happening now in the newsroom, a heartbreaking loss for u.s. women's soccer. >> off the post! sweden can win on this kick. >> plus one on one with donald trump's lawyer who claims trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election were aspirational, not criminal. and lost at sea for two days in a boat only 12 feet long. we'll show you the incredible rescue. you're live in the cnn newsroom. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday, i'm fredricka whitfield. >> donald trump's lawyer doubling down that trump was within his first amendment rights when he told former vice president mike pence not to certify the election results. the attorney says it all boils down to the way he asked. >> and all of this played out in the open. it's all free speech. there was a supreme court decision that says when you're exercising free speech, you're not engaging in a fraud on the government. unfortunately most people don't understand -- >> that's just one example of the actions. >> it's very political. >> that's just one example and this is a long list that we compiled from the indictment. there are -- it's more than a dozen not speech, actions that the former president allegedly took. >> like what? >> where do i even start? >> tell me. what actions? >> having the arizona speaker to interfere to ascertain -- >> a speech. it's speech. it's not action. >> almost all alleged criminal activity has to do with using words and speech. >> no. >> this is obviously the defense that you're going to use and it will be fascinating to see how it works out in a court of law. i want to move on to another issue. >> no, i want to tell you, though. you make an interesting point because you're saying that asking is action. no, asking is aspirational. asking is not action. it's core free speech. the press should be defending free speech in this case because it's the most protected speech. >> attorney john lauro's comments coming after a federal judge denied their request on an extension of a possible fr protective order. and also they're calling for the judge to recuse herself. he has pleaded not guilty to all federal charges. i want to discuss this. jamaal is a former assistant to the attorney general and nick is a former assistant special watergate prosecutor and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. good to see both of you. jamaal, first, what's your reaction to laura's argument? >> look, i don't think laura's right. the president can certainly say a lot of things publicly and engage in his right of free speech. what he can't do is ask someone to engage in comment that is illegal. the asking doesn't mean it's covered by the first amendment in that context. in this case the president did all sorts of overacts, at least is alleged to have that if proven could subject him to criminal liable notwithstanding the first amendment. >> debating free speech on television is one thing but how would this argument hold up in court? >> it would fall flat. this argument is total nonsense. every charge always spch connected to it. there is always a question of whether that person lied and whether that lie is in furtherance of something that person tried to steal. every case where i was a fraud case, i would tell the jury this case is about lying and stealing. here it was lying about the election, lying about a rigged election and then trying to steal the election from joe biden. simple as that. >> and jamil, last hour i spoke with john dean who said that nixon and trump were similar in the way that they would pose their commands as questions and as it pertained to watergate, nixon's ask was not aspirational. do you see trump's ask in the same way? >> you know the president is innocent until proven guilty by reasonable doubt by a group of his peers they have a strong argument to show the president did act to obstruct the government and freedom of speech. that doesn't really change the fact of what he was asking people to do and what he sought to have do and the end purpose of his efforts. >> so is this really about trying to taint perhaps a prospective jury pool knowing that this kind of argument is not going to fly in court but maybe in the court of public opinion? >> well, i'm not sure about tainting a jury pool but certainly trying to set the public perception of the case and try to engage in the narrative that the president has eng engaged in from the beginning, which is that, a, the election was stolen from him and that this is a conspiracy to undermine his ability to a candidate and represent the average person. if you're an average person, you have to ask himself how is this billionaire who doesn't have anything in common with me representing me out in public? >> and the trump team tried to get an extension. the judge denied the request. is this part of the trump team strategy to delay, delay, delay. >> no question. this was the wrong issue to try and delay on. first of all, the issue here was whether or not they would agree to the order, the protective order, the exact same protective order that was filed in miami court, the same one they agreed to down there, whether or not they would agree to that before they got discovery. so what they're trying to do is delay that because jack smith is ready, as he said in his papers to push the button and to provide them with all the discovery immediately. secondly, they came up with these absolutely crazy ideas that they have to file papers, that they have to have oral argument. the judge shot back pretty quickly and it was all over the weekend. it was last night that she came down with this opinion and basically said this is ridiculous, in a sense, you got to stick to what my order was. you got to respond by 5:00 monday and if you want, you can take their order and you can mark it up and that's what i asked you to do and i'm not conferencing any other delays on this. so i think that this is an extremely bad omen for the trump defense team because it's obvious that this judge is not going to take any nonsense and is going to push this case ahead, and i predict there's going to be a trial date set in january or february of next year. >> and the judge as a result of her decision this weekend denying that extension. now the trump team says that they think that she should recuse herself and they claim to have other reasons why. so, you know, jamil, the former vice president left open that he would testify. take a listen. >> i have no plans to testify but, look, we'll always comply with the law. look, i want to tell you, i don't know what the path of this indictment will be. the president's entitled to a presumption of innocence. he's entitled to make his defense in court. there actually are profound issues around this pertaining to the first amendment and freedom of speech. i'm confident he and his lawyers will litigate all of those things. >> how might pence's testimony undermine trump's claims that he was not asking, not demanding, but instead just reallgivi him no options than to try to not certify the election? >> well, certainly if the vice president were to testify against the former president, his former boss and talk about the pressure that he felt by the former president, by the team around him, to certify or decertify the votes and send them back to the states, that certainly could be damning for the former president. at the same time, vice president pence lays out important issues, that the government does have to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. while i agree that the judge is likely to set a trial date soon, it is very possible we could see attempts by the trump team to seek interlocutory appeals. but they may try to slow this down and delay it past the election, which is the goal i think of the campaign because they believe the president gets more political benefits and may be able to stop the prosecution or pardon himself if he's in fact elected. >> nick, do you see anything. >> none whaef sofr. he's going to be subpoenaed to testify. he'll have no choice but to testify. and his testimony is probably the most significant of anybody in the trial. because everything comes back to what mike pence would do. that's why donald trump set up these phony electors so that he could either reject the biden electors from the battleground states or send it back to to try to get the state legislators to appoint the the trump electors in the place of the biden electors. this is nothing more than a simple criminal scheme. i must say i disagree that there this case has been designed in a way that is streamlined to unlike with the impeachment proceeding, there is no issue about donald trump telling the crowd to go up to the capitol and do whatever they were going to do. they've eliminated that from this. they've eliminated all the first amendment issues. the motions on this particular prosecution are really going to be and will pro funt rally denied. so the idea that donald trump has real issues here i think is snons. >> conspiracy to defraud the u.s., attempt to obstruct official proceedings and conspiracy against voting rights. that's what's at issue. jamil and nick, thanks to you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> a heart breaking loss. the u.s. women's national team kicked out of the world cup. what's next for the team? 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>> well, thanks for having me on, fredricka. i think what they would say is no comment. that's why i wrote it. i wrote the assessment that me and my colleagues could not write. the problem is that domestic intelligence for many years has strayed away from getting away from domestic politics. it's not good business. civil liberties, civil rights. the issue we have right now is politics is encroaching into homeland security. when you have political officials who basically cause violence, we call that socastic terrorism. they say knock their teeth out or they dock the former president, give his address out online for people to go and stock him. t stalk him. what i really want them do. this is a civil society problem. if we're waiting for the government to fix the issues we have with radicalism and domestic extremism in this country, we'll be waiting for a long time. >> hmm. if say, for instance, the intelligence agencies in your view wouldn't say anything out loud about your assessment, they wouldn't comment out loud, what do you believe these agencies are groups my be doing to respond to an assessment like this? i mean, it wouldn't be just your observation but your colleagues who might be making the same kind of assessments or -- assessments period. what do you suppose they might be doing behind the scenes? >> well, i tell you exactly what they're doing. by the way, over the last 24 hours since the political piece dropped, i've heard from dozens of former and current intelligence officials that i know and some that i don't know who applauded me for saying and speaking out words that they can't. what they're doing is playing whack a mole to be honest with you. they can track these violent extremist groups, make sure they are not plotting attacks or violence but at the end of the day they can't do anything about the driver. as i said in my piece, donald trump is actually the driver. they've coalesced with him. these groups we've been tracking for decades and they don't communicate with each other and don't plan with each other. on january 6th we saw them coming together under a common cause, under one banner. it's not going to probably go away with a trial and conviction or anything of donald trump, so this is a bigger problem. that's why i wrote the piece to tell people what the intelligence community is saying behind scenes and to let them know that we're really in for a rough road ahead in terms of domestic extremism. >> let's preview a little bit more about what you say. advocated violence during hushis time in office, whether it was suggesting that protesters should be roughed up or praising those who engaged in violence against journalists and his rem remarks encouraged a disregard for the rule of law and sanctity of peace protest but more significantly, he normalized the knows of politically motivated violence." what do you believe based on your assessment can or should be done? >> i'm glad you picked out that quote from the piece because i think that's the pivotal part. heretofore before the trump presidency we've always had violent domestic extremism but what we saw with trump and the normalization of violence in the political realm is normal people, people who had no criminal record saying it's okay to do this, the president's call me to do this. you see this time and time again in testimony from january 6 defendants. and i don't want people to think i'm right or left, you're also seeing i think a whiplash on the left. and we see violent activity or people saying they're going to do things that are violent in these radical left groups starting to emerge that we haven't seen in over a decade. when we have the right doing violence and the left talking about doing violence, we can talk all day about some of these left groups we've been tracking, i think it becomes very troublesome. the reason why i say this is not a government solution is because once the government gets involved, it becomes freedom of speech. and the viewers should know this, it's not illegal to be radicalized in this country. people may be shocked by me saying that. you can be radicalized as much as you want to. it's when you mobilize down the path of violence and actually take action in the name of your radicalization, name of your cause, that's the problem. from a law enforcement standpoint, that period between radicalization and violence can be so brief that there's nothing we can do about it. >> it's a powerful assessment that you did pen. we're glad that you're able to join us as well to talk further. >> thank you. >> all right, coming up, a 25-year-old was found alive after missing for days at sea in a partially submerged boat. details about the u.s. coast guard's rescue efforts next. we y when they'd arrive with a replacement we couould trust. that's service the way we want it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ♪ "don't cha" written by callaway/ray, re-recorded by massivemusic ♪ (camera shutter) ♪ don't cha wish your phone was fun like this? 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>> we started out by putting notices on the sites where flies were found or to inform the residents to not move any fruits or vegetables off their property, keep it on site and consume it on property. and we have a pest exclusion post that wainforms the regulatn in effect and brings them to safeguard their products. >> everyone has the experience of the fruit through hovering around the produce, which are all a real nuisance. what is the difference? >> these are much larger flies, about the size of house fly, bright yellow and black, colorful animals. they have an egg laying ability to pierce healthy fruit and lay eggs inside it. most of the regular fruit flies only affect things that get old. >> so this fly has been detected in california a few times before, right? and it was eradicated at the time. are you optimistic it will be this time, too? >> yeah, definitely. i think we've got a really good program in place. all of the flies that we've found are clustered into one fairly small neighborhood that's surrounded by dry mountain terrain that is inhospitable to flies. i think we're on top of it and it's just a matter of for the next couple of months prevent the flies from spreading from the area and eliminating those there now. >> earlier, i mentioned that there had been 20 invasive fruit flies found on one particular ranch. what kind of concentration are we talking about in this 80 square mile area? 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"barbie" was distributed by warner bros., which is owned by cnn's parent company, warner bros. discovery. all right. over the last ten years, dr. sanjay gupta has reported on how medicinal cannabis has been lifesaving for so many. this sunday, the whole story with anderson cooper brings you the latest installment of the award-winning series "weed," but this time sanjay explores how life-changing it might be for older adults. >> iris? >> yeah. >> how are you? >> my wife's mother and sister and aunt, they had alzheimer's. it scared her half to death. they progressed very slowly. maybe four years ago, she cried for a half an hour every morning like clockwork. >> this is full-on crying? >> crying. >> did they try different medications? >> she had enough antidepressants to keep an elephant calm, and still she cried. >> in 2019, they started a pilot program here at morse life. it's a senior living community in florida. >> hi, iris. >> iris was given cannabis. >> you look so beautiful today. >> dr. melanie bohn runs the program. >> we do cbd. all of the different cbs in them and the terpenes. >> the doctor gave her one. stopped crying. done. >> iris. >> here we go, sweetie. >> takes one in the morning, one at night. it's over. >> that sounds extraordinary. >> magic. >> it was so impressive how that worked. kind of like charlotte figge, where you see the seizures changing and go, oh, my gosh. >> it is worth remembering that these behavioral outbursts in patients with dementia can be some of the most difficult to management what is interesting is that the researchers thought that they saw these benefits in children with seizures and thought those same benefits could actually apply to patients who are much older, patients with dementia who are also having outbursts. and so far what researchers have found is that in some cases, in some patients, it has worked, worked really well, as you just saw there. it's not going to work for everybody, and there are concerns. as you've seen an increase in cannabis use among seniors, you've also seen an increase in e.r. visits related to cannabis use. so it's not a panacea. it needs to be something that's carefully controlled. but, again, for some of these patients who have had real challenges in managing behavior, especially associated with dementia, not only does it seem to work, but for some of those patients, it's the only thing that works. >> pretty remarkable. sanjay gup, thk you so much. and be sure to tune in to an all new episode of "the whole story" with anderson cooper. one whole story, one whole hour airs you tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific only on cnn. saving some good news for last. a rare walrus calf was rescued after he was spotted wandering alone in northern alaska and is now under 24/7 cuddle care. the pacific walrus calf is about 1 month old and weighs nearly 140 pounds. it was found four miles inland and has been battling dehydration and infection. officials say such a distance from water is unusual for walruses, especially alone since calves depend on their mother's care for the first two years of life. the rescued mammal will receive round-the-clock care including cuddles to mimic maternal closeness. thank you so much for joining me today. i'm fredricka whitfield. the "cnn newsroom" continues with jim acosta right now. ♪ you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm jim acosta in washington. good evening. former president donald trump's lawyers now have about 24 hours to respond to a legal filing related to his