it is 8:00. i m amara walker. i m victor black well. if our theme is learning about one another, what s the thing we need to know about you that we don t know. i can t stand milk. we were just having this conversation. i don t know that many adults that hate milk as much as i do. i won t put it in my coffee. if someone puts cow milk in my coffee, i will taste it and smell it and spit it out. do not bring amara milk. it tastes like animal by-products. do you like milk? i like yogurt. but i m saying milk in its regular form. what we re watching today. volodymyr zelenskyy arrives at the g7 summit to boost support as russia escalates the war. he s expected to meet with president biden, who faces challenges of his own. dead lock on a debt limit deal. can an agreement be made before time and the money run out? signs of possible survival. colombian officials race to find four children they say may have survived a plane crash in the amazon, but could they still be i a
and i m erica hill. kate bolduan will pick things up righ t now. [ no audio ] as they wait for the city to release videos showing police officers beating tyre nichols. the city s police chief spoke directly to this overnight. describing the video as heinous. that is the word that she used and she s pleading with residents to not react violently when they see it. we know that nichol s family has already seen the video. the family attorney said that it shows officers beating nichols, quote, like a pinata for three minutes after a traffic stop on january 7th. nichols died three days later. the five officers involved in the traffic stop have already been fired. the police chief also spoke to that overnight in that video saying that this was not just a professional failing, but also a failing of basic humanity and she said that there are additional officers also under investigation. the nichols family for their part is calling for murder charges now. and we ve just learned tha
to lure shooting victims out in houston. and on the streets of d.c., an nfl rookie shot in an attempted robbery. with a busy summer travel weekend just days away, customer complaints hit new highs. it s not just airlines taking the calls. welcome to the lead. i m kasie hunt in today for jake tapper. we begin this hour with the national security legal and political shockwaves still reverberating from the fbi s search of mar-a-lago three weeks ago. the director of national intelligence says the u.s. intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of the documents that were taken from the former president s home. remember, we learned last week that trump still had 148 unique classified documents in his possession after he left office. 25 of those were marked top secret. this review is separate from the doj s criminal investigation and will help intelligence officials determine if any harm has been done to our national security. meanwhile, sources close to the form
listening to taylor swift. it is called literacy lit rather c and. and if i took that class, i d be a better man. all right. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. so it turns out the national archives has been after donald trump to turn over documents since the waning days of his presidency. good morning, everyone. good morning, kaitlan collins. quite the greeting for everybody waking up. it s been going on a long time. enjoy your coffee. we do begin with new cnn reporting overnight. an email from the national archives reveals how long donald trump has been holding sensitive documents that he should not possession. the email indicates that records were not returned despite a determination by a top white house lawyer that they should be. a source says there were a dozen emails and calls over the course of 2021, 2021, this is last year, including a may 2021 email from the national archives to trump s lawyers that reads in part, quote, it is also our understandi
very good thursday morning to you . i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. this just in to cnn, important news for the u.s. economy, the nation s gross domestic product, how much the economy grew or shrank, declined less than previously thought in the second quarter of this year. revised up from negative .9% to negative .6%. it may not sound like much. it shows our economy is shrinking. cnn chief business correspondent christine romans joins us now with more. we often have seen revisions like this, with jobs figures, sometimes in both directions, sometimes in a positive direction, what is the significance of the revision here? it means the economy is less lousy in the second quarter than we thought, and in fact consumer spending and corporate profits were stronger and that is an underpinning here of the u.s. economy. you look at quarter by quarter by quarter, you see two quarters in a row of a shrinking u.s. economy. but shrinking much less in the second quarter than the fi