sp suspect in another case but haven't elaborated on why. billingsley knew her and this case has shacken the baltimore community. >> keep us posted as you learn more. "cnn this morning" continues right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin with breaking news, just into cnn, north korean state run media reporting that it has decided to expel u.s. army private travis king after completing their investigation into his crossing into the north from south korea. that was during a tour of the joint security area in yul. north korea claims that king, quote, confessed that he i will lil w illegally intruded as he harbored ill feelings and disillusioned about the unequal

u.s. society. >> it is unclear where, when or how king would be expelled. joining us now from seoul, paula hancocks. and also former analyst white house official sue mi terry in w york. what is the latest, what do we actually know here? >> reporter: well, phil, everything we know so far has come from north korea itself, from state run media. we haven't heard at all from travis king since he crossed the military demarcation line back in mid-july while on a private tour of the dmz, a civilian tour. so we do have to wait and see whether or not the confession they speak of is in fact accurate. but as you say, they say that he confessed to illegally entering north korea. they say that they carried out an investigation over the past couple of months. and that investigation is now over. and they have decided to expel

him. and they said really what they said last month when they had the first acknowledgement that travis king had even gone into their country saying that he was wanting to get away from an unequal u.s. society. back in august, they had said that he was looking at the opportunity to either stay in north korea or potentially look for a third country. at the time that was seen as a positive note, the fact that they were even entertaining the thought there may be a third country suggesting that they may not have wanted to keep hold of him for too long. now, very few assumed that he would not have been heavily debriefed. he is after all a u.s. soldier. maybe not privy to an awful lot of secrets but certainly any information north korea may find useful, they would have debriefed him. so this all happened back in july, mid-july. he had spent 50 days in a facility in south korea, he had faced assault charges. so he had been in a south korean facility. he was supposed to be thflown bk

to the united states but at the airport he managed to get out of the airport, go on the tour and then run across the border. >> sumi, how does it play out? paula mentioned last hour that perhaps china, do we know where he would go and also is an expulsion different from a release? >> so this is very concerning to me because first he is expelled so he won't be staying in north korea. the fact that north korea says he could go to third country, didn't say he is returning home, and if it is china, that is one thing. but what about russia? kim jung-un just met with putin in vladivostok. and there is all kinds of i illicit deals going on with north korea and russia with ammunition and artillery shells that putin needs for his war he

wases in ukraine. and russia supply north korea with sensitive technology that north korea needs to advance its missile nuclear program. so i'm wondering if this is also part of a discussion between kim jung-un and putin. so unless travis king comes home to the united states, this is not necessarily a better development. i need to find out where he is going first so this is a little bit concerning to me. >> and to that point, it is full circle here. when he first crossed, we were on talking about this and you had a sober analysis that said exactly what happened. and you mentioned the new geopolitical issue here depending on where he would be expelled to. but why would the north koreans want to expel hilm, why wouldn' they hold him for their own leverage? >> well, he was debriefed so i'm

sure they found out whatever they wanted to find out. and then it is a matter of it does cost them to keep somebody for lifetime, right? and so there is a financial cost, a logistically you need somebody always staying with him, there is the language barrier. so after finding out maybe that travis was not -- they got everything that they needed out of him, so maybe now this is part of the better bargain with putin than the biden administration because north korea and u.s. were at complete impasse. they don't want some sort of -- they have made it clear that they don't want to sit down with washington anytime soon to talk about denuclearization or anything else. so maybe there is a better bargain to be had with putin. there is a new kind of geopolitical environment. so i'm very concerned until we find out exactly where he is going, it might not be a better place. >> and how much weight should we put to the statement north korea

attributes to him? >> zero. zero. he is reading exactly what north koreans have written down for him. >> thank you very much for your expertise, both of you. and happening today former president trump heading to michigan where instead of debating his republican rivals, he will be looking to up stage them with his own primetime speech. he will be speaking at a nonunion plant outside of the detroit with an audience of around 500 former or current union members. in a new ruling, a new york judge said trump and his adult sons are liable for fraud and they bear responsibility for inflating the value of trump's assets for years. the judge setting multiple instances in which trump's companies claim their properties were worth far more than assessed values, sometime to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, adding the defendant's claims none of that mattered came from a, quote, fantasy world. >> as a result the judge

canceled the trump org business certificates. and that could end control of some of his key properties like trump tower. donald trump's ruling says the family will appeal. but this is a big win for the new york attorney general civil case against trump which alleges that trump inflated net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in a single year. with us now is one of the first to see trump's tax returns and author of the big chief, how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family. the book title is very apropos to what we're looking at. can you explain why this actually matters, that if he did these things, why does that give him an uneven playing field with basically everyone else? >> by claiming his assets were

two, four, ten more times than their actual value, trump received benefits in the form of bank loan terms and other matters. and the judge in a very carefully written 35 page opinion walks through this, shows that trump asserted that nobody pays any attention to my financial statements, everybody knows that they are nonsense. and said sorry, the world doesn't work that way in the real world. and trump then argued, well, i don't have to make any restitution and the judge said this is not about restitution. what i'll be teaching my law students in the spring is this an analog, analogy, you take $100 from the till, you go to the racetrack, you win $1,000, you put the $100 back. not only did you commit a crime, but you have to disgorge that $900 gain from your winning bet. and that is what is happening here. and trjudge giving the trump

companies a death penalty. donald trump is no longer a businessman in new york. >> and just to zero in on some of the specific examples, one in particular, the trump filing 30,000 square feet for the trump tower penthouse value and the actual size is 10,996 square feet. and that is not small money. just one example. i guess when you listen to the trump's lawyers or their defense here, this is how things operate. i didn't believe this is any different than how anybody else at my level was operating. how egregious is something like that in terms of the word that he was -- rld would he was operating in? >> trump is not the only person to inflate his assets. the judge points out we're not talking about minor discrepancies, an extra 10% or something. we're talking about massive discrepancies. and trump has been doing this

the whole 35 years that i've been covering him. he just makes it up and that is why the judge not only held that all of trump's business licenses are canceled, but he fined five of the trump lawyers, $7500 each, to making up false arguments, for stating the law said things that it said the opposite and other misconduct on donald's behalf. >> and this is a ruling against donald trump and his sons not ivanka. can you explain why? >> ivanka got herself removed from the case. so it is donald, his two older sons, allen weisselberg and two other employees of the trump organization. and in new york, you cannot operate a business except as a sole proprietor like my book writing business unless you have a license from the state. and the judge has canceled all of those licenses all of which fall under the umbrella of the trump organization. this is a corporate death

penalty. >> you've written so much not just about the in the weeds financial dynamics but also the man himself. what do you think this means, the death penalty that you are laying out here, what would it mean to somebody like trump? >> well, donald potentially could end up with nothing but his presidential and television show pensions. eventually after he appeals, which he will, and of course for his whole life he will insist he did nothing wrong because donald has said in his whole life he's never done a single thing that requires seeking forgiveness. those assets will be seized, they will be sold and clearly they will not bring the highest prices. creditors, fines due to the state and taxes will be paid first and if there is anything left, donald will get that money. but since he inflated assets, it is not likely to be much if anything. >> david cay johnson, thank you for your expertise.

cnn has teams on the ground in mexico and new york to tell you the stories of the people making the dangerous journey to the border. and also new overnight, disturbing footage out of philadelphia shows hundreds looting stores across the city. we'll bring you those details and how police are responding, ahead.

it is a story only cnn could tell. we have two teams covering two of the flash points of the border crisis. in mexico capturing the dire conditions as they try to reach the border. and here in new york city, what the backlog of migrants looks like once they reach the city. david culver is in tapachula, mexico and shimon prokupecz is at the roosevelt hotel in new york city. david, what are you seeing on the ground? >> reporter: phil, you get a sense of this being a constant flow, just an influx of migrants that is 24/7. it is always after 5:00 in the morning here and this is just one of the gathering points here

and you notice hint mebehind me you have dozens it not thousands because it stretches out block, they are here waiting to be processed for either transit documents or asylum claims but not to say here, but rather to continue on to the u.s. as you touchdown in southern mexico, be ready to share the road with migrants. we spot group after group marching north. many of those who just illegally crossed into mexico here, this outdoor park turned migration processing center.

in it folks camping out for days weeks, waiting to climbing asylum in mexico or to get transit documents to pass through legally. or to sign up for -- some aren't quite sure what they are signing up for, but they do it anyway. rafael from outside havana, at 26, he sold his house, left behind his 6-year-old son and traveling north with his dad. he wants to go legally into the u.s., so he wants to go through it process here, get his documentation and get to the northern border and eventually cross. >> reporter: he wants to pave the way for the rest of his family to follow. oopd day and days earlier they crossed the darien gap connecting colombia and panama. they are describing it as they said several people had already passed away, a lot of kids. they saw the remains. and he says children were abandoned. those images haunt suzannsuzann. describing the journey she made

with her four young kids. but admits her tear-filled pain little ones lighten the load. a little shampoo left. his 12-year-old sister helping clean it out. and then they turn the questions on me. [ speaking in a non-english language ] she says i'm older than her dad. curiosity brings their siblings and cousins. and they tell me why they left venezuela. [ speaking in a non-english language ] venezuela economy is bad. and as they share, disturbing memories surface. [ speaking in a non-english language ] talking about, these are children mind you, having gone you through the darien gap and

bodies they is describing. sophia's pain as she remembers saying good-bye to loved ones. the friendships that she's lost. hearing it from kids, poppy an phil, it is krishing. and they have been through so much already and they have a lot more to go. another thousand plus miles to get to what is the destination for the vast majority and that is of course the u.s. >> told in a way only you can, david culver, that was remarkable. thank you for being on the story. shimon prokupecz, you've been at the center of all of this covering what happens as the migrants move north. you are joining us from new york. and i understand a bus of migrants just pulled up behind you? >> reporter: yeah, poppy, that's right. just the last few minutes, a bus

pulled up. but in the last 30 minutes or so since we've been here, swewe've seen three buses pull up. most getting off the buses were families with multiple kids, little, the kids coming here from texas. the weeks that they traveled through the border to get to texas, they then spent two days on buses getting here. and we saw over 100 of them this morning going inside here behind me in what is the city's intake center. and we spent a couple days here in the last few weeks sort of documenting what some of the families have been going through and why they came here. >> we can offer you food and water. a lot meal can go a long way. >> reporter: dr. ted long is proud of the operation the city has established here. >> everything that we've developed in new york city is to meet the needs that were not met for people coming to us from texas so far.

so here whether it is screening for communicable disease, if you are a pregnant woman giving you prenatal care or screening you for the very important mental health condition, we do it all here because it is not done before here. >> reporter: it really catches your eye to see so many kids running through the halls of the roosevelt hotel. almost like a playground. so many kids. the city says 20,000 migrant children have come through new york so far. why did you come to america? this woman is 23 and escaping violence in ecuador. she says that she came here for her daughter, mia, who was born with a physical disability. how are you feeling? she shenaays she's happy she's and she's scared to go back to ecuador. i'm afraid that my daughter will die there if she doesn't get medical attention. i need a place to stay. i think that they will help me.

good luck, okay? good news, they are being moved out of the intake center to a shelter. as this group leaves, another is already shuffling in behind them. 116,000 have come to new york city since the spring of 2022 city officials say. and it is a reminder that the flow of migrants doesn't stop. the burden on new york city is too much. quite honestly. we're past the breaking point. among those just arriving, luis flores, we met him outside. and his wife. they now have seats inside. it is a dream come true, he says. took 2 1/2 months to come to this country through the border. and now he's just hoping to give his family a better life. they have been sitting here now for several days waiting for the next steps and the next process. and this is your wife.

yes? years you have been married. how are you doing? [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> reporter: she says it was their dream to come to the united states. and she doesn't want to lose her husband. now that they have finally made it. as we leave, luis speaks directly into our camera. i just want to work, he says. these are the hands of a worker. so that is the big thing here. families wanting work. fathers, mothers who have all their kids here. i mean, there are some 20,000 kids that have been through the system. and you can look behind me, you are seeing all these kids. they are going to school. i mean, this is their temporary home here at the roosevelt hotel, some have been here for several weeks. what the city has done, most of the kids here, they have tried to enroll them in schools. they want to give them some semblance of a normal life.

and the hope is for many of them that eventually for many of the parents here, that they can get jobs. but that is a big problem here right now. >> to that point, it is temporary, and you show the striking moment there about the individual who wants to work. what does happen next long term for these people? >> reporter: so what happens basically is they need to file for asylum. many don't even realize that that is something that they need to do. and that will take time. normally it should take somewhere around 180 days or so. but what the city is seeing, that it is taking much longer. without those asylum paperwork, without some of the other sort of bureaucracy that these families need to go through, they can't get jobs. they can't legally work. and so the city is trying to expedite some of that, they are trying to get the federal government come in and help competentexpedite some of that. but for all of these people

here, job, they need money, they need to work. they are not asking for handouts. they all say they want to work. >> thank you for that. stay with us. david, we talk about every day, we see in the headlines the number of border crossings. is that really a good indicator though of the extent and reality of the crisis do you think? >> reporter: i think that can be a huge distraction in all of this. you're right, we see it going down for several weeks or months and then there is a spike and people think there is a new surge. the reality south of the u.s. border, and this is why we wanted to be at another border that with guatemala, is because this shows it is a assistants flow. right? it has not slowed. there are not ups and downs. it is just 24/7 folks coming in from this migrant trail and continuing their way up. and that is why you have crowds like this behind me. and those that made it into the

u.s., they are reaching out to friends and family and say hey, we made it and despite the struggles that they are still facing, it is better than what these folks are either coming from or feel like that they have around them here in mexico. so for them, it is motivation for them to continue forward. >> david culver, shimon prokupecz, thank you both for the reporting. tonight seven republicans set to take the stage. missing once again the gop frontrunner. and federal trade commission and 17 states beiaccusing amazof a homonday only. how amazon responds ps

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thursday at a fundraiser last night saying trump and his allies are determined to destroy democracy. and some of those allies with trump's explicit backing are moving several steps closer to careening congress into a government shutdown. >> meanwhile biden was the first sittinged from join union workers on the picket line. and now trump will try his hand with union voters at a campaign stop in michigan and primetime set of remarks tonight. it is a state that he won in 2016 but then he lost there to biden in 2020. he will be speaking at a nonunion plant to around 500 former or current union members. a group that historically does vote democratic. kristen holmes is live in clinton township, michigan with more. obviously, you know, republicans, the party, strategists, see something here in polling. politico had an interesting piece on it. for republicans to grab in the union vote. >> reporter: yeah, that's right.

we know when donald trump arrives he is not going to have the same warm welcome from union leadership that we saw president biden have yesterday. as you mentioned, unions are typically democratic, they typically vote democratic. however they do believe that there is an ability, they think the trump campaign, to essentially drive a wedge between union leadership and the rank and file members. some of whom will be here tonight. we are expecting former an current members including members of the united auto workers as well as their families. and essentially as you mentioned, when it comes to michigan, 2016, it was working class voters and the state of michigan that helped propel trump to the white house. 2020, it was working class voters and michigan that helped propel biden to the white house. and now you are seeing trump trying to get some of those votes back. it won't be easy this time around. particularly give all of the criticism that he has gotten from the union wleersd say that his administration was pro business, anti-labor, anti-union. but they still believe that it is possible.

and i do want to note one thing. it is not just trump who is looking ahead to the general. you mentioned that fundraiser. the biden people are out with a new ad today that is airing in michigan ahead of trump's visit. take a listen. >> he says he stands with autoworkers. but as president, donald trump passed tax breaks for his rich friends while automakers shuttered their plants and michigan lost manufacturing jobs. joe biden said he would stand up for workers and he is delivering. passing laws that are increasing wages, creating good paying jobs. manufacturing is coming back to michigan. >> reporter: and one thing is clear, you mentioned that republicans see an opportunity here. obviously democrats also see that there is potential for the union voters, these working class voters, to votes republican and so they are putting out this ad specifically in michigan to show biden's and trump's records. and one thing that we're expecting to hear from donald

trump tonight is this pitch against electric vehicles which of course has been a corner tone of biden's presidency. trump campaign says it will take away jobs and move them to china. likely why they chose this facility. the president said that if electric vehicles were to take over now, that this facility, his facility, would go out of business. >> kristen holmes, big night. thanks very much. and let's go to kyung lah live at the ronald reagan presidential library for tonight's debate. g good morning. trump rivals are calling him out for not being there, right? >> reporter: yeah, he is not going to be here again, poppy. and rlest that you just think i will be raepeat from debate one yes, they are taking it to donald trump, they are testing out some of the lines before this debate, signaling as well

to us that they are going to use some of those lines on the debate stage. but also trying to take swipes at each other as they all fight to be the trump alternative. we are hearing from tim scott's campaign that he will be much more aggressive. vivek ramaswamy telling cnn that what he is planning do is take some of the policy and personality disagreements that he has with donald trump, that he will put that on the debate stage, as well as nikki haley who has been testing out some of the anti-trump lines calling will him before this debate thin skinned and weak in the knees. and we also heard last night two other candidates saying that they are not happy that trump is not going to be here. take a listen. >> i think it is interesting that he is not willing to stand on that stage. i think that he owe it is to all the voters to show up, defend his record, articulate what he would do going forward. he is running in 2024 on a lot of the same promises that he ran on in 2016 and didn't deliver

on. >> the donald trump today is different than the donald trump of 2016. and you bet i think that he ought to be on that debate stage and he should be engaging all of us vying for this nomination. >> reporter: and what all of these campaigns are signaling to us is that they understand this is really their big chance, a big opportunity to speak directly to republican primary voters. and they also are speaking to those fundraisers. phil and poppy, this is an opportunity to keep that cash coming to copy tkeep their camp going. >>ful be a fascinating night for sure. this morning senator bob menendez will make his first court appearance, it will happen in new york on the federal charges stemming from alleged bribery payments found in his home gold bars, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, luxury car among them. >> all that driving a growing number of lawmakers who called for him to resign. the count at 26, about half the

senate democratic caucus. but menendez remains defiant. >> will you run for re-election? will you run for re-election? >> i'll do the work for the people of new jersey. i'm prepared to do the work for the people of new jersey. >> why won't you resign? >> because i'm innocent. what's wrong with you guys? >> kara scannell is live outside the federal courthouse in new york city. cory booker moment and joining that group of 20 plus was kind of a big, big moment yesterday. but in terms of what we'll see today, menendez, his wife, two other new jersey businessmen will appear in court. what do we expect? >> reporter: yeah, good morning guys. we're expecting the senator and his wife to arrive soon this morning to face these charges. they will surrender and technically be arrested as they are going ahead into go before the judge. senator menendez, his wife nadine and two new jersey businessmen accused of paying the senator hundreds of thousands of bribes in the form of gold bars, cash,

mercedes-benz, mortgage payments and job for his wife. and in exchange the senator is accused of taking steps to b benefit men and provide aid to egypt. -- they will appear before a judge and we expect them to be arraigned on the charges. the 50s persfifth person charge hanna, appeared in court yesterday. he entered a plea of not guilty and he was released on $5 million bail. so additional details like that we'll learn once this court hearing wraps up. but as you say, the senator facing growing calls for his resignation remains defiant saying he is not going anywhere and he expects to be exonerated of all charges when this is said and done. >> kara scannell, thank you. we'll watch closely. nasa astronaut frank rubio just landed back on earth after

being becoming the first american to spend a full year in space. and the wnba playoffs, new york liberty even up the series with the connecticut sun. 84-77 victory for them last night. and they have another reason to celebrate, superstar breanna stewart was named league skmvp r the second time in her career. and she shared an adorable moment with her 2-year-old daughter when ruby interrupted her acceptance speech. >> hey, come here. want to stand with mommy? to be a role model to you, ruby, is really what keeps me going. and today you get to see your mommy win mvp.

welcome back. so this morning a crisis is looming over america's families and the u.s. economy. it has been dubbed the child care cliff. and now we're just three days away from careening over it. this saturday billions of dollars from covid era funding that kept daycares open will run out. and if congress does not act to renew that funding, supporters of this aid say it could have catastrophic results for

american families and businesses across the country. >> i lose sleep over it. it is a constant worry. >> reporter: families under financial pressure and now facing the prospects of another child care crisis. according to a progressive think tank, without new funding, as many as 70,000 child care programs could close. more than 3 million children could be at risk of losing access to care. and more than 230,000 jobs could be lost in that sector alone. and parents, especially working moms, could be forced to leave the workforce. >> so i did have to take a leave of absence. >> reporter: this single mom of two in florida says that she had to temporarily leave her job as a recruiter when covid hit to take care of her children. now she says she worries about having to make that choice again. >> i worry what is going to happen to those moms now. specifically the single parents.

>> all the prices were astronomical. >> reporter: and for this mom of two, the cost of child care forced her husband to leave his job at a massachusetts classroom to care for their children. at a time when educators are in short supply. >> it did leave a hole in his school after running all the numbers and assessing all of our options, we realized that we would probably be losing money if we did send her to daycare. >> reporter: congressional democrats urging their republican colleagues to take, and a pass a bill that would provide $16 billion in annual funding for the next five years. >> access to high quality child care is essential to our economy. if mommies and daddies can't get care for their babies, they can't go to work. >> reporter: republican senator john kennedy offering sympathy for the issue. >> being opposed to affordable child care is like being opposed

to golden retrievers. >> reporter: while also raising the critical question of how to pay for it. >> do we raise taxes, do we just borrow it? we are running big deficits. and deficits do matter. and our spending has contributed to inflation. it is not the only reason. >> reporter: but for the families and child care priors at the edge of the cliff, they say the cost of doing nothing is simply too much.priors at the edge of the cliff, they say the cost of doing nothing is simply too much. >> affording child care is a luxury that shouldn't be a luxury, it should be a basic right. >> at the table with us to talk more about it, the founder of girls and moms first a nonprofit that had vow cat advocates for and child care. you are always so good to bringing these things to the fore. you have been ringing the alarm bells for months. what happens saturday?

i'm assuming no more funding for this. what does it mean next monday? >> it means that 3 million kids don't have child care, hundreds of thousands of workers are out of a job. parents who have found child care because we have again one out of two americans live in a city that has no child care, so you will see parents with their child care bills dramatically increasing. and millions of parents will have to choose between feeding their babies and funding their daycare. >> there is a lot i want to get to the issue itself, but the argument senator kennedy is raising there, felt like there was a sea change on the issues at the start of the administration coming out of the pandemic. that has waned. i think the momentum fell out of the legislative proposals that the president put together. thing i don't understand necessarily is the argument is we are lacking in row ducts diffe productivity in the labor force. it contributes to the labor production. it clearly had direct results when the benefits were put out there.

and yet it costs too much, we can't afford this, by far and away a winning argument on capitol hill. >> right, because they still see child care as a personal problem. right? it is a social safety net issue, not an economic issue. even though two-thirds of women are doing care give wving work. >> and data backs that up. >> and you kind of see it in senator kennedy's argument. most legislators still believe that someone should stay at home and take care of the baby. guess who that is? that is us. so we're not prioritizing women's labor market participation or families. and the reality is that you can't be pro family unless you are pro care. the united states is still the only industrialized nation that doesn't have paid leave. we're the most wealthiest nation that spent the least on child care because we still think that families have to figure it out by themselves. that it is not an economic issue and it is. it is like number 13 on congress' list and it should be number one. right next toment ai, right nex

china. >> on the democratic side, congressman ro khanna and also representative nancy mace. janet yellen has said and i think rightly so this is a textbook example of a broken market. >> absolutely. >> has the biden administration -- you're a democrat. but have they done enough on the issue? >> i think the president introduced, you know, a proposal to create a ceiling on the cost americans spend on child care. they have given a lot of voices. the problem is congress is broken. the men in washington have decided that it is not a priority. and they simply don't have the will to get anything done. and i think that we need an army of moms, you know that are putting pressure on washington to say, you know, this is a priority for families. and we need you to prioritize it. >> we need an army of dads too. >> absolutely. dads want this too. this is not a gender issue, this is a family issue. but the reality is that two-thirds of the care giving work is done by women.

the person who is having to make the choice between their job and their kids are us. and so our voices are critical. >> we appreciate it. phil does both. >> my wife is a rock star. >> we need you to march to washington and tell senator kennedy where our dollars need to be spent. >> and interesting thing is there are conservative policy proposals, there seem to be a sea change and understanding of the importance of this and how do you reconcile them still an open question that nobody has figured out. >> and the movement that bwe're building is bipartisan. moms first is a bipartisan movement. we have thousands of republican mothers send letters to their republican congress people saying i need you do something. so again, i think that the necessity right now is to make this like again a priority. in many ways i feel like these issues is how climate was 20

it's fundamental to our economic enoyvation. >> same thing on care issues. >> we appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you. okay. a new dig beaut against amazon from the ftc and the states. we will tell you what it means. and nasa astronaut returned to earth. the historic moment. we've got it, next.

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moments ago a nasa assist natale astronaut frank rubio landed back on earth. he planned to spend six months space but his russian ride fell through. christian fischer joins us from washington, d.c. he is being carried out of the capsule. why? >> this is standard procedure for any astronaut, but especially one like frank rubio who just became the first american to spend a full year in space because think about it. this is the first time in 371 days his body has been exposed to the forces of gravity. he has not put any weight on his legs or had to really lift anything any real weight in well over year. so even astronauts who spend a

weak in space have a hard time walking after they return to earth. he spent more than a year in space. he is probably having a tough time getting acclimated to the forces of gravity. so you see them extracting him from the soyuz capsule which landed in kazakhstan a few minutes ago. he is carried out and placed in a reclining chair. but the other big thing he is dealing with is this violent re-entry into the earth's atmosphere in addition to the just the forces of gravity, he also just pulled 4 or 5gs on this re-entry into earth. everybody describes a soyuz landing as being particularly landing. mark vandehei, the previous record holder for this single duration space flight, he said his advice to rubio before landing was keep your mouth shut on landing so you don't bite off

your tongue. that is how violent it is. i think it's understandable that rubio may be carried out of the spacecraft right about now. >> good advice. >> yeah. welcoming him. now he gets to see his family, first time in a year. thank you. >> yeah, he has four kids. thanks. the federal trade commission and te17 states launching a lawsuit against amazon. the suit accuses amazon of having a uponopoly over the retail environment and using market size and power to raise prices for consumers. >> people are paying higher prices. consumers are paying more, small businesses are having to pay 50% amazon tax right now, and so ultimately the complaint is seeking to restore the lost promise of competition, greater competition means lower prices, better quality, better selection, and greater

innovation. and that's ultimately what this case is about. >> the case allegations unfairly promotes its own platforms and services harming third-party sellers who rely on amazon to sell their goods. the claim has followed amazon for years. lena khan wrote about this in 2017 as a lieu student. here is how she explained it to us in 2019. >> a situation when a single company is sable to set the ters of the marketplace. that's a situation where we should worry about the market not being competitive. >> that year i asked the then-ceo of amazon worldwide consumer jeff welke about these criticisms. amazon's marketplace dominance. here's what he said. >> does amazon give priority to unprioritize its private label in search? >> we prioritize the things that customers want. >> a recent hearing on capitol

hill an amazon attorney went a step further and categorically denied the claim. >> we don't use their individual data when making decisions to launch private brand. our incentive is to help the seller to succeed because we rely on them. >> when wilkie left the company in 2021, lina khan told cnn the ftc has not ruled out holding amazon executives personally lived for the company's alleged conduct if they find sufficient evidence. >> amazon says it could cause the very problems is hopes to solves and, quote, if the ftc gets its way, the result would be fewer products to choose from, higher prices, slower dallas and reduce options for small businesses. this is not the ftc's only lawsuit against amazon. it's suing several executives alleging schemes to enroll people into their prime memberships without knowing.

you have been focused on this all morning. >> did i email you enough about it? >> i love those emails. i learn a lot from them. what is your take? because 14 a huge moment not just for the ftc, the biden administration, and lina khan. >> this has been her fight. she is the first who raised the question to this country about what a monopoly, do we have to change the way we define a monopoly from the microsoft days to what amazon is now. my question is, it's important to track 17 states attorney general are onboard. what does it mean for people at home and who sell on amazon. if they prevail, is it just going to be fines and penalties or will actual changes happen that benefit them? amazon, too, saying if you succeed in what you are trying to do, it's just going to cost people more. it's groundbreaking. see where it goes. >> several suits the ftc has brought, several problems with some of them. this will set lot of pros dent for the years to come.