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standing by for confrontation on capitol hill, very shortly attorney general merrick garland faces some of his fiercest republican critics, many who want him impeached. criminal probes into donald trump, hunter biden, impeachment all on the table and on camera. it's congress, so it's always messy, but it's officially turning ugly as hard-line republicans just blocked the republican effort to move forward a house defense spending bill, barreling toward a government shutdown and a house republican civil war threatening to erupt. you don't know anything about the boxes. new reporting that those words are from a close aide to donald trump who told investigators that's what former president donald trump told her to say to investigators. we have the latest on the explosive new report. i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. "cnn news central" starts right now. ♪
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in just a few minutes a moment on capitol hill that has been months in the making, attorney general merrick garland will testify before some of his toughest critics in congress, his first testimony since the indictments against former president trump, his first testimony since the indictment against hunter biden, not to mention the plea deal implosion. republicans on the house judiciary committee have signaled this could be tense and confrontational. some have even called for garland's impeachment. cnn obtained excerpts of garland's prepared testimony and the attorney general's message is clear, quote, i am not the president's lawyer and i am not congress' prosecutor. we are going to bring you this hearing live. cnn's melanie zanona and evan perez is standing by. melanie, what are the plans from the judiciary committee today? >> reporter: this is going to be a very crucial moment for the
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doj and merrick garland. this is the first time that garland is appearing before the committee since the doj special counsel brought to indictments against former president donald trump and since the plea deal involving hunter biden fell apart. and it also comes as republicans have made hunter biden a central part of their impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. so he is going to be facing a lot of his republican critics on this jude aer panel where impeachment articles would originate. some have called to impeach garland himself, have threatened to defund the agency and they want to grill garland over the hunter biden criminal case. there has been testimony from irs whistleblowers that claimed the doj has mishandled and politicized that case, something that garland and special counsel david weiss have denied. i expect they will focus on this meeting that occurred in october 2022 involving david weiss where irs whistleblowers claimed he
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did not have ultimate charging authority in that case. they also want to know about why the plea deal fell apart. also the special counsel appointment of david weiss to that case and also the criminal indictments of the former president and whether there was coordination with the district attorney's office in other areas including georgia. a lot of questions, a lot of fireworks and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> evan perez, i want to bring you into this discussion. melanie reports there will be a lot of questions to merrick garland about hunter biden. will there be a lot of answers? >> reporter: he is going to probably, john, as you know merrick garland, he is probably not going to have a lot of specifics which will probably lead to a lot of the bruising that you are going to see in that hearing today, but, look, you can tell from that excerpt that you read a little while ago that the attorney general wants to be a little more fiery in response to some of these accusations which he believes
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are completely unfair. one of the things that you will hear from him is defending some of the people at the justice department who have been getting attacks from republicans. i will read you a part of the excerpt of his comments where he says singling out individual career public servants who are just doing their jobs is dangerous, particularly at a time of increased threats to the safety of public servants and their families. we will not be intimidated. we will do our jobs free from outside interference and we will not back down from defending democracy. one of the things that as felony just highlighted that republicans are going to hone in on is testimony from an irs whistleblower who is essentially calling garland -- lying or certainly being misleading when he said that there was no political role in the hunter biden investigation. here is testimony from back in march where senator chuck
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grassley is asking garland about this very question. >> the u.s. attorney in delaware has been advised that he has full authority to make those kind of referrals that you are talking about or to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels it's necessary and i will assure that if he does he will be able to do that. >> does the delaware u.s. attorney lack independent charging authority over certain criminal allegations against the president's son outside of the district of delaware? >> he would have to bring -- if it's in another district he would have to bring the case in another district, but as i said, i promise to ensure that he's able to carry out his investigation and that he be able to run it and if he needs to bring it in another jurisdiction, he will have full authority to do that. >> reporter: and, john, that you are going to hear from merrick garland today certainly is that he stands by that testimony and
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so republicans you are going to hear a lot more accusations about the political interference that they believe occurred as part of that investigation. of course, also the investigation of the former president. john? >> evan perez, melanie zanona, part of the all-star team that will guide us through the hearings which begin shortly. there's also this, this morning, a new key witness in donald trump's classified documents case and a new name to get familiar with. molly michael. she was trump's personal assistant at the white house and also continued to do so after he left. she followed him to mar-a-lago. now according to abc news and "the new york times" she spoke to federal investigators telling them that trump directed her on what to say to federal officials investigating his handling of classified documents. when trump learned federal officials wanted to speak with her he told her, quote, you don't know anything about the boxes. essentially suggesting she lie is what you can hear there.
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michael also reportedly told investigators that on more than one occasion this, and here is the reporting, trump would write notes to himself on documents that he gave her listing tasks he wanted done, only for her to later realize that those to-do lists were written on documents that had classified markings according to the "new york times." in response to the "times" and abc's reporting trump's spokesperson said these illegal leaks are coming from sources which totally lack proper context and relevant information. here is the take from sarah matthews who was deputy press secretary for donald trump and also worked alongside molly michael. >> so this is someone he knew very well who would have had a lot of face time with the president and they can't simply dismiss her, you know, as someone he would not be aware of or who wouldn't be in the know because she was quite literally sitting right outside the most important office in the world, someone who the president knew
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by name and i think that makes her a very credible witness. >> joining us for more on this is caroline polisi, a lecturer of law at columbia. jumping off of what you hear from sarah matthews and what we're learning from this new reporting, how useful and credible could you see molly michael being here? >> huge, kate. molly michael is the cassidy hutchinson of the mar-a-lago investigation. hutchinson was so important to the january 6th inquiry. because really michael is unassailable, unimpeachable, she has no ax to grind in this case, she is not facing potential criminal charges. she was extremely close to the president, his sort of right hand woman. she's credible. so it really is donald trump's worst nightmare. that quote from the reporting, you know, you know nothing about the boxes, that's text book
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obstruction. textbook witness intimidation. jack smith's case in the mar-a-lago documents matter has always been about obstruction. it's different from, say, you know, the mike pence inquiry, the biden inquiry about documents because of the obstruction. jack smith made it abundantly clear this case really wouldn't probably have been charged were it not for all this have obstructive conduct on the part of the trump. >> you hear at least the response so far, you know, this is in public not necessarily in the court of law from a trump spokesperson. how do you suspect the trump legal team would respond in court to what molly michael told investigators? >> right. well, their line so far, their rebuttal is that these statements are being taken out of context. there really is no rebuttal to the you know nothing about these boxes. i also would note she is an important witness because she bolsters some of this other testimony we've been hearing from, say, evan corcoran, for
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example, walt nauta, moving the boxes. she rounds out this picture in an evidentiary way for potential jurors. >> for walt nauta, could michaels' testimony be significant with regard to walt nauta, reminding everyone he's charged with obstruction and concealment related charges connected with this exact conversation? >> he's on that video footage taken from mar-a-lago actually moving the boxes. michael of course also has text messages, photos really of those boxes. it's really hard to refute video evidence and, you know, photographic evidence of that nature. she likely had a lot of conversations with nauta, again, bolstering that narrative. >> her account about donald trump writing notes on these classified materials, it doesn't -- i guess the way i would describe it is it doesn't seem to directly relate to any of the specific charges that trump is facing in the documents case, so what does that mean to the case? does that mean that she potentially if i'm parsing it this way, that she could mean
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less or donald trump's legal team could say that she should mean less to a jack smith prosecution? >> no, i don't think so. i do think it's less important than the obstruction issue. >> yeah. >> i think it paints a picture of just how sort of law say fair trump was with the documents. he is writing a grocery list on the back of classified documents. it gives the air of how fast and loose trump was playing with national security secrets. >> doesn't speak to what we were talking about, it's different from the biden inquiry that was put to bed and the pns one as well. it's not just the handling of, it's everything that was allegedly done to keep federal officials from getting the documents back. >> absolutely. he asked his lawyers to essentially say there was nothing in there. again, the corcoran testimony along with michael's hugely significant -- >> good to see you, caroline.
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thank you so much. 11 days left until a government shutdown if congress can't pass a spending bill. at this point house republicans can't even agree with each other on a procedural vote. what is going to happen next? we're live on capitol hill. this morning president biden will meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on the sidelines at the u.n., notably not at the white house. the tension surrounding the first meeting since prime minister netanyahu's return to office. and two defendants now facing federal charges after four children overdosed and one child died. prosecutors say the suspects were running a fentanyl distribution business out of a day care in the bronx. that's all ahead. arthritis pain? we say not today. tylenol 8 hour arthritis pain has two layers of relief. the first is fast, the second is long-lasting. we g give you your day back, so you can give it everything. tylenol. number one doctor recommended for arthritis pain. who will be the superior side? is it the rich, creamy, indulgent classic
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government shutdown in just days and maybe ideas for how to hold on to his speakership. mccarthy has not been able to rally his caucus to agree on a short-term spending bill and today somt republicans are reaching across the aisle turning to democrats for help. cnn's lauren fox on capitol hill this morning. nothing mccarthy has tried seems to have worked and time is running out. >> reporter: yeah, it was a dramatic day on capitol hill yesterday, john, and expect more of the same this morning. already republican whip tom emmer is gathered with members of his conference in his office trying to work out if there is a path forward for republicans to unite around a short-term spending bill in order to try and send something to the senate and get some leverage in these negotiations, but so far those talks are ongoing. meanwhile, you have some republicans who are starting to believe that there is nothing that those conservatives are
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going to be able to get behind. here is one of them, david val valadao. >> the reality is i think there are some members that probably will never ever get to a yes and i think we went into that knowing that, but we have to go through the motions. we have to try to pass the bills. >> reporter: and today members of the problem solvers caucus which includes both republicans and democrats, they are going to have a private meeting on capitol hill and we expect the democratic leader hakeem jeffries is going to stop by that meeting. we are also trying to find a way forward, trying to see if there's anything else that they can coalesce between to try to get a government shutdown averted. those talks are ongoing and it will be key to see whether or not he could bless any potential deal that they come up with, but, again, getting it to the house floor is another question entirely. that could be up to house speaker kevin mccarthy although
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there is a rarely used procedural tool they could deploy if they get into a desperate situation. john? >> it is possible mccarthy could get a spending bill with democrats' help but it's also grew he may not be able to maintain his speakership if he gets a spending bill with democratic help. lauren fox, complicated, watching it tick by. thank you very much. now i want to bring in deputy whip for the congressional progressive caucus and the chair for the heartland caucus, representative debbie dingell. thank you so much for being here with us. i want to start with this, the republicans clearly battling each other and it's become a nasty battle. let me let you listen to what one republican said about the negotiations over this bill yest yesterday. >> this is not conservative republicanism. this is stupidity. these people can't define a win, they don't know how to take yes for an answer. it's a clown show. >> so the republicans failed to pass even a procedural vote for
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the spending bill yesterday. there's 11 days left to the deadline. at this point do you see any path to passing this bill or is a shutdown imminent? >> so hope needs to spring eternal but it does look like total chaos on the other side and when the republican leader in the senate comes and does a press conference and tells the house republican members what they think of how they are acting and how something needs to happen, you know they are in trouble. it would be irresponsible to shut this government down, if it does shut down it is going to be squarely on the shoulders of speaker kevin mccarthy and the republican members that are keeping this from happening. i hope it doesn't happen for so many different reasons and the chaos that it will cause and i would say that it looks like we could be spiraling in that direction, but i will never give up hope. >> all right. representative dingell, you know, to the public it does seem
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outrageous no matter whose fault it is that congress cannot get it together to pass a very short bill that's only to fund the government for a month. the white house has said members of the military, federal law enforcement, air traffic controllers, tsa officers, all of these people will be forced to work without pay and a number of agencies like fema and the fda will all have their budgets cut. the republicans clearly at odds, but is there a scenario where democrats are able to join mccarthy to get this passed? are there compromises that you would be willing to make? >> i think there are absolutely compromises but it needs to be not something that will designate the government and have some of the same implications that you just talked about. i've said from the beginning it's irresponsible to shut the government down and i would work with anybody if it was a responsible proposal. i do think a lot of things are on the table and still being talked about right now and we will have to see what ultimately is agreed to. and you even talked about a
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rarely used procedural method called a discharge petition. i think everything will be on the table. i really want to make it clear it's a very small group of members called the freedom caucus in the house that are causing this dysfunction and i hope that when elections come a year from now people will remember this and hold elected representatives accountable for what they are watching happen here. >> all right. let me ask you now about mr. garland, he is about to be on capitol hill, he will face a serious grilling mostly of course from republicans. he released some of his opening statement saying the doj works for the american people. what do you want to hear from mr. garland? >> look, i have great respect for our attorney general who the republicans -- not all republicans. you know, we have to be very careful. we all take paintbrushes, but people decided let's play political games and talk about
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impeachment and try these impeachment games when there's very clearly been no cause and republicans have also said that. so, yeah, this is political theatrics right now and that's what we're seeing in too many places. quite frankly i want to govern. i think this country has got a lot of issues, we're coming out of a covid pandemic, our economy has been doing better, i don't want to see it going backwards, and this is what the republicans are doing. giving the attorney general and several other cabinet secretaries a hard time, threatening to impeach them, telling them they're not following the rule of the law. it's not true. it's political gamesmanship and i don't like it. >> all right. you have said what has been published in the article that donald trump is not welcome in michigan, but eggs going to inject himself into the uaw strike. but biden has decided not to intervene. why shouldn't president biden intervene in a strike that is going to have a major hit to the economy if it goes on for a very
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long time, never mind the economies of the workers themselves and the businesses? >> this is between -- i've been very strong issue that i do not believe the president should intervene at the table. this is between the companies and the workers. i do think that understanding what the issues are, helping the sides talk to each other, what policies do we need to ensure -- we are not at an either/or point, protect the environment or protect the worker. we need to do both. we need to make a smooth transition to help these companies stay competitive in this country and make sure the workers are being protected, being paid a fair wage. so i think there are roles to be played, but intervening at the table would not be one of them and i don't believe it's where he belongs. >> all right. representative debbie dingell, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i know there is plenty of work that needs to be done there in congress to try to get this spending bill passed. appreciate your time. kate? >> always good to hear from
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congresswoman dingell. coming up, gas prices related to what you're talking about, sara, gas prices are sitting $6 a gallon in some states. the national average now reaching the highest levels so far this year. so what is going on with this? and also what it could mean for the federal reserve ahead of today's important meeting. and bail is revoked for a now former philadelphia police officer charged with murder. why his legal team is hoping they can reverse that. we will be back.
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fuel prices across the country are on the rise again. according to aaa the national average has hit the highest point of the year. california is looking at something -- it's heading towards something like an average of $6 a gallon. while this is painful for drivers everywhere the rise in energy prices could also complicate the federal reserve's ongoing quest to tame inflation. let's talk about this now vanessa yurkevich back from the front lines of the picket lines to talk about exactly what also has to do with anyone who is buying a car or working in the industry. let's talk first about the prices. what's behind the jump right now? >> that $6 a gallon in california, ouch, nobody wants to see those prices. today the national average is $3.88 up 20 cents from last year, but what is behind this is essentially russia and saudi arabia have cut output of supply and that means that oil prices
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go higher and then the ripple effect is that gas prices go higher. what we're hearing from analysts is that we are heading into the peak right now. so hopefully this will start to trail off. of course, when we head into fall we usually see falling gas prices, but that's not happening because of this limited supply coming out of these two key nations right now. >> and then this also is hitting at an important moment for the federal reserve. they have an important meeting today. what's expected to come out? >> they will be watching gas prices closely. we are expecting the federal reserve to pause raising interest rates. sort of a rest and assess moment. try to figure out what these 11 rate hikes mean to the economy. they want to get more data and they want to take a look at that and see where they need to go from there. if you look at inflation last month it did rise 3.7% year over year, .6% month over month, but that was mainly because of rising gas prices. but if you look at core inflation, that's what the fed really likes to look at, that
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actually cooled a bit. 4.3% in the past year, but that's coming down from the prior two months when it was 4.7%. so the federal reserve likes to look at this, this is taking out volatile elements like food and gas. but just as important as it is to hear just how much they're going to raise rates by it's important to look at what they're going to say about the future. there's a couple things that the fed is looking at. they're going to be looking at the strike, the uaw strike. what that means for the economy. maybe thousands of more workers will head out on strike. >> and because of -- and it's so unclear because this is the first time that they are all striking against the big three at the same time. >> yeah. >> it's such an unusual circu circumstance. >> it's not just one of these auto makers getting hit with a strike, it's all three. they will be looking at that. government shutdown, you are going to see furloughed federal workers, also department of labor won't be able to put out key reports that the fed relies on. and then student loan repayments, how is that going to affect people who haven't had to make those payments for a couple
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of years now and then gas prices which we just spoke about. analysts saying that we're through the peak, however, of course, there are different things like a major flood in libya or anything going on with ukraine and russia, that could change that. they're going to be taking a look at all of this as they make the decision about the next fed meeting the last one of the year in november. they will make a decision pause or raise. >> interesting. i mean, also great depiction of how complicated this picture really is still. good to see you. thank you. >> sara. a judge has revoked bail for the philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a man within seconds of a traffic stop last month. mark dial faces seven charges including murder in the death of eddie i eddie irizarri. actress bijou phillips is filing for divorce from danny masterson after he was sentenced
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for 30 years to life in prison for rape. her attorney says her priority remains with her attorney. cnn has reached out to masterson's legal team for comment. they plan to appeal his rape conviction. the same group that changed the face of affirmative action is now suing the u.s. military academy at west point. students for fair admissions first challenged harvard and unc-chapel hill in the supreme court and in june the court ruled that colleges and universities could no longer consider race as a specific basis for granting admissions. now the group is suing west point for the very same reasons, asking courts to rule their admissions process unconstitutional. west point is not commenting on the ongoing case. john? so what could be an awkward meeting at the united nations. president biden with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, they couldn't even get on the same page on who invited whom where.
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an hour from now a significant meeting under a cloud of recent tensions. president biden scheduled to meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on the side lyons of the united nations general assembly. this will be their first face-to-face sit down since netanyahu returned to office and his coalition launched a very controversial judicial overhaul that sparked mass protests across israel. critics say the overhaul weakens the court system and threatens israel's democracy. biden himself previously issued a rebuke saying in march, quote, they cannot continue down this road. cnn's kayla tausche joins us now. this overhaul has no doubt put a
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definite strain on this relationship between israel and the united states, at least between these two leaders. what are biden and netanyahu expected to talk about? >> reporter: well, sara, this overhaul remains deeply unsettling to the white house so advisers have crafted an agenda that includes its disapproval but is not limited to that, as the two leaders try to cover ground on a host of other issues, including the normalization of relations between israel and saudi arabia. the biden administration had previously said that there were some elements coming together directionally for that, even though terms of any specific agreement still needed to be worked out. that they were heading in that direction. that will certainly come up. and then there is the shared goal of a deterrence of iran. the leader of iran at the united nations had some harsh words for the united states in the last days, suggesting that it released prisoners based on
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humanitarian motives but that the u.s. needed to show good will toward the country and needed to know is that it wanted to reengage with the 2015 nuclear deal before any talks there could begin. the u.s. said there are no direct talks with iran planned for the foreseeable future. so you can imagine that biden and netanyahu will be discussing that. but the judicial reform plan is going to figure very prominently in this conversation. you mentioned that president biden said this spring that israel cannot continue going down this road and yet it has continued going down this road. that is one reason why advisers when they were discussing the backdrop for this meeting and where it should be held, there was a discussion of possibly having it at the white house, but that was seen as providing approval for the plan and so that is why the meeting is happening on the sidelines of the united nations instead of at the white house. we will see if they can reach any sort of agreement or compromise which the white house has been seeking for several months. >> even where they're meeting
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shows there is tension between the two. kayla tausche, thank you so much. with me now bloomberg columnist and editor bobby ghosh. great to see. >> you likewise. >> benjamin netanyahu and joe biden had known each other or literally decades since the 970s yet both seem perfectly willing to be public about how awkward their interaction is right now. why? what does each side get out of the awkwardness? >> they're talking past each other. they know each other's positions well enough, but each has an audience slightly off the center stage. netanyahu is talking to his own audience at home reassuring i'm not going to back down to the things i promised my coalition partners, which is to change the judicial system and pursue this super right wing agenda in israel. biden is talking to his democratic audience in this
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country, particularly to the more activist wing of his party to say i'm not going to give israel a clean bill of health just because they are our sort of crucial and close allies. so this is a bit of kabuki theater where these two men who have known each other for decades are talking -- are looking at each other but really are talking over each other's shoulders to a different audience. >> we have some other really telling examples of politics intersecting with diplomacy in the last 24 hours. i want to play some sound of ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy talking to wolf blitzer last night about presidential candidate donald trump who claims he could reach some kind of a deal in ukraine as soon as he were to take office if he were to take office again. listen. >> he can publicly share his idea now not to waste time, not to lose people, yes, and say that my formula is to stop the
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war and top all this tragedy and top russian aggression so the idea is how to take the part of our territory and to give putin. that is the peace formula. >> so there's zelenskyy taking on candidate donald trump. this morning the kremlin in a way took on candidate president joe biden, biden obviously attacked russia in his speech yesterday, the kremlin in a statement said, quote, in his entire political career president biden has not garnered the same level of support as putin. this is perhaps something he should aim for especially considering the challenging election he faces. >> i think we can set aside the kremlin trolling because that's what it is, it is trolling and practically as we've come to know it in the social media age we live in. the zelenskyy interview is interesting. he's calling out trump's bluff,
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saying if you have a plan let's hear it, let's not waste any time. there are people dying out there, if you have a plan don't wait until you become president, if that's what's going to happen with the election, but say it now so that we can -- we can begin the process of ending the war. he's also putting down a marker of his own. he's saying in effect that if you have a plan that involves giving up ukrainian territory, that's not going to happen. we're never going to allow that. if you have a plan that, you know, gets putin out of my backyard and gets me my country back as a whole, then i want to hear it. >> to what extent is the u.s. election hanging over this united nations general assembly? it seems like it is to a very great extent. >> absolutely. i mean, to a large extent i suspect that because so many of the other big names are not at the general assembly this year i suspect many of the attendees this year will be looking past what's going on in that building on the east river and looking at america as a whole to the extent that they can they will be having conversations with every
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american they come across, whether that's their limo driver or whether the person serving them breakfast in their hotel to ask what do you think is going on. they will be taking soundings, they will be sort of trying to figure out what's going on in america and what the election prospects are for trump and for biden. >> because it means a lot to them. >> absolutely. >> bobby ghosh, thank you very much. food to see you in person. coming up for us, new details on the behind the scenes moves at the white house that are going on right now as they're seeing a big spike once again at the southern border and also now facing concerns about how this could impact president biden's reelection bid. plus two people are facing federal drug charges, they are also facing murder charges over the horrific incident at a new york day care, several babies hospitalized for fentanyl overdoses, one child has now died because of it. the latest update we have for you on an enraging tragedy at what so many families thought
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video that is coming in. it shows, as you can see, hundreds of people riding on top of a freight train. even erected tents on top of it. they're making their way to a northern city in mexico, very close to el paso, texas. the situation there becoming very clearly untenable and dangerous that the mexican railroad operator has now suspended operations for 60 northbound trains over very clear safety concerns for migrants making their way through. while the migrant crisis slowed for a time after title 42 expired in may, the problem is back in a big way, and now it's coming at another challenging time for a president running for reelection. cnn's priscilla alvarez has much more on all of this. priscilla, what are you hearing is going on -- i don't know, behind the scenes at the white house when you have these images
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coming in. you have shelter concerned about being over capacity times3x in el paso. >> there's anxiety in the administration as they see numbers grow again over the course of the summer. the lower border crossings as they levied consequences against those who crossed the border unlawfully, but amid shifting demographics and changing nationalities coming through the border it makes this all the more difficult. to put this into perspective in the numbers, in may post title 42, numbers of daily crossings dropped to 3500 a day. now, as of monday, a homeland security official tells me they encountered more than 8,000. to give you some context, that's where we were in late spring when there were alarm bells going off within the administration over just how many people were crossing the u.s.-mexico border and what this
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means on the ground is facilities that are crowded and ill-equipped to handle this many people and we learned just on friday in a court filing that in some cases children were temporarily separated from their parents because of crowded holding areas as they were processed through. all of this is not what the administration wants to talk about when they're looking into a reelection campaign ramping up into early next year. this, of course, is a very key political issue and the reality here is that there's unprecedented movement in the western hemisphere and this continues to remain a challenge for this white house. kate? >> you've been on top of it from the very beginning. thank you very much for the update. two people facing federal drug charges in addition to state murder charges after a 1-year-old boy died and three other children were hospitalized from fentanyl overdoses at a new york city day care. police say the woman running the
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home day care and the man who lived there were distributing opioids and the children were exposed to the drugs while they napped. shimon prokupecz is here with the details. what are you learning? >> the federal government is now involved and the dea getting involved in the case after this kilo of fentanyl was discovered in this day care in the bronx. it is essentially charged with selling drugs, trafficking and drugs and it's a significant charge. on top of the murder charges that these two individuals are facing out of the bronx for the death of the 1-year-old and police believe that the four kids were exposed to this fentanyl that was being stored in this day care believing that possibly this was some kind of of a front for this drug trafficking group. they're looking for a third individual who is the husband of the woman who has been running the day care. he was seen on surveillance video leaving the apartment with bags filled with stuff. police don't know what was
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inside, but obviously they suspect some kind of contraband, so they're out hunting for him, but they also say they're investigating this on a global level that perhaps this has some kind of international connection because one of the individuals that was arrested a man by the name of carlisto brito from the dominican republic and arrives here about a year ago just around the time when they opened this day care. so they're trying to investigate that connection, but the key here was it could have been far worse if it wasn't for the emergency responders who went to that day care on friday afternoon. they quickly realized what was going on with these kids and they were sufficientering from the fentanyl overdose and had to administer narcan, the spray in the nose to try to reverse the effects of the fentanyl, but this is what emergency responders are dealing with now. they have to be prepared to go and deal with children, toddlers, babies now possibly exposed to fentanyl and have to
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respond in this way. >> they needed to give the kids the narcan. that says it all. shimon prokupecz. >> one of the worst stories i've heard of. thank you, shimon. in just minutes attorney general merrick garland will testify on capitol hill in front of his harshest critics who have repeatedly accused him of politicizing the department of justice. there will be fireworks for sure. we are live in the hearing in just a bit. min alone, you may be missing a critical piecece... preservision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formulaa recommendeded by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of momoderate to advanced amd progression. preservivision is backed by 20 years of clinical studies. so ask your doctor about adding preservision and fill in a missing piece of your plan. like i did with preservision. now with ocusorb better absorbing nutrients. [stomach growling] it's nothing... sounds like something.
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