trump has been organizing in all of the criminal indictments that he faces. here, though, in this situation this is going to be quite a question for the judge handling this case going forward, how does this case go to trial be, does it get split up, do defendants go to federal court, do some stay in state court. all of those questions are going to be a real driving force of what's happening in the coming days and weeks here because there are defendants like lawyer ken cheseboro, also another lawyer, sidney powell, that have quite vocally said yeah, we want to go to trial very fast, not like donald trump. and trump is wanting to distance himself from them and potentially others in this group of 19 total defendants. the d.a.'s office from fulton county, they are already getting a trial date set on that calendar for october for cheseboro at least and want to keep all of the defendants together. but watching how this goes forward is going to be really crucial in that trump will keep arguing to push things back. there will be others who argue to split things out. and trump may want to separate from others. but it is a racketeering case with a lot of people involved. and so seeing how that functions now, especially now that not guilty pleas are coming in and getting people on path to trial, that is going to be really something we're going to be watching over many, many days. >> all right. katelyn polantz, thanks so much. this just in to cnn. a member of the far right proud boys will now stand back and stand by for 15 years in prison. he's the second member of the group sentenced today. convicted of seditious conspiracy earlier this year. cnn's evan petis is outside the courthouse in d.c. what did the judge have to say during this sentencing? >> reporter: well, jake, the judge repeated a comment that he made at the sentencing earlier today. he said that one of the things that the members of the proud boys did on january 6th was essentially rob americans of the tradition that we had of a peaceful transfer of power, something that we've lost and that we cannot regain again until perhaps the next time after another election. and in this case he said these men were part of what the proud boys were trying to accomplish that day. he sentenced joseph biggs to 17 years in prison. he was an organizer for the group in florida. in the case of zachary reel he's gotten 15 years. the government was asking for more than 30 years apiece for each man. they were convicted on charges including seditious conspiracy. they both spoke to the court. they asked for some leniency. both of them tearfully talked about what they were losing, essentially the chance to see their daughters grow up. something that obviously weighed heavily on everyone in the courtroom. but in the end the judge pointed out that these men had taken politics, taken it to a new level and had caused a great deal of damage to the american legal system as a result of what they did, jake. >> all right. evan perez, thank you so much. another court loss for trump wingman rudy giuliani. the disgraced lawyer making headline after headline after losing a defamation lawsuit from two georgia election workers whom he smeared during the 2020 election and its aftermath. giuliani singled out these two civil servants, ruby freeman and shaye moss, falsely accusing them of tampering with ballots. here's a reminder of just some of the deranged claims he made. >> tape earlier in the day of ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentleman quite obviously, surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they're vials of heroin or cocaine. i mean, it's obvious to anyone who's a criminal investigator or prosecutor they are engaged in surreptitious illegal activity, again, that day. and that's a week ago and they're still walking around georgia lying. they should have been -- should have been questioned already. their places of work. their homes should have been searched. evidence of ballots. for evidence of usb ports. for evidence of voter fraud. >> those comments were blatantly false. first of all, it wasn't a usb port. it was a ginger mint. a candy that they were passing and eating. two, the votes had been counted multiple times with essentially the same results. so why did rudy giuliani continue to repeat this lie? well, he was taking his cues from his former boss, then president trump. here's part of the call trump made to georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger trying to overturn the results. he names ruby freeman. >> we had at least 18,000 that's on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly, 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman, that's -- she's a vote scammer. a professional vote scammer and hustler. >> sure is interesting language that donald trump and rudy giuliani use about these two black women. as a result both shaye moss and ruby freeman say they've received death threats. strangers have shown up at their doorstep in the middle of the night. even kanye west's former publicist trevian kutti ap apparently showed up to pressure them, to lie to say they rigged the election for biden. falsely, of course. but because of the previous threats against her freeman called the police in that case at the suggestion of an officer the women agreed to meet at the police station. watch this moment from police body cam footage. >> i cannot say what specifically will take place. i just know that it will disrupt your freedom and -- >> giuliani did not contest in court that he made those false and defamatory statements. that isn't because he's apologizing for them. it's because he failed to respond. to multiple subpoenas for information in the case. according to giuliani, it cost too much to maintain electronic records. the judge was not amused, writing in a 57-page memo, quote, perhaps he's made the calculation that his overall litigation risks are minimized by not complying. the judge went on to say, quote, withholding required discovery in this case has consequences. regardless, the damage to both moss and freeman's lives has already been done. >> i felt like it was all my fault, like if i would have never decided to be an elections worker like i could have done anything else, but that's what i decided to do, and now people are lying and spreading rumors and lies and attacking my mom. >> i've lost my name and i've lost my reputation. i've lost my sense of security. all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, shaye. >> now, following the ruling both women expressed gratitude saying in part, quote, what we went through after the 2020 election was a living nightmare. rudy giuliani helped unleash a wave of hatred and threats we never could have imagined. the fight to rebuild our reputations and to repair the damage to our lives is not over, unquote. here with me is michael gottlieb, the attorney for shaye moss and ruby freeman. we should note you're representing them pro bono? >> that's right, jake. >> okay. how are your clients feeling after the judge's ruling, and how are they attempting to rebuild their reputations? >> they're obviously very happy with the ruling. it is vindication of what they've been saying for two years now. and it is recognition that their efforts, which have been truly courageous in being willing to stand up to very powerful people while facing death threats, while having their entire lives upended, that their efforts meant something and that there will be accountability and that people like rudy giuliani can't just hide behind the judicial system and refuse to comply. so they're happy. they recognize that there are more steps to be taken and that there's still a long way forward to repairing their reputations and getting back some semblance of normalcy in their life. but they're very happy with the result. >> it is odd to say the least to see a former u.s. attorney, somebody known for enforcing laws like rudy giuliani, not only as a defense but as refusing to even comply with a court. and i'm wondering is this, do you think, in your judgment because he is now just this bizarre person that says and does weird things and so he is just not responding to a judge the way that normal human beings would? or do you think he's made the calculation if i actually comply then there will be discovery and then they'll find worse stuff and so it's better for me just to have to pay even if this ends up being $10 million than showing my records, my electronic records to a judge who might find worse things in there than defamation. >> we all say and do weird things from time to time, jake, but i can't possibly claim to inhabit the reasoning or mind of mr. giuliani or his legal team on why they've chosen not to comply. what i can say is based on what we found in the case from third parties and every piece of evidence that we have gotten in this case has been through clawing and scratching to get it. no one has just complied with the subpoenas we've turned over to third parties, the various people who worked with mr. giuliani and his legal team during the campaign. we've had to fight for all of it. and what i can say is that what we have gotten has been very helpful in proving our case, in proving the agreement and understanding that giuliani reached with a number of other people to engage in this campaign against our clients. so as the court i think rightly pointed out in its opinion, it's reasonable for any reasonable person to infer that the reason he's not turning this stuff over is because it would beroom haful to his interests, whether here, whether with respect to other plaintiffs who are out there in the world or with respect to the criminal cases that are pending. >> right. there are criminal charges he's facing. who knows what's in those electronic records. the judge says that giuliani still owes $90,000 for freeman and moss's attorney's fees in the case. obviously it costs money to represent people even if you're doing so pro bono. money he owes you. you told kaitlan collins you're going to be pursuing daniels in the coming months. what action do you plan on taking and do you think your clients are going to see money from rudy giuliani? because he seems to be claiming that he's basically poor. >> yeah, i mean, we'll follow the trail to the end of the earth to get some accountability for our clients here, and i'm confident that we will see money after we obtain a damages award. where we are in the case now, there's been a finding of liability and the judge has set -- has asked for the parties to set a trial date for damages sometime between november and february. and that is the point at which we'll be able to quantify the harm financially that has -- that our clients have suffered. and then of course we'll have to go out and try to enforce that. and it's not uncommon for many defendants out in the world to claim that they can't satisfy judgments that people received. we saw alex jones try to do this with the sandy hook families. we would expect that mr. giuliani will probably attempt to do the same thing. but we have tools of the legal system available to us to make sure we pursue whatever assets he may have to recover for our clients for whatever award we're able to obtain. >> so the judge noted regarding the damages trial that the election workers, your clients, could try to show that rudy's false claims were intended to make money for himself. is that part of the strategy? >> definitely we can demonstrate and intend to demonstrate that much of the time when he was defaming our clients he was doing so on his podcast, on his radio show, those types of media obviously bring with them advertising revenue and the sort of recognition and notoriety that comes along with being constantly in the news brings additional opportunities, whether it's a personal brand or whether it's the revenue streams associated with a podcast or a radio show. so yes, that's part of the strategy, is to demonstrate -- part of the strategy will be to demonstrate that this was a moneymaking opportunity and that that moneymaking opportunity came at the direct expense of our clients. >> lastly, when you hear the language that trump and giuliani used to defame your clients, hustler, passing around the usb port as if it's cocaine or heroin. they're painting a very vivid picture. one might argue engaging in racist tropes. what do you think of all that? >> i think it's not a coincidence the language that was used. and to be clear, it was not a usb -- >> no, it was a ginger mint. >> yeah. but i think it's hard to miss the overtones that are associated with language like that and comparisons like that. it's just offensive coming from an individual that spent a long career in criminal justice and understands that you're not supposed to make accusations about people without any evidence whatsoever for doing so. >> he seems to have forgotten a lot of that. >> it would appear so. >> attorney mike gottlieb, thank you so much. and please send our best wishes to your clients. >> thanks, jake. thanks for having me. >> cnn is live on the ground in areas hard hit by hurricane idalia. plus a major question for people who live in storm-prone areas. how long will insurance companies continue to cover your properties? 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>> absolutely. if we would have taken this head on it could have been much more, much bad. >> reporter: now, devastation is much more significant to the north of us. that area is still really difficult to access. but anthony has been hard at work cleaning up with his employees trying to get the place back up and running. he told me he's got 22 employees. he said that's 22 families that have to be fed. so he's really looking forward to getting back on his feet as soon as possible. jake? >> all right. gloria pazmino in crystal river, florida. thanks so much. joining us to discuss is david jones. he's the former insurance commissioner of california. he's currently the director of the climate risk initiative at uc berkeley. david, are there any sustain able solutions for people to rebuild their homes in areas where natural disasters are becoming so common, especially in places such as the florida or california coastlines? >> so there are a menu of approaches that will help with adaptation, first following improved building codes in areas prone to hurricane. that includes impact-resistant windows and doors and garage doors, tying roofs down. using roofing approaches that are more impervious to wind. in areas impacted by wildfire it's home hardening including things like protecting the eaves of the home, using fire resistant materials for the roof of the home, defend space, no attached structures. there are things the homeowner can do. we also need to make more investments in gray and green infrastructure. in terms of green infrastructure there are a bunch of nature-based approaches that can reduce the impact of storm surge whether it's replanting salt marshes, replanting mangroves, oyster reefs. or in the context of wildfire risk better managing our forests by using prescribed fire and thinning. but fundamentally what's occurring here, jake, is that climate change is causing more frequent and more severe weather-related catastrophes and the trend is only going in a bad direction. and what that means ultimately is we are marching steadily toward an uninsurable future. i wish i had better news for you but the risks are many s. simply climbing too fooft and we're not doing enough to get at what the underlying driver is. >> we've seen major homeowner's insurance companies either leaving or stopping renewing policies in places like california and florida, all within the last year. in california state farm no longer accepting new applications. allstate stopped selling new policies. in florida farmers stopped offering its policies. aaa not renewing policies for some homeowners. what is the future of coastal housing in just like the next five or ten years, and do you think this is going to spread to other states beyond florida and california? >> it is a problem throughout the united states. it varies by geography. it varies by the nature of the climate-driven peril. but the trend lines are bad. whether you're in the midwest and you're suffering from increased flooding and increased losses due to convective storms, harder rains basically, more tornadoes, or in the west where you've got impact due to wildfire, more frequent and severe wildfire or along the coast whether it's the atlantic coast, south atlantic coast, the gulf coast, you name it, more severe storms, more storm surge, more flooding. all of this is contributing to more insurance losses. and even though states like florida passed legislation which create taxpayer-funded reinsurance facility, they allow rates about three or four times the national average. they've limited the ability to bring lawsuits. they've limited attorney's fees in lawsuits against insurers. notwithstanding all this as you said farmers just about a month ago said that's it, we're withdrawing entirely from the state of florida. so the trend isn't good. more people are being thrown onto what is called fair plans or in the case of florida, florida citizens. these are state-created but private non-profit insurance companies basically that provide insurance of last resort for perils like wind or fire or flood where people can't get that insurance in the private market. in florida, for example, the policy count for their florida citizens for wind has gone up from about 480,000 in 2020 to 1.3 million in 2023. and that i think is the future. if we don't move more aggressively to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which are driving climate change, which are driving these losses. >> david jones, thank you so much. appreciate it. even if it was horrible news. coming up, it's a regularly scheduled meeting set for next week but there will be nothing regular about the extraordinary amount of scrutiny it's going to draw. and it could raise very important questions about the future leadership of senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. stay with us. like the subway se. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. for freeee. that's w what i'm talking abou. order in the sububway app toda. 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>> given the fact he is not just another senator, he is the minority leader, so i think there does lend itself to a higher level of transparency. but look, across the board there are a lot of people in d.c. that we need to show grace to their inevitability of the aging. and if you are a party and you are lobbing attacks at the other side for being dazed and confused, whether we're talking about president biden or feinstein or mcconnell or even fetterman, you need to be able to look inside your own house and say what are we doing with our elected officials in terms of are they ready to do the job. and look, the reality is if any of these elected officials cannot stand up, speak up and dress up for the part there might need to be the question are they the best person to represent their constituents and their colleagues. >> often this coincides with aging. but it's not a correlation-causation situation. you are still relatively young and you had brain surgery. we've all been watching your recovery and you seem to be back to 100%. whether or not you feel that way i don't know. but i know you want to talk about this because you've gone through something similar. >> yeah, look, recovery is not -- when you've had a brain injury, right? it is not a straight line. and so i agree with what alice is saying. we have to have some grace for people who are healing like with john fetterman. for me when i was healing my brain was there. as you all know, i couldn't talk. right? so how i communicated shifted for a while. and so but that's different than if there is something medically seriously wrong that would prevent you from healing to a place where you can continue to do your duty. i think we do have to have some grace. but it's fair to say if you're in a leadership position and certainly if you're in a position frankly of leadership where you could be running the country at some point, i think it's important for there to be transparency. >> but there are a few things all going on at the same time. one is we have all of these octogenarians and in one case whatever you call 90-something, who are in office for a long time and the question is is it too long and all this stuff. so that's going on. it's a bipartisan thing. there's also a huge division inside the republican party about whether mitch mcconnell is like the guy they want or not. look -- >> that's a lot of maga trump stuff, isn't it? >> and that's a lot of what this is driving the conversation -- >> they think he's not maga enough. >> yes. if you ask any other republican they will say mitch mcconnell has kept republicans glueding to not just in the senate but in congress for the last several decades. can you imagine if mitch mcconnell wasn't here for the last 20 years what a different course republican politics would have taken. all that stuff. but there is a lot of jockeying going on. and then the third thing that's going on is that in most states the governor gets to name the next senator but kentucky pre-empted all this because they have a democratic governor and now there's a whole different chain of events that would take place if senator mcconnell -- if leader mcconnell decided not to stay through the end of his term. >> and this also, we should note, this has been going on for quite some time. i remember strom thurmond, who lived to be like 100 or something, i think. he lived a long time. but i think it's fairly well known that the last decade of his time in the senate he was not 100% and maybe even was a little oblivious to what was going on. people were more -- i don't know if you want to say polite about it or they were more protective and less transparent about it. but like that was going on with senator cochran, it went on. and it's still going on with senator feinstein. >> yeah, absolutely. i also think we have to remember these are human beings. they have families. they have lives. and i hope that their families are looking out for their health. politics is one thing. but i can say from having experienced it your life is more valuable than all the rest of this, right? you're not going to remember the last floor vote when you are -- >> but also mitch mcconnell is showing none of those signs. >> no. and that's what i want to say, is if it's a matter of maybe he needs more time to heal. maybe that's what it is. and he'll be fine. whatever it is i hope they give him the space to do it and to figure out what needs to happen. >> i think in this day and age of cameras in your face everywhere you go we're seeing a lot of this in real time. sometimes if they freeze. and that's a factor as well. we didn't have that as much with storm thurmond. it's really important to note mitch mcconnell deserves a great deal of credit for what he has done in his tenure as senator. certainly overhauling the supreme court. but at the end of the day we can all sit here and talk about this. but it's up to the voters in his district in kentucky. it's their decision whether or not they want him to continue. ? let's turn to the 2024 race. today on the new hampshire journal podcast former ambassador nikki haley was asked if she would be willing to offer her vice presidency if she were the nominee to donald trump. take a listen. >> i don't know who i'm going to offer it to but i can tell you it's going to be the best person for the job. it's not going to be focused on whether the person is a man or a woman. it's not going to be focused on whether -- what race they are. it's not going to be focused on what's most popular. >> interesting answer. i mean, she could have said no. she could have said yes. >> first of all, it sort of sounds like some of the calculus where you're trying not to turn off too much of the trump base. but also i read this as nikki haley going out of her way not to make this the sound bite she made news on. and also signaling to women she wants to be clear she would be the top of the ticket and if anyone including donald trump wants to vie for the number two role she would entertain that. so much of her messaging the last couple of weeks has been to center as well as right of center women on everything from the abortion issue to the power issue. i just think she is angling for the suburban women's vote and this is another example. >> something else she said that made news. republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy told an israeli newspaper that as president he would not use the u.s. military to defend israel against iran were that to happen. and now many of his opponents are criticizing him including mike pence and governor chris christie. nikki haley posted, "vivek must have missed that the fanatical terrorist regime in iran regularly calls for death to america. if he doesn't see a nuclear iran as a threat to american security, then he should take his place beside aoc and the squad and get nowhere near the white house." a lot of attacking ramaswamy these days. what do you make of it? 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>> i think a lot of it had to do with he wanted -- this is a theme through his life is wanting to be acknowledged for what he's done. and there's a difference between appropriation and obliteration. and i think sometimes richard felt that he was being obliterated and not being given the acknowledgment of who did it first. >> little richard performed drag in the south in the '40s and '50s at times where such things were even considered crimes. of course lgbtq rights are under attack again with a record number of anti-lgbtq bills introduced in the u.s. this year. how did little richard navigate his identity throughout his life as laws and public opinions on the gay community shifted? >> well, like everybody it was an underground movement, if you will, and they couldn't be open about it. it was much later in life that he would acknowledge that he was gay but at the same time saying he was no longer homosexual. but it was also the place where he learned to discover little richard. i mean he copied a lot of the people that he hung out with, and that whole drag queen thing and everything old is new again. and he really learned how to express himself in terms of his own yearness, if you will. he never -- i don't know if he ever really came to terms with it, but he enjoyed it and he learned from it. and sometimes he hid it, sometimes he didn't. but it's just kind of the that multiple contradictions within him. >> little richard sadly died of bone cancer in may 2020 during the height of the covid pandemic. do you think his death reignited his fame in some ways? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. you know, it's -- he kind of left the building yosh, if you just to retire and everything. and the fact we were all home and paying attention it opened up to a new generation, and they started to see who he was and how much of an influence he is. you can't have prince without little richard. you can't have little nas x without little richard, and you can go on and on and on. it's a wonderful thing that, yes, his passing was sad but the fact he's going to be reintroduced to a younger generation is fantastic, and the pandemic was the perfect time to do that. >> crystal shepherd, thank you so much. appreciate it. be sure to tune in. the all new cnn film little richard i am everything premieres monday 9:00 p.m. and pacific. coming up in the situation room the request donald trump's legal team is making today that could have a major impact on the case in fulton county and the case in his role of a fake elector scheme to steal georgia's electoral votes. stay with h us. i'm hitting your cooler. and your cut-rate car insurance might not pay for all thisis. so get allstate. kayaking is my thing. running is awesome. but her moderate to severe eczema would make her skin so uncomfortable. i was always so itchy especially when i was hot. now my skin doesn't itch as much. now we're staying ahead of her eczema. there's a power inside all of us to live our passion. and dupixent works on the inside to help heal your skin from within. it helps block a key source of inflammation inside the body that can cause eczema. so, they can have clearer skin and less itch. serious allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems such as eye pain or vision changes including blurred vision, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines without talking to your doctor. healing from within is a wonderful thing. ask your child's eczema specialist how dupixent can help heal their skin from within. happening now. donald trump is asking to sever his case from his codefendants in georgia after pleading not guilty to election subversion charges. our legal experts are breaking down trump's strategy and what it could mean for the timing of his trial. also tonight a day after senator mitch mcconnell froze up in public again, the u.s. capitol physician now declaring him medically clear for his duties, but will it calm concerns about mcconnell's health and his leadership role? 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