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25:35We recommend that year round, even if we don't have a cyclosporiasis outbreak going on. We at this point don't want to decrease people's intake of healthy foods. We just want to make sure that you're taking them in safely when you eat them. So wash them, clean them. There's a lot of products out there that you can use and eat safely. Seek help if you need it. And in terms of washing hands, what do you mean? Like how often I assume you mean back to like COVID era washing of hands where you're doing it between the fingers and thoroughly and up the wrists and everything for like a minute. Just what five times a day, anytime you go outside, anytime you're in public, how often?

26:13I would use anytime you've been out in public for a while, definitely every time you've used the restroom and before you eat, anytime before you eat, that's the most important. Wash those hands, soap and water. Exactly. This harkens back to the COVID days, but instead of having an oral or excuse me, an airway based infection, this is a fecal oral infection where we have contamination and the potential of potential is spread that way. I also encourage you that if you're around a buffet where you're using utensils that are common use, wash your hands before you eat your food. That's where a lot of these are transmitted is from contaminated utensils that are then spread from person to person.

26:49How hard is it for health officials to track these cases to pinpoint the cause of transmission? I mean, this originated from some one person or cow or something, right? Theoretically, some of this is naturally occurring from farms, from produce or water supply. It could be a lot of different places. 31 states at this point are involved. You know, 5 ,000 cases are being investigated. So a ton is out there. Narrowing it down is going to make a huge difference because then you can get that off the shelves and actually get back to hopefully allowing everybody to eat the rest of the food that's out there.

27:24But making sure, tracking this is very difficult. For one, not everybody can test for this. Two, it takes a while for the symptoms to develop. And a lot of people think it's just a GI illness, the stomach flu or whatever it may be. And then also our public health monitoring. Tracking these types of things is lacking a little bit. It's dragging behind. We've seen it with Ebola in Africa. We see it here with cyclospora. So being aware, just understand right now with the thousands of cases that are reported, that's probably just the tip of the iceberg. Dr. Ryan Stanton, thank you so much. Coming up, the plea for more security as the U.S.

27:59Supreme Court Justice reveals she has a bulletproof vest. Plus, the key moments to watch tomorrow is Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche auditions for the permanent role.

28:13And we're live on Match Day as Doug reaches for a buffalo wing. He's got it! Oh, and he's gone for a can of Pepsi, too! What a finish! There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Match Days deserve Pepsi.

28:31In our Law and Justice lead in less than 24 hours, Todd Blanche has the biggest job interview of his life. He is currently acting attorney general, but if he wants to drop the acting title and be a Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney General. He's going to need to win over every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, including some of the skeptics. One of them is Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who has questions after a judge ruled yesterday that Blanche might have violated ethics rules when he helped set up President Trump's$1.776 billion slush fund. Does that change the dynamics of his confirmation?

29:05Well, it certainly is another area that I plan to ask about, And I'm certainly not making any commitments until after the hearing. But are you leaning against him at this point? I'm not going to make any commitments until after the hearing. Republican Senator Tom Tillis in North Carolina is also not a given. He has shared concern about Justice Department independence. Just remember, if one single Republican on this committee joins Democrats to vote no on Blanche, that could derail the whole nomination. My panel joins me now. Now, Evan, how big of a factor will this judge's ruling be in tomorrow's hearing?

29:39And how do you expect Blanche to navigate questions about it? Well, I think this is going to be the dominating series of questions for the acting attorney general, which is, does he actually show that he has the ability to be independent of the president, to take independent decisions, to make independent decisions? And this ruling from this judge really calls into question how far he is willing to just essentially act as President Trump's personal lawyer, still even now as atop the Justice Department. And so what this judge does in laying out what happened in the IRS settlement issue is really show chapter and verse of how much control there is from the president, from the White House, from Stephen Miller over Todd Blanch.

30:26Now, the job that he has is to try to show that he is calling balls and strikes. He is trying to, quote unquote, fight the weaponization that the president is very much focused on, while at the same time trying to uphold the principles of the Justice Department. It's a tough job that he's trying to pull off right here. Right now, Jake, they believe they have the votes. I mean, he's been campaigning everywhere. He went to Alaska to try to shore up support from Senator Murkowski. So they think right now, unless something goes really terribly tomorrow, they think they have the votes. Ellie, you have a piece in the New York Magazine titled, Todd Blanche has run wild with the DOJ.

31:06Now he must answer for it, unquote. Tell us exactly what you think he's going to have to answer for beyond the judge's ruling about that slush fund that Evan just talked about. Well, where to begin, Jake? I am sure that much of the focus and attention tomorrow will be on the most recent and most sensational scandals around Todd Blanche, starting with that weaponization fund, also the Epstein files. But to me, the cardinal sin that Todd Blanch has committed in his year and a half as deputy AG and acting AG is that political weaponization of DOJ's prosecutorial power. That is a red line that Todd Blanch has crossed time and again by overseeing and promoting and defending these bogus criminal investigations and charges against Letitia James several times over, Jim Comey several times over, Senators Mark Kelly, Alyssa Slok and Jerome Powell on down the line.

31:55That to me, as a prosecutor, that is the most fundamental abuse of power one can make. And so he's going to have to answer for all of it. But I think it's important that the more recent scandals don't overshadow the more core violations, derelictions of duty. So, Caitlin, about 19 minutes ago, the New Mexico Department of Justice, which is trying to conduct a criminal investigation on Epstein and what happened at Zorro Ranch in New Mexico when Epstein was still alive. And the New Mexico attorney general says, today we sent another letter to the Justice Department. They're asking for files to help them in their investigation.

32:30And this afternoon, the Southern District of New York, the Trump Justice Department, called to inform us they will not cooperate and will not support the only active criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. That's some unfortunate timing for Mr. Blanche, I would think, because there already has been so much criticism about his role in the alleged cover up of the Epstein files by survivors. And now you have his Justice Department just a few minutes ago saying they're not going to cooperate with the New Mexico investigation. Yeah, Jake, there's two different things that Todd Blanch is going to have to answer to about Jeffrey Epstein and the Justice Department's handling around everything.

33:11related to that case and Jeffrey Epstein's death. The primary one is, did the Justice Department do enough over all of these years? How does he respond to these latest investigations that may come up? But the thing that's going to be right in front of him and really is the thing that is at his doorstep alone is how he handled the Justice Department's processing of the millions of files that were in the Epstein files and the release of them. The victims of Jeffrey Epstein are extremely angry with him. They are expected to potentially be there in the hearing room tomorrow. They also have put out a public service announcement saying that they want the senators to vote no on Todd Blanche because their personal info was redacted.

33:59There were nude photos of some of them that were out there unredacted, and they say that that was specifically Blanche's failure. Now, he's probably going to talk about how much the Justice Department did to work through and release all of those files. But we know that it was not a smooth process. And there's still a lot of criticism, including from Republicans, not just about how it was handled, about how the Justice Department has done everything around Jeffrey Epstein, including sending Blanche himself down to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein co-conspirator in prison last summer, last July.

34:35Yeah, and shortly thereafter, she ended up in a much nicer prison. Today on Capitol Hill, we saw something rather rare. Two Supreme Court justices appeared before Congress. Justices Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by a Republican, Elayda Kagan, appointed by a Democrat. They were asking for more security funding due to an uptick in threats against justices and judges. Here's Barrett. I didn't expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one. Evan, what more can you tell us about their appearance today?

35:09Well, you know, it's so extraordinary to see them have to discuss some of this stuff, Jake, but it is a real fact of life of being a Supreme Court justice right now with the threat picture. And one of the things they're asking Congress for is more funding,$29 million more in funding. And one of the things that was very clear is that it's going to take years for the Supreme Court police to be able to handle this. Right now, they're depending on contractors and U.S. marshals and so on. The other part of this hearing that was interesting was also this discussion of Supreme Court ethics, which, again, they don't often have to respond to questions like this.

35:44And so one of the things that you heard from both of them is that it's a real issue. They don't know how to tackle it, which is, you know, how do you enforce any violations, right, of the Supreme Court ethics pledge that they all make? And so the big issue is, you know, they can't depend on the Justice Department to enforce it or for Congress to enforce it. So they're kind of stuck. A major legal setback for the president today, more than five point six million dollars has now been transferred officially to E. Jean Carroll three years after a jury found that Trump sexually abused and defamed her.

36:19Caitlin, Trump is asking the court to reconsider, but the money's already been transferred. Should we expect for this to go any further? Is this case closed? We probably shouldn't expect it to go further, but Trump is still trying every single cunning move that he can in the court to see if he can get that money back. He's even asking the appeals court over New York right now saying, could I get a ruling that tells her to give the money back to me right now? Also, she has said that she's keeping it in an interest-bearing account for her retirement. She's not planning on spending it, so it's there.

36:51But all of this is such a long shot at this point, beyond a long shot. We've already been past the long shot and Trump was losing there, too. Yeah. Well, I mean, there is a track record of him taking things well beyond when everybody knows he already lost. But we'll get to the election nonsense in a second. Thanks, everyone. Coming up, a story we're keeping tabs on here on the lead. President Trump's promise for more housing for homeless military veterans in Los Angeles. The struggle to learn why there's such a lack of progress on this project. That's next.

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38:06It's a story that CNN has continued to follow. The project is behind schedule and transparency has been, shall we say, limited. And as CNN's Nick Watt reports, this is stirring controversy and legal battles and concerns about a site in West Los Angeles. Activists have pressured and federal judges have ordered the VA to return some of this land in lovely leafy West LA to its intended purpose, housing veterans. Progress has been slow. Then about a year ago, President Trump signed an executive order keeping promises to veterans and establishing a national center for warrior independence. A key administration promise, within 120 days, submit a plan to create capacity here for 6 ,000 veterans by January 1, 2028.

38:57The House Veterans Affairs Committee has finally seen the Trump plan. This report was received last night, 248 days late. But the plan, hailed by VA Secretary Doug Collins as a return to accountability, action and honour, details not 6 ,000 new units, but only just over 1 ,000 new units. The VA's new press secretary told us via email, by 2027 we expect to have capacity to house 2 ,048 homeless veterans. He dodged my question about the shortfall, but added, Liberal California politicians and their staunch allies at the far left and extremely low-rated CNN stood idly by for years as the West Los Angeles VA campus was mismanaged.

39:44For the record, this land has been mismanaged by both Republican and Democratic administrations and CNN started covering this story repeatedly and in depth in 2022 when Joe Biden was in the White House. Given two veterans for a home in 1888, this land has been used for a posh private school sports facilities, UCLA's baseball field, parking lots, oil drilling, and much more. Meanwhile, by latest count, there are still about 3 ,000 homeless veterans here in Los Angeles County alone. In January, Trump's VA appeared to move towards satisfying a judge's order to build 750 to 800 new temporary housing units on this land by next spring.

40:32Available documents show they're seeking bids for just 260. No reply from the VA press secretary when we asked why. It's hard to find out exactly what is going on here because most of those involved in this project are sworn to secrecy, made to sign non-disclosure agreements, drawing bipartisan criticism. Were you ever asked by VA to sign an NDA before this moment in June of 2025? No, I was not. So it's unprecedented? Correct. Since this is federal property intended to serve veterans, transparency should be a priority, not an option. The VA terminated the private Brentwood school lease in February.

41:13Under President Trump, VA is taking decisive action to ensure the West LA VMAC campus is used only as intended to benefit veterans, Secretary Collins said at the time. But the school's sports facilities are still there on veterans land.

41:33Welcome to The Lead. I'm Jake Tapper. This hour of the president teasing a really big speech Thursday night that could be a barn burner and also a lot of lies. He says it's going to be on election security. Why? Is he laying the groundwork for chaos? Is he laying the groundwork to do something about the midterms? Is any Republican willing to call out the election lies that are already on the record? Plus, breaking news, another person killed after an encounter with ICE, the latest in St. Augustine, Florida. New details are coming in on this one. Also, Congressman Ro Khanna is going to join us here on The Lead.

42:03Days after Israeli settlers, he says, ambushed him in the West Bank. We're going to get his response to the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who called the incident a stunt. And new video today of water drained from the National Mall reflecting pool, revealing absolutely no signs of the 300-yard slashes the president claimed were there.

42:27The lead tonight, growing concern over what exactly President Donald Trump intends to say when he addresses the nation in prime time Thursday night. One might have initially assumed it'll speak about the Iran war, given that the ceasefire is over and the United States is involved in this war. Kind of a big deal. But the president has skirted around the details, only alluding to the fact that his speech will be about what he calls election security. Here he was earlier today. It's really big news. It's really, really big news. And our country has to shape up. But what we're going to be talking about Thursday is it doesn't get bigger.

43:06Because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country. Last night when the president was asked to preview his speech, he offered up this little tidbit. Our elections are crooked and we've got to straighten them out. We've got to have voter ID. We've got to have proof of citizenship. And we have to do something about the mail-in ballots, which are just corrupt, crooked, and should not be allowed. It was six years ago this summer that we started covering the president's lies about the 2020 election. and there has never been any credible evidence provided by him or anyone on his team to show any serious malfeasance that changed the inescapable fact that he lost to Joe Biden fair and square.

43:49There have been so many individuals who are conservative Republicans who work for Donald Trump, who have debunked all of these lies, and yet he does not listen. The lies have caused death. The lies have prompted law enforcement injuries. The lies have prompted law enforcement suicides. The lies have undermined the faith millions of Americans have in elections. The lies are being applauded by China and Russia, all because Donald Trump is not man enough to accept the fact that he lost six years ago. So what does he now have in store for us? Let's bring in our panel, starting with CNN's fact-checking machine, Daniel Dale.

44:23Daniel, we don't know exactly what Trump's going to say in his Thursday speech, but lately he seems to have been laying the groundwork for a rehashing of the 2020 election, which again, he lost. Wish he lost. And yet, as you said, we're approaching six years of him lying that he won. Recently, he's begun saying that so much proof has already emerged of his claims that the election was rigged and that he was the real winner. No such proof has emerged. He's even started saying that he is in his third term as president. So inventing an imaginary and unconstitutional victory. And then there's an entire cinematic universe, dozens of additional lies, frankly, too many to go through, claims that he won the popular vote in all three of his presidential elections.

45:05In fact, he only won it in 2024. Wild conspiracies about China, Italy, other countries using voting machines to flip votes simply did not happen. And then other claims about mail-in ballots. You heard one there that they're crooked, they're corrupt. They simply are not, although the fraud rates are slightly elevated compared to in-person voting. And mail-in ballots have been good enough for legitimate voters, including one Donald J. Trump, who was voted by mail himself. He's also claimed recently that the U.S. is the only country that continues to use mail-in ballots. Again, simply not true. Dozens of countries continue to do so, and they include, Jake, major democracies like Canada, the U.K., Germany, Australia, and Switzerland.

45:44Yeah, and we should note, obviously, that Republicans control the House and the Senate and the White House. But Trump has been focusing a lot about California elections where Democrats have been more successful. Tell us more about that. He's been lying about California elections since 2016, so even before his 2020 lies began. Claims that he would have won California all three times if California had Jesus Christ as the vote counter, an honest vote counter. California's votes are counted honestly and accurately, though famously slowly, and the honest, accurate results show that he's lost by millions of votes each time.

46:21He's claimed that California does not even give voters the option of voting in person. In fact, each and every California voter does have that option, although they're also sent to mail-in ballot. And then recently he's begun spreading a wild, just blatantly false conspiracy theories about California's recent primary. So listen to something he said this week. When I look at how rigged our electors are, look at Spencer Pratt. Spencer Pratt was an easy number two and maybe number one, but certainly number two. And all of a sudden they had the mail-in ballots pour in and Spencer Pratt was gone. That was in Los Angeles.

46:58Spencer Pratt was gone. And that was easy. And who beat him in no name, who was all of a sudden so great that she got practically 100 % of the votes from the mail-in ballots? nothing weird happened nothing shady happened all that happened in the la mayor election was that legitimate votes were legitimately counted they showed that spencer pratt did not qualify for the top two placing needed to make the runoff in the gubernatorial race conversely legitimate votes were legitimately counted they did show that a republican candidate steve hilton made the runoff president trump has claimed that he is responsible for stopping some sort of rigging in progress in that gubernatorial race simply did not happen and notably jake even hilton himself has never endorsed those Trump claims about his own race at all.

47:44Let's bring in Jeff Duncan, who was Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor during the 2020 election, recently ran for office as a Democrat. Jeff, Democratic Senator John Ossoff of Georgia, he is running for reelection. He's reacting to this unverified report from a Republican operative who is now pretending to be a reporter. It claims that Trump plans to declare both Ossoff and Senator Raphael Warnock illegitimate because of election fraud. We don't know if that's actually what Trump's going to say. We have no idea what Trump's going to say. But take a listen as to what Ossoff, Senator Ossoff said about this claim to CNN's Manu Raju.

48:23He calls Georgia's senators illegitimate. He is calling Georgia's voters illegitimate. He fears defeat in the midterms, and that explains his spiral into conspiracy theories. conspiracy theories that put Georgia Republicans in a terrible bind. Regardless of whether Trump plans to say this, it's interesting, Jeff, that Ossoff is jumping on this. I mean, because it's not good for his opponent. It's not good for Congressman Mike Collins to bring this issue back because it insults Georgians. Yeah, I can assure you most Republicans, especially those that are on the ballot, not only in Georgia, but across the country, do not want Donald Trump rehashing the 2020 election.

49:07He's had six plus years to produce some facts or some information that actually leads a normal brained person to see it as rigged. But look, since the early hours after that 2020 election, Donald Trump and his disciples have been trying to create solutions in search of a problem. But the reality is, and I think we're going to watch this play out Thursday night in his speech, his facts are always a mile wide and an inch deep. When you're selling snake oil every minute of every day, then you've got to continue to play out the narrative and continue to lie. I think there's a tug of war going on inside the administration.

49:38I think you've got some of them wanting to create a shiny object to get them away from the obvious downtrodden issues around the war. But you also have the pride police inside the White House that are trying to make sure they protect his pride and never have to make him say, sorry, I got that wrong. I think there's a battle. And ultimately, we're going to watch this play out. But once again, the facts show there was nothing rigged, whether you wanted hand counts, recounts, certifications. And ironically enough, last thing here, it's only the elections that Donald Trump loses or the people that he supports loses that he says that there's fraud.

50:09We've been using the same machines, the same process, and I would assume a majority of the same poll workers for years in Georgia in elections that he's won and lost. Yeah. Alyssa Farrah Griffin, you're the former Trump White House communications director. Do you think Trump's Thursday address is going to introduce some wild new claim, new action? We We saw in the Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan book that there was talk of Nicolas Maduro saying, hey, I'll give you some evidence, quote unquote evidence of hacking of the 2020 election. What are you expecting? It could go one of two ways, Jake. Listen, there's a world in which this is just rehashing the greatest hits, I'll call it, of the election was stolen.

50:50It was rigged. Mail-in ballots are fraudulent. Things he's repeated many times. But what I'm going to be curious to see is what new information he may introduce into this. The Maduro factor is fascinating. I saw that reporting, too. Obviously, now Maduro's in American custody and is incentivized to say and do whatever he can to ingratiate himself to this administration. It's also at a moment where we have a new director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, who's been put into the role. Somebody with very, very scant resume for that kind of a significant intelligence role. So is there something that materializes from his corner of the Trump universe?

51:27That's what I'll be watching for. Also, are there any policy announcements? Donald Trump has often, when he can't get things through Congress, tries to really push the limits of what you can do through an executive order. So he's been harping on this SAVE Act. Is there something from the Save America Act that he tries to do through an EO and announces that? That's another thing I'll be watching for. But again, he will not focus on the election he won. He was elected in 2024. for, bring down costs, deal with the border crisis, deal with migration. Instead, he wants to retread the election six years ago that he didn't win.

51:57It boggles the mind heading into the midterms. David Becker, the executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research. What are you going to be listening for in Trump's speech Thursday night? Well, as you pointed out at the beginning, it's been six years, almost six years since that election. Since that time, dozens and dozens of courts have looked for evidence of fraud, have found nothing. There have defamation cases that totaled a billion dollars in claims against those who lied about the election, who did not put any evidence forward. And now we're 18 months into this administration.

52:26We're through one attorney general, one secretary of DHS, and one director of national intelligence. And during that 18 months, they have found nothing, despite turning over every rock, looking for evidence of election fraud, looking for evidence of a crime that was never committed. And so I think what we're expecting is to hear some rehashed claims about election fraud, perhaps about machine vulnerability, even though those machines are tested, they're not connected to the Internet. Everyone votes on paper in the United States, and that paper is recounted and audited to make sure that the machines counted correctly.

52:58I think what I'm really expecting is perhaps the same reaction I had when the Fulton County warrant was served. When the Fulton County warrant was served, a lot of us wondered, oh, wow, is there something behind this that the administration found that we didn't know about? And then it turned out when we saw the affidavit that supported the warrant a week later, there was nothing new. It was just rehashed conspiracy theories that had been debunked long ago by Republicans and Democrats in the courts. I think we're likely to hear that on Thursday night. All right. Disturbing moment for our country.

53:27Thanks so much to all of you. The breaking news in Florida tonight, another person killed after an encounter with ICE. We're also hearing from Trump's border czar asking him why agents are not wearing body cameras. Stay with us.

53:45We have breaking news for you in our national lead. Yet another person has been killed after an encounter with federal immigration agents. This latest incident was in St. Augustine, Florida, southeast of Jacksonville. The Florida Highway Patrol says the person was trying to get away from agents and was hit by a tractor trailer. This comes after two deadly shootings at the hands of ICE agents. Let's bring in CNN's Priscilla Alvarez and Keelan Collins at the White House. Priscilla, what more do we know about what happened in Florida? Well, we're still learning details from the Florida Highway Patrol about what happened, but this did occur early this morning.

54:15And what they described was that during an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, these occupants had run out of the vehicle. One of those ran onto the highway and was killed. We do not know the status of the individual, their immigration status, that is. But we know that this has happened in the past. There were incidents that occurred like this last year where individuals running away from an immigration raid or an immigration encounter were struck by a vehicle. This also, for example, happened in California last year. Now, of course, Jake, we're still collecting more information about all of the circumstances.

54:54but it does come on a day where Immigration and Customs Enforcement provided new guidance to its agents to mostly stop traffic stops. So that is something we have been seeing consistently over the last few months and if not the last year. And now these agents are being told to stop most of them with some exceptions, like, for example, if they're executing a criminal warrant. But even in those cases, they are being asked to coordinate with partner agencies. This is significant, Jake, because this is a critical tool that immigration agents have been relying on to ramp up their immigration numbers when they're trying to meet unprecedented quotas from the administration.

55:32Currently, about 2 ,000 arrests a day. So even though this is a temporary pause, according to the administration, it is a pause that is likely to affect them moving forward as they are trying to increase their numbers and reach that mass deportation pledge that the president talked about during the campaign. Caitlin, this death in Florida follows the deadly shootings in Houston and in Maine. You just heard from Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, about why ICE agents in those cases are still not wearing any body cameras. How did he explain that? I mean, Jake, obviously this was a huge issue that came up after what happened in Minneapolis was a key question about what it is from the perspective of these ICE agents and the need to have these body cameras.

56:14something that when it was then Secretary Kristi Noem at the Department of Homeland Security said that they would get them deployed to everyone in Minneapolis and work on getting them distributed throughout the nation. Congress subsequently passed$20 million in funding for those body cameras for these ICE agents to be wearing for moments like what has happened in Maine and in Houston where there's so many questions about what happened in the moments leading up to that encounter. And so I asked Tom Homan why they weren't wearing body cameras. Why were the ICE agents not wearing body cameras in Houston or in Maine during these two incidents?

56:51You know, when the Democrats shut down the Department of Homeland Security, I was up on the Hill as part of the negotiating team to reopen the government, and they wanted body cameras. There was$120 million in the budget they were holding up to buy those body cameras. Now, since the big, beautiful bill passed, now the reconciliation bill, the body cameras have been ordered. There's a deployment schedule on the books, and right now it's train to train. So officers in each field office can train their officers on the use of the body cam. But don't you see that to be extremely urgent, given right now we do not have video of these situations beyond witnesses?

57:32As soon as they had funding, they bombed them. But it's been two months since April. It would have been a lot quicker. Obviously, Jake, that shutdown happened. And Democrats did lead it, but it was because they were upset with how ICE was operating in Minneapolis and, you know, what this mass deportation campaign looked like as it was being executed by the White House. And so that was a key question there. He said that the cameras had been ordered. He did not say when exactly they expect them to be distributed nationwide. But given Priscilla's reporting about stopping these, the traffic stops, that is obviously a key key factor in all of this, Jake.

58:04Yeah, I mean, I think we've seen the administration act with urgency when it wants to, like Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. Kaitlin Collins and Priscilla Alvarez, thanks to both of you. Appreciate it. Kaitlin's going to have much more tonight on her show, The Source with Kaitlin Collins. Her guest will include the mayor of Biddeford, Maine, Liam LaFountain. That's tonight at 9 Eastern, only on CNN. Coming up next on the lead, a brand new bill getting overwhelming bipartisan support. Senators say it is to punish Russian leader Vladimir Putin and to honor the late Senator Lindsey Graham. But what does it actually accomplish?

58:35I'm going to bring in the senator who just introduced it. Stay with us.

58:45Our worldly now clear bipartisan support on Capitol Hill today for one of Senator Lindsey Graham's last legislative priorities, a Russian sanctions package backed by President Trump. Well, I know that Lindsey wanted it very badly. There's a good chance that it gets done, but they'd like to add Iran and they'd like to add Hezbollah. Turning to us now, Democratic Senator Jean Shaheen from the great state of New Hampshire. She is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator, the U.S. has sanctioned Russia before the war continues unabated. How is this legislation different?

59:20How will it actually have an impact? Well, this is legislation that Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal have been working on for over a year and a half. We've made a number of changes to revise the bill to make the Tariff Authority much more targeted to focus on the five countries that are buying most of Russia's oil. So it's got sanctions provisions that allow us to go after oligarchs in Russia and banks and those who are helping to fuel Russia's war. But it also allows us to go after those countries that are paying for Russian oil and gas in a way that continues to fund the war for Russia.

1:00:01It also has provisions that allow us to go after the fleet, the shadow fleet that is selling this oil and gas and taking it around the world. So we think this is a one-two punch that's really going to put pressure on Putin. And it comes at a time when there's real momentum on behalf of Ukraine. Russia's losing over 30 ,000 casualties a month in Ukraine. Their economy's been affected. They've lost territory in the last months. And so this is an opportunity for us coming after the G7 conference, after the NATO summit, when additional funds were put towards helping Ukraine. This is a real opportunity to get Putin to the table.

1:00:49You just heard the president say there are those who want to add sanctions against both Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon to the bill. Will that happen? I think this is language that has been negotiated over a long period of time very carefully with the trade ambassador, with members of the White House, and with Lindsey Graham. This is an opportunity for us to pay tribute to all of the work on foreign policy that Senator Graham did for so many years. And I think if there are ideas to address sanctions against Hezbollah and other groups, we can put that in a separate piece of legislation. Speaking of Iran, the U.S.

1:01:32and Iran are exchanging fresh strikes tonight. This is what Republican Senator Mike Rounds said about the war earlier today. Take a listen.

1:01:44I suspect it's either going to have to be regime change or the regime is going to have to recognize that their future is at risk and they come to the table for the first time in 40 years. If you put boots on the ground, you get in, you clean the mess up and you get out. Democrats clearly want this war to stop, block the must pass defense policy bill today to show your objections. What do you make of Senator Round saying what he just said? Well, it's not just Democrats who want this war to end. It's the American people overwhelmingly think that we should not be in a war with Iran. And they don't want to see the increased cost in energy and gasoline prices.

1:02:26It's affecting the cost of living that everybody is paying in the United States. And it's important for us to get back to the negotiating table with Iran, to get the ceasefire back on the table and to get negotiations started. Also today, President Trump reversed his decision to impose this 20 percent fee on any cargo moving through the Strait of Hormuz to cover the cost of U.S.-provided security. Now Trump says it's going to be replaced by Gulf state investments in the U.S. I don't even know if that's a real thing. Have you heard anything about how these investments will work? Do you think the U.S.

1:03:00ultimately is going to end up footing the bill for enforcing this blockade? Well, I've met with a number of officials from the Gulf region in the last week, and I haven't heard anybody who's talking about those kinds of investments. And the president, I think, got ahead of other members of his administration who had pointed out that putting on fees or tolls on open waterways is a violation of international law. Yep. Democratic Senator Gene Shaheen from New Hampshire. Thanks so much. Appreciate your time. Congressman Ro Khanna is coming up next on the lead days after Israeli settlers, he says, ambushed him in the West Bank.

1:03:37His response after the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, called the incident a stunt. Stay with us.

1:03:52in our world lead u.s ambassador to israel mike huckabee is forcefully pushing back on california congressman and possible 2028 democratic presidential candidate roe kanna and his account of what happened last week in the israeli occupied west bank congressman kanna says he was detained by armed israeli settlers and soldiers during his visit here's what The ambassador told NewsNation last night. We had no idea, nor did the Israeli government have any idea, that he was coming into the country and that he was going to go to an area where he was not supposed to go without coordinating that with the Israeli government.

1:04:29The whole thing was a stunt. Here now to respond, Congressman Rochon, he serves on the House Armed Services Committee. Thanks so much for joining us, Congressman. I'm glad you're OK. It's not just Huckabee, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Leiter is also disputing your account. He posted on X or Twitter, quote, the moment details of the congressman's identity were cleared, he was free to go. At no point was the congressman or any member of his party threatened by the soldiers or civilians bearing arms, unquote. So what's your response to that and to what Ambassador Huckabee said? Well, the Israeli ambassador is right that the settlers didn't hold us up at gunpoint.

1:05:07But here's what happened. We were viewing this Zonata village, and these settlers came brandishing M4s, and they parked their vehicle right in front of our van and blocked our exit. And they started wiping our windows. They started videotaping us. They kicked the tires, cursed at us. And then when the IDF came, the IDF further blocked us from leaving. Now, they're saying, well, it's not detention. Most people think that if there's one road and you have a van and you have people with arms, surrounding you and they block your exit of leaving that road, called false imprisonment or detention, it should be condemned.

1:05:47And, you know, it's not my account. The New York Times interviewed the New York Times photographer that was there, interviewed the security guard that was there, interviewed two Jewish Americans who were there and wrote a detailed account. And the Jerusalem Post has written an account saying the IDF made a mistake. And the Times of Israel has written an account. So it's not just my account. It's journalists who have documented this. Were you afraid? I was afraid, but I don't want to exaggerate this. They never pointed a gun at us. I didn't think they were going to shoot. But what I was afraid of is someone says the wrong word or says something incorrectly and that it could escalate.

1:06:27And what I was just shocked about is that the IDF came and didn't immediately just disperse the settlers. and then that Israel wouldn't just come out and say, yes, we've got a problem with settler violence. We're sorry this happened to the congressman. We disagree with his political views, but this shouldn't happen to any American passport holder. And we're going to hold the settlers accountable. I mean, why aren't they prosecuting? These people are all over the social media, their pictures, who did this. They should be prosecuted, and the IDF officers should be questioned. I want to be clear.

1:06:58I don't think the Israeli government had some plot to do this. As soon as the American embassy, David Brownstein, called the Israeli government, they sent the police and they solved the situation. But they've got rogue settlers and rogue IDF officers who should be disciplined and there should be an investigation. What's your response to those who say that you should have, I mean, Ambassador Huckabee, for one, who said you should have just told the Israelis what you were doing instead of going there on your own? Well, this is the philosophical difference, Jake. We did tell the Israeli embassy we were going.

1:07:34They helped facilitate me through the airport. In fact, it was hilarious. In Jerusalem Airport, one person was saying, why are you taking Congressman Kanna? He's negative on what Israel's done in Gaza, and you're taking him through security. So they obviously knew that I was there, and the American embassy obviously knew I was there. How would we be on the phone with David Brownstein, who got us out? But what they're upset about is that I did a West Bank Palestinian-led itinerary, and I didn't go to Israel this time. I went to the occupied West Bank. I've been to Israel three times with the Armed Services Committee, with Speaker Pelosi.

1:08:09I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I met with Prime Minister Bennett. I wanted to see a Palestinian perspective. And so we did not coordinate the itinerary with the Israeli government, and we had a Palestinian-led tour. But I think more members should do that just to get that perspective. Take a listen to what Israeli Ambassador Leiter said Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation. We reached out to him when we heard he was going to Israel. We suggested he visit with survivors of the October 7th massacre, that he visit the borders so he understands the issues that we have on our borders and so on. He ignored that and he decided to coordinate his trip, not with Israel, but with Palestinian activists.

1:08:52Your response, and have you met with survivors of October 7th? I have. I met with Rachel and John Polin. I did my very, very little part to advocate for their beloved son, Hirsch, who was killed. I have met with other survivors or family members of October 7th. I've said October 7th was a terrorist attack. I've said Hamas is a terrorist organization. Like I said, I've been to Israel three times. One is with AJC and Project Interchange before I was in Congress, one with Speaker Pelosi, and one with the Armed Services Committee. But this trip, I wanted to hear the Palestinian perspective. But look, the ambassador has said he wants to meet.

1:09:32I would be happy to meet. And what I would ask him for is a prosecution of Yanon Levy, who is the extremist settler who destroyed this village, and a prosecution of the settlers who detained us. I just, whether you agree with me or not, there are people who will think that I'm too critical of Israel. Fine. But everyone, even if you are completely pro-Israel, should be appalled at the extreme settler violence. And that can be an area where we agree on to try to work towards peace. Congressman Ro Khanna, thanks so much. And thanks for coming here and taking our questions. Appreciate it. Appreciate it.

1:10:06Thank you. There's a lot going on right now. President Trump just said U.S. strikes on Iran will continue until he says enough. And the national lead, his administration is facing growing questions about two men shot and killed by ICE agents in the last week, one in Houston, the other in Maine. We're going to talk about the political implications of it all next.

1:10:28In our politics lead, more from border czar Tom Homan on the Department of Homeland Security halting most ICE traffic stops after agents shot and killed two drivers in less than a week. Here's what Homan just said on Fox moments ago. It's not a policy change. It's a temporary pause. I think at the end of this review, which would be a short review, ICE would be right back to doing what they do. Let's jump right in with the panel. Mike, so Borders are home in there. Says the ICE pause and traffic stop. It's going to be brief. It shouldn't impact the number of ICE arrests. Here's what both of Maine's U.S.

1:11:02Senators, Independent Angus King, who caucuses with Democrats, and Republican Susan Collins had to say today about all of this. I want a full, fair, open, transparent investigation of this, not strictly run by the feds. Unfortunately, the feds don't have the credibility today. This incident shows how imperative it is that we have a mandate for body-worn cameras. that not only protects the law enforcement officer, but also those with whom he or she is interacting. So beyond the tragedy, obviously, there is the politics of this. I mean, Trump had at one point good approval ratings when it came to how he handled immigration.

1:11:50The border is essentially closed, etc. But then after the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Preddy six months ago in Minnesota, those numbers have sunk. How do you see this potentially impacting the Senate race? I think it's, well, a couple of things. And we didn't talk about Texas, which there was another incident in Texas involving an automobile. And I think at some point, you know, this is where I disagree with Holman. At some point, when you look at Minnesota and you look at Houston, you look at Maine, they're all involving traffic incidences. We had, I live in Alexandria, Virginia. There was an incident several years ago that involved a traffic incident.

1:12:26it is when they're put into that situation, these agents, that we seem to have this tragedy and these incidences. And I think at some point they need to recognize that. Alex Preddy was in traffic, though. Alex Preddy was standing by the side of the road. Okay. I stand corrected on that particular one. In terms of the Senate race in Maine, and in terms of the Senate race in Maine, I think this is going to directly affect, depending on who the Democrats, the 600 Democrats that are self-selected to choose whoever is going to be the new nominee. Democrats have such a grand history with choosing a nominee and running that person in general election.

1:13:07But it will affect it. I mean, I think the citizens of Maine will pay attention to what Susan Collins says here. So, Sochi, shots were fired. Sorry. It was a drive-by. I don't think she disagrees with you. But Democrats are in the process of replacing Plattner as to be the nominee. Oh, you don't think he was a good candidate? One of those Democrats, Troy Jackson, posted about ICE, quote, this rogue agency must be abolished. Susan Collins must be held accountable for funding this terror. Is that the right message, do you think? So I think that the fact that we're talking about Susan Collins and how she has voted to fund ICE, and I don't think that we should abolish ICE or defund ICE or any of those things, But we, as Democrats, need to have accountability.

1:13:54And our elected leaders, finally, you're hearing Susan Collins talking about, well, we need body cameras. Where was Susan Collins when she was approving the ICE budget? Where was she when talking about accountability for ICE officers? You're also hearing them say that they need a full review. Full review of what? They should be calling for a federal civil rights investigation into the officer that was involved in this shooting. That is very different than an actual review of what happened. That is what I call accountability. And so the fact that Susan Collins is sort of trying to have it both ways, not being specific, and trying to ensure that people forget her record, that is what candidates in the state should be highlighting.

1:14:33None of this abolish ICE stuff. People want enforcement. What they don't want is people shot on the streets. The lack of body cameras is just crazy. I mean, I just have to say, long before the government shot down over ICE, I mean, law enforcement should have body cameras. By the way, it protects officers. Absolutely. It protects them. They didn't fund for body cameras until April. Yeah. So now we've got 50 % of the offices have them. The other 50 don't. They're hoping to have it within 60 days. I mean, it does take time to roll out any government procurement. The government does not move quickly.

1:15:06I've heard that. Speaker Johnson was asked this morning if a Department of Homeland Security official should face any accountability for the ICE agents involved in the main shooting, not wearing body cameras. Take a listen. I don't know anything about this event. I was a little busy yesterday, so I'm going to reserve judgment. I know that there was a tragic shooting, and I'm not going to comment on it because I don't know. And you guys can mock me for not knowing that. I worked about 22 hours in the last few days, and I did not get the briefing on that yet. Mike? I hate it when politicians say I work real hard.

1:15:39I don't have time to. Look, but I think he's right not making a comment. Yeah, you can't fault him for not commenting when he doesn't know. No, absolutely not. And he should have just said that and moved on to the next question. I mean, if that's what I'm commenting on right now. He's very sensitive about being mocked. Well, very sensitive. I'm not mocking him. He's worked 22 hours. Well, I know. I know. The rest of us, you know, just lazy bones. Everybody. Another area where Americans aren't happy with President Trump is the economy. Today, the president was asked about a new Labor Department report showing inflation at 3.5 % in June.

1:16:09That's down. It's good from 4.2 % in May. In part, that's because of falling gas prices. Here's what the president said. Thank you for bringing it up. But the report was incredible. Remember that for the midterms, I say to that camera. Remember that because nobody else could do it. Prices are way down. Prices are coming way down and we're going to bring them much lower yet. OK, so it's three point five percent. We should note inflation was three percent when Trump took office. But the Iran war is also flaring back up and it's likely going to bring gas prices back up and inflation is going to go back up.

1:16:43Do you think it's a little premature to start celebrating? No, I don't. But I think he's on the wrong message, though. OK. I think he really needs to be focusing on the tax returns that Americans receive, the no tax on tips, the no tax on overtime. When you look at how much the average American who claimed those deductions gained from that, it shows there's a level of income coming into that area of the economy. On seniors, seniors got a discount. So this is where, if I was doing messaging in the White House - If you were a White House communications director. If I was White House communications.

1:17:16Which for those who don't know, he was. At one point. In the first term. Very short period of time. I would be focused on that. But Sochi, guess what President Trump's giving a primetime address about on Thursday? Election fraud. Election fraud and how he should have, he actually won in 2020. He's not talking about the war. He's not talking about gas prices. He's not talking about prices at the grocery store. Or all these great things that Mike just talked about. Hold on, let her talk. What he is talking about is that potentially two senators from Georgia were illegitimate. He is talking about the 2020 election, which why are we looking back?

1:17:53These are conspiracy theories. My hope is that it is not covered live on a lot of networks. But it is a joke. I'm sorry. He is trying to sabotage the midterm elections for Republicans. This is not what he should be talking about. Are you saying he's a Democratic operative? I think maybe. He was once a Democrat. Maybe. This is a long, long play. That's a long play. That doesn't make any sense. Penturian candidate territory. Wow, this is like, I know, somebody called Bud Schulberg. All right, Sochi Hinojosa, Mike Dubke, thanks to both of you. Appreciate it. Coming up, some of the transformative work by artificial intelligence at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, and a lawsuit raising questions about medical privacy, plus a very personal announcement today from the man who pulled off the miracle on the Hudson, Captain Sully Sullenberger.

1:18:36Stay with us.

1:18:45And we're back with the latest in our series, AI, friend or foe. Today, we're taking a closer look at the impact of artificial intelligence in terms of how the technology is helping the Mayo Clinic, one of the world's leading hospitals known for its research in cancer and cardiology, neurology and more. But as AI expands, some critics are taking their concerns about it all the way to the courtroom. CNN's Claire Duffy has more. Hello, Mary. Hello. Nice to see you again. Mayo Clinic is known for treating complex conditions. A new artificial intelligence system is helping doctors get up to speed faster.

1:19:24These are the records that patients bring with them from other organizations when they come here for things like second, third, fourth opinions on serious and complex diseases. We receive a huge volume of these records, tens of millions of pages every year. How much time does this save you? preparing for a visit. So this could be anywhere from five minutes for sort of a more straightforward case all the way up to, you know, 30 plus minutes for patients who may be sending hundreds of pages of records. The program Mayo created with AI Startup Scale to analyze these files is called Record Time, helping clinicians like Dr.

1:19:59Alex Ryu spend less time searching for information and more time with patients. AI can step in and do a lot of sort of the tedious work that very specialized doctors or medical professionals do to speed up that process, get to more accurate diagnoses faster so you can treat more people. And this is an industry where a lot of what doctors are doing and nurses and others is pattern recognition. AI is great at pattern recognition. Dr. Matthew Kahlstrom is a radiologist and medical director for Mayo Clinic's AI program. Part of his job is ensuring the AI tools are accurate and earning the trust of both patients and doctors.

1:20:39In health care, we need to be accurate. It can't be close. I call it hill climbing, making sure we can go from 60 % accuracy to more than 90 % accuracy. That's a lot of work, data labeling and things so that it's correct. Until then, we won't use it. Do you see this technology potentially reducing the number of medical professionals you have working in the system? One of the themes that you continue to hear is, what about my job? What it really is the roles will change. If you look at like our nursing team, they're using ambient tools. And then what it's doing is letting them spend their time talking to patients.

1:21:19After CNN's visit, Mayo Clinic's former director of research operations, Tracy Tomiko Ito, sued the hospital, alleging she was retaliated against for raising privacy and oversight concerns around other Mayo AI systems. A Mayo Clinic spokesperson said the hospital doesn't comment on ongoing litigation, but said, quote, Mayo Clinic is committed to the responsible development and deployment of AI with privacy, security, transparency, and compliance embedded throughout our processes. Our research and clinical innovation are conducted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, and we remain steadfast in upholding the trust patients place in us and respecting their privacy.

1:21:58Claire Duffy, CNN, Rochester, Minnesota. Our thanks to Claire Duffy for that report. We have some sad news for you in our National lead, Captain Chelsea Sully Sullenberger has revealed that he has Alzheimer's disease. The 75-year-old pilot is best known for landing a passenger plane safely on the Hudson River in 2009 after Byrd struck both of the plane's engines. All 155 people on that flight survived. Today, Sully said he's still in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He wrote on his website, quote, courage can be contagious and it helped everyone band together to get everyone off that airplane successfully.

1:22:30Now we need that courage to battle this disease, unquote. Our thoughts are with him and his loved ones. You can follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Blue Sky, and on the TikTok at JigTapper. You can follow the show on X and Instagram at EliteCNN. If you ever miss an episode of Elite, you can watch the show on the CNN app. Aaron Burnett out front starts now. I'll see you tomorrow.

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