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wednesday. the judge questioning the deal. the president's son had been preparing to plead guilty to tax crimes and also avoid prosecution on a felony gun charge. this hearing was really just a formality. it was supposed to be a quick 30 minutes the instead it was an hours long legal drama as prosecutors and biden's attorneys attempted to salvage that agreement under really direct questioning from the judge. >> that judge called the deal unusual, and at one point even asked if it was constitutional. that judge refused to be a, quote, rubber stamp on the agreement. she asked if it gave hunter biden broad immunity for other possible crimes including his business dealings in ukraine and china. when the prosecutor responded no, biden's lawyer snapped back that the deal was then null and void. let's bring in our cnn political correspondent sara murray. how did this happen, and where does it go now? >> look, this is not the day anyone was expecting to have in court. as you pointed out, hunter biden showed up at the delaware courthouse, federal court with his legal team expecting to plead guilty with two misdemeanor tax crimes and to

strike this tealdeal. as the judge was kicking the tires of what was in this plea deal, things started to fall apart. and i want to read to you a part of this proposed plea deal that was obtained by "politico," cnn has not verified it's the final version, but it gets to one of the issues here, which is the scope of the deal. this proposed ent says the united states agrees n criminally prosecute biden ide of the terms of this agreement for any federal crimes encompassed by the attached statemen facts. this agreement does not provide any protection against prosecution for any future conduct by biden or by any of his affiliated businesses. so the judge is asking prosecutors, you know, is this an ongoing investigation, and prosecutors say yes, they established that, you know, they couldn't charge hunter biden with other tax crimes because of this plea deal, but she asked could you potentially charge him with something like a foreign

lobbying violation and prosecutors say, yes, they could, and that's the point where hunter biden's lawyers say if that's the case this deal is off. the prosecutors, the defense team came together, hashed it out, came back in and said, okay, look, we think we do have a deal. there is an agreement where prosecutors are not going to come after hunter biden for tax offenses over five years, for drug issues, for this firearm offense, and then again, the judge starts asking more questions about this deal and especially on this gun agreement, she begins to have concerns about the structure of it and whether it's legally sound and ultimately says i'm not going to accept or reject this deal, but i'm going to put it on hold. i'm going to give both sides 30 days to respond and to give me more answers to some of my questions and concern, and ultimately hunter biden ends up pleading not guilty as a formality. >> what is the sense there, sara from both sides s there a feeling they're going to be able dom to some sort of agreement? >> i think they're certainly

going to try to answer the judge's questions, assuage her concerns, tweak the structure of the deal if they need to in order to make her feel more comfortable about siengning offn it. you can't rule out the possibility that this is the kind of thing that could head towards a trial, which is what's going to happen if they can't reach an agreement that the prosecution and the defense can sign off on and that the judge is comfortable with. >> sara murray, appreciate it, thank you. hanging over yesterday's plea hearing were recent claims from two irs whistle-blowers who helped lead the investigation of hunter biden, and they have testified that the justice department gave preferential treatment, they believe, to the president's son. republican congressman jim jordan actually credited the whistle-blowers for the collapse of the plea deal yesterday, but that's not what happened in court. the judge, the doj, and hunter biden's attorneys agreed the judge didn't have the power to order the prosecutors to redo their probe if she thought the

prosecution was lacking. here's what jordan said. >> the tei want to play what on those irs whistle-blowers told congress under oath last week. >> it appeared to me based on what i experienced that the u.s. attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly hamstrung, limited and marginalized by doj officials as well as other u.s. attorneys. i still think that a special counsel is necessary for this investigation. >> that was joseph ziegler. he joins us now. he was the lead irs case agent. he says he grew up in a conservative household but now identifies as a democrat with in his words, middle of the road views. we appreciate your time this morning. >> i appreciate you having me on the show. >> what is your reaction to the plea deal being put on hold.

>> yeah, so i think based on the judge's reaction and what happened yesterday that she acted impartial. she acted independent. i think it showed that the prosecution rushed this agreement through and mismanaged the situation, and he could have gotten off with an easy deal, but with the judge and her reaction saying this is not normal, i think it's important that people see that, hey, this -- there's -- the judicial system is working, and you have someone that is looking at what is happening here, and they're seeing that this is not normal and that we have to treat everyone the same. >> it is possible that they work this out in the next 30 days and that hunter biden does plead to two misdemeanors and deferring on a gun charge. that's possible if his attorneys agree that the other things can remain open. you asked for a special counsel

in your testimony, chris christie, republican presidential candidate agrees with you. he said yesterday at this point he thinks we need one. what do you think a special counsel could do that trump appointed u.s. attorney david weiss can't do? >> so -- and it's clear from david weiss's most recent letter, he only has ultimate authority in his judicial district, the district of delaware, so if there are crimes that are occurring so offshoot investigations, these spinoffs, the ongoing investigation, and if those crimes are venued elsewhere, according to his letter, he only has authority in the district of delaware, and he was told that he would be given that authority to pursue charges outside of there, but there's no letter. there's no document, there's nothing that's there that indicates that he has that power to do that. >> you're talking about the june 7th letter that he wrote to members of congress. let me read that in part, i have

been graedltimate authority over this matter including the responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. that's key and for making decisions necessary to preserve the integrity of the prosecution. what specific avenues of investigation do you want pursued that you believe were prevented? >> so again, as far as this investigation goes and a part of our testimony, we did not follow the normal process. we did not follow normal investigative leads that we would normally want to follow as part of a tax investigation. tax investigations are quite complex. we interview a lot of witnesses. you have to follow the money. an example in my testimony, president joe biden's sister, valerie owens. there was financial transactions. we were not allowed to go and interview that witness. >> who told you not to? >> so that was handed down to us from the assigned prosecutors. >> from who specifically?

>> so that came down from the assigned assigned prosecutor so either leslie wolf, department of justice tax attorney mark daly, so the people who were working on our investigation with us. >> you have questioned whether david weiss had full authority, and in that part of the letter i read to you, he believes and he said to congress in this letter that he does. do you believe that someone stopped david weiss? >> so all i can go back to is what we stated in our testimony. we know that the department of justice went to the d.c. u.s. attorney office to bring the 2014 and 2015 felony and misdemeanor tax charges there. they said no. we also know that he went to the district of california, a president biden appointed u.s. attorney, to charge that case, the felony and misdemeanor charges there. he was told no.

so all along we're trying to bring these charges in the different venues. >> the response to that has been that has been contested that assertion that he went elsewhere and was prevented by the attorney general. this case as you well know because you were lead on it for two dwreers years this investigation went on under the trump administration and bill barr in december of 2020 said this about it, he said i think to the extent there's an investigation i think it's being held responsibly. he went on to say he sees no reason to appoint a special counsel. why was this not charge in those two years, and do you disagree with what bill barr asserted there? >> yes, i don't know what basis for that statement, and i'm not going to speculate as to why. what i can tell you is that after d.c. said no, us agents on the team, including the fibi, w

were trying to figure out how to bring on a special counsel. we we make an oath to the office to do the right thing. i think that's so important regardless of your political affil affiliation, regardless of what your political beliefs are. we have to be impartial, and we have to be fair to taxpayers, people that are paying their fair share of taxes. and in this case, we wanted -- we thought all along that david weiss was going to do the right thing for the right reasons. i can recall saying that so many times, but when he only charged two misdemeanor counts and did not charge the felony when the felony charges were recommended for approval, i'm sorry, we're not treating all taxpayers the same. >> i have two more quick questions. it takes a lot of guts -- i want to note this for the audience. two final questions for you. one is how do you know david weiss ask his team aren't doing that now.

clearly the investigation is still ongoing. >> so you are correct. i was removed from the team may 15th, i wasn't provided with a reason why. i don't know, yeah, i do not know that answer, but what i'm asking for is we need to have someone with independent authority with full authority, that special counsel authority that can charge that in venues outside of the district of delaware. >> the one thing i would say about special counsel to people understand the difference here is david weiss is a trump-appointed u.s. attorney has the authority to follow leads where they will take him and his team. a special counsel, the way that that operates, they have to operate within sort of the four corners of what an attorney general sets for them. and if they want to expand the investigation, they have to go back to the a.g. get permission to do that. there is the argument to be made that actually david weiss has more independence here. >> so the fact that he -- that

it's being stated that he has more independence, i would go to president biden u.s. attorneys both saying no to bringing charges this thin their distric, and the charges not being brought. it's in the department of justice tax manual. it's in their tax manual that you have to charge the felony with the misdemeanor. you have taxpayers who are right now in new england that were charged -- these are fishermen. it's a fishermen case. they were charged with misdemeanor and felony tax charges for failing to file tax returns. i'm sure that those people would like the same agreement that hunter got in this situation, and that's my argument is we have to treat people the same in our investigations and how we move forward those investigations. >> and to the point that you're making, the allegation that they were blocked by other u.s. attorneys, that has been contested by their office. joseph, thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you so much for having

me. >> elie honig is back with us. takeaway. >> a couple of quick things, first of all, what the judge said yesterday really doesn't touch either way pro or con on what special agent ziegler said. the judge did not say this is a sweetheart deal that i can't countenance, the judge said the parties haven't agreed on what this deal is. i think the special agent made an interesting comment here. you asked him what specific avenues did you want to follow up on that you were prevented. he gave an example, the connection to valerie owens. david weiss has to answer that. what we call the line prosecutors, that's a really important question. david weiss has not address that had in his letters yet, if and when he testifies that is an important issue. >> what about on special counsel? i think we're going to -- i asked because i think we're going to hear that a lot more. i was trying to explain that a special counsel doesn't always give more leeway. >> there's nothing all that special about special counsel.

it's essentially the sthing as u.s. attorney like david weiss is. in some respects there's more independence from the attorney general. the question, which i think special agent ziegler aptly raised were those avenues followed? >> and are they being followed now is the question. >> yeah. very interesting. >> great interview. new this morning, we've learned that wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin is in st. petersburg, you know who else is there? vladimir putin, the man who prigozhin tried to oppose in an armed rebellion. prigozhin was spotted meeting with a dignitary. it's the first time prigozhin has been seen in public inside russia since he led that armed mutiny. in fact, he's only been seen in public once before july 19th when he was seemingly inside belarus. ukraine is ramping up its counteroffensive, a military

official said they're now committing the main buskmm bulk forces to that offensive. this after two months of what's been described by many as slow progress. natasha bertrand joining us with more this morning. progress slow, what does that actually mean in terms of the progress that has been made, natasha? >> reporter: yeah, erica, this is really what u.s. and western officials had been waiting for. they had been waiting for the ukrainians to finally commit all of these reserve forces, many of whom are trained in that nato and u.s. combined arms warfare to finally take part in this counteroffensive. now, essentially what this means is that the ukrainians have managed to breakthrough some of those russian defensive lines and some of those mine fields. those very extensive mine fields that the russians kind of left behind as they retreated in certain areas, and now they're taking advantage that they have been able to breakthrough those lines and they're going to put

more troops essentially in so that they can try to make even more progress. this is really significant. again, this is what the u.s. had been hoping that the ukrainians would do at this point. they were operating essentially under serious constraints with regard to the very heavy mine fields that the russians had left behind. they simply couldn't commit all of those reserve forces until they found an area and kind of a nor narrow spot where they could punch through those lines and essentially take advantage of the fact that they had been able to progress a little bit. this is something that chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley said which was something that the u.s. understood, they understood why the ukrainians had not been able to commit more reserve forces up to this point. he said that the russians had a very extensive security zone in depth, essentially all of those defensive positions. the ukrainians had not yet committed the combat power. now it seems they have committed

the main buskmmi bulk of these >> this is really, really important because the u.s. has sort of -- i don't want to say fought against that, i think those words are too strong but there has been a push for it and there's been pushback. put that in context for us if you would. >> extremely significant. historic shift. now the u.s. is saying that they are going to provide the icc, the international criminal court with the evidence that the u.s. has obtained of russian war crimes as part of the icc's investigation into that in ukraine. now, this is significant because it marks the first time that the u.s. is going to help the international criminal court try to prosecute a country that is not actually a member of the icc itself. recall the u.s. is not a member of the court either. so the concern by the pentagon particularly was always that helping the court prosecute these kinds of war crimes against the russians might set a precedent whereby the court

could then try to go after say american troops for alleged war crimes carried out in iraq, that precedent being set for prosecuting a country and people inside a country that are not actually a party to the court. now the u.s. says and according to our sources president biden has decided that this is simply too important and that the u.s. has really valuable evidence that they believe could help the court hold russian war criminals accountable, e rica. >> really significant and historic. this morning there are serious questions and concerns about senate minority leader mitch mcconnell after he froze during a news conference. >> and a string of -- >> mcconnell stood there silent for 23 seconds before he was led away. we're learning from sources he has fallen multiple times this

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new cnn reporting this morning on senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, he has fallen more times this year than we previously knew about. this reporting comes as the 81-year-old republican insists he's fine. this is after he froze mid-sentence for 23 seconds yesterday. >> we're on a path to finishing the nda this week. there's been good bipartisan cooperation. and a string of -- >> are you good, mitch? >> are you okay, mitch? anything else you want to say?

>> this is just the latest incident this year for leader mcconnell. sources telling cnn in february he tripped and fell in helsinki while getting out of the car on a snowy day. that was days before a fall in march at d.c.'s waldorf astoria hotel. during a press conference in june, mcconnell had trouble hearing questions from reporters even though the senators next to him could hear very clearly. earlier this month, he tripped and fell at reagan national airport while getting off a plane. yesterday he abruptly stopped speaking mid-sentence at the podi podium. joining us now sanjay gupta. when we see this moment play out, scott jennings said he spoke with mitch mcconnell, he sounded good. he didn't notice any difference. he has seen him since that concussion. what struck me is the concern we saw immediately and rightfully so, when you see this moment

what sticks out to you? >> it was concerning, there's no question. i'm a trauma neurosurgeon, that's my background, so i'm used to looking, seeing patients with neurological events and something clearly happened. i think anybody could see that. i think his doctors may even have reviewed that video, and you know, come to their own conclusions based on his medical history, but if you just look at, you know, it's maybe hard to tellime line on that, but w right before 2:00 yesterday when this happened, and it was about 23 seconds where he essentially was speechless and staring straight ahead before someone asked him if he was okay. 32 seconds beforas led away from the podium. the sort of timing matters. we know that manu asked him about 12 minutes later and he said he was fine. so whatever it was, he recovered pretty quickly from it. and you know, common things being common, someone could be very dehydrated, they could have a medicine interaction of some sort, they may be feeling under the weather.

you have to rule out more serious things. was it a mini seizure of some sort? that can sometimes be associated after a brain injury, which was that concussion he had back in march, or could it have been a mini stroke, something known as a tia, hoping it's not those things. the reason you get it checked out early is because you want to prevent it from happening again. >> could it be related to multiple falls? most recently in march he was treated for a concussion in the hospital. >> i think it's quite possible. it was even back in 2019 he had a fall and he fractured his shoulder. he's had many of these falls. he had polio as a child. he's had difficulty walking so the fallnd of themselves concerning, but you're right, that march fall where he had a concussion, needed care for quite so time. that was one of those things from a neuro standpoint you say that was a brain injury.

are there consequences or impacts from that brain injury months later, such as a mini seizure. he needs to get it checked out. he may have been seeing his doctors all along. they may not have been surprised by tt based on what they know. >> we're waiting for more updates on bronny james, he suffered a cardiac arrest on monday. we have learned since then that he had a cardiac screening months ago that came back no, ma'am. >> this is interesting. folks told me about these screening tests that bronny james had as a prospective player. these types of screening tests typically aren't done on someone his age. he did have a transthoracic echocardiogram of his heart and a screening ekg. when you're looking at the heart, you put an ultrasound on the chest, it's not invasive. you're looking to see if there's any anatomical problems with the

heart, if there's abnormalities in some of the big blood vessels of the heart. and we heard that was normal. also that snapshot, that screening ekg we were told was normal as well. so that's good news. you know, that in combination with the fact that he was in the icu for a very short time, which indicates that the doctors thought he was stable and that his heart function was normal. another good sign. they still need to sort of figure out what happened here and one of the things they do is they put an ekg that can monitor his heart rhythm over a long period of time. it's known as a holter monitor. that's because the snapshot may not catch something, but if you leave the monitor on over 24, 48 hours, you may see something that's surprising that bronny himself may not have known about. that's likely what's happening now. >> dr. sanjay gupta, always good to have you. thank you. >> you too, thank you. a question for the fed, just how exactly have barbie and taylor swift impacted the economy? i was laughing at it too.

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the staff now has a noticeable slowdown this growth starting later this year in the forecast, but given the resilience of the economy recently, they are no longer forecasting a recession. >> no longer forecasting a recession. you heard it there from fed reserve chair jerome powell in terms of what the central bank is now predicting. an hour from now the commerce department is set to release new gdp numbers. analysts say they believe the economy grew more than expected between april and june. christine romans is here. what else did we hear from chairman powell? >> no longer forecasting a recession. >> that's a big deal. >> the r word was recession for so long, now it's resilient. the fed chief might get his soft landing after all. you had 11 rathis in a row. the fed did suggest they could have another one in september depending on what the data show, but the economy is moderately --

growing moderately, the job market is still strong, inflation still too high so interest rates, the cost to borrow money is going up. but so is the interest you're getting on the money in your savings accounts and cds. >> something you may not have expected to come up at a fed meeting in a press conference with jerome powell, barbie and taylor swift but they did. >> gina from "the new york times" asked him very specifically, when you look at taylor swift concerts and you look at the barbie movie and some of these things that are happening in the public sphere that are showing the consumer will spend their money, is that a good thing for the economy? is that a bad thing for the economy? and the fed chief noted that the consumer has been quite resilient, but longer term on the margin, if we're too strong here, that means the fed has to keep raising interest rates. it's a double-edged sword. ba >> there's the beyonce effect in sweden i think it was. there were good numbers for hotels in may in philadelphia

when taylor swift was there. >> yeah, and the beyonce effect is being felt all over the place quite frankly, in restaurants, hotel rooms, hair salons, wherever there is a big event, people will spend their money. we're calling it funflation. >> she's in new york, beyonce this weekend, sienna really wants to go. >> i really want to go. >> i told her, i was like -- >> that ticket's mine. >> funflation. >> thank you. an emergency alert declared for the nation's largest power grid system. this as more than 140 million americans are under heat alerts. plus -- ♪ nothing compares, nothing compares to you ♪ >> we'll remember the voice and fearlessness of pop star sinead o'connor. ost® high pr otein. now available in cinnabon® bakeryry-inspired flavor.

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o'connor who became well-known for both her music and her personal struggles and her fearlessness, right? she has died according to irish media. she was 56. a statement from her family reads, it is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved sinead. her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time. no cause of death immediately available. london police said moments ago they're not treating the death as spiuspicious. joining us now, clinical psychologist dr. rebecca barry and editor at rolling stone anthony. i just remember the life, the voice, the fearlessness, that m moment on snl that no one will ever forget. >> of course. >> the photo with the pope. >> sinead was just an incredible kind of cataclysmic talent, you know, from her first record, which actually i reviewed in rolling stone. i sort of announced her as somebody that was going to be

extremely important, you know, i didn't really understand the ways in which she would ultimately be important, you know, but there was a kind of fearlessness about her that you've mentioned. a willingness to kind of defy any kind of expectation, and, you know, that worked extremely well, and i think it's had a huge impact, particularly on young female artists who look up to her. you know, certainly from a commercial standpoint it essentially destroyed her career, but you know, those are the kind of complexities i think that sinead was dealing with her entire life. >> in terms of those complexities, doctor, she had talked a lot and wrote about what she struggled with. she talked about abuse as a child. she talked about that lingering trauma for her and how it influenced her life. speaking out about it so publicly. that had its own power. she in many ways was an advocate

for mental health issues and certainly, i believe, was attempting to break town the stigmatization around mental health by being so public about her own struggles. >> we talked about last hour with our correspondent chloe melas she had a child who she had lost last year at the age of 17. this also comes in a moment when so many more people, thank goodness, are speaking out about their mental health issues and the power of that coming from someone like her, right? >> i think that in seeing sinead being so vocal about her struggles and her history of childhood trauma, really abuse, you know, the hope is that it can really open the door to other individuals including youth to also seek help and support for what they're going through and really learn ways to manage some of the difficult pain and distress they may be having. >> you were talking about what she contributed, right? it was tough to know with that

first review what she would ultimately become, who she would become, what she would mean to so many people. some of her very public struggles in some ways also hindered her efforts to really be an advocate. >> absolutely. i think that there was a kind of -- a way in which her, i think, emotional and psychological difficulties became somehow really intertwined with her kind of social and political views, and it became just easy for people to dismiss her, you know, and i think that was sad, i mean, because i think that now certainly we can see, you know, all of the things that she talked about with child abuse, certainly. it's a much bigger issue now, people are much more aware of it. there are elements of that, but you know, when she tore up the picture of the pope on "saturday night live," that's all that people talked about, you know, and that was -- i mean, that was

a big problem for her. now, you could say, well, that's what you do if you're a punk or you're a radical or you're whatever, you just keind of upst the apple cart. but if you think about your protests as hoping to bring people over to your side, i mean, i don't think sinead really managed to do that. >> i was wondering if some of that may have softened, though, in later years as more people were speaking out about some of the struggles and maybe how that played in. it would be interesting to see. >> an action like that today would be perceived very differently without a doubt. >> it wasn't the time to receive that, it wasn't the way for her to get the support, but certainly as we know about the conditions from which she did suffer, there was a lot of complex things happening for her and the distress that she was feeling. >> doctor, thank you very much. anthony, thank you. >> thank you. oppenheimer is scoring big at the box office of course. it tells the story of the man behind the atomic bomb. behind the scenes, there are also generations of families who

have suffered incredible health issues as a result of those nuclear tests and the fight continues for them. just ahead, we'll speak with a congresswoman who's helping to lead that charge. but first, shark sightings have been forcing cape cod officials to shut down beaches throughout the summer just as tourists flock to the popular massachusettss vacation destination. one group is working to keep tourists and sharks safely apart in today's "impact your world." hi, i'm megan linton, a scientist at the atlantic white shark conservancy. my collaborator from the massachusetts division of marine fisheries. what are we doing today, greg? >> we are looking for white sharks so that we can identify them and tag them. we've got a spotter plane looking to these shallow areas so we can go up to them. >> he's got scars on his side. >> wow, he's looking right at me. over the years, we've tagged over 300 of these animals using a variety of techniques from

acoustic tags, satellite link tags to camera tags, you name it. using drone technology also we are observing the behavior of white sharks close to shore. >> do you want to radio in? it's getting close. about 300 feet angling in. so whenever we're out on the water or we're flying the drones from the beaches, we're always reporting those sightings through the sharktivity app. anytime a tagged shark swims past one of those buoys that information gets pushed immediately. people can also report their shark sightings through this as well. >> ultimately we're looking for patterns of movement that will tell us when and where white sharks are most likely to be, so we can inform the public and enhance public safety, and the ultimate goal is to coexist with the species. >> to learn more about organizations helping with shark conservation, visit cnn.com/impact.

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. you are the man who gave them the power to destroy themselves, and the world is not prepared. >> eight, seven, six. >> the blockbuster film open himmer about the father of the atomic bomb is bringing renewed attention to those exposed to the nuclear fallout. legislation has been reintroduced to expand a federal law passed in 1990 to help those exposed to radiation in uranium mines, but the act does not cover people living in the vicinity of the 1995 trinity atomic explosion in new mexico, the state wasn't included in the original law. joining us now is one of the lawmakers behind the push.

it's good to have you with us this morning. a lot of people would be surprised new mexico wasn't initially included. as you've been working along with your colleagues from new mexico, a bipartisan effort to expand the scope of this act, i was struck by what tina cordova said, she's been fighting for this, she called this an overglorification of the science and scientists in terms of the film. here's what she told our affiliate. so we may not have the sound. what she said is how disappointed she was that this film had not addressed the broader issue, and the fallout of this testing. she said she hadn't heard anything from the film company. we reached out. i'm curious, have you had any discussions with universal? >> we have reached out to universal. as we tell this story about the brilliance of openheimer, the destruction caused with this atomic bomb, we need to remember

the people who were affected right under the area of the bomb, under that radiation cloud that continued for miles. there were probably 500,000 people who had direct affects from the testing of the very first atomic bomb. >> how could they then not be included in this act from the 1990s? >> i have never received a good answer to that, but my job and the job of senator lujan and the group of senators and congress people is to bring attention to that and to try to get past an amendment which would include new mexico as well as some other counties in utah, in arizona, that were clearly under the -- were downwinders from these atomic tests. there were 100 aboveground atomic tests in the united states and the world. >> it is remarkable, i think, too, the scope of the exposure. i was surprised at the scope of the exposure. i know you've said you believe

the federal court knowingly poisoned people living downwind of the trinity test site, and predominantly navajo and uranium children played in the contaminated water while livestock drank from radio activ active. what name next is a direct -- an accomplishment built on top of the bodies of navajo men, women, and children, the lived experience of nuclear weapons development in the united states. the scope of the damage is so broad, and i know you've dealt with it directly. >> yes, well my family was in the downwind area because my grandmother lived within -- you know, we believe a good 150 miles were severely affected. she lived there. she died early from leukemia. two people in my immediate

family, lung cancer, non-smokers. but i think it's not just my family, it's the fact that there were children who were playing with the atomic dust that was falling. they thought it was like snow in summer. imagine, that's -- that ash is falling on chickens, on the ground, in the water where people were getting their drinking water from, the water for their livestock. and we have never acknowledged it or compensated these victims. there was a sacrifice that new mexicans made. >> what would it change to add new mexico and the counties in those other states that you mentioned to be covered by this act? >> well, my act actually does make that change. it adds new mexico. it also makes sure that we add the uranium miners who worked in the mines after 1971. we must include all of those workers who actually sacrificed for the united states' national defense. and the rika, we call it rika,

it actually acknowledges that we should be covering these, that we should take responsibility for those who lost their lives or suffered from cancer. why they left out new mexico, no idea, no sense. but let's get it in now. now is the time to address the harms to new mexicans and nevadans, people in arizona as well. >> we only have a couple seconds left. are you confident you can get this through? >> with -- we are telling the story to the world, so that we can get it through, i think we start with making sure people know the story. and once they know the injustice, my hope is that we do indeed act. there will be a vote in the senate today on an amendment to the ndaa, we will see how that goes. >> congresswoman, appreciate you joining us this morning, thank you. poppy? >> erica, thank you. new reporting on mitch mcconnell after he froze midsentence for 23 seconds yesterday. what we're now learning about

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