Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to cnn. This boarding, if there's something you wanted to get down before the end of august, you gotta do it today. Oh, yeah. Yes. It's august august 31. It is a rat for august. And the unofficial end to summer coming up soon. Good to have you with us. I'm victor blackwell. I'm has been flying, hasn't it? i am amara walker. Thank you so much for being with us this morning. Here's what's happening. The trump campaign, donald trump himself and his running mate, j. D. Vance, can't seem to pin down exactly where trump stands on abortion access in florida or nationwide, the about face. We're hearing from trump and how the harris campaign is looking to capitalize on it. You feel so bad you'd have welch runner works a tragic story out of new jersey in nhl star and his brother were hit and killed by a drunk driver just hours before their sister's wedding how they're being remembered by fans and other players. New this morning, more evidence that trump's federal election subversion trial will not go to trial before the election. The late night legal filings sparking new questions over the next steps in the case. One of two physicians charged in connection with actor matthew perry's death was in court friday the details he's told the judge about his role in perry's death and football is back and with it some big changes to how both nfl and college games are played this season. We're going to break it all down this morning on cnn this morning we begin on the campaign trail where reproductive health rights are taking center stage once again on friday, kamala harris slammed donald trump for saying he will vote no on an amendment to florida's abortion law. The amendment is on the ballot this november. And if enough, florida voters vote, know that would pave the way for a six week abortion ban to stay in effect. But trump's intended vote is at direct odds with his statement to fox news made earlier, made less than 24 hours earlier i think six weeks you need more time than six weeks. I've disagreed with that right from the early primaries when i heard about it, i disagreed with it. At the same time, the democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation that where you can do an abortion in the ninth month and, you know, some of the states like minnesota soda, and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth and all of that stuff is unacceptable so i'll be voting no for that reason. Okay, first, let's just clear this up. It is illegal to execute a baby that's just murder. There's no basis for trump's claim on that. And the backandforth is it's really not new for trump's campaign as it stance on reproductive health continues to evolve. And the harris campaign has latched onto the disconnect, joining us now is cnn's daniel strauss just the past week we've seen this flurry of activity from trump's campaign tried to clarify remarks. What are they saying? yes. So it's it depends on the day. Sometimes trump is taking a very restrictive point of view on abortion. And this florida bill and then other days he's saying he needs more weeks and is pushing for more expansive sort of view on the issue. Now his running mate j. D. Vance, has also said that in if there were another trump term in office, an if a federal abortion ban were to reach his desk, he would not sign it. Take a listen if such a piece of legislation landed on donald trump's desk, would he veto it? could be very clear, he would not support it i mean yeah. I mean, if you're not supporting it as the present united states, you fundamentally have tell a federal abortion ban. I think he would he said that explicitly. Would you veto a federal abortion ban? and i'm not going to have to think about it because it's working out so well right now the states are doing it. It's a state's issue only asked you because j. D. Vance said that he would veto an abortion ban that was sent to your desk? well, what's happening is you're never going to have to do it because it's being done by the states, the states of voting, and the people are now getting a chance to vote. And this is the way everybody wanted it now, look, this is not the position you want to be in. If you are a republican presidential nominee for president. And the trump campaign knows this, they want the support, the energy and the money of the grassroots weighing of the republican party he, that focuses on abortion and it takes a prochoice stance. But at the same time, they also want the support of a national more moderate electorate. And that requires a view that is more moderate on this issue. The harris campaign itself has it's has moved to jump on this and highlight trump's flipflopping. Yeah, let's talk about the harris campaign jumping on this because the harris campaign just announced the launch of their 50 stop bus tour, which will kick off right in trump's backyard. And palm beach, florida. How are they going to take trump's? inconsistencies and contradictions to their own benefit democrats for a while now have been using any comments on abortion by republicans to argue that they are either secretly or openly supporting the most restrictive options possible and that's really helped democrats game with women voters and key sex of the electorate that democrats need to win this election. So the more that trump vacillates on this, the more democrats and the harris campaign argues that he's really just supportive of the most restrictive option possible. Daniel strauss. Thanks so much. Let's bring it down. New york times congressional reporter luke broadwater, loop, donald trump has been on both sides of the question of abortion. He described himself is very pro prochoice. Then he became very antiabortion. He said there should be consequences for the mother, then backed away from that. That was all before he was elected in 2016, what's the damage done of this moment of i guess equivocation or vacillation on the question in florida well, i think it shows that the trump campaign is very much aware that the issue of abortion and reproductive rights generally is one of their biggest dangerous for their success as they, as they try to win the election here donald, trump for years, delivered for the prolife antiabortion movement. He appointed judges who banned roe versus wade, right? those are just the facts and now he's trying to moderate his position, but he's kind of all over the place saying different things on different days, contradicting his own vice presidential, his own vice president nominee and i think it shows that they're nervous on the issue there. They don't know quite what to do about it. And they're trying to at times be all things to all people and as they see this election that they once really hadn't their hand start to slip away. So let's talk about the j. D. Vance of it all. And vance himself, as he was running for senate in 2022, made clear where he stood on abortion in this is from a podcast. Let's play that i certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally clip of that, that podcast january of 2022 now he's on the trump ticket how difficult is it for him to navigate this when he saying the president, former president will not sign this, he will veto a national ban when the president himself won't commit to it. Yeah, i mean, you could really get whiplash. Listen to all these different statements, things people say at one point when they think it's in their political interests, are and what they say at a different time when they think something else is in their political interests, it's hard to really know what each of these guys actually believes and their own heart. So i think what you have to do is judge that's them by their actions. And what did the trump administration do? what it did when it was in office. And i think that's probably the better way to judge a candidate. What they actually did not buy, what they're saying now, of course, donald trump is now saying he's going to fund federally idf, right? he's trying to again, appeal to that middle. And i think what that shows is you know a month ago two months ago, this election was going to be a landslide victory for donald trump all the battleground polls showed that. And now what they're showing is kamala harris has erased his lead it starting to overtake him. And i think he's trying to appeal to those people in those battleground states who could decide the election with by saying some things that i think contradict what his actual record is on the issue you mentioned the ivf announcement from former president trump. He says that the under another trump administration, the government will either pay for ivf treatment or mandate that insurance companies pay for it democrats, it was a messaging bill for sure, but democrats put a bill in the senate on the floor that would do just that require employees based that employer based insurance policies to pay for it. All but two republicans voted against it. So how is this new announcement from trump resonating with republican members in congress? right? yeah. So again, this is something that the rank and file republicans don't want, right? the base doesn't want this. They're worried about upsetting the evangelical or religious base of the republican party but trump you know, he's trying to win the election. So he's going to go out there and adopt really what wasn't idea from the democrats. Embrace it. And the republicans in the senate and the house will just have to swallow that as we know, they were long history of not criticizing former president trump, even when and they may disagree with him quietly are behind closed doors and so we haven't seen an outcry from the republican lawmakers against this policy, even though they're on record disagreeing with it. All right. Look broadwater. Thanks so much. Well, this morning, the hockey community, family and friends are mourning the loss of two brothers, nhs nhl star johnny gaudreau and his sibling, matthew. The pair were killed by an alleged drunk driver while out for a bike ride in new jersey it happened hours before they were going to be groomsmen at their sister's wedding, the philadelphia phillies observed a moment of silence to honor johnny and matthews memory before the thursday night game against the atlanta braves cnn's polo sandoval has more hockey star johnny gaudreau and his younger brother matthew, killed by an alleged drunk driver thursday night on the eve of their sister's wedding, where they were set to be groomsmen, state police confirm the siblings were bike riding in southern new jersey when they were hit by an suv. Sean higgins is believed to have been the driver. The 43yearold, now charged with two counts seconddegree vehicular homicide, police records say he admitted to drinking five to 60 years before the accident, and that he failed a field sobriety test higgins made an initial court appearance friday, where a judge orders he be held until his next hearing will see you back in court on thursday. So i'm here until thursday yes, sir goodrow, who earned the nickname johnny hockey, was drafted by the calgary flames in 2011 signed with the columbus blue jackets in 2022, retaliated, doesn't goals nearly 50 assists the last season alone johnny played the game with great joy, reads a statement from his team the impact he had on our organization and our sport was profound, but pales in comparison to the indelible impression he made on everyone who knew him. But despite the success in the rank, the true passion appear to be off the ice as a loving husband and proud father of two babies the youngest born this year and carie's dad's name matthew, followed in his brother's footsteps, playing sidebyside with johnny and boston college coaches. They're described the brothers is full of joy for the sport if you ask just the name our favorite players they've got to be a both boys are going to be among them an uncle of the gaudreau brothers releasing the statement saying, last night we lost two husbands, two fathers, two sons. But truly two amazing humans a spokesperson for the columbus blue jackets told cnn that matthew could droves wife. That is the younger brother that she is currently expecting a baby, victor and amara, that that is no doubt adding yet another layer of tragedy for family that one moment was planning a wedding the next, now, having to plan the funerals for their two sons, but they do say they are feeling the love, the support from many family, friends. And as you can imagine, for many hockey fans as well victor amara starts an awful story, polo. Thank you for the reporting. Special counsel, jack smith and attorneys for former president trump are at odds over how the federal election subversion case should move forward just ahead, the new filings, setting the stage for a contentious hearing in a washington, dc courtroom next week and how the supreme court immunity ruling is coming into play. One of the doctors linked to the deadly overdose of friends star matthew perry cops to a plea deal in a california court. The serious prison time he's facing is coming up next. 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Mark chavez plans to enter a guilty plea to one count of conspiracy aspiring to distribute ketamine to perry, who died last october due to an overdose of the drug. Chavez is one of five people charged and also one of three individuals cooperating with prosecutors cnn's nick watt is in los angeles with more well, amara victor, according to his lawyer, dr. Mark chavez, is full of remorse and is going to do whatever he can to make the best of thisis situation that ended with matthew perry, the much beloved friends star dead, because of ketamine. Now, chavez, he certainly acts like he is trying to do everything to cooperate. Of course, he was asked to submit his passport today. He had the passport with him in his back pocket. He agreed that he will not practice as a doctor while this whole process is going on. Some other conditions, he is also going to plead guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. Unclear exactly when that will be. Now, what chavez has alleged to have done is he was called by another doctor who said, hey, we've got this guy, matthew perry. He's after ketamine. I know you, dr. Chavez used to the work in ketamine clinic. Can we get some chavez was like sure chavez allegedly misrepresented facts to get the drug from a wholesaler. And that drug which they paid $12 a vial for, was then sold to matthew perry $2,000 a vial as the other doctor said, let's see how much this moron will pay. Now, that other doctor and the ketamine queen who is a more streetlevel alleged dealer of ketamine. They are due in court. Next week guys, back to you are nic. Thank you. Cnn gets exclusive access to video showing some of the first ukrainian troops entering russian territory. We're live in kyiv with more of this never before seen footage. 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Watch, papause and rerecore tv subscriptption free. . Startrt watchining tv for fr with tabableau switctching to tablbleau has realally been a ay saver without a monthly subscription was amazing order today at tableau tv. Com we have exclusive video for you this morning showing ukraine during its recent surprise incursion into russia. This comes just as russia fired missiles on hard cave. That's in ukraine of course yesterday killing seven, injuring at least 77. And it comes just as the u. S. Heard, ukraine's request you're ease restrictions on where ukraine can strike inside russia with american made longrange weapons. Ukraine's defense minister met with defense secretary lloyd austin yesterday at the pentagon and presented austin with a list of targets. But the u. S is not currently expected to loosen weapons restrictions we now turn to cnn senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen with his exclusive look at the fighting inside russian territory. Fred, what, what kind of targets do the ukrainians want to hit inside russia? i it's quite interesting that with those visits by senior ukrainian officials in a washington specifically, of course, the defense minister visiting the pentagon, amara the ukrainians are saying, as far as the targets are concerned, but that of course they want to hit things like logistical nodes for the russian. But one of the other things that's very important to them in order to protect their troops that are on the ground is for them to try and hit some of those airfields that russian jets are taking off from one of the things that the ukrainians have said that we're also seeing on the battlefields in ukraine, but also as the ukrainians are advancing into russia, is that the russians have become a lot better at using their air force more we're effectively by dropping semi guided bombs that can also glide lot further than in the past. That's a big deal for the cranial all this, of course, as they themselves are pushing deeper into russian territory. Here's what we're learning never before seen footage of some of the first ukrainian troops entering russian territory in early august. This video, given exclusively to cnn by one of the assault units spearheading the charge very haley got a bone. We just crossed the border. One soldier says and then glory to ukraine as soldiers from the same unit also provided us this video showing them coming under fire as they advanced deeper into russia the incursion into russia is one of ukraine's main building blocks for what the country he's president says is his plan to force moscow to the negotiating table. The most part of italy way it i will present this plan to the president of the us. The success of this plan depends on him. Will they give what we have in this plan or not? will we be free to use what we have in this plan or not? the ukrainians want a lot more us weapons and they want washington to allow them to use those weapons to strike deep into russian territory so far the ukrainians are only allowed to use missiles like the ground launched atacms to strike in ukrainian areas occupied by russia and russian territory three close to the border, kyiv's air force saying they recently used u. S. Provided guided bombs to take out bridges in the kursk area ukraine's defense minister meeting u. S. Defense secretary lloyd austin at the pentagon to present a list of targets deeper inside russia, the ukrainians want permission to hit during today's meeting, we will engage in detail discussions about the situation on the frontline, including our vision objectives and plans will also address ukraine's critical needs, including necessary arms, equipment while ukraine is advancing in some areas there on the backfoot, on the eastern front with russian troops are making slow but steady progress. But key of hopes, a massive arms package from the u. S. Could help them turn the tide a senior ukrainian official tells me in kyiv joe, with machado, russia can be forced through a proper military strategies, through military strikes to increasing the cost of war for the russian federation increasing the cost of war means that the war will be fought on russian territory but as the war grinds on, the toll among ukrainian civilians continues to rise of massive missile strike on the northeastern city of kharkiv on friday, killing several people and wounding dozens still, moscow are lashing out at the u. S. And its allies over even just the talk of possibly lifting restrictions on the use of western weapons this, is an attempt to pretend that the west wants to avoid access of escalation. But in truth, this is not so the west does not want to avoid escalation. The west, how we say in russia is looking for trouble the west is looking for troublesome tearyeyed, pretty tough words there from russia's foreign minister at the same time though the ukrainians say that for them it's absolutely key for the u. S. To allow them to use some of those western made u. S. Made weapons to strike deeper into russian territory. Also to try and stop some of those same jets from hitting ukrainian positions in the east of the country where the ukrainians, having a pretty tough time right now with the russians gaining some ground. But the ukrainians also so getting hit very, very often by the russian air force guys, fred pleitgen. Thank you for your reporting. Well, it is the season for tailgating and touchdowns. 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This season. Christine brennan, cnn sports analyst and usa today's sports columnist, joining us now to break it all down for us. Christine, good to see you this morning. Were saying that the reigning college football national champions, the michigan wolverines kick off against fresno state tonight, and it could be a tougher road to a repeat championship for the wolverines because of the changes to the playoffs bracket. Can you tell us a little bit about that absolutely, they're adding more teams on ron, there's been a national craving and certainly if not the country and the fans it's the tv networks because they all want in on a piece of the pie, then the tv ratings bonanza, that college football is in america. And so there will be 12 teams that make the playoffs coming at the end of this season, the 2024, 2025 season. And it actually the playoff time period from those first games all the way to the final game. Very similar to the men's or women's final four, where they play and winter moves on. It will be one month, december 20 to january 20th. Those old conversations that we all remember about weight, their students, we need them back in the classroom. What about finals? what about all the travel? well, those days are long gone, whether you like that or not, because now there will be this month long playoff system. What it will do is include of course more teams we always know there's always that was team that was just left out and the fans the fan base, the alumni were so upset. Obviously the schools were not happy to not cash in on that pay day as well. The conferences, the big behemoth conferences that we now have, including, of course, the big ten and the sec, the two big ones, even other the big ten is now 18 and so now there including more teams. So you'll have, if you're cheering for a certain team, you'll have a much better chance of having the make the playoffs and you will have college football going well into january actually around the time of the inauguration gotcha. And there are some other big changes right? coming to college football for the 2024 season, you have that twominute warning. Just like the nfl teams, but also helmet communication between the coach and the players. What kind of impacts do you think this will have on the game? you know, amara, i think it's a good thing. The idea of communicating. This is what this means is that in the helmet, one player on the team will be able to hear that communications with the coach and able to talk to the coach it will be turned off right before the play begins. This has been happening in the nfl. You'll see occasionally that we'll be a player that will be holding his hand to his ear with the helmet on and trying to listen to what the coaches saying to him. So that's going to now happen in the college game. And it is a direct result of the michigan cheating scandal where you had the signals being stolen. So it used to be hand signals or on they'll sideline the players. Other players would hold up cards. And those certain cards that they would hold up would tell the offense what the next play is very rudimentary old school communication again, that's over. I think it's a reaction again to that michigan cheating scandal where they were stealing the signs. That's not good. It's not good. What's football? these are 18 to 22 threeyearolds, but yes. Now, they will be able to communicate via 20 21st century, if not 20th century technology and there's also in the nfl, i new kickoff rule and a ban on what's called a hip drop tackle. What does that walk us through these changes? the one that's most intriguing to me is the kickoffs. It's going to look so different. And if fans have been watching preseason, they've seen some of this. It looks almost like a regular nfl play you've got the kicker back where he used to be on the 35 yard line, but then you've got the rest of the kickoff coverage team, basically five to seven and yards away from the kickoff return team. So it almost looks like a real play with the kicker far, far away. Why is this happening? it's for the safety, the wellbeing of the kick returner, and those with a used to call the kamikaze squad where those guys would just come down and just target that the person running with the kickoff, that that was a disaster, right? that was just a recipe for disaster for injury now it will be exciting, but you will have far less room for those players to come and gains any head of steam as they run into the kick returner. All right, a lot of changes to watch for this season. Christine brennan, good to see you this morning. Thank you. Saw it with the recent deaths of three teenage football players, there's a new push to make guardian caps mandatory for kids those are the protective soft shell helmet coverings used by players in the nfl cnn's coy wire is here now with us. So you played nine years in the nfl it's about just a decade since you've retired. What's happened? well, a lot has happened first, a major culture change, right? i'm sitting here on the couch with victor blackwell talking about the importance of safety in the coaches, players, fans all know that it's important to push to make the game safer. Secondly, there there's been 50 rule changes over the past two decades aimed at making the game safer just in the nfl alone. And lastly, you have this rapid acceleration in the research and the technology that we're seeing on the field. One of those is the guardian caps that you mentioned victor and we wanted to take a closer look at their potential to make the game safer. Each football season, sporting cathedrals like this, mercedesbenz stadium are full of excitement about the game but each season also brings concerns for families and players about the dangers that come with it there has been a recent uptick and efforts to make the game safer. One of them, these protective helmet covers called guardian caps. But do they work the georgiabased company aims to reduce damage that can be caused to the brain by the sudden stopping or rotation of the head the nfl's research led them to make these caps mandatory for all players during practices, aside from kickers and quarterbacks were off limits for contact. Players can also choose to wear the caps during the games. Nfl executive vice president jeff miller says the statistics show the cats increase safety as a result of the last two seasons, we saw a battle out of 50% decrease in concussions in the positions that were mandated to wear them. So of course we said okay, all positions will now wear them in this preseason. No nfl rule changes and advancements in the helmets themselves could also be leading to a decrease in concussions the company says that more than 3,000 high schools and more than 750 youth programs currently used the caps. One question is, if the nfl is making them mandatory for the pros, why aren't they mandatory for kids? one potential drawback could be cost. Each one of these rants about $70, $56 when bought in bulk for a team, many schools are already struggling with funding and the national athletic trainers association has said that such products come with little to no independent scientific evidence showing that they actually work the helmet and heading protection is really the last line of defense. The first thing to do is minimize number of head impacts that kids and other athletes are experiencing. One other potential drawback is the way it feels some nfl players, saying it makes them feel top heavy at times. All the research will continue to be done in the push to make the game safer, continues now, victor, we heard some percentages in there, right? like even if those guardian caps make the game 1% safer we're on the right path, right? and even with the helmets themselves, this is a helmet i war, right? this helmet is now banned. Victor, there were seven new models that were introduced just this year in the nfl with other models being band every year because they're not deemed safe enough every more anymore. So each year, i think the good thing is safe to say. Our reporting shows the game is safer than it's ever been. And with all the research and advancements, it's only going to get safer yeah. That's going in the right direction. Have you tried on one of these? would it distract you as a top heavy? this oh, the guardian cap, it does feel funny. 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And that's got some people excited about a potential interest rate cut in september that would be the first in more than fourandahalf years? cnn's matt egan takes a look at what that means for you and for the job market victor and amara, this is more encouraging news on the cost of living. The pce index, the fed's preferred inflation metric, came in at twoandahalf percent in july. This was slightly better than expected and tied with last month for the lowest rate since february of 2021, the first full month of the biden administration, look at the trend it's clear that even though inflation is not quite back to that 2% goal, it is moving in the right direction. And remember this metric, this was above 7% in june of 2022 back when gas prices were $5 a gallon that was alarming. That's why the fed was forced to step in and act like the firefighters and tried to put out this inflation fire with those massive interest rate hikes, interest rate hikes that we're all still feeling the effects of i do want to stress that just because the rate of inflation has gone down, it does not mean of course that life has suddenly cheapened america. It's not, doesn't mean that prices are falling across the board. There not, but it does show that prices are going up, but a more gradual, a more normal pace and that is exactly what the fed wanted to see, especially because paychecks are going up at a faster rate than prices. So that's helping consumers catch up now speaking of the fed, it looked like a slam dunk that the fed would cut interest rates at the september meeting before this report came out, it still looks that way now, jerome powell, the fed chair, he made that very clear at his big speech at jackson hole, wyoming, where he all but declared victory over inflation. But the big question remains, how much are they going to cut by? you know, what investors are split on that. A lot of people think they're going to do a 25 basis point cut should be the first sie covid. But there's also a school of thought that the fed may have to do a bigger cut of 50 basis points and look, that's going to be decided and by how the economy looks when fed officials meet. And that's going to be based not just on the next weeks of inflation readings, but also how strong or how weak the jobs market looks. Because if the august jobs report comes in weaker than expected and shows even more cracks in this jobs market then yes, the fed may be forced to end up lowering interest rates by even more. Victor and amara. All right, thanks, bhatt, a town in massachusetts has taken some serious steps to stop the spread of a rare mosquito borne disease. This disease has a 33 to 70% fatality rate we'll talk to a doctor about it in the next hour of cnn this morning weekend. 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