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another major sentencing day for former leaders of the proud boys group is now getting under way. the prosecutors today seeking 27 years' jail time for at least one of the capitol attackers, and will he spend decades behind bars. and plus a new snapshot of the economy is in, and it is triggering phrase that everybody wants to hear, inflation could be cooling. and we will ask the white house about it later in the hour.

and donald trump avoids being on camera in court this time, but he won't be able to avoid it for long, and the judge is sure to make his trial must-see tv. with boris sanchez, and rahel solomon, i'm kate bolduan and this is cnn "news central." any moment now, the sentencing begins for two members of the far right group the proud boys for their roles in the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. right now, dominic pezzolla is getting ready to learn his fate for his role in smashing the window, and once inside, he lit a cigar and he took this video of himself. >> victory smoking in the capitol, boys. awesome. i knew we could take this

[ bleep ]. >> another proud boys member ethan nordean will be sentenced as well, and they may turn out to be the harshest. evan, what can we expect to happen so far today? >> well, we will be seeing some harsh sentences from the judge timothy kelly. look, i sat in on this sentencings that happened yesterday. and you just can't come away without feeling that these were the people that were victims of the lies told by the former president who urged his followers to come to the capitol hn january 6th, and these are the two men sentenced yesterday. joseph biggs got 17 years and zachary reel got 15 years and they spoke tearfully to the court, and they were very, very

sorry for their roles in the events on january 6th. and both of them, military men in the case of biggs who is a former army man and reel was also a former marine. both of them are going to have their daughters grow up without them being around. that is something that was weighing on them, as they spoke to the judge and spoke to the courtroom yesterday. their lawyer who i think spoke to the lawyers after the two sen tenni sent sentensings put the blame squarely on the president. >> it was unfair and we felt that the judge was in the probation department of the 10-year range was what we felt was high, and 10 to 17 years is too much. >> and rahel, the judge

emphasized that part of the reason that the sentencing was so harsh was because he said that what these men did were participating in what happened on january 6th took away from the american public one of the great traditions is that peaceful transfer of power, and they have taken it away from the american public, and that is something that he said was very important to emphasize as part of this. and look, before this sentencing, we heard from some of the police officers who were at, who bore the brunt of those attacks on january 6th, and one of them said that i was not sure that i would come home that day, and it was the first time she ever felt that way while on the job at the capitol. rahel? >> we will have to wait to see how the sentencing goes this morning. kate? any time a judge could make a critical ruling if the case against mark meadows is going to stay in the state courtroom or out to a federal one, and this

is a decision to impact far more than just mark meadows, because the ripple effects could impact mark med dose and the others and could push off the start of his trial just as some of the co-defendants are acting to speed it up in georgia. with all of that happening, i guess that we could describe it as behind the scenes, and just yesterday donald trump formally entered a plea of not guilty in that subversion case and waived the right to appear in fulton county for the arraignment set for wednesday. zachary cohen has all of these moving parts, zach, and there are a number of them around this case. what are you hearing about the timing and also how this decision can impact the rest of the defendants. >> yes, this ruling in meadows' case of trying to move his case to federal court could come at any point, and one of the several ongoing moving piece, but it is important, because it

could impact several defendants in the case and people like former doj official jeremy clark, and others who are former government officials who are arguing that the role they did around the 2020 election they did under the auspices of their government job. trump is not looking to move his case, and it is likely that his lawyers are watching and waiting to see what happens with meadows' case, but this ruling of meadows' case of whether he can move it to federal court is a very important one. >> thank you, zach, for your reporting. boris? >> and now, let's discuss this with what we just got this news in from marshall cohen, kenneth chesebro, one of the architects of the fake electors filed a plea of not guilty, and he like donald trump has filed to skip his arraignment next week. and renato, just quickly, your

reaction to that? >> well, i am not surprised. that initial appearance is called the arraignment and very little happens that is not perfunctory and usually the defendant pleas not guilty and the judge sets deadlines and skipping it to avoid the media circuit is making sense. >> and bit counter intuitive in that donald trump has not avoided the media circus at any point in his political career, and let's talk about mark meadows and the situation with him. the judge steve jones on that case could make a decision any moment as to whether to move the charges of meadows from state to federal court, and what are you looking for when that decision comes down? >> okay. a couple of things. first of all, as starting point, the issue here is whether or not the crimes that have been charged were essentially for an act under the color of his official duty. the bottom line is that the

judge has already signaled that the rico, you know, the rico crime that has been charged, the full scope of that was not part of meadow's duties, but certain pieces of it, and what was called the overt act were part of the official duties of meadows or at least the judge hinted at that. there's really nothing like this in the past, and there has been no case quite like this one. it is going to be interesting to see what the judge does. what i expect for the judge to do is to decide with prosecutor here, because the prosecutors are the ones who write the indictment, and i think they wrote it in a way to make it sound like it is not official, and they have the upperhand here and the argument. >> unchartered territory on a number of levels here. if meadows does not get his case moved to federal court, and he was chief of staff at the white house, and it is not more official than that to carrying out the wishes of the president,

right. so if he doesn't get his case moved, what does it mean for the other co-defendants who are trying to move their cases to federal court? >> very difficult. not only was he, you know, someone who was acting, you know, as the chief of staff to the president of the united states at the time, but his role was more advisory, okay. he was not somebody who was, you know, more decisionmaker, but somebody who was involved in the discussions and aiding trump, but he was not somebody out there submitting and writing the fake elector certificates or something that was hands on. he has pretty much the best argument, and this is why he is going first and others will try to follow. i will say for meadows who i think that is likely going to be avoiding the indictment in d.c. by becoming a witness for jack smith in georgia, and fani willis is having none of that, and he is a tough situation in a trial with a whole bunch of

others in state court. >> on the thought that he will be on trial with a whole bunch of others and one of the co-defendants ray smith filed a motion to divide the defendants into more manageable groups, and fani willis, the d.a., she wants them tried together, and what is the likelihood of that succeeding? >> well, prosecutors usually succeed, because the judges don't want to retry cases over and over, and they are agreeable people. the people who asked for the speedy trial, kenneth chesebro and the other trump lawyers who want a speedy trial will get their own, a everyone else is stuck tried together whether they like it or not. because the bottom line is that the judge doesn't want to try the same case multiple times over and over again. >> a lot of complicated legal maneuvers to walk through, and

renato mariotti, we appreciate the expertise, thank you. >> thank you. >> rahel? >> coming up, between the wildfires in hawaii and the hurricane, congress is pushing to give more money to fema. and plus an urgent appeal to donors in newly leaked audio, and what we are learning about the strategy and if this is meaning trouble for the florida governor. and football is back, and the conferences are changing, and the latest shake-up coming from out west. that is ahead. ♪ vicks vapostick provides soothing, non-medicated vicks vapors. [exhales] easy to apply r the whole family.

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an urgent appeal to donors and the leaked audio taking us inside of the strategy of one presidential campaign on the day of the first republican presidential campaign, and the leaders of ron desantis made a big ask obtained by leaked audio obtained by cnn they needed $50 million and they needed it quickly. steve contorno is part of the team that obtained audio and has interesting insight and reporting into the major super pac leading the way for ron desantis. and so, what is the pitch? what do they need? >> kate, there are about 60 donors at the meeting that was just down the street from where the debate was being held, and they were told according to the audio, look, we like our candidate, and we like our odds and the plan, but we are going up against someone in former president donald trump who is earning about $30 million a day of free exposure due to all of

the attention he gets, and on the days where he is indicted or going through the legal troubles, that grows to $100 million a day, so they were telling room, we need resources to fight that. how much? well, listen to what chris janikowski said. we just need your help getting 50 million more by the end of the year, and $100 million more by the end of march. i am not worried about the second 50, but we need the first 50. that is quite and ask given that the super pac had raised on its own less than 50 million from the time that desantis had entered race to the end of june, but the super pac has built out an unprecedented operation, and we have never seen the super pac take on the campaign trail and handling the logistics, but one of the logistics they did not expect to take on was

advertising which is incredibly expensive and $125 million already placed in iowa and new hampshire for the fall by the super pac, and that money is going to spread the message and keep it going through iowa and new hampshire through the rest of the year, and elsewhere in the audio is interesting. they are talking about who a typical ron desantis voter is. and jeff rowe the chief strategist for the super pac said, if you have an education, higher income, if you read the bible and go to church regularly, you are happening to be a desantis supporter, kate. >> interesting as always. thank you. rahel? >> and keeping with the race as it heats up for 2024, the presidential campaigns are spending big on advertising. between the start of the year and through the end of august, campaigns and outside groups have spent $100 million on the airwaves and the bulk of it is spent on four candidates --

former president donald trump, governor ron desantis and governor tim scott and former ambassador nikki haley who have spent over half thus far. joining us is political analyst david chalian. and looking at maga who is cooling the attacks on desantis, and is it is fair to say that they no longer see desantis as a threat? >> i don't think that you will be seeing either the trump campaign or the allied super pac maga, inc. taking their foot off of desantis, but you are right that we have seen a rotation in the ads and the super pac of trump is more focused on insulating donald trump from all of the legal morass that he is in.

so they are taking on as they call it the weaponization of the justice department and these political prosecutions as they are trying to portray the real legal peril that donald trump is in and protect him with the ad dollars, but they have an ad up talking about him as the extreme front-runner the race. rahel, surpassing $100 million is what you have not seen nothing yet, because we have not gotten into the heat of the campaign yet. >> and that is a good way to put it, "you ain't seen nothing yet." and now, going into the places like iowa and new hampshire, and m maga, inc. have been spending quite a bit on the other

advertising? >> it is the narrative of trump with the criminal indictments that he is facing, and it is not just an acute issue for him to insulate against and trying to mitigate in iowa and new hampshire, but it is nationally. there is little doubt about it. you will see that the trump campaign is supremely focused on the delegate race and organizing in the early states to try to put this nomination race to bed as quickly as they can. but from the advertising perspective, the super pac is more focused on the national campaign. >> and switching gears, david, to nikki haley who is on a national podcast and if she would be willing to offer the vice presidency to donald trump, and this is what she said. >> i don't know who i am going to offer it to, but i will tell you that it is the best person for the job, and it is not focus on whether the person is a man or woman, and not focused on whether what race they are.

it is not going to be focused on what is most popular. >> david, initial reaction to that? >> well, it is certainly the question is would you put donald trump on the ticket as a running mate, and this is the answer. i would say that donald trump should not be waiting by the phone if indeed nikki haley is the republican nominee that he is going to be getting the nod for number two. she did not reject it, and she does not want to offend his supporters in any way, but it is not a ringing endorsement. >> fair enough. and turning back to trump for a moment, and talk about potentially another roadblock, and some officials in some key ground states say they have a legality to bar trump from holding office that any american can be disqualified from holding office if they engage in insurrection or rebellion, and do you see this as a legitimate

roadblock? >> this is something that if indeed it is to be employed in some way, the use of the 14th amendment to block donald trump from ballots, it seems to me that it is going to be litigated all of the way to the united states supreme court. i know that there have been conservative legal scholars who have been writing about this in recent weeks that he is actually disqualified from being on the ballot, but it is something that has to be tested through the courts. so, what you are seeing here in the states is that election officials are saying, let's get to the test. if indeed we need to know whether or not it is appropriate to have him on the ballot, they need test cases to make their way through the judicial system. so elections officials are taking a look at this is one way about getting to that. >> and as you say, at least in terms of the ads spent, you ain't seen nothing yet with that $100 million spent. david chalian for us.

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and keep your wheels on the ! this morning, potentially new signs that inflation could be cooling. the august jobs report is just out, and it is showing that 187,000 jobs were added last

month. more than expected, but still a slowdown from the last two years of the blockbuster job growth but the unemployment rate jumped to 8.3%, and so we will hear from president biden about the state of the economy, and joining us is the acting secretary of labor. so is this a good report, mixed bag -- neither? how do you see it? >> it is a good jobs report. this is what you want to see if you are looking for a soft landing. it is continued job growth. it is no longer that break-neck speed that we saw at the beginning of the recovery, but this is what the president has been talking about when you are reaching a point where you have slow steady growth. we continue to have an unemployment rate that is less than 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s, and as you mentioned, more people coming

into the labor market, and this is a good jobs report. >> secretary, everyone in the administration is careful not to give advice to the federal reserve, but do you see in the data that it is suggesting that the federal reserve will raise the interest rates one more time? >> so, you are right. we don't comment on their policies, but this continues to be, you know, when you are combining the largest labor force participation rate since the pandemic, and we especially see it when it comes to women. the percentage of women in jobs is at a record rate for the fifth month in a row. so people are in jobs, and we have also seen some real wage growth year over year, and people have more money in their pockets and little bit more breathing room. this is a sign that bidenomics is doing what we hoped it would do, and that people are starting to feel it in the pocketbooks, too.

>> i wanted to ask you about that feeling, because it is one thing to talk about the data as a sign of the labor market and the overall health of the economy and that the picture is seen as improving, but it is another thing, another question if americans are feeling that way and believe it. the latest cnn polling from last month shows that the president's approval rate of the economy is worse than the overall approval rating, and the last look is 37% approval of the handling of the economy, and why is that? if things are better, why do you think that americans aren't believing it? >> yeah, i mean, i do think that actions speak louder than words, and so the workers are coming back into the labor market, and workers are leaving the jobs for better jobs, and these are all other signs of what is going on, and when i travel the country, and talk to working people, and when i talk to employers, and talk to, you know, community leaders, we are seeing not just

people in the labor market, but people who have not been in it before. people who have felt maybe left out from opportunity in the past. so we are focused on making sure that all communities when the president says that we have to build the economy from the middle-out, and bottom-up, and leave no one behind, that is the kind of thing that we are trying to do in every community across america, so families when we are talking about a good economy, we are meaning them, too. >> that message is needing to be sent further and longer. and now i wanted to ask you separately, but you unveiled a new rule this week that would expand guaranteed overtime pay to far more people, and what i have seen is an additional 3.6 million salaried workers. the move is being applauded, but also facing criticism from a range of industries, from retail to manufacturing, construction, and the national restaurant association put it this way. adding this kind of cost to

already high, the already high price of food, and increasing years of labor costs will leave the operators in the untenable position to raise prices or cutting the costs or closing their doors. could this move backfire? >> well, a basic promise of america has always been a just day's pay for a hard day's work. a part of that has always been overtime. meaning that if you are working a long week over 40 hours meaning that you should be paid for it, and it is a measured proposal to increase eligibility for overtime to people, you know, who are working hard and still really struggling to get by. it does start a comment period and we expect to get some comments about the impact, and we want to adopt a rule that is going to benefit the working people, but also benefit the employers who are working to increase their labor force in a

tight labor market. >> if the result of this, and it is a proposed rule right now, but if the result is that small businesses feel that they are forced to, i don't know, demote people to being more hourly wage earners in order to, i don't want to say get around, but if they are dealing with the high cost, and having less salaried workers, does it seem like it is a rule that is benefiting the worker? >> right. i mean, you are raising important question, right, which is whether the response will be to really comply with the requirement or to find other ways around it. our hope is that employers have seen that in the tight labor market improving the job quality is the way of attracting more workers. and it is important for worker retention. so, you know, we are hoping that what we will see are employers who are understanding that making sure that workers get

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welcome back. right now, hong kong is bracing for the powerful typhoon. it is marked a t-10 which is the strongest possible and about the same as a category 4 hurricane. we go to ivan watson who is joining us from hong kong. ivan, tell us more about the conditions and what is it like now. >> right. well, the eyewall of the storm is currently passing over hong kong and so there is a little bit of a lull, and so this is the equivalent of a category 4 hurricane force, and only four times in 23 years that hong kong's authorities have declared a t-10 super typhoon, and this is one of them. they have been taking it very seriously. they shut down the schools today, and the stock exchange, and hundreds of flights

canceled, and that going for southern china, and mainland china, and the city of shenzhen with the closing of the airport today, and they closed their schools adds well. the city is almost deserted with the streets on a friday night with exception of emergency workers, police, and fire trucks moving around right now. people are staying indoors. the hong kong authorities are telling the people to stay away from their windows right now. this is actually a typhoon shelter that i am in right now. so this is supposed to be protecting boats here in the marina, but we haven't seen high tide yet. it is about another hour, and the authorities are predicting that the storm surge could potentially break records in some parts of the city, a city that is accustomed and built to withstand very powerful tropical storms, and treating this one very, very seriously. rahel. >> and it is sounding like they have good reason to.

ivan watson live in hong kong, and be safe. we appreciate your being with us. kate? >> tomorrow, president biden is going to florida to assess the damage left behind from the hurricane that hit landfall there which was a hurricane 3 which had high winds and surge. one firm estimates that the price tag for the storm could reach $20 billion, and as you well know, this is the latest in the string of major weather events that has forced the fema disaster fund to the brink. we have learned this morning that president biden is asking congress for more help on this very thing, and requesting an additional $4 billion to reflen nref reflenish the fema fund. and there are no sign of the

natural disasters letting up. boris. >> as kate just said, no sign of the natural disasters letting up. we want to go to maui where there are still missing individuals from those catastrophic wildfires. the governor was telling cnn that he is hoping that the number is fewer than 50. remember, there were hundreds and hundreds missing, but right now, the death toll is standing at 115. we are joined by natasha chen. so the major posted a video laying out what the team did before and after the fires were sparked. there is a lot of criticism for the way that the officials have handled the response. >> yeah, boris, it seems that he did that after a tuesday press conference when he was pressed on why he or anyone with the county did not communicate with the state about deaths from the fire until the following day, and so now we know from these videos that he posted last

night, that he, himself did not know that there were deaths until august 9th. here is part of what he said. >> the severe gravity of the impact was not clear in the initial hours as our firefighters and police on the ground placed all of their efforts and actions towards helping people in the affected areas. i became aware of fayle the tis on the morning of august 9th which i shared with the lieutenant governor's team. and the realization that we had lost lives was devastating. >> reporter: and during the earlier press conference this week, the major general hara clarified that even if they had known of the deaths earlier than august 9th, there may not have been a lot more that they could have done even though the resources and equipment, and staff were available to launch, he says that conditions were so

difficult, that it may not have helped too much. in fact, he said by the time that there was situational awareness, it was unfortunately too late, because the fire was moving a mile a minute, and that speaking of those fatalities that as you mention, death toll is at 115 at the moment, and you mentioned that missing or unaccounted list that is going to be updated today. last week it stood at 388, and they have been able to bring the number down by quickly determining that some of the people on the list who are incarcerated or incorrectly reported, and the actual number of missing person reports filed with the police department was also cut in half, the governor said yesterday, because they immediately found some of them unfortunately had died or they were in a hospital, and this is why the governor is hoping that the number may be below 50 today, boris. >> natasha chen, thank you for the reporting. rahel. >> coming up for us, very few

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>> this is why i have worked as hard as i have my whole life to play in atmospheres like this, and may not win them all just like today, but to play in front of this crowd and to have the support that i have had is pretty special. so, thank you. >> and big congratulations to him after an incredible career. and elsewhere when you thought that conference realignment was over in football, think again. the acc board of directors is voting to approve addition of stanford and cal and smu next season. when the additions are approved they will have eight team, and now the eight-year-old conference pac-12 will be left with just two teams. and now, saying that ronald

acuna had a won great day is an understatement. with one swing of the bat he made history with post-season implications no less. this is the second inning with the dodgers and breaks a tie with a grand slam home run, but it is not any home run, but the 30th of the season which makes him the first player in major league history to go yard 30 times and steal 60 bases in a single season which loomed large in a 8-3 braves' win, and however, that is might not the most memorable part of the day. earlier in the day, he married his long time girlfriend maria at a small ceremony at a house in the mountains about 45 minutes from the team, and the couple have two young sons together, and he is hoping to postpone the honey to the --

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