great! solid! -greek salad? exactly! don't delay the game with verizon or t-mobile 5g home internet. catch it on the xfinity 10g network. ♪ let the gavel games begin. the race for kevin mccarthy's replacement is heating up. republican congressman jim jordan and steve scalise have thrown their hats into the ring and could face other challengers for house speaker. plus, after 2 1/2 days in

court for his civil fraud trial, former president donald trump is heading back to the campaign trail, but not before going after the judge who put him under a gag order. we'll take you live to the c courthouse. and police searching for suspects after a mass shooting during home come week celebrations at a university. we'll have the latest on that search. we're following these latest developing stories and many more all coming in here to "cnn news central." ♪ and now there are two, minutes ago house majority leader steve scalise made it official announcing that he will run to replace kevin mccarthy as house speaker. it comes just hours after hardline conservative jim jordan publicly said he will run. both need to win over more moderate members of their conference. and there's no time to waste, a

floor vote on the speaker is expected next week in then the house is essentially paralyzed with a deadline looming in november. melanie za nnona joins us on capitol hill. what do we know about steve scalise and who else may be challenging him. >> reporter: well, the race is on less than 11 hours after that stunning vote to remove kevin mccarthy. i was told steve scalise had already been making calls last night lining up supporters but today he made it official in a letter to his colleagues. he wrote, god already gave me another chance at life. i believe we were all put her for a purpose. this next chapter won't be easy, but i know what it takes to fight and i'm prepared for the battles that lie ahead. i humbly ask for your support to be speaker of the house.

steve scalise was shot at a baseball practical in 2017. he's also undergoing treatments for blood cancer. he said he's up for the job. this is a moment he's long been waiting for in the wings, for potentially when kevin mccarthy did step aside. it's not a coronation for steve scalise. he's going to have to face off against jim jordan. he's liked by conservatives. he was a mccarthy ally. and jordan made it official this morning and our manu raju caught up with him this morning. here's what he had to say. >> what promises are you making to the conference, policywise, agendawise? >> agenda is what i spoke about on the floor, manu. we need to pass the bills that need to be passed. we've done a lot of that, the biggest one, of course, h.r. 2, the immigration border security legislation. frankly, i wish chuck schumer would bring it up. >> reporter: now, both men made their case today before the

texas republican delegation. a very large bloc of republicans and large bloc of republicans in the house. this is next week. tuesday is when the candidates will hold their candidate forum. on wednesday, they will hold their leadership elections. we're also being told there's a scramble on the way for lower leadership posts, tom emmer, his deputy guy russian follower now running for w.h.i.p. and i'm told alise stefanic is keeping her options open, interested in moving up the ladder. but the big question, pam, it remains, can republicans rerely on someone to be their conference? in that is answered they can't conduct any other business. hopefully, republicans will have the answer next week. >> of course that is in the back of another looming government shutdown in 40 days from now. melanie, zanona, thank you.

let's go to someone soon voting for speaker. congressman davison. he's a member of the caucus. congressman, jim jordan and steve scalise both officially announcing they'll seek the speakership. will you support either of them? >> well, we'll see if there's any other range of candidates in the field. there are certainly other folks feeling out what's possible. i think melanie laid it out right, we're not really going to know in republicans are back in d.c. together. most of us are in d.c., people are scattered around the country, to be sure. but i think the bulk are here in bk, networking. i think it was a smart decision by patrick mchenry to say maybe we should vet separately, instead of all together. that's been healthy. i've had conferences with people across the country. what i shared with cnn is what i chaired with cnn last night, i

think whomever can cast a vision for the country is going to emerge as the speaker. because the right question is, i think it's harder for anyone in the conference to trust any one person than it is to have confidence on a shared mission. >> and on that question of unity, congressman, how confident are you that the chairman of the judiciary committee that's carrying out an impeachment inquiry of president bide than is divisive in jim jordan, how confident are you that he can unite your party? >> well, i think he has. frankly, he's perceived so differently in moderate districts. i think that's what some moderates have filled out with me. and how would a person like jim jordan work in your district. now that i'm in congress, i see why so many people have respect for jim jordan. i'm not surely how it works in that district. i don't know that jim will be

the first pick for most moderates, but he can be a leader for the whole conference. we've had this fractious divide. we have how do you ute nite the party. part of the frustration for the base, kind of the donor part of the party has been centrist for republican politics. if jim becomes the speaker, maybe you can everyone participating in owl fronts. and maybe steve scalise can do he's cast as a more conservative member. we'll see how the conversation goes in terms of tuesday night. >> sure. on questions of priorities for the next speaker, do you think whoever takes over should immediately put the impeachment inquiry of joe biden up for a vote? >> well, i think the most pressing thing is the november 17th deadline. you know, we have to get our 12

appropriations bills passed. steve scalise had put an aggressive timeline out just before the c.r. vote on saturday. that was something bringing unity together. part of the division has been how are we going to ask for a 45-day c.r.? in the original calendar congress was not in session in d.c. in the first two weeks of october. how are we going to ask for a 45-day c.r. and spend the rest of the days scattered around the world. we have to be here getting the appropriations bills done. we missed the deadline of october 1st. i think that has to be the priority right up front. >> i do want to ask you about the priorities for spending specifically on ukraine. but i want to go back to the impeachment inquiry, should there not be a vote on the house floor for the impeachment of a sitting president? >> well, the inquiry is already under way. that was kicked off by speaker mccarthy. that's under way. there's a lot of evidence that says, yeah, joe biden should be

impeached. so, i think that investigate will continue. the committees can continue their work. so, i assume that committees will be full speed ahead on the tasks within the jurisdiction of the committee. >> there are questions about that, that evidence you purported to have shown in the impeachment inquiry. but i do want to move on because you've actually sponsored legislation to define the mission in ukraine. obviously, spending on aid in ukraine is another top issue for whoever the next speaker is to sort out. you called for the administration to give specifics on what victory looks like. you can give us specifics on how you define victory in ukraine? is it the retaking of crimea? >> no, and, look, if you look at the administration, they've been all over the map. i mean, they started off offering zelenskyy a ride out of the country and apparently it would have been okay with them if russia occupied ukraine. now, they would have protested about it, but zelenskyy inspired the world when he said i don't need a ride, i need ammunition.

they reactively have dumped $113 billion into ukraine. and they've kind of dosed it out. he's like, i need all of this, and he's like, well, you can't have all of that. while it's grinding the russian army down, it's grinding down the ukrainian army in the nation as well. i don't think biden's approach is well-thought out. >> we can continue talk about biden's approach but i'm curious about yourself, sir, how do you define victory in ukraine if volodymyr zelenskyy is saying victory for him to retaking crimea. but some folks, especially in the west, here in the united states, don't see eye to eye on that. what does victory look like? >> i think for the united states, our interest is making sure the war doesn't spread and there's a peaceful resolution to it. i think vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine was unrest. i do believe it was preventible, but, at that point, you know, it's already happened. how do we resolve that. i think there should be peace negotiations under way to shop the bloodshed. and i really don't think that a

long war favors ukraine. a long war favors russia. and if it's waged differently. so that's why the mission is so important. if you say we're going with a long war strategy, this is only going to involve ukraine and russia, ukraine does not have enough combat power to kick the russian army out of ukraine. they don't have enough combat power, certainly, to kick them out of crimea. or if you go with secretary nuland, she said her policy is for vladimir putin, i'm not saying that's unjust, but it's achievable for ukraine. >> congressman, quickly before we led you go there is a question whether or not ukraine funding will even make it for a vote on the house floor. do you think it should? >> look, the clear will of the congress is overwhelmingly they support ukraine. but there's a rule in the republican politics that you got to have a majority of the majority party before something

brings to the floor. and i think that's something the conference should have a dialogue about. because it's right around 50/50 whether the conference supports any additional funding. and i don't think there's going to be support for from, frankly, from republicans, in joe biden does what surely they have already is a mission. maybe they're not on the same page across the administration, but they better get that way and brief us on it. it can be in the most classified setting, but they do have to define a mission. >> congressman warren davidson, we appreciate your time, sir. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> of course. pamela. day three of donald trump's civil fraud trial is about to resume after a lunch recess, this time, without trump. right now, he's on his way back to florida, though he did attend this morning's session, three days in a row for the former president. yesterday, his rhetoric targeting the court clerk resulted in a gag order. today he did not tone down

things much railing against the new york attorney general and the judge. cnn's kara scannell is at the courthouse, with trump being scrutinized in that courtroom, trump has created quite the spectacle outside? >> reporter: yeah, pamela, he has. he's taken every opportunity to speak as he's in the courtroom or exiting the courtroom during breaks during the day. and we're expecting the new york attorney general to respond to some of these comments shortly in the hallways outside of the courtroom where the trial is taking place now that the former president has left the building. inside court, it's also been a little fiery today. there's cross-examination of the state's first-time witness, trump's accountant donald bender. he's testified how he helped compile the information that trump prepared at the heart of this case. they had bender testify according to accounting guidance, he's supposed to in

compiling these statements look for any obviously inappropriate values. bender testified for ten years looking at these values years in this litigation he said nothing jumped out as obviously, an inappropriate value. of course, the allegations here are that these financial statements were inflated. the judge did find that but trump's lawyers are appealing. and they filed the notice of appeal on that today as well. the judge has become frustrated with the trump attorneys' cross-examination of bender saying that bender is not on trial, that someone else is. -- property. you know, there'ses dos of property and ten years at issue here. and the judge slamming his fist on the bench several times. saying this is ridiculous. you're not allowed to waste time. so cross-examination will begin shortly once the session begins

again this afternoon. trump's attorneys say they could go the rest of the day with bender as the witness. pam. >> kara, thank you. let's bring in former nixon white house council john dean. john, we know that trump will appeal the fraud, and some have questioned the specific aspects of that ruling, mar-a-lago's value. and you just heard kara lay out the witness saying he never saw anything that would have raised a red flag to him. how do you see this playing out? >> well, what i see is clearly trump is trying to build a record for appeal. he knows he's lost with this judge. you don't go into the hall of a trial, in a courtroom, and smash the judge and the prosecutor. and think that you're going to get any favors from that judge. so, what he's doing is trying to build a record that is not going to impress this judge. but he hopes will get to a court of appeals.

>> all right. let's talk about this gag order because we know that a judge imposed one on frump in this case, after he had targeted a clerk on social media. and it seems like trump is really flirting were a fine line here in terms of his attacks against the judge. and the prosecution. before and after the court today. and i'm wondering, are the judges and prosecutors in these other cases he's facing, watching this closely? and how do you think what's happening in this case could factor into what happens in those cases as pertains to gag orders? >> i think that the judges in other case are very much watching this, pamela. because his behavior is consistent. if you go back to his starting of the campaign, when he first ran for president, he had a case relating to trump university. and in that case, he just -- he just smeared the judge constantly. he finally ended up settling

that case for $25 million. so this is his m.o. it's a standard procedure to try these cases in the court of public opinion. and hope that he gains there. why people would be attracted to somebody who bullies people who really are not in a position to fight back, i don't understand. judges don't speak outside the courtroom. they don't have defenders that go out and take up their cause. so this is typical bully behavior by trump to beat up on judges. >> trump is now heading to florida after attending the trial for three days straight. do you thing his presence there made any impact, made any difference? >> well, what he tried to do is influence the narrative of the case that there was something amiss that he had to speak out in the hall every break he could get. i thought it was very lenient of

the judge and the security people to let him do it. because the judge, he knows it's not going to affect him. and i don't think it's going to affect the court of appeals. so, the record that's being made inside the courtroom may or may not have any influence. if it's a good record, if they make good points, it will influence a higher court, possibly. it could influence this judge who will address it when he reaches his final decision in this case. but judges are not easily influenced by this kind of showboating. >> all right, john dean, thank you so much. boris. brace yourselves. we all are in the studio because we're just moments away from a nationwide test of the emergency alert system and wireless emergency alerts. the federal government plans to conduct a drill today at 2:20 p.m. eastern in just over two minute, sending out a test signal to every tv and cell phone and radio across america.

omar jimenez has the latest. this is only a test. there's no need to panic. >> yes, no need to panic, let's be clear about that. the alert when it comes in literally a few minutes is going to say this is a test of the emergency alert system. the wireless emergency system. >> hey, we're going to break, we'll be right back.

♪ >> right now, more than 75,000 kaiser permanente employees are on the picket lines in the largest health care strike in american history. the strike includes nursing staff, radiology and x-ray technicians, pharmacists and many other physicians. workers are looking for better pay. and they want management to fix short-staffing. saying having too few staff constantly is bad for patient care. listen. >> we have a crises inside, a staffing crisis, that affects us, and subsequently, affects our patients. >> some of the people out here on strike today are optometrists, and their patients are looking at three months to

get an appointment because they're so short-staffed. >> keep in mind, kaiser provides health care for about 13 million people. and while most of its doctors are not on strike, many patients may still be affected. in a statement today, kaiser said it continues to negotiate with the unions. and that a lot of progress has been made. let's find out just how much. we're joined by caroline lucas. she's the executive director for the coalition of kaiser permanente unions. caroline, thank you for being with us this afternoon. have you heard from negotiators with the company, now that the strike has begun, what's the latest on the negotiations? >> hi. thank you so much for having me. there is a need to negotiate, this is so critical that we can't afford to wait for solutions. >> so, caroline, when it comes to what you're actually hearing from the company, have they made any concessions that are getting closer to what you and the other

workers have asked for? >> we have reached minor agreements on some matters, but we're waiting for real comprehensive plans for how we -- staff. >> so, on the question what this means for patients, who ultimately is filling in for those that are on strike today? how is that working out? >> you know, we know patients are understanding health care providers part of kiaiser, they know that kaiser has the best possible patient care. kaiser generally has -- health care workers to replace us. and we know that those workers just aren't as good as -- >> caroline, it seems like we're having some issues with the

audio signal. we do appreciate your time. hope you'll come back to discuss. we'll get that signal worked out and hopefully have a conversation about how the strike has wrapped up because both sides have come together. thank you so much for the time. pam. boris, new developments in another strike, we're following the actors' union and sag a-aft and studios are there and cnn's oliver darcy has the latest. oliver. >> reporter: that's right, pam, the studio chiefs for the big big studios are meeting today with the actors. this is the second time they've met this week, as they hope to hammer out a deal that will bring the hollywood stand-still to an end. now, there are some major issues, obviously, these two sides need to work out, artificial intelligence being one of the main concerns the actors have. but there is some hope in hollywood that after the

writers' strike got resolved, that the studios might be able to use some of that blueprint to get this actors' strike resolved. of course it doesn't really matter too much that the writers have resolved their issues with the studios. and the bad strike, if there are no actors to bring the scripts that they're writing to life. and so the studios are very anxious, and hopefully, they can get this resolved so they can bring back the shows later this year. and get movies filming once again. pam. >> all right, oliver darcy, thank you so much for that. a homecoming held and several students were shot during a mass shooting at morgan state ununiversity campus. we're live in baltimore. from chrome to duckduckgo.

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we have new details to share with you on the rescue of a 9-year-old new york girl kidnapped while camping with her family. police say more charges could be coming for her abductor 46-year-old gary ross jr. this is as authorities are chasing new evidence, including the surveillance video for hours after charlotte went missing. cnn's jean casarez is in upstate new york and she brings us the very latest. >> reporter: a dramatic investigation still unfolding after a miraculous turn of events in the disappearance of charlotte sena. >> it's been a long two days but tonight, our prayers have been answered. >> reporter: the 9-year-old girl found alive monday night, appearing to be physically unharmed after disappearing from

a campground in upstate new york two days earlier. authorities charging 46-year-old craig nelson ross jr. with her kidnapping. searching the property where he lived in a trailer behind his mother's home. and where he allegedly held the 9-year-old captive. the break in the case came at 4:20 a.m. monday, 17 miles away where police were watching the sena family home. a car pulled up. law enforcement observed someone dropping something into the family's mailbox. >> state police go to the mailbox and identify what a ransom note that had been left behind for charlotte. >> reporter: a fingerprint on the note which demanded money matched those from a 1999 drunk drive arrest. it led police to ross. and that camper where he lived. monday evening, around 6:30, s.w.a.t. teams moved in. >> after some resistance, the

suspect was taken into custody. and immediately the little girl was found in a cabinet, covered. she was rescued. and she knew she was being rescued. >> reporter: the good news delivered to the community during a prayer service for charlotte. >> thank you god. god answered our prayers. >> certainly excited we came together, opened the doors to pray and we're seeing a miracle already. >> reporter: charlotte was taken to the hospital to be checked out. her family saying in a statement, we are thrilled she is home. and we understand that the outcome is not what every family gets. a huge thank you to all of the agencies that were mobilized, all of the families, friends, community, neighbors and hundreds of volunteers who supported us and work tirelessly to bring charlotte home. >> we're all just breathing a sigh of relief.

not just for them, for her, all the children and the neighborhood. who feel safe again. >> reporter: jean casarez, cnn, saratoga county, new york. here's a look at some other headlines that we're watching this hour. golf star lexi thompson will become only the seventh woman ever invited to see up with the men on the pga tour. thompson says she hopes it's a message to young women that you can chase your dream regardless how hard it is. also dish network is now the first company to be fined for littering in space. the s.e.c. fined the tv provider $150,000 for space junk, for not moving a dead satellite out of the way and into a higher orbit that is a designated space junk yard. while it's a small fine it sends a message to the industry to clean up. space junk can cause collisions with other satellites. and the cdc says it's no

longer distributing vaccination cards, those white cards that millions of people carried around with them. an easy way to track your doses that you've been vaccinated but they're rarely needed anymore. pharmacies say you don't need one anymore to get a booster shot. stay with "cnn news central." we'll be right back.

♪ officials in baltimore are now searching for the gunman or gunmen who shot five people last night at morgan state university. four of those victims were students. and the shooting happened outside the school's fine arts center when a homecoming week event had just wrapped up. students reported hearing a loud bang as they exited. immediately the crowd began to run and shelter in place. classes are cancelled today but the shooter remains at large.

let's take you to the campus with cnn's gabe cohen. gabe, immediately, police say they don't believe the students were the targets here. so how did all of it start? >> reporter: yeah, so, boris, baltimore police say it looks like this started as some sort of fight between two small groups that quickly escalated. when at least two people pulled out guns and opened fire. and those five victims in this case, four of whom are morgan state students, police say they weren't the intended target here. they were just caught in the middle. and it's really a stunning situation for the people who go to school in this community. a lot of concern because police still have not made an arrest in this case. the commissioner speaking at a press conference just a little while ago. take a listen. >> we know there was more than one person with a weapon. the problem is the ballistics has to tell us how many guns there were that were shot.

we know there was -- it looks like it was probably a dispute between two smaller groups. and then one individual was a target of two individuals who had weapons. and we don't believe that individual was hit. we believe the five victims who were struck were unintended targets. and we do know a third person pulled a weapon. but we don't know how many of those were fired because mainly all the ballistics was relatively the same. and we have to do a deeper dive with our atf partners. >> reporter: so, again, boris, at this hour, baltimore police have not made any arrests and they haven't revealed if they have any suspects at this point. look, morgan state is a historically black university. the mayor of baltimore saying there's no indication at this point that this was a racially motivated shooting, though, it's still under investigation. >> gabe, what about the four students that were injured?

do you have an update on their condition? >> reporter: yeah. we do. we heard from the police commissioner a little earlier who said at least one of those students had been released from the hospital. again, we knew just after the shooting in the couple hours that followed that none of the five had life-threatening injuries so that's the positive news to share. and i just got off the phone, less than two minutes ago with the fire department that told me those our four victims are still in the hospital. though, at this hour, they're in stable condition, doing fairly well. >> glad to hear that. gabe cohen live in baltimore. thanks, gabe. a cia accused of a sexual assault incident that took place at its headquarters in 2022. it claims that the cia repeatedly discouraged its employeeing from filing a criminal complaint and even tried to intimidate her from testifying against her assailant convicted on a misdemeanor

chargech assault and battery cnn's katie bo lillis joins us. what more do you know? >> i spoke to them, while they're concerned there were a number of incident allowed themg legal action in the instance was a series of internal messages between the victim and another employee at the cia. the agency voluntarily turned over to her assailant's defense counsel in criminal proceedings in august. so during the attackers trial in august, the victim's attorney gets the internal messages between your client and another employee. the lawsuit is now claiming that the cia not only voluntarily turned over those messages to her attacker. but also, according to the victim, that they were selectively edited in such a way to make it appear as if she was having an extramarital affair.

something that the victim denies. for example, in one of the exchanges according to the lawsuit. the victim was discussing feeling sore after a workout. the way the messages were presented made it look like she was talking about feeling sore after a sexual encounter with this employee, again, which he denies. this is what the lawsuit is referring to as slut-shaming and that the cia is basically trying to intimidate her from testifying at her assailant's criminal trial. and ultimately, help him avoid from being convicted. >> what is the cia saying about this? >> the cia isn't commenting on this, citing the need to protect their officers as well as the ongoing litigation. but they do say they take reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault extremely seriously. that they've taken a number of measures over the last couple of years to return their internal

processes for adjudicating claims. we also know that this woman isn't the only to come forward alleging that the cia mishandled her claims of sexual assault. we know that the senate and house intelligence committees are both looking into this issue, as is the cia inspector general. and so what's whether or not h important here pam, this lawsuit is the details against what the agency actually have. >> katie bo lillis, thank you so much. we'll be right back.

this just in, the backlash towards congressman matt gaetz after his ouster of former house speaker kevin mccarthy is growing. cnn's manu raju joins us now. you just got off with republican congressman mike lawler. what did he tell you? >> reporter: he supports kicking out matt gaetz from the house republican conference. it would have to be a conference vote to actually do that. it's unclear if it will come to pass. i asked mr. lawler whether or not he believes matt gaetz should be expelled from his conference. he said, in my opinion, yes. he called his conduct in his view, quote, disgraceful. this comes as a number of allies of speaker mccarthy have railed against matt gaetz and said what he did was beyond the institution, was beyond the pale. they accuse him of combusing a personal vendetta to go after

mccarthy, to boost his fund-raising and the like. many want nothing to do with him or for him to serve in the republican congress. those allegations gaetz has denied. he said this is not personal, not about an ethics investigation, but it's simply about in gaetz's view mccarthy is not keeping his promises, especially over the issue of federal spending. nevertheless, this fight still continues to linger and there are tons of raw feelings within the house gop conference over all the historical and unprecedented events of yesterday and mccarthy's ouster as republicans try to figure out what is next. one of the question questions, if and when the new speaker is elected next week, how can he work with people or help push out kevin mccarthy if the push to kick mccarthy out, given one

member can call for his ouster. pamela, that's a big question right now. one thing some members are pushing to, is to get rid of that tool altogether. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell endorsed calls for the house to get rid of that rule, to call for the ouster of a sitting speaker. we'll see what the speaker candidates do as they line up the votes right now behind the scenes to suck sed kevin mccarthy. >> all right. manu raju, thank you. the legal issues have piled up for hunter biden and so have his legal bills. cnn has learned that the president's son has racked up more than $10 million in legal fees. cnn's kayla tausche is live at the white house. what's the reporting on this? >> reporter: sources tell me and paula reid that hunter biden incurred this $10 million legal debt over the course of five years as he moved to defend himself against federal

investigations into tax and gun crimes, a lengthy child support case and various congressional inquiries. this is the first time that the true scope of hunter's financial straits is being reported. we've learned from our sources that that mountain of legal debt is only set to increase by a magnitude of millions of dollars if some of these cases go to federal trials, if hunter is not able to reach a settlement in some of these cases. financiers like longtime friend and hollywood attorney kevin morris are no longer able to bank roll hunter's legal efforts. now his team is trying to get creative. there's an expectation that could go to deep-pocketed biden allies to shore up his financial position to try to fill that hole and raise some of that money. for the last several months his team has been considering the idea of launching a formal legal defense fund. it would have been run by an

ethics attorney. it would have been by the book to closely monitor where money is coming in from and where it is going out to. we're told the white house seriously pushed back against that. they were very leery of the possibility that they could be seen as breaching campaign finance laws or generally an ethical gray area. the legal defense fund we're told has gone quiet for now. that doesn't mean his team isn't going to try to get creative and find that money somewhere. >> kayla tausche from the white house, thank you very much. still to come, former president donald trump is heading back to the campaign trail after spending a few days in a new york city courtroom for his civil fraud trial. we'll take you live to the courthouse for the very latest when we come back.

a scramble in congress with no speaker in the house. republicans need to pick a new leader and quickly as the chamber is paralyzed until a new leader is chosen. what we're learning about who is vying for the powerful position. leaving court and unleashing new insults. former president trump is still slamming the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial in new york and the state's attorney general, this as he heads back home to florida. sending seized weapons into a war zone. cnn has exclusive reporting on where the u.s. will transfer millions of iranian ammunition and weapons and why the biden administration spent months weighing whether it was even legal. we're following these stories and many mor