>> teams play again on sunday in chicago and that will be the last game for megan rapinoe who is also retiring. finally travis kelce opening up about the rumors that he is dating taylor swift. well, sort of. he was asked if he wanted to talk about his relationship with the pop star. which has everyone on the edge of their seats. >> it is life, baby. it is life. i threw the ball in her court. and i told her maybe i've seen you rock the stadium and you might have to come see me rock the stadium and see this one is more lit. so we'll see what happens in the near future. >> and we'll see if all this mystery, we finally get any answers. maybe taylor swift will show up in a kelce jersey. >> whenever you can do taylor swift and sports in the same -- golden for television. all right, andy scholes, thanks very much. have a good weekend.

thank you all for joining us. please do have a wonderful weekend. i'm kasie hunt. "cnn this morning" starts right now. good morning, everyone. poppy is off today let's get things started with five things to know. 18 hours until the government shuts down and instead of coming up with a solution, republican lawmakers are heading home. the entire house is heading home. migrant crossings on the sosh border approaching record levels with nearly 9,000 people trying to cross in just a single day. new details about what may have caused a bus carrying a high school marching band to crash. officials say a front tire failed. two adults have died and five children are in critical

condition. president biden holds a 12-point lead over former president trump in new hampshire. we're watching two strikes. writers will go become to the negotiating table with the studios today after a marathon session ended without a deal overnight and the big three auto makers brace for strikes against them to expand in just hours. "cnn this morning" starts right now. i wish we could start with better news, but here we are. >> it's friday. you're hanging out. this is a good thing. happy friday to everyone, unless your a member of the house republican conference, because yikes. >> things are not going well. a government shutdown is looking more likely than ever. speaker kevin mccarthy has sent lawmakers home for a long weekend, even though there are only eight days left until funding will run out. it comes after another epic

failure on the house floor as he continues to struggle with the gop rebellion. >> conservative hard liners tanked his defense spending bill for the second time in three days making it clear it does not have enough votes to move forward on that bill or to prevent a shutdown altogether. >> it's frustrating in the sense i don't understand why anybody votes against the idea of bringing it to debate. this is a whole new concept of individuals that want to burn the whole place down. it doesn't work. >> president biden is blasting house republicans for leaving washington at such a critical moment. he writes, last time there was a government shutdown, 800,000 americans were furloughed or worked without pay, but your weekend. lauren fox is live for us in washington. i'm sorry. i'm trying to figure out what the plan is, what they are doing today, what they may do on

tuesday. is there an outcome anywhere in sight? >> reporter: welcome to the club, phil. it's what we have all been trying to figure out for the last couple weeks since lawmakers returned from their august recession. right now, the plan is they are going to try to pass 11 individual spending bills in just 8 days before a government shutdown. all bills, we should mention, that would be dead on arifle in the senate. they have abandoned that plan for a short-term stopgap measure because there were so many conservatives who were opposed to it and made clear they would never get to yes on a short-term spending bill, known as a continuing resident rugs. so what they are trying to do is pass individual appropriations bills, but we should point out, one of those bills failed on the floor for the second time yesterday. a procedural step within the up in flames because there were conservatives who voted down

advancing the measure. so right now, kevin mccarthy has a problem because he has a right flank that doesn't seem to be willing to vote for anything. i asked a number of members yesterday. at this point, is there a coalition in the house that wants to embarrass house speaker kevin mccarthy. and the argument i got from some members is they will get to yes on something, they have individual issues, but trying to find a way where your conservatives and moderates can all agree, that's a problem. here are two of them talking about their views of what's happening now. >> there will not be sufficient votes far continuing resolution. if we have moderate republicans who want to go and join up with the democrats, they will be signing their own political death warrant, and they will be handing it to their executioner. >> i am not going to be part of a shutdown. it does not serve a purpose. at the end of the day, any final bill is going to be bipartisan. and if somebody doesn't realize that, they are truly clueless. >> rank and file members have

left washington, but the house rules committee is going to meet today to try to kick off that process of voting on these individual spending bills. but again, it's such a last-minute gambit. it's not likely to go well. >> we're talking about dysfunction, to some degree, this country is known to dysfunction over the last decade. this is a very different level of bad when it comes to dysfunction, but it's coming at a critical moment. i was hoping you could step back a bit and start with this, what president volodymyr zelenskyy said last night as he was leaving washington. >> we addressed all americans, political leaders, members of congress, and ordinary americans, who have done so many extraordinary things. thank you, united states, thank you, america. >> the reason i wanted to play that is he was on capitol hill yesterday, he went to the white house and pentagon. this dysfunction, this fight,

this warfare is bigger than congress being bad at its job, which everyone is used to. this dysfunction lays bear very dramatic geopolitical consequences, to some degree, as well. >> it's important to remind people back home while some public support for ukraine funfund ing slip ped, you cannot deny that reality there's strong bipartisan support likely in the house of representatives to pass a ukraine supplemental bill to try to get them the money they need. but it is up to one man. house speaker kevin mccarthy, to decide to put that on the floor. if yesterday was any indication of where he's at, he feels like he has to assuage his right flank at every turn. he didn't even walk zelenskyy into the meeting in the house of representatives. that was done by hakeem jeffries, the democratic leader. just to contrast that with the

pictureses of chuck schumer, mitch mcconnell, walking flank ing zelenskyy as they went into the senate chamber for their meeting with the members of congress. so it just gives you a sense that this is up to kevin mccarthy, and he is not there yet. i pushed him repeatedly yesterday on if he would commit to putting this money on the floor. he said, they have to get their fiscal order in order first. he knows it could mean the end of his speakership if he took that step. >> it's such critical context. great reporting, thank you. this morning, two people are dead, including a toddler, as migrant crossings at the southern border soar to near record levels. officials found both bodies in the rio grand. the 3-year-old boy was swept away by the river's current while traveling with his family. this as border patrol apprehensions have surged to more than 8,600 over the last 24 hours. that's double the daily

encounters after title 42 l restrictions were lifted in may. officials list the busiest sectors at el paso, rio grand valley and tucson, each faced more than a thousand encounters in a day. the my your of eagle pass, texas, is expressing his frustration that the biden administration has yet to offer any help. >> nobody has bothered to call me, anyone of the city staff saying we know what you're going through. we're worried about you. this is our plan of action. nothing. we're here abandoned. we're asking for help. this is unacceptable. please, enforce the laws that are on the books. >> the mayor declared a state of emergency as migrant crossings are overwhelming several resources and the community's only shelter. new overnight, we're learn

ing new details about the horrific high school bus accident in new york. two adults were killed after a bus full of students on their way to band camp tumbled down a 50-foot ra vooef. kathy hochul expressed her grief at a briefing near the crash site. >> there are a lot of families that need some love tonight. we extend that from 20 million new yorkers. we all know how much we cherish our children, our adults, our band leaders, and life will be emptier without them. let's keep them in our prayers. >> that bus was one of six headed from long island to a band camp event in pennsylvania. police are still investigating, but officials say a faulty front tire may have contributed to the crash. we'll have a live report from the scene next hour. new developments in the strikes bringing two big american industries to a halt.

today hollywood studio e executives will meet with striking writers for a third straight day after marathon talks ended without a deal overnight. a source tells cnn progress was made, and the united auto workers strike, we could see more employees walking off the job in hours. more strikes against general motors, ford and stellantis could start at noon, unless serious progress is made in those negotiations. we're covering both strikes this morning. vanessa yurkevich standing by with the latest. but first we're going to go to los angeles. give us a sense of where the talks are now in the writers strike. >> progress was made, but we don't have a deal. we need more time. that's why you're going to see the four heads of the studios at the negotiating table again. that's the leaders of warner brothers discovery, nbc

universal, nets flix and disney. they will go back to try to come to an agreement. i talked to writers who say they are encouraged by seeing leaders at the table. they are just hold ing their breath and patiently waiting to see if they are able to come to an agreement today. but one writer i talked to told me i understand it's going to take time because these are difficult issues here. they are fighting for their wages, specifically, residual when is it comes to streaming. they are very focused on artificial intelligence as well. they are saying the writers need to write the scripts and not the machines. and so what wga is saying is they are going to come together. they are asking as many members as possible to dpo out to the picket lines today. they are encouraged, but they are also a bit skeptical. they are waiting to see exactly what happens. here is one of the strike leaders and what she had to say. >> i think we got our hopes up so many times, especially the

writers. it's hard to say until a deal is done. it's a great sign, but until a contract is done, it's hard to say. >> the reality is that people want to go back to work. it's been very difficult for a lot of these union members without work. in general, we're talking about more than $5 billion in terms of the economic impact of this strike. it's people who are struggling to pay rent, struggling to put food on the table. it has been difficult, and they do want an agreement. we'll have to wait and see what happens at the negotiating table today. >> people should know it's having an impact in places like new york and atlanta. there's a lot of places and all the surrounding businesses like catering that need their work to begin. thank you so much. from one major labor dispute to another. the auto workers strike. vanessa yurkevich is joining me now. you have been on the ground talking to sources and folks on

the picket line right now. there's a new offer on the table. there's a deadline that everybody is looking at right now in a few hours. where do things stand? >> it's a new deadline. stellantis and general motors have offered two new deals to the union. we know all three auto makers met with the union at the main bargaining tables. however, we have not heard about a lot of progress. we even got a statement from general motors who said they believe no matter what they put on the table, that the union was going to strike any way. so not looking good, but at 10:00 a.m., we'll hear from the uaw president, who will announce possible targeted strikes at other plants around the country. it could be one or multiple auto makers. right now there are less than 13,000 members on strike, but there's an ars genal of 145,000 members he could send out at any time. we know there's a ripple effect from this. when you send out striking workers, the big three have announced they have had to

layoff other workers because those jobs no longer become part of the supply chain. so general motors idling 2,000 workers, ford, 600 workers, and stellantis, 68 people laid off with 300 more to come. so as these targeted strikes increase, you'll see these ripple effects of layoffs continue to happen. these numbers will grow if there's more targeted strikes. >> it's been strategic and tried to keep things at play. we'll get more information a couple hours. you have been talking to people. great reporting, thank you. new this morning, some good poll numbers for president biden. brand new poll ing shows how hes doing in and how he matches up against potential opponents. that's coming up, next. and ukraine's president gets a mixed ri sepgs during his visit to washington. what that means for that funding fight that lies ahead. stay w with us.

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cnn. brand new poll out on president biden's reelection chances in new hampshire. it shows biden with a 12-point advantage over donald trump in a hypothetical rematch. 52 to 40 are the numbers there, that's a much wider margin than the national polls, which have shown the two are neck and neck in the race. let's get straight to political director david chalian. first of all, i know you're going to go through the poll. what is biden's support among independents, a very important group in that state? >> it's a good question. also chances of my day being peaceful and calm are zero. i do want to point out, you noted biden vs. trump matchup. he does have a bigger lead than he does nationally. he bests every single republican we tested him against, which is good news for joe biden. only donald trump does he actually get above 50%. you noted the party breakdown in the results.

take a look here. among democrats, one of the reasons why joe biden is doing so well against donald trump, he has near universal support of his own kind. you asked about independents. interestingly, joe biden is losing independents in this poll to donald trump by 6%. but because he's got near universal support with democrats and because donald trump is performing at 79% support among his own republicans, this overwhelms the independent deficit that biden has and is what is putting biden ahead of trump in this key state. take a look here at positives and negatives. these are both candidates that these new hampshire voters are the not going to feel great if either gets elect ed. 56% say they will have a negative feel figure joe biden is elected president. 62% more would have a negative feel ing if donald trump is elected president. when you look at the overall

favorable and unfavorable, these are unpopular guys. joe biden in new hampshire is at 35% favorable, 53% unfavorable. donald trump, though, performs worse. he's down to 30% favorable, 62% unfavorable. so you see net negative for joe biden is 18 points. net negative for donald trump is 32 points. joe biden at 46% overall, that's higher than we see nationally. he's hovering around 40% nationally. he's performing better overall in new hampshire, which means new hampshire may fall off a true battleground and may be a blue state on the map as we get into the electoral college map. >> if you look at some of the state level special elections, the numbers probably shouldn't be that surprising. democrats have flipped a few seat asks overperformed in the special elections, but i have been told for the last several months because of the new calendar on primaries and what

the dnc did a few months ago, new hampshire is going to be angry and this is going to hurt president biden. is that true here? >> that's not showing up among democrats. take a look at our brand new poll numbers among likely democratic primary voters in new hampshire. joe biden is running away with it. he's at 78% support. robert kennedy is the at 9%. to your point, though, about biden and his team changing the rules and wanting south carolina to go first and leapfrog new hampshire, we asked folks, if that's the case and biden is not on the ballot, what would you do? 69% of primary voting democrats say they would write in joe biden on the ballot. so that does not seem to be hurting him in the state. >> that's really interesting. david chalian, thank you. >> thanks, guys. let's bring in emery horn and political commentator erroll louis.

there's been so much that has come out in terms of numbers on the national level. it's early. we can all say that. democrats have been freaking out. these numbers, they are not amazing, but new hampshire is always a state that republicans think they have a shot at. 12 points, that's big. >> it is big. when you look at the likes of your latest cnn poll about republican gop primary, you have people like nikki haley now starting to come up in new hampshire. there's another cnn poll that showed that she would be a challenger that can actually beat president biden in a general election. she is someone who the biden camp and the trump camp are concerned about. her polls have risen since the debate. we'll see how she does next week, but that's concerning in a place like new hampshire for democrats. >> speaking of nikki haley, she is gaining momentum, as you just heard. she is set to deliver a big

economic speech later today that people will be paying attention to. let's take a listen to how she sort of laid into congress. she went after congress over the looming government shutdown. which a lot of americans see as ineptness on the part of congress. here's what she said. >> they have got to start working. you hear all of this about closing down government. they don't get to decide that. their job is to keep government open. their job is to cut spending and get it done. figure it out. but do not play games with the american people or the taxpayers. and i will tell you, if they shutdown, and we're going to take it a step further. if they don't balance a budget, they don't get paid. >> there you go. i think there might be a lot of people that actually completely agree with that statement. this is your number one job is to keep the government going. >> that's exactly right. when they have to start limiting

hours and access to the washington monument and the statute of liberty, it enrages americans. what you just showed is an example of somebody, if you ask me, is the best raw political talent in that republican field. if anybody is going to challenge donald trump, she is figures out how to do. you just saw an example why. we can always get the attention of voters on the republican side and frankly a democratic side if you say i'm going to run against that inept washington establishment. that's how she's positioning herself. there's a smaller field than in 2016. she's laid out her case and her setcenario, which is that a lotf the candidates go away after the bell rings in 115 days with the iowa caucuses and by the time they get to her sweet spot of south carolina in the republican contest, she's going to expect to be one-on-one running against the washington establishment in

the form of of the former president, donald trump. that's herrer is nay yset nar yes. she's very skilled in mauking the case that washington has to perform, and to the extent they don't, we need a change. she wants to be that change. >> how likely is that scenario? i ask because you make a great point about what new hampshire was showing for trump in terms of showing an opening there. there's been disputes over policy this week. and nikki haley has started to draw a clear contrast. take a listen. >> my thought would be he's the right president at the right time. he broke things that needed to be broken. he listened and brought in a group of people who felt unheard, like where i grew up in rural south carolina. he had was thin skinned and easily distracted. he didn't do anything among fiscal policy.

we're all pay ing the price for it. he used to be good on foreign policy, and now he's started to walk it back and get weak in the knee when is it comes to ukraine. >> one of the most confusing things has been when are you going to attack the guy up by 40 points. that's a pretty expansive and sharp attack. >> you're seeing that from a lot of these primary candidates. i think it's because they are honing in on policy, not trump personally. she did say he gets easily distracted, but the fiscal part is interesting because she's one of the few on the debate stage to say this isn't just a biden problem that we're going after in terms of fiscal responsibility, which republicans want to tout. but she attacked the trump administration, which added $8 trillion to the national debt. just this week, we surpassed $33 trillion, a record. she will hone in on that. you're seeing this a lot from candidates, because whether it's

abortion or fiscal responsibility, whether how trump characterizes putin's invasion of ukraine, this unnerves them. but if they focus on policy, it's more comfortable going after the former president. >> you have to love that former jab. it's like something your teacher sends home about your second grader, easily distracted. you do have to bring that up because the tenor and the tone of his presentation, which is one of his great strengths s partly why he's up by so many points. you have to talk about it if you want to get anywhere. >> i like teacher erroll voice. >> donald is easesly distracted. new reporting from the supreme court justice thomas and his ties to the billionaire koch brothers. one of the reporters who broke the story will bring us the details, next. and new overnight, how former trump lawyerer rudy giuliani is falling deeper and deeper into legal debt. we'll have that. stay with us.

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this morning rudy giuliani is falling deeper and deeper into legal debt after failing to pay $132,000 in sanctions to two

georgia election workers. a judge ordered giuliani to pay the money to offset some of their attorney's fees. now interest is accruing as he continues to not pay. that's a small chunk of giuliani's financial burden as he faces fallout for work for president trump. he will face more damages from a same case in december just days ago, he was hit with a new lawsuit for more than $1 million in unpaid legal fees. this morning they are out with new reporting on supreme court justice clarence thomas. according to them, justice thomas secretly attended two donors for the coke network over the years. that's the powerful organization supported by the billionaire koch brothers. as pointed out, that puts thomas in the extraordinary position of having served as a fundraising draw for a network that has brought cases before the supreme

court, including one of the most closely watched of the upcoming term. >> justice thomas did not respond to questions, but they were told the idea attending a couple events to promote a book could be influenced doesn't hold water. joining us is one of the reporters who broke the store, justin elliot. we appreciate your time. you have done a ton of reporting on this throughout the course of the last several months on this specifically. what's striking to me, and you factor in the response from the kr koch brothers, these donors aren't paying to not have dinner with clarence thomas. my assumption is the donors know what they are getting with this money, which is why the dinner is set up. is that your sense? >> to give you an example, the koch brothers network have annual summits where you give $100,000 to even get an invite.

some even pay millions justice thomas went to one of these to have dinner with the donors, and we talked to a lot of lot of staffers who said this was seen as giving a perk to the high-dollar donors, which judges we spoke to said this is just totally beyond the pay on terms of what a judge should be doing. judges aren't supposed to be involved in politics or fundraising, and this is essentially both. >> it's interesting because you brought some of this to the forefront where justice thomas has had to redo and reveal some of the things that he has done, some of the gifts he has gotten in the past. but your report also talks about this 2018 flight to palm springs. it's an apparent violate of violation of federal law. explain that. >> one of the themes of the supreme court is there's few ethics rules, but the one rule if you get expensive gift, you have to disclose them every year

on this annual form. and another theme with justice thomas is secrecy. so we found that he was flown on this private jet out to palm springs for this donor event. it's not closer who paid for that. koch brothers said they didn't pay for it. we would know who paid for it, if the justice had put it on the annual disclosure form, as the law requires. so as you mentioned, we reached out to the supreme court and justice thomas for comment. they didn't respond. sometimes they respond after the stories come out. so we'll see. there's a lot of unanswered questions there. >> sometimes they respond after the stories come out. they respond typically, why they don't do it on the front end, i have never gotten my head around. the connection between the koch brothers and their allies care about at the supreme court, that's a really important part of that. especially given the case that's coming up, which is a huge issue for not just the coke network,

but conservatives in general. lay that out. >> one thing a lot of people don't understand, their election spending is well known, but they also employ lawyers and fund lawsuits in the supreme court. there's a very big case coming up in the upcoming term in the fall or next spring that has to do with the government's power to issue regulations and things like the environment, labor standards, it's something that the coke network has been long opposed. so this case coming up, the coke network brought it to the supreme court. and the people we spoke to for the story said justice thomas is ub disclosed relationship with the koch brothers network raises questions about whether he can be impartial. so it's another thing that we'll be watching. >> you report a lot on the moneys given to him or buying a house for his mother. and now you have this information. is this just a major sort of breach and bungling of the norms

that we expect from particularly the supreme court justices? >> yeah, another aspect of this story is that the texas donor takes justice thols on vacations and has taken him to these retreats in california where justice thomas develop hd this relationship with the koch brothers at this retreat. i think what we have been told is it's just not a common or acceptable thing for judges or justices to be accepting this kind of large gifts year after year. and what we found in this story is just even more examples of that from harlan crow. >> no matter what, the appearance of influence is just as problematic as the actually the influence itself. so thank you so much for joining

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ukrainian security and global protection of freedom is working. 100%, every cent. >> ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy wrapped up his visit to washington, where he met with president biden, lawmakers seeking to bolster support for ukraine. he received a warm welcome from president biden at the white house. >> our nation will be secure in the world. >> i look forward to our discussion to benefit our nations and the world.

>> you hear that, there are some republican lawmakers, as you know, who were not convinced about the necessity of spending more on the ukraine war. >> what the meeting revealed to me is that in the words of volodymyr zelenskyy, the conflict is a total stalemate. totally frozen. >> joining us now is former ambassador to ukraine william taylor, vice president of the europe center at the u.s. institute of peace. thank you so much for being here. when you see this conflict among the congressmen and congresswomen, and you have zelenskyy saying i cannot get this done without your help. what happens here? what do you see happening to ukraine? will this be a forever war at this point in this kind of s stalemate? >> i don't think so.

i think, number one, there's actually some progress on the ground. there's some progress in the southern part of ukraine where the ukrainian forces are slowly grindingly, bloodily, very difficult fighting, are moving into and push ing the russians back. that's their goal. and there's some indication that's having some success. in the last couple days, we're seeing reports of that. number two, i expect this assistance package, like all the previous assistance packages, will be approved by congress. if you put this to a vote, you're going to get good major majority s. the question is how to get it to a vote. smarterpeople than i will get that done. when they actually vote, it will pass. >> you make a great point in the sense of if it could get to the house floor, the number of votes are there. in the united states senate, the

senate majority leader chuck schumer is certainly there. there's no bigger supporter or more bigger defender than mitch mcconnell. i think that's why the dynamic is so interesting right now because the tone felt different yesterday than when i was in washington when volodymyr zelenskyy came for his first visit outside of ukraine at the end of last year. for the video remarks a month after the war, that total shift. what do you think is behind that? >> so it's been a long time. the ukrainians have been fighting for 19 months. the united states has been supporting for 19 months. that's a long time to maintain that kind of focus and intensity. en ukrainians have no choice. they have no choice but to defend themselves. they are under attack every day, every day. it's up to us to maintain our support. so i think that long-term

support, i was just in ukraine last week, and it's the same thing. it's a grim determination. i was there a year ago, there was enthusiasm because the counteroffensive was beginning so well. now it's going, but it's not as dramatic. so the grim determination is something we have to support. >> may i ask you sort of what you think the world is doing as they look at this sort of fight in the united states over this and as this war has crowned on. what the message is? you have mccarthy not wanting to be seen with him on camera, and then you see the picture of them behind t she scenes. he did not let zelenskyy speak to congress. what's the rest of the world doing is and how much of a damage could this cause in seeing that there's in fighting in the united states over whether to help fund this war? >> you're exactly right. in the closed meetings, there

apparently was support, even from kevin mccarthy. the committee chair said that mr. mccarthy was strong support on doing more. the long-range missiles, they were pushing the administration to provide those. so there's that. but you're right. in public there's this debate. this is not a surprise. people observe ing the u.s. government and the u.s. political mass nations, they around the world know what's going on here. again, they know they can't win this war in the immediate sense without the united states leading this coalition, leading the alliance. so they are counting on this kind of support coming through. >> ambassador taylor, we appreciate your thoughts, sir. thank you. >> thank you. we're now getting an inside

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