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before making landfall somewhere along that western coast of florida by midweek or so. so well be talking about this for a couple of days, early part of next week especially. so this starting small, 35 mile per hours, gusts to 45, moving west-northwest at 15. we already have tropical storm watches, hurricane watches in effect. the water is very warm in the caribbean as well as the gulf of mexico, so this is going to provide the storm with a ripe environment to thrive. we are going to s...

Country. >> what im so looking forward to about this show is just the sheer range of people youre going to be talking to. and im sure that after years of reporting on politics and current events thats one of the thrilling things to do both on hbo max and cnn. this weekend you have tyler perry, shania twain, justice breyer. that mix is always interesting. >> it is such a delight. you know, for 18 years i was doing a talk show, and each week myth be an incremental change between last week and this...

The testimony. and its very important for the justice to get as much as they can. >> yeah, john dean, ellie honing, appreciate it. an update now to a story weve been following on republican congressman matt gaetz. a source tells cnn federal prosecutors have recommended against charging gaetz in connection with their long running sex trafficking investigation. one reason according to the source doubts whether their central witness would be perceived as credible by a jury. that said were told no...

Theyre definitely buying some time by forcing notably eric hirschmans grand jury testimony, for example, to be put on hold. you know, its still a very big hurdle for trumps team. you know, notably privilege can be overcome if it touches on criminal wrongdoing. you know, history also court precedent not on trumps side here because as we know the supreme court allowed nixons tapes to be handed over to the grand jury in the 70s because it was a criminal investigation. so this is a bit of a differen...

Cnns jessica schneider joins us now with more. what exactly is going on? because we know certain former aides to the former president among them white house council pat cipollone had already appeared before the grand jury, so whos the trump team trying to block? >> anyone in the future, anderson. so what trumps legal team is trying to do here is create this firewall, a situation where this circle of former trump aides, former white house aides, if theyre called before a grand jury in the future ...

Now. >> how long could that take, john? >> could take a good while. i think whats going on here is trump has -- sees the light down at the end of the tunnel where justice kavanaugh in a prior executive privilege fight over a scope of discovery to be done by the january 6th committee, a case of trump versus thompson, kavanaugh issued a separate statement, and he said im one who believes that courts cannot prevent former presidents being blocked from using executive privilege just because an incum...