kremlin is dragging out the war, waiting to see what happens in the 2024 u.s. presidential election. cnn's new reporting is straight ahead. and political collision course -- donald trump's legal calendar filling up just as the race for the republican nomination is heating up. after trump's third arraignment yesterday we'll show you why he hopes the supreme court can throw him a line. a major development in the gilgo beach murders investigation. police say they've identified a victim whose remains were found nearly three decades ago. we're following these stories and many more coming in right here to "cnn news central." a brazen drone attack on the black sea and a potential warning to russia's navy that more could be on the way. look at this video obtained by cnn. it appears to show a ukrainian unmanned sea drone approaching a landing ship at a russian naval base. the video shows the drone inching closer and closer until you see there, the camera cuts off, likely the moment it hits and the ship explodes. you can also see here later video of the russian ship being towed near the navy base. you see how he's leaning to one side? nick paton walsh is in zaporizhzhia for us. surprising we're getting two different narratives over what happened. one from ukraine and one from russia. what have we been able to confirm about the attack? >> reporter: yeah, look, it looks pretty clear at this stage. even russian bloggers suggesting that one compartment of a ship was indeed flooded by this explosion, that a remarkable new feat appears to have been achieved by the ukrainians. this port on the black sea, potentially hundreds of miles away from where ukraine would have had to have launched this over water surface-water drone, hitting that amphibious assault ship as it sat here in a black sea port that russia would frankly, a matter of months ago, considered to have been impregnable and far outside of ukraine's range. one russian military analyst referred to this as a quantum leap. seeing moscow's towers hit, after seeing the kremlin's stone towers hit by drones as well, we're now seeing russia's naval dock yards, places they feel they can put away their substantial navy to dock safely, now targeted. as was the bridge that runs from the crimean peninsula to the mainland hit by another ukrainian drone a matter of weeks ago. so important change here certainly in what ukraine is showing itself capable of doing. we have had at cnn a direct claim a naval ship was hit by the drone. more oblique statements from ukrainian officials about how unidentified floating on thes are to blame for this. but make no mistake, this is exactly not what vladimir putin thought he'd see at this stage of the war. >> perhaps a sign of more to come. russia claiming it fended off a drone attack at an oil storage facility in crimea. how is kyiv responding to that? >> reporter: they have suggested that something like that, diesel plant, fuel plant, would be an inevitable target. and we've seen this over the past months, boris -- strategic, careful attacks against vital parts of russian infrastructure. fuel depos, ammo depos, railroad tracks. the things they need to keep their brutal occupation here afloat. eventually it will take a toll on their capacities at the front line. not seen it just yet as far as we can tell, but soon that's likely to be much more palpable. boris? >> nick pacen walsh live in zaporizhzhia. alexei navalny has just been sentenced to 19 years in prison for creating a, quote, extremist community. he was already serving an 11 1/2 year sentence in a maximum security prison. we have nic robertson with us on this story. nic, what does this mean for navalny and the people working the appeal these sentences? >> it means he's going to be under everyone stricter guard and having an even stricter prison regime around him. the penal colonies he's been into so far have been bad, but they're going to get worse. that's where this sentence will be conservatived out. he's going to a penal colony, the sort of place that lifers normally go to, people the russian government describe at recidivists go to, where they'll have straight controls on the amount of movement he can have. we've seen him suffer in jail with lack of sleep, lack of food, being made sick by the prison authorities, any number of things to try to break his spirit and will. but we saw the exact opposite of that in courtroom today. there he was, almost nonchalantly with his arms folded. we saw at one point him turn to his lawyer and seem to make a joke. and navalny tweeted earlier in the day, he expected exactly this type of sentence. he said it would be a stalinist sentence. he thought it would be 18 years. it was 19. won't be surprised by. that he told his supporters to look at this, look at the sentence, why it's so big, not for him, but to scare them off. he's said in previous hearings, he's ready to take this punishment because he believes there can be a better russia. >> he's so frail, nick, as you look at him. he's pulling up pants that are almost falling off of him. his arms are skinny. you get a sense of how his health suffered through his deta detainment. >> and we've heard that from his daughter, from his supporters that they've send in food for him, and he gets shown the food and it gets taken away from him. he is made sick by putting other detainees, other convicts in a tiny cell with him, convicts who have got heavy colds. when his immune system is run down by having been kept awake at night by loud noise and bright lights going through the interrogations that he had to go through in the early situations, he is weaker than he was before, and this is becoming very visible. he's not even getting mental stimulation. he's not getting that contact with his lawyers or his family who's being denied writing materials, even reading materials. the physical confines of his jail as well just mitigate to try to rejuice him physically and mentally as a person. >> yeah, he's sending a loud message with his body language, though. he's casual. he's greeting the other fellow, much to the chagrin of that corrections fellow. that does not go unnoticed. nic robertson, thank you very much for the latest. jim? back here in the u.s., new cnn polling shows most americans do not believe americans should authorize more funding for ukraine. 55% now oppose it. 45% support it. this comes as cnn is learning that top u.s. and western officials are now concerned that vladimir putin is unlikely to change course in ukraine until he knows who will win the 2024 presidential election here in the u.s. they believe he's hoping president biden will lose, trump might win, which could lead to diminished american support for ukraine. cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood joins me. this is notable. seems to be this man believes he'll have an easier course in ukraine in biden is no longer president and trump is. >> that's exactly it. officials concerned he's factoring in the u.s. election, which we should note is more than a year from today, into his strategy on the battlefield in ukraine, essentially banking on the possibility that if joe biden doesn't win this election, there's a republican in office, of course potentially trump being one of those, considering he's the leading player in the primary right now, that u.s. support for ukraine is going to diminish, and that would of course benefit putin, essentially incentivizing him to drag out this war for longer. resources, of course, are a question. there isn't an intelligence assessment his mind on this, but this is what sources are saying. putin knows trump will help him, and so do the ukrainians and our european partners. so they really believe that he's going to try and drag this out to see what he can get from that election. >> putin knows trump will help him. that's remarkable. nowing i wonder, as we consider what dan freed said about how the next election year complicates things, how do ukrainians feel? do they feel the pressure they have to get things done while biden is in office? >> you talk to ukrainian officials or experts who have travelled to ukraine, what they say, the ukrainians feel even more pressure with regard to their current counteroffensive because of that looming u.s. presidential election. they know they need some sort of win or something to change the trajectory on the battlefield if they're going to change the course of how things are going over the next few months which could impact how putin approaches the next year. we should also note that u.s. officials believe that because putin is taking 2024 into consideration, they are really focused on getting that long-term support that ukraine needs. >> right, get it locked in. trump proofing the aid. and it's notable, because if you look at this map here, following last fall's counteroffensive, which gains a great deal of territory in the northeast and down here by kherson, really the battlefield has been largely stuck in police, and that's something the observer should become conscious of. kylie, thank you very much. nearly two-thirds of americans say donald trump's new indictment is serious, according to a new abc news poll. that is a bigger share than those who thought the same about his classified documents or hush money indictment. today the former president took to smeocial media to beg the supreme court to step in. quote, my political opponent hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits which require massive amounts of time and money. the supreme court must intercede. we should point out it's not his money. it's campaign donations. jessica schneider here with us. is there a court filing in the works to get some of this sorted out by the supreme court, or is this just the former president posting on social media? >> at this point boris, it appears to be political bluster. we don't know of any legal finding. but it is possible that at some point in either of these cases, january 6th or classified documents case, the elements of the case or ultimate ruling, decision from the trial, jury itself might ultimately be appealed all the way up to the supreme court. but right now we haven't seen any indication of that. it's important to note, though, every other time that any of trump's challenges to the 2020 election, every other time they've gone up before the supreme court, the court either decided not to hear the case or rejected trump's arguments even though 3 of the 9 justices were appointed by trump. he does not have a good track record at the supreme court. it is quite possible in the coming month osar years his team will try to challenge it. >> he does have a track record of demanding loyalty from those around him, and perhaps he feels like supreme court justices fall in that realm. i wanted to ask you about trump's newest attorney john l a lauro. last night it appears he admitted trump was trying toedly the 2020 election certification. >> saying it was well within the president's rights to use his fist amendment rights to challenge the election results. what john lauro was talking about, maybe take it a step further. listen. >> president trump said let's go with option d. let's halt, pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly. that's constitutional law. that's not an issue of criminal activity. >> so this is john lauro, trump's attorney, constantly talking about, this is a free speech issue. not exactly. prosecutors are going to say this cross into conduct and criminal conduct at that, so we'll see what transpires in the coming weeks. the next hearing in this case, just a few weeks. >> jessica schneider, thank you so much. breanna? 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>> well, thanks for having me, breanna. yes, from what we're told this was connected through familial dna, not unlike the way the golden state killer was caught through ancestry dna. but it's fascinating how this is unfolding, because they apparently have known her identity since october of last year, which is nearly a year, and that dove tailed with the investigation into rex heuermann. so what i believe is this was a conscious decision by law enforcement to get heuermann off the street first, lock him up, secure him, and then make this announcement so that it would not be a distraction or perhaps even spook heuermann. >> they have not linked this particular victim to rex heuermann, who has been arrested for murder of three of the gilgo four. could this be him? when would a serial killer of the ilk of the island serial killer start killing? what age generally do they their first killings? >> well, it could be a perfect fit, breanna, because serial killers typically begin in their early to mid 20s. he's 59, so it would have been a -- the perfect time, really, with the profile of a serial killer like this. and this body is the first one that went missing in '96 and the first one to be there on gilgo beach. so she was the earliest. and i have a theory that -- a plausible theory on how this could have evolved. because the earliest bodies, the ones discovered in april of 2011, many of them are dismembered, and actually had parts left elsewhere, just like her. if you're a serial killer and over time realize dismemberment is a lot of work, it's a problem, and you know what? i don't need to do it because these bodies weren't found. i could see how that serial killer could evolve and ultimately wrap his victims in burlap and leave them on the beach some that could be consistent with a serial killer who evolved over time. >> not weird for the m.o. to evolve, which is a question i had for you there. i think this all comes down to, there are so many more bodies besides the women whose murders recommendation heuermann has been charged, and it comes down to families and members of the public, scott, wanting to know if there's someone else out there responsible for this. are these convinced? are they feeling confident the person responsible for this is already behind bars? >> well, brianna, such a good question. this has so many tentacles to it. we don't know what law enforcement discovered over the last couple weeks in his house. does it link him to any of these other bodies? does it link him to bodies that haven't been discovered yet? these will all unknowns. but i believe that he is responsible for some of the other bodies that were found there on gilgo beach. certainly number four. i'm just waiting for the shoe to drop there, so to speak. i think he's going to be charged with that very soon. >> maureen brainard barnes. >> yes, exactly. i think it's very possible he's responsible for some if not all of the other bodies on gilgo beach. >> scott bond, thank you so much. really appreciate your time today. >> thank you, the brianna. >> jim? 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>> well, it's certainly the implication of doing this additional sentence on what were essentially incredibly trumped up charges that, you know, he had opposed the war in ukraine, that he had participated in joining organizations that the state didn't approve of. i mean, there were just clear freedom of speech issues, which doesn't take you very far in rush. but i think what is really notable about this, jim, is two things. first of all, even in the old days of the soviet union, this would have been an extraordinarily long sentence for a dissident and tells you how much putin wants to keep all dissent off of most communication lines. but the second is, this comes after putin has been through the whole uprising and, he's now being pressed by dissidents on the left and critics on the right, who think he isn't conducting the war well enough. >> right. cnn's new reporting is putin is going to wait out the u.s. election cycle, that he hopes he gets a better president of the u.s. after 2024. perhaps trump, who happens to be leading in the republican polls, as you know. what's the reaction, then -- first of all, do you believe that? do you find that? what does that say about trump's claims repeated that he's tough on russia? >> well, on the first part, jim, you and i have both been around when we have heard u.s. officials speculate -- i don't think they have any particular intelligence on this -- that putin's waiting this out. because the two leading candidates for the republican nomination, both former president trump and ron desantis, have both said they don't think the united states should be involved in the war in ukraine. so if they get elected, the problem goes away. if you think that putin only has three ways to win this war -- a crack in the nato alliance, the ukrainians running out of ammunition, or president trump or governor desantis getting elected and pulling the u.s. out, then it would make perfect sense for him to keep a low-level war going through the end of 2024. >> there's been some effort it seems to, quote/unquote, trump proof u.s. military aid to ukraine work bipartisan support in congress, to lock it in regardless of the outcome in 2024. is that doable? can ukraine fight this war effectively? it may maintain nato support, but without u.s. support leading the way? >> it would be hard. these methods of trying to lock it in or basically trying to establish a long-term security agreement with ukraine, that would be very much modelled on the long-term agreement that the u.s. has with israel. and you know, there isn't much debate each day, jim -- or each year about the renewal of aid to israel. the thought is, put this on auto pilot. it would be a very hard thing for many republicans to vote against. but at the same time, it's more than just money. you know, it's intelligence sharing, it's the daily tending of the allies to keep them together, it's opposing other countries that are continuing to ship arms and technology to russia, including china but not only china. and that requires a lot of daily diplomatic effort so i think while you might keep the money flowing you'd also need to keep the diplomacy going. >> no question. that comparesison to israel is e we've heard more and more in public. david sanger, always good to have you. thanks so much. >> great to be with you. >> brianna. ahead, why the college board is advising schools in florida the stop offering advanced placement psychology classes to high school students. plus, the latest jobs report shows the market cooling off, and the president is calling it bidenomics at work. we're going to ask an expert what the numbers mean for you and your money next. of dollars in funding along with scschool supplies students need. we call it “the subaru love promisise” and we are proud to be the largest corporate supporteter f adoptaclassroom.org. it's just one of the reasons forbes ranked subaru the number one automotive brand for social impact. subaru. more than a car company. i told myself i was ok with my derate to severe rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. with my psoriatic arthritis symptoms. but just ok isn't ok. and i was done settling. if you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. rinvoq is a once-daily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. it can stop joint damage. and in psa, can leave skin clear or almost clear. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma and skin cancer; death, heart attack, stroke, and tears in the stomach or intestines occurred. people 50 and older with at least one heart disease risk factor have higher risks. don't take if allergic to rinvoq as serious reactions can occur. tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant. done settling? 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>> well, it's both. the issue here is that human sexual ass sexuality is such a basic part of who we are, and to say that basic information cannot be discussed in a course that is helping students to understand people, understand differences, understand differences in how we think and behave just is not acceptable from our standpoint. >> so, i'm thinking -- i'm a former psych major myself. if i'm a student in florida who is interested in psychology and pursuing that in college and wants to take an a.p. psychology course, what about taking it the way florida's going to teach it we want to teach a course in mathematics, but we will leave out division. the course it does not have integrity when you take out pieces that experts from the field, and including teachers, have said this is content that is important to understand this discipline, to understand the science behind how people think and act and so forth. so, i think the other thing to note here is this content has been in the ap course that is taught around the country over 300,000 students take that course each year. in the state of florida, 28,000 students take that and have been taking that course and taking the exam, and this is information that has been there since 2014. so, the state of florida has embraced those standards and had incorporated them and had -- we are not quite clear why at this point this important content is being excluded. we hope to's -- the state will reverse their decision because we want them to have access to this information and to be able to take this course. >> to use it is having a ripple effect through college and the profession of psychology? >> well, we hope not. you know, that is why we hope the state will reverse its decision. you know, ap psychology is one of the most popular courses and psychology, as a course, is usually one of the top two or three courses on college campuses. it is a very popular, it is a very popular topic and it is the foundation for many other disciplines or it is a good foundation for many other disciplines. people major in psychology and they go into law and medicine and the social work and other important areas. people believe that that foundation that they get and understand is so foundational to so many other areas and that is the reason why we real -- really feel strongly if we will have a course that has integrity, it has to include all of humanity. we cannot erase certain groups and say we are teaching a legitimate course in psychology. >> i found it very helpful in journalism. day to day, doctor arthur evans, thank you for being with us. we really appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> 4th? now the other headlines we are watching. hollywood writers are now nearly 100 days into their strike against major studios. today, the two sides are back to the negotiating table for the first talks since the strikes began. so far, no negotiation inside for the actors who joined the picket line nearly a month ago. two members of the so- called tennessee three who were expelled from the state house earlier this year have won their reelection. state representatives justin jones and justin pearson will finish out the rest of their terms. the two were expelled in april after they were accused of breaching decorum for participating in a gun-control protest in the house chamber. a major milestone for diana de rossi, who became the first wnba player to score 10,000 points. she ended the night with a season-high of 42 points, a legend of the hardwood. >> those are both higher numbers than me. popularity among weight-loss drugs like ozempic appears to be growing. a new poll from ksnf now nearly half of adults in the u.s. are interested in using this medication to help them shed some weight. one correspondent, meg, joins us to break down the survey that is quite a figure. i imagine they have seen the results and they are understandably reaching out to their doctors. >> there is a huge amount of attention being paid to the medicines and this comes at a time when the backdrop is that more than 30% of u.s. adults are in the overweight category according to the cdc and the nih and more than 40% of adults are considered to have obesity. so, kff did this poll of more than 1300 adults in the u.s. and what they found is among people who said they have more weight to lose. maybe at least 20 pounds, 68% of those folks said they are interested in trying a safe and effective prescription weight loss medicine. what is fascinating in these result is that even 23% of people who said they are not currently trying to lose weight, they're also interested in these medications and that sort of speaks to the cultural moment they are having. when the pollsters dived into some of the details with these folks, people started to say, maybe i'm not so sure about this. 23%, once they found out they are weekly shots, 23% were still interested in taking them, but that is down from 45% overall. others said they would be interested if they were not covered by insurance and 16% said if they were not fda approved for weight loss, which is the case for ozempic and the other one, which is approved for type ii diabetes. and others are interested if they may gain the weight back. these are all known issues about these medicines. >> listen, some of the newer versions have a greater effect. you can imagine it will only go up. thank you so much. >> still ahead, president trump's legal problems are on a collision course. we will walk you through it up next on cnn new center. rsv can be a dangerous virus... 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