bob baer, we appreciate it. and still to come the surgeon general says there is nothing normal about gun violence in america, which is why he's declaring it and urgent public health crisis. but what does the advisory actually do? we're going to take a closer to look at that. and south korea says hundreds more of those trash balloons were launched from north korea. we're going to have the latest on this i'm disgusting in some cases exchange ahead on cnn news central let's get roles a great to truck racist, getting up gulf coast from texas to south beach, miami. this is $25. come on. you got to be joking season from a great food truck race sunday, i on food and it's time to press rewind with neutrogena, rapid wrinkle repair. >> it has durham proven retinol expertly formulated to targets i'll turnover, and fight not one, but five signs of aging physical results in just one week, neutrogena. >> we handcraft every stearns and foster using the finest materials like indulgent memory foam and ultra conforming inner spri

. >> i'll friend now, bob baer, former cia operative at seen an intelligence and security analysts. >> bob, when we look at this, this is the largest show of force. russia has sent to cuba in years. it includes, of course, that nuclear-powered submarine putin is clearly looking to send a message here. i know us officials say they're tracking it. do you think they're taking this seriously enough well, if they're not, they should be. >> this is clear escalation on russia's part. putin is furious that we've allowed to ukrainians to use our weapons to hit russia itself the ukrainian has been doing a lot of damage inside russia and putin is messages you're absolutely right. erica is, you know, you you escalate. we escalate and what we should be worried about is not this, this flotilla. in havana, but what an accident occurring, which could occur in any time you know, could happen in poland and also, we can expect the russians to expand these provocations, whether it's in north korea or venezuela, it just doesn't matter. i think we're going to see him popping up everywhere sending us messag

some familiar territory, roughly the same aids will be in the room led by ron klain and sources say bob baer how are the president's personal attorney, who stood in for at role though casting motto is still open critical few days ahead with major implications. kayla tausche from the white house. thanks for that. and let's bring it out. a great group of political reporters. well as following all of this, cnn's alayna treene, zahlen, kano young's of the new york times, and washington post, leanne caldwell good to see you all. there has are coming elleithee. >> i know you've been doing a lot of reporting on the trump side of things. >> what are you hearing about what trump is doing ahead of this critical moment? >> well, one thing he's not doing is what kayla just laid out about mock debates. donald trump is not doing that this time. it is a departure from his past debate preparation. we know that rudy giuliani, chris christie, have stood in for his opponents before and mock debates. trump's team is not doing that now, they are trying to say that donald trump does not need a lot of debate prepa