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Passengers Evacuate Plane After Landing Gear Incident Sparks Fire; Southwest Airlines Plane Dives As Fighter Jet Crosses Its Path; 11 Injured In Stabbing Attack At Walmart In Michigan; IDF Announces "Tactical Pause" In 3 Areas Of Gaza; Lawmakers Back In Home Districts Facing Constituents In Townhalls; FEMA Memo: Program Cuts Would Create "A Less Secure Nation". Aid Trucks Move into Gaza as Hunger Crisis Grows; Hamas Weaponizing Aid Says Trump; DOJ Wraps Up Second Day of Meetings with Ghislaine Maxwell. Aired 7-8a ET

Aired July 27, 2025 - 07:00   ET

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VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN HOST: Welcome to CNN This Morning. It is Sunday, July 27th. It's always a pleasure to be with you. I'm Victor Blackwell.

Here's what's happening this morning. Passengers on an American Airlines flight scrambled down emergency slides just after a fire broke out. This happened right before takeoff. We'll tell you what caused it.

A man in Michigan has been arrested. Police say he started just stabbing people in Walmart. What police say about that.

Aid convoys are headed toward Gaza right now after the IDF declared a humanitarian pause in fighting. Israel has been under pressure, as you know, as people in Gaza are starving to death. We are live in the region.

Also, a new video this morning out of Missouri where a state of emergency is in effect. Water rescues are happening right now. We'll update you on that in a moment.

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GWYNETH PALTROW, TEMPORARY SPOKESPERSON: Hi, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. I've been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300 plus employees at Astronomer.

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BLACKWELL: How did she get in it? Damage control in a way. Gwyneth Paltrow will tell you why she's stepping in to help out Astronomer after that viral kiss cam moment.

We're beginning this hour in Denver, though, where passengers had to evacuate an American Airlines flight after the landing gear caught fire just before takeoff.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's just fire.

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BLACKWELL: Passengers on the flight say that they heard a loud bang. They saw some flames. One witness says that the plane started shaking violently before tilting to the side on the runway.

American says the fire started from a combination of blown tires and the plane decelerating as it great. One person was injured during that evacuation.

CNN Aviation Analyst Mary Schiavo joins me now. Mary, good morning to you. So first explain how could this happen? We heard about the blown tires and the deceleration, but I imagine that not every blown tire results in a fire like this.

MARY SCHIAVO, CNN AVIATION ANALYST: Not everyone, but, you know, I've been on one of these emergencies where there was a problem with the landing gear and there's just so much heat and friction. In that case, that was the nose wheel. And there's just so much heat and friction. Of course, tires burn and there's lots of fluids there, hydraulic fluids, brake fluids, et cetera, that it is easy to have a fire.

But the flip side is modern technology. Survivability technology means that the interiors of the plane are far less flammable than they used to be. And the evacuation standard, 90 seconds, everybody has to be able to get off the plane no matter how big or small it is. That's what saves lives and why we can have so many of these incidents and everybody lives.

BLACKWELL: Yes. Speaking of getting off the plane in 90 seconds and everybody lives, if you watch this video, people are coming down with backpacks and purses and carry-ons. This guy had a bunch of stuff with him. What do you think when you see this? We all watched the video of what to do in an emergency.

SCHIAVO: Well, and the flight attendants do bark the orders, leave your things and go. And I've talked to people after a number of these evacuations and some of them say it was just instinct. I'm just so used to grabbing my -- you know, I'll use a woman, for example, I'm just so used to grabbing my purse. But getting stuff out of the bins, that's a whole different story.

And that really does slow down and that could make the difference of life and death for other passengers behind you. But some people say they're just on reflex because it is, you know, it's scary. There's smoke, there's fire and people just grab what they do and go.

BLACKWELL: Yes, and fortunately everybody got off of this plane. What's the FAA role in preventing something like this or NTSB?

SCHIAVO: This is probably -- they're going to be looking at several things. One is maintenance, one is the tire, you know, what was going wrong? Is this something systemic or is this just a maintenance issue with this particular plane or tire? They're also going to be looking at something called FOD, free object damage.

Was there something on the runway? And of course, they will once again look to the fact that this was Denver. The newest, you know, fully newest airport that we've built. It has long parallel runways, high- speed runways, no obstructions at the end.

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So this plane was in a better position than other accidents we've seen recently. For example, the one we covered in South Korea where there were obstructions at the end. So this plane needed a nice, big, long runway with nothing in the way. Denver was the place to be.

BLACKWELL: All right, let's talk about this Southwest Airlines incident from Friday. Had to dive quickly after a privately owned fighter jet came within a couple of miles of it. I didn't know that there were privately owned fighter jets that were out there. What's the oversight of privately owned fighter jets?

SCHIAVO: Well, this was what they call a legacy plane. It was a 50- year-old plane. It's a historical aircraft. And, you know, these things have been -- some of them are like warbirds. They perform at air shows. This was a company that supposedly leases them for various functions. But it's a civilian aircraft and it should have been under air traffic control.

So they're going to be looking at why did they come so close. Lateral separation should have been, you know, 1,000 feet and 5 miles where they were in the phase of flight. And it should have gone under positive air traffic control because commercial flights are in America.

And the plane apparently did not get the warning of this plane entering the pattern, much like the flight in North Dakota last week. And that one was under military control. But there we have learned the tower did know. So here we have to find out what did air traffic control know, why weren't they separated?

And it's possible that the other plane entered the pattern without control, but I doubt it. There's -- that will be what the FAA is going to focus on.

BLACKWELL: All right, Mary, it's good to talk to you on a Sunday morning. We're doing this too often, listing off all of these --

SCHIAVO: I know.

BLACKWELL: -- incidents in the air across the country. But thanks for your expertise.

SCHIAVO: Thank you.

BLACKWELL: 11 people were injured in what police call a random stabbing attack at a Walmart. This happened in Michigan. This person used a folding knife. The suspect is 42 years old and in custody.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff said there was a citizen involvement in the arrest and in helping the injured on the scene. Authorities believe the suspect acted alone and called the stabbings a series of random acts. Six of the victims are in critical condition. Five are in serious condition.

Breaking news on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Gaza health officials are reporting more starvation deaths this morning. And a Gaza hospital says that more people were killed trying to access food. We're getting new images of some Palestinians receiving aid as convoys continue to make their way to Gaza.

The Israeli military says it is temporarily halting military operations in portions of Gaza to allow aid to move in. The IDF, excuse me, shared this video of airdrops of aid into Gaza. Israel is pushing back, though, on widespread claims that coming or in from around the world that they're trying to starve Gazans.

Let's get to CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson. So what can you tell us about the humanitarian situation there now and what's happening during this, as they call it, tactical pause?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, Victor, that's right. It was very interesting to see the rationale laid out and the details, of course, as well, by the IDF for why they were improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza. And just as you said, they were reacting to the international pressure and pushing back against the perception that Israel is intentionally blockading and trying to starve the people of Gaza, something the IDF and the Israeli government blames on Hamas.

What is actually happening today is a revert in some ways by the Israeli government, by the IDF, to what -- to how they were supplying aid at the very beginning of this year, before a ceasefire, then before the complete blockade, before the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, this U.S.-Israeli-backed organization that hands out aid in small amounts in some parts of Gaza.

So what's actually happening? Well, the Egyptians are telling us there's 100 trucks on the way to the border on their side to go into Gaza. They say there's about 1,200 tons of food aid, 840 tons of that will be flour, they say, which, of course, is desperately needed, 60 trucks on their way from Jordan. That's 160 trucks total today.

The need in Gaza every day is 600 trucks, but this is the momentum started. And the reason that the momentum has started is because the IDF has laid out plans for what they call humanitarian corridors.

Now, they say they're still in conflict, still in battle with Hamas in Gaza, but these humanitarian corridors have humanitarian windows, pauses in the battle in those areas nominally.

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Maybe we're talking six, eight, 10-hour pauses in certain areas, on certain routes, so this aid can get more readily to the Gazans. So that's what started up.

Now, some U.N. organizations have pushed back and said, look, the Israeli government, we're on it, we're doing everything we can, we're working super fast, but when you flick the switch overnight, without prior warning, we can't get our distribution points set up in the way that they were so quickly. That is happening, however.

The IDF were also saying last week they distributed 600 trucks of food aid within Gaza. Again, that's 600 across a week. It's 600 a day that Gaza needs. But this does seem to represent that pressure, international pressure, on the starvation that's happening in Gaza, causing a change of action by the Israeli government.

BLACKWELL: Nic Robertson for us in Jerusalem. Thank you.

So lawmakers are back in their home districts, holding town hall meetings with their constituents during the congressional recess. The Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files is a major topic at those meetings. Some Republicans, some Democrats also pushing for more transparency. Democrats in particular are focusing on the Epstein fallout during town halls in Republican-held districts.

CNN's Julia Benbrook has more.

JULIA BENBROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Victor, the main takeaway from these town halls when it comes to the Epstein investigation specifically is that it doesn't seem like this topic is just going to go away anytime soon. When the Department of Justice and the FBI released a memo a couple of weeks ago now announcing that they had not found a so-called client list incriminating associates of Jeffrey Epstein, it really reignited this conversation.

And that memo came just months after Attorney General Pam Bondi hyped up soon-to-be-released documents and suggested that she had the so- called client list sitting on her desk. She has since clarified that she was speaking about other documents. But all of that to say that there are still questions, and despite President Donald Trump's calls for his supporters to move on to other topics that he thinks are more important right now, some of the loudest calls for more information, more transparency, are coming from the president's own MAGA base.

And that is something that Democrats are looking to seize on. Here's one example as Senator Chris Murphy spoke with voters on Saturday during a town hall.

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SEN. CHRIS MURPHY (D), CONNECTICUT: Donald Trump's approval ratings are, you know, according to the latest poll, down below 40 percent. He's in those Epstein files. And so, once it becomes clear that he was lying through his teeth about releasing them in order to protect himself, those numbers are going to go even further down because his base is going to realize that they got duped by this guy in a number of ways.

(END VIDEOCLIP) BENBROOK: While recent reporting does show that Bondi informed Trump back in May that his name, among others, is mentioned in documents related to Epstein, it is very important to note that that does not mean there is any evidence of wrongdoing or that Trump had any knowledge of Epstein's criminal activities when the two ran in similar social circles decades ago.

Now, some are accusing Democrats of playing political games as they increase their calls for more transparency on this when the documents weren't released during the Biden administration either. Recent CNN polling shows that 50 percent of Americans say that they are dissatisfied with the amount of information they've received from the federal government when it comes to the Epstein case.

Julia Benbrook, CNN, Washington.

BLACKWELL: Flash flooding has led to a state of emergency in the town of Elsberry, Missouri, this morning. That's about an hour north of St. Louis. Officials say that water rescues and evacuations are happening right now.

5 to 8 inches of rain have already inundated the county. Rain is still falling and expected to fall throughout the day. A flash flood warning is also in effect.

Today, President Trump will meet with the European Commission president in Scotland to talk about transatlantic trade relations, trying to solve the tariff fight there. White House officials say the talks will center on ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union. The E.U. is working to reach an agreement before 30 percent tariffs take effect August 1st. The president says there's a 50-50 chance of reaching a deal as both sides try to avoid that costly trade fight.

Former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper is hinting at a possible run for U.S. Senate in 2026. At a state Democratic dinner last night, he asked attendees to stand if they plan to run for office. Then stayed standing himself and he joked, I'm not sitting down, am I?

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A North Carolina seat is seen as a chance for Democrats to flip a Republican health seat. Republican Senator Thom Tillis currently holds it and recently announced that he will not seek re-election.

Still ahead, a stark warning from FEMA as the Atlantic hurricane season enters its busy period. How a proposed billion-dollar funding cut could affect the agency.

Also, Gwyneth Paltrow has added her name to the defense, I guess, of Astronomer. She's a spokeswoman for just a short period. We have a new twist in the Coldplay Kiss Cam scandal.

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[07:20:26] BLACKWELL: FEMA is proposing gutting nearly $1 billion in disaster preparedness and security grants and internal memos shows that the agency knows this is a major risk. CNN's Gabe Cohen has details.

GABE COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, in recent months, the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem have been overhauling FEMA to shrink the agency's footprint and to really shift responsibility for disaster preparedness, response and recovery onto states.

Now, we've obtained these memos that show DHS and FEMA are proposing cutting the majority of FEMA's emergency management and Homeland Security grant programs. Nearly $1 billion in funding that goes to a wide range of initiatives in communities across the country. We are talking about disaster preparedness, anti-terrorism, cyber security, staffing and training for local first responders, even an early warning system for disasters. All of it potentially on the chopping block.

Now, leadership says this is really about refocusing FEMA on its core emergency management mission. But these memos that I've obtained, they really acknowledge in stark terms the potential risk in eliminating each one of these 19 programs. For example, cutting the biggest program on the list, this $550 million security grant program for big cities to prepare for major disasters like terror attacks.

Well, cutting that, the memo says, could create a, quote, "less secure nation," especially at the border and in some of the nation's most targeted cities, including Miami, Washington, D.C. and Dallas. Eliminating another disaster preparedness program, according to the memo, could leave state and local governments more vulnerable to catastrophic incidents. And ending yet another one that secures public transit from terrorism would, the memo says, "contradict the administration's commitment to a safer and more secure country."

Now, I reached out to the Department of Homeland Security with a long list of questions about these proposed cuts. They called these memos cherry-picked. Those were their words, although they did acknowledge a goal of cutting what they called unaccountable programs. They sent me a statement saying in part, "For years, taxpayer dollars have flowed to bloated grants, political pet projects and groups with questionable ties. That ends now."

So as of now, it appears they are pushing forward with these proposed cuts, although I'll note it will likely take the approval of the White House and Congress in order to get that done.

Gabe Cohen, CNN, Washington.

BLACKWELL: Gabe, thank you.

Still ahead, the Trump administration is moving to deport migrant children more quickly, even asking some teenagers if they want to self-deport.

Also, Rapper GloRilla reported a burglary at her home, but she's the one now facing charges. Those stories and more in this morning's roundup.

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BLACKWELL: Israeli military says it paused fighting in parts of Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to move in. But a Gaza hospital reports that 11 people, at least 11, have been killed at an aid site.

We're starting the Weekend Roundup right now with former Associated Press Global Manager Alex Sanz, Court TV Anchor Julia Jenae, and comedian Rachel LaForce. Thank you for being with us all.

And Alex, let me start here because before this allowance of airdrops and the trucks to come in, Israel and the U.S. have faced criticism for the starvation that we're seeing. More than 1,000 people killed at sites or trying to get food. Is this a reaction to the political reality versus the humanitarian reality?

ALEX SANZ, FELLOW, THE POYNTER INSTITUTE: It's a bit of both. There has certainly been pressure for months building that what we are seeing now is something that a lot of experts, the U.N., has been warning and foreshadowing for a while, specifically around the malnutrition of children and their families. Latest numbers from Gaza yesterday was 85 children, 127 people so far have died from malnutrition, a fraction of the almost 60,000 Palestinians killed over the course of this war.

But they're saying these are the early signs of what we can expect to see more of, that these aid trucks that are now coming in, while that's great, they still fall short of the hundreds the U.N. says it needs every single day to really bring in the food and supplies that these families need. One day is great, but they say for this to turn around to really help these children and families, this has to be sustained for weeks and weeks and weeks to help that turn around.

JULIA JENAE, ANCHOR, COURT TV: Yes. That's -- when you're saying those numbers about the waves that need to come in and that it needs to be so extensive, it's being called an inflection point, that this is that moment that everyone needs to pay attention, policies, positions, politics needs to go out of the window. And starving children, that's something that everyone can see and it changes outlooks. So hopefully this can actually be an inflection point.

SANZ: And we also saw this make a statement from the Associated Press, from the BBC, from Reuters, from a FP saying, our eyes and ears on the ground, our journalists are now facing the same conditions that the people there are making a very difficult story to cover even more difficult. And they're worried that if this aid doesn't reach the people and the journalists there, it's going to be even harder to get real-time accounting of what's happening on the ground.

VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Yes. We actually had on some NGOs who say that their workers as well were facing the same food insecurity. And the question is, why? Why is this happening now? What we've heard from Israel and the U.S. is a version of this. Let me play from Thursday, this is a spokesperson at the State Department. And then I'll tell you what they actually found.

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TOMMY PIGOTT, STATE DEPARTMENT PRINCIPAL DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON: In terms of the food is that Hamas, through looting the food, has led to weaponization. They're weaponizing aid when they're able to. We have a system in place attempting to get as much aid into Gaza as possible in a way where it is not being looted by Hamas. That is the reality that we're seeing. That is the reality that we're pushing for, trying to get as much aid in there as we possibly can.

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BLACKWELL: And so, the blockade they've said and the use of this Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, that is controversial at best, they've said it's to stop Hamas from looting. There's USAID study that we found at CNN, they had, that said there is no evidence of widespread looting by Hamas. And so, the question is then, why? If there is no evidence of widespread looting, then why is there the holdback? Why is there the blockade?

SANZ: It's the pressure. It's the pressure campaign to achieve the end goal, which for Israel, as they have said from the beginning of this, it is to eliminate Hamas as an entity so that they can have the peace that they've been seeking for a long time.

The humanitarian groups that are working in these conditions will say, that may be an important goal for Israel, but they're -- in their world, they have to feed people and help families. And even with the access that's coming in today, it's still only a handful of areas getting the airdrops, getting this help. They say that relief is needed and they're not getting the level of relief they need anytime soon, they don't think.

BLACKWELL: Julia, let me talk about Jeffrey Epstein. Because the president is overseas. This is a domestic issue that is going to meet him when he returns. The House Oversight Subcommittee, they've now voted to subpoena the Epstein files. Now, let's put aside for a moment the political mess that'll cause if DOJ fights them on handing that over.

JENAE: Sure.

BLACKWELL: Republicans who want those. But talk about what that fight looks like. Traditionally, would the DOJ have an edge in protecting and keeping those files from getting to Congress?

JENAE: They may have an edge to keep it if it's an ongoing investigation. And we're seeing things differently though than we would when it comes to a Department of Justice investigation. We're seeing a lot more transparency. Perhaps it's on purpose for us to see so much, but to even know about a DOJ official going to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell over the course of two days, that she's there talking to them and giving them apparently everything that they want to know, answering all of their questions, we wouldn't typically know that in the public. And I think it's very intentional that we are hearing about everything that's happening bit by bit. And it's because we have this backlash of people wanting to know what's going on. I'm on pins and needles to hear what Maxwell is saying.

BLACKWELL: Do you think you will hear it though?

JENAE: I don't -- I'm not sure.

BLACKWELL: OK. OK.

JENAE: I'm not sure, because this is so different, right?

BLACKWELL: Yes.

JENAE: We are hearing about things in a way that we wouldn't normally. The DOJ works behind the scenes. It's very difficult. We know as journalists to even get that information when it's an ongoing investigation. And even once it's done, sometimes it takes an act from the president -- I mean, congress to get those files then released to the public. But I think in a situation like this, we will hear.

And it'll be interesting if she has changed her tune at all, because three years ago at her federal sentencing, I was listening to her and she never takes accountability for her own role. She points the finger at Jeffrey Epstein, basically telling the victims, I'm sorry this happened to you. I'm sorry that you have experienced this unfairness, unjust, but she never took any accountability.

BLACKWELL: Yes. And so, where'd this go from here? Because these members of Congress are on recess until September and they're hearing from Republican constituents who are passionate at these town halls, it's different if there are members of the other party who were shouting at you. But if it's your voters, that may carry a little more weight.

SANZ: We have seen this aver of this already earlier this year, in those earlier town halls, and the number of people coming out really concerned about the broader changes happening in government. This could potentially lead to those exchanges over the summer. The question that we keep hearing is, is this transparency for the sake of showing that something is being done that's different than this actually happening?

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And at the end of the day, getting the information that is really missing that people say, this is why we have the backlash. We don't have the answers to these questions. Where is the list? Where does that go from here? That's what I think people are waiting to see. What happens once that recess is over and Congress is back, does the information get to a place where people can access it? What does it say ultimately and potentially who is implicated?

BLACKWELL: All right. Everybody stay with me. And after the break. we are starting with -- show a little bit of it. "South Park" this week. Rachel, you're up first on this. The fallout from this season premiere.

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BLACKWELL: We're back now with Alex Sanz, Rachel LaForce, and Julia Jenae. "South Park's" latest season, premiere, season 27, which is remarkable. It started with a bang this week. They skewered both President Trump and their own parent company, Paramount. Watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys saw what happened to CVS? He said, well, guess who own CVS. Don't. You really want to end up the (INAUDIBLE). You guys got to stop being stupid.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We can't understand you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just shut up. We're going to get canceled, you idiots.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, are you on the list or not? It's weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not telling everyone to relax. Relax, guys.

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BLACKWELL: Yes, and it got much worse than that. Rachel, you saw this as one of the stories you need to talk about. What's big here to you?

RACHEL LAFORCE, COMEDIAN, THOUGHT LEADER AND MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR: I mean, "South Park" was just doing what "South Park" does.

BLACKWELL: Right.

LAFORCE: That's the part where I'm like, the headline should have been like "South Park" is back, you know. Like just all of the uproar. And then, the other thing that was interesting to me was the response out of the White House where it didn't feel -- I would've been like, we should take this as like "South Park's" so obsessed with us. They love us. They can't stop talking about us. Like that just seemed like such an easy angle for them to take. And instead, it was like, don't pay attention to this. It's not relevant. No one cares. It's like, it's clearly relevant and people clearly care.

BLACKWELL: And you know what's interesting is that our own Harry Enten says that Republicans love "South Park" to where you would see more Democrats who watched Stephen Colbert, his shows coming to an end is that his voters like that show.

JENAE: Yes. And they always push the envelope. So, it's not surprising to your point.

LAFORCE: Exactly. JENAE: But I think we're in a different climate now that what is being shown sometimes at satire, what is being shown on television, there's a concern about how that's going to impact them in government when they get in these committees because we know that the administration is watching, even public broadcasting got in trouble for the things that they were saying on air and then that leading to perhaps some of the funding cuts there. So --

BLACKWELL: And maybe not a coincidence that it debuted after the approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger.

LAFORCE: Right.

BLACKWELL: Because I imagine if you put this on air, I don't know, maybe that would've had some influence.

LAFORCE: Yes. But they knew exactly what they're doing.

BLACKWELL: Yes, yes, yes.

LAFORCE: I mean, they've been doing it for 27 seasons.

BLACKWELL: And they're doing it well.

LAFORCE: Totally.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

LAFORCE: And I'm sure from their perspective, well, actually, that's a very good point, to still be at the top of your game at like at season 27 is -- I mean, it's unthinkable what they're doing. And so, I feel like they had to take a swing. They knew they had to. And at that point they're like, we're billionaires. We were doing this for 27 seasons. Like, what do we have to lose, you know?

BLACKWELL: And their fans probably would be disappointed if they didn't do it --

LAFORCE: Totally.

BLACKWELL: -- at the start of the season. Let's talk about something that happened here in Atlanta. Rapper Glorilla. There was a report of a burglary at her home. And, Julia, I'll let you pick it up from here.

JENAE: Oh, yes. Report of a burglary, and that's what was initially investigated, but then the rapper gets arrested and she's not even at her house at the time and it's for the discovery by police, and they came back with a search warrant of two pounds of marijuana. They found some THC wax. And she is facing charges now. There's a mugshot of her.

But what really shocked me about this story is, and I'm -- we're going to get more details about it, I'm sure, but it's the way that this investigation was carried out because they went there, terms of police to investigate this crime that had happened, and in responding to that, so basically the people in this house went from victims to then now a suspect. And I don't know that's the policy that we want, to tell people that if you're going to call police over a violent offense, that some non- dangerous felony or misdemeanor that may be happening inside the home that they may get the probable cause to be able to come back with a search warrant and arrest you for it. Because you don't want people to be nervous about calling 911 because of what may be happening. So, I'm a little uncomfortable with that.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

JENAE: I know police have their discretion on being able to come back with a search warrant, it would change things for me if there was already some kind of surveillance of her home, if they had some kind of interest in that, and if the burglary is somehow connected to the possession, alleged possession.

BLACKWELL: But they only know about it because they were going there to respond to the other potential crime. Glorilla turned herself in. And here's what she tweeted, instead of focusing on finding the suspects, they focused on some cannabis. Long story short, my house gets home invaded and I'm the only one that gets arrested. So, that's the tea. That's what she put on social media.

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All right. This is one I've been looking forward to because the kiss cam controversy at the Coldplay concert alliteration continues. Gwyneth Paltrow enters now. Rachel, I'm going to hand this over to you because we were talking about even the divorce, I didn't know what it was. Here's, first, let me play Gwyneth and then I'll let you back us into it.

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GWYNETH PALTROW, ACTRESS: Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days, and they wanted me to answer the most common ones. Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow.

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LAFORCE: It's so good. It's like whoever this crisis PR team, like all the flowers, do you know what I mean? They should -- they deserve everything. The layeredness of how funny this is that the -- I think that it's really paying attention to culture that we've really shifted, that we can both take something very seriously and be really funny, and they took that opportunity. They're like, what? We're going to come out and be like, oh, well, we're really sorry. Like, they're like, we have an opportunity here. Brilliant.

But yes, the tie between Chris Martin, obviously, you know, from Coldplay. And so, when he and Gwyneth split, that was this whole beginning of like conscious uncoupling, which I'm a child of divorce and I'll tell you, we didn't have that in the '90s. Do you know what I mean?

BLACKWELL: Yes. LAFORCE: Like this is very much like a goop divorce, you know? And like a conscious uncoupling that's just like I don't know, like flowers and like (INAUDIBLE). I don't know really what that is.

BLACKWELL: Or maybe he's in on the joke as well. Maybe she called him --

LAFORCE: He has to be.

BLACKWELL: -- before and this isn't kind of acrimonious. So, for people who are just coming into this, one, I don't know how you've missed it. So, the kiss cam, there was this CEO and the HR chief who were hugged up, apparently they didn't want to be seen. They have now resigned from Astronomer. And so, Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, his ex-wife is now this short-term spokesperson.

JENAE: How could they afford her? I mean, I was pretty surprised. I thought it was A.I.

BLACKWELL: Well, they saved some money because the CEO was gone.

JENAE: That's true. I thought it was A.I. when I saw it that Gwyneth Paltrow was representing them. But she's always been a boss in her own right in the corporate -- the field, of course, with Goop. And so, now, to use her as part of their strategy I think is just brilliant. Because it's going to make people pay attention and wonder why would she -- we didn't even know about Astronomer before this.

BLACKWELL: We certainly didn't.

SANZ: -- conversation has changed in less than a week.

LAFORCE: Yes. Or the fact that we're still talking about it.

BLACKWELL: That's true.

LAFORCE: I mean, that was really smart. Again, they had an opportunity of how do we want to respond? And as a comedian, I'm like, chef's kiss. Great job.

BLACKWELL: Yes. I'm sure the CEO and the HR chief want the video to disappear, but thank Gwyneth Paltrow for coming back. Alex, Rachel, Julia, thank you all for joining me.

LAFORCE: Thank you.

JENAE: Thanks.

BLACKWELL: All right. Stay with us. Sports is next.

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BLACKWELL: For the second straight night, the benches cleared at the Cardinals-Padres game. CNN's Coy Wire joins us for sports. What is going on?

COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Yes, yes. That's the question, right? The Cardinals, the Padres, they played each other four more times this week, including today. And triple digit heat in St. Louis and the emotions were red hot too.

There you see ninth inning, Cardinals' pitcher, Andre Granillo hitting Padre star Manny Machado. It was the second time Machado was got hit by a pitch. And he let the ump know about it. St. Louis Willson Contreras got hit twice as well. Words, aggressions flying, the benches clear. Cardinals Coach Jon Jay, who had been exchanging words with Machado was ejected from the game. We'll see what goes on next. Padres win this one, 3 to 1.

Yankees, captain Aaron Judge is headed to the injured list with a right elbow flexor strain. He missed the Yankees 9-4 loss to the Phillies yesterday and will be out a minimum of 10 days. Likely just a designated hitter when he returns. Judge has been the favorite to win ALMVP all season, but those odds now favor home run leader Cal Raleigh in Seattle, nickname is --

BLACKWELL: Big Dumper.

WIRE: -- Big Dumper. There we go. The WNBA's top team in the East, New York Liberty facing the Sparks. New York's Sabrina Ionescu going off for 30 points, picking it up as co-star Breanna Stewart left the game early with an injury. Ionescu passionate too. Not happy a teammate got called for a foul right here, Victor. She yells at the ref, give me a tech, tech me, tech me. The ref did. Sparks held tough though. And with a game tied, checkout Rickea Jackson, hitting the stumbling circus shot at the buzzer to win the game. Looked like she just was hoping to get a foul. I was like, nah, I don't want to play overtime. Let's end this thing. Spark's second worst record in the West. Celebrate a 101-99 win at the buzzer.

After cruising into the final of the D.C. Open with the 6-4, 6-3 win over Emma Raducanu, Anna Kalinskaya's fur baby, Bella, stole the show, running onto the court for a second day in a row to celebrate with her human. Kalinskaya reaching her third tour level final. She'll face Leylah Fernandez. And for all the animal lovers out there, this may be all the reason you need to root for Kalinskaya.

BLACKWELL: Because then you asked me during the break if I had a pet. I don't. But I can still appreciate that.

WIRE: That's cute.

BLACKWELL: That is beautiful.

WIRE: Yes.

BLACKWELL: To get your friend out there, celebrate. All right. thank you, Coy.

WIRE: You got it. BLACKWELL: New episode of CNN Original Series "Billionaire Boys Club." Members of the club begin to turn on Joe Hunt as he finds himself on trial for the murder of former investor Ron Levin, following Levin's disappearance.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As Joe is developing his plan for how to deal with Ron Levin, Dean is his primary confidant. They live together in the same condo.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: According to Dean, there came a day when Joe showed Dean a list that he'd made. And Joe said, this is a list of things to do when I kill Ron Levin.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: By being a sounding board and discussing certain things on the list, I felt that I'd contributed to this plan.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Then not long after the murder had happened, Joe came back to the condo and told him every detail of what had taken place.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He opened his briefcase and showed me a check that Ron Levin had signed, and he told me that he had done it, that Ron was dead.

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BLACKWELL: A new episode of the CNN Original Series "Billionaire Boys Club" tonight at 10:00 p.m. on CNN. Thank you so much for joining us this weekend. "Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju" is up next.

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