picket lines forming coast to coast as movie and tv actors join writers on strike, effectively shutting down hollywood. upcoming film releases, new tv shows won t be coming soon. releases and premieres will be delayed. it could mean billions in losses. and a culture war, hardline republicans pushing through amendments. does it stand any chance in the senate? we re live on capitol hill. and russian president putin speaking out about the wagner group for the first time since its fighter led a rebellion in the country. we are following the major developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. from the production set to the picket line, 160,000 actors are taking part in a historic-making strike that will effectively freeze all film and television production in the u.s. this marks the first time that actors and writers have simultaneously gone on strike since 1960. the trickle effects of this are big. not only will various projects be halted, but th
morning. absolutely. thank you. thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. we are learning more about the man in custody accused of attacking a staffer, intern for democratic congressman gerry connolly. he didn t have any particular motivation, he was on a tear. we have to assess the security we do or do not provide district offices. it s concerning and quite frankly scary. the clock is ticking closer to what would be the first debt deno-fault american history. we don t know what the economic impacts will really be. and that s the scariest part. the fact of the matter is they re now negotiating. they have to. you have to have something done by this weekend. we are nowhere near any of that. after four years and millions of taxpayer dollars, durham report is out. got his own information, which is this information plus plus plus. this report does nothing. it is absolutely a big zero. florida governor ron desantis is expected to launch
new charges, or wholesale changes in how the fbi handles politically-charged investigations. so, jessica is here with that story, but also evan perez is joining us from washington. okay evan, just walk us through the bottom line of this report. well, the bottom line after four years, alison, this is all we got from john durham. there s a lot less here than certainly donald trump was paul promising us for many months, remember he was out there saying durham is coming, and he was expecting people to go to prison. as you pointed out, durham does not make any new prosecutions at the end of this report. but you know, he did find a lot of mistakes by the fbi in the way they conducted this investigation back in 2016, and he believes that a lot of it has to do with confirmation bias, not political bias. again, a finding that i think the former president would not be very happy with. i will read you just a part of what the report says, it says that based on the review of crossfire h
this morning a fresh look at the southern border. this was el paso, and you can see it right there. wow. i mean, relatively sparse, really sparse, very calm. this is what the white house had hoped for. especially when there were scenes like this just one week ago. migrants lining up before the expiration of title 42, and the homeland security alejandro mayorkas warns that it is too early to know if the migrant surge has peaked. and that is after wrangling maneuvers of the governor of texas sending a busload of migrants to the vice president of the united states. so we have teams at the border and the white house. we begin at the white house as arlette seanez is there, and what are you hearing from the people in the building behind you, arlette, of what they are seeing? president biden is saying that the situation at the border is going better than expected after he, himself, had predicted a chaotic few days of the lifting of title 42. now, the biden administration has been
honoring the heroes of the past. but they call to arms for the future president biden talks about the sacrifices at normandy and parallels to ukraine s fight against russia, as he promises president zelenskyy, we re not going to walk away from you and defying the united states a new cia assessment suggests is israeli prime minister for benjamin netanyahu may ignore pressure from washington to set a post-war plan for gaza, even as his own grip on power may be in jeopardy. plus liquidating an empire built on lies, right? bring conspiracy theorist alex jones may be forced to sell info wars in order to pay off that one-and-a-half billion plus dollars he owes to sandy hook families we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here cnn news central we begin this hour with a high-stakes speech from president biden in france as he makes the case for freedom and the future of democracy, making that case at pointe-du-hoc in normandy were 225 us a