billion with a b, we've got this honore got this high for sola alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn welcome, till the interject after this hour, some eye-popping numbers from a watchdog group keeping tabs on the us supreme court, suggesting justice clarence thomas received $2 million in gifts for more than 100 entities, 2 million. justice thomas, not the only one racking up the numbers in this study plus the biden-harris campaign, making a play for anti-trump republicans such as the ones who keep turning out for nikki haley and republican primaries. republican governor glenn youngkin's, virginia will be here on the lead and we'll talk about that in much more. plus new murder charges for the man accused of being the gilgo beach serial killer. the new evidence on a laptop that prosecutors say was his blueprint for serial killing. we start this hour with the 2024. 2024 leave. let's play the music election dam up. >> one we could go today. donald trump was convicted of 34 felonies in the new york hush money cover-up case brought by the district attorney, alvin bragg now for president trump has just minutes from taking the stage in phoenix. this is his first return to the campaign trail since that conviction, cnn's kristen holmes is traveling with the trump campaign and is in phoenix. thank god, indoors instead of in the 110 degree heat. kristen, what what is the trump campaign saying is going to be the main theme of this event yeah. >> take before i get to the theme you talked about that we have just learned that 11 people were transferred because of heat exhaustion from outside of his rally. there were thousands of people outside trying to get in, but it is again 112 degrees here in phoenix. and they've clearly impacting some of the crowd. now when it comes to today's bet, basically what we are expecting to see is a few minutes of a campaign speech and then this turns into a town hall. i don't expect this to be any kind of voters who are on the fence let's tripping donald trump up. this is a very favorable crowd is turning point. a group that is associated with donald trump at affiliated with dog junior as well. now the ends of those short remarks are expected to focus on immigration is going to bash biden's executive order. talk about what he did when he was in office and how he used better to fix the immigration crisis if elected back into office, i will note donald trump, one of his main issues other than the economy is expected to be immigration heading in to november, just slight low when biden issue that executive order, they want to continue to attack that order because they want to still be fighting voice on immigration, something that we know from our clothes. >> a lot of voters believed donald trump is stronger at now, whether or not you can actually stay on message remains he said he's done a series of interviews over several days of which he was expected to talk about campaign promises, what he was going to do. >> and instead, he just attacked joe biden and the justice all right. >> kristen holmes and phoenix. thanks so much. appreciated joining us down. discuss governor of virginia glenn youngkin, a governor youngkin, let's start with virginia itself i would probably call it a third tier battleground state. it's usually not up there, but the polling i have seen suggests that it is pretty much a margin of error race right now with biden having the edge, but not the ten point lead that he one, you have much better. i'm guessing private polling as the governor. where do you see the race right now in virginia? >> yeah. jake, first of all, thank you for having me if i could. i just want to thank all of our veterans and military heroes today, we honor and revere those that lost their lives at d-day. and it changed the course of history. and so thank you to all of our military heroes listen with regard to the 2024 election and virginia, it is pretty stunning that in 2020 we saw joe biden win by ten points, and i was fortunate enough, i think to win by two. but now we see virginia very tight and it's early days, of course, we still got five months to go. but i think it reflects the fact that americans and virginians are ready for strong leadership back in the white house. and that strength is projected not only an economic strength, it's national security strength, it's that its energy policy strength it's a secure border. it's an america that we know needs to be strong and what they've seen from joe biden has been weakness. and i think america and virginia's ready to really give president trump the white house back the president was convicted of 34 felony charges last week, you issued a statement criticizing the conviction why, why did you do that well, i think it's very clear to americans that this has been a very much a political effort it's an all of the parties involved have made it very clear that they wanted to take get trump, and therefore, i think americans understand that. >> and the reality of course, is with the election just five months away, it's a chance for virginians and americans to really express their view and who they want to be. our president. and as i said, i think when it comes to putting strength back into the white house, i think that americans are tired of a weak joe biden. they're tired of a weak economy. they're tired of week national security, other tired of seeing a porous border and even the actions this week from president biden, or too little too late we've seen almost the state of virginia come across the border and the last three years. and we're all seeing every single state become a border states. and we have, we've seen sexual assaults of young women by illegal immigrants. we've seen illegal immigrants try to crash the gates at quantico and we've seen fentanyl fly over the border and killing five virginians a day on average, i think americans are ready edey to put leadership back in the white house. are you worried at all that the felony convictions will have an impact on turning off the independents and moderate republicans that voted that might be up for grabs some of them voted for you and that's how you one, there are these middle of the road owners and they might have be turned off by this guilty verdict well, at least all of the polling that i've seen and jake, you've seen it as well. is that the jersey is around pretty tight right now. i think there's been some clear decisions made by a huge number of voters. there's not that many that's our undecided. and i do believe that it is based on the merit of the candidates and therefore, i think again, as the issues get district get discussed and debated between now and november 5, there'll be a clear difference between president trump and president biden. and as i said, i think americans in virginia ready for strength back in the white house how do you interpret the vote in the republican primary and virginia for nikki haley, just the day before she dropped out virginia had its primary 35% of virginia republicans voted for her she's still continues to get 10%, sometimes 20% months after she dropped out of the race. >> are you worried at all about those voters sending a message that they're not on board with trump and they might end up with biden well i believe that the republican party is coming together. i was just down at the virginia republican party convention. this past weekend and i saw delegates from all over the commonwealth come together and universally put down differences and, start working together to win elections. and i think that's what's happening all across the nation i also believe that there are large numbers of independence who will in fact choose donald trump over joe biden. and then finally, and i think this is really important in virginia. we have seen real success from common sense policies literally growing jobs and standing up for law enforcement and standing for excellence in education. and we're seeing just tremendous results. and virginians are now saying, wait a minute, common sense has a place. i like, i like strong leadership and i'm gonna vote for donald trump and i think this is what we're going to see all during the fall, particularly as the records of the two administrations are placed right next door to one another. and we can't, we can't forget the fact that trump did build a reporting economy and it's the number one issue across voters right now is concerns about the economy. the second issue, of course, is concerns about the border. and these are two excuse that. i think virginians and americans are absolutely going to go with president trump on. >> i want to get to two things that happened yesterday. first, all but two senate republicans voted against solidifying and nationwide right to contraception if republicans win the white house and take control the senate, which they have a decent chance of doing. and retain control of the us house should voters expect contraception to be at risk as the right to abortion is at risk. >> yeah, i believe this was very much a publicity vote. and not one based on real policy. it's an eye, i believe firmly in the right to access to contraception. i also believe that we need to protect our first amendment rights. and in virginia, we had a very similar circuit from stance. and i in fact sent a bill to our general assembly that would have protected access to contraception and protected people's first amendment rights. and the reality is, i don't think democrats really want a bill. they don't really want to make policy. they just want to have talking points and i think that's what happened in the senate yesterday hey again, i am firmly supportive of a woman's access to contraception. i did i did pledge to support and defend the constitution and we can do both of these. jake in obamacare and the affordable care act that's exactly what happened. there was right to contraception and of course there was protections for first amendment religious protections. we can do both. there's no reason why we have to try to divide america. let's bring them together on this topic versus divide them also yesterday, we reported on how 2023 shattered heat records and will likely be going forward. >> a terrifying baseline for years to come described by you un official as a highway to hell. we witnessed obviously extreme fires and droughts and floods and storms across the globe. virginia is not immune to this. of course, yesterday, however, you said you're going to withdraw virginia from participating in california's emission standards aimed to limit what's fueling the warming. you said that the move was about celebrating freedom. i understand wanting to have virginia's own policy, not california's, but what are you going to do about climate change in your state it i mean, virginia is not a particular problem compared to the rest of the world and india and china, but certainly you want to leave the world in a better place than it is right now when it comes to climate change, no jake to be really clear on this one because i think it's very important the decision that we made yesterday was to no longer be subjected to the california mandates on which car you can buy and in fact, we are able now to choose to be subject to the federal mandates and a federal guidelines on emissions virginia plus 37 other states are now subjected to the federal guidelines. >> and we made a decision that one, having california with unelected bureaucrat crafts mandate, which car people can buy was wrong, but we also made a decision to protect people's pocketbooks and to give them the benefit of choosing which car they think is best for their needs. and jake, the math here is really straightforward. it's really straightforward. evs cost anywhere between 10,000 and $50,000 more than the comparison internal gas combustion engine. and to force people. and that's what the california standards would do. 35% of cars would have to be electric vehicles. and in virginia right now, it's about 9% of cars are being purchased. that's, that's upwards of 1.2 billion of economic penalty being placed on virginians. and let me just make it clear. this is not a condemnation of electric vehicles. if you want to buy an electric vehicle, please do. and if you want to buy a hybrid, please do and in fact, now that will be subject to the federal guidelines in nation will have to take hold in order to drive much, much more stringent fuel economy standards. and i think america is up for this. the reality is that mandates are misguided. let's trust innovation and let's put, let's put that trust in the american consumer as opposed to mandating what people can and can't buy republican governor glenn youngkin's virginia, good to see you, sir. thanks so much always great to be with you. >> thank you. >> coming up next is the brand new watchdog reports showing us supreme court justice clarence thomas received more than 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do and that will continue the question is, why democrats continue to take the most extreme position on abortion in the country. >> all the senate democrats have voted not talked about, but voted for abortion up until the day of birth okay. the panels here. so mark why not? >> i mean okay. fine. it's a messaging bill. i got that. and whoever the majority is in the house and senate, they do this all the time. but why not just vote yes. in favor of contraceptives? >> well, and i don't know all the details of that bill, but i also know that katie britt and ted cruz had a bill that was just like it it got voted down or i got rejected by the democrats. i mean, that's what this is. doing. this is i think democrats, it's just try both sides, trying to score points on the other one, they're not going to vote for our bill. we're not going to vote for your bill. and washington continues the way washington does that's actually incorrect. >> a part of what's been happening since the fall of roe v. wade is we're seeing measures in the states actually he's seeking to restrict access to certain forms of birth control, particularly iuds and plan b, which is some consider it to be in a board of facial at which it's absolutely not. and so this bill basically covered everything from condoms, two plan b, and other forms of contraception that could be i mean, we heard from supreme court justice clarence thomas a willingness to reopen this conversation specifically voted, referenced a griswold versus connecticut, right. >> in his footnote, and that was what made the birth control pill lead the gold, correct? >> by the way, the anniversary of that decision is tomorrow and that's part of the reason they wanted to do the bill. and so part of this was to be able to say we wanted to get republicans on the record to say, are you for access to contraception or not? all forms of contraception do you believe that people should be able to make that decision or not? and again, it? mirrors some of, the work that democrats are doing in the state. so one of the things that's going on here is that if one's beliefs, religious or otherwise, are that a fertilized egg is a life that some birth control methods affect that and so i mean, it's not a wild, it's not this button i might have been a messaging bill, but the issue itself is not out of nowhere. i think what's interesting is this is the rare issue where you've seen the language kind of change in terms of democrats have been able to reposition this as an issue of protecting freedoms and freedoms being taken away. and that, that language actually works for voters, whereas republicans are now in a different position than they were instead of just protecting life, you're being told you're taking away things from people. and that has been a struggle to mess sit around. so while messaging bills, i think for us sitting around, here are kind of like adds a point here, point here doesn't really matter. it's part of an overall long-term 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