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are reacting and what it means for the broader economy. plus, shut down showdown. congress is on the clock to pass a bill funding critical programs from disaster relief to ukraine military aid and now some republicans say they'll only support it if certain controversial demands are met. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to "cnn news central." ♪ any moment, a judge in georgia could issue a key ruling on mark meadows, trump's former white house chief of staff. meadows is trying to get his racketeering case moved from state to federal court, from georgia to federal court, and if meadows' case stays in state court, it will be televised. the presiding judge in fulton county saying all of trump's and his 18 codefendants' hearings and trials will be live streamed

and they can be televised. in another major development in the georgia case, today one of those codefendants entered a not guilty plea. attorney kenneth chesebro, the architect of the trump campaign's fake elector plot. he's also just told a judge today that he wants a solo trial. joining us now, we have cnn's sara murray. this new filing by chesebro on wanting a solo trial, he says he doesn't want to be tried alongside former trump lawyer sidney powell, which is something that i think many legal experts would say is a good idea. tell us about this. >> yeah. i mean, he and sidney powell are the two who have asked the judge for a speedy trial. ken chesebro's trial is set for october of this year, and he's making clear in this motion, he does not want to go to trial alongside sidney powell. his attorney basically says, look, ken chesebro has been accused of being the architect of this fake elector plot. sidney powell is being accused

of a variety of things, mainly involving voting machines and this election breach in coffee county, and they're saying this is like oil and water. these two schemes don't go together. they shouldn't go to trial alongside each other, that chesebro didn't have any direct communication with sidney powell and essentially he should be allowed to go forward on this alone. and chesebro, of course, has entered a not guilty plea, as has sidney powell. we now have 10 of the 19 defendants in this case who have filed not guilty pleas, waived their arraignments. today we got ken chesebro, harrison floyd, mike roman and bob chilly all entering their not guilty pleas. there's a bit of house keeping that has to happen before we hear from the judge. >> how sifgnificant is it that all of the fulton county proceedings will be livestreamed or televised? >> it will be very interesting depending on who goes to trial in state court. is this going to be a trial that

involves people like druonald trump and rudy giuliani and mark meadows, or are we going to see those folks split off into federal court where we're not going to have cameras? you can envision, if this really does become a sprawling trial where you're seeing these huge number of codefendants all in there together with someone like the former president, that could be very entertaining to watch. >> yes, it could be entertaining and informative. sara murray, thank you so much for that report. a stronger than expected jobs report is out today. despite that, the labor market does continue to cool, giving economists hope that the fed will once again hold off on interest rate hikes. it shows the u.s. economy added 187,000 jobs last month. here's president joe biden this afternoon. >> more than 700,000 people joined the labor force last month, which means the highest share of working age americans are in the workforce now than at any time in the past 20 years. people are coming off the

sidelines, getting back to their workplaces. >> but the unemployment rate actually increased by 0.3% last month. cnn business and politics correspondent vanessa joins me now. what more do these numbers reveal? >> this report is a strong report. it is in line with what we've seen pre-pandemic, and it signals a continued cooling of the labor market. 187,000 jobs added in august and june and july's numbers were revised down by over 100,000 jobs. so, a softening in those months, even greater than what we saw. the unemployment rate, as you mentioned, ticking up to 3.8% and that is because of what you heard president biden talk about there. you have more people coming off the sidelines. labor force participation rate is up. and that means that more people are in the labor market looking for jobs. now, the industries that saw the

biggest gains in terms of jobs added are construction, health care, leisure and hospitality. those saw tens of thousands of jobs added. and then some of the sectors that we saw job losses are the sectors that we've heard about in the news recently. so, you have trucking, a loss of 37,000 jobs. that's because one company here in the u.s., yellow trucking, went under, laid off 30,000 people. you see that reflected in those numbers. and if you've been following the actors and the writers' strikes over the past couple weeks, you see those numbers reflected in motion picture and sound production. that's the ripple effect, 17,000 jobs lost there. the fed has a duty ahead of them to figure out whether or not this report is good enough to pause interest rates, alex. we'll find out at the end of september when they have their meeting and see if they're going to take that pause or continue to raise rates to get inflation under control. alex? >> yeah, those numbers still being assessed.

vanessa yurkevich, thank you very much. brianna? when it comes to the federal government's internal economy, things are unsettled, and a critical dead lline is looming just ahead. the white house is pushing congress to pass a short-term spending bill to avoid a shutdown. the key players hash out a long list of disagreements. the current funding for the government is set to expire at the end of this month. cnn's kayla tauche is live for us at the white house. >> brianna, president biden has called the possibility of a shutdown a serious, serious problem and said he hopes there's more maturity on capitol hill than to allow a shutdown to happen. but just this week, the white house threw its weight behind a short-term funding deal that congressional leaders have been saying for weeks is the best option to keep the government open through the fall and to avert a shutdown. a spokesperson for the office of management and budget telling cnn it is clear that a short-term continuing

resolution, a so-called cr, will be needed next month. the biden administration is still pushing to secure more than $40 billion in supplemental funding. that includes an increased ask for $16 billion in disaster aid and $24 billion in ukraine defense spending. the white house this week also see seeking assurances that certain programs for nutritional assistance for low-income households would not be interrupted by a shutdown or the potential for a shutdown. but you may remember that just three months ago, president biden and leaders in congress struck a deal to set limits on government spending, and to put together a framework that was supposed to provide a runway for negotiators to reach an agreement for full-year spending on a comprehensive basis. so, i asked the white house, what's happened in the last three months? what has the white house been doing to try to push for that deal? here's what press secretary

karine jean-pierre told me. >> we have had multiple conversations, multiple calls with congressional members on the hill, but this does not take away their job and their duty to keep their word. we're -- all we're doing is asking them to keep their word. we came to an agreement in a bipartisan way. they should keep their word, and they can avoid congress, they, being congress, can avoid a government shutdown. >> the press secretary said that the budget director, sholanda young, and the office of legislative affairs have been leading those conversations, which we expect will pick up in earnest when congress returns in the coming weeks. brianna? >> yeah. starting next week here, we're looking, kayla. thank you so much. all right, so, mel, what are the sticking points for republicans as we get back to work after august recess? >> well, conservatives are ratcheting up their demands in the funding fight, making for a very potentially messy september here. they are saying that they are

not going to support a clean continuing resolution. they said the freedom caucus took an official position, and they want a short-term spending bill to include a house gop border security package. meanwhile, you have marjorie taylor greene, who is a conservative, but also a close kevin mccarthy ally, who said she wants the house to vote on an impeachment inquiry, end all covid vaccine mandates and also defund parts of the doj before she would be willing to vote for a short-term spending patch. and there are a number of conservatives who say they don't want disaster aid to be linked to ukraine aid. that is something that the white house has requested and that there's been early discussions about attaching that to a spending bill. all that remains to be seen. but we should point out here, brianna, that kevin mccarthy doesn't actually need the support of hardline conservatives to get something like that over the finish line, because presumably, it would have democratic support. but the challenge for mccarthy is that he also doesn't want to enrage those very conservatives who could force a vote to oust him as speaker at any given

moment. so, it's a very tricky balancing act for kevin mccarthy. he's been working in recent weeks behind the scenes to try to convince them to back off. but we'll see if that's enough to convince them to do so, bri. >> yeah, it feels like that is what he is always doing, certainly, mel and kayla, thank you so much. >> evergreen statement. >> hold on to that one. thank you guys so much. after news of new health concerns for senator mitch mcconnell, republican presidential candidate nikki haley calls the senate the "most privileged nursing home in the united states." so, how do voters feel? plus, russia reeling from new ukrainian drone attacks targeting moscow. the impact that this technology is having on the war. and later, the truth is out there, and the pentagon wants at least some of it online. the one-stop shop just launched by the u.s. government for information on ufos.

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on the first day of -- on the day of the first republican presidential debate, the leaders of the super pac backing ron desantis made a huge ask. according to the leaked audio obtained by cnn, the super pac heads told donors who were gathered in milwaukee that they needed money and they needed it fast. they 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'm not worried about the second 50. we need the first 50." joining us now, steph kite, a political reporter for axios and republican strategist and former rnc coms director doug heye with us. money. is that the solution here, you think, doug, to getting desantis back some momentum? >> it's part of the solution. you can't get there without it. a better debate performance form would have helped fuel some of that money, but this is a big ask at a time that donors are asking themselves a lot of questions. there's also another issue here. this is the second time that we have seen audio of internal

conversations that the desantis campaign has had that we've all then seen. the last time, they referred to donald -- one of the senior aides in the pac referred to trump as the runaway nominee. if you're nominee is running away with it, that means you don't have much of a chance. they need to lock that down, make sure these things don't leak. >> who's the mole? >> that's what we don't know. >> okay, so, does desantis, steph, have a lack of money problem or does he also have a lack of something else problem? >> i think those two problems are combined a little bit here. obviously, he started off with a lot of momentum and energy and hope around his campaign for a lot of people who were looking for a serious challenger to donald trump, but we've seen it's just been a rough summer for desantis over and over and over again, and money is a big part of it, of course. his campaign's own fund-raising numbers were less than stellar when we saw those filings earlier this year and now we're seeing his super pac, which started with plenty of money, to

get them through the early part of the campaign, is also now having to go to donors and ask for a significant sum, and it's very indicative of the campaign realizing and desantis supporters realizing that this is a critical moment, and something has to change as we get closer and closer to the iowa caucuses. >> one of the things that i have learned covering politics, and i'm sure that you have learned being in politics, is i never want to think that i know what voters are going to want or how someone as a candidate can learn how something can turn out. do you think, stef, that desantis could turn this around with some adjustments? >> i mean, he could. i feel like you have to give him an opportunity to do so. the super pac seems to be trying to convince people that they have a plan to get there. but you look at the polling numbers. you look at those polling averages, and he has continued to decline while we've started to see other candidates who, you know, just a few months ago no one was considering very seriously are now starting to gain momentum, whether it's vivek ramaswamy or nikki haley, so it's hard to see desantis not

only catching up to trump but now having other candidates that he is trying to fight against as well. >> let's talk about ramaswamy. he is pushing this peace proposal for the ukraine war that would cede ukrainian territory to russia with the assurance ukraine would not join nato if russia cuts off ties with china. you have critics who are saying, look, this is radically pro-putin. do you think it will resonate with voters, though? >> not necessarily. the concern here for vivek and his campaign isn't whether it's radically pro-putin or not. it's that it's radically unserious. for vivek, who's pushed for so long to get any attention that he could, if you have a podcast that four people listen to, he would do it. he would go anywhere and everywhere just like mayor pete did in his campaign, but i think there was more substance there. so, what we've seen is as he's strived for attention, he's now getting it and with attention comes scrutiny and that's where on issues like ukraine or especially even israel, he's getting a lot of pushback from

within the party, not because he's right or wrong. that's a separate issue. but because he doesn't look serious. >> he's having a hard time withstanding that scrutiny, very much to your point. this week, we saw republican senator mitch mcconnell freeze up in a news conference. this was actually the second time in five weeks that this has happened. republican presidential candidate nikki haley had a blistering, quite frankly, reaction to this. let's listen. >> what i will say is right now, the senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country. i mean, you know, mitch mcconnell has done some great things, and he deserves credit, but you have to know when to leave. >> ouch. what do you think about that? you know, sort of harsh words aside, does she have a point on the age or not? >> you look at polls, again, and americans are concerned about what they're seeing when they're seeing these instances of aging politicians tripping up. it's not just mcconnell, of course.

it's also dianne feinstein who has been missing in action in the senate, hurting democrats' ability to get judicial nominees through, and we're looking at the potential for 2024 presidential election to have the two oldest candidates in history facing off against each other and that continues to be a point that americans are concerned about when you look at polling around biden, democrats tend to point to the age issue as a reason why they want to see someone else other than biden as the nominee. so, this is going to continue to be an issue, and there's going to continue to be these conversations about the idea of age limits, but at this point in time, there's very little that can be done in a situation like mcconnell's. >> where's the line, doug, between, okay, someone is old, but are they still doing the job? or do they need small accommodations? is a condition they have maybe getting in the way of the job? because these are all important questions that might separate different politicians. >> the reality is it depends on who you are and what your role is. we saw in the past where you had

senators like strom thurmond who fundamentally, towards the last two or three years of their career, could not do the job. quite often, their chief of staff was sort of the shadow senator. what we'll see with mcconnell or look to see, during the first incident, he came back to say, i'm here, i'm vigorous, i'm on the job. this is how it operated with dehydration and so forth. we'll see him do the same thing, presumably, this weekend. what we forget is regardless of nikki haley's comments, she hints at, this is a club, and ultimately, this decision is going to be made by senate republicans, not by chuck schumer or any senate democrat or not by anybody outside of the senate. it will be mitch mcconnell and senate republicans who make any decision if one's made. >> yeah. very interesting point. doug heye, stef kight, thank you so much. moscow feeling the impact of ukraine's use of drones to

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ukraine's foreign minister is making clear his country's much-touted counteroffensive is not failing. >> if ukraine was failing, i would probably be the first one to speak the truth, but we are not failing. we are moving forward. we liberated dozens of square kilometers of our land through mine fields with no air coverage. how does it feel when you come back from your mission and you take back your phone, you open it, and you start reading all these smart people saying how slow, how slow you are and that you are not doing well enough, you just lost two of your buddies, you were almost killed. you crawled one kilometer on your belly, demining the field. you sacrificed yourself. you took the russian trench in a fierce fight, and then you read someone saying, oh, guys, you are too slow. >> one of the tools that ukraine is using more and more in its modern warfare against russia is

drones, including recent attacks on cities inside russia. cnn's christiane amanpour takes us inside the training to become a drone operator. >> any support is welcome in ukraine, especially if it appears blessed by jesus, say these drone students, set up in an abandoned church working on their simulators. and convinced their cause is just. >> we do whatever we can now to resist because russians want to kill all of us. this is genocide. >> reporter: next door in the construct and repair class, yulia solders and tweaks and teaches. this part is fairly simple and fun, she says. did you study engineering? what are you in normal life? >> a writer and a film director. >> reporter: and now you're a drone operator. >> yes. >> reporter: we're not allowed to disclose the location where yulia and the others put theory

into practice. here in this innocuous looking field with a rudimentary obstacle course, this could almost be child's play, but with deadly results, of course. these are all civilian drones that the ukrainians are repurposing for their current war effort. they can be bought off store shelves. but this signifies a turning point in the conduct of modern warfare. a $500 drone that's been weaponized can take out vehicles and weapons systems worth millions. this software engineer started the victory drones initiative. >> the most advantages are it's one of the most cost effective weapons, and it's also -- it's also weapon and it's could be used as reconnaissance. for reconnaissance purposes, if you see the enemy, you can hit enemy, you can hide like your soldiers. >> reporter: but enemy can see

you. >> yeah. if you don't use security measurements. >> reporter: like hiding or disguising their signals because the russians are adapting fast. she says they're mostly crowd-funded and have deals with the ukrainian military to train frontline troops. tens of thousands so far in what's become indispensable strategy. that was just practice, dropping a water bottle full of sand. but just a few days ago, the group says one of their former trainees took out this russian tank on the eastern front. they can also wipe out artillery positions and troop carriers. how long did it take you to learn to fly? many of these citizen soldiers are women, busting stubborn myths. and yulia, of course, agrees. in fact, she assembles the drones her husband flies too. and a lot of women have taken up this fight. >> yeah, we are all people, and we are fighting for our existence.

it doesn't matter a lot. whoa. >> reporter: these, of course, are repurposed civilian drones. the bigger military drones are being used now increasingly to attack inside russia as we've seen this week and the ukrainian defense intelligence chief says the idea is to tie up russian resources and take the fight into, as he puts it, the territory of the enemy. i also spoke to ukraine's foreign minister, and he tells me any criticism from, you know, armchair warriors and think tank experts about the pace of this counteroffensive is unfair. he said it's like spitting in the eyes of our soldiers who are literally sacrificing their lives, of course, to defend every inch and to try to li liberate more territory. back to you. >> our thanks to christiane amanpour for that report. now to some of the other headlines that we're watching this hour. in hong kong, they are still feeling the effect of a powerful

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be a one-stop shop for information on unidentified anomalous phenomena. cnn pentagon correspondent orin lieberman is here with us. i'm only saying that once. it's too hard to say. this is like an intel hub that includes declassified photos and videos. i think a lot of people are going to be interested in this. what else is on it, and why did the pentagon make this site? >> reporter: the idea is to make a one-stop shop for not only the reporting -- put out information once a uap incident has been identified and resolved or at least as far as d.o.d. and the apparatus working on this can get it. so you'll see they've already posted some fairly new videos of uaps. this one, i believe, is of a commercial aircraft they determined after looking at the video itself and other information they had. but the idea here is that d.o.d. is well aware of not only the interest in this but also that these can be a national security issue, and that's why this is so

important to the department of defense. so, at some point soon, this will be a place where current and former u.s. government employees can go and submit reports of uaps, even going back decades. and then after that, within a couple months, according to the pentagon, the public will also be able to report on uap incidents. there's also more information here. this is a typical uap report or what they expect to see in one of these reports, some interesting information here. most of these are described as round, of a size between 1 and 4 meters, somewhere between 10 to 30,000 feet, a color of white or translucent or silver and then moving anywhere between stationary to mach 2, which is about 1,300 miles an hour, so certainly a bit of a range there. there's also a map of uap hot spots, we'll call it ufo hot spots to make this a little easier, and you'll see these areas where the hot spots are. the east coast, the west coast of the u.s., the middle east there, and then eastern asia. so, also interesting on where

d.o.d. says they get most of their reports. again, the idea here, and the reason this was created, the office was created, to standardize this and to try to figure it out. brianna, as of last update, they have some 650 reports of uaps they're going through. >> all right. i can't wait for that wiki ufo. i'm going to be all over that. oren lieberman, thank you. it has been two years since the last american troops left afghanistan. today t united states is still struggling to protect civilians who supported america's fight against the taliban for all those years. a new government watchdog report finds that the backlog in the special immigrant visa program will not improve, and there are no plans for a significant boost of resources. that means that thousands of afghan civilians and their families who stood fearlessly, it must be side, along u.s. troops, will remain stuck in limbo.

jake tapper joins us now. jake, on "the lead," you're going to be talking about this and new reporting on the families who lost their loved ones at abbey gate during that chaotic withdrawal two years ago. >> that's right. earlier this week, there was a hearing on capitol hill. it was during a lot of the hurricane coverage, so it didn't get as much coverage as it deserved. 13 gold star families who lost loved ones at abbey gate two years ago. with some very tough questions for the administration and not just general questions about accountability but more specific ones based on some questions that have come from congressional testimony and also from reporting. so, today, on "the lead," we're going to take a look at two of those questions and try to get answers based on documents and interviews that we have done. >> so, it's less about the withdrawal itself and specifically about this incident and why -- >> i'll tell you the two questions. one of them is, according to testimony from one marine sniper

who was grievously wounded, he had in his sights someone who matched the description, a description of the suicide bomber they had gotten and he says he was not given permission to engage with that individual. what is the truth behind that? what are the claims behind that? what was the description of the individual? what do other marines have to say about it? what is the administration's response to it? the other one has to do with some -- a briefing that's contained in one of the pentagon's investigations in which an individual claims that before the bombing, a couple days before, i think, isis, the group that later claimed credit for the suicide bombing, was known to have had a staging area at a hotel a few miles away from abbey gate, and according to this one individual, the u.s. knew about it, asked the taliban to take it out, and the taliban declined to do so. we'll be diving into that as well, trying to get to the root

of that. >> it's been two years, but those scenes are still so fresh. they really do stick with you, and obviously, particularly tragic that these 13 lives were lost at the very last moment of america's presence in afghanistan. >> and this is the definition of journalism. these are people who feel powerless, and they have questions, and we are giving voice to them and trying to get some answers on their behalf. >> yeah, really looking forward to seeing it. thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. and be sure to tune in for "the lead" with jake tapper at the top of the hour. we certainly will. rock and roll owes a lot to richard penman, who you may know as little richard, but has his legacy been overlooked? we have a look at the new cnn film on the iconic music pioneer next. c bank. helping businesses both large and smamall, communities and the people who live and work theree grow a and thrive. we're proud to call these places home too. they're where we put down roots,

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birng of rock and roll have been dominated by straight, white, icons like elvis and the beatles. now the new film little richard, i am everything, takes a look at the black queer origins of rock and roll and the man who brought it all to life. >> it is just a shot out of a cannon. his voice. he created the rock and roll icon. >> it was elvis. >> i am the king of rock and roll. >> what you love that you parents hate is the beginning of the soundtrack of your life. >> little richard's lyrics were too laud lewd to get played on the radio.

>> he was very good at liberating other people. he was not good at liberating himself. ♪ >> michael was inspired by me. prince, james brown, i discovered him and jimi hendrix was my guitar player. >> everyone was beholden to him. ♪ >> and joining us now is jason king, the dean of the thornton school of music at the university of southern california. and he appears in the film as well. jason, hard to overstate just how huge little richard was at his peak. but he was a gay black man with a very sexualized performance style. how did he become such a major star in the conservative jim crow era that he was becoming a star in? >> it is true, he was a

overground mainstream figure. he had nine top 40 pop hits, and he had 17 top 40 r&b hits. but he was a gay, queer, black man. he was feminine. he was gender nonconfirming and he did all of this at a time in which it was extremely difficult to do that. it was a time of incredible homophobia, and racism, legally sanctioned segregation. i think the way he was able to do it because of the amazing songs. tooty fruity, and lucille, long, tall sally. the songs are well written and he performed them with this wild child energy. if you look at the lyrics to the songs, their pretty graphic and they're really ribald. but they are also coated. and he's saying whop bop

allow bob. people found that humorous without really understanding the full transgression that he embodied. >> he was so popular but then you have elvis and beatles, the beatles, they're imitating his style. we heard that there in the bit from the film. they're singing his songs. and they really get to the point where they're overshadowing him. what kind of impact did that have on little richard? >> oh, it was devastating to little richard. on one hand, everybody wants to be like little richard and to imitate him. certainly john lennon, paul mccartney, the beatles, they wanted to be everything that he was. he was very free, he had this incredible energy. he had sing like nobody else. but there was a terrible tradition in the 1950s in the music industry where record labels would take white artists and they would have them cover songs by black artists. and they would often do them in

the sort of tepid milk toast renditions that generated more success than the black artist themselves for their own music. on top of that, little richard never received his due in terms of publishing royalty. his records were advantageous and this hurt him professionally and he exited the music industry by 1959. he left for the church but most people think the reason that he left was because he had been so hurt by the way that he had been treated in the music industry. >> it is heartbreaking. and you see just that the largesse of his talent. it is unbelievable. jason king, thank you so much for sharing about little richard with us. i can't wait to learn even more for our viewers turn in little richard, i am everything, it will premiere monday on 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific right here on cnn. well it is business at the front and a long party in the

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when is the last time you cut your hair? i feel like it was -- >> just a couple of days ago. >> got to keep up. well, a woman from tennessee said the last time she got a hair cut is february of 1990 and now she's a world record holder. she's the proud guinness record holder for the longest female mullet. >> growing the longest mullet never really started out as anything other than it was the '80s and everybody had a rat

tail and i started growing mine and over the years it kept growing. a lot of people noticed it when i turn around. so most of the time it is like they don't know how long my hair is until they look at the back side. >> from rat tail to mullet. it is all business in the front but this is where she started to take the cake. in the back, it is 5'8" of party. tammy said she had a mullet back in the 80s and decided to cut it in 1989 and immediately regretted it. she hasn't touched it since. that was 33 long years ago. >> she loved her mullet. but she has to tuck it into her pockets when she rides her bike. does this work for you? >> yeah. like in "star wars." >> i'll just do this. >> she could just braid it. >> "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. from proud