real life drama for hollywood actors as contract talks collapse setting up a strike. plus president biden in finland to welcome one and eventually two nordic nations to the nato alliance. and federal prosecutors talk to the top elections official in michigan. what does she know about efforts to overturn the 2020 vote. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. we begin this morning with a developing story out of hollywood, california, where contract negotiations with the s.a.g. actors union and major studios and streamers broke down overnight. this sets the stage for hollywood s first big shutdown in more than six decades. union leaders say its national board will meet a few hours from now to formally authorize a strike. s.a.g. has about 160,000 members. if they go on strike, they would join hollywood screen writers who walked off the job in may. more on this coming up. but first president biden with a meeting of nordic leaders in finland this morning fo
closing out his high-stakes trip to europe with a show of force from russia s backyard. he is meeting with leaders of finland after a crucial summit where he made a vow that the united states and allies will not waiver in their support for ukraine. president biden said nato has, quote, never been stronger, as sweden also prepares to join the alliance. he is set to take questions this morning at a news conference. defense secretary lloyd austin sat down for an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer where they talked about ukraine s future and nato. from a military standpoint, mr. secretary, how close is ukraine to meeting nato s standards? well, there are a number of things that will have to be done, as you know. a big part of their inventory is legacy equipment, and so in terms of training and equipping, there is work to be done, but we are doing that work as we are helping them as they fight this war. and so things have been done up to this point. there is more that wil
Quest for justice to ensure it doesn t happen again. zach cohen has more from washington. reporter: we can now count michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson among a growing group of state officials who have been interviewed by special counsel jack smith in his ongoing criminal probe. this is really another indication that smith and his team are honing in on what former president donald trump and his allies were doing at the state level as they tried to overturn the presidential election results in 2020. benson has been one of the loudest voices in pushing back against former president trump s baseless claims about voter fraud, his effort to file unfettered lawsuits. and also to put altered electors which michigan started a criminal investigation into before the justice department did. so benson joining georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, joining rusty bowers former top gop official in arizona, as those who have
Authorities everything we endured and experienced and witnessed to ensure, again, whether there is evidence of a pernicious and strategic effort to overturn the will of the voters, justice is served. joining us now democratic representative from maryland jamie raskin, a former member of the january 6th select committee and the ranking member on the house oversight committee. thank you so much for your time this morning. so benson is the third state official to be interviewed by the special counsel that we know of. she is the secretary of state. as a former member of the january 6th committee, what does this tell you about where the investigation is going? it seems clear to me that jack smith, the special prosecutor, is reconstructing the entire plot to overthrow the result of the 2020 presidential election. that was how donald trump started. he went state by state to try to get the legislatures to overthrow the legitimate electors and install counterfeit slates of electors pledged
Friendship had developed. they had gone four-wheeling together and once steve and karin took ed and his wife patricia on a double date. but really casual acquaintances. so how would ed owens dna end up beneath karin s fingernails? good question. when detective benson went through the file, he discovered that, in fact, ed owens had drawn a mention. in the original investigation. so benson, all these years later, tracked him down. he was listed as a person of interest or possibly a witness, and i wanted to go over his statement and make sure we had everything correct. they had put him on record back then. yes. back in 1980 steve strom told police that when he arrived at work at 12:45 a.m. june 6th, ed owens wasn t there as he should have been to turn over the machine they both worked on. he finally did show up, said steve, a little after 4:00 in the morning drunk and throwing up, claiming he left work at