an economic kacatastrophe? plus, he s known for pushing kremlin propaganda. now the head of wagner is claiming a u.s. citizen, another one, was killed in the battle for bakhmut. is he telling the truth? testimony today calling to regulate artificial intelligence, fears that malicious actors will use this amazing technology to commit fraud on a global scale. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. just hours before he heads overseas, president biden s trip on the world stage has already been cut short. sources telling cnn the white house has cancelled the second leg of the tour to australia, to papa new guinea. let s listen in on speaker kevin mccarthy and the white house right now. the president agreed to appoint a couple people from his administration to sit down and negotiate directly with my team so i found that to be productive personally. but we ve got a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. i wish we had been able to be in this place a hundred days ago. this is
excuse to escalate its brutal war on ukraine. a new warning from facebook owner meta this morning. how they say ai could target your cell phone. what you need to know to keep your device safe. new this morning what could be a major move in the classified documents probe involving president biden. the special counsel has now made contact with biden s former executive assistant. she just testified before a house committee. it s coming up right here on cnn news central. so there is breaking news out of russia this morning, and to be clear, these are claims from russia. there is new video circulating online that shows what russia claims is a drone attack on the kremlin. cnn has not been able to independently verify this video. russian state media claimed that two ukrainian drones were flown toward the kremlin overnight. russia says this was some kind of an attack on vladimir putin s life, an attempt, i should say. ukraine responded saying they have nothing to do with
verdict guilty. convictions on all four charges including two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his wife margaret and son paul until life 2021. you seeing him being led away, they re put in a van, taken away from the courthouse. just moments ago, we are waiting for a conference with will be taking place any moment, now our randi kaye was in the courthouse when the verdicts were read. andy, it is extraordinary how quickly the jury came to this verdict, what was it like in the courtroom when the verdicts were read? yeah, anderson, and took them just about three and a half hours or so to find alex murdaugh guilty on all for the accounts, no way tried to read the jury as they fall back into the courtroom, none of them looked to the right of the courtroom when murdaugh sixth and the family set. they all basically had their heads down as they got into the courtroom, also, anderson, you can see the alex murdaugh, we have this precip that is just about the start he
nothing but drama, we re on multiple days now with multiple candidates from this group. so i m not sure how lauren boebert on one hand can demand so much out of kevin mccarthy but then demand nothing out of someone else and be willing to vote for them as speaker. marjorie taylor greene saying the american people are sick of drama. has marjorie taylor greene met marjorie taylor greene? that s rich. three days, 11 rounds of slvoti and still no speaker. good morning, everyone. kaitlan is in washington d.c., again. and kevin mccarthy is suffering a historic defeat. hours from now, what will happy ahead of the chamber s 12th vote. they re hoping there s a glimmer of hope. there have been tense negotiations happening behind closed doors, questions whether or not a final proposal may be on the horizon. something that mccarthy and some of the party holdouts can agree on. we ll wait to see if the hard liners can. and also this morning what we are laerearning about the suspect of
circuit didn t have the jurisdiction to act when it did. and now they want the supreme court to step in. notably, this request from trump s team goes directly to justice clarence thomas. but that is actually because he oversees all petitions that come in from the 11th circuit. it is likely here that justice thomas will refer this to the full court to decide this issue. but anderson, we have seen trump appeal to the supreme court several times in the next few years, with little success. it was just earlier this year that the justices allowed the january 6th select committee to gain access to the white house record, notably justice thomas dissented from that. and back in 2020, they ruled that they could not block his financial documents from prosecutors in new york. so this was filed as an emergency order, the justices could potentially rule pretty quickly after the doj response to this early next week on tuesday. what does it mean for the justice departments investigation, t