a federal judge holds the first key hearing in the classified documents case against the former president. and his aide/codefendant walt ngata. judge aileen cannon is telling prosecutor and defense attorneys to be ready to talk about the timeline in the trial. the justice department wants it to start this year, but the former president's lawyers are also now pushing for a delay. they say that this case is complex and that their client is busy. he's running for president. also on the agenda talking about how sensitive classified documents should be handled as evidence. >> now with more on what to expect from today's proceedings is cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor elliott williams. i wasn't kidding about i'm very intrigued to see what happens today in large part because we just haven't heard from judge aileen cannon. a lot of discussion about her,

what she may or may not do. what should we expect today? >> not only have we not heard from judge aileen cannon. the parties have not. they have not sat down and met with her in person. let's talk through today is. this would be a relatively simple, straight forward pretrial conference, status conference is what lawyers call it. unfortunately this is not any other trial. and they're going to be handling a few thing. number one, what are the procedures governing classified documents. that's going to be the big sticky one today. do the prosecutes have to turn over to defense. what can they do in the form of summaries. who sees it and so on. that will be a legal fight over the next couple days. scheduling, when is this dang thing happening? and i think that's a big fight. maybe we get an answer on it today. probably not. but we'll talk about that a little bit later and again it's the first hearing in front of judge cannon. now, she, as you may recall, and people may recall, is a federal judge who got blasted, sort of eviscerated for an opinion she issued some months ago that was really seen as just getting the

law and the facts just quite wrong in this case and got overturned by the appeals court. got jack smith, who is the special counsel overseeing all this. and everybody knows who the 45th president of the united states is, donald trump. and walt gnaw ta, co-confident in a classified documents case. >> i want to ask about walt ngata, i think people may have been living their lives and not noticed that there was moments where he didn't have lawyers, weren't exactly sure when he was going to be arraigned. is he there now? >> he does have lawyers. it was several weeks after former president trump got arraigned that walt nauta finally did. he has now hired counsel. number one, stanley wood ward, number two, sasha dadon. he has two counsels. neither are national security lawyers. which will be interesting to see how that plays out. they're both very skilled but not national security lawyers. >> you mentioned the classified and sensitive documents. talk about the process. how long is this going to take? >> yeah. >> to actually look at the evidence here. >> you have to be cleared.

even to be a lawyer representing, he has to get a security clearance where they'll look at things like your foreign contacts. even i with family members, a sister born in jamaica had to have that explored from my background checks in government. your financial history. could you be bribed? do you have debts? and of course your criminal history. now, all that can typically take months, but they can expedite it if it's important enough. this is a pretty high sensitivity and high import matter that they would expedite. now something important to know, phil, the whole trial team doesn't need to be cleared necessarily just to start. they could proceed if just one of nauta's attorneys got a security clearance. nauta would kick and scream about that. i want my whole team to debate the evidence here. but, no, you have to get one person, get a security clearance who can start moving things along. and the judge can make a ruling on that saying that's okay. >> i don't think there's a wider gulf between when the justice department wants the trial to begin and when trump's team

wants the trial to begin. the former has a date, the latter amor fis to some degree. >> there is -- there couldn't be a wider gulf because these two, judge cannon and the justice department have suggested dates. donald trump has said just push it off in the future indefinitely. now the judge initially set august 14th as the date for a trial. book it. mark it down. that is not happening. the justice department said december 11th, everybody could get ready for trial by then. the former president said i am a candidate for office. i'm running for office. let's just push this off indefinitely into the future and never have -- or maybe never have this trial. that's not happening either, i think. >> okay. all right. abby? >> all right, you two. make your way over here. we have more to discuss. joining us now is national political team leader at bloomberg, mario parker and cnn political analyst and white house reporter for the

associated press, sung min kim. so some interesting questions being raised here that go to the heart of actually i think the trump case, which is that he's not the only person to be charged with mishandling national security documents. one of the other people is jack teixeira, that national guardsman who was recently charged. now his lawyers are saying, well, if you're letting this guy out on bail and he's able to walk free and campaign around the country, why can't i? >> no, it's a smart strategy on his lawyer's part for sure. but i think one thing is telling. the silence that you're hearing from republicans, right? in contrast to what you hear when donald trump was indicted. they came racing to his defense. i'm thinking of lindsey graham, for example. lindsey graham also cautioned republicans to -- in coming to teixeira's defense as well. so you're seeing the contrast and distortions that the party has to make between the loyalty to trump and then just looking at the case on its merits. >> yeah. and sung min, i want to get to

you on this other thing that's very important here, which is when we talk about trump, and where this is all headed for his -- a potential second term, if he is able to run, he's trying to make the argument, according to "the new york times," that the plans for his second term would basically involve taking over parts of the government that are supposed to be independent, at least as we know them right now, and making them part of the control of the president alone. here is what "the times" says. trump and his associates are trying to increasing the president's authority over every part of the federal government that now operates by either law or tradition with any measure of independence from political interference by the white house. that is a huge see change for how the government typically works. >> i think all of us know from covering president trump's first term in office he is not someone who believes in the concept of checks and balances. we know that from all of our reporting that he was even

restrained at times during his four years in office because there were people around him that told him, no. this is a guardrail that we cannot pass. these are sort of norms that we cannot break. also he was running for re-election and he didn't want to push the boundaries any more than he had to. he is willing to let go and really go through all of those boundaries in terms of how much executive power is concentrated in the oval office. the potential easy firing of civil servants i thought was a really, really remarkable piece of -- part of that plan. and just complete disregard for the legislative power of congress. it was reminding me of some of the other ways that he tried to push the boundaries while in office and think of the time that he tried to go around congress to get money for that border wall. while republicans did push back at the time, not enough i would say. so it will be really interesting to see just how this plan materializes. i would be interested to see how other republicans respond to this plan.

if they agree with this vision and how he kind of pushes this idea going forward. >> and a key piece of this is the justice department as well, which is supposed to operate independently in terms of its investigations. trump and his allies want to change that. >> absolutely. and look the former president fired an attorney general in the form of jeff sessions a couple years ago over the fact that jeff sessions, who is unabashedly not a democrat, but jeff sessions got fired for not sufficiently cueing to the line that the former president wanted him to. i was talking with another former federal prosecutor who said i don't think trump goes to trial because they figure out a way to push this past 2024, get a new justice department in, one that -- and pardon everybody affiliated with it and just take the case off the trial calendar all together. so, this would be in line with at least how the former president governed in the past, who knows what he would do a second time around. but history seems to be a guide. >> i got to be honest. i'm disappointed in you guys.

this was in my view the perfect 30-minute panel on the unitary theory of the executive, which is really where i thought we were going to go. >> we need another hour. >> we're good with that, control room? i think what is striking and "the times" did a great job of bringing this together. outside nonprofit groups putting together a policy infrastructure here. there have been key players from the former trump orbit that have moved on into kind of an outside role of crafting an actual policy plan and an actual policy infrastructure. and i think that's what's been striking to me, mario, because so much of those first four years were just pure chaos and him kind of flitting about based on wherever his mind was on that particular day. this is structurally very different in terms of a second term plan. >> no, absolutely. recall in 2016 they were caught off guard by his win. the binder that chris christie was then the transition director, that was tossed into

the garbage can as well. you have essentially a bunch of trump -- ex-trump officials who are seeded at many of the think tanks, heritage foundation, project 2025, america first policy institute as well. and when you speak to some of these republicans, they say that, hey, we want to hit the ground running with a second term. they've got personnel already, spreadsheets with personnel already outlined, they have policies outlined as well. they're looking to really give trump essentially a men gu to choose from on day one. oun other point i like to make, trump is exploiting this met mother sis he accelerated with the republican party, one that favored small government but now is favoring distrust of government. >> and at core, there's nothing wrong with an incoming administration setting a policy agenda and having the people that it wants. i serve in government -- >> you should want that. >> we should want that because it's the smooth transfer of

government. the problem is the violations of norms. when you're talking about fires attorneys general, secretaries of state, cabinet officials simply for not even disagreeing with the president, not behaving in a lawful manner for lack of a better way to put it, then you have a problem. and i think we're starting to see the early signs of some of that were there to be a second term. >> appreciate it. cnn exclusive former governor and gop presidential candidate ron desantis joins jake tapper on the campaign trail. this interviews begins today at 4:00 p.m. eastern. don't miss it. ♪ breaking news, a u.s. national is believed to be in north korea in custody after crossing the military demarcation line into north covid-19 during a to of the joint security area according to the eye nieted nations command which says it is working with counterparts to resolve the

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♪ we're continuing to follow the breaking news just in. a u.s. national is believed to be in north korean custody after crossing the military demarcation line intnorth korea during a tour of t jnt security area. th iaccording to the united nations command, which says it is working with counterparts of north korea's army to resolve the incident. kylie atwood from the state department and will ripley in the region are working on the story and will join us momentarily. we'll keep you posted throughout the morning as we learn more about this breaking development. but right now, a live look at phoenix, arizona, temperatures are expected to reach a staggering 117 degrees today, continue record-breaking streak of 19 consecutive days above 110. the deadly and unrelented heat wave is beating down the united states. around 65 million people are now under heat alerts from florida to california and, according to a top uk-based climate advisory group, quote, heat hell is

worldwide now. stretching from southern europe to china. so let's get straight to cnn's derek van dam with the forecast here. there is so much going on here and none of it is good. w. yeah. we're living out this heat hell in realtime both in d.c. where you and atlanta where i am as well. what's astounding is how widespread these climate related weather alerts happen to be. nobody is immune. excessive heat warnings, air quality alerts because of wild fire smokes and flash flood alerts. abby said it best at the 6:00 hour, what's next, little tiny locusts taking over. what is this? downtown atlanta, reminds me of new york a couple weeks ago. the downtown buildings barely discernible because that's how thick the wild fire smoke currently is. that is unhealthy to breathe. it's unhealthy for sensitive groups, young, the old, everyone in between as well. blankets much of the eastern sea board, atlanta, charlotte, d.c.

to new york and boston and portland. some areas not as thick as what we're experiencing across the southeast. good news, a cold front will clear things out quickly across the southeast and kind of just move the smoke around . the other big climate related story is, of course, the excessive heat that is breaking records over 190 record temperatures possible over the days to come. triple digit heat for so many location. if you're looking for a bit of relief in phoenix, you have to wait until monday of next week. and i say that with a bit of sarcasm. you can literally cut the sarcasm with a knife just as thick as the smoke is outside. high of 114 next week. is that relief? abby, phil? >> not only is it not relief, it's extremely dangerous. derek, you know, as you're talking about the hot temperatures in the air, i'm also wondering about what's happening in the water as we head into the fall and what that means as our forecast potentially goes into hurricane season. >> well, the water temperatures

are excessively warm. in fact, we are reaching global record temperature territory especially across the florida keys and florida peninsula. what that's doing is adding potential fuel for hurricanes if and when they do develop as we enter the peak season of hurricane season. some of the moisture across the northeast, this is all related to the tropics as well in some far stretch but it's enough to allow for more rainfall across the northeast. and it's being aided by, well, our friend there the atlantic ocean that's above average in terms of temperatures. abby? >> all right. derek van dam, thank you. we'll keep you on the line for our forecast for thend of times here. but back to our breaking news right now. yes, the u.s. national that is believed to be in north korean custody, we're still following this story and getting new reporting as we speak. this is just happening now. priscilla alvarez is at the white house with more. priscilla, i know this is fast moving and i definitely know these early moments when you're

trying to get people on the phone to figure out what's going on. what do we know at least at this point from the biden administration? >> reporter: that's right, phil. i reached out to the white house to get comment on this and try to get additional details as to what they know and are monitoring. here is what we know so far according to a tweet from the united nations command. they said that a u.s. national on a joint security area tour crossed without authorization. the military demarcation line into the democratic people's republic of korea. we believe he is currently in custody and are working with our kpa counterparts to resolve the incident. now, this is an orientation tour that is located inside the demilitarized zone between south and north korea and is organized by the unc and open to the general public. these are the details we have so far. simply that a u.s. national is believed to be in north korean custody. as you know, phil, if detainment of american citizens is a top priority for the white house

when it happens abroad. so this is a situation that we can imagine the white house is closely monitoring and is aware of, but again, we have reached out for comment to see what more they can tell us about this situation. so far all we know again is this tweet from the united nations command that a u.s. national is in north korean custody. phil? >> priscilla alvarez, stay close by. keep us posted. this is fast moving. you have people to talk to on the phone. we'll shift over to will ripley live for us in taipei. will, i want to start with what you've heard at least up to this point in these early moments about what actually happened. but also, some context given your experience in that area of where this actually is, what may have actually happened here based on when you've been down there. >> reporter: it is really fascinating to think that we are now in the year 2023 and you have this apparent u.s. national crossing the military demarcation line and this very almost like a cold war relic

feeling village. pung moon jam. there are basically these buildings. half is in north korea, halve is in south korea. the table is the middle. two sides would do when they were talking they would sit at the table. one would sit on the north side. one would sit on the south side. that's how they communicated and the signed the armistice that put the korean war on pause but never initially ended the korean war. that's one of the contentious issues still facing the two koreas to this day. so for somebody to actually walk across, it's not actually -- it's not a very long distance they would have to travel. you're talking about a matter of a few footsteps. now there are armed soldiers that are there. this is called -- this is called the demilitarized zone. but dmz is anything but demilitarized. it's a very dangerous area if you step off course, there's mines. the of course the soldiers carry weapons. there are sniper towers. this is not a place somebody would want to casually walk around.

americans have tried to claim refuge inside north korea before. i remember interviewing a new york university college student who landed on a tourist trip in north korea back when that was still happening back before the pandemic sealed the borders. i asked him, why he did what he did and he at that point after sitting in a isolation jail cell and, you know, having eight hour work days of lifting rocks basically in his own prison certainly not the conditions western prisoners in that country. but he was presented to us, presented to media because he used them in north korean propaganda and ready to get that american out. now, otto warmbier had a different outcome. that was a horrible tragic case. we were in north korea when we found out he had died. the vast majority of americans detained there, guys, they are held in their own private prison and used as some sort of leverage for period of months or longer. might go through a trial in

north korea and they will be released and sent back to the united states, sent back home to their families. >> will ripley, thank you for that. back to you, priscilla at the white house. how is the white house handling a moment like this with potentially another detained american in a place where we don't have the best diplomatic relations if at all right now? >> reporter: that's right. they're relying on back channels. the conversations they can have with allies in the region. so, you would have u.s. officials talking to counterparts not in north korea necessarily but whoever they have in that region to try to get an understanding, for example, with united nations command as to who this person is, what the circumstances were around them crossing into north korea. so these are questions that we have currently and ones that the white house is trying to answer

with u.s. officials in touch with officials abroad on this situation, including in the situation where we know this was a u.s. national who was on a tour. again, one that is open to the general public. and trying to understand what the circumstances were of this person crossing this demarcation line. of course, abby, a lot of questions here. it's a fast-evolving situation and one that the white house and administration officials are going to be working around the clock to get their arms around as they try to find some resolution here. >> hey, will, back to you. you know, as i covered the white house over the course of the last couple years, i think every month or two i would check in with the nse. you tried to open lines of communications with the north koreans. has there been any progress. the answer has always been firm and unequivocal no. there has been no reciprocation at any point. as we try to figure out what happened on the ground the

context of the relationship right now with the escalating missile tests and obviously no communication whatsoever, who would the u.s. officials have talking to the north koreans in this moment as they try to figure this out? >> reporter: at the moment there's no official line of communication, phil. and so you kind of hit the nail on the head. this is not a great time to be an american detained in north korea because the north koreans have really no desire at the moment to do business with the united states. that business fell apart in hanoi. president trump walked out of that meeting. got back on the plane, going back to washington where he was preoccupied with a flurry of domestic matters that he was facing, impeachment being the biggest one. but kim jong-un was left there with an empty plate at the lunch table having to go back on his train after telling his own people that he was going to go negotiate with the united states and he was left humiliated.

so during the kim jong-un life time, i doubt that we'll ever seedy diplomacy again. he feels emboldened because he basically has the support, even unspoken, but the support of china and russia will veto anything at the u.n. security council the tight sanctions on north korea unable to stop the nuclear program. so, there are other u.s. servicemen who defected to north korea. some have interesting stories. some ended up appearing on north korean movies playing the evil western character. so, it's not always a life of gloom and doom if these people end up staying in north korea. that was back decades ago. it's a very different situation now between north korea, south korea and the united states. >> actually, will, i do have one more before i let you go. the announcement of this or the notification of this came from a tweet from the united nations

command. in terms of how things work there on the ground, somebody who has been there, had experience, kind of in this area and in dealing with this opaque space. the united nations command, what's their role here? how do they serve as a middle ground or to some degree a conduit at this point? >> reporter: what they're going to do is they're going to try to find a friendly intermediary country that still has a diplomatic presence in pyongyang. that will not be easy because most pulled out during the pandemic. essentially the situation was there's no banking system to speak of in north korea. so the way that foreign operations will operate is they basically carry in, they hand carry in suitcases full of cash. but when the border was closed during the pandemic, the bills kept coming but they didn't have anybody who could go in and carry cash and bring cash. so one by one countries started closing their diplomatic operation. there are now fewer diplomats,

fewer ngos. north korea and its people are more isolated today than arguably they have ever been in their entire history of 70 plus years of the existence of north korea because of the all foreigners were forced out during the pandemic. the government has imposed incredibly stringent measures to try to prevent people from fleeing to the south. they bolstered border security. they've tightened the surveillance state apparatus already incredibly strong. and so people inside north korea are literally living in this black box of isolation from the rest of the world. it's a difficult time to get a message in or out. there's email, there's phone. those things still work. people welcome using back channels trying to find way to talk about this american and how to resolve it. i can guarantee the north would like to resolve it as well. this is a pain in the neck for them. not something they asked for. they had this thrust upon them. >> will ripley for us in taipei. priscilla alvarez on the north

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from michigan, a member of the house armed services committee, a former cia agent. there's a lot i want to get to you on related to capitol hill but i want to start on this. you noted you had been to this area in 2021. what's your sense of what this means and what it could mean and i guess the plausibility of accidentally walking across this line. >> yeah. you know, i was there with the congressional delegation of bipartisan congressional delegation in 2021. it's one of the most constrained areas of the world. i mean, again, these are all first reports. so no one really knows what's going on. but it's hard to imagine that someone just mistakenly wondered off and got grabbed at the north korean side. you are looking at them. they are trained on you. you know exactly where the border is and the tours are designed to show you just how rigid the security is. seems like a strange story to me. we'll have to see what happens. it seems odd. >> we're getting more reporting as we speak. our reporters are working the

phones. this is just starting to develop right now. on the u.s./north korea relationship. we were talking last block. constantly talking to white house officials. the door is open if they want to talk. there has been no engagement. they have continued to escalate very aggressively. there are missile launches and tests. what's your sense right now of not the u.s. relationship with north korea but just north korea generally and what they're trying to accomplish? >> north korea we all know there are ebbs and flows of how much noise they make. we do have unusual event going on where we have a port call of ballistic ship that's happening in south korea, which we know has agitated them. but you know, my sense is they're a country that is deeply in poverty and gets attention when they have bad behavior. and the bad behavior is something that they periodically insert into our lives. we just have to manage it. but, it's interesting to me that these things are happening around the same time.

>> later today you are going to be part of a hearing on artificial intelligence and how it affects the u.s. military and some adversaries as well. this has been topic one on capitol hill, which is fascinating because capitol hill is not known for technology or figuring out a way how to manage it. but the question of the military application of it right now and trying to find the balance, what's your sense of the amount of ai being utilized right now by u.s. forces compared to adversaries. >> we know we're investing in artificial intelligence. we were just negotiating a bill on the pentagon budget and so we know the amount that we're investing, but typically in the last few years china has been investing ten times what we have been investing. so, it definitely gets our attention. it definitely gets our focus. that's why we're having a hearing today. i think what is the problem is you can have all the hearings you want. but the folks who are testifying from the industry, they want regulation. they want oversight. but they don't know how to do it

in a way that doesn't constrain the industry. they're saying please regulate us, which is very strange for a group from silicon valley. that's not usually what we hear. but, we don't know exactly the right way to do it. so we've been trying to educate ourselves and get smart, but there's no way around the fact the future of warfare in the world is going to be powered by ai and less about hardware, ships, planes and more about technology. >> you mentioned the scale of the investment of china versus the united states. has ha had a tangible effect in terms of forced posture, in terms of forced capability or just something that they're building towards right now and the u.s. doesn't have a lot of insight into it. >> look, if you're the chinese military and say look at the united states. the most capable military in the world, more ships, maore planes than we could catch up to have. how do we jump a few generations? technology, cyber, space. they're deeply investing in space technology. and artificial intelligence helps them do that. and so, we're watching them

leapfrog in a way that, you know, if you're a military person, you're saying this increases our vulnerability. how do we make sure we keep up? so it's going to affect everything. but it is certainly affecting the ability of a military like china and catching up to american, you know, capability. >> another issue that's going on this week in the house, the issue of israel has come up. it's been an issue that has often fractured your caucus to some degree. not right down the middle. it's a smaller segment on one side. but my question is right now, one, do you believe congress woman jayapal has done enough in terms of walking back the statement that she made about israel being a racist nation. two, there will be a vote proposed by a resolution introduced by a republican today basically stating that. are you going to vote for that? do you believe that's problematic for your caucus, for your party? >> so, you know, seems like every week when we come back from the weekend, there's a lot of inflammatory rhetoric being thrown around that leaders often

forget that people are watching. they take their queues, leadership climate is set at the top. i didn't agree with senator representative jayapal's statement. he walked them back. we had crazy inflammatory statements yesterday about the connection between covid-19 and jewiish people for someone invited to testify in front of jim jordan and the judiciary committee. i put out something that said, can we just cool it on the rhetoric? she apologized. she called and reached out to me. and we have a statement that we're going -- resolution we're voting on. it's very simple. it's three paragraphs about support for israel. i'll be voting for it. but everyone just needs to tone it down on capitol hill. because the whole country is watching and taking their queues from us. >> you make an interesting point. robert f. kennedy jr. was invited to testify to judiciary sub select committee on thursday. kevin mccarthy was asked yesterday, if anti-semitism or concerns about anti-semitism san issue, how are you plausibly

going to have robert f. kennedy testify. i disagree with what he said but i don't think censoring somebody is actually the answer here. i'm trying to figure out, there's a difference between censoring somebody and inviting somebody to testify. do you have any indication republicans are unease sni. >> no. when they're screaming and pointing at the other side because of perceptions of, you know, speech that didn't -- wasn't right. you sort of say, well, guys, just have an even balanced hand with it. if you're going to call out something on one side, call it out in your own caucus as well. that's a good lesson in everybody in congress. it's a signal of how broken congress is. we don't have that even hand and say, nasty rhetoric should be pushed back on no matter who it is. we basically say, well, if it's my side it's okay. if it's the other side it's the end of the world. this is just part and parcel of just how tense and sort of zero

sum the whole debate has become. it's not what the country wants, likes, deserves. it's exhausting for the country. >> i want to ask you before i let you go, we don't have a lot of time left. you have put your name out there to be a candidate to move across the capitol to the united states senate. huge fundraising number. national democrats very excited about your campaign. you do have a challenger in hill harper, former actor who has come in. what's your sense of the race right now now that hill harper came in this month? >> well, there's lots of people in the race. to be fair to everybody, there are five other candidates. this is our system. we're a democracy. and so everybody gets to compete. six years ago today i was just starting out and running for the first time. never had thought about running. so i don't have a problem with anybody deciding to run. and the voters will get to decide. that's our system. >> all right. thank you so much. appreciate your time. all right. the white house is slamming republican senator tommy tubervillle for holding up

military promotions. but how are his constituents in alabama reacting? we'll take you there next. >> i'm pro life, i'm a conservative, but i really don't believe that he should hold up military promotions. >> i'm certain he would not compromise nor do i think he should. ♪

a cascading effect of delayed promotions threatens to brain drain from the military. military families don't know where they will live, where spouses will work, where children will go to school.

>> that was white house press secretary karine jean-pierre. the alabama senator, tommy tuberville, has blocked hundreds of nominations over a pentagon policy that provides aid to members of the military who travel out of state to obtain abortions. lauren, you just got back from huntsville, alabama, talked to some of the senator's constituents about his standoff. what did you learn? >> just the fact that huntsville is such a military town. >> this is pitting two core conservative pillars once agone another, the military and abortion. they will tell you they are concerned this could have a long-term effect not just on the military, but the economy at large. >> i am pro-life and i'm a conservative, but i don't believe he should hold up military promotion. >> reporter: in the gop stronghold of alabama, senator

tommy tuberville's months-long hold on military promotions are testing republican support back home. >> reporter: did you vote for tommy tuberville? >> i did. >> reporter: would you vote for him again, do you think? >> i will have to see what he does. >> reporter: tuberville's opposition to the pentagon's policy to reimburse travel for reproductive care is popular. his tactics, less so. >> when you start politicizing how to promote, i think we are stepping into the wrong territory. i come from a military family. my dad is retired marine, my oldest brother retired navy, i'm retired air force. so we give ourselves to this country h his holds pit two cornerstones of gop politics against each other. abortion and the military. in alabama, abortion is illegal the state unless the life of the mother is in danger. in huntsville, the military is the backbone of the economy and

tuberville's holds are already having an impact. >> someone advised him this was a good idea and it's impacting our services, our nation, impacting alabama. he needs to step become and we need to go forward and get these people in the right positions because it's a huge domino. >> reporter: for military families the impact is personal. >> i can't figure out his reasoning to punish people that i have no dog in the fight for his own agenda. i just retired from the army in march. i served 20 years. so, yeah, it kind of rings close to home for me. >> reporter: uncertainty trickles down. he is proud to wear the uniform but says he is facing a stressful delay. >> he doesn't know what he is going to have to do next or where he is going next.

and so i could kinda hear in his voice he would like to know more about if he is able to continue doing the work with the military. >> reporter: a retired colonel is relishing tuberville's standoff with president joe biden. >> i am certain he will compromise. >> reporter: some are cheering him on. >> it's a way to make his voice known and the voice of the people who are pro-life and that don't want their tax dollars going towards the funding of abortion. >> reporter: tuberville might be under fire in washington, but he does still have the backing of the state party. >> in politics, everything is a risk, but no, i am looking tat u.s. senator who sees a flawed policy and is standing against it. >> reporter: yet with no end in sight, the gamble for the senator is growing. >> his position to all of us, to alabama, was i am military. i am one of you.

this flies in the face of that. and there is not time. there is not a compromise to me. he needs to step back and go, okay, coach, i'm the coach, i'm going to do an audible here i did not realize all theism implications it has on everyone. >> by the end of the week the expectation is the number of holds that tuberville is affecting now will rise to 275. we also expect that in upcoming weeks the state party in lamb is going to vote on a resolution backing their senator and his actions in washington. the chairman expects that to pass overwhelmingly. >> when you are talking about a deep red state like alabama, you could see why he may have the backing to do something this controversial. anyou. we are continuing to cover news out of north korea. an american man in custody after crossing the border into the country. more reporting at the top of the hour. ation because ththere's never been a reported ransomware attack

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this is cnn breaking news. >> good tuesday morning. we want to get to our breaking news. an man is believed to be in north korean custody after crossing a tour to the demilitarized zone according to u.n. command which says it's working with the north korean army to resolve the situation. >> wl ripley is live in

taipei, taiwan, for us. priscilla alvarez is at the white house and kaylee at wood is at the state department. will, we were discussing in the last hour where -- how this could have happened. is it really all that easy to accidentally wander over on to the north korean side when you are in this part of the dmz? >> do you remember that moment when president trump took that kind of spontaneous trip to the demilitarized zone and kim jong-un showed up and they crossed over the demarcation line and president trump stepped foot into north korean soil? it was a few footsteps. it's not that difficult to cross if that's in the area where the crossing happened. there are other parts of the demilitarized zone and we don't exactly know which location this particular group was being shown, but there are woods and there are occasionally mines and

there are also sniper towers. it could be a dangerous situation. if they were indeed at panmunjom village, half the building in the north, half in the south, and if you go inside you see where they had negotiations between the north and south and sitting on their representative sides many decades ago when they signed the armistice that put a cause on the korean war that's in effect this day. the two correass are still at war. they have just stopped the fighting which after several million people died and basically there was no -- no -- no -- no land gained or lost. you had millions of people who died in that war. a lot of americans don't think about it, they think about world war ii. they don't think about the north korean war. they have museums dedicated to it, they have their own version of history, say america started

the war which is not accurate. but the north koreans have a real deep-seated hate are red to the united states because of what they are taught in school, the propaganda they grow up with. now this american citizen is in a situation he will be right there and he will be in north korea for perhaps quite a long time because it's difficult to communicate right now. the north is more isolated than ever, very little in terms of foreign diplomats on the line. no open lines of communication. there are backchannels. they will be operating. it's not going to be easy. it's not going to be quick. >> kylie, will makes a really interesting point. i want to caveat this. this is very early. our reporters are trying to get more information and we don't n know a lot right now. one area you have a ton of expertise is covering how the united states operates in situations like this. much of that is behind the scenes. very little is known that well. one of the question