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efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. an indictment decision could be announced at any moment. it also comes as the classified documents case against the former president moves forward with yet another co-defendant in court. we're on top of these moving details. plus, an american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti as the state department is urging u.s. citizens to leave the country now. how officials are working to get them back. plus, a delta passenger sues the airline claiming that it overserved a man who went on to grope her and her underage daughter. we're following these stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. george de oliveira is out on

bond. he did not enter a formal plea in the classified documents case. he's set to be formally arraigned next week. he was indicted last week on four charges including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements for the fbi. trump, de oliveira, and nauta are said to have tried to delete security footage after it was subpoenaed by federal investigators and that the three men tried to alter and conceal evidence. of course the indictment, oliveira told mar-a-lago's i.t. director that the boss wanted the server deleted. randi kaye joins us. what do we know about carlos' first court appearance? >> it was very brief, about 20 minutes inside court. once he got inside, he huddled at the table with his lawyer, john irving, who was here from washington, d.c., surrounding

them were about five or six u.s. marshals. he greeted the judge. the judge started to read the charges. he asked if he had knew he had a right to a lawyer. he released him op a $100,000 bond and set parameters for that so he's not ee to do as he pleases. in fact, carlos de oliveira has the next 48 hours.sport within he holds a u.s. passport which is expired but he had to turn it in. he also told him he has some restrictions in terms of travel around the state of florida. he can't leave south florida without permission. he's also not allowed to make any contact with any of the witnesses that the government has i.d.'d. the special counsel's team has given his lawyer a list of those witnesses so he can't make any contact with them.

it's worth noting he did not enter a plea as you said. that will take place on august 10th in fort pierce, florida. he did not have a florida-based lawyer with him, which is needed in order to enter a plea. his d.c.-based attorney said they are working on that. this delay could of course delay the former president's trial in this case as well. there is some question about whether or not that trial will take place before election day. so we'll see what kind of further delays mean for that. >> de oliveira's team essentially doing the same thing walt nauta's team did in waiting and delaying an official arraignment. randi kaye, thanks so much. now to georgia, where it appears that trump and/or his allies could be indicted at any moment. the former president is under investigation for his efforts to overturn the state's election results. you may remember the phone call where trump asked secretary of state raffensperger to, quote, find the votes. right now security barriers are

in place, courthouse employees have been ordered to work from home, and the d.a., who has been pretty mum, just told our affiliate, "we've been working for 2 1/2 years. we're ready to go." sara murray is live in atlanta for us. all signs pointing towards an imminent indictment. what should we be expecting? >> reporter: that's right. you and i have had a lot of conversations about what imminent actually means when it comes to this case. we are now in this window where it could come any day that she decides to announce who, if anyone, will announce charges in the case. i am betting this is something we get in the next week or two. security preparations are already under way. when our affiliate here caught up with fanni willis over the weekend at a back-to-school event, she feels clear she has the security situation on the top of her mind and where her investigation stands. take a listen to what she said. >> some people may not be happy

with the decisions i was making, and sometimes when people are unhappy, they act in a way that could create harm. the work is accomplished. we've been going for 2 1/2 years. we're ready to go. >> reporter: she says "we're ready to go." today a judge gave her another boost by rejecting donald trump's team's efforts to have her disqualified from the case and the evidence she has tossed. we'll see what happens, maybe another judge weighs in on that. >> what more is the d.a. sharing about potential security threats? >> reporter: yeah. she's a black district attorney in the south, and she's been honest about the threats and harassment she and her office have faced since this trump investigation began. she was honest with her local government partners. in an email over the weekend, she forwarded this racist and sexualized threat she received and told the commissioners, this

is a sampling of what my office has been getting in the last 2 1/2 years. i want you guys to be aware and safe and vigilant and take precautions throughout the month of august. >> sara murray live in atlanta. we appreciate the report. jim? back in washington, another investigation, the special counsel's probe into donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the grand jury, which typically meets on just tuesdays and thursdays, could vote on whether to indict the former president at any time. former new york police commissioner bernie kerik is expected to meet with them. evan perez joins us. kerik was part of this effort to develop supposed evidence of fraud. is that why his testimony is key to investigators? >> right.

it's important because obviously he just turned over thousands of pages of documents that the special counsel had been trying to get for some time, jim. so the question is whether the fact that he's going in in a few days, whether that means we have to wait until after that for an indictment of the former president, which everybody is anticipating, the former president himself is anticipating, given the fact he got that target letter, or is it possible that kerik's testimony is about other players in that scheme, of course, which was to try to help keep the former president in power. tim parlatore, his attorney, was on with paula reid over the weekend, and he addressed this issue. listen. >> when you have something like this to bring an indictment before you've finished your investigation, for whatever reason they may choose to do it, it feeds directly into the trump campaign narrative about this

all being, you know, about election interference. and so i think it would be incredibly stupid for them to go forward with indicting before they finish their investigation. >> so there you have some free legal advice from jim parlatore. >> i'm sure welcomed. >> but, look, there is an issue that the former president is raising about election interference, which, let's be fair, he's going to raise no matter what. so, the question remains, is kerik's testimony key to the former president's case if that's what they're going to bring, or is it to other characters? >> to our knowledge, are there other witnesses still on the list in effect to come in, or do we not know? >> we do know of a couple other witnesses that are scheduled between now and the 17th of the month. again, you know, we've been gaming this out, we think that it's not necessary for those people to have been brought in before you bring an indictment.

again, there are other players here, other characters who are involved in this scheme who may also face legal peril. >> understood. so much to watch. evan, thank you so much. republicans are ramping up their efforts to try and link president biden to hunter biden's controversial business dealings. today, though, the republican-led house oversight committee is hearing closed-door testimony with an exbusiness partner of hunter biden, devan archer. sh he's also dealing with his own legal problems. zack, you have new reporting about what unfolded. but before we get to that, tell us about this associate of hunter biden's devin archer. >> reporter: boris, republicans really teed up this testimony today and promoted archer, the former business associate of hunter biden, as a potential bombshell witness, as somebody who might be able to deliver that kind of smoking-gun evidence linking the president

to his son, hunter biden's to, foreign business dealings. i'm hearing from sources who were in the room after hours of testimony, we just saw archer leaving, sources saying he did not deliver that smoking gun that republicans had hoped for. a source familiar with the matter tells me that, you know, archer told the committee that hunter biden was selling the illusion, in quotes, of access to his father, you know, his father not directly implicating president joe biden in any of the foreign dealings but saying hunter biden was trying to essentially trick business partners into thinking he could provide direct access to his father. we talked with congressman dan goldman, a democrat on the oversight committee. he sat through soeeveral hours the testimony today. take a listen. >> i think it is safe to say that, after yet another two hours, there still is no connection of any of hunter biden's business dealings with

president biden. i'm approximately 20 times over the course of a ten-year relationship, hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people, and they never once spoke about any business dealings as he described it. it was all considerable conversation. >> reporter: goldman explaining that archer qualified -- the topics of discussion on these phone calls as niceties, that piden didn't even know who was on the other line with his son, hunter. sources tell cnn that archer did not point the finger at any connection between joe biden and his son's foreign business dealings and rather, you know, said that he was -- that hunter biden was selling the illusion of said access. boris? >> a stunning development when you consider that republicans were selling this as a

breakthrough that would link hunter's business dealings with his father. instead, business was apparently never discussed according to archer. thank you so much. ahead this hour on "cnn news central" -- attacks in ukraine as moscow warns it may be forced to use nuclear weapons. plus, an american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. what we are learning about the two. and u.s. efforts to get them back. and we're learning why an officer was fired after his canine mauled a truck driver. and, get this, it is not because he sicked his dog on the unarmed man. subway's now slicing their meats fresh.

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least two deadly strikes here in the last 24 hours. at least four people died in kherson and another six were killed in the hometown of president volodymyr zelenskiy. listen to what one woman experienced. [ screams ] on top of all of this, a top russian security official, dmitry medvedev, warns russia may use nuclear weapons if the offensive succeeds. medvedev was president of russia at one point. we'll talk more with nic robertson. there was this drone attack on sunday, not in ukraine but in moscow. tell us what happened there. >> reporter: yeah. this sort of punctures russia's message of state media, what they call the special military operation inside ukraine. and perhaps this is what

ukrainians are trying to do with these drone attacks on moscow, which have been increasing. witnesses to this attack, you can hear them stand tong street as it happens overnight on saturday into sunday moscow time, screaming because they're shocked at what they're seeing. ukraine is bringing russia's war to the heart of its capital. now, does it let all the air out of russia's narrative that it's win? not really because they still control -- putin still controls the state media there. but when you hear statements from dimmitry medvedev indicati russia will use nuclear weapons if ukraine's counteroffensive is successful, it gives you the idea even inside the kremlin walls or close to them they're getting worried about how well the ukrainians might be about to do or how weak they feel they appear to be. as far as the drone trikes on moscow, the defense minister is calling them terrorist attacks

and the kremlin is basically trying to play them down. but the reality is they are bringing home to some russian citizens in the heart of the capital that there's a war going on, and it's dangerous. perhaps this is what kyiv wants to achieve at the moment. >> pictures are pretty stunning here. nic robertson live for us. appreciate it. jim? the american nurse reportedly kidnapped with her child in haiti described the people she met there as, quote, full of joy and life and love. alix dorsainvil was in the country working for the nonprofit her husband, sandro, had founded. the organization said thursday she and her child were taken right from the campus. that's the same day the state department ordered all american visitors to leave the country due to rising dangers there, including kidnapping. the u.s. travel advisory says kidnapping is now widespread. kylie atwood, what efforts is

the state department making to help free this american nurse and her child? >> reporter: the state department says this is an ongoing investigation. they aren't speaking to any of the specifics surrounding this kidnapping other than saying of course they are aware of these reports of this kidnapping and they aren't talking about demands obi the kidnappers or who is holding this american and their son or daughter who is with them right now. a state department spokesperson said earlier today this. >> obviously the safety and security of american citizens overseas is our highest priority. we are in regular contact with the haitian authorities and continue to work with them and our u.s. government and interagency partners. but because it's an ongoing law enforcement investigation there's no more detail i can offer. >> reporter: jim, as you said in

the introduction there, this happened on the same day that the state department withdrew many of its diplomats from haiti, nonemergency personnel at the u.s. embassy were withdrawn due to the security situation in ha haiti. i asked a state department spokesperson if there is, you know, any reason to believe there could be link anl between this kidnapping and the fact that the u.s. withdrew some of those diplomats. they said at this time there's no reason to believe there's a linkage two hubs. >> kylie, thanks so much. boris. next on "cnn news central," small-dollar donations paying donald trump's big legal bills to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. we'll have details on the numbers. and tommy tuberville's military blockade about to get worse. the heads of the army and navy are retiring in a few weeks and the senate just went on

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former president donald trump has some serious campaign coffers, and now we know how much of that money is covering mounting legal bills. cnn has learned that trump's political action committee spent $40 million this year to cover legal fees. and he could be facing more indictments before the summer is

through. cnn's kristen holmes has been tracking the numbers. what stands out most to you about these details? >> so, this $40 million is only for the first half of the year. that is incredibly large. just for comparison, in the entire year of 2022, save america pac, which is the political action committee that the bills are paid out of, only spent $16 million. now, looking at the $40 million, it is important to note this is not just donald trump's legal bills. this is covering a multitude of associates' current, former employees, staffers at mar-a-lago, aides at the white house, down at mar-a-lago, it's a huge group of people who have gotten somehow wrappp in one of these investigations or another. now we have learned it's actually opening up a legal defense fund in order to help pay for those bills. now, the legal defense fund will not take care of any of donald trump's bills but will go to the associates. we don't know how big that

umbrella is going to be. again, dozens and dozens of witnesses who come forward with lawyers paid for by save america pac. >> the other question is whether donors are unhappy about this because other candidates, a lot of donald trump's donations are small-dollar donations. >> that's right. months ago we reported that this actual structure for how donations work in trump world, that is at the very beginning when trump announced back in november, 1% of every dollar went toward save america pac and 99% went towards the campaign. quietly they shifted that structure, 10% to the save america pac and 90% toward the campaign. that's quite a significant leap and obviously because they were spending so much of this money on legal fees. when i talked to trump political advisers, they don't think this affect donors in a sense that

donors know what they're signing up for. they know he's going through legal issues, that this money could be used in that way. one thing to note is that even if the donors don't stop, as you said, a lot are small-dollar donors. if you are burning through money at this rate, can they keep up? even if you have the same amount, and you're burning through cash so quickly, that might be where the real problem is is. >> a potential challenge for the former president. republican senator tommy tuberville is holding fast to his blockade of more than 270 high-level promotions until the pentagon presents its abortion travel reimbursement policy. president biden says the protest is threatening the safety of the country. but tuberville tweeted, "all of these jobs are being done by those not affecting national security." however, the military faces an unprecedented dilemma.

come mid-august, the heads of the army and navy are scheduled to retire, and as of now, no one can formally replace them. worth noting, senators are in week one of a five-week recess, so explain where things go from here and what is at stake. >> it very much looks like things are about to go in the wrong direction with a long recess for the senate. that means there won't be progress on this issue and the holds senator tuberville has put in, a number last week that was 301. we're waiting for an update on that. it's expected to double by the end of the year. that remains in place. the senior military leaders, two stars, three, four, largely remain paralyzed with these holds unable to move into their jobs and that has a cascading effect. a number of senior pentagon officials and others have detailed how this affects the military from junior officers

having to step in and do jobs for which they are not experienced for or have the qualifications for, the retention of junior officers. we're heard this from, for example, general charles q. brown, the nominee chosen to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs, all talking about how this affects military readiness, how it has the potential to affect retengts if this keeps playing out. all indications are that it will continue doing so, and that appear s to be the issue. the pentagon has tried to put pressure on tuberville to give up on these holds and allow these nominations to move forward. but as we saw from that fwtweet it's had little effect and tuberville is not moving from his position. that means there's an open question about how long he's going to keep this up. it looks like quite a while now as even more and more officers are not only on hold but warning of the effects of this.

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cnn has obtained new body cam footage of the incident where former ohio police officer, now former, released a police canine on an unarmed black man with his hands up. in the new video, former circleville pd officer ryan speakman, who was fired in the wake of the incident, could be heard attempting to justify his actions, but in one of the initial videos released from the incident, you can hear one of the other officers on the scene calling for him not to release the canine. >> with his hands up. do not release the dog with his hands up. do not release the dog with his hands up. don't! >> here! >> do not -- do not! >> in the wake of this, speakman was fired, but new documents obtained by cnn show the

department fired him not because he released the canine on an unarmed man but because he talked about the incident with family members and colleagues who were not cleared to hear those details. he then allegedly lied to his police chief about who he shared those sensitive details with. cnn's isabel rosales has been looking into this story, the footage, the documents. this is remarkable. he was fired but not because he released the dog on an unarmed man even as his colleagues were saying don't release the dog? >> that is correct, jim. i went through about 50 pages of newly released documents, including the most important part from the police chief, chief sean bare. in it, he describes speakman as emotionally distraught, crying, stressed out over this july 4th incident and repeatedly talking about it with colleagues. in fact, his chief ordered him, it says here, to stop talking

about it and had him compile a list of those he had spoken with, sharing confidential details about that day. and ultimately, that list, these documents show, continued to grow and grow beyond circleville poliartment employees. the chief wrote in h report, "ryan speakman disclosing information to everyone as well as his emotional state had potential to impact the investigation." remember that use of force investigation and an internal investigation were going toen at the same time. these documents show the termination was based not on the dog attack, which he was cleared for, speakman was clearefor, but rather due to violating department policy. here's what it says. "including unauthorized and inappropriate release of confidential or protected investigation." that new body cam footage, it is the first time we're seeing up close and personal that a dog

attack, that deployment from the body camera of ryan speakman, the fired officer, and another colleague of his. you can hear what happens during that right after where he tries to justify what it is that occurred and how he's also confused as to why state troopers seemed to be unhappy with him. we'll show you this video, but it is graphic. >> police, canine, you're going to get bit! >> why are y'all -- >> police canine, you're going to get bit. final chance. you're going to get bit. here. here. [ screaming ] >> get him off, please! >> seemed pissed off.

>> i don't know. >> he didn't comply. gave him three commands. i told him final warning. not seen that happen before. he wasn't complying. >> we also have this report from the man himself, a former officer ryan speakman, where he acknowledges in the report that he did hear state troopers give commands right before that dog attack, but he does not address within that report whether he heard them telling him not to release the dog. jim. >> is there any continuing investigation of the actual decision to release the dog given what we've just seen there? >> as far as we can tell, this is the use of force board has said he followed the canine policy but not the policy of being a police officer.

that's why he was fired. and of course this goes on to the now rose and the charge against him. it will be up to a prosecutor. they are weighing, his family and himself, are weighing civilly suing the department for this. >> we see this in cases like this. thanks so much. delta air lines is facing a federal lawsuit after a male passenger allegedly groped a mother and her teenage daughter on board an international flight last summer. the lawsuit claims that flight attendants overserved alcohol to the passenger and dismissed the woman's concern when she told hem that the man was making her and her daughter feel unsafe. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is with us now on this. a pretty unbelievable detail from this lawsuit. walk us through it. >> it's really interesting because this is something that the airline industry is really concerned about in a big way, passengers being overserved, and

we see these play out in assault incidents not just against flight crews but in this case, according to the federal lawsuit, against the passenger and her 16-year-old daughter. the suit says about a year ago, july 26th, 2022, they were on this eight-hour flight from jfk to athens, seated in the back of the plane near the galley, where the flight attendants work, in the middle section of the plane, a wide-body, so aisle seats again. so they said that this passenger was so drunk to begin with, and then the flight crew continually served him drinks according to this lawsuit. d in fact, one of the flight attendants, according to this lawsuit, even joked as this passenger ordered a drink that only an alcoholic would order a drink before the flight took off. and so this lawsuit essentially lays out that this passenger was served ten drinks, according to this mom and her daughter, in the course of three hours. >> ten vodkas over ice among other drinks. >> yes.

>> right? >> and they were consistently brushed off by the flight crew. then things escalated from there. not only were their words exchanged between this drunk male passenger and the 16-year-old daughter seated in the middle there, but then this lawsuit alleges that this man not only touched her bra strap but also touched her thigh. and so some really serious allegations here. and now delta air lines is the defendant in this suit. the plaintiffs, we don't ono their names. they're withheld in this suit. but it really sort of lays out the onus on delta here to sort of protect these passengers. it's not only in their contract that they can boot a passenger if they appear to be drunk, but it's also against federal regulations. it's laid out in federal regulation part 121, aing if a passenger appears drunk, it is on the airline to not serve them, period. >> it seems clear in this case, the daughter, the mother, they're making the case, hey, we feel unsafe.

>> right. >> the daughter is having panic attack symptoms because she feels trapped. >> ultimately they were able to hud into the galley, but a lot of passengers were paying attention to this. one other passenger came to the rescue and switched seats. that sort of defused the situation. but the real kicker here is that this man after this flight landed in athens, we walked free. there was no punishment against him. >> that is pretty unbelievable. >> no doubt. >> we'll follow it. thank you so much. boris? we're getting new insight into a debate that's unfolding behind the scenes at the supreme court over ethics rules. the issue remains front and center after a series of revelations, including justices not disclosing luxury trips, real else tate deals, and more. cnn's bianna golodryga is in for jake tapper on "the lead" today. cnn has learned more about chief justice john roberts, his efforts to get all justices on the same page over these rules. that is proving to be a tough

task. >> yeah, boris. this reporting comes to us revealing that chief justice john roberts has been seeking unanimity among the nine justices on these ethics standards. we know the current supreme court are the only members of the federal judiciary not covered by these standards. this goes back to the controversial statements from last week from justice samuel alito to the editorial board after a four-hour interview with the "wall street journal," where he said that -- he voluntarily follows disclosure statutes if for lower-court judges. but this raised eyebrows. he said congress did not create the supreme court, and it's a controversial rule, but no provision in the constitution gives them authority to regulate the supreme court, period. alito went on in this interview to characterize a number of the

justices. here's how he described chief justice john roberts. he said john roberts puts a high premium on consensus, that he rarely dissents, and this speaks to the reporting joan is bringing us as to what roberts is hoping to achieve. doesn't look like he's getting there. we'll have joan on for more. >> look forward to more of that reporting at 4:00 p.m. on "the lead" with jake tapper. my friend, bianna golodryga, in the chair for jake today. thank you. paul reubens best known for his role as pee wee herman has died. what we are learning about his six-year private health struggle. so you only y pay for what you need. that's my y boy. now you get out there, and you make us proud, huh? ♪ bybye, uncle limu. ♪ stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need.

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hollywood saying good-bye to paul rubens, the actor best known for playing pee wee herman. according to the announcement, paul bravely and privately fought cancer for years with his trademark tenacity and wit. he was 70 years old. khloe is joining us now on this story. tributes pouring in. what are you hearing? >> reporter: yes, so there are so many tributes, brianna, but i have one that i wanted to read from natasha leo she writes love you so much, paul. one and all time. thank you for my career, and your forever friendship all of these years and for teaching us what i true original is. and #pee wee herman. and i told you that really touched me was that paul ruben, a.k.a. pee wee herman, he had

prepared a statement for his fans because he had been battling cancer for the last six years and you don't really see that when a statement is released around the death of a celebrity. you rarely see something coming out that had been prepared by the star. and in it he writes, please accept my apology for not going public with what i've been facing these last six years. and i think that that is just really touching because he acknowledges the fact that this comes as a surprise to so many people that he was privately battling cancer for last several years and he was a very private person. so many people are mourning his loss today and the impact that he made on children's programming. >> yeah. they certainly are. khloe, thank you for that. and we will be right back.

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so, you've heard of the prarng ding-dong ditch, neighborhood kids ringing door bells and running. these guys did that before. well a teenager is going viral on tiktok for changing the game up. but not for the reason you may think. have a listen. >> there is always going to be somebody that cares about you and you're a good person, no matter what people say, you matter. >> so that -- that is 13-year-old jackson. he said he and his friends were goofing around when he decided to switch things up and say something nice. as for the homeowner, she happens to be a mental health

professional for college students. >> this young kid came up to my random door bell to just say, hey, you matter. just wanting to spread kindness and, you know, positivity and it just made me feel like i should do the same thing. >> such an uplifting message. the woman posted the video on her tiktok. his message has now been seen 5.1 million times. >> that is so nice. i wish that is the way social media really was. instead you get awful comments. brianna you wanted to share something with us. >> i did something bad when i was little. it wasn't nice like that kid. >> what did you do? >> i filled my grandparent's car filled up with sand. >> you're poor grandparents. >> delayed their trip. >> i hope the statute of limitations has passed. >> i think it has. i hope. >> we'll call her gran