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four indictments now four not builty please. donald trump pleading not guilty in the georgia election interference case. why he now wants to cut off his case from his 18 co-defendants who are also facing charges in fulton county. senator mitch mcconnell

looks to reassure allies and donors that he can still do his job. this after freezing in pup lick for the second time in weeks. what the senator's doctors now say is going on. president biden weighs on on concerns whether one of the most powerful republicans in washington can and should stay on the job. plus, travel on a gop donor's private jet. a paid trip to rome. new disclosures from justice clarence thomas and justice samuel alito revise supreme court ethics concerns. now lawmakers responding to calls for congressional action. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central". we've been watching a lot of movement from donald trump's defense lawyers today, having to

do with his georgia election interference case. this morning the former president formally entered a not guilty plea to the raft of state charges he's facing. the fourth defendant to plead not guilty. that means 15 others have yet to enter a plea. also today, trump's lawyers filed to splint other his case from the co-defendants requesting a speedy trial. the district attorney wants that speedy trial to begin in october. trump's team saying they need more time. we have cnn's kaitlyn telyn pol following this. walk us severing trump's case from the others. >> reporter: filings coming in fast and furious. we're watching the trump team because it's going to set up the major fight. the first major fight in this case. how exactly will this case be organized when it goes to trial? all 19 defendants or not? district attorney wants to keep all of the defendants together if they all do ultimately go trial, and what donald trump's team is saying is that they

don't want to do that. they need time. they're busy. it's a really complex case. there are defendanting like ken chesebro, sidney powell charged as co-defendants that want the trial to happen very fast, this year even. so they want to split out, trump doesn't want that at all. this strategy and other indictments wants things pushed back and in the filing writing lead count will not have sufficient time to prepare president trump's case for trial by october 23, 2023 industrial day respectfully requiring preparation time violates president trump's state and constitutional trits fair trial. that's up to the judge, though. >> october's really fast. unless you want it to happen in october. this not guilty plea we saw trump enter here, maybe not totally expected. this is going to spare him from this arraignment process next week. he wouldn't have had to be in-person anyways but now out of that, right?

>> reporter: yeah. everyone needs to ender an initial pleading in any criminal case. this is formality of trump after bond set, arresteds processed, released on bond, he now says, i am not guilty. that is a very important moment in any case, because it kicks off all of these other things that have to be discussed. trial dates. how the case is organized. what gets into the trial. what doesn't. legal arguments. so now we have that tr from tru we're waiting for other defendants to do some similar by next week and off to the races and what happens the upcoming days, october trial date at of now for some defendants in fulton county. >> thank you so much. jim? joined now by anna bower, the faulty county correspondent for law fare. good to have you. i wonder what is the practice tickle effect of donald trump not showing up for his arr

arrai arraignment. is there any? >> reporter: i think a practical folk some extent in that we know now from an order that was just handed down by judge mcafee today all of the proceedings in this case will be live streamed, and so by not showing up in-person, donald trump will not be arraigned in front of everyone in the country for the first time. and in these other proceedings, as everyone knows, it's been in federal court, where there isn't public access through electronic media reporting, and whereas in fulton county and in georgia in general, courts are much more willing to allow video streaming and media reporting, and so by not showing up, people don't have the opportunity to watch a former president being arraigned. i think that that's the big practical impact of that. >> understood. certainly sets up quite a spectacle when the trial starts, because that will be streamed as

well. trump is now asking the court to sever his case again to give his lawyers more time to prepare for trial. the d.a. wants an october start date. she wants all 19 defendants tried at once. i hate to i kuaccused former president delaying things but a tactic used many years both before and after being president. is this a delay tactic and one to likely succeed to some degree to push things out a bit? >> reporter: well, look. as you, as everyone knows, trump's favorite legal strategy is delay. however, i have to say that here i think that his defense attorney does have a point. this is a sprawling case, and i think that any defense attorney would be hard-pressed to prepare for it in the, you know, two months that we have now until that october trial date.

with that said, you know, we don't yet know exactly when trump wants the trial date set for. will he be reasonable? or if the past is an indication, you know, he may ask for something years in the future. and here, though, i think that it's important to point out that it is the burden on the defendant to show why it would be prejudicial for them to not be severed, and courts have said in the past the judge should take into account whether or not the defendant would be tried alongside people who have requested a speedy trial whereas that defendant does not. so i think that's something certainly that judge mcafee is going to take into account, and i think that he's going to be reluctant to force any defendant to go to trial in two months for a very large case like this. >> understood. also, of course, this decision on mark meadows, trump's former

chief of staff. his attempt to move the case into federal court. i understand you were in the courtroom for this earlier in the week. i was speaking to a lawyer who was reading the judge's demand that attorneys for both sides come back with briefs on this case as a, as a judge being aware that there's a lot of vision put on his decision here and he wants to prevent an eventual appeal, right, depending how he decides. i wonder how you read the judge in the courtroom on this? >> right. judge jones said at the end of the hearing after an eight-hour day of hearing witness testimony from mark meadows and secretary of state raffensperger and others. he said, you know, i'm going to try to make a decision as fast as possible, but this is an area of law that doesn't hold a lot of precedent. it's going to set precedent for future cases.

so i've got the indication he's going to be very careful about writing this decision. he also pointed out that there's very few cases where a form 0er federal official has tried to remove and a judge rejected that. so i think that if he's going to reject meadows' attempts to remove he's going to make sure that it's a very well-constructed opinion that it is something that can withstand appeal. so i think that we might be waiting for some time to see that opinion. >> interesting. dot his is, cross his ts. thanks as always. >> thank you. >> brianna. new updates when it comes to serious health questions surrounding one of the most powerful republicans in washington. president biden says he has spoke ton senate minority leader mitch mcconnell after he froze during a news conference yesterday, and the u.s. capitol physician says mcconnell is now medically cleared after this

second episode of freezing. >> running for re-election in 2023 -- >> i'm sorry. >> did you hear the question, senator? running for re-election in 2026? all right. i'm sorry, y'all. we're going to need a minute. >> okay. >> cnn's melanie zanona is live on capitol hill. melanie what more are you hearing from the doctor, but also we heard president biden talk a little bit about his conversation with the minority leader. >> reporter: yes. mitch mcconnell's office just put out a statement moments ago from the capitol physician who

says he consulted with leader mcconnell and conferred with his neurology team. read you the rest of statement. after evaluating yesterday's incident i have informed leader mcconnell he is medically clear to continue his with his schedule as planned. this can be a result of dehydration. mitch mcconnell suffered a concussion earlier this year, tripped and fell. not a lot in this statement. brianna, it's notable mitch mcconnell's office even released statement to begin with. because after the first freezing episode occurring in the capitol they wouldn't even say whether or not mitch mcconnell received treatment or saw a doctor. clearly his team is trying to be more transparent here, and trying to tamp down this continued speculation about both mitch mcconnell's health and his political future. notably, he also received backup from president biden a little bit ago. let's take a listen. >> i spoke to mitch.

he's a friend. and i -- i spoke to him today, and, you know, he was his old self on the telephone. it's not at all unusual to have a response that sometimes happens to mitch when you've had a severe concussion. it's part of a -- it's part of the recovery. and so i'm confident he's going to be back to his old self. >> reporter: of course, biden himself is facing questions about his age as he plans to run for re-election, but this issue is not likely to go away for mitch mcconnell. there are serious questions about whether he will continue to serve as a republican leader past 2024, when his current term as leader expires and whether he'll run for election when up in 2026. congress is out now. the senate returns next week from their august recess and i suspect these conversations are only going to intensify. >> yeah. he was actually being asked about that very thing when he actually had this episode.

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>> reporter: right. clarence thomas in the spotlight again. this time it's him. he's disclosing the fact he took rides on these jets from that megadonor because he released these, along with alito and asked for extensions and got it. thomas says he took a private jet to go on a luxury vacation with harlan crow, and he hadn't disclosed it before. we know that news outlets mostly propublica said for years thomas has been taking these luxury trips and never disclosed them. but here what happened last term, he said, look, i took these trips. i didn't think i had to disclose them because of the rules. the rules have changed. now going forward i will disclose. so we got that today, but also we got something very interesting in that he amended his 2014 report. that's a long time ago, to say that he and harlan crow had

engaged in a real estate transaction together, and that crow had actually bought thomas' house where his mother still lives. so all of this is going on, and it comes at a time when all eyes are on the supreme court on these ethics questions. >> really interesting. thomas' attorney issued a statement. tell us about this. >> reporter: right. thomas and some other conservative judges have said, told me, they said, look. the rules weren't clear. right? so now they've been clarified, and thomas in particular, not so much alito, but thomas said none of the people he took these trips with over the years had business before the court, and he said that now he's going to disclose. unusual today is he also had his lawyer issue sort of a scathing statement and here's what the lawyer said in this letter that he sent. he said the attacks of justice thomas are nothing less than ridiculous and dangerous and they set a terrible precedent for political blood sport

through federal ethics filings. but that is in large part because this court is now being considered political by a lot of people, because of the roe v. wade decision, because of the second amendment. now the justices are beginning to be looked at through a political lens. >> yeah. political or not, they're talking about these interactions of high value with stakeholders in the process. also important here. what's the reaction on capitol hill? >> reporter: congressional democrats have said, look, we want the justices to develop a code of conduct that is specific to them. to the supreme court justices. so far the justices have said that they're not going to do that, and some of them, like alito, pushed back on the notion that congress even has the authority here to enforce or force the justices to make a code. so the term is going to start beginning of october. they've been off all summer for their summer recess, but all of

this still is making a lot of headlines. >> certainly is. and will continue to. thank you so much for that. jim? pope francis known for taking a more generous approach particularly in social issues and today is taking on catholics who disagree with him with a warning for the most conservative american catholics. all of that, just ahead. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. thanks to skyrizi, i'm on my way with clearer skin. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90%

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a split within the catholic ch church. pope francis using strong language against american catholics refusing change and openly publicly criticizing his leadership. the pope warned conservative critics against backward thinking saying "doing is this you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. in other words, ideologists," in the pope's word, replace faith. joining us to discuss father beck, a religious commentator and a roquen can catholic pries >> thanks for having me, this has been going on a number of years betting more bitter and

more public. these are american bishops openly challenging the pope here. is there any way to resolve these differences? these go to core social issues. divorce, homosexuality and how this pope sees them versus how catholic bishops see those issues. >> well, again, it's a minority of catholic bishops in the u.s., jim, but you're right. i mean, it's kind of unprecedented. you have an archbishop of san francisco, cord leone who openly opposed the pope. fringe bishops, east texas, strickland, come out vociferously against the pope. so they are riling some of the more traditional elements here in the united states who don't really think that the direction of this pope is a good and healthy one. and so there's been a lot of criticism that's been very public, and you're saying can

anything change those perspectives? i think the pope is moving on, moving through. continuing doing what they wants to do saying what he wants to say and turning a deaf ear to eastern some leadership. archbishop in san francisco should have been name add cardinal by now and that hot been name add cardinal. >> and broken into american politics, bishops saying catholics like nancy pelosi or joe biden can't take the eucharist because of their positions on abortions. i wonder in your view, how much this reflects the current changes and makeup of the catholic church here in the u.s. as attendance declined in many instances the folks who remain are a more conservative set? >> well, that is true, except my experience, jim, is that there are a lot of progressive catholics who are fighting for the vision of pope francis. we have what's called the synod

coming up in october. the first time pope francis is letting lay people and women vote at this synod. usually only bishops vote. he has ultimate decision what is approved from this synod, but i think the progressives are really pushing ahead with their agenda, despite some resistance. you're right. attendance is down, and i wouldn't say it's only among progressives, however. some of the traditionalists have gone elsewhere. they want to celebrate masses in latin, which pope francis has now limited. they're kind of disgruntled, too, jim. >> understood. there's a broader conflict with the catholic church globally. right? you have more conservative views in places where the church is growing in membership. for instance in africa. i wonder, are these bishops, to some degree, looking forward to a chance to pick the next pope and waiting, in effect, for pope francis a jesuit to move on so they can put their imprint on

the church and try to pull it back on some of these issues? >> well, they can be waiting, but as you know, jim, only cardinals elect the next pope. and this pope has appointed 70% of the cardinals who will be voting in the next con clade. these are the men electeding the next pope and putting his imprint on the church even by his appointments of who will elect the next pontiff. so it's important. >> a great point. tell you, i certainly don't miss latin in masses. made it a heck of a lot harder. father beck, thank you for joining us, as always. >> good seeing you, jim. thank you. >> brianna. a moment of terror, uncertainty and panic. forever frozen in time on the front page of the "daily ftar

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landed in medical crews scrambling to meet it. passengers and crew aboard delta flight 175 from milan were injured when it hit severe turbulence. 11 people had to be taken to the hospital here. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is following the story. what happened? >> reporter: you know, this is a good question, because it's not totally clear just yet, and oftentimes pilots simply cannot see turbulence to avoid it. it's not always associated with a big weather system or a front or thunderstorm. get to that in a second. delta right now says it's helping these passengers after some of them simply came up out of their seats. this tur bub lance was so severe. the faa says this happened on delta flight 175, descending into atlanta. descended to 12,000 feet 40 mile outside of atlanta his turbulence described to be severe. breakdown from faa. you see in the video, severe turb

turbulence. so severe mun actually hit their head on the overhead bin and another member of the crew, three minor injury, eight passengers with minor injuries. 11 taken to the hospital. an interesting case, because this keeps happening over and over again. ceo of united airlines says probably see more things like this. it's thermo die noomices 101. hot air rises, climate getting warmer and see this more often. ntsb says that this is the top cause of incidents onboard commercial airliners with a third of them resulting in at least one serious injury. although the good news here is that nobody was too terribly hurt on this flight and typically doesn't really result in any damage to the airplane. kind of a testament to engineering of these things. although we're seeing pretty often flight crew members up and working in the cabin. they're the ones most at risk. underscores, keep your seat belt on when the flight attendant

said to do it. >> you've been in one of these, right? bad turbulence? ever been on a commercial flight where just sort of drops out of nowhere? >> reporter: yeah. feel bad sometimes doing the stories. makes people afraid of flying. one passenger said, kind of a freak thing. i'm not afraid of flying after this. these kind of things happen, but, yeah. you've been in it, too. feel the drop, the pit in your stomach and worry about it. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: underscores, make sure you follow the crew's instructions, keep your seat belt on when there's really no reason to. >> right. comes out of nowhere. honestly, i thought i would die. takeaway was, we didn't. we were absolutely fine. these airplanes are built for this, but not the human body. that is why -- >> reporter: we have enough time you know, a good -- sort of underscores the reasons why pilots can't avoid this. >> yes. >> reporter: sometimes sure, thunderstorms. sometimes clear wind shear

mountain wave. something you can't see. technology is getting better. delta has its own weather system to make it to avoid these things, forecast better. but it's not perfect. if you can avoid it, see it, get around it, not happening ought the time. >> the seat belt. that thing is perfect. >> reporter: yeah. >> keep it clipped. thanks. jim? other headlines we're watching this hour pap new world record for a imwomen's sporting event set in nebraska yesterday. more than 92,000 fans packed into lincoln memorial stadium to watch the ncaa champion corn huskers volleyball team take on a rival omaha. a huge stadium. good measure, huskers one 3-0. also, a recall from trader joe's. grocery chain recalling this brand of black bean tamales saying they may contain milk allergens. recent weeks trader joe's also recalled a line of crackers that may have contained metal and two types of cookies possibly

contained rocks. and oprah and the rock, the other rock, joining forces to aid communities impacted by the maui wildfires. the pair launched a new relief fund with an initial donation of some $10 million. and now looking for more. >> we have created the people's fund of maui that will put money directly in the hands of the people who need it right now. >> i know a lot of people out there as oprah and i have been finding that are just having a hard time trusting where the money goes, what organizations should i send money to? how can i help? >> didn't know it, dwayne johnson was actually born in hawaii. oprah own as home there and now i kind of want to move there, brianna. >> yep. so glad that they are teaming together to do that. so important. rudy giuliani may have to pay out thousands if not millions of dollars, because he has lost a defamation lawsuit by

default. a federal judge ruling against him after failing to provide information that was ordered by subpoena. giuliani lost to 2020 election workers ruby freeman and shea moss. mother and daughter. suing him saying their lives and safety were up-ended from giuliani's lies, claiming they tampered with georgia ballots. freeman testified about her suffering on capitol hill last yeesh r year. last year. >> i've lost my name, and i've lost my reputation. i've lost my sense of security. all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter shea. to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen. >> jake tapper is with us of

course, anchor of "the lead." you'll talk to the attorney of these two women coming up. this drives home the story of normal people, these election workers, just doing their job, and found themselves in the middle of this hurricane? >> yeah. a hurricane full of lies and smears. let's remember, one of the things rudy giuliani said about these women, he said that tape showed them, the two women, quite "quite obviously surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they're vials of heroin or cocaine." the language used. actually they were passing around a ginger mint from mother to daughter. really shocking. interesting language in terms of referencing vials of heroin or cocaine. whether or not they glet a poiot is another matter. a big question for their attorney, why is rudy not even

responding, thus forfeiting his rights and losing the case just because he's not even responding? is he just completely out of it? whatever is going on with him. he's obviously not the same person wee knew 25 years ago. or is what is in discovery, what whoa have to turn over in order to be responsive so much worse than the potential millions of dollars he'd have to pay in the civil suit. that was the decision he made. this was so bad and could result in something so much worse than millions in defamation payments. i'll take the defamation payments? >> it's really odd someone like rudy giuliani with his extensive legal experience would not comply with discovery. even though not the person that he used to be. certainly something to say. >> yeah. i mean, he was "time" magazine's person of the year in 2001 and now he is whatever he is, co-defendant number two? i mean, it's shocking. >> yeah. jake, thank you so much. checking that out. an interesting interview.

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i wrote that song about those people. >> politicians are trying to claim him as a democrat or republican. >> i will write authentic music that represents people. and not politics. >> the people, from all walks of life are relating to what he has to say. >> a lot of people relate to that. >> the lyrics are awesome! >> his real name is christopher anthony lunsford. his friends call him chris. he lives here in the woods of farmville, virginia, with his family, over an hour west of richmond. he struggled with money, alcohol, depression, and sings about it all. he's everywhere, but nowhere, at the same time. >> i think his lifestyle and what he wanted to do, live in the country, i mean that's what he wants to do. >> on a random wednesday evening, he saying in town at north street press club. >> he wanted to be so everyone

here locally to come out and see him. oliver anthony said he has turned down $8 million deals since he shot to number 1. >> he seems like a down to earth individual. and this town is one town that will protect that. >> what do you think about what he is saying and why people are resonating from all over? >> i think there's still a huge swath of people in the middle who just feel a little disenfranchised with the wealth disparity, having somebody come out and advocate or voice that frustration, it's not surprising that it resonates. >> how do you know christopher? >> he's my neighbor. >> anthony lived next door to oliver anthony for five years. he is now his merchandise guy. >> he's just a guy that smiles a lot. he says what everybody is feeling for the most part. we don't have a voice to say it to the rich men north of richmond. and now we do.

>> oliver anthony, just a few weeks ago, was writing and filming himself playing music on his cell phone and uploading it to youtube, now he has the number 1 song in the country. oliver anthony said he's not interested in interviews, he's doing the joe rogan podcast which came out yesterday and another podcast that he plans to do to get into what he says is the more nitty-gritty of his songs and who he is but jim, this song, clearly resonating with so many americans. the pain, the injustice he talks about, whether or not americans have felt that before or are feeling it now, really it seems like this man, oliver anthony is a voice for what many americans are still feeling right now pay >> not the voice that some are claiming, if you listen to the lyrics of the song. it's amazing that he has turned down $8 million. thanks so much for going out there. jim, no bull, that's a real bowl, riding shotgun in

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someone call 911, here's how a police captain described what it was like when officers realized what they were dealing with. >> the officers received a call reference, a car driving in a town that had a how in it. they thought it was going to be like a calf, something smaller than actually fit inside the vehicle. >> bull c2 driver? >> he technically fits inside the car. he was told to drive the bowl back home. i guess they will be looking out for him on the road. >> the lead with jake tapper -- >> don't look at the back of the car. you won't unseat it. >> from stanback and standby to standing in prison for 17 years, the lead starts