Everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. You woke up, youre here. You didnt scare me off. It was intimidating but we made it. We want to start with, look, we have a lot to talk about. Lawmakers getting ready to return to capitol hill. Will they be able to avoid a Government Shutdown . Plus, stranded in the desert. Tens of thousands of people stuck at the burning man festival in the Black Rock Desert after torrential rain in the area. They are being told to shelter in place and conserve food and water. And those scorching hot temperatures just wont let up. How hot its going to get if you are heading outside for labor day and when you could see relief. This week we will talk to an expert about the impact on the opioid crisis. Congress is getting ready to work and hit the ground running. Senators are back in d. C. On tuesday followed by the house the next week. Both chambers are facing a time crunch on a number of key issues. On octo
yesterday, manhattan, it s what we ll continue to talk about every day until the first debate and atlanta. but michael real quick that trump campaigns suggests that they think it s blown up in your face and in the movie you guys made yesterday saying that it proves the case that they ve been trying to make the whole time that politics is motivating the case. jason miller said after months of st. politics thanks, had nothing to do with this trial. they showed up and made a campaign event out of lower out of a lower manhattan trial for president trump. did this backfire on you no, not at all we re not talking about the trial. we re talking about the threat that donald trump poses to our democracy. his embrace of political violence, that he does every single day, whether he s outside the courthouse there in manhattan or he s down to mar-a-lago or he s shouting into an echo chamber on truth, social. that s what we were talking about with robert de niro and officers for know
it s tough to get both sides to agree. it s easier to vote no than it is to get to yes on a lot of these big bills. but what do you see in this blueprint that encourages you? well, we have to get the financial house in order. we have said this and you heard me talk about it, bret. unmanaged debt will lead to you make cowardly decisions and that s what is happening now. there is not a person watching us tonight. any small business, any family, anybody that can sustain. bret: governor huntsman had no labels olingerers on a few weeks ago the show. they said it wouldn t launch presidential ticket if it was anybody else besides former president trump and president biden head to head. so if that happens am i looking at a ticket here. well, i wouldn t jump to any conclusions. i know everybody, bret, is interested in the horse rates. joe and i are here together because we started this endeavor
like. they don t know what a desantis/biden head-to-head would look like. a nlot of this is about fundraising because that s something he has to get started on and part of why, like, is he doing it now, later this summer? now they are decided it today. this is going to be, you know, $1 billion campaign basically and they have to start raising money now. that money doesn t grow on trees. so one of the interesting things about joe biden, president biden, is he has been a pretty prolific fundraiser and so they are getting that money spigot going right now. they are also using this as an opportunity, i think, to really put down a marker that there isn t going to be a democratic primary. i think that kind of became less likely after the midterms. but you re going to start to see, i think, a rolling out of more endorsements. there already been plenty, but more endorsements to say that this is a president who has his
ukrainians. we talked about training them to fly american aircraft, including the f-16. it is not that complicated. it could make a big difference as the ukrainians say, closing their skies. there is still a lot of discussion about what the u.s. and allies are so lined ukrainians. let s get an update on what s happening on the ground. local officials say ukrainian forces in a key strategic bridge in the russian occupied area. ukrainians used multiple rocket launchers, supplied by the u.s. to strike the bridge, being used as a supply route. this comes as ukraine launched a major counteroffensive to take the area, that fell during the early days of the war. the damage to the bridge will make it harder for the russian military to keep supplying its forces in the region. that is a positive sign. meanwhile, russian forces have taken over ukraine s largest powerplant. an advisor to the president