i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan, and this is cnn "news central." >>> we begin with what is happeningrussia with a new interview with the russian newspaper, and russian president vladimir putin is looking to divide the top wagner fighters from the leader yevgeny prigoshin, and he said that the paramilitary group simply does not exist. the russian president was referring to the legality of the mercenary group as he described the meeting with the wagner fighters and the boss, and the krim kremlin says that happened five days after prigozhin led a fafail ed coup with the military. so, alex, what are you learning about this conversation that putin says that he had, and the fact that they do not exist legally, anyway. >> well, sara, putin does appear to be weaken prigozhin here, and he is dabbling in a little bit of the legalese, and what he is saying is here is two things. on the legal front, mercenary groups are illegal, and when it comes to wagner, they do not exist. but the troops are in eastern ukraine, but not operational and major questions remain, sara, to what extent wagner is goi

i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn "news central." >>> happening right now, the russian officials are assessing the damage to a bridge in crimea critical to the military after the ukrainian officials attacked the bridge overnight. this morning, ukraine is saying that it is part of the joint operation. the kirsch bridge is the only link between the peninsula and russia s and vital crossing for moscow to link to the troops as they fight in ukraine and also critical to provide crimea with goods. there is also severe damage to the road partially collapsed and the tracks running parallel to the road are in tact. i want to bring in alex marquardt who is there next to the sea, and that is a critical target for russia, and what might this be for their ability to perform in that area? >> well, it could significantly impair their ability to get people across to get food and fuel and military equipment. they have a number of other ways, the railway that you mentioned and now by land, because of the land bridge that th

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i'm kate bolduan with john b berman and sara seidman. >>> and the u.s. is expected to send a weapon so dangerous and to send it back to ukraine. >>> ukraine has been asking for munition, but cluster munitions are a major risk to the civilians, because when they are fired, they release bomblets that sometimes don't explode, and deliver landmines that have been dormant for decades. ben, is there any impact what kind of powerful and effective impact these weapons could have on ukraine? >> well, sara, i could give you an example, because today, we were at an artillery battery firing 500 anti-personal munitions, but a cluster antibare yield effectiveps of the ammunitions that we saw used today. it is necessarily around bakhmut where according to the ukrainian army, the russians have deployed 50,000 troops in a smaller a ya, and they are deployed in multiple layers of trenches that are dug deep. cluster munitions despite all of the lob em and of course, trying to deploy them, but there are problems. the united states tried to deploy these problems and they hav

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and this is cnn "news central." >> we will give you live pictures heredge in the grand jury shrecelection proces getting under way, and the men and women will decide the criminal indictment process of former president trump in the presidential tampering process. and now, we go outside of the courtroom where nick valencia is. the grand jury selection is getting under way, and any moment now, and how is this going to work? >> good morning, sara. today is a start of a new term for fulton county jurors. and how likely this is going to take, and if there is any indication, it will take a couple of hours compared to the special purpose grand jury in the predominantly grand jury, and ultimately two grand juries are going to be selected and 16 of them for quorum, and 12 of them in agreement for potential indictment to be levelled against the former president or the biggest names in his orbit. we know that they will be hearing evidence collected in their investigative phase, and they had subpoena power, to hear from about 75 witnesses. and it is going to be fani

kate bolduan is off. i'm john berman with rahel solomon. this is cnn "news central." >>> we do start with breaking news. we learned a short time ago that the florida governor and republican presidential candidate ron desantis was involved in a car accident while on the fund-raising circuit in tennessee. we will find out more of what happened, and we go to steve co c conforno who is covering governor. >> we are still awaiting more details, but we are told that the governor is okay and his staff are okay, as they were traveling to a fund-raising event in chattanooga, tennessee. we know that the governor was traveling in tennessee to appear at a number of fund-raising events. he had three scheduled today. fund raising is an important part of running for office. his campaign said that this morning the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in chattanooga, tennessee, and we appreciate the prayers of the nation for his wellbeing and the staff. i know that traveling with the governor he has a large security presence, and he goe

with john berman and sara sidner, i'm kate bolduan, and this is cnn "news central." >>> there are new developments of the justice department's criminal development into donald trump's criminal actions of the election of 2022. we are learning more about the meeting that turned into a screaming match. in this meeting of a house committee meeting, donald trump considered some desperate proposals to keep him in power. >> i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. none of them were providing president with good advice. >> at times they were throwing insults at each other. >> cipollone and hirschman and the other guy, they showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. >> there was a point that the screaming was completely, completely out there. >> i'm going to categorically describe it as you guys are not tough enough. or maybe i will put it another way, you are a bunch of [ bleep ]s. >> okay it is hard to forget those depositions, and three trump advisers trump lawyer, sidney power, and one-time trump adviser patrick flynn, and one time trump ceo patrick brine, and t

with john berman and sara sidner, i'm kate bolduan, and this is cnn "news central." >>> so, happening now, the man accused of helping donald trump hide classified documents is inside of a federal courthouse in miami, and according to the judge's schedule, he is being arraigned right now, and you are looking at the chaotic moment in the last hour when walt nauta was greeted by journalists. he is expected to plead not guilty to several channels including conspiracy to deceive the fbi. at a time when 64 boxes were moved, only 30 were brought back. carlos suarez just is out ooid of the time and we believe that is arraignment is happening right now. give us an update. >> yes, john, that is right. so nauta did arrive this morning and joined by d.c.-based attorney stanley woodard, and nauta did not say a word as he walked out of the suv and into the courthouse. cnn has learned that he has added a south florida-based attorney, sasha nadan and she is a former florida expording with this sepation. as you noticed, john, he is expected to plead not gill toe obstruction and lying to investigators.

kate bolduan is off today. i'm sara sidner with john berman.s is cnn "news central." >>> right now, all eyes on a miami court, and carlos de oliveira is going to appear in court, because he is accused of trying to delete video after the justice department subpoenaed for footage last year. the defense as we know it so far is that the boss wanted server deleted. he is described as someone outside of the trump inner circle, and we are told by cnn that he is not someone known by the close confidants, and one of the family members is saying that he is likely not telling what the consequences of what donald trump was telling him to do, and he was probably just being loyal to his boss. cnn correspondent randi kaye is in miami. and what do we know about the charges that are up against de oliveira? >> these are pretty serious charges, sara, all relating to allegations that de oliveira was part of the plot to erase this security camera footage of which showing the boxes of documents at mar-a-lago, and some of them found to be classified. part of it is ob

. >> kate bolduan is off today. with rahel solomon, i'm john berman. this is cnn "news central.." donald trump is accused of trying to mutilate, conceal or steal evidence. donald trump says that if he is elected he would fire special counsel jack smith. he the special counsel say ss that carlos de oliveira and walt nauta were told by donald trump to delete the server. and they add more charges to the 37 federal charges that trump is going to face. now, let's bring in evan perez into the new federal charges in the mar-a-lago case. >> yes, this is quite a twist, because this is going to bring forward new crimes that the former president and now his two co-defendants are accused of committing after the prosecutors came and provided a subpoena asking for the trump organization to produce surveillance tapes of that area where the classified boxes would be stored at mar-a-lago, and i will tell you what the prosecutors have laid out between carlos de oliveira who was the head of the maintenance there at mar-a-lago, and also to this employee off to the side, again, discussing surveillance

. >> millions of influencers in hours, i'm thread influencer john berman, with kate bolduan and saraidner and this is cnn "news central." >>> this morning a stunning twist in the aftermath of the attempted a mutiny this russia. we're told wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin is in russia, not living in belarus. the belarussian president first said that prigozhin was in his country but when cnn's matt chance had an opportunity to ask him about that this morning, the story changed. >> reporter: i wornder if you cn provide us all with a bit of an update on the whereabouts of the wagner leader, yevgeny prigozhin is in he belarus or not? >> translator: he is in st. petersburg or maybe this morning he would travel to moscow or elsewhere but he's not in the territory of belarus now. >> this comes after russian state media launched an attack on prigozhin, pointing to his criminal past while airing footage of a police raid at the wagner leader's home and office. these are things they say they found, wigs, gold, guns, stacks of cash and multiple passports with different identities. matthew chance j

i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner, and this is cnn "news central." >>> all right. the breaking news, the house has just voted and the final passage of the big defense policy bill, and the bill has passed with the changes and the controversial changes of hard right and far right republican members of the house. let's get over to manu r raju f the breaking news. and what is the final count here? >> yes, this bill passed after days of wrangling behind the scenes of house republican leaders trying to get their conference in line, but barely getting this major defense bill through the house, and the one that would authorize the programs national defense programs and typically one that is done and the bipartisan basis, but because of the changes made, it went along the party lines. the vote was 219-210. 218 votes is a majority of the house. so 219-210 was the final vote, and the gavel just came down and four democrats voted for it including the democrat from maine who represents a swing district from maine and one from washington state and there were four republicans who

i'm sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman, and this is cnn "news central." >>> russia's foreign ministry is opening up an official investigation into what it is calling a terrorist act after ukraine made a rare admission that it was behind the attack on the critical bridge in russian-occupied crimea. the bridge is the only link between the land and russia. it has become a vital crossing for russia between crimea and russia and also to provide crimea with all sorts of supply. russia says severe damage to the roadway, but this morning, we have learned that the rail traffic across the bridge is moving. we will get the latest from alex marquardt who is in odessa, ukraine, and what are you learning about the attack and where things go from now? >> well, certainly the question now is how is russia going to respond? they are going to take this very seriously for the reasons that you laid out. the two reasons that it is hugely important logistically, and symbolically, because this is a huge project of vladimir putin when he annexed crimea. he drove a truck across this 12-mile, 19 kilome

i'm sara sidner, with kate bolduan, this is cnn "news central." >>> happening now, a pivotal summit ininland with leaders as president biden wraps up a high stakes trip. he is ending with a strong e nato and long-term promises to ukraine in its war effort. next hour biden is expected to speak but more trillion talks are taking place fresh off the ga gathering. the nation shares an 800 mile border with russia. biden moments ago meeting one on one with his finish counter part. nic robertson is leading our coverage this morning. what is the global message that president biden is hoping to achieve once he returns? >> reporter: i think part of it here, obviously, is that nato, despite president putin's best efforts of cracking nato's unity, it's russia that's cracking, the recent coup by prigozhin, the wagner boss and yesterday another senior russian general has been removed from post in ukraine after complaining about the way the war is being fought. cracks on the russian side, unity on the nato side. and remembering right now secretary blinken in asia meeting with chinese counterpart, hea

i'm sara dieder in with john berman and kate bolduan, you're watching "cnn news central." >>> it was a violent holiday weekend across the country. the fourth of july block party in louisiana is the latest target. three people were killed, seven others were injured, when gunfire rang out at sleeve port's july 4th celebration. in philadelphia the suspect accused of randomly shooting at victims while roaming through a neighborhood is expected to appear in court for the first time. five people were killed in that rampage monday night. the youngest victim was just 15 years old. a toddler and a 13-year-old were also hurt after being shot multiple times in their legs. cnn brny din grass and ryan have the latest for us. what are you learning? >> we're still waiting for video from that scene but what we're told this was pure chaos. the shooting happening at a block party for the fourth of july. people were running separated from their children and families, dropping their keys, stopping some of the first responders from being able to get in because cars couldn't be moved. what we're learning

i'm sara sidner alongside john berman, kate bolduan is off. these major stories and more all coming into "cnn news central." ♪ >>> this morning one-on-one with president zelenskyy. in a cnn exclusive zelenskyy says vladimir putin is weak and calls out the russian president's vulnerability. his words will be fresh in putin's mind as he makes his first appearance on the world stage since the wagner mercenary revolt. ukraine's leader tells cnn's erin burnett the world will not end as long as crimea is occupied by russia. his quote, we cannot imagine ukraine without crimea. crimea is also the center of a stunning new assassination claim. russia overnight accused ukraine of trying to kill the russian-backed crimean leader. in another development new details on the trip cia director william burns recently took to kyiv. zelenskyy saying his talks with him should always be behind the scenes as burns reveals the war is now helping the u.s. recruit more russian spies. several developments to cover for you now, we begin with zelenskyy's reaction to putin

i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman, this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ >> so this morningirst time there is reporting about the possible laws the special council thinks donald trump might have broken. the statutes listed in the target letter surrounding the january 6th investigations. those statutes reportedly involved conspiracy to commit offense or defraud the united states, deprivation of rights and tampering with a witness, broadly speaking. what still has to be determined exactly what acts correspond to those statutes. what can we discern based on the people the special council has been speaking with. cnn's kaitlan polantz joins us now. it has been a whirlwind 24 hours and first the target letter and the report of what's inside of it and what's the latest, caitlin? >> a whirlwind 24 hours realizing that it is very likely that he could be arrested and charged with federal crimes related to january 6's actions related after the election and it's been a whirlwind of an investigation. the special council's office when we look at what they've been doing after several month

i'm sara sider with kate bolduan. this is cnn "news central." >>> happening right now, officials say a high risk for excessive rain and flooding across parts of new england and downpours drenched region, and this morning a flash flood warning for vermont and in orange koun think, at least one person has been killed in the flooding and 100 homes have been impacted. in westpoint, new york, a 1 in 1,000-year rainfall event, and look at the pictures recording more than 7 1/2 inches in just six hours. some drivers were forced to swim out of the cars as floodwaters overwhelmed the roadways. >> look at the people's doors! oh, my god. it is up to my knees. >> i know. >> terrifying. right now, millions remain under flood alert, and parts of new york could see 1 to 2 inches of rain per hour. polo sandoval is in new york. and you are standing next to the river and earlier at a junction where the car were backed up. what is happening there now? >> you called it a river, sara, but that is a babbling brook, and this is going to tel

i'm sara sidner alongside kate bolduan and john berman, this is "cnn news central." ♪ >>> the first summerobs report is in and here is what we know, 209,000 jobs added in june. that is below what economists expected and the lowest monthly gain since december 2020. hiring is slowing, but it is still the 30th consecutive month of gains. cnn's rahel solomon here with a read into the numbers. take us into this report. what are you seeing here? >> this was the first time as you pointed out that this was actually cooler than what economists were expecting, the expectation is closer to 225, 229 and the number came in at 209. the prior two months were also revised slightly lower. taking a look at where we added jobs, u.s. economy added jobs in june, government added 60,000, health care added 41,000, health care is especially interesting because this is an industry that continues to struggle to rehire after the pandemic. part of that is happening here and construction, which is really interesting because of what's been happening with north rates. >> right. >> you would think that maybe construction

i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner.'re watching "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ >>> this morning we are learning of four mass shootings all within a span of a couple of hours overnight. boston, salisbury, maryland, shreveport, louisiana and washington, d.c. in total, four dead, 27 injured. this follows the deadly rampage in philadelphia. officials say the suspect there opened fire on a city street shooting people at rand am and killing five. the suspect now faces multiple charges including murder and is being held in jail without bond. cnn's josh campbell and danny freeman treicking the latest developments for us. danny, i understand you were in court for this initial appearance. what did you see? >> that's right, john. i just left court about an hour and a half ago. we relocated outside of philadelphia police headquarters, but i was in that courtroom when kimbrady carriker, 40 years old, the suspect in the quintuple homicide back from the evening before july fourth. it was a preliminary arraignment that only lasted about 15 mi

i'm kate bolduan with sara si sidner. this is "cnn news central." >>> president biden is at the critical nato summit in lithuania right now. hugely important for many reasons. one, especially because of the timing of the meeting, and also because of what is at stake in this moment. biden and allies have already scored a win heading into the gathering with turkey's about face, turkey making the surprise move in dropping its opposition to sweden's membership meaning very soon there will be 32 members of the alliance. we'll see biden sitting down with turkish president erdogan this morning. and tomorrow president biden is scheduled to meet with ukrainian president zelenskyy and is going to face a central question hanging over the nato summit which is what to do about ukraine's quest to join their ranks. all this all the more urgent as russia intensifies its attacks on ukraine. this morning several buildings were damaged in attacks on the capital in kyiv. and at least three people were wounded in more russian shelling on kher

i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner, this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ >>> we are now momentsom the israeli president addressing a joint meeting of congress, one of the highest marks of respect that the congress affords to foreign leaders. he's only the second israeli president to mack ke such an address and the first was his father 35 years ago. despite strong bipartisan ties between american lawmakers and israel and longstanding ties, this visit and this address is exposing some tension within the democratic party around that support right now in this political arena. cnn's lauren fox is back with us on capitol hill. this is about to begin. talk to me about this speech and this moment. >> yeah. obviously the chamber is looking more and more full as we await this address by the israeli president. one thing that has become very clear is there is strong bipartisan support on capitol hill for israel despite the fact that over the last several days there have been some tensions in the democratic ranks that you talked about at the top. one of those tensions, of course, came over t

i'm sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan.his is "cnn news central." ♪ >>> overnight a daring attack on a key russian asset with huge military and psychological implications. ukraine is claiming responsibility for an operation on the kerch bridge. this is the only direct link between the crimean peninsula and russia, it is also a critical artery for supplying crimea with civilian goods. russian officials say there is damage to the roadway, railroad tracks that run parallel to the road are still said to be intact. let's get to cnn's senior national security correspondent alex marquardt who is in odesa. this is a very symbolic and strategic target for the ukrainians, alex. >> reporter: it is, john, and when we see brazen attacks like this from the ukrainians we rarely get confirmation or admission that they were behind it, now we are not only having ukraine claiming responsibility but they're trolling the russians at the same time. we heard earlier on telegram from ukraine's security services saying the bridge has gone to sleep

kate bolduan is off, i'm sara sidner with john berman.s is "cnn news central." >>> happening this morning, a mar-a-lago property manager accused of trying to delete security footage from the trump resort in the classified documents case will be arraigned in a miami court. carlos de oliveira is the third person indicted in this case after investigators subpoenaed the mar-a-lago security video last year, de oliveira allegedly told the resort's i.t. director that the boss wanted the server deleted. that is according to the indictment. de oliveira is described as someone outside of the former president's inner circle and several people tell cnn that he is not someone who is known by trump's close confidants. cnn spoke to one of de oliveira's family members and they say he likely didn't realize the consequences of what thump was telling him to do and was probably just being loyal to his boss. cnn correspondent randi kaye is for us there in miami. what do we know about the charges against de oliveira there? >> reporter: good morning, sara. we a

and maybe the most important decision could be coming, when donald trump's trial will start, i'm kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner, this is "cnn news central." >>> all right. the breaking news this morning. we learned just a short time agatha a u.s. national was detained by north korea. it is believed the man is a u.s. soldier, that is according to an american official. now according to the united nations' command, the man was on a tour of a joint security when he crossed the demarcation mark. right on the border. the demilitarized zone. he crossed the border into north korean territory, it is believed, when he was taken into custody. we have team coverage. we're joined from the state department from the white house. we have our military analysts available. first, though, let's go to cnn's will ripley who has been to north korea so many times. will, give us a sense of what happened. >> reporter: well, it's a very interesting location, john, because pun munjom is an area, it's like a tourist attraction there are gift shops on the north korean side and the south korean side. you can

i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is "cnn news central." ♪ >>> we're learning new details about that target letter donald trump and his attorneys have in their possession right now. this in regards to special counsel jack smith's 2020 election probe. multiple news outlets including the "wall street journal" are reporting the letter smith sent to trump and his lawyers mentions these three federal statutes that you see there behind me. conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the united states, deprivation of rights and tampering with witnesses. the major question now is a third indictment coming? and will donald trump, who predicted his arrest would come, have to soon give up more time on the campaign trail to go to court? all of this as the judge presiding over trump's other special counsel case the classified documents investigation signaled she will likely be pushing back the start of that trial. cnn's katelyn polantz is leading off our coverage this morning. can you tell us what we've learned in this probe a

i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner. this is "cnn news central." ♪ ♪ >> all right. let's go live.e're looking at president biden and president zelenskyy in ukraine. let's listen in. >> i'm going to support you, and i hope we finally have put to bed the notion about whether or not ukraine is welcome and nato is going to happen. we're all moving in the right direction. i think it's a matter of getting by the next few months here. so thank you, thank you, thank you, and you know, it's hard to believe 500 days. it's easy for me because mostly i've not been in ukraine a lot before the war in some sense of the war, but i will say again what i've said to you many times. not only all of you, but your people. your sons, your daughters, your husbands, your wives, your friends. you're incredible. the ukrainians -- the whole world has seen. i mean this from the bottom of my heart, the courage and commitment of the average ukrainian when you see a 65-year-old woman on television after her apartment's been bombed out picking up the pieces and going out to help the next-door neighbor. it's just

i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner. this is "cnn news central." >>> this morning, another surprising twist coming out of russia. mercenary boss yevgeny prigozhin hasn't been seen in public since the attempted mutiny, but get this, the kremlin now says the wagner boss sat down with russian president vladimir putin just days after he tried to overthrow him. the roughly three-hour meeting was held on june 29th, according to the kremlin, five days after prigozhin's short-lived rebellion. for weeks, though, putin and the kremlin have been dodging questions about prigozhin's whereabouts. and now you can add another question to the mix. what is putin trying to signal now? cnn's fred pleitgen has the very latest for us, he's joining us now. what more is russia saying about this and what is your read on it? >> reporter: well, i think the first and most important read, kate, is that everybody who has been monitoring, reporting about this probably getting whiplash right now trying to find out where yevgeny prigozhin is and what hi

i'm sara sidner with kate bol bolduan, and this is cnn. >>> happening this hour, president biden is going to meet one-on-one with turkish president recep erdogan. he will meet with the allies before the summit, and so meaning that we will have 32 members of the nato alliance. and also, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is going to speak to the alliance to make ukraine's path to the membership a priority now. and president zelenskyy and president biden are to meet tomorrow. and all of this being reported on by natasha bertrand. and zelenskyy is pushing hard to try to get a path to nato. >> yeah, sara. the big objective for the white house is to keep nato together, right? to show the world that nato is going to remain united, but there are some fractures emerging over the membership in nato, but it started with a scathing tweet saying that he had been discussions without having a representative about those talk, and he is angry about a concrete time line about ukraine's membership, and that they won't get an invitation once the war ends. he told fareed zakaria that he doesn't know