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before making landfall somewhere along that western coast of florida by midweek or so. so we'll 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 see this storm intensify rapidly once it gets into the gulf of mexico, and that's the huge concern. ...

Country. >> what i'm so looking forward to about this show is just the sheer range of people you're going to be talking to. and i'm sure that after years of reporting on politics and current events that's 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 week and the build back better plan. and that's important. and i enjoy current events and topic...

The testimony. and it's 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 we've 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 we're told no formal or final decision has been made. next a live report from ukraine as people from occupie...

They're definitely buying some time by forcing notably eric hirschman's grand jury testimony, for example, to be put on hold. you know, it's still a very big hurdle for trump's team. you know, notably privilege can be overcome if it touches on criminal wrongdoing. you know, history also court precedent not on trump's side here because as we know the supreme court allowed nixon's 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 different scenario that has not been fully tested in the courts, so we're going to see how quickly he...

Cnn's 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 who's the trump team trying to block? >> anyone in the future, anderson. so what trump's 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 they're called before a grand jury in the future they would have this broad ability to deflect questions under this premise of either executive p...