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Were following these major developing stories and many mor to Cnn News Central we are following some Breaking News and that is that Mitch Mcconnell longest serving Senate Leader in history, says he will be stepping down as the republican Minority Leader in november. Here he is on the senate floor just minutes ago father time remains undefeated no longer their young man sitting at about hoping colleagues would remember my name its tom the next generation. Of leadership lets get right to cnns lauren fox on capitol hill. Lauren, this was a historic moment that we just witnessed. How are his colleagues reacting on capitol hill . Yeah, you saw on the floor behind him that Mitch Mcconnell had really just a small audience of republican senators joining him on the floor as he made that announcement, several of his car colleagues telling our colleagues waiting off the floor that they werent aware he was about to make this announcement or probably more senators would have been present, but our colleague he ted barrett, did have a chance to talk to senator john cornyn, whos seen as someone who could potentially succeed. Mitch mcconnell as the leader of the republican can party. And ted was pressing him as were other reporters on whether or not he planned to vie for that role. He said today is not the day to have those conversations. Another person spotted on the floor john thune, the number two republican right now in the senate, and another person who is largely seen as potentially being able to fill connell shoes when he steps aside as republican leader in november, but it was really this amazing moment as mcconnell went to the floor and made clear that one the talents that is under appreciated in washington is knowing when it is time for new leadership and certainly hes referring to many lawmakers. He sued stay in their roles for perhaps longer than they should have. He also was making a clear that hes not going anywhere just yet. He is not planning to step aside as leader until november and he argued that he still had plenty of disappointment for his critics that hes going to look forward to in the months ahead. Certainly he is someone seen on the republican side as a longserving, respected leader, someone that people listened to within his party, but he wasnt shy on the floor or about the fact that some of the most pressing issues that he has been pushing for, including aid to ukraine has really put him at odds with many members of his own party saying that he isnt perfect. He has a lot of flaws, but the one thing that he does get is politics. And i think hes acknowledges the fact that the Republican Party was really shifted beneath him, even as he has continued to view his role as making sure that the us has universal and Global Impact packed on the world stage. Brianna boris. All lauren, thank you. And lets bring in cnn, senior political commentator, Scott Jennings to talk a little bit about this. You are of course a Campaign Adviser to Mitch Mcconnell. You have long been in the orbit of Mitch Mcconnell. Whats your reaction to that . The news . Well, im certainly sad for him because you can tell the emotion in his voice that this was a hard decision to make. But im also happy for him that hes making this decision on his own terms and that hes doing it for the reasons that he thinks all right for the country. And i was incredibly moved by his speech. I had a chance to talk to them on the phone a little earlier today and hes at peace with the decision looking forward, frankly to the next couple of years, when youre not in leadership, it often frees you up to do some things that are more issuebased and things you really care about is as opposed to having to run the whole conference. And i know hes looking forward to that. I think hes likely to have a senior role on the Appropriations Committee specifically dealing with defense appropriations. And one final note, i think hes very much looking forward to continuing to be the leader of the faction of republicans who still believe in sort of the reagan Foreign Policy objectives of making america a superpower and a force for good in the world. And so im im, im, im happy for his career. I mean, the longevity hes had, hes the longest serving senator in the history of kentucky, and hes the longest serving party leader in the history of the United States senate. I mean, its its a heck of her career for a guy who Ronald Reagan once introduced as michel donald, had a Campaign Rally in 1984 to come this far and to live through as much as hes lived through is pretty remarkable. Scott, he did become emotional talking about his wedding day falling on Ronald Reagans birthday. He spoke a few sibley of President Reagan at a time where as you noted, the Republican Party is shifted away from so much of the principles and the ideals of that era. He also mentioned that as a younger man, he hoped that colleagues would remember his name. Theres no doubt scott that his name is going to be remembered, but im curious from your perspective what his legacy he will be as a us senator well, i think the longevity of holding the Leadership Position is certainly you cant overlook that given you got it in 2070, lived through the tea party undulation. Hes lived through the trump undulation i mean, he really has maintained a position of leadership through a lot of turbulent things over the last several years. So i think thats number one. Number two, certainly the courts i think one of the accomplishments hes most proud of is his role in helping get conservative judges on the bench. And that of course includes the Supreme Court. I think that is a proud accomplishment for him. And number three as a national matter, i think he really is leaning into his traditional role as being a hawkish us senator, somebody who believes that america is a force for good in the world. And even though the isolation is in our party are ascendant right now, he believes that that viewpoint, that reagan viewpoint deserves to be promoted and defended. And i think hes very proud of his work on that back home in kentucky where i live and where ive known him for the last 28 years. Hes very proud of all that. Hes been able to deliver to a small rural state. I mean, kentucky wouldnt have much influence over the last 40 years, if not, but for the leadership and influence of Mitch Mcconnell. So hes very, very proud of what he does for his constituents as well. Theres some big ticket items that hes got left to work on though, but i think theres Foreign Policy idea that the notion of what it means to be a global superpower is really on his mind and i know hes going to spend a lot of time on that all right. Dropping some hints there, perhaps Scott Jennings, we will see what comes of that. Scott. Thank you so much for talking to us about mcconnells especially having spoken to him on the phone earlier today. And our cnn senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein is with us now to talk about this mcconnell is someone who has tried to channel i think trump, right . Hes tried to channel some of the force behind trump, but hes often really provoked the ire of donald trump just kinda by being Mitch Mcconnell, right . And the way that he is, i wonder how you think this is going to affect the republican conference in the senate. And just the congress overall. Well, you know mcconnell is obviously an extremely consequential, but also complex figure his policies, as boris was alluding to, are shaped by the reagan era. His policy views, what, what matters to him most his tactics have been trumpian in the sense of the ends justify the means his decision to block Merrick Garland and 2016, obviously had a huge implication for the court, but it also changed the senate in a fundamental way. It made it a far more, i think in confrontational places, obviously heading in that direction over years. But that is a breakpoint in american history, not only in terms of the court but also in terms of the senate and then the bookend to that of pushing through Amy Coney Barrett when voting had a radio the gun in 2020, and he had, you know, this kind of this rationality created that you cannot fill a Supreme Court seat an Election Year by the opposite party his stepping aside is significant of the broader trend, which is that if donald trump comes back in a second term, the internal republican resistance to his most extreme ideas he is, is crumbling and, you know, even when he was president between the congress and members of his own administration, there were people who pushed back on a lot of ideas that pushed back, i think. And what youre seeing in mcconnell, the elevation of mike johnson to the speakership, all of it it is telling you that that internal resistance will not exist in any meaningful way. I think in a second trump term, if he wins and if he does part of it could be attributed to mcconnells itself. I found it interesting that scott described mcconnell surviving the tea party and trump undulations, the implication there being that its a wave that will eventually crest and go away yet mcconnells deciding not to convict trump in that second egemen that he opened the door for early, perhaps a permanent change to his mcconnell always view. I think mcconnell through his career, i said the ends justify the means, and i think he believed that convicting trump would have torn apart the republican coalition. And even if he personally wanted to do it, he was unwilling to take that risk. It is important to understand that what he represents an a policy sense is on the declining side of the Republican Party. A majority of republican senators voted against the aid to ukraine. A majority of Republican House members last fall voted against the aid to ukraine senator from missouri, eric schmidt, tweeted the day of that vote. When mcconnell was on the losing side of the democratic, of the Republican Party. But the winning side overall, he tweeted 15 of the 17 republicans elected since 2018 voted no. And again, it goes back to my, to my first point, the trend in the Republican Party is in a trumpian direction. And the idea that they would be the adults in the room who are institutionalists who resisting many of the more extreme things that he wants to do, whether its withdrawing from nato or minimizing our participation or doherty massive militarized doortodoor deportation that force is going to be a lot less powerful and a second trump term. And mcconnells stepping aside, i think is just acknowledging that reality and the reward for having been in the adult in the room is now ridicule and essentially staying on his record by fellow republican yes, exactly. Ron brownstein appreciate the analysis. Thanks for having me so the other big story on capitol hill today, hunter biden sitting for a closeddoor deposition thats right. Set to be grilled by some of his harshest republican critics. And this could make or break the gops effort to impeach President Biden over these allegations that he was involved in his dons foreign business dealings, which is something that is very much fallen apart here recently. Yeah, absolutely. In his opening statement, hunter biden confronted those claims head on. He said in part quote, im here to day to provide the committees with The One Uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry. I did not involve my father in my business cnn chief Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid is live for us on capitol hill. A polo walk us through what else lawmakers heard from the president s son so far boris, ill remind you this is happening Behind Closed Doors. There are no cameras, so were relying on our sources and Law Lawmakers to describe what exactly is going on here. And its as if not surprisingly, its as if members of both parties werent even attending the same hearing the large group of democrats came out earlier youre told us that this was an embarrassing spectacle, that what theyd seen so far appear to be a waste of government time and money are republican nancy mace, she came out and she described hunter biden and as being defined and dishonest, but she did note that at least at the time she came out a few hours ago, she said that he had not invoked his Fifth Amendment that is significant because he is of course, facing two separate criminal probes. And we expect there will likely be another break, so will likely get an additional round of details, but the only really got hunter biden to sit down Behind Closed Doors to answer questions by making some concessions. One is that this is not being filmed and the other is that were going to have a transfer Script Release and were told that that could come within 24 hours. Thats really what were going to need to get the full picture of whats going on in this hearing, which as you noted, an introduction, it really is a make or break for gop lawmakers who so far have not been able to produce any clear evidence linking President Biden to his sons foreign business dealings. Know and what was sort of a tenuous bit of evidence certainly one that was not iron clad. The central claim that republican hinds made about hunter biden and then former Vice President joe biden turned out to be fabricated by an asset with these extensive ties to russian intelligence, do republicans have any other evidence to support this investigation well, this is the big question because they have released most of what they have and there does not appear to be a lot of there are there there is also clearly an effort to conflate the bidens, including hunter biden and james biden with President Biden, and i press Chairman Comer on that earlier today as he entered the deposition room, lets take a listen to that exchange the bidens in talking about President Bidens specifically what evidence do you have it in prominent prominent offer some corners. We have two checks. You biden received two payments. We failed this through subpoenaed bank records to payments. You pretty steps between the check and the steps are called moneylaundering. Thats what the steps are called. So what hes referring to, those checks, those are repayments. So one from his brother, james biden payment to President Biden when he was not in office, he was not a Vice President or president at that time. Good. They havent put forth any evidence to prove that President Biden engaged in there. He alleged money laundering, corruption, influence, peddling, if thrown around a lot of allegations, but they have not been able to provide direct evidence and its not clear sure that theyre going to get it from todays hearing, especially as you noted, when the key witness who alleged that President Biden and his son, hunter, received millions of dollars and former bribes is now facing singh charges for lying for fabricating those statements. Yeah. And paula, we should point out those two payments that comer is alleging republicans on the Oversight Committee have evidence that those were loans that were being repaid. So they actually have evidence contradicting the very allegations that they are making. Nevertheless, theyre making im paula reid, keep us posted, are actually coming out right now. So i think renewal update yeah, keep us posted on what youre hearing. Paula reid. Thanks so much. Lets break this down with cnn legal analyst carrie cordero. Carry. Does this go anywhere toward proving any actual illegality . By President Biden not from what weve heard so far. And in my view, this deposition shouldnt even be taking place. Theres really no justification for hall playing in the president s son based on the evidence, at least as we know publicly, that the committee has developed so far as you mentioned earlier, the individual that it piers the committee was relying on for so much of its information was the source, the confidential informant for the fbi . Who now has been discredited, charged criminally arrested, and the government has alleged that he was in contact and gathering his formation from russian intelligence sources based on what we know so far from the deposition today, it doesnt sound like hunter biden has revealed information that supports the committees theories in any way, will see the transcript when it come out and comes out to see if the facts are anything different than that. If you were a prosecutor peter, and you had say, i dont know, filed an indictment or you were pursuing something in the central basis for it, was that you had someone like the smirnoff guy alleging what he alleged that now turns out he fabricated it. Hes very much in touch with russian intelligence. Hes facing charges for lying. What would you do if you were prosecuting that case . And then this is what happened to the evidence you are hanging your case he said, well, when were in the criminal Justice System and when were talking about the work that actual prosecutors do and the Justice Department does. Theyre not going to bring a case based on a single source. So they would need to conduct it an investigation that is based on a reliable sources information and then corroboration part, the central tenant of why you were seeking charges or an investigator, what would die. So i mean, what im saying is that originally a case its wouldnt be brought on a single source, but if the a key piece of evidence, so one key piece of evidence in a case falls through, then the prosecutors would have to determine whether or not they have enough other evidence to bring the case forward. But this is not a criminal prosecution. This is a political process and we always have to keep an eye mine, when were dealing with congressional investigations and congressional oversight, that even if it is an Impeachment Inquiry with this, which this purported ugly is, it is not a legal proceeding. It does not adhere to the guidance of Prosecutorial Discretion and prosecutorial justice judgment. It is a political process. Process is a generous word maybe, but they, carrie cordero, we certainly appreciate you. And ahead this hour on Cnn News Central will its nearly the size of rhode island. It is burning through 150 Football Fields. Every minute. Were going to take you live to texas where there is a huge wildfire that is raging out of control. Plus a fresh test for the conservative Supreme Court. The justices are Hearing Arguments on whether the federal government has the right to bend bump stocks, which can make guns more lethal. 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It started on monday and now covers an area 11 times larger than washington, dc and its igniting land and an average of 150 Football Fields every minute its Jumping Roads as ferocious, wins, fan the flame s the Smokehouse Creek fire has zero oh, containment and its one of five fires that is burning in the texas panhandle. Several thousand people have evacuated at this point, and many are navigating just harrowing scenes like this one, listen to one survivor two, then it got very dark and gray and as we were leaving, we could turn around and it did it looks like armageddon. It looked like our town was just being engulfed in black and it was just disappearing right before us as we were walking, driving in our Rearview Mirror we all were wondering what is this, whats going to happen . Are we going to be able to return is theyre going to be anything to return to lets go now to cnns lucy kafanov, who was on the ground there and fritch texas with the very latest lucy rihanna as you point out, we are in fritch texas. This is one of the areas that its been devastated by these fires. This is a town with a population of roughly over 2000 people. They were evacuated yesterday when the fires came through, some of the structures are still burning. Some of the fires are still going. You can see he, that pillow below billowing smoke back there. We were actually just over in that area speaking to some of the residents who had been able to returned to their homes to see what was left at our homes. We spoke to one individual who had lived in this area for about 30 years, lifelong resident he described the terror terrifying moments as the flames approached their neighborhood, they evacuated. He said that the the homes across the street from him, his friends, his neighbors, completely destroyed. They went down in 30 minutes. It was crazy fast. Those are the words that he used. And he actually saved one of his neighbors life. He had to knock on the door to wake them up to get them out of there, to get him to safety. Hes back the neighbor unfortunately lost everything that he owned, and then its just one of the many stories here on folding. One of the difficulties with these fires is that they erupted so quickly, they moved so quickly. One of the miracle goes brianna is that although this is now more than 500,000 acres, weve spoken to some officials here who said that as far as theyre aware no lives lost so far, some structures damaged, some homes lost, but so far the lives are largely untapped but these communities are going to be rebuilding for a very long time and fritch is just one of many areas impact theres also canadian texas which had to see its hospitals and Nursing Homes completely evacuated. A lot of residents still waiting for word on the fate of their homes homes, and properties. Briana yeah. Such good news though, about human lives saved there though. But lucy, these pictures are really unbelievable. Lucy kafanov from texas this is for us. Thank you. 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This is case is about government Regulatory Power to expand the idea of what is a machine gun and as you just referred to this terrible incident in las vegas in 2017, in Which Da People were killed, hundreds injured, and after that, the Trump Administration said that this ban on machine guns that dates to the 1930s, the era of al capone could cover bump stocks because of how rapidly they could fire. Now heres the language at issue. The text of that law refers to a single function of a trigger that allows multiple firing of rounds. And the challengers say, because the trigger resets itself between shots of a bump stock, it wouldnt fall under that language. The government says that know the shooter himself or herself would initiate a sequence with a single motion. So it should fall under it. So its interesting, boris, at some points, the justices were going like this with their hands as they were trying to simulate the Trigger Firing because it goes down to comes down a single function of the Trigger Irrespective of how important this law is. And actually some of the liberal justices tried to argue that actually the Textualist Reading, which is usually what conservatives imply a very Textualist Reading actually would accommodate this. So i think its going to be close call and ill just refer to something that Justice Elena kagan said. She said, i view myself as a good texture jill list at some point. Though, you have to apply a little bit of common sense and what the government lawyer was saying here is that the challengers are doing a Textualist Reading of what is arguably an ambiguous statutes that that they are actually having to go through some gymnastics themselves and that the better reading on the text, not talking about Good Government policy at all on the text would go to the government here it is a fascinating case. Look forward to whatever decision the Supreme Court issues. Joan biskupic, thanks so much for walking us through there. Thank you. Brianna all right. Lets discuss this now with cnn contributor and senior your news writer at the trace, Jennifer Mascia here. All right. So jennifer, lets talk about this. What did you glean from justice neil gorsuch, asking today why the atf, which is a federal agency, is banning bump stocks . Rather than congress. Its a similar sentiment we heard from justice Amy Coney Barrett right . Well, i what theyre referring to as the 1934 National Firearms act and theyre saying, well, you know, if its a single trigger pole, you know, well, obviously bump stocks or only twentyyearold technology, right . Theres no way that congress in 1934 could have anticipated anything like that. So theyre saying if there is a difference between the amount of effort that a user has to put into a device that makes it function like a machine gun versus the single trigger pull that was the standard at the time. Was there any distinction can made and should there be now . And so thats really what dominated a lot of the talk today. But whats interesting is that ultimately this is not a Second Amendment argument. This is whether the atf exceeded its Rulemaking Authority. So while the Second Amendment argument kind of dominated today, and the features of the gun, could it be considered a machine gun . Ultimately, thats not what this particular case is going to be decided on so if the justices rule ultimately, that the Atf Bump Stock Ban is unconstitutional, will that have repercussions . On other federal actions that are related to guns well, whats interesting is that there was just another case this week where the atf Rule Making Authority was upheld. So a federal judge in california, and of course thats a very liberal state, you know, said the atfs new rules on ghost gun kits, which it implemented via or after an Executive Order actually didnt go far enough that they could have gone farther in their Rulemaking Authority outside of congress. So its really interesting to see what different courts are finding the Supreme Court ultimately is weighing in on this once and for all, and that will affect the entire country. Now bump stocks are not nearly as widely owned as pistols or any other firearms. This is a small subset of the firearms community, recreational shooters who enjoy put, you know, sending 400 bullets are 700 bullets at a time toward a target. So ultimately this is not going to affect the majority of gun owners or anything close, but it is a Gun Rights Argument that is held very near and dear to that particular community yeah. And yet many people i know its not the majority of gun owners or even a sizable portion, but you still have Hundreds Of Thousands of these that have been purchased, right. So knowing the damage they can contribute to, what does it mean for Public Safety if these are available . Notably, these are they were used in a horrific crime where hundreds of people were shot. But we dont see these in a lot of shootings. So the argument could be made that its more important to vet a gun owner and not the device you know, whether its a bump stock or assault weapon, any kind of different device. These are cosmetic changes. Ultimately, its the owner and their intent with it and maybe its more important to focus on that then the actual, device. So well see yeah well, certainly see. All right. Jennifer, thank you so much for being with us and still to come on, Cnn News Central, a new study laying out the risks of using marijuana regardless so whether its smoke vaped, or taken as an edible will have the details on that ahead. 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So jacqueline, what exactly did this study find yeah, it was a really interesting study, boris, what the researchers found they looked at this group of adults and specifically looked at those who use cannabis, those who use daily and those who do not use cannabis, and they found that daily cannabis use was associated with a 42 increased risk of stroke and 25 increased risk of heart attack. Now, this is an association. Its not a causation study, but it does parallel what Previous Research has found when looking at marijuana use this and associations with your cardiovascular health. And one researcher specifically talking about a Smoking Marijuana really said in a statement, quote, Cannabis Smoke is not all that different from Tobacco Smoke except for the Psychoactive Drug were talking about thc the versus nicotine, but its the smoke itself that one researcher really honed in on as a concern and having impacts not just on most of us think of our lungs, but on our heart health as well, boris jacqueline, we mentioned the risk to young and old alike, but are there any specific groups demographically that face a greater risk . I think the takeaway here is it really is the general population this risk was found. And when we think about younger adults, the researchers said that this relationship between cannabis use and potential Heart Health Risks was similar for men under 55 and women under age 65. So like you said, boris, those older and age, those younger in age, this association was found and i think its another important Takeaway Message for people who may have a history of heart attack or stroke to be aware of this association that was found if they use cannabis for us Jacqueline Howard. Thanks so much for walking us through that brown. 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Shes just 51 point shy of surpassing Pete Maravich as the alltime bleeding score overall. And with us now we have cnns don riddell, don iowa taking on minnesota tonight, set the scene for us here. Well, the excitement is building the prices for these games are going through the roof and she is on pace to break this record. In just two games time. Lets just look at the stats and kind of what shes achieved. Shes averaging 32. 1 points every single game she plays as youve just acknowledged, shes 50 point shy of tying Pete Maravich, 51 shy of surpassing the record. And so her current pace, she will do it in the final game of the season, which will be against their biggest rivals, ohio state. However, in theory, it could happen in this game tonight. She is shes in the heart of the most wonderful storm and shes beginning to realize that its about much more than just Caitlin Clark i think ive embraced that role of being a name that people can identify womens sports with really well, i think its something that i accept and im comfortable doing. If thats whats going to help our game move forward, if thats what its going to help women sports move forward. Its just something i want to embrace and enjoy and be an advocate for so i said that shes likely to break the record in the final game of the regular season, but there is a chance that she actually does it tonight because remember, just a couple of weeks ago when she broke the womens record, shes called 49 points that night which was a careerbest. So its not completely impossible to think she could do it in the coming hours and done Ticket Prices for iowas Sunday Home Game against the ohio state. The most expensive now for a Womens Basketball game on record yeah. And thats just remarkable. 491 was the cheapest you could get a ticket for when we look to this on tuesday, 491 bucks is the cheapest ticket you can get, which is by the way already double what the Ticket Prices were when she brought the womens record just a couple of weeks ago you know about fomo, nobody wants to ms out. And the idea that people could be at an historical sports event means theyll pay through the nose to be there don riddell, thanks so much. Well be watching closely tonight and on sunday as well. Appreciate it. So right now, the president s son is being grilled on capitol hill. What hunter biden hes telling lawmakers during his closeddoor deposition could onehour change how you see the world. We made it to the bottom of the world every sunday night, cnns best journalists tell the whole story the whole story with Anderson Cooper uber sunday at eight on cnn. 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