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let's get started with five things to know for this friday, september 1. former president trump pleads not guilty in the georgia election subversion case. that means he'll skip his arraignment next week. he also wants to separate his case from his co-defendants who want a speedy trial. and two leaders of the proud boys were sentenced to long terms for their role. joseph biggs, was sentenced to 17 years. zachary reel got 17 years. an urgent manhunt under way after a convicted murderer escaped a pennsylvania prison. the killer's depravity knows no bounds. breaking overnight, president biden is asking congress for $4 billion to fill fema's disaster relief fund after hurricane idalia and he prepares to visit florida tomorrow. how did you spend your wedding day? a battle between the two best stars. acuna celebrated in the grandest

way possible hitting his 30th homer of the season, a grand slam that help the braves take down the dodgers. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning, everybody. welcome. good to see you. we're going to dive in with former president trump who is pleading not guilty to 13 felony counts in the georgia case charging him and 18 co-defendants with interfering in the 2020 election. trump is also choosing to waive his right to appear at his arraignment in atlanta next week. the hearing was set for wednesday, and cameras would have been allowed in the courtroom. this mark the fourth time trump has denied criminal charges since leaving the white house. several other defendants including sidney powell and jenna ellis have entered not guilty pleas to avoid their in-court appearances. >> now fulton county d.a.

attorney fani willis is asking the judge to expedite the case and for all 19 to stand trial together beginning october 23. trump is seeking to separate his case from his co-defendants who want a speedy trial. his team says they would not have time to prepare and forcing them to do so in less than two months would violate his right to a fair trial and due process. we'll get to zachary cohen with more. this is the fourth not guilty plea pfor the former president. what can you tell us about what's going on? >> reporter: trump's lawyers making clear they want to slow things down here and arguing that it would be unconstitutional to force donald trump to go to trial on october 23 of this year when fani willis wants to try all 19 of the defendants in the case including the former president. look, they're arguing they need time to prepare. another case trump's lawyer has to deal with. he's saying that would prevent him from preparing an

appropriate defense for the former president. we got a ruling yesterday that any trial proceedings in this case will be televised. the judge saying this is essential for transparency but only applies in the state of georgia. there are several defendants in the case trying to move their case into federal court where there are no cameras allowed. as of now, we may be seeing a lot of donald trump on televised when this goes to trial. if it gets moved to federal court, we may not see what's going on there. >> there are a lot of procedural machinations playing out down there, but there's one decision i think everybody is waiting on that could come at any moment. mark meadows trying to move his case to federal court. another filing last night. any word when we may get a ruling from the judge? >> reporter: phil, there's a lot of moving parts. mark meadows, at any moment, we could learn if he gets to move his case to federal court or not. both sides, prosecutors and meadows' attorneys filed briefs yesterday, essentially arguing

their side as to why or why this case shouldn't be moved. you know who is watching for this decision closely is donald trump's lawyers. he's expected to also file a motion to try to move his case to federal court. we'll wait and see what happens with his chief of staff first, it looks like. >> zachary, thanks so much. trump may be pleading not guilty, but it's important to step back. our great digital writer does that in his piece saying, quote, a net of justice is tightening around 2020 election deniers. what is he talking about here? this week's legal losses for people who tried to overturn the 2020 election results. joe biggs now facing 17 years in prison. biggs led the march to the capitol on january 6 and was convicted of seditious conspiracy. zachary reel is looking at 15 years. he broke down in tears during his sentencing and told the judge, quote, for what it's worth, i stand here today and say that i am done with it all. i'm done with politics.

i'm done peddling lies for other people who don't care about me. and then there's rudy giuliani who notched his first legal loss this week. he's found liable for defailing two georgia election workers he very falsely accused of tampering with the 2020 election results. then there's former white house adviser peter navarro contempt of congress trial. a judge ruled he cannot use the executive privilege defense for failing to answer a house january 6 committee subpoena. his criminal case goes to trial next tuesday. a capitol physician has medically cleared mitch mcconnell to continue his work schedule. this after a concerning moment on wednesday. >> my thoughts about what? >> running for re-election in 2026. >> mcconnell froze for more than 30 seconds while speaking with

reporters in his home state of kentucky, his second incident in about a month. our capitol hill reporter, what did the capitol physician have to say? >> reporter: he said he consulted with both leader mcconnell and mcconnell's neurology team and determined that mcconnell was good to go. i want to read you part of the statement from the capitol physician. he said, after evaluating yesterday's incident, i informed leader mcconnell he is medically clear to continue with his schedule as planned. occasional light headedness is not uncommon in concussion recovery and can result with dehydration. mcconnell tripped and fell at an event in march and suffered a concussion. this letter doesn't reveal a whole lot but mitch mcconnell's team is the one releasing it because after his first freezing episode in the capitol last month, they wouldn't even say if mitch mcconnell saw a doctor or

got any medical treatment. they are trying to be more transparent in a bid to tamp down the growing speculation about mcconnell's health and his political future. and yesterday mcconnell received some notable backup from president joe biden. let's take a listen. >> i spoke to mitch. he's a friend. i spoke to him today, and, you know, he was his old self on the telephone. it's not unusual to have the response that sometimes happens to mitch when you've had a severe concussion. 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 facing questions about his age as he runs for re-election. but with mitch mcconnell, this issue is not going away anytime soon and there are growing doubts whether he will continue to serve as leader beyond 2024 when his current term expires.

>> after those growing doubts, the deans of the senate reporters covering capitol hill, reported republicans could call a special meeting to discuss his ability to lead. i know that's still a work in progress, it's very fluid. i will break some news here, mel, if he steps down, the replacement will almost certainly be named john, right? >> reporter: exactly right. there's long been speculation about who might succeed mitch mcconnell whenever he does decide to step aside. the three top contenders are all named john. all in and around leadership very close to mitch mcconnell. but, as you said, they could call a special conference meeting next week when they return to the senate from their august recess. it would take five republicans to force a vote. that would be a meeting to talk about their leadership there is no mechanism to force a vote. this is a conversation about who

succeeds mcconnell after 2024. >> melanie, thank you so much. just moments ago we learned the biden administration plans to ask congress for additional funding to replenish fema's disaster relief fund. cnn reported the fund is already running out of money in a year setting records for billion-dollar disasters, catastrophic flooding, wildfires, and this week a hurricane ripping through florida's west coast. president biden is set to visit devastated communities in florida tomorrow, but first, he's asking for congress to help out. cnn's arlette saenz is live at the white house. what's striking to me, it was just a few weeks ago an emergency disaster funding request was made. $12 billion. now they're adding another $4 billion on top of it. does that underscore the urgency here? >> reporter: good morning, phil. this is certainly one of the most pressing issues facing president biden right now, trying to ensure fema not just has the resources to respond to hurricane idalia and the wildfires in maui but to respond

to future disasters and that is why you see president biden upping his request for congress to up the relief fund now $12 billion, adding on $4 billion for a total of $16 billion. it comes at a time when fema is significantly strained. fema administrator criswell said they only have $3.4 billion in their existing disaster relief fund. the agency has already shifted into this immediate needs funding mode to try to focus on those lifesaving activities. she's estimated that they will run out of funding at some point in september. that is why the administration is going to congress to ask for more money in this moment. it comes when there have been record-related disasters facing this country. data from mid-august said 15 weather-related disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damages. that didn't factor the maui wildfires or this hurricane down in florida.

now there are several more weeks left of hurricane season highlighting some of the urgency facing this moment. one of the challenges as the senate returns next week, the house after that, is that the initial request was tied to ukraine funding, something there has been some opposition on up on capitol hill. so that will be one of the challenges the administration faces as congress is considering this request. of course president biden will get a firsthand look at the efforts as he travels to florida tomorrow. >> the pathway to get that go money still up in the air. arlette saenz from the north lawn, thank you. and one inmate is dead, two others have been injured in a stabbing at the same jail where donald trump surrendered just a week ago. those details ahead. and an urgent manhunt in pennsylvania for an escaped inmate described as, quote, extremely dangerous. >> his depravity knows no bounds. this is someone who has nothing to lose as you indicated. i don't know what he's capable of doing.

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detainees and is where donald trump turned himself in and had his first-ever mug shot taken in the georgia election subversion and racketeering case, to which he's pleaded not guilty. >> joining us to talk more is a person who served as a senior investigative counsel for the january 6 committee and also a national political writer michelle price and chief white house correspondent and political correspondent at "the messenger." i want to start with you because while prosecuting a president is unusual, rico violations are not. help us understand why lawyers would be saying we should sever his case from the other defendants. >> there are several reasons why you may want to sever your case. one is that you want to go more quickly than others. kenneth chesebro is saying i want to move forward as quickly as possible. i want a trial in october. >> but why?

what's the benefit to any given defendant for going faster? >> you will be testing the prosecutor's case. is fani willis ready to try this case right now? that's what they want to know. generally speaking the case gets worth for a defendant. >> so you want to be in the front of the line. >> there are dangers to that. you may not get to file the same number of motions or be able to challenge your case the same way and, frankly, your lawyers don't have the amount of time to prepare. there are dangers to moving quickly here. he's assessing the case and, frankly, president trump is not going to want to do that himself. >> what would it do if the cases are severed or the individual cases are split apart? >> it means fani willis will have to trial the cases separately and that's okay n. a case with 19 defendants, i think it was likely not feasible all

19 would go together. the result is there would be separation. the danger for the prosecutor here she has a bad result in an earlier case. if you have a hung jury or an acquittal, that's going to set the tone going forward. it may impact the jury, meaning folks will see one case went forward, didn't see a conviction. the general jury pool might be aware of that fact. >> amy and michelle, while we talk about d.a. willis, brian kemp has rejected calls from state lawmakers who say they want to impeach her or pull her from office. i think we have a clip. >> up to this point i have not seen any evidence that d.a. willis' actions or lack thereof warrant action by the prosecuting attorney oversight commission, but that will ultimately be a decision that the commission will make. regardless, in my mind, a special session of the general

assembly to end run around this law is not feasible and may ultimately prove to be unconstitutional. >> there's a rash of laws around the country trying to say you can pull a d.a. you disagree with, but what's significant about this moment? >> i think it's interesting because you have these two men sparring, and clearly governor kemp and donald trump, he's on the other side of trump on this, and they have been sparring since 2020 over this. and obviously he does not want to -- he wants to uphold the law. he does not want to make this a political moment, and he's going up against other republicans who are saying in the press, come on, do this. this is not a good moment for the former president. >> it's always fascinating repeatedly brian kemp does the thing that is normal and, therefore, is at odds with a large swath of the republican party. michelle, one thing i want to ask you, the judge in the georgia d.a. case, the fulton county case, said it will be

televised. you're going to be able to watch. we assumed that would be the case, it will be live streamed. what does that do given that most of what we've seen has been behind the scenes up to this point? >> this is the former president who will be on trial on youtube and from his camp from a political standpoint this is campaign footage for them. they are treating these trials as his campaign that he is being politically percent kated. that does seem to be helping him. in the general election this does not seem to be helping him. airing all this evidence, having hit sit there at a witness table where he can't speak, where people are presenting evidence about things he did might be very harmful for him. >> he can speak and go on the stand at some point. temidayo, can you talk about the pros and cons of having all of your information kind of public, which is what happened with the january 6 committee. >> as far as the evidence? >> being on tv. >> if you're the prosecutor, you

have to shut all that out because what happens is -- what concerns a prosecutor is not the american people watching, it's those 12 people in the jury box. that's the focus. we've seen it from celebrities, it can be a lot of public interest, a lot of public opinions, but then those verdicts will be what they are, and that's why we're often shocked by them. >> you were on the january 6th committee. the entire perception of the committee and what it was working on changed after the first hearing, unequivocally. that was in washington, at least in our bubble to some degree it did. did you see how that changed how you operated with the investigation itself? >> i think the change in perception was planned. the hearings were crafted to be a kind of public trial. they were made to impact public perception and public opinion. i think we looked at that at our hearings as a kind of jury trial for the american people as the jury. i think that will be slightly different in the courtroom. we were thinking what's going to make good television and what will make people who may not otherwise be interested focus on

our substance. if you're in a jury trial, you're thinking what are the elements of the crime? how do i prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt, the rules of evidence, the judge's perception -- >> a different threshold. >> exactly. >> thank you all so much for speaking with us. there's an intense search under way this morning for a convicted murderer who escaped a pennsylvania prison. where that stands and where he was last seen. more on that next. and anti-lgbtq bills have been one of the few -- sorry, have one of the few pediatric heart transplant cardiologists in louisiana leaving the state. >> there is going to be a hole that's left when i leave. >> reporter: how much is that weighing on you? >> by far the hardest part of this decision was thinking about my patients. it cleanans better, and doesn't leave behihind irritating residues. and it's gentle onon her skin tide free & gentlele is epa safer choice certified. itit's got to be tide

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murderer escaped a prison outside of philadelphia. now police say danelo cavalcante is extremely dangerous, last seen about 30 miles of philadelphia wearing a white t-shirt, gray shorts and white sneakers. the way he's been described, the reactions you heard from residents there, very unsettling, ominous. what's the latest on where this stands? >> reporter: definitely unsettling, definitely ominous and law enforcement officials have been clear this is an extremely dangerous man who has escaped this prison in chester county. phil, i want to go back and describe how this started. officials say this started yesterday, thursday morning, around 8:50 in the morning when danelo cavalcante escaped from the chester county prison. as you said 30 miles west of where we are here in philadelphia. he was last seen, though, around

9:40 a.m. and i want to repeat what you said. he was wearing a white t-shirt, gray shorts and white sneakers. and, phil, the reason that's important police believe he may have changed out of his prison garb into those clothes after he escaped the prison. phil, you might be wondering why law enforcement agents are so emphatic when describes the suspect, because just two weeks ago this inmate was convicted of first-degree murder and just last week he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. and that was because he was found guilty of stabbing his former girlfriend 38 times, killing her in front of her children. prosecutors say the motive was the girlfriend had discovered that this man was actually wanted for murder in brazil, a separate murder. so, again, that's why we're hearing such urgency from law enforcement. take a listen to what the d.a. had to say yesterday afternoon. >> his depravity knows no bounds, this is someone who has

nothing to lose, as you indicated. i don't know what he's capable of doing. if he's already engaged in a murder in broad daylight in front of her two children, there's no stopping him from doing anything more egregious. >> reporter: phil, at this point at least a dozen agencies are helping in the search. we're seeing k-9s, drones, helicopters out there. i should say, phil, we still do not have an answer from law enforcement officials to the big question, how did he break out of this prison? >> a critical condition. danny freeman, thank you. well, on the west coast there's actually another manhunt under way for an escapee in oregon. he is charged with attempted aggravated murder, fled from custody while shackled at the arms, legs and belly after commandeering a white dodge caravan. now he is considered extremely dangerous. since 2021 lawmakers in more

than 20 states introduced or passed bills similar to the don't say gay law in florida. now the controversial proposals and laws aim to prevent teachers from talking about certain topics such as sexual orientation or identity. louisiana has its own version of the bill and now a prominent doctor there says it's the reason he is taking his family and leaving the state. cnn medical correspondent meg tirrell reports from new orleans. yeah, i mean, this is what we called our wall of love. >> reporter: when jake and tom kleinmahon moved back to new orleans, the city where they met and fell in love, they planned to raise their two kids and retire here. >> we built this house to live here forever. >> reporter: a pediatric cardiologist jake returned to be head of the program, the only program like it in louisiana. what do you love about being here? >> i feel like i really make a

difference here. and before i came any complex patients were having to be sent out of state for heart transplants, and i felt like the kids of louisiana deserve to stay in louisiana. >> reporter: but now jake and his family are leaving the state after a set of bills passed the legislature this summer that they say make them feel unwelcome. >> the part that really solidified it for us was when we were watching the senate education committee hear about the don't say gay bill. >> discussions on sexual orientation or gender identity in grades k-12. >> to think if our kids went to public school and they were made fun of because they had two dads, a teacher would not have been able to step in and make a learning experience about different types of families. >> reporter: had hb-466 and another bill which sought to require permission from parents for school employees to use

certain names or pronouns for students were vetoed by louisiana's governor in june. and a third bill banning gender affirming medical care overcame the veto and is expected to take effect in january. >> i'm really sad to leave. but i feel like i don't really have a choice. but the way that the political landscape in louisiana is going, it's pretty clear these laws are going to pass eventually. >> reporter: it doesn't mean there's one fewer specialist like him here in new orleans. he says it leaves just two heart transplant cardiologists for kids in the whole state of louisiana. >> there is going to be a hole that's left when i leave. >> reporter: how much is that weighing on you? >> reporter: by far the hardest part of this decision was thinking about my patients. >> reporter: the kleinmahons will move to new york where jake

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so hot. we played five nights a week, two or three shows a day. >> remember the 1950s there's legal segregation, black kids are not able to listen to music in the same spaces as white kids. >> black and white musicians weren't allowed to play together. >> they have one night for white and the next night for african american. >> but the white kids would come to the black kids' concert, too. >> lisa cortes, director of "little richard: i am everything." congratulations on the film. i've watched it. it's extraordinary. but for me -- there's a lot of things that stuck out, but everyone knows who he is, everybody knows his music. the connective tissue he has throughout history, life to some degree, i just didn't put it all

together until i watched. >> thank you. that's the goal to take little richard from being this character who says shutup to really bring the viewer on a journey, where did the pain come from and how was his role as an architect influential to classic artists but to artists now. >> people think of jerry lee lewis or chuck berry, but a lot of us have the images from the '80s and '90s talk show circuit, and he was also openly gay, right? talk about how significant he was, the image he presented when he first came on the scene with. >> well, richard was from another planet, i'd like to believe, with the hair and the bouffant, more makeup than me this morning, and also just the

unabashed sexuality in his performance. it's a part of a continuum. liberace was out there with a lot of glam, 15 years before richard comes on the scene. richard is making his own gumbo in terms of music and presentation and leaving into those affiliated with a more feminism-presenting face. >> and getting away with it, if i can use that term, in mainstream culture. >> the more we begin to interrogate lgbtq history, the more we see there's gladys bentley, gender nonconforming artists, drag kings and queens that go back to victorian times. it shows americans have not been

as conservative as we oftentimes have liked to think. >> his kind of interning -- struggle may not be the right word -- but the back and forth, his dad was a minister but i think owned a speak easy and he bootlegged -- >> made liquor. >> that's an interesting dynamic. what was that like for him? >> swinging to extremes and having this great difficulty of balancing the say kret and the profane which for him was the rock 'n' roll, and it was very difficult to contain all the multitudes in him and that were so dynamic. >> can you talk about why it's important to think about him now? there are so many sort of figures from the past that people are recontextualizing.

why did you think little richard was due? >> i think richard's a touch stone for so much. it's the music, it's the transgressive impact on culture but it's also about hidden history. i think he was presented in one way and the full scope of his contributions have not been told. there are spaces and places that want to cancontain the telling black history. >> i hope people will take a look. be sure to tune in "little richard: i am everything" premieres monday right here on cnn. two supreme court justices have trips paid for by conservatives adding to the question if the court can

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morning, joan. >> good morning, audie. >> what do these forms disclose that we didn't know about before? >> you're right to talk about the context at the top, more media and congressional scrutiny on the justices these days, at a time they're known for their lack of transparency and this is the first time that justice thomas in years has even referenced some of these private jet trips taken at the expense of harlan crowe. what this form had his 2022 activities that included two -- a total of three trips that was financed on his private jet going to a dallas event and then also a very lavish excursion to harlan crow's estate, a beautiful vacation estate in upstate new york, and then going

back to 2014 clarence thomas acknowledged that he should have put on prior forms the fact that harlan crow bought three profits from members of the family in georgia, that benefited the thomas family but clarence thomas said there was an overall loss in the sale to him and he didn't think he had to report it. those were the details of that filing. just captured a single year except for the flashback to 2014. >> justice thomas claimed he was advise advised to avoid commercial travel for safety reason and this was after the leak of the draft opinion. can you talk about how that played into this? >> the leak of the dobbs ruling

last year was the case that did eventually overturn roe v. wade and he went to dallas on one of those trips and he said in his financial filing he had been advised -- i don't know if all justices had been advised but he said he was following advice from court authorities to avoid flying commercial. i am not aware of other justices taking private jets. i had known that might be something they would be doing. it was a very tense time after that leak emerged but he's citing that as a justification for at least that may trip, but we do know that many times in the past before that leak had come out, he had been flying on

harlan crow's dime. >> you had justice samuel alito confirm basically that he took a trip in 2002 paid for by a conservative group. i want to ask you about chief justice roberts, where is he in this and what is the sense of whether or not he considers it an actual problem. >> that is the question a lot of people are asking because as much as democrats in congress say they want to do something on this, they are limited largely by the political atmosphere in congress. legislation is unlikely to emerge from congress to try to force the court to have its own code of ethics. it's really in the hands of courts. some justices have looked to the chief to say show some leadership here and individual

justices say he is of the mind of having aanymorety. he acknowledged there's attention on this issue and said they are attending to trying to instill public confidence in the work of the court. when they left for the recess in june, they were deadlocked behind the scenes on whether they even needed a formal code of ethics. he's dealing with nine individuals but members of congress, advocacy groups are looking to the chief to show leadership. public confidence is plummeting. >> joan, thank you for following this. >> thank you. questions swirl about mitch mcconnell, they are calling for the senator to step down after that latest health scare.

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