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♪ a historic show of solidarity. president biden joining the picket line with autoworkers as they strike against the big three automakers. taking you live to michigan for the latest. and hunter strikes back. the president's son files a lawsuit against trump's former attorney rudy giuliani. accusing him of trying to hack

this devices. why hunter biden is making this legal maneuver, just ahead. and pressure is mounting on senator bob menendez, as more of his fellow democrats call for his resignation amid bribery charges. we're following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to "cnn news central." ♪ president biden has made labor history. he just became the first sitting american president to walk the picket line. biden, joining autoworkers in wayne county, michigan, part of an unprecedented simultaneous nationwide strike against the big three autoworkers. uaw leader shawn fain thanked president biden for showing his support for workers in person. >> -- determined to stand up with us. in our generations-defining

moment. and we know the president will do right by the working class. and when we do right by the working class, you can leave the rest to us. because we're going to take care of this business. >> cnn's arlette saenz is in wayne county with president biden and cnn's vanessa yurkevich is with uaw members in warren, michigan, less than an hour away. arlette, what was president biden's message to these striking workers? >> reporter: well, boris, president biden made his most public support for the united auto workers, agency these negotiations and strike continue as he appeared side by side with them, outside of a gm facility here in wayne county, michigan. the president but on that uaw hat, spoke from a bull horn and offered his support for the autoworkers, saying they deserve significant raises and other benefits as well. and he talked about the need for

these workers to have better benefits and pay, as auto companies are experiencing these record profits. take a listen to what he had to say a short while ago. >> the fact of the matter is you guys, uaw, you saved the automobile industry back in 2003 and 2004, you gave up and sacrificed economies were in trouble. now they're doing incredibly well, guess what, you should be doing incredibly well, too. you deserve the significant raise you need and other benefits. let's get back what we lost, okay? thankfully, we have a partner to step up for us. >> reporter: now, after those remark, the president, as he was shaking hands with people, he was asked by a reporter whether he specifically supports the

uaw's call for a 40% increase in pay. and president biden appeared to say yes to that answer. that goes farther than anything the president has said. they've been quite careful on weighing on any demands that the uaw has been making but the president's mission while he's been here in michigan is trying to court those working class voters. and his visit coming just one day before former president donald trump is also expected to descend upon the state where he's hoping to also speak with union members. now biden's invitation to come to michigan came directly from the are you aw president shawn fain who was on hand with him today, one thing that's noteworthy is that the uaw has yet to endorse in the 2024 election, even as many labor groups have thrown their backing behind president biden. now, today, biden said he's not worried about trying to earn that endorsement at this moment. what he's been focused on is trying to show the support for striking workers. and today, he took that step,

becoming the first sitting president to appear on the picket line with those workers and telling them to stick with it. >> vanessa, obviously as arlette pointed out this is one day before president trump is expected to go there. this under scores the importance of working class voters in 2024. i am wondering if you heard from voters where you are about president biden's message? >> reporter: the message on his visit is slowly making its way to these folks on the picket line outside of the stellantis facility. this is one of 38 facilities that was just authorized to go on strike on friday. i want to bring in martez hardy, he's been working for stellantis 11 years now. we talked about the president's message. you read what he had to say. your reaction. >> well, i'm all for the president coming through, on the picket line, as long as it helps the bottom line, as long as we

get what we need and deserve. >> reporter: do you think the president's message and what he had to stay will help with negotiations between stellantis and the gruen. >> i hope so, i hope so. >> reporter: what do you want to see in the contract from stellantis and the union. what is important to you? >> fairness. >> reporter: and what does fairness mean? >> equal wages, eliminating tears, stop overusing our temporary workers because they are people, too. you know, we're just trying to make it. we all have families, bills. we're just trying to survive. >> reporter: is it enough right now what you have on the table, or no? >> not at all. not at all. >> reporter: thank you, martez hardy, appreciate your time. so, guys, as president biden has come to town, as you mentioned, former president trump will be in detroit tomorrow. a source telling me that the union did not formally invite president trump and they're not participating in his event. but negotiations between the big three and the union still

continue. we know that the union has said they've been making progress with ford. not so much montprogress with gd stellantis, in the meantime, 24/7 these workers will be here on the picket line. >> we'll see ifs tacit position of the workers' positions moves negotiations. vanessa yurkevich, arlette s saenz, thank you so much. let's take a look at how important the workers are to the campaign. in 2020, biden outperformed trump with union house hholds. specifically, biden carriied 62 to trump's 32%. they made up 20% of voters in 2020. joining us now to talk more about this, we have bob king, he's a former uaw president and

also douglas brinkley who is a presidential historian. bob, to you first, the uaw has not endorsed biden. they did in 2020 and shawn fain has harshly rebuked trump. but talk about the rank and file here. trump feels he can peel off more than he did in 2020. is he right? >> i think he's absolutely wrong. workers saw that he didn't do anything for workers. uaw members the statement in lordstown, where he said don't sell your home, don't move, i'm going to save his plant. and he did nothing to save that plant. he did many things to hurt workers, workers' rights to organize, federal workers. it's just a long, long list of ways he helped the wealthiest and did not help workers at all. >> doug, tell us why these visits to michigan, to striking workers, matter so much when it comes to presidential politics? >> i really think it's the

opening salvo of the 2024 presidential campaign. you see how president biden and former president trump are beelining it there. because we've spent a lot of time, brianna, talking about a.i. and technology of tomorrow. and this election very well might be about the midwest working class union workers, and how they vote. and both biden and trump understand that. i think it's an epic moment when you have a signature president biden, mostly he's pro-labor, but to be there symbolic today, wearing the cap with fain who is going to go down in history like walter reuther like one of the great modern labor leaders of our time. it's a good move for biden. it's one he had to do, amtrak joe, just a working class kid from scranton. and if he was absent from this strike or tried to sit on the

sideline, i think it would have caused him even more hemorrhaging with union workers and the statistics you just said. >> bob, how much does this mean for union workers that biden is there? but also considering how this may be good for the president. i mean, these union workers, specifically, these autoworkers, have overwhelming support in polls. it's not that this is particularly risky for president biden. >> well, i agree. i think it's very important, i think it means a tremendous amount to workers, that he publicly came out and was on the picket line. along with president fain of the uaw. i think it means a lot, you know. we hope that he as follows it up with action. there are ways to make u.s. companies more competitive. the three auto companies, $9 an hour in health care, they should be supporting president biden and uaw in getting national held care. the public support is so great

because people are tired of corporations blaming workers and then hoarding all of the profits to themselves. i think the uaw has done an amazing job. i've never seen uaw members this engaged and this involved in a contract fight. it's great to see. >> and, doug, we heard shawn fain sort of talking about this, that this isn't about autoworkers, historically, middle class looks to autoworkers he was sending messages out to nurses and others in his comments. how worried should biden be about the middle class when he's having a difficult time selling the economic message and you're seeing 4 in 10 americans saying they're worse off financially since he took office? >> well, biden should be paying attention to that. i mean, he has to sell the green economy also, joe biden. i mean, he is -- with his biggest accomplishment, his

infrastructure package, so much for climate. and companies like ford are really starting to build the evs to meet the green revolution, but the workers have to get paid a fair wage. biden has a lot of try try angular work. while i mentioned the name walter ginsburger, he created a environmental lift alliance. it's walter ginsburger who funded the first earth day in 1970. and you have an opportunity here for biden to use michigan as a laboratory to try to convince working americans that turning green or going to electric vehicles isn't going to hurt their pocketbooks. so i think a lot is at stake like the entire biden economic agenda. and also just upon the uaw, we're so proud as americans to have the big three automakers. they often dot right things.

let's hope they will negotiate in good spirit and we can resolve this in the coming weeks and everybody can become a winner out of this. >> it's a battle that we're watching. so important to have the historic perspective from both of you, bob and doug. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> boris. as the president hits the picket line in michigan, his son hunter filing a lawsuit against rudy giuliani, accusing him of trying to hack his devices. the details on that filing. also, donald trump's fight over a gag order, his legal team says the special counsel is trying to censor the former president in a critical time in the 2024 race. and more democrats in congress calling on senator bob menendez to resign after his indictment on bribery charges. you're watching "cnn news central." we're back in just moments.

now to yet another federal indictment with major ramifications in washington. we're talking about the bribery charges facing senator menendez and the tidal wave from his own party calling on him to resign. more than a dozen stated

publicly he has to go. and he noted yesterday he's not stepping down. let's bring in someone who knows bob menendez well. cnn political commentator, ana navarro. with 18 democratic senators calling on him to resign, do you think he should? >> whether i think he should or not, i think is a moot point because i don't think he will. i think 99 senators could come out and ask him to resign and he wouldn't. the one that probably does sting a lot is cory booker. cory booker stood by menendez in the last trial proceedings, testified, was a character witness for menendez and i know they have a strong bond. i don't think bob menendez sees resigning -- i'm known him for 30 years. he's tough. he hails from one of the toughest districts in new jersey hudson county, new jersey.

these people eat nails for breakfast. i don't think resigning is anything but giving up an admission of guilt. it would tie his hands and sorely limit his ability to raise funds. remember, being in the senate allows him to continue fundraising and having a legal defense fund. that becomes much more difficult if you resign. >> ana, there was something he said yesterday that i think hit close to home for both of us. i want to play it now for our viewers. >> for 30 years, i have withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account. which i have kept for emergencies and because of the history of my family facing confiscation in cuba. now, this may seem old-fashioned, but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account, based on the income that i have lawfully derived over those 30 years. i look forward to addressing other issues at trial.

>> both of our families pled communist regimes where at any given moment, someone can come to your home and take what you've earned. does that resonate with you, his explanation of keeping so much money and gold bars in his home? >> well, a couple of things on that, first of all, i think bob was born in the united states. i think his family fled cuba before the revolution. but what he's talking about is real, and is a real kind of mentality for many exiles. i as an 8-year-old, one day -- we lost everything we had. i can tell you today as an adult, sometimes i look up and thing danelo ortega is going to come down from the mountain and take everything vie. mind you, there's no mountains but that's helpful. when i heard bob menendez say that yesterday, i thought to myself, well, if you've been withdrawing cash from your account for years, there's a record of that. so there's evidence of that,

right? there's a paper trial. so if that's the case that would be great. but, you know, i really -- i'm hoping against hope that's the case. and i'm hoping that he's able to provide that evidence. i'm hoping that he's able to lead this. look, boris, bob menendez is such a champion for the latino community. he's such a champion for the cuban-american unit and nicaraguan community. that is going to leave us with a great void. that being said, you haven't heard any latino organization, any latino leaders, any cuban-americans go out there and say that the doj is politicized, that this is a witch hunt, all of the things you hear republicans say about donald trump and those indictments. what people here are saying, the guy deserves a fair shot. he deserves a presumption of innocence in proven guilty. let's see how those play out.

>> that was my next question, you read my mind. you see a double standard there in the way people are treating bob menendez, saying he gets a fair try at trial but not to be a distraction, along with donald trump, folks are saying the entire system is rigged? >> well, but there's only double standards, right, when it comes to politics. for some reason, democrats like to hold themselves up to a higher standard, when you look at al franken. when you look at what's happening with bob menendez. on the other side, you've got donald trump 40 points ahead on the republican primaries and indicted on four different cases with very serious counts about national security and classified material. >> on the note on the other side and donald trump's indictment, there's a second debate tomorrow night is that anything but a race for second place, what are you going to be watching for? >> i'm not going to be watching

anything. i'm going to be at the beyonce concert but i will watch it on replay on cnn afterwards. but this feels like the undercard, right, when you go to a boxing match and you're waiting for the main attraction. these are the under cards. i don't think we see donald trump vice president's standing there. certainly, it won't be mike pence. certainly, it won't be ron desantis, maybe nikki haley, if he forgives her for calling him every other day. i think it's also -- i think it's probably the last time, if there's still a last time available, for ron desantis to execute one of his many reboots. and try to rescue his campaign from the doldrums and the, you know, bottom of the barrel, where he has fallen. if he doesn't do it tomorrow night, i think he's cooked. put a fork in him. >> yeah, a lot of donors have said that.

>> oh, they've already said that. his biggest donors have already said, you know, we're talking away, we're waiting and seeing. but that's got everything to do with the fact that he decided to take on culture wars instead of promoting the florida economic story. it all became about drag queens and mickey mouse. going after a private company for expressing their opinion is anything but conservative. >> ana navarro. >> gracias. >> great to be with you. brianna. hunter biden is taking on rudy giuliani in a new lawsuit, president biden's son is suing rudy giuliani and an attorney, alleging that he tried to hack his devices and data. these lawsuits come as he faces federal gun champs. we have cnn's paula reid tracking this. already, pretty explosive claims in his lawsuit. >> yeah, this is one of the more

aggressive you what suits that he's been suing against. here he's suing rudy giuliani and giuliani's longtime attorney robert costello, alleging that these men hacked his personal data and disseminated it and a violation of state and federal law according to the allegations. costello and giuliani have played a very public role in sharing data in a laptop that h hunter biden was said to have left in a repair shop. hunter's lawyers have described this as annihilation of hunter biden's digital privacy. even though hunter biden is facing a case of his own in delaware, a lawyer on his team told me earlier today anyone involved in sharing his data should be hearing, quote, foot steps. now giuliani shot back in a statement today by his spokesman that he'd be surprised he's

accused of manipulating any data on this laptop and also suggested there are elements of crime on that laptop. it's clear even though hunter biden is facing criminal charges now, the more aggressive strategy began when that whole investigation was going to be put behind them, resolved with a plea deal, they're not leaning back in becoming more litigious. >> let's switch gears and talk about donald trump election interference trial. he's fighting a gag order that's been requested by the special counsel. what's at issue here? >> we're talking about the january 6 case here in washington where special counsel jack smith jack smith is seeking a limited gag order on the former president saying look this is someone who is trying to disrupt the ordering administration of justice. trying to intimidate people but the former president's lawyers have said, look, this is unconstitutional. he's trying to campaign. and this is all part of an effort to disrupt his ability to run for the white house, again,

they're asking the judge to deny this. but the former president is already subject to some restriction that's he can't intimidate witnesses or discuss the case with him. but this has been the central tension in many of these cases, right? of course, there have to be some limitations on diveefendants, trying to disrupt the process. he's addressing concerns here because he's running once again for the white house. >> paula, appreciate it. boris. a surge in migrant crossings is overwhelming border cities and adding to a huge backlog in immigration court but mexico is overwhelmed as well. we have a live report from the southern border, straight ahead.

cities along the southern border are struggling to keep up with a growing surge of migrants. el paso is buying an old middle school and turning it into an emergency shelter. the mayor saying that his city is at a breaking point housing more than 7,000 migrants in just the last ten days. although encounters in el paso have dropped by about a third since mexico pledged to deport migrants from its northern border cities. influx is adding to a huge backlog in the court system. more than 2.6 million cases are now waiting to be heard. the migration to the u.s. is also overwhelming mexico southern border with guatemala. cnn's david culver is there for us, david, tell us what the situation is there? >> reporter: you really feel a massive surge here in southern mexico, brianna. i'm a border where most might

not associate it with migrant crisis. it's indicative of what's coming north towards the u.s. in particular. at the border, as you point out, mexico, just over this riser here, guatemala. now this has become, despite the official crossing which is just a few hundred feet downriver the real crossing point. you see here, makeshift rafts there are innertubes that have planks of wood strewn across them. and this is where migrants are bought from guatemala, dropped off. they by $150 per person. they go to unload and come to the mexican side. then the shore. this is what this has become, you see the kids here. this has become a little encampment of sorts. you've got tents for those morton enough to have one. you've got clothes hanging up, fires where people are cooking and it's become an ecosystem of folks waiting out to see where

they can move from here to hto cap capchula. it's not a massive city, it's certainly bringing a huge strain, and that's a place where in this crowd in particular that we're with without the day in particular, they're waiting to get processed waiting for mexico which is a requirement, should they want to claim asylum to the u.s. first, they have to have a third party, like mexico, they're trying to do that or get transit documents to buy some time here in mexico, get themselves sorted. on average, they're spending a month to four months here, making their way where the vast majority of them tell me they want to be, brianna, and that's the u.s. there's a determination that they've gone through so much already and will continue.

as you can see here, there's more migrants, on this portion. this is all day, on a raft. they go back and forth. it shows it's a nonstop movement. this surge that sometimes, we determine by the numbers that we're seeing at the u.s. southern border. you may stop it there, you may slow it there. it's continuing, it's nonstop, nats what we're seeing throughout the day and even into the night, brianna, here on the side of the border with guatemala just over my shoulder. >> it is a fascinating look there in ciudad hilldago. >> we're seeing reveals new report from a book written by former white house aide emergcassidy hutchinson on more than.

♪ former white house aide cassidy hutchinson is speaking out about the final days of the trump presidency in her all new tell-all memoir entitled "enough." >> and she paints this really chaotic picture of what was going inside the oval and the days leading up to the chapitol hill insurrection. even more so than she previously disclosed last summer. cnn's jake tapper gives us an inside look at some of the revelations. >> brianna, boris, cassidy hutchinson was the star witness last year, now she's back on the scene with the book telling her story from her childhood to the courageous testimony last summer, including all of the years to the man she was loyal to to the man she's warning the country about donald trump. >> reporter: it was just last summer that cassidy hutchinson

the former aide to mark meadows became a star with the innocence the january 6 committee hearings. in the new book "enough" hutchinson paints the closing days in the white house as even more chaotic and lawless as described in that testimony. quote, cass, if i can get through this job and manage to keep trump out of jail, i'll have done a good job, meadows tells her. it's a front row seat to madness. as a mask-free trump rally at the height of the pandemic, former representative herman cain contracted the viruses and later dies. this does not change the mask policy. in fact during a visit to an n95 plant, hutchinson advises president trump to remove his mask because his bronzer is smearing it. at one time in the 2020 campaign trail, meadows asks hutchinson

if she'd take a bullet for president trump, yeah, sure, she responds, but could it be to the leg? i would do anything to get him re-elected, meadows tellss her. and saying that he was constantly burning documents in the fire process. and to overturn the election that trump clearly lost, quote, i was irated that mark gave the president false homes, of course, that's what the president wanted to hear they was damaging the country by concocting rationales. soon to be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy and john radcliffe both expressing concern about the president erratically announcing that he lost backtracking and saying he didn't. both men blame meadows but it's

trump who was the most dramatic, after the u.s. supreme court refuses to take up the nonencicle lawsuit, trump pushes meadows, quote, why didn't we make more calls? we needed to do more. we can't let this stand, unquote. trump continues in a statement that could have legal ramifications, quote, i don't want people know we lost, mark, this is embarrassing. when multiple attempts do not come tole fruition, january 6th becomes the fail safe. much of hutchinson's stories about that day was part of her testimony. >> i heard the president say something, i don't care that they have weapons. they're not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away. >> reporter: in book, hutchinson reveals for the first time she. was groped by rudy giuliani backstage. quote, he moves toward me like a wolf. she writes, saying he put her hand up her skirt.

giuliani denied this happen. even the horrors of january 6th were not enough for hutchinson to resign. she stayed with president trump through the end of his term and sought to get a job with him after his presidency. >> the witness will stand and raise her hand. >> reporter: and telling her to quote downplay her role as strictly administrative, she was an assistant, nothing more. hutchinson was never told to lie to the committee, passantino insisted, quote, but i don't recall until perjury. another time, passantino tells her, quote, we just want to protect the president. jobs are dangled and withdrawn from hutchinson as she begins to withdraw from the committee. she's ultimately shut out of and demonized by trump world altogether. the rest and her courageous testimony is history now, a

spokesperson from mark meadows vehemently denies the allegations in the work. the burning in the fireplace was nothing at all, it was newspapers to get the fire going. and also denying leaking documents to the right-wing figures. calls it a ridiculous mischaracterization. and regards to the we killed herman cain. and to say it was insane to say this was meadows' reaction. and days after he was expressing exasperation that the media would blame them for his death. boris, brianna. >> thank you jake tapper for breaking that down, you'll see and d hear more on "the lead wi jake tapper." he's got an interview with cassidy hutchinson airing today at 4:00 p.m. here on cnn. brianna. now to other headlines we're watching this hour, a popular iraqi blogger with hundreds of thousands of followers has been

shot and killed in baghdad. the person who also went by the name had faced online abuse, noor 16ed that in interviews. and armed groups in iraq have been accused of targeting lgbtq people. also, jpmorgan chase will pay the u.s. virgin islands $75 million after settlinging a lawsuit tied to jeffrey epstein. chase is not conceding any liability over allegations that the bank helped facilitate and benefit from epstein's sex crimes. he had a private island in the territory. funds will go to victims' programs and measures to help combat human trafficking. and a russian court has reject ed alexny navalny's appeal. navalny appears by video link.

supporters say navalny is being punished for criticizing vladimir putin. we've it or not, winter is coming, we'll explain how el nino will make it feel a lot different than previous years. stay with us.

your mind may be on the start of fall and leaf cleanup, but you should be warned an el nino winter is on the way and with it some pretty drastic changes. here's cnn's derek van dam with what you need to know. >> well, i think, boris, it's fair to say that some people along the eastern seaboard felt robbed of a proper winter this

year, but i think this winter could make up for it and maybe retribution in the cards here and it's also thanks to our friends el nino which is the equatorial warming of the waters along the eastern pacific ocean and this changes the jet stream dynamics that drive the systems from the west coast to the east coast, basically taking the sub tropical jet stream pushing it further south and allowing it to impact the southern tier of the u.s. and along the eastern seaboard, as well. to conjure up bone of may favorite max shows "winter is coming." we all remember the classic winters and that weather pattern i was showing you on the augmented reality map lines up nicely with the climate prediction center's winter forecast. they're calling for above normal precipitation favoring much of the eastern seaboard during the core of the winter season as the storm track is favored during this type of el nino setup.

what about temperatures? well, climatologists look toward wintsers and they compare and contrast december, january and february and the warmer temperatures are generally confined to the northern tier the country and that's the above-average winter temperatures and that aligns well with the climate prediction centers and the winter temperature outlook and you can see above-average temperatures for the pacific northwest and the great lakes and northern new england with equal chances of above or below average temperatures above the deep south and this is something that we'll continue to monitor, but el nino will favor a more winter-like pattern along the eastern seaboard. derek van dam. brianna? >> health care workers could be putting down medical instruments and picking up picket signs. one key issue, chronic staffing shortages. an emergency room worker tells cnn he is so busy on his shift that he can walk as many as

40,000 steps on any give know day according to his apple watch. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard is following the story for us from atlanta. jacqueline, tell us what these workers are demanding. >> these workers are affiliated with kaiser perm mianente and t want the company to address ongoing staffing shortages and they're burned out and overwhelmed and one registered nurse spoke at a town hall and she's not affiliated with the same institution and she did say this burnout is seen across the medical community and overworked staff can raise risks for patients. have a listen. >> if you're over burdened and if you're overworked, the chances that you'll make a mistake are greater. we no longer want to be complicit in not having the right things to take care of our patients. >> now, brianna, kaiser permanente did say in a statement last week that they already have hired more staff

and they would hire more in the future and there are negotiations and bargaining sessions happening between the union and the company so we'll wait to see what happens, brianna. >> the risk of burnout here feels, specially hard to ignore especially when you are looking at this new study that was released today that shows health care workers have a significantly higher risk of suicide when you compare them to those who don't work in the health care industry. >> yeah. it's really disturbing to see, but this study found that overall health care workers have a 32% increased risk of suicide compared to people who do not work in the health care community. so to address this, researchers say we do have to look at workplace conditions and making sure that health care workers have access to mental health services so this is an ongoing concern that we're seeing, brianna. definitely something that people are continuing to talk about. >> yeah. they're doing such important work and they need the resources they need to continue to do that in a way that, you know, they can be healthy themselves.

jacqueline howard, thank you so much. we do appreciate it and a reminder that if you or you know is struggling, please dial 988, the suicide and crisis hotline. joe biden becomes the first u.s. president joining a picket line in support of the big three. we'll take you to michigan, next.