place an injunction on me from putting trump's name on the ballot. i know there are similar activities going on in other states. it is probably likely that one of those lawsuits will filter its way up to the supreme court. but it doesn't make sense to say the delegate nomination process, where you have some states that are taking the name off the ballot and other states are leafing the name on the ballot. >> right. >> that will just cause confusion. >> talk about something that is unprecedented. add this question to the list. david scanlon, the new hampshire secretary of state, hopefully i will see you up there shortly as people start to come and file. thanks for joining us. >> look forward to it. a programming note, i will sit down with california governor gavin newsom for a one-on-one interview on monday. tune in to see it at 9:00 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining "inside politics." "cnn news central" starts right

now. ♪ off the job and on the picket line. thousands of union auto workers take part in a coordinated strike against the big three automakers simultaneously. the first time this has ever happened. we'll take you to where talks stand at this hour. plus, donald trump denies he ever asked a mar-a-lago staffer to delete surveillance video, potential evidence in his classified documents case. and the former president says he is willing to testify under oath. but will his attorneys let him? and what trump is saying about the secret documents he took from the white house. utter destruction. that's how a cnn reporter is describing scenes in libya after catastrophic flooding there. 5,000 lives confirmed lost. making matters worse, the u.n. says most of the deaths could have been avoided.

we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to "cnn news central." ♪ it is an american labor strike unlike anything the nation has ever seen. right now, thousands of auto workers are on the picket line. they're striking against all of the big three u.s. automakers, general motors, ford, and stellantis, for the first time in history. this is not a full-scale walkout at the moment. the uaw is targeting three huge plants in michigan, ohio and missouri. of the union's 145,000 member, only about 13,000 have walked off the job so far. that number, though, could expand if time drags on and there is no deal. workers want a 40% pay raise, and they want a cost of living increase reinstated. they also want to go back to traditional pension plans and

health coverage for retirees. the ceo of ford saying that a 40% pay increase for workers would put the company out of business. general motors' ceo told cnn she's frustrated and some of the union's demands are not realistic. president biden just spoke for the first time since the strike began, and we're going to bring you his comments here in a moment. first, though, cnn's gabe cohen is on the scene for us in toledo, ohio, outside -- inside, i should say, of a local uaw headquarters. tell us what you're seeing there. >> reporter: we're about 3 miles down the road from the sta stellantis factory where they make 3,000 jeeps every day. right now, there are picketers outside of the gates of the factory. this is where most of the workers are today. behind me, thousands of autoworkers showing up because they're signing up for their strike pay right now. they'll be getting $100 a day

starting today. it is not much, but it is what's going to be happening. that's being paid by the union, not by stellantis. i want to bring in right now, if you can turn this way, i'm going to bring in the president, bruce, of this local 12 union. bruce, this could -- this strike, they said it was going to be targeted. it could have hit so many different facilities across the country, but it is here in toledo, ohio. 5,800 of your members who are going to be bearing the economic brunt of this, at least for now. $100 a day of strike pay. what is the mood like, and what are you hearing from them? >> well, we wanted to be the target. we thought if we were the target, because our product is so hot in the marketplace and they make so much profit off of it, that it would be an easier strike to win. because we can't shut the jeep plant down. this is the only place they make them in the world, toledo, ohio. >> reporter: do you get any sense of what type of progress is being made on the negotiation, and how long are

your members willing and ready to strike? >> our members are willing to stay in for the long haul. we had a strike on the other side of town. i remember staying out for seven weeks until they got a fair contract. our members here are willing to do the same thing, whatever it is going to take. i think i'm pretty much an optimistic, so i'm hoping it gets resolved quickly. i think it will. our president, shawn fain, made a great choice by closing our plant and the gm and the ford plant. he those the most profitable products to shut down. >> reporter: why is this strike necessary, based on your members and those in toledo? >> we went through bankruptcy with barack obama in 2008 and the beginning of 2009. we were told by the president, we had to give up huge concessions for them to get the government support to turn their companies around. we did that. it hasn't been reversed. back in -- when we came out of bang run sit,

bankruptcy, $15. 14 years later, this is $15.78. something wrong with that. >> reporter: thank you for letting us into your union headquarters today. again, thousands of these autoworkers, 5,800 who are part of this toledo local union, are coming in today to get that strike pay. it's not much money and, for now, that's what they're going to be living off of. feeding their families with. that's how they're going to sustain. >> yeah, and, look, that starting pay, that is a number that is stark. that is not much of an increase over time, even as some of these ceos say that some of their demands are unrealistic. that one certainly stands out there as perhaps not. gabe cohen, thank you so much. we appreciate the report. the uaw says there will be no negotiations with the big three today. we have cnn's vanessa yur yurke. she sat down with gm's ceo. mary barra is frustrated by the stalemate.

>> we understand the world has changed, and that's why we put a historic offer on the table with the increases. i think our manufacturing team is the best on the field. the way they manage through the covid situation and continue to build cars, trucks and crossover, the way we managed and they, you know, moved with us as we went through the semiconductor shortage, and still the supply challenges we see today. they're very resilient. you know, i want to recognize them because our manufacturing team, along with the engineering team, for the last two years has been number one in jd power quality. we have a very talented team. we put a historic offer on the table, and that's why i'm so disappointed and frustrated. >> the union is demanding, asking for a 40% wage increase over four years. they're asking for that in part because they say ceos like yourself leading the big three are making those kind of pay increases over the course of the last four years. you've seen a 34% pay increase in your salary.

you make almost $30 million. why should your workers not get the same type of pay increases that you're getting leading the company? >> well, if you look at compensation, my compensation, 92% of it is based on performance of the company. one of the strong aspects of the way our compensation for our representative employees is designed is not only are we putting a 20% increase on the table, we have profit sharing. when the company does well, everyone does well. for the last several years, that's resulted in record profit sharing for our representative employees. you have to look at the whole compensation package. not only 20% increase in gross wage but also the profit sharing aspect of it. world class health care. there's several other features. we think we have a very competitive offer on the table, ask that's why we want to get back there and get this done. >> our thanks to vanessa yurkevich for the conversation with mary barra. meanwhile, president biden called on awe cutomakers to go

further in their offers to union workers. we go live to the white house. kayla, what did president biden say? >> reporter: boris, major automakers have, so far, offered roughly half the pay increases that workers are seeking. while the white house has, up until this point, taken a neutral chance and encouraged both sides to reach a deal, today, president biden went the furthest that he's gone in putting the administration firmly on the side of the workers in saying that the automakers' offers have not gone far enough. >> auto companies have seen record profits, including the last few years, because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices the uaw workers. those record profits have not been shared fairly, in my view, with those workers. the be thottom line is, auto wos help create america's middle class. they deserve a contract that

sustains them in the middle class. >> reporter: so far, uaw has not asked the administration for direct involvement in the talks. rather, asking for broader policy changes that would help the union and sustain union jobs over the long haul. one of the examples of that is prioritizing union sites in the dispersement of tens of billions of dollars in loans from the department of energy that will be coming out. that being said, though, boris, president biden said that acting labor secretary and james spurling, who have been monitoring negotiations from washington, will be dispatched to detroit to get a firsthand look at these talks and offer their support any way they can. boris. >> kayla tausche from the north lawn at the white house, thank you. jim? let's speak more about this with president of the uaw local 14 in toledo, ohio. tony, thank you for taking the time this afternoon. >> thank you for having me.

>> i want to take a look at the offer that gm has made so far. i know the union was requesting pay increases up to 40%, and i know that some of that is really making up for concessions you made back in 2008/2009. 21% is what gm says it has offered, up to 21%. for most civilian workers in america, that's far beyond what they're getting, wages. salary increased 4.6% for the year ending in june 2023. why do you believe uaw workers should get bigger increases than the vast majority of americans are seeing? >> well, that's for a couple of reasons. first, we set the tone. when we get a raise, everybody else gets a raise. so we're the leaders when it comes to this. i think that will change for everybody else if we do get that raise. the other thing is, president biden, we appreciate his comments. no one should know better than

him. in 2009, he helped with the auto rescue. so he knows all of what we gave up. these corporations are making record profits, and we're still living with the lingering consequence of the reconstruction. if you look at our employees -- you know, god bless our ceo, but she didn't wait 8 minutes for her pay increases. we just -- and about 20 years. we don't have cost of living. when inflation spikes, we're taking the brunt of that. >> now, i know that demand for cars was enormous in the last couple years. some of that a recovery from the shortages that we experienced during the pandemic and supply chain issues. are you worried at all that this is peek ak demand to some degre? right now, profits are fantastic

for the companies, but if they lock themselves into the increases you're talking about, in a couple years, it won't be rich for the companies and, therefore, this is something they can't give longer term? >> well, we hear this every time four years comes around for our agreements. they're making record profits. we heard the same story the last time. so they're doing just fine. when you look at these situations that they've put themselves in, just like this strike, they put themselves in this situation. we gave them our demands six weeks ago. they just started to get serious within the last week. they ran out the clock, and we're not messing around this time. the other thing is, in 2017, they shut down our semiconductor facility that we had in kokomo, indiana. we wouldn't have had a chip sh shortage if general motors didn't ship the chips to asia. i understand the switch to ev is expensive, but they are a for profit company and they're going

to do just fine. >> bigger picture, i wonder if you feel that a moment has arrived to some degree for unions in this country. as you know, for a number of years, decades, union participation was falling. in the last couple years, you had strikes and strikes that worked out. ups workers, the raises they got. do you sense that union strength, right, is growing, and is that part of the motivation here, to push as hard as you're pushing? >> it is. i mean, without a union, how are you going to get a fair deal in your workplace? if you go as an individual to a profitable company and say, hey, i demand 30% or 40% raise, they'll probably fire ya, right? but only in collective bargaining with your fellow union members in solidarity can you demand respect in the workplace. that's what we're doing right now. our contract has been out of whack for a while, and only with the union can you do this. and i think the rest of the country is seeing that.

this has been the highest approval rating we've had as a union in my lifetime, and we're going to look to take this momentum and organize more places with this newfound demand for justice in the workplace. >> tony totty, than sox ks so m for joining us and explaining the union's position this afternoon. >> thank you for having me. former president trump says he did not tell an employee to delete mar-a-lago security footage, and he said he would testify under oath all about it. we'll have more on that. plus, cnn is on the ground in a libyan city that has just been decimated by flash floods. at least 5,000 people are dead in this country. there are still several thousands of others who are missing. we'll have a report on that. and a zoning battle heating up in the state of georgia. descendents of enslaved africans

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we have some new information about a search warrant in donald trump's federal election interference case. twitter gave the special counsel at least 32 of the former president's direct messages. the warrant was sought in january and was so secret, the social media company was barred from even telling trump about it as the process played we have the reporting. it all goes down in the dms, as the young people say. what can you tell us about this batch of direct messages the special counsel has? >> maybe it goes down in the dms. we don't know who was slipping into donald trump's direct messages, but we know there were

some. we had known throughout course of some documents coming out in this particular matter that the special counsel, after they indicted him, then they were able to publicly disclose they got a search warrant and obtained information from donald trump's twitter account. now, we have the number of how many dms were handed over to the special counsel's office. in the indictment of donald trump, they don't cite any direct messages, so we don't know exactly what these direct messages were, if they were from people, if he was writing to people. but the concern over this at the time in the court system was twitter wanted to tell trump that these existed because they wanted him to have the possibility to challenge them if they were communications between top administration officials. that ultimately didn't fly in the court. they didn't tell him at the time. special counsel's office got the direct messages. how juicy they might be, big question remaining there. also, the special counsel's office in these new findlings we're going through had a lot of

condition concerns in april, before the charges, about how they perceived him to be so obstructive already at that time in april of this year toward both of those matters. outlining a lot of things they eventually charged him with. whenever they were speaking to an appeals court under seal. >> the special counsel went to a point where they couldn't have trump find out that twitter was handing over these messages. why would that be? >> the concern, as was pointed out, is the president would delete these messages, prevent them from getting access. we know the claims about the video tape and the attempt to delete it in mar-a-lago. the president recently said, i didn't direct them to do that. i had the right to fight it. i didn't fight it. we didn't delete anything. but the concern is he would obstruct athe investigation. they didn't want him to know. the president can challenge it in use, challenge the use of

them in court if there is something that's privileged. >> that was my next question. if it could boll ster his defen. >> there might be evidence that helps him. we don't know what's in the messages. on top of that, if he wants to say, no, these can't be introduced against me, he's got that right. he didn't have to know about the messages beforehand to be able to fight them being introduced into evidence in court. >> there's ongoing court action over whether twitter should have been able to tell him about this search warrant whenever it happened, because they couldn't. >> i want to share a clip of the interview jamil was talking about, that trump talks about alleged deleted evidence from mar-a-lago. he also says something really important in this clip. listen. >> a new charge suggests you asked a staffer to delete news footage so it didn't get into the hands of investigators. >> it's false. >> would you testify to that under oath? >> i'll testify. the tapes weren't deleted. in other words, there was

nothing done to them, and they were my tapes. i don't think i would have had to give the tapes, i don't think. when they asked for the tapes, i said, sure, they're my tapes. i could have fought them. >> not the first time that donald trump has said he is willing to testify under oath. >> no. remember when he said he'd testify to the house committee, then they subpoenaed him and he didn't? the only time i can remember him testifying under oath is when he is forced to in a civil proceeding, when he has to be deposed. >> right. >> as a witness. so, in this, he's saying he'll testify whether he'd take the stand in his own defense. interesting. also, he says it is false when she reads back the allegation to him. >> right. >> what he is saying it is false to, what the allegation is, he told someone to delete the tapes. >> right. >> as he continues to speak, he is speaking about whether the tapes were actually deleted, which we know they were not. so the charge isn't about the

tapes being deleted. the charge is about them talking about him and two other alleged co-defendants talking and having this conversation, trying to get somebody to delete the tapes. >> important distinction there. ja jamil, if you are on his defense team, are you letting donald trump anywhere near the witness stand? >> well, not only not near the witness stand, not doing these interviews. he is just walking himself into all sorts of trouble, right? this is a client, obviously, his lawyers can't control. it works for him, though. someday, you know, he's managed to skate by every time. you know, even those lawyers, any sane lawyer would advise him, don't go on tv, don't testify. it seems to be working. >> he's saying in the tv interviews still, even with nbc and with megyn kelly yesterday, that he is able to have the documents. he had the documents. he's not contesting that. all of this is very likely to come back. >> yeah, no surprise that when he talked about testifying before the e. jean carroll case, before that civil lawsuit before special counsel robert mueller,

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a new report out of libya says a 22-foot tsunami wave is responsible for destroying the coastal city of derna, wiping out buildings, destroying roads and leaving communities completely underwater. the united nations says most of the 5,000 deaths in this catastrophic flooding could have been avoided. you can see here search and rescue teams wading through waist-deep floodwaters, looking for bodies. because 10,000 people are still unaccounted for. officials don't expect to find any more survivors at this point. cnn is the only u.s. network on the ground there. we are witnessing the devastation firsthand. >> reporter: we've all covered wars, natural disasters before,

but none of us have seen anything like this. i mean, we drove into derna late last night. even during nighttime, in the dark, you could still see the destruction. now, during the day, this is just utter, utter destruction, and it really feels like you are walking through a war zone. massive bombs had gone off here. this is what people here would tell you. you know, you've got several cities along the libyan coast that were impacted by storm daniel, by the flooding over the weekend. but nothing like this, what people are describing here as this catastrophe. what happened in derna, of course, as you know, are the two dams that burst. you have the floodwaters that swept through the heart of the city, washing out entire buildings, neighborhoods, homes, infrastructure, families, and brought it all down here to the

sea, to the mediterranean. i mean, this is just -- it is very difficult for us to move the camera around because of the communication issues, the communications that were disrupted in the city. our connection is not very stable. but looking into the sea, what we see here is people's lives in there. you see homes. you see door frames, windows, furniture, clothes, cars, everything. they are still right now searching for dead bodies, bodies that are still washing up on the shore six days after this tragedy happened. right now, libyan officials are saying about 5,000 people have been killed. there are still 10,000 people unaccounted for. officials we have speaking to say they don't expect to find any more survivors right now. what you've got here where we are is all these volunteers from different parts of the country

who are working, who are trying to assist in this recovery effort. it is such a tough task. they're telling us that they're not equipped to deal with something like this. they don't have the means and capabilities to do this. one young man i was speaking to just a short time ago just describing how people were just tying ropes to themselves and holding each other as they would dive into the sea and start pulling out body after body. this one young man telling me, in one day, he pulled 40 bodies just by himself. right now, the volunteers here are saying, look, they need heavy equipment. you've got cars that are stuck in there. they don't know how many people are still in there. they are worried there are still dead body hearre, and they want help. rescuers, divers, diving equipment to try to recover as many bodies as they can. they've had some international

support. we've seen some teams here on the ground. the turks were on a rubber boat a short time ago. you have helicopters in the air. it is nowhere near enough. >> just unfathomable, what they are dealing with there in libya. j jomana, thank you for the report. >> the scale of destruction is heartbreaking. another story we're following, months after the chinese spy balloon floated across the continental u.s., before it was shot down, sources say that china appears to have now suspended its entire surveillance balloon program. you'll recall this was back in february, one of china's high altitude spy balloons crossed over into alaska, canada, idaho, montana, across the entire country before u.s. fighter jets shot it down off the coast of south carolina. natasha bertrand joins us now. nat natasha, this is a remarkable turnaround for china. you had the great powers there face-to-face in a conflict for a

moment. >> jim, our reporting suggests there are several reasons for this. the first, obviously, the u.s. and china have been trying to cool/ease tensions over the last couple months. you saw joe biden say last week that he does not want to try to contain china, that he wants to get the relationship back on track. the chinese have also been showing a willingness to communicate more with the american side. that's part of it, according to the officials we spoke to. but the more specific aspect of this is that chinese leaders were actually pretty angry about this spy balloon incident. chinese president xi jinping was apparently caught off guard by the fact this balloon actually transited over the continental u.s. and, of course, the diplomatic uproar that enshued. secretary of state antony blinken was set to visit beijing around that time, and they had to postpone the trip. i think it is partly because of that. it's just the juice wasn't really worth the squeeze here in terms of getting the surveillance balloon up, having it float over the u.s., causing this uproar, and potentially

jeopardizing that relationship over something that potentially wasn't even providing them with very good intelligence. the u.s. says that, ultimately, they weren't able to get granular intelligence from their surveillance. >> viewing this as a concession from china in terms of rebooting the relationship, or at least opening up some channels? >> i think it is too soon to say. of course, they could restart this program, right? this was a very important program for them. it was about two dozen missions they had flown over the last several years according to u.s. officials. obviously, something they valued. but it appears they took it a step too far in that instance, and so while this may be on hold at this point, and u.s. officials, we should note, have not seen any new launches of these balloons since february, it could always restart. it depends how the relationship, you know, happens moving forward. >> technology hasn't gone anywhere, but they've suspended the program. nat natasha, thank you. new england is bracing for hurricane lee, but how strong of a storm are we talking? we'll have your forecast.

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now to some of the other headlines this hour. deliberations are now under way in the impeachment trial of texas attorney general paxton, who was accused of abusing his power to help a wealthy donor. the gop led house voted in may to impeach and suspend him. both sides get a final say

before the texas state senate. >> mr. paxton willingly and blindly wielded the power he loved so as to maintain the relationship he needed. >> you have to vote on the language of the articles. that should be 30-0. there was never a prosecutor pro tem, game over. >> paxton will need ten senators to vote for his acquittal in order to the keep his job. also, the european dowunion slapping tiktok with a $400 million fine. the app violated the privacy rites of underage users in part by setting teen accounts to public by default, allowing anyone to see their videos. that's dangerous. tiktok disagrees with the decision and is considering next steps. contract talks in the hollywood writers strike are set to resume next week. the alliance that represents the studios and streaming services

says it has reached out to the writers guild and the two sides both agreed to resume negotiations. writers have been on strike for nearly five months now over pay, job security, and this is key, regulating the use of artificial intelligence, which is already rampant in the industry. boris? new england, preparations for hurricane lee are under way, as tropical storm conditions start to move in this a afternoon. the category 1 hurricane has been in the atlantic ocean for more than a week now. let's get straight to cnn meteorologist jennifer gray who has the track for us. jennifer? >> hi, boris. yeah, this is still a hurricane, category 1 storm with 80-mile-per-hour winds. it's moving quickly at 18 miles per hour. now, conditions along the cape is going to deteriorate within the next couple of hours. feeling the worst of it this evening and overnight into tomorrow morning, that's when coastal sections of maine will feel the most of it, as well as nova scotia as the storm passes ever so close to nova scotia.

this is going to start to transition into an extra tropical storm, lose some of the tropical characteristics. however, the impacts are going to be the same. this is a very large system, so tropical storm force winds extend more than 300 miles from the center. we're easily going to get tropical storm force conditions along coastal portions of new england. i think the biggest threat with this storm will be power outages because you will have trees come down. you will have power lines impacted, so we are going to see quite a few power outages from the storm. also going to see heavy rainfall, rough surf, coastal erosion, higher than normal seas, higher than normal tides. coastal flooding will be a concern. 4 to 6 inches across eastern main. widespread amounts from 1 to 2, maybe 3 inches of rain. this is a fast-moving storm, boris, so i don't think the rain is going to be as much of a big deal as the power outages will over the next couple of days.

>> important to keep an eye on that if you're in the area. jennifer gray, thank you so much. bri brianna? a zoning change on an island in georgia worrying descendents of enslaved africans who fear their cultural heritage could soon be gone forever. when we come back, i'll be speaking to a resident of the community.

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a change in one georgia county zoning law is the latest battle involving descendents of freed slaves who settled along the southern east coast. over the generations the community's dwindled. one in particular known as hog hammock has held on to its culture, but this week descendents say what's happened could erase their culture. the board voted to increase the size of homes 1,400 to 3,000 square feet. joining us now is maurice bailey, a local historian, also a ninth generation resident.

maurice, thank you for being with us. this is complicated for people not familiar with it. i hope i did it justice explaining it. tell us your reaction to the zoning change. >> well, i'm not happy with it. it's very discouraging. not too surprised. the new council is trying to eradicate the population in various ways. it's just another way of them removing us from this community and calling it their own. it's going to be a tough battle, but we're going to continue to fight for this last community. people like my mother and other people have witnessed the loss of other communities throughout the years. this is the last one we have left. people are tired of fighting. >> people are tired of fighting.

tell us what they're fighting for and what you're fighting to preserve in this community. >> we're fighting to preserve our homes. this is our home. we own land on this island for many years, since 1871. ever since we were starting to purchase land people have been trying to take the land from us. this is our home. this is all that a lot of us know. it's a connection to our ancestors. our spirit is here. our culture is here. this is a home for people. >> for people who are unfamiliar with this community -- it's fascinating if you look online and see pictures of it.

there are many historic buildings and homes. they are small. what will it do in your opinion to open up this allowable square footage from 1,400 feet to 3,000? >> well, we created zoning years ago in this community from this type of thing because we knew a lot of the houses will increase people into the community. this was definitely affecting us. we don't have a lot of jobs here. there's not a lot of jobs here. this place we live in georgia, there's not a lot of great jobs. we can't afford the increase in taxes. we can't afford a home of that size even if we wanted to. it will be detrimental to the

community. >> maurice, one of the -- in your family you spoke about your mother. she's such an advocate. you are and there are other people in your community. >> what we're seeing happen is a bigger loss of freed slave culture even beyond georgia. can you talk about that and what's at stake? >> yeah. i travel a lot advocating for my community. this is not similar to here, but it affects us and our numbers of being here, all the generations. other places suffer from the same thing as we speak. it's hard to see this up and down the coast and inland that we're always being displaced.

we're not respected in this state or in this country. we still battling to be respected in this country. in the state of georgia it's very difficult. >> maurice, we know that this is a small community, one of a few small communities, but many people are watching. we appreciate you speaking with us today. maurice bailey, thank you. >> thank you. still to come ford's ceo say that is union demands would drive his company into bankruptcy. is that true? we'll have the latest on the historic strike just ahead. mark. ♪ we're not a startup,

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