dramatic move by hollywood actors joining writers on the picket lines. plus vladimir putin announces that the wagner group, simply doesn t exist. what does that mean? and that is the most ridiculous seen i ve ever seen. blowback, some republicans upset that the secret service cannot find a white house cocaine suspect. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in this morning row mans. no lights, no camera and no, a. actors will start walking off the job just hours from now. ma. no lights, no camera and no, a. actors will start walking off the job just hours from now.man. no lights, no camera and no, a. actors will start walking off the job just hours from now. this is after talks with major studios and streaming services failed. anger about pay and artificial intelligence really at the center of the standoff which has essentially shut down hollywood. chloe has more. reporter: hollywood came to a halt on thursday when union called
department as a personal police force to pursue his critics and political enemies. here s what he said about it in an interview with uni vision last night. i could certainly happen in reverse. it could certainly happen in reverse. what they ve done is they ve released the genie out of the box, you understand that, they ve done something that nobody thought would happen. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly i say, go down and indict them, mostly that would be, you know, they would be out of business, they d be out. they d be out of the election. it s all out loud now. so out loud that in a statement, a spokesperson for the trump campaign sought to walk it back and clarify trump s remarks saying the ex-president was simply highlighting the dangerous example president joe biden is setting which only makes sense if you say his conspiracy theory that the work of joe biden and not the end result of years of investigation
we ll be discussing for months if not years to come. david, great to have your insight. thank you. thank you. turning to sports, the women s final at wimbledon is set after an emotional semi final between a pair of unseeded players. carolyn manno has the bleacher report. and fascinating conversation about ai. thank goodness these performances that are in-spirped at wimbledon can t be replicated. this was so gritty. and you could root for either one. take your pick. both had magical runs. in the end somebody had to pack up their locker and go home. and this one went to the 24-year-old from the czech republic. just too much for svitolina to handle. she used a mix of speed and power to unseed the finalist.