starts now. >> we have fought so hard on the field, had so much fun, been so successful, doing it underneath all of your guys' cheers. we fought so hard off the field, to continue to create -- [ applause ] -- to continue to create more space for ourselves to be who we are, but hopefully in turn, more space for you guys to be who you a are. all right. here's where we begin. there is a deal, tentative deal in hollywood. the writer's strike potentially coming to an end. it's been a lot of days, though. >> more than 140, nearing a record. still the actors on strike, but a major, major development overnight. >> yeah, that's true.

so the writer's guild has reached this tentative deal with studios. >> those are writers celebrating in los angeles last night, after the agreement was announced. >> guild members are now set to vote and decide whether to accept that deal. in the meantime, hollywood remains shut down. actors are still on strike, no end in sight there. economists say this strike has cost the u.s. economy more than $5 billion. not only in l.a., but in other tv and film production hubs like georgia and new york. cnn national correspondent, camilla bernal is live for us in los angeles. the big question right now is, one, will it get voted through. but two, what's actually in this deal? i know details are sparse, but camilla, what do we know right now? >> that's really what everyone wants to know, phil. i've talked to a lot of writers who tell me, look, we're confident in the wga negotiators, because they knew exactly what we wanted. and part of that is higher wages and artificial intelligence. there was a huge focus on that and it appears that artificial

intelligence was actually the last sticking point in these negotiations. so, the deal hasn't been made public, but a lot a of the members saying that they're confident that they're getting what they want. they'll soon be able to see what's in this deal, because what happens next here is that they will have leadership votes. that's likely going to happen tomorrow. and after that, that contract will likely be made public. writers will have the opportunity to ask questions and then eventually, will have to vote to ratify this deal. it has not been easy. it's five months, more or less, of very difficult days for a lot of these writers. and they say they want to go back to work. but of course, they still have to wait. what officials with the wga are saying is that they're essentially dotting every "i." they're working on the language to then get to that vote. this has had a huge economic impact and there's still a lot of questions as to what happens next. because, yes, you may have some talk shows and late-night shows

come back on the air quickly, but because the actors are still on strike, they've been on strike since july, it doesn't mean that productions are going to go back to normal anytime soon. this deal with the writers could pressure or maybe speed up the process with the actors, but we'll have to wait and see what happens, phil. >> all right. we will be watching. camilla bernal, thank you. and joining us now is cnn senior media analyst and senior media reporter for axios, sarah fisher. thanks for joining us. i want to start with, is there anything that could get in the way with this getting over the finish line at this point? >> it's not looking likely. i think this is pretty much close to done. the only thing that could get in the way is that if there is something in this deal that the writers, once they take a look at it ahead of the vote don't like, but it seems like most of their big sticking points have been addressed. as camilla mentioned, wages was the number one big thing. another thing is the writer's rooms, basically ensuring that the studios hire a certain amount of writers per show, and of course, the last thing,

protections from artificial intelligence. but i think, phil, you're going to see this vote ratified, ready to go within the next few days. >> sarah, what does that mean, protections against artificial intelligence? >> so the concern amongst writers is that these studios are going to use ai to write scripts. of course that's a huge challenge, that would not only put them out of work, but there's a creative control challenge, too. ip and basically the intellectual property that you own is not necessarily protected under law if you're using artificial intelligence. so there's a concern amongst writers that if they use ai to even help them write the scripts, they're not going to be eligible for things like awards, et cetera. all of those things are the types of stuff you'll see addressed in this deal. >> is the police chief then that the studios would have agreed to totally not allow ai at all? forever? >> no, i think it's going to be something that's a little bit more subjective. basically, you can experiment with ai, leverage it in some certain ways, but you can't use

ai to displace the work of writers and you can't use ai that might protect their ability to protect their intellectual property. >> sarah, this is a huge deal, but this doesn't address the actors. and my understanding is there haven't been actual tangible negotiations on that front for some period of time. does it deal here on lock the room opening up there. they should be the next domino to fall here? what happens next there? >> yes, because the studios have been pretty distracted by the writer's strike before they could even get to the actor's strike. so i think now that this is off their plate, they're going to be able to negotiate something with sag-aftra, which is the union that represents the actors. and the other thing to note, phil, they are very eager to get this done. i think the studio has seen the wga has something that they got off their plates and they want to make sure this gets done before the end of the year. we also now have a template. so when it comes to things like artificial intelligence, now that there is one deal that's been brokered addressing it, you might not be surprised similar

parameters included in the next deal. >> okay, really interesting. sarah fisher, thanks for the reporting. >> thank you. well, this morning, a government shutdown becoming more and more likely, as republican hardliners are funding hostage with only five days left to reach a spending deal. house speaker kevin mccarthy and his top allies working through the weekend, and still does not have support from republicans demanding significant spending cuts. they cannot force the democratic-led senate or white house to accept. one way out of the crisis for mccarthy would be working with democrats on a temporary stopgap spending bill. the most conservative republicans are threatening that that would cost mccarthy his job. cnn's lauren fox joins us now. lauren, i guess the question at this point with five days left is, what's worse, a shutdown or working with democrats if you're the speaker of the house. >> there's only one man really who can answer that question right now, and that is the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. and that is exactly the decision that he likely will have to make at the end of this week. right now, house republicans have this gambit where they are

going to try to pass one individual appropriation bill at a time. these are year-long bills. they have four of them teed up, potentially, to start voting as soon as tuesday on procedural measures. but one thing to keep in mind is none of those bills to fund the department of defense, homeland security, agriculture, the department of state would actually avoid a government shutdown. that is because they are dead on arrival in the senate, and because it makes up a fraction of the bills that they would need to pass to fund the entire government. that is why house leaders on a private call on saturday were imploring their members to try to rally behind a short-term spending bill that would fund the government, include border security and make substantial government cuts. but so far, there are still holdouts to any kind of republican-negotiated short-term spending bill. that means, mccarthy could likely get jammed by the united states senate. there are conversations happening between majority leader chuck schumer and minority leader mitch mcconnell to try to find a way forward in

this senate. if they can pass a bill out of their chamber, the question for mccarthy will ultimately be, does he put that bill on the floor, negotiated with democrats in the senate, or does he not and risk a shutdown? obviously, it's a question between the gavel and avoiding a government shutdown. phil? >> it is a big question at that. lauren fox, thank you, as always. well, republican congressman tony gonzalez of texas joins us now. he's one of the lawmakers against a short-term stopgap bill. he's a member of the house problem solver caucus. congressman, i appreciate your time. just yesterday, i was watching your comments yesterday, where you seem to say that a shutdown is almost inevitable at this point. if that's the case, who do you think bears the blame here? >> everyone. the house certainly, certainly house republicans are to blame. senate democrats are to blame. and the president is to blame. and there's real people that are going to get hurt. everyone thinks that they can just point the finger at someone

else. it's someone else's fault but ours. the facts are, it's everybody's fault. and in the house, i'm a part of. i think step one wis passing a bill. i would like to see the homeland appropriations bill be the first bill we take up on tuesday. i think that has an opportunity of getting passed and piec piecemealing our way of getting to some sense of solutions here. >> can i ask you? the idea that everyone bears to blame here, i think there's decade-plus of evidence of that to some degree, but in this case in particular, there was a deal that was struck to raise the debt limit that set down the base line for what appropriations committees could do. and people -- the transportation secretary addressed this yesterday. take a listen. >> speaker mccarthy and the president made a deal. they made a deal earlier this summer. by the way, it wasn't an easy deal. just from the transportation side alone, it meant us accepting cuts that republicans were demanding to programs that we wanted to use to fund more roads and bridges and airports,

but we made that deal and all we're asking is that they live up to that deal. >> congressman, when it comes to, you voted against that bill on the floor. i'm very aware of that. but there was a deal that was reached by the speaker and the president and house republicans walked away from that deal. how is the blame equal at this point? >> i heard the comments from the secretary of transportation. i urge him to focus on secretary of transportation. i have a lot of my constituents that complain about the delays in flights and other issues, trains, certainly. there's no doubt that there's a lot of things to blame right now. house republicans need to do their part. senate -- we haven't talked about senate democrats putting together a cr, because they don't have one. we haven't talked about the president, who's been mia from these conversations. i mean, last week, he was -- he didn't know if he was talking to the black caucus or the brown caucus. it's pretty dysfunctional right now in washington, but i'm of the mind set, put all of that

aside. that's all politics, put that aside, roll up your sleeves, let's get in a room and figure this out. we have a little bit of runway left. i doubt that will get done in that time m. i'm looking at the lens, how do we minimize this from ten days instead of ten weeks. and that starts now, not weight and continuing the finger pointing game. >> ten days is nothing. i understand what you're saying. ten days of the shutdown doesn't have no effect, but i guess the question is, you've made clear that you're opposed to a short-term stopgap, because you think that's kicking the can down the road. there's 12 individual appropriations bills. they would need pass your chamber. i'm sorry, like, in what world is that anything than ten weeks on how congress operates? >> that's it. if you give congress more time, all they're going to do is take every hour and not accomplish anything. you would be amazed, you know. i learned a long time ago how to eat an elephant, one bite at a time. lock everyone in a room.

the pressure is certainly up. everyone's playing the blame game. it's always someone else's fault. but now's crunch time. there are real people that will be hurt. people in the military, certainly people in dhs along the border. the border crisis right now is absolutely out of control. in my district, you know, you've got facilities that are at 400% capacity. you've got -- in el paso, we've got over 2,000 people coming over a day. it's all fun and games looking at it going, oh, that's in texas, but very soon, that will be in your city. you're seeing it in new york, you're certainly going to see it in california here soon. this border crisis something real. i would like for to us get back to handling the real issues of america. >> i want to talk to you about the border, particularly your district in a minute. i think that raises a good point. the pressure -- utilizing pressure for leverage pip hear you on kicking the can down the road and giving lawmakers more time. i've covered the place long enough to understand what you're saying there. but border security, dhs, cbp, they will be affected by a shutdown. so you think that it's worthwhile to use that as

leverage and to some degree gro, drop border security and national security in order to force people to reach solutions on 12 spending bills, none of which have passed both chambers at this point? >> i don't think anyone should leverage anyone. i think politicians should do their job. i think the house should do its job, i think the senate should do its job, and i think the president should do his job. we should all work together. it may not be exactly what we all want, but that's why the american public, you know, elected us in these different chambers. and right now you see none of that. you see, it's just always somebody else's fault. and when there is a shutdown, there are real people that are going to be hurt. and once again, no one's really talking about what happens after that. and that's what i'm really focused on, is how do we get to some sense of real things. not, you know, things that the house passes, that the senate has no chance of picking up, or the senate passes and the house has no chance of picking up. what are some real things that can ultimately get us to pint

where if there is a government shutdown, we can restart the government and get things going again. >> your district includes a long stretch of border along the rio grande, includes eagle pass where there are currently thousands of migrants cross the river to declare asylum. you're going to host members of congress there. what do you want to show them, what tangibly do you think can be done in the near-term? >> you know, there is really many communities along the border feel abandoned. i mean, you've heard from mayor salinas of eagle pass, who was a democrat, by the way. many of us feel abandoned. so today is in large part bringing members of congress to the border and saying, you're not abandoned. and we are going to continue to hear you out. and we are going to continue to advocate. that's one. the other piece of it is how do we find real solutions. i get it. there's a lot of finger-pointing, it's easy to blame president biden's failed immigration policies, but how do we find real solutions? if we were going to rely on mexico to handle our immigration system, i'm very concerned with

that. because they have failed in every aspect. just look at the fentanyl crisis. mexico has not helped us in this area, so we can't allow other countries to handle our national security. >> you know, you mentioned the agreement with mexico, that's something the administration was working on over the weekend. they also moved forward on temporary protected status, expanding it for venezuelans to try to give them work permits, as they work to process asylum claims. what's your message in terms of the administration? i think everybody agrees, both parties, that the immigration system is broken. there's no -- it's the only thing i think everybody agrees on in washington. if you had a message as a border state lawmaker or a border district lawmaker, what is it to the president? >> you know, i met with secretary mayorkas, and it's a similar message that i gave to him late last week. you know, when you grant 500,000 ven venezuelans who came over illegally asylum, you're

granting immigration. i have a bill called the higher act, 30 members of congress, ten democrats, 20 republicans that focuses on legal immigration through work visas. and anytime you're going to grant people that come over illegally work visas, all you're doing is undermining the legal aspect. imagine if you're from india and you're a doctor and trying to come here to work, but someone from venezuela is cutting the line. imagine you're a nurse from the philippines and coming to the united states, trying to do it the right way, but someone from cuba is cutting the line. these are the type of things that i think we need to set aside and go, how do we fix this system long-term. step one, like my good friend he henr he henry cuellar is on to something. but congress has to lead in a bipartisan manner that is real solutions. that starts through legal pathways like work visas. >> i don't have any time left, but i want to ask you, next week at this time, is speaker mccarthy still at the gavel?

>> i don't see -- i mean, who else, right? t if not mccarthy, who? >> good point. appreciate your time, sir. thank you. >> thank you. so ron desantis is slamming donald trump's abortion stance after the former president called florida's six-week ban a, quote, terrible mistake. we'll step back and take a look at trump's evolution on this issue, ahead.

all right. welcome back. former president trump's abortion stance front and center on the campaign trail after he called florida's six-week ban, a, quote, terrible mistake. now florida governor ron desantis is hitting back. listen to this. >> protecting unborn babies that have detectable heartbeats is

not terrible, it's noble. it's just. and it should be something that anyone says that they're pro-life would embrace. i don't see how you could claim to have been at one time pro-life, and then turn around and say that it's terrible that a state would enact protections for life. >> so, let's take a look at this. because trump's position on abortion has evolved over the last 25 years, and that evolution is something that his republican rivals has been quick to attack. take a look at how that position has changed over his decades in public life. >> i'm very pro-choice. i hate the concept of abortion. i hate it. i hate everything it stands for. i cringe when i listen to people debating the subject. but you still -- i just believe in choice. >> but i'm pro-life. >> you're pro-life, but you do think that there should be exceptions for rape and incest? >> yes, life -- and the health

of the mother, the death. >> do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle? >> the answer is there has to be some form of punishment. >> for the woman? >> yeah, there has to be some form. >> since we got it back to the states. we did the roe v. wade thing, which they've been trying to get it done for 50 years. i got it done. i believe in the three exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother. i believe in that. without the exceptions, it is very difficult to win elections. >> would you sign federal legislation that would ban abortion at 15 weeks? >> no, no. let me just tell you what i would do. i'm going to come together with all groups and we're going to have something that's acceptable. i mean, desanctis is willing to five a five-week and six-week ban. >> would you support that? >> i think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. >> it is quite an evolution. with us at the table, emily noe, phillip bump, and shelby

talcott. yes, people change, shelby. but he's changing back and forth kind of right now. because he's criticizing some of the most strict bans, that, by the way dobbs has allowed to happen, while also saying, but i'm the one who got all of these conservative justices on the court and i'm therefore responsible for getting roe overturned. >> he's sort of trying to play both sides here. and so in a way, he is kind of almost, in my opinion, moving over to the general election early. and he's trying to figure out ways to get some of those more moderate, socially moderate voters onboard, while also reminding the ultra-conservative religious voters, well, last time around, i did "x," "y," "z," for you guys, so you should still be with me, even though i'm saying something different this time around. and that has really frustrated the anti-abortion activists, as we've talked about here before.

the thing is, that frustration hasn't really translated into any changes in support for trump in a primary election. >> dig in on the primary in a second, but emily, the idea of, i'm triangulating back for the general election right now, when you've got three supreme court justices, where your threshold was literally opposition to roe v. wade, and therefore that is exactly what they did, which has allowed everything on the state level to -- how do you get to do that? >> because you're donald trump. and he hasn't -- >> that's a terrible answer, but it's right. >> and he isn't held to account by republicans in the way that he should be. it's right that he's claimed both sides. he shouldn't be permitted to. he should care what ron desantis as his primary opponent says. he should have his words used against him. he shouldn't be able to appoint justices to the supreme court that hurt dobbs and roe. he shouldn't be able to go on and call a six-week ban in florida a terrible mistake.

but he can go on and i whatever he wants and no one cares. no one is competitive at this stage in the republican primary as donald trump, who is 40 points over ron desantis. so, good for ron desantis for trying to stick up for his state, for his policies, but trump says what he wants. >> isn't the reality that it doesn't really matter what trump says on this right now, because he got the court so dramatically changed, that he got this ruling that is going to be here? >> yeah, no, that's exactly right. his schick in politics has always been, to say the thing that he thinks people want to hear, and then do whatever he can to deliver for his base. that was him delivering for his base, getting those three justices appointed. >> not just, that the guns decision. the secretary of state epa. all of these things. >> absolutely. i'm so glad in that segment -- those clips that you just showed, you showed that point in 2015, when he was asked if there should be a punishment for the women. you can see him, he's never thought about it. he said, yes, i think there has to be punishment.

he's just making it up on the fly. he has not paid any attention to this shall except he knows what's popular. and he's seeing all of these election results. he knows that his party's hard position on abortion is not popular. again, hoe's running in the general already, he's basically locked up the primary. this is the message he's putting forth. oh, these guys are too far to the right, trying to position himself as moderate, and knowing that the right will be there on election day. >> and i have a decent idea that democratic admakers are probably not going to let him get away with that to some degree. but on the primary side, take a listen to what mike pence and ron desantis have been saying. >> you saw him walking away from our commitment to the sanctity of human life. i'm pro-life. people that know me know i'll always stand for the unborn. >> i believe the former president is wrong on the issue. he was a pro-life president. we need a pro-life president in the future. >> for him to then attack people like iowa, south carolina, florida, all of these other states, i thought was a big

mistake. but look, i think he's taking positions that are different from what he took in 2015 when he first came on to the scene. >> senator tim scott was in there as well. iowa is the state everyone has been looking to for some type of sign that this is having an impact. is it? >> not so far. it was interesting, i had a conversation with a very prominent iowa evangelical sort of like the leader of one of the leaders of the movement out there. and his point to me was, if trump is successful in iowa, as we have seen every indication is so far, it's still material, but he could be, it will say more about the evangelical voter base there, by basically his argument was, it will say that they are willing to vote for a personality over their cause, and so this is not just, you know, an issue for what's going to happen in 2024, but it's

also, i think, kind of going to be a basis of how influential the evangelical social conservative base anti-abortion movement is going forward. >> let's just -- before we go -- look at this new polling out. there was a bunch, an abc "washington post," but i want to hone in on the nbc poll, biden's overall approval rating, and how he's doing on the economy. 56% disapprove, on the economy, it's really bad. i believe it's 23%, if i've got that right, approval on the economy. this is a little different look, but the economy's worse. 58%. phillip, how do you fight this? went they're running on bi bidenomics. it >> it will be interesting to see if they continue to run on bidenomics running forward. they put a big push on, let's talk about bidenomics. i think they will still definitely focus on the economy and the fact that the economy is more robust than people might have anticipated.

i don't know if they'll use that phrase. but i think a lot of democrats are thinking that what they need to do is run on democracy, as opposed to donald trump. we saw this add that came out from donald trump or from joe biden last week, president biden, i should say, that focused on his visit to ukraine, and really had a subtext about like, i'm standing up against the autoaccurates. i think that's the push they're going to make. he got elected not because he was so popular, but because donald trump was so unpopular. that's part of what they're hoping again in 2024 should that be the matchup. >> and he's giving a speech on democracy soon. we'll see if that pivot happens. thanks, guys, as always. this just into cnn, embattled senator bob menendez is set to speak later today at 11:00 a.m. from a community college in new jersey. there have been growing calls for him to resign after he was indicted on bribery charges, those calls even coming from within his own party in his state. stay with us.

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>> i do believe that it is in the best interests for senator menendez to resign in this moment. as you mentioned, consistency matters. it shouldn't matter whether it's a republican or a democrat. >> this is a very serious charge. there's no question about it. in terms of resignation, that's a decision to be made by senator menendez and the people of new jersey. >> these are serious and shocking charges. bribery, corruption. i've never seen anything like this. i think senator menendez is going to have to think long and hard about the cloud that's going to hang over his service in the united states senate. >> now, menendez denies taking thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash, gold, and lavish gifts. you can see some of them there on the screen, in exchange for using his office to aid egypt's government. cara scannel joins us now. the big question, and we kind of have a sense of the answer, what's he going to say at this first public appearance today? >> right. that is the thing. this is the first time he's going to step before the camera since he was indicted on friday.

and on friday, he did come out twice with two defiant statements saying, i am not going anywhere. so i think we'll probably hear more of the same. he is up for re-election, so we would be looking to see what he says about his political plans. but this is the second time in a decade that menendez has been indicted on corruption charges. and that last time, he went to trial, he never resigned from his seat. there was a mistrial, the judge acquitted him on some charges, and the justice department said they were not going to retry him on the remaining charges in that case. according to this indictment, this alleged scheme began just weeks after that case ended. so, it's a really -- i mean, it's just kind of a real interesting decade of menendez here what the prosecutors are alleging. but these are serious charges. he is due in court on wednesday by a court summons, him, his wife, and three other co-defendants to face these charges. >> one of the things that is interesting about this and

important is that it's very different than the last corruption trial. there are three really serious charges in here. he could face up to 20 years in prison. i'm not saying the last ones weren't serious, but this partially involves sensitive u.s. government information. can you explain to people the three prongs? >> there are three criminal counts here. and prosecutors say that menendez had abused his position as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, where he had a very important role about whether egypt could get military aid and financing, something that they were needing. and so according to this indictment, menendez had sent sensitive information to an intermediary that got to the egyptian government. he held meetings with egyptian military officials in his office without his staff. and one of the allegations is that he ghost wrote a letter for egypt to send to other u.s. senators to try to convince them to lift a hold on $300 million in aid to egypt. and those are some of the

alleged acts that the prosecutors say he took as part of this scheme. and they also say he tried to interfere with two different criminal investigations, facing one of these businessmen, who is also indicted alongside him, skpand associates of another businessman in this scheme, saying he was trying to help them, so interfering in justice department, in new jersey attorney general's office investigations. >> will we see him at the -- it's a federal court, right? so we'll see him on wednesday? >> i'll see him on wednesday, there won't with cameras in the courtroom, but we will see him walk into court and walk out. there's not likely to be an issue of a detention here. so, it's very possible we'll see him address the cameras then. >> you'll be there. thank you, kara. this morning, the u.s. ambassador to canada revealing what led prime minister justin trudeau to blame the indian government for the assassination of a sikh activist on canadian soil. the information came between five eyes, which is the intelligence sharing pathetic. cohen says the u.s. has expressed their concern to india

and asked that the government cooperate with canada's ongoing investigation. >> the united states takes very seriously these allegations and, you know, if they prove to be true, it is a potentially very serious breach of the rules-based international order in which we like to function. this is something we're treating, we take very seriously. and we think it's very important to get to the bottom of it. >> we should note, india has denied the claims, calling them absurd and motivated. the auto workers union expanding its strike with huge economic consequences at stake. what car owners and buyers might see, just ahead. usher is your halftime performer for super bowl lviii!

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expired. the union president shawn fain says those two companies are not bringing, quote, a serious offer to workers, yet he does know that ford is. but with no resolution likely in the short-term, what are the effects on car owners, prospective car buyers, average americans. vanessa yurkevich joining us now. where do things stand now? i thought that was surprising. they thought ford was coming to the table in a serious way, the other two, no. >> and just in the first week, we saw an economic impact of $1.8 billion. those were just the three plants on strike. you had losses of wages totaling $250 million. you had losses to consumers and car dealerships of $470 billion. so that was just before these additional 38 targeted strikes across all of gm and stellantis' parts and distribution centers. ford, as you mentioned, not on that list, because shawn fain said that he felt like there was enough negotiating, there was a

good deal so far -- or a good offer so far -- from ford. enough progress was made on their front. but what we need to look out for going forward here is what is the expanded impact on consumers? because essentially, when you take out parts and distribution across two big automakers, that has a ripple effect down to dealerships. dealerships provide service to everyday americans, who want to go in and get their cars fixed, and when you don't have those parts coming into those dealerships, they can't do repairs. and that's actually a huge part of their income. is repairs for everyday americans, so they may have to turn people away, and then in turn, they will turn up the temperature on gm and stellantis to potentially come to a deal faster or negotiate a little bit better with the union, because eventually, this is going to hurt the dealership's bottom line. >> the negotiations themselves, i'm kind of fascinated by the way ford has broken off a little bit in terms of the talks, historically, what the union would do is kind of pick one

representative of the big three, work with them, and it would kind of spread after a deal was reached. is that what's happening here? because they're still punishing the other two in terms of these closures right now. >> it's not what's happening. from the very beginning, the unions said that they were going after all three. they were not picking a target. it's just right now, ford seems to be the company out of the big three that is putting the best offer on the table. however, despite offering costs of living increases, transitioning temporary workers to full-time workers, providing job security in their latest offer, both sides, the union and ford, say there's a huge gap on the economic issues. so you're talking about wages, you're talking about potentially bringing back pensions that the workers gave up in 2009, and retiree benefits. there's still a large gap there. one thing to note, though, is ford made a deal with unifor, which is the canadian union, and in that deal, we did see that ford brought back pensions. so it will be interesting to see

if the uaw is looking at that canadian deal and saying, well, wait a minute, you brought back pensions for our canadian counterparts. let's see what we can do at the table here in the u.s. >> a great point. >> look forward to having you on. >> i'll see you tomorrow for detroit. >> thank you, vanessa. new this morning, the wife of actor bruce willis is speaking out about his condition. in an interview with nbc, emma willis described house the family was coping in the face of willis' frontal tempora dementia. >> i'm learning that dementia is hard. it's hard on the person diagnosed and it's also hard on the family. and that is no different for bruce or myself or our girls. and when they say that this is a family disease, it really is. >> does he know what's going on? is that something that he is aware of? >> hard to know. it's hard to know. honestly, he is the gift that keeps on giving.

love, patience, resilience, so much. >> willis and his family went public with his diagnosis this past family. frontal temporal dementia is a condition that can change their personality. >> i was just so struck listening to his wife. >> hard to watch. >> the best to their entire family. well, for the first time, a nasa spacecraft has brought samples from an asteroid back to earth. this mission has been seven years in the making. what we can learn from these samples. well break it down, next.

ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said americans abrams tanks have arrived in ukraine and are, quote, getting prepared to reinforce our brigade. zelenskyy writing on telegram that he is grateful to his allies for fulfilling the agreements. we are looking forward to our new contracts and expanding the geography of supply.

a major milestone for nasa. >> touchdown.i repeat, ddl. >> space agency finally has its hands on an asteroid sample seven years after launching to space a nasa spacecraft delivered a capsule containing the sample early sunday morning. we are told that that capsule contains dust and rocks from the asteroid. scientists will send years studying the cosmic gift hoping to understand the origins of the solar system. with us is janet levin the author of "black hole survival guide." >> good morning. >> i geeked out reading this this morning. it's super interesting. phil wants to say the actual race. >> it's amazing what it was able to do. >> it is incredible because the material on this asteroid we think is much more similar to

how the solar system was when it first formed 4.5 billion years ago. it came from an asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. we have this image of asteroid belts as being dense and you can't navigate through, it's not that bad, but it is dense enough that there are coalitions and that asteroid was cast out and it is now in a near earth orbit around the sun. we were able to get to it easily but it has this ancient rock and material. >> what's the first thing -- they have this in hand. >> yes. >> probably not literally in your hands. what are they doing right now? this is a years' long process i presume. >> yes. >> what are they trying too find out? >> they've moved it to a green room locally in utah where they collected it. the spacecraft was about a third of the way to the moon when it sent it to earth, this cap actual and jettisoned away. it was recovered and it's 120 pounds. it was first helicoptered and

put on a cart literally and moved into the johnson space center in houston where it's going to be divvied up a little bit among scientists and studied to see if there are these kind of precious amino acids that we think might have launched life here on earth. so it's unclear if earth had what it takes to initiate life on its own without asteroids bringing material to initiate the entire process. >> this might sound like a dumb question. how did it get the rocks and the dirt? does it land, scoop them up, take off? >> it's a great question because it's quite small, only a few hundred meters across. it's more of a collection of debris that's loosely stuck together, a little bit of gravity. what the spacecraft did it is dropped down really fast and it stuck down a little probe to kick up dust purposefully, gather material and pop off again. it didn't stay.

it was a fly by. it was a drop, a punch and then it left. and so it happened to get enough material and the whole thing turned out to be lock yer than we expected, looser than we expected. it penetrated right into the soil as though there wasn't any solid surface. even that part which happened in 2020 was quite amazing. >> it's remarkable. how quickly do you think people will have a sense of if it has the answers in terms of the amino acid and just in general? >> we do have theories, techniques to study the amino acids to see if water is sealed inside but there are probably some tests we haven't even thought of. when we look at the apollo mission bringing back moon rocks we did not know water was trapped in the rocks until 40 years later. there were scientists who hadn't been born when the collections were first made to invent techniques to study them in the lab. if you hear the nasa scientists talk about it they are saying in the future there are scientists

not yet born who will study these rocks. >> and there is another asteroid, right? >> it's on its way to another asteroid, it won't be there until 2029. >> we will be watching. janna, thank you so much. thank you all for joining us on this monday. have a great day. we will see you right back here tomorrow. "cnn news central" is next.

major developments out of hollywood, a tentative deal between writers and studios. this could soon end a strike that's put productions on hold for nearly five months now. does this mean