what president biden has called playing politics with human beings, former governor ron desantis, promised these flights are only the beginning. so they ve been in texas identifying people trying to come to florida and then offering them free transportation to sanctuary jurisdictions, and so they went from texas to florida to martha s vineyard. it was a flight. there s also going to be buses and there ll likely be more flights. but i ll tell you this, the legislature gave me $12 million. we re going to spend every penny of that to make sure we re protecting the people of the state of florida. governor ron desantis along with the governor of texas are transporting migrants to well-known liberal enclaves. critics say they re being used as props. the governors and their supporters say it s a protest of what is an inadequate federal response. for more on the politics of this debate in a moment. cnn s miguel marquez has been on martha s vineyard and has their story. reporter
no indication. where celebration was he contemplating. some event in the madison area. he planned this for several weeks, for the highland park shooting. any last questions for the state s attorney? all right, folks. this is probably going to conclude our formal press briefings on this matter. if there is breaking news or anything major that does develop, we will call a press conference. otherwise, i would not anticipate major press briefings like this. investigators have months to go continuing their investigation into this. we ll be collaborating very closely with the state s attorneys office. they will be collaborating with their federal partners. we will be collaborating with our federal partners. any specific questions please reach out directly. is he on suicide watch? he s been classified now. i don t know. and with that, the end of today s briefing, thank you for staying with us for andrea mitchell reports as we continue our coverage of the breaking news f
u.s. and china deteriorated to their lowest point in decades. real tension, particularly over taiwan. secretary of state antony blinken speaking today with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. as cnn learned exclusively of plans under way for a prisoner swap, trading convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for detained wnba star brittney griner and marine veteran paul whelan. we re watching that closely. let s begin with the new gdp numbers, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here with more. christine, break down, a lot of numbers not just you but economists follow, this headline number is not good. this is gdp gross domestic product. it is the largest gauge of the size of the economy and it this rank 0.9% in the second quarter. this is a rear view mirror looking picture, and that s after the economy this rank 1.6% in the first quarter, that first quarter was blamed on the omicron variant and how much was going through the economy with supply chain pro
sharell after her meeting with biden and others that there is a sense that their fates are very much linked. the biden administration is talking to russia about bringing both of these americans home and offering to russia what they think ought to be enough to bring them both home. paul whelan has been detained longer than brittney griner, but it s this pressure that biden has faced publicly from sharell griner and the wnba, the nba and many, many others that has really brought this situation to this point. anderson, i want to add, you know, one thing i did ask her. she s been talking to her wife via letters over the last several months. and she said that just in the last few weeks, those letters have really taken a very dark turn. she said, her wife is really at a breaking point. she said, she is losing it, partly because what comes next is an appeal process. that appeal process is not really likely to go brittney griner s way. and if it does not, she could be
yes, we have said, and it really wasn t my words, it is the words of my members, it is go time, it is the words of our brothers over at the mvpa, to rally his brothers over there in the nba to provide support. i am very hopeful that this go time moment, the mobilization of so many different organizations, the afl-cio, athletes for impact, athlete allies, so many coming together mobilizing around b.g., saying her name and talking about this case, i m hopeful what that did show president biden and his administration was that he had the support, he has our support to do whatever is necessary to bring them home. we know brittney had written a letter to president biden recently and that her wife