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this breaking overnight, at least three people are dead after two helicopters collided mid air while fighting a fire in california. details still coming in at this hour. breaking overnight, ukraine has arrested a woman in connection with a plot to assassinate president zelenskyy. she was allegedly preparing an air strike on the southern port region of mykolaiv while zelenskyy visited. 11 hours and counting. that's how much time donald trump has left to respond to the special counsel's legal filing. mat the heart of it, what trump's legal team can and cannot do with the evidence shared with the january 6th case. today is one of the most significant changes in blood banking history. the red cross now dropping those blanket restrictions based on sexual orientation, clearing the way for more gay men to donate blood. and barbie the billionaire. just crossed the $1 million threshold, historic feat for a solo female director. "cnn this morning" starts right

now. ♪ we're going to get to all of that shortly, but this first, breaking overnight, at least three people have died after two helicopters collided. this happened in southern california. cal fire officials say the two aircraft were responding to a wild fire in riverside county, just east of los angeles. one of the choppers landed safely, the other did not. >> unfortunately the second helicopter crashed and tragically all three members perished, which included one cal fire division chief, one cal fire fire captain and one contract pilot. >> reminder of just how dangerous that job sand what heroes they are. the crash marks the first deaths of this year's fire fighting season. we are expecting an update later this morning with more details. this morning, donald trump is just hours away from a critical legal deadline in the

2020 election interference case. a federal judge ordered him to respond to special counsel jack smith's case for protective order by 5:00 p.m. smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making public comments that could intimidate witnesses. also keeping a close eye on fulton county, georgia. take a look there. that is where trump is facing another potential indictment for trying to overturn the election. streets around the courthouse being shut down this morning as the grand jury considers charges. let's bring in cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider with more. good morning. let's start with what victor is talking about the trump team's legal maneuvers here trying to oppose a protective order. what happens? >> reporter: poppy and victor, every step of this case is shaping up to be a fight. trump's attorneys flooded the air waves vowing to fight that protective order proposed by the special counsel. trump's team, as you said, must officially file its opposition later today and also previewed their coming claims they want this case moved out of

washington, d.c. former president donald trump and his legal team going on offense this weekend. after trump pleaded not guilty to four charges alleging that he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. >> the point is that we will not agree to keeping information that's not sensitive from the press. >> reporter: trump's lawyers says his legal team plans to oppose a protective order requested by prosecutors put some restrictions on what trump and his team can do with evidence shared with them. federal prosecutors citing his previous public statements about witnesses, judges and lawyers in the case. and in the filing, attached a truth social post of trump's where he warns, if yo go after me, i'm coming after you. trump rebuking the concerns of federal prosecutors, continuing to lash out at social media at the case and the judge over the weekend. claiming he cannot get a fair trial in washington, d.c. trump writes that he plans to

ask judge tanya chutkan who is presiding over the case to recuse herself and further claiming he will also request a change of venue in the trial. one of trump's rivals disagrees. >> i believe jurors can be fair. i believe in the american people. and i believe in the fact that jurors will listen physical therapy fairly and impartially. >> reporter: he criticized his latest indictment and jack smith on the campaign trail. >> he's a deranged human being. that guy is a sick man. >> reporter: trump campaign adviser tells cnn trump has no plans to change his rhetoric. the former president also took aim at his former vice president mike pence, disputing the claims in the indictment that he pressured him to reject the election results. trump's attorney john lauro says that trump was merely asking the vice president to act. >> what president trump did not do is direct vice president pence to do anything.

he asked him. in an aspirational way. asking is covered by the first amendment. >> reporter: pence confirming the claims in the indictment and says he has no plans to testify but will, quote, comply with the law. >> frankly, the day before january 6th, if memory serves, they came back, his lawyers did, said we want you to reject votes outright. they were asking me to overturn the election. i had no right to overturn the election. i know we did our duty that day. >> reporter: so we're expecting a flurry of court fights, court filings before the next court date in this 2020 election case. that next court date is august 28th. now, as for trump's claims that he'll try to get this case moved out of d.c., poppy and victor, about three dozen january 6th defendants have already tried to move venue and no judge, even those appointed by donald trump, have ever agreed. it will be a steep legal fight for the former president if he does try to get the judge recused or venue moved.

guys? >> interesting one of his lawyers said last week west virginia as a suggestion. >> i wonder why? let's bring in now c i know senior legal analyst elie honig and anchor, john avlon. welcome to the table. let's start with elie with the deadline straight ahead. the decision or the response requested from the trump attorneys on this request from the special counsel to not allow trump to keep copies of it. would it be rare, this is his case to keep him from holding any of the evidence that's handed over to attorneys. >> it is fairly rare to have what we call a protective order put into any case. to be clear, protective order governs what donald trump can do and say publicly about the evidence he sefs. it does not limit in any way his ability to use evidence in his own defense at trial. but here what's happened the special counsel said in light of things donald trump has said and the social media posts jessica just talked about, there need to

be restrictions on what he can do and say publicly about this evidence. ordinarily, if you have a situation like this, which is fairly rare, you get together, defense and prosecution, you work it out. the judge has urged them to do that. they're not going to do that, i'll predict. so donald trump's trump will put in a brief today by 5:00 p.m. saying we should not be restricted in any way. we have free speech rights. you have a right to criticize the prosecutor and judge but there's a line that can be crossed when you get into tampering. i predict, i believe donald trump will say there should be no restrictions. and then the judge will have to decide how much restriction do i put on this. >> it's really interesting what bill barr has been saying in the last few weeks. his fascinating interview with kaitlan and over the weekend him saying he thinks this is legitimate case and he, of course, would be willing to testify. both notable things. john avlon, you make the point that more republican presidential candidates are speaking out in a more candid way. although, maybe it's just a little word choice change for desantis.

but that it shows more courage, you believe, to say what's true. >> i think you're starting to see the aperture open for republican candidates to feel free to speak frankly about donald trump. and his attempts to overturn the election. mike pence had been muted previously. he is not anymore. he understands his best chance of getting a nomination on the debate stage is speaking candidly and forcefully about trump's request for him to overturn the election. ron desantis, there's donor pressure for him to moderate. look, the election wasn't stolen. he tiptoed around that. the republican field -- >> he said unsustainable what trump is doing is unsustainable. >> which has the added advantage of being true. but you're finally starting to see people have the courage of their convictions a little bit on the margins. he has been successful at intimidating people into not calling out what is frankly something if you're a constitutional conservative this should be easy to call out. not a tough call. >> so, we saw on social media

donald trump says that he's going to call for change of venue. you mentioned that already. d.c. to west virginia potentially. >> yeah. >> but also for the judge, chutkan, to recuse herself here. what do you think about that? i mean, bombast aside f you look at the convictions, the sentencing of the january 6th defendants, an attorney for the president would say, we would like a different judge, but is there any case for it? >> both of these motions are doa. no chance of succeeding. he'll of course try to get out of d.c. victor, i wonder why? donald trump got 5.4% of the vote in d.c. 68% of the vote in west virginia. it is very difficult to get a case moved venue wise. doj can agree. they're not going to agree otherwise you have to show a judge you cannot get a fair trial in the venue you've been charged. we have procedures for that, jury selection procedures. judges will instruct jurors to put aside your political beliefs, decide on the facts. set the record straight here. to she's an obama nominee

that does not make her inherently biased against donald trump. anymore than judge cannon is biased in his favor because she was atrump nominee. she's a former public defender, she understands the rights of a criminal defendant in federal court. yes, victor, you're right, she has handed out sentences tough on january 6th offenders. that does not mean she's incapable of handling this case. in my view, both of these judges i think are deserving of respect and not conflicted out. >> i'm super interested by what john l aauro, trump's lawyer, sd about mike pence. critical to their case, not against their case to their case. here it is. >> mike pence will be one of our best witnesses at trial. based on what vice president pence will say, the government will never be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that president trump had corrupt or criminal intent. that's what this case is about.

>> mike pence said all this week is that what president trump did was wrong and he knew it was wrong and he was pressing him to do something that was wrong. also pretty clear -- >> he never said it was criminal. >> he said it was wrong. >> never said it was criminal. >> that was on abc. he also said on cbs that mike pence will be, quote, the best witness for them. how do you see that? do you see that? >> i'm having a hard time seeing that. get ready for this. this is what will happen in the run-up to trial and at trial. you'll hear one witness and one side will say, look how great this is for us. the other side will look how great this is for us. mike pence strikes me as a very powerful prosecution witness. we know from the indictment and refer in the indictment to certain things that mike pence told them about his conversations with trump, including the famous or infamous quote, you're too honest is what trump said to him when he resisted. i like mike pence if i'm a prosecutor. they may have some idea how they're going to cross-examine as a defendant, but he didn't explain in that clip and i don't see it. >> what world is mike pence a

good defense witness? >> this is bluster. this is bluster. mike pence made it very clear, this was -- we know this was a full court press by donald trump. this wasn't polite asking, would you mind overturning the election for me? this was really you have to do this. and clear pattern of it. so, look, i think we have seen from trump and his lawyers for often a pattern of bluster trying to replicate the candidate's attitudes. i think this falls under this category. >> thank you. breaking this morning, ukraine's security service says it foiled a plot to assassinate president volodymyr zelenskyy. what we're learning about the woman arrested. and russian and chinese warships spotted near alaska. how the u.s. military responded. ♪ baby, only on game nights. you know you are retired right? am i? ya! save up to $500 on t the new sleep number® smart bed. plus, freeee home delivery whn you add an adjustable base. shop now only at sleep number®. ♪

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are between her and the people she was corresponding with suggest perhaps she could take pictures, provide a bit more information about the time and place of this visit. she has said, she's not named and not clear if she's russian or just a russian informant, said to be a military worker, someone who worked in an outdoor shops in char kooef, a peninsula towards crimea on the southern coast. a key reminder that there is constantly a threat against volodymyr zelenskyy's life. we know he takes inordinate precautions. but still does go to a lot of front line destinations over past months to corral troops in those places. and the ukrainian security services two very active in the media over the past week or so claiming responsibility for the attacks on the cargo ship carrying oil, the assault amphibious ship, the bridge to crimea as well. overnight, though, victor, we

have been hearing of more strikes inside of ukraine. one dead in kherson from shelling. but also too, suggestions from ukrainian officials drones tried to get towards moscow. this nightly exchange between both sides persisting and a sign of the growing tension and impact on civilian life here in ukraine as the southern counteroffensive picks up pace. victor? >> nick paton walsh in southern ukraine, thank you. the u.s. military is deploying four naval destroyers to monitor 11 russian and chinese ship patrolling in alaska waters. they were operating last week but chinese official says they were conducting joint maritime patrols. natasha bertrand is tracking it live from washington, live from the nation's capitol. how significant is this? is this a threat or is this normal? >> reporter: well, u.s. northern command, they are kind of down playing this. they are saying that they

monitored the situation. they sent planes and ships to track the movements of these russian and chinese vessels and ultimately they did not pose a threat to the u.s. or canada and those vessels stayed in international waters. republican senator dan sullivan and lee ka murkowski are issuing statements that are bit more alarmist. they say they believe that this shows that vladimir putin and xi jinping, the presidents of china and russia, that they believe that they are able to operate essentially with immunity in the area. they say they have received several classified briefings about the transit of these vessels near the aleutian islands other the last several days. i want to read you a snt from dan sullivan, republican senator, incursion by these 11 chinese and russian warships operating together off the coast of alaska is yet another reminder that we have entered a new era of authoritarian aggression led by the dictators

in beijing and moscow. notably as you mentioned, poppy, the chinese embassy sent a statement to cnn and acknowledged joint naval patrols being carried out in the northern pacific. they said need were not targeted at any third party and did not have anything to do with these patrols with the current situation, of course, of tensions between the u.s., china and russia. but ultimately look, these vessels did stay in international waters. the u.s. sent navy destroyers to monitor them and ultimately you know, they're reaffirming, the u.s. is, the ability of these ships to operate freely in the u.s. waters just as the u.s. frequently does off the coast of russia and china. >> natasha, thank you for the update. a tearful end for the u.s. women's national soccer team and one of its biggest stars after being knocked out of the world cup. plus this -- >> biles is back.

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the english team will head to the quarterfinals and play the winner of the match between clum bee colombia. also this -- >> did it go in? waiting on a signal. wow. sweden wins. >> devastating loss. knocking the u.s. women's national soccer team out of the world cup. sweden beat the americans in the dramatic 5-4 shootout yesterday. that final penalty kick crossing the goal line by just millimeters. the u.s. team came into the tournament as the favorite, taking aim at their third world cup title in a row and their fourth overall after the match their coach praised them for putting up a good fight. >> very proud of them and devastated for them that they would have to go out in the way we did.

i thought we deserved a lot more. we deserved to win this game. >> let's bring in julie foudy, tnt soccer analyst. i'm sorry. must be so painful especially for you having had all the experiences you had for this team. you know, the coach talked about saying they deserved to win this game. did they? >> they did finally play a better game, so that brought some reassurance, but you know, overall this just wasn't the performance the united states had hoped for. i mean, we saw in four games only four goals scored by the united states. they really struggled all tournament. this performance against sweden in this round of 16 game definitely was a better game. but still, they couldn't score. they couldn't finish their penalty kicks in the end. and it's what's really plagued this united states all

tournament is this inability to have any cohesion, to come together at the right times. and ultimately to score goals. so in the end, couldn't score the penalty kicks either. >> julie, i can't say that i've always been the biggest soccer fan, but you really didn't have to be to be engrossed in this match. i mean, when it came down to penalty kicks and the winning kick is just over the line by a couple of millimeters, it's heart stopping. i wonder, you got into a bit of this. is this structural for the team or just a run of a few bad performances? do they need to make some big changes? >> yeah. it's a great question. it requires us to sit down over dinner and have a glass of wine probably to discuss because i do think that what we've seen in this tournament -- and it's really encouraging actually for a long time we kept saying the world is catching up to the united states. we've had incredible dominance thanks in large part to title

ix. in this world cup, nigeria took england to penalty kicks. the world has caught up. and you're seeing these teams three out of four african teams got through. jamaica got through. colombia got through, south america doing better. you're seeing a rise globally of the game. and so, this is a situation where i think people expect the united states because of all our past dominance to continue to dominate. i just think that's unrealistic because the world is getting so much better, which is a great thing. people are finally investing on the women's side for soccer. >> let's listen to megan rapinoe, what she said. >> yeah. i thought we played really well. i thought we played really well. i'm so happy for us that we went out like that playing the way that we did and, you know, having -- this is like a sick

joke for me personally. i'm just like, this is dark comedy i missed a penalty. >> yes, but, can you just talk to what they've stood for. i'll never forget watching megan rapinoe get the presidential medal of freedom, all the visits of this team to the white house. what this team -- new iteration this year but has meant and what she's meant. >> yeah. and that's the thing. people say, oh, megan rapinoe missed that penalty kick and the team didn't perform that well. but when you look at the entirety of just megan rapinoe's career and some of these players, kelly o'hara clanged it off the post when she had a chance to win it as well. that was her fourth world cup. these players have been fighting for equal pay, equity issues and for so many people who don't have the platform or the microphone to do so. and so to judge them by this one moment, which is what you see often in social media and very divisive country, sadly is

unfair because they have brought so many good things to this game, to this sport and to so many women and young girls. just giving them the opportunity to say, hey, i can make what a guy next to me is making and all these different silos it's really been an inspiration on so many different levels. so i think you need to judge them for the entirety of their career and they're two-time reigning world cup champion. they've done a lot of fantastic things, as we know. >> totally agree. julie, thank you. always the next olympics. >> they're a year out from paris. got an opportunity to make some changes. new york city officials have relocated migrants camped out sleeping on the street outside the roosevelt hotel. but what's the long-term plan? new details next. plus -- >> oh. there it goes. there it goes. >> wow. that is video showing a home in juno, alaska, collapsing into a

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do more to help with the crisis. this comes after last week migrants slept on the street outside a temporary shelter. the roosevelt hotel in midtown, manhattan. that's where we find cnn's polo sandoval f sandoval this morning. a rainy day. what's the situation. >> reporter: victor, i just looked over my shelter, no sign of that being the case yet again. however, we should mention that it was late last week that new york city mayor eric adams closed out the week by warning that those scenes we witnessed play out just last week at this very location could very much become quite common as the city's migrant shelter system continues to buckle under the pressure of rising numbers. we should mention the city was eventually able to find shelter space for the individuals kept outside of the roosevelt hotel here that's now serving as the primary intake center. and also we know that at least two recreation centers in brooklyn are now being added to the growing list of shelters that are being used by new york city. and there's still the question

of whether or not the city will turn to central park in temporary facilities there to serve as shelter space as the adams administration maintain all options remain on the table. we should note, this weekend marked one year since the arrival of the first migrant bus chartered by the administration of texas governor greg abbott. since then we have seen 10,500 asylum seekers arrive by those means. it's a fairly large number, but still just a fraction of the over 95,000 asylum seekers that have turned to the city for help. that's a number that continues to grow this morning, victor, which is precisely why the city continues to call from not just state but federal assistance amid this migrant crisis. victor? >> polo sandoval for us in midtown, manhattan, thank you. back with us, cnn legal analyst, elie honig, anchor john avlon. good morning again to you guys. john, as someone who worked intimately with a mayor's office for rudy giuliani, can you just

speak to how you view this challenge, how the adams administration is handling and the role and responsibility of the biden white house here in federal government? >> this is fundamentally a federal problem, a federal failure and pushed on the city of new york in part because of a right to shelter law we have, which says everyone deserves a place to stay. >> that's when you hear people say sanctuary cities. >> now this new decision says the state has to step up to help the city. but really the federal government needs to do more to step up for the state. ultimately it is a global problem. you've got a lot of discloecation, particularly in latin america, but not only causing this flow of asylum seekers into the united states. so putting this all on the back of new york city and its taxpayers is an undue burden and really a call to arms to actually deal with our border however trollish the initial impulse was to ship migrants up here, i think it adds to the urgency this is not a sustainable situation. >> the city is asking the white

house to push along these work permits to allow people to work. what more legally can the city do, can the administration do considering all of the realities that we're aware of? >> john is exactly right. this is a federal responsibility and a federal problem first and foremost. and the city has every right to request federal aid and really even it's not even the state level issue. i mean, credit to mayor adams and governor hochul for trying to do what they can, but ultimately they don't have the resources, they don't have the expertise, they need to rely on the federal government and the federal government needs to do a better job of coordinating here. they can't just say, well, these people are out there. you deal with them when they arrive. the federal government needs to take responsibility and we also need to look at this sort of grand standing where this ridiculous stunt of putting people on buses and shipping them from state to state. there's responsibility there, too. i will say the biden administration has tried to enact tougher asylum rules and make it more difficult to come here and apply for asylum once you're here. the laws you have to propose if

you pass through another country but that's been put on hold by the federal courts. >> this is clearly an issue they need to get tougher and president biden needs more latin america policy and understand that stabilizing that region is an all our interests as well. >> this is what critics point to a lot of folks over the weekend to the vice president kamala harris, not affixing the border crisis but dealing with the root causes of what's happening there. do you expect we'll hear her more out front? >> the white house is pushing kamala harris a lot more out right now. this is an area that was put on her plate. >> this is her signature thing. >> which is the single worst gift a vice president can get. it does increase the urgency. i think for democrats in general the white house in particular and kamala harris probably most of all to take a clearer, tougher, more comprehensive line. >> she traveled down to the country, saying do not come. that did not work, of course. you talk about the greg abbott stunts of setting the buses up. if the goal was to not just practically alleviate some of the pressure from the border

communities but political as we know to exhaust the cities like new york, did it work? you now got the mayor of new york saying there's no more room for you. >> i hate to say it worked. only in the crassest, political sort of bottom line sense did it work in that they managed to take this burden and literally just ship it out, send it to the next state. that's contrary to every sort of ethical, humanitarian instinct and responsibility that any leader would have. but in the crass political sense did we take our problem from our state and send it to some other state, i guess. >> all right. guys, thank you. appreciate it. barbie has a billion. barbie movie has just made box office history. the numbers next. >> and it's almost been a month since the actor's union went on strike. where do those talks stand? we'll be joined by fran drescher actress and president of s.a.g. actor, she'll join us live in studio in our 8:00 a.m. eastern hour. ngblue-sky thinking.

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>> there are kens, too? >> "barbie" hits a million. first female to direct a movie that raked in more than a billion dollars at the box office. that is according to the film studio warner brothers, of course, owned by cnn's parent company warner brothers discovery. it is a beautiful thing to see. cnn business correspondent rahel solomon is here. my favorite part of the movie is when they show the supreme court and it's all women. >> love to see it. >> why not. >> we're far away from that, but great to see it in the movie. lots of records for barbie. she is a billion dollar barbie. les start with the fact that gr woman to solo direct a movie to cross a billion dollars. really significant moment for the industry. i spoke to a senior media analyst in the 5:00 a.m. hour, guys, who told me this is a watershed moment because it signals to the industry that not only is creative film making good for the -- or diverse film making good for the creative process, also good for the bottom line.

that's something, too. also breaking other records. we can show you how barbie coar with some of the highest grossing fms of all of course you have avatar up there, avengers. that's closer to 2.9. but "bar reached some of these records in record times. warner brothers the fastest movie to reach $400 million domestically. fastest to reach $500 million internationally. not only is "barbie" bringing in the big bucks, doing it in record time. i should say, guys, this comes at a time when we are really spending a lot more on services, activities that sort of thing. not on fiscal goods as much but physical activities, live events. everybody has been to beyonce this summer. some of us -- or taylor swift. there's a lot -- >> no beyonce, no taylor swift. i need to change -- >> you've been to the movies because you've seen "barbie". >> i saw "barbie" and "oppenheimer" in the same day. >> people will soon be seeing

beyonce and taylor swift. people are spending a lot to have experiences. "barbie" tapped into that. >> it's been a while since we could have this summer of big block busters and 60,000 people and stadiums together. so we're happy to be together. i have not seen "barbie" yet. i will. but from some of the "barbie" cynics i know, they like it. they like how they treated the potential issue of barbie's body image concerns. they love how it was dealt with. >> that's a great point, victor. what industry analysts will say that "barbie" did really well, tapped into strategically those who loved barbie but those who hated barbie. i do want to see "barbie" there are people who were not fans of some of the problematic past, lack of inclusion and on and on and on. the writers did a good job of poking fun at its more problematic past. there's something here for everyone. whether you grew up loving barbie or felt it wasn't inclusive, this seems to be that. >> totally. they call the margot robbie's

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♪ starting today, the red cross has updated its guidance on who can donate blood. the new rules will allow more gay and bisexual pa people to donate. coming three months after the fda relaxed decades old officials aimed at protecting the spread of hiv. such a big change. so important.

a lot of people will say way too late. long time coming. other countries have been way ahead of us. >> they have been. this is a long process. the red cross starting this today is extremely significant because they account for 40% of the u.s. blood supply. and the red cross itself calls th o of the most significant changes to the blood banking history. the most significant changes in blood baing history. as you mentioned, this has been a long time coming. it was 1985 when the life time ban on gay male donors wt into effect. that was in the height of fear even dialed that back to still one-year period of required abstinence for donating. this year, they unified these rules for evy. really what this does is i individual risk rather than sexual orientation. th brings the u.s. into step with other countries like the uk and canada. and of course, this is

risk-based questions, not based on who somebody is. >> and there are still some exceptions, though, right? >> there are. and you know, the lgbtq plus community is still calling this stig stigmatizing. so some of the exceptions are based on sexual history. also exceptions based on use of anti-viral drugs to prevent hiv infection because the fda says that could lead to false negatives in terms of screening out hiv. but yoknow, gmhc, an hiv aids service organization say this still perpetuates stigma that we have been seeing with these guidelines for 30 years. >> yeah. how much will it help in terms of supply? a few of my friends have gone to donate recently. and a big question is they need more supply. is this expected to boost that a lot? >> they definitely do. only 3% of age-eligible people actually donate every year. it surprised me it was so small. so there is a really big hope that this could encourage more

people and enable more people who want to be able to contribute to be able to. >> all right. meg terrel, thank you. >> thank you, guys. "cnn this morning" continues right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. victor blackwell here with us. it's the top of the hour. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> we have a lot of news to get to on this monday, august 7th. ten hours to go. trump's lawyers have until 5:00 p.m. this afternoon to respond to the special counsel's legal filing. at the heart of it, what trump and his legal team can and cannot do with evidence shared throughout the case. and throughout the january 6th case as a whole. >> some republicans new line, quote president harris in emails, speeches interviews. republican presidential candidates are increasingly suggesting that a vote for 80-year-old biden would really actually be a vote for vice president kamala harris. happening overnight, at least three people have been killed after two helicopters collided while responding to a fire in riverside county, california. one helicopter landed safely.

all three people inside the other helicopter died. that included a cal fire division chief and a fire captain, also a contract pilot. also this, a 25-year-old in florida has been found alive after being lost for two days at sea. the boater left st. augustine thursday night and was found around 12 miles offshore saturday morning. the coast guard rescued him. they say no medical concerns was reported. and biles is back. simone biles won her first competitive event in two years. this was the first appearance in pulling out of several events at the tokyo olympics in 2021. this was when she was battling bout of the twisties. she is qualified now for the u.s. national championships. "cnn this morning" starts right now. ♪ here is where we begin this hour. the morning, donald trump just hours away from a crucial

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